Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

Suddenly, the orderly came to report that Colonel Yamamoto Ikki had come to report.

Yoshio Shinozuka was a little surprised. Why did Yamamoto come here so late when he was not busy with his special forces team?

But then he thought that it might be something important, otherwise he would not come so late, so he put away the book and signaled the orderly to bring it in.

After Yamamoto Ikki entered Shinozuka Yoshio's room, he saw Shinozuka Yoshio sitting at the table.

"General~

I'm sorry to bother you so late at night, but this is an emergency~"

Yamamoto Ikki looked at Shinozuka Yoshio sincerely and said.

"Oh~ Yamamoto-kun~

Is there anything worth running here so late?

It’s very uncommon.”

After hearing what Shinozuka Yoshio said, Yamamoto Ikki did not delay any longer and immediately handed the telegram in his hand to Shinozuka Yoshio.

Seeing Yamamoto Ikki's serious expression, Shinozuka Yoshio's heart suddenly began to beat nervously.

After taking the telegram, Yoshio Shinozuka read it, took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes.

"Yamamoto-kun, how credible do you think this information is?"

Yamamoto Ikki looked at Shinozuka Yoshio seriously.

"General!

I believe the credibility is over 80%~"

Yoshio Shinozuka was a little surprised to hear this.

"Mr. Yamamoto, haven't you ever considered that this is fake news spread by the Eighth Route Army in order to separate the main force of the Locust Army and defeat them piecemeal?"

When Yamamoto Ikki heard this, he shook his head and strongly disagreed.

"General, please forgive my frankness!

I trust my intelligence officers. I think their intelligence is more accurate than those idiots from the Special High Police!"

“Baga~Yamamoto!

Watch your words~” Shinozuka Yoshio scolded Yamamoto Ikki immediately after hearing his words.

"Hi~

General!" Yamamoto Ikki lowered his head.

Seeing Yamamoto Ikki like this, Shinozuka Yoshio felt helpless.

He knew that Yamamoto Ikki was still angry about what happened before.

Last year, shortly after Yoshio Shinozuka took office as commander of the First Army, he transferred Yamamoto Ikki, who had returned to Japan to promote special operations, to the First Army.

When reading the battle reports of the Locust Army's battles with the Eighth Route Army, especially the 389th Division, Shinozuka Yoshio felt that with the current situation of the First Army, it would be difficult to deal with the 389th Division.

Especially the combat style of the 389th Division made Shinozuka Kazuo feel that they were not facing the Chinese army, but those European and American troops.

Apart from firepower equipment, the locust army was actually at a disadvantage in terms of strategy and tactics.

Yoshio Shinozuka immediately realized that if the army's tactics were not reformed, once the 389th Division's tactics were implemented in other units of the Eighth Route Army, the entire North China would become a nightmare for the locust army.

The final situation seems to prove this point.

The locust army troops under Commanders Sugiyama Gen and Tada Shun suffered heavy losses when facing the attack of the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, Yamamoto Ikki, who was promoting special operations in the country, immediately came into Yoshio Shinozuka's sight.

He found that Yamamoto Ikki's special operations and the way the 389th Division of the Eighth Route Army fought against the locust army were very similar to the tactical views promoted by Yamamoto Ikki.

So Yamamoto Ikki was immediately transferred to the First Army.

Later, after learning about special operations from Yamamoto Ikki, Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly realized it.

No wonder the Locust Army always had the advantage in firepower, weapons and equipment when fighting against the 389th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

But in the end, they were still the ones who failed.

This discovery immediately made Yoshio Shinozuka excited.

He vaguely felt that he had found a way to defeat Zeng Jiwen of the 389th Division.

But then I learned from Yamamoto Ikki that the special operations that Yamamoto Ikki learned at the Munich Special Forces School in Delin was the same as a paper Zeng Jiwen wrote when he was studying in Delin on the topic of how small elite troops played a huge role on the battlefield in World War I.

Suddenly, Yoshio Shinozuka was poured with a bucket of cold water.

However, after only a moment's thought, Shinozuka decided to follow Yamamoto Ikki's advice and began promoting special operations in the First Army.

Let Yamamoto Ikki select soldiers from the First Army for special training, and then form a special forces team after they pass the training.

At the end of last year, after the training of more than 80 members of Yamamoto Ikki's special forces team was completed, the Japanese army in North China suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain.

After Yamamoto Ikki discovered the shadow of special operations in the battle report of the First Army's battle with the 389th Division, he immediately became eager to fight against this unit.

He wanted to see who was stronger, this pioneer who had promoted special operations in Delin, or who was weaker when facing the challenge of him, the latecomer.

Before this, he had only two strategic targets in North China, one was the Second War Zone Command Yan Gongguan, and the other was the North China Eighth Route Army Headquarters.

But later, he changed his mind. He crossed out the Second War Zone Command from his list and added a place name: Changzhi.

Ranked first in priority sequence.

Therefore, in March of this year, Yamamoto Ikki organized a surprise attack on the headquarters of the 389th Division in Changzhi.

However, Yamamoto Ikki, who set out from Handan, had not yet entered the southeastern part of Shanxi.

As soon as he entered Wu'an, he was discovered by Wu Lin who was in Wu'an.

Wu Lin heard the troops below report that an Eighth Route Army unit with unusual equipment appeared in the base, but he found out from the villagers he contacted that they did not have the number of this unit.

Wu Lin immediately realized that this might be an unusual army.

So they mobilized two regiments of troops and asked the local authorities to point the troops in the wrong direction, gradually leading them into an encirclement surrounded by cliffs on three sides.

Then ambush this force.

Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the ambush, this unit showed extremely strong close combat ability, and the soldiers were almost shot in the eyebrows.

After Wu Lin learned about this, he realized that this might be the Japanese special forces, and then ordered the troops to withdraw from the 300-meter range of this "Eighth Route Army unit", blocked the retreat range of this unit with machine guns, and then set up artillery and fired directly.

Then this force was eliminated.

But perhaps because of his aura as a villain, Yamamoto Ichimoto hid in a cave between the cliffs with a rope and actually survived.

Then he fled from Wu'an in a panic.