Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

"Commander, Colonel Akita of the North China Political Affairs Committee has been assassinated."

When Tada Shun was in despair, the Chief of Staff of the North China Front Army, Yamashita Tomoyuki, came to Tada Shun.

Yamashita Tomoyuki was also a little listless.

Yamashita Tomoyuki also understood that he would most likely have to accompany Tada Shun back to Japan to face questioning. But he still had to do what needed to be done. If the situation continued to deteriorate, it wouldn't be a simple return to Japan for questioning; he would likely face a military court. Tada Shun took a long time to react after hearing Yamashita Tomoyuki's words. He said, "Akita-kun? Assassinated? By whom? The Military Control Commission? The Central Control Commission?"

"It seems to be the Anti-Japanese Traitor Killing Group."

"The Anti-Japanese Traitor Killing Group? Aren't they mainly assassinating those they consider traitors?"

Tada Shun was very surprised.

The Anti-Japanese Traitor Killing Group was an assassination group active in Peking and Tianjin. Its members were primarily patriotic students from well-off families. Furthermore, many of these students had traitorous elders serving in the puppet government of North China. Feng Yunxiu, a core member of the group, was Qi Xieyuan's nephew. It was this group of students who formed the Anti-Japanese Traitor Killing Group, and they became quite famous in Peking and Tianjin.

Since the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, this group of students formed an anti-Japanese traitor-killing group, which assassinated many traitors. This anti-Japanese traitor-killing group was considered a peripheral organization of the Military Control Commission, and the Military Control Commission sent many staff to them.

Train them and help them develop assassination plans.

Although they were under the command of the Military Control Commission, they were not members of the Military Control Commission. Many of these students were not very supportive of Chongqing. This was because many of them had defected to the Nationalist army after the July 7 Incident and wanted to join the army to fight against Japan.

However, the Nationalist army at the time was plagued by a rampant practice of unpaid salaries, and they were not very supportive of the students' anti-Japanese efforts. So, out of despair, they formed an anti-Japanese and anti-traitor group.

Because of their network of connections, they were well-informed. The Japanese army tried to capture them several times, but in the end they were unsuccessful. This was because they were able to get advance notice of any Japanese action.

Historically, in August 1940, the Japanese army could no longer tolerate it.

They also understood that their actions always failed, which must have been due to leaks. Therefore, they secretly mobilized the puppet Manchukuo police, without going through the puppet police system in North China. Then, they suddenly launched an operation and arrested a large number of members of the Anti-Japanese Traitor Killing Group. After this blow, although the Anti-Japanese Traitor Killing Group has been trying to recover, it has never regained the strength of its heyday.

But in this time and space, the North China Front Army really has no time to consider this.

Therefore, the main force of the Anti-Japanese and Traitor Killing Group is still intact.

But what surprised Tada Shun was that the Anti-Japanese Traitor Killing Group, which primarily targeted traitors, had unexpectedly targeted a high-ranking Japanese military official. Colonel Akita was an advisor to the puppet government in North China, effectively acting as a special Japanese envoy to monitor the regime.

They are all powerful figures in Peking.

Unexpectedly, the Anti-Japanese Traitor Killing Group actually assassinated high-ranking Japanese officials.

"The Military Control Commission has been increasingly active recently. We suspect it was the Anti-Japanese Traitor Killing Group led by the Military Control Commission that carried out this operation. They've been assassinating more and more people lately, including many Imperial merchants.

They have already complained to the Expeditionary Force, and many merchants have left Peking. The Expeditionary Force sent a telegram asking us to take this matter seriously.

"That's none of my business."

Tada Shun was a little annoyed.

How could he, the commander of the North China Front Army, still be involved in such matters? Besides, who would have the energy to deal with such matters now? Such matters should be handled by intelligence agencies and secret services.

"Commander, recently, people from both the Military Control Commission and the Eighth Route Army have been in contact with the Security Forces."

"These Chinese are truly untrustworthy."

Tada Shun sneered.

But he didn't say anything.

Yamashita Tomoyuki was helpless watching Tada Shun like this. He knew that Tada Shun had given up. But Yamashita Tomoyuki couldn't let Tada Shun be like this, after all, there was war everywhere in North China. If Tada Shun really gave up and didn't care about anything, then it would be a big problem.

If anything happened again, he might be shot when he returned to China. Yamashita Tomoyuki didn't want to end up like that.

So he said, "Commander, the situation in Peking is getting worse and worse. Everyone knows that Wanping City was captured by the Eighth Route Army, so all forces are uneasy. If we can't stabilize the situation in Peking, who knows what will happen. The city is now in chaos, and all forces are very active. The situation is very bad.

The current situation in Peking is indeed not good.

All forces were uneasy. Assassinations within the city were becoming increasingly active. The traitors who had been helping the Japanese control the situation in the city were now slacking off.

Only then did Tada Shun come to his senses.

He had already been punished for losing Wanping City. If Beiping suffered any losses, the consequences would be disastrous. Therefore, Tada Shun said, "Beiping still has the 35th Regiment of the 220th Division, so nothing will happen.

"Commander, the 220th Regiment was completely wiped out nine months ago and nearly had to be disbanded. Although we've been reorganized and reorganized, our combat effectiveness has declined significantly. More importantly, the people in the city don't believe we can hold Peking with just one regiment. We need to give them confidence to prevent chaos in the city."

Japanese troops like Tada Shun knew that the Eighth Route Army could not capture Beijing.

But those in the city didn't know.

They only saw the Eighth Route Army's momentum, having already conquered Wanping. At this point, in order to calm the emotions of the traitors in the city, they should also deploy troops into the city. Tell those traitors, big and small, that there are plenty of troops in Beiping.

“So what do you mean?

"Should we call back some troops? Nothing can go wrong in Peking."

Tada Shun frowned.

He really didn't expect this to happen.

Tada Shun thought for a while and said, "Dispatch the 27rd Infantry Regiment of the th Division into the city."

Tada Shun really counted the entire North China Front Army.

No troops could be mobilized. The closest unit to Peking was the 16th Independent Mixed Brigade stationed in Changping. However, three of the 16th Independent Mixed Brigade's independent battalions had moved south, leaving only two. If these were mobilized back, the situation in Changping would be difficult to maintain.

The other troops were the 35th Independent Mixed Brigade fighting in central Hebei and the 219th Regiment of the th Division.

But the troops in central Hebei were too "crazy".

The main force of the Jizhong Army alone comprised over twenty regiments. The Yizhong Army, which had previously participated in the Zhengtai Railway raid, had returned to Yizhong and was collaborating with the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Third Division to raid the Pinghan Railway. Simply suppressing the Jizhong Army and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Third Division would have been difficult for the 219th Independent Mixed Brigade and the th Regiment to maintain stability. If either of these two were withdrawn, the situation in Jizhong would deteriorate.

So after much thought, Tada Shun could only transfer troops from the 27th Division in eastern Hebei.

Yamashita Tomoyuki sighed.

The 27th Division's three regiments controlled over twenty counties in eastern Hebei, and their manpower was already stretched thin. After all, simply defending a few major cities required a significant number of troops. If the rd regiment were withdrawn to Beijing, the situation in eastern Hebei would become truly uncontrollable.

Many counties in eastern Hebei did not even have a single Japanese squadron.

By then, no one knows how many counties in Jidong will be captured by the Jidong Eighth Route Army.

But Yamashita Tomoyuki understood that this was the only way to stabilize Peking at the moment. The only way to stabilize Peking was to deploy troops into the city and keep those fickle factions in check.

"Commander, the troops gathered on Zhengtai Road are all waiting for your orders."

The Japanese mobile forces are currently concentrated on Zhengtai Road.

They concentrated their forces to attack Zhengtai Road, but they encountered nothing there, as the Eighth Route Army had already evacuated the road. Over the next ten days, the Eighth Route Army fought in succession the Yu (Yushe) Liao (Liaoxian) Campaign, the Ying (Yingxian) Hun (Hunyuan) Campaign, the Lai (Laiyuan) Ling (Lingqiu) Campaign, and the Ren (Qiu) He (Jian) ​​Da (Cheng) Suning Campaign.

The results were brilliant.

The main force of the Japanese army was left behind on Zhengtai Road. There were tens of thousands of Japanese troops concentrated there, all waiting for Tada Shun's order.

多田骏看着地图道：“36师团的222联队扫荡冀南，37师团225联队、226联队，41师团的239联队，扫荡晋东南。”

The 129th Division has amazing combat capabilities.

During the Shotai Road raid, the 129th Division's forces inflicted the most destructive damage. Their combat effectiveness was exceptional when confronting the Japanese directly. Therefore, Tada Shun prepared to deploy four regiments to encircle and destroy the 129th Division's base.

The Southern Hebei Base Area and the Southeast Shanxi Base Area.

"The 110th Division, along with five independent battalions drawn from the th and th Independent Mixed Brigades, are under the full responsibility of Lieutenant General Iinuma Mamoru to sweep the Northern Yue region of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei."

The combat effectiveness of the Jin-Cha-Ji troops is slightly lower than that of the 129th Division.

But who can blame the Jin-Cha-Ji army for having so many troops?

He didn't know how to get so many troops. So Tada Shun planned to use the 110th Division, a four-regiment division, plus five independent battalions, nearly six regiments, to sweep the Jin-Cha-Ji Beiyue area.

Yamashita Fengwen frowned.

Because Tada Shun actually had no plan for this sweep. It was just a blind retaliatory sweep. However, facing the increasingly powerful Eighth Route Army, Yamashita Tomoyuki believed that such a retaliatory sweep would not produce any results.

But Yamashita Tomoyuki said nothing, because the current situation required revenge, severe revenge on the Eighth Route Army.

Chapter 344 Disappointment in Yan'an

Following Tada Shun's orders, the Japanese troops stationed on Zhengtai Road began to sweep the Eighth Route Army base. Thus, the Hundred Regiments Campaign entered its third phase.

That was the Eighth Route Army's counter-mopping-up operation.

The Japanese army deployed 12 regiments, two independent mixed brigades, five independent battalions, and local garrison battalions, totaling approximately 2 Japanese troops. Together with the North China Security Army and local security forces, the Japanese and puppet troops totaled nearly 5 in a retaliatory sweep of the Eighth Route Army base areas.

There are really a lot of troops dispatched.

But the Japanese army's raid this time was very scattered.

Because they had to sweep away too many Eighth Route Army bases. From the easternmost Rehe and Jidong bases, then the Jizhong base, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Beiyue area, the 129th Division's Jinan base and the Shanxi-southeast base, the 120th Division's Tongpu Road, the Yanbei area, and the 120th Division's bases in northwestern Shanxi and Suiyuan.

Nearly 100,000 Japanese and puppet troops may seem like a lot, but in such a luxurious Eighth Route Army base, the troops are not many at all.

And this was a completely unplanned raid.

Before the Japanese army raided the Eighth Route Army base, they had to make a very detailed raiding plan, which units would raid the base, which would serve as blockade forces, which would serve as garrison forces, and which would serve as transport forces, all with their respective responsibilities.

Then sweep step by step according to the plan.

Every unit knows what it has to do.

In 1938 and 1939, despite the North China Front Army's planned sweeps, the Japanese and puppet troops were unable to prevent the Eighth Route Army from growing stronger.

What's more, in the current situation, the Japanese army only wanted to retaliate against the Eighth Route Army's Hundred Regiments Campaign, so they had no plan at all and just ordered the troops to sweep.

These Japanese troops were very brutal.

Entering the base, they burned, killed, and looted, with greater brutality than ever before. However, this was merely retaliatory and had no military value. The Japanese troops were like headless flies. Without a comprehensive plan from above, the Japanese troops below could only fight on their own.

What's more, the Japanese army was very tired.

First, the main force marched south, gathering at Zhengtai Road. There was no rest along the way. Just as they deployed their forces on Zhengtai Road, they failed to find the main force of the Eighth Route Army. Instead, they faced various mines and sniper rifles every day, which was extremely annoying.

They didn’t get enough rest and the logistical support was poor.

Now they are asked to sweep the Eighth Route Army base.

Very tired.

Of course, even with such a tired Japanese army, the damage to the Eighth Route Army base was still very great. After all, so many troops were sweeping the base, and the Eighth Route Army troops could not directly stop them. These troops entered the base and set fire to the surrounding rural houses.

The Eighth Route Army's tactics remained unchanged.

The previous several tough battles in the second phase were aimed at clearing out the Japanese strongholds and bunkers inside the base area, and driving out the Japanese and puppet troops that had entered the base area. But now that a large number of Japanese troops have entered the base area, it would be unwise to confront them head-on.

Therefore, the Eighth Route Army troops jumped out of the outer lines and began to cut off the Japanese army's logistics.

Then they ambushed some small Japanese troops.

The effect is very good.

The Japanese army's hasty retaliatory sweeps lacked clear tactics. As a result, once they entered the Eighth Route Army base, they were unable to stop the main force. Previously, the Japanese army had units dedicated to blocking the main force, but this time, no such units existed. Therefore, the Eighth Route Army troops could easily escape the perimeter by marching covertly. As a result, the main force came and went freely, and the small Japanese mopping-up units were frequently attacked by the Eighth Route Army. Coupled with the fact that their logistics were cut off, the Japanese mopping-up operations were frustrated at every turn.