1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

Because, although the Blue Army troops fighting against the Red Army each had their own commanders, the one who could really make the final decision and decide the direction of the battle was actually Fujiwara no Kanezane.

Therefore, with such a wild imagination and micro-manipulation behind the scenes, as well as this kind of tactical-level combat that basically does not involve strategy, the Red Army's defeat was not unfair.

After all, if it were the "Red Army" of later generations, with more mature technical means and having suffered more losses, they would only suffer a more miserable defeat, a more inexplicable defeat, and a more heartbreaking defeat.

The real Red Army.

In short, the Northeast did not prepare so many necessary materials for the corps-level military exercise from the beginning (that would be too obvious), so it couldn't conduct the military exercise even if it wanted to!

However, Fujiwara no Kanezane didn't seem to take it seriously and waved his hand nonchalantly:

"Dongmei, you still need to learn one thing: Corps-level military exercises are no longer a matter of sufficient supplies or effectiveness, but rather political considerations.

"politics?"

"Agent, will you yield to an opponent who is weaker than you?

"Whether I will give in depends solely on the commander's orders, not on the strength of the opponent."

"Uh...never mind. Anyway, humans are creatures that admire strength. If the Red Army wins too easily or I win too easily, it will be difficult for them or me to report to the authorities. What we need now is a seemingly evenly matched opponent.

Seeing the agent's thoughtful expression, Fujiwara Kanezane smiled and did not continue to explain:

"Okay! Let everyone in!

Soon, a group of officers from the 129th Division filed in.

Compared to the Red Army, where commanders were either division commanders, brigade commanders, or regiment commanders, here, except for Chen Geng, the highest commander was brigade commander. Although the position may not seem high, due to the special expansion mechanism of the 129th Division, the soldiers under his command and the actual power he had were not much different from those of the Red Army.

However, if one looks closely, one will find that these officers who have just won a battle have normal expressions, but there is no smile in their eyes. Instead, they look solemn. Some of the less sophisticated ones even look worried.

There was no way. In the entire tent, except for Fujiwara Kanezane himself and a few Japanese officers such as Kuribayashi Tadamichi, everyone else was basically a Communist Party member, including Nishi Takeichi, who had just joined Trotsky's "World Revolutionary Party" a few months ago.

Therefore, it goes without saying how these lurkers felt when they easily defeated their "old boss" under the wise command of Fujiwara no Kanezane (not in a derogatory sense).

Although it was just a military exercise, the result was too surprising.

Someone sat in the center of the tent, fingers crossed under his nose, elbows propped on the table. The plain glasses he wore were reflecting the light. If it weren't for the smile on his face, he'd look like Commander Ikari.

"Gentlemen!"

With the sound of "boom!", everyone stood up straight and used a unified name:

"commander!

"First of all, I want to congratulate you on your excellent performance in this military exercise! We won 18 out of 20 games! This is an unprecedented victory!

"You are the one who commands with such determination and has so many plans! We are waiting..."

Under Chen Geng's deliberate leadership, the flattery was louder than that of the CCP.

Fujiwara Kanezane waved his hand:

"Hey! Don't say that! I only did a small job... Besides, no matter how good my command is, what good will it do if you don't execute it well?"

After hearing this, two people in the crowd immediately stood up and apologized, saying things like "I have betrayed the commander's trust."

Yes, the commanders of the two armies that lost to Chen Shuxiang and Xu Shiyou

A former Japanese Army officer named Tansho...cough cough...Tamura Hiroshi, 35 years old, had led his troops in the Battle of Luzon to protect local Filipino civilians from retaliation by other Japanese troops and refused to carry out the "Kamikaze Charge";

One is a member of the Communist Party of China named Ye Fei. He was born in Quezon Province, Philippines, and his ancestral home is Fujian. He is less than 20 years old this year. He was a general of the People's Liberation Army in history. He joined the Communist Youth League while studying in Xiamen. He was taken to the Northeast to "lie in the dark" just after joining the party last year.

Among the victorious officers, their failure was indeed quite conspicuous.

However, not only Fujiwara no Kanezane, but no one else blamed them after learning the reason for the failure.

With his light infantry, he was forced to retreat across the grasslands by Xu Shiyou's large cavalry until his supply line collapsed and failed. Ye Fei, who was only 20 years old, was already very good;

Even Tamura Hiroshi, who had always been proud of the Japanese soldiers' tenacity and fearlessness of life and death, was completely shocked by the enemy and his subordinates.

Fight till the last man!

Let’s not talk about the Red Army led by Commander Chen. His 2500-man “reinforced battalion”, four-fifths of whom were new recruits, accomplished something that most Japanese Type A divisions could not do!

Such a good soldier, one of them would be praised in the Imperial Daily, but His Highness has tens of thousands of them under his command, and the Red Army has even more!

It turns out that if the Chinese were treated a little better, trained a little better, and organized a little better, they would be able to unleash such terrifying fighting power.

No matter how shocked they were, after this battle, Tamura Hiroshi and many other Japanese officers and soldiers completely lost any trace of contempt for the Chinese, and became more and more impressed by Fujiwara Kanezane's ideas and plans.

As expected, only the stupidest idiots would believe that China can be conquered by force.

Unless the people on the other side are all Chiang Kai-shek.

"One or two failures are nothing..."

Fujiwara no Kanezane encouraged them a few words, then changed the subject:

"However, our victory this time cannot be considered glorious, and I think everyone has already discussed the reasons.

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The people who had been chatting with Chen Geng outside for a while took their own lead.

Apart from other indirect reasons such as "the opponent is not familiar with the style", the main reason is that the real war is not Beast Battle Chess.

If there was a small friendly force to support them, even if Ye Fei's troops were infantry, their logistics would not have been so easily defeated and their supplies cut off by Xu Shiyou.

"So, I've decided. Since we've already tested the basic combat capabilities of our troops through small-scale combat, we'll need another military exercise to test our ability to fight a large-scale decisive battle... Wang Yong! Liu... Dachuan!"

Chen Geng naturally stepped out immediately. Liu Bocheng, the "acting executive vice president" of the Shenyang Military Academy, who had been attending the meeting, did not expect that he would be involved in this matter. He was stunned for a moment and quickly stood up:

"exist!

"Listen carefully, comrades! I am making the following deployment adjustments! For this exercise, Comrade Wang Yong will serve as the commander-in-chief, and Comrade Liu Dachuan will serve as the deputy commander-in-chief. The two of them will jointly oversee the operations of this military exercise!"

"Hey, Your Majesty... Commander, what about you?"

"I am only responsible for the assessment this time, not for the specific command.

The problem of insufficient supplies and poor results in Corps-level military exercises is actually not a big deal. With the ultra-high-performance computers such as Agents and UMP45, many battles do not need to actually take place; rehearsal evaluation is enough.

Although paying too much attention to numerical calculations often leads to neglecting human subjective initiative, the larger the scale of the war, the smaller the impact of human factors. In fact, the final outcome of the war can be basically seen through deduction.

Fujiwara Kanezane patted Chen Geng on the shoulder, then looked at Comrade Junshen, and smiled strangely:

"How we defeat Li Desheng's army depends on your performance... Our goal is to completely annihilate the Red Army!"

Mn

Soon after, with the transfer of command, the Blue Army immediately began to operate at high speed, making all preparations and waiting for orders from the exercise team and the command center.

However, the two new commanders of the Blue Army were hiding in the big tent with sad faces.

No, let me fight Li Desheng?

real or fake?

Liu Bocheng stood in front of the five-meter-long sand table, pushed his glasses, frowned, and spoke in a low voice:

"Lao Wang, what on earth is he trying to do? Did he discover something? Testing us?

After all, when they first met, Fujiwara Kanezane asked him if he was a Communist.

Although he immediately followed it up with "I don't care whether you are a Communist Party member or not," who knows what he really thinks?

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Test your ass.

Most likely it's his mental illness acting up again.

Chen Geng coughed lightly:

"Probably not. I think he just admires you and wants to see what you can do through commanding this battle. Besides, you came here this time under the pretext of 'combining theory with practice', which is perfect..."

"That being said..."

"Okay, okay, don't think too much. Tell me quickly, how do we fight this battle?"

When it came to business, Liu Bocheng had to put aside his doubts and concentrate on the battle:

"Li Desheng and I have...he, um, no contact...no contact, I'm not particularly familiar with the enemy's combat style. How about you tell me about it?"

Although Liu Bocheng had known Li Desheng as early as 1927 and even greeted each other through telegrams, it was not until the Long March that they truly fought side by side with each other.

In this life, the opportunity to fight side by side has not yet come, but the opportunity to lead our troops to fight each other has come first, which is really confusing.

"Hey, hey, then I'm familiar with it.

Chen Geng smiled slyly and pointed to the Red Army's defense line on the sand table:

"This man is well aware of the Red Army's equipment disadvantage and numerical advantage, so he will never defend his position, let alone launch a frontal attack or engage in a positional battle with us..."

Liu Bocheng raised his eyebrows:

"Mobile warfare?"

During the "Great Victory of Wuhan", Li Desheng used his elusive mobile warfare and extremely sensitive battlefield sense to fully mobilize the enemy, severely wear them down and then eat them up. This was a stroke of genius.

"There are also large-scale penetrations... here... here... here... they could all become his targets.

Chen Geng placed a few small flags on the sand table and said confidently:

"Given his temperament, he'll definitely send out elite troops to penetrate these points, disrupt our rhythm, and then send in the main force to eat us up bit by bit!

".so?

"So, since he wants to engage in mobile warfare, we won't give him the opportunity to do so. Since we have the advantage in equipment, we will use our armored forces as the spearhead and advance in parallel with our entire army, step by step!"

You are so good, Chen Geng, using the enemy's tactics to fight your own people.

Isn't this a common tactic used by the Kuomintang to incite the Red Army?

It can even be said to be the only useful move.

The last time I chatted with Yang Yongtai, he introduced the improved version of this set of tactics to Liu Bocheng, who was terrified and secretly thanked Yang Yongtai for becoming a traitor and breaking with Chiang Kai-shek early on.

Otherwise, if this guy had followed Chiang Kai-shek to Jiangxi to "suppress the Communists", the CCP would probably have had an even more difficult time.

Although the Kuomintang army always failed, it was not a problem of strategy itself, but rather a problem of contradictions and ulterior motives at the executive level.

Chiang Kai-shek wanted to take the opportunity to consume the miscellaneous troops, and the miscellaneous troops did not want to die in vain, so they gave the Red Army a chance.

As it happens, the current 129th Division can almost perfectly make up for the various shortcomings of the Kuomintang army;

In other words, this tactic would be fatal to the Red Army.

But Liu Bocheng thought for a while and shook his head:

"Chairman Li has probably already thought of this. They have the advantage in numbers. Unless we shrink into a tortoise shell, we will not be able to achieve our strategic goals.

What is victory?

Achieving the strategic goal is victory; otherwise, even annihilating 100,000 enemies is still a failure.

The Red Army certainly could not defeat the Blue Army's step-by-step advance, but at the same time, the Blue Army had no way to destroy the main force of the Red Army or even achieve the goal of "completely annihilating the enemy."

"Hey, of course I know. That's why we can do the opposite! We can deliberately show weakness to the Central Committee, deploy our cavalry and armored forces, and fight a mobile war with them! An encirclement war! You know, the soldiers of the 129th Division also came from the vast lands!"

the other side.

"..I think the enemy won't engage in a positional battle with us, because that would make it easier for us to take advantage of our numerical advantage and eat them up layer by layer, or create a stalemate.

Li Desheng looked at the map and took the opportunity to take a long drag on his cigarette while UMP45 and UMP9 were playing around. When they looked over, he quickly stuffed the cigarette into Xu Shiyou's hand and pretended to be nonchalant.

"So, Xu Shiyou, I want you to do something.

"Please give your orders!"

"I'll give you all my cavalry. I want you to lead them and destroy the Blue Army's central force head-on, fearless of life and death! The Cavalry Division must not stop even a single step until every one of them is 'dead in battle'! The louder the better!"

u馭冻学农已..是!"

Thus, a "war" began.

As expected by Chen Geng, according to reconnaissance, a large number of Red Army troops appeared on the Blue Army's flanks, and they used scouts to infiltrate everywhere. Judging from their posture, it was obvious that they were going to attack the weak points and penetrate into the rear.

But what he didn't expect was that the cavalry unit that shouldn't have been there appeared in front of the 129th Division, which was deliberately showing weakness. They rushed straight towards the headquarters of the 129th Division with a raging offensive!

This time, the Red Army Cavalry Division no longer tried to avoid direct confrontation as they had done before, but instead acted with unparalleled bravery, not caring about casualties at all. They charged forward madly, advancing, and forcefully penetrated the defense line despite the heavy machine gun fire of the Blue Army!

According to the on-site assessment team, half of this cavalry division had been withdrawn in a short period of time, but they had successfully broken through three lines of defense of the Blue Army and were less than 10 kilometers away from the 129th Division headquarters!

"Good for you Li Desheng!

Chen Geng jumped up when he received the news, speaking in jargon he had learned from someone.