Chapter 168: Decapitation of the Japanese Taiyuan Headquarters! ( words)
"Tell me, my great brigade commander, you are not in your headquarters responsible for the battle deployment. Why are you here with a regiment commander so late at night?"
The boss gestured to the brigade commander and Qin Yangming to sit down, and asked them what they wanted to see him about.
Listening to the boss's question, the brigade commander glanced at Qin Yangming, who was smiling as he took a cup of tea from the deputy chief of general staff.
After thinking about it, the brigade commander decided to leave the matter to Qin Yangming.
"Boss, it's like this, Xiao Qin..."
"Ok?"
"Boss, it was Captain Qin Yangming who reported a battle plan to me, but I cannot approve this battle plan. I want you to see if you can approve it."
Qin Yangming, who was thanking the Deputy Chief of General Staff, was stunned when he heard the brigade commander's words.
Then he looked at the brigade commander with some disbelief.
On the way here, Qin Yangming had discussed with the brigade commander, in order to avoid making plans directly and making the boss angry.
The brigade commander would first talk about other things, such as asking the boss for more support. There were a lot of medicines, and the boss obviously would not agree to that level of support.
After the general disagreed with the brigade commander's request for support, the brigade commander then brought out Qin Yangming's battle plan.
By that time, the boss had already rejected the brigade commander's request for support, so the possibility of the boss agreeing to Qin Yangming's combat plan would be greatly increased.
But now the brigade commander did not say anything about needing support and directly handed the topic over to Qin Yangming.
For a moment, Qin Yangming was stunned.
"No, Commander, that's not what you said on the way here!
My small body can't bear the boss's anger!"
The brigade commander felt a little guilty when he felt Qin Yangming staring at him.
"Xiao Qin, hurry up and tell the boss about your battle plan. Let him see if it will work."
The brigade commander didn't want to push Qin Yangming to the top so soon. It was because the boss was keeping an eye on him, and he felt uncomfortable all over.
After listening to what the brigade commander said, the boss turned his gaze directly to Qin Yangming.
The meaning is simple: if you have something to say, say it quickly; if you don’t, get out of here quickly.
Qin Yangming was so surprised by the brigade commander's sudden words that he forgot the words he had prepared and could only speak with some trepidation.
"Boss, do you still remember the attack that the Independent Regiment encountered in Yang Village?"
"Well, why don't I remember that a main force regiment was defeated by a small group of Japanese soldiers. How could I not remember such a serious thing?
Does your battle plan have anything to do with this?"
The boss listened to what Qin Yangming said, nodded first, then quickly frowned.
"If I remember correctly, you said at that time that the Japanese troops that raided the independent regiment had undergone special training.
It is similar to the assault platoon you formed, and is specifically responsible for attacking high-value units.
If the independent regiment was not in Yangcun, then that group of Japanese devils would most likely go straight to Daxiawan and launch an attack on our Eighth Route Army headquarters... a decapitation operation.
You want to decapitate the Japanese Taiyuan Headquarters?!"
Similarly, Qin Yangming just mentioned Yangcun, and in less than a minute, the boss analyzed what Qin Yangming's battle plan was.
That’s right, Qin Yangming’s battle plan was very simple. That was to lead the assault platoon to carry out a decapitation operation against the senior officers of the Japanese First Army, which was the Japanese headquarters in Taiyuan!
Chop off Yoshio Shinozuka's head and destroy the Japanese Taiyuan Headquarters!
This left the Japanese invaders in Shanxi temporarily leaderless.
By then, the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi would be able to take advantage of the fact that the Japanese were leaderless and did not know how to mobilize their troops, and launch raids on the Japanese strongholds, railways, and airports.
If they act quickly, they might be able to expand the Eighth Route Army's base in Shanxi by two or three times. If they are lucky, they could take back most of Shanxi from the Japanese invaders.
Of course, the territories recaptured here mainly refer to those territories that have been recaptured and that we have the ability and confidence to defend.
The boss looked at Qin Yangming's expression and instantly realized that he was right about Qin Yangming's battle plan.
The boss continued to ask without changing his expression.
"Tell me the specific plan, what are you going to do?
Also, have you analyzed the success rate of your plan?"
"Old Chen, can you help me look at Qin Yangming's battle plan?"
When the brigade commander saw that the boss finally turned his gaze to him, he quickly waved his hand and responded without waiting for Qin Yangming to speak.
"Boss, I just learned about Qin Yangming's battle plan tonight, so I came to see you overnight.
I would like you to refer to this with the Deputy Chief of Staff.”
After that, the brigade commander handed the boss a battle plan that he and Qin Yangming had written together.
The boss took the battle plan, took a look at it, then quickly stood up and took out a map from a box.
After the boss spread the map on the table, he motioned for everyone to come over and then handed a pencil to Qin Yangming.
"Qin Yangming, tell us your battle plan in detail."
After the boss finished speaking, he, the deputy chief of general staff, and the brigade commander looked at Qin Yangming together.
Waiting for Qin Yangming to tell him his battle plan.
Qin Yangming took the pencil and quickly began to look for the target he wanted on the map.
"Boss, Chief of Staff, and Brigade Commander, here is my plan."
"I plan to send some soldiers from the assault platoon to disguise themselves and find a way to sneak into Taiyuan City.
Conduct reconnaissance on all important areas of Taiyuan City and obtain information on the Japanese garrison situation in the city.
The main areas of investigation are the arsenal, the outer city barracks, the Japanese Taiyuan headquarters, the railway station...
If everything goes well, then we will assassinate the Japanese headquarters.
After the assassination is successful, if you can leave the city directly, then leave the city. If not, then attack the Japanese train station, seize the train, and use the train to leave Taiyuan.
If assassination is not possible, then a raid is planned in real time.
First, we launched an attack on the Japanese arsenal in Taiyuan, making the Japanese mistakenly believe that our target was their arsenal.
After the Japanese's attention was drawn to the arsenal, the assault platoon split into two groups and, with the help of local comrades, launched an attack on the Japanese train station and headquarters at the same time.
If we can get our rockets, or if we can capture mortars and new rockets, then I have a 70% chance of destroying the Japanese headquarters and finally retreating from the train station..."
Qin Yangming kept drawing circles on the map while explaining his battle plan to the boss and others.
Qin Yangming's battle plan was simple, even crude.
At least it looks very established to the boss.
After listening to Qin Yangming's battle plan, the boss picked up another pencil and spoke to Qin Yangming.
"Your battle plan is based on the premise that everything goes as you wish.
Also, there are many things you haven't taken into consideration.
You and Lao Chen came to me to report this battle plan. I'm afraid you not only want my agreement, but also want me to give you a certain degree of support and help you improve this battle plan.
Right?" Qin Yangming nodded somewhat embarrassedly after listening to what the boss said.
"Well, I have this idea. If I am the only one leading the assault platoon to implement the decapitation plan, the possibility of success is not high.
So I need the cooperation and support of other troops.
I need a force to launch an attack near Taiyuan, and the intensity must be high enough to attract the Japanese troops in Taiyuan to support me.
We also need troops to provide support in the Jinzhong area.
In addition, I think our troops will be able to recapture Yuning County and enter Taigu area in this battle.
In this case, if my plan succeeds, then within a short period of time, the Japanese troops near Taiyuan will definitely be in great chaos and launch a siege against me.
At that time, our troops in Yuning County can be sent to Taigu, and the troops in Linyuan County can be sent to Pingyao. With the support of the troops in the Taihang area, we may be able to attack Taiyuan...
If we can break through the outer wall defense of Taiyuan, then we can use the Japanese to build the railway and move the Taiyuan Arsenal away at the same time!"
It is not an easy task to carry out a decapitation operation against the Japanese Taiyuan Command.
Even in Qin Yangming's original world, it is not an easy task to carry out a decapitation operation against a terrorist leader or a senior military officer of a hostile country.
Even if the weapons and quality of our own troops are superior to those of the enemy, we should not take it lightly.
As the saying goes, even a random punch can kill a master.
The incident of a black eagle crashing in the pirate kingdom is a good example of what happens if one acts rashly and underestimates the enemy.
The world's top special forces, which were well-equipped, were defeated by a group of pirates who had not received any formal military training and were armed with equipment that could be called defective products and was produced in an unknown workshop.
If it weren't for the support of the armored forces, the entire special forces would have been defeated by the pirates.
Even the world's top special forces can fail.
Qin Yangming didn't think that the combat effectiveness of the assault platoon he trained could crush the world's top special forces.
You know, the soldiers in the special operations team he led in his previous life were all selected from the entire army, the best of the best.
From an army of more than three million people, they only selected three hundred people from the entire battalion.
The twelve special operations team soldiers led by Qin Yangming were selected again from these three hundred people.
And when he led his team to perform a mission, no matter which mission it was, he could get a lot of intelligence support, equipment support, and firepower support.
When you are out fighting and don’t have enough equipment, the plane can deliver the equipment you need to you in ten minutes.
When encountering an enemy firepower point, you only need to report the coordinates, and a few minutes later, missiles flying down from the sky will be able to destroy the enemy's firepower point.
But it is different now.
Now, the Eighth Route Army can hardly send air force to support him, let alone provide him with some artillery support.
Issues like equipment supply are easy to solve. There is a system in place that can solve the problem of equipment supply.
If the equipment problem can be solved, the difficulty of the task will be reduced by half.
The rest depends on the intelligence support provided by the boss and the brigade commander.
The mission of carrying out a decapitation operation against the Japanese Taiyuan Headquarters, in terms of difficulty alone, can be said to be ranked among the top three missions Qin Yangming has ever carried out.
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"Chief of Staff, do you think Qin Yangming's battle plan is feasible?"
After listening to Qin Yangming's analysis, the boss thought for a while and then turned his attention to the deputy chief of general staff.
The deputy chief of general staff looked at Qin Yangming deeply and responded to the boss.
“This plan can be said to be very risky.
If we analyze it from a global perspective, once successful, the benefits it will bring to our Eighth Route Army will be unimaginable.
Especially since we beheaded a corps commander of the Japanese, the impact it had was much greater than the recovery of a certain area."
The Deputy Chief of General Staff did not finish his speech and only mentioned some favorable parts.
Qin Yangming's battle plan was indeed very risky, just as the Deputy Chief of General Staff said.
But this battle plan does have the possibility of being successfully implemented.
From a global perspective, this battle plan can be implemented, and if successful, it can bring huge benefits.
If they fail... then Qin Yangming and all the soldiers in the assault platoon may be sacrificed...
But how can there be war without sacrifice?
If Qin Yangming's battle plan had succeeded, it is unknown how many soldiers' sacrifices could have been avoided.
After the deputy chief of staff finished speaking, he turned his gaze to the boss.
The brigade commander also looked at the boss.
Seeing that the boss didn't say anything, Qin Yangming spoke calmly.
"Boss, if this plan can be successful, as long as our Eighth Route Army is in charge, then the war situation in China may change.
By then, maybe the war can be ended ahead of schedule, allowing the people to escape the suffering of war sooner...
Personal life is nothing..."
Qin Yangming knew what the boss was thinking.
Because his battle plan, to put it bluntly, was to risk the life of a small to win a big, so he and the lives of more than 30 soldiers in the assault platoon were risking their lives for a chance!
Once successful, the entire Chinese pattern will be changed. When the Chinese pattern changes, it will inevitably affect the world pattern.
When the Japanese see that they can no longer gain any benefits in China, they will definitely send troops to Southeast Asia ahead of schedule.
It may even attract the United States across the ocean to join in advance.
By then, China’s war can really end early.
China can begin to recuperate and restore its vitality as soon as possible.
If China could force the Japanese and the United States into a melee, perhaps it could gain some benefits from it and lay the foundation for future development.
If they fail, the price they will pay will be the lives of Qin Yangming and other soldiers in the assault platoon.
Even if Qin Yangming's battle plan was successful, if judged according to normal circumstances, the possibility of Qin Yangming and others withdrawing from Taiyuan City would be very small.
The Japanese devils and puppet troops in Taiyuan city totaled tens of thousands or even dozens of people. It was almost impossible to withdraw from the siege of tens of thousands of people.
The boss looked at Qin Yangming again and finally made a decision.
The boss put down the pencil in his hand, looked at Qin Yangming, and spoke word by word.
"I agree with your action!
After you have eliminated the Japanese 4th Brigade this time, you can start the operation with the assault platoon. If you need any support, just ask your brigade commander directly.
If your brigade commander can't provide it, then come to me directly. The headquarters will always be at Baihu Ridge until your combat plan is completed!"
(End of this chapter)
