Chapter 293 Mobilizing special forces?
"Oh? You did a sandbox simulation? How many times did you do it?"
After hearing Brigade Commander Chen say that he had done a sand table simulation, the boss immediately asked.
After learning from Brigade Commander Chen that Li Yunlong, Qin Yangming and others were bringing their respective troops to attack the county seat of Ping'an County.
The boss himself thought of several battle plans and conducted various simulations.
However, no matter which combat plan or battle simulation was used, it was impossible to conclude what good results Li Yunlong, Qin Yangming and others could achieve by attacking Ping'an County.
It is precisely because of this that the boss was worried that something might happen to Qin Yangming and others, so he couldn't sleep all night.
Seeing that the boss was interested in the sand table simulations he had conducted, Brigade Commander Chen did not hide it, nor was there any need to hide it, and prepared to tell the boss about the sand table simulations he had conducted.
Let’s see if the boss can analyze something and find out what methods Li Yunlong, Qin Yangming and others are planning to use to attack the Zhangzhuang stronghold.
"I conducted four sand table exercises in total... Two of them are worth mentioning, one is the one with the fastest attack speed, and the other is the one with the least loss of troops.
The fastest attack was the one I just mentioned. The combat staff officer who served as the commander of the Japanese in the Zhangzhuang stronghold made a mistake, and I seized the opportunity to defeat him.
Then there was the time when material consumption was the least and troop losses were the lowest... that was the time we just finished, after we learned from Xiao Qin that there were eight more field artillery pieces in the Zhangzhuang stronghold.
I have regrouped and organized a new sand table simulation, and I will come to your side after the simulation is completed."
"You kid, why didn't you ask me to do the sand table simulation?"
"Boss, aren't you worried that you might be exposed in our Taihang Military Region? In order to hide your identity, I didn't inform you."
At first, Brigade Commander Chen also thought about whether he should notify the boss, after all, the boss was also very concerned about this matter.
However, the boss's visit to the Taihang Military Region was kept secret. In other words, since he learned that the Japanese had formed a special forces team to carry out a decapitation operation against the Eighth Route Army headquarters, the boss's whereabouts became more secretive.
Although Yamamoto's special forces team had been defeated by Qin Yangming and his men.
But no one can guarantee whether the Japanese have other special forces such as Omoto and Kumamoto.
Especially after Brigade Commander Chen saw how powerful the special forces team Qin Yangming had created, he was even more afraid to let the boss's whereabouts be exposed.
If Qin Yangming was stationed with his troops at the brigade headquarters, Brigade Commander Chen would not be worried. However, Qin Yangming was currently with his troops at the Xiaocaozhuang stronghold negotiating with the Japanese devils Samurai Murakami and Qingquan Muyi. He was not at the brigade headquarters at all.
Moreover, Qin Yangming's special forces team were also taken away, so Brigade Commander Chen naturally had to do his utmost to ensure the boss's safety and prevent his whereabouts from being disclosed.
A war between the Japanese and the Eighth Route Army was about to break out. If the boss's whereabouts were exposed at this time.
Not to mention the boss's safety, if the Japanese knew the boss's whereabouts, then there is a great possibility that they could infer the Eighth Route Army's combat plan based on the boss's whereabouts.
The Japanese had been fighting the Eighth Route Army for so long that they knew some of the Eighth Route Army's habits very well.
For example, the commanders of the Eighth Route Army did not stay in the safe rear like the commanders of the Central Army or the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army.
Instead, he prefers to stay on the front line, make direct judgments on the battlefield situation, and then issue various targeted orders.
Commanding the battle from the rear, even though the commander is safe.
However, in this era, the transmission of various information, especially in a unit like the Eighth Route Army that is extremely short of wireless communication equipment, most of the Eighth Route Army's troops still use the old method of personnel transmission to transmit information.
There is a great deal of uncertainty in using messengers to transmit information, especially when multiple people take over the transmission. It is very likely that information will be lost or transmitted incorrectly.
If an unexpected situation occurs to the communicator during the journey, such as being captured by the enemy, there is a high possibility of information leakage.
At the same time, if communicators are used to transmit information, the speed of information transmission will be very slow. Even the fastest horse cannot catch up with the speed of radio transmission.
In war, sometimes the gap between weapons and equipment and personnel can be made up in other ways.
But in terms of information transmission...information is time-sensitive, and sometimes information is transmitted late.
For example, a message for help... the trapped troops are already gone, and only when the message for help reaches the location of the reinforcements does the message become useless.
On the battlefield, especially large-scale battles, like the large-scale battle that the boss is about to command, involving two provinces and a battle on the front line of thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers.
There is a lot of information in this kind of battle, and it is very messy.
If the commander stays in the rear to fight, he will be safe, but there is a great possibility that he will not receive appropriate information in time and make wrong commands.
What's more, the commander is a commander at the level of the general manager. An order from the general manager may very likely represent the lives of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Eighth Route Army soldiers.
Therefore, in order to obtain information in a timely manner, the troop commander can only place the command center at the front line.
In this way, we can understand the battlefield situation in a timely manner, know what is happening in each area, and issue the most appropriate orders to mobilize troops as quickly as possible.
However, this does make it easier for commanders to command their troops.
But the price is that placing the headquarters directly on the front line will make it easy for the enemy to discover the headquarters and then launch a targeted attack on it.
For example, directly using long-range artillery for covering bombardment.
Qin Yangming used artillery to directly bombard the Japanese county command headquarters in Shiquan County.
Or organize elite soldiers to launch a decapitation operation and directly attack the headquarters.
When Qin Yangming was at Baihu Ridge, he attacked the headquarters of a Japanese army regiment at night. After taking down the Japanese army headquarters through the night attack, he defeated the Japanese army regiment in one fell swoop.
If the command center is placed in the rear, the commander will indeed be safe, but once the commander makes a wrong judgment and issues a wrong order.
The price was the lives of countless soldiers.
If the troops had enough radio stations like the Japanese, the commander could quickly learn about the specific situation on the battlefield through the radio stations and receive messages in time.
However, for Chinese troops like the Eighth Route Army, the Central Army, and the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, because they lack wireless communication equipment such as radio stations, it would be difficult to say what would happen if the commanders still hid behind for their own safety.
In particular, some units within the Central Army clearly had no combat results, but they still reported how many enemies they had killed.
Or maybe the report said they were holding their ground, but in fact they had already slipped away. All kinds of wrong information were reported to the headquarters, and the commanders not only had to distinguish the time and validity of the information, but also the truth of the information. How could they have time to think about how to command the troops?
Of course, this time the Eighth Route Army's battle was destined to be very scattered, rather than limited to a certain area or city.
Under this kind of dispersed fighting situation, the Eighth Route Army must choose a suitable place as the main combat area, use this main combat area to attract the attention of the Japanese, and thus facilitate other troops to launch battles against the Japanese in other areas.
This main battle area was destined to be a direct confrontation and head-on combat zone with the Japanese.
Therefore, the boss will definitely go to the selected main combat area to personally command the troops to fight while remotely controlling the battles in other places.
And the outcome of the battle in the main combat area will be determined based on the outcome of the battles in other places.
In this kind of large-scale battle, failure or victory in a certain area sometimes does not mean anything.
In this kind of large-scale battle, it is not necessary to win every battle.
On the contrary, some battles require that the troops must fail and victory is not allowed.
In some special circumstances, if the troops fail in one or two battles and then retreat, it is not because the troops are incompetent but they choose to retreat.
The previous failure is just a prelude to the subsequent great victory.
Therefore, the boss will make a decision on the outcome of the main battlefield based on the situation on the regional battlefield.
If the situation in other secondary battlefields is very good, the boss will transfer troops from the main battlefield to other battlefields and expand the results in those places.
The victory or loss on the main battlefield is not that important.
If the situation in other battlefields is not good, the boss will increase the intensity of the attack on the main battlefield, attract more Japanese troops, and continue to create opportunities for other battlefields.
The Japanese knew that the commander of the Eighth Route Army liked to conduct direct command on the front line. If the Japanese knew the whereabouts of the commander, they could at least guess the main battlefield chosen by the Eighth Route Army.
By then, the Japanese will be able to take targeted measures in advance, such as strengthening the defense of that area, or directly sending heavy troops to besiege that area.
Therefore, Brigade Commander Chen took targeted measures to ensure the safety of the commander-in-chief and to prevent the Japanese from inferring the main combat area chosen by the Eighth Route Army based on the commander-in-chief's whereabouts.
Therefore, the boss was not informed when the battle simulation was conducted.
Brigade Commander Chen thought about the boss's safety and couldn't help but give the boss a suggestion again.
"Boss, why don't you send a telegram to Xiao Qin and ask him to call back the special forces and temporarily use them as guards for the headquarters.
There are more than ten guards directly under our headquarters, so your safety poses a great threat.
If the Japanese sent another team like Yamamoto's special forces to carry out a decapitation operation against you and Xiao Qin was not there.
The guards at the headquarters may not be able to stop the attack of a force like Yamamoto's special forces.
Even the elite troops of the Independent Regiment and the New 1st Regiment were unable to stop the special operations team led by Xiao Qin in the last exercise between the Vanguard Regiment and them.
If another unit of the level of Yamamoto's special forces appeared in the Japanese army... I asked Xiao Qin, and Xiao Qin said that the special forces team created by the Japanese Yamamoto Ikki were of very high level.
Judging from the perspective of combat effectiveness, Yamamoto Ikki's special forces team is not inferior to the special forces team created by Xiao Qin.
In Xiao Qin's words, a small elite force like this should hide its tracks just like the killers in ancient times.
Once your whereabouts are exposed, retreat immediately.
In today's age of firearms, such small elite troops should cooperate with large forces in combat.
For example, they could sneak into the county town first to draw various maps, or they could sneak in armed with equipment and then carry out decapitation operations.
You must never choose to retreat after being exposed, but instead continue to fight the enemy's ordinary troops head-on.
The use of small elite troops should be like that of killers: either do not move, or kill if they move.
If the attack fails, retreat quickly and never let the enemy discover you.
Xiao Qin said that his special forces team mainly cooperated with the main force in battles, while Yamamoto Kazunari and he did just the opposite. Yamamoto Kazunari let the main force cover and cooperate with his special forces in battles.
This is a complete case of putting the cart before the horse.
But this is only because Yamamoto Ikki himself failed to command, and it does not mean that Yamamoto Ikki's special forces team is not capable of fighting.
To be honest, I don't know how Xiao Qin came up with the idea of setting up a strange small elite force like a special forces team.
It just so happens that Xiao Qin's small-scale elite force can often achieve some unexpected results. If the situation did not allow it, I would have planned to form a similar team in each regiment-level unit.
Boss, for your safety, I suggest that the special forces be transferred here to temporarily serve as guards for the headquarters... In this battle where Xiao Qin and his men are attacking Ping'an County, the special forces will not be able to play a big role.
Various topographic maps of Ping'an County have been drawn up by comrades in Ping'an County.
If a decapitation operation is carried out, Qingquan Muyi, the newly appointed commander of Ping'an County, is right next to Xiao Qin.
With just a flick of his wrist, Xiao Qin could behead the commander of Ping'an County, without the need for special forces at all.
Moreover, Xiao Qin also said that in this kind of offensive and defensive battle, a regimental-level fight, the role of the special forces is actually not as great as that of two artillery pieces.
So bringing the special operations team back will have basically no impact on the front line.”
Brigade Commander Chen persuaded the general to temporarily transfer the special forces to the headquarters to serve as guards for the headquarters during this period.
If the special forces team is transferred to the brigade headquarters, other people won’t think there is anything wrong even if they see it.
At most, people would think that the special forces were transferred here by the brigade commander, or that Qin Yangming, the commander of the vanguard regiment, came here.
(End of this chapter)
