Chapter 94 2. Tada Hayao wants to weave a "cage" network

Hayao Tada, the commander of the Japanese Army Dispatch to North China, is a China hand. In 1932 after the "September 18th" Incident, Tada Hayao served as the Supreme Military Advisor of the Puppet Manchukuo. In 1935, Tada Hayao served as the commander of the North China Garrison.Shortly thereafter, he was appointed as the head of the Lieutenant General of the 11th Division. In 1937, he served as the deputy chief of the General Staff Headquarters. In order to meet the needs of the future war against the Soviet Union and China, the Japanese army unified its policies and strategic guidance in China, unified its command of the troops in China, and supported the soon-to-be-established Wang puppet regime. In September 1939, the Japanese Army established the Supreme Army Command in China. Organization - General Command of the Chinese Expeditionary Army.Since the main task of the North China Expeditionary Army is no longer fighting, but maintaining law and order, it is most appropriate to let Tada Hayao, who is familiar with Chinese people and once served as the commander of the North China Garrison, be the commander.

Before Tada Hayao came to North China to take office, his predecessor Sugiyama Yuan implemented three phases of the "Support" plan in 1939 in response to the growing power of the Eighth Route Army in North China and the increasing threat to North China. Military actions include attacks on politics, economy, and even ideology and culture. Hayao Tada and Moto Sugiyama held the exact opposite views. He believed that the focus of "supremacy" should be to wipe out the communist army.For this reason, we must be good at making use of the mutual strife between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. In areas that the Japanese army cannot control for the time being, we should acquiesce in the existence of those miscellaneous troops who do not actively seek war.

It can be seen that Tada Hayao is not only a China hand, but also an expert in using China to control China. After taking office, Tada Jun began to vigorously rectify the traffic, intending to establish a closely connected "cage" traffic network, so that every village has roads, roads have gun towers, and with roads and railways as links, he wants to form the entire North China into a tough network. network. Jun Tada's way of building roads is also very different from the past.He used 4 methods of building roads: One is the ring road, that is, a ring road is built around the city wall around the city wall, and a large number of villages are included in the ring road, and even the bases of the Eighth Route Army are included.Cars patrolled non-stop all day long, preventing the Eighth Route Army from approaching, thus gradually shrinking the base areas of the Eighth Route Army.

One is parallel automobile roads, that is, several parallel roads are built between two places, between strongholds, between one city and one city.When dispatching, you can choose one at will. This method is mainly to deal with the ambush tactics of the Eighth Route Army that made the Japanese suffer so much. There is another kind of radial road, that is, multiple roads are built from the center to the outside. The last method is roadside ditch digging. The roadbed is raised and deep ditches are dug on both sides of the road. It is like a gun tower and a city wall. Jun Tada is weaving a net. He wants to use his net to cover the Eighth Route Army and the base areas and slowly strangle them to death.

But what distressed Tada Hayao was that the importance of North China was not fully recognized by the General Command of the Chinese Expeditionary Army.Tada Hayao is in North China, and he has realized that the struggle in North China will be carried out on an invisible front, and the vast areas of North China are gradually being reddened by the Communist Party. Just when Tada Jun asked to strengthen the military power in North China in order to completely change the situation in North China, the General Command of the China Expeditionary Army not only failed to meet his request, but instead asked the North China Front Army to send some troops to support operations in Central China, and at the same time send some troops to conduct containment operations .In desperation, after the battle of Yichang began, Tada Jun could only use the power of the transportation network to deal with the Eighth Route Army.