In the classic TV series "Bright Sword", the special task force led by the Japanese army Daisayama Kazuki Caused a lot of losses to the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army. In real history, there is indeed a similar Japanese army unit that has repeatedly tried to attack the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and is one of the fierce enemies of our army.
In May 1942, the First Army of the Japanese invasion of China, stationed in North China, once again launched a large-scale sweep of our army's North China base area, with the intention of destroying the Base Area of the Eighth Route Army. Unlike the previous sweep, the japanese military in North China demanded that the command structure of the Eighth Route Army must be destroyed. Because in the previous operations, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army used mobile and flexible tactics to maneuver with the enemy, so that the Japanese army was in vain every time, so this time the enemy changed its previous tactics, in addition to concentrating the heavy troops of 2 divisions and 4 brigades, and specially formed several small units with the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the headquarters of the 129th Division as the target, one of which was specifically responsible for attacking the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, that is, the Mashiko Advance Team.
Mashiko's advance team was composed of the 3rd Squadron of the 223rd Wing of the 36th Division of the Japanese Invasion of China, commanded by Mashiko Shigeo. In addition to the carefully selected officers and soldiers, the Mashiko Advance Team included more than a dozen traitors who were familiar with the situation in the base area. The members of the Mashiko Advance Team underwent special training, were familiar with the tactics and equipment of the Eighth Route Army, and had a detailed grasp of the physical characteristics of many senior generals of the Eighth Route Army. Their existence is precisely to find and destroy the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in the base areas and to attack our senior generals. This unit was not well equipped, without the submachine guns in Bright Sword, and basically used rifles and light machine guns, and reinforced heavy machine guns, but not artillery. However, Mashiko's advance team is equipped with a radio station and can call for heavy fire support at any time.
The most cunning point of the Machiko Advance Team was that they were all dressed in the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, and they imitated the marching ranks of the Eighth Route Army, trying to muddy the waters and confuse the soldiers and civilians in our base areas. If not carefully identified, from the appearance point of view, the Mashiko Advance Team is indeed more like the eighth route army team.
After the Japanese sweep began, Mashiko's advance team quietly went deep into the base area to avoid an exchange of fire with the large troops of the Eighth Route Army, and concentrated its power on searching the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. On May 25, Mashiko's advance team encountered a large force of the Eighth Route Army in Liaoxian County, but Mashiko Shigeo did not dare to come to a center to blossom, waiting for reinforcements to save his life, but took advantage of the night to break through and escape. From this battlefield performance, it can also be found that the combat style of the Mashiko Advance Team is completely different from that of the general Japanese troops.
The Mashiko Advance Repeatedly searched the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army during the Japanese sweep, but in fact did not achieve the expected combat objectives. Mashiko Shigeo claimed to have found the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army many times, and claimed to have broken through in the siege of the Two Thousand Eighth Route Army, but in fact, according to our data, the Eighth Route Army in the area of activity of the Mashiko Advance Team did not have such a large force. Therefore, the actual tactical purpose of the Mashiko Advance Team was completely unfulfilled. However, this mysterious and disguised Japanese army did cause some losses to some of the Eighth Route Army troops. In nearly a month of fighting, Mashiko's advance team ran east and west, sneaking around in the mountains of North China, claiming to have caused "heavy losses" to the Eighth Route Army, but only 2 people were injured in the losses reported by himself.
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