Major General Fujita became anxious and immediately ordered: "I don't care what the situation is on the battlefield. The arsenal was lost in the hands of the garrison in the west of the city. The garrison in the west of the city has the responsibility to take it back to me and destroy it..."
"Go back and tell your squadron leader that no matter how many people he can gather, he must immediately launch a counterattack against the Eighth Route Army attacking them, destroy the arsenal, and destroy him. Otherwise, come to see him and convey the order quickly."
"If it's too late, more Eighth Route Army troops will occupy the arsenal, and all the remaining troops in the west of the city will join the counterattack and they won't be able to recapture the arsenal."
"Boom boom boom..."
The second lieutenant ordered the soldier to just turn around and run out of the war room. Before he could leave the courtyard where the war room was located, three explosions rang in Major General Fujita's ears. Hot air waves hit him in the face, almost knocking him over as he stood at the door.
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The orderly soldier who had just ran out of the war room was hit by a cannonball and fell to the ground into a corpse.
"Da da da……"
Before Major General Fujita could react to the shock of the surprise attack, the sound of machine gun fire rang out at the entrance of the headquarters. The guard captain rushed in at the same time, reporting in a panic: "Your Excellency, Commander..."
"The Eighth Route Army has come over and is attacking the entrance of the headquarters. We have few people and insufficient firepower."
"There are many Eighth Route Army soldiers, and they also bring mortars and heavy machine guns. They will definitely not be able to withstand it. You must move out of here immediately."
Major General Fujita's face instantly turned pale.
He was already prepared for Shijiazhuang to be completely occupied by the Eighth Route Army and to die in battle here.
But when you are actually facing death, if you say you are not afraid, it is all lies.
But in front of his subordinates, no matter how panicked he was, he couldn't show it.
"Shua..." pulled out the command sword with a sound, pretended to say goodbye and ordered: "Warriors, the time has come to devote your life to the empire."
"Everyone took up arms and fought to the death with the Eighth Route Army's attacking troops."
"The operator will immediately send a farewell telegram to His Excellency Commander Okamura."
"The Eighth Route Army has reached the gate of the Shijiazhuang Garrison Headquarters. The Shijiazhuang Garrison vows to live and die with the position. Please Commander, please contact the reinforcements immediately and not to come again."
"Kill me..."
After saying that, he raised his command sword and rushed towards the headquarters gate.
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Headquarters of the Japanese North China Front in Peiping.
The communications staff officer hurried to Okamura Neiji with a solemn look on his face and a telegram in his hand. Okamura Neiji knew without asking that what he brought was bad news.
"Your Excellency, Commander... The Shijiazhuang Garrison sent a second farewell telegram... The Eighth Route Army's offensive troops have arrived at the gate of the Shijiazhuang Garrison Headquarters..."
"Major General Fujita asked the headquarters to contact the reinforcements immediately...stop the advance immediately and don't go to Shijiazhuang, otherwise you will hit the muzzle of the Eighth Route Army's guns and throw yourself into a trap..."
The Shijiazhuang garrison can hold on until now.
To be honest, it was beyond Neji Okamura's expectations. After all, they suffered too many casualties in the previous counterattack, and all they lost were elite troops.
Although there are still more than a thousand garrison troops, many of them are armed expatriates recruited temporarily, with little combat effectiveness and little discipline.
The remaining troops were also crippled and belonged to different brigades. Many soldiers did not know each other at all, let alone cooperate in fighting.
Under such circumstances, engaging in street fighting with the Eighth Route Army was tantamount to seeking death.
So after hearing the first half of the farewell telegram, his expression was very calm and without any disturbance.
But after listening to the second half of the telegram, he became angry.
With the strength of the remaining garrison in Shijiazhuang, they would definitely not be able to defend it, so he took the risk and pulled out all the Japanese and puppet troops who had previously pretended to be reinforcements, and marched quickly through small roads to reinforce Shijiazhuang, hoping to achieve a miracle.
If they successfully fought their way outside Shijiazhuang City, but failed in the final raid and failed to turn defeat into victory, Okamura Neji would be in a better mood and be able to accept this result.
Because this military operation was dangerous and wanted to succeed, the main reason was to make the Eighth Route Army believe the bluff of the reinforcements and believe that the North China Front Army had dispatched heavy troops to reinforce Shijiazhuang, thereby scaring them away.
It's the result.
The four lines of reinforcements that the headquarters had prepared so painstakingly did not even make a splash, but simply disappeared without a trace. This was what annoyed Okamura Neji the most.
In his opinion, as long as the reinforcements arrive on the Shijiazhuang battlefield on time and attack from behind the Eighth Route Army, even if Shijiazhuang is still not defended in the end, they will definitely have no problem in severely damaging the Eighth Route Army attacking Shijiazhuang with their strength.
Once the Eighth Route Army that occupied Shijiazhuang suffered heavy casualties, they would not be able to hold on to Shijiazhuang for a long time. As long as they sent a small number of troops to fight against Shijiazhuang, they could regain control of Shijiazhuang. Shijiazhuang would also return to the hands of the North China Front Army, and then the North China Front Army would
The risk of losing Shijiazhuang is minimized.
Unexpectedly, the reinforcements could not even reach Shijiazhuang.
The more I thought about it, the more angry I became. I couldn't help but curse at the chief of staff: "What do the reinforcements do for food..."
"Four lines of reinforcements marched along the small road... As expected, the fastest reinforcements were able to reach Shijiazhuang more than an hour ago, and the slowest one almost reached the outside of Shijiazhuang... In the end, they all died
To Shijiazhuang."
"Can anyone tell me where they have gone..."
"A stone thrown into the water can make a lot of splashes. As a result, we sent more than 2,000 reinforcements, but not even a splash was made, and they disappeared without a trace..."
"I have been fighting for so many years, and I have never encountered such a weird thing..."
The chief of staff said bravely: "Commander, please calm down..."
"I can't contact them even in my humble position..."
"Since more than an hour ago, our radio station has been calling four lines of reinforcements continuously... In addition to the response from the mopping up troops along the way, they are still marching on the road, and the remaining three mopping up troops have not received any response."
"Where is the Wing Independent Brigade? Could it be them?" A bold idea quickly came to Okamura Neiji's mind, and he stared at the chief of staff and asked.
The chief of staff shook his head and replied: "Probably not..."
"We have scouts and intelligence personnel who have been watching every move of the Independent Brigade...According to their reports, this Eighth Route Army has been on its way back to the base area to support the troops. It is marching very fast and has not divided its troops to return to Shijiazhuang."
"Furthermore, our reinforcements were mobilized secretly and marched along small roads to reinforce Shijiazhuang. Even if the Independent Brigade realized something was wrong and immediately divided its forces and returned to Shijiazhuang, they would not have enough time..."
"Where did the four reinforcements go... Could it be that there are Eighth Route Army troops around Shijiazhuang that we don't know about, and all the reinforcements were wiped out by them..." Neji Okamura made a judgment again.
