"The Japanese army has personnel carriers, and they often use their high-speed maneuverability to carry infantry around to raid us."
"Our base area in the wing also has its own transportation company."
"I remember that the entire transport company had more than twenty vehicles available."
"The Japs Middle Road mopping up troops were equipped with forty or fifty vehicles to transport artillery and ammunition. Although many were destroyed, some were also captured by us."
"If you put it together, there must be forty cars."
"One car can pull two light infantry squads at the same time, and forty cars can pull 800 people in one trip."
"There are still three hours until dawn. Even if the Japanese plane rushes to us at dawn, it will take almost an hour to get there. In total, it will take more than four hours to transfer."
"Starting from here, we can make two trips back and forth to transport at least 1,600 light infantry to Wei Village."
"We will continue to transport troops by car after dark tomorrow. We will definitely be able to transport another 1,600 troops before ten o'clock in the evening."
"The mountain and field cannons can be transported directly on the back of a car. It will be no problem to deliver all 60 or 70 mountain and field cannons to Weizhuang."
"Notify the troops who have no combat missions on the battlefield to assemble immediately, replenish equipment and ammunition on the spot, replenish one battalion and set off one battalion at a time, and march forward in the direction of Weizhuang."
"The transportation company drives all the cars out on the road to pick people up."
"First send one group to Weizhuang to lie in wait, and then send another group there tomorrow night."
"The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Shunping Garrison Regiment were combined into a reinforced battalion. Wei Dayong served as the battalion commander and went to Weizhuang to participate in the battle with the second transport vehicle."
"Cavalry troops, commandos, ride to Wei Zhuang on their own to participate in the battle."
"Chief of Staff, I will also go to Wei Zhuang with the troops. All the troops staying here will be under your command."
"First clean the battlefield and hide all the captured loot to prevent Okamura Neji from dispatching aircraft to carry out retaliatory bombings on the battlefield."
"After the mission is over, each regiment will immediately move to repair."
"But we must not let our guard down."
"Okamura Neiji has lost two troops in a row in this large-scale raid, which is a shame."
"If he knew that we still wanted to eat up his left flank mopping up troops, he would definitely go crazy and try every means to reinforce the battlefield."
"I don't know what Okamura Neji will do and whether he has any other backup plans, but as long as we have a reserve team, we won't be afraid of any surprises."
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At the Japanese Army's Baoding Garrison Headquarters, the communications staff officer suddenly ran to Neji Okamura in a panic: "Your Excellency, Commander..."
"We lost contact with the reinforcements..."
"The radio contact between the two parties was suddenly interrupted. No matter how we called them, there was no response."
"The last bulletin said that they had broken out of the Eighth Route Army encirclement, but were attacked by the Eighth Route Cavalry...and then lost contact..."
Okamura Neiji's face quickly darkened, and he hesitated for a while before he sighed and said: "The reinforcements broke through lightly armed, with a total strength of less than a thousand, and no heavy weapons. The chance of winning against the cavalry is very low."
"It's probably an accident."
"The Eighth Route Army in Yi Zhong has a good appetite for fighting."
"I just ate my middle mopping up troops, and then I swallowed up the light infantry regiment sent by Baoding. I'm really not afraid of pushing myself to death."
When he said the last words, Okamura Neji's whole person was enveloped in murderous aura, and his hatred for the Eighth Route Army in the Wings reached an unprecedented level.
The deputy chief of staff then sighed: "The performance of the Eighth Route Army tonight really shocked me."
"More than 10,000 people, fighting continuously, swallowed up 8,000 or 9,000 elite Kwantung Army troops in one go."
"If this were a frontal battlefield, the Chinese army with 30,000 people would not even be able to kill more than 8,000 elite Kwantung Army troops."
"The strength is so terrifying that it far exceeds our expectations."
"I just don't know how many of the more than 10,000 Eighth Route Army soldiers who are active in Chenjiazhuang are left after this stop."
"I hope they also suffered heavy losses in the battle, otherwise the Kwantung Army we lost tonight will be a big loss."
Okamura Neji did not answer his deputy's words, but he thought of another thing because of these words.
If the losses of the Eighth Route Army in the two decisive battles were not as great as imagined, and there were only four to five thousand of the more than 10,000 people left to continue fighting, the Kwantung Army would be in danger by mopping up the troops on the left and right of the Yizhong base area before they could withdraw from it.
No matter where this mobile force is deployed to participate in the battle, it will put tremendous pressure on the mopping up troops, and it may even lose the mopping up troops again.
The more Okamura Neiji thought about it, the more serious his expression became. He raised his head and asked the communications staff anxiously: "Have the two sweeping forces on the left and right turned around and retreated?"
"Where are we now? How long will it take to evacuate the Eighth Route Army's Yizhong Base Area?"
The communications staff officer nodded quickly: "Both armies have all turned around and are marching urgently out of the Yizhong base area."
"But the Eighth Route Army has been blocking them along the way."
"Especially the left flank mopping up troops."
"Use all available terrain and tunnels along the route to stop them."
"Although we tried our best to attack Wangdu County, the speed was not fast."
"I hope the Tianliang Air Force can provide them with some help when they arrive on the battlefield."
"The left sweep force?" Okamura Neiji vaguely felt that there was something wrong here. He strode to the sand table and glanced back and forth at the left sweep force on the offensive route, hoping to find some clues.
But there was too little information available, and I couldn't find any problem after looking at it for two minutes.
As a result, the deputy chief of staff directly helped him find the problem with one sentence.
"Your Excellency Commander..."
"Is the Yizhong Eighth Route Army stupid?"
"We marched urgently to reinforce Chenjiazhuang. I can understand that they tried their best to stop us."
"Now that we want to withdraw from their base area and end the sweep, they are still trying their best to stop us. I can't understand it."
"The mopping up troops include heavy artillery, tanks, and mountain artillery."
"Even if they occupy the advantageous terrain and have tunnels available, the pressure of frontal blocking is still very high."
"Isn't it worth the loss to eliminate our few troops at a huge cost?"
"You're absolutely right..." Neji Okamura patted the deputy chief of staff on the shoulder with great satisfaction.
"The Eighth Route Army's desperate efforts to block our left flank mopping up troops are definitely not just for the purpose of consuming our troops. There must be other conspiracies inside."
As he spoke, he looked at the sand table and continued to scan the attack route back and forth on the left flank. Finally, he stopped at Weizhuang, a small village with almost no markings on the sand table.
Very sure: "This is it..."
"Look at the sand table..."
"Weizhuang is the only way for the left sweep troops to retreat to Wangdu and leave the Yizhong base area."
"If the Eighth Route Army captures this place in advance and defends Weizhuang, unless they are given wings to sweep up the troops on the left, they will be blocked there by the Eighth Route Army and will not be able to leave even if they want to."
The deputy chief of staff instantly understood Okamura Neji's thoughts, and then his whole face revealed an expression of dumbfounded shock.
