When Chu Yunfei received Wang Binghua's telegram, he slapped the table with joy, stood up excitedly and shouted, "Well done! He killed a Japanese tank regiment cleanly. The Eighth Route Army's tank unit is indeed extraordinary!"
Fang Ligong, who was standing next to him, had a worried look on his face: "Commander, it is said that the Japanese breakout force used the latest tanks this time, and also sent bombers... But they were all swallowed up by the Eighth Route Army. Now the Eighth Route Army is only a small force.
, given time, it will definitely become a trend!"
Chu Yunfei laughed and replied: "This will happen in the future. Whoever wins and loses will have our own destiny, but now, the one we fight is the little devil!"
Chu Yunfei is different from other officers in this regard. He firmly supports fighting the Japanese first, which also reflects the moral integrity of a professional soldier.
Okamura Neji's face turned pale and silent when he received a series of battle reports from the front line.
If the previous battles lost to the Eighth Route Army were all small fights or being caught off guard because they were unprepared, then this time, it was launched after Neji Okamura carefully prepared and mobilized a large number of troops.
Okamura Neiji always believed that even if this battle could not be "destroying", it could at least advance steadily.
Especially after the Maruyama Flying Brigade was transferred, Okamura Neji thought that he no longer had to worry about the tanks of the Eighth Route Army... In front of the aircraft, the ten T34s of the Eighth Route Army could be said to be nothing.
Okamura Neji never expected that the battle situation would develop like this:
The flying group was almost completely wiped out. Only two of the thirty-odd bombers returned, and the rest of the fighter planes and their pilots were lost.
I heard that three more fighter planes were injured and then flew over the jungle. The pilots parachuted out in time to escape.
But Okamura Neji didn't expect to be able to rescue these pilots... The mountainous area was dominated by the Eighth Route Army. Even if they were not caught by the Eighth Route Army, they would be eaten alive by the Chinese people.
The tank regiment was even more miserable; none of the more than fifty tanks survived.
Okamura Neiji couldn't believe that the "One Style" that he had always had high hopes for didn't even stir up a splash after being put into the battlefield. Okamura Neiji didn't even know how it lost, because so far there has not been a single battle.
The soldiers fled back...
It is actually very difficult for chariot soldiers to survive.
They were driving a tank. If the tank was destroyed, they would either die with the tank or get out of the tank and die.
As for escaping...
Unless you abandon the tank and escape into the jungle, with a target as big as a tank and so slow, escaping is nothing more than a dream.
Shinozuka Yoshio saw Okamura Neji's face was gloomy, he did not dare to speak and just stood aside with his head bent, as if all this was his fault.
After a long time, Yoshio Shinozuka said: "Your Excellency, General, the offensive on the southern front...will continue?"
The "southern line" mentioned by Yoshio Shinozuka refers to the attack south of Mount Nakajo.
Okamura Neiji's plan was originally to attack Mount Nakajo from the north and south as quickly as he did last time.
But now, the offensive on the northern front has been completely defeated, and it is almost impossible to break through.
Under such circumstances, the offensive on the southern front is likely to become a stalemate in the mountainous areas and turn into a tug-of-war with the Eighth Route Army.
The imperial army at this time cannot afford to waste it!
The empire's wars in other directions are all hoping to "harvest" some benefits from the Chinese battlefield. If the North China Front Army again falls into a war of attrition with the Eighth Route Army...
Therefore, it is inevitable to stop the offensive on the southern front, and the sooner it is stopped, the smaller the losses will be.
However, what surprised Yoshio Shinozuka was that Neji Okamura replied decisively: "No, continue the attack on the southern front!"
"Yes!" Yoshio Shinozuka nodded in response.
He didn't dare to object, but he thought in his heart that Okamura Neji was unwilling to admit defeat.
Or, because the losses on the northern front were too great, they planned to take back points from the southern front to report the results to their superiors.
As for the overall strategy or the life and death of soldiers, who cares about these?
But Yoshio Shinozuka soon discovered that he had wrongly blamed Okamura Neji.
"Shinozuka-kun!" Neji Okamura slowly took out a cigarette from his pocket and held it in his hand, and said thoughtfully: "The more it is now, the more likely it is that we will have an opportunity!"
"Opportunity?" Shinozuka Yoshio was puzzled. In such a situation, it is not an exaggeration to say that the army was defeated like a mountain. How could it be an opportunity?
Compared with the depression of the Japanese headquarters, the Eighth Route Army headquarters was full of joy.
Usually when the leader is directing a battle, he always frowns and is either staring at the map on the wall or walking around in the open space in front of the table thinking about problems.
But this time, the leader leisurely lit a cigarette, sat on a chair and made a cup of tea with a smile.
"It's been a long time since I've been this relaxed!" the chief said, "With Little Northeast, we have a lot less worry! When was the last time we shot down so many Japanese planes?"
"It was last year!" The staff officer thought for a while and replied: "About October, Xiaodongbei also used rocket launchers to blow up the Japanese airport! The result was even greater than this time..."
"Hey! This is different!" The chief said: "Last time, it was a coincidence. The Japanese were unaware and caught them off guard. This kind of thing can only happen once, and it won't be so easy if it happens again. But today
Although not as many planes were destroyed as in the previous battle, it was fought openly and openly with the Japanese, and more than thirty planes were destroyed in one go. This can be copied! This tactic must be widely promoted in the future...
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"Chief!" the chief of staff laughed: "We only have so many tanks and only so many anti-aircraft guns. If we want to promote it to other units, we can't promote it. We are short of tanks and anti-aircraft guns!"
"Yes, yes!" The leader smiled and nodded: "Look at me, I am so happy that I forget about this!"
As he said this, the chief and chief of staff laughed happily.
Then the leader looked at the map with satisfaction and said: "The current situation is very favorable to our army. The Japanese flying group has been wiped out by our army. It will be impossible to assemble more aircraft for a while, and the reconnaissance planes are unable to deal with the tanks. In this way
As a result, our T34 has taken the initiative strategically and restrained the Japanese everywhere!"
"Yes!" The chief of staff agreed: "T34 has a strategic advantage. If we defend Yuncheng, there will be no big problem. If Yuncheng is defended, the Japanese will have no choice but to attack hard from the southern line of Zhongtiao Mountain, and they won't be able to make any big waves!"
The leader reminded: "However, we cannot underestimate the enemy. Okamura Neji is not so easy to deal with, and he will not admit defeat so easily. The more at this time, the more careful we must deal with it!"
The chief of staff nodded, and then asked: "Chief, what do you think Okamura Neji will do next?"
The leader thought for a while and said: "The trick of force and suddenness has failed. Now, they will probably have to rely on the special operations that Xiao Dongbei mentioned..."