At the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front in Peiping, Neji Okamura stared with a pair of big red eyes, his face was gloomy, and he was in a very bad mood.
I don’t know how many tea sets he had smashed on the table in front of him. Anyway, whenever someone came out of his office, the sound of cups being smashed would definitely be heard in the command center.
At the end of the day, Okamura Neiji's office became a restricted area for all the staff members of the headquarters. No one was willing to go near there at this time unless necessary.
The chief of staff has been hesitating at the command department for almost five minutes. He holds a telegram in his hand and doesn't know whether to go in or not.
After another two minutes, the chief of staff finally decided to go in.
The telegram in hand is so important. To put it more seriously, it may even affect the large-scale raids being carried out by the imperial army in North China and the situation in North China as a whole.
Seeing Okamura Neiji standing in front of the huge map, with a sullen face and saying nothing. The chief of staff gritted his teeth and reported: "Your Excellency, Commander, there is an urgent call from Taiyue Military Region!"
"Ono's independent mixed brigade headquarters is being violently attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and the troops have suffered heavy losses!"
"Where are the reinforcements? The reinforcements will rush over immediately. This time, we must kill the main force of the Taiyue Military Region no matter what. At the very least, we must severely injure them!" Neji Okamura's eyes never left the map in front of him, and he frowned.
commanded.
The chief of staff immediately realized that the commander in front of him had forgotten the loss of the imperial army in Taiyue last night, or had not connected the two battles together.
As a senior commander with hundreds of thousands of imperial troops and hundreds of thousands of imperial alliance troops at his disposal, he has too many things to take care of every day.
Not to mention too many, we receive dozens of battle reports from all over North China every day, sometimes even hundreds.
After hesitating for a few seconds, the chief of staff could only lower his head and reply: "There are no reinforcements nearby to reinforce them!"
"You have forgotten that the more than 4,000 people lost in Taiyue last night were also members of the Ono Brigade!"
"The Eighth Route Army used the encirclement and reinforcements they are good at. In just a few hours, they killed two of our reinforcements, more than 7,000 imperial troops, in two encounters and annihilation battles!"
"At that time, you also asked us to investigate how the Eighth Route Army in the Taiyue area was still able to assemble so many troops to attack us!"
When this matter was mentioned, Okamura Neji's anger started to rise.
"Bagheya Road, this Taiyue again~ If I remember correctly, the most bad news has come from the direction of Taiyue in the past few months... Under the heavy encirclement and suppression of the imperial army, they were able to concentrate their superior forces and force again and again.
Firepower to surround and annihilate our troops. Have you found out where these troops and firepower came from?"
"Hey, I was just preparing a report when I received a telegram that the Ono brigade headquarters was attacked."
"According to intelligence, these troops were secretly drawn from various places by the Eighth Route Army. The number of troops is not very large, only 10,000!"
Okamura Neiji's expression became even more ugly: "In other words, the Eighth Route Army's 10,000 people attacked 7,800 of us, and they also used the tactic of encircling the points to call for reinforcements, killing more than 4,000 of us, and taking two of our strongholds along the way!
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"Hi!" The chief of staff lowered his head even lower.
He replied in a low voice: "Although the Eighth Route Army that attacked us did not have an absolute advantage in strength, their equipment was very good, especially the light and heavy machine guns. Almost every infantry squad had a light machine gun. On the ambush battlefield, their attack
The firepower is at least twice ours, or even more!"
But he quickly came to his senses and knew that the chief of staff could not fabricate it out of thin air. He must have some real evidence to report it.
Then he stared at the chief of staff and asked: "So many light and heavy machine guns, where did they come from!"
"Did the Taiyue Military Region of the Eighth Route Army concentrate all the light and heavy machine guns equipped by the military region on the attacking troops in order to fight this battle successfully?"
"This is impossible. Without light and heavy machine guns, the combat effectiveness of their other units cannot even be maintained at 50%. Once the imperial army launches an attack, their defense line will probably collapse across the board. The Eighth Route Army will never dare to take this risk!"
The chief of staff quickly replied: "It was provided by the Eighth Route Army that just occupied Linfen City!"
"The Imperial Army captured a large number of weapons and equipment of the Jinsui Army during the battle in southwestern Shanxi, and all of them were hoarded in Linfen City to form the Imperial Association Army. After Linfen was occupied by the Eighth Route Army, these equipment also fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, including a lot of light and heavy machine guns.
Yu four hundred support!"
Okamura Neiji became angry and cursed unceremoniously: "Baga, this is all Fujino's fault. If Linfen City had not been lost, the situation would never have become so bad, and the imperial army would not have lost so many troops.
Just sending Fujino to a military court is too easy for him, he should be ordered to commit hara-kiri directly!"
"Bang bang bang~"
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and then a communications officer was seen sneaking in carefully.
"Sir, there's an urgent call from the Ono Brigade!"
"They divided the garrisons in the 3rd and 4th military divisions of the Taiyue Military Region and were attacked. They were attacked by the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army. The firepower was very powerful and the troops suffered heavy losses..."
"Also...the brigade headquarters in Zhoukou Town has lost more than half of its troops, and the Eighth Route Army dispatched at least two battalions of artillery to attack them. If there are no reinforcements, the troops can last for up to three hours before they are completely destroyed!"
After Okamura Neji glanced at the watch on his arm, a helpless expression quickly flashed across his face.
"It's over! There are still at least six hours before the Tianliang Air Force rushes over. They will definitely not be able to hold on until then!"
"I know that the new regiment is not a match for any of the divisions in Fujino's hands. It will be eaten if asked, let alone the four thousand mixed troops in the hands of Ono's brigade!"
After saying that, Okamura Neji quickly walked into the war room next to him.
A huge combat sand table clearly shows the topography of the entire North China. The different first flags planted on the sand table represent the military situation of various forces such as the Japanese army, the Eighth Route Army, and the government army.
"Replace the flag representing the Imperial Army with the flag of the Eighth Route Army~" Okamura Neiji glanced at the sand table, fixed his gaze on Taiyue, and then ordered.
After the combat staff officer next to him quickly did all this, Okamura Neiji then turned his attention to the chief of staff: "If all the imperial troops in this area are killed by the Eighth Route Army, how many troops can they spare to support other battlefields!"
"This is the scope of the Third Military Division of the Taiyue Military Region of the Eighth Route Army. The Third Military Division plus the Fourth Military Division, plus the troops directly under the Taiyue Military Region, they can spare at least 20,000 people!"
Okamura Neiji's face became even more ugly, and he replied with a stern face: "Twenty thousand troops, no matter which battlefield they are deployed on, will have a devastating blow to the imperial army!"
"At that time, the Eighth Route Army can use the breakthrough point of Taiyue to gradually launch a counterattack against us and finally defeat us!"
"We must not let this happen!" The chief of staff was frightened by this inference and subconsciously exclaimed.
Then he added: "Commander, I will immediately organize the staff to study, transfer troops from other places, and hold them back. They must not be thrown into other battlefields."
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