The responsible person in the special high school holds the rank of major general.
When I usually go down there, the lieutenant generals and division commanders are all subservient to me, and are deeply afraid of offending me.
But at this moment, he was like a child who had done something wrong, lowering his head and letting Neji Okamura's spit spray spray onto him, without daring to move.
"Tell me the truth, have the intelligence agencies figured out how big the Eighth Route Army is?" After scolding, Okamura Neji forcibly suppressed his anger, took a deep breath and stared at his subordinates and asked.
The super high school student lowered his head responsibly and hesitated for a long time before answering: "Your Excellency, Commander, according to intelligence, the total main force of the North China Eighth Route Army's base areas must exceed 50,000 people!"
"In addition to the main force, these base areas have also formed at least 500,000 local troops and guerrillas!"
"As long as the battlefield requires it, these troops can become the main force at any time!"
"As for their artillery units, there is not much difference from their introduction on the parade ground!"
"In larger base areas, the captured imperial army's mountain and field artillery can be used to form independent mountain artillery battalions, field artillery battalions, and even mountain and field artillery regiments!"
"In smaller base areas, independent mountain artillery companies, field artillery companies, and at least a mortar company have also been formed!"
"The Eighth Route Army in southwest Shanxi and the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei are the ones with the best equipment!"
"Especially the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army operating in southwestern Shanxi, its strength has long exceeded that of a regiment. Many units in the Chinese army cannot compare with one of their regiments!"
"In the new regiment, mortars, infantry artillery, and mountain artillery have been equipped in large numbers! There are even several independent field artillery battalions and a heavy artillery battalion!"
"In addition to equipping the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base with many artillery pieces captured from the imperial army, their own arsenal also produced many large-caliber mortars and small-caliber mortars to equip the troops!"
"The standard for each brigade to be equipped with a 120mm medium mortar company has been met."
"This kind of mortar is very powerful, especially on the field battlefield, it can explode a large area!"
"Because the charge is large, it will also have a great destructive effect on the fortifications!"
"As long as the target is hit, except for permanent fortifications built with reinforced concrete, other fortifications may be directly destroyed!"
Okamura Neji had a sullen face throughout the whole process, and in the end he couldn't help but curse.
"enough!"
"Since this morning, all I have heard is bad news. Isn't there some good news?"
"If this situation continues to develop, we will just hand over North China to the Eighth Route Army. There will be nothing left to fight!"
"It doesn't matter that we lost a lot of imperial soldiers and gained nothing in the end. The enemy became stronger as they encircled and suppressed us!"
The chief of staff, who had been silent for the whole time, said, "Your Excellency, Commander, I have good news here!"
"The imperial army from Taiyuan direction to reinforce Shijiazhuang has successfully passed Yangquan!"
"The Eighth Route Army that attacked Yangquan was defeated by the imperial army and was completely defeated. Yangquan is back in the hands of the imperial army!"
"The only regret is that a large amount of supplies hoarded by the imperial army in Yangquan were snatched away by the Eighth Route Army, and what was not snatched away was burned to ashes by them!"
"The Shijiazhuang garrison just sent good news!"
"The Eighth Route Army attacking them has stopped!"
"They must have received news that our reinforcements were about to arrive in Shijiazhuang. They were afraid that they would be surrounded by our reinforcements and were ready to run away when the situation turned bad!"
Okamura Neji's face finally looked better, he stared at the chief of staff and continued to ask.
"Where are the mopping up troops attacking the Eighth Route Army base areas?"
"Have they withdrawn safely? If they withdraw, they will go directly to Shijiazhuang and block all the roads around Shijiazhuang that the Eighth Route Army can use to retreat!"
"I want to wipe out all those Eighth Route Army troops!"
"They demonstrated their strength through exercises and demonstrated to us. Then we will kill their troops outside Shijiazhuang and respond to them with a great victory!"
The smile on the chief of staff's face suddenly disappeared.
Okamura Neji's heart skipped a beat, and a very bad premonition came to his mind.
After hesitating for a long time, the chief of staff replied: "There are four encirclement and suppression troops, and they are all still in the Eighth Route Army base area and have not come out!"
"The Eighth Route Army was so cunning. Not only did they send troops to intercept and harass the Imperial Army along the way, they also destroyed the only way for the Imperial Army to retreat and laid a large number of landmines!"
"Even if the four-pronged encirclement and suppression troops are reinforced by aviation, they only retreat ten kilometers every day~"
"Also, the Eighth Route Army seems to be planning to eat our four encirclement and suppression troops~"
"It seems like there is no end to the fight, and the troops are constantly rushing towards our encirclement and suppression troops!"
"One of the encirclement and suppression troops has been reduced sharply from one brigade to two infantry brigades!"
"The losses of the other three mopping up troops were also very heavy, and more than half of them must have suffered casualties!"
Neji Okamura was angry, but this time the target of his anger was not the person in charge of the Special High School Course, but the chief of staff.
He stared at the chief of staff and yelled: "Baga! What kind of good news is this!"
"Tell me, how many Eighth Route Army troops have been wiped out by the Imperial Army so far in this battle!"
The chief of staff hesitated and replied: "Those who were killed by the reinforcements and those who were killed by the mopping up troops after entering their base area, the total number of the Eighth Route Army must be tens of thousands!"
Okamura Neiji continued to curse: "Then tell me how many troops the imperial army lost in total!"
"According to the casualties and battle reports reported to the headquarters by various ministries, the imperial army's casualties have exceeded 10,000!" the chief of staff replied.
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he was stunned.
The Imperial Army lost more troops than the Eighth Route Army.
You must know that in North China, excluding the Imperial Association Army, the total strength of the Imperial Army is less than half of the Eighth Route Army. Even if the casualty ratio is one to one on the battlefield, the entire North China Front Army is not enough to consume the Eighth Route Army.
But in front of them, the Imperial Army suffered more casualties than the Eighth Route Army. Obviously, it could not be said to be a victory.
Not only was it not a victory, it was a complete defeat!
The chief of staff stood there with an embarrassed look on his face, originally wanting to ease Okamura Neji's anger.
Unexpectedly, not only did it not alleviate the problem, it actually made him even more angry~
"Give me the order!" After a long time, Okamura Neiji suddenly ordered.
"The reinforcements that have passed through Yangquan are marching towards Shijiazhuang. Even if we can't kill all the Eighth Route Army attacking Shijiazhuang, I will keep half of them!"
"Chief of Staff, you go and give the order, but you can't complete the task and engage in military law!"
Seeing the murderous Neji Okamura in front of him, the chief of staff did not dare to say a word and rushed out directly.
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