At the Japanese brigade headquarters in Linfen City, Major General Matsumoto stood in front of the sand table, staring at the sand table, motionless for a long time.
Ever since the farewell telegram from Lieutenant Colonel Qinggang was delivered to him, he has maintained this posture, reflecting on whether his series of battles with the New Regiment of the Eighth Route Army were really, as stated in Qinggang's telegram, a serious underestimation of the enemy.
mistake.
Suddenly, a communications staff officer rushed in. Seeing that Matsui had not moved, he hesitated and reported: "General! Qingang Zhongsatama is broken, and our first brigade is finished!"
"This is the last telegram sent by Lieutenant Colonel Qinggang before the Eighth Route Army invaded their position. Now, Lieutenant Colonel Qinggang has lost contact!"
"Crash..." Major General Matsumoto didn't care, he smashed everything in front of him that could be smashed, and then shouted with anger.
"Bageya Road, the cunning Eighth Route Army, the cunning Wang Ping, actually killed another infantry brigade of mine. I will kill you..."
"Contact the aviation force immediately. Send out the aviation force at dawn to find the main force of the new regiment and eliminate them!"
The chief of staff hesitated and reminded: "But, General, after dawn, the Eighth Route Army that attacked our first group must have retreated. There is still nearly an hour before dawn, and it will take time for the plane to arrive, enough for the Eighth Route Army to withdraw from the battlefield!"
Matsumoto remained calm and silent. After staring at the map for a few seconds, he continued to shout: "Tianjiazhuang, isn't the Eighth Route Army active in Fengyun Town hiding in Tianjiazhuang? If there was no Tianjiazhuang, there would be no such people hiding in Tianjiazhuang.
If we send a new regiment to ambush, our first brigade will not be wiped out, and we will not be so passive!"
"Order the aviation force to find this Tianjiazhuang and blow it up for me."
"I want to avenge Yusui's soldiers and let the Eighth Route Army know that there is a price to pay for destroying our imperial army!"
Matsumoto just wants revenge now. As for whether he kills the Eighth Route Army or ordinary people, he can't care so much, as long as he can vent all the anger he has been holding in his stomach.
This time the chief of staff did not hesitate and carried out the order readily.
Tianjiazhuang is the hiding place of the Eighth Route Army, and there must be many Eighth Route Army troops hiding there.
Moreover, the Eighth Route Army is usually half civilians and half soldiers. It is difficult to distinguish whether they are soldiers or ordinary people. As long as they can be eliminated, it is okay to kill some ordinary people. Anyway, China has a large population.
After a while, the chief of staff came back: "General, the telegram has been sent. After dawn, the aviation force will send three bombers to carry out the bombing mission!"
After thinking for a while, he continued to report: "Also, now that the new regiment has just wiped out our first brigade, their morale must have been greatly boosted. I am worried that they will use the currently occupied Fengyun Town and Tianxin Town as their bases to continue to expand around.
Attack us."
"They are now well-equipped with mountain artillery, infantry artillery, mortars... all kinds of weapons, and they are fully capable of this capability."
"Yoshi!" Major General Matsumoto slowly calmed down from his anger.
Staring at the sand table, he replied with a serious face: "You are right, we must guard against this!"
"I thought carefully about Lieutenant Colonel Qinggang's farewell telegram. Our opponents are too cunning! They have made us lose judgment on their strength and strength time and time again. Therefore, no one can guarantee that the new troops of our first brigade will be eliminated.
Is the regiment really crippled and is it still capable of attacking?"
"Ask the second battalion to come up and take the two regiments of the Imperial Association Army and the remaining two squadrons of the artillery brigade. They will block the new regiment's only way to attack Fengyun Town and Tianxin Town. We lost two
After forming a large group, it is no longer possible for us to annihilate them all in a short period of time. In this case, we can only find ways to limit their development, and when our strength recovers, we can dispatch heavy troops to encircle and suppress them!"
"I'll make arrangements right away!" the chief of staff replied seriously.
On the battlefield where Tianxin Town completely annihilated the Japanese first brigade, Wang Ping did not show any smile after winning the battle.
On the battlefield, among the layers of corpses, there were too many bodies of Eighth Route Army soldiers.
The closer to the center of the battlefield, the greater the proportion. Just what he saw with his own eyes, Wang Ping realized that the casualties of the troops tonight far exceeded his expectations.
"Captain, the casualties have been counted!" the chief of staff came over and reported in a serious tone.
"The Japs here are so cruel. They knew that they would not survive until the end. They tried every means to hold grenades and die together with our soldiers. We had no way of guarding against them!"
"The company at the front was almost blown up by the Japanese!"
"The subsequent two companies also suffered heavy losses. In addition to the losses during the attack on the Japanese garrison, we lost more than 600 people here in less than half a night, and directly sacrificed more than 500 people. Half of them were killed by the Japanese.
He was blown up with a grenade before he died, which is really unjust!"
Wang Ping wanted to get angry, but in the end he suppressed his anger and ordered with clenched fists: "The Japs in Linfen City must now know that their first brigade was wiped out. In order to retaliate, they will definitely send out a large number of bombers to attack.
It's almost dawn, so we order the troops to seize the time to clean the battlefield and retreat as soon as possible! After the troops are safe, we will sum up our experience and lessons!"
The chief of staff shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Commander, there is nothing to clean up on the battlefield!"
"The Japanese didn't know why they were crazy. They knew they were finished. Before they died, they destroyed all the weapons. On the entire battlefield, there were no more than a hundred intact rifles, and not a single one of the more than 20 heavy machine guns was left.
, they were all blown up!”
"The soldiers are collecting some scattered ammunition that was not destroyed by the Japanese and trying to make up for the losses!"
Wang Ping's face quickly became heavy.
He hesitated and analyzed: "Japs are very smart!"
"If our new regiment wants to develop and grow, all weapons and ammunition must be captured. If they destroy the weapons, we will not capture them, and the army will not be able to develop. It is really cunning!"
Zhong Chenggong also realized the seriousness of the problem!
The interface said: "Commander, not only can't we grow and develop, our troops will shrink even more!"
"During the battle, our troops also suffered losses. In addition to consuming a large amount of ammunition, the equipment losses were also very serious. If there are not enough captured and replenished troops, the weapons and equipment in our hands will definitely become less and less!"
"Without equipment, even if we establish a base and recruit more people to join the Eighth Route Army, we still won't have weapons to give them. We can't let them carry machetes and red-tasseled guns to fight against the Japanese! That would simply mean death!"
Wang Ping quickly comforted him: "Chief of Staff, don't worry. It turns out that the Japanese used this trick to deal with us, and it might be okay! But now, I can tell you for sure, it's useless!"
"The weapons exploded, but the parts are still there. As long as there are parts, we can reassemble the weapons. The only regret is that the quantity is a little less. It is possible that two damaged rifles can only be reassembled into one good rifle.
.However, there is definitely no problem in making up for our battlefield losses!”
"Give me an order to take away all the damaged weapons on the battlefield, including the parts scattered on the battlefield!"
The chief of staff replied with doubt: "Yes, commander!"
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