The chief of staff doesn’t know where the military commander gets his confidence!
In North China today, not only the Shanxi garrison suffered heavy casualties, but the entire North China Front suffered heavy casualties during last year's winter raids!
The supplementary troops sent to the front army from China and Manchuria are limited, there are too many monks and too little food, and there is simply not enough!
Under such circumstances, it would be very difficult for the Shanxi garrison to receive heavy reinforcements from the front army!
Of course, if we only need heavy artillery reinforcements, that's still possible!
The front army also has many heavy artillery units directly under it!
They are strategic support troops and do not assume local defense tasks. They can move anywhere in North China to reinforce various places!
Thinking of this, he immediately asked: "Sir, are we going to be reinforced by infantry or artillery?"
"The front army promised us the heavy artillery unit last time. Except for the heavy mortar brigade in place, there is no sign of the field artillery and independent mountain artillery brigade!"
"Will there be no reinforcements again?"
"There are also infantry. As far as I know, the front army has no troops available. Could it be that the country has added new troops to our North China Front Army?"
The commander's face was calm and still looked very confident!
But he didn't answer directly. Instead, he stared at the chief of staff and asked.
"Do you know who the major general transferred to us from the front army is?"
"Nakata Yamaro, a military leader trained by the Nakata family, was transferred directly from China by ship!"
The chief of staff's expression became complicated at that time. He looked at the army commander and asked, "Sir, are the rumors about the Nakata family true?"
"The successor of the Nakata family was once captured by the garrison. They paid a huge price to the family to redeem him. In order to destroy the evidence, they broke the message in the army and then came to attack the garrison and kill the culprit!"
"Why else would they suddenly get involved in this matter!"
"You must know that their family's forces mainly dispatch troops at home and in the south, and their impact on the North China Front is almost negligible. Otherwise, they would not have mobilized people from China all the way!"
The army commander suddenly interrupted: "Chief of Staff, rumors are just rumors. You are also a senior officer of the empire. Have you forgotten the minimum military regulations? Moreover, the decision of the front army and the Nakata family are not something we can criticize."
"No matter what the reason for the Nakata family's involvement in this matter, there is no doubt that there are only benefits and no harm to our Shanxi garrison!"
"Hi!" The chief of staff reacted suddenly, and then broke into a cold sweat!
This rumor has existed in the military for a long time!
The Nakata family paid a huge price to redeem people from the garrison and conducted private transactions. To put it bluntly, they were staking the enemy!
If this matter had happened to an ordinary officer in the army, the Military Police Headquarters would have investigated the matter clearly!
But this matter involves the Nakata family, a large family with huge power in the country!
So there are a lot of rumors, but no one has ever checked it out!
Not even the front army dared to offend the Nakata family, let alone a major general and chief of staff!
If the military commander had not warned him in time, what he just said would have been spread out! As long as the Nakata family moved a finger, his future in the military would be over, and he would end up as the chief of staff of a major general.
From now on, promotion and military rank will have nothing to do with me!
"Thank you for reminding me, sir!" the chief of staff, who had thought through all this, quickly replied, with gratitude on his face!
Then start analyzing the matter!
"No matter what the purpose of the Nakata family's involvement in this matter is, as long as Nakata Yamaro can command the troops to kill the garrison, his military rank will be promoted from major general to lieutenant general and become a senior officer of the imperial army. The influence of the Nakata family in the army will also increase.
It will increase greatly!”
"This benefit alone is worth all the resources of the Nakata family to support Nakata Yamaro, completely eliminate the garrison, and achieve this great feat!"
"Not bad!" the military commander affirmed!
"Although the influence of the Nakata family on the North China Front is not great, if the family's power is mobilized, the front army will definitely be able to persuade the front army to deploy heavy troops from the few troops to reinforce us!"
"So in this new round of sweeps against the garrison, the imperial army will definitely have an absolute advantage in strength and firepower!"
"All is ready except for the opportunity!"
"We can leave it to the Nakata family to do how to assemble troops to siege the garrison next!"
"I believe that the Nakata family will do their best to win this great achievement!"
"What we need to do is to destroy the five things the garrison is doing in the three counties of Laiyuan, prevent them from building a base area, and not give them time to train new recruits, so as to create better conditions for besieging the garrison in the future!"
"I will contact my classmates at the headquarters now to confirm how many troops the Nakata family plans to deploy to besiege the garrison, so that we know ourselves and our enemies!"
"Chief of Staff, you should immediately organize the staff department and the intelligence department to jointly formulate an action plan and decipher the five things the garrison is doing one by one!"
"Study a few more action plans and come up with them. We will choose a specific action plan tomorrow morning!"
The Eighth Route Army headquarters, deputy commander-in-chief, deputy chief of staff, several senior staff officers, and the head of the guard regiment, seven or eight people gathered around the flying thunder cannon that had been used on a large scale by the guard regiment, pointing and pointing!
Some people were amazed, some were skeptical, and some were excited, with very complicated expressions!
After everyone calmed down, the deputy chief of staff spoke!
"Boss, comrades, the weapon you see is called the Flying Thunder Cannon, and it was produced according to the drawings provided by the Lingqiu Garrison Regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region."
"It's very simple to make and requires almost no military equipment!"
"The raw materials are also very common. Gasoline barrels and black powder are all common in the base area and can be easily seized from the Japanese army."
The head of the security regiment at the headquarters asked with suspicion: "Chief, can such a crude weapon kill the Japanese?"
The Deputy Chief of General Staff replied with certainty: "Of course!"
"The garrison has been equipped with thirty-six thunder cannons. According to their reports, the power of the explosive packs fired by the thunder cannons is not less than the 150 mm caliber artillery shells. One blast will cover a large area. On the field battlefield, the explosive package has a radius of 20 to 30 millimeters.
Within a meter range, the enemy will either die or be injured!"
"If the distance from the impact point is only ten meters, even if the enemy is hiding in the bunker, he will be killed by the shock wave generated by the explosion!"
"The garrison has already used them in actual combat!"
"Use thunder cannons to attack Japanese strongholds at close range and kill three Japanese infantry brigades in just one night!"
"After cleaning up the battlefield, we found that more than 3,000 Japanese from the three brigades, more than 2,000 of them, were killed by thunder cannons!"
"More than a thousand of them didn't have any wounds on the surface, but they bled to death on the battlefield!"
"There is no doubt that these devils' internal organs were shattered, otherwise this situation would not have happened!"