Just when Li Yunlong and others were holding an operational meeting at the regimental headquarters of the new 1st Regiment on Hutou Mountain, at this time, Taiyuan Airport, who hurried to the airport to meet Gu Shoufu's 6th Division, the chief of staff of the Japanese First Army, Taro Miyano, saw Gu Shoufu coming down from the first transport plane.

"Chief Miyano, I'm going to be rebuilt." As soon as he saw Taro Miyano, Taro Tani saluted and said, Anyway, Taro Miyano is still Gu Shoufu's old boss.

Taro Miyano clasped Gu Shoufu's left hand and said with a smile: "Yo Xi, the head of Gu Shoufu's division is still very healthy!" It's hard work, come with me into the city first! The warriors of the Imperial Army of the 6th Division, I will send other staff officers to assist you in entering the city to rest. ”。

"Okay, then it's hard work for Miyano-sir!" Gu Shoufu said respectfully, and got into a car with Miyano Taro and entered Taiyuan City.

Half an hour later, Gu Shoufu and other officers of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army were already sitting at the headquarters of the 1st Army of the Japanese Army in Taiyuan City.

At this time, the commander of the Mongolian garrison army who had arrived in Taiyuan from Guisui had already entered the city before Tani Shofu's 6th Division arrived in Taiyuan by air, and temporarily served as the commander of the Japanese First Army until the General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese Army selected the most suitable person for the commander of the Japanese First Army to garrison Jin Province.

Hirohito personally ordered the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, which was resting in Jinling, to be airlifted north to Jin Province and urgently included in the operational sequence of the First Army, including most of the main force of the 20th Division under the jurisdiction of the First Army of the Japanese Army, and the 10th Division and other units were continuously annihilated by the new First Regiment.

Therefore, at this time, the strength of the Japanese First Army was actually less than 100,000, and only the 31st Division, the 36th Division, and the 41st Division were left, as well as four independent infantry brigades and regiments.

Therefore, at this time, it was still necessary to send the 6th Division to reinforce and strengthen the strength of the Japanese First Army.

Okabe Naosaburo first served as the commander of the First Army of the Japanese Army at this time, and the old devil sat in the main seat of the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army at this time.

Seeing that the officers at all levels of the 6th Division and other divisions that were airlifted north were already in place, they coughed, and Naosaburo Okabe began to lecture.

"Commander Gu Shoufu, your 6th Division is going north according to His Majesty the Emperor's decree this time, how many people have arrived in Taiyuan?" Naosaburo Okabe said in a condensed voice.

Since the new regiment annihilated the 20,000 elite Japanese troops under the personal command of Yoshio Shinozuka, Okabe Naosaburo would not despise the combat effectiveness of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army, which was able to continuously eat the elite units of the Japanese army.

Therefore, for the new regiment, Naosaburo Okabe has risen a few levels in his heart, at least more than Chang Kaishen's main force of the National Army.

Although Tani had just entered the city, he received an order from Naosaburo Okabe to immediately enter the headquarters of the First Army for an operational meeting. But there was not the slightest dissatisfaction, after all, it was naturally very important for the new regiment of Li Yunlongbu to be able to make Okabe Naosaburo seize the time to hold a combat meeting to deal with.

Gu Shoufu has killed countless people, and his short body is full of demonic madness, "Report to Your Excellency Commander, at this moment, in accordance with the decree of His Majesty the Emperor, the Ministry of Inferior Duties is currently airlifted north, except for the cavalry wing temporarily and quickly airlifted north, a total of more than 23,000 people in the division have been stationed in Taiyuan City. ”

"Yo-shei, Yo-shei!"

Okabe Naosaburo nodded with satisfaction, and looked around at the main officers of the 6th Division sitting on both sides below, although they were all tired from the airlift north. But the morale of the army is still okay, and it is worthy of being one of the two strongest and most capable teams in the empire.

"According to the reliable information received, the new regiment sent the captured General Shinozuka to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army publicly and quickly pronounced the sentence of General Shinozuka, and then killed General Shinozuka. Our intelligence agents embedded inside the Eighth Route Army have confirmed that Commander Shinozuka has been martyred. ”

When Gu Shoufu heard this, he suddenly stood up and said angrily: "Your Excellency, Commander, I request that you go into battle immediately and attack the new regiment base of the Eighth Route Army in Hengshan!" ”。

Gu Shoufu stood up and said this, and several Japanese brigades and wings under the rest of the divisions and regiments clamored for battle.

Okabe Naosaburo waved his hand and said in a condensed voice: "You gentlemen sit down first!" When I say this, I am telling you that it is our shame that General Shinozuka died in battle. Now, His Majesty the Emperor has personally issued an edict to send your ministry to the north by air, which is the expectation of your ministry. The new regiment of the Eighth Route Army is strong in combat, crisscrossing Jin Province, Lu Province, Ji Province, as well as Chahar, Guisui and other places. It is the sworn enemy of my empire, and I must not ignore it. ”。

"What do you mean, Your Excellency?" Gu Shoufu asked for battle, but he also knew that the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, which had just been airlifted to Taiyuan, had to rest and recuperate, and it was impossible to immediately plunge into the offensive operation against the new regiment in Hengshan.

Grain, grass and ammunition all need to be replenished and prepared before they can be dispatched.

What's more, to deal with the Hengshan base area, Gu Shoufu felt that it was impossible to send a division to go up at one time, which was too much to look up to Li Yunlong.

Okabe Naosaburo stood up, pointed to the map hanging on the wall behind him, and said, "Judging from the map, the base of the new regiment is located in the Heng Mountain. There is the defensive position of the valley mouth of the Jinlong Gorge in the base area, behind the valley mouth is the valley road, the plank road, the Yunge Hongqiao Pass, and the last is the Cuiping Peak and the Tianfeng Ridge two dangerous mountain commanding heights, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. According to the report of the imperial soldiers who had escaped from Heng Mountain before, Commander Shinozuka commanded 20,000 imperial troops to storm for a long time, and when they reached the foot of Cuiping Peak and Tianfeng Ridge Mountain, they had already suffered heavy casualties. ”。

"So, we have to be cautious!" Naosaburo Okabe paused and said in a deep voice.

Gu Shoufu and Okabe Naosaburo had an intersection, and quickly understood what Okabe Naosaburo meant, "What does the commander mean is not to fight the new regiment base of Hengshan?" ”。

Naosaburo Okabe shook his head and said, "It's not that you don't fight, but you can't fight easily." Now Li Yunlong has defeated the 20,000 imperial troops commanded by Commander Shinozuka, and his morale has been greatly boosted. However, it is estimated that the news of my 6th Division going north, the new regiment should know at this time. Therefore, with Li Yunlong's shrewdness, there is a chance that he will shrink back and stick to his base. Commander of Gu Shoufu's division, once you lead the main force of the division to storm its base area, it is estimated that the results will not be very great. ”。

Tani Toshio nodded, and Naosaburo Okabe was right. Judging from the information about Shinozuka Yoshio's attack on the base area of the new 1st Regiment in Hengshan, there are many dangerous strongholds in the base area of the new 1st Regiment, and the small force is enough to block the attack of a large force of the Japanese army. And the mountain road that could detour behind it was almost destroyed by the other party, and it could only be killed from the mouth of the Jinlong Gorge.

And if it is attacked from the mouth of the Jinlong Gorge into the depth of its base in this way, it will become a war of attrition.

However, at this moment, outside the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army, a staff officer of the First Army of the Japanese Army who hurriedly walked in hurriedly reported to Naosaburo Okabe: "Your Excellency Commander, the new regiment Li Yunlong has clearly invited our 6th Division to face off at Hengshan in three days. ”。