"Wait a minute!"

After Takayoshi Tanaka finished speaking, he was about to hang up the phone when he was stopped by Yoshio Shinozuka: "Don't move the gendarmerie brigade first!" ”

"Nani?" Takayoshi Tanaka was stunned when he heard this, and Nozawa Norio and several combat staff officers were also dumbfounded.

Rescue soldiers are like fighting fires, and now that Xincheng Airport is being attacked by unknown forces, it is the most critical time, but His Excellency the commander called for a halt to the rescue operation?

What's going on?

However, Takayoshi Tanaka still called for a halt to the gendarmerie brigade.

"That's not right." Yoshio Shinozuka said in a deep voice, "A crisis is approaching! ”

"What do you mean?" Takayoshi Tanaka said blankly, "What crisis is looming?" ”

Yoshio Shinozuka said: "Tanaka-kun, if you think about it carefully, first there was a large-scale failure in the telephone lines of Taigu, Qixian, and Jinzhong, and then the new city machine was suddenly attacked!" ”

"Don't you think it's too much of a coincidence?"

"How can there be such a large area of telephone line failure?"

"I feel like it's all deliberately arranged."

"He even wants to transfer the gendarmerie brigade guarding Taiyuan City from the city!"

Tanaka Takayoshi was taken aback, and said awe-inspiringly: "Your Excellency Commander, do you mean to say that these are all done by the Eighth Route Army?" Was it the Eighth Route Army that destroyed the telephone lines in Taigu, Qixian and Jinzhong districts, and attacked Xincheng Airport at the same time? Their intention was to move the gendarmerie brigade out of the city and then ......"

"Then take advantage of the weakness to attack Taiyuan!" Nozawa continued.

Takayoshi Tanaka said: "In other words, the 386 Brigade went north before the detachment was broken into zeros, which was fake?" ”

"Not only is it just an illusion to break it into pieces, but even those Imperial Allied troops who fled are likely to be impersonated by the Eighth Route Army!" Yoshio Shinozuka said, "It is likely that the northbound detachment is the real main force of the 386 Brigade!" ”

"Baga Yalu, we are likely to have been fooled again, and this time we have really been fooled!"

Nozawa Norio said: "If this is the case, the main force of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army will only be afraid that it has reassembled and is rushing towards Taiyuan!" ”

"Quick!" Takayoshi Tanaka said urgently, "Hurry up and ...... the plainclothes teams of Taigu, Qixian, and Jinzhong."

Before he finished speaking, he stopped abruptly, and Tanaka Takayoshi originally wanted to call the plainclothes team of Taigu Prefecture for verification, but he realized that the phone was not working until he was halfway through the sentence.

"Aviation!" Takayoshi Tanaka quickly thought of the aviation again, and said, "Give the Xincheng Airport ......"

Halfway through speaking, Takayoshi Tanaka's voice stopped abruptly again, because the Xincheng Airport was attacked, and the 86th Fighter Squadron stationed at the Xincheng Airport was no longer able to take off.

Fighter planes could not take off, so they could not carry out aerial reconnaissance of the area south of Taiyuan.

"A meticulous plan! A tough opponent! Yoshio Shinozuka said, "Fiction and reality, fiction and reality, reality and fiction, elusive, unpredictable, amazing!" ”

Speaking of this, Yoshio Shinozuka continued: "Order, immediately close all the inner and outer city gates of Taiyuan, and at the same time impose martial law on the inner and outer cities, and no one is allowed to go to the street without a pass issued by the headquarters!" Even if they are expatriates of the Great Japanese Empire, if they violate the ban, they will be killed! ”

"Hello!" Takashi Tanaka is the first to do.

Nozawa said, "General, do you need to send a telegram to the 37th Division to send reinforcements?" ”

"It doesn't have to be." Yoshio Shinozuka waved his hand and said, "The 37th Division has been tossing back and forth for two days and two nights, and the imperial soldiers are tired, let's let them recapture the Changzhi Mansion City first." ”

Takayoshi Tanaka said: "Your Excellency Commander, what about Taiyuan?" ”

The eyes of Norio Nozawa and several staff officers fell on Yoshio Shinozuka.

Yoshio Shinozuka is faced with a difficult choice.

The old devil didn't want to give up the A battle plan.

Operation Plan A has entered its most critical stage.

The Taiyue Military Region of the Eighth Route Army is facing a severe existential crisis.

Yoshio Shinozuka formulated the No. A operation plan, that is, the joint strangulation of the "Four Corners and Six Roads", and as the encirclement composed of four independent mixed brigades became tighter and tighter, the space for the main force of the Taiyue Military Region to maneuver became smaller and smaller.

Up to now, only most of Liao County and a small part of Heshun County and Licheng County have remained, and the total area is even less than 3,000 square kilometers.

The Taiyue Military Region's more than 20,000 main forces and more than 30,000 militia hedgehogs were gathered in such a narrow area, and they still had to face the sweep of two divisions of the Japanese army, and it had become very difficult to move around.

However, it is the common people in the base areas who are more difficult than the troops.

The troops can at least resist when they encounter the Japanese army, and if they can't fight, they still have a chance to transfer.

Once the common people encounter the Japanese army or are discovered by the Japanese army, they are basically dead.

As the encirclement narrowed, and as the sweeping time lengthened, civilians continued to be discovered and slaughtered by the Japanese army!

This made the situation even more serious for the Eighth Route Army, because on the one hand, they needed to hide from the Japanese army to protect themselves, but on the other hand, they had to protect the people in the base area and were forced to fight.

Therefore, as the sweep deepened, the battles in the base area gradually became more frequent.

Hundreds of battles took place almost every day, and hundreds of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were killed.

And as time went on, the scale of the battle gradually increased, and the casualties of the Eighth Route Army increased dramatically.

Yoshio Shinozuka has reason to believe that if he persists for about 10 days, the No. A operational plan will achieve phased results, and then it will not be possible to completely annihilate the main force of the Taiyue Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, but there will be absolutely no problem in flattening the Taiyue Military Region, that is to say, the most stubborn base area of the Eighth Route Army in North China will be swept away by the First Army!

Yoshio Shinozuka never wants to abort Operation Plan A at this time!

At that moment, Yoshio Shinozuka said in a deep voice: "Go and invite Wei Sang over." ”

……

Wei Jie's 8th Mixed Brigade of the puppet army was originally the Kuomintang Yangquan County Security Regiment.

After the fall of Yangquan, Wei Jie took the security regiment to join the Japanese army, and became the brigade commander of the 8th Mixed Brigade of the "Imperial Cooperative Army", still stationed in Yangquan.

Originally, the 8th Mixed Brigade of the puppet army would also participate in the A operation plan this time.

It was only because the performance of the 8th Mixed Brigade in the previous months was so bad, and the Special High Division seriously suspected that the junior officers of the 8th Mixed Brigade were suspected of colluding with the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, for the sake of insurance, Yoshio Shinozuka temporarily decided to transfer the 4th Mixed Brigade originally stationed in Taiyuan to Yangquan and cooperate with the 4th Brigade to participate in the No. A operation plan.

The 8th Mixed Brigade was transferred to Taiyuan.

So now, in addition to a military police brigade in Taiyuan City, there is also Wei Jie's mixed 8th Brigade.

The 8th Mixed Brigade originally had three infantry regiments, a cavalry battalion, and an artillery company, but unfortunately, the cavalry battalion had been wiped out by the independent regiment three months earlier, and the artillery company was temporarily seconded to the 4th Mixed Brigade, so now, the 8th Mixed Brigade has only three infantry regiments left, less than 3,000 men.