"Your Excellency General, there is still no trace of the enemy"

Looking at Major General Shimatani Ota, who was sitting with his back to the gate and meditating with his eyes closed, the intelligence officer stubbornly reported the situation.

Shimatani Ota, who was sitting quietly at the headquarters of Wanhei Castle, opened his eyes, looked sideways at the trembling intelligence officer in the distance, and did not speak, but raised his head to look at the large map of the Republic of China hanging on the wall.

On the well-made map of the Republic of China, red arrows point directly to the important town of Xuzhou, and on the map, there are more blue arrows pointing to Xuzhou.

The red represents the Japanese army, and the blue represents the main force of the Republic of China army.

Staring at the map for a long time, it wasn't until the intelligence officer in the rear shuddered that Shimatani Ota spoke.

"Got it"

"Hi" After putting the information in his hand on the table, the intelligence officer hurriedly walked out of the headquarters, leaving Shimatani Ota alone.

Without looking at the detailed information placed on the table, Shimatani Ota still squatted and looked at the strategic map on the wall of the headquarters, and suddenly he sighed, then stood up and walked to the table.

Picking up the information on the table, he took a cursory glance at the reconnaissance report of the Air Force, the Special High-tech Branch, and the pro-Japanese regime of the Republic of China, and looked at the capitalized non-anomaly on the first page, and he threw the information on the table again with an expressionless face.

Looking back at the map on the wall again, looking at the blue arrows that were significantly more than the red arrows, Shimatani Ota frowned at this time, and his heart was full of anxiety.

Although the Great Japanese Empire was victorious and seemed to be overwhelmed, as a senior senior at the level of major general, it was very clear that compared with the tactical victories, in fact, strategically, the Great Japanese Empire almost lost in a mess.

The much-publicized three-month plan to destroy the Republic of China was smashed by others on the battlefield of Songhu, and eventually became a joke in the European and American ghost animal media to ridicule the empire, although domestic propaganda covered up the strategic defeat with the 8-to-1 victory in the Battle of Songhu.

However, in the past few months, the forces of the various warlords of the Republic of China have completed the merger and reorganization, and the form of resistance of the Republic of China has been formed, so that the annihilation of the 300,000 people in the Battle of Songhu is meaningless.

The most important thing in the Republic of China is people, they have a population of more than 40,000, and the most lacking thing in the Republic of China is time, and the Battle of Songhu has won a lot of time for the Republic of China.

The Great Japanese Empire not only lacked time, but also lacked population, and more than 40,000 casualties had already broken the muscles and bones of the Imperial Army, which was under-armed, and the resulting impact was that the troops in the Battle of Xuzhou were seriously insufficient.

Although he was not on the front line, nor was he in the front-line command organization, with his military intuition and the communication with other major generals' friends, coupled with the intelligence of the Beiping intelligence agency, Shimatani Ota could also guess the current form of Xuzhou by himself, and the map in front of him was drawn by him according to his own guess.

Looking away from the map, Ota Shimatani began to flip through the report handed by the intelligence officer again.

The report was very thick, and there were many aerial photographs, and it took him ten minutes to read the information.

Putting away the information, Shimatani Ota took out a new map, which was a map of the surroundings of Wanping Castle.

Pointing his finger at Wanping City, looking at the lines on the map, he thought in his heart.

After more than ten investigations, he has a very good understanding of the situation around Wanping City, as a county town close to the important town of Beiping, it is naturally impossible for large-scale enemies to hide in the north and east of Wanping City, after all, there is a full division stationed in Beiping, and there are a large number of local autonomous governments formed by the empire around it, as well as a large number of special high-tech eyeline, if there is a large army hidden, it is impossible not to be discovered, so his focus on the scope of investigation is concentrated in the west and south of Wanping City, which covers an area of about 1,000 square kilometers, as for other areas, He only asked Tegaoke to assist in gathering a little information.

But to his surprise, even if the intelligence officers who were lurking deep were dispatched, they still did not find the enemy who annihilated the wild brigade, but found many guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army and spies of the Republic of China, but these were just miscellaneous fish, and they could not get into his eyes.

Although intelligence shows that an independent regiment of the so-called Eighth Route Army west of Wanping City has grown to more than 2,000 people, and aerial photography also shows their training, can a mere 2,000 Rao guerrilla force annihilate the main force of the empire overnight? Shimatani Ota absolutely didn't believe it.

Therefore, he has recently stepped up reconnaissance efforts, and has also mobilized several reconnaissance planes from Beiping to strengthen reconnaissance, but there is still no information, as if the powerful Republic of China troops have retreated.

Tapping his fingers on the table, Shimatani Ota thought in his heart.

The order given to him by the military headquarters was to search for and annihilate the enemy who was attacking the field brigade, and at the same time to clear the law and order around Wanping City, the first task was the focus and the difficult point, and the second task was incidental.

Being able to annihilate a brigade overnight, and in the middle of the night, and even everyone died because of a bullet in the head, Ci made Shimatani Data, who had always been conceited and looked down on the Republic of China army, be cautious.

This enemy is very strong, and before coming, Shimatani Ota put away his contempt. And the sporadic intelligence collected in Wanping City also showed that this mysterious enemy was in no way inferior to the permanent division of the empire, and even surpassed.

Large-caliber guns, a large number of automatic weapons, accurate shooting standards, and the sporadic achievements left by the mysterious Republic of China troops in Wanping City all demonstrate their extraordinary and powerful.

In his opinion, as long as a brigade is dispatched, with the assistance of the second-line troops of Wanping City itself, this enemy can be easily eliminated by him, but he is afraid that when he makes a move against this Eighth Route Army force, the mysterious Republic of China troops will take the opportunity to attack him.

In the case that the enemy has not yet been identified, rationally, he should continue to wait, and after it is clear that the Republic of China troops that have eliminated the wild brigade are no longer in Beiping, he will make a move on the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army.

The 7th Independent Mixed Brigade is only 5,000 men at best, with only three fully formed brigades and one artillery squadron, and the encirclement and annihilation of guerrillas in the mountainous areas will inevitably lead to fighting in the mountains, and in the face of an unknown force with superior firepower, it is very likely that the troops will suffer great losses in the mountains and forests, and there may even be troops in the same situation as the field brigades.

He had ten attack planes in Beiping on standby support, and the battle would never fail, but he wanted to minimize the casualties of his troops.

However, the troops in front of Xuzhou were seriously insufficient, and he still wanted to solve the matter here, and then hurried to Xuzhou to fight the main force of the Republic of China.

Then wait a little longer, there should be a few months left on the Xuzhou side, and the better the intelligence work is done, the more casualties in the follow-up battles will be.

Ota Shimatani squinted and thought.