"The newly formed Matsuda United and his wild brigade were all annihilated in the Horseshoe Mountain around Wanping City, and Matsuda Yoji Osa and Nonaka Ichinaka Sasa have been shattered."

In Beiping, the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front, a Japanese general held a telegram in his hand and seemed to mumble to himself.

"Only the artillery squadron all fled, but also lost all the artillery equipment, and the number of enemies is unknown, the number of the enemy is unknown, and not even a single message about the enemy has been sent"

"Itagaki-kun, your troops, your good subordinates"

"Just because of the loss of one brigade, the base camp, the Shanghai Dispatch Army, the Kwantung Army, and even the Navy sent reports to inquire, and all the other army divisions and regiments euphemistically expressed their condolences"

"The divisions said they wanted to understand what happened, learn from it, and avoid the same thing happening again."

The general handed the telegram in his hand to a lieutenant general sitting nearby.

The lieutenant general beside him is none other than Seishiro Itagaki, the current commander of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army.

Three months ago, under his command, the Fifth Division fought against more than 70 divisions of the Republic of China with a full division of troops, and because of this battle, the Fifth Division was known as the Steel Army, and it faintly meant to become the strongest division in the empire.

And this time, a brigade was completely wiped out overnight, and even the enemy did not figure out who it was, and taking this opportunity, other divisions and regiments came to step on it.

"General"

Lieutenant General Sakagaki-kun stood up from his chair and then stood in front of the general and bowed his head.

"First of all, I am ashamed of the performance of my men in this battle, it is an unforgivable shame that a brigade was completely wiped out overnight, and there was not even news of the enemy's sparing"

"But"

At this point, he raised his head and looked at the general in front of him with sharp and unwavering eyes, that is, General Terauchi Shouichi, the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Japanese Front in North China.

"General, Wanping City is the rear of our North China Front Army, with heavy troops stationed on all sides, and it is close to the main railway line, and even the nearby aviation corps airfield is only more than 300 kilometers."

"No matter how big a mistake my subordinates make, but after all, it is a brigade of more than 1,300 people, and its combat effectiveness is directly aimed at any main regiment of the Republic of China, and even if it is a main division of the Republic of China, even if it is unceremoniously, don't think about annihilating it, let alone destroy it in one night."

"But now the fact is that it was wiped out overnight with only one artillery squadron, even lost all its equipment, and there is not the slightest news of the enemy"

"Although I don't know much about the specific process of the matter at the moment, this matter is bound to be not simple, and I ask the general to allow me to investigate it in detail, we can't just rely on superficial information to look at the truth of the matter."

Itagaki Seishiro's words were firm and powerful.

"Sakagaki-kun, I have also considered this matter, a brigade of the permanent division of the empire was completely annihilated, and the strength required is by no means ordinary, so I also contacted Kanda Higashino Shaoza, who happened to be in Wanping City."

"According to intelligence, there is only one guerrilla force of the Eighth Route Army of the Republic of China around Wanping City, and the overall establishment is about one regiment, and it is newly built, so it can be judged that it should not be this guerrilla regiment that is doing it."

Taking a sip of the tea on the table, holding the teacup, and smelling the fragrance of tea, Terauchi Shouichi smiled slightly.

"Do you know what Higashino Shaosa is like?"

"Ask the General to clear your mind"

Seishiro Itagaki is naturally very curious, Kanda Higashino Shaosa he has met a few times, this Shaosa has a huge influence in the country, is one of the guides to the German-Japanese flattering link, and he is also an excellent soldier, his information can represent a lot of facts.

"Higashino told me that I should destroy the enemy who completely annihilated the wild brigade at all costs."

"And he also told me to send at least one brigade to carry out this mission"

"Send at least one brigade?" Itagaki Seishiro was stunned.

The brigade is the army establishment below the imperial division and above the wing. A brigade of the Japanese army had a total strength of about 3,000 to 8,000 men and was equipped with at least two infantry wings, while a brigade of the North China Front had a strength of 5,000 men.

Is there a Republic of China army around Wanping City that requires a brigade to eliminate? And is it at least?

"I remember that the wild brigade went to eliminate an elite team of the Republic of China?" Seishiro Itagaki recalled.

He was personally responsible for dispatching the Wild Brigade, and the dispatch order came from General Terauchi Shouichi, and it was because the order came from his boss that he didn't know anything about it at the time.

"Hmm" Terauchi Shou is a fraction.

"At the beginning, in the area of Wanping City, a return team and baggage team of Matsuda Yoji were attacked, and the attackers were officially this mysterious Republic of China team and the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, which should have been solved by the garrison of Wanping City by themselves, but Kanda Higashino Shaozo asked for reinforcements, so I asked you to send a brigade over"

"Originally, I thought that Kanda Higashino Shaozo was too nervous, but now it seems that we still look at the people of the Republic of China, in our rear, there is actually a strong force of the Republic of China, a force no less than an imperial brigade"

"Sakagaki-kun, you will personally select someone to go to this investigation, and there will also be officers from the base camp this time

"Hi" Seishiro Itagaki bowed his head.

"Who else is in charge of the investigation?" Then he asked, and he understood the meaning of the general's words, and he was not alone in this investigation.

"Professor Koichi Osawa, Professor Tadao Saito, and a shozo sent by the military department" shook his head, and Shouichi Terauchi put the teacup on the table, and the tone of his name was a little strange.

After hearing the previous two names, Seishiro Itagaki was also obviously stunned.

He knew these two people, to be precise, they were both famous doctors in the Great Japanese Empire, well-known professors at the Imperial Medical College, and even quite famous internationally.

But why did the investigation send a doctor? And two famous professors?

"What are you sending these two people for?" He asked subconsciously.

Even if you want to dissect the corpse and find the cause of death of the soldier, can't you just send a military doctor? Why send these two medical bigwigs? Or send two at a time?

"Could it be that all the soldiers of the empire were poisoned? The enemy used chemical weapons? Need to investigate and collect evidence? ”

Thinking of this, Seishiro Itagaki suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, if the enemy used a large number of chemical weapons, then without sufficient defense, it was indeed easy to eliminate an imperial army brigade.

Moreover, the empire would like the Republic of China to use chemical weapons on a large scale, so that it can be convenient for the empire to do things internationally.

"No, no traces of the enemy's use of chemical weapons were found, although the bodies of the Imperial soldiers were burned after the war, but after examination by the front-line military doctors, all of them died from gunshot wounds"

Shouichi Terauchi shook his head.

"Moreover, most of them were shot in the head"

"Then why did you send these two famous professors?" Seishiro Itagaki was puzzled.

"Send someone to investigate yourself, your subordinate, the captain of the living artillery squadron, report"

At this point, Terauchi Shouichi's chest was visibly heaving, and it was obvious that he was angry.

"On that night, only one enemy attacked the battalion camp head-on, and this one man fought the battalion head-on, and even calmly fled after killing nearly a hundred soldiers, and Yoji Matsuda and Nonaka Ichinakasa were annihilated in the pursuit of this enemy."

"What's even more interesting is that the caliber of the entire artillery squadron that came back alive was unified"

"Huh? A man attacks a brigade head-on, then kills nearly a hundred people and then flees? Listening to the words of his own general, Itagaki Seishiro was speechless for a long time.

Is this telling a ninja story?