The Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, two days of painful ordeal are finally over!

But the solemn atmosphere of the command was not soothed by the end of the battle!

Every time a staff officer sends in a battle damage report, the atmosphere in the war room becomes more solemn!

Especially the army commander, his face was red and red, gloomy and terrible!

More than 1,000 imperial troops withdrew from the blockade line, and nearly 3,000 imperial allegiance troops, even if they were covered by aircraft, they still failed to keep it in the end!

Standing in front of the sand table, with a calm face, no one knows what he is thinking!

After a long time, he spoke: "Chief of Staff, have the losses been counted?" ”

"Hey!"

The chief of staff lowered his head and did not dare to look at the commander, and it took a long time to answer stubbornly!

"The biggest losses were in Laiyuan and Guangling counties, and all the garrisons were wiped out!"

"It includes 2,100 members of the Imperial Army and 2,500 members of the Imperial Army!"

"Then there is the blockade line, a total of 29 small and medium-sized strongholds were captured by the garrison regiment, and the loss of more than 2,300 imperial troops was lost!"

"As for the Imperial Army, because we had just formed 10,000 recruits before the garrison counterattack, their losses were very huge!"

"There are more than 8,000 people in total, all of them killed or captured, and most of them are newly formed recruits of the Imperial Cooperative Army!"

"In addition, we still have three large strongholds that have not been captured by the garrison regiment, but like Laiyuan and Guangling, who have been lost, they are all in the garrison occupied area and surrounded by them with heavy troops!"

"Yaga...... Bang......"

The commander scolded, and slammed his fist full of anger on the sand table in front of him!

Time seemed to stand still suddenly, and everyone looked at the commander with a stunned expression. m.

The already solemn atmosphere became heavier and heavier at this time, and everyone was about to be out of breath.

The chief of staff hesitated for a moment and comforted: "Sir, although we have suffered heavy losses, as the attacking side, the losses of the garrison regiment are not small!" ”

"Especially last night, several retreating troops relied on favorable terrain and garrison regiments to fight to the death, and the battle was very fierce!"

"Although the garrison regiment has an advantage in equipment, in the face of the terrain that is favorable to us, those heavy weapons have no room to play, so the garrison regiment paid a huge price to take them!"

"Our preliminary judgment is that the garrison regiment in this battle will lose at least three thousand people!"

"The total strength of the garrison regiment is more than 6,000 people, and the loss of more than 3,000 people in a battle is equivalent to more than half of the casualties, and it must be very difficult to regain strength!"

"When the independent mixed brigade is in place, we can take the opportunity to kill their base and kill them!"

The commander's face did not look good, and he asked with a calm face!

"Chief of Staff, are you fooling me, thinking that I don't understand military affairs?"

"If the heavy firepower advantage was so easily neutralized, the imperial army would not have occupied most of China so smoothly under the cover of aircraft and artillery!"

"The garrison regiment is equipped with mountain artillery, heavy mortars, light mortars, and flying thunder guns of their own production for each attack, which can be attacked and retreated, and the ammunition is sufficient!"

"Even if the Imperial Army occupies an absolutely advantageous terrain, it will be difficult to take advantage of it in the face of powerful firepower!"

"So you said that the garrison regiment has suffered more than three thousand casualties in the past two days, I am the first to disbelieve it!"

"I judge that their casualties will reach 2,000 people!"

"And the casualties I am talking about also include light and serious wounded, many of them can return after a period of recovery and form combat effectiveness, so their direct losses are less."

"In addition, you said that it will take a long time for the garrison regiment to regain its combat effectiveness, and we can take the opportunity to kill them when the independent mixed brigade is in place, I don't agree with this point either."

"After fighting with the Eighth Route Army for so long, we know the Eighth Route Army well, and you actually said this, it disappoints me so much!"

"It means that you don't know our opponent until now!"

"The reason why the Eighth Route Army can fight stronger and stronger on the battlefield is that the support of the people and the people is very important, and those imperial alliance troops also play a great role!"

"The Imperial Association Army has combat effectiveness, once it is captured and joins the Eighth Route Army, it will soon be able to form combat effectiveness, and even training will be saved!"

"In many battles, the Eighth Route Army had 10,000 people before the war, and the losses during the battle were not small, but after the battle, the total strength not only did not decrease, but increased a lot!"

"The role of the Imperial Association is irreplaceable!"

"In this battle, we lost more than 10,000 Imperial Cooperative Army, and with the combat effectiveness and combat will of the Imperial Cooperative Army, at least eighty percent were taken prisoner, that is, at least 8,000 people!"

"With the mobilization ability of the Eighth Route Army, there is no problem at all in encouraging the five thousand Imperial Allied Army to join them!"

"At least 2,000 of them are veterans of the imperial army's training for more than half a year, and they can directly replenish the troops and form combat effectiveness!"

"With them joining the troops, not only can the main force of the garrison regiment be fully ensured, but there will even be surplus prisoners to further expand the new troops!"

"Also, the garrison group killed more than 10,000 of us in this battle, and all the equipment of these troops fell into their hands!"

"Coupled with the food and other materials they have captured, the garrison regiment wants guns and guns, people and ammunition, and ammunition and ammunition, and the overall strength is already thankful if it does not expand, and it is weakened, how is it possible!"

After a series of rhetorical questions, the chief of staff directly became speechless, and his face was full of embarrassment!

But he quickly recovered, hesitated for a moment and continued to report: "The intelligence department also suffered heavy losses!" ”

"In order to find out what happened in Laiyuan and Guangling the night before yesterday, all our intelligence personnel lurking in the base area of the garrison regiment were dispatched, and nearly one-third of the intelligence personnel were captured by the garrison regiment in just one day and one night!"

The commander suddenly interrupted with a calm face: "Bage Yalu, I just want the result, you don't tell me the process!" ”

"I don't care how many people they lost, I just need to know what happened in Laiyuan the night before yesterday?"

"What tactics did our opponents use to hit us hard?"

The chief of staff immediately replied: "After reconnaissance, the Eighth Route Army, which surrounded more than a dozen strongholds on the blockade line the night before yesterday, was not the main force!" ”

"They are all garrison regiments, reinforced with a lot of heavy weapons, recruit units and newly formed cavalry units!"

"The Eighth Route Army stationed outside Laiyuan and Guangling City did not leave, but hid!"

"After the garrisons of the two counties attacked, they set up an ambush on the road they must pass, annihilate them all, and then camouflage the troops to break the army, open the city gate, and occupy Laiyuan and Guangling!"

The commander suddenly replied: "I see! ”

But soon his brows were twisted again, and he frowned and muttered to himself!

"No, there's a problem here!"

"According to intelligence, the garrison regiment has only deployed one reinforced battalion outside Laiyuan and Guangling City, with a total strength of no more than a thousand people!"

"With this little force, how can it be possible to kill so many of our troops in a short period of time, and they will be killed without even having a chance to send a telegram!"

A hint of heaviness flashed on the chief of staff's face before he answered!

"Sir, when it comes to the two ambush battles, I just want to say one thing: we have once again underestimated the strength of the garrison regiment!"

"Not only are they strong in combat, but they also have very good sapper talents, and they even have an electric detonating device!"

"They planted a lot of explosives in the ambush battlefield in advance, connected wires and detonators, and when the imperial troops arrived at the battlefield, they suddenly detonated the explosives!"

"In just a few seconds, the Imperial Army was devastated!"

"Then the Eighth Route Army will set up an ambush and kill it again!"

"The troops were defeated before they could counterattack, let alone send a telegram!" u