This defeat made Itako Seishiro calm down and didn't go crazy at all, which made the chief of staff very worried, and he didn't know what was wrong with him.

"I know, but it's also our troops who failed, didn't they?

Moreover, this time the Eighth Route and the Chinese side will definitely be propagandized, originally our empire said that China would be destroyed in three months,

But now, it has been almost half a year, not only has not destroyed China, but there is a bad feeling, this time our failure, I hope to cause our domestic reflection and calm,

It's too difficult for one of our divisions to take control of a province in China, and the longer it drags on, the more troops will resist in China, damn it! "Where did Seishiro Ita sit and spoke,

The division he said was still now, there was no division before, that is, the troops of a brigade and regiment, if you want to control this side of Shanxi, it must be impossible, of course, he did not count the people of the fourth division, in his opinion, the fourth division is not the army of the empire at all!

"Hey, though, next year, the situation on our side will be even harder!" When the chief of staff heard him say this, he also nodded and said worriedly.

"Yo Xi, of course it's difficult, next year, there are no two divisions here, don't want to kill the entire Chinese troops in Shanxi, whether it's the Jin Sui Army or the Eighth Road, it's impossible.

The combat effectiveness of the Jin Sui army is also very strong, and their soldiers' combat awareness is also very strong, and on the side of the Eighth Road, the equipment was poor before.

But after these battles, their weapons and ammunition have been replenished, which is unimaginable.

All this is very Sun Hao has a huge relationship, before Sun Hao was helping them get weapons and ammunition, so now they have the confidence to use so many troops, even use artillery, to kill our troops, we underestimate the determination of the Chinese to resist us! Itatsuko Seishiro said.

"Hey, Your Excellency Division Commander, what now? We still have about 1,000 people surrounded in the mountains! "The chief of staff didn't want to say so much, he wanted to know what to do with those troops now.

"What else can I do? If they can hold out until dawn, then our aviation units will definitely be able to rescue them, and the troops of the Eighth Route will not dare to surround us over there, if they hold out until dawn, then there will be no way! Itako Seishiro said very calmly.

"Hey, now I'm going to send them a telegram and tell them to hold out until dawn anyway!" The chief of staff wanted to turn around as he spoke.

"You don't have to go, General Suzuki knows, whether you can hold out until dawn or not, it's not their final say, but the Eighth Road's side has the final say, as long as they want to annihilate us, then they pay a huge price, and they will fight,

If they don't want to annihilate us completely, their troops will soon retreat! Itako Seishiro said very soberly.

"Hey!" The chief of staff heard, stopped, and nodded.

"Send a telegram to Your Excellency the Commander, the troops of a division in Shanxi cannot withstand the attack on the Eighth Road, and the Fourth Division is here, which is completely useless, if we want Shanxi to continue to control our hands, we must mobilize more troops to come over,

Otherwise, Shanxi may be lost next year, and I hope that His Excellency the Commander will pay attention to it.

In addition, this time our division failed in the battle, I have an unshirkable responsibility, and I have taken it with Ibanheng Seisishiro! Itatsune Seishiro said,

The staff officer next to him immediately recorded the telegram, and after writing it, he showed it to the chief of staff, and the chief of staff signed it when he saw it!

"But is it really all our responsibility? There is no responsibility on the side of the base camp, I said a long time ago, there are not enough troops here, not enough at all, what troops did they transfer for us? Fourth Division? Hum! Itako Seishiro said with a sneer.

"Hey, this defeat can't all be counted on our heads, we don't have enough troops, and there is no way, those counties, there are not many troops at all,

There are many county towns, just a squadron, more than 200 people are stationed, if the Chinese troops want to fight, we don't even have the troops to support, we can only watch those county towns being defeated by the Chinese troops, which is unfair to our divisions! The chief of staff heard it and said to Itachi Seisishiro.

"The commander will find a way, he himself knows that this defeat is not our responsibility, but I need to be responsible for the broken jade troops on our side, and it is I who did not ask for more troops, so that the warriors of our division and regiment are broken on the battlefield like this.

But for the Empire, I can't take responsibility, Your Excellency Commander, he knows! Itako Seishiro sat there and said very unconvinced, and the chief of staff heard it and nodded.

"Then, Your Excellency the division commander, will the higher authorities send troops over next?" The chief of staff thought for a moment, looked at Itako Seishiro and asked.

"If they don't send them over, do they want to lose Shanxi, do they want to lose North China?" Itachi Seishiro asked rhetorically, and the chief of staff nodded.

"Damn, why couldn't we have moved our troops over earlier, our troops wouldn't have suffered such big casualties!" The chief of staff said regretfully, and Itako Seishiro didn't speak when he heard it,

Soon, Terauchi Shouichi received a telegram, and he also knew that the casualties on the side of Itatsuko Seishiro this time were huge, and the combat effectiveness shown by the Eighth Road side shocked them all.

None of them thought that there would be an organized artillery unit on the side of the Eighth Road, which none of them expected!

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, the failure of this operation, General Itatsune Seisishiro, cannot take too much responsibility, on the contrary, our intelligence department needs to bear a lot of responsibility,

We don't know so much about the news on the Eighth Road, we don't even know that they have artillery, and if we had, we wouldn't have let our troops march over at night to reinforce them! Chief of Staff Naosaburo Okabe looked at Shouichi Terauchi and said.

Shouichi Terauchi didn't speak, he wasn't thinking about responsibility, but what to do next.

"If General Itako Seishiro is punished this time, I believe that the troops of the Fifth Division will not be convinced, Shanxi was defeated by them, and now they have lost it, they don't want to, their combat ability and command ability can stand the test,

On the contrary, our intelligence work has been lagging behind, so our front-line combat units have been suffering.