At the headquarters of the North China Front of the Japanese Army in Beiping, Okamura Ningji stared at a pair of big red eyes, his face was gloomy, and he was in a very bad mood.

I don't know how many sets of tea sets on the table in front of him have been smashed by him, anyway, as long as someone comes out of his office, there must be a sound of smashed cups in the command headquarters.

At the end of the day, Okamura Ninji's office directly became a forbidden area for the staff officers of the headquarters. No one wants to be near there at this time unless they have to.

The chief of staff had been hesitating for almost five minutes at the door of the headquarters now, holding a telegram in his hand, not knowing whether to go in or not.

After another two minutes, the chief of staff finally decided to go in.

The telegram in his hand is too important, to put it seriously, and it will even affect the large-scale sweep that the imperial army is carrying out in North China, and affect the situation in the whole of North China.

Seeing Okamura Ninji standing in front of the huge map, he didn't say a word with a calm face. The chief of staff gritted his teeth and reported: "Your Excellency, Commander, the Taiyue Military Region is in an emergency!" ”

"Ono's independent mixed brigade headquarters is under fierce attack by the Eighth Route Army, and the troops have suffered heavy losses!"

"What about reinforcements? The reinforcements will kill them immediately, this time, no matter what, they will kill the main force of the Taiyue Military Region, and at least they will be severely damaged! Okamura Ninji's eyes never left the map in front of him at all, and he ordered with a frown.

The chief of staff immediately realized that the commander in front of him had forgotten the losses of the imperial army at Taiyue the previous night, or had not connected the two battles.

As a senior commander with hundreds of thousands of imperial troops and hundreds of thousands of imperial troops in his hands, he had too many things to manage every day.

Not to mention the fact that every day there are dozens of war reports from all over North China, and sometimes even hundreds.

After hesitating for a few seconds, the chief of staff could only bow his head and reply: "There are no reinforcements nearby to reinforce them!" ”

"You forgot, the more than 4,000 people lost by Taiyue last night were also from the Ono Brigade!"

"The Eighth Route Army used the encirclement point they are good at to send reinforcements, and in just a few hours, they killed our two reinforcements through two encounters and annihilation battles, more than 7,000 imperial troops!"

"At that time, you also asked us to check how the Eighth Route Army in the Taiyue area still has the ability to gather so many troops to attack us!"

Speaking of this, Okamura Ningji's anger rose up.

"Bageya Road, it's this Taiyue again~ If I'm not mistaken, there has been the most bad news from the direction of Taiyue in the past few months...... Under the heavy encirclement and suppression of the imperial army, they were able to concentrate superior forces and firepower again and again to encircle and annihilate our troops. Have you found out where these forces and firepower came from? ”

"Hey, I was about to report when I received a telegram that the Ono Brigade headquarters had been attacked."

"According to intelligence, these troops were secretly drawn from all over the country by the Eighth Route Army, and the strength is not very large, only 10,000 people!"

Okamura Ningji's face was even more ugly: "In other words, 10,000 people of the Eighth Route Army attacked seven or eight thousand of us, and they also used the tactics of encircling and sending reinforcements to kill more than 4,000 of us, and took down our two strongholds by the way!" ”

"Hey!" The chief of staff lowered his head.

He replied in a low voice: "Although the Eighth Route Army that attacked us did not have an absolute superiority in strength. But they were very well equipped, especially light and heavy machine guns, which almost reached the standard of one light machine gun for every infantry squad. On the ambush battlefield, their offensive firepower is at least twice as much as ours, if not more! ”

"Impossible?" Okamura retorted subconsciously.

But he quickly reacted, and knew that the chief of staff could not fabricate it out of thin air, and there must be some real evidence to report it.

Then he stared at the chief of staff and asked: "So many light and heavy machine guns, where did they come from!" ”

"Could it be that in order to fight this battle well, the Taiyue Military Region of the Eighth Route Army concentrated all the light and heavy machine guns equipped in the military region on the attacking troops?"

"This is also impossible, without light and heavy machine guns, the combat effectiveness of their other units will not be able to maintain even fifty percent. Once the Imperial Army launches an attack, their defense line is likely to collapse on all fronts, and the Eighth Route Army will definitely not dare to take this risk! ”

The chief of staff hurriedly replied: "The Eighth Route Army that just occupied Linfen City provided it!" ”

"The imperial army fought in the southwest of Jin and captured a large number of weapons and equipment of the Jin Sui army, all of which were hoarded in Linfen City to form the imperial army. After Linfen was occupied by the Eighth Route Army, these equipment also fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, of which there were no less than 400 light and heavy machine guns! ”

Okamura Ninji was furious and scolded unceremoniously: "Yaga, all this is Fujino's fault. If you don't lose Linfen City, the situation will definitely not become so bad, and the imperial army will not lose so many troops, just sending Fujino to a military court is too cheap for him, he should be directly made seppuku! ”

"Bang Bang Bang~"

Suddenly, there was a knock at the door, and then a communications staff officer was seen carefully entering.

"Sir, Ono Brigade is in an emergency!"

"The garrisons of the three or four military subdivisions of the Taiyue Military Region were attacked, and it was the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army that attacked them, and the firepower was very strong, and the troops suffered great losses......

"And ...... The brigade headquarters in Zhoukou Town had lost more than half of its troops, and the Eighth Route Army sent at least two battalions of artillery to attack them. If there are no reinforcements, the troops will be able to hold out for a maximum of three hours before they are completely wiped out! ”

Okamura glanced at the watch on his arm, and a helpless expression quickly flashed across his face.

"It's over~ Now there are at least six hours before the dawn of the air force rushes over, and they will definitely not be able to hold out at that time!"

"The new regiment I know, a division in Fujino's hands is not an opponent, and he will eat it if he says it, not to mention the four thousand mixed troops in the hands of the Ono Brigade!"

After speaking, Okamura Ninji walked quickly into the war room next to him.

A huge combat sand table clearly shows the terrain of the whole North China, and the different flags planted on the sand table represent the military situation of the Japanese army, the Eighth Route Army, the government army and other forces.

"Take the flag that represents the imperial army here, and replace it with the flag of the Eighth Route Army~" Okamura Ninji glanced at the sand table and fixed his gaze on Taiyue, and then ordered.

After the combat staff officer next to him quickly did all this, Okamura Ningji followed and shifted his gaze to the chief of staff: "If all the imperial troops in this area are killed by the Eighth Route Army, how many troops can they spare to support other battlefields!" ”

"This is the scope of the Third Army Division of the Taiyue Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, the Third Army Division plus the Fourth Army Division, plus the troops directly under the Taiyue Military Region, they can draw out at least 20,000 people!"

Okamura Ningji's face was even more unsightly, and he replied with a calm face: "Twenty thousand troops, no matter which battlefield they are thrown into, the blow to the imperial army will be devastating!" ”

"When the time comes, the Eighth Route Army can pass through the breakthrough of Taiyue, gradually launch a counteroffensive against us, and finally defeat us!"

"This must not be allowed to happen!" The chief of staff was frightened by this inference and subconsciously exclaimed.

Then he added: "Commander, I will immediately organize the General Staff to study, transfer troops from other places, drag them down, and absolutely not allow them to be thrown into other battlefields." “”

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