After the Nara detachment was attacked, once Okamura Ninji took the position where the Nara detachment was stationed, the situation on the entire battlefield suddenly became clear.

At this time, Okamura Ninji could be sure that the intention of the Shina army was to surround them all and annihilate them immediately.

And now, their situation has reached a very critical moment!

Not only Okamura Ninji, but also the other Japanese officers around him also understood, and at this moment they all looked at Okamura Ninji, wanting the commander to make a decision.

"Your Excellency, what shall we do now?"

A little devil counselor asked.

The current situation is already obvious.

The intention of the Shina army is to encircle them, and since the Nara detachment has completely exposed their strength, this means that the encirclement of the other party has almost formed, and they are not afraid of getting the news at all, so they are now very critical.

A decision must be made in the shortest possible time, whether to continue the offensive and risk the death or to retreat and preserve the living forces, and the decision must be made in the shortest possible time, otherwise the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable the situation will be for them.

Hearing this, Okamura Ninji did not answer.

At this critical moment, he walked to the window, looked at the scenery outside the window, and was silent for a long time.

And those officers didn't continue to urge when they saw Okamura Ningji's appearance, they knew that at this time, His Excellency the Commander must be repeatedly entangled in his heart.

For a while, the entire command center looked at Okamura Ninji, no one spoke, and the headquarters was very silent.

At this moment, Okamura Ninji is indeed just as they thought, and he is planning and imagining repeatedly in his heart.

He was very entangled in his heart.

In fact, when he got the news, he knew that their intentions and strategic planning for this operation had failed, and he had already retreated, but ...... It's still the same sentence, he wants to retreat, but the base camp won't let him push!

It is precisely because of this that he is so entangled!

If it weren't for the persecution of them from the base camp, I'm afraid that Okamura Ningji would have retreated immediately after the 106th Division in northern Jiangxi was completely annihilated!

Because of the Battle of Changsha, since the 106th Division was completely annihilated, they have fallen into a disadvantage, and now, with the war that broke out during this time, with the persecution of the base camp and he had to issue several wrong orders, their current disadvantage has reached an irreparable situation!

In addition, now, the other party's intention is already very obvious, that is, to completely encircle them, divide southern Hubei and northern Hunan, form two large encirclements, and contain all the imperial troops they invaded Changsha.

If they don't retreat, with less than 60,000 soldiers now, the other party's 300,000 troops will be able to encircle them, and it will be impossible to escape!

On one side is the lives of the remaining 60,000 troops, and on the other side is the attitude of the base camp, Okamura Ninji is now entangled in this and uncertain.

As a commander, he often boasted of his unparalleled intelligence, and he never imagined that he would encounter such a situation.

He hesitated for a moment and was silent for a long time.

I don't know how long it took, Okamura Ninji suddenly turned around and looked at all the officers present, and found that they all looked at him with a kind of expectation, and there was an indescribable mood in their hearts.

"The Commander has made a decision?" Seeing Okamura Ninji turn around, an officer hurriedly asked.

"There it is!" Okamura Ninji nodded and said.

After saying this, without waiting for them to ask, Okamura Ninji said slowly: "Withdraw the army!" ”

"Withdraw?!"

Hearing this, everyone was stunned, and they couldn't believe it for a while.

"Yes! Withdrawal! Okamura Ningji was expressionless, and said in a deep voice: "For today's plan, we can only withdraw our troops!" ”

He said with a complicated mind: "Our opportunity has been completely lost, and there is no point in entangling here, rather than letting the soldiers die here meaninglessly, it is better to leave when it is decided, and save the vitality!" ”

"When attacking Changsha, we had 100,000 troops, and we have been fighting for less than a month now, but only 60,000 are left, and the losses are so heavy that they are beyond the scope of our Central China Front, if these 60,000 troops are lost in the Battle of Changsha, our Central China Front will no longer have the slightest counterattack or even self-protection ability when facing the Chinese Army, for the overall situation, we can only withdraw our troops!"

"Withdrawal ......" Hearing Okamura Ningji's words and this analysis, they all nodded.

As for the withdrawal of troops, in fact, they already have this plan in their hearts, and even if they say it, they are not much surprised, after all, as a staff officer, the situation is very obvious, and there is no point in continuing to fight to the death at the moment, and withdrawal is the best choice.

But......

"But how can the base camp rest? Your Excellency the Commander has said that the troops will be withdrawn, and if the base camp is held accountable, what will you do? The staff officer asked with some concern.

"Base camp?" Okamura Ningji sneered and said disdainfully: "If the base camp is really held accountable, I, Okamura Ningji, will bear it alone, not to mention, in the face of this group of people, what is my Okamura afraid of?" What can they do to me? ”

For this group of people in the base camp, Okamura Ninji can be said to hate it very much!

In this battle of Changsha, if it weren't for the base camp pointing fingers at him behind him and making him make wrong decisions several times, the battle situation would not have been achieved like this, and they would not have been defeated so completely.

It can be said that Okamura Ninji's patience with the group of people in the base camp has reached the extreme, and this withdrawal is a provocation by Okamura Ninji to the base camp!

A group of people with wine bags and rice bags, what qualifications do they have to command me Okamura Ninji?!

It's okay to give some strategies or some orders in peacetime, but when you are fighting, who is qualified to question or even command me Okamura Ninji? In his heart, even the commander of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, Umezu Mijiro, did not have this qualification.

He used to seem indifferent to everything, because in his opinion, none of them were worth his attention.

He only needs to formulate a strategic policy, and his generals can win the war step by step.

This was true in the past, but after he became the commander of the Central China Front, there were many things for him to worry about, so he couldn't care about nothing as usual, which was why he personally commanded the Battle of Changsha.

It's just that he didn't expect that he would end up in such a fiasco when he personally commanded this time, which is simply a shame in his life!

(End of chapter)