Overnight, the entire land of China was ablaze.

There was the Wuhan battlefield where Chairman Chiang gathered a million troops to fight bloodily, and there were also the battlefields behind enemy lines initiated by Yan'an, Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Northeast China, where there were guns and cannons, and everywhere there were warriors shouting bloody and fierce and roaring Japanese troops.

Mountains and rivers were poisoned in the smoke of gunpowder, and countless living beings were buried.

"Hunyuan was captured by the Eighth Route Army, and hundreds of imperial soldiers died heroically!"

"Zhangjiakou was surrounded by eight roads and was in danger, so I asked for support ......"

"There are a large number of Eighth Route Army around Taiyuan in a roundabout way, it seems that they want to hoard heavy troops to besiege Taiyuan, and ask the commander to urgently dispatch troops to strengthen the defense of Taiyuan......"

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One telegram after another flew to the Japanese military headquarters like snowflakes, starting from the first shot fired by the Eighth Route Army in Hunyuan, there were county towns and strongholds everywhere in North China, Shanxi and Northeast China, and encountered the onslaught of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army of the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army, and there were no less than 200 battles of all sizes!

At the same time, assassinations and suicide attacks were occurring one after another in large cities in the Japanese-occupied areas, and the Japanese troops and gendarmerie in the busy cities were overwhelmed with rumors.

Although the vast majority of these battles were fought in small units of 100 or so people, the casualties were not too large, and the average number of casualties in each battle was only five or six, and the number of Japanese soldiers and related personnel killed in the battle was even less.

But the number of casualties in so many battles is still extremely staggering - the telegram in front of Matsui Ishine shows that the Imperial soldiers and all kinds of personnel who died under the assassination and suicide attacks of the underground armed forces in China are more than 80 people, and the number of Imperial soldiers killed in large and small battles is as high as more than 700, and the number of Imperial Allied troops killed in battle at the same time is two or three times that of Imperial soldiers!

"Yaga, damn **, damn dirt eight roads!"

Overnight, the number of Imperial soldiers and Imperial Allies killed in the battle was actually more than on the battlefield in Wuhan, which had to blow up Matsui Shigenqi's lungs!

The most terrible thing is not these casualties, what is terrible is the bad impact caused by these casualties - the armies of all parts of the empire are now all grass and trees, and they have reached the point where they dare not step out of the stronghold at all, and those imperial army are even more unbearable, and those who sneak away find all kinds of excuses not to delay and sabotage, and they are endless!

Matsui Shihee is very clear, if it goes on like this, it will have to be a big mess!

"Your Excellency Commander, it seems that the Eighth Route side wants to take advantage of the lack of air defense after our attack on Wuhan this time, and want to make a big news!"

A staff officer of the military department said gloomily: "If the Chiang government is defeated on the battlefield in Wuhan, and the Eighth Route side captures Taiyuan, the core of Shanxi, Yan'an will definitely be popular with the people, and it is not impossible for Yan'an to replace the leadership of the Chiang government's resistance army in China at that time - we must not let the conspiracy of the Eighth Route succeed, and we must mobilize troops to hold on to Taiyuan!" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency Commander, although the imperial ** team is fighting with the Chiang government, but in fact it is also in a situation where it can fight and talk, but the Yan'an side has no room for peace talks with us at all, and it will definitely drive us out of China, no matter whether the Yan'an side has such an attitude towards us out of winning over the people, or really for the sake of the nation as they say in their slogan - but no matter what, if Yan'an replaces the Chiang government as the biggest enemy of our imperial ** team, the strategic deployment of the empire, It's definitely a disaster and we can't let it go......"

All the Japanese generals were echoing one after another, obviously having seen the plans of the Yan'an side, and were a little afraid of the tenacious fighting spirit of the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army in Yan'an, and did not want to be the enemy too early.

There are also humanitarians: "The attack on Taiyuan, maybe it's just the appearance of the Eighth Road, their real purpose may be the old trick to surround the point and send reinforcements, consuming us - Zhangjiakou and other important places, the Eighth Road side is besieging but not attacking, it is enough to explain the problem, maybe Taiyuan, they plan to do the same!" ”

"But what if? In case Taiyuan is defeated by the Eighth Road, what should I do at that time? ”

Some generals refuted on the spot, and there was an instant quarrel in the military headquarters.

There are also those who proceed from strategy and strongly advocate mobilizing troops from the surrounding areas to hold Taiyuan.

"Shut up!"

Matsui Shigen roared angrily, how could he not know what kind of attempt Yan'an had to launch a large-scale attack at this time and even want to attack Taiyuan, but now that the battle situation on the Wuhan battlefield was already in a state of anxiety, he didn't dare to be distracted at all, but the importance of Taiyuan was not much worse than the Wuhan battlefield, and for a while he was in a dilemma.

"These **** are really cunning!"

A Japanese general scolded angrily, and even used the contemptuous praise of Yan'an by a Jiang government official: "This knife is really stabbed in our soft underbelly, and if you want to manage it, you can't manage it, it's really hateful!" ”

"I look at this, the tenth ** is still the damn road far behind the plot - stabbing in the back, that bastard is not the first time to do it, have you forgotten the tragedy of the Tianjin headquarters being bombed, Commander Umezu Mijiro and others being taken away, and recruits being poisoned?" Someone reminded.

As soon as they heard this, everyone was awe-struck, although according to intelligence, Lu Yuan and his Sichuan Army Independent Regiment were still staying in the lair of Muma County, but the riots in the occupied area this time were indeed very shadowy of Lu Yuan's style of acting, but anything related to Lu Yuan, how dare they take it lightly?

All the generals feel that the guy who is far away is simply the nemesis of the empire, and wherever he appears, the empire will be unlucky!

For Lu Yuan, Matsui Shigen hates even more to the bone marrow!

The tragedy that befell his old commander Miyamoto Tsuyoshi, King Asakahiko, Lieutenant General Nakajima, Commander Mijiro Umezu, and those royal families, as well as the 14th Division, which was completely wiped out......

He found that once this guy Lu Yuan appeared, the empire would suffer unimaginable losses - there was Lu Yuan's shadow behind this matter, and he didn't know what kind of disaster this guy would bring to the empire once he appeared, and there would be a shame that could not be washed away!

"Pass my order, mobilize troops from all over the surrounding areas, and strictly defend Taiyuan, no matter what, Taiyuan must not fall into the hands of the Eighth Road!"

Matsui Shigen roared, what he said in his words was Balu, but what he said in his heart was that he couldn't let Taiyuan fall into Lu Yuan's hands, because he couldn't see clearly at all, if Taiyuan fell into the hands of this guy, what kind of article would this guy make with Taiyuan!

He didn't dare to risk the consequences.

Seeing that many generals obeyed the order, Matsui Shigen slammed his fist on the table, and the epidermis of the fist was broken and bleeding, but he didn't seem to feel it at all, but just roared viciously: "Lu Yuan, one day, the old man will crush your bones and scatter ashes to eliminate the hatred in my heart......"