On the evening of the 13th, Honda Masasai held a pre-war meeting to discuss how to eliminate the enemy blocking the road in Henan Village, and at this time, the Japanese scouts came to report that they had found the news that they had found the troops in Henan Village, and that the enemy in front was the instructor of the Eighth Route Army, who had eliminated the 15th Brigade in Yuanping and Laoxian. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After Honda Masashi got the report, he suddenly stood up with a "poof", gritted his teeth and said: "It was this instructor who made the first organized brigade of the Imperial Japanese Army to be wiped out, and even the brigade commander was captured, this is a great shame for my Imperial Army, no matter what, we must eliminate this instructor and wash away this shame when we mix into the second brigade!" ”

Since the instructor eliminated the 15th Brigade and Regiment, he has been listed among the senior generals of the Japanese army, and it can be said that he is a big fish, and every division and brigade of the Japanese army does not want to destroy the instructor as soon as possible. Now that this Sect Mentor has been sent to the Second Brigade of the Mixed Formation, this is a godsend opportunity to destroy it!

Although Honda Masasai has already paid homage to the Japanese army as a major general and is in charge of such a large unit as the Second Brigade Regiment, the mixed brigade is only a wartime establishment of the Japanese army, and it is not a very important position, and Honda Masasai intends to take advantage of the outbreak of the all-out war of aggression against China to make more military achievements and be promoted to the commander of the division as soon as possible.

Among the generals of the same period as Honda Masasai, he was not valued by the top of the imperial army as a staff officer, such as Seishiro Itagaki and Soji Ishihara were the most influential figures in their group of generals, and he was just an insignificant ugly duckling in the eyes of the high-level.

Honda Masasai is not convinced, he thinks that as long as he gives himself a chance, he must be no worse than Itagaki Seishiro, and now the instructor who is listed in the Japanese army is in front of him, Honda Masasai thinks that the opportunity has finally come, as long as the instructor is eliminated, then he Honda Masasai can be a blockbuster, stand out from a large number of generals, and go to the pinnacle of life.

Seeing that his commander was gritting his teeth and his eyes were red, as if he had a hypothesis, the staff officer next to him hurriedly and cautiously asked, "Your Excellency the brigade commander, what's wrong with you?" ”

Honda Masasai, who came back to his senses, said: "I am thinking about how to eliminate the great enemy of the teacher, according to the report of the Shina authorities, the ministry eliminated 20,000 people in the 15th Brigade and 15,000 casualties in itself, this report must have a lot of water, how can the troops of the 15th Brigade be full of only more than 10,000 people, how can there be 20,000 casualties?" This must be an exaggeration on the part of the Chinese authorities.

As for the instructors of the Eighth Route Army, according to the information transmitted by the Imperial Army's special high school from the top level of the Kuomintang Party, the total number of troops in this unit is 30,000. The strength of the 15th Mixed Brigade and our army is comparable, and the instructor must have paid a great price to eliminate the 15th Mixed Brigade, and according to the tradition of the Chinese people, the information that the instructor suffered 15,000 casualties should have been falsely reported, and in my estimation, the instructor's casualties should be about 25,000. ”

The Japanese staff officer's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said excitedly: "In this way, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army in Henan Village now has only 5,000 troops at most, so it should be easy for me to mix the second brigade and eliminate him." ”

Honda Masasai nodded, and then he smirked, "Yo Xi! Futian-kun, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army is also famous in our imperial army now, if we can mix it into the second brigade and destroy it all, the credit is great! ”

The excited Fukuda staff officer hurriedly bowed deeply and said respectfully: "Hi! Without further ado, Your Excellency Brigade Commander, I will immediately go and draw up a battle plan for the elimination of the instructors of the Eighth Route Army. ”

Honda Masasai said approvingly: "Yo Xi, I've worked hard for Fukuda-kun, let's go." ”

Staff Officer Fukuda bowed deeply again and said, "Hai! ”

However, what Masaki Honda and Staff Officer Fukuda did not know was that the strength of the instructor was not 5,000 as they had guessed, but a huge force of 40,000 people, and this was the key reason for the self-destruction of the 2nd Brigade Regiment.

As the only commander of the Eighth Route Army to participate in the frontal battlefield of the Battle of Xinkou, Zhang Cheng was undoubtedly very cautious about the next battle.

Although the other main forces of the Eighth Route Army also participated in the Battle of Xinkou, most of them were engaged in small-scale battles such as sabotage behind enemy lines or sneak attacks on Japanese baggage, and they could transfer and retreat at any time when they encountered a large number of Japanese troops, but the instructor participated in a general battle with a total of more than 200,000 people on both sides of the enemy, and the slightest carelessness was likely to lead to catastrophic consequences, so although it was late at night, Zhang Cheng still did not rest, but sat in the conference room and thought about countermeasures on the map.

For the next battle, Zhang Cheng already had a plan in his heart, he decided to wait for the rabbit, wait for the mixed second brigade to come to attack the instructor, and then lure the troops to go deeper, and gradually introduce the mixed second brigade into the ambush circle.

However, after the mixed second brigade entered the ambush circle, Zhang Cheng did not plan to destroy the other party at the first time, but prepared to surround the enemy and send reinforcements, forcing the mixed second brigade to send a distress telegram to Itagaki Seishiro.

To put it bluntly, Zhang Cheng is Xiang Zhuang Dancing Sword, which is intended for Pei Gong, and what he really wants to eliminate is the Fifth Division under Itagaki Seishiro.

The Fifth Division is the first-class division of the Japanese army, and in the eight-year Sino-Japanese all-out war in history, this division can be described as the vanguard of the invasion of China, and has set a record of fighting against more than 70 divisions in the Chinese battlefield, and is known as the "Steel Army".

After 1940, the Fifth Division was reorganized as one of the four mechanized divisions of the Japanese army, and it was the first-class trump card of the Japanese army, and its status in the Japanese army was the same as that of the 74th Army in the People's Party and the 115th Division in the Eighth Route Army.

If the instructor can eliminate the Fifth Division in the Xinkou Campaign, it will undoubtedly be able to deal a great blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army on the battlefield of aggression against China, and will play an extremely huge role in boosting the determination and morale of the military and people throughout the country to resist Japan.

In this battle, Zhang Cheng is bound to win, and he will teach the Japanese army a great lesson.

However, on the battlefield of Xinkou, the strength of the Japanese army was not much less than that of the Chinese army, it can be said that it was basically the same, and Zhang Cheng's plan to destroy the Fifth Division actually did not even dare to guarantee that it would succeed, because there were too many uncertain factors.

First of all, the Japanese army has the air force to help it, and once the battle starts in daytime, the Japanese army will undoubtedly have a great advantage with the support of the air force; Secondly, it depends on whether the friendly troops are strong, if the Kuomintang troops on other positions are easily defeated by the Japanese army, then Zhang Cheng's instructor will be on wax, and it is likely to fall into the Japanese army's counter-encirclement.

In view of these unstable factors, Zhang Cheng should consider leaving a few more ways for the instructor, but don't get into trouble if you don't eat the mutton. If he capsized the big boat in the gutter, then he Zhang Cheng would become a shame for the traverser.