yes, after talking about it for a long time, what should Texas do?

The reason why Naosaburo Okabe hurriedly flew back to Beijing from Jinan to meet Toshiichi Terauchi was to discuss what to do in Texas!

In the city of Dezhou, there were a large number of heavy materials of the 16th Division, the 114th Division, the 3rd Mixed Brigade, the 13th Mixed Brigade, the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info If Texas is recaptured late, let the Eighth Route Army transport all these baggage materials, thinking about it makes Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo's scalp numb and shudder!

The Eighth Route Army did not lack the determination to resist the war, the spirit of sacrifice, the strategy and tactics, and the fighting quality, but what it lacked was ammunition and food and socks supplies. If the units of the Eighth Route Army were well-prepared, had sufficient ammunition, and had no worries about food and clothing, the troops would certainly have snowballed. Rao is Terauchi Shouichi is so arrogant, he doesn't dare to say that when he encounters well-equipped troops of the Eighth Route Army with sufficient ammunition, the Japanese army led by him will definitely be able to win!

Ready-made examples are in front of me, knowing that the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army captured Dezhou, and not far from Dezhou, there is the third railway wing of the Japanese army in the north, and the fifth independent railway brigade of the Japanese army in the south, as well as the cooperation of the puppet army, whether it is Terauchi Shouichi or Okabe Naosaburo, no one has thought of ordering these two troops to take the puppet army to flank the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army that captured Texas. The reason is just two words: don't dare!

Now that it has been determined that the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army that captured Dezhou is the mysterious Eighth Route Army unit that killed Ishida Jinzo, destroyed Taiyuan Airport, and completely annihilated the 20th Wing of the Cavalry of the 16th Division, Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo can think of it when they touch their toes that the weapons and equipment of this Eighth Route Army unit are absolutely sophisticated, and their combat effectiveness is absolutely strong! Otherwise, it would have been impossible for them to break through Texas so quickly, and it would have been impossible for the second brigade of the second wing of the mixed brigade of the North China garrison army to not even have time to send a telegram before the collective jade was shattered, and it would have been impossible to shoot down one reconnaissance plane and four bombers of the air force!

Needless to say, the weapons used by the Eighth Route Army to shoot down the air scouts must have been anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns from the military columns at the Taiyuan Airport, the Dezhou Railway Station and the Measuring Rock Station, and the Lianzhen Railway Station. It was a sophisticated weapon produced by the Great Japanese Empire, but I didn't expect the Eighth Route Army to use it to fight the fighters of the Japanese Army Air Force!

Although there is no intelligence support for on-the-ground reconnaissance, Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo are not stupid, and they can still think of the eight brand-new medium-sized battlefields and four armored vehicles that have disappeared from the military train at the Renzhen Railway Station. The reason why the advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army was able to break through Dezhou City so quickly could it be related to these combat vehicles and armored vehicles?

Terauchi and Okabe Naosaburo preferred to believe that the Eighth Route Army was a group of peasants who laid down their hoes, were illiterate, and could not drive even if they owned chariots, armored vehicles, and automobiles, let alone entered the battle. But the fact that the Eighth Route Army shot down 5 Japanese planes in one fell swoop told them that it was impossible!

Carrying anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns produced by the Empire of Japan, driving chariots and armored vehicles produced by the Empire of Japan, riding Oriental war horses carefully cultivated by the Empire of Japan, holding Type 96 light machine guns, 38 large covers, and cavalry rifles produced by the Empire of Japan, pulling a slip of Type 92 infantry guns and Type 92 heavy machine guns behind, and unscrupulously using infantry guns and grenadiers to launch special smoke, such troops make Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo feel numb when they think about it. How dare they order the newly formed Third Railway Wing and the Fifth Independent Railway Brigade, which were not in the Japanese army, to flank this Eighth Route Army?

Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo both knew in their hearts that the Third Railway Wing and the Fifth Independent Railway Brigade were hiding in strongholds and fortifications to guard the railways and highways, and it was okay to fight the ordinary Chinese army, but when they encountered troops like the Eastward Advance Detachment of the Eighth Route Army that captured Texas, they could only be victims and cannon fodder!

Let the Third Wing of the Railway and the Fifth Brigade of the Railway Independent shrink their forces and hold their positions, for fear that they will be attacked by the Eighth Route Army and come to a collective jade shatter, not to mention let them take the initiative to attack the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army in Dezhou City, it is purely to let them die!

This kind of thing, Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo can't do it!

So the question is, which force to send to destroy the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army and recapture the city of Texas?

The elite unit of the Japanese army, which is closest to Dezhou, must be the first wing, cavalry team, and combat convoy of the mixed brigade of the North China Garrison Army left in the Pingjin area, but once this unit is transferred out of the Pingjin area, Beijing and Tianjin will become undefended cities, and with the style of the Eighth Route Army's eastward advance detachment daring to pull out its teeth and sneak attack the Taiyuan airport, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not peep through the mystery and sneak attack Beijing or Tianjin again. As long as such an incident happens, I am afraid that General Terauchi Shouichi will have to apologize for his guilt as soon as possible. At the very least, he had to find a scapegoat to apologize for his crimes. And this scapegoat level can't be too low!

Therefore, Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo, no one would have such thoughts!

The Second Wing of the Mixed Brigade of the North China Garrison Army, which garrisoned Jinan and had been ordered to be transferred to the Luokou Yellow River Bridge, could naturally carry out the task of eliminating the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army and recapturing Dezhou City, but this second wing had just been annihilated by the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army, and had lost two tank squadrons, two armored vehicle squadrons, and an infantry artillery squadron. Shouichi Terauchi and Naosaburo Okabe didn't dare to let them go on any more adventures. In case of falling into the trap of the Eighth Route Army again, and another collective jade crush, the second wing of the North China Garrison Army mixed brigade will be revoked, and if new recruits are replenished, the original veteran backbone will be missing, and it will become a new army.

Speaking of which, at this time, Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo both knew in their hearts that if they wanted to eliminate the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army and recapture Dezhou, they would not be able to rely on second- and third-rate troops, and they had to transfer the permanent divisions of the Japanese army to carry out such a task. At the very least, it has to be an elite brigade.

That's it, there is no guarantee that the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army will be annihilated, what if they escape by taking advantage of a loophole? Isn't that the fish in the sea, waiting for them to poke the imperial army again?

An elite division must be transferred back to the North China Plain to ensure the total annihilation of this cunning and murderous eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army!

Therefore, as soon as Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo saw General Terauchi Toshiichi, he proposed to suspend the current tasks of the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division, and let these two most elite divisions of the Japanese Army return to the North China Plain to completely wipe out the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army!

Needless to say, the Fifth Division was the flower of the Japanese Army, one of the three mechanized divisions of the Japanese Army, Itagaki Seishiro used half a division of the Fifth Division to dare to take a small road to sneak attack Pingxingguan and launch the Battle of Taiyuan, the combat effectiveness is absolutely first-class, not only in the Japanese army, but also in today's world, it is also absolutely first-class!

Needless to say, the Fifth Division was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army at Pingxingguan since it entered the battlefield of aggression against China. Now that the Eighth Route Army in the Pingxingguan ambush has arrived in Texas, the Fifth Division will definitely ask for revenge!

The 16th Division is not bad, a pure beast unit, the first to attack the city of Nanjing, and its combat effectiveness is exceptionally strong!

The 16th Division suffered a heavy loss at the hands of the eastward advance detachment, and in the Battle of Mafang, in addition to the total annihilation of the 20th Cavalry Wing of the 16th Division, it also piggybacked on and eliminated their two infantry squadrons, the artillery squadron and the machine gun squadron, and the two units added up to more than 1,100 people and nearly 1,200 people.

These more than 1,100 devils are all old devils who fought all the way from the Songhu battlefield to Nanjing City. In the eyes of the Chinese, they are all beasts and deserve to die! But in the eyes of Shouichi Terauchi and Naosaburo Okabe, as well as the commander of the 16th Division, Nakajima Imasago, they were all valuable veterans and combat backbones, and the losses were too great!

If the 16th Division had known that it had captured Texas that it was the Eighth Route Army that had destroyed the 20th Cavalry Wing and their 700 infantrymen, Lieutenant General Nakajima would have asked for revenge!

The problem is that both forces are now on the battlefield.

The Fifth Division is now deployed in the Bengbu area, not to mention the Sixteenth Division, which is pouting and attacking westward along the Longhai Road.

Terauchi Shouichi had just ordered the independent mixed Third Brigade under the command of the Fifth Division to be transferred back to Jinan to take over the defense, and if the Fifth Division was transferred back now, the Bengbu area that had just arrived would become a blank spot in defense, and the safety of the Jinpu Road would no longer be guaranteed.

The task of the 16th Division was more important, they had to quickly move westward, capture Shangqiu, mix with the 14th Division to the west, and rush to Kaifeng and Zhengzhou.

If the 16th Division had been transferred back to the North China Plain, the Japanese army's Longhai Road operations would have come to an abrupt halt, and Terauchi Shouichi's plan to capture Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, and then move south to capture Wuhan, would have to be temporarily suspended.

The biggest drawback of the 16th Division is that once the Longhai Road battle plan is temporarily suspended, the Chinese army will be able to stabilize its position and rearrange the defensive line, and if the Japanese army wants to advance eastward along the Longhai Road, it will inevitably have to go through a flesh-and-blood battle. Moreover, the 14th Division is now under siege by more than 100,000 troops of the Chinese army, and it will be extremely dangerous if it is not done well.

However, without the transfer of elite divisions and regiments back to the North China Plain, with the existing strength of the Japanese army in the North China Plain, it really does not have the strength to eliminate the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army that captured Dezhou, let alone curb the rapid development of the Eighth Route Army's forces in the Central Hebei Plain and the South Hebei Plain.

It's a dilemma!

General Terauchi did not immediately answer Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo's question, walked over to his desk and sat down, and began to think again. (To be continued.) )