After Xiao Siming led the main force of the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army to clean up the battlefield, he calmly moved and disappeared into the vast night. In the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front in Beiping, it was fried!

After Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, commander of the Fifth Division, and Nishimura Hidewin Osa, chief of staff, led the headquarters of the Fifth Division and the Fifth Engineer Wing to flee to the county seat of Guanxian in a hurry, they immediately reported the situation to the North China Front Command by radio.

Along with the battle report, there was also a telegram from the main forces of the Fifth Division requesting the immediate end of the military operation in southern Hebei, the east bank of the canal of the Xunhua Division, and the search for and annihilation of Xiao Siming's division of the Eighth Route Army. Needless to say, this is Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, eager for revenge, and instigated all the subordinate wings to ask the North China Front Headquarters for battle!

General Terauchi Toshiichi, commander of the North China Front, Vice Admiral Naosaburo Okabe, chief of staff, and Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, chief of staff to the emperor, worked hard to mobilize troops, and finally laid a big net, dreaming of killing Xiao Siming's troops and the anti-Japanese armed forces in the southern Hebei region. Two brigades of the 5th Wing of the Baggage Army!

This thing is simply incredible!

Shouichi Terauchi, Kantaro Suzuki, and Naosaburo Okabe who received the telegram, you look at me, I look at you, staring at you with big eyes, only to feel that their faces are hot, as if they were all slapped by Xiao Siming!

Admiral Kantaro Suzuki retired from the Navy after being seriously injured in the "226" incident, first as chief of staff to the Empress Dowager, and now as chief of staff to Emperor Hirohito. After the Lugou Bridge Incident, he had never personally been on the battlefield of invasion of China, and his thoughts were still at the level when the Japanese army lightly captured the three eastern provinces.

Before coming to inspect the North China Front this time, Kantaro Suzuki, who was in the deep palace, always thought that Terauchi Shouichi was too arrogant, and because he did not let him be the commander-in-chief of the Wuhan Battle, he deliberately delayed the execution of the order of the base camp to transfer troops from the North China Front Army to participate in the Battle of Wuhan. Now that he personally participated in the operational command of the North China Front Army's eastward advance detachment besieging the Eighth Route Army, Admiral Kantaro Suzuki thoroughly understood that it was not that Terauchi Shouichi did not carry out the order of the base camp to move the battle of Wuhan, but that he could not carry it out! The reason is self-evident, the Eighth Route Army in North China is too cunning and too ferocious, not only can it fight a small sneak attack, but it can also fight with cannons and chariots taken from the imperial army!

The main force of the 4th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade has been shattered, and now the 5th Division, the first-class elite division of the 6th Army of Japan, has suffered a big loss in the hands of the Eighth Route Army!

In other words, from Pingxingguan to today's Canal Battle, the elite of the dignified Japanese 6th Army did not take advantage of the Eighth Route Army, which was tactically flexible and took the initiative to attack!

This is shocking!

Kantaro Suzuki involuntarily muttered: "Xiao Siming, you are too bold to dare to attack the Fifth Division!" What other division did he dare not fight? ”

Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe, chief of staff of the North China Front, immediately gritted his teeth and said: "Your Excellency, Chief Attendant, Xiao Siming is a mad dog, catch whoever bites whom!" The 1O9th Division, the 2O Division, the 1O8th Division, the 16th Division, the 114th Division, the North China Garrison Army Mixed Brigade, the Independent Mixed Brigade, the Fifth Division, and all those who fought with him suffered greatly! If this army is not eliminated, the public security situation in North China will continue to deteriorate, and the North China Front will never have peace! ”

This is the painful experience of Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe!

The commander of the North China Front, General Terauchi Shouichi, didn't bother to listen to the ramblings of Kantaro Suzuki and Naosaburo Okabe, and ran to the side of the map in three steps and two steps, staring at the map and looking away.

Admiral Kantaro Suzuki listened to Vice Admiral Okabe Naosaburo's words and muttered thoughtfully: "It seems that the battle plan for the Battle of Wuhan needs to be revised!" ”

Before Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe could answer, there was a commotion outside the building.

This is the headquarters of the North China Front, and the commander, General Terauchi Shouichi, is at the headquarters, and His Excellency the Chief of Staff of His Majesty the Emperor is also at the headquarters, so how can there be a commotion outside the building?

Naosaburo Okabe, who was full of surprise, walked quickly to the window, pushed open the window, and looked down, and saw that under the gray and yellow street lamp, two young lieutenants from the communications section of the headquarters were beating each other, shouting and scolding Yaga while fighting!

Okabe Naosaburo frowned, and was about to order a few onlookers in the courtyard to drag these two bastards to confinement, when he heard one of the lieutenants crying and shouting: "Xiao Siming, it's dead, it's dead!" Cowards, shameless sneak attackers! Dead, dead, dead! ”

Immediately afterwards, the two young lieutenants tore each other's uniforms, stopped beating each other, sat naked on the ground with their knees crossed, drew their sabers, and under the gray and yellow street lamps, tears rolled on their faces, and they hummed a low song in their mouths, and began to wipe their sabers with snow-white silk scarves, as if they were going to cut their stomachs.

The staff officers and communications personnel of several headquarters standing in the courtyard were all stunned, and none of them stepped forward to dissuade them.

Okabe Naosaburo instantly understood that the two young lieutenants of the communication section were all receiving telegrams, and they must have read the telegrams of the Fifth Division Supplement Team and the main force of the Fifth Wing of the Baggage Regiment being annihilated, and they were stimulated by a series of defeats, and they couldn't bear it psychologically, and they were going to cut their stomachs!

The Japanese army suffered repeated defeats, and after careful calculation, the losses were amazing, and the blow to the morale of the troops on the North China Front can be imagined!

Okabe Naosaburo's heart suddenly became gloomy, and he stood in front of the window in a daze, unable to lift his spirits anymore.

It wasn't until he watched the two young officers stab their sabers in the lower abdomen that Naosaburo Okabe appeared, and Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, His Majesty's chamberlain to the Emperor, was standing beside him, his eyes full of tears.

Naosaburo Okabe didn't say a word, and ignored Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, walked straight to the map, stood side by side with Shouichi Terauchi or two, and stared at the map.

After a long time, General Terauchi Shouichi sighed and said to Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo: "Okabe-kun, immediately order the demolition of the pontoon bridge left by the 16th Division. If time is running out, order the remaining troops to blow up the bridge! Xiao Siming must not be allowed to use the pontoon bridge to flow into the hinterland of Shandong! ”

Okabe Naosaburo asked suspiciously: "Your Excellency Commander, we have originally analyzed that it is impossible for Xiao Siming's troops to enter the hinterland of Shandong on the east bank of the Yellow River, and there must be a demolition of the bridge and a blow up of the bridge?" ”

Shouichi Terauchi seemed to have run out of energy, and instead of reprimanding or scolding Okabe Naosaburo, he shook his head and said in a low voice: "Xiao Siming does not follow the rules in battle, and when he is at the end of the road, he dares to go anywhere!" Hurry up, don't waste time! ”

Naosaburo Okabe said "Hai" and went to report!

Admiral Kantaro Suzuki also arrived at the map at this time, with a choked voice in his tone, and said to Admiral Shouichi Terauchi: "Xiao Siming's troops are running around, and they run away with one shot, and the imperial army can only be beaten passively everywhere. We have to think about changing that! Otherwise, the North China Front will still suffer humiliation! ”

Admiral Kantaro Suzuki deserves to be a senior admiral, and he has only been in the North China Front for a few days, and he can see the crux of the problem at a glance.

Terauchi Shouichi said "um", thought about it, and said: "Shimoda Muroli's suggestion is good, we have to think of building railways and roads, relying on railways and highways to lay blockade lines, divide the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, encircle them into small squares, and then clear and eliminate them!" ”

When he said this, Terauchi Shouichi's eyes radiated a fierce light like a beast, as if he wanted to swallow the Eighth Route Army in one gulp!

Kantaro Suzuki added: "The top priority is to fix Xiao Siming's troops in a certain area, and we must not let them fight like this again!" Blindly chasing is not the way! Because the pursuing troops did not have a solid defensive line to rely on, Xiao Siming's firepower was strong, and it was easy to adopt the tactics of ambush and sneak attack to attack the pursuing imperial army! ”

Shouichi Terauchi said "um" again, then stopped paying attention to Kantaro Suzuki, and looked at the map intently again.

Kantaro Suzuki did not stay in the war room any longer, but returned to his residence, called the accompanying communications staff officer, and used the confidential radio he carried to report to Emperor Hirohito, reporting that the two brigades of the Fifth Division Supplementary Brigade and the Fifth Wing of the Heavy Infantry were attacked by Xiao Siming's division of the Eighth Route Army and the collective jade shattering, and then put forward his own proposal, that is, to propose to revise the Wuhan battle plan and divide the original North China Front Army into two ways to assist the Central China Army to attack Wuhan. Instead, he assisted Central China to send troops to attack Wuhan all the way. The reason was that the public security situation in North China was not optimistic, and the existing strength of the North China Front Army was seriously insufficient, and at most the Second Army could only be transferred south to participate in the Battle of Wuhan.

Unconsciously, Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, the emperor's attendant who was originally responsible for urging Terauchi Shouichi to dispatch the main force to participate in the Battle of Wuhan, had a change of opinion and urinated with Terauchi Shouichi into a pot!

This is a big matter, and it is impossible for the Japanese army base camp to immediately call back to express its position, and Admiral Suzuki Kantaro returned to the war room of the North China Front after completing the telegram.

After arriving at the war room, Kantaro Suzuki suddenly appeared, in addition to Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo, Major General Machijiri Liangki, deputy chief of staff of the North China Front, Major General Kita Seiichi, Minister of Special Affairs, and Major General Shimoda Murori, Minister of Railways, were all there!

The head of the secret service, Kita Makoto, had a red and swollen face, needless to say, he was slapped by the commander General Terauchi Shouichi!

Kantaro Suzuki doesn't have to think about it, he knows why Seiichi Kita was slapped in the face, and the information is not working!

When Admiral Suzuki Kantaro sat down, Terauchi Shouichi exchanged his thoughts with Suzuki Kantaro, which meant that Xiao Siming's troops must be completely annihilated on the Luxi Plain east of the canal and west of the Yellow River. The specific deployment was that the 16th Division on the Deshi Highway quickly marched eastward, commanded the troops of the 21st Division left in Dezhou, and quickly blocked the passage for Xiao Siming's troops to flee north to the Jilu border; Lieutenant General Sasaki Zhiyi, commander of the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, commanded the 62nd and 82nd Infantry Wings of the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade and the 21st Division to lay a strong defensive line between the canal and the Yellow River to block the southward escape passage of Xiao Siming's troops; rushed to the 3rd Brigade and the 13th Brigade of the Mixed Brigade in southwest Lu, quickly went north, and set up defenses between Jinan and Pingyin, blocking the passage of Xiao Siming's eastward crossing of the Yellow River; The main force of the 5th Division returned to the east bank of the canal, relying on the canal to deploy defenses. Several armies are advancing steadily, attacking centripetally, and they must all annihilate Xiao Siming's department!

This deployment is very thorough, and the activity area in the encirclement is not large, it seems that Xiao Siming's department will not escape this time!

Kantaro Suzuki immediately said "Yo West", which is equivalent to agreeing to the plan of the North China Front!

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