Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 428: The Great Drama of the New Year in 1940 (10)——

Chapter 428: The Great Drama of the New Year of 1940 (10)

The Ninth Brigade had been retreating for nearly thirty miles, and finally stopped at Qingyang Town for repairs. In just one day, the entire Ninth Brigade lost more than 1,200 people, and at the same time more than 40 combat vehicles were completely destroyed, a defeat that was unacceptable to Major General Noboru Kunisaki.

Moreover, he couldn't hide this matter, such a major defeat could not be concealed by his small infantry brigade commanders, so as soon as he withdrew to Qingyang Town, Major General Kunisaki Noboru sent a telegram to his superior, Lieutenant General Ando Toshiyoshi, to report in detail to the division commander about today's defeat in battle. Of course, Major General Noboru Kunisaki was very experienced in dealing with these things, and he did not call the defeat of the battle a fiasco like an ordinary officer, but gave it a term like defeat.

Ando Toshikichi, who had just arrived at Wangjialou, received a telegram from Major General Noboru Kunizaki, and his first reaction was not anger but deep surprise, he had already heard of the combat effectiveness of the troops of the M-NG Ancient Military Region, whether it was the troops of the North China Front Army in the Northern Defense Region or some divisions of the Kwantung Army, they all admired this army commanded by the Han Demon King, who was famous throughout the imperial army, and even sometimes Lieutenant General Ando Toshikichi had to suspect that those guys had mythologized that branch of the army.

Ando Toshikichi had been studying this branch of China before, and through analysis, he found that the China army entrenched in the north of China was indeed different from the ordinary China army, and their tactical guiding ideology was very advanced, far more advanced than that of the vast majority of the imperial troops. And the soldiers of this army seem to know very well what they are doing, it has been more than three years since the realization of this branch of the army entering the imperial army, but for such a long time, the imperial army has fought with this army no less than hundreds of times, but the empire is almost every battle must be defeated, and every battle must be lost. What is most unacceptable to Ando Toshikichi is that there are about 400,000 prisoners in the custody of the entire China Army, but less than 4,000 belong to the Eighth Route Army of China, and less than 50 people belong to Han Yunhua's department.

Moreover, these captives were so hard-boned that no matter how the empire conducted bī interrogation, they found almost nothing, and even if they used high-ranking officials to yin* or torture bī confessions, they could not get useful information from the mouths of those captives. Some captives knew that there was no hope of escaping and even decisively chose to commit suicide, so among all the troops and political groups that have received the attention of the empire in the entire China to this day, the information of Han Yunhua's headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in China is the least.

Originally, Lieutenant General Ando Toshikichi was still very confident that the front army would attack Han Yunhua's headquarters with all its might, but now it seems that even if the front army wins this battle, it will have to pay great losses, and what is even more stupid is that because a few commanders on the front line actually commanded the troops to massacre the civilians of China a few days ago, it not only caused international dissatisfaction with the Japanese Empire, but also caused a large number of civilians in North China to flee. If there is no one, it is impossible to raise food and materials, and if it is impossible to raise war materials on the spot, it must be transferred from the big city of Beiping, which has invisibly increased the pressure on the logistics department of the front army.

Although it seems that the front army is in a favorable situation now, in Ando Toshikishi's view, the people of China are not blindly allowing the empire to attack, and they are not fighting back, nor are they blindly disturbing, but they are accumulating strength, and if they don't make a move, it will be a shock.

Carefully reading and looking at the telegram sent by the Ninth Brigade, Ando Toshiyoshi found two rather suspicious problems, the first problem is that the Ninth Brigade has repeatedly mentioned that the Chinese army has a strategic weapon such as field heavy artillery, but as far as Ando Toshiyoshi knows, the empire has sent more than 30 planes to the entire front army in the past few days, most of which are bombers and reconnaissance aircraft, because there is almost no air force in China, even if it is in the hands of Shina Zhengfu, there are only more than 200 tattered Soviet-made planes left, The Air Force is a joke for the entire China, especially since the entire Eighth Route Army does not have a single aircraft, so the entire sky of the China is the Great Japanese Empire, so the fighter plane loses its value. Therefore, after consultation, His Excellency the Commander returned all the fighters that had been transferred to the Front Air Corps and replaced them with more practical bombers and reconnaissance planes.

In addition to all the air power of the four military airfields of Baoding, Qinhuangdao, Tianjin, and Beiping, more than 300 imperial planes included all the Jiāo passages in North China under the scope of surveillance and bombing before the Eighth Route Army's battle against the North China region began. During this period, no one reported that the headquarters had such a large-scale artillery movement, especially the field heavy artillery, even if it was only a m-n movement, it was still huge, and without good logistics support and infrastructure cooperation, it would not have been able to be transported to the front line.

The second question is even more puzzling, as in a telegram sent to him by Major General Noboru Kunisaki, it is stated that the Chinese troops have used a new type of weapon that is extremely powerful and can be used on a large scale, and this weapon appears to be a giant mine with a terrifying radius of 100 meters and an effective killing range of 50 meters. What is the concept of weapons and equipment with a radius of 100 meters, it is not that the Japanese Empire does not have this kind of cannon, the problem is that this kind of cannon is generally equipped on a huge warship as a main or secondary gun, and its weight determines that he can no longer act on the shore except for the occasional shore defense gun, in addition to this, even the largest field gun produced by the empire cannot achieve this kind of lethality. A radius of 100 meters is terrifying to think about, which means that a mine planted by the people of China can make thousands of square meters of land become purgatory on earth.

This news has to make Lieutenant General Toshikichi Ando extremely suspicious, if the Chinese can really produce this kind of weapon, then what else to fight in this war, China only needs to bury dozens and hundreds of such big mines on the road of the imperial ** team, then it is easy to destroy a division of the empire, there are dozens of divisions on the entire battlefield of China, and the army of China can leave all the imperial soldiers in China as long as it produces thousands of such mines, hehe, is this possible? Let's not talk about whether the industrial production capacity of China can produce this kind of mass destruction X-ng weapon, in terms of knowledge reserves, China and the empire were in contact with Western culture almost at the same time, and due to historical reasons, the empire even positioned Western studies as national studies earlier than China, so the empire's industrialization capacity and the accumulation of knowledge such as physics and chemistry are far stronger than those of China, which has been fighting for a century. Therefore, neither in terms of industrial production capacity nor knowledge reserves, China will not be able to produce that kind of frightening weaponry.

But then again, the people of China are a nation that is good at creating, and even more so, a nation that is good at creating miracles. Just like this war, which itself seems to have a huge disparity in strength, before the war began, the top of the empire had made arguments on all aspects of the war, and the result of the argument was that it was impossible for the people of China to last more than three months, so they came up with the argument that three months of laughter and generosity would destroy China. But now it seems how ridiculous that argument is, let alone three months, now it has been a full three years, but Shina is still Shina, and it has not become the Shina of the Great Japanese Empire. Therefore, it is not true that the people of China suddenly created a powerful X-ng weapon ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］