"The 29th Army's will to fight is good, but the weapons and equipment are too poor. It is not impossible for the encircled Muta Wing to be annihilated under the attack of several times the enemy's forces, and a few days is already the limit of what the Muta Wing can support. ”

"Your Excellency Okabe!" When the people present heard what they had just said, their faces suddenly changed. With the expansion of the scale of the war in North China, the former Japanese North China Dispatch Army has been officially upgraded to the North China Front. Unexpectedly, before the commander of the front army, Terauchi Shouichi, arrived, the chief of staff, Naosaburo Okabe, had already rushed to the war zone first. Okabe Naosaburo was in the army, and he had always been known for his sternness when he was teaching at Lu Shi, and many of the staff officers who were talking about it just now were like a chilling cicada.

"Hashimoto-kun, you have been in North China for a long time to participate in the war, let's talk about the losses of the empire during this time, and see if the Zhina army that has been ignored by some people is really as vulnerable as they imagined!" Okabe Naosaburo threw the documents in his hand directly on the table, sat down on the main seat, as the chief of the general staff of the North China Front, before Terauchi Shouichi arrived, as the representative of Terauchi Shouichi, naturally had the right to preside over this meeting. At this time, Terauchi Shouichi was still on his way to North China, and although he had achieved the initial victory in the Heisui War, Chahar had become the bag of the Japanese army, but in view of the heavy losses suffered by the Japanese army one after another, Okabe Naosaburo felt that it was necessary to sound the alarm bell for these generals. Don't let the Imperial army suffer unnecessary losses because of some carelessness.

"Yes, Your Excellency Okabe!" Hashimoto stood up.

"So far, our air force has lost a total of 37 fighters of various types and 41 bombers of various types. 6 reconnaissance aircraft. 83 pilots were killed. 6 people were slightly and seriously injured. 13 people are missing. ”

"The 1st Army of our North China Dispatch Army lost a total of 53 light tanks, 21 medium tanks, and 57 vehicles of various types. THE LOSS OF 76 GUNS OF VARIOUS TYPES ABOVE 37MM CALIBER, IN THE TWO-STAGE WAR ON THE FRONT LINE OF TIANJIN LANGFANG, THE EMPIRE LOST 7,539 PEOPLE ONE AFTER ANOTHER. The number of casualties reached 4,581. At present, the two regiments of Sun Dianying's division on the front line of Tianjin are surrounded by our army, and the 2nd Mechanized Brigade of the Northwest Army of China has been annihilated by most of the 20th Division, and has withdrawn from the battlefield due to heavy losses. On the whole, the enemy's casualties exceeded our troops by more than three times. ”

"According to the information I received, the enemy lost a total of 26 tanks and 53 aircraft of various types in several battles. The Northwest Army of China, which confronted the Imperial Army, was also divided into 369 and other ranks, causing the greatest losses of our army. That is, in the Battle of Langfang, the tank unit of the 2nd Mechanized Brigade of the Northwest Army played a classic example of winning more with less. If it weren't for the effective response of the head of Yamashita Fengwen, the main force of the tank wing in Chiba Hirakawa would probably have been completely annihilated. ”

At the same time, in order to rescue the besieged Mutian Wing, the 6th Division in charge of the rescue was also stubbornly resisted by the Northwest Army of China, and in the battle with the Northwest Army of China, more than three-quarters of the tanks of an independent light tank squadron were destroyed by the enemy, and at the same time, thousands of imperial soldiers were also lost. At the same time, the Mutian Wing was annihilated by the miscellaneous 29th Army of the Chinese Army, and the 20th Division of the 20th Division, which was responsible for attacking Tianjin, was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses due to the rebellion of Zhang Qingyu and Zhang Yantian, who were unprepared in Tongxian County, and with the cooperation of this rebel army, the 20th Division Hedao Jianyi Brigade was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses under the attack of the rebels and Sun Dianying's Zhina Army. The empire lost more than 4,800 soldiers in the hands of the 29th Army and Sun Dianying's 41st Army. This is still when the operation on Pingsui Road has not yet ended, and the casualty report has not yet been reported. ”

"Guys, I've said so much nonsense, do you know what I'm ultimately trying to say?" Naosaburo Okabe asked in a deep voice.

Hey, many people present also just learned about the latest statistics of battle damage, and they couldn't help but gasp for it, from the attack at the Lugou Bridge to the real battle in the back to now, it has been less than a month's effort, and so many tanks and planes have been lost, especially in terms of tanks, it is even more difficult to replenish than planes, and nearly one-third of the two hundred and sixty or seventy tanks have been killed in a few battles, and in order to meet the needs of the war situation in North China, even a part of the tank units that should have been sent to Shanghai have been transferred. After all, the war situation in North China is the main direction of attack of the War Department, and as for the Shanghai side that fought well, the majority of the credit was also taken away by the navy.

"Okabe-kun, is this accusing me of poor command before?" Kazuki Kiyoji squinted his eyes and looked at Okabe Naosaburo quite deterringly, others are afraid of Okabe Naosaburo, but there are so many military leaders present, naturally there are not afraid of them, Kazuki Kiyoji is one of them, and Kazuki Kiyoji has never had a good impression of Okabe Naosaburo, who has always presided over the comprehensive expansion of the war against China, and Terauchi Shouichi. He is not without a background, even if Terauchi Shouichi is elected as the commander of the North China Front, as long as he is not pinched by the other party, Terauchi Shouichi can't do anything with him, in the First Army of the North China Front, his words are better than Terauchi Shouichi. This is also where his confidence lies.

"I'm just stating the facts, at least, it is an indisputable fact that the 1st Army suffered losses in this Pingjin operation. The number of losses in both tanks and aircraft was higher than that of the Chinese army. Okabe Naosaburo said coldly, as the chief of staff of the Front Army, he naturally wanted to maintain the majesty of the Front Army Headquarters.

"In the Pingjin Battle, although the empire suffered certain losses, which of the previous battles with the Chinese army did not suffer losses? Moreover, the losses caused were not a mistake in command caused by the First Army, but a major dereliction of duty on the part of the intelligence organs, and in the battle of Langfang, the main force of the tank wing of Chiba Hirakawa could have routed the enemy's tank units in one fell swoop, and then dealt a fatal blow to the 2nd Mechanized Brigade, the ace unit of the Chinese Army. This is a rare opportunity for the dispatch army. But we did not know anything about the infantry anti-tank weapons that appeared in the Shina Army, which led to the defeat of more than 50 tanks of the main force of the tank wing in Chiba Hirakawa against less than 30 tanks of the Shina Army. The elite level of the 2nd Mechanized Brigade of the Northwest Army of China is not below the Imperial Army, and the Empire has not suffered losses once or twice since it fought with the Northwest Army of China in 31. (To be continued.) )