The arrival of Muto Nobuyoshi made the Chinese defenders in Chengde City and the Yue army outside the city breathe a sigh of relief, and after a few days of bloody fighting, even Itamoto Masaemon of the Kumamoto Division, who claimed that he had been beaten with steel and cast iron, was silent, and his voice was so hoarse that he could barely speak.

The Sixth Division of the Lao Cai Offensive and Defensive War was filled with a fully manned wing, the shells of the heavy artillery wing were exhausted, and the houses on both sides of the entire Lao Cai were all blown into ruins, but in the ruins, the surviving Zhong [***] people continued to defend to the death, for the two assault companies and the follow-up reinforcements, they got the order that there was a room to guard one room, one street to guard one street, and they must not take a step back until they died in battle.

The officers and men of the newly formed first division know very well that 200 meters behind them is the division headquarters and the field hospital, they have no way to retreat, the martyrs who died in battle have a high pension, and the pension is canceled by the military police company of the division and the law section of the division when they retreat.

Compared with the Itamoto Masaemon of the 6th Division, the appearance of the 8th Division's Nishiichi at this moment is more suitable for begging along the street, to use a cliché in later movies to describe this benevolent brother, that is, it is a pity that this appearance does not go to ask for food!

With the 14th Division's strategic line along the Laohugou, the pressure on the 8th Division increased sharply, because Matsuki Naoliang sent several telegrams almost every day complaining that the 8th Division's attack on the Sengguanfeng was unfavorable, because the Chinese defenders, who still occupied the main peak of the Sengguanfeng, used the five 75-mm field guns on the mountainside to constantly bombard the Yuejun troops in the direction of Laohugou, and the artillery of the Yuejun Army was limited to the high and low firing range of the field artillery and could not return fire.

A Kwantung Army commander Muto Nobuyoshi with a stereotyped face like a K expression on the top of a playing card, plus the expressionless chief of staff Koiso Kuniaki, deputy chief of staff Okamura Ninji, and the commander of the 6th Division, Masaemon Itamoto, the commander of the 8th Division, Yoshiichi Nishi, the commander of the 10th Division, Shousuke Hirose, the commander of the 14th Division, Naoryo Matsuki, the commander of the 16th Division, Pumu, and the brigade commanders below with even more bitter expressions, sat on the chairs with great grievances. Wait for Muto Nobuyoshi to administer justice to them.

Looking at the commanders of these divisions and brigades under his command, Muto Nobuyoshi's heart also chuckled, especially the commander of the 1st Xiyi Division whose head was wrapped like India's deflated three, the gauze on his head was still oozing blood, what kind of battle was the Battle of Chengde? How did the high-spirited generals before be so decadent? There was a sluggish atmosphere of defeat in the conference room, and their generals had lost the heart of victory in the battle, would the situation of the troops below be better?

Muto Nobuyoshi closed his eyes slightly, took a deep breath and said, "Everyone! Our army swept through hundreds of thousands of [***] squadrons in Rehe, and has made immortal contributions to the empire, although we have suffered a small setback, but in the end my heroic and fearless imperial army will sweep all enemies and achieve victory, there is no doubt about this! ”

Muto Nobuyoshi's words made the division commanders present invariably secretly breathe a sigh of relief, His Excellency the Commander is not here to ask the division for guilt! Several division commanders smiled awkwardly at each other, and Xi Yiyi also pulled the wound and gasped a few times.

Muto Nobuyoshi originally wanted to go to the outskirts of Chengde to see the actual situation on the battlefield, but from Okamura Ninji to the brigade commanders below, they shook their heads like rattles and resolutely opposed them, and Major General Nakamura Shin, the brigade commander of the 33rd Brigade, almost hugged Muto Nobuyoshi's thigh and begged him not to go, and told Muto Nobuyoshi that the officers above the wing had already changed their soldiers' uniforms and turned their shoes, and even Cao Chang did not dare to hang up the command knife and southern-style pistol!

Muto Nobuyoshi was surprised and suddenly found that the glamorous brigade commanders present were actually wearing the thick tweed uniforms of generals on their upper bodies, and the thick twill cloth pants of soldiers on their lower bodies, and wearing suede shoes with leggings?

Okamura Ninji was helpless and said with a slight upright: "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, the unyielding spirit of the [***] people in China is comparable to that of my Imperial Army, even if they still have a breath, there is still a bullet left, they have to lurk in the rubble, Miyamoto Fushimi Osa and Nishiki Naomura Osa were all shot and killed by wounded Chinese soldiers, and there are a group of soldiers with particularly good marksmanship, who specialize in shooting important targets such as opposing officers and machine gunners like our special marksmen, but in contrast, the middle [***] who are familiar with the terrain are [*** The sharpshooters are more efficient, and now some of the squadron leaders of the three infantry wings that attacked Chengde City are all served by Cao Chang, which shows the great loss of officers! ”

"Bastard!" As soon as Muto Nobuyoshi heard that Cao Chang had been temporarily promoted to command a squadron, he immediately became angry and said, "Then why don't you stop the attack for the time being?" The victory of this stupid offensive is no less bitter! ”

Everyone present stared at each other, and for a long time, no one dared to tell Muto Nobuyoshi that it was you idiot who ordered the onslaught!

Although Muto Nobuyoshi is old, it doesn't mean that he is a fool, he smelled something from the flickering words of his subordinates, so he hurriedly snorted and said: "Thank you for your understanding, since you don't go to the front, then let's take a look at the sand table here!" ”

At the mention of the sand table, Okamura Ningji's face changed, and he took a deep breath and said: "The sand table was overturned a few days ago, and I didn't have time to make a new one!" Let's look at the map! ”

The division commanders present all knew that Okamura Ningji was talking nonsense, and the sand table was overturned by him two days ago, because the 6th Division failed to attack Lao Cai and let the defending troops in front of Zhong[***] withdraw safely, Okamura Ningji had a big quarrel with Itamoto Masaemon, and finally overturned the sand table in anger!

Muto Nobuyoshi said a little helplessly: "Look at the map, look at the map is the same!" ”

Hearing that he was looking at the map, the commander of the Sixth Division, Itamoto Masaemon, also had a sinking face, and hurriedly said, "The new map has been sent to get it, please wait a moment, Your Excellency the commander!" ”

On the day of the relationship, it was Itamoto Masaem's goalkeeper Okamura Ninji's map that was ripped apart.,You must know that the army's military maps and weapons and equipment are average.,It's all numbered.,Missing a copy.,How to damage? Where to lose? Elapse? References? The process of filing and so on and its troubles, especially the custody system of this 200,000 to 1 strategic map is more stringent, which Muto Nobuyoshi naturally knows.

So a large number of people were waiting for the map with their surnames, and Koiso Kuniaki took advantage of the time to pull Okamura Ninji aside, and said very sternly: "Okamura-kun! What are you doing here? There is no sand table and map in the headquarters of the former enemy of the Imperial Kwantung Army? Are you testing the limits of your Excellency's tolerance? ”

Okamura Ninji stood upright, bent down and bowed: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, please bear with me and understand!" ”

Soon, after the map was delivered, Muto Nobuyoshi's face looked a little better, but the loss list and casualty statistics sent together were a thick book, looking at the thick file, Muto Nobuyoshi found that he seemed to be beating a little fast.

As the deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army and the former enemy commander who arrived at the front line, Okamura Ninji reluctantly picked up the baton and pointed it on the map and said: "After 12 years of hard fighting, our army broke through two of the triangular defensive points of the new first division of the Chinese defenders from the north and southeast, and now only the main peak of the Monk Guanfeng at an altitude of 179.6 meters is still in the hands of Zhong [***], after breaking through the city wall, our army was constantly blocked by the preset fire positions of the Chinese defenders, and hit [***] Repeatedly using chariots to carry out counterattacks on our troops, launching night attacks to restore the positions lost during the day, although our troops broke through the city walls, although they compressed the enemy's positions, they were undoubtedly equal to the disguised concentration of enemy firepower. ”

Muto Nobuyoshi looked at the two red arrows on the map and pondered for a moment, and said firmly in a deep voice: "Attack with a meat bullet!" ”