Taiyuan, the headquarters of the First Army.

The head of the special service agency of the army stationed in Taiyuan, Inoue Yasudasa, walked into the war room with a black face, and immediately suddenly retracted his feet and reported to Kazuki Kiyoji: "Your Excellency, commander, five minutes ago, the Suzuki Wing had been collectively shattered!" ”

"What!?" Kiyoji Kazuki, who was bending down to observe the map, suddenly straightened up, his face full of shock.

"It can't be!" Yamashita Keitake hissed, "There is no way that the Suzuki United will be annihilated so quickly. ”

"Your Excellency, General, this is a fact!" Yasushi Inoue said coldly, "The Shina army used chemical weapons. ”

"Chemical weapons!?" Yuesheng Tiger Nosuke said awe-inspiringly, "Could it be that the Chinese political axe is also developing chemical weapons?" ”

"That's how it should be." Yasushi Inoue said in a solemn tone, "According to the information provided by the Suzuki Wing, it is now basically certain that the chemical weapon used by the Shina Army is by no means mustard poison gas or smoke bombs, but an unknown chemical weapon with the surname of mass destruction, which is very dangerous. ”

"Yaga Yalu, these abominable China pigs!" Kazuki Kiyoji said angrily, "Inoue-kun, immediately send a telegram to the base camp, asking the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to come forward and file a complaint with the League of Nations, the [***] team blatantly violated international conventions and used chemical weapons against the Imperial Army in the war, and asked the League of Nations to give a strict punishment!" ”

"Hello." Inoue Yasushi bowed his head suddenly, and immediately took the order.

Xiangyue Qingji turned back to Yamashita and saluted: "Yamashita-kun, how is the situation on the southern front?" ”

"It's not optimistic." Yamashita Jingwu said, "After the Murai Brigade on the southern front defeated the Third Army in Pingyao, it was met with stubborn resistance from the 98th Army of China near Qi County, and in addition, the Seventh and Eighth Group Armies of the Jin Sui Army were also advancing day and night in the direction of Qixian and Pingyao. ”

Kazuki Kiyoji's face suddenly became gloomy, and he asked again, "What about the Yanagi Brigade on the Northern Front, where is it now?" ”

"The situation on the northern front is also not optimistic." Yamashita Jingwu said, "The road from Laoxian to Taiyuan has been completely damaged, so that the heavy equipment such as trucks, field howitzers, and chariots of the imperial army cannot be maneuvered, and after the Liusheng Brigade left Laoxian, it only advanced less than 20 kilometers for nearly two days and nights, and at this speed, it will not be able to reach Taiyuan for half a month!" ”

"Yaga." Kazuki Kiyoji's face suddenly became more and more gloomy, and he asked Yue Shenghu no Suke, "Has the 1st Division been drawn from Manchukuo?" ”

"Not yet." Yuesheng Hunosuke shook his head and said in a deep voice, "It will take at least three days for the 1st Division to assemble troops, mobilize materials and then mobilize, and it will take another day to take the train to Beiping, and then walk into Shanxi from Beiping, at least three more days, that is to say, the 1st Division will take a week to enter Shanxi at the earliest." ”

A black line immediately appeared on Xiangyue Qingji's face, this was just entering Shanxi.

After the 1st Division entered Shanxi, it would definitely encounter the desperate resistance of the Jin Sui Army, the Eighth Route Army and the Chinese armed forces in all forms, plus the road from Datong to Taiyuan had been greatly damaged, and in less than half a month, the 1st Division would not want to fight under the city of Taiyuan, but could the First Army hold out for half a month?

Before that, Kazuki Kiyoji was still very confident that he would hold on for at least half a month.

But now, Kazuki Kiyoji is shaken, the middle [***] team actually has chemical weapons of mass destruction, the Suzuki Wing only lasted 24 hours and was completely annihilated, and the army stationed in Shanxi only has a total of four field infantry wings, counting the supplementary troops, it is only five and a half wings, and how many days can it last?

"What about the Fourth Army?" Kiyoji Kazuki gritted his teeth and said, "What the hell is Tada Jun doing?" ”

Saying this, Kazuki Kiyoji roared angrily again: "The Chinese political axe has gathered hundreds of thousands of troops and launched a fierce attack on our first army in three battlefields, but the fourth army has not moved so far, what are they trying to do?" What does Tada want to do with this idiot? Why didn't he go on the offensive? ”

There was a dead silence in the war room, and no one could answer Kiyoji Kazuki's questions.

However, was the Fourth Army really standing still? The answer is no.

…………

Shimen, the headquarters of the Fourth Army.

Lieutenant General Tada, commander of the Fourth Army, Lieutenant General Tani Toshio, commander of the 6th Division, Kazuko Shimono, chief of staff, Lieutenant General Tatebei Ogisu, commander of the 13th Division, Yusaburo Tasaburo, chief of staff, and Masao Ikegami, chief of the special service of the Army stationed in Shimen, gathered next to the sand table to listen to Major General Toshihide Tengmoto, chief of staff of the Fourth Army, explain the battle plan.

Tengben Junxiu pointed to the sand table and explained: "According to the information provided by the aviation force, I have made a model of the Tumen Fortress of the China Army, the Tumen Fortress has a total of eighteen sub-mother bunker groups, and its core support is eighteen large mother bunkers, supplemented by six to twenty sub-bunkers of varying numbers. ”

"In addition, there are three trenches at the mouth of the well, and the width of the trenches and the distance between them have been marked on the sand table." Toshihide Fujimoto said this, and said, "Judging from the scale of the Tumen Fortress, its garrison strength is only 3,000 people at most, and the firepower is estimated to be slightly strengthened, but it will not exceed one artillery battalion." ”

Hearing this, Duodianjun bowed his head slightly, and from the topography, Fujimoto Toshihide's inference was credible.

Toshihide Fujimoto smiled slightly, and said: "We have mastered the distribution of the fortifications of the Tumen Fortress, and know the upper limit of its strength and firepower configuration, so it is easy to calculate the troop layout and firepower intensity of each group of sub-mother bunkers in the Tumen Fortress and the three trench fortifications in front of it." ”

Tada Jun said happily: "Fujimoto-kun, then what about your conclusion?" ”

"The conclusion is......" Toshihide Fujimoto said firmly, "the garrison strength of each group of pillboxes and the three trenches in front of it is at most one infantry company, which is roughly the same as an infantry squadron of the Imperial Army, and its firepower configuration is also similar to that of the Imperial Army, with a maximum of six machine guns per infantry company, and as for artillery, it should be arranged in the main pillbox." ”

Ogisu said: "In this case, it will be almost enough to dispatch two infantry brigades. ”

Gu Shoufu frowned, and reminded him: "Fujimoto-kun, won't the Shina army reinforce each other?" ”

"Of course the Shina Army will, but ......," Fujimoto Toshihide continued, "the trenches built by the Shina Army between the bunkers are too shallow and unreinforced with reinforced concrete to allow the Imperial Army's artillery and aviation to easily cut off these trenches in the event of an engagement, making it impossible for them to reinforce each other." ”

The Naka[***] team may regard the Tsuchimen Fortress as a natural danger, but in the eyes of Toshihide Fujimoto, it is full of loopholes.

The aviation and artillery of the Yue army were easily able to separate the 16 sub-mother bunker groups of the Tumen Fortress and the three trench fortifications outside the Jingcheng Pass, so that they could not support each other, thus forming a situation of fighting alone, so that it was easy for the Yue army to concentrate superior forces and superior firepower to carry out individual breakthroughs.

However, Fujimoto Toshihide did not expect that the officers and soldiers had already built the Tumen Fortress into a large underground lair under the guidance of civil engineering experts, and the traffic trenches on the surface were just used for pretending, but the real traffic trenches were hidden deep underground, and they were all reinforced with huge and foreign ash with a diameter of more than 70cm!

Once the army really starts attacking, the Tumen fortress garrison will be able to send a battalion of troops and at least 50 machine guns to the first line of trenches at the forefront of the fortress within five minutes.

…………

Pingding county seat.

The battle is over, and the battlefield has been cleaned up.

Yue Weihan rushed to Pingding County with Gao Shuxun, Sun Dianying and other senior generals as soon as possible, and inspected the teaching brigade that had just won the battle outside the east gate, and Wang Zanchen's death squad was also reviewed with the teaching brigade, which made Dong Qiwu, who was following Yue Weihan, quite proud, and this battle also had the credit of the Jin Sui army, isn't it?

Yue Weihan and other high-ranking generals rode tall horses and slowly walked past the infantry queue.

Everywhere Yue Weihan rode by, almost every soldier who was reviewed suddenly puffed up his chest, and then looked at Yue Weihan's eyes full of fiery worship, yes, it is worship, these soldiers worshipped Yue Weihan fanatically, in their hearts, Yue Weihan is a god, an omnipotent god of war!

Yang Donglin in the queue couldn't help but say, "It seems that the brothers worship Commander-in-Chief Yue very much!" ”

"Of course." A veteran soldier next to him squeezed his eyebrows and whispered, "The commander-in-chief is the god of war in our hearts, he descended from the sky with an omnipotent divine might, leading us from victory to victory, until we achieve the final great victory, and kill all the evil invaders!" ”

Not far away, Mu Tie was a little stunned and said, "Where do I seem to have seen this passage?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Mu Tie shouted strangely: "Ha, I remember, on the wall of the barracks latrine, this passage is written on the wall of the barracks latrine!" The veterans next to him immediately grinned, but quickly covered their mouths again, because Yue Weihan had already come over on a tall horse.

"Brother, I'll tell you the truth, he's a villain!" A veteran held back a smile and said to Mu Tiedao, "This passage is actually written by himself on the wall of every latrine, and he is forcing each of us to read it at least once a day, sometimes with stomach trouble, and even read it two or three times a day, not people." ”

Although the veteran did not name him, everyone on the earth knew that he was talking about Yue Weihan.

"No, he's a jerk!" Another veteran immediately retorted, "Half a year ago, when I was still in Xuzhou, this bastard forced us to run fifty kilometers every day, and we were not allowed to eat if we couldn't finish the run. ”

"No, he's a cold-blooded butcher." The third veteran lowered his voice and retorted, "You don't know, this butcher is really ruthless when he kills people, last time in Qinghe, I saw him glaring at him with one eye, and he was really scared to death, and the two puppet soldiers on the opposite side immediately collapsed to the ground in fright, and they were incontinent." ”

Yang Donglin, Mu Tie and other officers looked at each other, not knowing how to respond.

"Silly, huh?" Li Chusheng glanced at Yang Donglin and said indifferently, "That's right, he is a villain, a bastard, and a butcher!" After saying this, Li Chusheng's tone suddenly turned solemn, and then he said, "However, as long as he gives an order, I can charge at the muzzle of the army without hesitation!" ”

Yang Donglin, Mu Tie and other officers were awe-inspiring when they heard this.

When I looked around at the group of veterans around me again, I saw that they were no longer hippie and smiling, and the expressions on their faces all turned solemn in an instant, obviously, the veterans agreed with what Li Chusheng just said from the bottom of their bones, as long as Yue Weihan gave the order, they would dare and be willing to go up the knife mountain and go down to the oil pot!

(To be continued)