On the Japanese position, Toneoka Kanji was taking a group of Japanese officers and war reporters to check the trenches, Toneoka Kanji stood on a defensive position and said, "You should already know that opposite us is not the Eighth Route Army of the Red Party, but the 83rd Army of the original Jin Sui Army that they reorganized, and their commander is Tong Linge, who escaped twice, but it is such a non-main force that is not a descendant, and it has suffered more than 5,000 casualties and still fights to the death, which is extremely rare before, but now, their morale is still very high." ”

As he spoke, Toneoka Kwanji knocked on the bunker built by quick-acting cement and said, "Look at this bunker, it was built with great care, it was built in less than two days after they occupied Ulanqab, if we didn't have enough air superiority, it would be difficult for us to progress so fast." ”

A war correspondent raised his hand and asked, "Your Excellency, are you pessimistic or optimistic about the outcome of this battle?" ”

Toneoka Kanji smmed for a moment, and said with a smile, "I am absolutely optimistic, although the 83rd Army has a strong will to fight and the equipment is not bad, but there is a big gap between the soldiers' personal quality and technical equipment and the Imperial Army, especially since they do not have their own weapons manufacturing factories and ammunition factories, these equipment should have been smuggled by them from the Soviet Union, but how much can this be?" In addition, our imperial army still has a large number of reinforcements constantly marching towards Suiyuan, this time, Tong Linge has no way to escape! ”

As night fell, looking at the returning plane, Tsuneoka Kanji touched his beard and said, "Order all departments to stop attacking, start repairing, and prepare for defense." ”

A war correspondent asked, "Could it be that at night, the Chinese troops will counterattack?" ”

Tsuneoka Kanji snorted and said, "Our fighters can't fight at night, so they often attack at night, but we also have a series of methods. ”

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"Commander, look at it, this little devil is really treacherous!" A staff officer lay on the ground and whispered to Zhao Dengyu, who was also lying on the ground.

Zhao Dengyu looked at the Japanese position, nodded and did not speak.

I only saw that there was a torch every ten meters within 300 meters of the Japanese position, illuminating the Japanese position, and the torch was about 50 meters in front of the Japanese position, and there was no one, which made the maximum imitation of the night attack without exposing the Japanese army itself.

"If you can't sneak attack, then attack! Ordered to act according to Plan Three! Zhao Dengyu waved his hand and shouted.

"Smack" "Smack"

A cold gun kept rang out, and when Toneoka Kanji heard the gunshot, he quickly picked up the binoculars and looked around, shook his head and said, "The hills on both sides are more than a kilometer away from us, and it is useless to shoot rifles in such a position, it seems that the cold guns are being fired in front, so that the troops can pay attention to concealment, they can't see us clearly, don't care!" ”

At first, there were people who listened carefully to find the person who fired the cold gun to fight back, and in the end they simply covered their heads and fell asleep, only the guards used this gunfire as a timekeeping tool.

Under the cover of gunfire, Er Xu's eighty or ninety tanks came to Zhao Dengyu's side.

"Report to Division Commander Zhao, the 1st Independent Tank Regiment is here to report!" Xu Guangda saluted Zhao Dengyu and said.

Zhao Dengyu returned the salute and said, "Thank you for coming, now the Japanese army is mainly concentrated in the two lines of defense in front of us, and our infantry and artillery will follow behind." ”

Xu Guangda smiled and said, "Okay, the mission of our tank unit is to constantly assault!" ”

As he spoke, Xu Guangda waved his hand, and the tanks behind him emitted black smoke and began to move forward, in order to minimize the possibility of the Japanese army discovering it, all the tanks did not turn on the lights, but just moved forward towards the fire.

"Tanaka-kun, is there any voice? Something doesn't feel right. A sentry said to the Japanese soldier next to him.

The Japanese soldier struggled to open his eyes and looked, and found that there was no movement in the place where the torch was shining, so he couldn't help but shake his head and said, "It's okay, don't scare yourself, our cordon is more than 300 meters, and the Chinese troops will definitely be discovered if they want to come." Well? As he spoke, he noticed that a small stone in the trench had fallen from the field.

Tanaka hurriedly lay down and listened carefully, and after listening for less than five seconds, Tanaka hurriedly shouted, "There is a situation!" There is a case! Kombat Flare!! ”

Three flares hit the sky, and the black tank was illuminated at a glance, Xu Guangda smiled contemptuously and shouted, "Hit the flare!" Pounce!! ”

"Whoosh!" One flare after another was hit in the sky, and Tsuneoka Kanji opened his mouth wide, looking at the sky with at least hundreds of flares, and he couldn't speak at all.

The "poof" torches were overwhelmed by the tank, and the infantry scattered behind the tank, the steel guns in their hands tightened.

"The Chinese troops are coming up! Shoot fast!! "Finally, the Japanese army reacted, crooked handles, 92-type heavy machine guns, 38 big covers, all kinds of weapons fired wildly, and grenadiers were also fired at the tank group, but these light firepower could only cause a little spark on the LT-38, the speed of the tank was very fast, even if there were obstacles, the distance of more than 300 meters only took more than a minute.

"Bang" a high-explosive shell accurately hit the machine gun point of a Type 92 heavy machine gun, and three or five Japanese soldiers gathered around the heavy machine gun immediately fell to the ground and stopped moving.

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!!" A shirtless Japanese soldier rushed towards a tank with a bag of explosives.

"Smack!" The infantry following behind the tank immediately half-crouched and fired, four or five bullets hit the Japanese army's upper sound, the Bayi rifle is a melee rifle, which makes him shoot not far but the lethality is greater, the bullet often does not penetrate the human body, but will roll in the human body, and the Japanese soldier suddenly fell to the ground in pain.

In the early days, the Eighth Route Army did not use this way to fight devils' tanks, and naturally knew what to pay attention to, but the tanks not only did not crush them like the Japanese tanks, but avoided them slightly, and several infantry fired again, and only after making sure that they were foolproof.

Looking at such a scene, Kanji Tsuneoka felt extremely familiar, but the person who attacked and defended had changed.

"Snap" a 20 mm bullet hit an LT-38 tank, and the tanker felt a shock to the body, and hurriedly moved at high speed while checking the body, and only after making sure that everything was okay did he start looking for his opponent.

It was a Japanese 97 type 20mm anti-tank rifle, which was only successfully developed in 1937 because of the absolute artillery superiority of the Soviet army at Nomenkan, but it was experimented on the Suiyuan battlefield, but this anti-tank gun was designed to deal with the 15 mm armor of the B Itagaki Seishiro tank, and it could not penetrate the armor of the LT-38 tank at all.

"Damn, little devil, you're quite daring. Please eat a steamed bun! The gunner slowly adjusted the tank gun, and a flash of fire, shrapnel from a 37-mm high-explosive shell tore the back of the anti-tank gunner. The anti-tank gunner was so frightened that he hurriedly moved to his position with his gun.

"Doodoo Doo"

When the charge sounded, Zhao Dengyu wanted to rush forward with a big knife in one hand, but was pulled by the political commissar next to him and said, "Division commander, you are the division commander, not the company commander, you still have to sit in command." ”

Where is Zhao Dengyu willing, his eyes rolled and said, "Yes, yes, yes, I want to command, come here, record orders!" ”

The political commissar please breathe a sigh, and Zhao Dengyu shouted loudly, "Order!" The troops attacked with all their might for the purpose of driving the Japanese out of the first line of defense, and the units did not need to wait for orders, and immediately prepared for defense after attacking the first line of defense, and that's it! Without waiting for the political commissar to react, he jumped as he walked and said, "Follow me in the guard company!" Kill the devil!! ”

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"The tanks of the Chinese army are too strong, the anti-tank rifles of our army cannot be stopped at all, and the defense line has been shaken on all fronts, what should we do?" A Japanese officer with a bloody face ran in and said.

Toneoka Kanji clenched his fists and said, "Send a message to inquire about the situation of Baotou and Bayannur, and also, send our situation to Shenyang, and besides, what about our backup troops?" ”

The staff officer next to him said, "They will need a week at the earliest, after all, it is too far." ”

Toneoka Kanji sighed, "There is no chance, Suiyuan has been decided, it depends on how Tokyo decides, prepare to retreat." ”

- Tokyo

Ishihara and Itagaki Seishiro sat together, and Ishihara sighed, "I didn't expect the situation to come to this point." ”

Seishiro Itagaki shook his head and said, "I don't understand, is it because of the military aid of the Soviet Union that the strength of the Chinese Red Party has reached such a point?" We have always opposed the matter of Nomenkan, so the responsibility is not ours, but Suiyuan has fallen, and I think it will be difficult for even the emperor to continue to support us. ”

Ishihara sighed: "I originally thought that after the Chinese Red Party took Shanxi, the Chiang intermediary in Chongqing would definitely restrict their development, but now I look at it, the Chiang intermediary can't restrain Suiyuan at all, and it is difficult to hold Suiyuan, and a large number of our troops are still in the direction of Manchuria, if we transfer the main force, first, it will take time, and second, the Soviet side also needs to consider." ”

Itagaki Seishiro said, "It's better to negotiate with Chongqing again, we can completely slow down the conditions a little more, as long as we stop the attack on Chongqing, Chongqing will definitely focus on dealing with Yan'an." ”

Ishihara nodded and said, "In addition, my friend in Germany told me that Germany is about to hold a major military exercise, and countries will be invited to visit, and I want to go and see it." ”

As he spoke, Ishihara took out a document and said, "You come to see this, I think it's a little strange, since the second half of this year, Germany's imports have suddenly increased greatly, and we all know that this is to prepare for the war, but for the blood oil of the war, Germany's imports are not as hungry as before." ”

Seishiro Itagaki sighed and said, "Is it because the coal oil technology is mature?" ”

Ishihara nodded and said, "This is also the reason why I want to see, the Soviet Union and Germany are united, Germany's next step must be to attack Poland, and then attack Britain and France, and we will also cooperate with them to attack Southeast Asia, then we will face the British and French navy, the navy is an oil-swallowing monster, and we have no oil, if Germany's technology is really mature, we will be easy to do, Manchuria is not short of coal." ”

Itagaki Seishiro waved his hand and said, "Let's talk about Suiyuan first, what should I do?" ”

Ishihara thought for a while and said, "Our superior aviation, let's continue to dispatch aviation, as long as Suiyuan is not completely lost, there will still be a chance, but the Red Party dispatched two or three hundred thousand people this time, we can't compete with them without more than 100,000 reinforcements, and without more than 200,000 troops, we can't completely drive them out." ”

Saying that, Ishihara Wan'er stood up and said, "We should be broken, but we were going to give Wuhai to Ningma, although Ningma is incompetent, but this matter has definitely intensified the already delicate red and white situation, Suiyuan has not many Chongqing troops, but we can use other ways to give them!" In this case, I will go to see His Majesty the Emperor at once! ”

- The Imperial Palace of Japan

"Ishihara! This is your solution to the Suiyuan incident? Hirohito stared at Ishihara and said.

Ishihara Wan'er lay on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, the world situation has changed dramatically within this year, I can guarantee that within half a year, Germany will definitely start a war, and then the empire must concentrate its forces to cooperate with Germany and strive for greater interests in the world. ”

Hirohito said angrily, "Before, you said that you would solve the Chinese problem in three months, but now it has been two years, and you haven't solved it yet, can you solve it according to your method?" ”

Ishihara Wan'er bowed his head and said, "Give Wechen another half a year, within half a year, Wechen will definitely make the red and white parties completely intensify the contradictions, and then they will not fight together, as long as they destroy their united front and give certain concessions, Chongqing will definitely agree to peace negotiations." ”

Hirohito looked at Ishihara Waner, sighed, stood up and said, "I know that you and Itagaki Seishiro can't all be blamed for this incident, but the responsibility still has to be borne, so let's do it, Seishiro Itagaki won't be the Minister of War anymore, do you have anyone to recommend?" ”

Ishihara looked at the smiling Hirohito in surprise, tears rolled in his eyes, he kowtowed, and blood flowed out and said, "Wechen recommends General Shunroku Hatata, this person Weichen understands, and has a great view of the overall situation, in the Shina Incident, he said that the biggest problem in the Shina Incident is how to end it." ”

Hirohito nodded and said, "Well, he did go to me to report on the views of the Shina incident and the changes in the world situation, and at that time he also said that as long as the battle reached Xuzhou, it should be over, and later during the Battle of Wuhan, he said that the war should end after the Battle of Wuhan, but unfortunately the vast majority of army generals were against it at that time, I am tired, you go down." ”

Ishihara nodded and stepped back.

Just as Ishihara was about to get up, Hirohito suddenly asked, "By the way, I've been reading a book recently, I don't know if you've read it?" ”

Ishihara asked, "I wonder which book Your Majesty is talking about?" ”

Hirohito took out a somewhat worn book from the table and said, "On Protracted War, a good book, have we reached the stalemate stage or the counteroffensive stage as they say?" ”

Ishihara didn't know what to say, Hirohito smiled and stepped into the background. (To be continued.) )