"Your Excellency the Brigade Commander, please wait...", the deputy who was also at the command headquarters suddenly hugged the brigade commander who wanted to swing his knife and cut down, and said.

"Baga, Nakamura-kun, do you think what he said is correct? The excellent Imperial Army of the Empire will be wiped out..."Sakai asked suspiciously.

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, I really don't believe that nearly two brigades of the Imperial Army were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army again. However, we have to be sure before we can make a decision. I request that after contacting the Chief of Staff, the squad leader in front of me will be dealt with martialally, so that the majesty of our Imperial Army can be reflected. The deputy replied.

"Yo Xi, Nakamura-kun is very right. We say that the Imperial Army is very disciplined. Okay, lock this squad leader up first. Nakamura-kun, could you please contact the chief of staff who is pursuing the Eighth Route Army immediately, I want to know his current situation? Sakai retracted his command knife and ordered.

"Hey..."Nakamura nodded in reply and ran to the radio next to the headquarters.

However, it took less than five minutes. Seeing Nakamura Daisa's nervous face, he hurriedly ran back to the headquarters. Seeing Nakamura's face, Sakai's heart suddenly had a hint of foreboding, and he no longer had the momentum of wanting to kill and the confidence in the imperial army just now..."Nakamura-kun, is there any problem? What happened? In such a hurry? Major General Sakai asked, no longer with the confidence he had just now, but with a hint of panic.

"Hi, brigade commander, we can't contact the chief of staff by radio, the radio stations of several brigades have tried, but the chief of staff has not responded at all....I have just sent out all the remaining cavalry, and the latest news will come soon." Nakamura nodded in reply.

"Baga... How so? The elite imperial army of the two brigades, where did the Eighth Route Army come from so many cavalry troops, it is impossible, it is impossible..."Sakai was completely panicked and roared loudly.

"Hey, brigade commander, it is not yet possible to judge whether the chief of staff has been martyred, I suggest that the whole army set off immediately, and the goal is directly to the county seat of Jinzhong. With less than 2,000 troops left around us, it would be easy to be surrounded by the Eighth Route Army..."Nakamura reminded with his head down.

"Baga, what are you doing in a daze? Quickly order the concentration of troops. Open the road immediately, the target, the county seat of Jinzhong. After listening to the deputy's suggestion, Sakai quickly nodded in agreement. Because, he was deeply afraid that the cunning Eighth Route Army's reading division would jump out of countless troops and surround and destroy all his remaining troops.

"Hey, I'm going to order the troops to move quickly." Nakamura immediately fled the furious headquarters.

In this way, Sakai led the entire brigade with less than 2,000 troops left, and ran in the direction of the county seat in embarrassment. The entire army can no longer see the spirit and might of the beginning of the sweep. However, less than an hour before the troops were marching, the whole unit suddenly stopped..."Baga, Nakamura-kun, why did you stop suddenly, didn't the avant-garde squadron know that if you stay outside the city for one more minute now, the troops will be more dangerous?" Seeing the remnants of the soldiers who stopped and blocked the road, Sakai frowned.

"Hey, Brigade Commander, I'm going to take a look. The troops were ordered to speed up their advance. After Nakamura finished speaking, he led his horse to the side of the group and galloped towards the front of the group.

However, before he reached the front of the line, a pungent smell of blood hit his face, making him who had been on the battlefield for a long time and couldn't help but sneeze. As I continued to move forward, the smell of blood became even stronger. Looking at the soldiers on the road, everyone stared blankly at the wilderness not far away.

"Baga, what's going on, why don't you keep going." Nakamura tightened the reins of his horse and stopped in front of the leader of the vanguard squadron. Until this time. Nakamura's attention was always on the soldiers on the road, and not on the wilderness not far from the road.

"Osa... Your Excellency Osa... Look there..."Squadron leader of the avant-garde squadron. With his mouth wide open, he raised his trembling right hand and pointed to the wilderness next to the road.

Nakamura raised his head and looked in the direction of the squadron leader's finger suspiciously. In an instant, Nakamura's eyes were also straight, and his mouth was open, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

Because, under the reflection of the torches of the troops, on the wilderness about 500 meters away from the road, two piles were piled up with human heads, and two flags of the Great Empire were prominently planted on them.

"Baga, the avant-garde squadron, follow me to reconnoiter immediately..."Nakamura finally reacted, ordered loudly, and walked towards the mound of earth with the avant-garde squadron and more than a hundred soldiers.

Walking off the road, the distance of less than 100 meters shocked everyone even more. The ground was full of soldiers' stumps and broken arms, and the whole land was stained red with blood, and it became very muddy after being trampled by the horses' hooves. The whole battlefield was so tragic that the soldiers could hardly find a place to put their feet.

The soldiers walking on the battlefield had to carefully dodge the severed limbs that could be clearly seen. Every now and then, however, a head the size of a soccer ball rolls down in front of him. When he shone the torch to the ground in front of him, a human head still dripping with blood appeared in his eyes.

Finally, one soldier could no longer stand the scene in front of him, and squatted on the ground and vomited. However, when he saw the entrails in front of him, which had been trampled into flesh, he suddenly jumped up and ran towards the rear of the position. One... Two, more and more soldiers could not stand the scene in front of them, threw down their guns, and fled to the road. In the end, less than half of the squadron of soldiers were able to follow Nakamura to the two flags.

Looking at the two national flags in front of him, Nakamura's face was flushed. Because in front of him, in addition to the two mounds of earth piled up with the heads of the imperial soldiers, in front of the two military flags, a few words were impressively posed with the heads of the fallen soldiers, "The end of the invasion of China..."

"Ahh Baga..."Finally, the soldiers who came with him could not bear this humiliation, raised their rifles in their hands, and rushed to the front of the head in front of them, and even the squadron leader of the vanguard squadron joined the ranks. Nakamura looked at the angry soldier and did not stop him. Because he knows that the soldiers who see this kind of scene need to vent, so let them vent well... However, things did not turn out as Nakamura imagined. With dozens of soldiers rushing into the human head position. When they kicked the heads on the ground, an explosion suddenly sounded in the middle of them, and before the chaotic troops could react, the whole head was plunged into a sea of fire. You know, the grenades planted here were collected by the cavalry regiment throughout the battlefield, and almost everyone had at least one mine under their heads.

When the smoke cleared, none of the squad that rushed into the front line were standing at this time, and only faint wails could be heard, reporting to Nakamura that they were not killed.

"Baga... The cunning Eighth Route Army, the hateful Eighth Route Army, I must make you break into pieces... What are you still doing? Report the situation to His Excellency the Brigade Commander at once, and ask for instructions on the next step...."Nakamura roared.

Similarly, Major General Sakai, who received the report, although he was prepared for the chief of staff to be broken, was still full of shock and anger when he heard the tragic scene of the position. However, seeing that there were only less than 2,000 remnants in his hands in front of him, Sakai shook his head helplessly, what can he do with less than 200 people?

Reluctantly, Sakai inserted the half-drawn command knife into the scabbard again.

"Inform Nakamura Osa and order the troops to withdraw to Jinzhong County immediately, and after dawn, I will ask the air force to bomb the surrounding woods to avenge the chief of staff..."Sakai gritted his teeth and ordered.

"Hey...", the herald quickly conveyed Sakai's order. The morale of the entire unit was even lower after the blow just now. Listlessly marched towards the county seat. Sure enough, after dawn, the 12 planes that took off from Taiyuan carried out a fierce retaliatory bombardment of the woods around the entire battlefield. However, at this time, Liu Hua had already led the troops into the deep mountains, joined the second regiment waiting here, and slowly advanced to the base area with a large number of materials captured in Jinzhong and nearly 5,000 people.

A few days later, the chief of staff of the headquarters of the North China Army, the commander of the headquarters of the first general of the temple, who was the architect and direct commander of the encirclement and suppression campaign, was sitting at his desk without saying a word.

Similarly, General Terauchi kept looking through the statistics of the battle results that had just been counted in his hand, and he also did not say a word.

"Chief of Staff, you are the architect of this campaign and the direct commander of it. Do you think we have achieved the desired results in this campaign? Shouichi Terauchi asked.

"Hi, Your Excellency Commander, I think this battle has achieved the results it deserves, first of all, the entire infrastructure of the Jinyi base area has been completely destroyed by us, including food, houses... I think that the reading division of the Eighth Route Army without food will not survive this cold winter no matter what. Secondly, according to the reports of various troops, during the encirclement and suppression operations that lasted for more than a month, we eliminated more than 8,000 combat troops of the Eighth Route Army, which is already more than half of the main force of the entire Jinyi Eighth Route Army..."

"Baga....Chief of Staff, look at these reports of casualties and material losses of our army that have just been counted....Jinzhong lost several months of combat supplies for a division, the Sakai brigade set out with more than 6,000 people, and returned less than 2,000 people, and almost half of the security forces of the various encirclement and suppression units were lost... This is also called victory...... This is simply a disgrace to the Imperial Army of our Empire..."Shouichi Terauchi slapped the table violently, interrupting the chief of staff who was reporting.

"Hey, what Your Excellency Commander has taught me is that I will assume the responsibility of the commander of this battle, please rest assured, Your Excellency Commander." The chief of staff's heart was shocked, and he wiped his sweaty forehead.

(To be continued)