The news of the annihilation of the Ono Brigade quickly reached the ears of Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the First Army of Japan in Taiyuan, and Lieutenant General Shinozuka was silent for a long time after listening to the report. How could such a well-equipped and combat-effective unit be wiped out by the Eighth Route Army in such an obscure place as Shilipu? If it weren't for this, Lieutenant General Shinozuka wouldn't believe it until he died, it was really unbelievable that those Hanako troops, who couldn't even eat, were capable of annihilating the ace brigade under him!

According to the information collected by the Japanese intelligence network in Taiyuan, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army first sent the main force of two reinforced regiments of about 700 people, and gradually consumed the vital strength and ammunition supply of the Ono Brigade in the course of eight consecutive charges. After the incident, another unit of the Eighth Route Army built fortifications from the flank, took advantage of the earthwork work to slowly approach the left flank of the brigade's station, and then launched an artillery attack on its artillery position in the fortifications only about 300 meters away from the Ono brigade, resulting in the death and wounding of the brigade's artillery. In the end, the unit carried out a general attack on the Ono 1st Division, and the troops were divided into the first combat echelon and the second combat echelon, and the officers and men of the brigade engaged in white-knuckle combat......

What Lieutenant General Shinozuka can't tolerate the most is that this group of unknown Tsuchihachi Road is also in the process of charging, which also includes a group of non-combatants armed with kitchen knives, flat poles and horse whips! A melee between the two armies, with swords and bullets flying everywhere, these dirt roads will make a group of logistics personnel who have no combat experience at all, and can only cook and feed horses go to the battlefield with the main force, which is simply an insult to the Imperial Army!

At this time, a call from Matsuo Hirasaki Nakasa, the headquarters of the military police stationed in Yosen, came to Commander Shinozuka's office.

"I'm Yoshio Shinozuka...... Oh, it's Matsuo-kun? You have always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, so you are looking for me at this time, presumably for the sake of the Fifth Brigade, right? ”

Matsuo Hirasaki's hoarse voice came from the other end of the microphone: "Your Excellency the Commander is aware of everything, I am indeed here for the Shilipu incident, and my military police headquarters has already grasped the general situation of this incident, and Matsuo would like to make a brief report to His Excellency the Commander." ”

Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka said: "There is no need to report, the intelligence network in Taiyuan has already sent me the latest news. I know the general situation, and since Matsuo-kun has this time, I would like to hear your understanding and evaluation of this battle. ”

"Your Excellency, in my opinion, the Fifth Brigade's fate seems to be accidental, but in fact it is inevitable. The reason lies in the body of Commander Ono Hiragawa, a guy who has never seen danger as nothing, and in his eyes it seems that there is no opponent who can match him, which in itself has laid the foundation for the destruction of the Fifth Brigade. He was too arrogant, he just relied on the achievements of the Fifth Division in the Battle of Xinkou to make a splash, you know, in that battle he only defeated three regiments of the Central Army. As far as I know, the three regiments of the Central Army are not the main force of the government army in China, and although they bear the title of reinforced regiments, their actual combat effectiveness is not even a second-rate unit. If the 5th Army and the 18th Army, the main forces of the Shina government army, were transferred to fight against him, Ono would not have such a big breath. To put it mildly, this person is extremely arrogant. This time, I will not talk about Haikou that has eaten the headquarters of the 129th Division of the Eighth Road. In my opinion, this guy doesn't know what radio silence is at all, and he even provoked and demonstrated to the Eight Roads by sending a message in clear code. In my opinion, this is a typical self-inflicted sin, and he cannot live. You must know that he is using his troops, which are no more than 1,000 men, to declare war on the tens of thousands of main forces of the Eighth Route Army, and the results can be imagined. ”

"What does Matsuo-kun mean is that the purpose of this battle is that after the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army was provoked by Ono Nakasa, it poured all the strength of the division into about 10,000 people to encircle and annihilate the Fifth Brigade in one fell swoop? However, according to the information provided by the intelligence network, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army did not dispatch too many main forces to encircle and annihilate the Fifth Brigade in this battle, and mainly the two battalions of the 2nd Garrison Regiment and the 769th Regiment under the 385th Brigade under its command were the main forces, and most of the rest of the troops stuck to the traffic fortresses and passes to intercept the reinforcements sent by Taiyuan, Linfen, Yangquan and other places. According to statistics, the attack echelon composed of the two battalions of the Tuba Road launched eight large-scale charges against the positions of the Fifth Brigade in succession, all of which were repulsed by our troops. If it had not been for the sudden emergence of an unknown Tubalu on the left flank of our position, which first knocked out our artillery position, and then engaged in a white-knuckle battle with the officers and men of the brigade, perhaps this battle would have had a different ending. ”

In response to Commander Shinozuka's question, Matsuo Hirasaki said he was noncommittal. However, he always believed that as far as the current situation in North China was concerned, there should be no more large-scale cleansing activities to encircle and suppress those Tuba roads that roamed between the deep mountains and the plains. On the contrary, it is also necessary to actively promote the implementation of the imperial gendarmerie system in the North China Division, so as to maintain military discipline, ensure the execution of military orders, set up military tribunals in all districts and counties, and maintain localities. In short, it is to abandon all current military operations and use the system of judicial police to manage the current chaos in North China.

The fact is that China has been invaded by foreign and foreign races over the past few thousand years, such as the Mongols and Jurchens. Even if he has the upper hand for a while, he has not been assimilated by the Han people in the Central Plains in the end? The reason is simple, although these peoples established in the steppe have strong combat effectiveness, they are far inferior to the Han people in terms of culture. Once these ethnic minorities decide to establish themselves in the Central Plains, they must learn the culture of the Han Chinese and the policies they implement must also infuse the Han culture. In the process of learning Han culture, these ethnic minorities were slowly assimilated. Until now, whether political or military, who cares which politician is a Manchu? Who cares which of the soldiers is a Mongol? None of them.

The same is true for Japan, where the governed are Chinese and the managers are Japanese, and once they adopt a separate program, it will inevitably cause turmoil, just like the "mixed surface" system that North China is vigorously implementing. In Matsuo Hirasaki's view, the best policy is to adopt the "gendarmerie system," which is becoming more and more widespread around the world. Because this system does not come from China, nor from Japan, but from France. At present, this set of policies has swept across Europe and North America. Therefore, the control of North China does not need to be Chinese, nor Japanese, but is universalized, which is the general trend. Only by allowing the Chinese to slowly learn and implement a series of regulations on this system can the administration of the Japanese Empire in China in the future achieve long-term peace and stability.

Commander Yoshio Shinozuka said that he was a professional soldier who did not know much about politics and the gendarmerie system that is currently popular halfway around the world, and he lacked some interest. Since General Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front, has put forward an "iron-fisted policy" to be implemented in North China in the future, as the commander of the First Army stationed in Taiyuan, he must unconditionally accept and implement it. The most forceful military measures were taken against the government and local armies of China in North China, either forcing them to surrender or destroying them. Other than that, there is no way back for either side.

"Matsuo-kun, let's stop talking about this topic. You and I have different responsibilities and policies, and it is difficult to gain a certain degree of credibility and relative persuasiveness. Let's change the subject, hmm, where is Kimura Jiwu Daisa now? Since the First Battle of the General Temple, I have not heard from him, and I have not been in contact with him again. He is...... Is it in Moyunling? Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka asked.

"That's right, Kimura-kun is currently in Moyunling. Since the First Battle of the General Temple, he seems to have no plans to send troops for the time being. According to my subordinates in Moyunling, his secret service has been training endlessly. Like Ono, he was an extremely conceited and arrogant fellow, and I never believed that his less than 100 operatives alone could make waves on the surface of the mixed lake of North China. Doubtful. ”

Commander Shinozuka smiled: "Matsuo-kun, don't underestimate this guy. In other words, any conceited and arrogant soldier is bound to possess extraordinary talent and impressive achievements. For Kimura Daisa, he falls somewhere in between. Maybe you don't know that in the first battle of the General Temple, he created an excellent result of 1 to 15. As far as the North China Army is concerned, this can definitely be regarded as a breakthrough result. General Terauchi was very satisfied with this, and Kimura Daisa also made a new promise to me, and in the next battle, he will create a record of 1:50, or even 1:200, you and I will wait and see. With that, he hung up.

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Shilipu was famous in the first battle of Jinxi, and naturally he couldn't escape the eyes of Tie Haichuan, the commander of the 89th Regiment. What's more, the second and third battalions he arranged in the area of Yishui Town and Wangu Mountain also exchanged fire with some Japanese troops in Yangquan and Taiyuan, and the casualties were not small, but they also slowed down the enemy's advance speed, and indirectly did their part for the Eighth Route Army to eliminate the Ono Brigade.

In this battle, Yan Xishan, commander of the Second Theater of Operations, sent a letter of commendation, congratulating the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army on its fruitful achievements in this battle. At the same time, the intelligence departments of the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army can be said to have taken a two-pronged approach, attacking together and thoroughly understanding the bottom of the independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army. It is reported that the head of the independent regiment is named Yang Longfei, who graduated from the fifth phase of Huangpu and was the commander of the 67th Division of the Central Army before the Songhu Campaign. During the Battle of Nanjing, he was incorporated into the battle sequence of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps by Gui Yongqing, and lost contact with the headquarters of the Corps when he broke through after the war, and his whereabouts are unknown.

Since the 25th Regiment lost contact, the top level of the Central Army unanimously believed that Yang Longfei and his subordinate units had been completely annihilated by the Japanese army, and the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Nationalist Government had posthumously awarded him the rank of major general of the army. As soon as this incident came out, the truth was revealed, and after a long time, Yang Longfei and his troops were not wiped out by the Japanese army at all, but switched to the Eighth Route Army after breaking through in Nanjing.

The news reached the ears of Chairman Chiang, who was far away in Chongqing, and the old man was so angry that he dropped the water cup at that time. You must know that this Yang Longfei is not only a student who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, but also a celebrity in front of him and Chen Cheng, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the Third War Zone, Luo Zhuoying, the commander of the 18th Army, and senior generals such as Huang Wei and Hu Lian. Unexpectedly, such an officer who led the troops well and was good at recruiting and fighting was also attracted to the command of the Eighth Route Army, which had to make Chiang Kai-shek feel angry! Niang Xipi, how many good students who came out of Whampoa ended up on the thief ship of Tuba Road, what attracted them?

Tie Haichuan seemed very calm about this, and he had already been mentally prepared for this. It's just that he feels a little incomprehensible, how could the old senior who was from the Three People's Principles change into the head of the Eighth Route Army? Honestly, his heart was bleeding. In Tie Haichuan's view, the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was only temporary, and its purpose was nothing more than to eliminate their common enemy, that is, the Japanese invaders. Once this political goal has been achieved, the next step is to resolve China's internal contradictions.

Just imagine, once the civil war is ignited again, will I meet this old senior on a narrow road and meet each other? If there really is such a day, it will not only be to resolve the political contradictions between the two parties, but I am afraid that the two armies will also engage in a life-and-death struggle. Tie Haichuan firmly believes that once the civil war starts, it will never be just about winning or losing, it will be your life and death! To tell the truth, he didn't want to splash with this senior he respected, which he would rather die than see.

It's time, he is ready to ask Chief Yan for instructions, and use this opportunity to personally go to the station of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army. Compared with the expectation of the reunion of the old man, he wants to explore Yang Longfei's inner world. As a fellow alumnus, he really didn't want to see Yang Longfei on the opposite side of him, and if he could, he would do his best to reabsorb Yang Longfei into the battle sequence of the national army.

Tie Haichuan suddenly thought of another person, where is Fang Luocheng, the old senior who has been missing since he lost contact in Nanjing? Won't you also work under the account of the Eighth Road? If that's the case, it's going to look bad. Frankly speaking, Tie Haichuan is not a professional negotiator, let alone a good eloquence, if he is asked to convince Yang Longfei and Fang Luocheng at the same time, he is really not sure.

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A crisp phone rang in the reception room of the regiment headquarters early in the morning, annoying Yang Longfei, who was asleep. I only heard him lying on the kang in a daze and scolding: "Divine spear, divine spear, you kid pretended not to hear it, did you?" It's itchy again, isn't it? ”

After a while, Li Shenshu walked out of the next room in a daze, rubbing his hazy sleepy eyes while muttering dissatisfiedly: "Who is calling here this morning, who is full of food...... he picked up the microphone and asked: "Hey, independent regiment headquarters, who are you looking for...... Who do you care who I am? You tell me who you are and what is the matter...... Yes? Are you a communications section? Is there something wrong with you? Oh, look for our captain, our captain is asleep...... Why don't I get him up for you...... The head of the regiment, the commander of the regiment, the comrades of the communications section are looking for you! Regimental Commander, Regiment Commander......"

Yang Longfei kicked off the quilt with his foot and jumped off the kang: "What about your kid shouting souls?" Damn, you can't sleep soundly even if you get a good night's sleep. Also the Communications Section? Lao Tzu has no acquaintances in the communications department, what are you looking for Lao Tzu to do...... "Then he snatched the microphone from Li Shenshu's hand and shouted in his ear: "I am Yang Longfei......"

"Hey, is it Miss Li? I'm looking for Miss Li......"

Before the words fell, Yang Longfei hung up the phone angrily, and scolded uncleanly: "Damn, what's wrong with being sick?" Looking for a woman to find Lao Tzu here......"

After speaking, he kicked Li Shengun's ass and shouted: "You kid forgot the pain after not beating for three days, why is it so hard to let you come out to answer the phone?" Why do you learn to sleep lazily as a martial arts practitioner? ”

Li Shenshu muttered dissatisfiedly: "Commander, are you embarrassed to talk about me?" You're not much better than me, the snoring is like a cannon, and you can hear it in the next room, and those who don't know think we're moving the farm to the regimental headquarters. Besides, who stipulates that martial arts practitioners can't sleep lazy? Didn't I drink too much yesterday......"

"You still have the fucking face to say Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu snores and still doesn't let you toss? You yourself said, how much wine did you drink yesterday, how many nights did you wake up, and a celebration banquet caused Lao Tzu to make trouble...... I said that you have a stinky problem with dogs, you don't know how to go to the thatched house outside, and you have to pee on the root of the Lao Tzu wall when you get up all night, and you can be tired to death by walking a few more steps? ”

The two argued, and another phone call came...... After Yang Longfei picked up the phone, he couldn't help but be furious when he heard the voice just now, and he roared: "What are you looking for, Miss Li?" Miss Li is married! Now there is no Miss Li here, only Lao Tzu! Who am I? Can you handle it? I said that you have not eaten in the communications department, and you are full, aren't you? What do you call our independent regiment early in the morning? What is the problem of being sick? Beware that I'm going to the division headquarters to report to you...... What is my attitude? That's the attitude! You are drinking soy sauce early in the morning and playing drunk, Lao Tzu can't have a temper, right? Little rabbit, who gave you the right to dare to talk to Lao Tzu like this? Isn't it underwhelming? Have you ever heard of our independent regiment......"

I only heard a swear word suddenly coming from the other side of the microphone: "Lao Yang, you fucking pouting and looking at the sky——— you have no beads." Don't you hear who Lao Tzu is? ”

Yang Longfei replied in a slightly soothing tone: "It's a little familiar to hear the voice, you're not from the communications department, right?" I don't have any acquaintances in the communications department, so you can just tell me your name......"

"Fuck, what the fuck are you ears? I still haven't heard who Lao Tzu is? Lao Yang, listen to your dog, Lao Tzu is Fang Luocheng! ”

Yang Longfei couldn't help but be stunned: "What? Fang Luocheng? Which Fang Luocheng are you! ”

"Nonsense, in addition to Fang Luocheng, the former commander of the 87th Regiment of the 67th Division of the Central Army, is there a second Fang Luocheng in our 129th Division?"

Yang Longfei was overjoyed after hearing this: "Old Fang, is it really your rabbit cub?" Hey, I said why did you show up now? I want to die! Alas, listening to your tone, what's wrong with you now being the Eighth Route Army? ”

The voice on the other end of the microphone seemed to be very pleasant: "That's, your brother is slippery and wears this grass and wood gray military uniform, can I avoid vulgarity?" You can't just allow the governors to set fires and not allow the people to light lamps, right? I won't tell you the truth, thanks to the battle of Shilipu yesterday, otherwise Lao Tzu really didn't know that your kid was also in the 129th Division. If it hadn't been for the comrades at the division headquarters telling me that this battle was commanded by your boy, we might not be able to meet when we would have met! God has eyes, your brother and I have been separated from Nanjing for two or three months, right? Hey, I really didn't expect to hear the news of your kid in Shanxi! I heard that you are doing a good job in our 129th Division, and the logistics department of the division headquarters has been spreading the news about your regiment in the past few days. What does my heart say? That's your kid's luck, if it were me commanding him, the devil would definitely be the result......"

"Just you? Not necessarily, I don't know you kid yet? You're just a 'burning beard——— right to practice your mouth'! When it comes to blind life, your kid is still a character in the original 87th Division, but when it comes to fighting, you kid can't even be ranked! It's just that there is a sign of the main force and the reinforced regiment, what are you doing...... Without further ado, let me ask you, where are you high right now? Listening to your tone, it won't be in our 129th Division, right? ”

"Ahem, don't mention it, it's not a high level, that is, being a senior staff officer at the division headquarters, giving ideas to the superior leaders when you are fighting, sorting out documents, drawing pictures, etc., is not comparable to your Grand Master Yang."

"Don't talk nonsense, I don't sound like I'm praising Lao Tzu, but like you're praising yourself. Also senior staff officer, do you think this is the Kuomintang Military and Political Department? Just because of the reputation that your old party has built up in the past few years, I won't be wronged by being a senior staff officer, and I have to make a permanent secretary do it at the very least! is still a staff officer at the division headquarters, are you still a good man? Kick your nose in the face, what the hell are you talking about? Don't say I'm hanging......"

"Alas, alas, I said, why are you so unfunny? Can't make a few jokes? In this way, I won't tell you on the phone, and it will also delay the work of the comrades in the communication department, right? Anyway, I haven't had anything to do in the last two days, I'll go to your group station, and let's talk about it in person! By the way, your regiment is in the General's Temple, right? In this way, you wait for Lao Tzu, prepare all the wine for Lao Tzu, and I will be there before lunch! ”

Yang Longfei was happy, and said busily: "No problem, no problem, isn't it wine?" If you ask me for something else, we may not be able to get it, and the wine is easy to handle. When our regiment fought the Ono Brigade yesterday, it happened to seize a few boxes of Japanese sake, you can make sure that you can take care of it! ”

"Why is it Japanese sake? I said you kid use this to greet guests? It's a little too shabby, isn't it? Are we Japanese sake drinkers...... In this way, I don't have high requirements, let's not have Japanese sake, just follow the local customs! You, prepare a few bottles of Fenjiu for me, and then find a way to get some fried peanuts and rice, how much do you have to get some snacks? You wait for me, our brother has to have a good chat today......" After speaking, the other end of the phone said, "Bang!" The ground hung up.