"Baga, this is the answer sheet you handed over to me, there were more than 4,800 casualties in one day, but I didn't even take the outer positions of the defenders of China, rice buckets, all rice buckets." Lieutenant General Norihide Abe angrily rebuked.

Lieutenant General Norihide Abe was really angry, such a record is really embarrassing, not to mention compared with the previous records of the Kwantung Army, even compared with the other armies of the North China Front. Since the base camp decided to expand its interests in China and launch a full-scale war of aggression against China two months ago, wherever the battle flags of the Imperial Japanese Army went, the defenders fled in despair, and their swords were invincible.

Beiping, Tianjin, Zhangjiakou, Baoding, Dezhou, Nankou, these important military towns in China can only open their gates in the face of the bayonets of the Japanese Imperial Army, whether it is the central army of the government of China or the local army of China, in front of the imperial warriors, it is like a pile of sand, and it collapses with a light touch.

However, these seem to have changed here, first Tianzhen could not be attacked for a long time, and then Chahar sent troops to defeat the security regiment of China, not to mention the loss of troops, and became a laughing stock in the imperial army.

This time, he led an army of 20,000 to besiege Xinghe County, which originally seemed to him to be just an insignificant military operation. The small security regiment of China, which had suffered heavy losses and had not been replenished, was not about to collapse in the face of tens of thousands of elites of the Imperial Japanese Army.

However, the reality made Abe Norihide vomit blood in anger, although he still didn't know how many troops there were in this small Shina county, but it would definitely not be less than 5,000 people. Because the garrison of China alone has no less than one regiment of troops deployed on the forward positions, plus the air defense units in the city, the total will definitely not be less than 5,000 people.

According to the intelligence provided by the intelligence department, the defenders of China were only equipped with some small-caliber mortars, but in fact, on the first day, they were attacked by field artillery with a caliber of more than 75mm, and the artillery of a reinforced brigade of the Imperial Japanese Army was annihilated.

The second is anti-aircraft fire, according to the intelligence gathered by the intelligence services, this Chinese unit is not equipped with any anti-aircraft weapons, not even anti-aircraft machine guns. But in fact, two successive air raids showed that the Chinese army was not only armed with anti-aircraft machine guns, but also in large numbers, losing more than sixty fighters in one day, a huge loss that even with the great industrial production capacity of the empire could not bear.

According to the intelligence gathered by the intelligence department, the defenders of China are not equipped with 37 anti-armor guns or other anti-armor firearms to deal with the Empire's armor strength, and the people of China are those hateful Chinese dogs in addition to traditional explosive packs and cluster grenades.

But today's daytime battle Abe Norihide saw clearly, the Chinese army is not only equipped with a large number of new weapons and equipment, but also this kind of weapons and equipment for the empire's chariots have a strong lethality, today's one-day battle, the empire not only lost more than 4,800 warriors, but also lost 47 chariots, accounting for more than 80% of the total number of chariots, it can be said that but in today's battle, the chariot troops in his hands have completely lost their combat effectiveness.

And all this was caused by the malfeasance of the intelligence services, and Norihide Abe scolded the intelligence department in his battle report to Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo, and at the same time asked for operational guidance.

It was a very humiliating thing within the Japanese army to ask the higher authorities to give operational guidance, and here we have to say what this operational guidance is. In the eyes of the Japanese, the word reinforcement is too glaring and straightforward, and it damages the image of the Imperial Japanese Army as invincible, so they very euphemistically call it operational guidance, and I have to say that the hypocrisy of the Japanese has penetrated into their bones.

The casualties of the troops were so heavy, which greatly surprised Abe Norihide's expectations, especially when he learned that less than 1,000 of the more than 4,800 soldiers who had lost were wounded, and all the others were directly shattered on the battlefield, which made Lieutenant General Abe Norihide shocked and inexplicable.

From private to general, Norihide Abe has participated in more than a thousand battles, and it is not the first time that the number of dead soldiers lost exceeds the number of wounded. But this kind of thing happened between China and Japan for the first time, from the Sino-Japanese War to the 918 Manchuria Incident, and then to the 77 Incident some time ago, in the past half century, the armies of China and Japan have clashed many times, but the result is often the most victorious victory of the Great Japanese Empire, not to mention that the Chinese people have won the battle, even if it is a close draw, there have not been a few battles, let alone a battle like today, which has caused heavy losses to the Imperial Japanese Army.

In order to save the face of the Imperial Japanese Army, in order to be ashamed. Abe Norihide also didn't care about his personal face, and directly asked the Chahar Dispatch Army Headquarters for operational guidance.

However, to Abe's dismay, Vice Admiral Hideki Tojo did not agree to give him reinforcements. At the same time, Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo telegraphed that according to the latest enemy briefing from the intelligence department, the headquarters of the Seventh Group Army in China had been transferred from Yanmen Pass to the Zuoyun Youyu area, which was less than 100 kilometers away from the Tianzhen front, and that one brigade and three other regiments of the 35 th Army, the main force of the Seventh Group Army, had already been stationed in Datong and might reinforce Tianzhen at any time, and the corps headquarters had no extra troops to reinforce them.

In addition, the intelligence department collected information shows that the Shina army in Xinghe County is about 5,000 people, most of whom are new recruits, and the reason why they caused such heavy casualties to the Imperial Japanese Army is that on the one hand, the defenders of Shina are equipped with a large amount of automatic firepower, and the proportion of light and heavy machine guns is much higher than that of the Imperial Army. In addition, after more than half a year of construction, the city defense fortifications of Xinghe County are extremely perfect, and there is evidence that the city defense fortifications of this small county town have been guided by the Germans, so the imperial army will hit a wall here.

At the same time, Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo also admitted frankly that although his troops had lost nearly 5,000 men, there were still more than 15,000 men, more than three times the strength of the defenders. As long as the main force of the corps pins down the main force of the Seventh Army of China on the front line of Tianzhen, and the main force of the China Army is unable to reinforce the Xinghe defenders, they still have a great chance of victory.

However, early the next morning, a bad news came that the county seat of Zhangbei was raided by the army of China, the enemy was attacking fiercely, the defenders were in danger, and the county town of Zhangbei could fall at any time.

Zhangbei, as the former headquarters of the Chahar Dispatch Corps, not only hoarded a large number of weapons and equipment and other military supplies in the county, but also the location of the field hospital of the Chahar Dispatch Corps, and now there are nearly 2,000 seriously wounded in Zhangbei County, and these things cannot fall into the hands of the people of China under any circumstances.

Soon after, Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo sent a telegram, ordering the 8th Independent Mixed Brigade, which was originally stationed in Zhangbei, together with the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade and the 1st Cavalry Division of the Imperial Allied Army, to immediately return to Zhangbei, and the rest of the troops continued to attack the county seat of Xinghe. At the same time, Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo instructed that if the position of the defenders of Shina could not be captured for a long time, the Corps Headquarters authorized him to use special cigarettes.

Abe Norihide, who was originally depressed because a third of the troops used for the attack were taken away, suddenly felt a lot better after reading the last few lines of the most deluctant. Ordinary officers don't know what special cigarettes are, but as the commander of the lieutenant general's brigade, Abe is already qualified to have access to some very important secrets.

Special smoke is the so-called poison gas bomb, which they used many times in Manchuria against local resisters, and the effect is outstanding. However, since this chemical weapon is prohibited by order of the international community, although the Japanese army secretly uses this weapon, it is strictly authorized, such as the Chahar Dispatch Corps, which only the commander of the Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo has.

Abe Guixiu is very confident in special cigarettes, when in Manchuria, whether it is Zhao Shangzhi's department in North Manchuria or Yang Jingyu's department in South Manchuria, they can only flee in a hurry in front of special cigarettes, their proud will to fight is simply vulnerable in the face of special cigarettes, with special cigarette authorization, Abe Guixiu is confident that he can capture this county town in two hours.

When Abe's Guixiu Department dispatched poison gas bombs, Chen Feng's plan to surround and send reinforcements also began. At seven o'clock in the morning, Andre led two regiments of cavalry to launch a surprise attack on the empty Zhangbei county, and the first round of attacks occupied the west gate of Zhangbei county, although the cavalry regiment was driven out of the city gate after several battles, but the Japanese troops defending the city also suffered heavy losses, and had to send the wounded with relatively minor injuries to the battlefield to resist the attack of the Chinese army.

Of course, with the combat effectiveness of the cavalry regiment, it is not easy to take this small county town garrisoned by the Japanese army, which has only one infantry squadron. But thinking of the plan to send reinforcements around the division's seat, Andre could only be tempted by the ninja and swallowed the fat on the side of his mouth for a while.

Daqinggou, the ambush site of the 222 Brigade.

From time to time, Li Wensheng took out the brand-new pocket watch in his chest pocket to see if he could completely annihilate Xing and the more than 10,000 little devils outside the city, and it depended on whether he could kill the little devils who came back to aid Zhangbei.

"Brigade seat, the reconnaissance company reports that the forward troops of the little devils have already passed Dengjia Village, and they will be able to get here in another twenty minutes."

"How many vanguard troops are there for the little devils, and are there any tanks?"

"Report to the brigade seat, the forward unit of the little devil is a Japanese cavalry squad plus a cavalry platoon of the puppet army, and there is no chariot. However, there were ten Iron King Eight in the large army of the Japanese army, five of which had cannons and five had no cannons. ”

Li Wensheng knew that the Japanese army's Type 95 tanks with artillery and the Type 94 tanks without artillery were light tanks, and the average armor thickness was only 12 mm, and both of them were very weak in terms of firepower and defense.

"Order the troops to be well hidden, let go of the vanguard troops of the little devils, and wait for the large troops to enter the ambush circle before firing."