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Although Hu Weidong was not angry, objectively speaking, Okamura Ningji's surrender was still very beneficial, and the Eighth Route Army completely annihilated the powerful Japanese 2nd Army at the cost of more than 100,000 casualties, making the 200,000 or 300,000 Japanese troops in Xuzhou completely lonely. In the face of nearly one million elite soldiers of the two major armies of the Red Party, with less than 300,000 troops left, and more than one-third of them were wounded and sick, the commander of the Japanese Central China Dispatch Army, Shunroku Hatata, naturally knew that defeat was inevitable, but seeing that the Chinese army was getting stronger and stronger the more they fought, and that Japan's war potential was on the verge of exhaustion after this war, Shunroku Hata had completely lost confidence in the victory of the war of aggression against China, and in order to preserve a little more vitality for Japan after the war, he finally made up his mind and led the remnants to surrender to the 15 th Group Army.

The reason why the 15th Group Army was chosen instead of the Eighth Route Army was, on the one hand, because the Japanese admired the strong, and the 15th Group Army was more powerful than the Eighth Route Army in their impression, especially the 15th Group Army won more with less many times, which made the devil lose convincingly. On the other hand, because the 15 th Group Army has a special organization under the banner of the Japanese Column, although these devils all hated the "traitors" to the bone before, but when they themselves surrendered, their stance completely changed, and on the contrary, it was the 15 th Group Army for which a large number of compatriots worked for them that made these devils feel at ease

Although Hata Shunroku made up his mind the day after learning of Okamura Ningji's surrender, no matter how low the morale of the Japanese army in Xuzhou was, after all, the enemy had not yet entered the city, and most of those die-hard elements were still there. Therefore, he naturally did not dare to resist the commander's order, and Shunroku Hata finally breathed a sigh of relief. Even so, there were several small mutinies in the city. There are as many as several thousand devils who have died by killing each other, and if it weren't for Hu Weidong's decisive dispatch of troops into the town to live in the devils, there would be no variables in this matter

Although he didn't want to forgive Shunroku Hata as a war criminal, the enemy surrendered without a fight. Hu Weidong would not be stupid enough to refuse, after all, Xuzhou had strong defenses and sufficient troops, and the Kaifeng campaign almost exhausted the large-caliber artillery shells newly produced by several major arsenals in the Central Plains border area in the past month. The already small reserves are becoming more and more insufficient (but the devil doesn't know, otherwise Shunroku Hata may not choose to surrender.) ）。

If they insist on attacking without a sufficient number of large-caliber artillery shells, even if the two major group armies alone have about 800,000 field troops, and they can continue to obtain supplementary troops from the Central Plains border area, if they want to take the entire city of Xuzhou within a month, the casualties will never be less than 300,000; And if you choose to besiege for a long time, you will waste extremely precious time. It is contrary to Hu Weidong's original intention of proposing to end the Central Plains War ahead of schedule.

Therefore, Hu Weidong was still very happy to be able to take Xuzhou without blood, and for this reason, he was not polite to Shunroku Hatata, the old devil who surrendered, of course, this is also because Shunroku Hata is in a high position. But whether it is in history or in this time and space, it is the role of the black pot (that is, the so-called "leadership responsibility"), in fact, this guy often has disagreements with the opinions of the Japanese army base headquarters, and has been resigned many times because of this, and is not like Okamura Ninji personally participated in and even led (the "comfort" system and the "three lights" policy were personally concocted by Okamura Ninji), although the identity of the war criminal is still inevitable, but the nature is not so bad after all

At this point, the unprecedented scale of the Central Plains Battle ended victoriously, and the million-strong divisions of the two major group armies under the Chinese Red Party wiped out (killed and captured) more than 700,000 Japanese troops (more than 900,000 if you include battles not far away such as the Battle of the Canal) in just over a month. Among them, the number of prisoners exceeded 400,000, and the two major group armies of the Red Party also paid a huge price of no less than 300,000 casualties, if the losses of the militia guerrillas and the Lanfeng National Army are also included, it is more than 500,000, and the total number of killed, missing and seriously disabled of the two major group armies during the Central Plains War also reached more than 100,000, of which the Eighth Route Army was permanently reduced by more than 70,000 people, while the 15th Group Army was less than 30,000 (the losses of the Japanese column were not counted).

In this battle, both sides participated in the battle, and their casualties and permanent attrition figures set new records since the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the achievement of capturing more than 400,000 Japanese troops was unprecedented. Although the two major group armies of the Red Party have also paid a lot of price for this, in such a large corps operation, the exchange ratio of 1:2 for permanent attrition is already very good, not to mention that the devils were annihilated by the formation, and basically they were either killed or captured, while the two major group armies of the Red Party were more wounded and less dead, and after recovery, they could return to the team to kill the devils, plus Japan's population was far inferior to China, so relatively speaking, the losses of the devils were many times greater

In addition, it is worth mentioning that although the Japanese army has a tradition of destroying weapons and destroying ammunition, because some Japanese troops in Kaifeng and most of the Japanese troops in Xuzhou surrendered in formation, the Chinese army still captured a lot of ammunition, which made the two major armies of the Red Party, which had already consumed a lot of ammunition reserves, only need to make a slight repair before launching an offensive again; Due to the continuous improvement of the arsenals in the border areas and even the maintenance capacity of the army's technicians, the two major armies have captured more usable weapons than before, especially heavy equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles, which are relatively difficult to completely destroy.

According to rough statistics after the war, if the weapons and equipment that may be repaired are also included, the two major group armies captured a total of more than 30 rifles, more than 100,000 grenadiers, more than 80,000 light machine guns, more than 20,000 heavy machine guns, more than 2,000 artillery pieces of various types, more than 1,000 vehicles of various types, and 12 planes of various types during the Central Plains War (now the devils have learned to be obedient, as long as the security of the airport is threatened, they will immediately transfer and flee, and only those who are injured and cannot fly up can be captured by the Chinese army, Among them, only 12 were successfully repaired), in addition to dozens of tanks and armored vehicles, so many captures were enough for the Red Party to form an additional 670,000 troops, and the strength of the Red Party's regular armed forces would also exceed the total number of Japanese troops for the first time (to be continued). )