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Headquarters of the North China Front of the Japanese Army.

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, Major General Hiromoto Toyoda sent a telegram saying that His Excellency Yoshio Kimura has cut his own stomach." A communications soldier said respectfully.

"Yaxi, I know, you go down."

Sugiyama nodded imperceptibly, and waved his hand to let the communications soldier go down.

At this moment, in the huge conference room, only three people were sitting in a precarious position, but it was just these three people, but they were full of aura and their faces were calm and abnormal.

Commander-in-Chief of the Front, General of the Japanese Army, Sugiyama Moto.

Chief of the General Staff of the Front, Lieutenant General of the Japanese Army, Yamashita Fumi.

Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Japanese Army Commander, Akira Muto.

The entire conference room was extremely dull, and after a long time, no one spoke, and in the end, it was Muto Akira, the deputy chief of the general staff, who took the lead in breaking the silence.

"Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Chief of Staff, with the outbreak of the Battle of Handan, there has been a serious shortage of our army's strength in various parts of Hebei.

The strongholds of our army in Tangshan, Hengshui, Cangzhou, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Xingtai and other places were constantly attacked and harassed by the Eighth Route Army. ”

"And along the railways in various parts of our army, as well as important highway traffic points, they have even been attacked by the Eighth Route Army on a large scale!"

"As of 8 o'clock this evening, all parts of Hebei under the control of our army, there are already 5 counties and 12 towns, which have been broken by the Eighth Route Army, and nearly 2,000 imperial warriors have died tragically, which is only the data of the rear in the past two days.

If the Battle of Handan cannot be resolved in a short period of time, the safety of our Hebei rear will be even more passive, and the losses will increase day by day. ”

Deputy Chief of General Staff Muto Akiosa read out the information word by word, although his face and tone were extremely calm, but his unintentional shaking body betrayed him.

The situation in Hebei is tense for 100,000!

With the 50,000 elite of the Japanese army moving south to Handan, resulting in the lack of strength in other places, all units of our Eighth Route Army, under the instructions of the headquarters, sent half of their forces to attack the rear of the Japanese army.

The other half of the forces were participating in the Battle of Handan.

The Battle of Handan, which lasted only 2 days, caused huge losses to the Japanese army!

In the Battle of Handan, China and Japan presented a flat situation, with each side winning and losing, and neither could effectively suppress the other in a short period of time.

In reality, however, the balance of war is tilted in favor of China.

Therefore, the Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Yamashita Fumi, suggested that the Battle of Handan should be stopped immediately and turned to a slow plan. However, this suggestion was strongly refuted by the commander, General Sugiyama Moto.

"Your Excellency, Commander, your strength will only make the situation in North China worse!"

Chief of Staff Yamashita Fengwen said in a deep voice: "The Eighth Route Army is a bunch of beggars and farmers, in Chinese terms, they are a group of barefoot people, not afraid of those of us who wear shoes. In the current situation, if we fight with them, our Imperial Japanese Army will lose even more.

Therefore, we should immediately stop the battle, first stabilize the rear, and then send troops to destroy it. ”

"Yaga!"

Hearing this, Sugiyama Mototoshi was immediately furious.

He didn't expect that Yamashita Fengfumi, who was the chief of staff, would dare not carry out his orders and refute it, which made Sugiyama unacceptable, even if he knew the consequences of not being able to fight for a long time.

"Yamashita-kun, do you want me to stop the attack on Handan City and give up the 12,000 kilometers of land in the huge Handan region to Tubalu?"

Sugiyama Gen is really furious!

"Yamashita-kun, I, Sugiyama Moto, am the commander-in-chief of the front army and the general of the empire, I am responsible for this matter, I have the final say, you have to agree if you agree, and you have to agree if you don't agree."

At this moment, Sugiyama Gen showed his strong side.

You must know that former Japanese Prime Minister Konoe Furuma was forced to step down by him Sugiyama Moto, and Sugiyama Gen at that time was only a lieutenant general.

Sugiyama Moto, the first person in the Japanese Air Force, is also the first person in the strong side.

"Humph!"

Sugiyama Gen is angry, but Yamashita Fengwen is also angry!

"Your Excellency, Commander, now is not arguing about the loss of one city and one place, but the safety of the entire situation in North China, what the empire needs is a stable North China, a North China that can make the empire stronger and stronger, not a turbulent North China, such a simple truth, do you still want me to teach you?"

Yamashita Fumi, although he is only a lieutenant general, he is the chief of the general staff of the front army, a proper second-in-command, and an existence with the right to restrain the number one general, General Sugiyama Moto.

In the future, Yamashita Fumi was also one of the generals of the Japanese army.

Therefore, Yamashita Fumimi was not afraid of Sugiyama Moto.

In 1942, Yamashita Fumi, who was transferred to the commander of the 25th Army of the Japanese Army, launched a horrific massacre against the Chinese in the Singapore area of the Pacific Theater.

From February 18 to 25, 1942, Yamashita ordered a general inspection, also known as "purge".

When they found out the hostile elements, they immediately dealt with them (to death). In the end, the Japanese captured tens of thousands of people, most of whom were taken to the suburbs or remote seashores to be shot en masse, while the rest were sent to Thailand to build the "Death Railway".

Because there was no record at the time of the investigation, no one knew the true number of casualties.

The official figure in Japan is 5,000, but the Chinese news agency in Singapore gives the figure of 100,000. The evidence presented in the post-war interrogations put forward the figure of about 50,000 people, the vast majority of whom were Chinese!

"Your Excellency General, please think twice and focus on the overall situation!"

"In the name of the Chief of the General Staff of the Front Army, I ask you to once again consider my suggestion!"

"North China, we can't go on like this anymore!"

Yamashita Fengwen bowed to Sugiyama Moto, and his attitude was very sincere.

For a while, Sugiyama Moto's anger subsided a lot, and it was not good to have another attack.

The Battle of Handan was a hastily battle, although the Japanese army invested 50,000 troops, a huge number of miles, but did not make too much preparation, and its various units were also temporarily recruited.

Although they are elite, they lack cooperation with each other, and their combat effectiveness cannot be fully exerted.

On the other hand, the Chinese army is actually roughly the same as the Japanese army, and tens of thousands of people from various parts of the national army who came to reinforce them also arrived in a hurry, lacking effective coordination. In addition, the Eighth Route Army belongs to two parties, and friction between them is inevitable, and it is difficult to give full play to its combat effectiveness.

Thanks to Ouyang and the others, they occupied the center of the battle, Handan City!

This is how our army has gained a decisive advantage!

Sugiyama Mototo and Yamashita Fumimi argued for a long time, and finally reached a consensus under the mediation of Deputy Chief of General Staff Muto Akiosa.

"Two days!"

"If, within these two days, our Imperial Japanese Army is no longer able to gain a decisive advantage, I, Sugiyama Motodang, will immediately order the end of the Battle of Handan."

General Sugiyama said in a deep voice.

At that moment, Yamashita Fengwen nodded and said, "It should be so, our army can't delay any longer!" ”

"Huh!"

Suddenly, Sugiyama Motototo's laughter.

His eyes were fixed on Yamashita Fengwen, gritted his teeth and said: "Yamashita Jun, today I will teach you another sentence in the name of my friend, the battlefield is a place full of miracles, until the last moment, never say give up, maybe the next second will usher in a reversal!" ”

~~~~~

A few hours later.

May 18, 1939, 2 p.m.

The 110th Division of the Japanese Army suddenly swept away the decline and launched a frantic onslaught on Li Yunlong's division of the 887th Regiment of the 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army!

At the same time, Ouyang, who was far away in Handan City, suddenly received a system prompt.

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