At the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army in Taiyuan, Yoshio Shinozuka was wondering why the Eighth Route Army suddenly stopped attacking, and there was no gunfire on the battlefield.

Just when he was hesitating whether to send someone out to take a look, the chief of staff, Major General Tanaka, suddenly rushed over with an excited face.

"Your Excellency Commander, the Dirt Eight Road has retreated."

"The reinforcements from the southwest of Jin have arrived, and two cavalry wings and a mechanized infantry brigade are chasing the retreating troops of the Eighth Route Army. Now, there is not a single Eighth Route Army in Taiyuan City! ”

Yoshio Shinozuka's tense nerves relaxed at once, and he breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Yo Xi, Taiyuan City has finally been saved!" ”

"Chief of Staff, organize the troops, occupy the fortifications of the outer city. Also, the more detailed the statistics of our losses in this big war, the better! ”

After saying that, the tired Yoshio Shinozuka leaned back in his seat, squinting his eyes, ready to rest.

Taiyuan City is so big, and there are not many remaining imperial troops and imperial alliance troops in the city, and there is no way to count the battle damage without one night. Yoshio Shinozuka plans to use this time to take a good rest, and then he will have a clear enough mind to deal with various post-war problems.

However, Yoshio Shinozuka didn't expect that Chief of Staff Tanaka had just left less than an hour before he broke in, and the whole person's mood was very gaffe, as if the Eighth Route Army had fought back.

"Your Excellency Commander, something happened to the Taiyuan Arsenal?"

Although in the event of a large-scale battle, the front army will replenish itself with a large number of weapons and ammunition. However, almost all of the weapons and ammunition consumed by the First Army in the battles organized by itself and in peacetime training came from the Taiyuan Arsenal.

It can be said that although the Taiyuan Arsenal is not important to the life and death of the First Army, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most important department of the First Army.

Therefore, as soon as he heard the words "accident in the arsenal", Yoshio Shinozuka got up from his seat with a rub, and he couldn't tell at all that he had not rested for two days and one night, and he was very tired.

Staring at Major General Tanaka, he asked very anxiously: "Is it damaged by the Eighth Route Army, is it serious or not, and is there any possibility of repair?" Immediately bring the Imperial experts from the arsenal over to assess the extent of the damage to the arsenal, and then immediately repair and resume production, especially the ammunition production line. ”

"After fighting the Eighth Route Army for such a long time, the ammunition reserves of the garrisons in various places must have been on high alert, and they must be replenished immediately!"

"No, Your Excellency, you are mistaken!" Seeing that Yoshio Shinozuka misunderstood what he meant, Major General Tanaka quickly shook his head and said in denial.

"The arsenal was not destroyed by the Eighth Route Army, but was emptied by the Eighth Route Army, and there was not even a piece of equipment or a screw left!"

"And our warehouses in the outer city, hospitals, foreign banks, banks...... All of them were looted by the Eighth Route Army, almost all the equipment and materials they could move away were removed, and nothing was left for us, they were simply bandits, no, even more than bandits! ”

"Nani? Empty the Taiyuan Arsenal? How can it be? Yoshio Shinozuka's first reaction was not to believe it!

"The arsenal has more than 1,000 pieces of equipment, which can't be moved by manpower alone, and they don't have cars to transport these equipment, it's absolutely impossible!"

Tanaka replied with a wry smile: "Your Excellency, the buildings of the arsenal are empty now, and you will never be mistaken. As for how the dirt eight roads were done, it is not clear how they were humiliated! ”

Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly collapsed in his seat, and then his face slowly turned pale, and beads of sweat the size of beans seeped out of his forehead little by little, and he didn't say a word.

Five minutes later, although Yoshio Shinozuka had a reaction, his reaction was beyond everyone's expectations.

After smashing the things on the table in front of him on the ground in front of everyone and smashing them, he scolded.

"Eight Ge Yalu, we've been fooled!"

"Tubalu's attack on Taiyuan City is not to capture Taiyuan City, but to loot our arsenal in Taiyuan City!"

"I now finally understand why they no longer continued to attack the inner city after the outer city was breached by them, but only killed and injured our defending troops with powerful firepower and put pressure on the defending troops. It turned out that they were not trying to break through the inner city, but to buy time for them to empty Taiyuan City. ”

"They know that the price to be paid for storming Taiyuan City is too great. And even if it is captured. Without air superiority, Taiyuan City will be recaptured by us sooner or later. ”

"Instead of paying huge casualties to take down a Taiyuan city that you can't hold at all, it's better to empty the Taiyuan Arsenal!"

"The Eighth Route Army is too cunning, from the very beginning, we were frightened by the powerful offensive of the Eighth Route Army, and then we have been kept in the dark!"

Major General Tanaka also reacted at this time, and immediately asked: "Your Excellency, commander, then what should we do next!" ”

"Order the cavalry wing pursuing the Dirt Eight Road to keep an eye on them for me! In addition, mobilize all our garrisons and intelligence departments to pay close attention to the various intersections and passes leading to the base area of the Eighth Route Army, and we must find the equipment that the Eighth Route Army moved from our arsenal and snatch it back. Even if you can't get it back, you're going to blow it up. With so much equipment, it must not fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army! Yoshio Shinozuka ordered with a murderous expression, and there was not the slightest negotiable tone in his words.

"A very important reason why our North China Front Army was able to suppress the Eighth Route Army in North China was that there was no supply of weapons and ammunition on the Eighth Route Road, and all weapons and ammunition could only be obtained through battlefield capture!"

"You must know that through such a long period of fighting with the Eighth Route Army, we do not deny that in terms of courage, the Eighth Route Army is no worse than us. The only thing that is bad is the level of equipment and training. It takes time for the training level to change, and our imperial army can only sweep again and again, without giving the time and opportunity to train on the Dirt Eight Roads! ”

"The rest is equipment, once they get these equipment, even if they can't guarantee the equipment and ammunition needs of all the Eighth Route Army, they can still meet part of the Eighth Route Army."

"At that time, the gap between the Imperial Army and the Eighth Route will be smaller and smaller, and the entire North China will become faster and faster, and it will be impossible for the Imperial Army to suppress the Eighth Route Army again!"

The chief of staff, Major General Tanaka, finally realized the seriousness of the problem, and his face became more solemn than ever.

After taking a deep breath, he immediately replied: "I will go and give orders immediately, it has only been less than twenty hours since the Eighth Road occupied the arsenal, and they dare not transport these equipment by road for a hundred days." Not surprisingly, these devices are still in the area occupied by the Imperial Army! ”

"Wait a minute, immediately send a telegram to the headquarters of the front army, report all the things here to the front army, let the front army send troops to cooperate, at least send planes to search for these equipment!"

At the headquarters of the North China Front Army in Beiping, Shouichi Terauchi was like an angry lion, holding the telegram that the chief of staff had just sent and scolded.

"Yoshio Shinozuka is a stupid pig, and he didn't know the real purpose of the Eighth Route Army's attack on Taiyuan City until the battle was over, and I want to send him to the military court, Bageya Road!"

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