“…… More than 3,900 people, the collective jade crushed. ”

"The Great Japanese Empire is onboard, the Great Japanese Imperial Army is onboard, His Majesty the Emperor is onboard!"

"On June 29, Showa 15, the 9th Brigade Second Lieutenant Communications Captain Chotoshi, farewell."

After Takuya Mizuhara, the head of the communications section, finished reading the farewell telegram, the entire war room fell into a dead silence, and everyone including the commander of the 1st Army, Yoshio Shinozuka, was silent for a long time.

Everyone was stunned, including Yoshio Shinozuka, everyone was stunned.

First, the field observation group was completely annihilated, and then the 9th Brigade was collectively shattered.

There is also no news from the Yamamoto secret service until now, and there is a high probability that something has happened.

In just half a day, the 1st Army stationed in Shanxi suffered three blows one after another, and each time it was heavier and heavier, and it was unbelievable every time!

Hardly anyone dared to believe it.

Even Yoshio Shinozuka felt the same incredulous.

Because such a result is too fake, just like on the baseball field in Tokyo, a varsity team of the Army's Junior Primary School actually defeated the varsity team of the Army University, how is this possible?

It's a hundred deductions on the sand table,

Nor will this result occur once.

The Eighth Route Army had no source of intelligence, and it was still a passive beaten party.

No matter how this battle is fought, it will not be the result it is now!

Wait, intelligence sources?

Finally, a staff officer reacted.

That's probably the problem.

A strange atmosphere quickly spread through the war room.

There are moles!

There must be a mole in the headquarters!

This traitor leaked the information to the Eighth Route Army in advance!

However, Takayoshi Tanaka, chief of staff of the 1st Army, was worried about something else.

The 1st Army has lost face this time! Moreover, the loss of military strength is also extremely serious.

After the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the strength of the 1st Army was already stretched, and now the 9th Brigade has been completely annihilated, and the situation is even worse!

This means that

At least until reinforcements from the mainland arrived, the 1st Army would have to abandon all unnecessary strongholds and devote itself to protecting several main lines of communication, as well as large and medium-sized cities such as Taiyuan.

Perhaps, even Liaoxian, Heshun and other counties will have to give up.

In the suffocating silence, Takayoshi Tanaka looked at Yoshio Shinozuka.

Takayoshi Tanaka is now very worried that Yoshio Shinozuka's emotions will get out of control.

The previous defeat in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments actually had little to do with Yoshio Shinozuka, because the defensive deployment along the Shotae Road, Tongpu Road, and the Baijin Line were all policies determined by the former commander Umezu Mijiro under the guidance of Tada Jun.

So after the Hundred Regiments suffered a crushing defeat, the base camp only relieved Tada Jun of his duties.

As the commander of the 1st Army, Yoshio Shinozuka was only admonished, and the so-called admonition could not be regarded as a punishment.

But this time the defeat is undoubtedly recorded on the head of Yoshio Shinozuka, if it were not for Yoshio Shinozuka in front of Okamura Ninji strongly recommended Yamamoto Kazuki's special operation, there would be no battlefield observation group to watch the battle, and there would not be the 9th Brigade to go out of the Tiger Pavilion stronghold and protect the observation group.

Without all of this, there would be no today's string of failures.

So, this morning's series of failures will definitely be remembered on Yoshio Shinozuka's head.

The headquarters of the North China Front and even the base camp will definitely hold Yoshio Shinozuka responsible.

Therefore, Tanaka Takayoshi was very worried that Yoshio Shinozuka would desperately launch a retaliatory action against the Taihang base of the Eighth Route Army in order to save face.

With the current situation of the 1st Army,

It is necessary to launch a large-scale revenge against the Taihang base area of the Eighth Route Army,

It was necessary to draw at least two divisions from the 36th, 37th, and 41st divisions from Jinnan.

Even if two divisions are dispatched to the north, it is not necessary to say whether they can take revenge, but it is inevitable that the central army in southern Jin and the Jin Sui army in western Jin will be drilled into the air, and it is not clear that the entire southern Jin and even the provincial capital Taiyuan may be lost.

And such a situation is something that Takayoshi Tanaka, who is the chief of staff of the 1st Army, does not want to see.

At that moment, Tanaka Takayoshi stepped forward and asked with concern, "Your Excellency Commander, are you okay?" ”

Yoshio Shinozuka didn't seem to hear it, but just stared at the sand table in front of him in a daze.

Takayoshi Tanaka was even more worried, because the calmer Yoshio Shinozuka seemed on the surface, the more violent the storm brewed in his chest, which showed that he was on the verge of getting out of control!

Takayoshi Tanaka's concerns are not unfounded.

In fact, at this time, Yoshio Shinozuka was indeed on the verge of losing control.

A violent and cruel voice is tumbling in Shinozuka Yoshio's mind: Immediately transfer troops from Jinnan into Taihang Mountain and level the entire bandit area! Arrest their deputy commander-in-chief again, file the ashes!

And all the people in the entire Taihang bandit area, regardless of men and women, young and old, were all killed!

It is necessary to kill an area of hundreds of kilometers within a radius of the Taihang bandit area into a barren land with no one inhabited! Only in this way can we wash away today's shame and restore the supreme glory of the 1st Army.

At a certain moment, Yoshio Shinozuka almost roared.

"Your Excellency, Commander!" Takayoshi Tanaka shouted, "You have to be calm! ”

Takayoshi Tanaka's shout was like an initiation, and Yoshio Shinozuka woke up at once.

At that moment, Yoshio Shinozuka breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a deep voice: "Tanaka-kun, you don't have to worry, I won't be rash, and I won't transfer troops from Jinnan to launch a retaliatory action." ”

Takayoshi Tanaka also breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

As long as Your Excellency the Commander doesn't act rashly.

Yoshio Shinozuka said again: "Tanaka-kun, immediately transfer the garrisons of Liao County, Heshun, Meng County, Yushe and other counties to the strongholds near Zhengtai Road and the Baijin Line. ”

The four county towns of Liao County, Heshun, Meng County, and Yushe are completely surrounded by the two major base areas of the Eighth Route Army, the Taihang Military Region and the Taiyue Military Region.

There was nothing wrong with switching to before.

But now the strength of the 1st Army has been stretched, and if the Eighth Route Army concentrates its main force to attack these county towns, the 1st Army will not be able to hold it in any way.

Therefore, holding on any longer can only be a waste of troops.

Takayoshi Tanaka asked, "Do you really want to give up the four county seats?" ”

"Give it all up." Yoshio Shinozuka nodded and said, "However, before abandoning the defense, you can secretly notify the Jin Sui army and let the Jin Sui army of Yan Xishan come to take over." ”

This is undoubtedly a brilliant move.

"Shuffle." Takayoshi Tanaka nodded happily.

It was only at this time that Takayoshi Tanaka was convinced that Yoshio Shinozuka had regained his composure.

Yoshio Shinozuka swept his gaze over all the staff officers present, and continued: "Also, from now on, the headquarters will implement a complete ban, and before the intelligence division has completed the screening, whether it is a staff officer, a security officer, an order officer, or even myself, no one is allowed to leave the headquarters for half a step. ”

For this, the staff officers present did not have any waves in their hearts.

There is no doubt about the screening of all personnel in the command.

Because the successive accidents of the Yamamoto Special Forces, the Field Observation Group and the 9th Brigade are too suspicious, who would believe that this is not caused by an intelligence leak?

It must have been caused by an intelligence leak!

……

Teapot Ridge, the battle is over completely.

Except for about 100 devils who escaped into the dense forests on both sides of the road, the nearly 4,000 people who entered the ambush circle of the entire 9th Brigade were all annihilated.

But I saw that the road was densely packed with corpses.

Most of them are the corpses of devils, but there are also a lot of corpses of the Eighth Route Army.

The devils at this stage are still very fierce, and their performance in the white-knuckle battle is particularly fierce, although in the end there are less than 2,000 devils who actually participate in the white-knuckle battle, but it still caused heavy casualties to the Eighth Route Army.

Among them, nearly 1,000 people were killed in battle, hundreds were seriously wounded, and even more were lightly wounded.

The battle loss ratio between the two sides is basically one to one, this is still an ambush war, and the Eighth Route Army also occupies a three-to-one advantage in troops, which is unimaginable if it is a positional battle, or if the Eighth Route Army does not occupy a force advantage.

The independent regiment hurried and hurried to a late meeting, so they managed to get a little soup to drink, and killed more than 100 devils.

Among them, Lu Changsheng alone stabbed more than a dozen to death, and he was rummaging around looking for the corpses of devils.

Many devils who had died in battle and the Eighth Route Army hugged each other, and Lu Changsheng stepped forward and separated one by one.

Seeing Lu Changsheng looking there, Li Yunlong couldn't help but ask, "Lu Da, what are you looking for?" ”

"The brigade commander looking for the devil." Lu Changsheng replied while looking for it, "According to convention, the brigade commanders of the little devils should all have the rank of major general, and the Wang team said that they would be caught alive." ”

"It's Xiao Wang again." Li Yunlong didn't have a good breath and said, "What do you want to do this shit?" ”

Zhang Dabiao also said: "Why do I think it's not so reliable? Don't make any more trouble with this kid. ”

Li Yunlong said again: "Lu Da, did Xiao Wang tell you, why do you want to capture the devil's generals alive?" ”

"Then he didn't say it." Lu Changsheng shook his head and said, "He just repeatedly told me to catch the devil's generals alive." ”

As soon as the words fell, a voice came: "You don't have to look for it, the commander of the 9th Brigade, Major General Yamashita, has already stabbed me to death." ”

"Stabbed to death?"

Lu Changsheng was a little annoyed.

Li Yunlong looked up, but found that it was Guan Dashan, the former commander of the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment.

"Guan Dashan?" At that moment, Li Yunlong asked with a smile, "What about your head Kong?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Kong Jie's voice came: "Lao Li, I'm here." ”

When he looked back, he saw that Kong Jie had already walked over panting with a ghost head knife.

Kong Jie fought from beginning to end just now, hacking six or seven devils to death, and the knife was all curled.

Seeing that Li Yunlong's face was covered with blood, Kong Jie asked with concern: "Lao Li, have you hung the lottery?" ”

"No, it's devil's blood." Li Yunlong sighed and said disdainfully, "Who is Lao Tzu?" How could such a small battle be hung up. ”

"Haha, you kid just blow it."

Kong Jie said: "A brigade or a small battle to annihilate the devils?" ”

Chu Yunfei, who was following behind Li Yunlong, really couldn't listen to it, and at the same time, he was really jealous.

The Eighth Route Army, an army like Huazi, can actually win such a big battle? Can you annihilate an infantry brigade of the Japanese army in one battle?

Their Jin Sui Army has never been so wide!

At most, their Jin Sui Army annihilated an infantry squadron of the Japanese army, and they never annihilated an infantry brigade of the Japanese army, but the Eighth Route Army actually annihilated a brigade of the Japanese army!

Compare goods to throw, people have to die than people!

Chu Yunfei felt that today's sun seemed to be mocking him.

At that moment, Chu Yunfei snorted twice, and asked teasingly: "Then how big should the big battle in Brother Yunlong's mind be?" ”

Li Yunlong smiled and said, "At the very least, we have to annihilate one of the devil's divisions!" ”

Chu Yunfei could only roll his eyes when he heard this, annihilating a division? You can fucking blow it.

"Lao Li, you kid can really blow, just half of the remnants of the brigade almost broke our front teeth, you dare to boast that you want to annihilate a division of devils?"

"Hehe, don't you know what kind of virtue Lao Li has? He just loves to brag. ”

When Li Yunlong and Kong Jie looked back, it was Cheng Shifa and Ding Wei who also rushed over.

Cheng Shifa, Ding Wei and Kong Jie were originally ready to brag to Li Yunlong, but when they saw Chu Yunfei present, they immediately lost interest.

The brothers did not have a good impression of the Kuomintang Central Army, and they did not have a good impression of the Jin Sui Army.

Especially when the 129th Division had just entered Shanxi, Yan Xishan put a warehouse full of guns but refused to give the Eighth Route Army a little, and in the end it was all cheap little devils, which made Ding Wei, Kong Jie and Cheng Shifa, the battalion and regiment-level cadres of the 129th Division, hate itchy, if the policy allows, they really want to hang Yan Xishan up and fight.

"Hurry up and gather your equipment."

"The devil plane will definitely come again, hurry up."

"Damn, what about you, hurry up."

Several old comrades-in-arms quickly scattered,

Each of them led someone to clean up the battlefield.

……

Let's go back and talk about Wang Ye.

After the battle, Wang Ye left the Wolf Warrior Team and the heavy machine gun company to clean up the battlefield in Chenjiayu, mainly digging up the weapons and equipment buried under the earthwork, and he himself hurried to the bellows ridge.

What are you doing in Bellows Ridge? Of course, for the harvest of the devil major general, or for the golden treasure chest.

If you are lucky this time, it is very likely that you will beat the rabbit and kill the field observation group and the 9th Brigade of the North China Front, that is, two major generals.

Two major generals, how can one be captured alive?

Because he was in a hurry to get the treasure chest, Wang Ye didn't even go around Yangcun, and he missed it.

Hurry up, when Wang Ye arrived at Bellows Ridge, it was already ten o'clock in the morning, and at this time, the battle of Bellows Ridge had already ended, and the battlefield had been cleaned up.

The captured weapons and equipment, along with the bodies of the wounded and fallen soldiers, have been transported back to Yang Village.

Wang Ye pounced directly, but from the mouth of the soldier who stayed behind to bury the corpse of the devil, he still knew that Lu Changsheng really captured Hattori Naochen alive!

That's good, there is already a major general to support the bottom.

At that moment, Wang Ye was not in a hurry to return to Yang Village to harvest the treasure chest, but continued to go south towards Teapot Ridge, and if he could capture the brigade commander of the 9th Brigade alive, it would be refreshing.

It is less than five kilometers from Bellows Ridge to Teapot Ridge, and it takes less than ten minutes to ride the king.

At this time, the battlefield of Teapot Ridge was still a mess, and it was still very early to clean up the battlefield.

The reason why the progress of cleaning up the battlefield is so slow is because the devil's fighter jets or bombers will fly over and dive and strafe from time to time.

Every time the devil plane came, the soldiers had to flee into the woods on both sides of the road to take refuge.

So the progress was delayed, and the battlefield had not been cleaned until more than ten o'clock, and there were even dozens of fighters who could not retreat and died under the dive strafing of the devil fighters.

When Wang Ye rushed over, Li Yunlong and the others had already been aroused by the devil fighter.

"Damn, these shit days are endless, aren't they?" Li Yunlong said angrily, "Lao Ding, Lao Kong and Lao Cheng, let the brothers gather all the light machine guns, line up in a dense formation on the highway, and aim at the sky to shoot at Lao Tzu. ”

"Commander, you can't be brute!" Wang Ye hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade him.

Use machine guns or rifles to line up in a dense formation on the ground to shoot planes in the sky.

It's not that it can't be done, it's not that you can't get off the plane, it's that the cost is too great to outweigh the losses.

At the end of the day, the cost of an aircraft in this era was even far less than the cost of a cannon.

Even if you pay a great price to beat one down, the little devil can quickly replenish it.

But in order to beat down a plane of devils, the price that needs to be paid, especially those warrior veterans who sacrificed for it, is difficult to replenish in a short time.

Ding Wei also waved his hand and persuaded: "Lao Li, what Xiao Wang said is right, we really can't be brutal." ”

Li Yunlong's anger aroused by the devil fighter couldn't be released, so he sent it to Wang Ye's head.

"Xiao Wang, Lao Tzu hasn't asked you yet." Li Yunlong scolded, "What do you want to do if you don't let Lu Da leave that devil general alive?" ”

"What else could it be? Publicity. ”

Wang Ye said: "Our country has been fighting with Little Japan for so many years, but have you ever captured a devil major general alive on the battlefield?" If I'm not mistaken, I'm afraid it's one, right? ”

Ding Wei said: "Don't say it, this really hasn't happened." ”

Kong Jie said: "Not only do we not have it, but the Central Army Jin Sui Army has not either. ”

Chu Yunfei next to him was a little embarrassed, what are you talking about, why are you pulling our Jin Suijun?

Did our Jin Suijun eat your rice?

But then again, Jin Suijun really never captured a major general alive.

Don't say it's a major general, even Shao Zuo hasn't been captured alive, anyway, Chu Yunfei hasn't heard of it.

"Isn't that the end of it?" Wang Ye said with a smile, "When the time comes, let the Chinese Society write an article to publicize it, and it is best to put the photo of the old devil in the newspaper like that, and your name, the head of the regiment, will directly rush out of the northwest of Shanxi and go to the whole of China!" By that time, all Chinese people will remember your name, haha. ”

"Really?" Li Yunlong turned his anger into joy in an instant, and his mouth even grinned at the base of his ears.

He also said: "Damn, let your kid say this, this thing seems to be really worth doing." ”

"Of course it's worth it, it has to be done." Wang Ye can be regarded as holding Li Yunlong's pulse, and the stink is obvious.

But then again, let Hattori Naomina live a few more days first, and it's nothing to show the merits of the Eighth Route Army, anyway, this humanoid treasure chest won't run away, so what's the difference between taking it early and taking it late?

(End of chapter)