Responsible for blocking the devil reinforcements in the direction of Laoxian is the fourth regiment of the three detachments, that is, Sun Bin's regiment.

When the battlefield of Zhanggezhuang was boiling, Xiaocaozhuang, which was defended by Sun Bin's regiment, was silent.

After waiting for another five minutes, Sun Bin found that there was still silence on the highway and no movement, so Sun Bin couldn't hold his breath anymore and immediately sent guards to call the deputy head over.

The deputy commander of the fourth regiment was Lu Changsheng.

When they were paired with the regiment commander and deputy regiment, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang considered that although Sun Bin's qualifications were relatively old, his personality was somewhat soft, which would affect the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Of the eight main battalions of the previous independent regiment, four battalions had the worst combat effectiveness.

Therefore, Lu Changsheng, the "God of War", was specially sent to the Fourth Regiment as the deputy commander.

Lu Changsheng is majestic on the battlefield, he is simply possessed by the god of war, and with Lu Changsheng as the deputy commander, he immediately injected a strong factor into the fourth regiment.

The combat effectiveness of the Fourth Regiment has indeed been greatly improved.

Lu Changsheng is extremely fierce on the battlefield, but he is very amiable in life.

Therefore, Lu Changsheng and Sun Bin got along very well, and the spirit of the troops was also raised all of a sudden, and there was a faint tendency to surpass the three old main forces to become the top main forces of the three teams.

Sun Bin asked, "Old Lu, why hasn't the devil come yet?" ”

"yes, that's weird." Lu Changsheng said, "According to the information provided by the Wolf Warrior Brigade, this devil should have gone to Xiaocaozhuang a long time ago. ”

As he was talking, a communicator suddenly rushed over.

"Commander, commander......" The communicator rushed in.

While gasping and shouting: "Devil, devil......"

Sun Bin suddenly perked up and asked urgently, "The devil is here?" ”

"Uh, no." The communicator had already run to Sun Bin, shook his head and said, "The devil didn't come." ”

"What? The devil didn't come? Sun Bin slapped the brim of the communicator's hat and scolded, "The devil didn't come, so what's your dog's name?" ”

The communicator said: "Regiment commander, the devil let the Central Army intercept it!" ”

"What's that?" Sun Bin was stunned and said, "Let the Central Army intercept it?" ”

"Hmm." The communicator nodded heavily and said, "Just now, the people from the Wolf Warrior Brigade came again, and it was the 94th Brigade of the Central Army that dispatched two regiments of troops to ambush the devils from Laoxian County in front of Chaiwan. ”

"What?" Sun Bin hurriedly said, "Isn't this fucking robbing us of our business?" ”

Good guy, the devil has become a fat meat in Sun Bin's eyes.

After a pause, Sun Bin said again: "No, this matter can't be left like this, Lao Lu, hurry up and gather the troops, we will rush to Pichai Bay, and we must not let the Central Army eat alone." ”

"Yes." Lu Changsheng answered and was about to gather the troops.

The communicator said: "Regiment commander, I'm afraid it's too late, the people of the Wolf Warrior Brigade returned just now, and the battle in Pichai Bay has almost been fought, and the devil is estimated to have been wiped out at this time." ”

"!" Sun Bin couldn't help but slap the communicator's hat again.

Then he scolded: "You shit, can you finish the conversation in one go?" ”

At this moment, Sun Bin was really depressed, and co-authored Bai waited for half a night?

Finally snatched the task from the commander, but ended up being lonely?

……

Sun Bin was very depressed, but Ding Wei was very happy.

By the time Ding Wei went up to the position, the battle was over.

I saw that the various participating troops had begun to clean up the battlefield.

Ding Wei saw two burning Type 95 light tanks at a glance.

This time, the devil reinforcements from Anhua, in addition to the devil infantry and artillery, actually have a tank squadron, but because it is in the dark of night, and there are lush bud valleys on both sides of the road, it is easy to be destroyed by the participating troops with Molotov cocktails, and it almost does not play a role.

Dealing with the tanks of the little devils, the Eighth Route Army is becoming more and more handy.

The level of Butan coordination of the white devil is also sparse, and the disconnect is very serious.

However, Ding Wei still felt a little pity, and said to Li Xiaoxian: "It's a pity that these tanks can be captured, how good would it be?" In this way, our tank company can be turned into a tank battalion. ”

"What is this, it's a pity that there are more than a dozen mountain cannons." Li Xiao first pointed to the artillery position not far ahead, and said, "What a good Qiwu mountain artillery, it was destroyed like this." ”

While the two were talking, they had already come to the artillery position.

As far as the eye could see, I saw that the entire artillery position had been blown up to pieces.

In addition to the bombed-up cannons, there are also corpses of devils, many of which are even mutilated, with a lump of internal organs in the east and amputated limbs in the west, not to mention how disgusting.

However, Ding Wei and Li Xiaoxian did not react to this.

As veterans, they've seen even more disgusting scenes.

Ding Wei walked to a 41-type 75mm caliber mountain cannon that was overturned by the air wave, only to see that the mountain gun was only bent by the air wave generated by the explosion, and the main body was still intact, and it should still be repaired, even if it could not be repaired, at least it could be disassembled as a spare part for the artillery regiment.

At that moment, Ding Wei stepped on the mountain cannon that overturned on the ground,

He said loudly: "Chief of Staff, immediately send a report to the headquarters, our detachment has been assisted by three detachments, artillery regiment and cavalry regiment, completely annihilating the enemy who came to the aid of Anhua, destroying more than 3,000 enemies, destroying more than 10 tanks and armored vehicles, capturing 12 41-type mountain guns, and other weapons and ammunition are being counted as soon as possible." ”

"Yes." Li Xiaoxian agreed, and turned around and left excitedly.

Ding Wei yelled again: "Comrades, hurry up, it's less than an hour before dawn, you must clean up the battlefield before dawn, hurry up, move quickly!" ”

……

In Anhua County, the headquarters of the 69th Division of the Japanese Army.

Within half an hour, bad news reached the division headquarters one after another.

"It was reported that the Changdao Brigade was ambushed in Pichai Bay, twenty kilometers northwest of Ping'an County."

"It was reported that the Detian United was ambushed in Zhanggezhuang, fifteen kilometers southwest of Ping'an County."

When he received these two news, Ryuichi Sakamoto was still very calm, because this had long been expected by him, and the Eighth Route Army was still doing this little trick.

It's nothing more than encircling the point to send reinforcements.

It's just that the encirclement point reinforcement must also have the strength to encircle the point to help.

Ryuichi Sakamoto firmly believed that the Eighth Route Army could neither surround the point nor send reinforcements.

But the news that came immediately made Ryuichi Sakamoto no longer calm.

"Report, the Eighth Route Army that ambushed the Long Island Brigade has at least eight thousand people!"

"Report, the Eighth Route Army that ambushed the Tokuda United has at least 20,000 people! There is also a heavy artillery group! ”

I don't know if it's because the sky is unclear, or because the devils in front deliberately exaggerated the number of troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Hearing this, Inoue Sadawei, Mi Igarashi, Sadao Kato, and several combat staff officers threw shocked looks at Sakamoto Ryuichi at the same time, which is not your judgment.

There were 28,000 people in the Eighth Route Army who participated in the ambush?

Aren't you, the two Eighth Route armies add up to seven or eight thousand people?

"It can't be!" Sakamoto said calmly, "They must have made a mistake!" ”

Sakamoto felt that even if he made a mistake in judgment, it would never be possible to be so different.

Soon new news came back that it was not the Eighth Route Army that ambushed the Changdao Brigade reinforced from Lao County, but the 94th Brigade of the Central Army in Fu'an County.

"The Central Army?"

"Why are they coming to join in the fun?"

"Yes, hasn't the Central Army of China already fallen out with the Eighth Route Army?"

Mei Igarashi, Sadao Kato, and several combat staff officers once again cast a questioning look at Ryuichi Sakamoto, which was already Ryuichi Sakamoto's second error in judgment.

Ryuichi Sakamoto is also a little confused.

What's the situation? What's going on with the Central Army?

In this case, the Central Army can still help the Eighth Route Army?

After about half an hour, two more shocking pieces of bad news were transmitted back to the division headquarters.

"Chief of Staff!" The communications staff officer who came to report suddenly reported, "Yoshino Guncao of the communications squad belonging to the Nagashima Brigade has just sent a farewell telegram!" ”

"What? Farewell telegram? ”

Ryuichi Sakamoto couldn't believe his ears.

"Yes." The communications staff officer said, "The Long Island Brigade has been collectively shattered. ”

Before the words fell, another communications staff officer hurriedly walked into the war room and reported: "Chief of Staff, I have just received a farewell telegram from Lieutenant Matsuno of the communications team under the Tokuda Wing, and the Tokuda Wing, the 1st Mountain Artillery Group, and the Search Team have sacrificed their lives for the Japanese Empire and His Majesty the Emperor five minutes ago. ”

Quiet! The entire war room fell into a deathly silence!

Takashi Sakamoto was stunned for a moment, and the whole person was stupid.

This was really completely beyond his expectations, he never thought that the two reinforcements would be annihilated at the same time in such a short period of time! This is completely illogical!

It is impossible for the Eighth Route Army to have such a strong strength!

"Impossible, impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Takashi Sakamoto said repeatedly: "There must be something wrong." ”

"Sakamoto-kun, aren't you two reinforcements that will definitely not be in danger?"

Inoue Sadae finally bares his fangs and takes the opportunity to fall into the well to suppress Ryuichi Sakamoto's prestige.

After a pause, Inoue Zhenwei said again: "But now the two reinforcements are broken at the same time, how do you explain it?" ”

Mei Igarashi, Sadao Kato, and several other operational staff officers also cast dissatisfied glances at Ryuichi Sakamoto, because Ryuichi Sakamoto's misjudgment caused heavy losses to the 69th Division, and even caused serious damage to the reputation of the 69th Division, and their personal reputation was closely related to the collective honor of the 69th Division.

So, in a sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto affected their honor.

This can have a serious impact on their personal futures, so it is inevitable that they will be dissatisfied.

Facing Inoue's questioning, Takashi Sakamoto was speechless, because until this moment, his mind was still in a state of confusion, and he really couldn't understand, how could this be the result?

Naturally, Inoue will not miss such an opportunity to take over power.

At that moment, Inoue Sadawei instructed Igarashi Meidao: "Igarashi-kun, immediately call the headquarters, regarding the sudden joint attack of the Eighth Route Army and the Central Army of China in the northwest of Jin Province to launch a fierce attack on the defense area of our 69th Division, the Eighth Route Army and the Central Army of China have mobilized more than 50,000 troops, and there are more than 50 heavy artillery pieces to provide strong fire support, and our 69th Division has lost an infantry wing, a mountain artillery brigade and a search team due to the command error of Chief of Staff Ryuichi Sakamoto. ”

"Today, the strength of our 69th Division is seriously insufficient, and the firepower has been completely suppressed by the Eighth Route Army, and Anhua, Laoxian and Ping'an County are already in danger, so I request the headquarters to urgently transfer troops and reinforcements!"

"Hello!" Igarashi Mei nodded heavily and promised.

……

Heyuan County, the headquarters of the Northwest Column of Jin.

The headquarters of the devil's division was gloomy and miserable, but the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was full of laughter.

"Pretty, well done." The brigade commander praised, "In the battle of Zhanggezhuang, Ding Wei commanded beautifully, and all the units participating in the battle fought beautifully, commended, Xiao Zhao, immediately telegraphed to commend him!" ”

"Yes!" Zhao Gang responded and turned around to draft a telegram.

Well, Zhao Gang was also caught by the brigade commander at the column headquarters.

He was also temporarily appointed as Acting Deputy Director of the Department of Political Affairs.

The brigade commander was really not polite to Li Yunlong, and he was about to hollow out his detachment headquarters.

Li Yunlong's three detachment headquarters originally had few people, and now it has become an empty shelf.

After a pause, the brigade commander said again: "However, Liang Gang's troops actually came to intervene, which I didn't expect." ”

Wang Ye said: "I didn't expect this, I originally thought that it would be good if the 94th Brigade of the Central Army didn't stab us in the back, but I didn't expect it to come to help us." ”

After a pause, he said: "Especially a while ago, we just had an unpleasant encounter with Jin Suijun. ”

The brigade commander continued: "Moreover, the predecessor of the 94th Brigade of the Central Army was the 94th Division, and this unit has a deep hatred with our Eighth Route Army. ”

Wang Ye said: "So this is even more rare. ”

The brigade commander said: "Xiao Wang, do you mean to let Liang Gang also participate in the next stage of the war?" ”

"Forget it then." Wang Ye said, "My opinion is that the Central Army wants to participate, and we have no objection, but we must not take them into account when formulating the battle plan. ”

At this point, he said, "You have to watch out for them!" ”

"Xiao Wang is right." Li Yunlong said, "The Central Army is not credible. ”

Wang Ye waved his hand: "Actually, Chang Kaishen is not credible." ”

"Not yet." The brigade commander waved his hand and said, "Now that the first phase of the battle is over, and it is much smoother than we expected, it is time to enter the second phase of the combat mission." ”

Wang Ye continued: "In the second stage, our original plan was to concentrate the main force to take Anhua County and annihilate the division headquarters of the 69th Division, but considering that the Japanese army would shrink the forces of the three strongholds along Tongpu Road into Anhua County in advance, and the attack of the second detachment on Ping'an County was relatively smooth, I suggested making adjustments. ”

The brigade commander asked, "Do you mean to give priority to solving the enemy in Ping'an County?" ”

"Yes, first solve the enemy of Ping'an County." Wang Ye said, "Then solve the enemy in Lao County, and finally concentrate on solving the enemy in Anhua County!" If things don't go well, you can make adjustments in time. ”

After a pause, Wang Ye continued: "And if nothing else, the 69th Division of the Japanese Army must have asked for help from the headquarters of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, and the battlefield will inevitably expand from the northwest of Shanxi to the entire SX Province, and the Taiyue Military Region and the Taihang Military Region must also prepare to block the attack in advance." ”

……

In Taiyuan, the headquarters of the First Army.

"Yaga, Inoue Sadawei, this idiot! What the hell is he doing? ”

"The Tuba Road in the northwest of Jin launched such a large-scale attack, and they actually didn't notice it?"

After receiving the telegram from the 69th Division, the new commander of the First Army, Yoshimoto Sadachi, who had just arrived in office, was immediately half angry.

Takuya Mizuhara has long looked at Sakamoto Takaichi unpleasantly.

This will seize the opportunity, and naturally will not let go of the good opportunity to fall into the well.

At that moment, Takuya Mizuhara said: "Your Excellency Commander doesn't know that Your Excellency Inoue has just arrived in office, and he actually doesn't care much about the specific affairs of the 69th Division. ”

Yoshimoto was stunned for a moment, frowned and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Takuya Mizuhara said: "The 69th Division is actually actually commanded by Ryuichi Sakamoto. ”

"Sakamoto-kun?" Yoshimoto Sadachi was stunned and said, "But before I came to Taiyuan, His Excellency the General also specifically mentioned Sakamoto-kun to me, he is an extremely good chief of staff. ”

Takuya Mizuhara was in his heart, but he didn't expect that even His Excellency the General would appreciate Ryuichi Sakamoto?

However, this was difficult for Takuya Mizuhara, and said: "Your Excellency General's evaluation of Sakamoto-kun is very accurate, Sakamoto-kun is indeed a very good chief of staff, but he is not a qualified division commander. ”

"Hmm." Yoshimoto Sadaichi somewhat understood what Takuya Mizuhara meant.

Yoshimoto Sadachi: "Mizuhara-kun, you are a master of Sakamoto-kun, and you are only suitable to be a chief of staff to make plans, not suitable to be the commander of a division, and actually command a division and regiment to fight, is that so?" ”

"Your Excellency Commander summed it up very well." Takuya Mizuhara said with a smile.

After a pause, Takuya Mizuhara said: "There is such a kind of person in this world, when they serve as staff officers, they can always put forward unique opinions from a unique perspective, but when they sit in the position of commander and need to make decisions, they will become conservative, become sluggish, and even become stupid. ”

Yoshimoto Sadachi: "This is actually human nature, because when they are staff officers, they only need to make suggestions, but they do not need to be responsible for their own suggestions, and when they sit in the position of command, they need to be responsible for every decision they make, because each of his decisions will determine the success or failure of a battle, will determine the life and death of thousands or even tens of thousands of people, and may even determine the survival of an empire, so they need to consider or scruple more factors, When making decisions, they are bound to be influenced by various factors. ”

Takuya Mizuhara couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praised: "Your Excellency the Commander really sees the problem thoroughly, and he has been taught by his humble position. ”

"Mizuwon-kun, you also have a very good eye for seeing problems." Yoshimoto Sadami smiled slightly, and then said to the head of the communications section, Inoue, "Inoue-kun, immediately call the 36th and 37th Divisions, and each transfer four infantry brigades plus a mountain artillery brigade to reinforce the northwest of Jinxi, hurry!" ”

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