"Nani?" Yoshio Shinozuka's eyes widened, and his face was full of disbelief, "Yamazaki's detachment sent a farewell telegram?" ”

"Hey!" Toshimatsu Kasai said, "Two minutes ago, Second Lieutenant Shiro Kato of the Yamazaki Detachment's Signal Corps Detachment sent a telegram for help halfway through and changed it to a farewell telegram!" ”

The entire combat hall of the First Army was silent.

All the operational staff officers froze in place, looking at each other in disbelief.

Kusuyama Hideyoshi's eyes widened even more, his face full of disbelief.

How is this possible? It's a good situation, why did you suddenly send a farewell telegram?

That's too fast, right?

Two hours ago, Yamazaki Yehei also sent a telegram from the left, saying that Guanjiayuan was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Tubalu was vulnerable, and it could hold out for at least two days.

How long has it been since the Yamazaki detachment sent a farewell telegram...

Obviously the situation is very good, as long as the Yamazaki detachment can hold out until tomorrow morning, the peripheral sweeping troops will be able to arrive!

At that time, the main force of the Eighth Route Army will be eliminated.

Almost subconsciously, Yoshio Shinozuka and a group of combat staff officers looked at Hideyoshi Kusuyama, the initiator of this campaign, and everyone's eyes were focused on his face.

Kusuyama Hideyoshi's face flushed suddenly, his whole body trembled slightly with shame, and the nails in his clenched fists almost sank into the flesh.

This battle plan was personally agreed upon by Yoshio Shinozuka and Jun Tada.

The sky fell and was held by a tall man, but with the loss of more than 1,300 elite Japanese troops at once, he could not be without responsibility at all.

What the hell is Yehei Yamazaki up to?

Even if a pig is sent to guard Guanjiayuan, it is impossible to be wiped out by the Eighth Route so quickly, right?

In addition to the anger, Kusunayama Hideyoshi's brows furrowed tightly, almost twisted into a Sichuan character, and his heart was full of confusion.

How did the Eighth Road take the Guanjiayuan Heights in two hours?

Even if the Eighth Route mobilizes a large number of artillery, it is impossible to take the Guanjiayuan Heights in such a short time, right?

What went wrong?

"Nanshan-kun, are you okay?" Yoshio Shinozuka asked with a frown.

"Your Excellency, Commander." Kusuyama Hideyoshi took a deep breath and suppressed the doubts in his heart, "I'm fine, Kasai-kun, please read the farewell telegram." ”

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Since the Yamazaki detachment has sent a farewell telegram, it means that the defeat of the Yamazaki detachment is inevitable, the Yamazaki detachment is now in the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army, and the reinforcements are still dozens of kilometers away, and the defeat means the annihilation of the entire army.

It is hoped that the reason for the defeat can be found in the farewell telegram of the Yamazaki detachment.

"Hey!" Kasai Toshimatsu paused, picked up the farewell telegram and read it.

"Yamazaki Zhongzuo telegram: The Guanjiayuan Heights have been shelled by at least three artillery wings of the Eighth Road, and the losses are relatively large.

The first sentence shocked Yoshio Shinozuka and Hideyoshi Kusuyama.

Three artillery wings?

Since the Japanese army signal corps did not understand the establishment of the Eighth Route Artillery, they replaced it with artillery wings, mainly because there were too few artillery regiments of the Chinese army.

In fact, the number of artillery pieces of an artillery wing of the Japanese army is about the same as that of an artillery regiment of the Chinese army.

By the standards of a divisional regiment, an artillery wing has 48 guns.

Generally 75 mm and 105 mm guns, special units are equipped with large-caliber heavy artillery, of course, this is the standard of the first division regiment, that is, the highest standard.

The artillery wings of the B and C divisions had only 36 guns.

There were only D-level divisions, and there was simply only one artillery brigade.

In addition to the artillery wings, the Japanese army also had separate artillery brigades, which were of high status and were generally armed with 105-mm and 150-mm heavy guns.

The mountain artillery used by the new regiment this time was equivalent to the number of artillery pieces of the two artillery wings of the Japanese Army's B and C Divisions.

And although the rest are mortars, they can't hold up a large number of them, and they can barely be counted as an artillery wing.

"Nani? Three artillery wings? ”

"Yaga? Did I hear me right? ”

"Tubalu actually took out three artillery wings?"

The battle hall exploded all at once, there were three artillery wings, when did the Eighth Road in the southeast bandit area of Jindong become so rich?

The last time the Eighth Road attacked the 225th Wing, they used less than 2 artillery wings.

At that time, the entire First Army Command unanimously believed that this was already all the concentrated artillery of the Eighth Route Army in the southeast of Jinjin, and the shells had been almost consumed.

However, now it seems that the number of artillery and shells on the 8th Road southeast of Jin is far beyond their expectations.

Kasai Toshimatsu continued: "Captain Yamazaki has been shattered, the firepower of the Eighth Route is very fierce, the artillery fire has just stopped the Eighth Route has already attacked the high ground, the infantry of the Eighth Route is extremely cunning, and actually ambushed a large number of sharpshooters on the flank of the Guanjiayuan Heights, so that the firepower of the Imperial Army's forward position cannot be brought into play. ”

"The rest of the Imperial Army will face the Eighth Route Army and make a decisive attack..."

"His Majesty the Emperor onboard, the Great Japanese Imperial Army onboard, October 9, Showa 15."

After Toshimatsu Kasai finished reading the telegram, the entire battle hall fell silent again.

Kusuyama Hideyoshi also found the real reason for the destruction of the Yamazaki detachment from the farewell telegram.

Washed by artillery fire from the guns of three artillery artillery wings.

However, this is not the most critical, the most lethal is that the Eighth Route uses the top of the wind to suppress the firepower of the Guanjiayuan Heights.

If Yamazaki Yehei's stupid pig had sent troops to occupy the Fengyuan Heights earlier, and formed an angle with the Guanjiayuan Heights, then even if the Eighth Route used three artillery wings, it would definitely not be so easy to capture the Guanjiayuan Heights.

However, it is too late to say anything.

……

In the vicinity of Guanjiayuan, the command post of the 386 brigade.

Li Yunlong accompanied several leaders to watch a wonderful ground-air battle.

Machine-mounted anti-aircraft guns and large-caliber heavy machine guns take on fighter and attack aircraft of the devils.

Two mortar positions of the Eighth Route Army were destroyed, two mortar batteries were lost.

But the devil planes did not get any favors, and two Type 96 bombers were shot down.

The news was transmitted to the command post of the 386 Brigade by the signal corps, and the boss immediately smiled and said: "Two mortars in a company for two devil planes, it's not a loss." ”

"It's really not a loss." The chief of staff nodded and said, "After all, Li Yunlong reimbursed us for the lost artillery." ”

The brigade commander and deputy brigade commander Han also smiled and nodded in agreement.

Only Li Yunlong smiled and said nothing.

Hehe...

In addition to the reimbursement, I had to credit 6 75mm mountain guns.

By the way, about 1,000 devils were killed in this battle, and 10 tons of medicine and 60 large-caliber heavy machine guns were recorded.

You big chiefs just don't lose, but we old Li earn blood.

The radio station emitted the sound of sending and receiving messages.

One of the coders scribbled the message on paper, then stood up and gave a military salute.

"Chief, the 385th Brigade is in an emergency!"

The brigade commander took a look and said: "The devil's movements are quite fast, the closest to us is only 30 kilometers, and the 385 brigade advises us to move as soon as possible." ”

"Can you not be happy?" Deputy Brigade Commander Han said, "This is clearly a well-planned combat operation by the devils against our base area in the southeast of Shanxi, so the devils have long been ready, and they want to use the Yamazaki detachment to catch our fish, and they are ready to eat our main force in one bite." ”

"Now there's no bait." The brigade commander said in a disdainful tone and said with a smile, "What do I think he uses to fish on a dog day?" ”

The boss said in a deep voice: "Although there is no bait, but the enemy's sweep may not stop here, pass on my order, and all departments retreat according to the second set of squares." ”

As the boss expected, the retaliatory sweep that the Japanese army had been brewing for so long would not be stopped so easily.

However, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army had long guessed that the Japanese army would carry out a retaliatory sweep of the base area, so it was prepared in advance.

The grain has been hidden, the people have been moved in advance, and the ministries have prepared retreat routes in advance.

The second set of eucalyptus is that the common people are strong and clear, and part of the main force fights with the enemy with sparrow warfare and tunnel warfare.

The other part of the main force scattered and jumped to the outside line to fight, to destroy the devil's lines of communication.

The Japanese army's logistical supplies could not keep up, so they would naturally retreat from the base areas.

Although the strength of the main force of the Eighth Route Army has been greatly enhanced, it is still not yet the time for a head-on decisive battle with the main force of the Japanese army.

Even if they concentrated their forces in the base area and fought with 30,000 Japanese troops to defeat both sides, the Japanese army would soon be able to transfer 30,000 troops and equipment from the Japanese mainland.

And after the Eighth Route Army's vitality is seriously damaged, I am afraid that it will not be able to slow down for several years.

What's more, there is not much chance of winning, and if the battle is lost, it will be even more devastating.

With the murderous and brutal nature of the devils, I am afraid that the entire southeast of Jin will have to become a no-man's land.

The task of the new regiment is also to jump to the outside line.

At that moment, Li Yunlong led the new regiment in the direction of Liao County.

Although the Devil's Fourth Route Army attacked the Eighth Route Base Area in a combined manner and besieged it on all sides, almost all of them were brigades or wings marching in a concentrated manner.

It is not a dragnet sweep, which gives the troops the opportunity to jump out of the encirclement of devils.

The main force of the Eighth Route Army, which had the home advantage, was familiar with the terrain and did not need to fight the devils head-on at all, so they jumped to the outside line casually.

……

Early the next morning.

The first to arrive at Guanjiayuan was the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Army.

The 9th Brigade was originally assembled in the vicinity of the Baijin Line, and after receiving the order from the First Army Headquarters, it rushed to Guanjiayuan without stopping.

During this period, it was stubbornly resisted by the Eighth Route Army, but the offensive of the 9th Brigade was also very fierce.

Yesterday afternoon, after the blocking units were ordered to retreat, the 9th Brigade drove straight in.

However, due to the unfamiliar road of the night march, the vanguard took the wrong road several times, and the 30-kilometer mountain road was forced to walk overnight.

Guanjiayuan and the surrounding hills were densely packed with soldiers of the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Army.

The commander of the brigade of the major general, surrounded by adjutants, staff officers, and guards, went to the Guanjiayuan Heights.

The entire Guanjiayuan Heights were in a mess, with bomb craters, and most of the trenches, foxholes and other fortifications built by the Yamazaki detachment were blown flat by artillery shells.

The Yamazaki detachment and the soldiers with all the corpses were stripped down to only a pair of crotch pants.

Yuesheng Toranosuke's face was gloomy, and he covered his nose: "Burn the corpses of the Jade Broken Warriors, take their ashes away, and send them back to the Yasukuni Shrine." ”

"Hey!"

At that moment, the devils dug a pit on the high ground of Guanjiayuan.

Other devils collect some branches, mix them with gasoline and light them, and when the fire grows bigger, they carry the bodies of the devils and throw them into the pit and burn them.