Three days later.

Peiping.

Command of the North China Front.

"Your Excellency Commander, the casualties of each division and regiment have been counted!"

Deputy Chief of Staff Seizo Arisue Seizo walked into the commander's office with a folder in his hand and reported to Okamura Ninji.

Tanabe Moritake on the side turned his head to look at Seizo Arisue, who had already arrived in Taiyuan ahead of schedule, and then flew back to Beiping from Taiyuan to report the specific details of the operation to Okamura Ningji.

Okamura Ninji said in a deep voice: "Read! ”

"Hey!" "The 10th Division suffered more than 16,000 casualties, the 21st Division suffered more than 4,100 casualties, the 23rd Division suffered more than 4,000 casualties, the 25th Division suffered more than 4,200 casualties, and the 35th Division suffered more than 3,900 casualties, totaling more than 32,000 casualties. ”

"The commander of the 8th Brigade, Major General Saburo Miura, is broken!"

"In addition, almost all of the more than 20,000 people of the Locust Association Army were killed!"

"Nani? More than 32,000 locust casualties? Tanabe Shengwu Tong Kong couldn't help but shrink, he knew that the locust army would definitely suffer a lot of casualties in this battle, but he didn't expect such a big casualty.

"Yaga!"

Okamura Ninji was speechless in shock at first, and then lifted the documents on the table, pulled out the command saber with a swipe, and cut the table he had just changed in two.

He was angry that the five elite divisions of the Locust Army plus more than 20,000 Imperial Cooperative Army attacked Tubalu, which was less than half of the Locust Army and the Imperial Cooperative Army.

The loss is so great.

This is simply a shame for him Okamura Ninji!

Shame on the North China Front!

Although Okamura Ninji is very strategically minded and his tactical command ability is also first-class, he is not a winner in every battle.

In May and September 1939, he launched the Xiangdong Offensive (Suizao Battle) against China's Fifth Theater and the Hunan and Jiangxi Battles (the First Battle of Changsha) against the Ninth Theater, both of which ended in failure.

Taking a deep breath and suppressing the anger in his heart, Okamura Ninji asked coldly, "How many casualties are there in the Eight Roads?" ”

This statistic does not include the Japanese casualties in the Xinzhou Campaign, and does not include the casualties of the Japanese in the Miaoergou Battle.

If all of this were added up, the Japanese casualties alone would be nearly 40,000.

"According to the summary of the statistical reports reported by each division, the total number of casualties on the Eighth Route is about 15,000!" ”

"The casualties of the Locust Army, the Locust Alliance Army and the Eighth Route are four to one!" Okamura Ninji's forehead was bruised, and in the battle he commanded, there had never been such an outrageous casualty ratio.

If Li Yunlong and the new regiment were wiped out, the cost of this casualty would be completely bearable.

But unfortunately, the casualties of the Eighth Route Army this time were far from reaching the level of serious damage.

Okamura Ninji knew very well that with the terrifying development ability of the Eighth Route Army, the original strength would be restored in a month or two at most, and even with the assistance of external channels, the strength of the Eighth Route in the northwest of Jin would be even more.

The next time the Japanese army launches such a sweeping operation, it is estimated that it will be half a year later.

The mobilization of supplies and the mobilization of troops alone will take several months of preparation.

And half a year later, I am afraid that the strength of the Eighth Route in the northwest of Jin has doubled, and if you want to attack the northwest of Jin at that time, I am afraid that you will have to use more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops.

At that time, with the command style of the commander of the new regiment, Li Yunlong, I am afraid that he will not be able to resist a large-scale attack on the First Army for a long time.

When Taiyuan is lost and Shanxi is recaptured by the Chinese army, the Chinese army will use Shanxi as a springboard to attack North China.

At this moment, Okamura Ninji thought far ahead.

But the farther he thought about it, the more he felt a headache.

It's all damn Li Yunlong, if it weren't for Li Yunlong, how could the locust army have suffered so much loss?!

Okamura Ninji retracted his thoughts and looked at Seizo Arisue: "There is Sue-kun!" ”

Seizo Arisue hurriedly bowed his head and made a gesture of listening.

"Immediately report the battle damage and enemy killings to the base camp."

Okamura Ningji said in a deep voice: "And revealed to the outside world that the locust army suffered 16,000 casualties in the first battle in the northwest of Jin, and 30,000 casualties on the Eighth Road. ”

"Hey!" Arisue Seizo turned and left.

Seeing Seizo leave with Sue Seizo, Okamura Ninji looked at Moritake Tanabe.

Tanabe Moritakeshi said: "Your Excellency Commander, the locust army has fallen into the quagmire of protracted war, and if it continues like this, it will be very detrimental to the locust army and the Japanese Empire!" ”

"Tanabe-kun, what I'm really worried about is." Okamura Ninji said worriedly, "The Chinese army is counterattacking the locust army. ”

Tanabe Moritake was stunned and said, "Nani, counterattack? ”

"Your Excellency, Commander, this is a bit unfounded, isn't it?"

"Although this time the locust army's sweeping operation against the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Jin Province failed."

"But the casualties of the Eighth Route in the northwest of Jin are not small, they can't even hold the base area, let alone counterattack?"

Okamura Ningji snorted coldly, and said in a solemn tone: "At present, the strength of the Eighth Route in the northwest of Jin is strong enough, and this time it failed to eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route in the northwest of Jin, plus the arsenal of the 129th Division in the southeast of Jin has formed a scale, at most one to two years, the Eighth Route will attack the First Army and the North China Front!" ”

"What should the locust army do?" Moritake Tanabe had already realized the seriousness of the problem and asked.

"This matter is considered in the long run, Tanabe-kun, you immediately summarize the reasons for the failure of this sweeping operation." As soon as he thought of this, Okamura Ninji felt a little headache.

Moritake Tanabe bowed his head: "Hey! ”

……

At the same time.

Hengshan area, the former 358th Regiment headquarters of the Jin Sui Army.

Now it is the regimental headquarters of the new regiment.

Three days had passed since the 10th Division was forced to retreat.

Li Yunlong had already ordered the 6th and 7th Divisional Battalions to withdraw from Baozi Mountain, and had now joined up with the main force.

Along with the 6th and 7th battalions of the division, there was also the 2nd Cavalry Battalion of the new regiment.

At present, the cavalry unit of the new regiment consists of two battalions, totaling more than 900 people.

During the battle at Onomura, the 1st Cavalry Battalion captured about 300 more horses.

Most of the horses were killed, but they were not wasted, and all of them were pulled by the automobile battalion.

So.

The new regiment now has a total of nearly 1,500 military horses, and when it returns to the base area, Li Yunlong plans to expand the 1st and 2nd cavalry battalions into more than 700 cavalry troops.

The Japanese 10th Division did not immediately return to Taiyuan, but after joining up with the 1st Cavalry Brigade.

Stationed in the vicinity of Xinzhou, in case the three regiments in the northwest of Jin Province converged, they would return to attack one or two of the other four divisions.

Although it has just gone through the baptism of a major war, with the current combat effectiveness of the new regiment, it is still very easy to defeat a second-line division, let alone a second-line division that is not at its peak.

"According to the number of enemies destroyed in the reports of various departments, it is conservatively estimated that the total number of Japanese troops annihilated by our new regiment exceeds 22,000."

At the regiment headquarters, Chief of Staff Wang Dehou reported to Li Yunlong:

"Our new regiment suffered more than 4,800 casualties, of which more than 2,000 were killed and more than 2,800 were wounded."

This enemy kill count includes the battles in Miaoergou, Baozishan and other places, so the casualty count also includes these two battles.

Li Yunlong nodded, the 36th Division was almost this casualty.

But this time the number of enemies killed was larger than the last time, because in the last battle, most of the casualties of the fighters were caused by street fighting.

Zhao Gang also nodded: "This casualty is within an acceptable range." ”

Li Yunlong's eyes narrowed: "I don't know what the results and losses of the new second regiment and the independent regiment were?" ”