Lvliang Mountain.

Kenanpo.

Office of the Commander of the Second Theater of Operations.

Chu Yunfei, Deputy Commander Yang Xingru, and several operational staff officers were impressively listed.

"Commander, this is published by the Japanese newspaper, about the Japanese casualties and the casualties of the Eighth Route Army in this sweeping operation in the northwest of Jin."

Yang Xingru handed a newspaper to Commander Yan Xishan, who was sitting behind his desk.

Yan Xishan had no interest in reading the newspapers issued by the Japanese army, and waved his hand and asked: "How many casualties did the Japanese army say they suffered and how many Eighth Route Army did they destroy?" ”

Yang Xingru said: "The Japanese army said in the newspaper that it suffered 15,000 casualties and wiped out 30,000 of the Eighth Route Army. ”

Yan Xishan's eyes flashed slightly when he heard this.

Yan Laoxi knew very well that it was impossible for the Japanese army to publish the real casualty data in the newspapers, and the Japanese army announced 15,000 casualties in the newspapers, and the casualties were definitely far more than that.

"What did the newspapers of the Eighth Route Army say?"

Yan Xishan picked up the teacup and blew lightly, ready to take a sip of morning tea.

Yang Xingru replied: "The border newspapers of the Eighth Route Army said that in this anti-sweeping operation in the northwest of Shanxi, more than 40,000 Japanese troops were eliminated, more than 20,000 puppet troops were eliminated, and more than 15,000 casualties were killed and wounded by the Eighth Route Army. ”

The teacup in Yan Xishan's hand shook slightly, his expression was full of incredulity, and he hurriedly put down the teacup: "What are you talking about?" ”

"The Japanese army suffered 40,000 casualties, and the puppet army suffered 20,000 casualties?"

"A total of 60,000 casualties?"

"Yes!" Yang Xingru bowed slightly and said, "I have already verified with the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and this data should be accurate." ”

Chu Yunfei and several combat staff officers on the side couldn't help but be shocked.

Five divisions of the Japanese army, more than 20,000 puppet troops, a total of more than 100,000 Japanese puppet troops, went to attack the Tuba Road, which had only more than 30,000 people, and it was like this?

And there is also a full-fledged, wartime-strengthened A division.

Is it the Japanese army that is too vegetable, or is the three regiments in the northwest of Jin too capable of fighting?

"Yunfei, what do you think?"

Yan Xishan looked at his confidant Chu Yunfei and asked.

Chu Yunfei said: "Commander, the casualty data of the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi revealed by the Eighth Route Headquarters and the newspapers in the border area should be true. ”

Yan Xishan asked, "How can you see it?" ”

Chu Yunfei said again: "According to intelligence, the time for the Japanese army to sweep the Eighth Route Base this time was about a month, and now it has ended hastily in only half a month, and the Japanese casualties must be too great." ”

"But ......"

"The Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi Province did not have the strength to defeat the Japanese sweeping troops again, so the four divisions of the Japanese army were able to wreak havoc in the Eighth Route Base Area."

Although there were about 2 million people in the northwest of Jin, a part of the northwest of Jin was the territory of the Jin Sui army.

The movements of the devil have always been mastered by the Jin Sui Army Headquarters.

There is so much food planted by the common people in the northwest of Shanxi, although the devils are also short of food, but the devils will definitely not be able to take it away in a short time, and most of it will be destroyed.

Chu Yunfei continued:

"Judging from the data, the casualties of the three regiments of the Eighth Route Army are not small, but they have not yet reached the point of serious damage."

"However, more than 1 million people in the northwest of Shanxi have run out of food, and the blow to the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi is even greater, and it is tantamount to drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle."

Although Chu Yunfei knew that Li Yunlong had access to aid, he didn't know that he could still get food aid, and only knew weapons and ammunition.

For the Eighth Route Army, it mainly depends on the common people, and if the common people starve to death in patches, then the Eighth Route Army will become rootless duckweed.

Deputy Commander Yang Xingru couldn't bear it: "Commander, are we helping these ordinary people in the northwest of Shanxi?" After all, they are all the people of our Jindi. ”

"I want to help too, but the landlord's family has no surplus food." Yan Xishan said in embarrassment, "The materials given to us by the Chongqing government have never been distributed in full, and our territory is small enough to collect much grain tax, so where is the surplus grain to help these more than 1 million people?" ”

Yan Xishan's heart was also mixed.

The good news is that the development of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of the Jin Dynasty has been greatly restricted, and the worry is that the 1 million people from the Jin Dynasty do not know how many people will starve to death.

As for the casualties of the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army, Yan Xishan was indeed a little shocked.

In his eyes, both the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army came to Shanxi, and they both grabbed territory with the Jin Sui Army.

It is best for these two forces to lose both, beat out the dog's brains on both sides, and then it is best for the Jin Sui army to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

When Yang Xingru and Chu Yunfei heard this, they could only sigh, no matter whether they rise or fall, it is the common people who suffer.

And Yan Xishan's idea in his heart was that he could take advantage of the heavy losses of the Japanese army to find more Iwamatsu Yoshio to open a price and walk Iwamatsu Yoshio.

At present, the Japanese army's henchmen in North China are in serious trouble with the Eighth Route, especially the Eighth Route in the northwest of Jin, and they have no time to take care of the Jin Sui army.

……

Peiping.

No. 3 Iron Lion Alley.

Command of the North China Front.

With a folder in his hand, Moritake Tanabe walked into the commander's office with Seizo Arisue.

Tanabe Moritakeshi said: "Your Excellency, Commander, I have summarized a few points about the reasons for the failure of this sweeping operation. ”

"Oh?" Okamura Ninji raised his head and said in a deep voice, "Read it and listen to it." ”

"Hey!" Tanabe Moritake picked up the folder and said: "First, the loss of fighters due to poor intelligence has put the locust army into a passive situation, whether it is the whereabouts of the 5th Wing of the heavy artillery has been leaked, or the fishing plan of the Xinzhou campaign has been leaked, it can be seen that the Eighth Route has a thorough understanding of the information of the Locust Army, but the Locust Army knows very little about the intelligence of the Eighth Route in the northwest of Jin!" ”

"Second, the attacking forces lacked the ability to respond and failed to give full play to their superiority in strength, and in the face of the Eighth Route Army's anti-slope and tunnel tactics, all units failed to come up with countermeasures in time, and became a refueling tactic, resulting in heavy losses for the Locust Army and the Locust Army!"

"The third point is still the issue of intelligence, this is the dereliction of duty of the General Staff, which failed to correctly assess the combat effectiveness of the three regiments of the Eighth Route in the northwest of Shanxi, and the combat effectiveness of the new 1st Regiment, the Independent Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment of the Eighth Route is much stronger than the assessment of the General Staff, which is also an important reason why the locust army has suffered such a large loss."

Okamura Ninji nodded, pushed the round glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said: "There is a fourth point, improper deployment and command and falling into passivity, this is my dereliction of duty, if I had withdrawn earlier, maybe the casualties would have been much smaller, and Major General Saburo Miura might not have broken ......"

In fact, Moritake Tanabe also summed up the fourth point, but he didn't dare to tell Okamura Ninji.

This can only be said by Okamura Ninji himself.

Tanabe Shengwu said: "But the locust army is not without harvest, the troops of the four second-line divisions and some locust alliance troops, these days in the so-called base area of the Eighth Road, the people of the northwest of Shanxi are afraid that they will starve to death, the development of the eight roads in the northwest of Shanxi is limited, the threat to the locust army will be greatly reduced, and when the next attack of the locusts army sweeps the northwest of Shanxi, it will be able to solve the three regiments of the Eighth Route in the northwest of Shanxi in one go." ”

"And ......," Seizo Yusue interjected on the side, "I heard that the 11th Army's attack on the government forces in Changsha was also not going well, and this attack is likely to fail." ”

"Oh?" When Okamura Ninji heard this, his heart suddenly felt a lot more comfortable.

The old devil's thoughts in his heart at this time were the same as Yan Xishan's, mixed joys and sorrows.

Happily, it seems that it is not only the North China Front that lost the battle, not just I, Okamura Ninji.

What worries me is that the situation of the locust army in China is not optimistic.