Peiping.

Headquarters of the North China Front of the Japanese Army.

Senior General Okamura Ninji was in an extremely bad mood.

The transfer of the 9th and 11th Divisions to North China would have been a joyous event.

However, just a few days after the 9th Division arrived, it was directly hit hard by the stupid behavior of Kiichiro Higuchi without authorization, and it may even be wiped out.

This 9th Division is the home division of the Japanese army, one of the 17 permanent divisions, and its combat effectiveness is extremely strong.

In terms of equipment, it is also relatively sophisticated, second only to the 2nd Division and the 6th Division in combat effectiveness, and is good at fighting evil and tough battles.

Just to deal with the Eighth Route Army, which is good at fighting evil battles and tough battles.

However, before I could see what the Eighth Route Army looked like, the 9th Division was heavily damaged.

"Lieutenant General Higuchi Kiichiro has been leading the 9th Division to garrison Manchuria, and he is not clear about the intelligence capabilities of the Eighth Route Army, and the officers and soldiers of the 9th Division must also have the idea of underestimating the enemy."

"That's why this incident happened."

Arisue Seizo said with a complicated expression.

Logically speaking, the division commander of a division of a type A division should ask the headquarters for instructions on the combat operations of so many troops.

But Kiichiro Higuchi obviously didn't take Okamura Ninji and Seizo Arise seriously.

I didn't ask for instructions at all, and I did it on my own.

There is an implication in the three words of the last essence, they should not be responsible for the defeat of the 9th Division.

Of course.

As the chief of staff and commander of the North China Front, they certainly could not escape responsibility.

"Kiichiro Higuchi, this idiot, waste, pig!"

Okamura Ninji was really angry.

He had already instructed Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi and others not to act rashly, but this kind of thing still happened.

If all the commanders of the 8 divisions who were transferred did not listen to the command, how would this team be brought down?

So.

Okamura Ninji directly ordered Kiichiro Higuchi to lead the remaining troops of the 9th Division and roll back to Manchuria, and then Okamura sent him to the military court in the base camp.

After all.

Kiichiro Higuchi was a lieutenant general in the Japanese Army, and it was impossible for Okamura Ninji to directly order him to be disemboweled.

After being sent to a military court, it is impossible for Higuchi Jiichiro to be the commander of the division anymore, and the treatment has nothing to do with him, and he will even be imprisoned.

At this moment, Haruo Kitani, a communications staff officer, walked in quickly with a telegram in his hand, bowed his head and reported to Okamura Ninji:

"General."

"I just received a telegram from Lieutenant General Mitsuo Nakazawa and Lieutenant General Shigetoku Kuroda of the 1st Division, Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi, commander of the 9th Division, who committed suicide by disembowelment."

"The 9th Division, except for the 9th Artillery Wing, was almost completely wiped out, and there were still a large number of seriously wounded in Zhangjiakou."

More than 500 tons of aerial bombs bombed it is impossible to kill all the devils on the East Mountain.

There were still a very small number of devils who survived unscathed, but the number of wounded was very large, and most of them were seriously wounded.

These seriously injured people either had their hands or feet broken, or their internal organs were injured by the air wave and the blast wave of the explosion, and they did not die in a breath.

These seriously injured people are what really make the devil feel tricky.

Saving it requires a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.

Don't save it, those soldiers who are not injured are watching, if you don't save it, it will greatly affect morale.

"Nani?"

"Committed suicide by caesarean section?"

Okamura Ninji and Arisue Seizo stood up in unison.

"Let's go down."

Okamura wanted to say something, but in the end he only waved his hand.

Although Okamura Ninji wanted to cut off Kiichiro Higuchi, the other party had already committed suicide by caesarean section, so the sins committed by Kiichiro Higuchi would be written off.

And on the side of the base camp, Okamura Ninji also has an explanation.

This defeat is the responsibility of Kiichiro Higuchi, and Kiichiro Higuchi has already disemboweled to thank the emperor.

"Hey."

Osamu Kitani bowed his head, put the telegram on his desk, and turned to leave.

"Your Excellency, Commander."

"The bombing of the 9th Division is another typical intelligence leak."

"The Eighth Route Army must have mastered the exact information, so it sent bombers to bomb successfully."

There is a sue essence three, the tone and expression are extremely solemn.

An elite division was easily defeated like this, and the Eighth Route Army only wasted a few hundred tons of aerial bombs, without losing a single aircraft and a single soldier.

Although the 9th Division can be reorganized, those veterans of the A Division will lose one less one.

At present, the Japanese army is in full swing in the Pacific, China and Southeast Asia, and Japan has launched a national mobilization.

So.

Even if the 9th Division is reorganized, it will be difficult for the combat effectiveness to return to its peak.

"Intelligence, intelligence, intelligence!"

"It seems that the intelligence of the locust army has never gained an advantage!"

"How can we win a battle when the enemy knows everything about us, but we know very little about the enemy?"

Okamura Ninji frowned, in a bad mood.

He never understood why the enemy had such a strong intelligence capability.

In the headquarters of the North China Front, it is very likely that there are still high-ranking spies of the Eighth Route Army.

Is there a third essence?

Before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Okamura Ninji was sent to China to do espionage work for a period of time, and he did a good job, and he was promoted when he returned home.

For this war, Japan prepared for many years, infiltrating the Chinese government army, drawing maps on the spot, bribing officials, and other measures, and obtained a lot of high-value information.

This is also the reason why Japan was able to defeat the Chinese army in the early stage of the war.

However, the Japanese army's infiltration of the Eighth Route Army was difficult to achieve the expected results.

The organization of the Eighth Route Army was far more rigorous than the Japanese army imagined.

"Your Excellency, Commander, this is also something that cannot be helped."

"After all, we are fighting on the territory of another country, in the territory of the enemy."

"Everyone who lives on this land is likely to be an enemy intelligence agent, including the locust alliance troops who are skewed down on the surface."

"Any occupying force, no matter how professional and well-trained its intelligence system, will always be at a disadvantage."

There is a helpless tone.

Okamura Ninji nodded, as a senior Japanese general, he naturally understood this truth.

"Unless..."

"Unless what?" Okamura Ninji asked with a moving expression.

After a pause, Arisue Seizan said: "Unless the locust army has a large amount of food and other materials, which will be distributed to the Chinese people for free, buy their people's hearts, and let them completely surrender to the locust army." ”

In troubled times, countless people died of starvation.

In order to eat and survive, some Chinese ordinary people do not hesitate to be traitors and carry guns to beat the Chinese army.

But it's a pity that the Japanese army didn't have so much food, and the food devils themselves didn't have enough to eat.

Moreover, the image of the devil burning, killing, looting, and brutality has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the Chinese people.

Even in the areas occupied by the Japanese army, many Chinese are superficially subservient, scolding the eighteenth generation of the devil's ancestors behind their backs, and even secretly helping the Chinese army.

"Don't talk about that."

Okamura Nenji waved his hand and said:

"Yousu-kun, you ask Yamamoto-kun to set up an intelligence team and send it to Zhangjiakou to investigate this incident, and you must thoroughly investigate the matter."

"Send the wounded and the rest of the troops of the 9th Division to Manchuria."

"Request the base camp to change a new division from the Kwantung Army to North China."

"Hey."

Yousue Jingsan first bowed his head, and then said with a moving expression:

"The 9th Artillery Wing, will it also be sent back to Manchuria?"

"Yousue-kun, you reminded me in time, and the 9th Artillery Wing stayed." Okamura Ninji said.

After all, it is the artillery wing of the first division regiment, and its combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the artillery wing of the second-line division.

After a pause, Okamura Ningji said again: "Also, inform the divisions and regiments of the matter of the 9th Division, and remind the division commanders of the new divisions in North China that whoever dares to transfer troops to fight without authorization will be the end." ”

Seizo Arisue: "Hi." ”

Okamura Ningji said again: "In addition, urge Major General Yamamoto Kazuki to increase the intelligence penetration of the Shanxi Eighth Route Army. ”

Seizo Arisue: "Hi." ”

……

At night.

Taiyuan.

Wujuku Airport.

The air force units of the Eighth Route Army were holding a celebration banquet, and Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Zhang Dabiao, and others were all there, and some battalion commanders of the new regiment were also coming to join in the fun.

The head of the headquarters and the chief of staff also came.

However, the head of the headquarters was busy, said a few words, drank a bowl of wine with the pilots and left.

Zheng Shaoqiang, Li Shaorong, Zhang Zhongkui, Zhang Shisun and others sat at a table with Li Yunlong.

The table was filled with sumptuous dishes.

They drank all Coke and other drinks, and after only drinking a little wine, Political Commissar Zhao didn't let them drink it.

Although we have won the battle, we must not let our guard down.

What if the pilots are drunk and the devil plane suddenly comes to carry out a sneak attack?

Huang Erhu held a telegram in his hand, walked quickly to Li Yunlong's side, and whispered in his ear: "Commander, Boss Chen's secret message!" ”

The dining table is placed on the auxiliary runway of the airport, and the airport is full of high-power electric lights of several hundred watts, as if it were daylight.

Li Yunlong's expression moved, and he immediately took the telegram and read it, and then couldn't help but look happy.

"Be quiet!"

"I have a few words to say."

Li Yunlong stood up, and as his voice sounded, the surroundings suddenly became silent.

Then, Li Yunlong raised the telegram in his hand and said loudly: "I have just received reliable information that the 9th Division of the Japanese Army was killed and injured by nearly 600 tons of aerial bombs this morning, and more than 25,000 people were killed and wounded, and the commander of the 9th Division, Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi, committed suicide by disembowelment!" ”

Wow... As soon as Li Yunlong's words fell, there was an uproar around him.

Some ground crews and pilots, hearing the news, suddenly widened their eyes, and their eyeballs were about to pop out.

"Bang Bang!"

Not surprisingly, all the ground crews, pilots and infantry battalion commanders of the Eighth Route Army, as well as pilots who were under review, began to applaud wildly.

Yanagisawa and more than 20 pilots under scrutiny couldn't help but burst into tears.

This time, they personally participated in the bombing mission to avenge their fallen comrades!

After the celebration banquet, Li Yunlong was in an extremely comfortable mood.

Haha, get rich!

(End of chapter)