After venting his anger, Major General Hase quickly walked to the sand table and stared at Junping County for analysis.
"We can't let them continue to grow bigger!"
"I thought Kong Jie, the leader of the new second regiment, was good at fighting in the mountains, but not good at fighting on the plains!"
"Based on the current situation analysis, his command and combat capabilities in plain areas are no worse than those in mountain warfare!"
"Just over a month after taking office, the Duer Regiment has repeatedly hit us hard, and even revived the defeated army that had been on the verge of destruction. If they had been given two months, the Duer Regiment would have developed into the original Duer Brigade..."
"No, it should be worse than that!"
The person in charge of intelligence hesitated and reminded: "Brigade commander, are you mistaken?"
"Shunping County failed again. It seems to have nothing to do with the Independent Regiment... This battle should have been fought by the Northwestern Shanxi Independent Regiment!"
"Even if Kong Jie is the direct commander of this battle, it does not prove that the Duer Regiment has overcome its underestimation and has the capital to become the Duer Brigade again!"
Major General Hase did not answer the call immediately, but threw a telegram from northwest Shanxi to the communications staff.
After the communications staff member read the telegram, he said with a self-deprecating expression: "Do you still think that the Duer Regiment is a defeated army?"
"The call from northwest Shanxi showed that the so-called 1, 2, and 3 Battalions of the Independent Regiment have never left their base!"
"In order to cooperate with the Duer Regiment to deceive us and make us worry about them and not dare to attack rashly, we deliberately hid and trained to create the illusion of reinforcements in the Yizhong Plain."
"For more than a month, the only Eighth Route Army we fought against was the Duer Regiment, not the Northwestern Shanxi Independent Regiment..."
"We were fooled by them for a whole month..."
"If you don't get fooled, send troops to sweep away the base of the Duer Regiment earlier... They have no chance to capture Junping, and we won't lose so many troops around Junping..."
"The Duer Group will not get an extra month of development time for no reason!"
The communications staff officer was frightened for a while.
In just one month, Kong Jie led a defeated army to eliminate three strengthened brigades of the imperial army. This not only shows that his commanding ability is very strong, but also proves that the Duer Regiment is no longer the Duer Regiment more than a month ago.
If it continues to develop at this rate, it may not take two months for the combat effectiveness of the Duer Regiment to return to the peak state of the Duer Brigade.
After eating three brigades of imperial troops in a row, there will definitely be no shortage of weapons and ammunition needed to expand the army.
As long as there are people, you can easily raise an army of several thousand people, and the only thing that is not lacking in the Yizhong Plain is people.
He quickly suggested to Major General Hase: "Commander of the brigade, I suggest that the troops immediately send troops to encircle and suppress the Du Er Regiment!"
"Now that we know there are no other Eighth Route Army troops in Shunping, there is nothing to be afraid of!"
"More than 1,500 imperial troops entered Junpei last night!"
"No matter how powerful the Duer Regiment is in combat, and no matter how powerful Kong Jie's command is, they will still pay a heavy price in the battle!"
"While the Duer Regiment has just suffered a heavy blow and has not recovered its strength, send troops to Junpei immediately. We will surely kill them at the minimum cost. At the very least, we must severely injure them, recapture Junpei, and drive them back to the mountains!"
"If you're lucky enough, you might be able to get back all the weapons and ammunition captured by the Duer Regiment!"
Major General Hase does have such an idea.
But he did not immediately agree to the proposal.
The mixed brigade had already lost two reinforcement brigades and a field artillery brigade, leaving only three infantry brigades. He could not afford to lose another one.
No matter when he went to retaliate against the Duer Regiment, he had to make sure that his action plan was foolproof, otherwise he would rather not fight the battle.
Staring at the sand table, he suddenly asked: "If the casualties of the Duer Regiment last night were far lower than we expected, and the Duer Regiment's overall combat effectiveness has not suffered any loss, if we send troops now, wouldn't we just hit their guns and seek death? ?”
"This is impossible!" The communications staff felt like he had heard a big joke. Even though the person who said this was the brigade commander, he still did not hesitate to retort.
"There is no way that more than 1,500 imperial soldiers who are armed as teeth can be easily wiped out by the Eighth Route Army!"
"Even if they are more than 1,500 pigs, they can still cause a lot of casualties to their opponents!"
Major General Hase asked with a stern face: "I also don't believe that the Eighth Route Army wiped out the troops commanded by the Chief of Staff with minimal casualties, but do you have evidence!"
"If you only rely on our experience to infer, can you imagine that the Eighth Route Army has the strength to annihilate more than a thousand of our troops stationed in Shunping City?"
The communications staff officer was immediately confused.
He frowned and fell into deep thought, and didn't say a word for a long time.
Major General Hase immediately ordered: "We have two things that must be done immediately!"
"Find out at all costs how the Chief of Staff was eliminated by the Eighth Route Army, and also find out the current strength and equipment of the Duer Regiment."
"Assemble the troops, transfer all mobile troops that can be mobilized from surrounding counties to Baoding, assemble at least three brigades of troops, and be ready to counterattack Shunping at any time!"
"Time is limited. If we send troops one day later, the Duer Regiment will be stronger!"
"In order to reduce the counterattack pressure on the troops, recapture Junping at the minimum cost, and drive the Duer Regiment into the mountains... we must send troops in three days!"
"The intelligence department and communications department must give me accurate information within three days, otherwise military law will be imposed!"
In Shunping City, the sound of firefights completely stopped.
The streets and alleys are full of busy troops!
Some troops were transporting the corpses of Japanese and puppet soldiers outside the city, and some soldiers were transporting loot outside the city.
Huang Yu rushed into the city after counting the results of the battle outside the city, and happened to encounter Xie Guangfu, commander of the first battalion, reporting the results to Kong Jie!
"Captain, our army won a complete victory in the night attack last night!"
"Except for the Japanese and puppet troops on top of the city who were lucky enough to escape from the county seat, all the Japanese and puppet troops stationed in various locations were wiped out..."
"Including a center-left chief of staff and three young left-wing captains..."
"A total of 1,328 corpses of Japanese soldiers and 61 corpses of puppet soldiers were found, and 83 puppet soldiers were captured..."
“Twelve field guns, six mountain guns, four infantry guns, 18 mortars, 16 heavy machine guns, 39 various light machine guns, 24 grenade launchers, 1,059 various rifles, and 89 pistols were seized Bundle……"
"One thousand eight hundred rounds of field artillery shells, 480 rounds of mountain artillery shells, 240 rounds of infantry artillery shells, 2,300 rounds of mortar shells..."
"There are 300,000 rounds in boxes, more than 18 rounds of various bullets seized from the Japanese and puppet troops, and more than 6,000 hand grenades and hand grenades..."
Huang Yu immediately answered: "Captain, the garrison intercepted nearly 400 Japanese and puppet troops outside the city... captured 106 puppet troops, and the other Japanese and puppet troops were all eaten!"
"Nine light machine guns, six grenade launchers, 318 rifles of various types, six pistols, more than 30,000 rounds of various bullets, and more than 800 grenades and grenades were seized..."
"After confirmation, all the Japanese and puppet troops who entered Shunping were eliminated by us, and no one escaped the net!"
Kong Jie said happily: "Killed nearly two thousand Japanese and puppet troops in one battle, plus our results in the South Korean village..."
"The Japanese and puppet troops in Baoding lost more than 3,000 people in two days!"
"There are less than 10,000 of them in total, and 30% of our troops were eaten up by us in one fell swoop. I wonder what else they can use to encircle and suppress us!"
"Immediately report this good news to the chief of staff and tell the chief of staff... From now on, the Duer Regiment and Junping Garrison Regiment will recruit troops without restrictions!"
"We will accept all recruits who meet the conditions!"
"The troops have seized more than 2,000 rifles one after another. They cannot be piled in a warehouse to rust!"
"Xiao Huang, pick 800 rifles, 24 light machine guns, eight heavy machine guns, ten grenade launchers, eight mortars, and six mountain cannons to expand the Shunping garrison!"
"The remaining weapons and ammunition are sent back to the base area to expand the Duer Regiment!"
"The Artillery Company of the Second Regiment has expanded its field artillery battalion and has three four-gun field artillery batteries, with a total of twelve field artillery pieces!"
"Each of the three main battalions established an artillery company, with a two-gun infantry artillery platoon and two three-gun mortar platoons, a total of eight artillery pieces!"
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"The heavy machine guns and grenade launchers are all equipped to the company. Each main force company will set up a fire platoon. It is tentatively planned to have two heavy machine guns and three grenade launchers..."
"If the quantity is not enough, try to capture it in the next battle before equipping the troops!"
"The main platoon has set up a machine gun squad, and two light machine guns have been tentatively selected, which are not enough to capture next time..."
"My goal is that each main platoon is equipped with three light machine guns, each main company is equipped with three heavy machine guns, and six grenade launchers..."
"The establishment of the garrison regiment is determined by Deputy Chief of Staff Huang, and the main force of the regiment will not interfere!"
