"Your Excellency, Commander..." Another communications staff member hurried towards Okamura Neji.
"The reinforcements rushing to the Huji garrison received an urgent message: They were intercepted by heavy troops of the Eighth Route Army. The troops suffered heavy losses and were preparing to divide their forces to break out..."
"Nani..." Okamura Neji, who had been calm just now, began to panic.
Staring at the communications staff officer, he asked with a serious face: "Are you sure this is a good news for the reinforcements..."
"The contents of the telegram are correct..."
The deputy chief of staff glanced at the contents of the telegram and frowned.
Looking at Okamura Neji hesitated for a long time before speaking: "Your Excellency, Commander..."
"We have all overlooked a problem..."
"The Sixth Army's baggage division is different from other Eighth Route Army..."
"If the iron wall encirclement is used in other Eighth Route Army base areas..."
"It will definitely work wonders."
"The Eighth Route Army can't do anything to us."
"But our current opponents are well-equipped, have sufficient ammunition, and are also equipped with a large number of heavy artillery and tanks..."
"Although our troops attack and advance in units of reinforced regiments, there is only ten kilometers between the regiments, and we can reach them by marching in more than an hour."
"But for the well-equipped Yi Zhong Eighth Route Army, they are fully capable of killing one of our reinforced units in just one hour."
Okamura Neji sat down on the chair and was shocked for a while before he realized what he was doing.
Then he stared at the sand table and muttered to himself: "You are right..."
"The same style of play..."
"There will be different results against different opponents..."
"I wanted to destroy the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong so much that I forgot about this..."
"idiot……"
Speaking of this, Okamura Neji punched the table hard and said with murderous intent on his face.
"There is no regret medicine in the world..."
"But we can make up for it before it's too late!"
"The Eighth Route Army is equipped with a large number of mountain and field artillery. If the encirclement troops are equipped with fewer artillery..."
"When the two sides engage in an artillery battle, we are no match."
"In previous battles, we used artillery fire to suppress the Eighth Route Army, so that the Imperial Army could match it on the battlefield."
"When we faced the Yizhong Eighth Route Army, they used artillery fire to suppress us. The advantage that belonged to the imperial army was all gone. How could we still fight this battle?"
"Let alone a chariot."
"The Eighth Route Army suffered losses from the Imperial Army's chariot units on the battlefield more than once..."
"They don't have anti-tank weapons, they just use death squads to blast."
"Often destroying one of our tanks will cost the entire platoon."
"Now the situation is reversed."
"The imperial army on the blockade was almost not equipped with anti-tank weapons, and the artillery was no match for the Eighth Route Army's artillery. Facing the Eighth Route Army's tank troops, our troops became the weaker side."
"I have to learn from the Eighth Route Army!"
"Send death squads to fight with explosive bags."
"And as long as the Eighth Route Army infantry and tanks cooperate properly, and there is artillery cover during the battle..."
"The chance of the death squads successfully destroying the tank will be very low, and the winner in the end will be the Eighth Route Army..."
"Immediately send a telegram to the chief of staff of the remaining headquarters: ask him to send all the tanks, guns and rapid-fire guns stored in the arsenals in various places to the Baoding front line."
"Send another telegram to the Kwantung Army in my name."
"They defend the Soviet army all year round, and their troops are equipped with a large number of anti-tank guns and rapid-fire guns."
"I want to ask them to lend a hundred rapid-fire guns and anti-tank guns, and ask them to send them to Baoding quickly by train."
"Make sure that each infantry brigade in front is equipped with an anti-tank gun squadron and a rapid-fire gun squadron!"
"We will encounter the Eighth Route Army chariot troops again in the future..."
"Just use tank guns and rapid-fire cannons to blow them into scrap metal!"
"Artillery is simple..."
"The most direct way to deal with artillery is to use stronger artillery to bombard the Eighth Route Army..."
"Kill them head-on."
"Add another order to the telegram to the Chief of Staff: Shanxi Garrison, Hebei Garrison, Shandong Garrison, each deploy a field artillery regiment to reinforce Baoding..."
"The heavy artillery brigade directly under the front army will also dispatch a heavy artillery regiment to go south to Baoding..."
"At that time, each infantry regiment will be assigned a mountain artillery regiment and two heavy artillery brigades. Even if the Yizhong Eighth Route Army gathers all its troops to attack, we will still have the strength to fight, instead of being besieged by the Yizhong Eighth Route Army like tonight. , they were helpless and couldn't even hold on for an hour."
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The former enemy headquarters of the Sixth Army Division in Yizhong.
As usual, Li Yunlong's voice came in before he even entered the headquarters.
"Xiao Huang..."
"I finally had a good fight tonight!"
"It's so cool..."
"There were more than two thousand little devils. The troops followed the chariot and killed them all with one attack."
"If the Japanese army hadn't reacted quickly and divided their forces to break out, I would have had no problem annihilating them all..."
"Even if many Japanese soldiers escaped, there were more than 1,800 Japanese corpses left on the battlefield, and less than 700 Japanese soldiers successfully broke through..."
"Although the Japanese escaped a lot..."
"But all the heavy weapons they brought were seized..."
"Including four intact tanks, six mountain guns, 19 mortars, 18 heavy machine guns, 59 light machine guns, and more than 1,400 rifles..."
"Ha ha……"
"If conditions didn't allow it, I would have wanted to form a chariot battalion in the Independent Brigade..."
"No……"
"One tank company should be enough..."
Kong Jie objected without hesitation: "Li Yunlong..."
"You have a beautiful thought..."
"This raid on Huji...Although the tank battalion's losses were not large, several tanks were destroyed by the Japanese. The three tanks you captured are not enough to replenish the battle losses of the special forces regiment. Where can you get the excess equipment to form a tank company for you?" …”
"Don't even think about it..."
"The tank battalion and special forces regiment are the units that the head of the headquarters is concerned about. They are also the first tank unit of our Eighth Route Army. There must be no mistakes."
Li Yunlong smiled and said: "Kong Er is stupid..."
"I don't believe you don't envy those tanks of the Special Forces."
Just as Kong Jie was about to answer the call, he heard Huang Yu interrupt: "Commander..."
"Deputy Commander..."
"It's not a problem to form a tank company for your two brigades..."
"The special forces will not be expanded for the time being..."
"When the troops capture enough tanks and the special forces regiment is unable to equip them, they will naturally equip other troops."
"You two have been separated from the Special Forces Brigade recently..."
"The first to get the moon near the water tower..."
"It must be the first main brigade of the Eighth Route Army to equip a tank company!"
"In order for us not to break through their iron wall encirclement, Okamura Neji strengthened a tank squadron for each main force..."
"All tank squadrons combined have more than a hundred vehicles."
"If we can capture twenty or thirty vehicles and bring them back, it will be no problem to form a tank company for you. I believe the head of the headquarters will agree..."
