Jinyang First Army Headquarters.
Shinozuka Yoshio and Chief of Staff Major General Hase held the telegram from the 26th Division and remained silent.
This was not a request for help as Major General Gumon Yihui initially said, but a new combat plan that required the First Army to dispatch a division to jointly attack the main force of the Eighth Route Army, which was now suppressed in the Yanmen area by the 26th Division.
To be honest, now Shinozuka Yoshio and Major General Hase neither believe that Kenji Kojou has caught the shadow of the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Yanmen, nor do they believe that the 26th Division has now suffered heavy losses.
"Hasegae-kun, what do you think is going on with Kojo-kun's plan?" Shinozuka Yoshio couldn't stand Kenji Kojo's thoughts.
You were so impatient that you returned to your home base to defend yourself. What do you mean by being so stupid halfway through?
Yanmen has eight main forces?
Yoshio Shinozuka closed his eyes and pondered for a while, thinking that Shicheng and Wucheng were fighting an earth-shattering battle on the south and north routes, and they could kill the brigade level. Who would believe that this was not the main force of the eighth route?
In addition, the 386th Brigade is still making a lot of noise in the Yangcheng area.
Why did the main force appear again in Yanmen?
How many main players are there in the Eighth Route Army?
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
"Shinozuka-kun, I think this is half true and half false." Major General Hase said after reading the telegram and pondering for a while.
"Xiangcheng Jun must be in big trouble. Referring to the battles in Wucheng and Shicheng, the night attack battles on Tubal Road are very sharp now. Xiangcheng Jun must have suffered a lot, most likely losing the artillery regiment."
As a chief of staff, Major General Hase will of course collect all the information to study the recent Eighth Route Attack. This is why he advocates caution on the Western Front and always chooses to march during the day and camp at night close to the county seat.
"Yanmen may not be his target area. He wants us to go to the clouds to solve his troubles. If the artillery regiment is lost, the field capability of the 26th Division will be reduced by at least half. If we encounter the group of locals in Wucheng, The Eighth Route Army and the 26th Division had a very difficult time dealing with it.”
"But if he said this, wouldn't it be quickly discovered by our people?" Yoshio Shinozuka asked with some confusion.
"Losing a little bit of face is a trivial matter to deal with the enemy." Major General Hase began to analyze rationally, "There must be several main force groups of the Eighth Route Army operating in the Yanmen area. Mr. Xiangcheng asked our people to go north in one fell swoop. Eliminate these main groups and then eliminate the Tubal Road that threatens Yunzhong. The credit will be no less than the elimination of the 386th Brigade."
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People in their position rarely consider problems purely from a certain local direction, but rather comprehensively consider the overall situation.
Including him, Chang Gu, who doesn’t have a positive heart?
If Kenji Kojo really loses the artillery regiment, there will be no other replacement for the artillery in the short term. Apart from the heavy city defense artillery in Yunzhong, the inventory of field and mountain artillery cannot support the reconstruction of an artillery regiment.
This is Changgu's guess from the worst-case scenario. How do they know now that the 26th Division has actually been crippled under the premise that the 26th Division deliberately blocked the news.
In the view of Yoshio Shinozuka and Major General Hase, this is impossible to happen. There is no way Tubalu has such strong strength to eliminate half of the division!
Kenji Kojo and Ikki Gumon prepared to report losses separately to reduce their incompetence, which led to information asymmetry and triggered a new wave of transactions within the Little Devils.
According to Kenji Kojo's request, he asked the 41st Division to go north. It was impossible for such a large-scale operational change not to be reported to the North China Expedition Army Headquarters. When the kid from Gangcun read the telegram, his head suddenly became a lot bigger.
Even on the road controlled by the Locust Army, there is still trouble, and the 26th Division is really a waste.
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Similar to Yoshio Shinozuka's thoughts, when the news came back to the North China Expeditionary Army Headquarters, the gangcun kid didn't believe that there was still a main force of the Eighth Route Army in the Yanmen area that could threaten the division level!
Really, this is too outrageous. The cluster in Shicheng Ping An Base made trouble and created a lame independent mixed brigade and a regiment. He can understand that this Ping An Base is a bit evil and has successively launched several regiments. into their hands.
There was a sneak attack on the Dingcheng side, and a heavy artillery brigade was stolen from Hantou and Hannao. So far, the Locust Army's special high school has not investigated how the artillery on Tubal Road was sent to the station and no one has discovered it?
But that can be said to be an accident, and it was later discovered that it was closely related to the 30th Regiment.
But Wucheng is quite weird. Not only did they lose a big city inexplicably, Tubal Road also concentrated nearly a division to eat up the independent 11th Brigade. This is a bit unacceptable.
To say that the Eighth Route Army gathered their main forces here to play a trick of attacking in the east and attacking in the west, the gangcun kid still believed it in his heart.
After all, I had finally mobilized the team around the core base of Tubal Road. Now it was impossible to spread out and put out the fire everywhere.
At this moment, a large number of Tubal roads appeared in the peat cloud.
Isn’t this Tubal Road too much?
After losing two county towns in a row, the little devils in Gangcun couldn't bear it and were afraid that they would really lose them in the clouds. Then the Mongolian Army Garrison would be worried. Maybe the Mongolian Army Garrison would be defeated!
Don't think there is no possibility, you must know that in front of the Mongolian army, in addition to Tubal Road, there are also a huge number of Jinsui Army and the Central Army with dozens of divisions farther away!
If they link up, the entire Mongolian army and even the war situation in Jin may be shaken!
As the boss of the North China Expeditionary Force, the gangcun kid certainly has a broader vision.
So the 26th Division wanted to go home, and the gangcun kid agreed after thinking about it for a while. The tragedy in Wucheng could not be allowed to happen again in Yunzhong, even if the gangcun kid thought that this possibility was extremely unlikely, with the help of Yunzhong It is impossible to hit the No. 8 Road in Jinsui District in front of you.
But there have been too many evil things happening this year. If anything happens, he really doesn't know what to do.
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"What are you thinking about on the temporary front?" The brigade commander received the telegram to hold his troops and stared at the map thoughtfully.
According to the summary of the simple battle report passed by Li Gao, the 26th Division suffered heavy casualties. Basically the entire artillery regiment was wiped out, and more than three infantry brigade were also reimbursed.
Its main forces, the 11th and 12th Regiments, are basically half disabled.
At present, the baggage regiment, engineer regiment and cavalry regiment are still relatively well preserved.
However, in the Yanmen area, it is difficult for the cavalry regiment to perform in a suitable open area, and its combat effectiveness is actually inferior to that of an infantry brigade.
According to this trend, Li Yunlong and Gao Jianwu should immediately put all their strength forward, let their new force directly break out and outflank them, and take advantage of the coming night to take advantage of the night battle and completely defeat the 26th Division!
Why were the 26th Division allowed to alternately cover the retreat? Even the baggage and engineering regiments entered the defense of Daicheng.
And the frontier has always kept fighting.
This situation is a bit hard to understand.
On the one hand, Li Yunlong and Gao Jianwu's intentions seemed not only to focus on the 26th Division. Judging from the current battle rhythm, the brigade commander could easily smell the smell of fishing.
A more formal term is called encirclement and support!
Li Yunlong and Gao Jianwu were playing.
But the reaction of the 26th Division is also a bit strange. If you want to retreat, leave the main force behind and run back to Dai City. There is no blockage in the south now, so the 26th Division can still run away.
However, despite suffering casualties, they still maintained a stalemate with the Eighth Route Army. They were just gradually shifting the battlefield towards the Daicheng area where the terrain was slightly flatter.
Is it rare that they want to use the cavalry unit to turn the tide of the battle here?
The Grand Brigadier stared at the map and pondered.
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On the battlefield, even though the sky had darkened, the fighting between the two sides showed no sign of stopping. Everyone took advantage of the breaks in the fighting to simply nibble on dry food to fill their stomachs.
Zhao Dalei and the others annihilated the Japs, cleaned up the battlefield and replenished some ammunition. The main regiment in Jinsui District fought hard and did not capture many battlefields. They relied on Gao Jianwu to go deep into the frontier to explode and get valuable supplies. Therefore, although the casualties were heavy , but after the ammunition and weapons were strengthened, the main force of the Jinsui Army, eager for revenge, fought more and more fiercely. Both morale and tactics seemed to have been promoted to a new level.
In order to reduce the casualties as much as possible, Gao Jianwu also broke out more than a dozen boxes of penicillin, pretending to be a little devil and discarding the baggage and was seized. Anyway, the commandos were used to it, so seizing some medicines was nothing.
But for the embattled liaison chief of staff, Gao Jianwu was a timely help. According to the division of labor, the thousands of wounded now basically fall on the chief of staff of the liaison officer. The safety cluster is fine, and they usually carry a lot of penicillin with the army as backup, but there is no such condition in Jinsui District. ?
If there were thirty or fifty people, the liaison chief of staff shamelessly spoke to Li Yunlong.
But now the number of wounded soldiers is thousands!
How do you ask him to speak?
Unexpectedly, after Gao Jianwu went deep into the front line, he quickly found the baggage abandoned by the Japs. Not only did it contain ammunition, but there were also boxes of medicines. He solved all the major needs of the two troops in Jinsui District at once!
With such incredible luck, no matter how atheistic the liaison chief of staff is, he still has to silently thank God for his care.
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Gao Jianwu ignored Xiangcheng Kenji's ambivalence. After the sky turned dark and the Japanese fighter planes did not dare to come out again, Gao Jianwu acted even bolder.
He led the Mountain Artillery Battalion Cavalry Regiment to chase the 26th Division to further solve the problem, and sometimes rushed into a small battlefield to let the commandos have the fun of assault and explode ammunition on the position.
The commandos, whose ammunition for the Type 43 assault rifle has been running low, have been replaced by a full set of Japanese weapons. Each person has two guns, and they have become mainly crooked machine guns and 38-inch guns.
Although the firepower has been weakened a lot, which makes the commandos a little uncomfortable, here, everyone knows that there is no way to replenish it. After each leaving a magazine for emergency, they can pick up a full set of Japanese weapons and dare to fight and charge.
Protecting Gao Jianwu was like entering a deserted place.
Gao Jianwu had the opportunity to have a thorough look at the retreat route alternately covered by various units of the 26th Division.
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