Taiyuan, the headquarters of the 1st Army stationed in Shanxi.

The atmosphere in the war room has dropped to freezing point.

What does an old saying say? I never expected it!

Because less than five minutes ago, Lieutenant Kokura from the communication team of Yamazaki Brigade sent a farewell telegram and reported to the headquarters the bad news that Yamazaki Brigade had been broken.

After receiving the report, Yoshio Shinozuka could not believe his eyes.

A few hours ago, Yamazaki Orihei was boasting to the headquarters that they had enough money to stick to Lijiapo's favorable terrain, and they could hold on for three days, even if they were five days.

The words were still heard, but in less than four hours, Yamazaki's brigade was completely wiped out by the Eighth Route Army!

When did the Eighth Route Army have such strong offensive capabilities? This is an infantry brigade, no, this is an enhanced brigade!

A whole reinforced infantry brigade, with more than 1,300 imperial soldiers!

It also has a heavy machine gun squadron with 8 Type 92 heavy machine guns plus 2 artillery squadrons and 12 90 mortars. With such powerful firepower, the Eighth Route Army was wiped out in less than four hours?

At this moment, Yoshio Shinozuka's head was buzzing.

Unbelievable, really unexpected, completely unexpected!

Chief of Staff Takagi Tanaka asked in a low voice: "Commander, will the 222nd, 225th and 237th infantry corps still attack and advance towards the direction of Daxia Bay? Or should they withdraw?"

Now that the situation is now, even a fool can see it.

It is no point in continuing the attack because the 1st Army is not ready at all.

Before, taking advantage of the lack of defense in the Eighth Route Army and the Yamazaki Brigade as bait, it could form a favorable situation of four-sided encirclement and blooming in the center, so it could barely fight.

But now the Yamazaki brigade is completely destroyed.

The entire tactical concept was directly shattered.

There is no way to continue this battle.

If you continue to fight, you will only lose your troops in vain.

Everyone's eyes fell on Yoshio Shinozuka.

Yoshio Shinozuka rubbed his temples and said with a dark face: "Call the Front Command immediately and ask for tactical guidance."

The current situation is all thanks to Okamura Yasuji, so if they don’t take the blame for the first army, whoever pulls out the shit will still be wiped clean by himself.

...

"Nani?"

After receiving a telegram forwarded by the 1st Army Command, Okamura Yanji also looked unbelievable.

"Miano-kun, do you mean that Yamazaki brigade has been broken collectively? More than 1,300 imperial soldiers have been broken collectively?"

"Yes." Miyano said with a dark face, "Although it's unbelievable, the 1st Army Command did transfer the farewell telegram from the Yamazaki Brigade Communications Team, Lieutenant Kokura, so there should be no fake."

"Baga!" Okamura's face suddenly turned into a pig's liver-colored look, and it was hot and spicy.

It felt like someone was really slapping him in the face, causing pain.

Other senior generals took office as new officials, and they were the three fires that became more and more prosperous, but what about him?

At the beginning of his dismount, the first fire in southern Hebei was extinguished by the Eighth Route Army, losing a cavalry brigade.

Losing a cavalry brigade is actually nothing. More than 600 cavalrymen are not enough to injure the North China Front Army, but the damage to his face is untolerable.

In order to save face, Okamura Yasuji burned a second fire.

Okamura Yasuji was preparing to give the Eighth Route Army a black tiger to destroy the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop. No matter how badly it was, it would hurt or even wipe out the main force of the 129th Division.

However, the more full the ideal, the more skinny the reality is.

As soon as he started, reality immediately gave him a blow: Yamazaki brigade was completely wiped out!

The second fire was also burned out. Not only did Okamura Yanji fail to save face, he was slapped in the face even harder, and his whole face was almost swollen by the Eighth Route Army.

Okamura Yasuji couldn't help but start to reflect.

It seems that the battlefield in central China was too smooth before.

With the successive victory in the battlefield in central China, I became a little drifty.

Although it took several months for the transfer back to China, it still did not adjust.

Miyano Daoichi said with a dark face: "Genius General, the collective shattering of Yamazaki's brigade is clearly caused by improper command of the 1st Army. However, the Front Army Command directly ordered tactical guidance. This is clearly a shirk responsibility. I think the 1st Army must be ordered to continue attacking and advancing towards the Daxia Bay."

"No!" Okamura Yasuji raised his hand suddenly and said, "You can't fight any more."

He sighed lightly at this point, and said, "It seems that I was careless."

"I underestimated the strength of the Eighth Route Army, which led to these two failures."

"Order the infantry 222, 225 and 237th wings immediately withdraw."

"Let Kinoshita prepare a transport plane for me, and I will fly to Taiyuan overnight."

"Nani?" Miyano said in surprise, "God General, are you going to Taiyuan overnight?"

"Yes, Miyano-kun, go with me." Okamura Yanji nodded slightly and said, "I want to review the gains and losses of this battle with my colleagues in the 1st Army, learn from the lessons and find a way to defeat the Eighth Route Army."

"Hayi!" Miyanoda paused and looked in awe.

...

Under the Lijiapo, the front-line observation post.

Through the telescope's vision, the brigade commander saw Li Yunlong standing on the Lijia slope and jumping and cursing, and knew that the battle at the top of the slope had ended and the Yamazaki brigade had been completely wiped out.

"Good boy, I really have a chance."

The brigade commander praised: "This is a standard infantry brigade of the Japanese. No, this is a reinforcement brigade, but he just lets the independent regiment charge and wipe out the entirely. It's amazing!"

"With this precedent, how can the Japanese still be arrogant?"

"From now on, the Japanese below the brigade's size will not enter our base!"

"Even if we come in, we will just die. We can eat it in a few hours!"

The brigade commander's words were not casually said, because the entire Yamazaki brigade was destroyed, and the entire army was destroyed in such a short period of time would indeed change the Japanese tactics against the Eighth Route Army to a great extent. Not to mention anything else, the era when only one infantry brigade dared to enter the Eighth Route Army base was definitely gone.

Thinking of this, the brigade commander sighed again, "Li Yunlong is really good at fighting."

The chief of staff smiled and said, "Brig Commander, don't praise me for now. This kid Li Yunlong is not praised."

After saying this, he said, "Did you forget what happened last time? Last time the Independent Group beat the wife and closed the train station, you praised him a few words, but this kid turned around and gave you a first act and then a report. He actually took the New First Gate, the New Second Gate and the 772nd Gate to fight Yangquan County, and left us two."

"Hahaha, how could I forget this?"

The brigade commander laughed: "But this kind of disaster will take several more times."

The Chief of Staff said: "Brig Commander, don't let Li Yunlong and Wang Ye hear these words."

"I'm not afraid." The brigade commander laughed, "Chief of Staff, you reminded me of this. I'll go to Lijiapo now and praise Li Yunlong and Wang Ye in person."

"Let them both let go of their hands and feet."

"Make more trouble for me, hahaha!"

At the end, the brigade commander laughed loudly again.

The Chief of Staff also laughed, thinking that the brigade commander was really open-minded.

If it were the commander of another army, he would have been leaping with his subordinates like Li Yunlong who was overlord, but the brigade commander did not think it was offensive, but instead thought it was happy and proud of having such a strong subordinate.

In fact, this is really just a routine operation for the brigade commander.

The brigade commander actually did something even more difficult. In another time and space, the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan Military Region concentrated its main force to launch an anti-sweeping operation against the Japanese army, so that the Taiyue base was empty. Yan Laoxi took the opportunity to provoke friction and gathered heavy troops to occupy Changzhi, Lucheng, Huguan and other places.

The commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region ordered the brigade commander to give Yan Laoxi a head-on blow to Yan Laoxi's Jinsui army.

As a result, the brigade commander was "extremely bold" to hand over this task to a regiment commander, and Commander Liu of the 3rd Column and Ninth Regiment commanded eight main regiments to launch a counterattack, causing heavy damage to the Jinsui Army in one fell swoop.

It is precisely because of this that the brigade commander is particularly popular with his subordinates.

Otherwise, the brigade commander was not a military cadre trained by the Fourth Front Army. How could he hold the position of brigade commander of 386 and be supported by arrogant generals such as Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Kong Jie and Cheng Shifa?

In a word, the brigade commander really cared for him and was willing to spend a lot of money to cultivate his subordinates.

After laughing, the brigade commander continued, "Don't this old devil, Yoshio Shinozuka, wants to fish? Now there is no bait, so I want to see what else he can fish?"

The Chief of Staff said: "This is called stealing a chicken but losing a handful of rice."

The brigade commander smiled and said, "Chief of Staff, call the headquarters immediately and say that my mobile column has fulfilled his mission and has killed the Yamazaki Brigade, which was raised by the bitch!"

The Chief of Staff responded, and grabbed the telephone.

But the brigade commander put his hat on his head and turned around and walked away from the observation ward.

"Guard? Let's go with me to Lijiapo."

This battle wiped out Yamazaki's brigade, and the seized weapons and equipment are probably not limited.

In terms of ammunition, I am afraid I will have to make ends meet because the amount of ammunition consumed in this battle is too large, especially the exceeding shooting of 9 heavy machine gun companies, which can knock out 30,000 bullets in one wave.

The brigade commander felt a lot of pain just thinking about it.
To be continued...