The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 1090 Okamura's Last Stubbornness
... The 13th Field Division of the Japanese Army is preparing to withdraw from the Jizhong base of the Eighth Route Army.

At first, it was only under the deliberate explanation of the old devil Buntaichiro to carry out such propaganda. Who ever wanted to promote too much, this idea was uncontrollable from the bottom of Buntaichiro's heart.

Lieutenant General Bun Taiichi is suffering!

In this Shanxi battlefield, the Sixth Division was first lured by the Eighth Route Army's so-called secret air base to lure the enemy deep into the encirclement, and finally broke out of the encirclement, but it took off many layers of skin, and the troop casualties were unprecedented.

Then he went to Niu Dao Man, and was defeated in Huangya Cave again.

Then Taiyuan was besieged.

When the Shanxi battlefield changed overnight, the Japanese troops occupying the Eighth Route Army’s oil fields in the Mengxi area were suddenly surrounded by the 35th Route Army. On the surface, the 35th Route Army fought with the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army.

At the same time, the field group composed of the [-]st Army and the [-]rd Division on the Shandong battlefield mopped up with the assistance of the remaining troops of the [-]th Army. The bases of the Eighth Route Army that had been mopped up in the early stage had no resistance at all, and the devils easily penetrated into the core area.

As a result, overnight, a large number of the main force of the Eighth Route Army emerged from the rear to cut off the logistics lines and communication lines. The Eighth Route Army's solid fortifications were everywhere, and the firepower was fierce. Even the field groups that began to intersperse, split and disperse into the base area were in chaos.

He Buntaichiro is quite cautious and calm.

In the end, they fell into the trick of the Eighth Route Army. In the process of advancing to the base of the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong, a large amount of coarse grains were seized, which caused considerable health problems for the soldiers after long-term consumption.

For this reason, Buntaichiro was almost depressed.

I agreed to start from the east of Hebei and sweep the Eighth Route Army’s Central Hebei Military Region. After the center blossomed, I cooperated with the mobile unit of the First Army to move from the west of Shandong to the north of central Hebei through the south of Hebei.

It turned out good.

Except for his troops, the troops on the other three sides were nowhere to be seen.

His Excellency Commander Okamura doesn't even know how to command.

The promised May [-]st raid went straight to the Jizhong Military Region and destroyed the Eighth Route Army's military depot. It turned out that this was the aviation base of the Audio-Technica, the arsenal of Huangyadong, and the large oil field in the west of Mengxi.

Feelings make fun of me, Buntaichiro, are you kidding me?

In the end, only his 13th division went deep alone.

After the Eighth Route Army's Tianbeng operation was launched, under the comprehensive counterattack, the troops that originally planned to cooperate with the 13th Division to encircle the Jizhong Military Region did not come at all.

Jingxing was lost, the SJZ troops went back, and the Baoding troops went to reinforce Shanxi, so Buntaichiro was left alone.

As a cautious and prudent veteran on the battlefield, Buntaichiro knows how to settle accounts better than anyone else.

He knew very well that without the support of these field groups who are familiar with the Chinese battlefield, it would be impossible to complete the mopping up of such a large area in central Ji by relying only on the main force of his 13th Division and the security division brought from China, which were almost all new recruits and second-time veterans.

During the confrontation in the past few days, he also gradually felt the strength of the Jizhong Eighth Route Army.

perhaps……

"For us right now, how to evacuate safely is the primary concern!"

As for Okamura's mopping up order.

"Let him go see Amaterasu!" Buntaichiro cursed fiercely.

Of course, that's what he said when he complained. In fact, Buntaichiro didn't dare to violate the orders of the general headquarters at will.

The old devil was also not reconciled.

Not reconciled to being duped by the Jizhong Eighth Route Army, tortured by coarse food, and subjected to such humiliation, he could only calm down and choose to retreat.

He began to make two-handed preparations.

On the one hand, this old boy was also unambiguous. He first asked the local security forces, guards, and traitor armed forces to prepare to evacuate, and spread the news everywhere that the imperial army would retreat immediately.

Then let the domestic security division troops start to concentrate, pretend to evacuate, and secretly let the [-]th division troops seize the retreat points and build fortifications.

Some bloody lessons have to be taught to these damn Eighth Route Army.

Fighting another victory before the evacuation will also show the strength of his 13th division and the brilliance of Buntaichiro's command.

When the 13rd Division, [-]th Division, and Ushidoman Division were all defeated, only his [-]th Division retreated calmly after penetrating through the outer line of the Jizhong base area and seizing a large amount of supplies.

Regardless of the results of the May [-]st sweep of the final empire.

His 13th Division is always the victorious division, and he, Bun Taiichiro, always has a bright face.

After using this trap to defeat the Jizhong Eighth Route Army's chasing troops, they alternately cover and evacuate. Bun Taiichiro believes that this can avoid the sacrifice of his own troops to the greatest extent and end the battle calmly.

On the other hand, Buntaichiro got in touch with Okamura's headquarters and clearly stated in the communication:

"The progress of the 13th Division's sweeping of the Jizhong base is smooth, and it has been pushed to the center line, and has achieved many victories in the constant confrontation.

However, more and more main forces of the Eighth Route Army are constantly gathering towards the Jizhong Military Region, but the imperial reinforcements have never been seen.

If this continues, my 13th Division will be unable to survive alone, and there will be more than good luck. Please give me tactical guidance, Commander-in-Chief! "

To put it bluntly, Buntaichiro means that if the reinforcements promised by your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief don’t come, I’m going to run away like a jerk!

Okamura, who lives in Beiping, panicked when he heard this. This time he set off the May [-]st raid, and his fundamental goal was to destroy the Eighth Route Army's military station in the Jizhong Military Region.

As a result, the battle gradually evolved to this point.

The Japanese army had already lost many games in a row. If the May [-]st sweep of unprecedented scale ended like this, he might lose all face of the North China Front Army.

Okamura was not reconciled, he felt that he could still save it for a while.

This is his last stubbornness as the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in North China!

Right now, he doesn't care about the Eighth Route Army's Huangyadong Arsenal, nor does he care about destroying the Iron Triangle base that he hates the most.

Okamura's order was only one:
According to the original plan, to reinforce the encirclement to Jizhong, we must smash the Eighth Route Army Jizhong Military Region in one fell swoop!
The order was quickly conveyed to all parties, including the Udoman headquarters who had just led some of the elite of the Udoman division and broke out from the Huangyadong area in embarrassment.

And in the Iron Triangle base area, the headquarters of the Sixth Division, which was blocked all the way and was hit hard, retreated to break through.

There are also the No.12 Army units in Shanxi and the First Army units in Shandong.

According to the vision of the old devil Okamura, he has decided to abandon all other goals, just concentrate his forces, and finally point to Jizhong.

This goal of destroying the Jizhong Military Region can finally be achieved!
Unfortunately, it was too late.

If Okamura starts from the May [-]st sweep, he will be able to clarify his own strength.

The Niu Dao Man Division did not suffer heavy losses in the Huangyadong area, the Sixth Division was not nearly wiped out in the Iron Triangle base area, and the 11th Army and 12th Army did not lose troops during the sweep.

He might still have a stud chance.

A wonderful showdown was set off in the Jizhong Military Region.

It is a pity that Okamura has already lost most of his capital since the successive defeats of the Japanese army.

When his order was issued quickly.

After all, it was the commander-in-chief's order, and the mopping-up troops from all walks of life immediately turned their fronts and tried to advance in the direction of Jizhong.

Naihe was soon blocked by the Eighth Route Army troops along the way.

In the face of this unprecedented large-scale raid by the Japanese army, the soldiers of the various base areas of the Eighth Route Army united as one.

What you thought was dazzling was the Iron Triangle troops on the stage, the main force of the 129th Division, and the main force of the 120th Division.

What you thought was wonderful was that the Iron Triangle Armored Forces in the Mengxi area defeated the Japanese armored forces, the 120th Division encircled Taiyuan, and the 129th Division collapsed, destroying the Sixth Division and the Udoman Division.

But in fact, what constituted the stage of the confrontation between China and Japan were more revolutionary heroes and anti-Japanese martyrs who were unknown at the grassroots level, but all fought to the death.

The troops of the Eighth Route Army also went crazy this time, attacking from multiple directions, as long as the devil passed by the base area, he would greet the little devil with any moves, and use up all the wealth he had hoarded for many years.

There was even an abnormal situation in which the main force of the Eighth Route Army fought more and more reinforcements under the name of reinforcements, and the supplies became more abundant.

In many places, the main regiments, county brigades, and guerrillas, after clearing out the devils in their defense areas, all came to help, carrying the materials seized from the lost strongholds, and even the puppet army escorted the logistics materials and turned to the right.

The common people who are devoted to the Eighth Route Army are also helping in secret, doing transportation and information transmission, and they are very busy.

Although the strength of the Japanese army is strong, how can there be a large number of soldiers and civilians of the Eighth Route Army in all base areas.

Just as Kong Jie put forward the idea back then, it is necessary to build each base area to the point where all the people are soldiers.

Now it's really come true.

The little devil soon fell into the vast ocean of people's war, and he couldn't move an inch.

Not only that, with the efforts of comrades in the camouflage bureau of a team, since the various Japanese troops entered the Eighth Route Army base area, even the communication signals have been continuously interfered by the Eighth Route Army.

Sometimes it was blocked, and sometimes it was a lot of junk information, which made the Japanese army dizzy and unable to communicate normally.

As a result, once the Japanese army's sweeping forces were dispersed, it was impossible to communicate in time and reinforce each other.

The Eighth Route Army troops took the opportunity to split and outflank operations.

In this way, Okamura's long-awaited reinforcements for the combat troops in Jizhong failed to arrive on time after all, but only a very small part arrived.

The reasons given are basically the same:
Along the way, they were blocked by the main combat troops of the Eighth Route Army. The reinforcement troops suffered heavy casualties and had to be forced to withdraw to the county seat, unable to send reinforcements to Jizhong in time!
In fact, some of them do.

There are also some shrewd devil officers who have already seen the situation clearly, and they are not as persistent as the commander-in-chief Okamura.

It is not bad to be able to avoid the crisis smoothly and escape the siege and interception of the Eighth Route Army.

For example, an escape expert, Major General Ishikawa, head of the third mixed brigade of the Japanese army.

Ishikawa was always ridiculed as an escape expert.

But how about this time?
The Niu Dao Man Division of the Kwantung Army suffered heavy losses from the Eighth Route Army in the Huangyadong area. Under the leadership of the old devil Niu Dao Man, they rushed out in embarrassment, with less than [-]% of the troops left.

Facing the Eighth Route Army troops that were chasing after him, Niu Daoman was at a loss for a while, not knowing where he should go to escape.

At this time, Ishikawa, who happened to meet Ushijima Mitsuru, saw that he was also an officer of the Imperial Army and graduated from the Imperial Army University.

He led Niu Daoman in the field group directly under the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the field group directly under the 129th division, the 385, 386 field group, and the Audio-Technica mobile field group.

In this way, every time he was overtaken by the Eighth Route Army's pursuing troops, this old devil could always cleverly use various means to get rid of the pursuit.

Every time he was encircled by the Eighth Route Army, he was always able to skillfully lead the troops out of the encirclement.

The subtlety of commanding the troops to flee and evacuate all the way made Udo Island dumbfounded.

In the end, the two groups joined forces, bypassed Licheng all the way, robbed Lucheng, and successfully retreated to their old nests in Changzhi.

Under the command of Major General Ishikawa, the Japanese troops evacuated along the way quickly, decisively and accurately judged when choosing the evacuation route.

Do some work.

Even Ushidoman, an expert in mountain warfare, was dazzled by the sight, and was even more impressed!
This time, if he hadn't followed Ishi Chuan all the way to escape, he wouldn't know what was going on!

Of course, Neiji Okamura was expecting Ushijima to reinforce the troops along the way, and he ran back to the rear steadily.

Don't ask, the question is that there are too many blocking troops along the Eighth Route. In order to avoid greater sacrifices, our Niudao Manshi Regiment can only be forced to withdraw. Please understand, Commander-in-Chief.

Not to mention the Sixth Division, which had already been terrified by the Eighth Route Army.

Even Lieutenant General Guan Cun, the head of the division, would not even be able to lead the headquarters to break out if the chief of staff and the head of the brigade under him hadn't fought to the death to protect each other.

The reinforcements from all walks of life almost refused to save the Sixth Division, and they all rushed to rescue Taiyuan City.

Right now, the crisis in Taiyuan has been lifted, but Okamura reminded me to ask my Sixth Division to continue to reinforce Jizhong and cooperate in the battle?
As for the Japanese troops in the Taiyuan area, they are busy cleaning up the mess left after Taiyuan City was attacked by the 120th Division.

In addition, the traffic lines along the way to Jizhong have basically been destroyed by the 120th Division when they surrounded Taiyuan.

It is simply impossible to reinforce Jizhong in time.

In the end, when the news was delivered to the headquarters, not many troops came for reinforcements.

The 13th Division Provisional Headquarters.

Bun Taiichiro, head of the devil division, fully understood that it was impossible to have any shit reinforcements.

With such a large place in Jizhong, it is even more impossible to expect our own troops to destroy it all the way.

What he should consider right now is how to evacuate his entire division's troops from the Jizhong base.

The false news of the evacuation deliberately released a few days ago seems to have had an effect. The early withdrawal of the Imperial Association Army, the Guard, the traitor armed forces, and the Security Army Division really attracted the attention of the Eighth Route Army in Central Jizhong.

The Eighth Route Army dispatched a large number of main forces to pursue them all the way in an attempt to attack the retreating Imperial Association Army and Security Army Division.

Now he fell into Buntaichiro's trap.

Bun Taiichiro took the opportunity to launch an attack on the pursuing Eighth Route Army troops with the help of the combat troops secretly lurking in the fortifications built along the way...

(End of this chapter)