All gods, the lord who started with the bright sword

Chapter 93, the meeting for the eight-way
Taiyuan.

In the meeting room of the First Army Command.

The charcoal in the stove was crackling and burning, adding a little background sound to the combat staff who were reading out the battle reports from various regions.

The military officers participating in the meeting were all stern and expressionless, with beads of sweat streaming down their foreheads, and the atmosphere was extremely oppressive.

There is no good news in the battle report for the past month.

All of them were stationed in security forces, attacked by the Eighth Route Army, how many gun towers were lost, how many casualties, and how many guns and ammunition were abandoned.

The number of each place seems to be small, but when they all add up, it is a terrifying number.

The combat staff officer said blankly: "In short, in the past month, the imperial army suffered a lot of losses.

According to statistics, a total of 110 six gun towers were destroyed, the loss of the imperial army was as high as 3000 people, and the loss of the imperial association army was more than [-] people.

In March, compared with February, the loss of blockhouses increased eight times, and the loss of personnel increased five times.

Compared with January, the loss of the blockhouse increased by twelve times, and the loss of personnel increased by seven times. "

The voice fell, and there was no sound in the meeting room.

I don't know, I was taken aback.

This is only late March, and the whole month is not completely over.

Compared to January, 20,000 people were dispatched to sweep the Eight Route bases.

And in February, many places mobilized troops to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route General Headquarters, resulting in a series of battles.

In March, the Japanese army did not take the initiative to start a war, which is enough to be called self-cultivation.

But the problem is that the losses of the various troops have not decreased but increased, and they have doubled and continued to rise.

In less than a month, the Japanese imperial army lost more than 2000 people.There are at least [-] people a month.

If the monthly loss is flat, it will be 4000 people a year.

Four years is nearly 100,000 people.

But the entire First Army, including the logistics and technical arms, only has more than 80,000 people.

That is to say, if it continues like this, it will take less than four years for the First Army to be beaten into an empty shell.

Major General Yamasho Taro, the commander of the Fourth Brigade stationed in Yangquan, took the lead to break the silence: "

The whole of Shanxi is full of wolf smoke and beacon fires.The threat from the Eight Routes has reached a point where it cannot be cured.

The difference from before is that the Eighth Route has obtained a novel weapon for attacking fortifications. Our army's artillery towers have been attacked frequently, and they have repeatedly succeeded.

According to reports from the people below, that magical weapon is a cannon barrel carried on the shoulder.

Cannonballs can be fired from three to 400 meters away, easily destroying masonry fortifications.

Moreover, there are more than one or two weapons of this kind, and the number is already quite rampant.

The gun tower can no longer be a defensive building that our soldiers can rely on with confidence.

Instead, it became an obvious target, causing a large number of soldiers stationed in the gun tower to die.

The soldiers were no longer willing to garrison the gun towers. Once they got the order, they seemed to be going to die. "

In his lengthy exposition, the other military officers he said felt sympathetic and agreed with him.

An officer said: "The people below say that the blockhouse is a living coffin, and whoever receives the task of stationing the blockhouse will step into the coffin with one foot."

In the past, soldiers in the gun tower could easily block several times the enemy's attack.

The Eight Routes lacked weapons to attack fortified areas, so there was nothing they could do about it.When the reinforcements arrive, the danger will be lifted, but it is not too dangerous a task.

But now as long as there are eight roads carrying that kind of gun-barrel-like assault weapon, the brick-and-tiled gun tower will be useless, at most it will become a grave for the dead like them.

Soldiers have a turret phobia, which was completely unimaginable just before.

The officers talked to each other, telling the information collected from below, and bitterness filled the entire conference room.

The head of the Ninth Brigade stationed in Taiyuan, Major General Hashimoto Yabang, coughed softly and said:
"Those are still secondary. The gun towers have failed to deal with the Eighth Route Army. I am afraid that Commander Tada Hayao's cage policy will be difficult to continue to implement in Shanxi."

As soon as this remark came out, many senior military officers who were still complaining before fell silent.

The cage policy is a policy set by the commander of the North China Dispatch Army Tada Hayao according to the activities of the Eighth Route.

The basic feature is to use the railway as the pillar, the road as the chain, and the blockhouse as the lock, and then use the blockade ditch and the blockade wall as the auxiliary to sweep from the occupied area to the anti-Japanese base area.

The purpose is to divide the eight-way base area into isolated small pieces that cannot be connected with each other for support, so that the Japanese army can search and seize them one by one.

Railways and roads are the basis for the rapid mobilization of troops, and the key is the blockhouses, which have become nails in the bases of the Eighth Route Army.

Now that the gun towers can no longer be defended, the entire cage policy will be greatly reduced.

The officers didn't have time to think about this before, but now they just complain and don't solve the problem. Commander Tada Hayao's cage policy will exist in name only in Shanxi.

Compared with other places, the First Army may be branded as incompetent and unable to hold its head up again.

On the chair of the long conference table, Yoshio Youzuka, the commander, said: "You have already explained the problem very clearly, now who can give me an analysis and how to solve the problem?"

The room was so quiet that a needle could be heard falling.

Some of them didn't even think about the problem, let alone come up with a plan.

If he spoke hastily, he might not be showing his face, but his buttocks.

At this moment, Kazuki Yamamoto stood up with confidence and said: "General, colleagues.

According to the information I got, the main culprit that caused the destruction of the gun tower was the gun barrels carried on the shoulders.

In fact, it is a new weapon obtained by the Eighth Route Army, something called a rocket launcher. "

400mm caliber, direct shot distance [-] meters...

A pile of detailed data blurted out, as if such a weapon really existed.

The performance of the problem is too exaggerated, so some people questioned, where did the information come from, is it true?
Kazuki Yamamoto said: "Last month, the officer observation group of the Jinsui Army went to the Eighth Route Army to visit and learned this information. Even though they have tried hard to keep it secret, our mole still discovered it."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone no longer doubted the authenticity of the weapon.

Following Yan Xishan's vague attitude, the two armies also had some private exchanges.

The will of many officers is not very firm. Under the money offensive of Japanese intelligence personnel, the Jinsui Army has been infiltrated into a sieve by them.

Intelligence can be sure that there is no problem.

But then came a new question. A chief of staff of the [-]th Brigade stood up and asked, "Is this weapon made by Eight Route itself, or bought from outside?" "

He paused and continued:
"Once you understand this information, it's easy to come up with a solution.

If it was built by them, then find out the eight-way arsenal and destroy it so that it cannot be reproduced.

If you bought it, you have to find their channel, and the blockade destroys this path.

I think that without this so-called bazooka, the Eight Routes would still be weak in facing the artillery towers of our imperial army, and the cage policy can continue to be implemented. "

His remarks were recognized by many military officers. The weapon called the bazooka was the culprit for the repeated breaches of the gun tower.

Then find a way to destroy it, solve the weapon that created the problem, and there will be no problem.

It's really easy to say, no one will mention a programmatic strategy, the question is can it be done?
Kazuki Yamamoto shook his head and said: "The mole in the Jinsui Army may not take long to get the real thing and provide it to Chinese scientists to reverse study the principle of weapons.

One thing is certain, the bazooka is by no means a weapon that can be manufactured in the crude arsenal of Eight Roads.

Regarding the source of the weapons, Eighth Road was very tight-lipped, and even used the reason that it was seized from the imperial army to prevaricate the officers of the Jinsui Army.

So far, no trace of the source of the weapon has been found, and there is a long way to go to block the source of the weapon that destroys the Eight Routes. "

With factual information as the theoretical basis, there is no doubt that Kazuki Yamamoto's words are trustworthy.

Therefore, the advice provided by the former chief of staff of the [-]th Brigade can only be used as a long-term goal reference, and the problem cannot be solved in a short time.

The Colonel who was refuted felt a little ashamed, and lowered his head resentfully.

Those who read the joke did not dare to laugh at it openly, and thought in their hearts: "I want to show my face in front of the commander, but I didn't expect to rush to lose face! It deserves it!"

There are also military officers who are really thinking about the solution?

Anyway, no one spoke.

For a while, the meeting room became quiet again.

Major General Yamashotaro, the head of the Fourth Brigade, once again broke the tranquility: "Master Yamamoto, it's easy to pour cold water on people, just use your words.

The hard part is thinking of ways to solve the problem.

If you have time to pour cold water on it, you might as well think about how to solve the problem.Or let me wait to open my eyes. "

Many old fried dough stick officers heard what he said to accuse Kazuki Yamamoto.

Didn't these two have any enmity before?

Why did the general of the mountain province jump out!

Some smart people thought about it. Last month, the Fourth Brigade cooperated with Yamamoto to fight and mobilized troops to go all the way. They didn't take advantage and suffered a lot.

It is said that a military column full of antiques was attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and all of them were robbed.

The area under its jurisdiction belongs to the Fourth Brigade.

The North China Expeditionary Army Command received calls, and they severely reprimanded Major General Yamasho Taro.

Obviously, Kazuki Yamamoto was blamed for that incident, and it was normal for him to say a few words with a needle in his face.

"Here, isn't Yamamoto-kun always thinking of a way? You have to give someone some time to think!"

Masabang Hashimoto, head of the Ninth Brigade, is a 60-year-old man with senior qualifications. He stood up to help Yamamoto as a peacemaker and suppressed Yamamoto's dissatisfaction.

Yamamoto Kazuki gave him a slight nod in greeting, and greeted Yamasho Taro with proud eyes and said:

"Of course I thought of a solution to the problem, but I didn't have time to say it before."

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