The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1348 A bigger net (second update)

Jinzhou Fujita Division Headquarters.

Lieutenant General Yoshino suddenly walked in with a solemn expression.

He seemed to be thinking about something and didn't notice Lieutenant General Fujita's equally solemn expression. He opened his mouth and frowned to express his dissatisfaction.

"Fujita-kun..."

"How come the reinforcements you mobilized from the mountains haven't killed the Eighth Route Army outside Jinzhou City... they are too slow."

"The Eighth Route Army has changed its tactics and no longer attacks our heavily defended medium-sized strongholds. Instead, it concentrates artillery fire and troops on attacking our small strongholds and settlements controlled by armed expatriates."

"So far, eight settlement points controlled by armed foreigners have been captured by them, and three small strongholds have been breached, resulting in the loss of nearly 200 Kwantung Army personnel, nearly 400 armed foreigners, and a large amount of weapons, ammunition, and food..."

"The expatriates living in the Jinzhou defense zone put a lot of pressure on the garrison headquarters, asking us to eliminate the Eighth Route Army attacking them as soon as possible. Otherwise, for the sake of safety, they would have to abandon their settlement outside the city..."

"All the food and grass supplies for the Kwantung Army and the Puppet Manchuria Army come from the settlement points. Even a lot of domestic food and a lot of food in the Kwantung Pass require our supply."

"If all these settlements are abandoned by armed expatriates, this year's food production will definitely be affected."

"Such a big responsibility is definitely not something that a lieutenant general like me can shoulder."

"Plus Fujita-kun, the two of us together can't bear such a heavy responsibility..."

Lieutenant General Fujita was also very angry and had nowhere to vent his anger.

As a result, Lieutenant General Yoshino lost his temper at him when he entered the door, and he became even more angry.

I am here to reinforce the Jinzhou garrison and help them eliminate the Eighth Route Army in the territory, not to take responsibility.

The anger was like an active volcano that suddenly erupted, quickly flooding into his mind, and he replied directly with an unhappy expression: "Bagh Ya Road..."

"You think I am willing to come to Jinzhou to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army."

"If it hadn't been for the order from the headquarters, I wouldn't have bothered to come to this hellish place like yours."

"If you are not satisfied with me, you can send a telegram to the Kwantung Army Headquarters and replace the Fujita Division..."

"If you don't dare to send a telegram, just cooperate with me honestly and don't make any nonsense there to affect my command of the battle."

It was only then that Lieutenant General Yoshino realized that something was wrong with Lieutenant General Fujita's face. An embarrassed expression appeared on his face at the same time, and he quickly explained: "Fujita-kun, please calm down. I was too anxious just now, and I didn't mean anything else..."

"I am very satisfied with you and the entire Tengtian Division. I believe you will definitely be able to eliminate the Eighth Route Army within the territory..."

"Did something happen to the returning reinforcements sent from the mountains?"

Lieutenant General Fujita shook his head: "It's not likely that something will happen, but it is certain that we will be targeted by the Eighth Route Army."

"I received the message over an hour ago."

"The two reinforced regiments returning to Jinzhou were all attacked by long-range artillery fire and cold gun attacks by the Eighth Route Army. Although the casualties of the troops were not large, they were beaten tirelessly..."

"Bagya Road..."

"When they entered the mountains to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army, they were not attacked. However, when the troops retreated out of the mountains, they were attacked by the Eighth Route Army..."

“I really don’t understand what the Eighth Route Army’s ulterior motive is for doing this.”

After all, Lieutenant General Yoshino had fought against the Eighth Route Army once and knew this opponent better than Lieutenant General Fujita.

After thinking for a moment, he made a judgment: "The Eighth Route Army is too cunning..."

"Fujita-kun..." "By doing this, the Eighth Route Army can not only consume the strength of the returning troops, but also damage the morale and morale of the returning troops and tire them out. It can be said to kill three birds with one stone."

"In the last round of large-scale raids against them, the Eighth Route Army used this method to severely damage two of our army's main regiments and completely wipe out one of our army's main regiments..."

"The troops, their real purpose of using this style of fighting now should be to kill four birds with one stone..."

"In addition to the above three purposes, we can also closely monitor every move of our army's return troops, lock their specific locations, and send messages to the troops operating outside the city in advance, so that our troops can continuously attack the air during the operation. There is no way Lock them down and annihilate them all.”

The more Lieutenant General Fujita listened, the darker his face became. After a few seconds, he suddenly punched the table and replied: "Then we won't give the Eighth Route Army outside the city a chance to escape."

"Or even if they receive the news in advance, they can only escape in the direction we want them to break through."

Lieutenant General Yoshino wanted to reply. If the Eighth Route Army was so easy to fight and so obedient, they would not have to wait for reinforcements from the Fujita Division. The Jinzhou garrison alone could wipe them out.

But he didn't say what he was thinking.

Now the Jinzhou garrison is asking for help from the Fujita Division. When he first entered the door, he had already successfully angered the Fujita Division. At this moment, he couldn't say anything to anger him any more and asked immediately.

"What are you going to do?"

"Will the Eighth Route Army operating outside Jinzhou City be at our mercy and break out in the direction we want them to break out?"

Lieutenant General Fujita seemed to have thought of something. A flash of confidence suddenly appeared on his serious face, and he answered firmly: "Of course..."

"In the face of absolute strength, they have to be at our mercy."

"Otherwise they will be greeted by death."

"If the battlefield is in the mountains, I don't have the confidence..."

"But the current battlefield is outside the mountains, around Jinzhou..."

"The transportation here is convenient. There are Kwantung Army intelligence personnel everywhere and there are roads along the route to ensure that we can quickly reinforce the battlefield."

"As long as the Jinzhou garrison prepares a sufficient number of transport vehicles for me, the Eighth Route Army will not be able to do anything to us."

Lieutenant General Yoshino seemed to be infected by the confident smile on Lieutenant General Fujita's face. He didn't believe that Fujita's division had this ability at first, but apparently he became a little convinced, and he immediately asked with an expectant expression.

"How to fight specifically..."

"Continue to weave a net outside Jinzhou City, but the net I want to weave next is not only denser, but also larger in scope. It will form a semi-encirclement circle and directly surround the Eighth Route Army's activity area. Even if they know our specific location, we will retreat in advance. , then we can only run forward..."

Lieutenant General Yoshino looked at the huge Jinzhou defense area on the map and asked with shock on his face: "But do we have that many troops?"

Lieutenant General Fujita remained as confident as ever, slapping the table and answering.

"certainly……"

"The two reinforced regiments returning to Jinzhou, plus the mixed regiment we prepared before, total more than 13,000 elite Kwantung Army troops."

"The Jinzhou Garrison Headquarters will mobilize several thousand Puppet Manchurian Army to cooperate in the operation. The troops will be divided into twenty lines to ensure that each line of mopping up troops will have 500 Kwantung Army and 300 Puppet Manchurian Army. They will strengthen certain heavy weapons and be spaced two to three meters apart from each other. kilometers, forming a large net fifty or sixty kilometers wide and sweeping towards the Eighth Route Army..."

"The remaining troops will form some mobile units, all equipped with transport vehicles, and dispersed among these mopping-up units. In the event that a mopping-up unit is besieged by the Eighth Route Army, they can reinforce the battlefield within ten minutes."

"In this way, the Eighth Route Army can only flee in the direction we want them to go. In the end, they will be surrounded by us and gather together to annihilate them..."

(End of this chapter)