The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Lieutenant General Takano was heartbroken, but the problem still had to be solved.

Although the division suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Wulan Mountain, it won the battle after all and wiped out a large number of Eighth Route Army troops.

Moreover.

The Takano Division paid a huge price and finally wiped out the Eighth Route Army in two directions outside Fuxin City. Even the main force of the Eighth Route Army was destroyed in Wulan Mountain.

Victory was on the verge of happening. If this sweep was abandoned halfway and the Eighth Route Army operating in the remaining two areas was let go, all the previous efforts would soon be in vain.

It is reasonable for Lieutenant General Takano to find a way to solve the problems faced by the front-line mopping-up troops.

The troops were short of soldiers and did not have enough to wipe out the Eighth Route Army in the other two areas, so I had to find a way to transfer troops to them.

A pair of eyes quickly looked at the map in front of him, searching for troops that could be mobilized.

They soon locked onto the blockade line that divided the areas north and west of Fuxin.

In order to cut off the connection between the Eighth Route Army in the two places, Lieutenant General Takano arranged two infantry battalions, a mountain artillery battalion, a tank squadron, plus some logistical troops and the puppet Manchurian Army, a total of more than 3,500 troops to guard this blockade line.

Now that the Eighth Route Army active west and north of Fuxin has been eliminated, there is no need for this blockade line to continue to exist.

More than 3,000 elite troops were sent to reinforce the front line, which was enough to sweep away the Eighth Route Army operating in the other two directions of Fuxin.

The Takano Division acted as soon as it thought of it and immediately called the Chief of Staff to give orders.

"Report to the division commander... Urgent message from the Chida Regiment..." The report from the communications staff suddenly sounded, interrupting the Takano Division's order.

He frowned and asked unhappily, "What's the matter..."

"They didn't send a telegram earlier or later, but chose this very moment to send a telegram to the division headquarters. They really know how to choose the right time."

"The Changlinwan stronghold defended by the Qiantian Regiment was attacked by the Eighth Route Army... a reinforced squadron of garrisons was completely wiped out... by the time the reinforcements arrived at the battlefield, the Eighth Route Army had already cleaned up the battlefield and evacuated the battle." The communications staff officer was scolded for no apparent reason, but still reported his duty diligently.

"Changlin Bay Stronghold..."

The chief of staff was the first to react, and immediately found the location of the Changlin Bay stronghold on the map, and then his brows were twisted into a big "川" shape.

Looking in the direction of the chief of staff's finger, Lieutenant General Takano also frowned.

The chief of staff frowned more and more as he thought about it. He stared at the communications officer and asked, "Did the battle report say how many soldiers of the Eighth Route Army attacked the Changlinwan stronghold, and what kind of equipment they had..."

"I just mentioned it briefly..."

The communications officer replied.

"It is said that the Eighth Route Army's strength is unknown, but its equipment is very sophisticated. It not only has a large number of mortars, but also has at least two mountain cannons for attacking strongholds."

"They have arranged troops to track down this Eighth Route Army."

"If the enemy has not divided its forces, a more detailed battle report should be sent back soon."

The Chief of Staff immediately turned his gaze to Lieutenant General Takano, who also had a frown on his face: "Division Commander..."

"Something seems to be wrong..."

"To be able to capture one of our strongholds and wipe out one of our reinforced squadrons in a short period of time requires more than just good equipment. Without a force of two or three hundred people, it would be impossible to do this."

"But according to the latest battle reports provided to us by the front-line mopping-up troops, the main forces of the Eighth Route Army operating west and north of Fuxin have been completely wiped out by them. At most, there are some scattered remnants left. Their combat effectiveness is very poor and they pose no threat to the safety of the Kwantung Army at all." "The Changlinwan stronghold is located on the blockade line between west and north of Fuxin."

"This means that the main force of the Eighth Route Army is still active in these two areas, and has torn through the blockade we set up to separate the two areas."

"If we allow this Eighth Route Army to continue to grow and develop north and west of Fuxin, and join the remnants of the Eighth Route Army that were dispersed by the mopping-up troops in the two places..."

"The Eighth Route Army active in the two places will definitely rise again and restore its combat effectiveness, seriously affecting the public security in Fuxin and even threatening the safety of Shenyang."

"So I think that the troops we have divided west of Fuxin and north of Fuxin cannot be mobilized for the time being. We must immediately block the breakthroughs that the Eighth Route Army has opened on the blockade line and continue to cut off the Eighth Route Army active in the two places."

"At the same time, we strictly order the front-line mopping-up forces to urgently search and eliminate the main forces of the Eighth Route Army operating west and north of Fuxin."

"After completely destroying the Eighth Route Army, we will gather heavy forces to destroy the Eighth Route Army active in the other two areas."

Lieutenant General Takano agreed with the Chief of Staff's analysis and asked back with a frown, "The troops on the blockade line cannot be rashly mobilized."

"But how do we solve the problem of insufficient manpower for the frontline mopping-up forces?"

"We can't ask the headquarters for help..."

"They said that our one division of the Kwantung Army couldn't even deal with two or three thousand Eighth Route Army soldiers, and we suffered heavy casualties on the battlefield and were in a dilemma of having no soldiers available."

"If we really send this telegram, not only will it be embarrassing, but we may even lose our positions."

Seeing that Lieutenant General Takano and the division chief of staff suddenly fell into deep thought, frowning and not speaking, the atmosphere in the headquarters became more and more serious. Colonel Nakayama, the commander of the Fuxin garrison, decided to help: "General..."

"Although the Fuxin garrison suffered heavy losses in the previous battle, there are still more than one battalion of the Kwantung Army and about one regiment of the puppet Manchurian Army left in the county."

"After the Kono Division enters Fuxin, the city defense work can be completely handed over to the logistics regiment..."

"So the Fuxin garrison can dispatch a battalion to reinforce the front line and cooperate with the front-line mopping-up forces to urgently encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army west and north of Fuxin."

"We must completely eliminate them to prevent future troubles..."

Lieutenant General Takano's eyes lit up and he replied, "If you pull out a battalion...Major General Akiyama can piece together another battalion, that would be the strength of two full infantry battalions."

"In addition to the artillery and tank units, there are at least 5,000 mopping-up troops on the front line."

"The main force of the Eighth Route Army active in the two places is at most 300 people. We have a 10-fold advantage in manpower. We can definitely encircle and annihilate them..."

"Just do it..."

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In a ravine about five kilometers away from the Changlin Bay incident, Li Yunlong was hiding here with a team of more than 200 people for rest.

Although they caught the Changlinwan garrison off guard with mountain artillery last night, they then took advantage of their artillery firepower and light and heavy machine gun firepower to wipe out all the garrison at a very small cost.

But Li Yunlong did not believe that this siege could change the battlefield situation and force the Kwantung Army's Takano Division to withdraw.

After taking a nap in the morning, Li Yunlong began to study the map.

His idea was simple: since the Kwantung Army that was encircling him would not retreat on its own, he would find a way to force them to retreat.

Win a few more battles and make the blockade of the Eighth Route Army by the Kwantung Army meaningless and meaningless, and they will naturally withdraw their troops. (End of this chapter)