Bright Sword: Develop alone, bring back an artillery regiment

"Hi Yi!"

After listening to the instructions of the brigade head Masaoko Yasuoka, Chief of Staff Koizumi Jiro gave a heavy sigh, then turned around and delivered the order himself.

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The screen zooms to Jinzhong County, the brigade headquarters of the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Army.

Naotomi Hattori, then head of the 9th Brigade, was also awakened from his sleep by the staff officer on duty. Unlike Masao Yasuoka's handling, the old devil did not issue an order to abandon the third-level stronghold that was attacked. Defend and flee, evacuate to the nearest secondary stronghold, and then defend the secondary stronghold.

Instead, he ordered the strongholds to hold fast, and sent reinforcements from the nearest secondary stronghold.

Naotomi Hattori even more scoffed at Masao Yasuoka's suggestion.

More than a month ago, Naotomi Hattori led the 9th Infantry Regiment of the 15th Brigade and returned in a disastrous defeat when they attacked Zhaojiaao. The whole army was almost wiped out. In Naoko Hattori's view, it was not that the Eighth Route Army was stronger than him. Instead, he was eager for revenge and fell into the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army.

If it were elsewhere, the 15th Infantry Regiment would never fail.

Switching to defense, the Eighth Route Army would have no chance of winning.

For more than a month, Naotomi Hattori has been learning from the pain, reflecting on the mistakes he made before, and finally came to such a conclusion.

After this defeat, Hattori Naotomi was not defeated, nor did he give up the idea of ​​revenge. He just realized his mistake and would not underestimate the enemy again.

So after that, although he continued to investigate the whereabouts of the Second Independent Regiment, and even vaguely determined the approximate location of the Second Independent Regiment, he never led his troops to go deep alone.

Right now, the Eighth Route Army has taken the initiative to attack. In Naoko Hattori's view, this is an opportunity, an opportunity for revenge!

Because these strongholds are the sites of their Japanese army, after such a long period of operation, they have already been monolithic, and they have built gun towers and bunkers.

The Eighth Route Army lacked artillery.

Therefore, in Hattori Naoko's view, this behavior of the Eighth Route Army is completely out of wanting to live.

As for saying that so many strongholds were attacked by the Eighth Route Army and might fall, Naoto Hattori scoffed even more.

How many troops does the Eighth Route Army have?

It has also been dispersed into hundreds of parts. This is obviously a bluff, and it has no fighting power at all...

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Tonight is doomed to sleepless.

at the same time.

In Taiyuan, Shanxi.

Japanese 1st Army Headquarters.

Jun Miyano, chief of staff of the 1st Army, was the first to be woken up. After learning about the situation, he quickly walked into the combat hall of the headquarters. Several combat staff officers in the combat class were already busy like dogs, and they were going to the topographic map of the sand table. There is a small blue flag on it.

Miyano Toshi walked up to the sand table and took a look.

Good guy, the entire sand table is almost filled with little blue flags.

This means that most of Shanxi, and even parts of surrounding Henan and Hebei are at war!

Seeing this scene, Jun Miyano lost all sleepiness for a moment, then his eyes widened, and his whole body went numb.

The 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army was only responsible for raiding the southeastern Shanxi area and the strongholds along the Zhengtai Railway. In addition, the 120th and 115th Divisions were also operating at the same time.

But isn't there a war everywhere?

"Your Excellency, Chief of Staff! You are here!" The head of the combat section, Saburo Yoshida, saw Jun Miyano approaching, and immediately walked up to him, and then reported: "About more than an hour ago, that is, around midnight At that time, more than 300 third-level strongholds along the Zhengtai Railway, Tongpu Railway, and Pinghan Railway were attacked at the same time! And it was an all-out attack, not a harassment attack like before."

"What do you mean?"

Miyano Jun frowned and asked, "Please explain clearly."

"Hi!" Yoshida Saburo paused again, and immediately said: "The Eighth Route Army is coming in menacingly, and it seems that they are preparing to attack more than 300 third-level strongholds along the Zhengtai Railway, Tongpu Railway, and Pinghan Railway in one fell swoop."

"Among them, the attack along the Zhengtai Railway was the most violent. According to the report of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade, at least 20 strongholds have been breached, and 30 strongholds have lost contact."

"Nani?" Jun Miyano was startled when he heard this.

Before that, although the Eighth Route Army had already posed a threat to the Japanese army in North China, most of the time it still only dared to ambush the Japanese army's transport troops.

In the historical victory of Pingxingguan, the Japanese transport troops ambushed. Although they won the victory in the end, the Eighth Route Army suffered more casualties than the Japanese army. It was said to be a victory, but it was actually a miserable victory.

The strength of the Japanese army can be seen.

However, with the passage of time, the focus of the Japanese army slowly shifted to the south. In addition, the combat effectiveness of the supplementary soldiers was far less than that of the veterans in the early days of the War of Resistance. powerful.

But even so, the Eighth Route Army would at most pull out a few third-level strongholds to fight the Japanese army head-on, or launch an attack on hundreds of strongholds at the same time in such a grand manner as it is now, but it has never been done before.

"Baga! When did the Eighth Route Army of China become so powerful? It has the ability to attack more than 300 targets at the same time?"

"You know, there are less than 50 people stationed in the third-level strongholds of the imperial army, and more than 200 people are stationed there."

"The Eighth Route Army launched an attack on more than 300 strongholds at the same time. Their strength must be at least three times that of the Imperial Army, or even more."

"Didn't the Eighth Route Army only have three divisions? Even if their divisions had more troops than the Central Army, they wouldn't have so many more?"

While Jun Miyano was speaking, the sound of hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside the combat hall, which was caused by military boots trampling on the ground.

Toshi Miyano and the others looked back anxiously, and saw the commander Yoshio Shinozuka walking in with a dark face.

Behind Yoshio Shinozuka, followed by Kazuki Yamamoto who also had a straight face.

"Your Excellency, Commander!" Toshi Miyano, Saburo Yoshida and others hurriedly stood at attention, then bowed their heads and nodded.

Yoshio Shinozuka waved his hand and said in a deep voice, "Miyano-kun, what's the situation now?"

Before coming, Shinozuka Yoshio already knew the general idea, but the combat staff who notified him did not give very detailed information.

Jun Miyano reported with a dark face: "About an hour ago, the imperial army's independent mixed 1st brigade, independent mixed 4th brigade, and 27th division reported to the headquarters at the same time, saying that Zhengtai Railway and Tongpu Railway , and more than 300 strongholds along the Ping-Han Railway were attacked by the Eighth Route Army at the same time, and it was not a harassing attack, but a frontal attack!"

"Among them, the offensive along the Zhengtai Railway is the most violent. At least 20 strongholds have been captured, and more than 30 strongholds have lost contact."

"Right now, it can be said that most of Shanxi, and even parts of surrounding Hebei and Henan are at war!"

"Nani? What did you say?" Yoshio Shinozuka was stunned when he heard the words, with disbelief and shock on his face.

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