Bright Sword: Develop alone, bring back an artillery regiment

After hearing Koizumi Jiro's analysis, Yasuo Masato said with a sullen face: "The Eighth Route Army may be able to carry out a deeper attack on the Zhengtai Railway, but it is foolish to want to remove the second-level stronghold of the Imperial Army."

"You know, these second-level strongholds are not comparable to those of ordinary third-level strongholds. Not only are there at least one squadron of garrison troops, but also heavy machine guns and grenades.

The most important thing is that the fortifications of these strongholds are also stronger. Without heavy firepower weapons, the Chinese Eighth Route Army wants to pull them out, which is tantamount to nonsense. "

"What's more, we still have armored trains ready to provide firepower reinforcements!"

Koizumi Jiro shook his head: "Your Excellency, brigade commander, you are still a little too optimistic. According to the report of the imperial army who transferred back, although they don't know the number of the troops of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side, what is certain is that every army that attacks them The Eighth Route Army has at least more troops than a reinforced battalion, or even more."

"123 reinforced battalions, that's almost [-] or [-] regiments. I'm sure that the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang bandit area must have come out in full force!"

"Among them, there is no shortage of powerful Eighth Route Army units such as the New First Regiment and the Independent Second Regiment who smuggled in from the Northwest of Shanxi."

After a pause, Koizumi Jiro changed the subject and continued: "It is true that the vast majority of the Eighth Route Army does not have heavy firepower weapons in their hands, but that does not mean that all the Eighth Route Army do not have them.

For example, the Second Independent Regiment, the New First Regiment, and even the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army all possess Type [-] infantry artillery and artillery of higher power.

If the Eighth Route Army of China concentrated all these artillery pieces, it would be absolutely impossible in my opinion to capture the 12 large strongholds of the Imperial Army. "

"Your Excellency, brigade commander, we must not be careless and underestimate the enemy. Even if the Eighth Route Army has no such plan, we have to guard against it!"

Masao Yasuoka thought for a moment with a gloomy expression, and finally nodded his head in agreement, and said, "Mr. The regiment was severely damaged twice, and so was the whole army of the 9th Brigade.

Therefore, we must never repeat the mistakes of the 9th Brigade and the Di Brigade! "

"Immediately report the situation here and your speculation to the headquarters truthfully, and at the same time request the headquarters to send aviation troops to conduct reconnaissance along the Zhengtai Railway, especially the area near the 12 secondary strongholds, and request the armored train to provide us with Necessary firepower guidance!"

"Hi Yi!"

Koizumi Jiro nodded heavily, then turned and left to send a telegram to report the situation.

Masao Yasuoka's eyes fell back to the map.

But I saw that the area originally occupied by the independent mixed 1st and 9th Brigades is now a red cross.

But the strange thing is that I saw a blue arrow.

According to the operation specification, the blue cross represents the enemy's offensive, so, correspondingly, there should be a blue arrow behind each blue cross, and the arrow leads the corresponding enemy's attack direction.

In addition, the number of the enemy unit should be marked at the end of the arrow, and the date should also be marked under the blue cross.

Such a map can be regarded as a rigorous and standard combat map.

But on the current map, there are only more than 100 blue crosses, but no blue arrows can be seen, let alone a number.

The dates do exist, and they are all unified.

Seeing this, Masao Yasuoka's face became more and more gloomy, almost dripping water.

The absence of arrows does not mean that the enemy troops fell from the sky, and there are no standard numbers, let alone that these enemy troops do not have numbers.

It's just because they are incompetent that they didn't get the information.

The combat staff officers in the combat department didn't dare to just look at Masao Yasuoka's almost cannibalistic eyes, and felt even more uneasy.

But in addition to being flustered, I also felt a little wronged. Can this be blamed on our combat class?
The intelligence department has not been able to provide accurate information until now, and our combat department naturally has no way of knowing the direction of the Eighth Route Army's attack, as well as its strength and designation.

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the other side.

In Taiyuan, Shanxi, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army.

Unlike Masao Yasuoka, the area guarded by the independent and mixed 1st Brigade was only in the southeast of Shanxi, but the area guarded by the 1st Army was the entire Shanxi, and even Suiyuan, Henan, Hebei and other areas.

And it was not only the Zhengtai Railway in the southeast of Shanxi that was attacked, but also the Tongpu Railway in the northeast of Shanxi, and the Hebei-Henan section of the Ping-Han Railway connecting Beiping to Wuhan.

Therefore, what Masao Yasuoka saw on the map was only more than 100 blue crosses, while Yoshio Shinozuka saw more than 300 small blue flags on the topographic map of the sand table.

These more than 300 small blue flags almost completely filled Zhengtai, Tongpu, and the areas on both sides of the Ping-Han railway line.

At this time, Saburo Yoshida, the head of the combat section, came over suddenly, and reported with some anxiety: "Report to Your Excellency, Commander, as of 8:373 in the morning, a total of [-] and strongholds along the Zhengtai, Tongpu, and Ping-Han Railways have all been attacked by China. The Eighth Route Army attacked."

"In the three areas, more than 70 garrison teams successfully transferred to the nearest secondary stronghold. The remaining 300 imperial army garrison teams were either wiped out on the spot by the Eighth Route Army, or encountered attacks on the way in."

"In addition, according to reports, the strength of each Eighth Route Army that attacked the imperial army's stronghold reached or exceeded the size of a battalion."

In the history of another time and space, when the Eighth Route Army launched the Hundred Regiments War, it gradually invested its troops. At the beginning, even the headquarters did not expect the troops below to develop so well.

At the beginning, only a few dozen regiments were planned to be invested, but in the end, more than 100 regiments emerged, so the battle was also called the Hundred Regiments War.

And the first stage of that battle also lasted 10 days.

But in this time and space, because of Wang Chengzhu's time travel, the situation has changed. The result that originally took 10 days to achieve was achieved in just one day.

Besides, Shinozuka Yoshio, after listening to Yoshida Saburo's report, he immediately opened his eyes and said in surprise: "What? Every Chinese Eighth Route Army that attacked the imperial army's stronghold has at least reached the size of a battalion?"

"Doesn't that mean that the Eighth Route Army of China dispatched more than 370 battalions, that is, more than 100 regiments?"

"Hi Yi!"

Saburo Yoshida paused abruptly, and said: "Although the humble job is unbelievable, and I don't want to believe it, but according to the news that came back, it is indeed the case."

"Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Eighth Route Army of China to remove so many strongholds of the imperial army at the same time."

Yoshio Shinozuka was still a little unbelievable, so he asked again: "Are you sure that the Eighth Route Army is the only one attacking the imperial army's stronghold?"

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