Bright Sword: Develop alone, bring back an artillery regiment

Chapter 470 Commander of the Japanese Army: The threat of the Eighth Route Army is already above the Central Army and the Jinsui Army

Okamura Neiji gave Naozaburo Okabe a meaningful look, of course he couldn't hide his little thought from Okamura Neiji.

The old devil knew that the reason why Naozaburo Okabe wanted to send electricity to Shinozuka Yoshio himself was to give him a reminder.

Even the reason given by Yoshio Shinozuka in his call back is most likely written by Naozaburo Okabe.

However, Ningji Okamura did not mean to blame Naozaburo Okabe, but agreed with the other party's point of view very much.

Because he also believes that the Eighth Route Army in North China has completely surpassed the Central Army and the Jinsui Army in terms of threat to the Japanese army.

Taking this battle as an example, the Eighth Route Army first captured more than 300 foreign strongholds on the Zhengtai Railway, Tongpu Railway, and Pinghan Railway.

Then launched a strong attack on the large strongholds on various railway lines, and successively captured four large strongholds, Niangziguan, Pingping, Jucheng and Donghui.

In addition, the two counties of Pingding and Yangquan were captured.

Such a result has never been achieved by the Jinsui Army and the Central Army.

Among them, of course, there are reasons why the Japanese army's strength is empty and the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army is underestimated.

But the results achieved by the Eighth Route Army are also real.

The most important thing is that since 37, the Japanese army has carried out numerous large and small raids on the major bases of the Eighth Route Army, and has never let up for a moment.

In this way, the Eighth Route Army was as tenacious as a green bamboo biting into a green hill. In just two or three years, it grew from tens of thousands of people to 30 to [-].

If it weren't for this Hundred Regiments War, the Japanese army would have been kept in the dark, having no idea that the Eighth Route Army already had so many troops.

In fact, not only the Japanese army, but even the heads of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army only discovered that the Eighth Route Army had grown to such a scale after launching the Hundred Regiments War.

And the strength and combat effectiveness displayed by the Eighth Route Army now completely shocked Yoshio Shinozuka, Ningji Okamura and other high-level Japanese military officers in North China.

Neji Okamura pondered for a moment, then suddenly said: "Mr. Okabe, your analysis is good. The current Eighth Route Army is still more threatening to the North China Imperial Army than the Central Army and the Jinsui Army."

"This time the Eighth Route Army concentrated its forces, although it caught the Imperial Army by surprise, it also exposed their full strength.

If they are lurking and developing together, maybe there is a real possibility of threatening our Great Japanese Imperial Army.

But now, although the strength displayed by the Eighth Route Army shocked me, it was nothing more than that! "

"Okabe-kun, call Shinozuka-kun immediately and tell him that if the 41st Division arrives in Taiyuan, he can completely annihilate or seriously injure the Eighth Route Army, then he can make up for it, but if he can't complete the strategic task, The two crimes will be punished together, and no mercy will be given!"

"Hi Yi!"

Naozaburo Okabe nodded heavily, then turned and left, and went to the communication class to send electricity to Shinozuka Yoshio.

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The screen returns to Shanxi.

Time flies, and the time has come to twelve o'clock at noon.

Both Li Yunlong and Wang Chengzhu completed their campaign against local tyrants, and among them, Wang Chengzhu seized Xian Dayang and yellow croaker, worth more than 430 million silver dollars in total.

Li Yunlong seized Xian Dayang and yellow croaker, with a total value of more than 180 million silver dollars.

In addition, there are a large amount of food, medicine, and weapons and ammunition.

Compared with Yangquan County, Pingding County is not even a little bit behind in terms of population, strategic position, historical position, and prosperity.

Therefore, even with the four major families of Qin, Tang, Ding, and Xia, the silver dollars Li Yunlong captured from the local tyrants were far less than Wang Chengzhu.

As for weapons and equipment, as well as medicines, Li Yunlong couldn't compare with Wang Chengzhu because the brigade headquarters of the Japanese Army's independent and mixed 1st Brigade was in Yangquan.

The only thing that can be compared with Wang Chengzhu is the captured grain.

This is all due to the fact that the Xia family deliberately hoarded a large amount of food in order to make money from the war, but it turned out to be cheaper for Li Yunlong.

Since the Japanese army only carried out two retaliatory bombings on Pingding and Yangquan counties, they then focused on the outside of the city.

Therefore, both Li Yunlong and Wang Chengzhu executed the local tyrants and evil gentry who committed heinous crimes by shooting in public as scheduled.

And some of the seized food was distributed to the people in need.

In this way, the Eighth Route Army immediately laid a solid mass foundation in Pingding and Yangquan.

During this period, the Japanese air force was not idle either. Although they did not continue to carry out retaliatory bombing of Yangquan and Ding County, they carried out bombing raids on the Zhengtai Railway, destroying the tracks dozens of times in total.

And this news naturally spread to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, as well as the division headquarters, brigade headquarters, and regiment headquarters.

In Yangquan County.

Temporary Headquarters of the Second Independent Regiment.

Wang Shugen, the battalion commander of the reconnaissance battalion, reported to Wang Chengzhuhui with some doubts: "Regiment commander, logically speaking, if the devils want to prevent us from continuing to expand our victories through armored trains, they should blow up some bridges or tunnels.

But why did they choose to blow up ordinary road sections and make such time-consuming and laborious decisions? What exactly are they going to do? "

Wang Shugen didn't think that the devil commander was stupid, and he couldn't think of a once-and-for-all method of blowing up bridges and tunnels.

Wang Chengzhu saw through Yoshio Shinozuka's plan at a glance, and said: "Blowing up bridges and tunnels can certainly solve the potential threat of armored trains once and for all.

But for my Eighth Route Army, there was no substantial loss, because it was our strategic plan to destroy the Zhengtai Railway.

If the devil really did this, it would save us a lot of effort and explosives. "

After a pause, Wang Chengzhu changed the subject and continued: "But the Zhengtai Railway is the lifeline of the 1st Japanese Army. It can be said that all the food, medicines, and even weapons and ammunition of the 1st Japanese Army need to pass through this railway. Lifeline transport.

Once this lifeline is cut off, the Japanese First Army may be able to hold on for a short time, but once the time is long, troubles will definitely occur. "

"In addition, don't look at us now that we have gained control of the Zhengtai Railway, but once the Japanese army recovers, they will immediately launch a counterattack.

At that time, even if we forge ahead with all our strength, we will not be able to stop the strong counterattack of the Japanese army at all. "

"It is only a matter of time before the Zhengtai Railway is recaptured by the Japanese army."

"Therefore, they can blow up the bridges and tunnels now, but they have to rebuild them later. Not to mention the cost of money and effort, the most critical thing is to spend a lot of time."

"So, it's not that the Japanese didn't want to blow up bridges and tunnels, but they couldn't because it wouldn't pay."

"Although bombing ordinary roads now seems stupid and takes time and aerial bombs, it is the most feasible method at the moment."

"Moreover, this would also serve the strategic purpose of addressing the threat of armored trains."

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(End of this chapter)