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Chapter 374 annihilated!

Taiyuan.

Yoshio Shinozuka stood up abruptly from his office chair, and looked at Toshimatsu Kasai, the communications staff officer:

"The 21nd Regiment of the 62st Division was ambushed by the Eight Route Army on the way to Taiyuan, and asked for help from the First Army?"

The eyes and tone of this saber master and commander of the First Army were a little unbelievable and a little panicked.

During this period of time, the Eighth Route in Southeast Shanxi was much more peaceful. Not only did they not launch a major offensive, but even ambushes, harassment, and artillery building became less than before.

This was within his expectation, the Eighth Route suffered heavy losses, ammunition wasted a lot, and it was in urgent need of rest and replenishment.

As for supplements.

Even if Eighth Road has external assistance, it is at most regiment-level assistance, which is just a drop in the bucket.

Right now, Yoshio Shinozuka only wants to retire with honor, so he intends to have a good relationship with Eighth Road, not to offend Eighth Road, but often things are just afraid of what will happen.

He didn't go to provoke Balu, but Balu wanted to provoke him.

It will take at least one more month before the attack on Zhongtiao Mountain.

During this period, troops and supplies need to be mobilized, so the railway needs to be guarded by troops.

In the case that the troops of the 2nd Guards Division and the 37th Division have not yet been replenished, the troops defending the Zhengtai Railway are greatly insufficient.

It was Shinozuka Yoshio who applied for the 62nd Regiment to defend Yangquan and its nearby Zhengtai Railway. It never expected to be attacked by the Eighth Route Army halfway.

"Hi!"

Kasai Toshimatsu lowered his head, handed the telegram to Shinozuka Yoshio, and continued: "This telegram was sent by Lieutenant General Tanaka Hisaichi, the commander of the 21st Division. Let’s just say that the situation is very critical, the Eighth Route is equipped with powerful artillery, and the 62nd Regiment has suffered more than half of the casualties.”

Yoshio Shinozuka took the telegram and looked at it, his face suddenly changed. With powerful artillery, most of the casualties of the 62nd Regiment?

This is by no means an ordinary eight-way army!

Things got serious, Shinozuka Yoshio's face became more and more ugly.

"I didn't even mention the location, how can I save it?" Yoshio Shinozuka asked.

Kasai Toshimatsu said: "Your Excellency, Commander, I have contacted the communications department of the 21st Regiment and learned that the military column of the 62nd Regiment departed from Jingxing Railway Station an hour ago. If the military column is attacked, it should be Near Niangziguan."

"Nianzi Guan?"

Shinozuka Yoshio walked quickly to the map, found Niangziguan on the map, glanced quickly and then fixed his eyes.

"Dragon King Convex!"

"Immediately order the Air Force of the First Army to rush to the rescue of the 62nd Regiment, and the defenders in Niangziguan and Jingxing counties to send troops to rescue immediately!"

Shinozuka Yoshio pushed his glasses, fixed his eyes on Long Wangtu, and ordered.

Kasai Toshimatsu said: "Your Excellency, Commander, after the pilots of the 9th Flying Squadron were destroyed, the Front Army Command has not yet dispatched new pilots."

Only then did Shinozuka Yoshio remember that his precious pilots were all killed by Li Yunlong's special forces.

The aviation unit that assisted in sweeping the Eighth Route Army's base areas was the 8th Flying Squadron directly under the North China Front Army.

At this time, the 8th Flying Squadron had been recalled by Tada Hayao, leaving only a few reconnaissance planes.

Shinozuka Yoshio suddenly slapped the table:
"idiot!"

"Order the defenders of Niangziguan and Jingxing County to send troops to help immediately!"

The teacups, folders and other things on the table jumped upwards when they were slapped, and Toshimatsu Kasai's heart also jumped in fright.

"Hi!"

Kasai Toshimatsu quickly lowered his head, and quickly ran out to convey the order.

……

Longwangtu's battle was smoother than expected.

The Xinyi regiment has the advantage of terrain and firepower, coupled with the suddenness of the attack, a large amount of explosives were buried in advance to explode a wave. The dense bullet firepower and 87 artillery pieces washed the ground. The devils on the military ranks could not organize a decent Resistance, coupled with the fact that all escape routes were blocked, even if the devil wanted to escape, he would not be able to escape at all.

Seeing that most of the carriages were blown up, Li Yunlong picked up the high-power walkie-talkie and shouted: "Stop shelling, all units stop shelling!"

Soon, the howling sound of shells in the sky gradually became thinner until it completely disappeared.

"Infantry, press me up!"

Li Yunlong held the low-power walkie-talkie again, and said to the walkie-talkie.

A moment later, the beeping and rushing charge horn sounded below, and the soldiers jumped up from behind the slope.

"Kill!" Immediately afterwards, there was an overwhelming shout of killing!
More than [-] soldiers from the first battalion and the second battalion descended like fierce tigers, heading towards where the devils were.

Although the first battalion and the second battalion had casualties in the last battle, whether it was the ammunition consumed, or the combat and non-combat attrition, they had already been replenished.

The soldiers rushed forward and saw the devil's body, so they fired a shot first regardless of whether they were dead or alive.

When the ammunition is insufficient, when cleaning the battlefield, it is to stab the devil with a bayonet.

In this situation, it is easy to be dragged to death by the devils. Some devils pretend to be injured or dead, and when you come over, they will blow the grenade and die with you.

Now the soldiers can shoot at the devils on the ground at a distance of several meters, so that this situation can be prevented from happening.

Under this kind of firepower density, although there were some devils who survived by chance, they were quickly wiped out.

When cleaning the train carriages, the soldiers were also very cautious. They directly placed a few bundles of explosives under the carriages, and then pulled the fire rope.

With the explosion that shook the sky, the entire carriage was blown up, not to mention the devils inside who survived by chance.

It didn't take long for all the carriages not blown up in the bombardment to be blown up with dynamite bags.

However, although the fighting and cleaning the battlefield went smoothly, this style of play could not capture any weapons and ammunition at all.

A Japanese regiment has about 3000 guns, but after this battle, it is not bad to capture 200 guns.

Fortunately, Li Yunlong is very rich now, and he didn't come here for the capture, but for killing the devils.

Moreover, it doesn't matter even if a gun or a bullet is not seized, the big money is the business.

Zhao Gang raised his watch and took a look. It took less than half an hour from the start of the battle to the cleaning of the battlefield.

It was at least half an hour faster than he expected, and even the devils had no time to support.

This is an infantry regiment, an established infantry regiment.

In less than half an hour, the entire Japanese infantry regiment was wiped out. Counting from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, it seems that there has never been such a battle in the whole of China.

Putting down the binoculars, Zhao Gang said: "In less than half an hour, the devil's reinforcements probably just left. If our blocking troops retreat at this time, there will be no exchange of fire with the devil. If the devil doesn't send a plane, maybe we can really do it." Make history and wipe out a regiment of the Japanese army at the cost of zero casualties."

"Humph!" Li Yunlong looked satisfied, "Otherwise you think I'm joking with you."

At this time, the report of the completion of the cleaning of the battlefields of each battalion came from the walkie-talkie.

Li Yunlong picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Send me the order to retreat according to the original route!"

Afterwards, Li Yunlong picked up a high-power walkie-talkie and ordered the county brigade and the fourth battalion in charge of fighting to retreat.

Immediately, the soldiers of the first battalion and the second battalion retreated in an orderly manner with a little loot captured.

More than an hour after the Xinyi regiment left, the devil reinforcements from Niangziguan came late, looking at the shattered train carriages, corpses, limbs, and minced meat all over the ground.

He was so angry that the captain of the devil's brigade swung his knife and slashed wildly.

"idiot!"

At the Taiyuan First Army Headquarters, Yoshio Shinozuka, who received the news, was shocked and speechless at first, then angrily threw up the documents, drew out his command knife and chopped the table into pieces.

Too much deception, Balu is simply deceiving too much.

Although the 62nd Wing does not belong to the First Army, the matter happened on the territory of the First Army.

Yoshio Shinozuka had to carry it.

However, Yoshio Shinozuka calmed down quickly, he didn't worry about having too many debts, and didn't itch if he had too many lice.

The First Army has already suffered a lot of shame, and it doesn't matter if there is another shame, anyway, he will be honorably retired soon.

Put badly.

At this moment, Kazuki Yamamoto walked in with a saber and red eyes.

Kazuki Yamamoto lowered his head and said, "General, I heard from Kasai-kun that the 62nd Regiment was ambushed by the Eight Route Army in Niangziguan, and all the jade pieces were broken?"

During this time, Kazuki Yamamoto and his secret service team were arranged by Shinozuka Yoshio to not go anywhere at the Inner City Protection Command.

Yoshio Shinozuka looked up at Kazuki Yamamoto with a somewhat surprised expression: "That's right!"

"What about Isamu Yamamoto, captain of the 62nd Regiment?" Kazuki Yamamoto asked.

Yoshio Shinozuka said, "Didn't Kasai-kun tell you that Isamu Yamamoto was shot in the chest and was cut in two. He has already devoted his allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor."

Kazuki Yamamoto's paralyzed cheeks twitched twice, indicating that he was in pain at this time, but he was suppressed by him.

This is very similar to the death sniper of the Eighth Route Army holding a large-caliber sniper rifle. However, we can only confirm it after seeing the corpse.

After a pause, Shinozuka Yoshio asked: "Yamamoto-kun, do you know Colonel Yamamoto Yusuke?"

"Isamu Yamamoto is my cousin." Kazuki Yamamoto said in a deep voice, "He is my uncle's only son."

"My condolences!" Yoshio Shinozuka walked to Kazuki Yamamoto's side and patted him on the shoulder, "Yamamoto is loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, he is a warrior of the empire, and the empire will remember him."

Shinozuka Yoshio thought to himself that this happened, although there was a reason why Eight Roads kept a low profile and neglected to take precautions during this time, but the main reason was that the information on the deployment of the 62nd Regiment was leaked.

Even the Eighth Route Army knew exactly the train time. After the Eighth Route Army got the news in advance, it ambushed the military column of the 62nd Regiment on the way.

It can be seen from this that Kazuki Yamamoto is definitely not the ghost of the First Army Command, and he will definitely not betray his cousin.

It's a pity that I am about to retire with honor, and I can no longer reuse Kazuki Yamamoto.

Kazuki Yamamoto paused: "Thank you General!"

Shinozuka Yoshio said: "Yamamoto-kun, you and your younger brother are both excellent soldiers of the empire. Before I leave the First Army, I will give you a piece of military exploits to gain a foothold in the army."

"General, are you leaving the First Army?"

Kazuki Yamamoto looked surprised and asked hurriedly.

"Yes, I'm retiring."

Shinozuka Yoshio laughed at himself and said: "After fighting so many defeats and losing so many imperial warriors, His Majesty the Emperor and the headquarters asked me to retire. Yamamoto-kun, you are still young, and the battlefield belongs to you young people. After I leave, I hope Yamamoto-kun, you continue to expand the territory for His Majesty the Emperor and the Empire of Japan."

"Hi!"

Kazuki Yamamoto bowed his head: "Follow the general's instruction!"

After finishing speaking, Yamamoto walked out, and when he reached the door, Kazuki Yamamoto stopped, turned around and nodded at Shinozuka Yoshio: "General, I am lucky to be able to serve as a soldier under your command. I will never forget it in my life."

After finishing speaking, Kazuki Yamamoto gave a military salute, turned and walked out.

(End of this chapter)