Anti-Japanese Jagged General

Chapter 422 Yoshio Shinozuka's Worries ([-]rd update!)

Yoshio Shinozuka was wondering why the Eighth Route Army suddenly stopped attacking, and there was no gunfire on the battlefield.

Just when he was hesitating whether to send someone out to have a look, the chief of staff, Major General Tanaka, suddenly rushed over with an excited expression on his face.

"Your Excellency, Tuba Road has retreated."

"The reinforcements from southwestern Shanxi have arrived. Two cavalry regiments and a mechanized infantry brigade are chasing and killing the retreating troops of the Eighth Route Army. Now, there is no Eighth Route Army in Taiyuan City!"

Yoshio Shinozuka's tense nerves relaxed instantly, and Changsong said in a breath, "Yo Xi, Taiyuan City is finally saved!"

"Chief of Staff, organize troops and occupy the fortifications of the outer city. Also, count our losses in this war, the more detailed the better!"

After finishing speaking, the tired Shinozuka Yoshio leaned back on the seat, squinted his eyes, and prepared to take a good rest.

Taiyuan City is so big, and there are not many Imperial Army and Imperial Association Army left in the city. Without one night, there is no way to calculate the battle damage.Shinozuka Yoshio intends to use this time to take a good rest, and then he will have a clear head to deal with various problems after the war.

However, Shinozuka Yoshio did not expect that Chief of Staff Tanaka would barge in less than an hour after he left, and his mood was very out of control, as if the Eighth Route Army had fought back again.

"Your Excellency, Commander, something happened to the Taiyuan Arsenal?"

Although in the face of large-scale battles, the front army will replenish itself with a large number of weapons and ammunition.However, almost all the weapons and ammunition consumed in the battles organized by the First Army itself and in peacetime training come from the Taiyuan Arsenal.

It can be said that although the Taiyuan Arsenal is not as important as the life and death of the First Army, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most important department of the First Army.

Therefore, as soon as he heard the words of an accident in the arsenal, Shinozuka Yoshio stood up from his seat, and it was not at all obvious that he had not rested for two days and one night, and was very tired.

Staring at Major General Tanaka, he asked very anxiously: "Is it damaged by the Eighth Route Army? Whether it is serious or not. Is it possible to repair it. Immediately take the imperial experts from the arsenal to assess the damage of the arsenal, and then immediately repair and resume production, especially ammunition. production line."

"Fighting with the Eighth Route Army for such a long time, the ammunition reserves of the garrisons in various places must have exceeded the alert, and they must be replenished with ammunition immediately!"

"No, Your Excellency Commander, you made a mistake!" Seeing that Yoshio Shinozuka misunderstood what he meant, Major General Tanaka quickly shook his head and denied.

"The arsenal was not destroyed by the Eighth Route Army, but was emptied by the Eighth Route Army. Not even a single piece of equipment or a single screw was left!"

"Also our warehouses, hospitals, foreign firms, and banks in the outer city... were all ransacked by the Eighth Route Army. Almost all the equipment and supplies they could remove were taken away, and nothing was left for us. They are simply bandits, no, worse than bandits. It's too much!"

"Nani? Evacuate the Taiyuan Arsenal? How is that possible?" Yoshio Shinozuka's first reaction was disbelief!
"There are more than 1000 pieces of equipment in the arsenal. It is impossible to move them away only by manpower, and they don't have cars to transport these equipments. It is absolutely impossible!"

Tanaka replied with a wry smile: "Your Excellency, the arsenal is empty now, and I will definitely not be mistaken. As for how the Tuba Road is done, I don't know either!"

Yoshio Shinozuka slumped on his seat all of a sudden, and then his face slowly turned pale, beads of sweat the size of beans oozed out from his forehead at some unknown time, and he didn't say a word.

Five minutes later, Yoshio Shinozuka responded, but his reaction was beyond everyone's expectations.

In front of everyone, he threw the things on the table in front of him to the ground and smashed them into pieces, and cursed loudly.

"Ba Geya Road, we have been fooled!"

"The Tuba Road's attack on Taiyuan City was not to capture Taiyuan City, but to loot our arsenal in Taiyuan City!"

"Now I finally understand why they stopped attacking the inner city after the outer city was breached by them. Instead, they only used powerful firepower to kill our defending troops and put pressure on the defending troops. It turned out that they didn't intend to break through the inner city. , but to buy time for them to evacuate Taiyuan City."

"They know that the price of storming Taiyuan City is too high. And even if it is captured. Without air superiority, Taiyuan City will be taken back by us sooner or later."

"Instead of paying huge casualties to win a Taiyuan city that I can't defend at all, it is better to evacuate the Taiyuan arsenal!"

"The Eighth Route Army is too cunning. From the very beginning, we were intimidated by the powerful offensive of the Eighth Route Army, and we have been kept in the dark!"

Major General Tanaka also reacted at this time, and immediately asked: "Your Excellency, Commander, what should we do next!"

"Order the cavalry regiment chasing the Tuba Road to keep an eye on them! Also, mobilize all our garrisons and intelligence agencies to pay close attention to the intersections and passes leading to the Eighth Route Army's base area. We must find the equipment that Tuba Road removed from our arsenal Take it back. Even if you can’t get it back, it will be blown up. With so much equipment, it must not fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army!” Yoshio Shinozuka ordered with a murderous look on his face, without any negotiable tone in his words.

"One of the most important reasons why our North China Front Army was able to suppress the Eighth Route Army in North China was that the Tuba Road had no supplies of weapons and ammunition, and all weapons and ammunition could only be obtained through battlefield seizures!"

"You know, after fighting against the Eighth Route Army for such a long time, we do not deny that the Eighth Route Army is no worse than us in terms of courage. The only difference is the level of equipment and training. The level of training takes time to change, and our imperial army can only pass through it again and again. One sweep, not giving Tubalu the time and opportunity to train!"

"The rest is equipment. Once they get these equipment, even if they can't guarantee the equipment and ammunition needs of all the Eighth Route Army, it can still meet part of the Eighth Route Army."

"At that time, the gap between the Imperial Army and Tuba Road will become smaller and smaller, and the entire North China will become faster and faster. If the Imperial Army wants to suppress the Eighth Route Army, it will be impossible!"

The chief of staff, Major General Tanaka, finally realized the seriousness of the problem, and his face became more solemn than ever.

After taking a deep breath, he immediately replied: "The humble officer immediately went to issue an order. It took less than [-] hours for the Tuba Road to occupy the arsenal, and they dared not take the road to transport these equipments in a hundred days. Not surprisingly, these equipments are still in the imperial palace. Army-occupied area!"

"Wait a minute, send a telegram to the headquarters of the front army immediately, report all the things here to the front army, let the front army send troops to cooperate, and at least dispatch planes to search for these devices!"

At the North China Front Army Headquarters in Beiping, Terauchi Toshiichi was like an angry lion, yelling and cursing with the telegram just sent by the chief of staff.

"Yoshio Shinozuka is a stupid pig. Only after the battle did he know the real purpose of the Eighth Route Army's attack on Taiyuan City. I will send him to a military court, Bageya Road!"

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