Rise from eight hundred.

The morale of the 4th Battalion was not low because of the heavy casualties, but it was different on the Japanese side.

Before coming, in order to boost morale, the 108th Division and Regiment Headquarters issued an extremely rare enemy report. Even the bottom Japanese army knew that the opponent they were about to face would not exceed 1000 at most.

But they are an army of more than 8000 people. Not to mention tanks and artillery, there will also be handguns to help out. The old rival 921 Division is also the main force. There are not many troops in the southeast of Shanxi.

The 109th Army is terrible, but there is still the 8000th Division to support it with all its strength. The two divisions will fight again in the southeast of Shanxi where the main force is not there. On my own side, it is 1000 vs. [-]. According to the Chinese themselves, it is a matter of holding hands.

This can be regarded as Xiong Yuan's innovation to break the tradition of the Japanese army. Before everyone left the barracks, he told everyone: Don't panic, we are either going to a team battle this time, or we are going to fight a few small wild monsters.

you do not say!Although no document was issued, the news came from the mouth of the assistant officer at the first level of the infantry captain: this time entering the enemy-occupied area, all Chinese are seniors of the enemy, and they can be killed and looted!
There are few opponents, and after breaking through their bases, they can still wantonly burn, kill and loot. Isn't this exciting? The eyes of the 108th Division are red?
These low-level soldiers are not scumbags in Japan. They are not publicized every day in China to dig gold in the treasure land of China. Do you think that just relying on brainwashing can kill them?To come to China to earn a lot of money and improve the lives of themselves and their families is the big idea hidden in the hearts of many Japanese infantrymen.

Human beings themselves are a kind of beneficial creatures!
There are actually quite a few intelligent people in this world who can see through fame and fortune, but human society is like a vortex, how many people can break free?
Xia Xiongyuan used this trick to boost the morale of the entire division. In fact, it can be seen from the side that the 108th division is afraid of the Sixing regiment, an opponent who accidentally entered the Taihang Mountains.

However, the artificially high morale has not been maintained at the climax point for a few days. In the past two days, the officers and soldiers of the 4th Battalion smashed it down.

In just one position, there were 400 infantry casualties. A "Glory Special Attack Team" was formed by the brigade leader Kuroyeda Shiro who personally went to the front position to supervise the battle. In addition to a dozen wounded soldiers who survived, the other 130 people were all lying on the hillside basking in the sun at the moment.

Kuyeda Shiro, who is quite serious and cruel by nature, looked at his own infantry retreating like a tide, expressionless for nearly 20 minutes and did not say a word. The surrounding officers and officers were chilling, fearing that the major general brigade commander who had just taken office not long ago would use them to make way for the cronies he cultivated.

Yes, since April, the good days of the 4th Division, which has been advancing on the battlefield in North China, are over.

Since the battles of Licheng and Shentouling, the 108th Division has been on the road of losing troops and losing generals.

Until the end of the Battle of Southeast Shanxi, the Front Army Command asked the division and regiment headquarters to report the battle damage of various materials and personnel. Xia Xiong Yuan, who was already struggling to walk, dared not hide any more, and could only report the truth.

In less than 4 months, the 108th Division killed one major officer and one middle officer each, 4 minor officers, 5600 officers and soldiers below the officer, 4500 wounded officers and soldiers, and countless supplies.

Good guy, Shanshan Yuan and Okamoto Saburo were stunned at the time.

If they weren't the commander and chief of staff, they would even have thought that the 108th Division had participated in some large-scale battle, otherwise half of the division would have been wiped out?

You know, in the Songhu War, where both sides invested millions of troops, more than 1000 aircraft, and various heavy artillery to help out, the East China Dispatch Army had a total of less than 5 casualties.

These two also don't know what kind of life the 108th Division lived. In larger battlefields like Licheng, Shentouling, and Xiangtangpu, the Four Elements Regiment joined forces with the 921st Division to attack them.

Ambushes a patrol team today, fight a transport team tomorrow, and even sneaked into the city to assassinate senior officers of the local garrison and Chinese affiliated to the Imperial Army.

There were many casualties in the great battle, but this piecemeal type is even more painful. In the past four months alone, nearly a thousand casualties were caused by the 4 Brigade in this way.

As a result, the 108th Division could only stick to the city, and the suburbs 3 kilometers outside the city were basically out of control. If the transportation was protected by less than one infantry squadron, they would not dare to go out of the city.

But for a leader like Shan Shanyuan, he doesn't care how miserable his subordinates are, he only knows that his subordinates are not doing well. The 108th division is already in such a bad shape, how could it not be adjusted?

Lieutenant General Division Commander, an important general in the army, needs to be adjusted and appointed by the base camp. As a general commander, he can't move, but he can move a major general. In a fit of anger, he adjusted the positions of two important generals under Xiong Yuan in August.

To put it bluntly, 2 major general brigade commanders and 4 major commanders were replaced, which basically made Xia Xiong Yuan empty in terms of infantry command.

The two army major generals were promoted from the division commanders or chiefs of staff who were close to each other. In order to establish prestige, they also warned the infantry brigade officers openly and secretly that the brigade would make internal position adjustments in autumn.

'What the Front Army Command wants are imperial soldiers who can fight, not just idlers! ' Kuyone Tianshiro kept mentioning this in various meetings of the brigade department.

Everyone knew that he was pulling on the tiger skin of the Front Army Command to establish his authority, but all Japanese officers also knew that the Front Army Command was already extremely dissatisfied with Lieutenant General Xiong Yuan, and it would be a matter of time before he was transferred, so he could only mess with his new boss.

It's just that the new boss looks very unhappy now that the battle has ended like this!Did you just laugh after not seeing a livid face without saying a word for 20 minutes?

No, where is the joke?What's the matter, there are more dead soldiers, to reduce the burden on the supply troops that are still relatively abundant?

Thinking of this festival, the officers of the Japanese army looked at His Excellency, the head of the brigade, who turned his head and the corners of his mouth slightly curved, and were stunned!

"Hehe, you don't need to be nervous. In the past two days, the spirit of the officers and soldiers of the 104th Brigade who are not afraid of hardships and sacrifices is in my eyes. I will also report the facts to the division headquarters and the front army headquarters." Kuroyeda Shiro tried his best to soften his tone. After boasting a bit, he sighed slightly.

"Before I came to the brigade, I had heard about the prestige of our opponent. After this confrontation, it really lived up to its reputation. Not only is the army well-equipped to match our Imperial Army, but the most commendable thing is its tenacious spirit in combat. If all Chinese troops are like this, I can almost affirm that even with the current strength of the Imperial Army, it will not be able to win this war."

These words are a little subjective, and even a little bit to make others angry and destroy their own prestige, but these officials all nodded slightly.

Indeed, the Four Elements Regiment is the strongest Chinese army they have encountered since they entered China. A small infantry regiment even made a division have to notify in advance that they are short of troops.

"Fortunately! They only have one such infantry regiment. Of course, such an army is not replicable. With their equipment and firepower, let alone a front army, it is a group army, which cannot be maintained for a long time with the current national strength of the Chinese people." Kuyone Tianshiro is not like a major general brigade commander at the moment, but a general commander of the front army.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with what he said. Given that the Four Elements Regiment is currently equipped with a large number of submachine guns, semi-automatic rifles, and 12.7mm heavy machine guns, as well as various mortars and mountain cannons, there will be a large number of MG42 light and heavy machine guns and even 107 rocket launchers in active service in the future. The required ammunition will be a terrible number.

If this equipment is extended to a group army of about 5 people, it will be an astronomical headache, let alone the tens of thousands of people at the front army level.

Not to mention that today's China can't afford it, even Japan, which has accumulated strength for hundreds of years, can't afford it either, otherwise they wouldn't have insisted that the main force of the entire army be equipped with single-shot bolt-action rifles.

War is the biggest gold swallowing beast!
Once a war starts, the soldiers on the battlefield will see a barrage of gunfire and bullets, but in the eyes of the rulers, they are throwing money into it desperately.

For the superiors, the lives lost in the flames of war are actually the cheapest!

The so-called justice or injustice is nothing but the writing of the victor.

If you want to be righteous, you must win the final victory!
This is tragic, but true!
However, Kuyone Tianshiro miscalculated one point. Most of the sources of funds for the Four Elements Group are not obtained from government departments, but self-created.

The little butterfly from the future may not be able to conjure up aircraft carriers and J-20 fighters to win the Great Patriotic War with the attitude of crushing this era, but he has the vision and pattern beyond this era for nearly a hundred years, and even knows the future direction of the world pattern.

Just like during the college entrance examination, everyone will study all the knowledge points given in the textbooks, and then wait for the big luck, but Tang Dao, a candidate, already knows that the knowledge points will inevitably appear on the exam paper, so he doesn't need to know the original questions, and the scope of learning is also reduced by a hundred times.

The penicillin patent alone is enough to bring Tang Dao billions or even billions of dollars in revenue. In this era when aircraft carriers only need 4000 million dollars to manufacture funds, this fund is enough for Tang Dao to build an unprecedented aircraft carrier fleet.

Of course, at this time when there is no control over the port, this kind of dream Tang Dao is just a thought, but it is still possible to build a powerful army on land.

Especially when the Pacific War breaks out in the future and the China-Myanmar Highway is built, as long as the Southwest Jungle War can be won, a steady stream of supplies will enter China through that blood transfusion channel.

A certain big guy is using the banner of me to help you hold back the main force of the Japanese army, and he is shy to get assistance. Tang Dao will use cash to smash it, and the arsenal of the American cowboys screamed to start work.

Like Kuyone Tianshiro, the Japanese army officers who hold the Four Elements Regiment, which cannot be copied, will be beaten by Tang Tuanzao with unprecedented bullets in the future.

Really, they are too superficial!

But don't people just like to indulge in self-imagination?
"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, enlightened the subordinates about the situation of this national war. It is indeed worthy of congratulations!" A captain of the Grand Zuo Union cautiously complimented.

Kuyone Tianshiro is a general, and has already stepped into the ranks of senior officers. The Colonel is only the highest rank of intermediate officers. It seems that he is only one level away, but it is a world of difference.

The attitude is cautious, but the subtext is to remind himself, the immediate boss, that winning the entire war is a matter for the headquarters of the empire, and the thousands of people we are fighting against here are still struggling!You'd better take care of your eyes before talking!

Slightly squinting at this unsightly guy under his command, knowing that this guy was dissatisfied with his deployment of the backbone of his flag guard squadron to be a member of the "Glory Special Attack Team", Kuyone Tianshiro's face straightened: "Of course not only that, although my brigade has made no substantial progress in the battlefield these two days, I can already determine that this is the last force left behind by the Four Elements."

Stretching out his hand and pointing to the 'doorbolt' position a thousand meters away, his gaze became stern: "At present, the No. 1 position is so fiercely contested, the commander of the Four Elements Regiment must know our army's intentions, but the troops on the position have only decreased, not strengthened. Even if my glory special attack team is carrying explosives and blowing up its trenches, the defense of the position is already in jeopardy, and the troops have not increased. You may tell me, what does this mean?"

"This shows that the Chinese troops are almost exhausted, and this is their last strength. Your Excellency, brigade commander, has a unique vision!" A Japanese major suddenly realized, his eyes were full of joy.

Flatterer!The surrounding Japanese army officers all roared in their hearts.

But more of annoyance, annoyance at why he was so shameless, and slapped this flattery first.

"Yoshi! Kazama-kun's answer is very correct." Kuyone Tian Shiro praised the infantry captain who tried his best to get closer to him with a gentle expression. "A real famous general is never achieved by defeating the enemy with superior military strength and equipment, but is good at finding fighter opportunities from setbacks and winning the final victory. Mr. Kazama, you have this potential."

The Japanese army was originally divided into two factions, one was of civilian origin, and the other was of noble origin, and the reason why nobles can be called nobles is naturally a minority.In order to make the troops have sufficient combat effectiveness, the Japanese high-level had to promote a large number of generals of civilian origin, but those low-level officers with noble titles did not take it seriously.

The name Kazama Wuhen is already very beautiful, much better than his surname Kumita, who knows his humble background at first glance. The most rare thing is that this nobleman from a humble background can still bow his head to him, a superior official with a humble background. Naturally, Kumita Shiro extended an olive branch without hesitation.

"Thank you for the compliment from the head of the brigade, I dare not take it under my post!" After the compliment, the Japanese army major immediately stood at attention and bowed his head respectfully, but a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He didn't think too much about whether he could become a famous general, but he definitely hugged the big thick leg of the Major General's brigade commander.

The nobles of the empire are more gilded in the army, but whether they can be promoted or not is not just a matter of being a nobleman. The opinions of the superiors are very important. When he becomes a general one day, the promotion of the baron to the viscount is basically a certainty.

For the glory of the family, what can I do if I temporarily bow my head to the common people?The Major of the Japanese Army is definitely a pragmatist.

"So, under such circumstances, what do you think should be done at this time?" Shiro Kuyoneda continued to throw the question to his subordinate officers.

"Our brigade should continue to maintain the offensive, not only to continue to consume its few troops, but also to continue to suppress its psychology. Isn't there a proverb in the empire! No matter how hard the rock is, it will also be damaged by wind, frost, and fire! No matter how lofty the mountain, it can't withstand the vicissitudes of life! The enemy is a stubborn rock, so I will destroy it for the sake of your brigade commander!" Another Japanese army major said quickly.

Fuck!The Japanese army chief who asked the question before almost failed to break his defense. If he changed the occasion, he would have pulled out his crotch, no, it was the knife hanging from his waist that stabbed himself to death, these two brazen infantry captains.

It's shameless to open the door for shameless mother. Shameless is home. I would like to say such shameless words as your Excellency. Why don't you say that you are a wave of ice and fire for your brigade commander?

Just what to say!The look in his eyes was the same as that of his subordinate Major, who really wanted to be merciless for Your Excellency.

"Yoxi! As long as you have the determination, our brigade will win this battle!" Kaneda Shiro looked around and nodded in satisfaction.

"Moreover, the key to victory in this battle is not just on the front line. The Maeda Battalion has detoured 20 kilometers in the past two days, and finally found a mountain that can be passed by light infantry. I have sent two additional infantry squadrons to march towards the area at noon.

Gentlemen, at this time, do the Chinese still have the strength to send troops to stop our army's 1500 light infantry from attacking the rear flank? "

"Your Excellency, Commander of the Brigade, has done everything possible, and the empire's martial arts will prosper!" The last Japanese Army Major finally offered a slap in the face.

Anyway, it's shameless, and one more is nothing, isn't it?

As for the captain of the Major General, under the head of the Major General's Brigade, he knows what posture to pose without just patting his ass?

The Japanese are not stupid. After two and a half days of fighting, they finally found an opportunity to break through the 4th Battalion's defense line, or hope for the future.

Fighting according to the current situation, the strength of the 4th Battalion will be consumed to a certain extent, and the lone army will be the first to collapse in terms of strength and psychology.

The 104th Infantry Brigade, which has an absolute advantage in strength, will definitely be the victor.

This truth is not only understood by the Japanese, but also by Shangguan Yun.

In addition to the two supply platoons and one engineer squad assigned to the 4th Battalion, the total strength of the 4th Battalion was less than 1500, and more than 300 casualties in the two-and-a-half days of battle. According to such consumption, it can last for 5 days at most, which is the situation where the entire army is wiped out.

"Telegram the garrison and order them to start a full-scale evacuation. All the officers and soldiers of our 4th Battalion are determined to fight until the last soldier survives and dies with the position. At most, we will fight for 90 to 100 hours for them! At the same time, I ask them to take away the seriously wounded. In the hope that the regiment can rebuild the 4th Battalion in the future! This is my only request from Shangguan Yun." Shangguan Yun returned to the headquarters and issued the military order calmly.

"Then battalion commander, where is the regiment headquarters?" the communication platoon leader asked.

"Let's not talk about it for the time being! The regiment headquarters is fighting a Japanese army division. There is a lot of pressure, but you can prepare a telegram first, and say sorry to the commander and the officers. The 4th Battalion will be gone as soon as it is built. In addition, tell the regiment that the most honorable thing in Shangguan Yun's life is to be his company commander."

Extremely calm, the major who chose to stick to his position even if the whole army was wiped out was extremely proud!
His pride not only comes from the excellent and brilliant subordinate Tang Dao he once had, but also from the group of brothers he has now.

Before issuing this order, the four commanders of Dalian and more than a dozen platoon leaders under his command all expressed to him that they would not retreat to the death!

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