The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1391 Okamura Neji: We still have to withdraw (second update)

The Eighth Route Army patrol was closely behind them, forming a semi-encirclement and closing in on them.

Although it only takes half a second to turn back, on a battlefield where seconds are the only thing that matters, half a second may determine a person's life or death.

If they want to survive and escape the pursuit of the Eighth Route Army patrols, they can only concentrate highly, use all the tactical moves they have learned, and retreat as hard as possible without giving their opponents any chance to catch up with them.

"Da da da……"

After running for more than two hundred meters, the familiar sound of machine gun fire suddenly sounded behind them.

Immediately there was a stinging pain in the back, and a huge impact hit them from the back, causing them to fall forward to the ground, and then the two Japanese fell unconscious.

These two little Jaap scouts were not the only ones hiding around, but they were the two closest to the "artillery position" and could clearly see the bombing scene.

If they were still alive and had the opportunity to turn around and look behind them, the scene of the so-called "artillery station" being bombed would definitely surprise them.

An aerial bomb hit the ground and exploded, and the artillery piece weighing several kilograms was blown up into the sky like a toy.

Anyone with a little bit of military knowledge knows this is impossible.

Then they will think that the heavy artillery they saw at the "artillery station" is not real.

But the two little Japanese scouts closest to the "artillery station" had been killed, and the news would never be spread.

Because the distance between the other small Japanese scouts and intelligence personnel nearby was too far, they could only see the scene of the "heavy artillery station" being covered by artillery fire.

Under the smoke and dust, even if you hold a telescope, you can't see clearly what's going on under the smoke. You can only see groups of fires rising from the ground, and black smoke rising slowly. After a while, the entire "heavy artillery station" "They were all razed to the ground...

Considering that the signal flare was fired from next to the "heavy artillery station", since the two scouts have touched the side of the Eighth Route Army's "heavy artillery station" and have fired the signal flare, it means that the "heavy artillery station" being attacked by the aviation force is real.

Now the entire "heavy artillery station" has been razed to the ground by aerial bombs. The Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery units stationed here have obviously also suffered a devastating blow and lost their combat effectiveness.

After a while, the beeping sound caused by sending and receiving telegrams sounded in a ravine about three kilometers away from the "heavy artillery station".

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Headquarters of the Japanese North China Front in Peiping.

Okamura Neji continued to pace back and forth in the war room.

In order to seize the opportunity to kill the Eighth Route Air Force and the heavy artillery units affiliated with the Eighth Route Army in Yi Zhong, he sent out almost all the aviation forces around the battlefield, more than 120 aircraft of various types.

Assuming that a plane is equipped with six aerial bombs, the Eighth Route Air Force and the heavy artillery force will be hit by at least more than 700 aerial bombs in today's air raid, which is three times more than the aerial bombs used by the Eighth Route Air Force last night.

Okamura Neiji is confident that through today's air strike, he will pull out the fangs of the Eighth Route Army in the wing, knock off their trump card, and at the same time avenge the Kwantung Army who died in the battle last night.

"Your Excellency Commander..."

While waiting anxiously, the chief of staff's surprise report finally sounded at the door of the war room.

"Success..."

"Aviation report..."

"They have already successfully returned five aviation units and successfully bombed two Eighth Route Army airports and three artillery units."

"The rest of the aviation force is bombing other bombing targets directed by ground intelligence personnel and scouts!"

Okamura Neji was very excited, but he didn't show it.

Because the aviation force has made too many mistakes before.

He reported to the headquarters that the bombing mission had been completed and the bombing target was successfully destroyed, but in fact a false target was bombed, causing the infantry to suffer several boring losses on the battlefield.

The bombing in front of him was too important, affecting the safety of tens of thousands of Kwantung troops on the front line, so he had no choice but to be cautious. In this case, he would definitely not just listen to the aviation report.

He immediately asked the chief of staff: "What do the frontline scouts and intelligence personnel say?"

"All bombing targets are destroyed!" the chief of staff replied excitedly, and handed the stack of telegrams just received by the headquarters to Okamura Neiji.

Neji Okamura suppressed his excitement and quickly took the telegram. He glanced at the lines and quickly read several telegrams.

Only then did he show his inner excitement. He slapped all the telegrams in his hand on the table and shouted: "Well done..."

"Without the planes and heavy artillery, I don't think the Yi Zhong Eighth Route Army has any qualifications to fight us!"

The chief of staff hesitated and reminded: "Your Excellency, Commander..."

"Since the Eighth Route Army in the Wing has lost its trump card to counterattack us! Do the three divisions on the front line no longer need to retreat?"

"Continue to evacuate..." Okamura Neji quickly made a decision in his mind and answered immediately.

"Temporarily retreat 20 kilometers today and break away from the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong!"

"Why?" The chief of staff couldn't understand.

Okamura Neiji had previously issued a retreat order because the Eighth Route Army had aircraft and heavy artillery and was afraid that the frontline mopping up troops would be raided again.

Now that the Eighth Route Army has no planes and heavy artillery, it stands to reason that the frontline mopping up troops are no longer a threat. Okamura Neiji still asks them to withdraw. This is too strange.

The excited expression on Okamura Neiji's face was slowly replaced by seriousness. He faced the chief of staff's puzzled eyes and explained: "The three main divisions that have not been attacked are indeed no longer a threat..."

"But the three divisions that were hit hard by the Eighth Route Army are still in danger."

"Their strength ranges from 3,000 to 6,000, and they are not equipped with heavy weapons."

"Even if the Eighth Route Army in the wing loses their planes and heavy artillery, they can still assemble mountain and field artillery to eat up one or two of our troops if they want!"

"I want to avoid this kind of accident..."

"The best way is to break away from contact with the Eighth Route Army and temporarily avoid the danger..."

"By combining the remnants of the three divisions together, strengthening some of the heavy artillery and tanks, and then counterattacking the Eighth Route Army base areas with the other three divisions, the risk can be minimized."

An expression of admiration immediately appeared on the chief of staff's face.

He had only thought of the three main divisions just now and ignored the three crippled divisions.

The commander is worthy of being a commander, and he considers problems more comprehensively than himself.

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Inside the headquarters where Kong Jie is located.

Correspondents and radio operators came in and out, constantly delivering the latest news from the front line to the chief of staff.

The chief of staff had a very complicated expression.

Faced with these battle reports, there were both joy and disappointment.

After sorting out the telegram he just received, he ran to Kong Jie and reported: "Commander..."

"After statistics, we have a total of eight real and fake airports and artillery stations bombed..."

"Both airports are fake, two artillery stations are real, eight heavy artillery pieces, thirteen mountain artillery pieces were lost...the remaining artillery stations are all fake!"