The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1395 The base area is not the enemy’s back garden (second update)

The Chief of Staff looked hesitant on his face.

Neji Okamura knew without guessing that the frontline losses far exceeded his expectations. He took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and then said: "Just tell me..."

"How many people did the three main divisions on the front line lose in total under the artillery fire and aircraft attacks of the Eighth Route Army?"

The chief of staff was forced to go rogue and could only bite the bullet and answer: "Almost all the artillery regiments and heavy artillery brigades of the three divisions were severely damaged..."

"Each infantry regiment lost a large number of troops..."

"A total of more than 12,300 people were killed and more than 2,000 people were seriously injured..."

"The only good thing is that the tank brigades of each division survived the battle with almost no losses."

"Except for some of the weapons, ammunition and supplies carried by each division, which were bombed, the rest were all intact."

"Not a single station was lost on the front line."

Okamura Neji's face was full of shock, and he was silent for a full two minutes before he reacted.

I don't know if it was because I was angry or what happened, but my whole body began to tremble unconsciously.

Then he suppressed his anger and gritted his teeth and ordered: "This battle cannot be fought any longer, otherwise the six divisions of the Kwantung Army will be left on the battlefield by the Eighth Route Army in the wing. At that time, even if I am the commander of the North China Front Army, I will be Sent to military court."

"Let them withdraw their troops at dawn and directly withdraw from the Eighth Route Army base in Yizhong..."

"The troops moved to defense on the perimeter of the base area and awaited new orders."

After Okamura Neji finished speaking, a distressed expression appeared on his face.

Not only did he command the Kwantung Army to defeat, but now he also had to consider how to give an explanation to the Kwantung Army headquarters.

People believed that they had sent six main divisions to reinforce the North China Front.

As a result, three of the six main divisions were defeated by him, and the other three also suffered heavy losses on the battlefield.

Moreover, in order to avoid the further deterioration of the frontline battle situation, I could not return the remaining three divisions immediately, and I had to let them continue to stay on the battlefield in the wing. It was my fault both emotionally and rationally.

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Inside the headquarters where Kong Jie is located.

The chief of staff was reporting to him the results of the attacking troops tonight with a happy face.

"Commander..."

"Although it is impossible to calculate the specific results of the battle, it is estimated that we will eliminate at least 10,000 elite Kwantung Army soldiers tonight."

"All artillery regiments under the three divisions were severely damaged."

"I estimate that these three divisions will continue to retreat as soon as daybreak and evacuate directly from our base area."

Kong Jie replied with a cold snort: "Our base area is not a little devil's back garden...come whenever you want and leave whenever you want..."

"The artillery regiment of the Kwantung Army was destroyed by us, and they only had the tank as their trump card."

"But tanks have very high requirements on terrain, and not all places can go."

"This means that as long as we choose the terrain for the next battle, the tens of thousands of Kwantung troops left on the front line will have no weapons to suppress us."

"Pass my order..."

"Starting from the middle of the night today: the infantrymen active on the front line will fight in units of battalions and companies. They will use their expertise in sneak attack warfare, mobile warfare, sparrow warfare, mine warfare... to sneak attack on the Kwantung Army's mopping up troops, slow down their retreat, and try their best to To consume their strength, it is best to trap them on the battlefield in the center of the wing.”

"Send another telegram to the former enemy headquarters of the Eighth Route Army..."

"Please all reinforcements from higher levels go to the battlefield, fight individually in battalions and regiments, and launch attacks on the Kwantung Army's mopping up troops." "All weapons and ammunition consumed by each reinforcement unit during the battle will be borne by the Yi Zhong base..."

"After the battle, Yi Zhong Base will replenish each main regiment with 200,000 rounds of machine gun bullets, 300 mortar shells, 5,000 grenades and grenades..."

"Reinforcements are requested not to worry about wasting artillery shells during the battle."

"If you find a fighter plane, hit me hard..."

"Kill as many imps as possible with minimum casualties."

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Headquarters of the 1st Regiment of the Northward Detachment.

Since this morning, the small tent has been immersed in joy.

Duan Peng and Cao Xing returned to their base three days ago, and then began to recruit new soldiers.

Because the proportion of veterans in the two battalions is high, and the new recruits who supplement the team have undergone a period of training, and are all miners, their bodies are relatively strong.

Although after only three days of training, the two battalions still recovered a lot of combat effectiveness.

Together with the other three battalions that have returned to the station for training early, the five battalions under the first regiment have reached more than 2,000 people.

Although the equipment is not sophisticated, it is only better than the Kwantung Army in terms of light weapons.

The only shortcoming is that the proportion of heavy weapons and equipment is not as large as that of the Kwantung Army.

But for Huang Yu, this result is already very good.

Compared with the shortage of troops when he first joined the Jinzhou battlefield, although the current strength is not sufficient, it is enough for him to do many things and fight many battles that he did not dare to fight before.

"Captain..." Chief of Staff Wei Dayong rushed in with excitement on his face.

"I just received news that the Kwantung Army operating outside the mountains has begun to gather at the entrance and exit of the mountain. As expected, the Kwantung Army outside the mountains will soon launch a new round of sweeps against us."

"We have been training here for so long, and we finally have the strength to fight a big battle with the Japanese."

Huang Yu stared at the map and asked, "Have you investigated the specific troop strength and equipment situation clearly..."

Wei Dayong immediately replied: "It's clear, I personally led the team to investigate..."

"The Kwantung Army has a total division of troops. Each route has a reinforced regiment."

"But compared with the four-pronged mopping up force that encircled and suppressed us last time, the Kwantung Army that attacked us this time obviously did not have as high a morale as it did at the beginning, and even its troop strength dropped sharply from more than 5,000 to less than 4,000."

Huang Yu answered with a smile: "Can it be a lot?"

"In the last round of counter-mopping up, although we did not fight a major battle, we continued small-scale sneak attacks and annihilation battles. We wiped out not only 6,000 but 7,000 elite Kwantung Army troops."

"The Kwantung Army operating in Liaoning is already short of troops and will certainly not be replenished in a short period of time."

"The Kwantung Army outside the mountain wants to continue to enter the mountain to sweep us away, but they can only lead the remaining soldiers to defeat."

"But we can't underestimate the enemy..."

"Although the Kwantung Army suffered a lot at our hands, they are not fools."

"You will gain wisdom every time you suffer. You will definitely learn a lot of experience in dealing with us from those defeats."

"In the next counter-sweep, we will try to be as surprising as possible. If we can, we will not copy the tactics we have used before and use more new tactics."

"Let the combat experience learned by the Kwantung Army in previous battles be useless, so that we can win more battles on the battlefield."