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Chapter 840 Tojo collapsed!
In these days, there is no such thing as dowry, wedding gifts, or sedan chairs to welcome the bride.

No, it’s not that there isn’t any, it’s just that ordinary people can’t afford it.

When landlords, wealthy businessmen, and powerful families hold weddings, they naturally play to their heart's content, and the scale of the event may even be less than that of later generations.

Our army has always opposed all kinds of formalism and extravagance and waste, so when Zhao Gang helped Li Yunlong organize a wedding, it was of course impossible for him to do these things.

When the time came, Yang Xiuqin, who was dressed up, wearing a flower on her hair and a paper flower on her chest, was sent to the banquet by several aunts and grandmas, and sat down next to Li Yunlong with ease.

As the political commissar, Zhao Gang stood up and said a few words, then asked everyone to raise their glasses of wine to congratulate Li Yunlong on his wedding.

The Zhaojiayu villagers and soldiers of the guard regiment present naturally gave their blessings loudly and then drank the wine in one gulp.

Li Yunlong accepted the blessing cheerfully, said a few words, and then announced the start of the meal.

He took the lead and started to show off the canned beef stewed with wild vegetables, vermicelli and mixed flour steamed buns on the table.

The way he ate made Yang Xiuqin, who was standing next to him, feel a little embarrassed.

But she felt a little sweet in her heart. In her simple understanding, being able to eat means being able to work, which is great.

Once Li Yunlong took the lead, the soldiers and villagers who had not smelled meat for a long time naturally became unceremonious and ate with greasy faces and beaming with joy.

While eating, they were talking about how Li Yunlong and Yang Xiuqin were a perfect match.

When Yang Yuanshan, who was sitting on the side, heard this, he couldn't help but complain in his heart: Yang Xiuqin's appearance is quite good, she deserves the title of a beautiful woman.

But where is Li Yunlong's talent?

It's clearly a flower stuck in cow dung.

……

The wedding was over and it was already dark.

Yang Yuanshan was worried that without Yamamoto Ikki, other Japanese invaders would attack, so he called Wang Ye to come and told him to be alert and not to sleep too hard.

Upon hearing this, Wang Ye nodded in agreement. He had been on guard all night but did not see the Japanese invaders. He felt very regretful.

……

After staying in Zhaojiayu for one night, Yang Yuanshan led his men back to Hedi Village early the next morning.

On the way, Yang Yuanshan would stop to rest from time to time and run around the mountains, looking for caves suitable for storing large quantities of weapons and equipment.

Finally, he found a wide valley that was easy to enter and exit less than one kilometer southeast of Hedi Village.

The edge of the valley was deeply sunken into the mountain, forming a vast col.

I think this place would be very suitable for storing equipment.

Yang Yuanshan immediately had an idea and took out a bunch of weapons, equipment, shells and bullets from his system warehouse.

Put it there.

Then he took his people and returned to Hedi Village as if nothing had happened.

……

As soon as he returned to the village, he asked Wang Ye to gather the soldiers of the guard battalion who were going to go back to his hometown with him. He went back to the regiment headquarters to drink some water and called Zhou Xianpei to ask:
"Old Zhou, have you sorted out the battle report?
I rest for half an hour at most and then leave.

I have to take this battle report back home, the leaders will definitely want to read it."

Zhou Xianpei never thought that he would come back so soon after his trip to Zhaojiayu.

I couldn't help but smile bitterly:
"It's almost done. I'll speed up right away."

"Ok, I will wait for you."

……

About half an hour later, Zhou Xianpei, whose right hand was extremely sore from writing, finally finished writing the tens of thousands of words of the war report.

He rubbed his wrist and handed it to Yang Yuanshan:
"Captain, the battle report has been completed.

This battle lasted for more than a month, and our regiment suffered a total of 5733 casualties and 8825 serious injuries!
Among these seriously injured soldiers, there are still some who have died, and we haven’t been able to count them all yet.”

“My goodness, there were more than 14,000 casualties??!

Our group has completely changed its blood."

Yang Yuanshan was shocked.

Previously, although he knew that his losses were not small, he did not have the specific figures and his impression was not deep.

Hearing such a huge number of casualties at this moment, he couldn't help but feel a tingling sensation on his scalp.

“Yes, I have listed the exact number of casualties in each battalion and company in the battle report.

As for the specific list, further verification is needed.

When you were in Shuiquan, you recruited a lot of new soldiers to join our regiment.

Many people died as soon as they went to the battlefield, and the soldiers were not familiar with each other's names. These need to be investigated and confirmed one by one."

Zhou Xianpei's face was also filled with regret.

He had never imagined that a regimental unit could fight such a big battle and suffer such heavy casualties!
It's almost like a division!
"Okay, I'll trouble you with the follow-up matters.

I'll take this battle report with me."

Yang Yuanshan nodded, put the thick battle report in a manila envelope, patted him on the shoulder, and prepared to leave.

Zhou Xianpei asked quickly:

"Captain, where is the equipment you mentioned earlier?
You won't forget it, right? "

"Haha, how could that be.

I have arranged everything. You just need to go to the valley about one kilometer southeast of the village to transport it."

Yang Yuanshan replied quickly.

Then he walked outside and greeted Wang Ye who was hurrying over:

"Wang Ye, are you ready?"

……

Not long after, Yang Yuanshan led a fully armed guard company and rode westward on bicycles.

The sidecar tricycles were too noisy. It was fine to ride them in the base in northwestern Shanxi, but if you rode them outside the base, you would be courting death. Therefore, he had no choice but to let the soldiers switch to bicycles.

……

Yang Yuanshan temporarily left northwestern Shanxi, but the whole world did not calm down.

The tremendous results achieved by the troops in northwestern Shanxi shocked everyone who heard the news.

Over there at the Japanese base camp.

When Private First Class Tojo saw Okamura Ji-ning who had hurriedly returned by plane, he immediately had a bad feeling.

——If it was good news, why would he, who is in such a high position of power, risk running back?
You know, the reliability of airplanes these days is not that high!

Accidents and the like are really not uncommon.

Sure enough, as soon as Okamura Jining opened his mouth, Private Tojo collapsed on the spot.

Including the 57th Division of the Liaodong Army, more than four divisions were lost in northwestern Shanxi, and a large number of colonels, major generals, and lieutenant generals were lost. This was simply the biggest loss since the war began!
The old Japanese Tojo almost gave the order to drag Okamura Jining out and execute him.

Fortunately, as the empire's army minister, this guy has seen the world to some extent.

Within a few breaths, he forced himself to calm down and listened carefully to the details and process reported by the other party.

Then he said sternly:

"Okamura-kun, although according to what you said, Shinozuka Kazuo should bear all the responsibility for this failure, you, as the commander of the front, cannot escape the blame either!"

That's right, when Okamura Jining reported, he of course put all the blame on Shinozuka Kazuo.

After all, as the commander of the First Army, he has to take the blame.

What's more, he is dead.

I couldn't even climb out of the coffin and refute.

However, Okamura Ji Ning also knew that it was impossible for a dead man to bear the heinous responsibility for the destruction of several divisions.

He was also ready to bear everything.

After hearing what Tojo said, he nodded in a positive manner and said in a deep voice:
"Tojo-kun, I understand!

I am willing to accept any punishment from the base camp."

Seeing that this guy was so honest, the old Japanese Tojo felt relieved.

After taking stock of the people he had on hand, he could not find anyone more suitable than Okamura Jining to deal with the Jibei Front Army, so he could only grit his teeth and say:

"it is good!

Mr. Okamura, I am glad that you still retain some of the pride of a samurai!

I can give you one last chance!
You must win a battle as soon as possible to save the face of our locust army, do you understand?"

Okamura Ji Ning shook his head:

"Mr. Tojo, the current strength of the Eighth Route Army is far beyond our expectations. In the short term, I cannot give you the results you want!
My plan is to fully organize the army and prepare supplies within the next six months.

After half a year, a large-scale sweep of the Eighth Route Army was launched.

Try to wipe them out in one fell swoop."

"Baga! You are a coward!
Where is your military spirit?"

The old Tojo devil roared.

"Mr. Tojo, you haven't been to the front line, so you don't know the situation of the Tubalu.

There is definitely a powerful force supporting them now..."

Okamura Ji Ning earnestly and carefully explained to Private First Class Tojo his assessment of our army.

It made him feel very disappointed.

I thought to myself: The Eighth Route Army is so strong, what can my Locust Army do?
What kind of empire are you still dreaming of?
He quickly stopped the other party:
"Okamura Jining, shut up!

You are trying to shake the morale of my locust army!
My locust army is invincible, and the great cause of the empire will surely be realized!"

When Okamura Jining saw him comforting himself in this way, he sighed and kept silent.

As a senior general of the empire, doesn't he understand that the empire is now in a very tight situation in terms of manpower and resources?
The imperial cause will surely be realized, and the locust army is invincible. It's just deceiving the people below.

If these people take it seriously, it will be a disaster.

However, at the moment, he couldn't possibly show off his sobriety to Private First Class Tojo, so he quickly changed the subject and discussed his next troop deployment plan with him.

When it came to specific matters, the old devil Tojo calmed down and discussed with him carefully.

After reaching a consensus, he took Okamura Ji Ning to meet Tian Huang.

Such a big thing happened, and he, as the Prime Minister, couldn't cover it up.

When the Japanese soldier Tian Huang heard the bad news brought by Okamura Ji Ning, he felt cold all over, as if he saw himself being pushed to the guillotine soon.

He suddenly overturned the table in front of him, pointed at the other person's nose, and cursed him fiercely.

He also clamored to transfer Okamura Ji-ning to the reserve force.

Fortunately, the old Japanese Tojo came out to smooth things over, saying that the incident was entirely Shinozuka Kazuo's fault and had little to do with Okamura Jining.

When the Japanese soldier Tian Huang saw this, he naturally knew that the two people in front of him were standing together.

If we want to move Okamura, we have to replace Tojo as well.

But if Tojo is replaced, it will be a huge commotion.

Thinking of this, he could only pick up Okamura Ji Ning heavily, then put him down gently, and gave him a severe punishment.

But the unlucky guy Kazuo Shinozuka was not so lucky.

He was directly accused of underestimating the enemy, advancing rashly and losing the army, and was stripped of his military rank and position.

Then all the men in the family were arrested and executed directly, and the women were sent to the front line to take on certain special duties.

The once prestigious Shinozuka family completely disappeared.

……

(End of this chapter)