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Chapter 240 Chaos in North China

"What? Overnight, the southern route lost two divisions, and the remaining troops were cut off and had no way to advance or retreat? The northern route's command center was destroyed, Okabe Naosaburo was seriously injured, and almost all the officers and soldiers in the command center were killed, with more than 5,000 casualties?"

The Japanese soldier in Gangcun vomited blood and fainted the instant he received the battle report!

This responsibility was too great, so great that even the Japanese soldiers in Gang Village could not bear it. They were so angry that they felt a sweetness in their throat and coughed up blood! Their eyes went dark and they lost consciousness.

Such a defeat was the only one since the founding of the empire!
There is no second one at all.

Even the Nomonhan Battle with the Big Bear long ago was not so tragic.

The Japanese under the command of Gangcun suffered the most devastating defeat since the establishment of the Locust Army.

"Mr. Gangcun, Mr. Gangcun, "

With a series of shouts, the Japanese soldiers in Gangcun woke up from their trance.

But the headquarters was terrified.

Now that the North China Front Army and the Sixth Front Army have been united, Gangcun the Japanese is the absolute core of the entire headquarters. Once he falls, no one in the headquarters, whether general or colonel, will be responsible for making any decisions.

We can only leave it to the front line to save itself.

After more than an hour of struggle, the unconscious Japanese soldier in Gangcun was finally awakened.

"What's the situation now?" The Japanese soldier in Gangcun said weakly with foam coming out of the corners of his mouth after waking up.

"Sir, the Southern Army is currently requesting two orders: tactical guidance and free movement.

The Northern Army in the grasslands had been taken over by Lieutenant General Inoue Sadae, the commander of the 14th Division, and ordered the army to retreat to Xinghe for rest.

The Southern Army is currently under the command of Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano, commander of the 34th Army, who is commanding the th Independent Mixed Brigade and the th, th, th, and th Independent Infantry Brigades to hold their ground and await reinforcements.

Operations Chief of Staff Colonel Noda reported tremblingly.

"Pass this message to the headquarters, order the Northern Army to retreat to Pingjin, the Central Army to retreat to Shimen and wait for orders, and allow the Southern Army to move freely!" After hearing this, the Japanese soldier in Gangcun was silent for dozens of seconds, and then issued the last order of his professional military career.

For the Japanese, this meant giving up the territory of Shanxi.

However, under the current circumstances, the Japanese devils in Gangcun had to consider what to do next.

The strength of the Eighth Route Army has far exceeded the worst imagination of the Independent Staff. No matter how the Eighth Route Army managed to wipe out two divisions of the Locust Army in one night, this already means that the division-level attack group is in great danger in Jin.

With the transfer speed of the Eighth Route Army, after attacking the Southern Route Army, if they head north, calculating the marching speed of the Central Route Army, they might just run into the Central Route Army heading west in the Quanyang area!
At present, the strength of the Central Army is not stronger than that of the Southern Army. In this way, the Central Army's assault on Quanyang fell into the calculation of the Eighth Route Army.

In the last moments of their lives, the Japanese soldier in Gangcun seemed to have a glimmer of clarity and figured out the Eighth Route Army's plan. He planned to go south first and then north, eat up the Southern Army, then the Central Army, and then sweep across Shanxi and continue northward to capture the Northern Army that was fighting fiercely on the grassland in one fell swoop.

If this were the case, both the North China and the Kwantung Army would suffer huge losses that they could not afford.

Now is not the time to think about Jin.

It is about considering whether the entire North China and Northeast China are still safe.

The little Japanese in Gangcun were terrified if the Central Army and the Northern Army were defeated separately as planned by the Eighth Route Army.

Well, at least in North China, the locust army could no longer hold its ground.

There is no main force group stronger than the Southern Army and the Central Army in North China.

Unless they concentrate and retreat to Pingjin.

As a result, North China, which the locust army had painstakingly built, collapsed completely.

This is a loss that the locust army simply cannot afford.

So the Japanese in Gangcun simply admitted defeat, took the responsibility for the defeat on their own, and left some seeds for the next commander of North China.

"Are the Japanese about to have a full retreat?" The Eighth Route Army Headquarters was quite surprised after receiving the Japanese telecommunications information cracked by the Dawn Research Institute.

The great victory of Chen Brigade on the southern front had shocked the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and the Border Region General Staff, but Ren Zhong seemed somewhat calm. After all, he had built the military industry system of Chen Brigade and was well aware of the equipment progress of Chen Brigade. The M3 modified tank was also the first to be formed by Chen Brigade and the Border Region.

In addition, Jiangxian's unique narrow plain is perfect for tanks to take advantage.

Under those night attack conditions, Chen Jie's tank battalion was as effective as a division, ruthlessly crushing all the Japanese combat units!

In order to avoid being wiped out by the 107mm fire, the Japanese dispersed their artillery after losing more than half of their troops in the first shelling. Now they had no power to fight back against the tank attack.

The two elite spearhead companies of the 771st and 772nd Regiments had been fighting behind the tanks, eliminating many attacks from the tanks that served as special assault teams and sacrificed themselves.

More than 30 tanks were ensured to fight all night, but only a dozen of them broke down due to mechanical failure. The remaining 20 tanks almost fought all over the field, ravaging all the Japanese clusters within a dozen kilometers around Jiangxian County.

This led to the miraculous battle on the southern front where two Japanese divisions were wiped out overnight.

Of course, this is not unrelated to the fact that Li Yunlong deployed more than 2 troops of various types under his command, more than 771 troops of the New 772st Regiment, and the brigade commander deployed nearly 5 main forces such as the st and nd Regiments into this small battlefield.

The Japanese on the southern front have actually been defeated, and it is right for them to break out at all costs.

But now the Central Army and the Northern Army are also going to retreat. This is a bit confusing.

"We can't keep the central army. The Japanese divisions and brigades are too close together. We don't have any tank units here, so we can't launch a fatal blow to the Japanese." The chief of staff pointed to the map.

"As for the Northern Army, I don't know if the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region can hold off the attack of these defeated soldiers. Plus, the Japanese may come north to provide support. If things go wrong, the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region that cut off the Japanese Northern Army's retreat may be attacked from both sides. I suggest not blocking the retreat route, but instead targeting the Japanese rear guard and giving them a good bite, and then taking advantage of the situation to recover our area from Zhangbei to Xuanhua.

Then we will go all out to eat up all the Japanese soldiers on the southern front. I think it is better to cut off one of their fingers than to hurt all ten of them!"

The Chief of Staff suggested.

There were still five Japanese brigades trapped in the mountainous area between Yuanqu and Jiangxian on the southern front. If the operation was carried out well, these more than 5 Japanese could be eaten up in one bite. This was equivalent to the complete destruction of two reorganized divisions and five brigades of the Japanese, which was the greatest victory since the Anti-Japanese War.

Even if they did not seek empty fame, such a huge achievement was enough for the brigade commander and their 386th Brigade to shock the world.

The title of the best brigade in the world alone is no longer enough to satisfy such a huge victory. At least now we can make the Taiyue Military Region famous as the best brigade in the world.

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