Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 119 Send out planes!

After the Eighth Route Army retreated, the Japanese soldiers from the 39th and 40th Brigades rushed to Hufeng Village as quickly as possible.

Coupled with the retreat of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese were able to reach Hufeng Village unimpeded.

Along the way, in the valleys where the devils passed, there were large numbers of dead Japanese soldiers, mules and horses lying around, and all the combat supplies had been looted.

But the Japs turned a blind eye, and in their eyes there was only the division commander.

Everyone else can die, but the division commander must not die!

The 39th Brigade and the 40th Brigade were not far from Hufeng Village.

In less than half an hour, the Japanese soldiers from the 39th and 40th Brigades arrived at Hufeng Village.

The small village of Hufeng was crowded with thousands of Japanese soldiers, all holding torches that lit up the village like daylight.

There were even more torches in the village's ancestral hall. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers outside were holding torches and looking in the direction of the hall. The tough guy shed tears!
In the ancestral hall.

Yoshito Takagi and Tomoyuki Yamashita looked at the division commander, who was left with only a loincloth and his head and body separated. The two old Japanese devils looked as if they wanted to eat him.

I discussed the marching plan with the division commander last night, and we had breakfast together before setting off this morning.

During breakfast, they were still discussing that after they captured Taiyuan, the division commander would invite them to the best restaurant in Taiyuan for a meal.

But they never expected that in less than a dozen hours, their division commander would die in battle.

Even the lieutenant general's sword, lieutenant general's uniform and boots, as well as the division commander's personal belongings were looted.

What made Takagi Yoshito and Yamashita Tomoyuki even more upset was that the division commander's head was chopped off by the Eighth Route Army.

and.

Judging from the division commander's frozen expression at the end, he was beheaded while he was still alive.

When Li Yunlong, Cheng Shifa and others left, they did not take the Japanese division commander's head with them, but took photos from multiple angles and took away all the officers' swords, weapons and ammunition, and the Japanese division commander's sword and uniform.

The Japanese reinforcements were too close. If they really took away the body of the Japanese division commander, I'm afraid the Japanese would chase them like crazy all night long.

Although the Eighth Route Army won this battle, it also paid a heavy price and was no longer suitable to continue fighting against the main force of the Japanese.

It's not worth sacrificing some soldiers' lives for the corpse of the Japanese division commander.

"Your Excellency, the Division Commander!!"

Seeing the division commander's body being carried onto a stretcher and wrapped in white cloth, the two old Japanese soldiers, Yamashita Tomoyuki and Takagi Yoshito, burst into tears.

"Baga, Yalu!"

"Yamashita-kun, the Eighth Route Army can't run far. We must pursue them immediately and eliminate all of them to avenge the division commander."

Yoshito Takagi quickly drew out his command sword, looking angry and murderous.

"Takagi-kun, calm down." Yamashita Tomoyuki still had some sense. He stopped Takagi Yoshito and said in a deep voice, "The soldiers are exhausted after a day of marching and fighting. It's dark now. If they fall into an enemy ambush, it will cause even greater losses to the 20th Division."

"The most urgent task now is to report the news of the division commander's death to the North China Front Command and request tactical guidance."

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at the same time.

Beiping.

North China Front Army Headquarters.

War Room.

Terauchi Hisaichi and Okabe Naozaburo were anxiously waiting for news from the 20th Division Headquarters. Okabe Naozaburo comforted Terauchi Hisaichi by saying that Division Commander Kawagishi was a man of good fortune and would surely be able to turn misfortune into good fortune, and that God would bless the locust army.

But the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

Before Naozaburo Okabe could finish his words of comfort, a communications staff officer hurried in with a telegram.

"Commander, the 40th Brigade just sent an urgent telegram, saying that the 20th Division headquarters was completely destroyed in Hufeng Village, and the commander of the 20th Division was also killed."

"What? The entire 20th Division headquarters was destroyed?" Including Naozaburo Okabe, more than a dozen old and young Japanese soldiers in the operations hall turned their heads.

All the devils had expressions of disbelief and shock on their faces.

Although Terauchi Hisaichi's expression and eyes did not fluctuate at all when he heard this, his body suddenly became stiff like a sculpture.

This shows that the old devil was extremely angry at this time, even on the verge of going berserk.

"The entire 20th Division headquarters has been destroyed..." Taking a deep breath, Chief of Staff Major General Okabe Naosaburo asked in a deep voice, "Is the news confirmed?"

"Hi," the communications officer nodded. "The 39th and 40th Brigades have arrived at Hufeng Village. They found the body of the 20th Division Commander there. His head was chopped off by the Eighth Route Army. His Lieutenant General's uniform and sword are missing."

"The 39th and 40th Brigades did not pursue the enemy for fear of being ambushed at night."

"Major General Yamashita and Major General Takagi request tactical guidance!"

After the communications staff finished their report, the entire operations hall fell into deathly silence again.

The entire Type A division headquarters was destroyed, and a lieutenant general division commander was killed in battle. This was an unimaginable loss for the North China Front Army.

The morale of the troops was severely hit, the prestige of the Great Japanese Locust Army in the international arena was greatly reduced, and his own career would also be greatly affected...

"Your Excellency, Commander?"

Okabe Naosaburo shouted softly.

Hearing the chief of staff's shout, Terauchi Hisaichi's stiff body shook slightly, and his right hand tightly grasped the hilt of the general's sword.

At this moment, he wanted to kill someone.

Okabe Naosaburo said, "Commander, Major General Takagi and Major General Yamashita are waiting for a reply from the headquarters."

In the end, Terauchi Juichi did not draw his sword: "Order the 39th and 40th Brigades to return to Xiyang tomorrow and wait for orders."

If the 20th Division Headquarters is still holding on and waiting for reinforcements, and the 20th Division Commander is still alive, then the 39th Brigade and the 40th Brigade must reinforce at all costs.

But now that the 20th Division Headquarters has been annihilated, there is no need to waste soldiers pursuing the Eighth Route Army.

The top priority now is to capture Taiyuan and destroy the main force of the Chinese army in the Second War Zone. As for the Eighth Route Army, we can only wait until the locust army captures Taiyuan and destroys the main force of the Chinese army, and then turn back to destroy them.

At this moment, Terauchi Hisaichi truly felt that the threat posed by the Eighth Route Army to the North China Front Army was no less than that posed by the main force of China's Second War Zone.

The 20th Division Headquarters was annihilated, but the 20th Division's mission remained. A new acting division commander must be selected as soon as possible from between Takagi Yoshito and Yamashita Tomoyuki to lead the 20th Division to continue the mission of capturing Taiyuan and destroying the main force of China's Second War Zone.

"At dawn tomorrow, order the 1st Air Regiment to dispatch all fighter planes!"

Terauchi Hisaichi said in a deep voice:

"Fighters, reconnaissance planes, and bombers were all dispatched fully loaded with ammunition, pouring all the bombs and bullets they carried on the heads of the Eighth Route Army."

"We must not allow the Eighth Route Army to leave with the Locust Army's combat supplies."

"Hi!"

Okabe Naosaburo and a group of Japanese staff officers suddenly lowered their heads.

(End of this chapter)