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"Tell me, have you captured them alive? Or... have you destroyed them?"

Tada Shun deliberately slowed his tone, preparing to savor this moment of victory.

He hadn't slept for a day and a night in order to catch that mouse.

The last time I stayed up all night was when the Eighth Route Army launched the "Hundred Regiments Offensive".

However, to the surprise of all the Japanese soldiers, the staff officer suddenly knelt down on the ground with a "thump".

"Report...Reporting to Commander! Urgent telegram from Bao County! My...my 1st Tank Brigade's Type 95 heavy tank company...was...completely annihilated!"

"Ten heavy tanks...all destroyed!"

"Clang—!"

The ceramic teacup slipped from Tada Shun's hand and shattered on the ground.

The scalding tea splashed all over him, but he was completely unaware.

Time seemed to stand still in the entire conference room.

Everyone's expressions froze on their faces; the smiles that had just been on their lips now looked incredibly ridiculous and eerie.

"What...what did you say?"

Tada Shun suddenly stood up. Upon closer inspection, one could even see that the Commander-in-Chief of the North China Army was trembling slightly.

"You...you say that again?"

The staff officer practically buried his head in the floorboards: "The telegram confirms... ten of our Type 95 heavy tanks, upon contact with the enemy... no... not long after... were destroyed one by one by enemy tanks... not a single survivor!"

"The Takeda Battalion and the 31st Regiment of the Imperial Army, which were deployed alongside the troops... were... pursued by the enemy... suffering casualties... more than half of their troops were killed or wounded!"

boom--!

The staff officer's words completely ignited the command center.

"Baka yarou!!!"

Tada Shun finally snapped.

He kicked over the table in front of him, and documents scattered all over the floor!

"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!!"

"Ten Type 95 tanks! Those are ten heavy tanks! Not ten bicycles! How could they all be destroyed?"

"You're giving a false report! You're giving a false report!!"

He can't accept it! He absolutely can't accept it!

The Type 95 heavy tank has 67mm of frontal armor and a 70mm main gun!

This would be invincible on the Chinese battlefield!

How could they be as fragile as paper, completely destroyed by a single enemy tank?

This was completely beyond his comprehension, and even exceeded the bottom line of his understanding as a professional soldier!

Chief of Staff Yukio Kasahara was completely dumbfounded.

The other high-ranking Japanese officials looked at each other in bewilderment.

Nobody knew what to say.

They have even temporarily lost their ability to speak!

The meeting room, which had been relaxed just moments before, suddenly felt like a vacuum had been drawn out, creating a suffocating atmosphere.

All ten heavy tanks were wiped out...

The Takeda Battalion suffered more than half its casualties...

This is no longer a disgrace, this is simply... a disaster!

A devastating defeat that could shake the entire North China region and even alarm the headquarters!

And the one who caused this crushing defeat, from beginning to end, was only that one mysterious and terrifying... tank!

Tada Shun slumped into his chair, as if all his strength had been drained away, and just kept repeating to himself:

"A monster... what kind of monster is it...?"

. . .

at the same time.

The Eighth Route Army headquarters was located in Shanxi Province, a thousand miles away.

The intelligence chief rushed into the command center, holding a newly deciphered telegram in his hand.

"Vice President, something terrible has happened!"

"That old bastard Tada Shun actually mobilized a full ten Type 95 heavy tanks..."

The deputy general was studying plans to deal with the Japanese sweep in front of the map when he heard this. He frowned, took the telegram, and quickly glanced at it.

However, after only a few glances, his expression instantly darkened.

"Has the information been verified?" the vice president asked.

The intelligence chief nodded solemnly: "It's verified! It was sent out at great risk by our 'mole' planted in the puppet army headquarters in Beiping. It's absolutely reliable!"

Seeing this, the chief of staff knew something was wrong and quickly came over to watch as well.

When he saw the keywords in the telegram, he couldn't help but gasp and exclaim:

"Ten... Type 95 heavy tanks? Has that old devil Tada Shun gone mad?"

"He actually deployed a whole group of heavy tanks just to deal with one tank?"

In this era, ten tanks are enough to be considered a cluster.

Several executives who were originally dealing with other matters immediately gathered around upon hearing this.

"What? Ten Type 95 tanks?"

"My God... this..."

"This is terrible!"

They knew all too well what the words "Type 95 Heavy Tank" meant!

The painful experiences of the past are still vivid in my mind.

"Those damn Japanese devils! They've really gone all out!"

"Remember that ambush battle in southern Shanxi last year? Our main force regiment almost lost an entire company, charging forward with explosives, and barely managed to blow off the tracks of one of their vehicles!"

"One shot from its 70mm cannon could wipe out half a squad of soldiers..."

"Ten vehicles were deployed at once!"

"hateful!"

……

However, just as the bigwigs were shocked and furious, the vice president suddenly calmed down.

"wrong!"

The vice president shook his head.

"Something's not right here; it's all eerie!"

Upon hearing the deputy commander's words, the chief of staff seemed to have realized something as well.

"Yes, something's definitely not right!"

At this point, the other bigwigs also realized what was going on.

"Something does seem off!"

"It's just a few people who ran away, is it really worth all this fuss from that old devil Tada Toshi?"

"Could it be that our people have infiltrated the Emperor's own stronghold?"

The "something's not right" that the big shots were talking about referred to Tada Shun's reaction.

That's a bit too extreme!

First, he mobilized the entire Japanese army in North China to surround and intercept them, and then he used a full 10 Type 95 heavy tanks, which was completely out of character for the Commander-in-Chief of the North China Army.

In fact, this matter didn't even require his personal coordination as the Commander-in-Chief of the North China Army.

It's just a few escaped prisoners; a colonel could easily handle it.

If the Commander-in-Chief has to personally oversee even such trivial matters, then he won't get any sleep.

"We must have overlooked some crucial information!" the vice president said confidently.

"Go! Find all the information previously available about this matter!"

As soon as the order was given, the command center sprang into action.

Soon, a stack of telegrams and intelligence records were spread out on the huge war table.

The executives began to scrutinize and analyze these textual clues, word by word.

Time passed little by little.

I read the intelligence report over and over again.

But I still couldn't find anything wrong with it.

"Could it be that our intelligence is incomplete?"

"What else is there that we don't know?"

One expert analyzed it this way.

After all, the incident occurred thousands of miles away, and they couldn't possibly know the whole story.

For a moment, the bigwigs were somewhat dejected.

Sudden--

"Snapped!"

The chief of staff slammed his hand on the table, silencing everyone!

"Here! This is where the problem lies! We were all wrong before!"

Everyone looked in the direction the chief of staff was pointing.

"Unidentified tank?"

"That's right!"

The chief of staff pointed to the telegram.

"This earliest telegram clearly states—'An unidentified tank'!"

"Unknown! Do you understand?"

"We all subconsciously assumed that the rescue hero had stolen the Japanese tanks and then raided the execution ground!"

"But what if this tank isn't even from the Japanese?"

"What if it belonged to the rescuers from the beginning, or to some unknown force?"

boom!

These words struck like a thunderbolt, exploding in everyone's minds!

In an instant, all the doubts and all the irrationalities seemed to have found their answers!

Why did Tada Shun lose his composure like this?

Why would he go to such lengths, even deploying a heavy tank formation?

Because what he really wanted wasn't Ding Zhijian and his few "fugitives," but rather the tank that suddenly appeared in Beiping!

In his lair, there was a passageway that allowed for the undetected transport of heavy equipment.

Or rather, a "mole" of a high enough rank to cover it all up!

If this matter isn't clarified, Tada Shun won't be able to sleep, let alone eat!

"So that's how it is! So that's how it is!" a CEO murmured to himself, his face filled with belated shock.

"Good heavens! Our mysterious rescue hero has really stirred up a hornet's nest!"

"He practically stabbed Tada Shun in the pillow! No wonder that old devil is acting like a madman!"

A collective gasp of realization and exclamation filled the command center.

They finally cut through the fog and saw the true eye of the storm behind the raging storm that swept across North China!

This is not about arresting a few people at all!

However, figuring out the whole story did little to ease the furrowed brows of the bosses.

The chief of staff sighed, "Although I understand why Tada Shun went mad... but those were ten Type 95 heavy tanks..."

The bosses all shook their heads and sighed.

Yes!

A full ten Type 95 heavy tanks!

Although three small units were sent to provide support, they probably wouldn't even have a chance to escape when facing the Type 95 heavy tank.

Sending more people wouldn't be possible in time...

"Why!"

Sighs erupted everywhere!

Just then, someone outside the command center suddenly reported:

"Report! Urgent military intelligence has arrived from the direction of Bao County..."