"...A total of more than 3,900 people were broken."

"The Great Japanese Empire is on board, the Great Japanese Imperial Army is on board, and His Majesty the Emperor is on board!"

"On June 29, Showa 2015, Changjoon, the communications captain of the 9th Brigade, said goodbye."

After the communications department head Takuya Mizuhara finished reading the farewell telegram, the entire war room fell into a dead silence. Everyone, including the commander of the 1st Army Yoshio Shinozuka, had no sound for a long time.

Everyone was confused, including Yoshio Shinozuka.

First, the battlefield observation regiment was completely wiped out, and then the 9th Brigade collectively broke.

There is no news from Yamamoto's agent team until now, and there is a high probability that something has happened.

In just half a day, the 1st Army stationed in Shanxi suffered three blows, and it was heavier and heavier every time, and it was also unbelievable!

Almost no one dares to believe it.

Even Yoshio Shinozuka felt unbelievable.

Because this result is too fake, just like on the baseball field in Tokyo, an army elementary school team actually defeated the army university team. How is this possible?

It is to do a hundred deductions on the sand table.

There will be no such result at once.

The Eighth Route Army had no source of intelligence, and was also a passive party to be beaten.

No matter how this battle is fought, it cannot be the result of this now!

Wait, source of information?

Finally, a staff officer reacted.

The problem is probably this.

A strange atmosphere quickly spread in the war room.

There is a traitor!

There must be a traitor in the headquarters!

This traitor leaked the information to the Eighth Route Army in advance!

However, the Chief of Staff of the 1st Army Takayoshi Tanaka was worried about another thing.

The 1st Army is extremely embarrassed! And the loss of military strength is also extremely serious.

After the Hundred Regiments Battle, the 1st Army's troops were already stretched, but now the 9th Brigade was completely wiped out, which made the situation even worse!

This means that

At least before the reinforcements transferred from the local area arrived, the 1st Army would have to give up all unnecessary strongholds and be committed to protecting several main transportation lines, as well as large and medium-sized cities such as Taiyuan.

Maybe even Liao County, Heshun and other counties will give up.

In the suffocating silence, Tanaka Takayo looked at Shinozuka Yoshio.

Tanaka Takaki is now very worried that Yoshio Shinozuka's emotions will be out of control.

The previous defeat in the Hundred Regiments Battle actually has nothing to do with Yoshio Shinozuka, because the defensive deployments along the Masato Road, Tongpu Road and the Baijin Line were all the policies determined by former commander Mijiro Umezu under the guidance of Tada Shun.

So after the Hundred Regiments suffered a crushing defeat, the base camp only removed Tada Jun from his post.

As the commander of the 1st Army, Yoshio Shinozuka was only given a warning, and the so-called warning cannot be considered a punishment.

However, this failure is undoubtedly remembered on Yoshio Shinozuka. If Yoshio Shinozuka strongly recommended Yamamoto Ichiki's special operations in front of Okamura Yamamoto, there would not be a battlefield observation group to watch the battle, and there would not be a 9th Brigade's front to the Huting stronghold and protecting the observation group.

Without the above, there would not be a series of failures today.

Therefore, the series of failures this morning will definitely be remembered on Yoshio Shinozuka.

The North China Front Command and even the base camp will definitely hold Yoshio Shinozuka responsible.

Therefore, Tanaka Takayoshi was very worried that Yoshio Shinozuka would launch revenge on the Taihang Base of the Eighth Route Army in order to save face.

Given the current situation of the 1st Army,

To launch large-scale revenge on the Taihang base of the Eighth Route Army,

At least two divisions from the 36th, 37th and 41st divisions are bound to be drawn from southern Shanxi.

Even if two divisions are drawn to the north, it is not until the time comes to take revenge, but the Central Army in southern Shanxi and the Jinsui Army in western Shanxi will surely be trapped in the air, and the entire southern Shanxi and even the provincial capital Taiyuan may be lost.

And such a situation is something that Tanaka Takaki, who is the chief of staff of the 1st Army, does not want to see.

At that moment, Takaki Tanaka stepped forward and asked with concern: "Master Commander, are you okay?"

But Yoshio Shinozuka seemed to have not heard it, but just stared at the sand table in front of her.

Tanaka Takayoshi was even more worried, because the calmer Yoshio Shinozuka looked on the surface, the more violent the storm brewing in his chest, which meant that he was on the verge of losing control!

Tanaka Takakichi's worries are not unreasonable.

In fact, Yoshio Shinozuka was indeed on the verge of losing control at this time.

A violent and cruel voice was rolling in Yoshio Shinozuka's mind: Immediately dispatch troops from southern Jin to the Taihang Mountains, flattening the entire bandit area! Then arrest their deputy commander-in-chief and filed the bones and ashes!

There are also everyone in the entire Taihang bandit area, regardless of gender, age, and death!

The area within a radius of hundreds of kilometers of Taihang Bandit Area must be killed into a barren land without a crowd! Only in this way can we wash away today's shame and redeem the supreme glory of the 1st Army.

At one moment, Yoshio Shinozuka was almost yelling.

"Your Excellency Commander!" Tanaka Takaki shouted quickly, "You must calm down!"

Tanaka Takayoshi's shout was like a sudden enlightenment, and he woke Yoshio Shinozuka up.

At that moment, Yoshio Shinozuka breathed a sigh of relief and said in a deep voice: "Kun Tanaka, you don't have to worry. I won't act irritated, and I won't be able to mobilize troops from southern Shanxi to launch a retaliation."

Tanaka Takaki was relieved when he heard this.

As long as the commander is not willing to act irritably.

Yoshio Shinozuka said again: "Tanaka, immediately transfer the garrisons from Liao County, Heshun, Meng County, Yushe and other counties to the strongholds near the Baijin Line."

The four counties, Liao County, Heshun, Meng County and Yushe, are completely surrounded by the two major base areas of the Eighth Route Army Taihang Military Region and Taiyue Military Region.

There was no problem before.

But now the 1st Army's troops are already in short supply. If the Eighth Route Army concentrates its main force to attack these county towns, the 1st Army will not be able to defend it no matter how it is.

So even if you stick to it, you can only waste your troops in vain.

Tanaka Takayoshi asked, "Do you really want to give up the four county towns?"

"Give up all." Yoshio Shinozuka nodded and said, "But before abandoning the war, you can secretly notify the Jinsui army and let the Jinsui army of Yanxishan come to take over."

This is undoubtedly a wonderful move.

"Suga." Tanaka Takaki nodded happily.

It was not until this time that Tanaka Takayoshi was convinced that Yoshio Shinozuka had returned to calm.

Yoshio Shinozuka glanced at all the staff officers present and continued: "Also, from now on, the headquarters will implement a complete ban. Before the intelligence class has been identified, no matter the staff officers, guards, service personnel, or even me, are allowed to leave the headquarters half a step."

The staff present had no worries about this.

It is unquestionable to identify all personnel in the headquarters.

Because of the continuous incidents between Yamamoto's special agent team, the battlefield observation regiment and the 9th Brigade this time, it is really suspicious. If you want to say that this is not caused by the intelligence leak, who believes it?

It must be the intelligence leak!

...

At Teapot Ridge, the battle has been completely over.

Except for about a hundred Japanese who rushed into the dense forests on both sides of the highway and escaped, nearly 4,000 people who entered the ambush circle were all annihilated.

But I saw that the road was densely filled with corpses.

Most of them are the corpses of the Japanese, but there are also many remains of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese at this stage were still very fierce, and they performed particularly fiercely in hand-to-hand combat. Although there were less than 2,000 Japanese who actually participated in hand-to-hand combat in the end, they still caused heavy casualties to the Eighth Route Army.

Among them, nearly a thousand people were killed in battle, hundreds were seriously injured, and even more were slightly injured.

The war loss ratio between the two sides is basically one to one, and this is still an ambush battle, and the Eighth Route Army also has a three to one military advantage. This is unimaginable if it is a positional war, or if the Eighth Route Army does not have a military advantage.

The Independent Group rushed to the evening market, and at least took some soup and killed more than a hundred Japanese.

Among them, Lu Changsheng alone stabbed more than a dozen people to death, and now he was searching for the Japanese corpses everywhere.

Many Japanese devils who had already died in battle and the Eighth Route Army hugged each other, and Lu Changsheng stepped forward and separated one by one.

Seeing that Lu Changsheng was looking for him, Li Yunlong couldn't help but ask, "Big Lü, what are you looking for?"

"Look for the brigade commander of the Japanese." Lu Changsheng replied while searching, "According to convention, the brigade commanders of the Japanese should all be the rank of major general. Team Wang said he wanted to catch the alive."

"It's Xiao Wang again." Li Yunlong said angrily, "What do you want to do this damn god?"

Zhang Dabiao also said: "Why do I think it's not that reliable? Don't cause any trouble again, this kid."

Li Yunlong said again: "Da Lu, did Xiao Wang tell you why he wanted to capture the Japanese general alive?"
To be continued...