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Ishihara Kaner escaped so quickly, much faster than the rabbit racing against the turtle. And when he passed by Liuhe Town, he didn't stop at all, and just took a detour to the north.

Xiangxi, he is not stupid. Since Shancheng Town fell into the hands of his opponent, the road to Xiangxi must be a heavy army ambushing him and hitting him head-on. Doesn’t that mean that he stretched his neck and gave it to someone to chop?

Indeed, at this time, Guo Jingshan had already taken down Shuguang Town. After receiving Lei Dong's order, he was building a defensive position and waiting for Ishihara's arrival solemnly!

However, he was destined to be unable to wait for Ishihara.

At around five o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Baosheng, who was running all the way, led the cavalry regiment and artillery battalion to Liuhe Town.

After entering, I realized that Ishihara did not enter the town at all, but fled north!

It was too late to chase after this, and the cavalry regiment was too trapped. He Shili's artillery battalion was full of fighting will, but without the protection of infantry, would the artillery battalion dare to chase after him?

Ishihara ran away, but he was not so lucky to leave the puppet army behind the palace.

Zhang Yihu was so angry that if he hadn't kept a little rationality, he would have wished that all these puppet army prisoners would have been shot to death.

It was because of these bastards that Ishihara fired!

Nearly 1,500 puppet troops were captured, and many of them fled, more than 500 were killed, and many weapons were seized.

Ishihara was panicked. In order to reduce the load, the weapons and ammunition in the heavy artillery were discarded, which naturally made the East Column cheaper.

With these artillery and the previous capture, the artillery battalion of the East Column can be expanded again.

He Shili was very happy that there was finally an artillery regiment in the East Zong.

Although Ishihara ran away, it was not easy for him. Including the puppet army, the team of more than 7,000 people was left, and there were only more than 1,000 people left. If it weren't for enough cars and horses, they might not have been able to escape!

After dark and after confirming that there were no pursuers, Ishihara led his extremely scarce army to a small hill and set up camp.

After camping, the first thing Ishihara did was to send a report to the Kanto Army Command to review his mistakes and request punishment!

While requesting punishment, he also reported his impression of the Nantian King Army in detail to Honjo Shima, especially he expressed his extraordinary concern about the merger between the Nantian King Army and the Self-Defense Army!

Once these two teams merge and the Southern Heavenly King Army takes the dominance, it will be a huge disaster for the Kwantung Army!

Ishihara's telegram was sent to Honjo Shin-shou, and Honjo Shin-shou summoned officers above Colonel Fengtian to convene a military meeting, the topic of which was how to wipe out the anti-Japanese armed forces in Liaodong.

The successive failures not only made the Kwantung Army look down, but also made the base camp doubt whether the Kwantung Army could control the situation in Manchuria!

At the critical moment when Honjo Shin-chan and Miyake Miyake were about to return to China to report their jobs and make other appointments, the Kwantung Army actually suffered an unprecedented defeat under the joint attack of a small group of farmers and bandits!

This made the generals and senior officers present at the Kwantung Army feel extremely humiliated!

Failure requires someone to take responsibility, and this responsibility is not only for those defeated front-line commanders, but also for those who make plans in the rear and the intelligence department!

Obviously, this time the Kwantung Army suffered consecutive setbacks, and the intelligence department had to bear the main people. The enemy's situation was unknown and he rashly sent troops, which violated the taboo of military strategists.

But this cannot be entirely blamed on the intelligence department. If it weren’t for the sudden emergence of the Southern Heavenly King Army, the battle situation would not be like this now!

The culprit that led to the successive failure of the Kanto Army of the Imperial Japanese Empire is undoubtedly this Nantian King Army!

The bandit leader: The King of the Southern Heaven, and he is also a wanted criminal in the Kwantung Army!

"Ichigaki, what do you think of this report from Ishihara?" Honjo Shin's expression was as calm as water, but in fact he was on the verge of an outbreak.

The calmer you are, the more terrifying it is!

Seishiro Itagaki carefully received the telegram from Honjo Shin-shou.

Ishihara described in detail his understanding of his opponent in the telegram, most of which talked about his opponent's equipment, combat style, command, etc.

Of course, Ishihara also analyzed the reasons for the failure. He mainly summarized the reasons for the failure. First, he did not understand the reality of the enemy. This is an asymmetry in intelligence. Second, he was a mistake in command and did not face his opponent. If Hegang Brigade was careful at that time, he would not be deceived by the enemy's trick of luring the enemy. Third, the opponent was extraordinary, and their commanders' keen insight into the battlefield was not inferior to the outstanding officers of the Great Japanese Empire!

Of course, the intelligence issues cannot be blamed on the intelligence department. Reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance on the battlefield are not what the intelligence department does.

What's more, the focus of the Kwantung Army's intelligence department is the red polar bear in the north, and the anti-Japanese armed forces has never been the focus. Moreover, these anti-Japanese armed forces are emerging forces, and even the intelligence department cannot understand the core of the other party so quickly!

When Doihira was in office, he had already shifted his focus to his work, but intelligence work is no more than training soldiers, and it takes time to achieve results.

Everyone understands the truth, but when someone needs to come out to take responsibility, the truth must be put aside.

"Commander, Huine thinks what Ishihara-kun analyzed is very reasonable, but these reasons cannot be used as an excuse for him to hide his defeat!" Seishiro Itagaki said slowly.

ah!

Although the relationship between Itagaki and Ishihara in the Kanto Army was somewhat different in terms of opinions, there was never such a case of putting in the wrong.

Their private relationship is pretty good.

Even Honjo Shizuki was surprised by Itagaki's words.

"Dear colleagues, what I want to say is that although Ishihara Jun is one of the few talented talents in my Japanese Empire, his wisdom is obvious to all, but this time I think he did something wrong in strategy!" Seishiro Itagaki said loudly.

"Ichigaki, please tell me!"

"I don't think Ishihara Jun should have adopted the so-called plan to repair the plank road openly and cross Chen Cang secretly. Before that, Ishihara Jun was just speculating that our enemy had an elite army that might lurk in the area of ​​Liuhe Prefecture, but he was not absolutely sure. He was determined to find this army and eliminate it. We can understand this, but what he had to do was to find this army, but to force this army out!" Ichiro Hiroshiro said jokingly.

"Speak!" Honjo Shin's eyes lit up. Itagaki's words really made sense. Ishihara's doing this was indeed a waste of time, and the army had a lot of opinions about him not going south to pull a hand to pull a Takahara brigade!

So much so that a general of the Great Japanese Empire died under the despicable Chinese. Since the Great Japanese Empire entered Manchuria, he was the first general to die in battle.

Gao Bo Yuzhi's death was like a fierce blow on the Kwantung Army's face. The Kwantung Army could not even protect its own generals, so how could we talk about protecting Manchuria?

"If I were Ishihara Jun, I would ask Hegang Brigade to go south to Huan Ren. Huan Ren is the headquarters of Tang Juwu, the leader of the bandit army. Once we take their heads, we can force the Self-Defense Army to return to aid, and then we can lift the siege of Gaobo Brigade. Then Ishihara Jun quickly goes south and joins forces with the Gaobo Brigade. The bandit army wants to eat such a large army in one bite, and may not be able to do so much. As long as we advance steadily and recover lost land along the railway line, we will not have the worries to force out such a mysterious elite force!"

"The two regiments of Takeuchi Detachment and the Yasuan Army have a total of 5,000 people, one in the south and one in the north, gradually compressing the bandit army's activity area and then annihilated it. No matter how powerful this elite Nantian King Army is, it will not escape the fate of destruction!" Seishiro Itagaki said confidently.

"Ichigaki, what you are talking about is just a hypothetical situation, and our opponent may not do what you said!" An officer supporting Ishihara stood up and retorted.

"According to our intelligence, the Takeuchi Detachment has lost contact and is likely to have been surrounded by bandits or broken!"

"It's impossible for Takeuchi Detachment to lose contact!" Seishiro Itagaki said in disbelief.

"There is nothing impossible. Do you still remember how that mysterious unit ate Yu Sang's team?" Honjo Shinobu snorted coldly.

"Your Excellency Commander, is it possible that the Takeuchi Detachment that has been in contact with us before..."

"The Takeuchi Detachment is likely to fall into a trap set by the bandit army, either completely broken or have become a prisoner of the bandit army now!"

"This is absolutely impossible. Our air force dropped supplies to Takeuchi Detachment not long ago. Our pilots saw them receiving supplies from below..."

"What they see may be pretending to be Chinese people!"

"Impossible, they speak Japanese, and the pilot heard it very clearly..."

For a moment, the huge conference room started to quarrel like a vegetable market. One of the questions that everyone was centered around was whether the Takeuchi Detachment is dead or whether it lost contact because of some special situation?

"Hisser Commander, I suggest sending a plane to reconnaissance again tomorrow morning!"

"Well, I have issued the reconnaissance order and will take off early tomorrow morning!" Honjo Shizuo said in a deep voice.

"The biggest problem now is that we have lost more than a dozen counties in Liaodong. If this news spreads, what will the outside world think?"

"Your Excellency Commander, you must strictly block the news and not let the representatives of the League of Nations investigation team know!"

"I'm afraid it's difficult to do it. According to my intelligence, there are people from Britain, the United States, France and other countries in the bandit army, so it's difficult for us to take measures against them, otherwise it will have a very adverse impact!" said Seishiro Itagaki.

"What should I do? Could it be announced that we were defeated by a group of country farmers?"

"We can say that they are Red Bandits!"

"Yes, Red Bandit!"

"In the future, the **s have become the enemy of most countries in the world. In China, the National Government of Nanjing is also rushing to encircle and suppress the Red Army. It can be said that the Red Bandits are not only the enemy of this country, but also the enemy of the world. If we say that we are encircling and suppressing the Red Bandits now, the League of Nations will not only not oppose it, but will support us!" said Seishiro Itagaki.

"But how can we make the representatives of the League of Nations believe?"

"What's the hard thing? Are there fewer people like this in our prison?" Seishiro Itagaki smiled. "As long as they ask them to write a letter of repentance and admit that these bandits are the leaders they accept, then that's a proof!"

"Ichigaki, your method is very good. Just do what you said!" Honjo Shin nodded. In this way, he also found an excuse to recruit the 9th Division of Shanghai to enter Manchuria.

"Hayi!"

No. 7 Mansion, restaurant!

Lu Shan convened his subordinates to hold a small celebration here to celebrate the victory of the Eastern League and the Self-Defense Forces in Liuhe, Shancheng and other places!

Ishihara ran away, a little regretful, but he couldn't run away from the monk and the temple. As long as he still stayed on the land of China and didn't leave, he would meet again sooner or later.

"cheers!"

"Cheers to us for the victory of Jingjiadian, and to break through the mountain city, Meihekou, Shuguang and Liuhe Town!"

"Boss, we have hurt the Japanese this time. We should calm down for a while!" Qin Lan asked.

"It should be a whole thing to calm down. The Tianzhong United team heading south has entered Liaoyuan, but they are not clear about their movements yet!" Lu Shan said.

"Now we have controlled more than a dozen counties and cities in Dongbian Road, with a total force of nearly 100,000 people. I really didn't expect it!" Lin Yuqin said.

"Although we have a large number of troops, they are uneven. The Japanese army still has at least 70,000 to 80,000 people in Manchuria. If we don't need to divide our troops to station in various towns, we will be able to get a division!" Lu Shan said.

"Now it can only be a phased victory. There will be no big battle for the time being, but there will definitely be small-scale battles, and the Japanese will focus on us next!"

"Yes, the Japanese suffered such a big loss, and they would definitely not give up!" Xue Xian echoed.

"I guess the Japanese will increase their troops in Manchuria next, whether they are dispatching troops from the country or recruiting the Shanghai army, that's for sure!" Lu Shan said.

"Wouldn't that be war again?"

"This is for sure, but after the Japanese suffered such a big loss, they would definitely find out our virtuality and reality before sending troops. It is estimated that we will have at least one month to revise and prepare for the war!" Lu Shan analyzed.
To be continued...