Luo Wenyu's victory caused the "strong" image of the Japanese army to suffer a heavy blow again, and many Western media even bluntly pointed out that the Japanese army can only be regarded as a second-rate army at best, and may be able to run rampant in Asia for a while, but if it is against the armies of Western powers such as the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and the Soviet Union, it is absolutely vulnerable!

For the contempt of the Western powers, the Japanese are dumb and eat yellow lotus, and they can't say what they have to suffer.

However, for the initiator of the Independent Regiment, the Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters and even the base camp hated it to the core, and they had to get rid of it quickly, and even Emperor Hirohito was alarmed and directly issued a decree, asking the Kwantung Army to find ways to annihilate the Independent Regiment in order to restore its international influence and restore the reputation of the Imperial Japanese Army in the world.

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The official residence of the headquarters of the Kwantung Army in Changchun.

Lieutenant General Koiso Kuniaki solemnly handed a telegram to Muto Nobuyoshi and said: "Your Excellency, the base camp has a telegram, urging us to resolve the battle in the direction of the Great Wall of China as soon as possible, and at the same time annihilate all the defenders represented by the Independent Regiment of the Second Division of the Central Army of China at the Luo Wenyu Pass, and it is best to capture the officer led by him alive, and our Kwantung Army will carry out public shooting, so as to redeem the bad impact that may be caused by the defeat of the 4th Brigade." ”

Muto Nobuyoshi, who always had a trace of gloom between his eyebrows, silently read the message and said, "Koiso-kun, have the two fighters of the 6th Air Wing come back?" ”

"Nope." Kuniaki Koiso shook his head. "The 14th Brigade, which has arrived at the Luo Wenyu battlefield first, has ordered people to search the battlefield and has not found any information about our military aircraft. I have ordered the Kwantung Army headquarters along the way to send search teams to search, but 。。。。。。 ”

Koiso Kuniaki already understood his intentions, and it was undoubtedly a needle in a haystack to find two planes in the vast land, and these were just an explanation for the 6th Air Wing, which was not under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Army Command of the Kwantung Army.

The chief of staff of the Kwantung Army is wise, not to mention finding a fighter plane about the size of a car in this era when there is no black box, even in the next 80 years, hundreds of satellites from dozens of countries around the world have searched for a large passenger plane with a wingspan of 63 meters and a wingspan of 60 meters.

The wrinkles on Muto Nobuyoshi's forehead deepened by two points.

The loss of two aircraft was nothing to the Kwantung Army, but it undoubtedly added to his almost stupid remote command this time. Muto Nobuyoshi could almost imagine his opponents in the War Ministry happily deducting all these battle losses on their heads.

Originally, the Imperial Field Marshal was already expected! But now。。。。。。 It is difficult for General Muto Nobuyoshi not to be depressed at the moment.

After stabilizing his mind, Muto Nobuyoshi continued to ask, "Did Nishiyoshi-kun call back?" ”

???“ Already called back. Koiso Kuniaaki nodded, and said with a gloomy expression, "After searching, first on the battlefield ten miles before the Luo Wenyu Pass of the Great Wall of China, a large number of remains of imperial soldiers were found, and through screening, it has been determined that the entire army of the 1st Artillery Brigade and the 2nd Artillery Brigade of the 8th Artillery Wing were broken, although the people of China did not massacre the wounded, but nearly 400 wounded soldiers were abandoned in the wilderness and ignored, and when the 14th Brigade arrived, except for one survivor, all the others were killed, The hateful Shina people stripped the warriors of the last remaining warm clothing, which was the main cause of the wounded soldiers' lives being killed by the cold. At the same time, all the equipment and baggage of the two artillery brigades were lost. ”

No way, who made the Kwantung Army a big dog, not to mention that the officers wore big leather boots and woolen coats, even the cotton clothes on the soldiers were much better than those of the national army, especially the 29th Army, the cotton in the cotton clothes on the body was even thinner and pitiful, when the north wind blew, the face was frozen and blue, and the runny nose or something was commonplace, and many of them didn't even bother to wipe their sleeves.

The clothes on the torn and torn corpses of the Japanese soldiers who were blown up were too disgusting, and the cotton clothes of the more than 400 wounded soldiers were undoubtedly excellent trophies, so when the 14th Brigade arrived, the rows of wounded Japanese soldiers who had been frozen were all barefoot and wearing white shirts, and almost all of them that could be taken away were taken away by the people under Tang Yongming.

Chi Dakui didn't say that he didn't see it, and even slapped his thigh and smiled and commanded his soldiers to help, and it was good to use the whirring north wind without bullets.

"Koiso-kun, continue." Muto Nobuyoshi's face remained unchanged, but his hand clenched the arm of the chair.

Then, in the second battlefield away from here, they found the body of Major General Mitsu Suzuki, the commander of the 4th Brigade, and the bodies of most of the officials under his command, such as Gu Yi Oisha and Yanagawa Kazuo, the chief of staff. At the same time, in front of the three positions of the defenders of China, the 14th Brigade counted 3,300 bodies of Imperial Army soldiers, plus nearly 2,000 bodies on the defensive positions of the 4th Brigade. ”

"Yaga, stupid Mitsu Suzuki, it was he who buried the entire 4th Brigade, and it was he who disgraced the entire Kwantung Army for this." Muto Nobuyoshi, who had been holding back and composed, finally couldn't restrain his anger, and stood up like a trapped beast walking back and forth in the office, while scolding his subordinates who had died.

As for the fact that nearly 2,000 people are missing, it was very clear in Xi Yiyi's first reply that the battlefield was extremely tragic, and the entire position was suspected to have suffered heavy shelling, and the bodies of many soldiers could not be counted normally and could only be cremated on the spot.

As many as 9,300 urns were urgently transported to the front line, which may be the first time for the Kwantung Army.

"So, what about the whereabouts of the Chinese troops that led to the collective shattering of the 4th Brigade?" After venting his anger, Muto Nobuyoshi said with compassion.

"They should have all retracted their own defensive lines, and according to Nishiyichi's report, although it is still impossible to determine the specific strength of the enemy, according to the analysis of the remaining firepower on the battlefield, the enemy will not be less than three brigades." Koiso Kuniaki shook his head and said, "The Chinese commander is extremely cunning, we must not take it lightly this time, Lieutenant General Xiyi has already ordered most of the 6th Division to rush to Luo Wenyu, and his command will have the strength of nearly 30,000 troops." ”

Muto Nobuyoshi nodded and said: "The command of Lieutenant General Nishiyichi is still trustworthy, and I cannot escape the blame for the defeat of the 4th Brigade this time, and I will explain this to the base camp." ”

"Your Excellency, the Kwantung Army will be proud of you." Koiso Kuniaki looked at Muto Nobuyoshi's eyes with admiration, and said respectfully.

Obviously, Muto Nobuyoshi's courage to take responsibility is very impressive to Koiso Kuniaaki, as the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, especially this man who did so at a moment when he was almost ironclad in becoming a field marshal, undoubtedly cut off his own road to marshal, and maybe even worse, since the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War with China, the responsibility of the first brigade and regiment-level formation of the whole army was not so easy to end.