The command system of the Japanese army was in disarray, and an hour after the attack of the first regiment had not organized an effective resistance, and the soldiers of the regiment seemed to be in a no-man's land.

More than four hours later, the gunfire gradually weakened, the smoke of the battle smelled another choking smell in the heavy rain, the little devil's camp was in shambles, and the officers of the little devil were still arguing in the command headquarters about who should be responsible for this matter.

The soldiers of the first regiment withdrew from the battlefield under the leadership of Ma Wanzhong, and only more than 700 people returned to the position in the end, and half of the more than 700 people were wounded, but the combat effect tonight was even more remarkable than the combat effect they came here today.

Ma Wanzhong asked the medical staff to simply bandage the new wound on his arm, then changed the blood-stained clothes and began to write a report for Liao Fan tonight under the oil lamp.

According to the reports of officers at all levels who participated in tonight's operation, they killed and wounded at least about 4,000 people in this battle, and may even have killed the captains of two Japanese brigades, but the specific data is only known to the little devils.

Heavy rain fell overnight, until the sun rose from the eastern sky in the early morning, Taihang Mountain ushered in a new day again, after yesterday's heavy rain, the birds that had already been hungry, when the first ray of sunlight shone into Taihang Mountain, they began to chirp everywhere looking for food.

Liao Fan stayed up until a group of soldiers came back last night and did not rest, until he couldn't sleep because of the birds in the mountains, he got up from the bed, and Li Lingfei reported to him that everything was normal on the front line.

After last night's battle, although the little devil did not suffer a big injury, but he also broke his muscles and bones, and the new commander did not take office, and the plan they finally agreed on was only to besiege the independent 33rd Division, abandon all offensive plans, and wait for the new commander to arrive.

In fact, judging from yesterday's situation, the officers at all levels of the little devils just don't want to take responsibility, and if they send troops to fight and lose, they can only be loyal to the emperor of the Japanese Empire. Although they usually keep saying that they will contribute everything to the Japanese Empire, when it is really their turn, they can shirk it if they can, and they will not take responsibility if they can.

Peaceful days are always so beautiful, for three days in a row, Gangcun Ningci did not arrange a commander to go to Taihang Mountain to take office, and the little devil stayed like this, but if it went on like this, their logistics and supplies had obviously bottomed out, and they had to consider the problem of eating.

However, there is still an unknown number of troops behind them, this army has strong combat effectiveness, every time they transport materials to the mountains, half of them have to be looted by this army, and the logistics of the little devils are full of complaints, asking for the protection of the combat troops, but all these arrangements of the little devils do not seem to have any effect on the soldiers of the three regiments, and the three regiments can always exchange the minimum price for the maximum benefit.

As for the reconnaissance battalion led by Jin Sanshan, it has completely become a big landlord, and since there is a cannon, it is not good to fight, and every night he carries the cannon to the railway line of the little devil to wander around, as long as there is a train of the little devil, two cannons will come, and if there is no train, everyone will hide in the mountains to rest.

The little devils hate this army that has come and gone without a trace, and there is nothing they can do about it, the railway line has been blown up with thousands of holes, and recently more than a dozen trains have been directly hit by shells, and three or four trains have derailed halfway, and the little devils are building railways every day.

Gangcun Ningji seemed to be much older overnight, and judging from the intelligence, the Fifth War Zone had completed the assembly of the large corps and was preparing to recapture the county town they had just occupied. Now their logistical transportation of supplies is still on the two legs of the soldiers, and the car cannot go far on the muddy road at all.

Moreover, Gangcun Ningci has already sent his main force to the Suizao area for defense, and the Dabie Mountain behind Wuhan has restrained a large part of Gangcun Ningci's troops, and now Gangcun Ningci does not have many troops in his hands to attack the Fifth War Zone again.

Now that the battle in Taihang Mountain has reached a stalemate again, Gangcun Ningci could never have imagined that an army of 100,000 would not be able to capture a small Taihang Mountain.

However, Gangcun Ningji knew that he had to give up now, and the troops fought in two areas, which led to a serious shortage of troops in his hands at this time, especially after the Third Division and the Second Cavalry Brigade were wiped out, Gangcun Ningji had no new force in his hands and fell into a completely passive situation.

"Call the Chief of Staff!" Gangmura Ninji shouted loudly to the guards.

The chief of staff of the little devil Wuhan walked into the command headquarters and looked at Gangcun Ningci with a tired look on his face, and felt a little unbearable.

At this time, there were only two people in Gangcun Ningji's office, he and the chief of staff, the two of them were sitting facing each other, and the chief of staff knew that Gangcun Ningji had something important to announce, otherwise Gangcun Ningji would not have kicked out all the office staff in the office.

"I'm primarily responsible for the battle like this!" Gangmura Ningji spoke.

"Your Excellency, Commander, we are all responsible!" Where did the chief of staff dare to shirk all the responsibility in front of Gangcun Ningji.

Gangcun Ningji slowly shook his head and said: "This battle is not over yet, although we have lost the initiative now, but we still have hope of victory!" ”

The chief of staff of the Japanese army frowned, thinking to himself that from the beginning you told us that this was a battle that must be won, but the battle was fought like this, and it was really your responsibility to Gangcun Ningji.

"Does Your Excellency Commander have a plan?" The chief of staff of the Japanese army wanted to win, and it was easy to say anything.

"I want to go to Taihang Mountain, as long as the battle there is over, we will have a new force of 100,000 troops in our hands, as long as these 100,000 troops go down from the southwest of the mountain, Li Zongren's Fifth War Zone will not be able to resist our attack at all!" Okamura Ninji told the chief of staff what he was thinking.

The chief of staff of the Japanese army was shocked when he heard the decision of Gangmura Ningji: "You are the commander-in-chief of the entire war situation, how can you leave the matter here and go to Taihang Mountain?" ”

"Taihang Mountain is the key at this time, as long as there is a breakthrough in Taihang Mountain, I can take 100,000 troops south, enter Hubei from Shanxi, and then launch a new round of offensive against the fifth war zone!" Gangcun Ningji tried his best to persuade his chief of staff, "After I leave, everything in Wuhan will be commanded by you." ”

It is indeed a very tempting thing to command hundreds of thousands of troops, but the chief of staff of the Japanese army did not make a rash decision, because the risk he took would also be very great, and in case the front-line battle was lost, the responsibility for the failure of the entire battle would be borne by him, but Gangmura Ninji did not have to pay the main responsibility.

"It's too risky, you can't do that!"

"For the sake of the Great Japanese Empire, for the sake of His Majesty the Emperor, and for the sake of our Yamato nation, it is worth the great danger I take!" Gangmura Ningji obviously didn't know that his chief of staff was making a small calculation, considering whether this matter was worth his doing, and whether it would make him lose his current future.

The head of the Japanese chief of staff was spinning, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Okamura Ninji finally said: "If we win this war, you and I will both enter the highest echelons of the empire, and when the time comes, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere will be established, and you will inevitably become a hero of the empire and a person on whom His Majesty the Emperor depends." ”

When the chief of staff of the Japanese army heard these words of Gangmura Ningji, his eyes began to glow, and what Gangmura Ningji said just now was too tempting for him, which made it difficult not to be moved.

"If you agree, I will leave by train early tomorrow morning, but there is one thing that must be kept secret about my trip to Taihang Mountain!" Gangmura Ningji looked at the hesitant expression on the chief of staff's face and continued.

"Shanxi's railway line has been frequently attacked by armed forces behind enemy lines, and it is not safe to take the train, in case it ......" The chief of staff of the Japanese army has already been moved, since Gangcun Ningci is going to Taihang Mountain, he also has to consider the safety of Gangcun Ningci, in case Gangcun Ningci dies in the middle of the road, he is responsible even if he is not responsible.

Gangcun Ningci frowned, this is when he remembered that the railway line in Shanxi was frequently attacked by a force, and the railway line was no longer safe, if he died in the middle of the road, then all the plans would be in vain.

"The safest way now is to take a plane to Taiyuan, and then from Taiyuan to the front line of Taihang Mountain, but if you go from Taiyuan, you can't keep the matter of going to Taihang Mountain!" The Japanese staff officer suggested.

Gangcun Ningci paced back and forth in the command headquarters, thinking about whether he should take a plane to Taiyuan, and now the weather in Wuhan cannot take off at all, and his whereabouts may be exposed as soon as he lands in Taiyuan, once it passes through the agents and reaches the ears of Li Zongren in the Fifth War Zone, Li Zongren will definitely take advantage of his absence to launch a full-scale counteroffensive.

"There is a risk in doing anything, I first talked to Shanxi on the phone, asked Shanxi to take a series of secrecy measures, and then ordered the plane to be ready to take off at any time, as long as the weather has improved, I will rush to Shanxi immediately." Gangcun Ningci seems to have made a lot of determination, he must go to Taihang Mountain.

After receiving the telegram from Gangcun Ningci, the high-ranking officers of Shanxi immediately held an emergency meeting, and the main thing they discussed was the topic of secrecy and security, and Gangcun Ningci's military rank was higher than that of everyone present, so they had to ensure the safety of Gangcun Ningci.

However, as the senior commanders and generals of the Japanese army in Shanxi, of course they knew how chaotic Shanxi was at this time, and the Japanese soldiers could not go out of the city casually now, as long as they left the city, they could be assassinated.

"Business is getting worse and worse, if this continues, it's time for us to go home!" Huang Changsheng said with emotion.

Some of the measures taken by the Japanese army in Shanxi are aimed at the soldiers of their special combat team, which has not been opened for five days, and now there is hardly a little devil to be seen on the official road, but the puppet army is a lot bolder, knowing that these people are not coming at them, as long as the puppet army has not done anything wrong, and there is no insult from the Japanese, they really want to continue this good life.