The chief of staff of the Japanese General Command was anxious when he saw that Okamura Ninji was still worried about the situation in Marai.

He knew that Okamura Ningji was quite unconvinced by Hu Bin, and had always wanted to defeat Hu Bin with his own hands, and they originally had this condition.

But no one expected that Hu Bin now actually had an air force unit, and in one morning, he destroyed the Japanese airfield in Mandalay, so that the Japanese air force completely failed to exert the ability to restrain Hu Bin.

If the Air Force is not attacked, Okamura Ninji is very confident that he will kill Hu Bin, but it is too late to say anything, and now what they have to do is to keep Mandalay.

And Okamura Ninji heard the words of the chief of staff and immediately looked at the chief of staff.

"Commander, kill Wei Lihuang's troops first, in this case, we won't suffer a loss in this battle! It is even said that it can increase the contradictions between Chongqing and Yan'an in China. The chief of staff looked at Okamura Ninji and said.

Okamura Ningji heard it, and his brain immediately started, before he just wanted to defeat Hu Bin, and today he was also panicked because of Hu Bin's attack on Ma Lai, and now when he heard the chief of staff say this, he immediately understood what the chief of staff meant, since he couldn't defeat Hu Bin on the battlefield, then he had to think of other ways.

"You are right, on the battlefield, it is difficult for us to win this time, but the Chinese just like infighting, we killed Wei Lihuang's troops, Chongqing will definitely be dissatisfied with Hu Bin, and Yan'an will also be dissatisfied!" Okamura Ninji nodded and said.

"Yes, commander, Wei Lihuang also has more than 200,000 troops now, if we eat this army, then we can also give a good explanation to the base camp for our defeat in Southeast Asia.

More importantly, if you fight Wei Lihuang, you can hold back Hu Bin's troops, and once Wei Lihuang's troops face our attack, you say, do you want to save Hu Bin, once you save it, then the troops attacking Mandalay will be insufficient, and we will be able to hold Hu Bin for a longer time.

And if Hu Bin doesn't save it, then, Wei Lihuang's troops, we will definitely eat them, in this case, it is not good news for the Chinese commander Chiang, he will definitely order Hu Bin to rescue, if Hu Bin does not listen, then Hu Bin's logistics supply will be in trouble.

Moreover, once Hu Bin is not rescued and Mandalay is defeated, Wei Lihuang's troops are also killed by us, then we can attack Mandalay from Yangon, from the south of Southeast Asia, and from the Indian side.

And Hu Bin offended the one in Chongqing, do you say his logistics can be guaranteed? In addition, they just want to retreat, and I don't think Commander Chiang will let them retreat, so Hu Bin will fall into the place of death, and we only need to launch a fierce attack on Mandalay, which will be Hu Bin's burial place. The chief of staff looked at Okamura Ninji and said.

"Yo Xi, you're right, but there are a few problems here! We have to be solved. Okamura nodded and agreed with the Chief of Staff, but now they were also facing new problems.

"Please make it clear, Commander!" The chief of staff looked at him and said.

"First, the defense line in front of us can be defended for a few days, and second, Rangoon may be in danger, if we are going to attack Hu Bin's troops at that time, we will carry out landing operations!

Thirdly, what if we can't completely annihilate Wei Lihuang's troops, and fourthly, if Hu Bin had defeated Mandalay before we besieged Wei Lihuang's troops, he would have enough troops to help Wei Lihuang! Okamura Ninji looked at him and asked.

"Hey, I've thought about all these questions, in fact, we don't have to defend Mandalay at all, but just keep Yangon. Here in Yangon, we have the support of the Navy's aircraft carrier fleet, and I think that even if Hu Bin's air force comes, our navy will be able to support it.

If their land forces come to attack, they will not be able to stop the bombardment of our naval guns, therefore, the Mandalay side is no longer important, just like China has given up a large area of land along the coast, and in the end, China is like a sponge, attracting too many troops of our empire to fight in China.

Their strategic intent is to trade space for time, and we can do the same now, we will retreat our troops to Yangon, and then arrange for the troops to land, and insert them between Mandalay and Hu Bin's troops, and let our air force help them as well, so that Hu Bin and Wei Lihuang's troops will be trapped and die in Southeast Asia.

We just need to concentrate our troops and kill Wei Lihuang's troops, and when the time comes, Hu Bin's troops, we will have enough time to clean them up!

After all, Hu Bin is going abroad to fight, there is no domestic supplement, their troops will only be slowly consumed, now only need Mandalay to insist on more than 3 days, Yangon to insist on about 10 days, on the line, I think, Yangon to hold on for about 10 days is no problem, because we have the help of the navy! The chief of staff looked at Okamura Ninji and said.

"Yo Xi, it is indeed feasible, in this way, your staff will immediately come up with a specific plan for action, Hu Bin and his troops, we must annihilate him, if there is no Hu Bin, we will not have so much trouble in conquering Southeast Asia!" Okamura Ninji nodded and said.

He knew that he would not be Hu Bin's opponent now, and it would be difficult to completely annihilate Hu Bin's troops now, because the air force on the aircraft carrier had no way to support Mandalay, but there was no problem at all in supporting Yangon.

Therefore, he needs to drag Hu Bin to Yangon to fight, so that he can have any hope of victory, but Mandalay's troops cannot retreat yet, and now they still need to hold on, Okamura Ningji needs to mobilize more troops to this side and kill Wei Lihuang's troops first.

"Hey, Commander, we can order now, let Mandalay's troops retreat to Rangoon tomorrow, and now there are still Madya and Meiliao's troops blocking Hu Bin's troops, if our troops in Mandalay can retreat, then our losses can be reduced a lot, and then we will have enough troops to deal with Hu Bin." The chief of staff looked at Okamura Ninji and said.

"Yo Xi, come up with a plan first, I will consider these, and we can't let Mandalay's troops withdraw now, otherwise Madeya and Meixiao's troops will know that we may have to give up on them, and then the battle will be even more difficult to fight!" Okamura Ninji said to the chief of staff.

"Hey, Your Excellency Commander thinks that we can't affect the morale of the front-line soldiers!" The chief of staff heard it, nodded and said.

"Well, you go and prepare this plan." Okamura Ninji said to the chief of staff.

"Hey!" The chief of staff will leave immediately, and Okamura Ninji is now beginning to think about this plan in detail!

Almost an hour later, at about 8 o'clock, Hu Bin received a telegram from the front, a report on the battle damage in this operation, and a report on the captured materials.

"Commander, the battle damage report is out, 13,238 people were killed, 289 were missing, 12,093 were seriously wounded, 12 tanks were lost, 18 fighters were lost, and 2 bombers were lost!" Li Dalong came over with the battle damage report and said to Hu Bin.

Hu Bin heard it, and took the telegram very calmly on the surface, Hu Bin was not distressed about the loss of planes and tanks, fighting, this loss, Hu Bin still lost it, especially after such a big victory, this loss, Hu Bin didn't care about it at all.

What he cares about is the data of the sacrificed soldiers, more than 13,000 people died, and more than 12,000 people were seriously injured, which made Hu Bin feel very heavy, although Hu Bin also knew that it was impossible to fight without casualties, but in a battle, it was almost the loss of his two divisions, and Hu Bin still found it difficult to accept it in his heart.

"Commander, in fact, we have fought very well, after all, we have achieved such a big victory today, and the combat effectiveness of the devil's ground forces is not bad, this battle damage is sent out, I think, whether it is the people in China, or the headquarters of Yan'an and Chongqing, it is very easy to accept!" Li Dalong saw that Hu Bin was holding the telegram and did not speak, and immediately reminded Hu Bin to speak.

He didn't want Hu Bin to be depressed because of this matter.

"I know, I'm just, forget it, don't say it, don't worry, before the fight, I was prepared!" Hu Bin put away the telegram and handed it to Li Dalong: "Send it to Yan'an, Chongqing will send it later, and when you send it to Yan'an, make a note, don't announce it before dawn tomorrow, we have other battle plans." ”

"Okay!" Li Dalong took the telegram and left.

Hu Bin picked up the cigarette case on the table, took out a cigarette from it, and after lighting it, Hu Bin took the cigarette case to the outside of the headquarters and stood there looking at the night sky. The other cadres also knew that Hu Bin had seen the battle damage report, and they didn't dare to come over and disturb it.

Almost 10 minutes later, Hu Bin returned to the headquarters again, he had just adjusted his emotions outside, and he could not let this negative emotion be brought into the headquarters, so that the staff officers of the entire headquarters would be worried that it would affect his command.

"Commander, the POW statistics are out!" At this time, a staff officer came over and spoke.

"Tell me!" Hu Bin sat down at his desk as he spoke, picked up the teacup and began to drink tea.

"Yes, this time 113,891 enemy troops were captured, of which 29,844 were seriously wounded, and the local recruits were 98,974 people, and the rest were devils, according to statistics, they were all above Jun Cao, of which Jun Cao and Cao Chang accounted for more than 90% of the entire captives, and the remaining were 2 major general brigade commanders, 19 Dazuo Wing Captains, and a total of 309 people above the adjutant!" The chief of staff said to Hu Bin.

"You mean that there are more than 10,000 people captured by the devils?" Hu Bin heard it and immediately asked.

"Yes, but there are a lot of wounded, and there are more than 7,000 seriously injured devils." The staff officer nodded at Hu Bin and continued to report. (To be continued.) )