Kuroki Weizhen has nothing to say now, he reported the entire battle in detail to the Japanese military headquarters, and then he is waiting for the Japanese military headquarters to arrange for him. He hadn't slept all night, and it would be strange if he could sleep at this time.

The position of the commander himself definitely can't continue to sit down, and he doesn't think about this now, what he thinks about is how to let the first army of Japan, which was still majestic and majestic a few days ago, get through this difficult situation in front of him!

It is not possible to rely on the liliang of the First Army itself.

An army of 70,000 people, the amount of food to be consumed in a day is an astonishing number, and now the food stock at hand is only enough to eat for four days, and he has already issued an order, from today onwards, the soldiers can only eat two meals a day, at noon and at night, and the amount of food will be halved. Even so, he couldn't survive half a month.

What's worse is that his current ammunition reserves are also depleted, and there is nothing in the stomach of a person to bear, but what about the guns? The remaining supplies of the First Army were all brought out to fight with Yang Xiaolin, and the rifles in the soldiers' hands were on average less than ten rounds per person, and each artillery could only be spread out with two or three shells, those iron guys have no patience, and they won't speak if you don't put something in their stomachs.

This makes Kuroki Weizhen no longer have the ability to continue fighting! He had already ordered the battle in Huinan to stop immediately, saving a little shells to prevent the Russians from attacking them.

Yang Xiaolin's bite was too hard, which made Hei Mu Weizhen lose a little too much blood, and he himself had no way to deal with the wound well, even if he stayed here and did not move, the materials would continue to be consumed, and the physical strength of the first army would continue to be lost!

He needs help now, a doctor to stitch up his wounds, someone to inject him with fresh blood to get him back to fighting Liliang.

It would take at least 20 days to get another batch of supplies from North Korea to his own hands. And it has to come from Changbai Mountain, Heimu Weizhen doesn't know how to cross Changbai Mountain with supplies. Yang Dagui will definitely stay there.

He waited for two hours and did not wait for a call back from the military department, in fact, he could imagine that the current military department should be as helpless as himself. Those guys are not much smarter than themselves, and they can't do anything about it, so naturally they can't do it.

"Report to the Commander! The casualty statistics have come out, and in this evening's battle, our Imperial Army lost 3,400 soldiers, more than 1,000 were seriously wounded, and more than 4,000 were lightly wounded. Seven thousand six hundred and forty corpses of the Chinese were found in the battle, and three thousand two hundred prisoners were captured. ”

An officer came in to report on today's results. Judging by this data. It can be said that he did not suffer a loss, and he can even be regarded as a victory, but the war is not calculated like this.

Kuroki was silent for a while after listening to this, then raised his head and asked, "Tell me about the battle situation around the headquarters, what are the casualties of the group of people who attacked us at Zuihou?" ”

The officer's expression was embarrassed for a moment: "The enemy's sneak attack caused us 800 casualties. We, we found only twenty corpses of the enemy. ”

After the officer finished speaking, he walked to the door and opened the door, and a team of soldiers came in immediately, holding weapons equipped with those special combat soldiers who died in battle, and placed them in front of Kuroki Weizhen one by one, Kuroki Weizhen picked up a Madsen light machine gun and looked at it, he is also a military expert, and at a glance he could see that this was a copycat imitation of Yulu Mountain!

It's just that this knockoff is a little better than the genuine Madsen light machine gun. And that semi-automatic rifle. , grenades, shotguns, unconscionable cannons, Kuroki Weizhen can see at a glance that the combination of these firepower is definitely much more powerful in melee combat than the pure rifle bayonet of the day himself. …,

Especially the conscienceless cannon. After adding a ruler, it has a little accuracy, it is easy to carry, and the firing distance is 200 to 500 meters, which can just be used to strike at targets at close range, and it is a vacuum zone in the range of artillery attacks.

Kuroki Weizhen looked at the equipment one by one, and he knew that this time the battle was indeed because he despised the opponent, and the Russians suffered a big loss under the bandit, not because the Russians were incompetent, but because the bandit was indeed too strong.

Now what? Kuroki looked at the semi-automatic rifle for a long time, and after a long time, he turned his head and said to Fujii Shigeta, "Fujii, has the military department called?" ”

Fujii shook his head: "We have sent six telegrams, and we haven't called back yet." ”

"Report! The reserve 1st Division called, they had just been attacked by the Shina people, and the Shina team surrounded by them had escaped the encirclement, and the commander of the Sakai Division asked for instructions on whether to pursue it. ”

Another war report arrived in Kuroki Weizhen's hand, and Kuroki Weizhen smiled bitterly. Pursuit? No need. What if you catch up? Do you want to fight Yang again? As long as that guy finds a place to hold on, the Japanese army doesn't have enough shells and bullets to kill him.

"Order the Reserve 1st Division to go to Huinan and surround Huinan County with the 11th Division, and order the Guards Division to also move closer to Huinan County, and can't let this enemy run away anymore."

"Hayi!"

Kuroki sighed for Zhenchang, it seemed that it was no longer possible to count on the military headquarters to pull the 70,000 soldiers around him out of the predicament, he had to figure out his own way.

"Fujii-kun, let all the major generals and officers above the brigade commander come to me for a meeting, I think we have to do something ourselves to change our current situation."

This was the second meeting of all officers of the First Army of Japan at the rank of major general since it entered Korea. The first time was when they had just landed in Busan, studying how to fight this battle, and at that time Naokami Matsubara was not in this army.

Kuroki Weizhen believed that the collective wisdom and efforts would definitely be able to find a solution to the current predicament, he looked at the generals sitting beside him, and said softly: "Everyone, this battle has not been lost, because you have worked very hard, you have led the heroes of the troops, and we still made them pay a heavy price under the enemy's sneak attack, which is all due to your efforts. But now we're in a predicament, and it's not your fault, it's my incompetence. ”

The "Ri" himself at the table lowered his head, and even the expressions of the five European military observers sitting at the end were a little solemn.

Kuroki Weizhen's mouth smiled: "I have already assumed the responsibility of this time to the military department, and I should have apologized to the emperor." The whole battle was due to my incompetence to get to where I am now, but I will not be able to make that choice until our First Army comes out of the predicament. Otherwise, I would not only be a failed general, but also a deserter! ”

Asada stood up from his chair: "Commander, it's not your responsibility, it's the incompetence of those troops guarding supplies......"

"The troops guarding the supplies have done their best!"

Nishikanjiro then stood up: "Four hundred and thirty Great Japanese Imperial Army died in battle, what else does Asada Jun want them to do to satisfy you?" Is it to let those soldiers who died in battle rise up and fight again? I think if they can do it, they will! ”

Asada closed his mouth and looked at Kanjiro Nishi. Nishikanjiro slowed down his voice: "I ask you to pay attention to the fact that at that time, our troops guarding the supplies were only more than 4,000 Japanese soldiers, and they were facing twice as many people as they were, and those people were not fighting with our soldiers for the purpose of fighting, they went for the supplies!" Our soldiers are not capable of stopping them! ”

Kuroki glanced at Nishikuan Jiro for Zhen. Waving his hand to signal him to sit down: "General Xikuan." I know you are very unhappy with my command, and that was the attitude you had when you came from North Korea. ”…,

Nishikuan Jiro bowed to Kuroki Weizhen: "Don't dare!" ”

Kuroki said: "Don't worry, my telegram to the military department is very clear, I suggest that you take over my position, and Chief of Staff Fujii can tell you. What you have is a chance to perform. But now I'm still the commander! Until I get out of my current predicament with my troops, and until I apologize to the Emperor, please treat me as a commander! ”

Hearing this, Asada bowed to Kuroki Weizhen, and then sat down honestly. And Nishikuan Jiro looked a little embarrassed, and said after a moment of silence: "The commander misunderstood, I didn't mean to disrespect you." ”

Kuroki Weizhen didn't continue the topic either, and instead said, "Guys, I've made it very clear that the current defeat is my responsibility. You are all working very hard, so this time I am not calling you here to hold you accountable, but to ask you to think of a way out of our current predicament. ”

The commander of the Inoue Hikari Division stood up and said, "Commander, I think the only way out at the moment is to hand over all our strategic reserves to Lieutenant General Asada. Then the Guards Corps will attack Mukden, and there will be a large number of strategic supplies of the Russians in Mukden City, and we will be able to get supplies by taking Mukden. ”

"No way!"

Jiaodao Shigemuma immediately raised an opposing opinion: "The opinion of the commander of the Inoue Hikari Division is too risky, the Russians have already made haode preparations, Akberliel has 60,000 troops in his hands in the Fushun area, and the Guards Division alone is powerless and fundamentally unable to break through the Russian defense line!" This is suicide! ”

Inoue Hikaru carried his head high: "As a warrior of the Imperial Army, sometimes, suicide is also an honorable act!" What's more, we may be able to make a living. ”

The two of them just had different opinions on this matter, and the relationship between the two of them was still good in private, so after both clarified their concepts, there was no quarrel, and both of them sat down.

Kuroki glanced at the commander of the Guards Division, Asada Division, who was sitting next to him, and found that Asada did not stand up to show any attitude, and he also understood that Asada was not optimistic about Hikaru Inoue's opinion.

He said at the moment: "Commander Inoue Hikari is very right, as a samurai, we must have the courage to sacrifice, but is there really no other hope? I want you to think again. ”

There was no more sound in the conference room, and when all the generals of the First Army were silent, Naokami Matsubara, who was sitting at the bottom close to those observers, suddenly stood up: "Commander, I have a suggestion that I want to ask the commander to decide. ”

As soon as he stood up, the sun himself gave him disdainful looks. Jiaodao Chongxiong said contemptuously: "Matsubara-kun, it's better not to say your suggestion, if it weren't for your suggestion, we wouldn't be at this point now." ”

Naokami Matsubara still didn't sit down, his eyes continued to look at Kuroki Weizhen, and that look was obviously asking Kuroki Weizhen to give him a chance to speak.

Kuroki nodded for Zhen: "Lieutenant General Jiaodao, let me repeat again, this time the predicament was caused by my mistakes!" Matsubara's ploy succeeded in forcing the beast out, and he didn't make any mistakes! ”

Jiaodao Chongxiong got up and bowed to Kuroki for Zhen to apologize, and Kuroki for Zhen's hand was gently raised, signaling straight to Matsubara to speak.