Yoshio Shinozuka waved his hand and drove the unwilling Yamamoto out of the headquarters.

Although Yoshio Shinozuka attaches great importance to Yamamoto Kazuki, he is very uninterested in this guy's obsessed expansion of the special operations plan, and even thinks that this is pure nonsense, a small group of troops sneak attack the opponent's command organization, they don't even know where the opponent's main force is, and they also sneak attack the command organization.

However, he really couldn't deny what Yamamoto said.

Although the Northern China Front of the Imperial Army of the Great Japanese Empire was full of offensive strength, its defensive strength was seriously insufficient due to the strength and resources of its troops.

At present, this is an indisputable fact.

Nominally, it is an attack on the enemy's base area, but in fact it focuses on the cage tactics of defense, and the core point is the artillery tower.

Relying on the artillery towers that the Eighth Route Army could not break, all the guerrillas in the base area were blocked, their communication was blocked, their resources were cut off, and they were trapped and starved to death, just like prisoners in prison.

Because the Eighth Route Army seriously lacked the ability to attack fortifications, this tactic worked well, but the shortcomings were also obvious.

Not only did it magnify the shortcomings of the Imperial Army, but compared with the vast North China region and the huge population, the strength of the Imperial North China Front was seriously insufficient, and the troops were distributed in the fortified turrets, which made the already scarce forces even more dispersed.

As a result, he was a lieutenant general of the empire and a commander in charge of tens of thousands of troops, but he was helpless against a regiment of the Eighth Route Army. Let the other party ride on the head of the imperial army, and the imperial brigade will not dare to come out only in the county seat.

Very aggrieved.

Very angry.

Moreover, this tactic is also extremely fragile.

A few barrel cannons and a few shells gave the Eighth Route Army an advantage, easily pulling out one artillery tower after another, leaving the empire as a whole passive, and I don't know how to deal with it.

A huge battle plan carried out by more than 100,000 people was disrupted by a few cannons and thousands of shells.

In fact, this weakness can be filled.

That is to use reinforced concrete to build turrets, even if the troops as strong as Li Yunlong, there is no way to take the reinforced concrete turrets, they can only bypass and attack other turrets, if the turrets and fortress stations in the occupied areas of the empire are built with this material, then this tactic can be regarded as flawless.

However, the amount of material needed is in the hundreds of thousands of tons.

With the little bit of the empire...

This request is too difficult for the Logistics Department of the Imperial Japanese Empire.

Thinking of this, Yoshio Shinozuka put aside the stack of telegrams asking for help, took out the map of the entire First Army station, and began to think carefully,

There is an old Chinese saying that we should play to our strengths and avoid our weaknesses.

The Imperial Army's advantage is offensive.

Since defense is not good, then attack.

Just when Yoshio Shinozuka was thinking hard about how to use his strengths and avoid weaknesses to launch an attack to eliminate the Eighth Route Army...

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General."

Suddenly, a staff officer rushed in, holding a telegram in his hand:

"The Zhengtai Railway was attacked by the Eighth Route Army from Pingding to Yuciduan, the sleepers and rails were stolen by the other side, the military stations along the railway were damaged, most of the artillery towers were destroyed, and the garrison suffered heavy losses."

"Nani?"

Yoshio Shinozuka stood up abruptly, his tone incredulous.

He snatched the telegram and read it.

Seeing this, Yoshio Shinozuka was stunned at that time.

The telegram said: Not long ago, the artillery towers, military stations, and railways around the Zhengtai Railway were attacked by the Eighth Route Army on a large scale, and the scale of the troops mobilized by the other side was extremely large, with about 20,000 people participating in the attack, and I am afraid that no less than 40,000 people including support.

In just a few days, dozens of kilometers of railway lines were destroyed, more than 100 large and small artillery towers were uprooted, more than 1,000 imperial soldiers were killed or wounded, and as for the loss of imperial property, it was simply innumerable.

The railway tracks, sleepers, and road spikes were all pulled away, and even the gravel for road construction was hollowed out by the nearby people... Medieval pirates were nothing so excessive.

"How is this possible?"

Yoshio Shinozuka's tone was full of incredulity.

The railway escort was subordinate to the headquarters of the North China Front, not under the command of the First Army, and it was not in the defense area of Yoshio Shinozuka from the pacification to the Yuci stage, so he didn't know about it before.

This was the first time he had received information, and he had only known of attacks along the Zhengtai Railway, but the scale and intensity were not clear.

"So many troops from there?"

Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't figure it out.

Nearly 20,000 regular troops, more than 20,000 militia, add up to 50,000 troops.

Where did this come from?

Although the cage tactics were rubbed, the main force of the Eighth Route Army was still firmly blocked and imprisoned, and his Shanxi First Army trapped no less than 50,000 Eighth Route Army troops and more militia units.

His Shanxi First Army accounted for only more than one-third of the North China Front.

As for Li Yunlong's independent regiment... At least it's containment.

There is no abnormality in his station to report to the public security, except for the three county garrisons who ask for help all day, the situation in other counties is very good...

"Could it be that the size of the regular troops of the Eighth Route Army is actually far beyond the Empire's expectations?"

Suddenly, a thought came to Yoshio Shinozuka's mind.

Not just 100,000 people, but more and more, maybe even more than 150,000, or more...

"It's not good, I'm afraid it's the station of the First Army..."

Thinking of this, Yoshio Shinozuka's bad feelings fermented in his heart.

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"Haha, a big counteroffensive, in just a few days, the main regiment overturned dozens of kilometers of tracks on the Zhengtai Railway, pulled out more than 100 artillery towers, and killed and wounded more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers."

Independent regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong looked at the newly received news and smiled very happily.

In order to boost the morale of the military and civilians in each base area, the superiors immediately sent the report of the great victory to the various key regiments, after all, it was the key regiments that had been confronting the devils before, and not everyone had the family background of Grand Master Li, and some regiments were under great pressure, and some even fled.

"Then it's our turn to fight back."

Zhao Gang waved his fist, his tone equally excited.

Along with the victory report, it was a new order, a combat order, all of them launched a counterattack, and at the same time counterattacked, so that the devils could take care of one thing and lose the other, and completely break the cage of the devils.

Is there a new battle to be fought? The company and battalion commanders of the independent regiment were in high spirits.

During the confrontation with the devils of Shou County, many battalion and company commanders were quite bored.

"However, our task is to keep an eye on the devils in Shou County and prevent them from reinforcing them, after all, the devil turrets around us have been almost pulled out."

Zhao Gang's words made the eyes of the surrounding battalion commanders cold.

There are only four cement and steel turrets left around the independent regiment close to Shou County, and with the county garrison supporting each other, they really can't do anything about these turrets now.

Looking around at the battalion company commander, Zhao Gang was about to say something, although he also thought that it was too wasteful to give the independent regiment only a task to watch the devils in Shou County, and the independent regiment could send reinforcements to support other troops, but he chose to obey the order, and the superiors also had certain considerations.

The independent regiment had just fought a big battle with the devils, and the troops suffered heavy losses, and they also supported the other two backbone regiments to fight the turrets...

After a circle, Zhao just noticed one thing, from beginning to end, Li Yunlong has always been very excited.

This is not normal.

There is no fighting, and he is asked to involve the devil on the spot, this order should logically make Grand Master Li feel unhappy, and he will scold people when he catches them, after all, this thing's favorite thing is to attack.

In the defensive battle, in the county where the devil is located, he can't eat a mouthful of meat.

How can you be so happy?

Confused, Zhao Gang looked at Li Yunlong and found that Grand Master Li was staring at a map of the whole territory of Shanxi on the table at this time...

The whole territory of Shanxi!

Zhao Gang's heart was tight at that time.

This shitty day...