Mid-May.

Central Henan region.

Luo|Yang!

Okamura Ninji stood at the corner of the city wall, looked at the ruined city, and then looked at the ruined Jinghan Railway in the distance, and sighed deeply.

The battle between Henan and China was frequent, but the battle seemed to be going smoothly on the whole.

In just one month, the North China Front led by him completely completed the scheduled plan and opened up the southern section of the Jinghan line, even a week earlier than expected.

You must know that before the start of the war, he was bombed and destroyed by the Independent Regiment to destroy the Yellow River Bridge, which caused the attack to be delayed for three days.

If you look at the record, it seems to be an unprecedented victory, postponing the attack and completing the task ahead of schedule. The base camp also sent many commendation telegrams, praising the battle in central Henan under his command.

However, only Gangmura, who had experienced the whole battle, knew what was hidden under this great victory.

The 150,000 attacking troops, the total strength of which is still more than 140,000, is less than 10,000 on the surface, and the losses are not large, and the empire also reported a loss of five or six thousand in foreign wars.

But in fact, in this battle, the total casualties of the troops led by him reached more than 38,000, and the number of jade fragments and missing was close to 20,000.

The reason for such huge losses was that the flight units of the Separate Regiment made almost more than 6,000 sorties of attack aircraft and dropped more than 12,000 tons of ammunition during the course of a month.

When Gangcun saw this data, it was outrageous.

You must know that the empire's bombing of Chongqing has dropped nearly 20,000 tons of bombs in total.

Although the air firepower could not affect the overall situation of the battle, in the face of such dense air support, the attacking Imperial troops also paid huge casualties.

The reason why the troops were ostensibly reduced by only five or six thousand was because there were a large number of recruits to replenish the attrition, the formal training method formed by Yamamoto Kazuki, and a large amount of grain, cotton, and other materials, so that the cost of recruiting recruits was extremely low.

But the officers were not able to quickly protogue.

And more serious than the attrition, the loss of weapons and equipment is very huge.

Especially heavy equipment, heavy artillery, etc., which cannot be quickly replenished, as well as the loss of a large number of logistics and transport vehicles, the current capacity of the empire, I am afraid that it will not be able to replenish within a year.

The actual combat capability of the current North China Front Army is at least 40 percent lower than that before the Henan-Zhong War.

"General."

At this time, a major general walked over.

"The maintenance engineering team, the engineering brigades have arrived, but because the materials are not in place, it is not possible to carry out the maintenance of the railway at present."

"Hmm."

Gangcun Ningji nodded silently.

The purpose of Operation No. 1 is to open up the mainland communication line, and the Battle of Yuzhong is part of it, the purpose is to open up the southern section of the Jinghan Line, at this time the goal has been completed, and the next Operation No. 1 has nothing to do with them.

But it is useless to just open up, they have to make use of it, and then they need to repair the Jinghan line that was damaged in the war.

In hundreds of thousands of battles, the Jinghan Railway was seriously damaged, and with the bombing of more than 6,000 fighter planes, the southern section of the Jinghan Line is almost unusable, requiring a large number of steel rails, sleepers and other repairs.

But is the current empire still capable of repairing?

Next, there is the occupation of Changheng Liugui, and the imperial army alone will dispatch more than 300,000 and consume a lot of materials, even if it can win, but in the end, the empire still has the strength to repair and maintain the mainland communication line?

How to deal with Li Yunlong's air threat?

Once the Tuba Road entrenched in Shanxi expands, how to deal with it? At that time, could the so-called communication line around the mainland be guaranteed?

Okamura Ninji retracted his gaze and walked towards the ruined city.

At the same time, he snorted coldly.

The empire mobilized more than 500,000 total troops, deduced more than half a year, mobilized a huge amount of materials, and spent so much money that in the end, it opened an unusable line of communication.

"General."

At this moment, a staff officer ran over:

"Tubalu mobilized 40,000 troops to attack Datong, which has now been breached, and all the two wings of the garrison army stationed in Mongolia have been shattered, and two generals, including Lieutenant General Shangsen Lian, have also been martyred."

"According to intelligence, the other side is still increasing troops to the north."

"Datong"

Gangcun Ningci was stunned for a long time after hearing it.

The First Army is frantically increasing its troops, and the total strength has exceeded 70,000 and is close to 80,000. The fact that the other side still has the strength to attack Datong shows that the guerrillas are even more powerful than they imagined.

"Hey..."

Finally, he sighed deeply again.

Li Yunlong's troops were eyeing the tiger, and the Tubalu was ready to attack in Shanxi, and the First Army was like pigs and dogs put into cages by others, ready to be slaughtered at any time, and the other party even used a large amount of fuel to deliberately induce the empire to increase its troops.

Just like the old Chinese saying - kill again if you are fattened!

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Yuzhong District.

Somewhere in a Western-style official residence.

"General."

A staff officer in American uniform walked in and reported to a brigadier general in the room:

"The battle of central Henan has ended, the southern section of the Jinghan line has been lost, and the Japanese army has opened up the entire Jinghan line."

The staff officer's tone was respectful.

As a staff officer, he naturally knows very well that recently, General Shi and Chang Shenkai have had many contradictions, and they have become more and more intense, but the latter is the leader of a country after all, and once the two completely fall out, General Shi will definitely be transferred back to China in the end.

Then, the next position of chief of staff falls on General Weidemeyer in front of him.

"A bunch of trash."

Weidemeyer snorted coldly.

At the beginning of the battle between Yuzhong, they had expected many results, and they had guessed who would win, but they just didn't expect that they would lose so quickly.

Although the preserved fruit troops are not as good as day by day, the Japanese are also declining, and the two sides are half a catty and eight taels, and this time they actually lost so completely. Although the Japanese moved much more than expected, it was not a reason to lose so quickly.

In the end, the reason is that this preserved fruit is too wasteful.

The staff officer continued to report:

"At present, the Japanese army is converging forces on the Xianggui Railway, and it seems that it intends to attack Xianggui..."

"Xianggui Railway..."

Wei Demaier snorted coldly and looked at the staff officer:

"Will they be able to hold it?"

"Impossible, the odds are slim."

The staff officer did not hesitate in his tone.

Not seeing the big picture.

From the situation of the preserved fruit troops in the battle of central Henan, it can be seen that the preserved fruit preparations for battle are seriously insufficient, the combat effectiveness of the troops is low, and the command is inefficient.

"A bunch of trash."

Weidemeyer scolded again.

This time, he was really angry.

It doesn't matter if you lose the battle in Yuzhong, it doesn't matter if you are an American general, anyway, the defeat of the Japanese is already doomed.

However, there are a large number of air bases and airfields around the Hunan and Guizhou Railway, which are important bases for long-range bombers to bomb the Japanese mainland in the future.

Now I managed to buy explosives and fuel from others, but the airport was gone.

"Just this group of waste, and you still want to take back the British lease?"

Weidemeyer sneered one last time.

Originally, the president was still hesitant to support the appeal of the preserved fruit, but now, hum...

"General, what are we going to do?"

The staff officer asked.

"What can we do?"

Weidemeyer asked rhetorically.

The staff officer was silent.

They are only Americans, and they do not have the actual command of the ground forces, and it is not unreasonable that the contradiction between General Shi and the supreme leader of Guoguo has developed to this day.

"That's right."

Weidemeyer shifted the subject:

"After the investigation, who provided the supplies, weapons and ammunition of that group?"

As he spoke, Weidemeyer flashed sharply.

He was a hardcore anti-Soviet faction, and he was always very wary of the expansion of that force. Now, in the hinterland of the Republic of China, there are forces that provide a large amount of materials to that group, and even support the industrial system, which makes him very vigilant.

And the gang is still providing the Japanese with heavy oil in exchange for machinery and equipment, although the Japanese keep it strictly secret and do not mention it at all in the telegram, but at least tens of thousands of tons per month.

"There is no further intelligence at this time."

The staff officer replied:

"However, we are conducting a joint investigation with British and French intelligence."

"Good."

Weidemeyer nodded, satisfied.

Britain, France and the United States jointly investigated, and no one in the world could hide.

"General."

Just then, a staff officer ran in:

"They launched an attack on Datong, dispatched dozens of tanks and hundreds of artillery pieces, completely annihilated two Japanese wings, and are still mobilizing more troops to continue the offensive to the north."

"What is the total strength of the First Army in Taiyuan?"

Weidemeyer frowned.

He wants the fruit to be strong, but he doesn't want this group to be strong.

"According to the deciphered telegrams, there are about 70,000 people, and there are plans to expand to 100,000, but there is a lack of heavy weapons."

The staff officer replied.

"Is it so strong?"

Weidemeyer's brow furrowed even deeper.

Those people, but the enemy.

Mortal enemy!

He even planned to persuade the president to support the elimination of the gang after killing the Japanese.