I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 480 Analysis of All Parties (3) Attendant's Room

In the operations hall of the temporary capital's attendant's office, Director Xiong from the first attendant's office received everyone.

Led by the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Military Affairs, all the senior generals and senior advisors of the National Government gathered in front of the battle map.

This situation is not much different from that in the operations room of the Second Theater.

The only difference is that the generals here dress much more appropriately and speak much more politely than the generals in the Second War Zone.

Minister of Defense: "Is there any new news from the Eighth Route Army Office?

And the Second War Zone Commander-in-Chief's Office, have you received any battle reports?"

Director Xiong looked at the wall clock and it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon.

"Not yet. The Eighth Route Army said that the deputy commander in Shanxi has not yet sent any battle report.

The Second War Zone's headquarters did say that they are compiling the information and will report back shortly."

Minister of Military Affairs: "It's still a while. They have been doing this for the whole morning. Are they trying to fool us?"

Perhaps to refute his speculation, a director of the intelligence room walked in with a telegram in his hand.

"Commanders, this is the battle results telegram sent by the Second War Zone Headquarters. Please review it."

What's the point of reviewing? We've all been waiting for the whole morning.

I don't have the time to read them one by one.

Director Xiong: "The officers can't wait any longer, so why don't you just read it directly."

"Hello, General Jun, our Second War Zone is supporting the anti-Japanese battlefield in the south.

A strategic upward movement was carried out yesterday against the Japanese First Army in Shanxi.

In order not to alert the Japanese First Army, our Second War Zone directly launched the battle.

I have now reported the details of the battle to the Adjutant's Office and hope that the Generalissimo and all the superiors will forgive me.

The various units of our Second War Zone began distributing dry food and ammunition at 6 o'clock last night.

The various units of our Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, in coordination with the Gannan Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 1st Marine Artillery Brigade, attacked from the center.

The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Gannan guerrilla divisions encircled and supported the enemy in the northern part of Zhongtiao Mountain.

Deng Beihou's Sichuan Army dispatched the 265th and 266th Divisions.

Major General Xie's reorganized 207th Division, together with the 4th Division of the Gannan Guerrilla Division, marched to the southern part of Zhongtiao Mountain, responsible for encircling the enemy and attacking the reinforcements.

Starting at 8 o'clock in the evening, they officially launched an attack on the Japanese troops in the direction of Zhongtiao Mountain.

The Japanese army was suddenly attacked by our Second War Zone and was suddenly panicked.

Faced with our army's attack, the Japanese could only hide in the fortifications and put up a desperate fight, suffering heavy casualties at the hands of our side.

Because of the Japanese troops' strict defense, they repeatedly fought with our army for the Japanese fortifications.

So much so that by the time the telegram was sent, our troops had still not captured the Japanese position.

So the Japanese casualties...are unknown for now."

When the telegram from the Second War Zone mentioned this, the senior officials in the operations hall of the attendant room all looked at each other in bewilderment.

An officer: "People from the Second War Zone dare to take the initiative to attack Shinozuka Yoshio? Am I dreaming?"

Another officer said: “You are right, this matter of courage is easy to deal with.

Given his nature of not doing anything without profit, would he spend all his money to touch Shinozuka Yoshio?"

The Deputy Minister of National Defense is indeed meticulous and deserves the name of Little Phoenix.

He said: "This is not right. I remember General Wei had already said this in a telegram this morning.

This battle was initiated independently by the Eighth Route Army.

When General Wei learned about it this morning, the Sichuan Army, the Shanxi Suiyuan Army, and the Guerrilla Division did not take any action.

Just this morning, the heavy artillery brigade and an artillery marine brigade left the barracks and disappeared."

Director Xiong said, "So what are the arrangements he mentioned in the telegram?"

Xiao Fengchu: "What else could it be? Isn't it because the Eighth Route Army won the battle that he wants to go up and pick peaches?"

Director Xiong: "Does he really want to have a big fight with the Japanese in the direction of Zhongtiao Mountain?"

"Hahaha, Director Xiong, you are still too honest. You don't know anything about this Shanxi guy.

At most, he would fire a few shots into the air and then claim the victory of the Eighth Route Army as his own achievement.”

Director Xiong: "Bah, this old man is really cunning."

Defense Minister: “It’s a good idea to do this. The President will not blame him.

It doesn’t matter how many devils were killed; what matters is the banner of resisting Japanese aggression and saving the nation.

The best outcome now is that the National Army must shoulder the responsibility.”

After listening to this, everyone started to sit up straight.

This is a question of where to sit. No one dares to go and speak for the Eighth Route Army anymore.

The director of the intelligence room then read the telegram in his hand.

"A certain unit of the Eighth Route Army in our Second War Zone took advantage of the decisive battle between us and the Japanese troops to launch a surprise attack on several small Japanese strongholds."

A group of senior national army officials said: Damn it, do you, the Second War Zone, still have any shame?

When did you have a decisive battle with the Japanese army? It's been a whole night. Have you, the Shanxi Suiyuan Army, fired a single shot?

And they said the Eighth Route Army only took down a few artillery towers?

They all heard from General Wei that the Japanese First Army suffered a great loss.

The Yangquan County town and Yangquan railway station controlled by the Japanese had been captured by the Eighth Route Army.

There were also artillery towers along the Zhengtai Road, and at least eighty of them were captured by the Eighth Route Army.

The director of the intelligence room was also very embarrassed when he read the telegram.

But his position here was the lowest and he was the only one who read the telegrams.

Fortunately, he had finished reading this telegram and picked up the second telegram to read.

This telegram was actually very simple, just some data, but the intelligence director became more and more frightened the more he read it.

“Yesterday, the Eighth Route Army dispatched a large number of troops and launched an almost surprise attack on all the strongholds along the Zhengtai Road.

Hundreds of strongholds of varying sizes were captured, with the greatest achievement being the capture of Yangquan County and Yangquan Railway Station.

According to my calculations, about 6,000 Japanese troops were killed in this battle, and more than 20,000 puppet troops were wiped out.

The casualties of the Eighth Route Army last night are unknown!

There is also news that the Eighth Route Army sent a regiment pretending to be a unit of the 1st Division of the 9th Brigade.

They made a gesture that they were ready to take over Taiyuan, and Yoshio Shinozuka was deceived by them.

Starting from the morning, the Japanese troops near Taiyuan continued to abandon their strongholds and retreat into Taiyuan city.

The Japanese troops along the Zhongtiao Mountains have already dispatched a field brigade to retreat to Taiyuan to participate in the defense. "

"Hiss", the current Eighth Route Army troops are so terrifying!

Not only did they fight beautifully, but more importantly, they also produced strategic talents.

No matter how they did it, they were able to use one regiment to pretend to be an army of 100,000.

He also played Yoshio Shinozuka around in circles. Is this something a human being can do?

The discovery of the poison gas bomb actually helped the temporary capital a lot.

In order to quickly break the situation, the Japanese frequently used poison gas bombs.

This allowed the Japanese on the southern front to kill a large number of our anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, thus achieving their strategic intentions.

But in the early hours of this morning, the Eighth Route Army announced that it had seized a large number of poison gas bombs from the Japanese at Yangquan Railway Station.

The announcement of this news finally made the Japanese troops on the front line feel a little cautious.

I'm afraid that for a long time to come, the Japanese won't dare to use poison gas.

It turns out that the central army troops in the temporary capital did not have such disgusting weapons.

Now the National Army Air Force in the temporary capital has the capital to carry out long-range bombing of Japanese islands.