PFC Chapter 206
Chapter 206
The losses in the Battle of Wuhan in the south were not so fast.
For a moment, Sugiyama Gen suddenly began to hesitate, wondering whether it was right to carry out the autumn sweep this time.
At this time, the other troops had not yet started. In just two days, two battalions had been lost, plus a regiment commander.
If this sweep lasts for a month, wouldn't it mean the loss of a lot of troops?
Can the North China Front Army withstand such losses?
But then the thought was thrown out of my mind.
Now that everything is prepared, a major cleanup should be carried out in this situation.
Now we have lost two battalions. If the Jin-Cha-Ji Eighth Route Army is allowed to develop for a while, it will need two regiments.
Originally, we wanted to wait until the 110th Division started its sweep, and then other areas would launch sweeps and sweeps.
Looking at the situation now, we can’t do it anymore. We have to act faster and more ruthlessly.
Afterwards, Sugiyama Gen began to issue orders to the Independent Mixed Brigade No. 2 located in Zhangjiakou, asking it to prepare to advance towards Weixian along Xuanhua.
At the same time, except for one regiment stationed in Datong, the other three regiments of the 26th Division were stationed in Yingxian, Hunyuan and Yangyuan respectively.
The two regiments of the 109th Division were stationed in Daixian and Fanzhi respectively.
The remaining troops of the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade of Yangquan immediately headed north to Yu County.
Let the newly formed 108th Division replace the Independent Mixed Brigade 4 to guard Yangquan.
At the same time, six security brigades of the puppet army were organized to maintain public order in the area from Peking to Shandong.
The First Army in Taiyuan also received orders from the North China Front Army. After all, the 109th Division and the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade are still under the organization of the First Army.
At this moment, when Gangbu Naosaburo learned that two battalions of the next regiment of the 110th Division in the Hebei-Central region were completely wiped out by other Eighth Route Army troops, he immediately felt the same way.
It turns out that it's not that your own command is incompetent. Look, your commander's troops also suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Eighth Route Army in other places.
At the same time, Okabe Naosaburo was not very optimistic about the commander-in-chief's autumn sweep of the Eighth Route Army in the Beiyue area.
After all, the 109th Division is stationed in Wutai area. He probably knows more about the situation of the Eighth Route Army in Wutai than Sugiyama Gen.
Since the First Army focused its attention on Zeng Jiwen in southeastern Shanxi, it has been focusing on guarding county towns in other occupied areas.
Except for the cities occupied by the locust army, the other vast rural areas in Wutai area have almost become the back garden of other Eighth Route Army troops.
Previously, the 136th Regiment of the 109th Division rashly went out of the city to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army troops active near Wutai, but was beaten by the Eighth Route Army and almost died there.
It was also during that battle that it was discovered that the Eighth Route Army in the Wutai area had a large number of artillery pieces.
And it was the Locust Army’s 75mm Type 41 mountain gun.
Okabe Naosaburo guessed that it was very likely that this was the batch of equipment that was previously prepared to supplement the First Army and to form three mixed brigades, but was intercepted by the hateful 389th Division.
It now appears that part of that batch of artillery was delivered to the Eighth Route Army in the Wutai area.
But he couldn't say this to Commander Sugiyama Gen.
What do you mean? Does this mean that the entire First Army lost a large amount of equipment, giving the 389th Division an opportunity?
In that case, how many generals of the First Army, as well as the forces behind them, will be dealt with?
Previously, when the Special High Section was secretly investigating the source of weapons and equipment for the 389th Division, when they went to investigate the troops below, they either disappeared unexpectedly or encountered accidents on the way back.
As a result, the intelligence department is now extremely cautious about this matter and dares not investigate it casually.
In the end, only one was achieved because the combat effectiveness of the 389th Division was higher than that of the Chinese National Army. At the same time, Zeng Jiwen of the 389th Division took advantage of the terrain in southeastern Shanxi to ambush the locust army's troops separately every time, which eventually led to the current situation.