Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

North of Datong, the North China Front Army Joint Command Post.

Looking at the small flag representing his own troops advancing in an orderly manner, Nishihara Issaku's old face suddenly showed an excited expression. He suddenly turned around and said to his colleagues:

“Youxi, it seems that our tactics are very successful. Sooner or later, the warriors will be able to penetrate all the defense lines outside Datong City.”

“In my opinion, the number of casualties of the Eighth Route Army will definitely not be that small. The toughness of the Republic of China people who are strong on the outside and capable on the inside is definitely no match for the massive Japanese locust army.”

“Next, as long as we can cross the moat and destroy the city wall, our army can advance into Datong unimpeded.”

 Compared with the 26th Division and the 110th Division, the overall casualty situation of the Mongolian Army Cavalry Group is relatively optimistic.

They are equipped with a certain number of armored vehicles, 95 light tanks and 97 medium tanks. Their breakthrough and protection values ​​are inherently much higher than those of ordinary infantry divisions.

Coupled with the fact that in this battle, Iimorinuma's troops were responsible for the main attack direction, Nishihara Issaku naturally retained a certain degree of strength.

Hearing this, the other two Japanese lieutenant generals also nodded.

 Although their division suffered a lot of casualties, the two men always believed that their efforts and rewards would be directly proportional. The loss now is just the darkness before dawn.

Thinking of this, the bitterness on the faces of Otono Saburo and Iinuma Mamoru was diluted a bit.

“Based on the current situation, there is a high probability that the intelligence provided by Commander Gangcun will be fine. Only senior commanders of the Eighth Route Army can match the current defensive intensity.”

“If the enemy’s garrison in Datong collapses at a moment’s notice, I would have to doubt whether the so-called division commander really exists.”

"If everything goes well, the troops will be able to enter the city smoothly tomorrow. I hope everyone can continue to work together and never let the loot go away because of internal fighting."

Hearing Mamoru Iinuma's reminder, the two lieutenant generals Shiye and Nishihara suddenly became serious, and then they expressed their agreement one after another.

 Such behavior is not because the old devils are overly cautious. The main reason is that within their army, there has always been a fine tradition of fighting among each other and grabbing credit.

For example, in the Battle of Taiyuan that year, Seishiro Itahara made many public remarks that affected unity, just because Hideki Tojo occupied several cities first.

Now the three of them have worked hard for so long and paid an unprecedentedly high price.

If at the last trembling stage, because of each other competing for credit for letting the big fish go, it is estimated that all the locusts would have crawled out of the coffin and scolded their mothers.

 “Iinuma-kun, just be at ease.”

“There are only six senior officers at the level of division commanders in the Eighth Route Army. As long as we can catch any one of them, this kind of credit is enough for the three of us to be promoted to half a rank.”

“The cake is big enough, there is no need to fight over it.”

As soon as these words came out, the three lieutenant generals all showed sinister smiles and decided to cooperate well in their hearts.

 Perhaps you can be promoted to general by taking sole credit, and you may even have a chance to sit on the throne of commander after the First Army is rebuilt. But the Eighth Route Army in Datong was not a vegetarian, and it was absolutely impossible for one division to defeat it.

Ten birds in the forest are worse than one in the hand.

Such a simple and easy-to-understand truth, the Japanese who have matured will naturally understand it.

Just as the three were preparing to further discuss the details of tonight's attack, a series of deafening explosions suddenly came from the distant forward position.

 Due to the victory during the day, Nishihara Issaku and his team had already moved their headquarters to a position closer to the battlefield.

 At this moment, the strong shelling even shook a lot of dust off the roof.

"Enemy attack! The Eighth Route Army has launched a night raid!" "Come here! Take the lieutenant generals away from the battlefield quickly! It is very likely that this place is already within the range of enemy artillery, and the division commander cannot be allowed to risk his life!"

"Hi!"

 Amidst the panic, a squadron of guards rushed into the command post. Without saying a word, they picked up the old devils, loaded the three of them into the truck, and drove towards the north.

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 Early the next morning, Feng Town.

Although the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region did not kill anyone last night, the frightened old devils still moved the headquarters back more than 30 kilometers.

 Looking at the gray-faced commander of the 108th Brigade, Iinuma Mamoru received the loss report in a very depressed manner.

“I’m just confused! Why does the Eighth Route Army always give special treatment to our division? With three positions on all sides, don’t they know how to pick on the weak?”

"Are there any serious illnesses among the people of the Republic of China? We must fight to the death with the strongest enemy!"

“Last night, we lost more than half of our brigade! If we continue to fight like this, even one of my brigade will be wiped out!”

 According to the orders of the army reorganization experts, three columns of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region began an orderly retreat into the city under the cover of artillery last night.

In the original plan of the headquarters, the soldiers only needed to do some scene work with heavy thunder and small raindrops to scare away the Japanese and gain enough space.

But neither the enemy nor we expected that the two infantry brigades of the 110th Division would engage in a classic attack without receiving clear instructions from their superiors.

From the perspective of the two brigade commanders Ishii Kaho and Tsuda Mitake, their casualties during the day were indeed not small, but they were mainly servant troops.

 The four regiments of the two have not yet reached the point of breaking out.

  Night combat can greatly reduce the Eighth Route Army's artillery superiority and mainly tests the infantry's individual quality and use of light weapons.

 As the subordinate units of the strongest B division, the 108th Brigade and the 133rd Brigade have no reason to be timid.

Under the influence of the strange and wonderful warrior soul, the two Japanese major generals hit it off and immediately issued combat orders, dividing the tens of thousands of people in their hands into two batches and went up.

result?

 The result was classic: instead of surrendering, the enemy dared to fight back at our army.

 Night battles can indeed smooth the gap in firepower between the two sides to a certain extent, but this rule is of no use to the main force of the Eighth Route Army at this stage.

The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region has already completed the 50th forced advance platoon, the 60th forced advance company, and the 81st forced advance battalion, and even the 120mm mortar has been installed almost at the regiment level.

 Poor vision will indeed affect the hit rate.

 But if I directly cover an area, how should you respond?

 Fortunately, the Shanxi-Hebei column received an order not to pursue deeply, and the 108th Brigade and the 133rd Brigade, who knew that the firepower gap was too big, also ran fast enough, otherwise more than half of the brigade would definitely have wiped out the enemy.

Hearing Iimorinuma's complaint, Nishihara Issaku quickly stepped forward to smooth things over.

 The old Japanese glared at the two major generals first, and then used his classic advantage theory.

"Iimori-kun, the intelligence is very clear. Although the Eighth Route Army launched a night attack last night, they took the initiative to abandon the carefully prepared second line of defense."

 “Have you ever thought about the hidden reasons for this?” (End of this chapter)