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Chapter 456 Extreme Interweaving!
Taiyuan City.
Various battle reports from the front line continued to converge on Okamura Yasuji's command post like snowflakes. It was receiving a variety of different information, and at the same time needed to make quick analysis and then give corresponding solutions and orders.
He handed over some basic work to other people in the headquarters and command center. There were only three telegrams placed in front of him. One of them was a half-written battle report by Tanaka Hisaichi, and the other was a report written by Tanaka Hisaichi's lieutenant about the casualties in the battle of Erdaohezi and the fact that Tanaka Hisaichi had led a team to Ping'an County for reconnaissance and had not returned.
The last telegram made Okamura Yasuji feel mixed emotions. The Locust Army's 35th Division, 37th Division and th Mixed Brigade had completed a breakthrough against the National Army's th Army Group. Tens of thousands of Chinese troops were defeated under such a powerful attack.
If you ignore the second half of the battle report, the Eastern Front achieved a rare victory compared to the Western Front.
However, the second half of the telegram mentioned that the locust army of two divisions and one mixed brigade was blocked in the Zhangma area and could not make any progress for a whole day.
Ningji Okamura picked up the third telegram and muttered to himself, "When did the Eighth Route Army become a major concern for the Locust Army?"
In another timeline, when the Japanese won the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain with ease, they looked back and found that the Eighth Route Army was everywhere.
“The locust army has suffered heavy losses on the western front. If we give up the attack on the eastern front, we will inevitably be counterattacked by the Chinese army, which may cause even greater losses.
Now, only by consolidating the results of the battle on the Eastern Front and completely wiping out the Eighth Route Army on the Eastern Front can we have a chance to establish a standoff and even a reversal.”
Ningji Okamura muttered to himself, with a determined look flashing in the depths of his eyes.
"Send a telegram to the Eastern Front, telling them to take advantage of the Eighth Route Army's instability to break through their defenses and wipe out all the Eighth Route Army troops on the Eastern Front.
If the national army does not have a significant impact on our strategy, we can temporarily ignore it."
At this time, Ningji Okamura finally realized a problem, that is, under the current circumstances, the Eighth Route Army has grown into a serious threat to him, and this is the first enemy he has to deal with.
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Eastern Front.
The division commander and the commander of the 385th Brigade were also feeling pressured as they looked at the jagged battle line in the command post.
The original strategic goal of the Eastern Front was to tie down the Japanese and prevent them from rescuing the Western Front. At this time, the 386th Brigade had already won a great victory. Logically, it should have been time to withdraw, but because they had been too involved in resisting the Japanese offensive, they had become deeply entangled with the Japanese.
If we retreat at this time, the Japanese will surely chase us and our team may be thrown into disarray.
At this time, the dilemma of the 385th Brigade was the same as when Li Yunlong faced the Japanese Sakata Regiment on Cangyun Ridge. There was no better way except to break through head-on.
Due to the lack of strategic depth on the Eastern Front and the fact that the main strategic goal was to contain rather than attack, some heavy weapons such as the 155mm howitzer could only be placed on the periphery. When attacking the Japanese, they did not play the same role as on the Western Front.
With only 6 men attacking a Japanese army of men head-on, and with the heavy weapons unable to take advantage, it would be a very difficult task and would inevitably result in heavy casualties if one wanted to break through the Japanese encirclement on the frontal battlefield.
However, the 385th Brigade is not the only one fighting.
The division commander decisively issued an order: "All combat units will be organized into squads and platoons, like nails nailed to the position. Even if there are so many Japanese, it will take some time to pull them out one by one.
We have to trust our headquarters, they will definitely find a way to rescue us."
Organized into squads and platoons, this meant that the team needed to have extremely strong organizational skills. They almost watched helplessly as their teammates were devoured by the Japanese army in front of them, and then they filled in the gap themselves.
This is a way of fighting in which one knows that one will die but still bravely faces death.
A team that can implement such tactics is definitely a team with strong organizational ability.
If the nearby Nationalist troops were asked to implement such tactics, the order would probably not be passed on to the grassroots before the soldiers ran away, or in even more extreme cases, they would be shot by the Nationalist officers.
When the 385th Brigade felt anxious, the commander was also extremely anxious. He did not expect that the National Army troops on the Eastern Front were so weak that they not only could not withstand the attacks of the Japanese, but also could not even contain the Japanese and assist the 385th Brigade in evacuating.
"Go, send a telegram to the 386th Brigade. Tell them that they must reach the eastern front and launch an attack before 12 noon tomorrow. Previously, they were able to defeat the Japanese divisions and brigades one by one under the containment of the 385th Brigade. Now they must rescue the 385th Brigade from the Japanese encirclement and defeat this group of Japanese."
The commander looked at the battle map and made a difficult decision.
Hearing the order from the commander, the chief of staff was startled. He raised his wrist and looked at the time: "It is 3 pm now, and there are only 12 hours until 21 noon tomorrow.
They had to cross more than 60 kilometers of mountain roads and engage in battle, not to mention that they had just experienced a major battle.
Is this possible?
The Chief of Staff was somewhat concerned about this order.
"We have to believe in our team."
The commander looked at the battle map with a serious expression and said only this one sentence.
At this moment, under the commander's stern face, there was extreme anger hidden. If Lao Wei was still on the Kuomintang side, if He Qin had not been in charge of this battle, and if the Fourth Army had not been transferred to the southwest before the war, then the 385th Brigade would never have been in the current danger today.
The commander had estimated the combat effectiveness of the Nationalist army on the Eastern Front as low as possible, but he did not expect that it would still exceed the limit of his imagination.
After this battle, the main force of the anti-Japanese war in Shanxi can only be undertaken by our own team.
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Yuanqu battlefield.
When the brigade commander received the order, he almost thought he had read it wrong.
Traveling 21 kilometers in 60 hours and taking part in the battle against the Japanese invaders is simply as difficult as climbing to the sky.
The brigade commander simply thought about it and issued an order: "Don't clean up the battlefield, hand it over to the 3rd Army, and hand over all captured prisoners to the 3rd Army.
We will only take all the mortars and shells that have been cleared so far, and leave all the other spoils to the 3rd Army.
The 386th Brigade had only one goal, to reach the Eastern Front at all costs.
Eat on the way when you are hungry, drink on the way when you are thirsty, and you must arrive at the designated location before 12 o'clock tomorrow."
The brigade commander knew that this task was difficult, but precisely because this task was difficult, it made the situation even more critical.
No matter how difficult it is, his 386th Brigade must do it!