There was a sound of breathing in the war room immediately.

Because the number of personnel in the Xincheng Military Depot is really large.

In addition to a guard squadron, there are dozens of comfort women in the comfort station.

There are also the wounded recuperating in the military depot, the officers in the comfort station, and the Japanese and Chinese translators used to form the advance team. All of them add up to 500 people.

If they were only attacked by unknown armed forces, there would definitely be many survivors.

But now under the attack of mustard gas bombs, there will really be no living things left.

The loss this time was huge, but it was nothing compared to the loss at Xincheng Airport.

Shinozuka Yoshio thought the same thing in his heart. No matter how great the loss of the Xincheng Military Depot was, it could not be compared with the Xincheng Airport. He still hoped that there would be good news from the Xincheng Airport and that at least fifteen attack aircraft would not be in trouble.

Immediately, Shinozuka Yoshio asked again: "Mizuhara-kun, are the 15 attack planes at Xincheng Airport also definitely destroyed?"

"Xincheng Airport..." Mizuhara Takuya sighed, and said again, "General Mori said that the fire at Xincheng Airport is still burning, so it is impossible to judge how much the specific damage will be."

"Baga Yalu." Yoshio Shinozuka's complexion turned black instantly.

The fire is still burning, and the entire airport has been engulfed by the fire, what else can happen?

Thinking of hundreds of tons of aviation kerosene being burned up, 15 Type 17 land attack aircraft of a squadron stationed at Xincheng Airport, and [-] Type [-] Nakajima fighter jets of another squadron were all completely blown up. Yoshio Tsukata felt a sudden sweetness in his throat, and a mouthful of old blood rushed up.

However, the old devil went back with a sigh of relief.

It's just that his face has turned pale.

The originally tall and straight body also shook twice.

"Your Excellency, Commander!" Tanaka Longji said with concern, "Are you okay?"

"It's okay, I'm okay." Shinozuka Yoshio waved his hand, and said, "Tanaka-kun, immediately find out which armed force is attacking Xincheng Military Depot and Xincheng Airport? The Jinsui Army or the Eighth Route Army?"

Takashi Tanaka said solemnly: "Your Excellency, according to my intuition, it should be..."

"Baga!" Shinozuka Yoshio finally couldn't help it, and yelled, "Don't talk to me about your intuition, and I don't want to hear words like "should be possible" anymore. As the chief of staff of the 1st Army, I hope You can submit the detailed information of this group of militants to my desk before dawn."

"Hayi!" Tanaka Longji nodded.

Shinozuka Yoshio left angrily.

Tanaka Longji swept his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Order!"

All the staff members in the war room stood at attention in unison.

"Call the checkpoints and strongholds along Tongpu Road and Zhengtai Road to intercept this group of unknown armed men."

Speaking of this meal, Takashi Tanaka's eyes fell on Mizuhara Takuya again, and said in a deep voice: "Mizuhara-kun, you will be in charge of the military police captain from now on, and you will also be in charge of the special high school temporarily. Conduct large-scale screening of all suspicious persons entering Taiyuan, and find out the origin of this group of militants as soon as possible!"

"Hai!" Mizuhara Takuya was overjoyed when he heard this.

Captain of the gendarmerie and head of special high school, this is a fat job.

His predecessor Shimizu Ichiro only stayed in office for less than half a year, and saved tens of thousands of yen.

Still the same sentence, as the Japanese army shifted from frontal warfare to local security warfare, both officers and soldiers were corrupting at an alarming rate. Yoshio Oshima and Ichiro Shimizu were by no means isolated cases.

Takuya Mizuhara will soon follow in their footsteps.

……

At this time, on Tongpu Road.

After walking about [-] kilometers along Tongpu Road, Wang Ye signaled Wei Dayong to stop.

Seeing the leading Type 15 medium tank stop, the following three Type [-] light tanks and [-] trucks stopped one after another.

In the light, Wang Ye opened the top cover of the turret.

"Turn off the lights!" Wang Ye said in sign language, "Turn around and go to Yangquan!"

Going north along the Tongpu Highway is just a trick to deceive the enemy, and it is intended to confuse the devil's eyeliner.

Now that I have walked three or four kilometers north, I dare not expect to be able to deceive the little devil all the time, but at least it should be no problem to deceive the little devil for a few hours.

Taking advantage of this time, they had already passed Shouyang and entered the boundary of Yangquan County.

As long as you enter the boundary of Yangquan, you will not be afraid of little devils, because after the 9th Brigade was wiped out at the teapot collar, the 4th Brigade was so frightened that it huddled in Yangquan County and trembled, and did not dare to come out at all.

Therefore, it is impossible to expect the 4th Brigade to intercept them.

If the 4th Brigade really wanted to take the risk of coming out to intercept them, most likely they would come and go.

……

Takuya Mizuhara, a little devil, is still very capable, and this is the time when a new official takes office and urgently needs to show his ability, so he worked very hard, and soon found out the clues.

"Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Chief of Staff!" Mizuhara Takuya paused.

"I checked all the recent files of the special high school, and checked all the whereabouts of the former section chief and gendarmerie captain Shimizu Ichiro, and now I can basically conclude that the cause of the incident is the one we identified before hiding in the An intelligence officer of the Eighth Route Army at the headquarters."

Takashi Tanaka asked, "You mean the guy who bought information from Oshima-kun?"

"Yes." Mizuhara Takuya said in a deep voice, "After this guy was arrested, militants from the Taiyuan Underground Party of the Eighth Route Army organized two rescue operations, but both were thwarted by the gendarmerie."

"After that, Qingshui-kun transferred the cook to Xincheng Military Station."

"And secretly dispatched hundreds of military policemen from Ping'an County and Yuci County to ambush in the Gendarmerie Dungeon, ready to wait and wait to ambush the militants of the Eighth Route Army."

"But now it seems that Shimizu-kun's plan has completely failed."

"Baga!" Tanaka Longji gritted his teeth, "Then the intelligence personnel of the Eighth Route Army found the Xincheng Military Station and launched an attack on the Xincheng Military Station? After saving people, they attacked the Xincheng Airport?"

"Yes." Mizuhara Takuya said in a deep voice, "The process is basically like this."

"Really?" Yoshio Shinozuka asked suspiciously, "The CCP underground party in Taiyuan has this ability?"

"Yeah, Taiyuan underground party has such action power?" Tanaka Longji also reacted instantly, frowning and said, "Can they have such a powerful automatic firepower?"

"There are so many people who can drive trucks and tanks?"

"As far as I know, even the Chinese Central Army cannot do this."

At this time, the remnants of the infantry squadron that rushed to the reinforcements first had already reported the battle situation back to the headquarters.

So Yoshio Shinozuka and Takashi Tanaka already knew that the group of militants who attacked Xincheng Military Depot were not only equipped with a large amount of automatic firepower, but also snatched more than a dozen trucks and four tanks from the depot repair shop, and then With these four tanks, they launched a strong attack on Xincheng Airport and succeeded in one fell swoop.

Takuya Mizuhara had obviously thought about this issue, and immediately said: "In addition to the militants of the Taiyuan underground party, there must be foreign Eighth Route Army involved in this rescue operation."

"The Eighth Route Army from outside?" Yoshio Shinozuka asked, "Where did they come from?"

"It's still unknown." Mizuhara Takuya shook his head and said, "We still need to continue the investigation."

Shinozuka Yoshio asked Tanaka Takayoshi again, "Tanaka-kun, where did those militants go?"

Longji Tanaka paused and said, "More than two hours ago, the Ershilipu stronghold called to say that a convoy had forced their way through the barrier, but we lost the news after that."

"Lost the news?" Shinozuka Yoshio asked with a frown, "What does it mean to lose the news?"

Tanaka Longji said: "It's just that the stronghold and checkpoint further north have not found this convoy."

"Have you not found any strongholds and checkpoints further north?" Yoshio Shinozuka frowned and asked again, "So, did this convoy pass through the Ershilipu stronghold again and turn around and head south?"

"This...is not too clear." Tanaka Longji said.

"I don't know?" Shinozuka Yoshio said, "If you have it, you have it, if you don't, you don't. What does it mean to be unclear?"

Sweat broke out on Tanaka Longji's forehead, and he said in a low voice, "Because not long after the call was made, the call to the Ershilipu stronghold was disconnected, probably..."

"Yaga, guess again!" Shinozuka Yoshio said angrily, "Tanaka-kun, is this how you became the chief of staff?"

At this moment, Yoshio Shinozuka was really outraged, he couldn't bear the chief of staff, Takashi Tanaka.

Usually, it's just a vegetarian meal in the corpse, but at such a critical moment, it's still like this, so he is worthy of being the chief of staff?

I really don't know what his predecessor, current Kwantung Army commander Yoshijiro Umezu liked in this guy?Call him chief of staff?

"Hayi!" Tanaka Longji wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with a sudden pause, "Your Excellency, Commander, taught me that the humble staff must learn from the lesson and improve their work style steadily."

"No need." Shinozuka Yoshio said with a dark face.

"I will immediately make a suggestion to the Front Army Command to transfer you back to the mainland."

Now that the matter has come to this point, Yoshio Shinozuka is tearing his face apart, and he doesn't want to give Takashi Tanaka the least respect.

Having said this, Yoshio Shinozuka turned his head to Ryuichi Sakamoto, the chief of operations section, and said, "Sakamoto-kun, from now on you will be in charge of the work of the staff department."

"Nani?" Longji Tanaka's face collapsed.

Sakamoto Ryuichi was overjoyed, he paused and said, "Hayi!"

"Sakamoto-kun, don't get too excited." Shinozuka Yoshio said with a dark face, "The group of militants who attacked Xincheng Military Station and Xincheng Airport must be found and eliminated at all costs!"

Pausing for a while, he said with a more emphatic tone: "Listen, it's at all costs."

"Hayi." Takashi Sakamoto repeated with a sudden pause, "We must find and destroy the Eighth Route Army armed forces that attacked the Xincheng Military Depot and Xincheng Airport at all costs!"

At this time, the phone in the war room rang suddenly.

Immediately a communications staff officer came in and reported: "Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency the General has requested to speak to you, and the call has been connected to Line [-] of the War Room."

"understood."

Yoshio Shinozuka's facial muscles twitched twice, and he grabbed the phone.

He paused slightly, and said, "Maxi Asani, this is the headquarters of the 1st Army, and I'm Yoshio Shinozuka."

"Xiaozuka-kun, I'm Neiji Okamura." The gentle voice of Neiji Okamura came from the other end of the phone immediately, "I heard that Xincheng Airport and Xincheng Military Station have just been attacked? Is there such a thing?"

"Hayi." Shinozuka Yoshio paused and said, "It is true."

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and then said again: "Is the loss big?"

"The loss is still heavy." When things got to this point, Yoshio Shinozuka knew he couldn't hide it, so he gritted his teeth and replied, "The casualties alone may exceed 500."

"Including more than a hundred translators prepared for the No. A battle plan."

"In addition, the first batch of combat materials seconded from the Kwantung Army, including [-] mustard gas bombs, was also destroyed in this attack."

"Also, Xincheng Airport has also suffered devastating damage."

"More than 100 tons of aviation kerosene stored at Xincheng Airport, as well as two squadrons, 15 Type 17 land attack aircraft and [-] Type [-] Nakajima fighter jets were also destroyed in the attack."

"There are more than a hundred pilots in two squadrons, and most of them have already died for the empire."

"It is conservatively estimated that the loss this time is as high as more than 500 million yen, and may even exceed 1000 million."

The breathing sound on the other side of the phone became obviously heavy, obviously Neiji Okamura was also very concerned about this number.

1000 million yen, this is definitely a huge sum of money, enough to support a dozen divisions of the entire North China Front Army, and fight a medium-scale battle!

It is necessary to know that the Navy only needs 3000 million to build an aircraft carrier!

After a pause, Shinozuka Yoshio paused again and said: "Your Excellency, General, such a tragedy occurred in Taiyuan where the headquarters of the First Army is located. As the commander of the First Army, I am personally responsible for the main responsibility."

"So I ask the base camp to relieve me of my position as the commander of the 1st Army."

"Another capable general will be appointed to take over the post of Commander of the 1st Army."

After saying these words, Shinozuka Yoshio suddenly felt his whole body light up and relieved.

The other end of the phone was silent for a few more seconds, and then Okamura Neiji's voice sounded again: "Xiaozuka-kun, do you want to be a deserter?"

"Deserter?" Yoshio Shinozuka said, "Your Excellency, it's not that I want to be a deserter, but because of my negligence and carelessness, I caused irreparable and huge losses to the 1st Army and even the entire North China Front... "

Before Shinozuka Yoshio could finish speaking, Okamura Ningji interrupted: "Xiaozuka-kun, I believe this tragedy is just an accident, at least it has nothing to do with you, Commander."

"The one who should really be responsible for this should be Shimizu Ichiro!"

"And you, what you have to do now is to eliminate all interference and do your best to advance the No. A battle plan."

"I will find a way to make up for the loss of combat supplies. I will explain the loss of the Type [-] land attack aircraft to the headquarters and the Army Headquarters."

"In short, the most important thing now is the No. A battle plan."

"So, Shinozuka-kun, please be sure to eliminate all interference and push forward the No. A battle plan with all your strength, please!"

Speaking of this, Shinozuka Yoshio seemed to have seen that Okamura Neji on the other end of the phone was nodding at him, with a pleading look on his face, Okamura Neji said to this point, Shinozuka Yoshio I have nothing to say.

Immediately, Yoshio Shinozuka nodded heavily, and said solemnly: "Ha Yi!"

"Yoshi!" Neiji Okamura finally hung up the phone.

At this time, Ryuichi Sakamoto walked in excitedly.

"Your Excellency, Commander!" Ryu Sakamoto paused and said, "The whereabouts of those militants have been found!"

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