Draw the sword and cure the fear of insufficient firepower

Taiyuan Devil Headquarters...

"Reporting to Staff Officer Koizumi, we have just intercepted a telegram from the Chinese Central Army and have decoded it."

A Japanese codebreaker brought a telegram with a pale face and handed it over respectfully with both hands.

Staff Officer Junichiro Koizumi now received another telegram...

He took it tremblingly, and the decoder ran out without looking back.

The decoder's reaction made Koizumi very uneasy, as if he knew something...

Koizumi swallowed in panic.

"Goo~"

"What kind of information could this be?"

"Could it be... Could it be that..."

Koizumi grumbled to himself.

Looking at the panicked look on the Japanese soldier's face just now, he already had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

He is tired now and can no longer stick to this job.

Why is the Commander so manic...

Koizumi gritted his teeth and encouraged himself madly.

"This is good news... good news... good news..."

"May the gods bless you...May His Majesty the Licking Locust bless you..."

Koizumi thought wildly in his mind.

He squinted his eyes and tremblingly opened the telegram to take a look.

"Gah..."

"Nani?!"

Koizumi cried out in shock, sweat dripping down his back. He wanted to die now...

However, this information must be delivered to Yoshio Shinozuka.

Koizumi looked around, trying to find someone to go in his place.

"Um... everyone, my face is still swollen, so it's not appropriate for me to go see the commander. Who of you..."

Koizumi hasn't finished speaking yet.

All the Japanese soldiers in the communications room immediately lowered their heads and began to pretend to be busy.

Can't hear, can't hear.

What a joke! After seeing what happened to Koizumi, who would dare to go in his place?

Koizumi cursed these devils in his heart for being inhuman and disloyal.

With no other options, he had to bite the bullet and walk back into Yoshio Shinozuka's office.

Yoshio Shinozuka was leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed.

He has been really worried and stressed out these days with so many urgent matters.

But his subordinates are all like stupid pigs and donkeys.

Not only can I not share his worries, but I can also not achieve his goals.

Now, the strategic plan he had carefully planned for more than three months, which was aimed at clearing out the Chinese armed forces in Jin Province, opening up the way for the locust army to advance westward into Qin Province, and attacking China's southwestern rear area from both the north and the south in the future, has now failed.

But victory and defeat are common in the military, and he can explain this to the base camp, and the base camp will not punish him too much.

The bad thing is, why did he stuff the officer observation group into the 8th Mixed Brigade...

Now it is unknown whether His Excellency the Prince is alive or dead, and more than a dozen imperial generals have already died.

If he had known this would happen, he would have sent the observation group to the 9th Brigade. At least the offensive there was going smoothly, and His Excellency the Prince's retreat was also going smoothly.

But there is no such thing as knowing it earlier in the world, and there is no medicine for regret.

Yoshio Shinozuka could only place his hopes on the 36th Division and the rd Flying Squadron.

In Yoshio Shinozuka's opinion, such a configuration is enough to defeat the five Chinese armies.

It’s just strange why we haven’t received any news from these two troops yet.

Now he can only pray for His Majesty the Locust to bless him...

Junichiro Koizumi stood at the door and saw a knife rack behind Yoshio Shinozuka. A bright command knife, unsheathed, flashing a cold light, as if staring at him...

"Goo~"

Koizumi became even more panicked and swallowed.

"Report... Report to the Commander..."

"We just deciphered a telegram from the Central Army..."

"Please...please have your Excellency the Commander take a look."

Junichiro Koizumi said tremblingly.

He no longer dared to read it to Yoshio Shinozuka, and suddenly an idea occurred to him that it would be better for him to let the commander read it himself.

After Koizumi finished his report, he respectfully placed the telegram on Yoshio Shinozuka's desk, then turned and walked out the door.

"Koizumi-kun... where are you going..."

Yoshio Shinozuka's gloomy voice came from behind.

Koizumi's hair stood on end. He couldn't help but shiver and smiled awkwardly: "Ah...haha, Commander, you haven't slept yet...haha..."

"Koizumi-kun, just read it directly. This commander is very tired..."

Shinozuka Yoshio said without opening his eyes.

"That...that...Hayi!"

"Report to His Excellency the Commander... This is a telegram sent by the Central Army to the Eighth Route Army."

"They...they said..."

"The Eighth Route Army has a First Military Division, which has already... has already..."

"We destroyed the 36rd Squadron and part of the th Division that we sent to rescue His Excellency the Prince..."

"They told the Eighth Route Army to send His Excellency Prince Xian Gong to the Central Army regardless of life or death..."

Koizumi had no choice but to recite it.

Upon hearing this, Yoshio Shinozuka opened his eyes instantly. His originally calm face had now turned ashen and his expression was ferocious.

"Nani?!!"

"The Third Flight Squadron was annihilated?!"

"Part of the 36th Division was wiped out?!"

"That means His Excellency the Prince has fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army. From this implication, does it mean... His Excellency the Prince has already died?!!"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!"

Yoshio Shinozuka stood up with a bang, snatched the telegram from Koizumi's hand, his eyes were red, and he stared at it for a long time with a serious expression.

Then he started swearing.

"Bagya Road!"

"puff--"

Yoshio Shinozuka felt a black screen before his eyes, a sweet taste in his throat, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.

He slumped down on the chair and lowered his head weakly.

"Ah! Commander!"

"Doctor! Doctor!"

When Junichiro Koizumi saw Yoshio Shinozuka vomiting blood and fainting, he immediately became confused.

Upon hearing the news, Yoshio Shinozuka's medical team rushed to the office to provide diagnosis and treatment.

The doctor flipped up Shinozuka's eyelids and looked at Shinozuka's cloudy pupils with a flashlight.

"It's okay, it's okay, Commander, you are just angry, just take care of yourself."

"Your Excellency the Commander needs to rest. You must not let your Excellency the Commander get angry during this time. Remember this."

The chief doctor made the arrangements.

Junichiro Koizumi nodded repeatedly.

Then the doctors hurriedly lifted Yoshio Shinozuka onto a stretcher and sent him to the hospital.

Koizumi stared at the receding figure of Yoshio Shinozuka, lost in thought.

Since taking office as commander of the First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka has rarely suffered a defeat and is currently in the prime of his life.

In Koizumi's impression, Yoshio Shinozuka always seems to be calm and composed.

Even if some of his subordinates were defeated in the battle, he would not be as angry as he is now.

But ever since the Sakata Regiment was wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, it seems that the Commander has not won any battles.

It's the 4th Brigade again, and now there's the 8th Mixed Brigade, and even the Air Force has lost a flying squadron.

The telegram said that part of the 36th Brigade had been wiped out again.