Draw the sword and cure the fear of insufficient firepower

"What? Can't call? Lost contact?"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Neiji Okamura didn't believe that this was what a colonel from the confidential department said.

It would be understandable if one or two small units could not be contacted, but it is also possible that the radio was damaged during the march.

However, the troops on the front line have lost contact, which means that at least four division-level troops have lost contact with the headquarters.

How can this be?

But there is no need for the head of the confidential department to lie to himself. Isn't this seeking death?

Strange……

"Keep calling! Also! Send a reconnaissance plane to find their whereabouts!" said Okamura Neiji with a grim face.

An indescribable uneasiness rose in his heart...

Okamura Neiji felt inexplicably irritated and waved his hand to ask everyone around him to leave.

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief! The Army Aviation Corps called and said that all the aviation squadrons they sent out were wiped out by the enemy!"

Suddenly, another colonel rushed in with a stack of intelligence, crying with a terrified look on his face.

"Nani?!"

"What is going on here?!"

"Have you found out who did it?!"

Okamura Neiji felt dizzy. What happened today? The bad news came one after another.

He quickly thought of a possibility.

In China, except for one division, no one else has this kind of strength.

However, they were in Shanxi Province, thousands of kilometers away from the two lakes area, and the flight distance was totally insufficient.

He could only pray in his heart that it would not be a division...

"Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, according to the information from the destroyed fighter plane, it is the Eighth Route Army! There is the logo of the First Division of the Eighth Route Army on the enemy plane!"

"This is the last words of the Locust Army pilots compiled by the Army Aviation Corps. Please have a look, Commander-in-Chief."

The colonel nodded and reported, then placed the documents in his hand on the table.

Okamura Neiji's pupils dilated rapidly. He couldn't believe it. It was indeed this division.

With trembling hands, he put on his glasses, picked up the document and flipped through it randomly.

These are all the roars of the locust army pilots before they died. Some people say that the 1st Division of the Eighth Route Army...

This is real.

"boom……"

Okamura Neiji felt like the sky was falling.

Could it be that Division 1 has more advanced fighter jets?

During the last battle in North China, they calculated the combat radius of the Eighth Route Army Air Force, which was totally insufficient to reach the two lakes region.

This is also the confidence that gave Okamura Yasuji the opportunity to launch the Battle of the Two Lakes.

Now, just as he had expected, the ground troops in the first division could not arrive in time and were unable to provide support.

But the Air Force was unexpected and they actually joined the war.

Okamura Neiji immediately thought of what the head of the confidential department had just said, that the front-line troops had lost contact...

"Da da……"

Okamura Neiji's eyes went dark and he couldn't help but take a few steps back. The colonel beside him hurried forward to support him.

Only then did Okamura Neiji stand firm.

"Retreat...Order the troops to retreat..."

"Ahem! Be careful to hide and don't be discovered by the fighter planes in Division 1..."

Okamura Neiji felt heartbroken, and the ups and downs of emotions made it physically unbearable for him.

At this moment, he felt a sharp pain in his heart and started coughing, covering his chest.

He endured the discomfort and issued the order to retreat.

"Hai! I will pass on the message right away!"

"Commander-in-Chief, hold on, I'll call a doctor for you!"

The colonel helped Okamura Neiji sit down and quickly ran out.

It was the first time he saw Okamura Yasuji acting like this. He felt that the commander-in-chief was like a deflated ball, with no energy at all.

A few minutes later, the Chinese Expeditionary Army Headquarters issued an order for a full retreat, and Okamura Yasuji's medical team began to treat him.

……

Laowangshan base.

Liu Zhenhua and the JH-7A formation have returned to the airport.

Ground crews rushed to resupply the fighter planes with ammunition and fuel.

The pilots also got off the plane and stretched their muscles at the airport.

Liu Zhenhua stayed in front of the radio, waiting for Liu Wu's order.

He believed that the commander would definitely agree with his plan.

This time the Japanese are really going to be beaten so badly that they will only care about their heads and not their butts.

Thinking of this, Liu Zhenhua felt funny.

Lin Tian had told him before that one day, he would send Liu Zhenhua to lead a division of fighter planes to attack the Japanese homeland.

Liu Zhenhua gently stroked the fuselage of the JH-7A. It seemed that this time would soon come.

A great passion burst out in his heart.

As early as when we were in the Central Army, we had a belief.

I must go to Tokyo to see the cherry blossoms in the future...

……

Chang County.

Fang Zheng has commanded a regiment and surrounding troops to surround Chang County.

The Japanese in Chang County only had the strength of one regiment plus a mixed brigade of the Locust Association Army.

In the past, the Eighth Route Army had no strength to attack the city.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of a regiment plus a mixed brigade of the Locust Army is also very strong.

The Eighth Route Army had to gather at least three or four regiments of troops before it could fight.

But now, the Japanese soldiers from this regiment are nothing but flies in the eyes of Fang Zheng and his men, and they don't even look at them.

However, there were too many civilians in the city, and the Japanese took advantage of the fact that the Eighth Route Army would not accidentally harm civilians, so they tied up more than a thousand elderly people and children and placed them on the city wall, forcing the Eighth Route Army not to dare to attack the city.

Anyway, I was stumped for a moment.

"Captain, the commander is here, and he's brought a tank battalion with him."

The guard reported.

"The commander is here? Great!"

Fang Zheng said in surprise and walked out of the command center quickly.

Just then, Lin Tian also walked to the entrance of the command department.

"Hey, Commander, why are you here? Aren't you at the headquarters? Come in!" Fang Zheng smiled happily when he saw Lin Tianjiu.

He was the first one to follow Lin Tian and was also a capable man whom Lin Tian always trusted.

"Why can't I come?"

"The command center is so boring. We have a huge advantage in this battle. I have already said that each unit can act freely."

Lin Tian smiled and punched Fang Zheng and said.

"I just saw it. These devils are really capable of using ordinary people to threaten us."

"How are you going to break into the city?"

Lin Tian continued to ask.

"These damned little Japs will suffer in my hands!" Fang Zheng gritted his teeth and said, "There are more than 20,000 civilians in Chang County. The Japs have scattered them to various important targets. We dare not bombard them."

"I am preparing to persuade them to surrender. I have already sent more than a dozen letters of persuasion."

Hearing this, Lin Tian shook his head slightly.

Fang Zheng's idea is not feasible.

The Japanese knew that the person outside was a division, and they would never surrender even if they were beaten to death.

Those who surrendered were either executed or sent to do hard labor in the mines.

Either way, it's a death.

It would be better to drag the entire city's citizens to take the blame for them.

Although we didn't kill any of the Japanese we encountered, it was still very satisfying.

But this also made the other Japanese soldiers afraid to surrender, or even afraid to be captured by the First Division.

It also further aroused the resistance of the Japanese.

Lin Tian admitted that the friendly forces did a better job in this regard...

But this is his purpose, not to leave anyone behind.

Who cares whether the Japanese resist or not.

It would be better if they resisted, because that would give us a reason to kill them.

"Commander, are you saying that we can't persuade them to surrender?" Fang Zheng asked.