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Chapter 180, Kazuki Yamamoto's Shame
...Our army has a firm will and is determined to fight to the last.Jade broken to Mingzhi.

Long live His Majesty the Emperor, long live the Empire of Japan!

—— Yokono Taro worships. "

At the moment when the farewell telegram was finished, Yoshio Shinozuka slapped the palm of his hand heavily on the table.

The crisp and loud sound makes everyone feel quiet.

Kazuki Yamamoto could imagine how angry the General must be.

Another captain at the level of the regiment commander died, and there were a thousand soldiers of the Imperial Army. For the First Army, this was already a great loss.

Combined with Yushe County, which was lost before, and Liao County, which was about to be lost, the imperial army almost lost half of the regiment and lost two counties.

For such a huge loss, the North China Front Army will definitely have to intervene, and the general will definitely be held accountable.

Even if he is the most valued by the general, Kazuki Yamamoto is watching his eyes, nose, nose and heart at this time, without saying a word.

One is that he doesn't want to get into trouble, and the other is that he really has nothing to say.

When he learned from the map that Colonel Yokono had brought his troops to the Red Clifftop area, Yamamoto had already expected their entire army to be wiped out.

In such a bad terrain, it is difficult for anyone to break through.

If you want to complain, you can only resent Chief Yokono for being out of his mind and bringing the troops into a desperate situation.

Now that he's dead, it's all right.However, the blame for the defeat in the war was left to the general, and the crime of oversight due to improper command is inevitable.

Yoshio Shinozuka has been in the army for 40 years, and he has seen too many lives and deaths. The failure of the war and the death of senior officers have hit him for a while.

But soon, his mood returned to normal. Only then did he realize that the palm of his hand was painful, so he had to press it with the other hand and rub it.

"What's the number of the Eighth Route Army's ambush unit?" he asked.

The intelligence officer lowered his head slightly, and said shamelessly, "I'm sorry, General. Colonel Yokono didn't explain it in his telegram, and we haven't learned the number of the Eighth Route Army yet."

Yoshio Shinozuka turned his head and stared at him, "Which brigade of the Eighth Route Army is most active in Liao County?"

If you don't even know this information, then the intelligence officer should be replaced.

The intelligence officer knew that His Excellency the General was in a very bad mood right now, so he was quite nervous when he answered just now.

Hearing another question now, he could only feel his heart tremble. Fortunately, he still knew something about this.

Hastily replied:
"It's the th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and the th Brigade. This brigade has frequent activities in Yushe County and Liao County, and Yushe County has been lost to the New Second Regiment of the th Brigade."

"Three Eighty-six Brigade." Yoshio Shinozuka murmured in a low voice, he was slightly dazed for a moment, and then he remembered.

The First Army suffered a lot from the th Brigade, and in the near future, the th Brigade has been active, the destruction of the Xinjing Coal Mine, and the fall of Yangquan all have its shadow.

"Ba Geya Road, the th Brigade is simply the enemy of the imperial army."

Shinozuka Yoshio cursed secretly in his heart.

When attacking the mainland, he fought against many enemies, and the th Brigade was the most difficult one.

By the way, Sakata Dazuo also died in the hands of a regiment of the th Brigade.

The fourth independent mixed brigade, one brigade leader and two joint leaders, let the th brigade change.

It was a humiliation, a huge humiliation.

Shinozuka Yoshio tightly clenched his fists, obviously the more he thought about it, the more angry he was, wishing he could raise his army now and wipe out all the hateful brigades.

However, that's just thinking about it, and there is not that much power at hand at the moment.

Half a month, another half a month.

There is a Chinese saying that it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for three years.It will take another half a month to mobilize and assemble the troops, and then the th brigade will be wiped out.

Shinozuka Yoshio calmed down again, turned his head to look at the trembling subordinates in the room, and waved his hands casually: "Go down!"

Kazuki Yamamoto quietly exited the house, feeling very grateful in his heart.The general can control his anger, he is worthy of being a general.

However, in the next few days, I still have to find a way to stay away.

The army supporting Liao County was ambushed halfway and wiped out.So can Liao County survive?
According to Yushe County's experience, Kazuki Yamamoto could have predicted that Liao County would definitely fall.

He can think of it, and so can Your Excellency the General.

After anticipation, even if you can control your anger, it is inevitable to be in a bad mood.

It's better to stay away from yourself.

In addition, Kazuki Yamamoto's mood is quite complicated now.

He always felt that his luck was bad, and he couldn't tell when it started.

It seems that it was from Yangcun that if everything went well, they would have successfully raided Daxia Bay and dealt a heavy blow to the Eighth Route Army headquarters.

He himself can become famous because of this, and it is not a problem to be promoted to general by virtue of his meritorious deeds.

However, that failure turned his fantasies into a bubble, and made His Excellency the General no longer trust him as much as before.

He even asked him not to aim too high, and changed his goal from the Eighth Route Army headquarters to a mere new regiment.

Kazuki Yamamoto believes that such behavior is no less than hitting mosquitoes with anti-aircraft guns.

But a soldier's bounden duty is to obey orders, and since the general gives an order, he has to obey it.

Unfortunately, he caught up with the Hundred Regiments Campaign of the Eighth Route Army, and his special forces suffered a series of failures.

Therefore, even if Yamamoto didn't believe in luck before, he has to believe it now.

Of course, there were other things that surprised Yamamoto.

That time in Yangquan, he saw the tanks driven by the Eighth Route Army and the MP submachine guns equipped with the infantry of the Eighth Route Army.

This made him very puzzled.

The MP submachine gun is a weapon produced by the Germans. How could the Eighth Route Army have it?
What's more, the use of submachine guns consumes a lot of bullets, and the imperial army's strong productivity cannot withstand the pressure of providing so many bullets.

The Eighth Route Army is poor enough to have a rifle in hand, so how can it be equipped with submachine guns?

Also, where did their tanks come from?
Kazuki Yamamoto had a lot of questions.

"Suzuki-kun, please wait."

Suzuki Osamu, who was in charge of the intelligence of the First Army, walked out of General Shinozuka Yoshio, looking devastated.

He has already noticed that the general is dissatisfied with the results of his work, but in fact there are difficulties.

The Eighth Route Army is very good at intelligence, but has a unique understanding of anti-osmosis.

They can only collect some intelligence from the periphery, but much of that is outdated and backward, and has lost its timeliness.

Hearing someone calling him from behind, he turned his head and said, "Yamamoto-kun!"

Yamamoto Kazuki is the commander's confidant, and Suzuki Dazuo knows it very well.

Is there something wrong with the commander?

"Suzuki-kun, I have some information about Eight Routes, and I would like to ask you for advice." Kazuki Yamamoto said.

Colonel Suzuki breathed a sigh of relief, he was a little afraid to face the commander now.

"Okay, Yamamoto-kun, please come to my office and talk. It's quieter there."

Information is confidential, and of course it is not appropriate to disclose it in public.

Kazuki Yamamoto had no objection and followed Suzuki to his office.

Pour a cup of herbal tea and calm down.

Commander Lei Ting was furious, and the two of them were trembling, their throats dried up for some reason, and they realized that they were hoarse when they spoke just now.

After moistening his throat, Kazuki Yamamoto asked, where did the Eighth Route Army get its tanks and submachine guns?
Mr. Suzuki stared at Yamamoto strangely, and immediately denied it.

It's not that he is suspicious, the point is about this information, which he has just obtained.

"Yamamoto-kun, if you had asked two days earlier, I really couldn't give you a definite answer."

"Oh?" Kazuki Yamamoto's eyes lit up with interest, "So, is there a definite answer?"

Colonel Suzuki wanted to protect the source of the information, and he said in a rather vague way: "It can't be said that it is completely, we just confirmed a piece of information.

It was an overseas Chinese named Yuan Lang who provided a large number of artillery for the Eighth Route Army.

He once donated six mortars and more than 700 shells to the Eighth Route Army at one time.

For the Eighth Route Army, this is not a small amount.

And being able to give such a hand, we have reason to suspect that the subsequent tanks, submachine guns, cannons and other weapons were also provided by this person through special channels. "

For the sake of his colleagues, what Suzuki said was clear enough.

If Kazuki Yamamoto was not the confidant of His Excellency the Commander, Suzuki would not have revealed a word to anyone else.

The weapons and equipment provided by an overseas Chinese are indeed explosive news.

Kazuki Yamamoto was stunned, and soon there were more questions, the ammunition is not cheap, where did this person get the funds?
Even if there is money to buy arms, what channel is it used to transport them into the inland and deliver them to the hands of the Eighth Route Army?
Of course, these questions are also what Suzuki is curious about, and there is no way to know them for the time being.

"Where is this person, is it possible to catch him?" Kazuki Yamamoto asked.

But if you can't answer the question, then catch the questioner.All doubts can be resolved.

Colonel Suzuki naturally thought about it, he smiled wryly, "According to the information, this person is in the th Brigade and often lives in the infantry regiment under him.

An infantry regiment has more than 1000 people anyway, and our intelligence department naturally has no way to pick it up.

On the other hand, Yamamoto-kun's special forces raided an infantry regiment and captured one or two important figures, which should be easy to capture. "

In fact, Colonel Suzuki also thought about it earlier, but as we all know, Colonel Yamamoto's special force is the move that His Excellency the Commander most values ​​to innovate tactics.

Whoever he set his mind on, he didn't dare to target the special forces.

The expression on Kazuki Yamamoto's face was moved again, the th Brigade, this th Brigade again.

It's as if the th Brigade was born to restrain their first army.

If there is a chance, Kazuki Yamamoto would like to raid the headquarters of the th Brigade and see what this old enemy commander who has repeatedly caused them trouble looks like.

"Yuan Lang, where is this person now? There are many infantry regiments under the th Brigade, please be more specific." Kazuki Yamamoto asked again.

"It should be the New Second Regiment of the Eighth Route Army. This person is often in the New Second Regiment." Colonel Suzuki recalled some other information and added:
"Li Yunlong, the commander of the New Second Regiment, was the one who killed Dazuo Sakata in Cangyunling.

Major General Yamashitaro of the Fourth Brigade, as well as Yushe County, which was just captured, were all made by the new second regiment. "

Like a bolt from the blue.

Kazuki Yamamoto felt dizzy. It turned out that the target he had been eyeing for half a year was wrong?
Not the new first group, but the new second group?
The intelligence error made Yamamoto feel even more humiliated, and he seemed to have made a big fool of himself.

Mr. Suzuki looked at the muscles on Yamamoto's face, twitching unnaturally, and cried out inwardly.

Shouldn't he have told Yamamoto-kun this information so directly?

Yamamoto is a proud person, a wrong information directly vetoed his efforts for half a year, which is equivalent to directly leaving a scar on Kazuki Yamamoto's face.

The sneak attack on the Xinyi regiment even came to nothing, which was adding salt to the wound.

Of course Suzuki is unwilling to admit that this is the fault of their intelligence department.

This moment and that moment!

The intelligence at that time indeed all pointed to the New First Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

Kazuki Yamamoto himself recognized it, so we can't blame their intelligence department!

Kazuki Yamamoto didn't know about Suzuki's psychological activities, he only felt that his face was burning badly.

He has been a top student since he was a child, and he is the envy of others.

Never had he been so ashamed.

Even if there are not many people who know it, others will know it after all.

Shame, it's a huge shame.

It must be washed clean with the blood of the enemy.

Kazuki Yamamoto used strong will to control the expression on his face, pretending to be nonchalant, "Xin Ertuan, do you have any other information to prove it?"

Colonel Suzuki withdrew his aggressive gaze. He was looking forward to the other party's help, and naturally said everything he could say about the relevant information.

"Outside Yangquan City, the one using tanks is a unit of the New Second Regiment."

"During the siege battle in Yushe County, they were bombarded by the large-caliber heavy artillery of the New Second Regiment, as well as the new flamethrowers thrown in by the opponent."

"During the battle at Fort East, three planes were attacked by the opponent's anti-aircraft weapons."

Colonel Suzuki finally came to a conclusion: "The new equipment all appeared in the New Second Regiment. Various circumstances indicate that this person should be permanently stationed in the New Second Regiment to provide it with weapons and equipment."

Kazuki Yamamoto analyzed slowly in silence. According to this, this person should be in the New Second Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

When the Eighth Route Army was a beggar army, although its weapons and equipment were not good, its fighting will was indeed very tenacious.

They are like cockroaches that can't be killed, they often jump out to trouble the imperial army.

If they get enough weapons and equipment, even various new powerful tanks and cannons, then the Eighth Route Army will surely become a strong enemy of the Imperial Army.

Yangquan, Yushe County, and Hongyading should all be the consequences of the imperial army after the Eighth Route Army obtained sufficient weapons and equipment.

Li Yunlong, whose hands were stained with the blood of the imperial army, and Yuan Lang, who provided a large number of murder weapons.

The two of them are together, which saves me a lot of trouble.

Kazuki Yamamoto has decided to take the new second regiment as his goal.Solve the two big troubles of the imperial army.

He raised his eyelids and cast a glance at Colonel Suzuki.

After the last lesson, he already understood that the intelligence department was unreliable, and he had to do it himself after all.

Otherwise, it is very likely to become another laughing stock.

This time, from intelligence to implementation, he has to handle every specific step.Make sure that the action is foolproof.

He needs a victory, to wash away his shame in the blood of his enemies.

PS: Today is a big chapter.

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