After a round of chess.
Shinozuka Yoshio successfully ate Miyano Shun's dragon and praised,""Miyano-kun, your Go skills are getting stronger.”
"General Shinozuka, please don't make fun of me." Miyano shook his head with a bitter smile."My Go skills are too weak compared to yours."”
"Hahaha." Shinozuka Yoshio laughed heartily." Then you should learn even more. Come, let's have another round of hand-to-hand talk."”
As he spoke, Shinozuka Yoshio called Miyano Shun to start a new game of Go.
Playing Go was one of Shinozuka Yoshio's hobbies.
Miyano Shun wanted to curry favor with the commander. When he heard this, he hurriedly picked up the chess piece and started playing again.
The two of them played chess for a while.
"By the way, Miyano-kun, how's the situation at the front line?" Shinozuka Yoshio asked.”
Shinozuka Yoshio attached great importance to the second raid in Northwest Shanxi. He seemed to be sitting there leisurely playing chess, but he had been thinking about it all along.
Hearing this question, Miyano Shun held a chess piece and replied respectfully,""Reporting to General Shinozhong, the results of our sweep this time are quite fruitful. The territories of the Eighth Route Army and the Jinsui Army have been slowly encroached upon, and the commanders of both sides have been forced to move.”
"Right now, a few regiments of our empire are advancing towards the center of the enemy. I believe that it won't be long before you receive good news.”
"Yosh." Shinozuka Yoshio nodded in satisfaction and said,""It was all thanks to your battle plan that we were able to achieve such a great result. You also contributed to this!”
"General, you flatter me." Miyano said humbly.
Ta Ta Ta Ta…
At this moment, a flurry of footsteps sounded.
Deputy Songdao walked in from outside.
His expression was very ugly.
"General Shinozhong, something has happened!”Deputy Songdao reported.
"What happened?" Shinozuka Yoshio still had a smile on his face as he stared at the chessboard and played with the chess pieces in his hands.
Deputy Songdao hesitated for a moment before saying,"The Sakata United Team was…annihilated by the enemy!”
The smile on Shinozuka Yoshio's face froze, and the chess piece in his hand stopped in mid-air.
He slowly raised his head and stared at Deputy Songdao. He asked word by word,""What did you just say?"
Chief of Staff Miyano Shun was also stunned.
One had to know that the Sakata United Army belonged to the 5th division, and the 5th division was an A-class division, so they were definitely fully equipped.
Indeed, the Sakata Regiment was a complete infantry regiment. The entire regiment had a total of nearly 4000 soldiers, and its comprehensive firepower was very powerful.
The entire infantry regiment had three infantry battalions under its command. One was an artillery squadron with six Type 92 70mm cannons, and the other was an anti-tank squadron. Adding on the firepower of each infantry battalion, the Sakata regiment had a total of 12 Type 92 cannons, six 37mm anti-tank cannons, and 36 Type 92 heavy machine guns. There were a large number of machine guns and grenade launchers, and their firepower was comparable to a regular division of the Central Army.
According to the previous intelligence, the enemy of the Sakata United Army was only the 8th Route Army with mountain spears and cannons.
Shinozuka Yoshio might be able to accept the fact that the captain of the regiment, Nobutetsu Sakata, was unfortunately killed by the enemy's ambush.
However, how was it possible for an entire regiment of four thousand people to be wiped out?!
Deputy Songdao swallowed his saliva in the face of Shinozuka Yoshio's stern gaze and said with difficulty,""That's right, General Shinozuka. According to our intelligence, the Sakata Army was completely wiped out.”
He had just finished speaking.
Shinozuka Yoshio smashed the chess piece in his hand onto the chessboard.
Crash.
The chess pieces were scattered all over the ground, and the white jade chess piece that was used as a throwing object was directly smashed into pieces!
Shinozuka Yoshio was so angry that his entire body was trembling. He cursed,"Baka!"
"Songdao! What was going on? Was it done by the Eighth Route Army?”
The annihilation of the Sakata United Army was not a small matter for the empire!
Ever since the invasion, there had never been a situation where a regiment was completely wiped out!
But now, it actually happened under his command!
This was like a tight slap to Shinozuka Yoshio's face, causing him to feel his face turn red and painful!
Moreover, it made him feel extremely humiliated!
" Reporting... reporting to General Shinozuka, it's not the Eighth Route Army, it's the Jinsui Army..." Deputy Songdao said.
"The Jinsui Army?" Shinozuka Yoshio was stunned for a moment before he asked," What's going on?!"
"General Shinozuka, it's like this…"
Songdao's adjutant recounted how Li Tiancheng had used 50 152mm howitzers to wipe out the Sakata regiment.
Pa!
Shinozuka Yoshio slammed the table and shouted,""Baka! Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
"Is there a mistake in the information? How could an ordinary Jinsui Army have fifty 152mm howitzers equipped by the main force of the Soviets? Where did they get so many shells?”
Deputy Songdao shook his head." General Shinozuka, the information is correct. I've done my research. The Sakata Regiment was indeed killed by the 344th Regiment of the Jinsui Army."”
Upon hearing this, Shinozuka Yoshio plopped down on his chair and fell into deep confusion...
How could a small Jinsui Regiment with only a thousand people have fifty 152mm howitzers?
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