The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Ningji Okamura of the North China Front Command of the Japanese Army also stayed up all night.

Baoding City is at stake, and I can't sleep in bed.

Guarding the war room, while paying attention to the latest battle situation in Baoding, at the same time contacting the headquarters of the Kwantung Army to urge reinforcements to move south as soon as possible.

"Your Excellency, Commander..." The communication staff rushed all the way to Neiji Okamura to report.

"Something happened in Baoding City..."

"Kawasaki-kun just sent a farewell telegram: Baoding's four walls have been breached, the city defense garrison has suffered heavy casualties, and the fastest attacking Eighth Route Army has reached the headquarters."

"They are going to follow the Eighth Route Army into the city and fight to the death, and live and die with Baoding City."

"How could it be so fast?" Okamura Ningji was intimidated, and asked back with disbelief.

"Didn't Kawasaki-kun's last telegram say to shrink the troops and defend the west of the city?"

"It's only been half an hour. Why did the battle situation deteriorate so quickly? Even the west of the city was lost."

"How did he do it?"

"Could it be that the Yizhong Eighth Route Army is a heavenly soldier and a general?"

The communications staff officer shook his head: "I don't know about the lowly position."

"It was a farewell telegram without any explanation."

"Kawasaki-kun hopes that the reinforcements will go south as soon as possible to retake Baoding from the Eighth Route Army, prevent them from evacuating Baoding, and take the weapons and ammunition in the city as their own to strengthen their strength."

Neiji Okamura's next reaction was particularly surprising.

Not angry, nor angry, staring at the map, looking very calm.

It wasn't that he didn't want to get angry, but that he was so angry that he couldn't get angry, and it didn't make any sense.

Baoding was hundreds of kilometers away, and he was beyond his reach. No amount of fire could change the outcome of Baoding's fall.

The only thing we can do now is to stay rational and minimize the losses caused by the fall of Baoding to the North China Front Army.

After glancing at the hurried chief of staff, he began to give orders: "Kawasaki's words in the farewell telegram are correct."

"Baoding can be lost, but the weapons, ammunition and supplies that our army reserves in Baoding City cannot be lost."

"The Eighth Route Army has no experience in defending big cities, so it won't occupy a big city and confront us head-on and fight positional warfare."

"As long as the reinforcements arrive at Baoding in time without attacking, Baoding City will return to our hands."

"Weapons and ammunition are different."

"Once captured, the Eighth Route Army will take it for themselves, equip troops, and attack us in turn."

"At that time, we will definitely pay a lot more for sweeping the Yizhong base."

"Contact the Air Force immediately."

"Send planes to bomb all the arsenals and material warehouses in Baoding at dawn. The faster the better, the Eighth Route Army will not be given any time to transfer the spoils."

"Send another telegram to the Kwantung Army Command."

"The situation in Baoding has changed."

"The first batch of reinforcements for a brigade must set off before noon tomorrow, arrive in Peiping tomorrow night, replenish ammunition supplies, and go to Baoding the day after tomorrow to join the battle and recapture Baoding."

"Aviators must prepare enough aircraft to reinforce the battlefield."

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The Chief of Staff of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters ran in with a happy face: "Chief, good news..."

"Kong Jie and Li Yunlong won the battle."

"Less than an hour after the general offensive started, Li Yunlong was the first to enter Baoding City."

"This is the good news that Kong Jie just sent. The four walls of Baoding have been breached by them."

"There are only more than 1000 days left in the Baoding garrison, and the puppet troops are still desperately resisting."

"They are confident that the fight will be over within two hours."

"Wait..." The deputy commander glanced at his watch and said, "They launched an attack at seven o'clock in the evening. It is now past nine o'clock, and it will be less than twelve o'clock in two hours."

"It means that Kong Jie and the others took only half a night to take down Baoding, which was heavily defended by the Japanese and puppet troops."

"It's too fast."

"It's not an exaggeration to describe it as a miracle."

"Is there a specific battle process?"

"Now I want to know how they captured Baoding in half a night."

The chief of staff shook his head and explained: "Sir, to be precise, it should be six days and half a night, not half a night."

"Preparation for the first six days, and a decisive battle in half the night today."

The deputy commander shook his head and replied firmly: "Don't talk about preparing for six days, even if you prepare for half a month, it is a miracle that you can win Baoding in half a night."

"No wonder they still insisted on attacking Baoding knowing that the [-] Kwantung Army was going south to wipe them out."

"It turns out that we have already been sure of winning Baoding."

"In this way, the Yizhong Eighth Route Army will have enough ammunition to face the [-] Kwantung Army heading south to Baoding."

"The five main regiments in the central base of our reinforcement wing don't need to worry about ammunition anymore."

"The Eighth Route Army has no shortage of combat power, no shortage of soldiers, the only thing it lacks is equipment and ammunition supplies.""

"As long as this problem is solved, the five regiments can increase their combat effectiveness by at least [-]%."

"With the remaining troops in the Yizhong base, maybe they really have the strength to fight against the [-] Kwantung Army."

"Even if you can't win, it doesn't mean you don't even have the power to parry."

The chief of staff answered immediately: "We know this, and Neiji Okamura must also know the huge benefits that the Baoding arsenal may bring to the Yizhong base area."

"They will definitely do everything possible to destroy the Baoding arsenal, so that the Yizhong base will gain nothing in the fortified battle of Baoding."

"Kong Jie must digest the results of the battle as soon as possible, empty the Baoding arsenal before Neiji Okamura destroys it, take all the spoils for his own use, and arm himself."

The deputy commander nodded: "Hurry up and send a telegram to Kong Jie, mobilize all the forces that can be mobilized, and transfer the spoils as soon as possible, so as not to give the Japanese army a chance to destroy it."

"The five main regiments in the base of the reinforcement wing set off immediately, marching towards Baoding in a hurry."

"Let Kong Jie prepare sufficient weapons and ammunition for them."

"Entering the Yizhong base area, the five main regiments are all under the command of Kong Jie and Li Yunlong, with Kong Jie as the main force and Li Yunlong as the assistant."

"Strive to keep the Yizhong base and severely damage the [-] Kwantung Army going south."

"It's really impossible, but I have to bite off a piece of fat from the [-] Kwantung Army, so that Neiji Okamura will feel the pain."

"Before dark, I thought about the real purpose of Neiji Okamura's deployment of [-] Kwantung Army from the three eastern provinces."

"I feel that just sweeping the Yizhong base is not enough to reflect the value of the [-] Kwantung Army."

"After this village, there is no such shop."

"If I were Neiji Okamura, I would make the best use of everything."

"While the [-] Kwantung Army is in North China, attack a few more base areas to break the deadlock in North China."

"After defeating the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong, they will definitely go to other base areas in North China."

"The more Kwantung Army Kong Jie eliminates, the less pressure other bases in North China will face in anti-mopping up."

The chief of staff replied very seriously: "In this way, the burden on Kong Jie and Li Yunlong's shoulders will be heavy."

The deputy commander answered confidently: "I trust them both."

"Whether Li Yunlong or Kong Jie has long been capable of being a brigade commander. It's just that they can't be promoted for some reason, but the strength is there, and they will definitely be able to fight this battle well."

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