Bright Sword: Infinite Logistics

Chapter 64 Improving Tactical Positions
In the end, the two Japanese planes failed to gain much advantage. After a stalemate for several ten minutes, they chose to return due to limited fuel.

"How's the situation?"

As soon as the two planes left, the brigade commander on the back appeared on the front line with Meng Zhige and others.

According to the brigade commander's own character, he didn't bother to avoid it. The little devil who could kill him hadn't been born yet.But he couldn't help but have the God of Wealth by his side. Consultant Meng couldn't make any mistakes.

Just like Li Yunlong hopes that the new regiment will become rich, he also hopes that his [-]th Brigade will become rich.This is something that can change the fate of every soldier, and there is no room for sloppiness.

"The situation is good. There is only one group of stubborn enemies left who are relying on the warehouse to hold on. Lao Cheng has already taken the people there himself. Those two planes only caused eight casualties to us." Li Yunlong's smile could hardly be concealed.

It was my first experience to use a machine gun to force back the Japanese fighter jets.

"Okay, let Cheng Shifa help me eliminate the remaining enemies as soon as possible, and don't let the enemies delay. Li Yunlong, you immediately organize soldiers to transport supplies and clean the battlefield. Inform the comrades of the county committee that they will be busy next."

"Yes!" Li Yunlong immediately turned around and took action.

"In addition, send a report to the headquarters to inform that our department has captured Wuxiang County. Statistics of the results and losses of this battle will be sent to the headquarters as soon as the results are available."

"Okay." Zhu Shiqing ordered the communication class to start.

Meng Zhige looked at the bullet holes on the ground and at the houses destroyed by cannons not far away: "Brigadier Commander, do you think this Wuxiang County town can be defended during the next raid?"

"It depends on the strength of the Japs. If there are less, then it is okay. If there are more, we cannot fight the Japs for a county." The brigade commander still had a smiling expression.

"Am I anxious, or is "On Protracted War" right?" Meng Zhige lowered his head.

Supporting some guns and hundreds of thousands of bullets can indeed change the local war situation, but the impact on the overall situation is far from enough.

The war in Europe will officially begin next month, and Santoku's successive victories have been giving the Japanese blood.After the Shannan Campaign ended in [-], the three Japanese divisions that originally blocked Zhongtiao Mountain would also join in the raids on the base area, making [-] the "most difficult year" in the base area.

The hard times have just begun.

"Counsellor Meng, don't be so depressed. We have wiped out almost seven to eight hundred Japanese and puppet troops in the past few days and captured a county. We must be happy no matter what." Zhu Shiqing saw that Meng Zhige was not in the right mood and stood aside. Persuaded.

"I'm not feeling depressed." Meng Zhige raised his head: "I just feel that I haven't done enough and I need to keep working hard."

"It's already very good. If it weren't for Counselor Meng who supported you with so many supplies, we wouldn't have been able to achieve such great results." The brigade commander smiled and patted Meng Zhige on the shoulder: "When we hold the celebration banquet, you can Gotta sit in the first place.”

"That's not necessary. The soldiers fought well. I don't dare to take credit."

"Hahaha……"

Smiles in this world are conserved, they never disappear, they just move from one person's face to another.

The smiles on the faces of Meng Zhige and the brigade commander at this moment were transferred from the faces of the Japanese.Taiyuan First Army Headquarters, commander's office on the second floor of the building.

Umezu Yoshijiro put down the farewell telegram from the Yasui Squadron in Wuxiang County and the report from the flying team, and looked at the staff officer who sent him the telegram with an expressionless face.

"Report to the front army headquarters, just say...just say that the Eighth Route Army has improved their tactical position near Wuxiang County." Umezu Yoshijiro handed the folder back to the staff officer.

"Hi." The staff officer took the folder, walked out of the office, and closed the door.

This is a big loss.Regardless of the weapons and equipment, and the Wuxiang County that was originally planned to be abandoned, more than 500 people were lost in terms of personnel alone, of which the empire's samurai lost more than [-], more than two reinforced squadrons.

But that cannot be said for reporting upwards.Counting this battle, during the Jindong battle, the losses of the imperial army's warriors had approached the three thousand mark, and he had to redeem himself.Therefore, the product of language art "improving tactical position" appeared decades in advance in this world line.

However, as a tribute to his respect, some of the things mentioned in these two documents made him somewhat interested.

"The large number of smoke grenades mentioned in Squadron Anjing's farewell telegram, and the large number of machine guns and anti-aircraft weapons mentioned by the flying team... Is this really the Eighth Route Army?"

As the commander of the First Army, he had a deeper understanding of the Eighth Route Army than many people.In his impression, the throwing objects used by the Eighth Route Army had always been mainly made in the border areas, supplemented by various hand grenades seized from the imperial army and the stubborn army.Basically, only the Imperial Army's smoke bombs had a smoke-generating function. The Eighth Route Army had never made or used special smoke bombs - their border-made smoke bombs could be used as inferior smoke bombs.

But now, the Eighth Route Army in Wuxiang County actually has a large number of wooden-handled smoke bombs in their hands. This is abnormal.

As for using a large number of machine guns for air defense, it is even less like the work of the Eighth Route Army.After dealing with the Eighth Route Army for so long, how could the Imperial Army know how short of bullets the Eighth Route Army had?

If there was no shortage of bullets on the Eighth Route Army, the imperial army would not be able to stay any longer.Just the long-range cold shots are enough to drink a pot of the entire North China Front Army.

Judging from past experience, the Eighth Route Army has always focused on avoiding and hiding when encountering aircraft strafing and bombing.Even if machine guns are used for air defense, it will not be a large number of machine guns that continuously fire at the air for multiple rounds.

Now is not the year [-], there are no provincial fortifications abandoned by the Shanxi-Sui Army on the battlefield for the Eighth Route Army to pick up bullets. The Eighth Route Army cannot fight such a rich war.

"Go and investigate for me what the status of the Eighth Route Army's arsenal is. In addition, let the troops from various places check whether a large amount of materials have been transported into the Eighth Route Army's territory recently."

"Hi." Another staff officer took the order and left.

Umezu Meijiro shook his head, picked up the pen on the table, and recorded these two points.Regardless of whether he could eventually find out anything, these two phenomena were worthy of his writing and used to shirk responsibility.

But now, his focus is not on the Jindong battle.No matter how hard the Eighth Route Army tried, it would only cause pain to the First Army.The most important thing for the imperial army now is not here.

Putting down his pen, Umezu Meijiro stood up and looked at the map hanging on the wall.There are three maps in total, one is the Shanxi map indicating the combat range of the First Army, one is the European map indicating the situation in Europe, and the other is the situation map of Nomenkan.

"Are you planning to form a sixth army? I hope it will succeed."

　Forgot to set the timer...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)