The commander frowned and said helplessly: "What I worry most is still happening!"

"Contact all the strongholds and mobile troops that can be contacted along the railway immediately, so that they can train at all times to find out the true strength of the National Salvation Army!"

"The intelligence department is also taking action!"

"Putting down is the hinterland of the National Salvation Army's defense zone, and they are not easy to move! The railway is the territory of the Imperial Army, so they can definitely come and go freely without any influence. Before dawn, the relevant information collected must be delivered to me!"

The Deputy Chief of Staff reminded: "Then should we notify the garrisons and mobile troops along the railway to temporarily shrink their defenses to avoid being attacked by the National Salvation Army again."

"No!" the commander shook his head.

"Since the attack on Taiyuan, the National Salvation Army has been fighting continuously for almost half a month, and has been rushing and attacking us for a long distance, and there is almost no time to rest."

"Even if their soldiers were attacked, they would almost be exhausted!"

"Not to mention the casualties of the troops!"

"Attacking Jinzhong, feint attacking Taiyuan, and then raided Jingxing mining area, then fought continuously, rushing to Shimen, and now we are on the Zhengtai Railway to attack the strongholds and mobile troops stationed along the railway..."

"I made a rough calculation that the imperial army alone had lost more than 10,000 people in these battles, including a well-established mixed brigade. With the loss of the Imperial Army, the direct losses of the Shanxi garrison and the Hebei garrison have exceeded 30,000 people."

"Even if we exchange two lives for the national army and one life, their losses will exceed 15,000 people. The remaining troops have become the last of their strength and cannot cause any big waves!"

"We not only cannot retreat now, but also need to find a way to counterattack, and continue to severely damage the remaining national-savior army with the fighting style of fighting and exhaustion, and completely eliminate them along the railway!"

"After the military contacted the staff, he told him not to retreat, and immediately turn around and reinforce the Zhengtai Railway. I want to fight the National Savior Army there."

The Japanese commander's idea was very clear. Since the National Rescue Army sent troops, the direct losses of the Japanese and puppet troops have indeed exceeded 30,000 people.

But he ignored a problem: less than half of these more than 30,000 Japanese and puppet troops died at the hands of the National Salvation Army.

The Eighth Route Army mobilized more than a dozen main regiments and more than twenty independent battalions to participate in the war, with the total strength and results of the war than the National Salvation Army.

Therefore, the losses of the National Salvation Army were not as much as the Japanese Army Commander estimated.

Although it has not reached the end of its strength, it is almost the same.

Deputy Commander Tang Yufeng was the first to discover this problem.

After Zhou Cheng defeated the Chief of Staff of the Japanese, he returned to the command center and was captured by Tang Yufeng in the war room.

"Captain, this battle cannot be fought any longer!" Tang Yufeng said bluntly as if he had expressed his thoughts.

"I just asked someone to count the results and losses of each unit, and I was shocked!"

"The various troops have achieved great results, especially the mobile battalions, cavalry battalions, and chariot battalions, but their losses are also amazing!"

"To the present day, our cavalry unit has dropped sharply from more than 1,000 before the war to more than 400 now, and has lost a total of 600 troops."

"The mobile battalion lost more than 60%, and there are less than 400 people left to continue fighting."

"The armored battalion also lost more than half!"

"The three main battalions commanded by the Chief of Staff are not optimistic. The first battalion with the strongest combat effectiveness has dropped sharply to more than 300 people, and the other two main battalions are not much different."

"The ten independent battalions that fought in concert also suffered heavy losses!"

"Before the war, each independent battalion had 1,000 people. Now the independent battalion with the largest losses had only more than 400 people left, and the independent battalion with the smallest losses had only more than 700 people left!"

"The troops' physical strength is almost impossible to hold on."

"The continuous combat lasted for more than ten days has consumed most of the soldiers' physical strength. Almost all the troops are gritting their teeth and holding on to their last breath to continue fighting!"

"Everyone won consecutive battles, the troops are very morale, and the soldiers can hold on!"

"If an army encounters an accident and loses a war, the entire army will collapse!"

"To put it more ugly, our National Salvation Army has been defeated to the end of its power!"

"For caution, the battle should be ended immediately."

"We have eliminated enough Japanese and puppet troops in this battle. Not only did we severely damage the Japanese garrison troops in Hebei, but the Japanese and puppet troops in Shanxi were also killed by us!"

"Even if the troops end the battle now, the Japanese will not be able to retaliate against us in a short time!"

Zhou Cheng took the casualty data handed over by Tang Yufeng and said nothing.

After reading it once, I strode to the map to analyze it. I hesitated for a full five minutes before making a decision: "The battle cannot be stopped!"

"We are holding on, and the Japanese are holding on!"

"After our efforts during this period, the mobile troops of the Japanese and puppet troops in Shanxi were almost completely wiped out by us, and the remaining troops were all scattered in various counties and strongholds. Especially along the Zhengtai Railway, there were no mobile troops, and those lonely strongholds and artillery towers had become the fat meat we talked about, and we could eat whatever we wanted!"

"At this time, insist on attacking. With the support of powerful artillery fire, the troops may be able to kill two Japanese and puppet troops with one soldier!"

"If we fail to seize this opportunity, and wait until the Japanese and puppet troops recover and re-arrange their defenses, and launch another attack in the future, even if a soldier is sacrificed, it may not be possible to kill a Japanese and puppet troops."

"Although the Japanese have better logistics support capabilities than us, their replenishment speed is not as fast as ours."

"After our soldiers die, they can immediately replenish new recruits from the base area and they can recover their combat effectiveness in a few months!"

"The Japanese are not good. All their supplementary soldiers come from the country. Not only do they have to cross the ocean, but the number is also very limited, and it takes a long time to recover their strength."

"We will kill another infantry squad now, and it will take a few days later for them to recover their combat effectiveness."

"The troops gritted their teeth and persevered for another two days, and strived to eliminate thousands of more Japanese devils. The Shanxi garrison could not recover its combat effectiveness for a year."

"We can recover our combat effectiveness in at most half a year and continue to attack them. The Japanese and puppet troops in Shanxi may never have the chance to recover their combat effectiveness, and will fight weaker and weaker under our continuous attack!"

"Send a telegram to the Chief of Staff immediately. There are still 300 people left in the main battalion, so we will compress the troops into two infantry companies to continue fighting!"

"The main battalion is formed into a company, and the battalion commander will continue to participate in the battle as the company commander!"

"Continue to attack the Japanese and puppet troops along the Zhengtai Railway!"

"Political Commissar, immediately organize militias and fellow villagers in the defense zone to rush to the front line of the railway. The fellow villagers are responsible for preparing meals for the soldiers and ensuring that the front-line troops will have food, drink hot water, and have a place to rest... The militia troops will help rescue the wounded, clean the battlefield, reduce the burden on the main force, and use all the saved time to kill the Japanese!"
Chapter completed!