Chapter 177: No matter how well you hide it
The 99th Army, who was already preparing for war, wanted to provoke another war in the blink of an eye. This time, Su Dao had a much bigger appetite. He just gained a foothold in the Northeast for less than two months, and his ambition broke out again, and he wanted to expand his territory more than twice in one fell swoop.
When Su Dao did this, there were naturally some people who liked it. What was favored was that Su Dao, Cheng Qian of the First War Zone and Yan Xishan of the Second War Zone. The new round of attacks of the 99th Army could help them restrain the Japanese troops in North China. If the fierce attacks there were fierce attacks, it would be possible to draw Japanese troops from North China from Beiping and other places to go out of seclusion directly for combat.
In this case, the First and Second War Zones will have enough time to breathe, and the Japanese can also organize a counterattack against the Japanese-occupied areas through this time, and at the same time, they will take back the fallen towns and regain the lost land at the lowest cost. Why not do it?
The most unhappy thing was Jiang Baldy, because from all the requests, the 99th Army was indeed capable of launching another new battle. As for what I said before, there was no power to fight in a short period of time, it was pure nonsense. Chairman Jiang did not take those words seriously at all. If he believed Su Dao's words, the highest leader in the country would be useless.
In fact, Su Dao deceived Chairman Jiang not once or twice. None of them gave him hope, and then threw him from the sky hard, smashing him to pieces? Therefore, Jiang Baldy only wrote so many blank checks in the last Jinxi Battle. As for the replenishment of the troops asked for by Su Dao, he didn't even look at it.
He guarded the Sixth War Zone and wanted to get benefits from the Central Committee? Moreover, the soldiers in each war zone are basically recruited by themselves, and the Central Committee will not send any soldiers to each war zone at all. Of course, except during wartime. Su Dao was also very satisfied with that result. Chairman Jiang refused his supplementary request, which means that he could recruit soldiers and horses in a legitimate way. As for how much he recruited, it was not something that Chairman Jiang could manage.
This time, Chairman Jiang was worried about it for some other reason. It was because Su Dao's re-attack made him feel very dissatisfied and made him feel that his prestige was being provoked. According to Chairman Jiang's plan, the 99th Army only needed to defend Jinxi and restrain the Kwantung Army's forces.
As long as the main force of the Kwantung Army is dragged to death in the Northeast, the battlefield in Guannei will be much easier, and it is not impossible to completely defeat the Japanese army within the next few years. But the problem was exposed when Su Dao's move. The Kwantung Army, which concentrated its troops, had no choice but to do anything to him, but it would be too easy for the scattered Kwantung Army to destroy them.
Although Chairman Jiang always hoped that the 99th Army could be destroyed by the Kwantung Army, he changed his mind at this time. It has to be said that Chairman Jiang is a very contradictory person at this moment. On the one hand, he really wanted to eliminate the 99th Army. On the other hand, he hoped that the 99th Army could defend Jinxi and drag down the Kwantung Army in the northeast. On the other hand, what made Chairman Jiang very upset was that once the 99th Army started war again, the first and second war zones would inevitably reduce a lot of pressure, especially the second war zone.
The war in the Sixth War Zone started, indirectly attracting the Japanese army around the War Zone. The Japanese army located in the Second War Zone was at risk of being cut off from the rear. It was naturally impossible to launch a large-scale attack, and even to plan to return to Beijing. However, no matter how annoyed Chairman Jiang was, things had already happened. By the time he knew all this, the war on the front line had begun, and all the orders seemed to be fine.
At four o'clock in the morning, Lingyuan Front.
Since receiving the order to start the war yesterday afternoon, the 767th Division, led by the division commander Sun Jianguo, took advantage of the night to drive the troops directly to the border between Lingyuan and Lingnan. In the afternoon, the new Air Force bomber also bombed the previously scheduled military targets of the Kwantung Army.
Since the new bomber was put into service, in order to seize the time to train troops, the Air Force has sent bombers to the surrounding areas every now and then. Therefore, this bombing did not arouse the alert of the Kwantung Army. As before, everyone should do whatever they should do after the bombing.
Moreover, the Air Force left after the bombing, and it was useless to call the Air Force to support it. Often, the Air Force had just arrived, and the bomber formation had already run away without a trace. After doing this twice, the Japanese learned their lesson. If you want to blow it up, just blow it up. I won’t call the Air Force anymore. Anyway, with preparation, the bombing effect is not very good.
December is already in this time. The Battle of Wuhan, which should have ended in history, is still tensely at this time. The Japanese attack does not seem to be as fierce as in history. The air forces of both sides are still the protagonists of this battle. Although China has suffered heavy losses, after this battle, the Japanese Army Air Force has gained a new understanding of the Chinese Air Force.
The winter in the Northeast is indeed not something that ordinary people can tolerate. In the cold winter, the temperature of more than ten degrees below zero makes soldiers have to walk back and forth to keep warm. The soldiers responsible for keeping watch have to rub their hands back and forth. Although they are not short of winter clothes, and there is a cotton coat on the cotton coat and trousers, it is still too insufficient to stay in this wilderness in the dark night.
Yang Ergou dragged his tired body and ran forward step by step. He was wearing a Kwantung Army uniform to avoid a lot of trouble along the way, but even so, he still did not dare to pass through the Kwantung Army troops directly. He usually saw Kwantung Army soldiers from a distance, so he could only choose to avoid them by detour.
When Yang Ergou saw a faint figure walking in front of him, Yang Ergou's first reaction was to hide first, and then find a way to go back. He was the only one left of a squad of soldiers who came out with him. If he could not return to the army safely, the soldiers of this squad would be in vain, and more soldiers would die in intelligence errors.
As the figure left, Yang Ergou got up and ran forward slowly. According to the map in his memory, this place should be near the border. If you walk farther forward, you can reach their division's position. As long as you get there, your mission will be successful. At this time, Yang Ergou could only force himself to persevere, forcing himself not to fall here. Falling here means failure, and he will never allow himself to fail.
"Stop!" Suddenly, a figure suddenly stood up from the dry grass leaves on the left side of the road, and the spear in his hand pointed directly at Yang Ergou. They were responsible for the secret whistle here, and there were no less than three secret whistlees not far from him.
"I am Yang Ergou from the fourth squad of the third platoon of the third company of the reconnaissance battalion." Yang Ergou suddenly raised his hands high and quickly reported his identity. He just wanted to pass here as soon as possible. After all, this is still a border, and there are scattered enemy troops on the other side. If anyone who is not opens his eyes shot him in the back, the mission will still be a failure.
After the secret whistle checked Yang Ergou's identity card and clothes inside, he waved his hand to let the whistle behind take over. No matter what happened next, it was just that this position had been exposed. He had to go to the back first and then quietly lurked to another position.
Yang Ergou's identity was quickly confirmed. A fellow member of Yang Ergou happened to be in this army, so the front line troops directly sent Yang Ergou to the 767th Division headquarters through trucks. Yang Ergou only said that there was important information that needed to be reported to the division commander that year, and it was difficult for the people below to ask for specific information, so they could only arrange for him to go to the rear as soon as possible.
"Teacher seat, a soldier came back from the third platoon of the reconnaissance battalion, saying there was important information." Sun Jianguo, who was smoking a cigarette in the division headquarters and thinking about how to quickly take down Ling Yuan, was suddenly disrupted. The information before, said that a division of the Kwantung Army had disappeared. During the pre-war meeting, Su Dao also told them not to be careless, because the disappearing division was likely to be staring at them in the dark.
The Air Force searched a large-scale search and did not find the specific location of the division, but just when they occupied Jinxi, the Air Force did find a complete Kanto military division near Ningcheng. The one Sun Jianguo thought about the most was the disappeared Japanese division.
Yang Ergou, who had eaten something on the way, recovered some energy slightly. After entering the division headquarters, he had no time to salute Sun Jianguo and other superiors. He looked around at the division headquarters' combat map. After discovering the location of the map, he ran to the next side of the map without saying a word, stared at the map for about five seconds, then reached out and picked up the pencil placed under the combat map, and drew a circle in the northeast of Lingyuan.
"The division seat is full of mountains and forests, and there is only a path that hunters walk out during hunting. We first discovered traces of a large group of people passing by. After following us, we found about a division of Kanto troops here. We originally wanted to go in and get more information, but we didn't expect that the Kanto army was discovered by the Kanto army because we didn't know how to speak Japanese. I ran back in our squad." Yang Ergou pointed to the circle on the map and said.
"Are you sure it's here?" Sun Jianguo heard that he had discovered the enemy, and hurriedly stepped forward and lay on the map to see where the enemy was found. After a long time, Sun Jianguo frowned and looked at Yang Ergou and asked. The air force had already investigated twice before. The most recent one was yesterday afternoon, and there was no sign of any military activity at all. Moreover, the mountains there were not too high, so it was difficult for the Japanese army to hide a division troops there.
"Confirm, we went in and saw that the Kwantung Army was basically lined up at the foot of the mountain, and they were all in the most basic disguise. It was difficult to find that there were people here from the air. We only discovered it after entering it. We couldn't see clearly in the distance." Yang Ergou nodded again and confirmed.
Chapter completed!