After Li Zongren gave the order, Bai Chongqi rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "I didn't expect that this old devil Matsui Iwane is really as stupid as a pig. He couldn't even see through such an obvious method of provoking a general."
"Stupid?" Li Zongren shook his head and said, "Matsui Iwane is not stupid."
"Isn't this stupid?" Bai Chongqi said, "I think it's already extremely stupid!"
"Jiansheng, you only know one, but not the other." Li Zong shook his head in pain, thinking that his confidant general was indeed outstanding in terms of tactical planning. Looking at the entire national army, there are almost no people who can surpass him.
, but his strategic vision is indeed lacking.
Bai Chongqi was stunned for a moment and said, "Gong De, how do you say this?"
Li Zongren said: "Matsui Iwane mobilized two main divisions to encircle and suppress the Baoshan Regiment. It seems to be a trivial matter, but it actually has a deeper meaning!"
"Deep meaning?" Bai Chongqi said disapprovingly, "What deep meaning can there be?"
Li Zongren said: "Baoshan Battalion became famous in the Battle of Sihang Warehouse. The Chinese people almost regarded it as a national hero, and the soldiers of the national army even regarded it as a benchmark in the war of resistance. If the Japanese invaders could really encircle and annihilate the Baoshan Battalion in southeastern Anhui,
This will inevitably greatly dampen the morale of the national army, and will seriously shake the determination of the entire country’s military and civilians to resist the war for a long time!”
Bai Chongqi was silent, he really hadn't thought about this reason.
Li Zongren said again: "Also, does Kensheng really think that Matsui Iwane is only plotting against the Baoshan Regiment?"
Bai Chongqi's face changed slightly and he said, "What do you mean by Mr. De's words? Does this old ghost Matsui Iwane have other thoughts?"
Li Zongren shook his head and said: "Jiansheng, what do you want me to say about you? We have been fighting and making peace with Jiang for so many years, but you don't know him as well as Iwane Matsui, an old Japanese.
With Jiang’s character, do you really think he can let go of a student and fellow countryman who is as capable as Yue Weihan?”
"Gong De said that Jiang will still rescue people at critical moments, hiss..." When Bai Chongqi said this, he suddenly took a breath of air and lost his voice, "Could it be that Matsui Iwane's real plan is that Jiang sent someone to save the Baoshan Regiment?
troops?"
"More than that?" Li Zongren said coldly, "If I guessed correctly, after Matsui Iwane ate the troops sent by Chiang to rescue people, I'm afraid he will try to take advantage of Wuhan! However, Japan's eyes are still on
Worse, they didn’t know that even if Wuhan was lost, Jiang would not surrender.”
Bai Chongqi said: "Gong De, do you think you should remind Mr. Jiang?"
"That's not necessary." Li Zongren waved his hand and said, "In three days at most, the Battle of Xuzhou will begin. As long as Japan's 5th Division and 10th Division are surrounded, the old devil Matsui Iwane's plan will come to nothing.
The Japanese base camp will definitely send a telegram to the 13th and 18th divisions to go north for rescue."
"That's true." Bai Chongqi breathed a long sigh of relief, "I didn't expect that old devil Matsui Iwane to be so insidious."
Li Zongren said: "If Matsui Iwane has no ability, how can he be promoted to an army general? It is even less possible to become the supreme commander of a strategic front army!"
…
Twenty miles west of He County there is an ancient town called Xibu.
Towards evening, a group of more than a hundred Japanese soldiers appeared ghostly on a mass grave in the northern suburbs of the ancient town. This group of Japanese soldiers were dressed in strange clothes. They were covered with wormwood and their helmets were covered with branches.
, if someone is passing by nearby, they will just lie down on the ground, and their presence will not be discovered unless they come up to them.
This group of Japanese soldiers is of course the special operations brigade led by Colonel Watanabe.
After learning that the baggage train and the supplementary regiment stationed in He County had lost contact, Colonel Watanabe immediately led the special operations brigade south. After nearly ten hours of rapid march, they finally arrived near He County.
"Map!" Colonel Watanabe stretched out his hand, and a special operations team member had already handed over the map.
Colonel Watanabe took the map and spread it out on the grass. His fingers followed the marching route and finally stopped at the mark of a bridge. He then said with a ferocious smile: "Yo Xi!"
The Major officer next to him asked: "Your Majesty, Colonel, are we going to blow up this bridge?"
"That's right." Colonel Watanabe said in a ferocious voice, "More than a hundred trucks of the 3rd Independent Baggage Brigade have fallen into the hands of the Baoshan Regiment. If the bridge is not destroyed, they can flee westward for two miles overnight.
Three hundred miles away, it will be difficult to intercept them at that time, so this bridge must be destroyed."
After saying this, Colonel Watanabe immediately ordered: "Attention, all units, check their equipment and prepare for battle."
…
In a forest less than thirty miles away, Yue Weihan was also looking at a map.
Having captured more than a hundred of the Japs' baggage trucks, Yue Weihan no longer dared to march in broad daylight.
The kid's bomber group is not a vegetarian. Trucks are not like infantry. The infantry spreads its legs. As long as it can flow through, mountains and rivers are all accessible. Trucks cannot do it. The truck must go on the road. The kid can throw a few bombs at will.
If the aerial bombs blow up a lot of big holes on the road, all the cars will be lying on the ground, which will be a big trouble.
When Yue Weihan moved his finger to a certain bridge mark on the map, his heart suddenly paused.
Tang Dashan, who was standing next to him, saw Yue Weihan's sudden change of expression and couldn't help but asked with concern: "Tuan Zuo, what's wrong?"
Yue Weihan ignored Tang Dashan, and then shouted at the top of his voice: "Hua Hanlin!"
Hua Hanlin, who was lying in the grass not far away and taking a nap, quickly jumped up, trotted to Yue Weihan, stood at attention and saluted: "Yes!"
Yue Weihan pointed to the bridge mark on the map and said: "Take your guard company, rush here as quickly as possible, and then guard this bridge for me!"
"Guard the bridge?" Hua Hanlin said in astonishment, "Tuanzu, the little devil is still a hundred miles away."
"You know what the heck!" Yue Weihan said angrily, "The two main divisions of the Japs are indeed still a hundred miles away, but their special operations brigade is not restricted by road conditions at all. The Japs' special forces are all
The elite infantry, one in a hundred, can march two hundred miles in one day. Go quickly, we will be in trouble if you are late!"
"Yes!" Hua Hanlin quickly stood up and stood at attention, then turned around and shouted, "Guard Company, assemble!"
In less than a moment, Hua Hanlin set off with the guard company, but the bad premonition in Yue Weihan's heart became stronger and stronger. He immediately ordered Tang Dashan: "Datang, notify all battalions immediately and prepare to leave!"
…
What Yue Weihan was most worried about finally happened!
When the convoy of the Baoshan Regiment was about to reach the highway bridge marked on the map, it encountered a disgraced guard company.
"Tuanzuo, please shoot me." After meeting Yue Weihan, Hua Hanlin said with infinite shame, "I failed to save that bridge."
"What's going on?" regimental deputy Liu Yi said angrily, "A company of more than 400 guards can't guard a highway bridge?"
"We were half a step late." Hua Hanlin said sadly, "By the time we arrived, the kid had already planted the explosives."
Yue Weihan's eyes passed over the officers and soldiers of the guard company, and he said solemnly: "Did you get into trouble with the little devil?"
"It's done!" Hua Hanlin nodded and said, "But that team of little Japs is really powerful. More than a hundred of them are all equipped with fucking automatic firepower. The bullets hit us like the wind, crushing us.
I couldn't raise my head at all! The stupid little cannon (grenade) was still very accurate, and it hit the place where we were gathered with all its strength."
"And this group of devils are not willing to fight." Yue Weihan said solemnly.
"Eh, how do you know, group leader?" Hua Hanlin said in shock, "We exchanged fire for less than two minutes. By the time we finally got the chance to get up and fight back, the idiots had already retreated five hundred meters away, and
He ran faster than a rabbit and was too late to catch up! But in the exchange of fire in less than two minutes, more than twenty brothers in our security company were killed."
When he said the last sentence, Hua Hanlin's tone was obviously choked up. Obviously, the departure of the twenty-odd brothers who lived and died made him deeply saddened and even more guilty. Originally, they had fought through many big and evil battles.
But I didn't expect that I would run into such an evil little devil in this small sewer and lose my life.
Yue Weihan patted Hua Hanlin on the shoulder and said, "Let's bury our fallen brothers first."
"Commander, I want to ask you something!" Hua Hanlin wiped away his tears, suddenly raised his head and said in a ferocious voice, "I want to lead the security company to find these little devils and avenge my dead brothers!"
"No!" Yue Weihan categorically objected, "No!"
"Seat down!" Hua Hanlin was so anxious that he knelt down to Yue Weihan.
"Kneeling is not allowed." Yue Weihan said coldly, "You can go if you want, and I won't stop you. But from now on, you are no longer soldiers of the Baoshan Regiment, and I am no longer your commander!"
"Then let this matter go?" Hua Hanlin said sadly, "So many brothers died in vain?"
"Death in vain? Humph, it's not that easy!" Yue Weihan laughed ferociously, and then said, "When has our Baoshan regiment ever suffered such a big loss?"
"No, our Baoshan Group has never suffered such a big loss!" Hua Hanlin said loudly.
"That's right." Yue Weihan said in a ferocious voice, "We, the Baoshan Regiment, have always taken advantage, how can we suffer any loss? But these little devils are not ordinary little devils, they are special forces, and they cannot be dealt with by just relying on large numbers of people.
Their general tactics are useless against them. If you want to deal with them, you have to find an opportunity!"
Hua Hanlin took a deep breath and said, "Tuanzuo, we listen to you."
After that, Hua Hanlin took the officers and soldiers of the guard company to collect the bodies of the fallen soldiers and bury them.
After appeasing Hua Hanlin and the officers and soldiers of the guard company, Yue Weihan turned back to regiment deputy Liu Yi and said: "Regiment deputy Liu, it seems we have to abandon the car this time!"
"Yes." Liu Yi nodded and said with regret, "The highway bridge was bombed. Under our conditions, it will not be repaired in three to five days, and we can't go back. Now we can only abandon the car and walk.
, It’s just a pity that these more than 100 trucks and so much heavy equipment cannot be taken away, so they all have to be destroyed.”