Yue Weihan, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by a loud neighing of horses. When he hurriedly put on his clothes and got up and went out to check, he saw Liu Fengsheng, the deputy of the Bayonet Battalion, walking in happily with two tall horses. Yue Weihan's two guards, Tang Dashan and
Chu Zhongtian, who had already stepped forward, was holding the two horses and was admiring them.
Before Yue Weihan could ask questions, Liu Yi, the chief of staff over there, was also alerted.
Liu Yi frowned and said: "Deputy Liu Ying, you are not leading troops to fight at the train station, why are you here?"
But Liu Fengsheng stood upright and saluted Yue Weihan and Liu Yi: "Take a seat, take a seat, I got you a two-step Japanese horse. You can take your place when you have nothing to do, hehe."
"Is this horse for me and the brigade?" Liu Yi's eyes lit up when he heard this. Although the theater commander's department allocated two jeeps to the Baoshan Brigade and four captured Japanese armored vehicles, these six can be used until now.
The car is already running low due to lack of fuel, so it would be a good choice if you can have a Toyo horse to travel with you when you go out.
Yue Weihan seemed to have guessed something, and said: "Liu Fengsheng, you attacked the Japanese field artillery headquarters?"
"Hey, I really can't hide anything from you, Brigade Commander." Liu Fengsheng scratched his head and said with a smile, "Last night, Battalion Commander Li asked me to lead the 1st Company to take down the little Japanese's field artillery position. After completing the task,
I also attacked the Japanese field artillery headquarters and stole more than a thousand Oriental horses from the stables."
"What a guy!" Liu Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, "One guy captured more than a thousand Oriental horses!?"
"Not many, just over a thousand." Liu Fengsheng said modestly, but with an extremely proud expression on his face, "And they are all draft horses. Although there are hundreds of them of good quality, if you want to tame them into military horses, you still have to wait a long time.
It takes a lot of effort, and it must be a veteran who has served as a cavalryman. I wonder how many such veteran cavalrymen our Baoshan Brigade can have?"
"Come on, stop beating around the bush." Liu Yi couldn't help but smile when he heard this and said, "If you want to be the commander of the cavalry battalion, just say it straight away. Why bother with all these lies? What the brigade commander said can't count?"
"
After saying that, Liu Yi turned to Yue Weihan and said, "Senate, what do you think?"
Yue Weihan nodded happily and said: "Okay, give all the captured horses to the chief of staff, and don't hide any of them. You can leave the rest alone. As for the formation of the cavalry battalion, we will talk about it after the battle to defend Xuzhou is over."
, now you’d better take the troops and go back to the train station quickly, and be the deputy of your bayonet battalion first!”
"Yes!" Liu Fengsheng stood at attention with a snap, then turned around and walked away.
"This is Liu Fengsheng." Chief of Staff Liu Yi said with a smile as he watched Liu Fengsheng go away, "I really remember this."
"I remember it too." Yue Weihan nodded and said thoughtfully, "The role of cavalry in modern warfare is no longer what it used to be, but for a long time, cavalry will still play an immeasurable role, especially in
Until our army lacks armored assault force, battlefield assaults will still have to rely on cavalry!"
Liu Yi nodded and said: "I will send people to supplement the regiment later and check out the situation, and register all those who have served in the cavalry."
"The three main regiments cannot be left behind!" Yue Weihan added, "Those who have served in the cavalry must not only register, but also be immediately promoted to the brigade. Even the backbone of combat or grassroots officers must be promoted to the brigade unconditionally. Each regiment must
Obey resolutely and don’t hold people back for any reason!”
"Yes!" Liu Yi stood up straight with a snap.
…
On the outskirts of Xuzhou, the headquarters of the Japanese 66th Regiment.
The commander of the Japanese 114th Division, Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeharu, walked out of the armored car with a livid face. The 66th Regiment Commander, Colonel Tsune Yamada, and the Deputy Commander, Lieutenant Commander Yamamoto Kubo, who had been waiting for a long time, hurried forward.
Stepping forward, Shi immediately put his feet back and stood at attention, suddenly lowered his head and said: "Your Excellency, General!"
Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeharu slapped Yamada in the face and scolded: "Trash!"
Colonel Yamada's head suddenly tilted, then he straightened it up with force, and then lowered his head suddenly: "Hai!"
Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeharu was still angry and slapped Colonel Yamada twice, and said: "The most elite field infantry regiment, with a tank detachment and a field artillery regiment working together, cannot win Xuzhou."
Not to mention the train station, the Chinese army actually took advantage of the situation to attack the artillery position, causing the field artillery regiment to suffer heavy losses. Yamada-kun, how do you explain this?"
Colonel Yamada's facial muscles twitched violently twice, and then he lowered his head suddenly and said: "Your Excellency, General, I am willing to wash away my shame in the way of a samurai!"
"Baga, that's not what I want!" Lieutenant General Suematsu said angrily, "I want to know the truth!"
"Hai!" Colonel Yamada lowered his head suddenly and said in a serious tone, "Your Excellency General, after more than ten hours of fierce fighting, we can now conclude that the judgment of the front army headquarters is seriously inconsistent with the facts. The China Army is by no means unprepared in Xuzhou. They
A complete group of permanent fortifications has been constructed long ago!”
"Permanent fortification group?" Lieutenant General Suematsu suddenly changed his face slightly.
It only took a few days for the Chinese army to switch from offensive to defensive and then to retreat on the Xuzhou battlefield. It is simply impossible to build a permanent fortification group in Xuzhou in such a short period of time. Therefore, there are only two possibilities.
Either Colonel Yamada was lying, or the Chinese army had been preparing for the defense of Xuzhou a few months ago.
As an imperial samurai, Colonel Yamada obviously cannot lie, so this can only be the second possibility!
"Yes, a permanent fortification group, a fortification group made of reinforced concrete!" Colonel Yamada bowed slightly, his tone becoming heavier and heavier, and said, "The field artillery group of the field artillery regiment cannot threaten China at all.
Even if the Chinese army uses incendiary bombs and chemical bombs for its fortifications, it will have little effect because the Chinese army has already been prepared."
Lieutenant General Suematsu asked again: "Then what happened to the artillery position of the Field Artillery Regiment being attacked?"
Colonel Yamada replied: "Your Excellency General, the China Battalion stationed at Xuzhou Railway Station has an elite company equipped with automatic firepower. The assault firepower is very powerful. It was this elite company that raided the artillery position of the field artillery regiment. At this time I
The three infantry brigades belonging to the 66th Regiment have all deployed in front of the station, so they were unable to rescue them in time."
"Automatic firepower?" Lieutenant General Suematsu frowned and said, "What are the casualties of the 66th Regiment?"
Osaka Yamada said: "Due to the attack on the field artillery regiment, the Kameda brigade was forced to return for reinforcements, and the Noda brigade and Kamiono brigade were also forced to suspend the offensive, so the casualties were not large. However, Your Excellency, the heavy artillery brigade did not arrive.
Previously, if we hastily deployed heavy troops to launch a strong attack, huge casualties would be inevitable."
Lieutenant General Suematsu was silent, and then turned to the division chief of staff, Saburo Isoda, and said: "Isoda-kun, please telegraph the front army headquarters immediately and request the 5th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade to step up its march northward."
Li Yulong was circling around Liu Fengsheng, saying as he did so: "I asked you why you didn't come back for a long time. You probably went to work on your side business. Please tell me the truth. Where are the horses?"
"They were all robbed by the hostess." Liu Fengsheng said with a bitter face, "Not a single one was left for us."
"Who are you kidding?" Li Yulong sneered, "What do you mean, everyone was robbed by the brigade? The brigade is really partial. He clearly kept the horses to form a cavalry battalion. Damn it, these thousands of Oriental horses are obviously
Why do we have to hand over the war supplies of our bayonet battalion to the brigade headquarters, and why do we have to form a cavalry battalion for you guys?"
Liu Fengsheng said: "It's useless to talk to me. If you have the ability, go tell the host."
"You think I don't dare?" Li Yulong snorted, "I'll talk to him later."
After saying that, Li Yulong was afraid that Liu Fengsheng would try to run against him, so he quickly changed the subject and said: "Hey, it's strange to say, why didn't the little devil make any move?"
Liu Fengsheng curled his lips and said with some disdain: "The little devil is not made of fine steel. Without artillery, the tank cannot pass the anti-tank ditch. If we try to attack again, we will die!"
"That's true. It seems that there won't be any movement from the little devil in the past two days." After that, Li Yulong sighed with regret, "Oh, I still thought I could have a good time with the little devil here.
As for the move, I didn’t expect that the little devil was really ordinary, and he fell down after just three or two moves. It’s really boring.”
…
Thirty miles north of Suzhou, Anhui, Fuliji.
At dawn, Pang Hu's special operations team arrived near Fuliji without anyone noticing, and lurked in a large wild jujube forest next to the Jinpu Railway.
As soon as it was discovered that the Japanese forward troops had arrived at the outskirts of Xuzhou, all four teams of the special operations brigade directly under the Baoshan Brigade were sent out by Yue Weihan, heading east and west along the Longhai Line and north along the Jinpu Line.
, reconnaissance to the south, Pang Hu's team is responsible for the reconnaissance of the southern section of the Jinpu Railway.
Whether in ancient times or modern times, timely and reliable information is always the most important.
Yue Weihan's thinking was very clear. If the Japanese army wanted to maneuver quickly, they could not do without the railway line!
Therefore, as long as the four special operations teams monitor the east and west sections of the Longhai Line and the north and south sections of the Jinpu Railway, the mobilization of the Japanese army's heavy infantry groups and heavy artillery brigades will be under Yue Weihan's control, and he will be able to grasp the movements of the Japanese army.
Baoshan Brigade can make timely adjustments to avoid big losses due to being caught off guard.
As soon as Pang Hu's team finished camouflaging, an armored train rumbled up the railway line.
Every time the armored train advances a certain distance, black machine guns will stick out from the shooting holes on both sides of the carriage and shoot a bunch of bullets into the wilderness on both sides. One of the bullets even passed close to Pang Hu's head. Pang Hu was fine, but
A hare that was looking for food in the grass behind was hit hard.
Less than ten minutes after the armored train passed by, another long train rumbled up the railway line. At a glance, there was no end in sight. What made Pang Hu and the soldiers of the special operations team even more frightened.
, the train with the body removed and only the floor plate left was impressively loaded with large-caliber artillery one after another!
Pang Hu visually inspected the calibers of these cannons. The smallest ones were 120mm, and the largest ones were even 240mm!
Pang Hu's heart suddenly jumped wildly. He didn't say that this must be a field heavy artillery brigade of the Japs. This information must be reported to the brigade headquarters immediately!