In the Watanabe detachment headquarters in Gaoyou City, the Japanese detachment leader Hisashi Watanabe, whose eyes were bloodshot, sat on a chair and smoked cigarettes one after another, his whole person enveloped in the swirling smoke.
In the nearby war room, the Japs' staff officers were constantly marking the situation between the enemy and ourselves on the sand table. The combat map was already densely populated with red and blue arrows.
The simultaneous attacks from the north and south by the Chinese Army disrupted the plans of the Japanese soldiers, making it difficult for them to even determine where the main force of the Chinese Army was.
It is said that if you know yourself and the enemy, you will be victorious in any battle, but now the leader of the Japanese detachment, Touichi Watanabe, knows nothing about the situation of the Northern Jiangsu Corps, so that he has fallen into a passive state.
"About two regiments of the Sulu Guerrilla Corps have already launched an attack from the direction of Taizhou."
"The Chinese troops in the direction of Dongtai are also gathering."
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As the fighting broke out between Baoying and Gaoyou, the surrounding squadrons were like wolves smelling fishy smell, and they suddenly started to move. This made the Japanese detachment leader Watanabe Shouichi's mood even worse.
With such a large-scale Chinese ** team gathering, does the Chinese ** team still want to have another spring offensive?
The Japanese detachment leader Watanabe Shouichi frowned. If that was really the case, then their situation would become very dangerous.
Because Yang Ling and others suddenly launched a large-scale attack on Baoying, Jieshou's defenses suddenly became empty. The Sulu War Zone was worried that Yang Ling would not have time to return to the defense, causing the Japanese troops stationed in Gaoyou to move north to capture Jieshou, causing the war to deteriorate.
Therefore, the Sulu Theater Command has issued combat missions to the surrounding friendly forces to intercept and contain the Japanese.
All of a sudden, various regular troops and guerrilla troops in the vicinity of Dongtai, Raishou, Xinghua, and Gaoyou took action one after another, launching attacks on various Japanese strongholds and garrisoned towns.
Overnight, the originally peaceful Sulu theater in Jiangsu suddenly became noisy. First, a large number of Chinese troops attacked Gaoyou.
Immediately, Baoying on the northern front was also opened, and Baoying's garrison commander Hanoi Duanshu sent a telegram saying that Baoying had also discovered a large-scale attack by the Chinese Army.
But before the Japanese detachment leader Watanabe Juichi could figure out where the main force of the Chinese team was, flames of war quickly broke out in the surrounding area.
Strongholds and gun towers everywhere were attacked. Many civilians carrying hoes also appeared on the road and began to dig the road. There was even a team of people a few hundred meters away. The attack war also began.
Facing the snowflakes of calls for help, the Japs headquarters in Gaoyou City was busy. The staff members spent the whole night analyzing whether the Chinese Communist Party was about to launch another large-scale military operation.
The Japanese intelligence agencies were also very confused. They had not received any information at all, so why did they suddenly start fighting?
Now that wars are going on everywhere, and the wars have a tendency to spread to surrounding towns, the Japanese intelligence agencies are not idle, and they immediately take action to find out the whole story.
However, the Sulu Guerrilla Corps also suddenly received an order from the theater headquarters at night, asking them to immediately organize troops to attack and contain the Japanese.
Even they themselves didn't understand why they wanted to attack, but since it was an order from the theater headquarters, they had to carry it out.
Therefore, each army dispatched troops to attack the nearby Japanese and puppet strongholds and towns.
It doesn't matter if they don't fight, but they will be shocked if they do, because they find that the surrounding troops who do not belong to each other are attacking the Japanese, and they are all acting on orders.
The commanders of each army sent people to contact friendly forces to find out the matter, but everyone looked at a loss.
Commander-in-Chief Li Mingyang of the Sulu Theater had no choice but to send a telegram to the theater headquarters again to ask what happened, because the attack order was issued by the theater headquarters.
The staff officers of the theater headquarters also knew that the Northern Jiangsu Corps was attacking Baoying, but they knew nothing about the specific situation because they were also inquiring about Baoying.
All Chinese troops were muddle-headed in their attacks on the Japanese, and the Japanese everywhere who were suddenly attacked also muddle-headedly asked for help, and then everything fell into chaos.
Shen Biao and his southern feint attack troops were still attacking the Japanese with a bluff, but they discovered that many militia troops from other areas had entered the battlefield.
Deputy battalion commander Luo Feng led an assault force to capture a Japanese warehouse. However, when they arrived, they found that several guerrilla detachments had already begun to attack.
Luo Feng hurriedly asked the captains of these guerrilla detachments, who were not affiliated with each other, to inquire about the situation. They said that they had received orders from the theater headquarters to attack the Japanese and contain them.
As for where to attack the Japanese and why they should contain them, they had no idea, but they were all soldiers and it was their bounden duty to obey orders, so they found a warehouse to attack.
The commanders of several guerrilla detachments were fond of playing tricks on themselves and aimed their attacks at Japanese warehouses. This led to several detachments jointly attacking Japanese warehouses.
The scale of the war is spreading further. As guerrillas and militiamen everywhere begin to attack, those stragglers, broken troops, bandits, and gangs who want to fish in troubled waters all take action one after another.
Some of these forces want to take revenge on each other, and some want to take advantage of the chaos to attack the Japanese stronghold and make a profit.
They used various banners and were dazzled. Not to mention the Japanese and puppet troops, many Chinese troops could not tell whether these were puppet troops or enemies.
Now everything is in a mess, and the hardest part is the scattered Japanese and puppet troops. They may have just repelled a wave of guerrillas, but within half an hour, another wave of attacking troops arrived.
Faced with the chaotic battlefield situation, the staff of the Japanese headquarters were all as big as bulls, so they had no choice but to order everyone to stand firm and wait for reinforcements.
Just when the Japanese detachment leader Watanabe Shouichi had not thought clearly, a Japanese staff officer strode over with a solemn expression.
"Captain Duan Shu of Baoying's squadron sent a farewell telegram." The Japanese staff officer said in a low voice.
The Japanese detachment leader Watanabe Shouichi threw away the cigarette in his hand and snatched the message from the staff officer's hand, his face full of disbelief.
A full squadron plus two puppet army camps were wiped out overnight?
How is this possible! The Imperial Japanese Army's combat effectiveness couldn't last even one night?
"Report!"
"The reconnaissance plane of the aviation unit discovered a large-scale China Army operation near Baoying." The Japanese combat staff also hurried over with a message.
"We judge that all attacks are to cover the China Army's attack on Baoying, and the main force of the China Army should be in Baoying."
All the evidence now shows that the main force of the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps that appeared outside Gaoyou City is just a cover, and their real main force is in Baoying.
The Japanese detachment leader Watanabe Shouichi felt that he was being played, and angrily tore the message in his hand into pieces: "Asshole!"