April 24, 1940!
With the briefing of the Second War Zone announcing the victory of the Zishan Battle in southern Hebei, the battle of sweeping and anti-sweeping, which actually invested more than 100,000 troops on the southern Hebei Plain, officially ended.
However, the Second War Zone of China, as the victorious side and the North China Front Army of Japan, as the defeated side, were both vague about the losses of both sides, which were named the "First Battle of Handan" in the future.
The Japanese North China Front Army was easy to understand. After all, as a dirty party, it is normal to cover up its losses. However, the stingy old man who likes to show off his merits the most said, "We won." It is really difficult to understand.
Perhaps only those who know the inside story understand that this is the disguised suppression of Tang Dao by the stingy old man, and even the war report submitted to the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Second War Zone is called the Hebei South Office and the 921st Division of the 80th Army, without mentioning the three words of the Four Lines Regiment.
"Yoxi! The commander of China's Second War Zone must have a grudge against the Four Army Regiment and Tang Dao. This is something that the Front Army can use, so that the Front Army's intelligence course will spend more effort in this regard, the more detailed the better. This will have an incalculable effect on the Front Army's stubborn enemy, the Four Army Regiment." Okamura Koji, who has been appointed as the commander of the North China Front Army of Japan, actually keenly discovered important information from this seemingly unimportant intelligence.
"Kun Kasahara, this is one of the reasons why China cannot compete with the empire. Their internal friction is too serious. Even under such heavy pressure from the empire, this is also one of the reasons why I strongly advocated the Kanto Army to use troops against the three northeastern provinces." Facing Major General Yukio Kasahara, the chief of staff of the front army, Okamura Koji's sinister face rarely floated warmly.
This may be the best news that Okamura Koji has received since taking office. Tang Dao led a small infantry regiment to embarrass a front army so embarrassing. If he was promoted to brigade commander, what would be the division commander?
The reason why Okamura Koji was most concerned about Tang Dao and raised his plan to deal with the Four Corps to almost the height of the Nakajoyama defense line when he was in office was the lesson of the previous three commanders who stepped down in disgrace.
If the resignation of the indoor shroud general is not very related to Tang Dao, then the sad resignation of Shan Shanyuan and Duo Tianjun has an inevitable connection with the rise of Tang Dao and the Four-League Group.
Okamura Koji naturally wanted to learn from the lessons of the first three. As soon as he arrived in North China, he immediately ordered the intelligence class to check all the information of the Four Army Corps and Tang Dao himself. This made him find a trace of unusual clues in the battle report reported in the Second War Zone!
Koji Okamura, who claims to be knowledgeable and talented, must have never dabbled in philosophy. The famous Germanic philosopher Hegel once said: The only lesson learned by mankind from history is that mankind has not learned any lessons from history.
However, the cunning Okamura Koji would show his chief of staff because of this little discovery?
Obviously, this does not match the character who is known as the "most insidious commander of the North China Front Army."
If it were someone else, facing the show of his boss, he would basically give him a rainbow fart and show his loyalty first.
However, Major General Kasahara Yukio, who was then the chief of staff of the North China Front Army, was not a simple figure. As a descendant of the Shogunate family, this man was at the same time as Ishihara Kanir at the Army University. Because of his excellent grades, he became a member of the "Sabre Group" with Ishihara Kanir and others. He was awarded a saber by Emperor Taisho and served as the Chief of Staff of the Kanto Army and the Commander of the 11th Army in his former time and space.
To put it bluntly, Kasahara Yuki is the kind of person who has someone behind him and is still working very hard. Such a person will naturally have his own solutions when facing the tentative self-proclaimed person with a higher-level boss.
"The commander's wisdom is that when he was serving in the Guard Division, he heard the division commander mention it from time to time and always regard the commander as a model. This time, the commander took office and learned the internal struggles of the Chinese. The subordinates were very impressed. The front army was restored to its former glory, and it was just around the corner!" Kasahara Yukio gave a gentle flattery respectfully and neither humble nor arrogant.
Koji Okamura's face was even more gentle, but a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes.
If it weren't for the reminder of his chief of staff, he would have almost forgotten that he would have been promoted to lieutenant general of the army soon after, when the Guard Division was the commander of the Guard Division, the current Army General Asakamiya Hirohiko.
This person's subtext also reminded him indifferently: I will cooperate with the commander, but don't knead me as a soft persimmon. The great god behind me is His Highness the Prince.
Just now, he was proud of the Chinese internal strife. The commander of the New Japan North China Front Army discovered that the guys under him were not good. He wanted to use the momentum of "take the order in danger" to suppress them. It was not a matter of a few days, and his head hurt slightly.
Compared with the excitement of the power alternating between the Japanese North China Front Army, the high-level leaders of the Chinese Mountain City were calm, as if they had not seen the Second War Zone almost proclaimed the infighting on paper.
Even the promotion order was based on the wishes of a commander in the Second War Zone.
The commander of the 683 journey was from major general, Lieutenant General, and several deputy brigade-level cadres of the 683 Brigade were promoted from army colonels to major general, but the military expenditure of the three infantry divisions of the 80th Army was not paid.
Commander Cheng, who received the promotion order, disdainfully threw the promotion order into a ball and threw it into the stove with boiling water: "Since the beginning of winter last year, I have never paid any military pay. What major general and lieutenant general, I don't care about his blank check!"
Since November last year, the entire Eighty Army has not received a penny of military expenses. The top and the eighty Army have already felt the vigilance and dissatisfaction of the Shancheng for themselves. In this battle in Zishan, the Eighty Army is willing to use the 683rd Brigade to show off its muscles. In fact, it is necessary to show that one person. It is okay not to pay military expenses, but don’t play with fire. The Eighty Army has the courage and strength to face all the enemies.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! In this context, even if the Ministry of Military Affairs gives a higher position, it is just a blank check as Captain Cheng said.
The Hebei Administrative Office was promoted to the rank of prince and lieutenant general. To put it bluntly, the rank of military is still the major general of the army, but the salary of the lieutenant general was the deputy director Tang Dao, and the military salary was a little higher, but the rank still remained unchanged.
As the main force of the Battle of Zishan, the four-way regiment was almost not mentioned in the promotion order, and only the military salary of all captain-level officers and above was increased by one level.
I don’t mention any medals or something.
"Dog Day's War Zone Command and Military Affairs Department, I killed many Japanese devils in this battle. More than a thousand brothers in the group died in battle. They didn't even see them?" Lei Xiong had a hot temper. In front of Tang Dao who returned to the garrison, he almost slapped the wooden coffee table with a slap.
Tang Dao, who was lying lazily on the lounge chair basking in the sun, smiled slightly and handed over a cup of tea: "Brother, I think it's a matter! It's just a little reward! If you don't give money, you'll give me the pension and rewards yourself, and if you don't give me medals, why don't we do it ourselves?"
"This is not a question of whether or not money is money. My brothers died for the country. Why can these bastards turn a blind eye? Are you not afraid of the soldiers being heartbroken?" Lei Xiong's face became even more angry.
"Brother, you said just now that our brothers sacrificed their country for the country and the people, why should we get the recognition of those people? It is said that history is written by the victors, so I can tell you clearly that even if one day the Japanese are driven away, they are not worthy of calling them winners." Tang Dao stood up, looked at the distant mountains, and said with a calm expression.
"Only the Chinese people have that qualification!"
"The future is the future, but now, I still feel a little nervous." Lei Xiong sat down in a depressed manner.
"Haha! Brother, don't you see anything from the abnormal behavior of these big shots?" Tang Dao smiled and handed over a cigarette.
"I saw something, I saw that they were just a nest of snakes and rats, a good bird that was not good. In ancient times, I would take 100,000 cavalry to the capital to find an explanation!" Lei Xiong took the cigarette and was still angry at the unfair treatment of the whole group.
"Haha, I didn't expect that your brother had so many rebellious kids, and you had all been tricked into 100,000 iron cavalry. Fortunately, you are not a border general, otherwise the big men of the Ministry of Military Affairs would not be scared to you!" Tang Dao couldn't help laughing.
"Hehe! Isn't it all the acting on the stage that way?" Lei Xiong's old face turned red by Tang Dao's smile.
With his military rank, he was a lieutenant in ancient times. Not to mention his deputy commander, even Tang Dao could only command ten thousand people.
"Okay, man, don't be angry. We didn't really offend anyone this time, nor were the big guys really short-sighted, it was purely the ending after political balance." Tang Dao sighed.
"What do you mean?" Lei Xiong lit a cigarette and looked at Tang Dao.
Regarding Tang Dao, a young man who was several years younger than him, Lei Xiong chose to follow Tang Dao at first but was impressed by his spirit of resistance against the war. Later, he gradually discovered that Tang Dao's tactics and strategic vision were the only ones he saw in his life. The ability to unite and connect with friendly forces in various departments was even more amazing.
Any troops that Tang Dao regards as friendly forces have never fallen off the chain on the battlefield, which is why the Four Lines Regiment is invincible.
As the second-ranked figure of the Four-Ship Group, Lei Xiong is a family member who knows his family affairs. No matter how elite the Four-Ship Group is, due to its organization, there are only a few thousand troops. The Japanese came to the scene of divisions. If there were no friendly forces fighting side by side, the Four-Ship Group would have been finished many times.
Unexpectedly, Tang Dao was not only awesome on the battlefield, but even could figure out the thoughts of those out of reach of big figures, which was even more amazing.
"You think! If the victory of the Zishan Battle is put on my Four-League regiment, what should I do as the leader of the regiment?"
"Promotion! With your military achievements in the regiment, you should have been promoted to major general and become the commander of the First Brigade at least a year ago!" Lei Xiong said naturally.
"Yes! It's easy to be promoted to brigade commander of major general, but difficult to do! I ask you, I'm a brigade commander, will the Four Lines Regiment I built have to be expanded into an infantry brigade?"
"What's the difficulty? My four-line group is a special group, but I can just change my name."
"Hehe, if you don't deal with the commander in the Second War Zone at all, and even if you were a life-and-death enemy in the past, you wouldn't be friends in the future. Do you want to add another brigade under his command that can be expanded into an infantry division at any time?"
"Then I'm not crazy, unless I can find a way to transfer it away and expand the department." Lei Xiong's head shook like a rattle.
"So! As long as I became the brigade commander, my four-way regiment will definitely be no longer in North China! Do you think that commander was really confused by my telegram? He was just taking advantage of the situation and suppressing my military achievements openly and continuing to leave us on the battlefield in North China. To put it bluntly, no matter how disobedient the mastiff raised by the herdsmen can drive away the wolves, no matter how little it is, as long as it can drive away the wolves, the flesh and bones will be missing.
Under the pressure of the war in the south, the man was never willing to have problems with the northern defense line, and could only use practical actions to appease the commander, the Four Corps, and will not move for the time being.
That's why you saw that from the War Zone Command to the Military Affairs Department, you were like blind people pretending not to see the merits of my Four-Enterprise."
"Wori, it turns out that for their benefit, our brothers died in vain in the end. There was no sign of anything! These bitches who play politics were raised." Lei Xiong suddenly realized, but became even more angry.
For the sake of their own interests, the big men sacrificed the interests of all the officers and soldiers of the Four-League Group, just like drinking boiled water. Who can not be angry?
"Haha, don't worry, since that commander wants my four-way team to help him work, he can ignore his achievements on the surface, but if he doesn't even express it in private, he will be the King of Jin Province who has been in vain for so many years.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! There is no good thing in this world that you want a horse to run and don’t eat grass?" Tang Dao sneered.
The heavily guarded Second War Zone Commander’s Residence!
"That boy Tang Dao is so calm? The Ministry of Military Affairs and Political Affairs has issued the Jin Provincial Order for two days, so why didn't he send me a telegram and complain, even if he pretended to report on my reality and reality, it would be fine! You can't let me send a telegram in person!" The stingy old man rubbed his scalp and paced back and forth in the courtyard with some depression.
"Brother, don't you know that Captain Tang's bad temper? In order to keep him, you suppressed his great achievements in the entire regiment. He did not rush to use the relationship between Dan Tai reporters in the declaration to make a record of the Zishan Battle. You are already very proud. You still expect him to call him in person, so he is not the mighty general who faces tens of thousands of Japanese troops." The middle-aged woman smiled with her lips when she saw the stingy old man, but she was also blunt.
"Even if the old man, I did a little unauthorized battle for the North China situation, was his order to resist the war before the war? After the war, I gave me a few words to report the victory. Is there any rude thing? After the war, I am the commander of the war zone. After all, he is the commander of the war zone. He, the leader of the direct regiment of the war zone, is too unfair to take me, the immediate boss!" The stingy old man raised his eyebrows and forced himself to make up for it.
Seeing that his elder brother had already started to play with anger, the middle-aged woman who knew his temperament smiled but didn't say anything and stopped comforting her.
Some people cannot persuade them, and the more they persuade them, the more they become more and more energetic, and stingy old men fall into this category.
But middle-aged women also know that it is one thing for their brother to be narrow-minded, but how can they do stupid things that can break their own wings just because they are unhappy? His ability to regulate his emotions exceeds 99% of them.
"Count the ball, the adults don't remember the villain's fault. Who told this kid to fight the Japanese?" The stingy old man saw that his girl would not give him a step, so he could only stomp his feet and give him a step.
"The military commander office was ordered to prepare 10,000 taels of gold, 150,000 foreign countries, 500,000 bullets of various types, 20,000 shells, 3,000 rifles, 100 light machine guns... Even if you forget about the cannons, the Four Lines Regiment probably doesn't look down on these old men and these rags now.
In addition, use the headquarters seal to open 20 blank road strips for the Sihang Group, so as not to invite people to eat and drink as soon as they have time. This is a wartime period. How could a soldier spend time on the interweaving of cups and chopsticks? "The stingy old man gave his own conditions with a painful face.
"This..." the middle-aged woman looked surprised.
"Please send it to the Four-Rank Group!" The stingy old man stomped his feet hard, turned around and walked into the small study with anger.
These are all his money. I don’t know when to save it until it will be restored. The stingy old man may feel so distressed that he can’t fall asleep tonight.
However, he obviously misunderstood his cousin's meaning. Before the middle-aged woman could finish her word "so many" was finished, the stingy old man took the initiative to lower his identity and sent four baggage companies to send these rewards to the Four Lines Group.
This low posture made Deputy Lei Tuan, who had been scolding his bitch before, feel embarrassed to scold him again.
The total reward of over 500,000 foreign countries is distributed to the entire Four Army Regiment, which has more than 10,000 troops, and can also be rewarded with 50 foreign countries per person.
Although the Sixing Group is not short of money now, no one will think it’s too much, right?
500,000 rounds of bullets of various caliber and four-line guns are not useful, but they can be used as gifts! Moreover, militiamen from all over the southern Hebei region also need live ammunition training, which can make up for the deficit in the ammunition storage of military factories.
Moreover, the road strips covered with the seal of the War Zone Command are also a favor. In order to successfully pass the war zone, the major merchant groups in Dakouzidong Town showed their magical powers. For example, Boss Qian even sent the money to the stingy old man's personal secretary, the fifth sister. Although the important personnel of the War Zone Command have opened road strips for the sake of Tang Tuanzhao, the money was spent a lot.
If these 20 road lines are converted into money, they are worth ten thousand oceans and reduce many troubles. The meaning of the subsequent meaning is to reduce many shackles on the development of trade in business groups. It is also a warning to all the people who are taking the money to get along with the business groups, and I am so embarrassed by the old man.
He is really smart and has no hair on his head. The stingy old man made a complete set of tricks made by Tang Dao and the Sixing Group.
"Our regiment suffered huge losses due to the Battle of Zishan. In addition to leaving a unit of the Jisan Office stationed in Zishan, the main force returned to the garrison to rest. I hope Commander Yan would agree!" Tang Dao sent a call to the War Zone Command that afternoon after receiving the condolences.
"Accurate!" The stingy old man called back with a smile.
The undercurrents between the commander of the Second War Zone and the number one strong general under his command were calmed down because of the suppression of military achievements. Unfortunately, the intelligence classes in North China in Japan were still working hard to collect intelligence in the hope of finding some flaws.
Chapter completed!