Chapter 769 The young man who has been through a thousand sails
"Brother Jingshan, did you get so much equipment?" Commander Zhang, who was so shocked by the rich Northeastern Army, couldn't help but be curious in the end.
"Hehe, as long as Brother Zhang gives up the battlefield of LY, how about I give you the equipment of an infantry regiment of the 59th Army on behalf of Commander Wu?" Tang Dao said with a smile.
The secret arsenal of the Northeastern Army located on the outskirts of Xuzhou is basically no longer necessary on the battlefield of the upcoming war. If the excess weapons are not sent out, they will become trophies of the Japanese.
At this point, Tang Dao knew the direction of the war better than anyone else in this era. Naturally, he didn't feel sorry for him. He opened his mouth and said he was fully equipped with regimental equipment.
Of course, as for the existence of this arsenal, that is not a big secret that Tang Dao can tell, and it is left to Comrade Wu to decide.
"An infantry regiment?" Commander Zhang, who had seen the world, was also startled by Tang Kang's open mouth.
It must be a shock. An infantry regiment is fully equipped. Even if two people have one gun like the most miserable Sichuan Army, there are only a few heavy machine guns. Even hundreds of thousands of oceans can't reach the ground.
But what kind of person Commander Zhang was, he immediately knew that behind this must be the Northeastern Military Department, a big tycoon who had a secret arsenal. Looking at the whole country, only they who had dominated the Northeast for more than 20 years had the strength to spend so much.
As for whether Tang Dao could make the decision for Comrade Lao Wu who was going to the theater headquarters, from the moment Commander Zhang received the telegram asking for help from Comrade Wu who was on his way to Xuzhou City, he knew that Tang Dao, the small regiment leader, was there.
The weight in the heart of a Lieutenant General is not that of a son-nephew, but of a son-nephew.
Thinking about the battlefields they have experienced together, it is not difficult to understand. Whether they were trapped in the lonely city of Songjiang or the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, they were almost all desperate situations. The camaraderie tempered in such an environment is obvious.
Very understandable.
However, under the reflection of the close comrades-in-arms relationship between Comrade Tang Dao and Lao Wu who fought side by side, it is inevitable to think of the old brother who he has treated sincerely for many years, but at such an important moment, he finally chose to preserve his reputation and reputation.
The Lieutenant General, whose status and thoughts were no longer as depressed as before, still couldn't help but feel a little sad.
However, after Tang Dao took the initiative to uncover the scars in his heart and let him face it, this secret sadness no longer caused the heart-wrenching pain every time he thought about it, and it only briefly passed through his thoughts.
"Okay! Our 59th Army is in need of this batch of equipment. I don't care if you are bragging, Brother Tang. As long as you say this, I will not fight with Brother Jingshan for the must-defend city of LY!" Commander Zhang did not mean to be hypocritical at all.
, I agreed immediately.
"Brother Zhang, why don't you refuse? For example, it's not easy for you to say favors to me. It's better for you to go to Commander Wu yourself for this favor... To use a common saying: You are not playing by the rules!
"Tang Dao blinked.
"Haha! Even though Jingshan lied to me about winning merits on the battlefield, he still told me the truth after all. You can't be polite to anyone, brother Tang Dao. Otherwise, all the dignity you have will be lost.
Already." Commander Zhang couldn't help laughing loudly.
"Hey! It's really not a good feeling to have people see through you!" Tang Dao shook his head and sighed.
Commander Zhang laughed loudly again.
Hearty laughter spread out of the house, causing several of Commander Zhang's personal guards to look at each other. They were all former guards of the 38th Division. It had been more than a month since they saw the old commander again, and they had never seen the old commander so happy.
In my heart, I admire Tang Dao, the famous leader of the Four Elements Regiment. Not only can he become so familiar with the military commander in such a short period of time, but also let him be so open-minded. It is really extraordinary.
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However, it was not until they helped the drunken Commander Zhang to leave that they discovered that they had underestimated a certain Colonel.
Except for Tang Dao, there may be no one else who can single-handedly get the two major representatives of the Northwest Army and the Northeast Army drunk.
China's northwest and northeast regions are among the top three regions in China in terms of drinking style and amount of alcohol.
Then, two of the first three were taken care of by Tang Dao alone.
You know, during that period, several officers from the liaison office of the 67th Army came to propose a toast. Commander Tang Da did not refuse anyone who came, and drank until the glass was dry.
Moreover, Tang Dao also went out to entertain the guards at the dinner table and toasted several glasses of wine. The guards were on duty and no one dared to drink, so they offered tea instead, but Captain Tang drank three bowls of white wine in a row.
Just like that, the two representatives of the Northwest Army and the Northeast Army were both drunk by Tang Dao. How awesome is this? No wonder they dared to fight the Japanese in Sihang Warehouse, Songjiang City and Guangde Mountain District!
There is a strange tradition in the Chinese army. For soldiers, wine is courage, and those who are good drinkers are one of the pronouns of bravery. Not to mention the quality of wine, it completely represents the character, but those who have good wine must have some kind of advantage.
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Tang Dao didn't have much contact with the guards of the 59th Army, but he gained their trust by relying on his good drinking capacity and excellent wine.
Of course, the reason why the two elders got drunk in the end was because Tang Dao was good at drinking, which was not enough. It would have made the two lieutenant generals who had passed their forties happy.
This day may also be Commander Zhang's happiest afternoon since the July 7th Incident.
It was not just that he opened his heart in front of Tang Dao, his new little brother, nor was it just that a big pie fell from the sky and he got an infantry regiment equipment for free, but that the problem that had troubled him for many days was unexpectedly solved by Tang Dao.
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Although he got the equipment of an infantry regiment for nothing, Commander Zhang still frowned after laughing and paced slowly in front of the big map.
At the invitation of Chief Li, he served as the commander of the reorganized old army. In the past month, he could not stop thinking about how to avenge his shame. As the Jinling defense battle in the southeast came to an end, a large area of fertile land in North China was lost. In 1938
With the arrival of New Year's Day, the Japanese army's intention to attack Xuzhou from the north and south, an important city that is China's north-south railway transportation hub, is already clear.
LY, a large city guarding the north of Xuzhou, was the battlefield he had been looking for for a long time. The Japanese Fifth Division, which had already invaded Green Island, wanted to come south to Xuzhou, and that was the place they must pass through.
For this reason, Commander Zhang even sent his own special agent battalion to detect the terrain in the suburbs of LY a few days ago and asked the military staff to make city defense deployments. As soon as it was approved by the theater headquarters, the main force of the 59th Army stationed outside Xuzhou City set off.
LY.
But he didn't expect to kill the dark horse of the 67th Army halfway and intercept the Hu of the 59th Army.
Based on Commander Zhang's many years of experience in the army, he certainly knows that if the 67th Army currently only has more than 10,000 troops, it is sheer fantasy to block the Itagaki Division known as the Steel Army, let alone the Guangxi Wangbu who is stationed in Xuzhou.
He would agree, even if he himself feels guilty.
But Tang Dao just said that the 67th Army, which can recruit at least two infantry regiments and thousands of wounded, will return to nearly 30,000 troops. In addition, after replenishing a large amount of arms, Songjiang will be able to defeat the Japanese Tenth Army.
With the endorsement of the results of several days and nights, the possibility of the theater headquarters agreeing will be more than 90%.
Without the battlefield he carefully planned, he could only find another place.
Silently pacing in front of the map, Commander Zhang's eyes kept wandering around the map. Following the gradual convergence of several roads, Commander Zhang's eyes gradually stopped somewhere on the map, and his footsteps stopped moving. His eyes gradually burst into light, and he picked up his fingers.
He moved a little harder: "Since Brother Jingshan has robbed the defense area that our 59th Army originally wanted, Brother Tang, what do you think of this place?"
"Ahem!" Tang Dao almost choked to death on his tea!
Is this a butterfly effect? He helped the 67th Army seize the LY that was supposed to be garrisoned by the 59th Army, but in the end, this person wanted to get involved with the Northwest Army.
However, this also proves the strategic vision of this great army commander. The place he chose is an important place that must be defended!
The place Commander Zhang chose this time was none other than Taierzhuang, the core area of the future Battle of Xuzhou!
No one can ignore this place, which is just a small dot on the map, even if it is not a city, but a large village belonging to Lu Di.
But this village is not an ordinary village. The time when the village was built can even be traced back to the Tang Dynasty a thousand years ago. Due to the prosperity of water transportation, the village's superior geographical location became even more important. By the time of the last feudal dynasty, it even had
The title of 'The No. 1 Village in the World'.
Let’s talk about the geographical location of Taierzhuang first. It is located in Shandong Province, but it is only tens of kilometers away from Xuzhou, the important city in northern Jiangsu. It is adjacent to Weishan Lake in the west, adjacent to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the southwest, Longhai Road in the south, and Jinpu Road in the north. It has convenient water and land transportation.
, can be regarded as the northeastern gateway of Xuzhou, an important strategic barrier guarding the throat of the canal.
It's okay to have such an important geographical location. This village, which Qianlong gave the title of "The No. 1 Village in the World", has become a regional center since the Ming Dynasty. It even once stationed a third-rank military general and a fifth-rank garrison here.
Officials at all levels, such as the general judge of the sixth rank, the commander-in-chief of the seventh rank, the county magistrate of the eighth rank, the general manager of the foreign affairs committee of the eighth rank, the inspection envoy of the ninth rank, and other officials at all levels.
What does it mean? It means that this village was a department-level unit during the Ming Dynasty.
In the last feudal dynasty, even city walls were built.
Historical records record that the city was built next to the canal, 1.1 kilometers long from east to west and 1 kilometers wide from north to south. In the seventh year of Xianfeng (1857), a new brick wall was built on the old foundation. The bottom of the new city wall was an earthen platform, and the wall was 4 meters high.
Crenels. The city wall slopes inward from the bottom edge up. The brick wall is built with adobe and is nearly 3 meters wide at the top. There are 6 city gates: the east gate is called Yangsheng, the west gate is called Taicheng Jiuzhi, the north gate is called Zhongzheng and Xiaobei.
The gate is called Cheng'en Zhanlu, the south gate is called Huidiji, and the small south gate is called Yingxiang. Each of the four east, west, south and north gates has a two-story gate tower, about 7 meters high, with a watchtower on top and a passage below.
Large vehicles are feasible. The moat is 9 meters away from the outside of the city wall, 10 meters wide, 2 meters deep, and 5.7 kilometers in circumference.
By the time of the Republic of China, there were 8 streets, 13 docks, 437 alleys, 5,000 households, and 20,000 houses in the ancient city.
Said to be a village, Taierzhuang is actually not much smaller than the ancient city of Songjiang. If you want to occupy Xuzhou, this is the place you must occupy.
Facts also proved that the top commanders of China and Japan were eyeing this place, and it eventually became the core battlefield where both sides invested a total of 800,000 troops.
Surrounding this ancient city with a radius of only a few square kilometers, the Chinese army invested 300,000 troops in and around the ancient city for auxiliary defense and final general offensive, while the Japanese army also invested more than 100,000 troops for this purpose.
The Chinese army, which had carefully planned this battle, was just a little bit off. If it weren't for the timid commander of the 20th Army who delayed the opportunity several times with an almost idiotic talent, the two Japanese detachments on the core battlefield would have been unable to survive.
He escaped and almost allowed the Chinese army to complete the miracle of annihilating two brigade-level Japanese troops.
However, the territory here is not large. It is enough to accommodate an infantry division. If a behemoth like the 59th Army retreats to defend the city, the losses may be even more severe due to the Japanese army's indiscriminate bombing from the sky to the ground. In Tang Dao's eyes,
, is not the most suitable position for the 59th Army.
More importantly, from a psychological point of view, Tang Dao already knew that the 31st Division of the Second Group Army, led by another major general of the Northwest Army, would definitely hold on to this core area and severely inflict heavy damage on the siege Japanese army. The outcome of this battle was
Glory is already destined.
Commander Zhang's choice was not the most suitable for him, even though Tang Dao knew that the combat effectiveness of his unit was not weaker than that of the Northwest Army.
"Why, brother Tang, you are not optimistic about my choice?" Commander Zhang asked with extremely sharp mind, his thick eyebrows slightly raised. "If my guess is correct, this time the Japanese army will attack Xuzhou with a north-south pincer attack.
This place must be the place where their armies from the north and the south will meet, and then they will use this place as a stronghold to organize their army to attack Xuzhou."
"Brother Zhang, there is no doubt about your strategic vision. This place will be the core of the battle in Xuzhou. Our army and the Japanese army will inevitably shed blood inside and outside this city!" Tang Dao nodded solemnly.
"Then why, brother, are you hesitant to speak? Could it be that you are questioning the combat capabilities of our 59th Army?" Commander Zhang's face showed displeasure for the first time.
"Brother Zhang, don't get me wrong!" Tang Dao stood up and stood in front of the map. "The core of the battle is this city, but it only takes one infantry division to defend this city. What's more important is the peripheral battle. Brother Zhang, you 59
How can an army be overqualified and underutilized?"
"you say!"
"The Japanese nation is a lonely and stubborn nation. From the perspective of our Chinese nation with an extremely splendid civilization history, they are somewhat weird, but we have to admit that they have indeed done a good job in execution and details.
." Tang Dao did not talk about the battlefield, but instead talked about the characteristics of the Japanese nation.
Commander Zhang did not interrupt. As a veteran who has been in the army for decades, he certainly knows what it means to truly know oneself and the enemy. It is not only knowing the strength, location and intentions of the opponent, but also knowing the opponent's personality characteristics. Otherwise, both sides must work hard to obtain the enemy before the battle.
Who has the last name of the opponent's general in charge? Who has the information?
Just like this war, before the war has even started, the intelligence department on the Chinese side is already operating at full capacity. Who will lead the Japanese army in the south? Who will be in the Japanese army in the north? Japanese spies are flying all over the sky. In Xuzhou City alone, there are No fewer than ten genuine Japanese spies were captured, and even more traitors who forgot their origins and worked for the Japanese were arrested.
Both sides also know that in the face of the other party's all-pervasive intelligence agency, unit numbers and general names cannot be kept secret.
But whether you do it or not is the basis of success or failure.
"With such a national character, the plan of a north-south pincer attack by the Japanese has been taking shape for at least half a month. Even if our army guesses it, they will definitely carry it out with their own strength. That will be our chance." Tang Dao said.
"Keep talking!" Commander Zhang's eyes flashed, as if he had captured some inspiration from Tang Dao's words, but the inspiration flashed away again and there was nothing.
"Then our army will defend the south of Xuzhou, using the natural barrier of the Huaihe River as the boundary to prevent the Japanese troops coming from the south from advancing, while the Japanese troops in the north will strictly implement their strategic goals, even if they go deep alone..." Tang Dao smiled.
"I understand!" Commander Zhang clapped his hands.
"What you mean is that by rejecting the south and attacking the north, the Japanese want to use their two knives, one in the south and one in the north, to cut up our army like a cake and eat it. Then we will turn the southern defense line into an iron wall to prevent them from cutting in. There is only one If we cut the knife in, we, the big piece of cake in the eyes of the Japanese army, can actually swallow the Japanese knife."
"That's right! Brother Zhang, no matter where you are stationed, just remember one thing, hold on to your own defense line, always pay attention to the core battle in Taierzhuang, and when the time comes, proactively ask for help in advance to participate in the encirclement and annihilation. I believe that Chief Li will definitely choose to trust you." Tang Dao said seriously.
This can be regarded as Tang Dao's efforts to make up for the big bug of the 20th Army in time and space. The general named Tang didn't even believe that the Chinese army could be so awesome until the victory, and he reacted against the main force of more than 20,000 Japanese troops. Otherwise, why would his tens of thousands of troops be so slow to arrive and give the main force of the Japanese army time to hide in the county seat of Ze County 20 kilometers away and wait for reinforcements?
If the 59th Army with strong fighting spirit comes, plus the 67th Army that quietly comes over, under the pincer attack of the two infantry corps, one on the left and one on the right, if the two detachments of the 10th Division and the 5th Division can still After escaping, Tang Dao really said that they were the chosen ones.
"Haha! No wonder Jingshan loves you so much, brother. Sure enough, you are a great talent!" Commander Zhang, who was awakened by Tang Dao's words, laughed and patted Tang Dao on the shoulder. "With your proposal, Li Sir, you don't have to sell my old face, he will help you get military pay."
"Brother, keep a low profile. Don't say what I say in front of Commander Li. Our Four Lines Regiment has just finished a few battles and has not yet replenished its troops. I don't want to gain credit from the officers!" Tang Dao waved his hand hurriedly. , try to distance yourself.
He knew clearly that Chief Li came here to take charge with the intention of successfully defeating the Japanese invaders, but he also had a small intention of using this battle to take a further step forward.
If it was known that Tang Dao had such ability and a telegram came over, let alone Tang Dao, a young colonel, it would be difficult to disobey military orders even if the colonel was turned into a general.
That was a first-level general who commanded hundreds of thousands of troops. The King of Sichuan Province who had died of illness was only a second-level general!
"I didn't know until you told me, but now I know that Jingshan is rushing to garrison LY. It's probably your suggestion, brother!" Commander Zhang ignored Tang Dao's little thoughts and glanced at him while laughing.
He looked at a certain colonel who was 'cautious'. "Whether it's merit or demerit, for the sake of brotherhood, I'll help you with your help, including when you pass through Yu Province, I will also edit a letter for you to hand over to Mingxuan, but tonight
, you have to have a good drink with me. I’m not a good drinker, but I can still handle one or two kilograms of liquor. Brother, you still have to be aware of this, so as not to say that I’m the big brother bullying you.”
Tang Dao...
"Is it really okay for a big brother to bully others like this?" Tang Dao felt aggrieved for a long time before answering with difficulty.
"This is a drinking battle between Sichuan Province and Northwest and Northeast China. Brother, you can't embarrass the elders in your hometown, and you can't be cowardly!" Commander Zhang, who had completely relaxed his mind, actually had a childlike innocence, and turned a drinking game into a drinking competition between several provinces.
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Maybe, this is the real interesting person.
After a thousand sailings, I am still a young man when I come back!
Comrade Lao Wu, who was waiting for his return from the theater headquarters, sat down at the wine table and watched as his old friend took a sip of Lao Di and Tang Dao Gan wine. Before he even drank, his face began to turn red.
If you seek death on the battlefield, he can persuade you!
But in a wine shop, this really doesn’t work!
Comrade Wu, who has already maxed out his experience points, just wants to escape this "battlefield" where he must lose, but obviously, the famous saying "Don't be afraid of opponents who are like gods, only be afraid of teammates who are like pigs" applies to both ancient and modern times.
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ps: Suddenly I really like this chapter title. The general who is willing to sacrifice his life for the country finally becomes a young man! It’s still a big chapter of 5500 words!
