Zhang Yong's mind suddenly moved, so he didn't ask any more questions.
Killing Fang Zunhai? Dare to be kind. Sure enough, her and his goals are the same.
"I'm leaving."
"good."
"Give me the gun."
"good."
Zhang Yong gave her a Browning M1935 and two spare magazines.
After thinking about it, he gave her a Walter PPK pistol for self-defense.
Mei Xiao quietly hung from the hotel window. Of course, the rope had been prepared long ago. It could be used by tying the bed legs.
Zhang Yong continued to sleep.
I was tired from all the hard work just now. I fell asleep quickly.
I vaguely felt someone crawling into my arms, and gradually woke up.
Oh, it was Mei Xiao who came back quietly.
She took off her night clothes and got directly into the bed.
"nailed it?"
"nailed it."
"Are you injured?"
"Just rub it."
"Is it serious?"
"Nothing serious."
"That's good."
Zhang Yong put her in his arms and continued to sleep.
I'm too lazy to look at the time. It's not yet dawn anyway.
After sleeping for a while, I was ready to move again, so I became fussy.
Mei Xiao seemed a little excited too, and she fell in love with him lingeringly.
a long time……
Satisfied.
"boom……"
"boom……"
Suddenly I heard a muffled sound in the distance.
I didn't pay attention at first, but later I realized something was wrong.
What is this sound?
It looks like a shell explosion?
Where did the shell explode?
Could it be that the Japanese invaders came in early?
Gradually wake up.
Sit up and listen carefully.
Mei Xiao also heard it, but didn't pay attention.
"Cannon fire?"
"It should be."
"Where did the gunfire come from?"
"Maybe it's a drill!"
"exercise?"
Zhang Yong felt something was wrong.
He decided to get up and go find out.
Inside the city of Peiping, you can actually hear the sound of cannons. Something big is definitely going on.
Get dressed.
Simply wash up. Go out. Go downstairs.
We led the team down to the lobby on the first floor of the hotel and found that it was quite quiet.
There were not many guests coming and going, but they were all calm. They seemed to have no feeling at all about the continuous sound of gunfire. Maybe they were used to it?
Go to the front desk, borrow a phone, and call back to the 29th Army Headquarters.
It just so happened that the person who answered the phone was Deputy Chief of Staff Wang Pu. Zhang Yong then asked what happened.
"Commissioner, don't be nervous..."
"Can I not be nervous when someone is having sex? Where to have sex? What do you want to do?"
"It's the Japanese invaders stationed in Fengtai who are conducting military exercises."
"Japanese invaders? Military exercises?"
"Yes."
“Do they conduct drills regularly?”
"Recently, drills have been very frequent. Everyone is used to it."
"Get used to it?"
Zhang Yong frowned secretly.
Once you get used to it, do you take it lightly?
While other Japanese invaders are sharpening their knives, you are actually indifferent?
"What troops are the Japanese invaders?"
“Riverside Tour Group.”
"Shōzo by the river?"
"right."
"Where can we see it?"
"Wanping."
"I'm going to Wanping."
"this……"
Wang Pu was about to speak but stopped.
Zhang Yong didn't speak immediately. He was thinking about something.
This riverside brigade was the culprit that directly caused the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. They lied about missing soldiers and wanted to enter Wanping City to search.
The brigade commander is Kawabe Shozo, the regiment commander is Mutaguchi Renya, and the battalion commander is Ichiki Kiyoshinao.
These people all rose to great heights by provoking conflicts.
In the end, Ichiki Kiyoshi died on Guadalcanal, and he deserved what he deserved. But Mutaguchi Renya and Kawabe Shozo did not receive enough punishment.
However, it would be a serious mistake to say that the three of them were responsible for the incident.
In fact, this was the high-level strategy of the Japanese invaders.
The Japanese invaders had long tried to launch a full-scale invasion.
If there is no positive three by the river, there will still be positive four by the river. If there is no clear tree, there will also be a clear clear tree.
No matter who the Japanese invaders are, the pace of aggression will not stop.
Drills are often the prelude to an attack.
Take back your thoughts.
"Arrange a vehicle. I'm going to Wanping."
"I'll go with you!"
"good."
Zhang Yong had no objection.
Take the student soldiers back to Nanyuan Airport.
This is where his foundation lies. Of course, he needs to explain it to his family.
What if the butterfly's wings were flapping randomly and the Japanese invaders launched an attack just after he arrived at Wanping? All possibilities exist.
At the airport, a DC-3 transport plane was landing, bringing with it more than twenty soldiers from the Fourth Air Police Regiment.
Zhang Yong then issued an order not to continue to transport soldiers over by air.
There are already more than a thousand student soldiers here.
What the Fourth Air Police Regiment can do, the student soldiers can do.
What the student soldiers cannot do, the Fourth Air Police Regiment cannot do either.
Avoid wasting aviation gasoline.
"Report!"
"explain."
"Reporting to the commissioner, there is a transportation team arriving outside."
"oh."
Zhang Yong hurried out to greet him.
Sure enough, the system delivered goods again. But the quantity was not large.
There are only 500 horse-mounted four-ring rifles. There are also fifty boxes of bullets. There are no Czech light machine guns. There are no mortars.
frown.
Land transportation is indeed very restricted.
Each shipment is quite small.
If it’s shipping…
Huh?
Shipping? Chongqing?
Does the system allocate most of the weapons and ammunition there?
It's possible. After all, besides Peiping, the ones who need the most weapons and ammunition right now are the 230th Division. That's the third echelon of the Songhu Battle.
Alas, the output of the system is still seriously insufficient. It cannot take into account all aspects.
"Someone is coming!"
"arrive!"
"Please come over, Commander Song."
"yes."
Soon, Song Youming arrived.
Zhang Yong handed over all weapons and ammunition to him for disposal and equipped them for the student soldiers.
A simple rifle is actually not very useful on the battlefield. However, it is better than nothing. If it is used to fight an ambush...
Vaguely, Zhang Yong had some vague thoughts.
He didn't want to fight head-on with the Japanese invaders. He didn't want to be passively beaten. He wanted to take the initiative. He wanted to ambush the Japanese invaders' small force...
In positional warfare, being bombarded by Japanese aircraft, artillery, and tanks will result in death.
But if you take the initiative and set up an ambush, you can avoid the Japanese invaders' heavy weapons advantage.
I have more than a thousand people and ambushed a squadron of your Japanese invaders. I should have a chance to annihilate them all.
Eliminate one squadron at a time...
Killing one squadron at a time...
A little adds up to a lot.
Build a tower with sand.
The system map can help him obtain fighter planes.
However, he has not yet decided how to fight.
After all, IQ is limited...
"Report! Deputy Chief of Staff Wang is here!"
"good."
Zhang Yong then led the team and set off.
Take a car. First go to the train station, then take the train to Wanping.
It is more than ten kilometers from the train station to Wanping. This railway is currently the only way to enter Beiping.
All other passages have been blocked by the Japanese invaders and are prohibited from passing. Of course, traitors and Japanese invaders can pass through.
The train station is chaotic.
There are a lot of red dot spies hidden inside.
Zhang Yong thought that it would take three days to catch them all.
It can be seen that the Japanese invaders are determined to capture the railway station. They have already lurked a large number of people, waiting for the opportunity.
As long as there are instructions from above, so many spies can paralyze the train station.
There are a lot of weapons symbols. There are a lot of explosives among them.
Suddenly my mind moved.
"Chief of Staff Wang."
"Commissioner please."
"I smell the shells."
"What?"
"There are artillery shells hidden near this train station."
"What?"
Wang Pu felt incredible.
At the train station, are there shells? Hidden? Where can I see them?
"It should be hidden by the spy."
"Spy?"
"Yes. Come with me!"
"good."
Wang Pu followed Zhang Yong dubiously.
Zhang Yong led them into a nearby alley and came to a house with a locked door.
The house is quite big. There is a wall outside. It may have been a warehouse in the past.
Kick the door open and rush in directly.
"Look."
"ah……"
Wang Pu was immediately dumbfounded.
I saw wooden boxes piled up inside the house.
There are some symbols and numbers on the wooden box. It says 75mm artillery shells.
surprise.
incredible.
"Bang!"
Zhang Yong pried open a wooden box.
That's right, there are 75mm mountain artillery shells inside.
There are three rounds in each box. There are about more than 300 boxes, which is 1,000 rounds of artillery shells.
Is it much?
not much.
Only a thousand rounds of artillery shells, nothing!
If placed on the Soviet-German battlefield, it would not be enough to consume an artillery company for one day.
However, for the 29th Army at this moment, it is a timely rain. Because what they lack most is actually artillery shells.
The 29th Army did not have its own arsenal, so all ammunition needed to be purchased from outside. However, the Japanese invaders had blockaded Beiping and Tianjin, making it impossible to purchase from outside.
Yan Laoxi, who is the closest, can produce 75mm artillery shells by himself. However, it is impossible for him to sell them to the 29th Army. It is even more impossible for others. Therefore, the artillery shells of the 29th Army will lose one after each shot.
It is issued. It cannot be replenished after playing. It is extremely scarce.
"Look, I was right."
"Spy, how is it possible to be a spy, how is it possible..."
"Nothing is impossible."
"I, I, I want to report to Commander Song immediately..."
"This is all a trivial matter. Arrange for people to keep strict supervision here and then transport it away. Let's continue to Wanping."
"All right!"
Wang Pu hurriedly made arrangements.
After a while, he reluctantly left.
Get on the train.
A few minutes later, the train started.
"Bang bang..."
"Bang bang..."
Driving all the way, we arrived at Wanping smoothly.
There were no accidents on the road for the time being. But I felt that the sound of gunfire was getting clearer and clearer.
"The Japanese invaders are still practicing?"
"It should be."
"They have plenty of shells."
"yes!"
Wang Pu was filled with emotion.
Of course he knew that the Japanese invaders were powerful.
If there really was a fight, the 29th Army would definitely not be able to defeat it.
That's why we have to work hard to make peace and keep making concessions in order to find a corner of peace. However, right now, there is no way to retreat.
No one knows when the Japanese invaders will launch a full-scale attack.
I don't know what the outcome will be.
Very confused.
From top to bottom, I was at a loss.
It is no longer possible to live in peace and quiet, so where should we go in the future?
silence.
"Bang bang..."
"Bang bang..."
There is only the roar of the train.
Finally, we arrived at Wanping smoothly and got off the bus.
The local garrison came out to greet him.
"Commissioner, this is the commander of the Ji Xingwen regiment stationed in Wanping."
"Captain Ji, thank you for your hard work."
"Sir Commissioner, please."
"Where are the Japanese aggressors practicing?"
"You can see it when you go up to the tower."
"good."
Zhang Yong came up to the tower.
Along the way, the sound of Japanese artillery fire was heard all the time.
Among them, there are also the explosions of large-caliber artillery shells from time to time.
It is judged that it is not a 75mm mountain gun, nor is it a 92 infantry gun. It should be a heavy artillery of over 100mm.
In the Asian battlefield where novices competed with each other at that time, artillery with a diameter of 100 mm or more could be called heavy artillery.
Come up to the tower and raise the telescope.
Sure enough, looking to the east, groups of fires continued to erupt.
Judging from the intensity of the fire, there should be multiple artillery pieces of different calibers firing cross-fire.
Among them, the most violent explosion had a radius of almost five meters.
"Is that the Japanese invaders' field heavy artillery regiment?"
"Yes."
"The Japanese invaders have increased their troops again?"
"Yes."
Wang Pu’s mechanical answer.
The Japanese invaders continued to increase their troops, but the 29th Army had no reinforcements.
In other words, there are no trustworthy reinforcements.
No one in the 29th Army could trust the reinforcements coming from Jinling.
Wong Kar-liet is in front. Everyone is afraid of becoming the second Wong Kar-liet.
Zhang Yong's face tightened.
The situation is not good! The difference in strength is too great.
The Japanese invaders pulled out all their heavy artillery.
There was a violent bombardment that the 29th Army could not withstand.
The heavy artillery regiments of the Japanese invaders, if there is no word "independence", are generally equipped with 105mm heavy cannons.
If it has the word "independent" in front of it, it is equipped with a 150mm howitzer.
The normal establishment is generally 36 artillery pieces. It is equipped with a large number of trucks. It is highly mobile and has a sufficient number of artillery shells.
A very strange phenomenon of the Japanese invaders in World War II was that the army did not lack ammunition and fuel. But it lacked ships. Therefore, it was unable to reinforce the besieged islands.
On the contrary, if you are fighting on the Asian continent, there is no such danger. Reinforcements can be made at any time.
"How long have the Japanese invaders been conducting exercises?"
"It started at six in the morning. It's been three hours."
"It seems to have been planned for a long time!"
"Yes."
"Captain Ji, if the Japanese invaders attack Wanping in a large scale with the cooperation of heavy artillery, can we stop them?"
"Report Commissioner, we will fight to the last soldier!"
"Then it can't be stopped."
Zhang Yong speaks out. He doesn't want to lie to himself.
In other words, the 29th Army must be awakened from its illusions, bravely face the cruel reality, and then seek countermeasures.
Don't place your hope on continuing to make peace and continue to retreat.
There is no way back.
"Commissioner..." Wang Pu hesitated.
"I'm going to see the guards' fortifications." Zhang Yong waved his hand and walked down the tower.
"Please follow me." Ji Xingwen led the way.
After seeing the fortifications, Zhang Yong basically made a clear judgment.
This riverside brigade has been assisted by 105mm heavy cannons. This is a very powerful combat power. It is difficult to match.
The situation is indeed critical.
Positional warfare no longer means much.
It will only be a waste of casualties.
As for the current fortifications of Wanping City, they cannot withstand the bombardment of 105mm heavy cannon.
The fortifications he saw were all made of civil structures. They could withstand bombardment from 75mm mountain artillery at most. They were unstoppable against heavy artillery of over 100mm.
Only reinforced concrete can withstand it. But unfortunately, no.
Great disparity in strength.
Very disparity.
Fighting a positional battle with the Japanese invaders in such a plain area has little meaning other than firing the first shot in the all-out war of resistance.
However, Zhang Yong cannot be too direct and cannot completely deny others.
Even if you are correct, others will be disgusted.
You can only figure it out slowly.
"Chief of Staff Wang, Commander Ji, have you ever thought about killing and injuring the enemy's physical strength?"
"What's the meaning?"
"Just don't care about the gains and losses of one city or one place, take the initiative and eliminate the Japanese invaders."
"Take the initiative?"
"Yes. Since the Japanese invaders can attack us, we can also attack them. If the Japanese invaders can go, I can also go. Find the right opportunity to sneak attack the rear of the Japanese invaders. Just like in ancient battles, you can use thirty-six strategies. As long as
If you can win, you can use any method. Never fight head-on with the Japanese invaders. You can't fight head-on."
"this……"
"Think about it. That's all I have to say."
Zhang Yong originally wanted to cherish his words like gold, but he was worried that he would make too many mistakes. But when he started talking, he couldn't hold it back.
This was the strategy of the Eighth Route Army later: to take the initiative and fight a war of annihilation.
Avoid the sharp edges of the Japanese invaders. Focus on attacking the weak points of the Japanese invaders. See the opportunity and strike immediately.
silence.
The sound of artillery fire from the Japanese invaders' exercises continued.
"actually……"
Wang Pu was about to speak but stopped.
Zhang Yong pretended not to hear.
If you want to say it, say it. If you don’t want to say it, shut up.
"Actually, we are also preparing to conduct a large-scale exercise..."
