Chapter 394: All parties are moving, and the war is about to break out
On the 17th.
Located in Gujiao Township, Lingchuan County, Tainan, it is the headquarters of the New Fifth Army.
After Jiang's order was issued, the Political Training Office of the New Fifth Army, as Jiang's representative in Sun Dianying's department, directly showed Sun Dianying the telegrams from the Attendant's Room and the First War Zone.
Sun Dianying had always had an ambiguous relationship with the Japanese army. Near his headquarters of the New Fifth Army, he opened three guesthouses to entertain national army generals, the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese respectively.
Therefore, the officers of the New Fifth Army are also inextricably linked with the Japanese army, which is why the attendant's office did not directly issue combat instructions to the New Fifth Army headquarters.
In the military conference room, the atmosphere was somewhat solidified.
The New Fifth Army has a temporary third division, a fourth division, six regular regiments, three independent regiments, and a special service regiment.
At this time, Wang Tianxiang, the leader of the 11th Regiment, was absent from the military meeting, and Sun Dianying, who was sitting at the head of the table, looked ashen.
"Military seat, the people from the Political Training Department have gone too far. On the way to the meeting, they trapped Wang Tianxiang without any explanation. This is so disrespectful to us!" The fourth person who spoke was the temporary editor.
Division commander Wang Tingying.
The officers present here knew very well why Wang Tianxiang was arrested, but they were behind enemy lines, and the authority of the National Government was far less powerful than behind the enemy lines.
Everyone doesn't want the Political Training Department to open this hole, and one day it might hit them.
Sun Dianying smiled, with a somewhat soothing expression on his face, and then said: "Who told you that Wang Tianxiang was arrested? It's just that the people from the Political Training Department want to have an admonition talk with him, and he will be out in two days. You don't want to
It’s none of your business to make such a fuss!”
When everyone heard this, they were a little confused. Wang Tianxiang had the closest relationship with the Japanese, and he was Sun Dianying's mouthpiece with the Japanese. Wang Tianxiang was passive, but Sun Dianying was actually indifferent.
Everyone present was shocked by Sun Dianying's change of attitude, but they did not know that Sun Dianying had already completed an exchange of interests with Jiang. He shook his head and became a staunch anti-Japanese faction.
Sun Dianying's next words caused another uproar among everyone.
"A few days ago, Jiang's attendant issued a combat order. Our New Fifth Army will launch a counterattack in Lingchuan. The combat missions of each regiment will be issued by the chief of staff. After the meeting, ammunition will be distributed to each regiment immediately. Be sure to arrive at the designated location early this morning!"
Sun Dianying said in a deep voice.
"What? Beat the Japanese?"
"Counterattack again?"
"Military seat, are you too hasty if you didn't prepare in advance?" said a regimental commander present.
"What is important in this operation is speed, so that the Japanese do not have a chance to react. After you go back, some personnel must be controlled, and then the troops will be taken out in the name of training, and the journey must be kept confidential!" Chief of Staff Feng Yangtian ordered.
Seeing Sun Dianying nodding, everyone responded one after another.
The combat capabilities of the regiments under the New Fifth Army vary widely, but warlords like Sun Dianying have extremely strong control over their subordinates, and all of their regiment leaders are his confidants.
With Sun Dianying's approval, the New Fifth Army quickly reached a consensus.
At the same time, Pang Bingxun's Forty Army in Gaoping moved faster than the New Fifth Army.
General Pang Bingxun was a famous anti-Japanese general, and most of his troops were those who dared to fight. At this time, the Forty Army had already marched towards Gaoping and Huguan in batches.
And in Lin County.
Naturally, the people's dignity did not forget the Central Army's only seedling in Tainan. The combat order received by Yang Han's 281st Regiment was to clear out the Japanese and puppet troops in Lin County.
The 281st Regiment was formed from the remnants of Zhu Huaibing's 97th Army. The regiment had more than 3,000 men and was a direct descendant of the Central Army. It later annexed several anti-Japanese armed forces in Linnan, making its military more powerful.
The Forty Army and the New Fifth Army belong to the Hebei-Cha War Zone, while the 281st Regiment belongs to the First War Zone. However, the armed forces of the three national armies are all under the leadership of the Chief of Guard.
The words are divided into two parts.
The 22nd Regiment, the 28th Regiment, and the New Regiment, which were arranged on the Handan-Changchang Highway according to the combat plan, arrived at the designated positions one after another. Each regiment occupied the commanding heights on both sides of the highway and quickly built fortifications.
The independent detachment led by Zhou Weihan was still on standby in Ludongnan, and could only make a hasty march towards Changzhi at nightfall.
"Report to the detachment leader, the 86 members of the reconnaissance company have been assembled!" Dong Jianghui reported.
Zhou Weihan assigned a special task to the reconnaissance company before the war. In addition to protecting the soldiers of the leaders, the entire reconnaissance company assembled.
"Dong Jiang, whether our Eighth Route Army can successfully capture Changzhi City depends entirely on your reconnaissance company!" Zhou Weihan patiently instructed.
"Detachment leader, don't worry, our reconnaissance company guarantees to complete the mission!"
After Zhou Weihan heard this, he looked at He Wensheng, the chief of the enemy's engineering section, and said: "Detachment leader, I have made it clear to Yamada Takema that the puppet troops at Changzhi Airport also have the power of our development, and they will definitely not
Something went wrong!”
Zhou Weihan nodded, and finally looked at Yamada Takema, who joined the anti-war alliance in the Eighth Route Army.
"Yamada-kun, please be safe on this trip!"
"I understand. I guarantee with the honor of a party member that this trip will definitely complete the mission!" At this time, Yamada Takema, who was wearing the uniform of the Eighth Route Army and changed his appearance, solemnly saluted with a military salute.
If the Eighth Route Army wanted to capture Changzhi, its first target was Guancun Airport on the outskirts of Changzhi. Otherwise, once Zhou Weihan led his troops to launch an offensive on Changzhi City, aircraft from Guancun Airport could bomb the troops at any time.
Therefore, Zhou Weihan had already made plans and the reconnaissance company sneaked into Guancun Airport in advance.
On the Handan-Changchang Highway, a small group of Japanese troops suddenly appeared on the road in Lucheng.
On the Handan-Changchang Highway, which had just experienced a war, it was extremely strange that such a Japanese army of less than a hundred people dared to blatantly appear on the highway in a few trucks.
These Japanese troops marched all the way to Changzhi. When they reached the stronghold on the outskirts of Lucheng, the puppet troops in the stronghold stopped them.
I saw Dong Jiang, wearing the uniform of a Japanese military police second lieutenant, jumping out of the first truck.
Several puppet soldiers at the checkpoint saw the Japanese officers in the car angrily walking towards the checkpoint. They couldn't help but trembled in their hearts and took a few steps back.
"Taijun!" the puppet army leader was about to say something.
"Baga!" Dong Jiang went up and slapped the leader of the puppet army with two slaps, causing stars to pop out of his head. His legs went weak and he collapsed on the ground.
"How dare you intercept a military vehicle of the Imperial Japanese Army? Damn it!" Dong Jiang directly pulled out his saber and placed it on the neck of the puppet leader.
At this moment, a Japanese commander in the stronghold, Commander Cao, hurriedly walked out. When he saw Dong Jiang, the leader of the puppet army was sitting slumped on the ground without paying any attention to him, he respectfully saluted him with a military salute.
The reason is very simple. Dong Jiang's gendarmerie uniform was so intimidating that even the Japanese commander Cao did not dare to suspect that someone was pretending to be a gendarmerie of the Imperial Japanese Army.
"Sir, please atone for your sins. The interactions between the Eighth Route Army in the surrounding areas have been rampant recently. Captain Oda ordered that all passing vehicles be strictly inspected. Please forgive me!" Japanese Army Commander Cao lowered his once proud head again.
"Then, soldier, go check it out!" Dong Jiang pointed at the truck behind him.
"No problem, open the checkpoint quickly, sir, please pass!" The Japanese commander Cao did not intend to check, and directly let the puppet troops pass.
In general, the leaders of the gendarmerie in the county are mostly Chief Cao. The sergeants and ordinary gendarmerie soldiers are not qualified to wear the uniforms of the gendarmerie. They will only put a guard on their arms to show the difference from the general Japanese army.
This type of military police is a temporary expansion of non-staff personnel. There is no formal establishment. Military police with formal establishment will be on the roster of the military police headquarters, starting with the rank of second lieutenant.
Dong Jiang's attire, coupled with the rank of lieutenant on his shoulder straps, really made the little devil in front of him frightened.
"Baga, you, you actually neglected your duty, don't forget what your responsibilities are?" Dong Jiang couldn't help but slap the Japanese military commander in front of him, and then took out his gendarmerie ID card from his pocket.
After being beaten, the Japanese commander Cao became even more respectful. He glanced at his ID and hurriedly handed it back. Then he pretended to inspect the truck team and saw that the co-pilot of the second truck was actually sitting in a car.
A major officer saluted him with another military salute.
"Sir, there is no problem. Your time has been wasted. Please pass!"
"Yo Xi!" Dong Jiang nodded with satisfaction.
After the truck team left, the Japanese commander Cao couldn't help but touch his swollen face and quickly reported the group of colleagues who had come from Handan to the Lucheng garrison.
"Bah, they are fucking Japanese. They usually yell at us brothers, why are they so cowardly!"
"Don't you understand? This Taijun just now is a real military policeman. In the past, all we saw were fake people who specialized in treating these Japanese people. Why don't you be cowardly?" the leader of the puppet army said with some pride,
It seemed like he was still honored after being slapped twice.
The truck drove along the road for about twenty minutes, and looking around, we could already see the outline of Lucheng County.
The mission was urgent, so Dong Jiang did not plan to enter the city, but planned to go directly outside the city.
Unexpectedly, at the intersection outside the city, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were scattered around, and a Japanese officer sat on the side of the tricycle.
The soldier from the reconnaissance company who was driving suddenly became alert, put his right hand into gear, and prepared to rush over.
"Hey, it's okay, stay normal!" Dong Jiang waved his hand to stop the driver's behavior.
Dong Jiang got off the car and had another exchange. This time the atmosphere of the exchange was much more harmonious. Dong Jiang was also looking at what others were doing. After all, the kid in front of him had the rank of major sergeant and was on someone else's territory.
"Yajima-kun, I didn't expect that you guys came from Handan and didn't encounter attacks from the Eighth Route Army along the way?" Oda Jiro, the captain of the Lucheng garrison, said doubtfully.
"In order to ensure that the fighter jets of the Imperial Japanese Army continue to fly in the sky, Commander Terauchi transferred some elite members from the military police and infantry to form a small mobile unit specifically responsible for transporting aviation gasoline to the airport!"
"With all due respect, Mr. Oda, you are making too much of a fuss. Along the way, the soldiers in the defense zone of our 104th Brigade maintained normal order, but in Lucheng, what I saw was a strict defense. Are you being captured by the locals?
The Eighth Route Army is scared out of their wits!" Dong Jiang said arrogantly.
After hearing this, Oda Jiro's face darkened, but he was helpless. The 41st Division had just experienced a disastrous defeat, and the 104th Brigade had an outstanding record, and then turned around and left.
After Dong Jiang got in the car, he asked the driver to deliberately slow down the car. Just like that, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, the motorcade finally arrived at the outskirts of Changzhi.
Dong Jiang was sitting in the car, and through the car window, he saw that the Japanese military airport was surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and on the outside were several stone bunkers and gun towers, and several watchtowers stood inside the barbed wire fence.
The inside is surrounded by tall walls, which are covered with shooting holes. Standing outside, it is impossible to see what is inside the airport.
When Dong Jiang saw the deployment of the Japanese airport, he couldn't help but take a breath: "This is just a one-sided arrangement. No wonder so many soldiers were sacrificed when the Fourth Regiment attacked Changzhi Airport last time!"
After a while, the defenders from the gun tower outside the airport trotted over. When they learned that they were transporting aviation gasoline to the airport, they immediately reported to their superiors through the phone in the gun tower.
Later, the captain of the Changzhi Airport Security Team personally came out to greet Dong Jiang. When he saw Dong Jiang, his face was filled with a smile and he directly let his subordinates pass.
Dong Jiang jumped out of the car and walked into the airport with the captain of the garrison, while carefully observing the surrounding layout.
Dong Jiang and his party came in the name of transporting aviation gasoline to Changzhi Airport from Handan. Terauchi knew that there was a flying squadron at Changzhi Airport, but arranged firepower arrangements inside and outside the airport, so Zhou Weihan asked Dong Jiang to sneak into the airport in advance.
"Yajima-kun, thank you for taking the risk to transport aviation gasoline. You came too timely. The gasoline reserves cannot support the combat needs for several days. Those guys in the sky are urging me about this every day!" Guard Team
Captain Takeji Igawa complained.
"Baga, these guys are so arrogant. Without our army, they are nothing!" Dong Jiang pretended to be angry and cursed.
As soon as these words came out, they immediately resonated with Takeshi Igawa, and the two began to complain.
As we all know, the Japanese army had an army and a navy, but it did not have an air force. It only had army aviation and naval aviation.
The two eldest brothers disliked each other, but they suppressed the younger brother beside them.
The basic organization of Japanese army aviation fighters is a squad, with two aircraft forming a detachment, four aircraft forming a squad, three squads forming a squadron (12 aircraft), and three squadrons forming a squadron.
The number of establishments of other flight sub-divisions is different. The Japanese light explosive, heavy explosive, reconnaissance, and transport aircraft are organized into a squadron of 3 aircraft, three squadrons of 9 aircraft are organized into a squadron, and two to three squadrons are organized into a team. Therefore, light explosion,
The number of heavy explosives, reconnaissance, and transport flight teams varies between 18 and 27 aircraft.
The flying squadron is the basic organizational unit of the Imperial Japanese Army Aviation. The commander's rank is usually between lieutenant colonel and major general, sometimes lieutenant colonel or colonel. Two or more squadrons are organized into a flying regiment. The commander's rank is generally between lieutenant colonel and major general, with two or more ranks.
One or more flight regiments are organized into a flight group or a combat flight group, and have a commander with the rank of lieutenant general.
The commander of the flight squadron at Changzhi Airport has the rank of major, which is the same level as the guard captain, but the treatment between the two is very different.