Chapter 1004 Honda: I died without seeing the Imperial Army!
Facing all the Chinese troops entering the Fairy Temple, the little Japs would naturally not stand here and watch.
While they were reporting the situation in the Fairy Temple to their superiors, the two Japs leaders came together to meet.
Honda Kazuo is also a left-center player, but he is nearly 20 years older than Taro Aso.
So when Honda Kazuo saw Taro Aso, he felt that he was dwarfed by him.
He said politely: "Aso-kun, are you really young and promising?"
Taro Aso said modestly: "It's just a fluke. Senior deserves the award."
Honda waved his hands and said: "Aso-kun is too modest. Your telegram just now was very timely. Otherwise, I might have attacked directly. By the way, Aso-kun, did you have any ideas when you came this time?"
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Taro Aso smiled slightly and said, "You really can't hide anything from me, senior."
Speaking of this, Taro Aso looked in the direction of Tianchang Town and said: "Senior, the Fairy Temple is seventy kilometers away from Tianchang Town, and at such a long distance, why don't we insert a force to intercept them halfway?"
Honda thought for a while and said: "I understand what Aso-kun means, but we don't have the troops to intervene now. You know the fighting style of Dragon Boat Festival, he fights very fast. And to be honest, I just learned it.
pass.
My vanguard troops suffered heavy losses in just a few minutes. They were shattered into pieces without even seeing their enemies.
This fighting style is very crazy, and it doesn't care about the cost. It's really hard for me to imagine that they still have such fighting power when they come out from our hinterland.
Mr. Aso, if you and I can hold a stalemate with Duanwu at the Fairy Temple now, it is already within our maximum capabilities. If we divide our forces to stop the attack, I believe that with Duanwu's current strength, they will attack before our reinforcements arrive.
Defeat each of us and then leave calmly."
Taro Aso nodded and said in agreement: "What the seniors said is absolutely true, but this is our only chance to stop this force. Do you think it's feasible? We can dispatch a brigade of troops from Yangzhou and go to Tianchang Town to ambush the front line."
Honda looked around, then lowered his voice and said: "Aso-kun is not an outsider, I will tell you the truth. Yangzhou City is currently empty of troops. Apart from me, the troops that can be mobilized are less than one infantry brigade.
If all the people are transferred away, Yangzhou will become an empty city."
Taro Aso said in surprise: "Senior, doesn't Yangzhou originally have a detachment of combat troops?"
Honda waved his hand and said: "What you are talking about was before. Since receiving the order from above, the Second Regiment of the Tiangu Detachment, including part of the First Regiment, a total of three infantry brigades, have rushed to the aid of Changzhou.
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Afterwards, the Dragon Boat Festival did not appear in Changzhou, so they searched downstream along the river.
At this time, the headquarters said that the Dragon Boat Festival had crossed the river, so they turned back to the east of Yangzhou and deployed defenses in the southeast.
And coupled with the fact that part of the Tiangu detachment is extending towards Taizhou to consolidate the defense line there, tell me, where else can there be people in Yangzhou?"
Hearing this, Taro Aso frowned. He did not expect that Yangzhou was actually empty of troops.
However, he still said: "Senior, we must make a decision when it's time to make a decision, and the intention of our headquarters is to intercept Duanwu at all costs and prevent him from returning to Bengbu.
At this time, you have also seen that the two of our troops combined are at most equal to each other. Moreover, most of the people I brought are the Imperial Alliance Army with low combat effectiveness. The combat effectiveness of these useless people is not even ten times that of the Imperial Army.
If even one of them wants to leave, we can't stop them."
Honda nodded and said, "That's right!"
After thinking for a while, Honda turned around and asked his adjutant: "Don't you have any new instructions from the headquarters? Send another telegram, saying that there is a huge difference in the strength of the enemy and ours, and tell the headquarters that Aso-kun and I can only hold the enemy back.
At this time, if you want to stop Duanwu from returning to Bengbu, you must send an army to intercept outside Tianchang Town to ensure the successful implementation of the interception plan."
"Hi!"
Honda 12's adjutant was ordered to send another telegram to the headquarters.
At this time, Matsui Iwane had actually been thinking about this matter for a long time, and his head was about to explode.
He and the staff in the command room stayed awake all day and night, just to catch the Dragon Boat Festival. But every time the Dragon Boat Festival appeared in their field of vision, it was all an illusion.
They had been fooled around by the Dragon Boat Festival, and only after Zhou Weiguo led his people across the river did they realize that they had been completely fooled.
Those who crossed the river to the north bank were just decoys. The large troops of Dragon Boat Festival never crossed the river. They lurked, waiting for their Imperial Japanese Army to run around stupidly, and then took advantage of their empty strength to cross the river in one fell swoop, and then escaped.
Arrive at the Fairy Temple.
In fact, when the Dragon Boat Festival's independent group arrived at the Fairy Temple, they had already escaped from the encirclement he had set.
But I don’t know why, the independent group didn’t rush to leave after entering the Fairy Temple.
This made Matsui Iwane very puzzled.
Because now that we have jumped out of the encirclement, shouldn't we go all the way north to Tianchang Town and then transfer back to Bengbu? Why not go?
But at this moment, from the Fairy Temple side, Honda No. 12 sent a telegram requesting to mobilize troops to intercept the independent regiment in Tianchang County.
In fact, this is a very good idea, but at this time, all the troops in Yangzhou, which is far away from the Fairy Temple, have been mobilized, and the Japanese troops returning from the southeast will take at least two hours to arrive. Is it necessary to abandon Yangzhou?
defensive strength?
Old Japanese Matsui was hesitating, but at this moment, a staff officer said: "We will continue to suffer the chaos. Your Excellency, shall we abandon Yangzhou?"
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Matsui frowned and said: "Have you forgotten that in order to open up the Jinpu Line, we have hoarded a large amount of weapons and equipment, food, and part of the military expenditures in Yangzhou. If anything goes wrong in Yangzhou, we will no longer be able to implement it."
The staff officer added again: "To use a Chinese saying, if you can't let go of your children, you can't trap the wolf. Although we have temporarily transferred our troops from Yangzhou, our enemies will not know.
What's more, we can dispatch people from other places to Yangzhou. In this way, we not only have the force to intercept the main force of the Dragon Boat Festival, but also ensure the safety of Yangzhou. Your Excellency, what do you think?"
"Yoohee!"
Old Japanese Matsui nodded, thinking that his staff was indeed very smart. After all, they had already used the Dragon Boat Festival to compete in Shanghai to replace all the original secret codes. It was impossible for the Chinese to decipher their secret codes!