Doihara's plan was for Momotaro to immediately send an elite force to Wanjialing in advance to reinforce the city defense offensive there.
Wanjialing is easy to defend but difficult to attack. As long as there are enough people blocking it, the Supervision Corps will not be able to get in, and the 115th Division will not be able to get out.
Then the 14th Division and Momotaro's troops attacked from both directions, and one unit of the 115th Division and the Supervisory Corps must have been destroyed.
So there is another cannon fodder in this plan - Li Cheng.
According to Dofeihara's plan, this matter should be done by the Japanese themselves, because the location of Wanjialing is very important.
However, Momotaro believes that if Wanjialing is easy to defend and difficult to attack, then all that is needed is cannon fodder who would rather die than retreat. Moreover, even if the opponent occupies Wanjialing, the empire's aircraft will have a constructive effect, so there is no need to
Let the royal army take the risk.
What's more, the level of loyalty shown by Li Cheng was very favored by Momotaro.
Therefore, Momotaro held a banquet tonight to calm Li Cheng's shock.
Li Chengcheng was so frightened that he had long forgotten about being slapped by Momotaro in his excitement.
After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Momotaro said: "Li Sang, actually I invite you to drink this time because I have a very important thing for you to do. I wonder if you have the courage?"
Li Cheng had almost finished drinking. He patted his chest and said, "No matter what Momotaro said, there will be mountains of swords and seas of fire. Even if I, Li, become the Emperor of Japan, I dare to go there."
Momotaro said approvingly: "I admire Li Sang's courage. Your courage is something that many of our Imperial Japanese Army do not possess."
Speaking of this, Tailang continued: "We have just contacted Mr. Doihara. He told me that those on Wanjialing are our people. And Wanjialing guards the main east-west route of Mount Tai. As long as we
If we hold on to Wanjialing, the Supervisory Corps will have no way to escape. Of course, this is a very dangerous thing, because if the Supervisory Corps is forced into a hurry, they will definitely attack Wanjialing, and then there will definitely be
Huge casualties.
So I hope Li Sang can think about it before answering me. If you don’t want to go, I won’t force you. Of course, I won’t let you go alone, I will let Kudo-kun go with you.”
With that said, Momotaro pointed at Kudo Shinichi, who stood up and bowed slightly: "Li Sang, please take care of me."
Li Cheng said happily: "This is great. I was blaming myself for the defeat in the previous battle. I was afraid that I would never have the opportunity to serve for the Imperial Japanese Army. But I didn't expect that this opportunity would come so soon. Momotaro
Mr. Kudo-kun, don’t worry, leave this task to me, I will definitely keep the supervision team out of Wanjialing."
"Hahaha! I knew Li Sang was worthy of a big job."
Momotaro laughed heartily, and this matter was settled.
The Chaoxian Division set off overnight and rushed to Wanjialing. The accompanying personnel included an infantry squadron of Kudo Shinichi.
However, why did Kudo Shinichi follow?
Supervise the army and monitor Li Cheng and the Xiashanhu of Wanjialing. Once they dare to disobey orders and evacuate without authorization, Kudo Shinichi will act as the military police.
In other words, Kudo Shinichi will let the Japanese and traitors on Wanjialing fight to the last person, and then they will find a way to retreat.
But Li Cheng didn't know that he was still in the imperial army because he was afraid that he would be in danger, so he sent a team of elite imperial soldiers to protect him!
So Li Cheng set out happily.
At the same time, on an unnamed mountain about five kilometers away from Zhoujiadian, Zhou Tianyi held a telescope and saw this long queue.
Their special battalion had been investigating the whereabouts of the little Japs. As soon as they found this place, they saw many Japs coming towards them.
The first company of the Special Battalion, Big Dog, saw this and said: "Bingzuo, so many Japanese are marching in a hurry, where are they going? Have the little Japs found Tuanzuo and the others?"
Zhou Tianyi thought for a while and said: "No, although there are a lot of these Japs, they are much less than before. What if they want to attack the group? The little Japs won't be so careless. Forget it, we can't guess.
Let’s report the matter to the group.”
Zhou Tianyi then sent electricity to the Dragon Boat Festival, explaining that there was a Japanese army, about 5,000 strong, marching from west to east. Their purpose was currently unknown.
After Duanwu received the telegram, he asked Zhou Tianyi to continue monitoring, and then found Shangguan Zhibiao, Zhu Shengzhong and others.
Duanwu pointed at the map and said: "Zhou Tianyi reported that there was a Japanese army of about 5,000 people coming east from the direction of Zhoujiadian. Zhou Tianyi guessed that the Japs were coming for us."
Shangguan Zhibiao thought for a while and said: "There are only more than five thousand people. Do they want to fight us desperately?"
Duanwu laughed dryly and said: "Yeah, I don't know why the little devils suddenly sent out such a force of more than 5,000 people. However, this is quite interesting. The little devils dispersed their troops themselves. Then we will attack them
all of a sudden."
"What does tuanzuo mean?"
Shangguan Zhibiao seemed to have thought of something, but with their current strength and firepower, it would be very dangerous to ambush a Japanese army of 5,000 people. The total strength of the 1st and 4th Battalions is now less than 1,600.
, but the opponent has five thousand people, and the firepower is obviously insufficient.
Because the second battalion had already evacuated, the artillery battalion naturally followed suit.
So at this time, Duanwu said that he wanted to fight this battle, but Shangguan Zhibiao felt that neither the troops nor the firepower could complete the ambush. So he admonished: "Commander, if we want to fight this Japanese army,
It is better to transfer the second battalion and the special agent battalion back."
Duanwu smiled and said: "Why do you think I asked the second and third battalions to evacuate first? That's because these two troops are too tired. Previously, Lao Huan and Sun Shiyu led people to attack the racecourse. After that, Wolong Mountain attacked again
It was a big battle, and these two troops needed to rest and recuperate. That’s why I asked them to leave first.”
"kindness!"
Shangguan Zhibiao nodded in response, then frowned and thought.
"Why are you thinking so much? If the group leader says we'll be beaten, then we'll be beaten!"
Zhu Shengzhong interjected at this time, and Tang Hu, commander of the fourth battalion on the side, also nodded and said: "If the regiment says we will fight, we will fight. Without the artillery battalion, don't we still have the artillery platoon? Let's fight one
The artillery platoons of the battalion and the fourth battalion are merged into an artillery company, and the firepower is not necessarily worse than that of the artillery battalion."
"Yes, yes, yes, Old Tang is right."
Zhu Shengzhong agreed, but at this time Shangguan Zhibiao said: "Even if we have enough firepower, our soldiers and weapons and equipment are still a lot worse than before. What I am most worried about is that it is easy to ambush the enemy, and it is easy to escape if you want to."
Difficult."
Duanwu also nodded and said: "What I said makes sense. But there are also many ways to fight in an ambush battle. Before, we ended the battle quickly. But this time, we have to fight slowly, and the little devils are chasing us all over the mountains and plains.