Hefei, Japanese Central China Front Army Headquarters.
General Hata Toshiroku and Lieutenant General Okabe stood in front of the large map in the war room with gloomy faces. The senior staff officers of the headquarters also had solemn expressions and did not even dare to breathe.
Just a moment ago, the headquarters staff headquarters sent an extremely harsh message.
Deputy Chief of Staff Ishihara Kanji actually directly assigned specific combat tasks to the Front Army, limiting the Central China Front Army to seize Xuzhou within half a month, annihilate the Chinese Baoshan Brigade and capture the brigade commander Yue Weihan alive. This is unprecedented in the history of the Japanese army. Since the Meiji Restoration
Since the formation of the new army, the base camp staff headquarters has never issued specific combat tasks to frontline troops.
This shows that the senior officials of the empire are extremely angry, and the General Staff Headquarters or Deputy Chief Ishihara is now under a lot of pressure!
Lieutenant General Okabe pondered for a moment and then said: "Your Excellency, General, Xuzhou has become a solid military fortress under the management of the Baoshan Brigade. In addition, the Baoshan Brigade has dug huge tunnel fortifications inside and outside the city. With aerial bombing alone,
Or shelling, it is already difficult to effectively kill their effective forces, so it will be extremely difficult to capture Xuzhou within half a month!"
The special agents of the Japanese Army's Special High School were quite capable, and they quickly discovered the secrets of the tunnel by combining all kinds of intelligence.
"The tunnels of the Chinese people are indeed very difficult, and the Baoshan Brigade is the elite of the Chinese army, with very strong combat effectiveness." General Hata Shunliu nodded solemnly, and added, "It is not easy to defeat such an opponent.
The 114th Division alone may not be able to do the job, Okabe-kun, do you have any good suggestions?"
Lieutenant General Okabe said: "Your Majesty General, I think it is necessary to urgently transfer five permanent divisions, including the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th and 18th Divisions, to Xuzhou, especially the 5th Division.
The chief of staff of the division, Tomo Tengda, studied in Germany and systematically studied unconventional warfare theories such as mountain warfare, street warfare, tunnel warfare, and night warfare at the Berlin Military Academy."
"Hey," General Hata Junroku said happily, "Immediately order the above-mentioned five permanent divisions to rush to Xuzhou and form a separate third army. The fifth field heavy artillery brigade will also be equipped with the third army. The commander of this army will be Okabe.
You personally take charge of this task. The combat mission of the Third Army is to seize Xuzhou within half a day, annihilate the Baoshan Brigade and capture Yue Weihan alive!"
"Hai!" Lieutenant General Okabe stood upright with a snap and lowered his head suddenly.
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Xuzhou, garrison headquarters.
Miss Helen pouted and burst into the headquarters angrily, followed by Li Chusheng, who acted as a temporary translator.
Chu Zhongtian, who was guarding the door, thrust his body towards the middle of the door and said coldly: "This is an important military area. No one is allowed to enter!"
"No, I'm not an idler!" Miss Helen angrily took out her press card and the official letter of introduction from the Military Command Department, and said in blunt Chinese, "Please see clearly, I am Helen, a special correspondent of the Associated Press, and the Military Command Department is stationed in Baoshan.
Brigade war correspondent, let me in immediately, I have something very important to meet with General Yue."
"I'm sorry." Chu Zhongtian said without even squinting, "I can't read."
"Are you illiterate?" The American girl was stunned for a moment, then said seriously, "You can ask someone to come and take a look."
"No time." Chu Zhongtian looked indifferent. This guy is not Yue Lvzuo. Yue Lvzuo likes big foreign horses with hot figures, but Chu Zhongtian has no good impression of this foreign girl who smells bad. In Chu Zhongtian's eyes,
Here, Chief Liu Xin and Reporter Zhao are the most feminine. We should be friendly with them, not with this foreign girl in front of us.
While they were arguing, Yue Weihan walked out of the room with a frown on his face and said, "Chu Zhongtian, what are you doing?"
"Seat in the hotel!" Chu Zhongtian quickly stood up and stood at attention, but Miss Helen next to him complained angrily, "Yue, your security guard is too much, he won't let me in!"
Yue Weihan signaled Chu Zhongtian to let him go and asked, "Miss Helen, do you have anything to do with me?"
Helen took two steps and hugged Yue Weihan's right arm, then raised her face and stared at Yue Weihan, saying: "Yue, I am a war correspondent assigned to the Baoshan Brigade by the Associated Press. I have the right to know the latest battle report of the Baoshan Brigade, but why?
The death battalion severely damaged the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Japanese Army, but I was still kept in the dark about such a big thing?"
"Uh, I really forgot, I'm sorry, Miss Helen." Yue Weihan opened his eyes and told lies.
"Yue, I think you are not sincere enough." The American girl was not stupid after all. She pouted and said, "If there is a similar military operation next time, I request to be interviewed by the army."
"I'm afraid that won't work." Yue Weihan shrugged and said, "I must ensure your safety."
"I'll be with you for the interview, and I won't be in the line of fire. There won't be any danger." The American girl hugged Yue Weihan's right arm tighter and tighter, and squeezed Yue Weihan's tall breasts without hesitation.
On his right arm, Yue Weihan couldn't help but reveal an evil smile, and his knife-like eyes directly pierced the American girl's half-opened skirt.
In the war room, Chief of Staff Liu Yi and several major staff officers quickly looked away, not daring to look any further.
Several majors and staff officers were even more envious, thinking that they were so lucky to be in the hotel, and they were almost having fun looking at this posture.
Major Liu Xin came out of the telecommunications room and happened to see this scene. Fang couldn't help feeling a little angry, but she was relieved after thinking about it. Someone like Yue Weihan is handsome, masculine, and a senior general with outstanding military exploits.
It would be abnormal if no woman likes a man. Aren't all the dozen female operators in the telecommunications room secretly in love with him? Especially Hu Dan and Lan Ping, the two foxy girls from the military command, they dream about it in their dreams.
Can you recommend your own pillow seats?
"Brigade, special operations team urgent call!" Major Liu Xin strode forward and stood at attention.
Yue Weihan nodded and asked: "What's going on?"
Major Liu Xin looked unkindly at the American girl who was still hugging Yue Weihan's right arm tightly, and immediately replied: "The 1st Team, 2nd Team, 3rd Team and 4th Team of the Special Operations Group sent back emergency calls at the same time.
, a large number of Japanese troops are encircling Xuzhou, and the Japanese troops that have been discovered include the 3rd, 5th, 6th and 18th Divisions."
"Oh?" Yue Weihan suddenly became alert and strode to the map.
Chief of Staff Liu Yi also hurriedly stepped forward and said solemnly: "Sergeant, it seems that the little devils were really hurt by our beatings. They are going to fight us desperately!"
Yue Weihan said solemnly: "How can you see it?"
Liu Yidao: "According to the information from the Military Command Bureau, the 3rd Division is affiliated with the 11th Army, the 5th Division is affiliated with the 2nd Army, and the 6th and 18th Divisions are affiliated with the 5th Army. Now, these four permanent
The divisions rushed towards me at the same time, which is enough to show that the Japanese army is going to gather its elite troops to attack Xuzhou!"
A smile suddenly appeared on Yue Weihan's lips, and he said: "Chief of Staff, isn't this exactly what we want?"
Liu Yi nodded and said: "The Japanese army mobilized four elite divisions to besiege Xuzhou, which will inevitably affect its offensive in various directions such as the Pinghan-Han Line, the Dabie Mountains, the Sulu border and the Shandong Mountains. It is indeed conducive to our army's calmness
Deployment for the Wuhan Battle, but the pressure on our Baoshan Brigade is too great, Brigade, these are four elite divisions!"
The difference between the seventeen permanent divisions of the Japanese army and the twenty newly established reserve divisions is huge.
Whether in terms of equipment or number of soldiers, reserve divisions are far from being comparable to permanent divisions.
A permanent division has two infantry brigades and four infantry regiments, as well as a field artillery regiment, a baggage regiment, an engineering regiment, and a cavalry regiment. The total strength is more than 28,000 people, including the supplementary corps.
It can even exceed 40,000 people! And the newly formed reserve divisions usually only have three infantry regiments with less than 20,000 people.
Of course, the biggest difference between a permanent division and a reserve division is the number of veterans.
The reason why the permanent divisions can become the elite of the Japanese army is that they have a large number of veterans.
"What about the elite!?" Yue Weihan said suddenly, "Our Baoshan Brigade is fighting against the elite!"
Yue Weihan's casual words made Liu Yi and the staff of the headquarters suddenly excited. Chu Zhongtian's eyes even shone, and he wished he could rush to the battlefield and fight the little devil with a bayonet.
!The beautiful eyes of Major Liu Xin and American girl Helen showed unabashed admiration.
A true hero, a great hero, has always been the favorite of beautiful women.
At this time, Yue Weihan had no time to enjoy the admiration of the two beauties, and immediately said to Liu Yi: "Chief of Staff, immediately telegraph to the War Zone Chief and Military Command Department that the Japanese army is launching a massive revenge and has mobilized at least four elite divisions to jointly attack Xuzhou, but please ask the War Zone
The Chief and Military Command Department can rest assured that Xuzhou City will not be lost within at least half a month!"
"Yes!" Liu Yi stood at attention and saluted, then took the order and left.
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Wuhan camp, General Staff War Room.
Chairman Chiang walked in quickly, escorted by Wang Shihe, the chief of the national guard. Dozens of senior national army generals who had already gathered in the war room quickly stood at attention and saluted. Chairman Chiang waved his hand and walked directly to the hanging wall.
In front of the huge map, he asked General He, the Chief of General Staff: "With all due respect, please tell me briefly about the latest war situation."
"Yes!" General He stood up to attention and said solemnly, "Baoshan Brigade sent an urgent message that the Japanese 3rd, 5th, 6th and 18th divisions are heading to Xuzhou. According to the information provided by the Military Command Bureau, the Japanese army is likely to form
The Thirteenth Army specializes in attacking Xuzhou, and the divisions under its jurisdiction are probably the above four permanent divisions plus the fifth field heavy artillery brigade."
Next to him, Vice President Bai added: "It seems that the reports from the four major Western news agencies, especially the Soviet Tass News Agency, have put great pressure on the Japanese military headquarters. In order to restore the negative impact at home and abroad, they did not hesitate to mobilize the four elite divisions.
The regiment and the fifth field heavy artillery brigade jointly attacked Xuzhou. In this case, the Japanese offensive in the Dabie Mountains and the Han direction on the flat line would ease, and our army would be able to calmly mobilize troops to deploy for the Wuhan battle, as well as Yu Xuezhong on the Sulu border.
And Sun Lianzhong from the Shandong Mountain Area can finally take a breath."
General Li said worriedly: "But in this case, the Baoshan Brigade will have to face the Japanese army's four elite divisions with more than 100,000 troops with only one brigade, not to mention the fifth field heavy artillery brigade and the powerful Japanese army.
With the aviation force assisting in the battle, the pressure on the Baoshan Brigade is really great, and the prospects for this battle are not optimistic!"
Most of the senior generals in the war room looked solemn.
Only Chairman Chiang looked extremely calm, so what about the four elite divisions? With the tips and tricks he personally taught, even if the Japanese army mobilized 500,000 heavy troops to attack Xuzhou, the Baoshan Brigade could retreat unscathed.