Chapter 649: Preparations before the war
"Old Chi, how about it? I heard that you fought well yesterday and took over the Japanese devil's Zhanshan position?"
"Don't mention it, the Japanese resisted desperately. In order to take down the Zhanshan position, I lost a whole battalion of brothers. Now half of my troops can fight!" Chi Fengchen said with a groan on the phone.
"How about it, do you need help from brothers?"
"Brother Yufeng, please call me your heavy machine gun battalion for two days?"
"That won't work. My troops are exhausted and are resting. Besides, there is no military order. If I help you without authorization, then what should I do if the others ask for a visit?"
"How can you say that? Just the friendship between our two families, if you don't help me, who will you help?"
"In this way, I have seized a few heavy machine guns here. If you think they can still be used, what if you give them to you?" Luo Yufeng said with a giggle.
"Okay, but don't ask me for the conditions?"
"Don't worry, who am I? You don't know yet. Wait for you to come back to drink!" Luo Yufeng laughed, hung up the phone, opened a peanut shell, threw a peanut into his mouth, and started chewing it.
"Brigate, do you really give the weapons we seized to the 31st Division?"
"This is called investment. Now we will give him a few machine guns. Maybe in the future, we will need him to help us with the back. Lao Chi has a bad temper, but he is loyal, so we have to make friends with such people!" Luo Yufeng said.
"It makes some sense, then how much do you think you can give it?"
"Send eight heavy machine guns, twenty light machine guns, and then some mortars and grenade launchers to Lao Chi. Let's leave the rifles and send the rest." Luo Yufeng said.
"Why did you finally get such a little thing? You gave one-third of your breath?"
"I can't bear to leave the child and can't trap the wolf. I guess we won't stay in Taierzhuang for too long!" Luo Yufeng said, "Before leaving, make a good relationship."
"There is a new task?" Qin Yankun asked.
"Not yet, but it's almost done. I'm getting more and more confused about our Master Leng. What exactly is he thinking?" Luo Yufeng said while chewing peanuts.
"Madam Jiang wants to be a matchmaker for our teacher?"
"I guess 80% of it."
"Who will the woman be?"
"You are stupid. Who came to Xuzhou with Mrs. Jiang this time? And the relationship between them, can Mrs. Jiang go to the outside?" Luo Yufeng also had a beating gossip.
"Report!"
"Come in!"
"The brigade and attend the seats, and we have arrived. Four regiments and six thousand people are teams led by Deputy Chief of Staff Liao, and we will arrive early tomorrow morning!"
"That's great, finally here!"
"Lao Luo, with these 6,000 people, our brigade can be filled in an instant. This is a big deal!" Qin Yankun exclaimed.
"I think there is still a big battle to fight below, otherwise we wouldn't have added so many soldiers in one go." Luo Yufeng nodded, "What should we do with our wounded?"
"Follow this train back to the rear."
"It's good that we have no worries. What about our ammunition and food supplement?" Qin Yankun asked.
"There will be a batch of ammunition coming in the next two days. If the grain is raised, the Fifth War Zone will be replenished. Simply put, it is just to ask Chief Li for it." Li Dong, the chief of staff of the 38th Brigade, said.
"Okay, Li Dong, you go down and do your business, Lao Qin, let's discuss the matter of replenishing soldiers." Luo Yufeng said to Qin Yankun.
Hanjia Temple.
"Dong De, this new 38th Brigade has added 6,000 people at once. Mr. Jiang is really biased!"
"That's not Mr. Jiang's man, Leng Guoguang pulled out of his honorary 1st Division reserve corps and directly supplemented it to the new 38th Brigade." Li Delin shook his head and said.
"How many people are there in this Honor Division? How could he just add so many people?"
"I don't know the specific numbers very well. However, there are almost 20,000 people in the main force in our War 5th Zone. There are at least 20,000 reserve corps that went to Wuhan to rest and recuperate. How many of them do you think there are?"
"Why are there so many?"
"In the war in the capital, we lost tens of thousands of troops in the city, and in the safe area, there were nearly 20,000 people. They only reorganized about one-third of them. When they launched the liberation operation, most of them took the initiative to join in. Later, when they arrived in Jiangbei, they took over the prisoner camp in Pukou. These are the essences. There were probably no less than 10,000 prisoners of war were accepted by them. In addition, those who had returned the prisoners before, how many of them did they have?"
"No wonder the Honorary First Division is so powerful. It turns out that they are not new recruits."
"It is more difficult to train these people than train new recruits. Although veterans know the rules, veterans have already established themselves. Therefore, Leng Guoguang's ability to lead troops can be imagined."
"It is indeed not easy to lead a group of prisoners into a powerful army that can thrive in the world!"
"Leng Guoguang has a convincing power. You don't have much contact with him. I have had contact with him. I have young and have my own ideas. If I don't move others, I'm too arrogant and have many edges and corners!" Li Delin commented.
"He has no shortcomings?"
"Of course, I have shortcomings. I am not good at socializing, don't talk much, and have a weird personality. It may be related to his head injury and amnesia."
"Dong De, I always feel that Leng Guoguang has added so many troops to the New 38th Brigade this time, and it seems that there is another meaning in it." Bai Jiansheng said.
"What's the meaning?"
"He may not tell us some things. After replenishing the troops, the total strength of the new 38th Brigade reached 14,000. Not only did he eliminate the damaged wounded soldiers, there were nearly 12,000 people. This is almost the establishment of a division. Does he want to upgrade the new 38th Brigade to a division?"
"Mr. Jiang mentioned that it seems that it is no longer a problem to upgrade the new 38th Brigade to a division."
"By the way, what's the reaction below after Leng Guoguang's identity was announced?"
"Many people were shocked and could still accept it, but Zhang Shouling and others were still very resistant and were very dissatisfied with the appointments of the war zone and the Military Commission."
"Well, just pay attention to comforting me. If you really don't understand, just apply for transfer." Li Delin said domineeringly.
"I see."
At noon on the 6th, the Japanese Navy Air Force issued an airdrop to the encircled Seya Detachment, mainly ammunition and medicines, and about twenty tons of supply supplies, which temporarily solved Seya Kei's urgent need.
But these materials seem to be quite large, but they don’t have much to share and can’t last long.
He also received the No. 84 combat order from the base camp and understood the above intention, which was to let him hold the squadron in Xuzhou, give the base camp time to calmly mobilize troops, and give a large encirclement to the squadron outside Xuzhou!
In this way, if hundreds of thousands of elite troops in Xuzhou can be able to conquer China easily, forcing the Chiang government in Wuhan to accept the terms of the empire's peace talks, and even directly occupy the entire China.
But Setani Kiyoshi understands his situation better. If he does not receive effective support, it will be difficult for him to support the day when the base camp's plan is completed.
But now, he has no choice but to persevere. If he ran away the day before, there might be a chance to remedy it. At least the base camp's combat order No. 84 has not been issued yet.
If he ran away now, he would probably not even have the chance to go to the military court, so he would be taken to the execution ground and executed by a gunfire, and he would not even have the chance to settle himself.
He didn't ask for reinforcements anymore, so he just cared about the supply from the superiors, which would take every two hours. The more he needed at this time, the longer he could support it.
For himself, he could only keep asking for it!
Regardless of his actions, the telegram was intercepted and deciphered, and the opponent learned about the current embarrassment of the Seya detachment.
On the third day of being trapped, the food supply of the Seya detachment was already in difficulty. As a last resort, Seya Kiyo announced that no one would reduce the rations of individual soldiers by 20% every day!
This was just the beginning. The Japanese army frantically collected grain in the occupied area, and everything they saw and could eat was stolen by them.
Several villages were slaughtered and the food was stolen.
This is not enough. Seya Kiyo had to stockpile food for at least half a month, because airdrop supplies were mainly ammunition and medicines, and food could only be accompanied, and the food dropped was not something that ordinary soldiers could enjoy. It could only be supplied to officers and some important technical troops, such as doctors in field hospitals.
"The Japanese army was frantically collecting food. All the food in the villages they gave up were searched, and the people who resisted were also massacred, without humanity!"
"According to our calculations, the food carried by the Japanese army should be able to last for a while. They should be doing this to reserve food and make plans for a long-term confrontation!"
"Strange, why don't they break through? If they break through now, there is no hope. At least some people can be highlighted."
"Rensuke Isotani has given up Hanzhuang, and the Japanese army has retreated to Lincheng, probably to defend Lincheng. In addition, the Japanese army organized about a unit of troops to support a part of the Japanese army surrounded by Zaozhuang. The 85th Army blocked it many times, with many casualties!"
"The 110th Division of the 20th Army has been advanced to the area of Jinling Temple."
"The rear of the Sakamoto Detachment was cut off by part of the 59th Army. The Kyozaki Detachment attacked Linyi, Zhang and Pang worked together to fight the enemy, and the troops suffered heavy losses. The Fifth Mixed Brigade landed in Qingcheng."
"The Fifth Mixed Brigade landed in Qingcheng. In this way, will the Fifth Division be free to attack us with all its might?"
"Yes, the commander of the Fifth Division, Seishiro Itagaki, has arrived in Tangtou Town and personally directed the battle to attack Linyi. The two generals Zhang and Pang are under great pressure!"
"It seems that Leng Guoguang has long considered that he went ahead. The Japanese army could not reinforce the Segu Detachment from Jinpu Road, and could only go from another route. Linyi is the closest to Taierzhuang. As long as these two Japanese troops meet, their combat effectiveness will increase exponentially, but we do not have more troops to encircle them. In this way, the deployment of the Taierzhuang Battle will collapse!"
"It's not that far!"
"But do we have strategic mobile troops in the fifth theater?"
"Yes, we still have a unit, and it is a very powerful force!" Li Delin shone with a sharp light of fire.
"New 38th Brigade!"
"Yes, it's the new 38th Brigade!" Li Delin said affirmatively, "I now understand why Leng Guoguang drew 6,000 people from the reserve corps of the Honorary Division to supplement the new 38th Brigade. He has prepared a strategic mobile force for our fifth war zone. With this force, we will not have no soldiers available at the critical moment!"
"What can a brigade and thousands of people do with it?"
"That's not a few thousand men, it's a division, a well-equipped and full of A-type division!"
Hiss
To be continued^
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Chapter completed!