"Nani?" Seeing this letter of invitation, Yanagawa Hirasuke couldn't believe it, but he couldn't help but feel scruples. The loss of Changxing Guangde and the battle of Nanshan Zhuhai have already made Yanagawa Hirasuke deeply attached to Liu Yang. What's more, Liu Yang made it clear in the telegram that there were spies among the imperial soldiers in Liyang.
Thinking of the fall of Changxing, Liu Yang did have imperial soldiers who had taken refuge in him, Yanagawa Hirasuke couldn't believe it, he would rather believe it than believe it.
"Come here, immediately order Inagawa Masakichi in Liyang to investigate the imperial soldiers below to ensure that Liyang will never be breached by the Chinese army." Yanagawa Hirasuke dared not take risks, so he had to ask Inagawa Masakichi to find the spies.
But look at the last Liu Yang's wild words to take down Wuxi, and the reason turned out to be Masao Takeuchi. Yanagawa Heisuke couldn't help scolding: "Baga, this idiot¡ª"
In fact, when Kou Huairen handed this telegram to Masao Takeuchi, Masao Takeuchi almost went mad, this is too contemptuous of people, he must kill the bastard Liu Yang.
However, some things did not proceed according to Masao Takeuchi's will. When Heisuke Yanagawa thought of Masao Takeuchi, after cursing a bit, he ordered: "Let Masao Takeuchi, an idiot, go to support Liyang immediately, and transfer the Shangshan Regiment to garrison Wuxi , if there is another mistake, let Masao Takeuchi, an idiot, apologize to the Emperor himself."
The order was quickly sent to Masao Takeuchi, which made Masao Takeuchi really want to cry, but he had to gather troops to go south to Liyang.
? On the second day, the Pre-Tenth Division pulled out its battalion and marched towards Langxi, while the 145th Division, 192nd Division and the Secret Service Battalion, with a total of more than 10,000 people, set off towards Liyang with great arrogance.
Knowing the movements of the National Army, Liu Chuanping Heisuke finally confirmed the accuracy of Liu Yang's attack on Liyang, but he couldn't mobilize too many troops to support him, or reach the strength to wipe out Liu Yang's National Army.
Liyang is an ancient city with a history of thousands of years, with well-developed waterway transportation. It is only more than 100 kilometers away from Nanjing. It looks at Changzhou in Nanjing in the north, Wuxi in the east, and Wuhu in the west. It is also an important transportation line to Hangzhou in the south. The geographical location is very important. .
Compared with Yixing and other places, Liyang City is much larger. It is four or five miles from the north gate to the south gate. The city wall is more than one foot high. A gun tower was added to the city, and six blockhouses were built around Liyang City. In conjunction with the firepower points on the city wall, it is really difficult to take Liyang.
Even to open the city gate, you still need to go through the blockade of these bunkers. Each bunker is equipped with one heavy machine gun and two light machine guns. There are two Japanese teams in full. Once a war starts, this is a nail that will kill the enemy. dragged under the city wall.
So even when he received the news that Liu Yang was coming to attack Liyang, Inagawa Masakichi was not too nervous, but for this Chinese soldier who has always been known for his conspiracies, Inagawa Masakichi was still very careful in dealing with it. He started self-examination and self-correction, and strengthened the defense, expanding the original six bunkers to more than ten.
In the military, Inagawa Masakichi is not very worried. Liyang has an artillery unit, and there are four 105 mountain cannons, 20 mortars, plus a regiment of elite imperial troops. Even if three divisions besiege Liyang at the same time , he is not afraid, and Liyang reserves a large part of the Fifth Division's supplies, which is enough for him to use.
But what troubled Inagawa Masakichi the most was the spies Liu Yang said, and he named them imperial soldiers. Inagawa Masakichi didn't want to believe this, but according to the investigation of the Suzhou incident by the Super High School, the reason why Suzhou was breached was It was because some imperial soldiers had defected to Liu Yang.
Not only that, but the same is true of Guangde. Although Liu Yang kept the defectors secret, based on various signs and some investigations, the special high school basically judged who the surrendered people were. That is to say, Liu Yang was indeed instigating the soldiers of the empire. .
This information was leaked to him by a fellow of Masaochi Inagawa¡¯s extra-high school. A large part of it came from a Chinese under Masao Takeuchi in Wuxi. , but this news also convinced Inagawa Masakichi that there might really be spies under his command.
In order to avoid accidents, Masaaki Inagawa inspected more than 3,000 imperial soldiers under his command. According to the information provided by the super high class, anyone who has family members who came to China, no matter whether there is a problem or not, will be temporarily detained. Soldiers who feel a problem are checked.
The so-called problematic soldiers are those who are not fanatical militarists, but this part is really big, even InagawaJi himself is not a fanatical militarist. For this reason, Inagawa Masakichi ordered that at any time, more than five people must be together. If anyone shows signs of acting alone, he will be arrested immediately.
Because of this order, the Japanese soldiers in Liyang were watched whether they were eating or sleeping, and even if they were going to the bathroom, several people had to be together. Naturally, life was very inconvenient. People cleared out the team, including cooking, cleaning, and messy things, which took up a lot of imperial soldiers.
All of a sudden, many soldiers had to do some heavy and dirty manual labor, so that the soldiers could complain, and many soldiers who were locked up made Liyang even more cloudy.
In order to ensure safety, Liyang imposed a curfew, including the Japanese army itself. After six o'clock in the evening, Liyang was like a dead city, and there were patrols all over the streets.
Even so, there was still a poisoning incident in the Japanese army. Later, after detailed investigation, it was water poisoning. There were as many as a squadron of imperial soldiers poisoned, and more than 20 people were more serious, and two even died of poisoning incident.
This undoubtedly cast a shadow over Liyang. Masaaki Inagawa believed that all this was done by spies, and the spies were probably imperial soldiers, because the well that was poisoned was not allowed to approach by the Chinese, and Only imperial soldiers have the opportunity to approach.
In a poisoning incident, Inagawa Masakichi arrested a group of suspicious people, resulting in nearly 200 imperial soldiers being suspected of being arrested for various reasons, but the reason could not be found out in a short time.
But not long after, during another routine inspection, the Japanese army found explosives at the south gate, which frightened Inagawa Masakichi. It turned out that there were really spies, otherwise why would someone try to blow up the gate? Thankfully it was discovered in time.
It's just that this incident sounded the alarm for the Japanese army. In order to ensure that there would be no more accidents, Inagawa Masaaki locked up the Japanese soldiers in the two teams on duty at the time, and ordered the military police to investigate the matter.
But Masakichi Inagawa did not have so much time to find out these things, because Liu Yang had already led a large force to arrive, and the total number of Masakichi Inagawa locked up at this time reached more than 300 people, plus patrols and some heavy tasks Before the battle started, nearly 500 soldiers had been reduced, which was a full force of a brigade.
This made Inagawa Masakichi very depressed, but he didn't dare to take it lightly. After all, successive accidents proved the existence of spies. If spies sabotage during a battle, it would be more terrible than losing these troops.
After a lot of tossing, Inagawa Masakichi felt that his troops were not enough, because everything needed to be done by imperial soldiers, which greatly occupied the deployment of troops.
It's just that this is an unsolvable problem, because Masaaki Inagawa doesn't trust the Chinese, he doesn't dare to take this risk, and he doesn't dare to let any imperial soldier act alone. The troops are stretched, so we can only pin our hopes on Masao Takeuchi who came to reinforce .
At this time, Masao Takeuchi was full of anger. He was stunned by a burst of shells when he left Wuxi. When the Takeuchi United team reacted, the artillery position had not yet been set up, and the enemy who fired had already fled. The Takeuchi United lost dozens of people.
?Masao Takeuchi couldn't find the enemy, and Masao Takeuchi didn't have time to worry about it. If he couldn't support Liyang as planned, Masao Takeuchi would definitely be the one who was unlucky, so he didn't dare to make more entanglements. He just searched and had to start all over again.
The person who attacked him was of course sent by Liu Yang, who was transferred from Changxing to Li Biao's unit. Li Biao had mastered the essence of mobile warfare, ordered the artillery platoon to fire a round of artillery, and then retreated in a hurry. Masao Takeuchi was beaten fly into a rage.
The reason why such a harassment plan was drawn up was because Liu Yang had obtained information from Kou Huairen, and Masao Takeuchi was given a time limit, and he had to arrive in Liyang within two days, otherwise Masao Takeuchi would be asked to apologize, so Li Biao was sure. Aiming at Masao Takeuchi's weakness that he didn't dare to delay, he has arranged a lot of sniper positions along the way.
There is only one main road from Wuxi to Liyang. As for the small road, Masao Takeuchi dare not consider it, because trucks and tanks and armored vehicles cannot pass through the small road, so he can only discard heavy weapons. Without heavy weapons, Masao Takeuchi is really worried.
In order to prevent another sneak attack, Masao Takeuchi sent out a few pioneers to extend the detection range to one mile away, so as to guard against the enemy's sneak attack.
However, the scouts had only been out for more than a dozen miles before they were attacked by Li Biao's troops. Even the elite Japanese army was in a weak position in the face of Li Biao's powerful firepower, and within a few minutes of contact, they lost 200,000 troops. There were many people, but when Masao Takeuchi's army arrived, the enemy withdrew again.
Knowing that the enemy was retreating to the south, Masao Takeuchi did not dare to pursue, so he could only order to continue on his way depressed, but he still couldn't stop.
Soon, the vanguard found landmines on the main road. What made Masao Takeuchi most angry was that these landmines were buried too conspicuously. They were dug one by one on the main road, and the truth and falsehood of them were real. The landmines were mixed, and Masao Takeuchi could only send engineers to clear the mines, and the convoy had to stop. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com)Masao Takeuchi didn't dare to pursue, so he could only order to continue his journey depressedly, but he still couldn't stop.
Soon, the vanguard found landmines on the main road. What made Masao Takeuchi most angry was that these landmines were buried too conspicuously. They were dug one by one on the main road, and the truth and falsehood of them were real. The landmines were mixed, and Masao Takeuchi could only send engineers to clear the mines, and the convoy had to stop. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com