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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 518 Forced to Close

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    Chapter 518: Forced to gather together

    Kobayashi, the head of the Intelligence Section, was driven crazy by Chief of Staff Yamaguchi, and Yamaguchi could only rely on the intelligence he provided to determine the next direction and target of action. The intelligence personnel under his command were scattered like mud into the sea.  He craned his neck waiting for the news, but there was no reply.  -< Piaotian literature registered members recommend this work >-%.net

    He had no choice but to order the scattered Japanese troops in various places in the name of Yamaguchi to send out small reconnaissance troops to search every place with a sieve method based on a radius of fifty kilometers. His move was really effective.  On the first day of dispatch, almost half of the reconnaissance team sent an emergency call, claiming that they had encountered a large force of the ** Division and had been surrounded, requesting reinforcements.

    When the large Japanese troops arrived in somersault style over the mountains and ridges, they saw only messy footprints all over the snow. Soldiers' corpses, frozen solid, were neatly stacked together. It looked like they were made of corpses.  The sight of the piles of firewood made the Japanese soldiers tremble with fear, and cold air ran down their backs.

    After three days of struggling, all the agents in his hands were involved, and the soldiers in each unit also suffered a lot. In addition to the news of daily losses, not even a ghost could be seen in the huge Taihang Mountains. Xiao Lin really had no choice.  He had to face countless questionings from the Chief of Staff every day, even insults like a shrew, mixed with a few slaps. Unable to think about it, he committed suicide by caesarean section in his bedroom. It is said that this was the first time since the beginning of the war in North China.  A high-ranking intelligence officer who serves His Majesty the Emperor in this way.

    Before committing suicide, he left a suicide note, claiming: "After more than 20 days of raiding the Taihang Mountains, we found nothing except a large amount of supplies and the morale of the soldiers. We could only fight with Tang Qiuli's troops in the Qinquan and Sucheng areas."  Once, I had a lot of questions about this battle. Why did the imperial army, with its main division, dare not take the initiative to attack, but allowed Tang Qiuli to retreat unscathed? "

    "Chasing to Sucheng, the Imperial Army was ambushed by landmines and suffered heavy losses. However, Chief of Staff Yamaguchi did not see any punishment for the derelict officers. At least there was responsibility for the hesitation. I have asked about this matter, and they all  He acted under the orders of the Chief of Staff. Now that he thinks about it, Chief of Staff Yamaguchi was actually too cautious for his own selfish reasons and missed a good opportunity. Later, he blamed the intelligence department for the failure of the unit. Kobayashi was speechless.  Yes, in a foreign country, the role of the intelligence service is minimal. "

    "What's worse, Chief of Staff Yamaguchi did not realize the truth. Instead, he blamed me in every possible way, verbally insulted me, and even punched me. Xiaolin couldn't bear it. He neglected his duty first, and his superiors blamed him second. After thinking about it again and again, he decided to die to clarify his will and achieve his goal.  To repay His Majesty the Emperor for his great kindness, long live His Majesty the Emperor of Japan"

    Kobayashi¡¯s final letter was so cruel that he even bit Yamaguchi hard at the moment. Yamaguchi did not see the letter and was quietly put away by Kobayashi¡¯s deputy and sent to the North China Expeditionary Force Intelligence Department.

    The intelligence system of the Japanese army has its own management system. Kobayashi's suicide caused an uproar in the intelligence system of the dispatched army in North China. The officers of the intelligence system were filled with indignation. A senior intelligence officer was insulted like this and even committed suicide in shame.  , the matter reached the intelligence headquarters of the base camp, and an undercurrent of overturning the mountain pass was quietly surging within the North China Expeditionary Force. However, the mountain pass in the Taihang Mountains did not know anything about it. Those senior officers were originally concerned about the sudden promotion of staff officers.  Yamaguchi, who held a long position, felt contempt and did not bother to tell him the truth.

    Little did he know that Yamaguchi, whose position was already in jeopardy, was still desperately working for the Empire of Japan. When he heard the news of Kobayashi's suicide, he didn't even have the interest to take a look. In front of the Deputy Intelligence Section who reported the situation  The section chief said sternly: "You are a waste, a coward, and unworthy of being a soldier of the Japanese Empire."

    How did he know that these words had been reported to the North China Expeditionary Force Intelligence Department by the deputy section chief through secret channels, which strengthened the determination of the senior officers in the intelligence system to bring down Yamaguchi.

    It¡¯s no wonder that Yamaguchi was angry at Xiao Lin¡¯s incompetence. He had also had a hard time in the past three days. While asking Xiao Lin to find out the truth of the matter, he issued orders to all the brigade to raise the alert level at the station, send more sentries, and take strict precautions day and night.  Give the ** division troops an opportunity to take advantage of it. Small groups of troops are strictly prohibited from acting alone.

    Even so, some troops were still attacked. The assault troops of the ** Division suddenly appeared at the Japanese station as if falling from the sky. The tactics were exactly the same. They first used cavalry to disrupt the Japanese army's position, and then used infantry to conduct a second raid.  Within thirty minutes, it was like a whirlwind. By the time the Japanese army woke up, they had been beaten to pieces and could not even catch a single person. And the way of attack was not limited to night. Some brigades had just attacked  As he started to march, he was bitten hard by the sudden attack of the Army Cavalry.

    Yamaguchi was about to collapse, suffering from severe neurasthenia and insomnia all night long.His head, which had always belonged to the wilderness, had lost all his hair and looked like a big egg. He was extremely distressed. Although he had not been organized into an organized extermination force, it was enough for him to endure such a piecemeal attack.  , like an eagle, taking a bite here and grabbing it, all together, it made Yamaguchi feel distressed and panicked.

    In just four or five days, almost half of the division was lost. Yamaguchi couldn't stand it if this continued. What made him even more depressed was that he would vomit blood. The hateful and despicable Japanese division troops used their superior cavalry to make a surprise attack.  They entered the headquarters of the Third Brigade of the Gangze Cavalry Regiment, stole nearly a thousand horses, and killed hundreds of soldiers.

    The other two brigades of the nearby Okazawa Cavalry Regiment heard the news and rushed to the rescue. On the way, they were ambushed by the superior cavalry of the ** Division and lost a large number of horses. Not counting the loss of a large number of cavalry, even the captain of the Lieutenant Colonel also  It was split in half by a saber. What was annoying was that the Chinese soldiers tied the captain's body into two halves, tied it to a war horse, and sent it back to the regiment headquarters without hesitation.

    It is said that the captain of the Gangze Alliance was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot, gathered all his troops, and frantically searched for the cavalry of the ** Division. The opponent could not find them. On the way back to the station, he stepped on a large number of landmines, causing hundreds of casualties.  The captain was blinded in one eye and broke a leg. He was rushed to Shijiazhuang and died in hatred.

    Yamaguchi felt that the world had changed. The Taihang Mountains, which had been allowed to run rampant, had turned into death traps for the imperial soldiers. Every one of his five fingers that he stretched out had broken bones and tendons, and blood flowed freely. He watched the commander for seven days.  Five days have passed since the date. Instead of advancing even half a step, the troops were beaten back and forth, losing troops and generals. If we continue like this, what are we going to do to attack Taiyuan? Your Excellency, Commander, won't you kill yourself alive?

    In desperation, Yamaguchi let out a long sigh and had no choice but to give up his plan of sweeping the Taihang Mountains and destroying Tang Qiuli's home base. He gathered back the scattered troops, used Shexian County as the assembly point, clenched them into a fist, and prepared to march out of the Taihang Mountains.  , passing through Yushe and Jinzhong, approaching Taiyuan, and executing Xiangyue Qingsi's battle plan to attack Taiyuan.

    When Yamaguchi issued the order, his heart was bleeding. This was a weird idea that he had exhausted so many brain cells to come up with. He just gave it up halfway. Yamaguchi suddenly became much older, giving the Japanese officers and soldiers a feeling of decline. These people also treated Yamaguchi.  There was a lot of slander, and I followed him around the Taihang Mountains for more than twenty days. They were all sallow and thin, obviously exhausted, and they didn't even fight a decent battle.

    At first, I just marched and climbed mountains and burned houses every day. Later, I was beaten every day. I didn¡¯t even know what my opponent looked like. I expected to be able to seduce the flower girl as I pleased, rob gold and silver treasures, and make a fortune. But what happened?  The pigs didn't even see it, let alone the gold and silver treasures. If they could see half-empty dishes, they just opened their eyes. Following such a commander, he was really unlucky.

    Yamaguchi has always been troubled by a question. How many troops does Tang Qiuli have in his hands that can fly all over the Taihang Mountains?  The problem of attacking any imperial army at will has always been with him. Until later, when he was dismissed as chief of staff and sent to a remote town in the Chabei grassland to serve as the commander of the guard warehouse, he did not think about it.  This became a pain in his heart that he couldn't get rid of.

    Not only did Yamaguchi not understand, but even Tang Qiuli, who made the Eagle Strike battle plan, couldn't figure out what was going on at first. He knew exactly how many troops he had in hand. There were eight Eagle Strike troops in total, and they could attack eight people every night.  Who knew that the battle report came out on the first day that fifteen Japanese brigades were attacked.

    He ordered Chief of Staff Yu Guanghan to verify the battle report, and it became clear that seven of the eight troops, like Temulbagan and Han Mulin, attacked two targets in one night, and only one of them was because  The two targets were too close, and the fighting alarmed the approaching Japanese troops. They had no chance to attack again, so they had to return bitterly.

    Tang Qiuli was very happy. The creative fighting methods of officers at all levels were able to cause more casualties and panic to the Japanese army. After two days of fighting, each Eagle Strike Force discovered that hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops were scattered like sheep dung eggs.  In every corner of the Taihang Mountains, there are too many targets to choose from, more than a dozen in one night, which is obviously not enough, so we might as well organize the eight troops into several eagle attack teams based on battalions, and attack them everywhere.

    There is a certain reason for doing this. The decision of whether to fight or not is in your own hands. Each Eagle Strike unit sneaks in through the gaps in the Japanese defense. In addition to being stationed in a strong city wall for protection, the terrain is conducive to the Japanese defense, not conducive to the troops.  In addition to the place where the rapid assault is to be carried out, all the units should communicate with each other and try to launch attacks at the same time. They should attack from the outside inward, peeling off the skin layer by layer. No matter day or night, as long as they are convenient, they can kill a guy. This forms  The so-called encirclement that shocked Yamaguchi.

    Because it was a quick raid, the troops had almost no casualties. Once the Japanese army was on guard, they immediately gave up the plan and looked for the next target. The vast Taihang Mountains gave them a lot of room for maneuver.??The Japanese army can't use all its troops to stand sentry, the tiger still has time to nap, not to mention, the little devil can't be called a tiger, at most he is a hungry wolf.

    (To be continued)
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