Chapter Thirty-Eight: Yoshida Asks for Help
"Thank you, sir, thank you, brothers in the national army!" The villagers said goodbye with tears. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Some people also asked, "Sir, where are we going when you leave?" ā
"If you don't have a place to go, go all the way west to Qinggang County, there are no devils in Qinggang County. Goodbye, folks! We're going to fight devils, and we'll see you in the future! ā
"See you in the future, see you in the future! I wish the chief and the brothers a victorious start and success! ā
The soldiers waved frequently, and the villagers who had experienced life and death shed tears goodbye.
After Ren Laifeng knew that the devil had dispatched a main wing, he immediately mobilized his troops to try to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army by changing the defense area. The Japanese wing commander Tanaka Osa split the wing early, and once the Japanese troops in the brigade or even the squadron were encountered, they immediately retreated when they found that they were not opponents.
There were planes in the sky to guide the way, and wolf dogs to lead the way, and the Japanese troops fled one after another at the beginning of the formation of our army's encirclement. Although the losses of the Japanese army were not small in countless skirmishes, they finally escaped being surrounded and annihilated.
When Tanaka Dazuo fled back to Harbin in embarrassment, he cried on the spot after seeing Count Yoshida, "My lord! The lowly is back! Ren Laifeng's troops are no longer guerrillas, they are now called the New Ninth Army! My wing broke through the heavy slaughter of Ren Laifeng's 50,000-strong army, and it took me nine lives to come back alive to see you. I've got to report back to you! Punish me, my lord! ā
Tanaka Osa said while crying, the tears and words were bloody, which really made those who heard it cry and those who saw it sad. In such a situation, how could Count Yoshida punish him? It's not that the imperial army is incompetent, it's that the enemy is too vicious!
The news that Ren Laifeng was ordered to form the New Ninth Army was already known to Earl Yoshida. If he didn't know about such a big thing, he, the inspector of the Kwantung Army, would be too unqualified!
What does Ren Laifeng want to do? This is what Count Yoshida wants to know most. For no reason, how could Ren Laifeng think of the trouble of bringing so many people to him? Counting the troops in the city, there were about 5,000 Japanese troops. In addition to the civilian personnel of the organs and the logistical support units, the combat units can basically form three full-fledged brigades.
There are a lot of people, and it is necessary to put it on hold at the right time, and these three brigades can sweep through the local Chinese troops in the two provinces. But now, Manchuria has come to Ren Laifeng, and everything is difficult to say.
The Tanaka United team went out to cripple the fight, but Count Yoshida really didn't dare to scatter these thousands of people easily. If Ren Laifeng is cleaned up again, who else can he use? Come on, let these people be put in the city to defend the city. With a few thousand men on hand, the Earl is not so panicked, is he?
Send a message to General Umezu Yoshijiro, commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army in Changchun Special City, and ask for support from Admiral Umezu! Ask Commander Umezu to immediately send the main division to relieve the siege of Harbin!
"This Yoshida, make a big fuss!" After reading the telegram for help sent by Yoshida, Umezu Mijiro commented disdainfully and casually put it on the pile of read documents next to him.
If it were someone else, Umezu Mijiro would have sent the past two divisions. But now it's Yoshida who is calling, an inspector of the Kwantung Army. To put it more bluntly, the emperor sent him to supervise the Kwantung Army! From the first day Yoshida came, Umezu Mijiro looked at him unpleasantly, and no one could look at the person who supervised him.
In addition, Umezu Mijiro has never forgotten the time when he visited his house! In case one day he was busy and dragged his tired body into the house at night, only to find that Ren Laifeng was waiting for him on the sofa! Admiral Umezu shuddered when he thought of that scene. Although General Umezu sent his wife and children back to China a few days after that, he still felt a chill in his heart every time he remembered the events of that day.
In short, he didn't like Ren Laifeng, and he didn't have the idea of meeting again.
Earl Yoshida's telegram for help was sent to Admiral Umezu and ignored him. Two more days later, Yoshida made a long-distance call to Admiral Umezu's desk.
"Your Excellency, Commander, I'm Yoshida! Harbin has been besieged by the 49th Group Army, and I beg you to immediately send divisional troops to Harbin to relieve the city's besieged dilemma! Your Excellency, Commander, please! This is already a rare politeness between Yoshida and Umezu Shogun.
"Yoshida-kun, steady! Don't panic! The dignity of our Kwantung Army still depends on you to maintain it. Victory and defeat are common in war, and you should really read more books, and look at the ancient Chinese soldier book written by a man named Sun Tzu. Reinforcements will be available, please be patient! ā
"Besides, is there enough supplies and ammunition in the city? If that's not enough, I'll send a plane to drop you a batch right away. "Reinforcements can be delayed, but ammunition and food supplies must be guaranteed, which is really not possible, and airdropping personnel is also possible! Anyway, you don't expect me to send you formed troops.
When Count Yoshida heard this, it was okay to have ammunition and supplies. When things are well prepared, he is not afraid of letting the wind come to attack the city. Isn't it just to defend a city, who is afraid of whom?
Therefore, Yoshida agreed to General Umezu's kindness, "Okay, okay, then thank you Umezu-kun." However, while you send the air force to drop supplies and ammunition, can you also send some combat planes to bomb the army that comes to you? "You don't want to send infantry, it's always okay to let planes bomb you, right?
Umezu Mijiro thought about it, plane bombing? That sounds like a good idea. Air raids are a conventional means of combat, so Ren Laifeng shouldn't be angry with himself because of this, right? Besides, if any pilot loses his luck and kills Ren Laifeng with a bomb, won't his nightmare cease to exist from now on?
The more I thought about it, the more I felt reasonable, and the more I thought about it, the more proud I became, and Umezu Mijiro had already agreed with Count Yoshida's idea in his heart. Of course, he must not forget the favor that should be sold.
"This, Yoshida-kun, your request makes me very difficult. Tsk, as you know, Japan has limited resources, and our jet fuel has been tight. If you want to send out the air force, the formalities are very cumbersome. ā
"Your Excellency, Commander, shouldn't you send fighter jets to escort you by sending transport planes to airdrop supplies? Can't the escorted fighters fight? Tell me who to talk to about this, and I'll go find him! I still don't believe it, they are all here to participate in the Great East Asian Holy War, and they are all in the service of the emperor, so why don't the air forces come to support? ā
"Yoshida-kun! Calm down. I'll take care of this, okay? ā