Shozo Kawabe, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by a sharp knock on the door. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The old devil is a workaholic, for him, it is rare to go to bed before two o'clock in the morning, but this old devil is flesh and blood after all, and the high-intensity work of nearly half a month finally made the old devil a little unbearable, so he went to bed early before ten o'clock last night.

However, Kawabe Shozo did not go back to the dormitory to sleep, but slept directly in the staff headquarters, such a cold day, lying in a kimono on the cold bench of the staff headquarters, it was really not a good experience, and only a workaholic like Kawabe Shozo could stand it, even an orthodox soldier like Nishio Shouzo couldn't bear it.

After being woken up by the knock on the door, he turned over and sat up, but he was in a trance, which is also very normal, the old devil because of the lack of sleep for a long time, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain, there will indeed be a temporary pause in thinking, and in severe cases, it may even lead to avascular necrosis of the brain tissue, which is also a stroke.

The knock on the door sounded again, and Kawabe Shozo finally regained consciousness.

Kawabe Shozo rubbed his face, stood up from the bench, and said, "Please come in." ”

The wooden door was gently removed, and then a staff officer on duty at the staff headquarters walked in and immediately reported: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, I just received an urgent telegram from the Iida detachment, saying that they were attacked by the main force of the Dameishan Independent Regiment half an hour ago, and after half an hour of fierce fighting, the outer positions of the Huangnipu stronghold have all been lost, and now the Dameishan Independent Regiment is launching a fierce attack on the main position of the Huangnipu stronghold, and the leader of the Iida detachment requests urgent tactical guidance from the garrisons of Bengbu and Huainan!" ”

"Nani?" When Masan Riverside heard this, he was taken aback.

It was also at this time that Kawabe Shozo suddenly realized that he seemed to have made another mistake! And this mistake could well be a fatal one! The day before yesterday, after a large-scale fraud storm in the Osaka Division, he ordered the operation to be suspended for the safety of the Japanese troops on the three routes, but he did not consider his opponent!

The two divisions and one detachment involved in this sweep, as long as he gave an order from Zhengsan, they would immediately stop advancing, but his opponent Xu Rui, as well as the Dameishan Independent Regiment under Xu Rui, would not follow his orders and stand by, damn, why did I ignore Xu Rui?

To be honest, in fact, you can't really blame Kawabe Shozo for this.

Because it has nothing to do with Kawabe Shozo's ability, this is a blind spot in human thinking.

Because the Japanese army has always been the active offensive party in the Chinese battlefield, the national army in the face of the Japanese attack, only know blindly to defend, the Dameishan Independent Regiment often has a fierce counterattack in the defense, but it is still defensive in nature, at least until today, in the face of the attack of the Japanese heavy army group, the Dameishan Independent Regiment has not taken the initiative to attack, in the face of the county gendarmerie, it will often take the initiative to attack.

Therefore, all the Japanese generals, including Hebian Zhengsan, have formed such a mindset, even if the three-way Japanese army participating in the sweeping operation temporarily stops its operations, the Dameishan Independent Regiment will only strengthen the fortifications in their base area, at most they will set up more traps, and they will never think that the Dameishan Independent Regiment dares to take the initiative to attack!

A mindset doesn't say much, but it's hard to get out of it until you realize it's a problem! So I really can't blame Kawabe Shozo for this.

"Map!" Kawabe Shozo took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.

The combat staff officer on duty hurriedly found a map and put it on the big table by the river.

Kawabe Shozo picked up a blue pencil and drew two straight lines on the map, from Shanxian to Guanxian, and from Puxian to Guanxian, and then picked up a ruler to measure the length of these two straight lines, and then calculated through the scale, his face instantly became embarrassed, and then threw the ruler and pencil heavily on the map.

"Yaga!" Riverside Shozo cursed, and sat back on the big chair.

Although the battle of Huangnipu has just begun, and although the Japanese army stationed in Huangnipu has a whole detachment, there is still a very bad premonition in the heart of Zhengzo by the river, the Iida detachment is afraid that it will be in big trouble, and it will become a second heavy rattan detachment!

The combat staff officer on duty is named Masayoshi Sakai, who used to be Shunroku Hata's adjutant, after Shunroku Hata was killed by Xu Rui, Masayoshi Sakai was transferred to the staff as a staff officer by Shozo Kawabe, this little devil's military literacy is still good, although Shozo Kawabe didn't say much, but Masayoshi Sakai still saw the way from his work on the map.

At that moment, Masayoshi Sakai said: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, even if Xu Rui really transferred all the troops that were originally intended to be used in Puxian and Shanxian to block the Osaka Division and Kumamoto Division to Guanxian, even if Xu Rui concentrated the entire Dameishan Independent Regiment, his troops would only have more than 10,000 people, and they didn't have any heavy weapons. ”

Kawabe Shozo's eyes rolled and asked, "So what?" ”

Masayoshi Sakai continued: "Therefore, it can be said that it is absolutely impossible for the Dameishan Independent Regiment to inflict heavy damage or even annihilate the Iida detachment in a short period of time, however, as long as it is dawn tomorrow, the aviation regiment of the imperial army can fly to the Huangnipu stronghold and bomb the participating troops of the Dameishan Independent Regiment on the periphery of the stronghold, and at that time, the tide of the war will be reversed!" ”

Kawabe Shozo shook his head and said: "Sakai-san, what you said is right, but what I want to say is that Xu Rui has never been a person who is willing to play cards according to the routine, the battle of Nantong, the battle of Mustang Beach, the battle of Dawan, the battle of Qingfeng Mountain Road, which time Xu Rui played according to the routine?" Therefore, this time he still won't play according to the routine! ”

"Don't play according to the routine?" Masayoshi Sakai said, "Is Your Excellency the Chief of Staff referring to Xu Rui's intrigues? With all due respect, the battle of Nantong, the battle of Yematan, the battle of Dawan and the battle of Qingfeng Mountain Road, the reason why the imperial army suffered a crushing defeat was because Xu Rui enjoyed the advantage of his home field and could set up a trap in advance. ”

After a pause, Masayoshi Sakai said again: "But this time, it is the Imperial Japanese Army that enjoys the advantage of the home field, so I really can't think of what other conspiracy Xu Rui can play?" ”

Kawabe Shozo shook his head again and said, "Xu Rui's cunning is beyond your imagination. ”

Sakai Masayoshi frowned, and wanted to say Your Excellency Chief of Staff, you shouldn't be scared of Xu Rui, right? However, Sakai Masayoshi finally held back, because he knew very well that if he said this, then he would no longer have the position of the General Staff of the Central China Army.

Masayoshi Sakai closed his mouth and said no more.

Kawabe Shozo fixed his mind and said: "Order the Iida detachment, as long as they hold the stronghold of Huangnipu, and not attack rashly, so as not to give Xu Rui an opportunity to take advantage of; Then order the garrisons of Bengbu and Huainan to send reinforcements, but they must not lightly attack the enemy, beware that this is the encirclement of the Dameishan Independent Regiment to send reinforcements; Also, cancel the bombing mission in Chongqing, and wait until early tomorrow morning, all the bomber and reconnaissance fighter squadrons will fly to the yellow mud base to support the Iida detachment! ”

"Hello!" Masayoshi Sakai paused heavily and turned to go.

(Dividing Line)

Kawabe Shozo is right, Xu Rui has never been a person who is willing to play cards according to the routine, Iida Shojiro is also right, in the face of Xu Rui, in the face of the Dameishan Independent Regiment, it is true that no matter how cautious it is, it will not be too cautious, but it has come to this point, no matter how cautious Kawabe Shojiro and Iida Shojiro are, there is nothing to do.

The Iida detachment is already in danger, and its fate is no longer reversible.

The battle began at half past ten in the middle of the night, and the 1st Regiment, the 2nd Regiment, and the Garrison Regiment launched an attack at the same time from the south, east, and west, and in less than an hour, they broke through the outer defense line of the devils with a devastating momentum, and advanced the battle line to 100 meters outside the Huangnipu stronghold before stopping.

Then, the three main regiments stopped attacking at the same time and went on the defensive.

Although the Iida detachment discovered this change in the Dameishan Independent Regiment, for security reasons, Iida Shojiro did not invest too many troops to counterattack with all his might, but only dispatched a few infantry squadrons to launch a tentative counterattack, and it was naturally impossible for this kind of counterattack to break through the defense line of the Dameishan Independent Regiment.

Unbeknownst to Shojiro Iida, the last chance for the Iida detachment to survive was gone.

In general, there is nothing wrong with prudence, but sometimes it can be fatal.

Less than half an hour later, Niu Dazhuang's artillery battalion came up, and along with the artillery battalion, there were 200 unconscionable cannons! As soon as Niu Dazhuang gave the order, the artillery of the artillery battalion began to build artillery positions in full swing with the full cooperation of the militia and the officers and men of the first regiment.

The night provided the best cover, and the Iida detachment trapped in the Huangnipu stronghold did not know that the Dameishan Independent Regiment outside had secretly set up 200 "large-caliber conscienceless cannons", and their Iida detachment was about to fall under this simple but ferocious heavy artillery!

Although the caliber of the conscienceless cannon is super-large, it is easier to control than a mortar.

Mortars belong to precision strike weapons, the angle of fire, the height of the requirements are very high, if handed over to inexperienced artillery to operate, it is basically a waste of shells, but no conscience cannon does not belong to precision strike weapons, this thing relies on large-scale coverage killing, so the number must be huge, otherwise it is basically useless.

In less than half an hour, all the 200 unconscionable cannons were erected, all the muzzles were at a 45-degree angle, and they all pointed to the yellow mud shop stronghold 100 meters away in front of them.

This time, the flying mines fired by two hundred unconscionable guns can at least theoretically cover the entire Huangnipu stronghold, and there will definitely be flying thunder in actual combat, but according to probability and statistics, most of the flying mines will still fall into the Huangnipu stronghold, and the distribution density of the impact points will not be significantly different.

Immediately afterwards, Niu Dazhuang raised his right hand. (To be continued.) )