On the morning of March 20, Su Jin, who got up early in the morning, was preparing to go to the medical brigade, ready to take advantage of the free time to do his and Mi Xiaoya's affairs in the past few days, but he never thought that Xue Yue issued an urgent order, so that Su Jin led the independent brigade to rush to the front line immediately, although he was a little unwilling, but he still knew the truth of the military order, Su Jin finally issued an order for the whole army to set off, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the independent brigade once again set out of the camp and embarked on an unknown journey.

When the Independent Brigade was departing, in a small forest about two kilometers away from the Independent Brigade, two men dressed as ordinary people were lying on a tree and observing with binoculars in the direction of the Independent Brigade, when suddenly a man shouted: "Look, the Independent Brigade is dispatched, and it is the whole army dispatched!" Hurry up and record it......"

An hour later, there was a knock on the door of Okamura Ningji's office, the headquarters of the Eleventh Army in Wuhan, and Miyamoto Ichiro Shaosa, the combat staff officer, hurriedly ran in and said urgently, "Your Excellency, the independent brigade in Changsha was launched at 8:20 this morning!" ”

After saying that, Miyamoto handed a telegram to Okamura Ninji, who was discussing matters with Chief of Staff Numata Taka and War Room Director Kazuo Miyazaki.

Okamura Ninji picked up the telegram and looked at it at a glance, the more he looked at it, the more solemn his expression became, and then he slapped the telegram heavily on the table and snorted coldly: "The independent brigade is dispatched." ”

Numata Taka picked up the telegram and read it softly: "It is estimated that the number of independent brigades dispatched is about 10,000, moving in a northeasterly direction. They have an unknown number of guns, a large number of vehicles, and an unknown armament, but it is certain that they carry a large number of automatic weapons...... Baga ...... Are all the people in Tegaoke rice buckets? They spend so much money on the empire every year, and they can't even get a decent piece of information! Seeing that Numata Duojia was so angry that he scolded.

Seeing that the face of Kazuo Miyazaki, the director of the war room, was slightly embarrassed, Miyamoto Ichiro stubbornly explained to the side: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff does not need to be angry, it is reported that there are many sentry posts around the station of the Independent Brigade, and they also send patrols to search near the station from time to time, and they must stop and interrogate suspicious elements when they encounter them. Once there is a suspicion, they will be arrested, so far we have a lot of special high-tech personnel in their hands, this general is very strict about intelligence work. ”

"Hmph...... Excuses, it's all excuses! Numata Taka said angrily: "There are so many people in a troop, if you want to find out about their situation, you can do it by a small means, but now you are full of information except for the number of people, it seems that I don't know what is the use of keeping such a waste, is it just to consume the precious funds of the empire?" ”

Looking at the furious Numata Taka, Kazuo Miyazaki and Ichiro Miyamoto were a little embarrassed and silent, they both knew the reason why Numata Taka was angry. Actually, it's not just him. Even Okamura Ningji was very popular during this time, because since a week ago, the telegram of the national army, which was originally like a loophole, has miraculously changed, and the most direct change is that the telegram sent by the Chongqing Attendant Office and the Ministry of Military Affairs that they focused on monitoring cannot be deciphered, and it is said that the decipherment center set up in the Forbidden City in Beiping specially dispatched a group of the most elite forces for public relations, but until now there has been no result. As a result, the plan for the transfer of national troops, which was originally transparent to them, has become blurred.

It stands to reason that this was originally nothing, but as the saying goes, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, and Okamura Ninji and Numata Taka, who have already tasted the sweetness of deciphering the telegrams of the national army, feel very unaccustomed. Coupled with the incompetence of the intelligence department, the evil fire that Numata Taka was holding back in his heart finally came out.

Okamura Ninji, who had not spoken for a long time, spoke: "Okay, Numata-kun, the fact that the Shina people changed a new password cannot be blamed on Miyazaki-kun, and as far as I know, it is a fact that the independent brigade of Shina attaches great importance to counter-espionage work. Now that the Independent Brigade has been dispatched, we must pay attention to it, first of all, we must find out whether they are coming for Nanchang, and if so, we must pay attention to it. ”

"Hay!" Numata replied heavily before he said with some confusion: "Your Excellency Commander." At present, our troops around Nanchang have reached four divisions. In the words of the Chinese people, the independent brigade could not be our opponent even if it had three heads and six arms, how could they do it knowing that it would not succeed? ”

Okamura Ninji pondered for a while, then turned his head to Ichiro Miyamoto, who was standing aside, and said, "Miyamoto-kun." Is there any trace of the army in Gao'an and Xiushui? ”

Miyamoto replied respectfully: "Report to Your Excellency Commander, since the Chinese army was defeated by us, no trace of the large Chinese army has been found there. ”

"Hmm...... That's good. ”

As soon as Okamura nodded, the door was pushed open, and a communications staff officer ran in quickly, and before Numata Taka could reprimand him, the staff officer said loudly: "Your Excellency Commander, the 107th Division has come to report that a large number of Shina troops have been found in the Pingjiang area, and now they are attacking the 107th Division, and the commander of the Standing Stone Division has called to say that they have suffered heavy casualties. ”

"What......" Numata Taka stood up and asked loudly, "Did Ryota Tateishi report the number of the Shina army?" ”

The staff officer replied: "Ryota Tateishi said in the telegram that the numbers that have been ascertained so far are the 58th Army and the 60th Army, plus the 189th Division of the Shina that is defending the city, and now the commander of the Ryota Standing Stone Division is very hard to resist!" ”

"It's not good, the 107th Division is in danger!" Okamura stood up abruptly and said loudly: "You immediately send a telegram to the commander of the Standing Stone Division, and ask him to retreat in the direction of Xiushui immediately, and make peace with the 101st Division as quickly as possible." ”

The task of the 107th Division was originally to carry out a feint attack on Pingjiang to maintain pressure on the 9th Theater, but now as soon as Okamura saw that the other side was coming to the real place, he immediately withdrew his forces because of his cautious nature.

After the communications staff officer went out, Okamura Ninji stood up and began to pace in the office, and Kazuo Miyazaki, Numata Taka, and Miyamoto Ichiro all dared not make a sound to interrupt the commander's thoughts.

After a while, Okamura Ningji stopped and asked without looking back, "Where have the 3rd, 13th, and 16th Divisions and the 4th Cavalry Brigade arrived now?" ”

Numata Taka hurriedly replied, "Your Excellency Commander, these troops have captured Suizao and are now advancing towards the Fifth War Zone. ”

"Immediately telegraphed and ordered them to withdraw from Suijube and not to move on." Okamura Ninji gave a decisive order.

"Your Excellency, Commander, but ......"

Before Numata Taka finished speaking, his words were interrupted by Okamura Ningji, "It's nothing, since the purpose of attacking Nanchang has been achieved, let's not make any more extraneous branches, in case it causes Jiang's backlash and mobilizes troops to counterattack us, it is very likely that both sides will lose, and we can't take this risk." ”

Seeing that Okamura had made up his mind, Numata Taka had no choice but to agree, and finally Okamura also ordered a telegram to be sent to the North China Front Army in Suzhou, telling the new commander Tada Jun about the recent events, and asking Tada Jun to send a telegram to the base camp to increase the decipherment of the new telegram in Chongqing.

March 30

The captain of the Japanese independent garrison stationed in Yifeng County, Xiao Ping Wu Shaozuo, had just gotten up from the warm bed, and his orderly sent sparse water and towels in time.

Originally, he still looked lazy, and his whole body immediately shook, and he immediately shouted loudly, "Someone...... Someone ...... coming."

Soon the orderly trotted all the way to him: "Your Excellency, Captain, what are your orders?" ”

Kohei Wu Shaozo pointed at him and said loudly: "You go and see what's going on outside, why are there people shooting outside?" ”

The orderly answered and was about to go out, when there was a rush of footsteps outside, and soon a captain ran over and reported, "Less......er Your Excellency, there are a large number of Shina troops outside, and they have surrounded us! ”

"Nani ......" Xiao Ping Wu Shaozo was shocked, he grabbed the military uniform on the bed and ran outside, shouting loudly as he ran: "Everyone go up to the city wall...... All men go up to the wall......"

More than 20 minutes later, when Xiao Heigo, who was out of breath, ran up to the city wall, he saw that the place about 1,000 meters away from the city wall was densely packed with human figures, and these people seemed to be busy.

"Quick...... Telescope! ”

Xiao Pingwu didn't have time to say more, so he snatched the telescope from the hand of the captain next to him and looked up, he didn't care about it, but at first glance, the whole person was frozen in place as if the whole person had fallen off a cliff, as if even his thoughts were frozen.

In the telescope, he clearly saw that the black hole of artillery thousands of meters ahead had been set up, and many artillery pieces were constantly busy, boxes of shells had been moved to the side, and the huge cannon port was facing the city wall.

Xiao Heigo's telescope slipped to the ground at some point, but he didn't realize it, and even his voice became hoarse, and he hissed and shouted as hard as he could: "Hurry up...... Remove the walls...... Get out of here right now......"

It's just a pity that Xiao Heigo's words came too late, and he only heard an earth-shattering roar from the front, and one after another cannonballs had been fired from the barrel, and after a short period of time, the originally seemingly solid city wall was covered by dense artillery fire......

After a short period of more than ten minutes of shelling, there was no longer a standing Japanese soldier on the city wall of Yifeng County, and then in the passionate charge, countless soldiers wearing gray-green German military uniforms stood up from the hidden place, and then rushed towards Yifeng County, two hours later, Yifeng County was recaptured by the national army...... (To be continued.) )