But this is only a great victory outside the Niangzi Pass, not a great victory in the entire Jindong region.

Before he even waited for the telegram from Commander Liu of the 129th Division, a secret telegram from Nanjing made General Huang, who was pacing back and forth in the office extremely anxious, sit back at his desk.

After reading the secret telegram several times in silence, he finally determined that it read: "Until the situation is clear, no superior commander shall be reported to the superior, and all the armies shall reduce the exchange of telegrams, and remain silent without permission." Violators, kill. Zhongzheng. It was from that person's handwriting that the commander of the Jindong Front finally made a fairly wise decision.

While putting the telegram into his personal pocket, he ordered Zeng Wanzhong of the Third Army and Liu of the 129th Division to annihilate the enemy and clean up the battlefield as quickly as possible, the headquarters of the Third Army returned to the Niangziguan position, and the headquarters of the 129th Division, the Independent Regiment and the 17th Division returned to Jiuguan. From this moment on, the whole army will remain silent on the radio, and no combat unit other than the headquarters will be allowed to send a report on the situation of the battle, and those who violate the order will be punished by military law.

General Huang's military justice department is not just lip service, he came to the Shanxi 2nd Theater to serve as deputy commander and commander of the Jindong Theater, but he was personally appointed by the chairman of the committee, and he came with Shang Fang's sword. Even if he is a lieutenant general, he said that he can be caught, and he still has a telegram sent by the supreme leader of the country just now, from the major general down, it can be said that life and death are taken.

The supreme leader, who had come to his senses under the reminder of the attendants, also made the most correct choice. The 129th Division made a surprise attack on Shimen and conquered the Japanese divisional headquarters without reporting to any higher authorities, and there must have been further military operations. Thinking of the main force of nearly 20,000 people in the front line of the Japanese army, two infantry brigades, an artillery wing and a baggage wing, if we can finally annihilate some of them by virtue of military secrecy, and even solve the danger of Jindong and Taiyuan, it will be a great victory that can be written about.

That is definitely a booster for the southeast battlefield, which has become more and more erosive and demoralized, and even for the entire Chinese nation.

You know, by October, the scale of this national war on the southeast battlefield had become bigger and bigger, and even exceeded the expectations of the Chinese and Japanese. On the Chinese side, from the central military lineage to the local warlords, the number of troops invested has been as high as more than 600,000, as well as the Gui army and the Yunnan army coming from Chaosong and Shanghai, and the Japanese side has invested more than 200,000 troops.

This is only the army, China's navy and air force with the strength of the whole country have also gathered in Songhu, and the Japanese are not to be outdone, and battleships, aircraft carriers, and thousands of warplanes have also gathered here.

In such a largest battle in the east of the world, the Chinese army, which had the advantage of strength and geography, was now struggling, and more than half of the German armouring divisions that had spent several years reorganizing and equipping themselves were crippled in the increasingly fierce battlefields, and almost every day an infantry division withdrew from the battlefield because of huge casualties. The navy and air force, which were already weak, were even more miserable, the air force was almost completely wiped out, and the navy did not even have the cover of the air force to even go out of the mouth of the Yangtze River, so in order to prevent the Japanese destroyers from going up the Yangtze River, they could only sink themselves in the channel to block the advance of the Japanese warships.

After two months of fierce fighting, the supreme leader's meticulously organized and forceful national war has begun to see defeat, and it can be said that this victory from the north and the east is a fig leaf to save the face of the supreme leader.

If the Battle of Taiyuan had been won as a result, perhaps the two major battles in the southeast and north of China would have been defined differently in history. "The wise supreme leader pinned down the main force of the Japanese army in the southeast battlefield and carried out an effective counteroffensive in the north, even if he did not recover the lost ground, he blocked the southern invasion of the main force of the Japanese army's northern front, and set the tone for the great victory of the Great Patriotic War for China" Just thinking about it makes the supreme leader's blood boil.

As for whether it was the 129th Division of the 18th Group Army that he didn't want to see that led the surprise attack on Shimen on the Jindong Front, or even the Independent Regiment of the 22nd Group Army that Liu Lang was a little fat man, what was the important thing? It was all the army under his command, and history can't remember a division commander, let alone a regiment commander, but he will definitely remember him, the supreme leader of China at that time.

However, Liu Lang still has to thank this person for his help. If it weren't for him, maybe the news of the victory on the Jindong front would not have been concealed for so long, even if he conquered the 20th Division headquarters in the shortest time, and even obtained the surrender of Lin Xiaoshun, the No. 1 commander of the 20th Division Communication Brigade.

The result of military secrecy from top to bottom will not only reduce personnel losses, but also allow him enough time to do a lot of things. The communications of the Japanese army were also unbelievably rudimentary. And when the Japanese spies discovered that their own troops on the front line of Niangziguan were annihilated and reported to Shangfeng, it was a long time since the independent regiment left Shimen, and even the Japanese North China Dispatch Army Command already knew what happened after the fall of Shimen.

That's right, when Liu Tuanzuo gave the duke's heir a dirty Chinese name, the grandson of the Western Yuan family of the Japanese Empire used this name very resolutely.

When he came to meet Brigade Commander Chen, who had already broken through the East Gate and captured the railway station and various baggage warehouses, Brigade Commander Chen had obviously learned the origin of this eldest prince of Xiyuan Temple through Liu Lang, and had just said polite words: "Mr. Xiyuan Temple, you are welcome to join the Chinese Anti-War League."

This one retorted with a very serious face: "General, in China, please call me by my Chinese name, my name is Lin Xiaoshun." ”

How so? The Japanese are just so old-fashioned, and it can even be said that they are a little old-fashioned. However, they are extremely efficient.

"Head Liu, I'm here to negotiate with you." After a simple polite sentence with Brigade Commander Chen, the Duke of Xiyuan Temple set his eyes on Liu Lang and said very seriously.

Although the position of the brigade commander is higher than that of the regiment commander, but the prince of Xiyuanji, who grew up in the duke's family since he was a child, is not an ordinary person, from the position of the two of them and the fact that the brigade commander of the major general level did not wait for the regiment commander to report to him but took the initiative to come to the occupied division headquarters in person, he knew that the leader of this battle was the fat regiment commander in front of him who seemed to be gentle but was actually bold in killing.

"Oh?" The corners of Liu Lang's mouth arced into a shallow smile, stretched out his hand to signal the two of them to sit down, and his face returned to indifferent and said: "Mr. Xiyuansi, for your family and your grandfather and even you, Liu actually admires, looking at the whole of Japan, there are not many people who can know as well as your grandparents and grandchildren that Japan's national strength wants to swallow the whole of China, and it will drag the entire Japanese nation into the quagmire of war."

Of course, you and I are well aware that your family does not want to start this war, not because of sympathy for China and the Chinese people, perhaps after Japan develops a truly economically powerful and poor and backward China cannot resist the giant, you may become the most active people to wage war. Am I right, you say? ”

A layer of blush welled up on the face of the Nishimoji Gongichi, and his lips moved but he couldn't say a word.

Obviously, Liu Lang couldn't be more right. The biggest reason why his grandfather, who had a huge influence in the political arena, strongly opposed Japan's war against China within 20 years, was that China was too big for Japan to afford now. His grandfather even predicted that a war against China would drag the entire nation into a land of no return.

Unfortunately, not many people, from the emperor to the people, would listen to them, they had been easily occupied by the three eastern provinces of China, and the joy of the continuous shipment of precious minerals such as coal and iron to the Japanese mainland, as if China was an ownerless cornucopia, as long as the imperial army arrived, the land and minerals were Japan's.

But the truth is that China is really too big, and the Chinese are really too much. And they are not cowardly, even if they have rudimentary rifles, no machine guns and no artillery, they are still fighting the Empire, even if they keep failing, but the battle never really stops.

The most ridiculous thing is that the high-ranking officials of the Ministry of War proudly declared that they would occupy China within three months to end the war, but two months have passed, and they have not even completed one-tenth of China's territory.

"But you and your family are anti-war anyway, and for that you have been courtesy from me. Moreover, we welcome your participation in the anti-war alliance and the desire to do something for the peace-loving people of China and Japan. However, there is an old saying in China: You can't be too aggressive, because you didn't send a farewell message from Kawagishi Fumizaburo, and the lives of nearly 200 officers and men of your communications brigade were guaranteed, and I can guarantee that they will be treated as prisoners of war, but this does not mean that you can negotiate conditions with me again and again.

Although we have not yet declared war with Japan, I can tell you very formally that if I, Liu, can one day become a general, I will land on the main island of Japan with a million troops, and I will pay back 10 times and 100 times the crimes committed by your army against the civilians of our country. I" A hint of coldness flashed in Liu Lang's eyes, and he said sharply.

The temperature in the room seemed to drop instantly, and a layer of cold sweat appeared on the forehead of the Nishienji Gongichi. He knew that this fat man was not just talking about empty mouths, in fact, he was doing exactly that, and there were more than 500 personnel in the entire division and regiment headquarters, except for the more than 100 signal soldiers he exchanged for by telegraph, the rest of them did not survive. He, and his men, refused to surrender to all.

A hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of the red brigade commander, this colonel of the Sichuan Army was so murderous that he had only seen it in his life. However, for China, which is already standing on the edge of the precipice, it is a blessing for the nation. Either the enemy dies, or I die, and there must be no mercy at this time.

"No, no, Commander Liu, my conditions are not an exchange, as you said, my anti-war is also for my people, I do my best for you, but I can't watch my compatriots die in the war like this, I can make them surrender in my name, I hope your army will not kill again, in addition to the field hospital and other places in the city, there is also a prisoner of war camp ten miles outside the city, and the defenders have 160 people, I can also let them lay down their arms." Xiyuan Temple Gongyi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said eagerly.

"What, prisoner of war camp?" Liu Lang and Brigade Commander Chen glanced at each other, and a trace of surprise flashed in their eyes.

They had only just learned this information.