The climate of early spring in early February was originally a time when everything was thriving and exciting, but for Wei Lihuang, who had just returned from ZQ, the past two months had not been a pleasant experience, just two months ago, he had gone to ZQ to report on his work and was put under house arrest by Chairman Jiang in the name of study, and then the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain occurred in the first war zone under his command that shocked the whole country. The troops in the Nakajo Mountains area www.biquge.info were defeated and discarded, and finally ended with 42,000 killed and 35,000 captured.

When the news came, the whole country was in an uproar, and the Nationalist Government even declared that the battle was the greatest humiliation since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and many people even declared that they would hold Wei Lihuang, the commander of the First Theater, responsible. It's just that then they were all dumbfounded, because when the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain took place, Wei Lihuang was still under the supervision of the spies, and even his personal freedom was restricted, and it was impossible to blame Wei Lihuang for the defeat of Zhongtiao Mountain, and the eyes of the people of the whole country were really blind.

Under pressure, Chairman Jiang had to put Wei Lihuang back in the First War Zone, when Wei Lihuang returned to the First War Zone, he found that he had to face a large mess, many troops had serious losses in terms of resources and equipment, and even the soldiers could not find generals, and they could not find soldiers.

"What? Let's counterattack Nakajo Mountain? ”

The voice of Tian Zongmou, chief of staff of the First Theater of Operations, echoed in the combat hall, shaking the wide hall into a buzz.

At this time, the combat hall of the first theater of operations was full of a group of generals wearing generals' uniforms, and in the middle of this group of generals stood a middle-aged general in his forties, this general was of medium and slightly chubby stature, with a beard on his lips, at first glance, he looked very kind and kind, but if you looked closely, you could detect a heart-wrenching and stunning temperament between his eyebrows, he was General Wei Lihuang, who was the commander of the first theater of operations who was a second-class general of the national government at that time.

Looking at the shocked and angry expressions of the generals under him, Wei Lihuang frowned slightly and shouted, "Look at you, what do you all look like?" As a soldier's duty, it is to defend the country and defend the territory, Zhongtiao Mountain was lost in our hands, and it is only natural that the higher authorities ordered us to retake it, but what about you, all of you look like you are going to die or live, do you still look like soldiers of the party-state? ”

Li Tiejun, the commander of the 76th Army on the side, couldn't help but say: "Chief Wei, you are right, but now you also know the situation in our theater, many units have been broken up, and there is no time to reorganize at all. ”

Wei Lihuang didn't speak, he looked at the telegram in his hand again and sighed lightly: "The upper authorities also know our difficulties, so they sent a force to help us." ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, which army had such a face, and even called it by name in person.

Everyone who was a soldier had a sense of arrogance in their hearts, and when they saw that such a unit was personally named and sent by ZQ, they couldn't help but feel unconvinced in their hearts.

Looking at the unconvinced expressions on everyone's faces, Wei Lihuang didn't show any other expression, but just said lightly: "The Third Army!" ”

There was silence in the hall.

Everyone looked at each other, for no other reason, the reputation of the Third Army was too loud, and their reputation was piled up with the corpses of the RB people. The total annihilation of the Suzuki Brigade, the bombing of Fukuoka, and the recovery of the two provinces of ZJFJ, one by one, were not earth-shattering events, and even the most conceited generals did not dare to say that they could compete with the Third Army.

Liang Jiutian said with some disbelief: "I admit that the Third Army is indeed powerful, but they are thousands of miles away from us in ZJFJ, how can hundreds of thousands of troops arrive here in a short time?" What's more, if the Third Army is transferred to our First War Zone, then what about ZJFJ, don't you want it? ”

Everyone also nodded in agreement, everyone has a scale in their hearts, Zhongtiao Mountain is of course a strategic place, but ZJFJ these two channels of external communication are the main arteries of China, if you give up the land of these two provinces for the sake of Zhongtiao Mountain, it is to throw watermelons and pick up sesame seeds, I believe that no commander will be so stupid.

Wei Lihuang shook his head with a wry smile and said: "The chairman said that the task of the Third Army is very heavy, and they can only send a national militia division and a part of the air force to help us. ”

"National Guard Division?"

Everyone looked at each other, what was the guard.

"The Guards are ...... It's a unit similar to a local security division. Although he felt a little embarrassed, Wei Lihuang still said it.

"What? Security guards? Li Tiejun almost jumped up, "Chief Wei, has our first war zone been reduced to the point where we have to rely on security divisions to help fight the war?" ”

Looking at Li Tiejun's red face and red ears and bruised muscles, Wei Lihuang was also a little speechless, and although the generals on the side did not speak, seeing the indignant look on their faces, anyone knew their mood at the moment.

In the end, it was Tian Zongmou, the chief of staff, who made a round and said: "Okay, you don't have to be too angry. After all, no matter what, it is already rare for people to come all the way to help us, how can there be a reason for the host to dislike the guests for giving gifts too thin, and people not only send the garrison to come, but also the air force to come to help. ”

"That's right!" As soon as Tian Zongmou said this, everyone remembered that Wei Lihuang had just said that the Third Army had also sent an air force to help.

Sun Lianzong, commander of the Second Group Army, hurriedly asked: "Chief of Staff Tian, I have long heard that Su Sansi has an unusually good air force under his command, I don't know how many planes it can send this time?" If the air force had helped in this battle to regain Nakajo Mountain, this battle would have been much better! ”

"yes!"

The people present all nodded frequently like chickens pecking rice, and the people present were all battle-hardened soldiers, who had not suffered enough of the RB people and planes over the years, and if they themselves had aircraft support, then the success rate of this battle would be much higher.

Wei Lihuang shook his head a little embarrassed: "I don't know about this, the chairman only mentioned this in the telegram, and the specific amount of support that can be provided depends on us and the Third Army themselves." ”

"Alas......"

Everyone sighed in unison, in their opinion, Su Jin didn't have any friendship with them at all, and it was already great to be able to send a division and a few planes over, so it was hard to expect him to help regardless of the cost.

At this moment, a staff officer hurriedly walked behind Wei Lihuang, and said loudly with a look of confusion, confusion and excitement on his face: "Report, General Su Jin, commander of the Third Army, is calling!" ”

Wei Lihuang sighed lightly and glanced at everyone with his eyes, and said to everyone with a smile on his face: "Look, Cao Cao...... Cao Cao arrived, Staff Officer Jiang, please read the telegram to everyone. ”

"Yes!" The staff officer straightened his chest and read aloud: "Jun Jian, commander of the First Theater Guard, on the orders of Chairman Chiang and the Ministry of Military Affairs, in order to cooperate with the campaign of recovering Zhongtiao Mountain in the First Theater, our department has decided to send the Third Division of the National Guard, the Second Heavy Artillery Brigade, and a part of the air force to reinforce your unit. ”

Xijiao Airport was founded in 1923 and is currently the only and most important airport in Xi'an. It's just that because the Huaxia Air Force has always been weak, the scale of this airport is not very large, and there are only three ordinary runways to accommodate dozens of aircraft, and now when they hear Su Jin put forward such a request in the telegram, many people are stunned, they need to expand to ten runways one thousand meters long, do they want to take off and land large aircraft?

After a while, Li Tiejun was a little puzzled and said: "What kind of reputation is the Third Army doing, how many planes does he want to send, and how many runways does he want us to lay?" ”

"Who knows." Pang Bingxun, the commander of the 40th Army, showed his trademark honest smile on his wrinkled face, "Anyway, the more planes he sends, the better it will be for us, besides, if we lack anything, we are not short of people, send two regiments of sappers to hurry up, and a week is enough time for us to get those runways out." ”

"Well, that's true!" Everyone also nodded in agreement, it seems very difficult to expand more than ten runways in a week, but it is just the simplest task for the national army with a large number of manpower, as long as more people are dispatched, let alone ten runways, they can easily complete it even if they are doubled.

There has never been an impermeable wall in this world, and the information that the ZQ government wanted to retake Nakajo Mountain soon appeared in the hands of Tada Jun, the commander of the Japanese North China Front.

Looking at the information in his hand, Tada Jun had a ridiculous feeling in his heart, and he handed the information in his hand to Ishihara Waner on the side, and couldn't help but ask: "Ishihara-kun, how high do you think the authenticity of this information is?" ”

Ishihara Wan'er, who was reading a book, slowly put down the book in his hand and said helplessly: "It stands to reason that this possibility is infinitely zero, we have just occupied Zhongtiao Mountain and won a great victory of destroying 100,000 enemies, if the people of China want to relaunch the attack on Zhongtiao Mountain, it will take at least half a year to prepare, if they rush to attack now, it will be useless except to increase their casualties." Speaking of this, Ishihara shrugged his shoulders, "To be honest, I don't know what kind of madness that Chairman Jiang had to give such a ridiculous order. However, in my opinion, regardless of the authenticity of this order, this is just a farce, and now that the Empire has occupied all the dangerous strongholds of Zhongtiao Mountain, even if the first war zone of China sends 300,000 troops to attack, it can only return with hatred. ”

Although after the capture of Nakajo Mountain, the 32nd Flying Brigade and the 83rd Flying Brigade of the Kwantung Army, which were originally used as reserves, have been rebuilt with the main force of the 3rd Flying Group, and the 21st, 35th and 33rd Divisions have returned to their original stations, but the current Zhongtiao Mountain is still stationed with 70,000 or 80,000 Japanese troops such as the 36th, 37th, 41st and the 4th and 9th Brigades of the Independent Mixed Army.

Tada Jun thought for a long time and couldn't think of any way for the Nationalist Government to take Nakajo Mountain, but for the sake of insurance, he still sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Yoshio Mazuka, the commander of the First Army stationed in Taiyuan, reminding him of the movement of the Nationalist Army near Nakajo Mountain. And Yoshio Suzuka took a look at the telegram after receiving it, threw it on the table casually, and then went to work on other things, such information seemed to him to be a joke.

Things in this world are so wonderful, a thing that is enough to make everyone in the first theater nervous is just smoke released by the Japanese generals in the eyes of the Japanese generals. As the days passed, the first theater was also preparing nervously, although the first theater of the Zhongtiao Mountain Battle was hit hard, but after all, it was not injured. After all, the first theater is a large theater in China, and the base of hundreds of thousands of troops is there, and for a time, the troops in the entire theater began to be frequently mobilized.

A week later, such frequent movements in the first theater finally attracted the attention of Yoshio Suzuka, who judged the large amount of information sent by the intelligence department, and thought that the news that the national army was going to counterattack Nakajo Mountain last time was probably true. However, Yoshio Suzuka was still a little arrogant, and he did not ask for more troops in the telegram, but only asked Tada Jun for more air support.

After receiving the telegram, Tada Jun agreed to Yoshio Suzuka's request without hesitation, and reassigned the newly established Third Flying Brigade to Yoshio Suzuka......

"Buzz ......"

In the cockpit of the Hayabusa, which was led by the Hayabusa, Second Lieutenant Hosono Mitsutake, who belonged to the 32nd Brigade of the Third Flying Brigade, was lazily looking below. He longed to fight with an evenly matched enemy like a real samurai, embellished his medals with the wreckage and accidents of the enemy, and finally returned to his hometown with medals on his chest after the end of his service, when he thought of those beautiful girls looking at him with loving eyes, he would feel the cells of his whole body begin to get excited, but it was a pity that Huaxia's air force was too weak, and their air force was lost in less than half a year after the war, and the only few remaining fighters could only cower in the airport and did not dare to fight with the imperial army.

Just as Hosono was immersed in his fantasy, his peripheral vision saw the wingman next to him sending him a message.

"Hey, what's that?" (To be continued.) )