Chapter 412: American Guest
"Ladies and gentlemen...... Good news...... Good news, the 23rd Mixed Brigade of Huanghualing has been repelled by us! β
A staff officer hurriedly ran into the combat hall and shouted, and with his voice, the originally noisy combat hall suddenly fell silent, and dozens of staff officers all looked at the major.
"Xiao Qiu, it's really fake, lying about the military situation will go to a military court!" One of the colonels said in a skeptical tone.
"Sir, of course it's true, I don't dare to deceive everyone even if I have ten guts!" The major wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, "This is the telegram I just got from the telecommunications section, it is clearly written, and there is also a report on the results of the flight group, in this battle, the two squads under the command of the first squadron of our flight group shot down a total of 21 Japanese planes, and our side lost one wildcat fighter, and the pilot of the downed fighter plane has parachuted and successfully rescued." Then the Black Crow Bombing Squadron of our army carried out targeted bombardment of the Japanese artillery positions and tank wings, and most of them have been destroyed! β
"Bring me the telegram!"
At that moment, a voice rang out in the battle hall.
When the major saw it, he suddenly jumped, and quickly saluted a military salute and stammered: "Good military seat!" Then he handed the telegram to the other party with both hands.
This person is none other than Su Jin, the commander of the 202nd Army.
Su Jin took the telegram and glanced at it, couldn't help but smile and nodded, and then handed the telegram to Zhou Yusheng on the side, "Chi Yu, look at it, the Japanese army's mixed 23rd Brigade has really retreated." β
"Expected!" A major general sitting next to him who was looking at the map also raised his head, it was Zhou Yusheng.
In fact, the battle situation in Huanghualing has long been concerned by Su Jin and Zhou Yusheng. Therefore, after defeating Yongkang's 104th Division, Su Jin finally freed up his hands and began to deal with the mixed brigade in Huanghualing. Therefore, after hearing the urgent call for help from the 561st Regiment, Su Jin and Zhou Yusheng immediately decided to send all thirty Stuka dive bombers, nine Wildcat fighters and twenty-two Bf-109 fighters of the Black Crow Squadron. Under the repeated bombardment of Stuka fighters. The artillery positions of the reckless Japanese army and the remaining 30-odd combat vehicles of the Japanese army were all reduced to piles of burning scrap metal under Stukka's precise blows.
Seeing that the chariot wing and artillery wing were all wiped out, Kita Tiannan, the commander of the 23rd Mixed Brigade, could no longer care about anything else, and simply retreated to Jiande and Qiandao Lake with the remaining remnants.
"Throne...... Now no one can stop us from taking Jinhua, order the troops to launch a general attack! A staff officer shouted.
"Right...... Command, Commander! Immediately afterward, the hall resounded with the shouts of the staff officers asking for war one after another.
Su Jin and Zhou Yusheng glanced at each other. Seeing Su Jin nodding slowly, Zhou Yusheng said to the major just now: "Major Qiu, send a report to Zhang Danian immediately." Ordered him to stop the pursuit of the 104th Division, except for leaving one regiment to defend in Yongkang, the other troops immediately rushed to Jinhua and launched a general attack on Jinhua with the 348th Division! It's set for three days! β
"Yes!"
Not to mention the major, the other staff officers in the battle hall all had excited expressions on their faces. The Battle of Jinhua has been going on for more than ten days. The scale of this battle is also the most important battle for the outward expansion of the 202nd Army, as long as the entire Zhejiang of Jinhua is captured, it is equivalent to half of it falling into their hands, and then the entire Zhejiang can be slowly pocketed. Zhejiang has always been one of the richest regions in China, and the 202nd Army, which occupies Zhejiang, is bound to develop rapidly in the next few years.
Just when the staff officers were excited one by one, Bai Qishan, the head of the guard regiment, hurriedly ran in from outside, and he trotted all the way to Su Jin's side and whispered to him: "Sir, a few Yankees outside are looking for you." β
"Americans?" Su Jin frowned in surprise, and when he raised his head, he happened to see Zhou Yusheng's equally surprised gaze. What are the Americans doing here?
"Do you know where they came from?" Zhou Yusheng asked, the headquarters of the 202nd Army can be described as a military powerhouse. Not everyone can get close, and Bai Qishan is not a reckless person, so naturally no one will let anyone in.
Bai Qishan replied: "Sir, they claim to have come to China on the orders of the U.S. government, and with them is a colonel of the Ministry of Military Affairs. β
"Hey...... This is unusual, what are the people from the American Observer Group doing here? Su Jin muttered, and after thinking about it, he said, "Okay, let them wait in the conference room, and I'll go over later." β
After Bai Qishan left, Su Jin said to Zhou Yusheng: "Brother Chi Yu, do you know the intention of these people?" β
Zhou Yusheng shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't have the ability to be a prophet, how can I invite them to eat." However, even though I don't know, I think the general meaning should be related to our current attack on Jinhua, otherwise the Americans and the Ministry of Military Affairs would not have come to us. β
Su Jin shook his head: "Not only that, there should be other purposes." β
For Su Jin, there is another layer of worry in his heart, his troops are now almost all equipped with American and German equipment, due to the expansion of the size of the troops, the influence of the 202nd Army has also deepened, and it has just attracted the attention of the outside world, and it is estimated that even the Yankees have noticed them.
"Let's go...... It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, what should come will always come, let's go meet those foreign friends! Su Jin waved his hand, took the lead in standing up and walked towards the conference room next to him.
Bypassing the combat hall and the confidential section, and entering a large room, I saw that there were three Caucasian people in the uniform of the US Army and a colonel in the uniform of the Central Army sitting there and whispering something, and after seeing Su Jin come in, the colonel of the Central Army and several Caucasians stood up, and the guard at the door also shouted: "Chief Su has arrived!" β
I saw that the colonel saluted Su Jin and said loudly: "Xu Zhuangzhi, Colonel of the Second Staff Department of the Military and Political Department of the National Revolutionary Army, has seen the commander!" β
"Hello!" Su Jin returned a military salute, and then turned his gaze to the white people: "Colonel Xu, who are these?" β
Xu Zhuangzhi hurriedly said: "Report to Chief Su, these are members of the American Observation Mission, and they want to go to the Jinhua battlefield to observe, but the Ministry of Military Affairs has specially sent a staff department to accompany them all the way, so that the commander can give them convenience." β
"Observation Mission?" Su Jin nodded: "Since it was the Ministry of Military Affairs that issued the order, of course we welcome it, but please tell them that since they are coming to watch the battle, then they must obey the arrangements of our army and not act without authorization, otherwise we will not be able to guarantee their safety." β
"Understood!" Xu Zhuangzhi turned his head and said a few words to these American officers in English, and at this time, an officer wearing the rank of lieutenant colonel suddenly said a few words, Xu Zhuangzhi's face suddenly turned red, and then he said to Su Jin with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry sir, the department is rude." I haven't introduced you to these guests yet, they are ......."
"No need!" Su Jin suddenly interrupted him: "I'll greet them myself." β
After speaking, Su Jin said to the American officers: "Hello, I am Su Jin, the lieutenant general of the 202nd Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and I would like to welcome you to China on behalf of all the 60,000 officers and men of the 202nd Army. β
"Oh...... God, it's great that you can speak English, General! β
"Great!"
With Su Jin's words, the American officers on the opposite side suddenly let out an exclamation, because the Chinese lieutenant general on the opposite side spoke English, and it was an authentic California accent, which also gave them an unexpected surprise in a foreign country.
"Oh...... General Su, this really surprised me. "I didn't expect your English to be so standard!
The lieutenant colonel at the head showed a smile of surprise on his face, and immediately saluted Su Jin and said, "Lieutenant Colonel Crawford, chief of staff of the 16th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Division of the US Army, salutes you!" β
"Captain Carl of the 72nd Brigade, 16th Wing of the U.S. Army Air Corps. Dodge salutes you! β
"Hello!" Su Jin nodded, saw that his gaze turned to the last officer and asked, "What about this one, what do you call it?" β
Seeing Su Jin's inquiry, Carl hurriedly introduced: "This is Nicholas of Northrop Grumman. Mr. Edwards! β
"Hello Mr. Nicholas." Su Jin smiled kindly at him.
Seeing that Su Jin was so fluent in English to talk to these Yankees, Xu Zhuangzhi on the side was already dumbfounded, and he stammered a little and said, "Su ...... Sir Su, this ...... This ......"
Su Jin glanced at him with some disdain, and naturally knew about his little abacus. The reason why I didn't immediately introduce myself to those American officers just now was that I didn't know English, and I wanted to take care of myself and show how important I was. However, this kind of little abacus is extremely naΓ―ve and ridiculous in Su Jin's eyes, it is as ridiculous as a child holding a lollipop in his hand and showing off to adults.
Ignoring the colonel from the Ministry of Military Affairs, Su Jin walked to the side of the chair and sat down, Zhou Yusheng behind him also sat down next to him, and Carl and several other Yankees also sat down after seeing it.
After everyone sat down, Zhou Yusheng whispered in Su Jin's ear: "Junzao, I didn't expect you to speak English so well, where did you learn it?" Don't tell me I learned it from Dr. Mi, she can't teach you this accent. β
Zhou Yusheng was also very curious, he knew Su Jin's situation, and Mi Xiaoya, who studied in the UK, would never be able to teach Su Jin an American accent.
Hearing this, our senior Su Da's face turned red a little, he couldn't tell Zhou Yusheng that his English accent was practiced after three years of hard study in bed with an American Yanma student from California when he was in college in another time and space. (To be continued.) )
PS: Yesterday I met with an old classmate I haven't seen for many years, and the former handsome boy and the beautiful girl have become uncles and aunts after meeting again, and I feel infinite emotion in my heart! Time is indeed a pig-killing knife!