After spending nearly 10 days at the Imphal Command, and after confirming that the situation in the African theater had been temporarily stabilized, Jiang Haoran left for the headquarters of the Anglo-Dominican Expeditionary Force, which was at the end of February. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After arriving in Yingduo, Jiang Haoran hurriedly met with Luo Zhuoying, Huang Jie and other generals, and went straight to Zhuang Fuguo's intelligence office.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw that Zhuang Fuguo had already made tea, sitting on the sofa Erlang's legs were cocked, and he had been waiting for a long time.

"Don't be polite, tell me about the situation!" Jiang Haoran waved his hand and said to Zhuang Fuguo, who was about to get up and salute, and as soon as he finished speaking, he was already sitting on the sofa next to Zhuang Fuguo.

Zhuang Fuguo didn't squirm, and said: "The situation has been figured out, Han Deqin's department is indeed in northern Jiangsu, and it has been entangled with the Japanese puppet army, surrender can basically be ruled out, but their situation is not optimistic." ”

"Oh...... To be specific, how is it not optimistic. ”

Zhuang Fuguo said: "At the end of last year, in order to completely wipe out Han Deqin's guerrilla army, the Japanese army dispatched five or six thousand devils and a large number of puppet troops to the north from Taizhou and Yangzhou, and launched a sweeping war against Xinghua County, the provincial capital of Han Deqin and the location of the deputy headquarters of the theater, by means of simultaneous land and water and air bombing. In the encirclement of the Japanese puppet army, Han Deqin led his troops to break through to the north and reached Anfeng Town in Xixiang, Yancheng. After the Japanese army occupied Xinghua County, they failed to capture the main force of the Korean army, so they vigorously cleaned up and searched the rivers, lakes and marshes, leaving some puppet troops stationed in Xinghua City, and ended in a hurry. Han Deqin led the organs and troops from the Yancheng area to the west, through the vast marshland, to the east of Huai'an and Baoying and the west of the marshland in the Li Canal, and established a base in this area. The conditions in this area are very difficult, in the west, along the canal are stationed in the Japanese puppet army, for the enemy's blockade line, to the east, is the northern Jiangsu marsh, the swamps are all over the field, the reeds are continuous, the narrow area, tens of thousands of people in a winter to eat in this area is basically exhausted. But this is not the main thing, the main thing is that just a few days ago, at least ten or more puppet army divisions began to assemble in this area, supposedly preparing to encircle and suppress them with a dragnet situation. ”

"Are you saying that the devils are going to use all the puppet army against them this time?" Jiang Haoran frowned.

"Yes, the intelligence says so, it is estimated that the devil has put his main energy on the outer defense line of Xuzhou, and at this time, the encirclement and suppression of Han Deqin's department is estimated to be considering the inevitability of the first battle in Xuzhou, so the devil wants to clear this internal trouble before the war."

Jiang Haoran nodded, as if agreeing with Zhuang Fuguo's opinion, hesitated for a few seconds and continued to ask: "Do you know how many troops, food, and ammunition Han Deqin still has, and how long they can hold out?" ”

Zhuang Fuguo said: "This ...... is not very clear. ”

Jiang Haoran tilted his neck, looked at Zhuang Fuguo dissatisfied, and said, "Why, you didn't get in touch with them?" ”

Zhuang Fuguo said: "No, because Han Deqin has always been hostile and wary of our people, and there have been several frictions with our guerrillas behind enemy lines in northern Jiangsu, so our relationship with him has not been very good, and we have no way to contact him." ”

Han Deqin is a diehard loyalist of the chairman of the committee, and he is indeed full of hostility to the Yan'an troops, otherwise there would not have been the Huangqiao Incident in history, thinking about it this way, Jiang Haoran can also understand the difficulty of Zhuang Fuguo, and did not blame him more, but immediately said: "You must find a way to contact him, it really can't work, you can ask Gu to write a letter, or provide a token or something, Gu together he will definitely listen, I must know their specific situation now." ”

"Okay, I'll send a power generation to Gu and let him try it."

Jiang Haoran nodded, got up and prepared to leave, Zhuang Fuguo said again: "General seat, there is one more thing, but it has not been confirmed, it is said that this time to encircle and suppress Han Deqin's department, Wang Jingwei made a military order, and he himself has arrived in Xuzhou to personally supervise the battle." ”

Jiang Haoran was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a few seconds, and said: "Fuguo, how many puppet troops do you say there are in North China now?" ”

Zhuang Fuguo said with a wry smile: "There are statistics and formed troops, there are about 600,000 troops, plus the local armed forces, doorway armed forces, bandits, etc., which were absorbed later, I am afraid that they all reached one million at the peak, and after the Battle of Wuhan, a number of them were scared away, and it is estimated that there are still more than 800,000." ”

Jiang Haoran nodded, didn't say anything more, got up and walked out of Zhuang Fuguo's office, and when he returned to his office, he was still frowning, looking preoccupied.

"Hey, it's rare to see you frowning, what's the matter, have you encountered any troubles?" Lin Longqi said.

Jiang Haoran stared at Lin Long expressionlessly for a few seconds, and said, "Lin Long, do you think there is any way to make the number of puppet soldiers decrease sharply?" 800,000 puppet troops is not a small number, although their death is not a pity, but after all, they are Chinese, and it always makes people feel uncomfortable to fight their own family members for the enemy. ”

Lin Long smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid there is no good way to do this, but anyone who still has a little conscience and a little national complex should also repent after the Battle of Wuhan, and those who remain are ready to be hardcore traitors, if you want these hardcore traitors to put down the weapons in their hands, unless you can make them feel an extreme sense of threat or fear, because these people are actually very timid in their bones, otherwise they will not be traitors." ”

"Sense of threat, sense of fear, ......" Jiang Haoran muttered repeating these two words, after a long time, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he waved at Lin Long excitedly, Lin Long also stepped forward, Jiang Haoran immediately leaned in Lin Long's ear and whispered a word.

Lin Long suddenly screamed in horror with a bee-like face, "You're crazy, you're ...... Hmm".

Before Lin Long's words were finished, his mouth had already been covered by Jiang Haoran, Jiang Haoran lowered his voice and said, "You speak softly!" ”

After Lin Long nodded, Jiang Haoran let go of the hand on her mouth, quickly closed the door outside, glanced at the secretary's room in the inner room, and gently closed the door before turning back and saying to Lin Long: "If you want to succeed in this matter, you can't let the third person know, just the two of us did this thing secretly, and God won't know it." ”

"You ......"

Lin Long was just about to speak, but was interrupted by Jiang Haoran, "I know what you have to say, this matter is indeed a little unreliable, but think about it, the devil claims to be more than 3 million troops, the mainland, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Ocean can't afford to reach a million, and the rest are all in China, and the Kwantung Army has 800,000 troops, although they may be the main force to attack the Soviet Union in the north, but the strength of other troops combined, the strength in China is definitely more than one million, if you add 800,000 puppet troops, excluding the local left-behind troops, They have at least 1.5 million troops to mobilize, and if war starts, how much pressure will we face? ”