Chapter Eighty-Five: Veterans Don't Die, Soldiers Don't Die
Outside, whether it is the GMD Army or the Japanese army at this time, their reports are full of adjectives such as powerful, shocking, and incredible. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
This time, Wang Long's 88th Division can be regarded as completely entering the sight of Chairman Chiang, Terauchi Shou, and some warlords in Chinese mainland.
Terauchi Shouichi immediately sent someone to secretly collect information about Wang Lung and the army under his command, and he must find out why this army has become so powerful and difficult in such a short period of time.
The 88th Division became famous, and Wang Lung became popular, but the Japanese cried. Of course, this is just a metaphor, not that Terauchi Shouichi cried after reading the report, there is no such thing, not only will he not cry, but he will also send troops to encircle and suppress it, but not now.
In the report, Nanzo Yunzi expressed surprise at the combat effectiveness and will to fight displayed by the 88th Division, and at the same time expressed his feelings at the sophistication of the 88th Division's weapons and equipment.
In the end, Nanzao Yunzi's evaluation of the 88th Division was: "It is a terrible army, they are well-equipped, high-spirited, and have strong discipline, given time, this Chinese army will be the biggest obstacle to the Holy War of the Japanese Empire, and the 88th Division has a mysterious unit, no one knows the number of this army, how many people, where it is trained, and what the weapons are." I don't know. ”
Regarding the combat effectiveness of the 88th Division, the North China Front already has some understanding. Every time you fight with this army, no matter how many troops the imperial army sends, you will underestimate the combat effectiveness of this army, and the final result will be a disgraced and disgraced.
After listening to Nanzao Yunzi's report, and also reading the photos about the 88th Division secretly obtained by the spy, Terauchi Shouichi felt weak in his heart. Fortunately, during this time, he did not rashly launch a full-scale attack on this army, otherwise the consequences would be extremely serious, and 88 is still a team that has come and gone without a trace, which makes Terauchi Shouichi panic in his heart, but it does not mean that he is afraid of Wang Long's 88th division.
This does not mean that the more than 400,000 troops of the North China Front Army are really afraid of the 88th Division, after all, no matter how awesome the 88th Division is, it is only one division, and there are only about 20,000 people in the sky. However, with the military quality and fighting will of this army, coupled with their sophisticated equipment that was not inferior to that of the Imperial Japanese Army, even if the North China Front had the strength to completely annihilate this army, it would not be able to do it in three days or two days.
If it had been left behind, General Terauchi Shouichi would certainly not hesitate to launch a full-scale advance against that hateful Shina army. However, this is not possible now, and the newly formulated battle plan of the base camp orders the North China Front Army to cooperate with the Central China Front Army and must completely annihilate the Chinese government troops on the Guangzhou battlefield.
This almost used 80% of the strength of the North China Front, so at this time it is best not to clash with the big hedgehog of the 88th Division, once it is entangled, it will definitely affect the strategy of the base camp to annihilate the main force of the government army in China, and this responsibility cannot be borne by Shouichi Teramichi.
Shouichi Terauchi was fortunate and felt a huge pressure at the same time, and he didn't know if he didn't see it, and he was shocked when he saw it. The most terrible thing is that this army is only more than 200 kilometers away from the headquarters in Datong and Zhangjiakou, and it is only less than 400 kilometers away from Beiping.
It can be said that this 88th Division can pose a mortal threat to the front army, but I don't know why the hateful General Zhina changed his normal state and began to make new moves, what does he want to do?
General Terauchi Shouichi really couldn't guess Wang Lung's thoughts, and Wang Lung's strategy of Taoguang and obscurity was extremely successful before, and there was no military action for a long time.
And the 88th Division is often pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, in less than 1 year, one has developed from scratch into the current 88th Division, and at the same time has achieved brilliant results, the Japanese army lost in his hands added up to six or seven thousand people, which is not a puppet army.
If it were according to normal people's thoughts, they would continue to implement this tactic of taoguang and obscurity, and they would be yin people again and again. Just like this time, if Wang Lung hadn't exposed his fangs himself, I'm afraid that Terauchi Shouichi would have been fooled again.
Although it is said that the 10th Division is now in Yulin, since the 10th Division came out of the Battle of Xuzhou, its own strength has not fully recovered, and some of the wounded soldiers have not yet been well-served, and there are not many available troops, and this time Wang Lung has broken more than 2,000 soldiers of the empire, and the remaining troops are insufficient, and it is difficult to have any danger to Wang Lung's 88th Division. This is also one of the other reasons why Shouichi Terauchi is reluctant to move Wang Long.
In fact, Wang Lung's idea is not complicated, the army is to protect the family and defend the country, it is a kind of violence machine of the country against the country, it is the hole card for safeguarding the core interests of the country, and it is the continuation, extension and upgrade of politics and diplomacy.
As a machine of violence, the important task of the military is to effectively defend national interests and ensure that it is "available, used, and used well" at critical moments, rather than as a beautiful landscape for people to visit like a zoo. However, the problem now is that because China's national defense forces are not uniform, it is filled with a large number of local warlord forces, such as the Northeast Army, the Northwest Army, the Jin Sui Army, the Sichuan Army, the Guizhou Army, the Yunnan Army, the Hunan Army, and the Gui Army.
Although these local warlords are also bent on resisting Japan, they also have some cheating and tricks, using various excuses to preserve their strength. In particular, those warlords have regarded the military as a tool for their own wealth and power, and China's national defense force has become as fragile as paper. In the eyes of the Japanese, the Chinese army has really become a tiger and lion in a zoo, which has lost its wildness, and can be killed with a few sticks.
And Wang Lung used this victory to inspire all military forces in China to embark on the road of resistance against Japan.
This time, the 88th Division attacked in a big way, and publicized it in a big way, so that many people in the country began to march, holding the banner of resistance against Japan, if there is any move to get close to Japan at this time, then it is the birthday boy hanging himself - looking for death!
Wang Lung believes that with this clear point, and 88 is the strength shown, the Japanese army will not dare to act rashly before they are completely sure. Wang Lung wants to set an example for those big and small warlords and bastards who are ready to defect to the enemy and treason, don't hide it, the 8th Division is not an ornament, and has the strength to protect the safety of the people.
Even if you don't have that strength, but if you have the courage to look at death as home, no one will dare to underestimate you, blindly "forbear", blindly seek "peace", and in the end you can only get the passive imposition of war.
Now Wang Lung believes that with such a "benchmark" of his own, many patriotic soldiers like him will follow suit in the future, and then little Japan will see China's courage and even more China's strength.
This idea may be able to be imagined by Shouichi Terauchi in North China, but the deeper reason is that Shouichi Terauchi will never think of it.
Wang Lung's purpose this time was not only to let some people in China see, but also to give a trap to the defenders in Yulin.
Indeed, Wang Lung's set was not even told by the headquarters, let alone Shouichi Terauchi.
In fact, Wang Lung can't do anything about this, the little devil is now hurt by him, especially this time, he quietly killed two brigades, and also took down 2 county towns one after another, which greatly deterred the Japanese puppet army.
People, the biggest fear is because they don't know anything about the enemy, because they don't know anything, so they will imagine your strength to an infinite extent. In this way, to be on the safe side, the next time they come to attack you, they will definitely show the means of lion fighting rabbits, even if you claim to be just a division, they will treat you as an army.
But now it's different, Wang Lung has shown all the "hole cards", I have so many people, so many weapons, and my combat effectiveness is not weak! The reason why we were able to achieve such brilliant results on the surface was entirely because of the high quality of our soldiers, our excellent weapons and equipment, and the fact that you were inferior to the enemy, so you were not unjustly defeated.
In this way, Wang Lung may cause visual confusion and misconception to the Japanese army.
But in fact, Wang Long's regular army now has more than 17,000 men, and if the tactics are used properly, it will be a great victory. And after these 17,000 people, Wang Lung still has a new corps of logistics, and this new corps has thousands of people.
Wang Lung's idea of Shouichi Terauchi must have been unexpected, but this did not prevent him from appreciating Wang Lung. Such a formidable opponent is hateful, but it should also be respected. Therefore, he deliberately ordered Nanzao Yunzi to set up a special working group to collect information from Wang Long's department, and report it as soon as there was a fighter.
Wang Lung's influence is gradually becoming apparent, especially in Datong, Yulin, Zhangjiakou and other places, and some rumors about this battle have begun to spread in various places.
Of course, this was deliberately arranged by Wang Lung, but it wasn't all, after all, was it a telegram sent at that time? Most people know about it, but most of those people are rich people, and Wang Lung means to let the common people know about it, so he sent people to publicize it.
Therefore, shortly after the end of the current campaign in Fugu County and Shenmu County, there were long queues at the recruitment stations of the 88th Division in the two counties, which greatly pleased the departments in charge of recruitment.
Wang Lung is also very happy, with so many soldiers, there is no need to worry about the problem of the source of soldiers in the future, but Wang Lung is still worried, there are many new soldiers, and training is also a problem.
Wang Lung's bad mood didn't last long, just when he was about to ask the headquarters for some manpower, the former 88 were those injured veterans, and they returned to the team one after another, Wang Lung saw these more than 800 people, his eyes were moist, these were born and died with Wang Lung, and these people also came with crutches, Wang Lung immediately asked the division hospital to come over and show these veterans.
Wang Lung knew that when these veterans were injured, Wang Lung came down and left these weapons and let them watch for themselves, but when he saw that the weapons in the hands of these veterans were still the old weapons from before, some of them could no longer be fired.
Although these veterans are dressed in tatters, and there are not many weapons and equipment, the spiritual temperament of these people is far from being comparable to ordinary soldiers. It seems that with just one order, these people can go up the sword mountain and go down to the sea of fire.
This is the veteran, the veteran does not die, and the military spirit is not extinguished!
This is Wang Lung's soldiers, and this is also the soldiers that Wang Lung is looking forward to.
Without a word, Wang Lung immediately asked the more than 800 veterans to change their clothes, cotton clothes, and weapons and equipment in accordance with the standards of the regular army. In addition, Wang Lung handed over these veterans to the political commissar and asked him to bring these people to the recruit regiment to be platoon commanders, battalion commanders, squad leaders, etc., and take the recruits.
With the addition of these veterans, Wang Lung has more confidence in the training of the troops. These veterans have all stood and fought with Wang Lung, and they all came out of the sea of corpses and blood. Don't look inconspicuous in ordinary times, but as long as you change into advanced weapons and equipment, and then strengthen it a little in advanced training methods, the combat effectiveness is absolutely amazing.
Therefore, Wang Lung ordered all the recruits not to think about fighting for the time being, to train these soldiers first, and then fight the little devils fiercely when they have formed combat effectiveness.