General Terauchi Shouichi thought that Okabe Naosaburo and Kawabe Shozo were in a hurry, and they must have reported that the Eighth Route Army's Xiao Siming Department had captured a place again, but I didn't expect it to be like that!

Okabe Naosaburo and Kawabe Shozo hurriedly pushed the door in and reported to General Terauchi Shouichi that the Central China Dispatch Army had decided to launch an attack on Anqing in Anhui tomorrow night!

Terauchi Shouichi's eyes brightened up all of a sudden, and he took the telegram and read it, with a smile on his face, and said twice in a row, "Yo Xi!" ”

Naosaburo Okabe and Shozo Kawabe are also full of excitement, as if they have been beaten with chicken blood!

In order to capture Wuhan, the Japanese base camp set up a special Central China Dispatch Army on February 18, with General Shunliu as the commander, replacing General Matsui Ishine, who was notorious for the massacre in Nanjing, and also revoked the names of the Central China Front and the Tenth Army, which were renamed from the Shanghai Dispatch Army. Vertex. Fastest updates

Originally, when the Central China Dispatch Army was established, Terauchi Shouichi recommended Shozo Kawabe as chief of staff, which was also approved by Emperor Hirohito. However, because the Eighth Route Army fought better than in history, the North China Front Army was eager to launch the Battle of Xuzhou, and needed to stay with Hebian Zhengsan to assist in commanding, and the general of the temple did not let Hebian Zhengsan go, which delayed the matter, resulting in the Central China Dispatch Army still without a chief of staff.

As soon as the Central China Dispatch Army launched an attack on Anqing, it kicked off the prelude to the Battle of Wuhan, no wonder Terauchi Shouichi, Okabe Naosaburo, and Kawabe Shozo were all full of excitement!

After the fall of Nanjing, the Nationalist Government moved its capital to Chongqing, but all ministries and commissions were working in Wuhan, and the Military Commission was also in Wuhan. Vertices M. updates the fastest

Wuhan is already the center of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression!

For the Japanese army, the capture of Wuhan has become the biggest goal after the Battle of Xuzhou!

On May 20, the day after the Japanese occupation of Xuzhou, the Chinese Air Force sent planes to Japan to carry out airdrops, but instead of bombs, leaflets!

Emperor Hirohito's nose was almost crooked, and as soon as the Japanese army captured Kaifeng, he could not wait to convene an imperial meeting to approve the plan for the battle of Wuhan formulated by General Junliu, commander of the Central China Dispatch Army.

According to the battle plan of General Junliu, the Japanese army planned to divide its troops into three routes, the 11th Army marched west along the Yangtze River, the Second Army attacked along the Huaihe River valley through the northern foot of the Dabie Mountain, and the North China Front Army captured Zhengzhou and went south along the Pinghan Road to attack Wuhan.

Now, the plan for the battle of Wuhan, approved by the Imperial Council, was sent by telegram to the North China Front.

In his hand, General Terauchi Shouichi held the battle plan of the Central China Dispatch Army and the telegram preparing to launch an attack on Anqing sent by Okabe Naosaburo and Kawabe Shozo in a hurry.

Seeing that General Terauchi Shouichi was full of joy, Kawabe Shozo said: "Your Excellency, Commander, the Central China Dispatch Army has already moved, and we must also end the operation in North China as soon as possible." If the update of Vertex M. is late at the earliest, it will affect the Battle of Wuhan! ”

Shouyi in the temple was eager to capture Zhengzhou and control the Pinghan Road in one go, and then wave the army south along the Pinghan Road, put aside the Central China Army, capture Wuhan alone, and establish an immortal achievement! The problem is that he can't do it, the Eighth Route Army has captured Dezhou, and seeing that it is still going to capture Jinan, and the war situation in North China is erosive, can he not transfer elite divisions back to North China?

However, Terauchi Shouichi also knew in his heart that the Fifth Division was prepared to form the 21st Army and seize Guangzhou, and the 16th Division was the main division of the Second Army to participate in the Battle of Wuhan.

The top priority at the moment is to quickly eliminate Xiao Siming's troops, extinguish the thriving base areas of the Eighth Route Army in North China, and let the Fifth Division and the 16th Division get out of the battlefield in North China as soon as possible and join the Battle of Wuhan!

The problem now is that Shouyi in the temple still can't figure out whether Xiao Siming's troops have withdrawn to the hinterland of the Jilu border, so he can only use heavy troops to surround the Jilu border first, and try his luck.

There is also a problem, once the North China Front Army participates in the Battle of Wuhan, the troops will be exhausted again, and the huge North China will once again have a situation of empty troops, and the Eighth Route Army will definitely take advantage of the void to make waves here!

Shouichi Terauchi thought for a while, and then said to Naosaburo Okabe and Shozo Kawabe: "In any case, we must first eliminate Xiao Simingbu and cut off this tumor." Vertex. If the update is the fastest, otherwise, the front army will not be able to participate in the battle of Wuhan in full force. sent a report to the base camp and agreed to transfer Major General Shozo Riverside to serve as the chief of staff of the Central China Dispatch Army; Quickly transfer the 21st Division to North China and garrison Texas as a division directly under the Front Army! ”

As soon as he heard that General Terauchi Shouichi agreed to send troops to Central China to take up his post, Kawabe Shozo immediately felt inexplicably happy, and seemed to see the golden epaulettes of the lieutenant general and the epaulettes of the general beckoning to him, and immediately put his feet together and replied loudly: "Hai! ”

Not to mention, the reason why Terauchi Shouichi is a giant of the Japanese army is related to his ability to reuse talents. As long as he likes it and thinks it is a talent, it will rise slowly. Naosaburo Okabe, Shozo Kawabe, and Seiichi Kita all later became generals of the Japanese Army. Especially Kita Seiichi, that thing is a spy, and he can't fight at all, and in the end he also became the commander of the front army and the army general. However, in the event of a major battle, the Japanese base camp will be temporarily adjusted, and the generals who can fight will take over the command of Seiichi Kita. Because the base camp of the Japanese army knew that Kita Seiichi's ability to command operations was too inferior!

However, if you offend Shouichi Terauchi, or if you are flattened by him, the ending will not be good. Apex M. Updated Fastest Lieutenant General Seiji Kazuki is an example!

What Shouichi Terauchi is most worried about now is that the base camp will transfer the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division, so that he will not have time to eliminate Xiao Siming's department!

This kind of worry is not unfounded, because the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division have just captured Texas today, and although they have attacked together, they have already been regarded as having initially achieved the purpose of the campaign for the Japanese base camp that still despises the Eighth Route Army at this time. Compared with the capture of Wuhan, the Eighth Route Army, an eastward advance detachment with only a few regiments, is insignificant!

In other words, only Terauchi Shouichi Okabe Naosaburo and others took the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army very seriously, and in the eyes of others in the upper echelons of the Japanese army, such a unit was not qualified to be an opponent of the Japanese Army at all!

People who don't know the inside story will think that Terauchi Shouichi mobilizing two elite divisions to attack Texas is making a big fuss!

I was afraid of something, and after a short time, the staff officer on duty sent another telegram from the base camp. Terauchi Shou looked at it one by one, and he really wanted to transfer the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division!

The telegram from the base camp clearly instructed that after the North China Front Army restored control of the Jinpu Road, the 16th Division returned to the Second Army, joined forces with the 14th Division, continued to advance westward along the Longhai Road, quickly captured Zhengxian (Zhengzhou), controlled the Pinghan Road, and advanced south along the Pinghan Road. The 10th Division of the Second Army and the 13th Division of the Central China Dispatch Army undertook the task of attacking the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains along the Huaihe River Valley.

Not only that, the base camp telegram said that in view of the Kwantung Army's need to prepare for war against the Soviet Union, the mixed 3rd Brigade and the 13th Brigade were returned to the formation, assembled in Lianyungang, and shipped to Dalian.

In the minds of the heads of the Japanese army's base camp, the area north of Longhai Road has become a solid rear of the Japanese army!

Fortunately, the base camp also gave Terauchi Shou enough face, and agreed to immediately ship the newly formed 21st Division to Qingdao as a division directly under the North China Front Army and deploy it in the Dezhou area; It was ordered that Shozo Kawabe be dismissed from the post of deputy chief of staff of the North China Front, and that Major General Machijiri Tsukiki be appointed to take over as deputy chief of staff of the North China Front.

It is equivalent to the two requests of Shouichi Terauchi, and the base camp has fulfilled them all!

Terauchi Shou is in a hurry!

Terauchi Shouichi immediately asked Okabe Naosaburo to send a report to the base camp, requesting that the mixed 3rd Brigade and the 13th Mixed Brigade be temporarily left on the Longhai Line to cooperate with the North China Front in combat. At the same time, the approval of the base camp was requested, and after the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army was eliminated, the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division would carry out the task of the Battle of Wuhan.

Shouichi Terauchi is determined to eliminate the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army!

In fact, Terauchi Shouichi was a representative of the expansion faction within the Japanese army, and what he thought about day and night was the complete destruction of China. The problem is that the situation is different now, and Xiao Siming suddenly appeared, and he was actively attacking, and every move hit the soft underbelly of the Japanese army, holding back the footsteps of Terauchi Shouichi's crazy attack. This old devil is afraid, afraid that after the main division of the Japanese army rushes to the battlefield of the Battle of Wuhan, Xiao Siming will give him a hard time!

Xiao Siming's troops have attacked Taiyuan, captured Dezhou, and once crossed the Yellow River to spy on Jinan, what else did they dare not fight?

Shouichi Terauchi couldn't help but chill!

The base camp called back again, saying that the plan for the battle of Wuhan determined by the Imperial Council was approved by His Majesty the Emperor and could not be changed! The 16th Division must be returned to the Second Army, and must return to the Longhai Road battlefield to participate in the operation to capture Zheng County. The 3rd Brigade and the 13th Brigade must also be quickly rebuilt! Therefore, effective measures should be taken against the North China Front Army, and it is necessary to quickly eliminate the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army, restore the passage of the Jinpu Road, and ensure the realization of the purpose of the Battle of Wuhan!

As for the 3rd Brigade and the 13th Brigade, the base camp replied that once Zhengzhou was captured, it must be rebuilt immediately!

After reading the telegram, Terauchi Shouichi sat on the chair and savored it for a long time, and finally understood, the base camp gave in, and agreed that after he quickly eliminated Xiao Siming's troops, he would move south and join the Wuhan war.

That's it, it won't affect the heavy siege of the 5th Division and the 16th Division on the Jilu Border!

Now, the only thing that the Japanese giant Terauchi Shouichi thinks about is that the heavy army can achieve the ideal results by encircling the Hebei and Lubian borders, and eliminate Xiao Siming's troops, so that he can move south without any worries and cooperate with Central China to send troops to capture Wuhan!

When Kita Seiichi took advantage of the night to bring that White Russian courtesan to meet Terauchi Shouchi, the old devil Terauchi Shouichi was still studying the specific matters of the heavy siege of Jilu with Okabe Naosaburo and Kawabe Shozo!

Kita Seiichi sent the White Russian courtesan directly to Terauchi Shouichi's bedroom! (To be continued.) )