Datong, the headquarters of the army stationed in Mongolia.

Lian Shaofan was furious after reading the message sent by Nagaoka Kanji: "Yagaya Road! ”

Seeing this, the commander of the 26th Division, ** Chun, asked: "Your Excellency, commander, why did the fire break out so much?" Could it be that the people of China have fled? ”

Lian Shaofan sighed and said, "The farewell message sent by Nagaoka-kun!" See for yourself! ”

After reading the message, Chun was shocked and said, "What? The second mixed brigade is all jade shattered! How so? ”

"According to Nagaoka-kun's telegram, it seems that the Shina people ambushed a large amount of explosives in the city, and they died with my second brigade!" Lian Shaofan said.

After hearing this, Chun secretly said in his heart: What a terrible thing it would be if every army fought against the imperial army like this.

Although the army made every effort to block the news that the Second Mixed Brigade had been completely annihilated, the agents of the North China Branch of the Military Command Bureau still obtained this shocking news through special channels.

Wuhan Xingyuan.

Wang Shihe, the chief of the guard, walked into President Jiang's office with a telegram on his face full of excitement, and President Jiang was sitting on the sofa pondering, the defeat on the battlefield of Henan and Anhui, [***] all the way to the rout, and the army had pointed directly at the three towns of Wuhan. During this time, President Jiang either received a rescue message from the commander of the group army, or the news that a certain place had been lost! Principal Jiang's mood was extremely bad.

Wang Shihe strode in and then stood up and said: "President, the staff office has just received news that the second mixed brigade of the army garrison in Mongolia has been completely annihilated, and more than 8,000 people from the second brigade under the brigade commander Nagaoka Kanji have not been spared, and all of them have been annihilated!" ”

"What are you talking about? I'm reading it again! Principal Jiang stood up from the sofa and said.

"The second mixed brigade of the army has been completely annihilated!" Wang Shihe repeated it again.

"Do you know which unit did it?" Principal Jiang asked.

"Report! I just received a telegram from the reader from northern Shaanxi. A senior operational staff officer said with a telegram in his hand.

"Read!" Principal Jiang said.

The telegram said: Yesterday, our unit completely annihilated the entire Second Mixed Brigade of the Army! A total of more than 8,000 enemies were annihilated and countless were captured! Extinguish the reading power master Zhang Mingyu. The staff officer quickly finished reading the message.

After hearing this, Principal Jiang did not speak, at this time he was full of flavors in his heart! Although this Zhang Mingyu mobilized troops without authorization, it can be said that he disobeyed the military order, and it was enough to shoot him ten times in violation of the military order of the commission! But he always brings unexpected surprises to himself and even the whole country when he doesn't expect it, and now [***] needs a victory too much, since the defeat in the Battle of Xuzhou, [***] morale has plummeted! Defeat all the way! This victory is comparable to the Battle of Taierzhuang!

After sorting out his thoughts, Principal Jiang ordered: "Immediately announce this matter to the public, and reward 100,000 readers to the ocean, and notify the whole army to show encouragement!" "Principal Jiang understands that this Zhang Mingyu is indeed a talent, very good at fighting, and his tactical command ability can look at the entire [***] sequence, and no one can beat him! But for the time being, it is impossible to promote this Zhang Mingyu, this Zhang Mingyu's prestige among the people has reached an unprecedented height at this time, and sooner or later he will not be able to control him! So only 100,000 oceans were rewarded to the reader.

The next day, the major newspapers across the country published this exciting news, the victory in northern Shaanxi greatly encouraged the soldiers who were fighting a bloody battle with the Yue army, and the whole people once again remembered the name of Zhang Mingyu, and the student workers in Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu, and other big cities took to the streets to celebrate this major victory!

Zhang Mingyu took the guards into the burned Huining County where only rubble remained, at this time the Huining County has been razed to the ground, and there is no building more than three meters high in the entire Huining County! Thousands of people in Huining County next to the ruins watched their homes become ruins, and some people began to cry softly.

Seeing thousands of people dragging their children and watching their homes burned to ashes, Zhang Mingyu's eyes were moist, and he strode to the ruins! Say loudly: "Folks! In order to fight devils, you have paid for your homeland, and I, Zhang Mingyu, thank you! After saying that, he slowly knelt down on his knees! More than a thousand warriors behind him all knelt down! An elderly man hurriedly walked up and helped Zhang Mingyu and said: "General, don't be like this, the rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband!" We just did what we were supposed to do! Don't blame yourself, generals! ”

Zhang Mingyu choked up loudly and said: "The love of the villagers, our soldiers can't repay it!" You can only kill more enemies on the battlefield and serve the country! I, Zhang Mingyu, swear here to destroy the Japanese in my lifetime! Give me back the rivers and mountains! ”

"Swear to destroy the Japanese Invaders! Give me back the rivers and mountains! The soldiers behind him roared in unison.

Although more than 10,000 people of a brigade and a reading brigade were annihilated in this battle, the reading brigade also suffered two-thirds of the casualties, and there were less than 1,800 people left in the whole brigade! Among them, the third regiment suffered heavy casualties, except for the deputy regiment commander Wang Tiehan and a few signal corpsmen! The casualties of the second regiment were also very large, with less than 500 people left, and the casualties of the first regiment as a main regiment were not small, with more than 500 people.

After seizing a large amount of weapons and equipment, Zhang Mingyu recruited more than 300 new recruits from the people of Huining County, and then moved to the nearby villages, and scattered these thousands of people in each village, and the villagers of each village enthusiastically accepted these people and lived with them.

Then Zhang Mingyu began to recruit a large number of soldiers, at this time he had guns and cannons in his hands, and was fully equipped, but there were few soldiers, affected by this victory, students and aspiring young people who secretly came to join the army from all over the country came to join the army one after another! After a month of recruitment and rectification, Zhang Mingyu recruited 3,000 soldiers again, including some strong and patriotic people with high martial arts, Zhang Mingyu added them to the special forces detachment, guard company, and cavalry company, and some outstanding marksmanship were added to the sniper team. At this time, Zhang Mingyu knew that it was the best opportunity, the army stationed in Mongolia was entangled by the Jin Sui army and the Ma Jiajun, and could not get away for the time being, and the strategic purpose of the base camp of the army was to launch the Battle of Wuhan as soon as possible and seize Wuhan, so as to force the national political axe to surrender! Zhang Mingyu took advantage of this time to step up training.

At this time, the Reading Brigade had nearly 5,000 men, well-equipped, and sufficient ammunition, of which the artillery firepower was even more powerful, with nine Type 92 infantry guns, two 105 howitzers, and nearly twenty 81-mm and 60-mm mortars. There is also the unknown cannon captured in Huining County, which turned out to be a Type 88 anti-aircraft gun. At this time, the artillery firepower of the Reading Brigade far exceeded that of any other [***] division, or even a corps, at that time.

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