Chapter 212: A Magnificent Show (3)
Since Han Yunhua has said so, what is there for him to be reserved, if he doesn't agree, he will seem to be a thief. Besides, such a good opportunity, how could he miss it.
"As Deputy Commander Peng (Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the 18th Group Army) said, we are all guests, that is, the audience of this big drama, and we will listen to Commander Han no matter how it is arranged, even if you let me go to the battlefield with a rifle now, I will never say anything." Fu Zuoyi's voice was very high and imposing, and the atmosphere in the combat command room suddenly became much warmer.
Although Fu Zuoyi said this, everyone knew that Han Yunhua would not really send him to the front line as a small soldier, you must know that he is a dignified army commander, and it would be really terrible if something happened.
Sure enough, Han Yunhua hurriedly said: "How can it, you are very expensive, if I give you a rifle for you to go to the front line and let Chief Yan know, I can't afford this crime, who doesn't know that Commander Fu is Chief Yan's right-hand man." "Han Yunhua is telling the truth, others are okay, if something happens to Fu Zuoyi, Yan Xishan will have to go crazy, and the consequences are really not something that he Han Yunhua can afford.
"In this case, let's do it according to the military ranks granted to you by the Nationalist Government, the lieutenant colonel will go to the battalion, the colonel will go to the regiment, the major general will go to the brigade, and the lieutenant general will command with me. Anyway, the lieutenant colonels and colonels are all commanders on the front line, just let them communicate with the battalion commander and regiment commander of our military region, as for the others, it is good to be delicate, and it is not good for both sides to lose one, Commander Fu, what do you do? Han Yunhua continued.
Some things must be said well, whether it is a villain first and then a gentleman, or a gentleman with the heart of a villain. He, Han Yunhua, could not afford the crime of trapping friendly generals in the hands of the enemy, let alone the suspicion of engaging in friction.
Fu Zuoyi also knew Han Yunhua's worries, he now had a new understanding of China's youngest lieutenant general, and he no longer thought that Han Yunhua was just a moment of good luck. Han Yunhua's prudence and wit are the only ones he has seen in recent years, whether it is the tiger general's nephew of Zhang Xinchen, a fierce general of the Northwest Army, or the young generals under Chief Yan, they are not comparable to this 24-year-old Han Yunhua.
And this Han Yunhua speaks very skillfully, and he doesn't seem to have much deep meaning, but there are many ways to savor it, just a few words just now. Careless people may only take it as a kind word. But Fu Zuoyi knew that this guy was squeezing him with words, and wanted him to make a statement, that is, these officers who went to the front line were destined for their own lives, and he Han Yunhua could not bear any responsibility for anything.
"Hahaha, Master Han laughed, since we are here to learn from your department, we have to pay a certain price. These officers of our unit who went to the front line this time, whether they were themselves or others, were fateful to themselves, and if something happened, even if they left their lives in the front, they couldn't complain to others, and they had nothing to do with the Eighth Route Army and Division Commander Han. In fact, Fu Zuoyi didn't want to say this, but how to say that he was also a person with status, whether it was the lieutenant general of the 35th Army of the National ** Army or the right-hand man of the commander of the Second Theater Yan Xishan, his confidant and beloved general, he was not allowed to cheat.
However, Fu Zuoyi's expression fell in Han Yunhua's eyes, which was called a qu, and Han Yunhua laughed secretly in his heart, which is called death to save face and suffer guilt.
On January 15, 1939, Han Yunhua led the First Assault Brigade and the three special squadrons of the Saber Special Brigade, Cheetah, Eagle and Xiaofeng, to the front line, accompanied by a large number of senior officials from both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, including President Peng and Fu Zuoyi.
At the same time as Han Yunhua and others were moving, a conspiracy meeting of the North China Front Headquarters on targeting Han Yunhua's headquarters was also underway, and the person presiding over this meeting was none other than General Binshanyuan, commander of the North China Front.
In addition to the commander of the Front Army, Senior General Binyamamoto, there were also Lieutenant General Otaka Kamezo, commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro, commander of the 1st Army, Major General Yamashita Fumi, commander of the Yamashita Brigade, Lieutenant General Washizu Matsudaira, commander of the 21st Infantry Division, Major General Yoshito Takagi, commander of the 39th Infantry Brigade, Major General Umeko Yamaguchi, head of the North China Front Army, and Major General Yanagi Toshitoshi, the top commander of the Special Forces of the North China Front.
The first to speak was General Binshan Yuan, who said gloomily: "Gentlemen, after reading the battle report of the base camp on the battle of Wuhan, what do you think, let's listen to it." Although General Binshanyuan's voice was not high, and he was relatively old, no one in the entire conference room had not heard it. ,
Senior General Binshan Moto is extremely famous in the Japanese Army, both among the older generation of generals and among the new generation of officers. 26 "There is his shadow in the mutiny." However, because he was highly regarded by the Japanese emperor, he was not punished afterwards, which shows his status in the Japanese army. Originally, General Terauchi Shouichi did an extremely good job in the North China Front, so the base camp intended to promote it to a higher level, but unfortunately since meeting Han Yunhua's nemesis, the North China Front Army has deteriorated, and finally lost several cities in the Battle of Saibei, and even the commander of the lieutenant general became one of the enemy's trophies, losing the face of the Japanese Imperial Army.
But no one expected that for more than three months, General Binshan Yuan did not take any major action, not even launch a major campaign, and in the end, even the skirmishes between the two sides in contact with the territory were stopped. It was only during this time that an order was given for a tentative offensive against the Inner Mongolia Military Region in China.
Seeing that he didn't speak, General Binshan Yuan said angrily: "Since you don't say it, then I'll tell you that the dignified Japanese Imperial Army has suffered great losses in the hands of the same Zhina people, and this Zhina General's defense area happens to be the territory of our North China Front Army, so the base camp ordered our department to solve this scourge within a time limit, so you know what to do." ”
"Hai" All the senior officers said in unison, their voices full of helplessness. If it weren't for the direct order from the base camp, who would want to provoke that evil star.
Within the North China Front, Han Yunhua had a very domineering name -- "Killing God", which means that whoever touches it dies, and that one is injured by that.
"Your Excellency Commander, I think that it is necessary to solve the problem of Han Yunhua in China overnight, and you must know that if you want to hurry, you will not be able to achieve it. I think that His Excellency Shouichi Terauchi still has an army of more than 300,000 people and still makes this Han Yunhua develop like this, which means that this Han Yunhua is not a straw bag, he should have real talent and real learning, so he thinks that to deal with such an enemy, he should adopt the strategy of boiling frogs with slow fire and warm water, and gradually encroach on it, rather than solve it within a time limit, so it will seem impatient, I don't know what His Excellency the Commander thinks? Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro, commander of the 1st Army, said loudly, his voice high-pitched and full of leaks.
For this Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro, all the people in the room had an inherent respect. This is not only because Umezu Mijiro is a general, but also because Umezu Mijiro is also from a famous Japanese shogun. Born in a peasant family in Oita Prefecture, Kitakyushu, Umezu Mijiro has had a dream of being a general since he was a child. Kitakyushu Oita Prefecture is a well-known prefecture for war criminals. There are five army generals alone, and this probability is a miracle in the world's military history, and even the last commander of the Navy's military command department, Vice Admiral Toyoda, is also a person here. The Japanese Army has a total of 16 chiefs of staff, and there are three here: Kawai Cao, Kanaya Fanzo and Umezu Mijiro, and two generals, Minamijiro and Anami Yuki. Generally speaking, soldiers from the Kyushu region basically belong to the "Satsuma (Meiji)-Uehara (Taisho)-Imperial Road (Showa)" factional system. Oita Prefecture, on the other hand, is a counter-example, and the majority of the military personnel of the "Nagasu-Ugaki-Rule" faction are dominant. Therefore, the generals who came out of this place were very respected by the ordinary soldiers of the Japanese army, because the generals who came out there seemed to be born with a kind of magic, which was a symbol of victory.
Regarding Umezu Mijiro's words, General Binshan Gen did not dare to slack off, and immediately replied: "It should be like this, and I have the same thoughts as Your Excellency. However, the base camp believed that the Eleventh Army had suffered heavy losses, and the navy also confirmed that it was this Han Yunhua's unit that attacked the Third Fleet. There is a saying in China: Kill 10,000 enemies and lose 8,000. Therefore, the base camp unanimously believes that the current Han Yunhua's department should be the weakest moment, and its elite troops have suffered heavy losses in the Wuhan area, according to the base camp, it is expected that there will be no less than 20,000 people, so the base camp will order our department to solve this ** trouble within a time limit. ”
"Your Excellency Commander, I think it seems a bit hasty for the base camp to think like this, you must know that this Han Yunhua is very good at hiding his strength, I have been undercover in the department for more than three months, and I have heard no less than ten numbers at the regimental level alone, you must know that the regiment of the department is quite a large regiment at the level of our army, not the thousand-man regiment of the Eighth Route Army that we think. The strength of the unit at the time of the Battle of Saibei was amazing, and the total strength was not expected to be less than 200,000. Even if the army lost more than 20,000 troops in the Battle of Wuhan, we would not be able to raise a huge force that could wipe out 200,000 troops in one fell swoop? "This time it was Major General Yamaguchi Umeko who spoke, and she knew more about Han Yunhua's department than others, so she was also the strongest one to take care of Han Yunhua's department.
Umeko Yamaguchi was awarded the rank of major general by the base camp because of her great achievements in destroying the headquarters of Han Yunhua's headquarters and other battles some time ago, becoming one of the few female generals in the Japanese Army.