Chapter 317: The Prologue to the Great War (1)

During the period when Liu Yimin was moving his army eastward, the army was also actively preparing for war, preparing to implement the battle plan for the southern section of the Jinpu Road, capture Xuzhou, and realize the rendezvous with the Central China Front.

Due to the arrival of Liu Yimin, the army lost troops and lost generals, which aroused the vigilance of the base camp and increased the troops again. This time, in addition to directly upgrading the infantry brigade of the North China Zhutun Army to the 27 th Division and making up for the combat losses of various units, the base camp of the Yue Army also added five mixed brigades and regiments for the North China Front, including the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth in one go, and also added a part of the mixed brigade for the Central China Front, whose main task was to use it for local garrisons. At the same time, the base camp of the Yue Army gritted its teeth and once again replenished the North China Front with aviation units.

However, the strength of the mixed brigade formed this time is not as large as before, and each mixed brigade is under the jurisdiction of five infantry brigades, with cavalry, artillery, engineer, and baggage teams, with a total strength of about 4,900 people.

After these troops arrived in North China, General Terauchi quickly filled the 20th Division, the 23rd and 24th Divisions, and the 5th Brigade of the Reading Mixed Brigade, and sent all the 6th, 7th, and 10th Reading Mixed Brigades to Shandong under the command of the Second Army, and sent the 8th and 9th Reading Mixed Brigades to Shanxi under the command of the First Army. In this way, the strength of the army in North China increased by 35,000 men compared to before the sweep.

Terauchi Shouichi knew that the newly formed Reading Power Mixed Brigade was composed of reservists, and its combat effectiveness was definitely not comparable to the elite permanent division and regiment troops, nor was it comparable to the original Reading Power Mixed Brigade, but it should be able to be used for garrison. In addition, in the recent period, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army does not seem to have made much movement, and the situation in central and southern Hebei is relatively stable, and the old devil in the temple has begun to be restless again.

The battle plan reported by Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi of the First Army aroused great interest in General Terauchi Shouichi. The previous stage of the operation proved that the battle plan of Lieutenant General Kazuki Qingsi was feasible and effective, and the reason why the main force of the Eighth Route Army was not captured in the current Jinzhong operation was mainly because the Eighth Route Army was too cunning, and the other reason was that the strength of the imperial army was not strong enough, and there was always a gap after the net was opened, and the third reason was that the operation in the mountains was conducive to the poorly equipped Eighth Route Army, and it was not convenient for the relatively high degree of mechanization of the Imperial Army. Now that the military strength has been further strengthened, Terauchi Shouichi is determined to completely solve the Shanxi problem before the Kwantung Army withdraws the strength of the southward corps.

General Terauchi Shouichi quickly approved Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi's battle plan, that is, a part of the troops to besiege and contain the main force of the Eighth Route Army, concentrate the heavy army group to eliminate the main force of Yan Xishan's Jin Sui Army, and then move south to capture Jinnan.

Considering that the situation in central Hebei was relatively stable, the defense line of Baoda Road had been completed, and Qi Kuiyuan's North China Public Security Army had also begun to take shape and could cooperate with the imperial army to defend the line of communication, Terauchi Shouichi wanted to secretly transfer the 23rd Division west to Shanxi, temporarily under the command of the First Army, and was determined to achieve the campaign goal in one fell swoop.

In this way, the strength of the Shanxi Army for defense can reach three divisions and two mixed brigades, the 25th Division is in the north, the 109th Division is in the south, and the 23rd Division and two mixed brigades are in the center, which can not only defend the lines of communication and contain the offensive of the Eighth Route Army, but also mobilize troops to launch sweeping operations. The 1st, 6th, 8th, and 20th Divisions, the four main divisions of the army, will be able to free up their hands and concentrate their forces on strategic operations.

At this point, General Terauchi Shouichi was still not at ease, and strictly ordered Major General Seiichi Nishida to mobilize all intelligence forces to find out the airfield and arsenal of the Eighth Route Army in Shaanxi, so that the aviation force could resolutely destroy it.

After deploying the battle in Shaanxi, Shouichi Terauchi's eyes were fixed on the battle on the Jinpu line.

Since the Shanxi side was generally saying that the war was going well, and the Jizhong side had stabilized the battle line and thwarted Liu Yimin's conspiracy to attack Pingjin, General Terauchi Shouichi believed that his prestige had risen again. Of course, this is what Shouyi Terauchi thinks about himself, whether Liu Yimin wants to attack Pingjin again Only Liu Yimin himself knows, and General Shouyi Terauchi is just speculation. Besides, if his prestige has risen, just ask the soldiers of the Yue Army who are guarding Jinpu Road, Baoda Road, and Pinghan Road every day in fear, and if it is not good, ask Emperor Hirohito, Prince Zaihito of the Idle Yuan Palace, or General Sugiyama Moto, who is blue every day, and you can't close the door and say that your prestige has recovered!

General Terauchi Shouichi would not have asked those people at this time, and at this time he was lying in the bathtub of the residence of the North China Front Army Headquarters in Beiping, enjoying the warm water while pondering the battle on Jinpu Road.

It should be said that since General Terauchi took office, his strategic goal has always been very clear, that is, to open up the Jinpu Line and the Pinghan Line, and realize the dream of joining forces with the Central China Front Army in Wuhan and drinking the Yangtze River. This strategy was initially opposed by a few forces in the country who were unwilling to expand the war, which led to the delay in approving the battle plan at the base camp. Then the incompetent Itagaki Seishiro expanded the war on the Shanxi side without authorization, pinning down the forces of the North China Front, and causing the offensive on the Pinghan Line to be unsustainable. The final result was to bring out the Eighth Route Army, a group of tigers who exclusively ate the imperial army, which not only caused the imperial army to lose its troops, but also plunged the war in Shanxi into a quagmire.

After Liu Yimin attacked and occupied Tianjin, he finally mobilized heavy troops to besiege Tianjin, but this guy was more slippery than a fish, and he played a trick of golden cicada shelling, and broke out of the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of troops and disappeared without a trace. Seeing that the heavy army group of the Second Army could go south along the Jinpu Road, Xuzhou seemed to be in front of him, and the damn instructor Liu Yimin came out to make trouble again, and as soon as he made a move, he knocked out the main force of the 21st Division and the fourth brigade mixed with Reading Power. This was not satisfied, this guy actually broke through the Deshi Road and Cangshi Road, put on a posture of sneak attack on Beiping and Tianjin, and once again aborted the Second Army's southward battle plan.

Thinking of this, General Terauchi Shouichi felt strange in his heart, the Eighth Route Army was completely different from the war of Chiang Kai-shek's political axe army, and it seemed that he did not stick to it at all, like Liu Yimin's tutor occupied such a big city as Taiyuan and Tianjin, and he would withdraw when he said that he would withdraw, and he knew that this was the case, and it was purely to tease the Imperial Army.

Thinking of Liu Yimin, General Shouichi in the temple felt as if a thorn had been inserted in his heart, and it hurt.

General Terauchi Shoichi silently calculated in his heart, since Liu Yimin led his instructor to join the North China battlefield, it has caused the 21st Brigade, the Chahar Dispatch Corps, the 21st Division, and the Fourth Brigade to be revoked, and the Imperial Army soldiers who died under his troops plus the losses of Tianjin and Jizhong Public Security and Rectification Operations, there are more than 70,000, and that is more than 70,000 sturdy men.

Liu Yimin must die, otherwise as soon as he goes to the battlefield in the future, the soldiers of the imperial army will be timid when they hear his name, how can the battle be fought?

But it's not so easy to let Liu Yimin die, Kazuo Yamaoka and Keiko Yamaoka can't kill him with such clever skills, which shows how long this guy's life is. But don't be discouraged, the tiger also has a nap, as long as you send someone to keep an eye on him, ready to calculate him at any time, I believe that you can definitely succeed!

Thinking of this, Shouichi Terauchi shook his head, feeling that he was off topic. I was thinking about how to carry out the battle on the southern section of Jinpu Road, why did I think of Liu Yimin?

But if you don't want to, you can't do it, Liu Yimin's three words can't seem to be waved out of his mind. Terauchi Shouichi simply concentrated his efforts on pondering Liu Yimin, pondering and pondering, and Terauchi Shouichi pondered the relationship between the Eighth Route Army, [***] and Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang and the regular army. Suddenly realized that Lieutenant General Xiangyue Qingsi's operations in Shanxi were very clever, and the imperial army drove the Eighth Route Army into the Taihang Mountains, and there was no large-scale action of the Jin Sui Army of Yan Xishan and the Central Army of Jinnan to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army, which showed a problem, although the Eighth Route Army was strong, they were a lone army, and it was difficult to get the cooperation and support of the Kuomintang army. In the same way, if the Imperial Army attacks the Kuomintang army with all its might, the Eighth Route Army may cooperate in the operation and contain the Imperial Army, but it is difficult to say if they are to resist the Imperial Army.

Communicating this truth, Shouichi Teramichi was very excited. He seemed to think that Liu Yimin's instructor had a characteristic, if the imperial army did not take the initiative to sweep his base area, it seemed that he was hidden and honest. This time, it was the 21st Division that did not listen to the order and went to Liu Yimin's base area alone to sweep up, which caused a series of accidents. If the imperial army firmly held the line of communication and concentrated on the Jinpu line operation, would Liu Yimin honestly stay in southern Hebei and Luxi without moving? The conclusion is quite possibly. After all, fighting against the main force of the imperial army, the strength of the earth eight roads will be greatly weakened. I'm afraid that the high-ranking officials of [***] will see the war in Shanxi very clearly, and they will not fail to understand this truth.

After figuring it out, General Terauchi Shouichi also made a decision, he felt that it was better to temporarily prevent the 23rd Division from entering Shanxi, and the defense line of Baoda Road should be served by the 23rd Division and the North China Public Security Army, as long as he did not take the initiative to provoke the instructor, the Eighth Route Army may not take the initiative to attack, even if it is not afraid of attacking now, the troops in the Pingjin area have been strengthened, and they can fully hold on until the large army returns. In this way, the 24th Division can return to the Jinpu Line and form the Jinpu Line defense line with the remnants of the 21st Division, and the 108th Division can return to Jinan, and form the foundation of Shandong's defense with the newly arrived three Reading Mixed Brigades, vacate the 5th Division, 10th Division, 16th Division and Reading Power Mixed into the 3rd Brigade, and with the cooperation of the Heavy Artillery Brigade, launch the southern section of the Jinpu Road Campaign and capture Xuzhou in one fell swoop!

General Shouichi Terauchi felt full of strength again, and the thing under his crotch, which had been weak for some time, seemed to be ready to move. Terauchi Shou Yiyi laughed evilly, gently patted the thing under his crotch, and said, "Little brother, do you miss Miss Masako?" ”

With that, Terauchi stepped out of the bathtub and rang the doorbell, asking the guards to notify Miss Masako to come and serve.

Masako is the youngest daughter of an old classmate of General Shouichi Terauchi, just 18 years old, after graduating from school, she wants to come to China to fight in the war and serve His Majesty the Emperor. Since General Terauchi Shouichi was the commander of the North China Front, Masako's father entrusted his daughter to his old classmate and asked him to take care of her. After Masako's girl's heart has been restrained and she is tired of the cruelty of the war, she will be sent back to Yumoto to marry.

Masako's father never dreamed that as soon as General Terauchi Shouichi saw Masako, he thought about a donkey, for no other reason, this girl was really good-looking, which made the lustful General Terauchi Shouichi heartbroken. However, some time ago, the war was tense, and General Terauchi Shouichi did not have the time or energy to get involved with Masako.

When Masako came to Terauchi Shouichi's bedroom, she saw that Terauchi Shouichi was wearing a bath towel, and her little face immediately turned red with shame. However, this woman is well-informed, and she didn't think too much about it, thinking that His Excellency the Commander wanted her to help massage and stretch her muscles. So he stepped forward, pounded lightly with his pink fist, and massaged Shouichi in the temple.

Under the massage of Masako, Shouichi Terauchi was so comfortable that he kept moaning.

After a while, Masako felt a little tired and stopped. Unexpectedly, General Terauchi Shouichi was already ready to shoot at this time, and as soon as he pulled Masako, his big mouth arched towards Masako's pink face.

Masako screamed, broke away from the temple and was about to run. Where can the old devil of Shouyi in the temple let the little white rabbit in his hand escape, as soon as his hand is forced, he "tears" and tears the back of Masako's obedience. Then, Shouyi Terauchi copied his right hand, hugged Masako into his arms, and touched the white and bulging ** with his left hand, and said while touching: "What a beautiful Masako!" It's more beautiful than the cherry blossoms in Ueno! ”

The girl who was stripped naked, her consciousness had already become a chaos, and she was hugged to the couch by Shouichi Terauchi, kneaded it slowly, and rubbed it all the way down from the cherry lips buds. In the end, General Terauchi Shouichi, who was stimulated by the fragrance of the girl's virgin, finally stepped forward and picked the delicate flowers.

After the clouds cleared and the rain cleared, Masako waited for her empty eyes and looked at the roof in a daze.

Shouichi Terauchi didn't want a mentally disordered woman, and he hadn't enjoyed it enough, so he patted Masako's fat little ass and said, "Masako, don't be stupid, serving the emperor is to let your uncle enjoy it, which is much better than letting a group of imperial warriors annihilate to death." You take a break, I'll want it at night. ”

Masako never dreamed that she was born noble, and she wanted to serve the emperor, but in the end she ended up being annihilated by the old immortal Terauchi Shouichi. Her mind was already straight, and she didn't even hear the footsteps of Shouichi Terauchi walking out, her eyes just stared straight at the ceiling, and her mouth kept muttering "Mommy, Mommy"!

After returning to the war room, Terauchi Shouichi called Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe, and immediately issued an operational order to launch the battle of the southern section of the Tsuura Line. The purpose of the campaign was to capture Xuzhou, encircle and annihilate the main force of the Central [***] team around Xuzhou, and open up contact with the Central China Front. The Fifth Division, the 16th Division, the 10th Division, the 10th Division, the 3rd Brigade, the 13th Brigade, the 6th Brigade, the 7th Brigade, and the 10th Brigade were all under the command of the Second Army and were used for operations in the southern section of the Jinpu Road.

(To be continued)