Chapter 585: A New Battle

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Ma Debi didn't have any expression on his face, he didn't say a word when he looked at these people, and these people couldn't figure out what he wanted to do, so they just looked at it blankly with fear and awe.

After at least five or six minutes, Ma Debi finally spoke: "Find me, what do you have to negotiate?" ”

Those who remain can only stammer.

Say what? What do you still say now?

Looking at the mourning hall arranged by Qiao Jingchang's family, Ma Debi frowned: "If you are doing anything nonsense outside my headquarters, I can directly order the shooting, but I can ignore this matter, Qiao Jingchang sold himself as a thief, and he deserves death, but you will not be implicated, Qiao Jingchang's body, you can also take it back."

As soon as these words came out, Qiao Jingchang's wife cried out again, but Ma Debi didn't seem to see it at all, but glanced at Qian Siyou: "Qian Siyou has promised to hand over all the grain that should be paid in the Ming Dynasty, in order to set an example, so I decided to release him in advance." As for you, I also hope that you can hand over everything that should be handed over as soon as possible, this is not bandit extortion, everything is for the restoration of the land and the war to the end! The highest instruction of the national political axe, during the period of national crisis, there are those who sabotage the War of Resistance, conspire to join the enemy, and make the country difficult to make money, not to mention killing! I don't have any other skills, but I still have the ability to kill! If you don't believe it, you can try it! ”

This made everyone shudder

Ma Debi's tone softened slightly: "Your family members are now guests at my headquarters, and I promise to treat them preferentially." However, I am not a hotel, let alone a restaurant, and I have only three days to entertain guests, so now, you are all gone. ”

These people who originally came with great momentum now have to disperse in disgrace

And Ma Debi finally let out a long breath, in fact, before doing this, he didn't have any bottom in his heart. So many people, as long as there is any mistake, it will cause irreparable consequences.

Fortunately, I finally succeeded halfway there.

Grain and taxes, Ma Debi believes that after these people go back, they will definitely pay it within the three-day time limit set by themselves, but what about Chen Shuihong and Li Daying after they are released? They will not be willing to fail, and then the biggest test for themselves will come

"Commander, Mr. Cai Yuyan from Fujian called, Ma Debi is about to turn Taiwan upside down."

The new adjutant, Cao Yuyi, walked in and put a telegram in front of Gao Fei: "Chief Ma has detained some of Taiwan's wealthy businessmen and big landowners, and I heard that he even killed one. ”

Gao Fei and the senior military commanders around him, who were holding a military meeting, were stunned at first, and then laughed "haha", and Lao Hei said with a smile: "Ma Debi, this dog, is even crazier than Lao Tzu." ”

Yu Wenzheng frowned and said: "If this matter is to be spread to Yucheng, I'm afraid."

"No matter, let him go crazy!" Gao Fei waved his hand, and he didn't care at all: "The sky is falling, let him bear it himself, ah"

There was another burst of laughter, and these generals of the Fourth War Zone have never taken these "little things" to heart.

Gao Fei quieted everyone down: "Originally, after the end of the winter offensive, we should have returned to the defense zone of the fourth theater, but now the situation has changed again, and the commission ordered our unit to assist the third, fifth, and ninth theaters to fight until October and November this year."

Lao Hei muttered: "Lao Tzu is in the fourth war zone, what are you doing here?" ”

"What is lacking on the battlefield right now is the elite forces, and that's why the commission wants to keep us here." Gao Fei muttered: "In the whole winter offensive, to be honest, although our six divisions have paid heavy casualties, they have also achieved brilliant victories, and under such circumstances, the commission must rely on a highly mobile and combat-capable force like ours to continue to maintain the pressure on the frontal battlefield and relieve the pressure of friendly forces. ”

After a slight pause, he continued:

"As the war continued, the army was also in a dilemma, and their choice at this time was to stop, on the one hand, to consolidate the occupied area, and on the other hand, to adopt a local offensive, in order to exert pressure on the national political axe, hoping that the national political axe would agree to peace talks, this strategy was basically just a repetition of the old tune after the capture of Nanjing, but the situation was even worse for the army, the occupied area was at least twice as large, and the army lacked the strength to fully control the occupied area and maintain sufficient reserves, if it was wise to adopt this strategy at the end of 1937, It would be foolish to restart it a year later."

The officers laughed again, and Goofy waved his hand to silence everyone:

"At the end of 1938, the Chinese army began to reorganize its troops, that is, to enter China with a large number of newly organized Reading Brigade and B-level reserve divisions, and to exchange defenses with the standing divisions and A-level reserve divisions that were originally put into the battlefield. By the beginning of 1940, the army had deployed a total of 24 divisions and regiments, 21 mixed brigades and two cavalry brigades in China, with a total of nearly 800,000 ground troops!

However, the occupied area is so vast that although the army has broken up the garrison into pieces and stationed a large number of squad- and platoon-level strongholds in order to control the occupied area, and even a division can only maintain the mobile strength of one brigade, the control of the occupied area is still not very effective, and the guerrilla forces behind enemy lines on both sides of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are not only living well, but are also in the mood to 'rub against each other'."

Speaking of the word "friction", Lao Hei suddenly said: "We received a telegram from Thunder yesterday, and they and the guerrillas under the command of the communist army really had some unpleasantness, and the two sides almost fought each other, and then both sides took a step back, so they barely made trouble."

"There's no way to do it, let the Thunder try to be as restrained as possible." Gao Fei sighed: "Dying a Chinese is equivalent to one less strength to resist the Japanese, and now we have only one common enemy, Yuben!" There are some things that can be allowed, and some things that can be let go, but they can't be let go, and the relevant evidence must be preserved, and the truth cannot be realized."

This is a very headache, but Gao Fei didn't have a high solution for a while, and he still caught the words on the military battlefield after being silent:

"In addition to striving to control the occupied areas, the army also hopes to consume our strength with a local offensive, because the elite Dobu of the central lineage belongs to the southwest as a reserve, or is arranged around Wuhan to counterattack Wuhan, therefore, the army decided to focus the local offensive on the defense areas of our fifth and ninth theaters, and to strike at the central subordinate units one by one as the first priority. The 11th Army, which occupied Wuhan, still controlled the huge strength of seven divisions and three brigades, and took on the task of continuously carrying out local offensives; In 1939, the 11th Army first captured Nanchang, and then launched a large-scale offensive against the Fifth Theater of Operations in Hubei and the Ninth Theater of Operations in Hunan. We are called Nanchang, Suizao, and Changsha battles. But except for the capture of Nanchang, the blow to our army was not serious.

At the beginning of 1937, the central bank had just passed a plan for the reorganization of the navy and army, with the United States and Russia as imaginary enemies, totaling 2.4 billion yuan, but the implementation had just begun, and the war between China and China had broken out, and the war expenditure was huge, and at the same time, the expansion of the army still had to be carried out, so the central bank's gold was prepared to be rapidly consumed, and by the end of 1938, the value of the gold inventory in the hands of the central bank was only 1.35 billion yuan, and more than two-thirds had been consumed. After the Battle of Wuhan, the Army's reorganization plan was revised again, from the initial version of 40 wartime divisions to 55 divisions in early 1938, and by the end of 1938 it was the goal of completing the rearmament of 65 wartime divisions and 164 squadrons of the Army Air Force by 1942. The budget for the expansion of the army in 1939 alone required 1.8 billion yuan, and the finances of the country had reached a critical point. On the other hand, although the Yue Ben tried to support the vassal political axe in North China and Central China, 'using China to control China', in order to help the Yue army weaken the influence of the Yucheng National Political Axe, because the effect was not very good, even if Wang Jingwei's regime was established, Wang's status and prestige still could not make the national political axe collapse, so this trick was useless.

If the text can't work, then come to the martial arts! ”

Speaking of this, Goofy smiled indifferently:

"It's a pity that the martial arts don't have much effect. At the same time, our army launched a large-scale counterattack in Guangxi against the Fifth Division, which was originally used to cut off our international communication line to Vietnam, and the Fifth Division suffered heavy losses, and these offensives made the top brass of the Chinese army realize that the battle in 1939 did not hurt our side much at all, so they finally reluctantly agreed that the strength of the Chinese army in China should not be excessively reduced, and agreed to reinforce two standing divisions and regiments, so as to launch a large-scale offensive against us in 1940; The final target for the number of troops in China was to reduce to 740,000 by the end of 1940.

In the spring of this year, the 11 th Army began preparations for a major offensive against our Fifth Theater, and this plan was fully supported by the base camp and the 'center'. Cao Yuyi, now report on the situation of friend and foe. ”

"Yes!" Cao Yuyi stood up and came to the big map hanging on the wall: Around the Wuhan area, our side has deployed about 100 divisions, 50 divisions in the 9th Theater in Jiangnan, and the 5th Theater, the protagonist of this battle in Jiangbei, with a total of 47 divisions and two brigades, and its situation is as follows:

Jiang Defense Army: 10 divisions, the center of gravity of defense is the Yichang Front Right Wing Army: including the 33rd and 29th Group Army, a total of 12 divisions, the Central Army defending the area on both sides of the Han River: the 11th Group Army, a total of 6 divisions, defending the front of Suixian; Left Wing Army: The Second Army, with a total of five divisions, two brigades and four guerrilla columns, defended the Tongbai Mountains; Dabie Mountain Guerrilla Base: The 21st Group Army, including four divisions, 12 guerrilla columns and 10 guerrilla detachments; Reserves: Eight divisions of the 31st Group Army, located in Henan, and two divisions of the 22nd Group Army, garrisoned Xiangyang.

The strategic concept of our Fifth Theater is to attack the left and the right to respond, and to attack the right to the left. That is, if the Yue Army placed the main axis of attack on the east bank of the Han River, the Central Army and the Right Wing Army would absorb the attack impulse of the Yue Army, the main force of the Right Wing Army would strike at the left flank of the Yue Army, and the First Left Wing Army and the 31st Group Army would attack the right flank of the Yue Army. However, if the army directly crossed the Han River and marched westward to take Yichang, the main force of the Jiang Defense Army and the Right Wing Army would be responsible for attracting the momentum of the Yue Army and attacking the right flank of the Yue Army with the 31st and 29th Group Armies.

In terms of the army, after being dealt a heavy blow by our army, the 11th Army readjusted its strength, and had a total jurisdiction over the 3rd, 13th, 33rd, 34th, 39th, and 40th divisions, and the 14th, 18th, and 101st Temporary Reading Force mixed brigades, with a total strength of about 88 brigades. the 13th and 39th Divisions, the Ikeda Detachment, the main two reinforced wings of the 40th Division, and 14 brigades from the 15th, 22nd, 33rd, and 34th Divisions and the 14th Reading Force; Its strategic concept is to carry out two successive double-sided detours on both sides of the Han River, and to press our army to fight a decisive battle on the Tanghe-Baihe line and the Yichang area respectively, so as to destroy the main force of the Fifth Theater, and its troop allocation is to be centered with the 39th Division with the Ikeda Detachment in the center, with the 13th Division as the left pincer, and the 3rd Division to strengthen the main force of the 40th Division as the right pincer."

"Okamura Ningji, that old bastard, is ready to make a desperate bet!" Gao Fei sneered and said: "The commission order, my fourth theater camera assists the fifth theater, cooperates with the operation, strikes at the living forces of the army, reduces the pressure on the fifth theater, and strives to fight a few more beautiful battles after the victory of the winter offensive, and inspires the determination of the whole [***] people to resist the war to the end!" ”

Yu Wenzheng said at this time: "Commander, after the winter offensive, our troops suffered heavy casualties, although the supply of troops has been replenished one after another, but the continuous operation will increase the fatigue of the troops, and even easy to make the soldiers feel war-weary, these are all things that have to be considered."

Gao Fei nodded: "Therefore, after obtaining the consent of the commission, our army will rely on the Ninth Theater to increase the number of divisions by six more divisions, so that my combat strength on the front line will reach twelve divisions." At the same time, the Fourth Theater took the initiative to launch an attack on Lianhua Mountain in Guangzhou with the strength of three divisions, so that on the one hand, it contained the Chinese army, and on the other hand, let our recruits who had just joined the army get actual combat training!

And here, after the arrival of the six new divisions, we will let the previous troops get as much rest as possible, put the new troops on the frontal battlefield, take turns to attack, take turns to rest, and then find the most suitable opportunity, turn all the combat forces into a fist, and give the most fatal blow to him, so that Okamura Ninji will always remember us! ”

Lao Hei pouted: "Just rely on those new recruits who are newly resisting guns?" After the fight, Lao Tzu has to pull people up! Fuck, I feel sorry to think of Lao Tzu's dead veterans. ”

"Yes, distressed, the value of those veterans is wealth for us." Gao Fei said slowly: "But recruits can also become veterans, the key depends on how to bring them." The one in the new 9th Brigade of the lock pillar, that Chang Mengkai, isn't it also out now? ”

Yu Wenzheng suddenly said: "Speaking of recruits, I think of one thing, my family used to have a world friend Cai family, that is, our cousin Mr. Cai Yuxuan, his family has three sons, two daughters, the eldest brother died in the Battle of Wuhan in 1938; My sister is married and works as a physician in the 'American Association for Aid to China'; the second brother Cai Yuanzhi graduated from the Army Heavy Soldiers School and is the battalion commander of the Second Communications Regiment; and now the fourth brother in the family, called Cai Yuanfei, has also become a soldier, and in the teaching team of the new 37th Division, his son even wrote to me and entrusted me to take care of it. ”

"This man is not small." Gao Fei smiled: "His family is your family's family friend, and his son is Mr. Cai's cousin, can such a son-in-law endure hardship when he comes to us?" ”

"God knows." Yu Wenzheng touched his nose and smiled: "I also asked, the new 37th Division is going to fight in Lotus Mountain, I hope nothing will happen to this son, otherwise I really have no way to explain." ”

"In the future, this kind of boy brother will recruit less." Goofy didn't take it too seriously: "Old Black! ”

"Hey, Xiucai!" Lao Hei suddenly shouted loudly: "Lao Tzu has just finished fighting a bad battle, can you let Lao Tzu rest for a while?" If the fight continues, Lao Tzu's orderly soldiers will have to put guns to Lao Tzu's head! ”

Gao Fei laughed "haha": "Turtle son, Lao Tzu has good things for you." This time, we have obtained a new batch of weapons and ammunition, and considering that your 26th Division and the new 9th Brigade have fought the hardest battles and suffered the greatest casualties, we will give priority to replenishing this batch of weapons to you. ”

"That's right." The old black words came out, and he suddenly looked at Gao Fei suspiciously: "Xiucai, you won't be so kind, you dug a pit again, and waited for Lao Tzu to jump down by himself, right?" ”

Gao Fei laughed again, and said with a smile: "No, no, this time really not, Lao Hei, we have been brothers for so many years, am I Gao Fei like that kind of person?" ”

Lao Hei nodded affirmatively: "Like!" ”

(To be continued)