Yueyang. This ancient cultural city with a history of more than 2,000 years has once again entered the eyes of Gaoquan. Since the devils have already attacked the south with a large army, Yueyang must have been empty, and it is not sure how many garrisons the devils have left in Yueyang, and there will be no more than one brigade, right?

Commander-in-Chief Xue led more than 40 divisions, more than 300,000 horses, and several armies attached to the Military Commission, and the total strength of our side in the Ninth Theater was nearly 500,000. Okamura Ninji naturally didn't dare to take it lightly, saying that he had pulled all his capital to the front line, which was not an exaggeration at all. There are devils at the brigade level, and the old devils in Gangcun have already sent them to the front line, at least they have been arranged to some strategic points to defend against the Chinese army on the battlefield, how can he have that surplus force to stay in Yueyang and guard tens of millions of troops?

The general is in battle, and after choosing the target, there can be no hesitation! Gao Quan used a pencil to draw a red circle on the two words Yueyang, captured the thief and captured the king, and beat him in the first battle!

After delineating the strategic objectives, Gao Quan immediately issued an order, and the reconnaissance battalion extended reconnaissance in the direction of Yueyang; The whole army was dispatched, with the independent brigade as the vanguard, and after the 500 brigades were broken, the whole division marched in concealment and went south to Yueyang!

Zheng Guotai's newly formed 501st Division did not rush to the front line of the Ninth Theater with the 500th Division this time. It's Gao Quan, not Zheng Guotai! Although the new 501st Division is attached to the 500th Division, which is something that all the senior commanders of the Fifth War Zone know well, it is basically true that Zheng Guotai said that Gao Quanshui's subordinates.

But Zheng Guotai is a serious major general division commander in the Ministry of National Defense, and the new 501st Division is also a regular division of the National Revolutionary Army. The new 501st Division did not require cross-theater operations, and of course the Central Military Commission could not arbitrarily draw people from the hands of Chief Li, and besides, the 5th Theater was not idle, and there were often battles to be fought!

Therefore, this time, Chief Li naturally took the new 501st Division into his own possession and directly became directly under the jurisdiction of the theater. Is Gao Quan a person who is willing to suffer? You want to snatch Zheng Guotai from me? Okay, wait until I drain the oil and water from this old boy's body! What oil and water can Zheng Guotai have? It's not the thousands of soldiers at hand!

So, after Gao Quan led the whole division south, Chief Li received an urgent telegram from the new 501st Division. Division Commander Zheng asked to lead the troops to report to the commander at the mouth of the old river immediately, his new 501st Division really couldn't afford to defend Suixian!

Chief Li wondered, you said that there is no big battle to be fought in the Fifth War Zone now, and the devils are all gathering strength in Dongting Lake, and you can't deal with a few scattered devils and traitors in one division? couldn't stand Zheng Guotai's repeated begging, and thought again, this product may have made Gao Quan bully, right? Chief Li was also a little curious, so he agreed that Zheng Guotai and his new 501st Division would return to Laohekou to rest, and by the way, he also wanted to see this miscellaneous division adapted from the puppet army with his own eyes.

Half a month later, Chief Li finally met this so-called division in a vacant lot somewhere in the mouth of the old river. Drink, this can make Chief Li angry, this is also called a teacher? These people are not even as good as a third-class battalion!

Hundreds of old and weak soldiers, more than half of whom were wounded. Zheng Guotai stood awkwardly on the side, his soldiers sat and lay down, no way, those seriously injured, if you want him to stand, he can't stand up? It looks like he's a little energetic, not even two hundred. The smallest was not as tall as the Hanyang-made rifle, and the largest looked to be over sixty, and even his beard was gray. Is this a division? This is simply Gao Quan's wounded soldier containment team!

After reading it, Chief Li gritted his teeth with hatred. Okay, you're a good guy, go to the Ninth War Zone to fight, leave a burden, and let me raise you! In vain I also gave you three companies of recruits! Commander Li intends to report to the Military Commission and withdraw this new 501st Division, right? Another thought, hum! can't be cheap, he Gaoquan, these are cumbersome, and when he comes back from the Ninth War Zone, he has to pay him back! So, the treatment that Chief Li gave to these people was to find a place to live and have a roof to hide; Provide them with two meals of porridge a day to ensure that no one dies of hunger; Find a few doctors and treat those who are seriously injured, as long as they can't die. Replenishment of weapons and ammunition? There's no need for that! And they don't expect these people to go into battle, and they don't need to give them bullets! That's how they raised this group.

As for the soldiers of the new 501st Division, which are still considered strong, needless to say, they must have been fully organized into the 500 Division. Zheng Guotai: Does he dare to object? He didn't dare to lend him a gut! Zheng Guotai knew in his heart, if it weren't for him, the division commander, who still had some prestige in front of his old subordinates, it was estimated that Gao Quan would be able to stuff him into a battalion of the 500th Division as a deputy battalion commander! It is not uncommon to have Liu Qi, the colonel battalion commander, as a precedent, and multiple major generals and deputy battalion commanders!

Now, with that bit of elite in his hand, Gao Quan has also been cleaned. The rest of the old, weak, sick and disabled people supported a division, like a group of people called Huazi, who came to the people's Chief Li, who could not eat enough and starved to death. Just wait for when, when Chief Li is free, so that he can issue an order to dismantle and disband. Regarding Zheng Guotai's own resettlement, Chief Li did not have any explicit indication at all, not even hinting.

With Zheng Guotai's current identity, even if he wants to go to the door, he doesn't know who to find? A division commander who has worked in the puppet army, who dares to make friends with him? Zheng Guotai has figured it out, his way out comes down to Gao's whole body! Master Zheng is in Laohekou, his heart is in the 500 division, and he is looking forward to the triumphant return of Master Gao day and night!

Yueyang City is both near the river and the lake, thirty miles northeast of Yueyang, there is a Chenglingji wharf. Most of the merchants who came and went got off the ship from Yueyang and transported the goods from Jiangbei to the entire Jiangnan. More are local fishermen, who go to Dongting Lake to catch fish and sell them ashore from Chenglingji Wharf. Since the devils occupied Yueyang City, the trade in the city has almost come to a standstill, and even the lakeside fishing boat wharf, which was very lively in previous years, is now rarely docked here.

On this day, at the riverside wharf, three canopy boats slipped over. If it had been stranded in previous years, let alone three boats, even five or ten, it would not have attracted people's attention at all. But in these days, except for the devil's small steamer and ironclad ship, there are few other ships that can't be seen all day, and these three canopy boats that suddenly appear are not too small, which are very conspicuous.

Most of the Japanese troops went down to the south to fight, and the Japanese garrison in the city only had more than 200 devils in a reinforced squadron, and the rest were a puppet regiment of seven or eight hundred people, and a traitor team of more than 300 people. There are fewer devils in the city, and the status of the puppet army traitors has improved a lot. The captain of the devil squadron in the city, the puppet army leader, and the traitor captain are quite important.

The security of the city depends on them, the maintenance of order depends on them, and even the security and defense of the city also depends on these two traitor armies. So much so that now these traitors are in charge of everything in the city, and they have to stick in everything, of course, these traitors and puppet soldiers are definitely not for the safety and stability of the city, they mainly use this means to collect money in their own pockets.

In this case, how can such three boats suddenly come on the dock without arousing the interest of the puppet army traitors?