Chapter 865: The Tangled Tada Jun (continued)

After Tada Jun finished scolding Baga, his mind ran to Princess Jungong Hideko and Liu Yimin, who were missing, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Among the generals of the Japanese invasion of China, Tada Jun is a very insightful, very level, very capable, and very powerful guy. As early as 1935, when he was the commander of the North China garrison, this person clamored for the expulsion of anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements from North China and the independence of the North China Economic Circle, which meant to separate North China from China. After the Lugou Bridge Incident, he belonged to the faction in the Japanese army that did not support the expansion of aggression, and advocated the submission of Chiang Kai-shek through negotiations, believing that the expansion of aggression against China would weaken the preparations for war against the Soviet Union. Later, under the coercion of Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace and Sugi Sugimoto, Tada Jun changed his position and urinated into a pot with the expansion of the invaders. However, the disastrous defeat of the 23rd Division and the 7th Division in the Battle of Nomenkan proved that Tada's proposition was correct, and for a time there were even requests for Tada to be appointed as the land minister in the cabinet of Nobuyuki Abe and replace Shunroku Hata. In the end, although Tada Jun was not regarded as a land minister, he was also promoted and became the commander of the North China Front.

In Tada's mind, he has always wanted to carve out China's North China from China. Now that he is the commander of the North China Front, he commands hundreds of thousands of troops, and he has the conditions to directly organize and implement his own plan. However, the current situation in North China is no longer the situation at the beginning of the war, and the Communist Eighth Route Army actually developed and grew in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and became the mainstay of the War of Resistance in North China. In particular, the instructors of the Eighth Route Army, who fought victoriously and controlled most of Shandong, took the destruction of the Japanese army's division-sized troops as their combat goal at every turn. Therefore, Tada Jun regarded the Eighth Route Army and Liu Yimin as a stumbling block to his realization of the goal of carving North China out of China, and the cage policy he implemented was specifically aimed at the Eighth Route Army.

At this moment, Tada Jun ran away, and his mind was not only the slim and graceful figure of Princess Jungong Hideko, nor was it just the picture of Princess Jungong Hideko Chenghuan under Liu Yimin's crotch. Tada Jun is not a ** person, and that kind of thinking can't last. He was thinking about it, Liu Yimin first offered a reward to encourage the people to rise up and kill the imperial army, then offered a reward to encourage the imperial soldiers to shoot the officers, and then offered a reward to encourage the junior officers of the imperial army to shoot the superior officers, and now he has come up with a "Japanese National Salvation Army", in case Princess Hideko Jungong falls into the clutches of Liu Yimin, I don't know what new tricks he will come up with, that is the real princess of the Japanese imperial family, and has the ability to attract people's attention.

After thinking about it, Tada Jun couldn't think of how Liu Yimin would use Princess Jungong Hideko to make a fuss, but he knew that once Liu Yimin wanted to use Princess Jungong Hideko, it would be very vicious.

Tada Jun involuntarily muttered to himself: "Liu Yimin, Baga is dead, dead"

As soon as he heard that His Excellency the Commander had finally spoken, Deputy Chief of Staff Masashi Hirata quickly stood up and asked His Excellency the Commander to eat quickly, the food was cold, and it would not taste good if it was hot.

Tada Jun came back to his senses completely, and after thinking about it, there were still Wang Kemin and Qi Kuiyuan here, and he couldn't let these two guys see his thoughts, so he said yes and sat down to eat again.

This is equivalent to the third time to start the banquet, the time is too late, and a few people dare not talk more, for fear that if they are not careful, they will say the wrong thing again, which will cause the anger of His Excellency the commander, and the immortals in the temple of the five internal organs will starve. Therefore, they all eat with a stuffy head.

After sending Wang Kemin and Qi Kuiyuan away, Tada Jun went back to his room and lay down. He had something on his mind and couldn't sleep, so he simply turned on the electric light, picked up a pictorial of the Japanese army and flipped through it page by page. After looking at it for a while, I saw that it was full of photos of imperial soldiers stabbing Chinese and ** Chinese women with bayonets, and I had a whim, can I think of arresting a senior official of the Eighth Route Army and exchanging Princess Hideko Chungong with Liu Yimin?

As soon as this thought came to him, Tada Jun became excited, and he couldn't lie on the bed anymore, so he simply got up and got out of bed, ran to the war room, and thought about the map.

After thinking about it for a while, Tada Jun gradually formed a plan in his mind, that is, to select a group of elite soldiers who volunteered to sacrifice themselves for the emperor, form a small unit, led by officers with rich combat experience, disguise themselves into the base area of the Eighth Route Army, and specialize in assassination, poisoning, and indicating targets for the air force. Strive to destroy the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the divisions and divisions of the Eighth Route Army, and capture or kill alive Zhu De and Peng Dehuai, senior generals of the Eighth Route Army.

Tada Jun gave this small unit a name, called the "North China Advance Team".

Before Tada could further ponder his plan, the phone in the war room came to mind. Tada Jun was excited, and the phone rang in the middle of the night, and there must be no good thing

Sure enough, the combat staff officer chattered and remembered, and after a short time, he put down the phone, saluted Tada Jun and reported: "Report to Your Excellency Commander: Major General Nakagawa Hiroshi, Chief of Staff of the Ninth Division, reports that the instructor of the Eighth Route Army stormed Xin'an Town in the eastern section of Longhai Road and has now occupied Xin'an Town. The commander of the 35th Infantry Wing, Fuji Suekiyoshi, who was stationed in Xin'an Town, lost contact. The 9th Division requested urgent tactical guidance"

The 9th Division did not belong to the North China Front Army, and was temporarily replaced by the 114th Division, so they crossed the headquarters of the 12th Army and reported directly to the North China Front.

Tada Jun took the telephone record and read it, and immediately asked the staff officer on duty to send someone to inform Chief of Staff Yoshizumi Ryosuke and Deputy Chief of Staff Hirata Masaji to come to the war room and ask him to call Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi, who would personally inquire about the battle situation.

The Japanese army controlled the Jinpu Road, and the telephone was open.

The phone was about to go through soon, and the commander of the Ninth Division, Kiichiro Higuchi, said on the phone that he was not very clear about the specific battle situation, and Fujii Suekichi reported for the first time that the Eighth Route Army was attacking and asked for reinforcements. The second report said that Xin'an Town was lost and that he was organizing troops to retake Xin'an Town. Considering that Xin'an Town was easy to defend and difficult to attack, the division judged that Fujii Sueyoshi must have transferred all the main forces to the blockade ditch defense line, allowing the Eighth Route Army to take advantage of the loophole. In order to avoid the shattering of the entire Jade of Fujii's Sueyoshi troops, the division ordered the division to break through. Then contact was lost.

Tada Jun asked if there was any new movement after the Eighth Route Army captured Xin'an Town?

Kiichiro Higuchi reported that there were no new developments.

As soon as Tada Jun heard this, he understood that the Eighth Route Army was going to use Xin'an Town to fish and fight the reinforcements of the Ninth Division, and immediately ordered Higuchi Jiichiro not to reinforce Xin'an Town for the time being, and all troops were ready to hold their positions, and then consider recapturing Xin'an Town after Tianming judged the enemy's situation.

Putting down the phone, Tada Jun muttered to himself: "Liu Yimin, are you going to perform on stage again?" ”

To Tadajun's surprise, about an hour later, Higuchi Jiichiro called again, saying that the Eighth Route Army had launched a fierce attack on the east and west of Xin'an Town, and the small strongholds along the Longhai Road could not resist it at all. Moreover, the Eighth Route Army also launched an offensive in the east and west directions of Haizhou, asking for permission to shrink the defensive line.

Tada Jun smiled angrily, and scolded Kiichiro Higuchi on the phone for being a coward, the dignified Ninth Division, when encountering an attack on the Eighth Road, was not thinking about how to counterattack and eliminate the invading enemy, but asked to shrink the defensive line, is the Ninth Division still the elite of the Japanese Army? If it's like this, how can this battle be fought? It was forbidden to retreat or shrink, and ordered all units to hold their positions and fight for points with the Eighth Route Army

As soon as he put down the phone, before he could give a briefing on the battlefield situation to Yoshizumi Ryosuke and Hirata Masatsu, who had hurried over, the staff officer on duty came in again to report that the 38th Division reported that the Eighth Route Army's troops in southwest Lu had stormed Longhai Road.

Tada Jun was shocked and immediately ordered Deputy Chief of Staff Hirata Masashi to inform the 12th Army stationed in Jinan, Shandong Province and the troops stationed in eastern Henan to immediately enter a combat state and strictly prevent a sneak attack by the Eighth Route Army.

After giving the order, Tada Jun didn't sleep anymore, sat down in front of the map, his eyes staring at Xin'an Town, he wanted to figure out what Liu Yimin was going to do.

At dawn, Tada Jun listened to the news release of the Eighth Route Army's occupation of Xin'an Town broadcast by the Xi'an Xinhua News Agency, "Our Army Captures Xin'an Ancient Town".

The news of the successful capture of Xin'an Town by the Fifth Brigade was immediately reported by radio to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the Military Commission of Chongqing. Then, Wang Pengju, head of the propaganda section of the Political Department, wrote a press release entitled "Our Army Captures the Ancient Town of Xin'an," which flew in all directions through the radio waves in the night.

Wang Pengju's press release was very well written, and he wrote it on the basis of the battle report sent by the Fifth Brigade, and he wrote the entire battle situation vividly, as if he had been there in person. In particular, the scene when the commander of the 18th Wing of the 36th Infantry Brigade of the 9th Infantry Division of the Japanese Army, Fuji Suekichi Daisa, was killed, is simply a stroke of genius:

"In the dark of night, the torches on the battlefield are very bright. The shouts of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army came from all around, wave after wave. The momentum was more surging and more agitated than the sound of the Qiantang tide.

The commander of the 36th Wing of the 18th Infantry Brigade of the 9th Infantry Division of the Japanese Army, Fuji Sueyoshi Osa, holding his command knife and staring at his frightened eyes, looked at the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who came up from all around.

Fujii Sueyoshi Osa did not surrender in the end, and like many officers who had been trained in the ideology of Japanese fascist militarism, he stupidly raised his saber and howled and rushed towards the muzzle of the Eighth Route Army, waiting for him with a bullet of justice. A full 50 bullets, with the hatred of the invaded Chinese, all hit Fujii's head, chest, and abdomen, beating this aggressive maniac, murderer, ** criminal, and robber into a hornet's nest.

At the end of the battle, the reporter met General Liu Yimin, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army, on the side of Longhai Road. General Liu told reporters that the significance of capturing Xin'an Town is that the Longhai Road has been cut off, and our army can seize Haizhou and Lianyungang to the east; To the west, you can capture Xuzhou, and then go west to Henan, encircle and annihilate the Japanese troops in eastern Henan, and recover Kaifeng and Zhengzhou; If you go south, you can directly target the Jiangsu and Anhui regions, or even hit the Yangtze River, smash the Yangtze River defense line of the little devils, threaten Shanghai and Nanjing, and block the Yangtze River waterway, close the enemy in Wuhan, close the door and beat the dogs. In a word, the initiative on the battlefield is in the hands of our army, and the little devils are passively beaten everywhere.

The reporter asked Division Commander Liu if he wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and completely annihilate the Japanese Ninth Division?

Master Liu replied: "Young man, don't be impatient, you can't eat hot tofu if you're in a hurry." This is a military secret, and I cannot tell you. However, there is one thing I can tell you, the 9th Division is a permanent division of the Japanese army, well-equipped and combat-ready. After the elimination of the Ninth Division, our army will be able to capture a number of tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles, rubber-tyred carts, and a number of war horses. You may not know that the Ninth Division has more than 8,000 war horses alone, which is a big number, think about it, the Ninth Division with such good equipment has set up a long snake formation on Longhai Road, isn't this the appetite of the Eighth Route Army This eastern section of Longhai Road is our old battlefield, and it is also the old cemetery of little devils. There are so many ghosts of the 10th and 6th Divisions accompanying them, and they can go back to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo together. ”

After reading the news release of "Our Army Occupies Xin'an Town" written by Wang Pengju translated by the Japanese military intelligence department, Tada Jun was shocked in his heart, could it really be Liu Yimin who arrived in Xin'an Town? If it was really the main force of the Eighth Route Army Instructor to attack Xin'an Town, there must be a bigger plan. Could it be that Liu Yimin really wants to eliminate the Ninth Division? If the Ninth Division is wiped out, Xuzhou and Lianyungang will become naked Yamato beauties lying in front of Liu Yimin, and they will be taken at will.

Ryosuke Yoshizumi is older and does a lot of bad things. It's just that he doesn't think that what he is doing is bad, but that he is doing his best for His Majesty the Emperor and making meritorious contributions to the Great East Asian Holy War

In any case, Yoshizumi Ryosuke used to be the division commander of the Ninth Division, and he had feelings for the old troops, and he was afraid that the Ninth Division would be humiliated, so he suggested that Tada Jun consider letting the Ninth Division take advantage of the daytime to have fighter planes to cover it to carry out search and reconnaissance in Xin'an Town, and the main force should prepare to return to Xuzhou and Lianyungang.

Yoshizumi Ryosuke wanted the Ninth Division to hide in Xuzhou City or Lianyungang, relying on strong fortifications to avoid being annihilated.

Hirata had a different idea, he believed that the daytime was the dominance of the Japanese air force, and that the Ninth Division should be ordered to concentrate the main force and, under the cover of the aircraft, resolutely recapture the town of Xin'an and restore the original situation on the battlefield.

The reason why Hirata Masatsuke dared to disagree with Chief of Staff Yoshizumi Ryosuke was that Hirata Masatsu was superstitious about the strength of the Japanese air force, and on the other hand, Hirata Masatsu knew that Yoshizumi Ryosuke had attracted international public criticism for conniving at the burning and looting of the troops, and the Japanese army base camp had to transfer him to the reserve. Although he is now the chief of staff, he does not last long. Because there are so many people who want to do this position, there must be people who are thinking about how to remove Yoshizumi Ryosuke from power

Tada Jun is caught in a dilemma.

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