Chapter 43: A Visit
This telescope was after the Battle of Nanjing. In reward for his bravery, Commander Matsui Ishine personally rewarded him. Since then, the telescope has been hanging around the neck of Major General Ushijima, and has been cherished by the brigade commander as a treasure.
As soon as Ushijima picked it up, he dropped the glass ballast from the lens barrel on one side, and it was obvious that the telescope was not lightly injured. Since General Ushijima can become a famous general, he naturally has his own merits. Although he was distressed to death, he couldn't show it in front of his subordinates.
His hands trembled, and he shook the broken glass in the lens barrel clean, and laughed self-deprecatingly: "It seems that this telescope should be replaced with a new pair of lenses." ”
Because of the sudden braking, the meritorious telescope of His Excellency the General broke the lens, and the driver of the chariot was in a panic, but when he heard General Ushijima say this, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, such a big man as His Excellency the General really has a big belly!
After Ushijima cleaned the broken glass from the telescope, he picked it up and saw that the lens barrel on the other side was intact! General Ushijima, who was anxious to see the real situation at the pontoon bridge again, quickly put the telescope on his face again, squinted one eye, and used the other eye to look through the lens and look into the distance.
The pontoon bridge is gone, there are scattered pieces of wood floating on the river, and wisps of smoke are rising, and there is not even half of the pontoon bridge left on the river! The quality of the Chinese's engineering is really inferior to the Japanese, if it is a pontoon bridge built by the Sixth Engineer Wing, how will it be blown to the point that there is no slag left?
Looking at the river again, the Japanese cavalry rode straight around, and the formation was obviously not as neat as before. The big explosion just now, not only people, I'm afraid the war horse was even more frightened, right? General Ushijima suddenly remembered that just now he clearly saw that there were more than a dozen war horses on the pontoon bridge! I adjusted the focus and looked across the river. Except for the retreating Chinese army, where is there a Japanese cavalry? Could it be that all his cavalry had fallen into the river and fed the fish? Ushijima looked at the other side of the river unwillingly, but there was still not a single Japanese cavalry, let alone a horse, not even a donkey!
"Yaga!" Ushijima opened the door and jumped out of the chariot, "Order the engineer brigade to immediately build a pontoon bridge over the Xinqiang River, we will catch up and destroy the five hundred divisions of the Chinese army!" "Although it didn't take much trouble for the engineer brigade to build a pontoon bridge, the 500th Division played tricks on him in front of General Ushijima, and by the way, more than a dozen of his cavalry were also blown up into the sky.
Gunfire and cannon rumble. The fires in the sky flickered and flickered, and the clouds in the sky turned into fiery clouds. The farther west you go, the louder the guns and the closer you get to the battlefield. There was a report from the front that the forward of the 201 Brigade had already connected with the friendly forces of the 52nd Army.
Guan Linzheng's headquarters was located in a small village called Wanneilong. When Gao Quan arrived, it was already dark.
The closer you get to the headquarters of the group army set up in the land temple, the more soldiers and vehicles there are on the road. Gao Quan took Jin Hu, Xiao Cai, Biao Zi, and Liu Qida King Kong to deal with countless inspections and interrogations all the way, and then walked to the door of the headquarters.
Although the five people who came over were all on foot, the leader was a lieutenant general, and the four retinues followed behind were either colonels or majors, and the youngest was also a captain. The 15 th Group Army is a regular army of the Central Committee, and although there are only two high-ranking soldiers standing guard in front of the command department, I don't know how many senior commanders I have met. Gao Quan led people towards the door, and the two guards didn't even turn their eyelids, just stood straight like that.
Gao Quan came to visit Guan Linzheng on other people's territory, and to put it nicely, he was cooperating with the battle, but in fact, he was here to help others, and maybe in the future, he would be a subordinate of the commander-in-chief of Guan. The first time I came to someone's headquarters, of course, I had to be polite.
"Two brothers, I am Gao Quan, the commander of the 500th Division, and I have come to visit Commander-in-Chief Guan." Gao Quan is very familiar with dealing with all kinds of characters, and he can talk to devils, not to mention the soldiers of his own country.
The two guards originally had a stiff face, standing guard in front of the headquarters, and they had to look like they were standing guard, but now the lieutenant general who had seen him politely talked to the two of them with a smile, of course these two soldiers couldn't pretend to be invisible. The two of them saluted Gao Quan in unison, "Hello Master Gao!" Please wait a moment, Senior Commander, and let us go in and report it. "The headquarters of the group army, it's not that anyone who says they can enter, if you want to enter the door, you have to report in advance!
Of course, Gao Quan had no opinion on this, raised his hand to salute the two of them, and stood quietly by the side and waited. Wherever he goes, he has to abide by the rules, and he doesn't want to leave a bad impression on Commander-in-Chief Guan before he starts to cooperate.
The four people behind him, except for Biaozi's eyebrows, stood up without any expression, and didn't say a word. Biao Zi only raised his eyebrows, and did not make any inappropriate moves, and the three next to him did not speak, what did he do?
There was not much time, and the one who went in to report came out and pointed inside with his hand, "Senior Division, please, the commander-in-chief is inside." Then he stretched out his hand and stopped again, "You guys, please wait outside, the commander-in-chief only said to ask Senior Commander Gao to come in." ”
Gao Quan glanced back at the four of them, "You guys can just walk around here." Thinking that these people were standing at the gate was boring, Gao Quan gave these four people a leave.
"Don't worry about us, our brothers are waiting here for the master." Liu Qi smiled innocently, looking harmless to humans and animals. He had the highest rank among the four people, and when he got outside, of course, he would speak instead of the four people.
Gao Quan glanced at the two guards again and entered the door with a smile. A lieutenant in the courtyard saw Gao Quan, and immediately walked over, and asked with a stern face: "It's Senior Commander Gao, right?" After receiving an affirmative answer, he led Gao Quan to the main hall.
In the open space in front of the statue of the land lord in the main hall, there is a huge sand table map, although the terrain on the sand table is simply marked, it is a real military combat sand table. The sand table was full of small red and blue flags, representing the combat situation of the enemy and us, and there were a few staff officers standing next to them holding small flags and drawing upwards. A tall and burly middle-aged officer stood in front of the sand table, holding his chin with his hand, staring at the sand table in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.
The three stars on this person's collar show his identity, this is the acting commander-in-chief of the 15th Group Army, Army General Guan Linzheng.
"Hello Commander-in-Chief Guan! Gao Quan, the commander of the 500th Division, was ordered to report for duty! Gao Quan's salute and the voice of the report are always so neat and neat, just with this hand, they can be appreciated by the commissioners, not to mention Guan Linzheng, who was originally a soldier.