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Chapter 868: If You Dare to Set Fire, I'll Light the Lamp (1)

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At the beginning of the lanterns, a thunderous roar came from the lobby of the front headquarters of the Kwantung Army in Jinzhou City, followed by a sharp sound of a sharp blade cutting through the air, and the corner of the beautiful red pine table fell to the floor with a "snap" after the blue sharp saber was waved, and the neat incision was smoother and smoother than the saw. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Muto Nobuyoshi gasped, the saber in his hand drew a shining arc in the air, and then he slowly retracted his arm, staring at the urgent telegram that the chief of staff Koiso Kuniaki had just sent from the Qinhuangdao front command on the table, his flushed face slowly returned to his original color, and his undulating chest gradually calmed down, and the anger full of anger was alleviated to a certain extent after this knife was swung.

Muto Nobuyoshi forcibly concealed his extreme exhaustion, took the sword inch by inch, bent over to pick up the chair that had fallen to the ground, sat down slowly, closed his eyes tiredly, and said "The air force stops all actions against the enemy", regardless of the frightened and urgent look on the faces of the generals, he waved his hand and motioned for everyone to retreat.

At this time, Muto Nobuyoshi suddenly remembered two idioms of the Chinese: draw a snake and add a foot, and the dog's tail continues to be mink! He very much regretted the large-scale offensive launched yesterday afternoon, and originally thought that the situation of confrontation would change gratifying after the first blow was won, but who knew that in the end it turned into an unprecedented fiasco in which the whole army retreated 20 kilometers against being defeated and the whole army retreated 20 kilometers, not to mention the casualties of more than 20,000 officers and men, and just the strategic towns of Panzhuang, Lulong, Houzhuang, Shimen, and Haiyangcheng, which were lost again after the occupation east of the Luanhe River, dealt a huge blow to the psychology of the officers and men of the Kwantung Army, which were not guaranteed in the later period.

What made Muto Nobuyoshi even more angry was that this morning's large-scale aerial bombardment was originally intended to prepare for tomorrow's counterattack, and the Kwantung Army, which shared the same hatred of the enemy, vowed to drive the squadron to the area west of the Luan River again, and go all out to annihilate the stubborn squadron in order to avenge the revenge of being driven out of the Luan River last night.

For this reason, the Kwantung Army Headquarters has already distributed all the oil and ammunition materials in stock, and urgently transferred all 30,000 puppet troops outside the Kanto to the front line, in order to show the importance of this battle, Chief of Staff Koiso Kuniaki even went to the front line to command, just to take revenge and continue to write the myth of the invincibility of the Kwantung Army.

But in any case, Muto Nobuyoshi could not have imagined that the die-hard young Chinese general An Yi would transfer his five divisions to the battlefield so quickly, so that Koiso Kuniaki, who was cautious by nature sitting on the front line, had to order to stop the offensive preparations and urgently report to Muto Nobuyoshi that the strength of the squadron had increased to 140,000. In the case of such a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, the Kwantung Army had to immediately turn to the defensive, which was the best choice, and once again fought hard to occupy the area west of the Luan River.

Just as Muto Nobuyoshi quickly convened a group of thinkers from the General Headquarters to discuss countermeasures, Koiso Kuniaki's angry telegram was submitted again:

The squadron dared to escort the captured more than 2,100 officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army and the aviation to the front line, and all of them were tied to their bold artillery positions, so as to threaten the great imperial army with air superiority and artillery superiority.

Muto Nobuyoshi, who was furious for this reason, was completely exhausted, and if he sent superior fighters to bombard the defensive positions of the squadron, it would be possible to destroy the more than 2,000 Japanese officers and soldiers who were unfortunately captured along with the enemy's artillery, and perhaps even kill and wound the squadron on the largest scale. However, this determination is not easy to make, not only will they have to bear overwhelming domestic and international accusations, but they may even hit the morale of the Kwantung officers and soldiers, after all, no one dares to guarantee that they will not become prisoners one day, and then their superiors will use this trick against themselves.

However, if there is no air support, even if there are twice as many Kwantung officers and soldiers on the battlefield, it will be difficult to defeat the squadron that has increased to 140,000 people, not to mention that the logistics supply of the Kwantung Army has reached the point where it is unsustainable, and it is not known when the next batch of materials will be allocated.

The dilemma Muto Nobuyoshi racked his brains, and he couldn't think of any good way to save the decline and save face, the only preferable way may be to maintain the status quo, confront each other, and then fight or peace, all of which will be handed over to the General Staff Headquarters and the Cabinet of the Great *** Empire to deal with.

If it is decided to continue fighting, the country will only be able to send troops to the northeast and north China as soon as possible, and replenish the consumption of the Kwantung Army since the beginning of the war; If the peace talks are successful, the worst result will be to retreat to the north of the Great Wall, anyway, now the Kwantung Army has taken Chengde, the capital of Rehe Province, and occupied all the strategic points outside the Great Wall in North China in one fell swoop, and has successfully completed the set goals, and also fought the Great Wall, and still firmly occupies Linyu, Qinhuangdao and other coastal areas.

Muto Nobuyoshi, who was repeatedly tormented by anger and worry, no longer had his original calmness and wisdom, and for a while he could not see the potential safety hazards that might arise at any time in the front-line units, and he did nothing except remember in his heart the curses of the cruel and vicious An Yi, the commander of the An Jia Army, and seemed to have completely forgotten the terrible An Jia Army that was confronting his 6th, 7th, and 12th divisions, and forgot the series of painful lessons that this tenacious and tenacious army had brought to all the departments of the Kwantung Army in western Liaoning.

Just when Muto Nobuyoshi was sulking alone, his right-hand man Koiso Kuniaki was at the Qinhuangdao front command headquarters and urgently summoned the generals of the three divisions to discuss countermeasures.

The generals of the Japanese army, who had been so angry by An Yi's "violation of humanitarianism" that they jumped up and down, completely lost their cool at this time, and the whole meeting was full of invective and fierce rhetoric from beginning to end, and some generals even proposed that they did not need to care about those shameful prisoners on the enemy's artillery positions, because more than 2,000 prisoners did not cut themselves and were no longer worthy of being called members of the Great Emperor's team.

As soon as this remark came out, it once again sparked a fierce debate, and the air general stood up mercilessly and asked the speaker whether he could know the value of every pilot. Do you understand the hardships of pilots flying fighter planes who parachute after being shot? Do you know the pain of not being able to survive and die after being captured? As a result, the whole venue was noisy and chaotic, and it was not until late at night that it quieted down under the loud scolding of Koiso Kuniaki, and one by one they blushed and entered the discussion on the topic.

In the middle of the night, Koiso Kuniaki, who had exhausted himself after conveying the spirit of Muto Nobuyoshi's latest instructions, raised his head, and saw the operational staff officer of the headquarters hurriedly walking in, his face was full of panic, and he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, slowly stood up, took the urgent telegram from the Sixth Division of the right flank position of the front line, read it carefully, took a deep breath, and turned to the acting division commander and chief of staff of the Sixth Division who were waiting in front of the left:

"I just received an urgent report that the headquarters of your Sixth Division was attacked by a small group of enemy troops, and after a violent explosion that lasted for more than two minutes, your headquarters and guard brigade killed more than 400 people and seriously injured nearly 1,000 people, the buildings around the headquarters were completely destroyed, more than 30 cars were blown to pieces, and a large number of communication equipment disappeared into the ruins and fires......

Seeing that the faces of the two were getting paler and paler, Koiso Kuniaki sighed: "Sounds miserable, right?" Inflicting so much damage, the enemy did not even leave a single corpse. The two wings deployed on the front line received the alarm and were just about to cooperate with the two wings in the rear to round up this enemy force, but who wanted the two divisions of the Anjia Army on the opposite side of the position to suddenly launch a fierce attack, and with the support of superior artillery fire, they stormed for 15 minutes and immediately retreated, probably completing the support and response to the troops that launched the surprise attack. You two...... Go back now, review the holes in the defenses, and send the report directly to Commander Muto without handing it over to me, understand? ”

The generals were taken aback, and at this time they remembered that they were facing the An Jiajun who made all the departments of the Kwantung Army extremely jealous and hated, and it seemed that they would have to fight with 120,000 points of spirit in the future, otherwise they would not know how to die.

The two acting commanders of the Sixth Division were a little at a loss, stood up and spoke incoherently, and finally simply stopped saying anything, hurriedly bowed and ran out of the headquarters.

Koiso Kuniaki sighed again, thinking to himself that these two guys were really fateful, if it wasn't for the emergency meeting tonight, I'm afraid I would have to rush to collect the bodies of the two of them tomorrow.

At one o'clock in the morning, the former enemy headquarters in Tangshan, Beiping.

An Yi, Huang Shaohong, Yang Jie, and Lin Wei, who had just flown to Beiping to convey Chairman Chiang's supreme instructions, and other five or six generals finished discussing the battle situation and sat down on the round sofa in the west to drink tea.

After listening to Liu Qing's excited report, An Yi couldn't help laughing out loud in excitement, turned behind him and shouted:

"Old Shen, tell the brothers below to go and get a box of foreign wine, haha...... Then take a look at the canteen at the back, if there are peanuts, braised elbows or something, bring some too, Lao Tzu is so happy today, it's really happy...... Brothers, don't go back yet, little brother, please have supper, just eat, and there will be Scotch whisky later, and I promise to let everyone drink enough tonight. ”

Yang Jie, Huang Shaohong and others were so shocked that they couldn't speak when they heard Liu Qing's report.

In the evening, An Yi escorted all the more than 2,000 Japanese prisoners to the front line to serve as cannon fodder, causing a strong earthquake in the entire Beiping and the upper layers of Nanjing.

This earth-shattering move one after another made Yang Jie, Huang Shaohong, Lin Wei and others speechless for a while, and everyone was secretly frightened by An Yi's ruthless and sinister methods.