"Lao Luo, they have suffered a lot of losses, it has only been less than two days, and there are more than 700 casualties, I really don't know, how many days will Taierzhuang fight?" Xie Jiyuan sighed after reading the battle report. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"There are always casualties in war, there is no way to avoid this, and the number of Japanese casualties is still above the new 38th Brigade, which can be regarded as comforting news." Leng Feng smoked his flue.

It turned out that Leng Feng smoked at most half a pack of cigarettes a day, and since he received Luo Yufeng's first battle report in the morning, he began to smoke, and a pack of cigarettes quickly bottomed out.

"Today's offensive and defensive battle is the key, the Japanese army's logistics supply line is interfered by our troops behind enemy lines, and the Japanese army does not have many artillery shells to use today." Xie Jiyuan said.

"What did Tang Keqin do?"

"The main force is still holding the calving mountains, but a regiment is sent to operate in Fei County!"

"He's not stupid, now the Japanese army is going forward at two ends, fighting separately, once they join forces, the pressure on us will be even greater, and Feixian is the key." Leng Feng said, "Once the Japanese army occupies Fei County, it can open up contact with the 10th Division to the west, so that the Seya detachment will have an additional supply line, which is very unfavorable to our next move." ”

"That's why you sent Liang Dong to Qingcheng?" Xie Jiyuan asked in surprise.

"That's just one of the reasons!" Leng Feng snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand and said.

"One reason, but what about the second?"

"It's not time yet." Leng Feng didn't answer, it looked a little unfathomable, Xie Jiyuan smiled, Leng Feng's planning has always been to take one step and look at three steps, look at five steps, it would be good if he could see the next step.

"Division, I just got the news that the Japanese are very likely to increase their troops on the Chinese battlefield."

"Oh?"

"On April 4 of this year, the Japanese convened a special military meeting of the Imperial Front, which was of a very high level, and needless to say, the level of secrecy was not to mention, and we heard some news through secret channels in Tokyo and transmitted it back to China."

"Japan wants to expand its armaments, conscripts 20 divisions in one go, and specially allocates 4 billion yen for the Chinese war!" When Leng Feng saw this information, his eyelids couldn't help jumping.

In the current Republic of China, the annual fiscal revenue is converted into 1 billion yen, and Japan allocated 4 billion yuan for China's war at once, which is four times China's fiscal revenue.

With the expansion of the army, plus 4 billion military spending, it is obvious that Japan has reached a consensus on "all-out aggression against China."

This is obviously not good news.

"Zhiyi, the source of the news?"

"People from Shanghai." Yang Zhiyi explained.

Leng Feng nodded, he understood, who passed on the news, and now only that channel could get such top-secret information.

The intelligence is available, but the problem is that he believes in the accuracy of the intelligence, Leng Feng knows, before the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese base camp still has different voices on whether to launch a full-scale war against China, or there is still considerable resistance from the top, such as strategists like Ishihara, who believe that Soviet Russia is the enemy of Japan, and it is not appropriate to use force to conquer China or to be too eager to conquer by force.

However, his opinion was ********, and those officers who came to power through the "incident" had long since been unable to bear their inner ambition of making meritorious contributions and expanding their territory.

Tokyo still had a glimmer of hope for wooing "Chiang" in the hope that a puppet regime could be established, but now it has been found that Chiang has a resolute will to resist Japan and will not agree to Tokyo's conditions.

In fact, the Japanese demanded too high a price, forcing Chiang onto the path of having to fight.

"Accuracy of intelligence?" Xie Jiyuan expressed skepticism, why has it been more than 20 days since such an important matter, and there has been no news from the outside world.

"We didn't get the documents, but we did see the transcripts of their conversations, which were passed on through the contents of the transcripts.

"That just can't be confirmed?"

"I don't think the information will be fake, and at this time, the Japanese don't have much to choose from." Yang Zhiyi said, "If we resolutely resist the war, it is impossible for the Japanese to take the initiative to seek peace, even if there is a conditional peace, it is still harsh, and it is not something we can accept." ”

"Japan is a small country, limited resources, we can afford it, they can't afford it, they want to win quickly, so we must concentrate strong forces, destroy our forces, expand the army, increase military spending, this is the meaning of the question, I think this information is true and reliable." Leng Feng analyzed.

"The Japanese are holding the intelligence so tightly, will it have an impact on the battle situation in Xuzhou?"

"It's hard to say, there is no news of the Japanese army's increase in troops in China now, if there is, then there is only ......"

"Kwantung Army!" A flash of lightning flashed in Leng Feng's mind.

Xie Jiyuan was also stunned, if the Kwantung Army quietly entered the customs, even if it was just a division transferred, it would have a huge pressure on the Xuzhou battlefield.

I'm afraid that the **** side is still ignorant,

At this time, although the Kwantung Army was very strong, it was not as awesome as a million a few years later, the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Kwantung Army repeatedly withdrew troops to fight in Inner Mongolia and North China, and there were about four or five divisions left behind.

Counting the Japanese garrison in the northeast and everything, the total strength of the Kwantung Army will not exceed 300,000.

Regardless of whether the Japanese army transferred troops from the mainland or directly withdrew troops from the Kwantung Army and went south, it would form substantial pressure on the Xuzhou Theater.

The strategic goals of the Japanese are not clear, and in many cases, they do not have a clear idea of what they want to do, and they do it without knowing how to end it.

The military department and diplomacy are fighting each other, digging holes, and even going far from each other, and there are deep grievances and contradictions between them, but they can barely move forward hand in hand if they have the same goal.

"Would you like to send a telegram to remind Chief Li?"

"How do you explain the source of the intelligence?" Leng Feng asked.

"To put it mildly, you can't do nothing, right?" Xie Jiyuan said.

"Or don't, give the military commander a wake-up call, let them pay attention to the movements of the Kwantung Army, I think Dai Yunong will understand." Leng Feng shook his head.

"What does the division mean, to use the mouth of the military commander to remind Chief Li?"

"The military commander still has some strength in Beiping and Tianjin, if the Japanese army really transfers troops from the Kwantung Army, then it is impossible to completely cover it up, with the ability of those agents of the military commander, we can always find a trace of clues, so that we don't need to come forward directly." Leng Feng said.

"Then how do we explain it to the military commanders?"

"I don't need to explain, could it be that I don't have any strategic vision at all?" Leng Feng smiled, he was in charge of the second half of the "April Fool's Day" plan, and the situation he faced was much more complicated.

Naturally, he had to consider many aspects, especially the possible changes in the situation of the war, where the Japanese army would draw reinforcements, which was of course within his scope of consideration.

The fierce battle in Taierzhuang continued, blood stained every brick red, and the battle was fierce, three points more tragic than the original Nanjing Shouguang Huamen.

The officers and men were buried alive and smashed by the bombing, and the corpses of the enemy were directly piled up and used as cover for shooting.

When the battle was at its most intense, it was still hand-to-hand combat, and the brave broadsword team of the new 38th Brigade faced the bayonets of the devils, it was simply a one-sided massacre!

With a knife cut down, the little devil's head and neck will be separated.

The Japanese wanted to occupy Taierzhuang before dark, and in addition to calling for artillery support, they also called in planes to bomb the positions of the new 38th Brigade.

However, this time, the arrogant Japanese pilots suffered a big loss.

The Third Air Force Group, which Lao Chiang promised to deploy to the Fifth Theater, took off from the Guide Forward Airfield, and was about to turn around and return after the Japanese planes had bombed Taierzhuang.

22 Chinese Air Force fighters suddenly appeared behind them.

The Japanese pilots panicked, most of their ammunition had already run out, and in the face of the Chinese Air Force fighters with loaded guns, they could only dodge or escape!

But the Chinese Air Force has long held its breath, and this time it is a coordinated air-ground operation.

When the Japanese plane was discovered in Taierzhuang, it was immediately notified to the advance airport, and the airport pilot was already on standby 24 hours a day, and after receiving the order, he quickly boarded the plane!

Finally, when the Japanese plane was about to turn around and return, they stopped this group of jackals who were bullying the Chinese.

Originally, it was thought that there was no Chinese air force stationed in the Xuzhou area, and the air supremacy had long been in the hands of the Japanese army, so most of the missions were bombers, and only four fighters escorted them.

Although the performance of the Chinese fighters is inferior to that of the Japanese in some aspects, the Chinese fighters come with anger and murderous spirit.

The two squadrons of Chinese destroyers, a total of 22 aircraft, all sorted, and under the leadership of the two squadron leaders, viciously pounced on the Japanese bomber formation.

The Japanese army had a total of 12 aircraft, four Nakajima 97 fighters, and eight BR20 bombers, which were bombers urgently purchased by the Japanese army from Italy, because the new bomber production capacity was insufficient, and the old 93 heavy bomb was too backward to meet the requirements of the army, so it could only urgently purchase a batch for use in the Chinese battlefield.

This kind of bomber is a kind of twin-engine aircraft, which was a relatively advanced bomber at that time, but the actual combat capability has yet to be tested.

A premeditated air battle has opened in the sky above Taierzhuang!

China's ****22 "Iraq-15" fighters had an almost two-to-one advantage over the 12 Japanese planes, and the Japanese pilots were inferior from the very beginning.

When they saw their own fighters, the officers and men in the position were excited, and they were almost unable to raise their heads when they were bombed by the devil's plane, and they finally saw their own plane.

Escape!

The leader of the Japanese flying squadron in charge of commanding this bombing mission immediately gave an order to his subordinates, he was not stupid, one to two, so that there was no need to fight the battle that had no chance of winning at all.

What's more, their ammunition has been almost consumed, without ammunition, the on-board weapons are just a pile of scrap metal, can you take the plane to hit it?

But the squadron leader still underestimated the bravery of his pilots!

These brave pilots are worthy of being a samurai, they flew fighter planes, bravely greeted them, and then were beaten into a brilliant firework by the Chinese volley!

"Idiot, planes are worth more than your lives...... "Second Lieutenant Yasui, the unwilling squadron leader, scolded angrily, but he couldn't stop his subordinates who had already killed red-eyed people from doing their best for the Japanese Empire.

It's over, it's over......

Seeing that the planes were blown up in the air, Second Lieutenant Yasui didn't care about how he would be punished if he went back, and fled all the way west in his BR20 bomber.

Lu Tianlong, the leader of the No. 7 Destroyer Squadron, found that Yasui was flying the plane to escape, so he immediately greeted his companions and drove the plane to chase after him.

(To be continued.) )