Chapter 231: Reinforcement of Lugou Bridge

Base camp in Tokyo, Japan

"Who is Bagayalu? Who the hell leaked our information? "Prince Zaihito of the Idle Palace is furious in the headquarters of the base camp.

"The China Outline, which was formulated on July 9, was broadcast on the 10th. Who the hell did the bastard leak the secrets of the Empire? ”

A group of high-ranking military officers stood in front of Prince Zairen of the Idle Courtyard Palace, and they didn't even dare to come out, and this leak was very serious. This "Guiding Outline for War Against China in the Exercise of Military Force in North China" has just been formulated by the Army General Staff Headquarters and has not yet been promulgated. The high-ranking generals of the Japanese army in North China had not yet received it, but the enemy knew about it first. What does this mean? This shows that as the base camp of the Supreme Command of the Empire, in front of the enemy, he is simply a transparent person with no secrets at all.

This was the most serious leak of the base camp since the "Tanaka Soga" incident, and the base camp was furious, and Emperor Hirohito also ordered Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace to investigate it strictly.

For a time, the entire base camp of the Japanese army was thrown into a mess.

As a matter of fact, this incident is the masterpiece of our Soviet commander, and he will naturally not forget the Japanese guidebook on the war against China.

After the 77 Incident, Su Tong published this outline, firstly to disgust the Japanese, and secondly, to remind the people of the whole country and tell them about the ambitions of the Japanese. You see, even the "Guiding Outline for the War in China" has come out, do you think the war will be far away from us?

Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan

Emperor Hirohito wore fat trousers, a tie tied diagonally, and the buttons of his suit jacket were wrongly buttoned. When Prince Zairen came in, he was sitting on the tatami mat with his back bent, looking at the scenery outside the window blankly, looking in a trance.

Prince Zairen of the Idle Palace bowed respectfully, and then sat respectfully on his knees and did not speak.

After a long time, Emperor Hirohito asked lightly: "Your Excellency, how long have you been the chief of staff of the army?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty's words, thanks to Your Majesty's grace, the old minister has been the chief of staff of the army for eighteen years" Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace heard the emperor's question, and hurriedly knelt on the ground to answer.

"yes? Eighteen years. Emperor Hirohito muttered, "Time flies so fast, and I am very relieved that the Imperial Army has grown stronger and stronger under your careful training over the past eighteen years." This is inseparable from your efforts to carry people. ”

Prince Zaihito fell to the ground and choked up and said, "It is all thanks to His Majesty's trust, but the old minister is incompetent and has failed His Majesty's high expectations." ”

Emperor Hirohito sighed, looking at the imperial uncle in front of him, who had served him all his life, and couldn't bear to blame him. He slowly chanted a verse:

"All brothers in the four seas,

The wind and waves are raging, how ruthless. ”

"Zairen, do you understand what I mean?" Emperor Hirohito asked softly.

When Prince Zaihito heard that the Emperor had suddenly chanted the verses of his grandfather, Emperor Meiji, he wondered, 'What does Your Majesty think about the situation in the Sino-Japanese War?' He didn't dare to guess, and said in a low voice:

"I don't know. I hope Your Majesty will make it clear. ”

"Every time I read this poem, I feel how kind and generous Emperor Meiji was, and what a peace-loving elder he was."

Emperor Hirohito said faintly: "The branch is too big, we can't swallow such a big prey in one go, so we can only slowly eat it, eating it one by one." I believe that sooner or later I will eat this prey, but you are too anxious, and Ishihara is in a hurry."

After listening to Emperor Hirohito's words, Prince Zaihito did not speak, but was silent.

Now the Japanese chariot is carrying all the Japanese people, and its engine has been started and it is rushing forward. But the bad thing is that the brakes of this tank were removed by their own people, and the tank can only rush forward at a faster and faster speed. No one could stop it, not even Emperor Hirohito himself.

It will smash everything in his path, until it will smash itself to pieces.

I have to say that Emperor Hirohito still had some vision in this regard, but at that time, the Japanese political arena was dominated by fanatical militarists, and the trend of 'going down and going up' was popular in the army. This made Emperor Hirohito, the supreme ruler of Japan, also scratch his head, although he was thinking about annexing Huaxia in his heart, but he preferred to use the method of 'boiling frogs in warm water' to do so, rather than wanting to settle the war as he does now.

A long sigh came from Emperor Hirohito's mouth, and he slowly closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair.

Seeing this, Prince Jaehito slowly stood up, bowed deeply and exited the palace.

Command of the 37th Chahar Army

"Report, the air force came to report that they were constantly harassing the retreating units of the 27th Division and the 20th Independent Brigade of the Japanese Army along the way. At present, the unit has suffered heavy casualties, and the remaining number is less than half of what it was before the retreat. A staff officer read the telegram with joy on his face.

"Jianming, it seems that the Japanese army has suffered a lot of casualties, and even if they flee to Chengde now, it won't make any difference." Jiang Baili nodded with satisfaction.

"Of course, now that the remaining two wings of the 27th Division have been crippled by our tall commander, we have to hurry up and speed up preparations for the attack on Chengde," Su Tong nodded with satisfaction.

"But Jianming, do you really ignore the 29th Army?" Jiang Baili's words made Su Tong silent.

After a long time, Su Tong smiled bitterly and said, "They don't welcome us, what can I do?" ”

Jiang Baili didn't answer, but looked at him silently with eyes that seemed to have seen through the world's human feelings.

"Okay, I can't screw you, you're the chief of staff, aren't you?" Su Tong shook his head helplessly.

After that, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the phone and said, "The switchboard?" I'm Su Tong, give me the phone call from Commander Peng Zeyuan of the 10th Division."

After making the call, Su Tong muttered, "Maybe I'm the only stupid person in this world who would do such a thankless job."

The military headquarters of the 29th Army

As the Japanese Second Division was storming Beiping City, the casualties of the troops were getting bigger and bigger, and the battle situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to the 29th Army, and the army commander Song Zheyuan was anxiously stomping his feet back and forth in the command headquarters.

The voice of the "report" correspondent came in.

"Speak," Song Zheyuan said impatiently.

"Call from Chahar"

"Well, Chahar is calling? Su Tong, what does he want to do? General Senator Xiao Zhenying said disdainfully on the side: "Could it be that the old tune is repeating again, and you want to send two divisions here to 'assist' us defense?" No way? Xiao Zhenying looked very excited.

Qin Dechun, the deputy commander of the command, and Zhang Weifan, the chief of staff, also frowned, if this was the case, Chahar's attempt to take advantage of the fire to loot was too obvious.

"Report to the sir, no, Chahar is informing us that they will arrive at the Beiping airport by plane in a few moments, so that we can prepare to receive them. There was also a battalion of infantry, and if we agreed, they let the brothers from this battalion stay and fight with us. ”

"Huh? Weapons and ammunition? And a battalion of infantry? What the hell is Chahar doing? Xiao Zhenying asked suspiciously. No matter how much he hated Chahar, he would not think that Chahar could pose any threat to Beiping with this mere infantry battalion.

"Su Tong is afraid that we will misunderstand that they have intentions in Beiping, so he only sent one battalion over. Did we all misunderstand him? Song Zheyuan was silent for a while and said: "Call back Chahar, just say that our 29th Army is grateful to them." We are ashamed of these weapons and equipment. As for the brothers in that battalion to stay and fight the little devils with us, we welcome it."

At about 9 o'clock in the morning, the citizens of Beiping were surprised to find that a black and oppressive group of planes flew from the north. They flew to Nanyuan Airport in Fengtai, a southern suburb of Beiping, and the group soon flew over Nanyuan Airport and landed quickly.

There are good things in Shanghai at the airport, and there are nearly 100 planes. It's just that these planes are ugly, the fuselage is angular, the thick landing gear struts protrude from the fuselage, the strange appearance is very strange, and what is even stranger is that it actually has three engines. This was the JU52 transport plane nicknamed 'Aunt Juncker' sent by Chahar to transport the arms.

As soon as the plane landed, the hatch opened, and from it ran down a group of heavily armed soldiers, who quickly formed a neat line under the command of the officer.

At this time, Chief of Staff Zhang Weifan, who had been waiting at the airport for a long time, led people to greet him. He slowly glanced at the team in front of him and asked, "I am Zhang Weifan, chief of staff of the 29th Army, and I am ordered by the military seat to greet you, I don't know how many weapons and ammunition you have brought this time." ”

At this time, the officer in charge saluted Zhang Weifan and replied loudly: "The commander of the first battalion of the 43rd Regiment of the 10th Infantry Division of the 37th Group Army of the 37th Chahar Army was ordered to report for duty. Here's a list of these supplies, please take a look."

After speaking, Ren Ran handed Zhang Weifan a list.

"3,000 Mauser 98K rifles, 100 Maxim heavy machine guns, 300 Czech light machine guns, 2 million rounds of 7.92mm ammunition. Twelve 70-mm infantry guns with 100 rounds each. The more Zhang Weifan looked at it, the more surprised he became, this Su Tong was too generous, could it be that the military seat and the general staff really misunderstood them?

"Sir, the supplies are on the plane, please send someone to take them down quickly, and by the way, please send someone to guide us, we are going to the front line." Ren Ran said solemnly.

"In such a hurry? You don't take a night off and then go to the front? Seeing that the major in front of him was so anxious to go to the front line, this made Zhang Weifan curious. This Chahar army is really strange. He only has more than 600 or 700 people in the reinforcement battalion here, and he thought that they would come here to make a name for themselves, but he didn't expect them to take it seriously.

At this point, the people and horses are going to the front line, and they can't even bubble up, and they really think that they are the Monkey King, who is a hundred?

"Well, since you want to go to the front, then go ahead, and when you get to the battlefield, you will know how powerful the little devil is." Zhang Weifan thought to himself. He turned around and shouted: "Adjutant Zhang, you take these brothers from Chahar to Brigadier Zhao Dengyu."

"Yes"

A major came over after greeting him, and made a gesture of invitation to Ren Ran: "Battalion commander Ren, go this way"

"Sir Zhang, I have resigned from my humble position"

"Brothers, go"

With Ren Ran's order, the team began to run in the direction of Lugou Bridge.

When the team passed by the urban area of Beiping, the citizens of Beiping looked curiously at the team wearing colorful combat uniforms, and from time to time there were people pointing fingers.

At this time, in a teahouse on the street, an old man from Sijiucheng said curiously: "Is this Chahar's team?" People are quite energetic, but the color of the clothes is a little strange, why are they all colorful? ”

"Old man Li, you don't know, I heard that this is called camouflage uniform. That's what my nephew of the seventh aunt who works in Zhangjiakou said. He said that this dress can be sturdy, and it will not be bad if it can be worn for more than ten years," a playful Kanye next to him blew it on.

"Oh, the clothes of feelings are dyed green and durable, why don't you come out in green clothes, little Liuzi?" Old Man Li was not convinced.

"Hey, I said, old man, how do you always lift the bar? Did I say it's green to wear?"

Ignoring these two braggarts, Kanye, who was in the marching queue at the moment, Adjutant Zhang, who led the way, asked Ren Ran curiously: "Battalion commander, how can you fight with little devils when you are only a few hundred people?" It's not my brother, I'm going to be discouraged, you hundreds, I'm afraid you won't have to withdraw in half a day. ”

Ren Ran smiled slightly and didn't say anything, but Liu Jun, the battalion deputy on the side, spoke: "We want to send more people, but you Chief Song is willing?" ”

Adjutant Zhang wiped his nose and smiled a little embarrassedly, he smiled brightly: "Actually, we can't blame us for being too careful, we are also afraid that you will be false."

Ren Ran smiled slightly, and a sentence from the commander before leaving: Sometimes explanations are unnecessary - enemies don't believe your explanations, and friends don't need your explanations.

At this time, the Japanese army had surrounded Beiping City from the east, west, and north respectively, and the roar of guns and cannons was faintly heard in the city of Beiping. "Quick, speed up" Ren Ran, who heard the sound of gunfire, couldn't help but get anxious.

Okamura Ninji commanded the 2nd Division's attack on the Lugou Bridge became more and more fierce, and the Japanese army continued to attack the Lugou Bridge under the cover of 16 70-caliber field guns, and under the onslaught of the Japanese army's superior firepower and troops, Zhao Dengyu's 109th Brigade suffered heavy casualties and the situation was very critical.

"Report, Adjutant Zhang has brought reinforcements over" At this time, a correspondent entered the headquarters and reported to Brigade Commander Zhao Dengyu, who was anxious about the battle situation.

"Reinforcements" Zhao Dengyu's eyes suddenly lit up, please