Chapter 643: Tokyo's Ambitions
"Madame Chiang wants to see me?" Luo Yufeng's eyes widened, obviously this was something that made him feel incredible, he didn't have the slightest contact with Madame Jiang, how could she suddenly want to see her?
"Brigade seat, maybe it's to see you as usual, Madame Jiang came to the front line to condole, and I can't say that I can't see you, the anti-Japanese hero who has made great contributions in Taierzhuang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Qin Yankun smiled.
"Don't be funny, if you want to talk about anti-Japanese heroes, what am I Luo Yufeng, which of my soldiers who fought bloody battles on the battlefield are heroes, and even if you want to see me, you won't only see me alone, and you, the chief of staff, have no credit?" Luo Yufeng refuted.
Qin Yankun thought about it carefully, nodded and said, "Yes, this is strange, why do you say that this Mrs. Jiang suddenly wants to see you?" ā
"How do I know?"
"No, hurry up and send a telegram to Leng Feng to ask, what should I say when I see Mrs. Jiang?" Luo Yufeng was anxious, although the notice came, he would not see him immediately, and he would also prepare for others, which was also a common practice.
At least you have to give people some time, this front-line general, if you start a war, you can't take care of anything, is it dirty to go to see Mrs. Jiang, it must not work, at least you have to freshen up and leave a good impression.
"Okay, ask." Qin Yankun has nothing to do with himself, he hangs high, if he really wants him to see Mrs. Jiang, he is also stunned.
"Hao Yunlai!"
"Dao!"
"Your name is really wrong for your parents, since I used you as an adjutant, I haven't had any good luck." Luo Yufeng pointed at Adjutant Hao and said.
"Brigade, you have wronged me, yesterday you praised me for coming, saying that I brought you good luck." Adjutant Hao couldn't laugh or cry.
"Yes, I said that yesterday?"
"Lvza, your face is a monkey, you will turn your face when you say it!"
"It's not big or small, go, hurry up and give me a whole set of clean military uniforms, clean inside and out." Luo Yufeng and the following people have long been accustomed to it, they are serious in business, and they are still very easy-going in life.
"What, you're going on a blind date?"
"You big-headed ghost, Madame Jiang wants to come to our new 38th Brigade, and she has to be summoned separately." Luo Yufeng explained, "Old Qin, lend me your razor." ā
"That's not good, razors are personal items, don't borrow them!" Qin Yankun immediately refused.
"Lao Qin, you're too picky, aren't you just a razor, are you going to give you a better one, okay?" Luo Yufeng was anxious.
"If you don't borrow it, even if you buy a gold one and give it to me, I won't borrow it!"
"A broken razor, it's still a treasure, I'll borrow it from Deputy Brigade Commander Niu!" Luo Yufeng snorted and walked out.
"Deputy Brigade Commander Niu used it to shave his armpit hair!" Qin Yankun said softly behind his back slowly.
Luo Yufeng stepped on it, almost didn't step on it, shaved his armpit hair, can this razor still work?
Leng Feng received Luo Yufeng's telegram, and he also felt that things were a little strange, but Mrs. Jiang didn't know much about what he did, maybe he was just curious, anyway, such a meeting, although it was a separate summons, there would definitely be other staff around him.
As for what he would ask, he would be even less clear.
However, Leng Feng still reminded Luo Yufeng in the call-back that don't talk about the "Rongjun" company, and if the problem involves him, don't say too much, and maintain a feeling of being close and separated.
This specific scale still needs Luo Yufeng's grasp, Lao Jiang and his wife are extremely smart people, if you play with them, you must have more eyes.
Wu Shaozhou is a capricious villain, Leng Feng knows this very well, although his true face has not yet been revealed, he is still quite vigilant about it.
Whether he can pull it over or not, in fact, Leng Feng doesn't have much expectations, but he can't let him spoil his overall situation in Luxi.
"Did Wu Shaozhou call back?"
"Not yet!"
"Well, it seems that he chose to take refuge in Shen Weizhang, don't worry about him, even if he takes refuge in Shen Weizhang, then his troops are now subordinate to the Luxi Corps, and I, the chief of staff and the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, still have command over him." Leng Feng has basically judged Wu Shaozhou's attitude.
"So what are we going to do next?"
"How many men and horses are there in Wu Shaozhou's independent brigade?"
"The independent brigade was originally composed of two regiments plus some troops directly under the brigade headquarters, with a strength of about 4,000 people, after several months of fighting, and replenishment of troops, it is estimated that there are now about 3,000 people, and the weapons and equipment are mainly light weapons, and there are almost no heavy weapons, but there is a cavalry company and some anti-aircraft machine guns, this unit was originally Han Xiangfang's guard unit, and the equipment and treatment are the best, so it is difficult to say now."
"Shen Weizhang doesn't have many resources in his hands, how much help can he provide him?"
"There is still some money, but it is difficult to say about weapons and equipment."
"If you haven't replied before six o'clock, send a telegram to Shen Weizhang and ask him to come to Jining to discuss Luxi's next defense policy." Leng Feng ordered.
"I guess Shen Weizhang won't come over in person, he should send someone over to explore the way, he didn't deal with Lao Han's original subordinates, and now he has become the chairman of Shandong Province, and there is general resistance from top to bottom of the Third Army." Xie Jiyuan analyzed.
"If he stays honest, we can't force people away, and if we want to drive us out, we can't come forward, now look at the other party's attitude." Leng Feng said.
"It's okay, by the way, Shizuo, we also captured the Japanese puppet wounded and prisoners this time, how should we deal with these people?"
"Japanese prisoners, first find a place to lock them up, starve for three days, as for the puppet army, if they are released, these people have no livelihood, and they will also harass the people, first do a personnel screening, there are blood debts and evil deeds, deal with them seriously, and the rest, first concentrate on labor education, let them go to repair fortifications, we can neither just let them go, nor can we just raise them for nothing, right?"
"This method is good, just do what the teacher says."
The Japanese army on the northern front was encircled and advanced from north to south, and the strategy of meeting Xuzhou seemed to be impossible, but the Japanese army on the southern front was progressing quite smoothly.
On May 5, the 1st Central China Front broke through the positions of the Northwest Army of the Beiqi River and the 7th Army on the west bank of the Vortex River, and the main force of the 9th Division advanced in the direction of Mengcheng along the Huaimeng Highway on the west bank of the Huaihe River.
The actions of the Japanese army on the southern front scared Li Delin and others, who were commanding the battle in Taierzhuang in Hanjiasi, into a cold sweat, and their attention was on the Japanese army on the front line of Taierzhuang in the past few days.
He couldn't care about reprimanding Liao Lei, the front-line commander, and hurriedly mobilized Feng Zhitai's 19th Army, Liu Ziliang's 68th Army and Luo Qi's 95th Army under Liao Lei's command, first to stop the enemy from advancing north, and then deploy to break it.
At the same time, a fierce military meeting was being held at the Japanese base camp in Tokyo.
The meeting was chaired by Hashimoto Qun, director of the Operations Department, and was attended by officers from the Operations Department and the Intelligence Department, as well as Tada, deputy director of the General Staff Headquarters, and Mijiro Umezu, deputy director of the Headquarters Headquarters.
The topic of the meeting is to solve the current dilemma of the Japanese army in Xuzhou!
An elite Japanese army was besieged by more than 100,000 Chinese troops, and the shortcomings that had not been exposed in the previous war, such as insufficient troops, too long battle lines, public security problems, and supply difficulties, were now exposed one by one.
The Chinese issue must be resolved as soon as possible, and His Majesty the Emperor has made his attitude clear.
Prime Minister Sugiyama must be held accountable for China's indecisiveness in the war, and his resignation is a foregone conclusion, and the new candidate for prime minister is still being debated.
However, judging from the current situation, more people support the use of force to solve China's problems, and the radical Japanese young Zhuang faction has the upper hand.
Judging from the previous war expansion and the special appropriation for war, the war machine of Japan has already been activated.
This momentum is unstoppable!
The newly appointed head of the Operations Division, Masashi Inada, is one of the representatives, and he is a new officer who is worried that he will not be able to show his talents, but now the opportunity has come.
Inada was clearly in favor of the expansion of the war against China, and in his view, China had to conquer China by force as the fastest and most effective way, and the Japanese Empire now lacked the most time.
We must not waste precious time on backward and ignorant Chinese, as long as we occupy China and obtain a large amount of resources, we can quickly build Japan into the world's number one power!
When the time comes, those countries in the West will have to look at the face of the Japanese Empire, and dominating the whole world is just around the corner.
In just a few months, the Imperial Japanese army swept through most of China and captured their capital, and although the Chinese army was not as weak as it appeared, it was by no means a match for the Japanese Empire.
Although the imperial army encountered certain difficulties in the Xuzhou area, it was only temporary, and the Chinese concentrated their most elite troops in the Xuzhou area.
This gave the empire a golden opportunity, a chance to eat these Chinese troops in the Xuzhou region.
Having eliminated these elites, what else will the Chinese do to resist the powerful imperial army?
Inada's impassioned speech was immediately applauded by many people, especially the officers of the Young Zhuang faction who supported the war against China.
Conservatives are tempted to refute it, but Inada's words are too inflammatory, and if Inada's vision becomes a reality, the Empire's wars in China will soon be over, and Japan will soon become one of the world's top powers.
Inada Masamune threw out a battle plan that turned an unfavorable into an advantage, and this battle plan was revised on the basis of the suggestion of Akira Muto, deputy chief of staff of the Central China Dispatch Army.
At first, this plan was not favored by the North China Front, and Minister of Operations Hashimoto Group also vetoed this plan at that time, believing that this plan was unrealistic and worried that it would not be possible to achieve it with the existing troops.
Now, however, the plan has become a lifesaver.
Masaharu Honma, director of the intelligence department of the base camp, also expressed his support for this plan, and the Fifth Theater of Operations in Xuzhou now has more than 40 divisions of troops on the Chinese side, with a total strength of nearly 500,000 troops.
And the Seya Detachment of the 10th Division, which is now besieged, has now firmly attracted more than 100,000 Chinese troops to the Taierzhuang area, as long as it can hold out for more than half a month.
After the meeting, Prime Minister Sugiyama Moto, who was about to step down, also expressed his attitude and expressed his full support for the rice plan.
In this way, all voices against the expansion of the war were silenced.
Operational Order No. 84, the base camp of 500,000 GJ in the Fifth Theater of Operations in Xuzhou, was quickly issued from Tokyo to the two major fronts of the Japanese army in North China and Central China.
A large number of troops, weapons and equipment drawn from the Japanese mainland were loaded onto ships and drove towards China in a steady stream, and the Japanese navy was not to be outdone, and also drew up an operational plan for landing from the East China Sea.
(To be continued.) )