King Minoru Higashikurenomiya asked Yamashita to dispatch troops and send generals, and by the way, he contacted the National Army of the White Party to see if there was any room for cooperation. While looking at the map of Taihang Mountain, in his heart, there is one last killing move, if he succeeds, the situation of the Taihang Mountain sweep will be turned upside down-

Damao Mountain

Damao Mountain was called Heng Mountain in ancient times, when Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Heng Mountain was renamed Changshan because of avoidance...... During the Northern Song Dynasty, the area around Damao Mountain was the border of Song and Liao. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there was a controversy between Beiyue in Quyang, Hebei or Hunyuan, Shanxi, but Hengshan was still set in Quyang, Hebei at that time. Until July of the seventeenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1660), Beiyue was changed to Hengshan in Hunyuan, Shanxi.

The primeval forests of Damaoshan are lush and shaded, and the winding paths beneath your feet are crowded with shrubs. The more you climb, the more dangerous the mountain, the denser the mountain forest, the clouds under your feet are like fog, and the forest sea is full of smoke. At this time, Takeshita's team was marching hard in the continuous mountain rain.

Takeshita looked up at the dim sky, waved his hand and said, "Rest on the spot, the first team will go to find food, the second team will prepare the residence, and the third team will be on guard." ”

Immediately, the procession of 100 people dispersed, and many people climbed the trees, jumping from tree to tree like raccoon cats.

Takeshita looked at the trees around him, and suddenly stabbed the trunk with a knife, a small snake kept twisting its body under the knife, Takeshita shook the snake hard, and cut off the head of the little snake with a knife, and ate it raw.

And in Shijiazhai at the foot of Damao Mountain, Zhou Weiguo and others looked at not far away with a tired face, Zhenbai Siwen pointed to the mountain and said, "This mountain is 1,900 meters above sea level, dense forests, a small team really wants to hide, it will be very difficult for us to find it, even if there is your small plane, it is not easy." ”

Zhou Weiguo nodded and said, "That thing can only be used as an auxiliary, our host said that no matter how high the high-tech weapon, the key to the final victory is the person who uses it." ”

Zhenbai Siwen was stunned for a moment and said, "What your owner said is very reasonable, if they are really on this mountain, it must be extremely difficult now, there are two routes to go to the wooden Buddha platform from here, one is to go down the mountain to the water ditch to Liuling, and then turn to the Qiligou on the wooden Buddha platform, this road is relatively flat, and the other is to go directly from the water ditch over the mountain to the Qiligou on the wooden Buddha platform, this road is difficult to walk, but fast, your old classmate even dares to go up Damao Mountain, I think he will take this road." ”

Zhou Weiguo pointed to the map and said, "Then we are waiting for them in Qiligou?" It's too close to the wooden Buddha platform, and it's dangerous if a fish slips through the net. ”

Zhenbai Swen touched his chin and said, "A group of hungry mice, after going down the mountain, the most hopeful thing should be to find a place to harvest grain, Shijiazhai is a place with many people, I'm afraid he doesn't dare to come, he is most likely to find the nearby mountain people to start, they don't want more food, as long as they clean up four or five mountain people, it is basically enough for them to use this time." And the path I'm talking about is only a possibility, and they may not be on the wooden Buddha platform at all. ”

Zhou Weiguo looked at the map and said, "Recently, we haven't gotten any suspicious information, and no villages have been attacked, so I still agree with your inference, but if I were Takeshita-kun, I would go this way."

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Takeshita finally walked out of Damao Mountain with his troops, and looking at the soldiers with beards and shabby clothes, Takeshita smiled and said, "Look, are you a guerrilla like this?" ”

The soldiers laughed at each other for a while, and one of the soldiers ran and said, "Captain, we have scouted, three miles to the left is Shijiazhai, where there are about eight or nine hundred mountain people, and seventy or eighty Eighth Route Army, go to the right and go directly to Qiligou, but there may be no place for supplies along the way." ”

Takeshita frowned and asked, "How much food do you still have?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and one of the soldiers said, "Captain, we have run out of food for a long time, and we have relied on raw meat and wild fruits for this time. ”

Takeshita squinted his eyes and said, "I can smell a dangerous smell, Shijiazhai we fought down, but in case the news leaks, we will fall short, this is less than 70 miles away from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, there must be a means of communication, go to the right, I don't believe that there will be no mountain people for such a long time"

As he spoke, the corner of Takeshita's eyes jumped, and he immediately felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know where, thinking about it, he felt that this was the safest way, and was about to give the order to start acting, when Takeshita was suddenly stunned.

"Captain, what's wrong with you?" The team members couldn't help but ask strangely when they saw Takeshita bowing his head and sneering.

"It's so dangerous, almost, almost we're finished, Nobi!" Takeshita shouted in a low voice.

"In!" A sturdy Japanese soldier came out and preached.

"It is very likely that we have been discovered by the Eighth Route Army, they must be looking for us around here, if we take the small road directly, it is very likely that we will be blocked, so, I order you, start attacking Shijiazhai in a day, I will only give you 20 people, you have to give me the momentum of a squadron, can you do it?"

Nobi saluted excitedly and said, "Promise to complete the mission." ”

Takeshita nodded and said, "We won't go to Qiligou, let's go back to the mountain and continue to walk north for thirty miles, and take Shipiaogou, although it is difficult to walk, you can also go up to the wooden Buddha platform!" ”

-- North China

In a temple, a middle-aged man is looking at a map on the wall, his eyes full of worry.

"Chairman, what's wrong with you?" A bald general came in and saw the man's appearance, and immediately said with a smile.

"It's Huaibing, I'm looking at the map, come and see, this yellow is the place occupied by the Japanese army, this blue is the place occupied by our national army, and this red dragon is the Taihang Mountain occupied by the Red Party, and these stars are all their guerrilla areas." The middle-aged man sat down in his seat and said, "This time the Japanese army vigorously encircled and suppressed the Red Party, I am both happy and afraid, that is, I am afraid that the Japanese army will really eliminate the Red Party, and then deal with us, and I am happy that it can weaken the strength of the Red Party, which is really contradictory." ”

"Chairman, in fact, it's still a matter of our strength, we now have the 40th Army, the 69th Army, the 97th Army and the Hebei People's Army in the Jicha Theater, not to mention compared with the Japanese, that is, compared with the Eighth Route Army, they are all at a disadvantage, this Eighth Route Army can fight on an equal footing with the Ninth Route Army, and it has taken a lot of advantage, do you say that when the Eighth Route Army relaxes its mind, will it let us go?" Zhu Huaibing squinted his eyes and asked.

Lu Zhonglin clapped his hands and said, "That's what I mean, you and I were both appointed here by Chairman Jiang, and the chairman explained a few months ago that our task is to prevent Hebei from being ****, but now it seems that the task is very arduous." ”

Zhu Huaibing propped his hand on the table and said, "This Red Party is like a weed, if we just use language to educate, it is useless, in the end, we still have to use force to uproot them, you look at Jinggang Mountain, if it were not for the use of "stones to go through the knife, the toilet to go over the fire, people to change the species" means, would there be no trace of the Red Party until now? ”

Lu Zhonglin nodded when he heard it and said, "But after all, it's still a period of red and white cooperation, if we do it, I'm afraid"

Zhu Huaibing smiled: "Who said that we did it?" This Hebei is not only us and the Red Party, isn't there also the Japanese and Wang Jingwei? As far as I know, the Japanese have been asking Shi Yousan, Sun Dianying, and the chairman to see each other recently, so we can borrow a knife to kill people. ”

Lu Zhonglin's eyes rolled, and finally said, "This matter still needs to be reported to Chongqing." If you can do it without hands, then it's best. ”

Zhu Huaibing looked at the cautious Lu Zhonglin, and couldn't help but feel disdain, you must know that Lu Zhonglin was originally Feng Yuxiang's subordinate, not only defeated Wu Peifu, but he also drove Pu Yi out of the Forbidden City. But after the Central Plains War, he also went into the field with Feng Yuxiang, and after the 77 Incident, he followed Feng Yuxiang to come back, although because of Feng Yuxiang's strong recommendation, Jiang intermediary began to use him, but Jiang intermediary always thought that he was Feng Yuxiang's subordinate, not his own cronies and descendants, and would not be loyal to his use, so he just hung a false title on him, and never let him get involved in military power.

Zhu Huaibing is a native of Hubei, joined the League when he was young, participated in Geming, participated in the Northern Expedition, and made great contributions to the suppression of the Red during the Jinggangshan period, and was promoted to division commander, and was a well-known anti-Red pioneer. It can be said that compared with Lu Zhonglin, Zhu Huaibing is more reliable in the heart of Jiang Zhongzhong, and more importantly, Zhu Huaibing holds military power, so he thinks very highly of himself.

Zhu Huaibing was a little interested, and said, "Okay, I'll wait for your news." ”

When Zhu Huaibing returned to his headquarters, several generals immediately surrounded him.

"How? What did Lu Zhonglin say? Would you like to do it? It was Zhang Yinwu under Zhu Huaibing who spoke.

Zhang Yinwu was originally a member of the Jin Sui Army, after the Central Plains War, he broke away from the Jin Sui Army, established the People's Army, occupied the autonomy of six counties in Hebei, after the 77 Incident, while resisting Japan, while developing, soon pulled up a team of tens of thousands of people, it is worth mentioning that when Lu Zhonglin was appointed chairman of Hebei, he ran to Wuhan in a hurry to see Jiang Zhong, because of Chen Cheng's introduction, he got ten minutes, but it was this short ten minutes that made him from a sympathizer of the Red Party to a loyal believer of the White Party.

"That Lu Zhonglin, where is the deer ghost, he is a coward at all, he said that he wanted to send a telegram to Chongqing, saying such a big thing, without Chongqing's nod, it will definitely not work." Saying that, Zhu Huaibing shook his head and looked at everyone helplessly.

Shi Yousan snorted, he had already received an order from Jiang Intermediary asking him to clean up the red personnel in the army, but it was a verbal secret order, and he also understood from it that it was absolutely impossible for Jiang Intermediary to write out the anti-Red Union in black and white.

Shi Yousan thought for a while and said, "Zhang Yinwu, I remember that your hometown is Bowang, right?" ”

Zhang Yinwu nodded and said, "What's wrong?" ”

Shi Yousan smiled and said, "Then you should have a lot of your own people over there, isn't the Japanese army now clearing the Red Party, and only fighting the Red Party, if you see us, you shouldn't see it, Bowang's People's Army is actually a branch of the Eighth Route Army, but nominally it still belongs to your jurisdiction, you can order them to transfer, and then send their own people to occupy Bowang, if they don't listen to the order, it is disobeying the military order, and when we do it, whether it is Chairman Lu or Chongqing, we can only admit the reality." ”

Zhang Yinwu is not stupid, he understands that he is using him as a gunman, but he is indeed dissatisfied with the occupation of his hometown by the Red Party, especially where the Red Party is fighting the bully landlords, some of his relatives and friends have also been impacted, and they are also a little half-pushed.

Zhang Yinwu looked at Zhu Huaibing and said, "Commander Zhu, I listen to you." ”

Zhu Huaibing snorted and said, "Then let's do it, are we also for military discipline!" ”――

sian

In the headquarters of the 34th Group Army, Jiang Dingwen was handing over the documents, he patted Hu Zongnan on the shoulder with a smile and said, "You are worthy of being the first person in Huangpu, you were the first to be a division commander and the first to be a army commander, and now, you are the first to be the commander of a group army in Huangpu." ”

Hu Zongnan said modestly, "It's all about love, what's more, if you really want to say it, my little junior brother in the fourth phase was the commander of the legion before me." ”

Jiang Dingwen was stunned for a moment, shook his hand with a smile and said, "It's different, it's different, his corps commander is in name, you deserve it, um, but your little junior brother's 115th Division is indeed fighting well in Shanxi." ”

Hu Zongnan nodded and smiled, "But in my eyes, among the Red Party, the one I really want to fight against is Peng Dehuai, and I still remember the incident three years ago." ”

Jiang Dingwen shook his hand and said, "Don't talk about this, let's go, I've set up a banquet for you, let's talk about it after eating." ”

At night, Hu Zongnan's room was full of people, looking at the generals, Hu Zongnan slowly took out an order and put it on the table and said, "Today, I first thank you for your support, and I also hope that you will continue to serve the party-state in the future. ”

Tao Zhiyue, Dong Zhao, Li Tiejun and others looked at Hu Zongnan, looking as a matter of course, Hu Zongnan took a breath and said, "The Red Party is terrible, there were only eight or nine hundred people in Jinggangshan back then, and there were 300,000 soldiers and horses in a few years, and now there are only more than 30,000 people in three divisions of one army, but now they occupy a large area of land in Shanxi and northern Shaanxi, and there are at least three or four hundred thousand troops, and they are still expanding.

As for us, as soon as we increase our troops in Xi'an, the Red Party will keep fanning the flames in public opinion, saying that we will not fight the Japanese with heavy troops, so for the sake of public opinion, we can only stand still for the First Army in Xi'an. However, we have to make a fuss about the formation of this first army. ”

Tao Zhiyue was the commander of the First Army, and he looked at Hu Zongnan in surprise.

Hu Zongnan nodded and said, "The First Army has changed from the current 2nd Division and 4th Brigade to 3rd Division and 6th Brigade, and 167 Divisions have been newly added. The brigade consists of three regiments, and the regiment is composed of four or four. There will be 18 regiments of 70,000 or 80,000 people in the whole army, and others should not be in a hurry, your troops will also be reorganized one after another, this northwest is a place for good soldiers, I hope you will train your troops well and prepare for the next battle! (To be continued.) )