Chapter 9: Two Choices

Five days later, the 163rd Regiment finally arrived in Lucheng (Kunshan) on time according to the instructions of the superiors, and when Su Dao and they arrived, there were already many troops on standby in Lucheng, many of which were also the third batch of troops for training, and they had been reloaded. It's just that Su Dao can see that those troops are not doing very well in terms of training, at least so far, none of the troops Su Dao has seen can be like the 163rd Regiment.

However, the 163rd Regiment arrived in Lucheng on time, but the other brother units of the 32nd Division failed to arrive on time, and according to their current progress, it is estimated that it will take another day to reach Lucheng.

"Brother Song, you immediately arrange for the troops to rest, let the cooking squad make some delicious food, and let the soldiers replenish their bodies, I think we should receive the order to set off tonight or early tomorrow morning." Since entering Lucheng, there are strictly forbidden standby troops everywhere, the soldiers do not leave their guns, and the ammunition is carried with them, there is quite a trend of a big war coming, seeing this, Su Dao does not dare to be careless, now the soldiers are seriously overdrawn, if it is not good to take a good rest, they will drive directly to the battlefield, no need to say that they will fight themselves, they can die of exhaustion first.

"Don't worry, Brother Su, I've already arranged it, those boys are already tired, and as soon as they arrived, they sat on the ground one by one, how can they still look like a warrior? It's clearly a group of routed soldiers. Ay! Song Renyi looked at Su Dao, wanted to speak and stopped, as if he wanted to say something to Su Dao, but he couldn't open his mouth.

"The big war is coming, Brother Song shouldn't ask so much of the soldiers, now it's the right thing to let the soldiers recover their strength as soon as possible. I'm going to check in with my superiors and see where our equipment goes. After coming here, Su Dao found out that he was not the only German instructor who did not withdraw the troops, but everyone did not leave at all.

All the German instructors went to the front with the army, and even the head of the German advisory group, General Falkenhausen, was now in the headquarters of the Ninth Army in Shanghai. And Su Dao also found a problem, this battle, the Germans played an important role in it.

General Falkenhausen served as General Zhang Zhizhong's chief of staff in the headquarters of the Ninth Army in Shanghai, and although he claimed to have a chief of staff, in fact the post of chief of staff of the Ninth Army was held by Falkenhausen and his think tanks. (Don't be surprised about this, the German advisory group did make a lot of efforts during the Anti-Japanese War, and even the final withdrawal from China was forced by the mustache to leave, when Hitler in the alliance with the Yueben, in order to avoid arousing the disgust of the alliance, cut off all military cooperation with China, and forcibly ordered the German advisers in China to withdraw, I don't know what the specific content of the order is, but one thing is certain, the order of that year mentioned that if you do not evacuate according to the order, stay in China privately, It should be punished as treason. )

And the instructor commander-in-chief, Colonel Wood, was in charge of assisting the Huaxia side in Lucheng at this time to dispatch troops in an orderly manner. Of course, this is not to say that the generals of the Huaxia side do not know how to deploy their troops, but this time the Nanjing side has made up its mind to fight a fierce battle with Yue himself, so the troops arriving from all over the country will be endless.

If there is some emergency on the front line, how can we support it? Or how many troops to send to support? This is where Colonel Wood needs to give his opinion, after all, Colonel Wood was once a staff instructor at the Military Academy in Berlin.

After solving the current problem, Su Dao left here directly and went straight to the rear headquarters in the center of the city. It's a makeshift headquarters, and although it's called a headquarters, it's very rudimentary. The headquarters is located in a small dwelling, surrounded by many houses and dense trees, and staying here is certainly a good way to avoid the detection of the Japanese army's aircraft. But there is also a bad point, that is, once it is targeted by the military plane, or discovered by the military spies, then this command headquarters is finished.

Anyway, Su Dao couldn't figure it out, how could these people put the headquarters here? In the case of Su Dao, he would rather put the headquarters in the woods outside the city than here. But this is not something that Su Dao can control, anyway, he doesn't come here often, hurry in and say hello to the words he wants to ask, and then take the troops to hide in a safe place, the province was bombed by the army plane, if it was not on the battlefield, it was killed by the army first, which is really embarrassing.

"Oh, Sue, you're here? Great, here's a piece of information, I think I need your help. As soon as Su Dao entered the gate of the headquarters, he saw Colonel Wood sitting on a stool facing the gate, holding a Chinese cigarette in his hand, his brows furrowed, but he was facing the direction of the gate, so when Su Dao came in, he was still discovered by Colonel Wood.

"Colonel, I'm here for something, but I'm not here to be a free staff officer for you." Su Dao was stunned for a moment, and then said with a wry smile.

He really couldn't figure out what kind of person this Su Dao was in Germany? Why does Colonel Wood seem to trust Sudaw so much? Besides, even if Su Dao told the truth, would they believe it? In the final analysis, Colonel Wood and General Falkenhausen were only staff officers, and they only had the right to make suggestions, but not the actual control of the army, and even if they told the Chinese generals the purpose of the army, I am afraid that the Chinese generals would not dare to follow their advice alone and unanimously now.

"Su, don't refuse me yet, in fact, I have a preliminary plan now, but I don't think it's too safe, I need your help." Colonel Wood didn't get angry, but said to Su Dao with a hippie smile.

Immediately, Su Dao took the telegram from Colonel Wood's hand and carefully read the contents of it. The content of the telegram is very simple, Huaxia's spies on the side have discovered the behavior of the Yue army's increase in troops, and sent all the numbers and numbers of troops. The first batch of additional troops was only two divisions, the Third Division and the Eleventh Division, which only had an approximate number, but there was no precise increase in the number of troops.

But the military telegram, as long as there is this content is enough, in fact, the army has already begun to increase the troops, but the spies did not transmit the information in time after discovering it, and the control of this aspect is still relatively strict, and the international telegram is not so easy to send successfully.

Even so, just to send this telegram, the already scarce spy personnel lost two personnel, Lieutenant General Fujita Susuru, commander of the 3rd Division, and Chief of Staff Takuyu Toshio Osa. The division was formed in Nagoya, and on August 15 it was ordered to be incorporated into the Shanghai Dispatch Army. On August 18 and 19, he departed by boat from the port of Atsuta in Motomoto, under the command of Major General Riichiro Katayama, commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade, Wing Commander of the 6th Infantry Wing, Tatsuharu Kuranaga, and Wing Commander of the 68th Infantry Wing, Takashi Takamori. Major General Kanichiro Ueno, Commander of the 29th Infantry Brigade: Wing Commander of the 18th Infantry Wing, Kaho Ishii, and Wing Commander of the 34th Infantry Wing, Hachiro Tanakami. Wing Commander of the 3rd Cavalry Wing Hoshizen Daro Nakasa, Wing Commander of the 3rd Field Artillery Wing Seiichi Takeda, Wing Commander of the 3rd Engineer Wing Mitsuyo Nakajima, Wing Commander of the 3rd Light and Heavy Infantry Wing Shoji Awaiwa Nakasa, Signal Team, Health Team, 1st to 4th Field Hospitals; Ordnance Service Corps.

Lieutenant General Munetake Yamamuro, commander of the 11th Division, and Daisa Katamura, chief of staff. The division was organized at the Zentong Temple, incorporated into the Shanghai Dispatch Army on August 15, and departed by boat from the port of Honda on August 20 and 21, under the command of Major General Shinjiro Amaya, commander of the 10th Infantry Brigade, Wing Commander of the 12th Infantry Wing, Adachi 23 Zuo, and Wing Commander of the 22nd Infantry Wing, Nagatsu Sabisa. Major General Yoshikatsu Kuroiwa, commander of the 22nd Infantry Brigade: Wing Commander of the 43rd Infantry Wing, Yoshio Asama, Wing Commander of the 44th Infantry Wing, and Chitaka Ni Daisa. Wing Commander of the 11th Cavalry Wing Yunaka Tanabe, Wing Commander of the 11th Mountain Artillery Wing Yamauchi Ho Osa, Wing Commander of the 11th Engineer Wing Akira Yamauchi, Wing Commander of the 11th Light and Heavy Infantry Wing Ogawara Nakasa, Signal Team, Health Team, 1st to 4th Field Hospitals.

Here is the entire content of the telegram, but it is obvious that the telegram in Su Dao's hand is from Nanjing, not the original telegram. Moreover, the original text of the telegram could not have been so long, and the original text of the telegram only stated that the first batch of additional troops of the third division and the eleventh division were all the members of the two divisions, as well as the time and place of departure.

Now the content of the telegram is the specific information obtained by the Nanjing side based on the investigation. The purpose was to make the Shanghai side prepared, at least to know how many wings the enemy had, and how many people. I have to say that Nanjing has done a good job at this point, at least it has listed which wing the enemy has and who the wing leader is, which has saved them a lot of trouble, and they probably know what to do when the rear is increased.

"According to my personal estimate, it is very likely that the Yue army will land in Wusong and Chuansha Town, two plans, the first plan, put everything aside, leaving part of the troops to continue to encircle the Yueben Marines, and the rest of the main forces are all assembled in Wusong and Chuansha Town to prevent the Yue army from landing, but this will increase our casualties, and the power of the Japanese army's naval artillery should not be underestimated. The second plan is to retreat the whole army so that the Japanese army can land smoothly, once the Japanese army has landed, or when we land a part of our troops, we will pounce on it, and as long as we get mixed up with the Japanese army, the warship guns will not play a role, and our casualties will be much smaller. Su Dao said like a stick, and his fingers immediately pointed out the location of Wusong and Chuansha Town on the map.

"Su, your suggestion is good, but we can't confirm where the specific landing site of the Yue army is, so it is very likely that your two plans will not be adopted." Colonel Wood scratched his head in pain, although Su Dao gave a plan, but he didn't dare to adopt it easily, after all, the ghost only knew where the Yue army landed, in case it was in the wrong place and put the Yue army safely, then the Chinese army would be passive.

After all, as long as the Yue army completes the landing, it will not be easy to drive the Yue army out of the land, on the land, the Yue army has a local breakthrough, plus the assistance of the warship guns, and vigorously bombards the rear of the Yue army's breakthrough direction, even if you know that he wants to break through from there, do you still have to send troops to let the Yue warship bombard? Obviously, this is not possible.