- Chongqing

At the military meeting, Jiang Zheng took the telegram with a pale face and said, "Look at it, look at it, the Eighth Route Army is surrounded by the Japanese army in two county towns, and it can fight such a battle, what about our national army?" Have you ever fought like this? As members of the party-state, you should feel ashamed!! ”

Li Zongren saw that everyone lowered their heads and did not speak, then stood up and said, "Chairman, don't get excited, I read the telegram, the main reason why the Eighth Route Army can win is still what they said, the Japanese army is too proud, but now the Eighth Route Army is still besieged at the foot of Luliang Mountain, I think if this continues, the Eighth Route Army may be wiped out, do we have to think of a way?" After all, that's hundreds of thousands of troops. ”

Jiang Zheng looked at Li Zongren, who stood up to be a good man again, snorted coldly in his heart, and said in his mouth, "This Eighth Route Army is expanding rapidly, our troops are fighting less and less, and their troops are fighting more and more, more than 100,000 people."

After speaking, he looked below, and Tang Enbo was the first to stand up and agree, "Yes, why are there so many people in the Eighth Route Army?" Have we compiled them yet? This is an illegal military expansion! When we were desperately fighting on the front line, they occupied territory everywhere in the rear, and they were simply hateful. ”

Jiang intermediary patted the case and scolded: "How do you speak? That's a friendly army!! They are fighting the Japanese army, do you want to stab them in the back? ”

Tang Enbo hurriedly said, "I don't dare to be humble, but I am just unconvinced." ”

Jiang Intermediary ignored him and said, "But the siege of the Eighth Route Army, we still have to solve it." Yan Xishan of the Second War Zone was ordered to immediately send troops to attack the belly of the Japanese army, and the Eighth Route Army had already attracted the main force of the Japanese army. What does he want to do if he doesn't do it again? ”

- Ji County

Yan Xishan looked at the telegram, snorted coldly and said, "This old Jiang has a good calculation, ordered me to send troops at this time, and also sent newspapers, if I don't come out, I will die and not be saved, I send troops there are 100,000 Japanese troops." He Lao Jiang sent someone himself! ”

Yang Aiyuan nodded and said, "That's right, but it's not okay not to send troops, now we are close to them." If we really don't move at all, I'm afraid that we won't be able to bear the condemnation of the whole country at that time. ”

Yan Xishan stood up, turned around twice, and said, "Go, and tell the Japanese, we are under a lot of pressure now." We want Fenxi County. If you don't give it to us, you will take it yourself, the Japanese army will definitely agree in order to concentrate on fighting the Eighth Route Army, in addition, order the troops to be prepared, once the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army are defeated, it is time for us to come out and pick up the leak. ”

- Command of the Third Army

Tada Jun threw the telegram and said, "This Yan Xishan is simply cunning and cunning, and he actually asked us for territory. ”

Takeda asked, "Your Excellency, Commander." So do we give or don't give? ”

Tada took a breath and said, "Here!!" But can't give it so quickly, give him a town today. Give him a township tomorrow, let him want to stop, it's like boiling a frog in warm water, wait for this side, and then we will defeat Yan Xishan's Jin Sui army in one go!! ”

- Shouyang County

Shouyang is a county town seventy or eighty kilometers away from Taiyuan, and at this time, a troop is passing through here quickly.

The team was oddly flanked by soldiers in military uniforms and steel guns, and in the middle was a group of civilians who were either pushing wheelbarrows or driving horse-drawn carts, which were piled high with ammunition, mortars, and other supplies.

The head of this unit was an officer with a somewhat crooked hat, and a person next to the officer said, "Regiment commander, the main force of more than 20,000 troops of our 129th Division is walking so swaggeringly, and this little devil is not blind, what if a plane bombs it?" This will delay the trip. ”

The officer scolded and said, "I said that your Tian Jie is troublesome to read, like a girl, it is a good point of artillery, otherwise it is really useless, and now the little devil has been beaten back to the county town by our vanguard troops, this rural place is our people, we have arranged people on the main road to the county seat, and they are not allowed to enter, where did the devils get the news, they got the news that our guerrillas are back to attack the township." But after walking a few dozen miles, we will arrive in Jinzhong, there are a lot of devils there, we have no way to cover the battlefield, we have to discuss with the political commissar. ”

The officer looked up at the sky and scolded, "Monk! Where is the monk? Roll over to Lao Tzu! ”

A big bareheaded man with a machete on his back ran quickly, only to see that he was running extremely fast, like a fierce horse.

The big man said stupidly to the officer, "Regiment commander, what's wrong?" ”

The officer pointed to the front and said, "Go, get the commissar, well, you and I want to drink, he must be running fast." ”

The big man sighed and ran away, and Tian Jie asked, "Commander, why do you say that you want to drink?" ”

The officer said hesitantly, "Isn't he in a hurry, he's coming!" ”

I saw an officer running fast on a fast horse, carrying a horsewhip and shouting at the officer, "Li Long, if you dare to give me a drink at this time, I will go to the division commander to sue you believe it or not!" ”

Li Longtian smiled and said, "Don't drink, don't drink, my good political commissar, with you, how dare I drink at this time, to be serious, the front is Jinzhong, where we can't pass with such a swagger, what do you say?" Is it nocturnal or how to say? We're going to report it to the division as well. ”

Zhao Gang thought for a while and said, "No, it's all plains here, if we walk at night and day we can't play too many torches, otherwise half of the sky will be red, how can we hide from the little devil?" ”

At this time, a communications soldier ran and said, "Regiment commander, telegram from the division headquarters." ”

Li Long took a look at it, laughed and said, "The division commander is the division commander, I know that we will encounter this problem, no, I will send a solution." ”

Zhao Gang hurriedly asked, "What do you say?" ”

Li Long said, "Simple, the division headquarters ordered us to work harder, and tonight we sent a night attack on Jinzhong City, but it was not a real fight, but it was necessary to make a few regiments, and the others passed directly with torches, so that the Japanese army could not figure it out." When the day comes, the Japanese planes will definitely come to investigate, and everyone will change into civilian clothes. The weapons were well hidden, scattered, and a little bit exposed. Give them the impression that we are actually just calling the common people to bluff and not really have a big army. ”

Zhao Gang's eyes lit up and said, "I understand, do you remember the power call the day before yesterday?" This must be to cooperate with the military department, this is singing a big show, but it is actually false. Fiction is real, fiction is virtual, reality is reality. Suspects use fiction, and real people use reality. The devil is cunning, just using the void, the teacher is wonderful. ”

Li Long's eyes widened, he grabbed his head and said, "What did you just say?" What came and went? The division commander has also become a monk? And a big temple? I just seem to have understood what the teacher meant. I don't understand what you say. Monk. Do you understand? ”

The monk nodded stunned and said, "I understand, Captain, I have read books, and I have to recite scriptures in the temple." ”

Tian Jie couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard it next to him, and the dry Li Long hit Tian Jie's head with a fist, "Laugh at the fart, you intellectuals, you know how to bully me, hum!" Actually, I know, isn't it? This, ah! That's it. That's right, it's almost time for dinner, I'll go to the front to see how the food is prepared, don't let the fellows go hungry. ”

Zhao Gang pointed at Li Long, who didn't look back, glanced at Tian Jie, and couldn't help laughing anymore.

- Late at night

There are only six or seven hundred Japanese troops left in Jinzhong City, and there are still one or two thousand puppet troops. The telegram some time ago made the entire Jinzhong float with an impetuous atmosphere, and the Japanese soldiers patrolling outside only felt that the unfriendly eyes around them seemed to have become more, and the puppet army was persuaded by his family to be careful when he returned home.

Takaido, who was in charge of guarding Jinzhong, only felt funny, obviously being trapped in a small place by the imperial army and beaten, what kind of heart could he say such big words as tens of thousands of imperial soldiers were panicked all day long, well, the people of China do like to talk big, after all, they are just a despicable people. What's even more ridiculous is that these people really think that the imperial army will fail? Defeated Imperial Army? Was there such an imperial army after the Meiji Restoration?

"Bang" "Da Da" Suddenly the sound of gunfire from a distance startled Takaido, and he quickly sat up and asked, "What's the situation?" Where to shoot? ”

After a while, a Japanese soldier came running over and said, "Captain, there are guns outside the city, there are gunshots in the west and north, and there are so many fires, it looks like it should be a large army of the Chinese people." ”

Takaito slapped him over, only to beat the Japanese army into a fog.

"What kind of big troops, listen to it yourself, this voice is only dozens of guns, go out with me." Takaido came to the castle and looked out, and sure enough, he saw a fire in the northwest, and when he looked through the binoculars, he only saw a figure of longing, and he didn't know how many people there were.

Takaido couldn't help but be shocked, but listening to the shouts of killing and gunfire, there were indeed not many people, and the strange thing was that the sound of machine guns was non-stop.

Takaido asked, "Let's go and count, how many losses do we have?" ”

About half an hour later, the officers came to report that only three had been wounded, all of which were caused by stray bullets.

Takaido squinted his eyes and said, "There's a problem, it's definitely not a big army, either the Shina are luring the enemy, or there are other conspiracies." And ordered a third of the men to be on guard at the head of the city, and the rest to go back to bed, and to wait until daylight to-morrow. ”

The next day, Takaido sent a telegram to the air force in Taiyuan to send out reconnaissance, and he also took a team of people out of the city to check the situation carefully.

"Captain, there's a situation here." A Japanese soldier shouted.

Takaido hurriedly ran over to take a look, only to see a layer of red letters in a trench, and a lot of gunsmoke.

Takaito laughed and said, "I said why there are so many machine guns, it turns out that they are all firecrackers, these people like to deceive." ”

At this time, the signal corpsman ran and said, "The air force has come to report that a large number of Chinese people have been found in the south, and there are signs that the guerrillas are hiding." Ask if you need to bomb it, and if you need to ask us to report it to the command, now all the bombers are under the direct control of the commander. ”

Takaido thought for a moment and said, "Let the air force send a telegram to the headquarters about their findings, and let His Excellency the Commander make a decision, and then we will go back and report our discoveries as well." ”

- Command of the Third Army

Takeda Yixiong took the two pieces of information from the communication soldier, rolled his eyes a few times, looked at the time, had a plan in his heart, and said in his mouth, "The big thing is not good, this must be reported to His Excellency the Commander immediately." Then he dropped a telegram and hurried out.

The communications soldier next to him saw that a telegram was dropped by Takeda Takeo, and hurriedly said, "Takeda Nakasa has dropped something, I'll send it over." ”

Takeda Yio ran all the way to Tada's office, and sure enough, in addition to Tada Jun, there were also Ushijima Minoru and Yoshimoto Sadaichi in the room at this time.

Takeda Takeo said to Tada, "Your Excellency, Commander, please retreat immediately. A large number of Chinese troops appeared in the rear of our army. ”

Tada Jun was startled when he heard this, and said, "How is it possible? Aren't the Eighth Route Army all besieged here by us? ”

Takeda Yixiong took the telegram and handed it to Tada Jun and said, "You see, the air force reported that a large number of people in China have been found in the middle of Jin, when is it now, what are these people doing in groups, I think, this must be the Eighth Route Army camouflaged, these people add up to tens of thousands." ”

Yoshimoto Sadachi and others also gathered around to look at the telegram, and Tada Jun said in sweat, "Could these really be the Eighth Route Army?" ”

At this time, a guard came in with a messenger and said, "Your Excellency Takeda, this person said that you dropped something. ”

The corners of Takeda's mouth curved slightly, and he immediately changed back and said, "What is it?" ”

The messenger said, "It's a telegram from Jinzhong. ”

Tada said, "Take it and take a look." ”

Tada Jun glanced at it a few times, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and said to Takeda Yixiong reproachfully, "You, you're really careless, look at the telegram you dropped, haven't you read it yet?" Jinzhong's report said that someone attacked Jinzhong at night last night, but he went out to look for it during the day, but found firecrackers all over the ground, which was a feint and a conspiracy of the Eighth Route Army. ”

Ushijima said hehehe, "Takeda boy, inexperienced, this is the favorite tactic of the Eighth Route Army, using civilians and firecrackers to disguise as a large army." To attract our military strength, the Eighth Route Army is the most cunning, you almost fell for it, Your Excellency Commander, this Eighth Route Army first attacked our checkpoints, and then launched the people to disguise the troops like this, it's very simple, do you want us to withdraw our troops. ”

Tada Jun nodded and said, "You're right, but the offensive in the past few days has not been smooth, the fortifications of the Eighth Route Army are very strong, and they can only continue to rely on the bombing of the aviation troops. ”

Seeing that the goal was achieved, Takeda Yixiong didn't speak, lowered his head and thought, if he had just shown the two telegrams to Tada Jun at once, maybe he would really judge that this was a trap, but now it's good, when he saw the first copy, subjectively he didn't want to believe it, when he saw the second copy that was "dropped", he naturally felt that he was right, this is the weakness of the human heart, the big army has arrived in Jinzhong, and I really don't know what it looks like after three days or three days. (To be continued.) )