Chapter 1338: Overture to the Great War

In fact, Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang don't want to be trained like this, if others are like this, the two of them would have been on fire a long time ago, and they would be punished casually, and they couldn't train people, helplessly, this little girl's identity is special, and she looks like the third lady of the division commander, if the wind blows in the wrong direction next to the pillow, I don't know when it will be a leader this day?

It's strange to say, two brave and fierce major generals who dare to fight and kill, and the tiger and biaobiao man who rolled out of the blood and fire, saw Liu Xinlan, who was only more than 1.60 meters tall, but they were afraid in their hearts, just like a mouse seeing a cat, in fact, maybe neither of them realized that their awe of the division commander Tang Qiuli had penetrated deep into their bones, thus extending to Liu Xinlan's body.

If you think about it carefully, you also have similar feelings about Mei Ting and Mei Xue, plus the minutes of this meeting, the two of them are really bad, there are mistakes in the hands of this girl, and they dare not say a word when they are trained, and Liu Xinlan herself is strange, as soon as she sees these two people, she can't help but want to train them, they are really stupid, and they don't know how to command nearly a thousand planes?

Not only are the three people strange, but even the hundreds of people in the division finger are strange, Liu Xinlan's consistent impression to everyone is that they are all smart and clever, gentle and generous, clever and smiling, and everyone in the division finger gets along very well, even after the relationship with the division commander is open, he did not show the domineering majesty of the division commander's girlfriend, why is it that the two commanders of Le and Liu are not pleasing to the eye?

In the Yangdong Front Command Headquarters, a beautiful female second lieutenant in her twenties, followed by two dejected major generals, coming and going in various departments from time to time, has become a scene of the division's command!

Seeing Liu Xinlan come in with Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang, Tang Qiuli lovingly gathered the scattered black hair for Liu Xinlan, glanced at the two of them, and asked, "Xinlan, did the two staff officers bully you?" Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang trembled, and said secretly in their hearts: "God, dare to bully her?" This aunt and grandmother don't give us a lecture every day. It's not fragrant to eat, and we brothers don't dare to have a temper at all! ”

Liu Xinlan glanced at the two of them, and said half-coquettishly: "It's not that I was bullied." But these two subordinates, I don't want to take them, I'm stupid, I've never seen such a stupid person, I can't even get a meeting record, I'm really worried, division commander. I do have a Jianyì, didn't they use the aviation unit before, they must be good at mechanical knowledge, simply, let the two of them go to the mechanical repair shop of the logistics department, repair cars, and they can also play to their strengths! ”

Le Yiqin and Liu Cui were sweating profusely and almost cried. "This girl is even more ruthless, let's go repair the car, the two major general repairmen. Is it reasonable for the hand that piloted the plane, commanded the heads of nearly a thousand planes, beat the reputation of a few air teams of little devils, and dealt with pliers, wrenches, screwdrivers, and jacks all day long? ”

Tang Qiuli glanced at Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang, who were sweating profusely, and said, "Did you hear that?" Your direct supervisor is very dissatisfied with your work schedule, don't think that you used to be a commander who didn't take staff work seriously. Liu Hongzhang, the commander of the First Brigade of the Corps, also worked in the logistics unit for three months? Why, are you exceptional? If I hear Staff Officer Liu's reaction to a similar situation, I think the mechanical repair shop is also a good place to go. ”

Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang are about to collapse. I really saw the status of this girl in the mind of the division commander, wiped the sweat on my head, hurriedly reviewed, admitted my mistakes, and ensured that I would work with peace of mind in the future.

In the past few days, Tang Qiuli has been in a very good mood, first, all the preparations for the attack on Rangoon have gone smoothly, and the campaign plan has been carried out according to his own expectations, and the main thing is that a telegram came from the Qingdao Naval Base, and with the participation of experts from the General Hospital of the Logistics Department of the Independent Division, after several days of treatment and rescue, Tang Yunfei's injuries have been completely controlled, and there is no need for amputation.

It's just that Yun Fei is too seriously injured, and it will take longer to recover, these are not problems, as long as Yun Fei's left arm can be saved, even if he lies in the hospital for a year or two, Tang Qiuli can accept it, he is still young, sooner or later there will be a time to return to the blue sky, let go of the thousand catties of boulder in his heart, he is also in the mood, and he is in the mood to joke with Liu Cuigang.

Senior General Ito Yanzaburo, who was trapped in the isolated city of Yangon, smelled an increasingly dangerous breath from the incessant movement of the troops of the Independent Division, the invisible noose was tightened more and more, and the sound of "rumbling" explosions outside the city all day long was also inconclusive, and he could not guess what the troops of the Independent Division were doing, but he was terrified when he heard it.

Chief of Staff Major General Kawashima's Jianyì, he carefully considered, for this guy's unique vision, Ito still admires very much, the whole Yangon, has become a dead move, only by retreating south to the Malay Peninsula, there is a glimmer of life, after Kawashima woke up, he also saw that it was Tang Qiuli deliberately left himself and more than 200,000 soldiers to live.

Although he didn't believe it, Tang Qiuli, who was known as the devil of China, would have such a compassionate heart, stubbornly defending and retreating south, the two thoughts were constantly intertwined in his heart, stirring him up to sleep and sleep, and stubbornly defending, which was the end of the burning of jade, and finally he would lose Yangon, and the empire used the elite of the sea and land air forces, and failed to add a trace of defense to Yangon.

Tang Qiu was close to nearly a million troops, besieged and did not attack for more than 20 days, consuming not only the morale of the imperial soldiers, but also the confidence of death, the huge pressure maintained from time to time, and the successive fiascos of the reinforcements, even Ito himself was happy and haggard, on the verge of collapse, not to mention ordinary soldiers, torture, mental torture.

Death is not terrible, the samurai of the Great Japanese Empire firmly believe in the reincarnation of life and death, death is just the beginning of another reincarnation, but they are always facing the threat of death, and they may lose their lives at any time, but they don't know when to die, and they can't even take death into their own hands, which is the most terrible.

What are the consequences of the retreat to the south, Ito knows very well in his heart, this is different from the Mandalay retreat, there is no such lucky thing, first of all, the first thing to pass the pass of His Majesty the Emperor, just yesterday, Prince Jaehito, the chief of the general staff who was reinstated, the first telegram was sent to the Southeast Asian Dispatch Army Command, and there was only one order: "Defend to the death, that is, to defend Yangon." ”

As for how to defend to the death, Your Excellency the Chief of the General Staff, there is no use in the slightest suggestion, it is all empty and boring spiritual encouragement, this is useless? Before he could finish reading the telegram, Ito tore it to shreds, and he understood one thing, his empire could no longer make any meaningful help.

Defend to the death, that requires capital, from troops to weapons and equipment, to the morale of soldiers, the Southeast Asian dispatch army has no capital, no artillery and aircraft, no supplies, what do I take to defend Yangon? Ito didn't know if he was asking himself, or if he was asking His Majesty the Emperor, he had a feeling of being abandoned by his homeland, which was very bad and had eroded his determination to fight to the death.

On 5 December, Major General Han Tie, commander of the Marine Corps of the Independent Division, was ordered to come to the Yangdong Front Headquarters to accept in person the combat mission of capturing Hainan Island from division commander Tang Qiuli.

As soon as he saw the division commander Tang Qiuli, Han Tie's eyes were full of eager light, and after careful calculation, Han Tie had not seen the division commander for nearly three years, and the marines had been at the Qingdao naval base for intensive training, and followed the fleet to the Zhanjiang base in Guangdong, and in the past three years, the marines have not fought a single battle.

Although it is a second-line corps, in the first battle of Kaifeng in 38 years, with less than 30,000 troops, the 120,000 troops of the North China Dispatch Army, the ace of the anti-Japanese army, Isoya Ryosuke, did not retreat in the bloody battle of Kaifeng for three days and three nights, and the commander of the corps, Major General Su Jingfeng, was killed, and more than half of the troops were killed or wounded, and thus became famous in the first battle.

The blood that came out on the battlefield, for three years, the troops were screaming, Tang Qiuli looked at Han Tie, whose face was blackened by the sea breeze and his body was getting stronger and stronger, nodded again and again with satisfaction and appreciation, "Han Tie, I haven't seen you for three years, you said that the spirit is quite good?" Han Tie smiled and replied: "It's not like that, I just eat and practice every day, and after I sleep, I get fat!" ”

Tang Qiuli looked at Tang Qiusheng and said: "Brother Qiusheng, have you heard it, Commander Han is blaming me, the snow has been hidden for three years, the good steel is not used on the blade, raising troops for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, this combat mission is the work of your marines!" ”

Han Tie got up abruptly and said loudly: "Please give an order from the division commander, more than 90,000 soldiers of the Marine Corps will live up to their mission and ensure the completion of the task" Tang Qiuli laughed, what he wanted was this spirit, and release a group of fierce tigers.

After pulling Han Tie to sit down, Tang Qiuli said: "The basic situation on Hainan Island is like this, the Japanese garrison is a second-class division, a marine wing, a gunboat brigade and a patrol boat brigade, two coastal defense artillery wings, and three field artillery wings, with a total strength of about 34,000 to 35,000 people. ”

"The original plan was that the fleet would serve as fire cover and carrier-based aircraft would be responsible for air strikes, but now the fleet is stuck in the Andaman Sea and cannot rush back to participate in the campaign to capture Hainan Island, so my biggest concern is that the firepower is not strong enough to provide suppressive artillery support after the troops land, and besides, the Japanese gunboats and patrol boats are a huge threat to the troops and ships crossing the sea, what do you think?"

Tens of thousands of people crossed the sea to fight, and without the escort of warships, the Japanese gunboats were the biggest obstacles, and bombers were dispatched, and the two sides were entangled together at sea, and it was easy to be injured by mistake, and without the cover of powerful artillery fire, just occupying the beachhead and gaining a foothold would have to pay a considerable price, which was Tang Qiuli's concern.