Chapter 603: Airborne
Whether the conference will be held as scheduled, and if it is held as scheduled, where will the new location be, these are the issues that will be faced, and the more important question that is imminent is how to deal with the Japanese army that attacked Luoyang.
Yang Xiaoou's Second Army, which also numbered tens of thousands of people, was beaten to the ground, and even he himself was nowhere to be found, and the entire Henan military and government were like facing a great enemy, and even Li Youting, who was in charge of Henan, lost his sense of proportion for a while.
At this time, Wu Xiaoliang became their backbone, hoping that he would mobilize the elite of the Shandong Army to clear out the Japanese army that had broken through into Henan, because once the Japanese army gained a foothold in the hinterland of Henan, the Longhai Road along the Yellow River would be cut off, and the entire westward retreat strategy would be greatly threatened, and it might be forced to be suspended.
Henan military and political figures, including Li Youting, all strongly demanded that Wu Xiaoliang transfer the elite of the Shandong army, but Wu Xiaoliang had his judgment, the intelligence system of the Shandong army was spread all over the banks of the Yellow River, and a large number of Japanese troops were facing each other on both sides of the Yellow River where Hebei and Shandong meet, and north of the Yellow River in Luoyang, there were not only Henan provincial defense troops but also Shanxi Jin troops flanking, and it was impossible for the Japanese army to cross the Yellow River to attack Luoyang on a large scale before these threats were eliminated.
"Send someone to investigate the situation in Luoyang immediately, and I hope that the investigation report can be placed on my desk before sunset."
Wu Xiaoliang undoubtedly gave orders to Li Youting, and the series of military victories in recent years had obviously made them complacent, and they had also slackened their defense work in some key defense areas, and the real strength of the Japanese army was not as bad as it had been previously revealed.
Li Youting did not have any reason or excuse for refusing, and immediately sent a reconnaissance company to the defense area of the Second Army in Luoyang, and soon the rout of the Second Army fled to Kaifeng.
Li Youting personally interrogated a division commander who fled back from the Second Army, and the report he got from the mouth of the division commander was really incredible, he didn't even know whether he should report this report truthfully, but Wu Xiaoliang's time limit was only one day, and he had no choice but to hand over this incredible report to Wu Xiaoliang, and personally handed over the division commander to Wu Xiaoliang.
The situation of the Second Army is relatively special, the army commander Yang Xiaoou was originally subordinate to Yan Xishan's Jin Army, and later voted for Wu Xiaoliang after a major war, so the Second Army has not been reorganized, and compared with the Shandong Army's ace 57th Division, it is naturally not the same in terms of scale and combat effectiveness.
At this time, the division commander was already like a deflated pig urine bubble who had lost his armor and abandoned his armor, and although he kept his body upright, he couldn't lift his head anyway.
"Tell me about the situation."
The room was so quiet that he could even hear the sound of needles falling on the ground, and Wu Xiaoliang didn't raise his head, only the tap pen in his hand was brushing.
The division commander's head was already drenched with beads of sweat, and he stammered as he recalled the unbearable fiasco.
"Devils, devils are flying from the sky, just like dumplings, dumplings...... They attacked the headquarters first, and the guard regiment of the military headquarters was quickly dispersed, and by the time the various departments reacted, the military headquarters was completely finished, and the army commander and the army commander did not know ......whether they were alive or dead."
The division commander couldn't help crying when he recalled this, and the dignified man from the north of Jin cried like a girl.
Wu Xiaoliang's fountain pen suddenly stopped, and he raised his head to look at the division commander.
"In this way, it was the airborne troops who attacked Luoyang by the Japanese army."
"Air, Airborne Forces."
The division commander was stunned, he had never heard of the term airborne troops before, and he nodded hurriedly.
"Yes, yes, it's the Airborne Forces."
With a bang, the smell of burning sulfur spread through the room, and as the fire flickered and extinguished, Wu Xiaoliang lit a cigarette, and the smell of tobacco mixed with spices soon filled the room.
The division commander saw Wu Xiaoliang's brows tightly knit in the smoke, as if he was thinking about an extremely strict question.
Wu Xiaoliang believed that the division commander in front of him was not lying, and it was very likely that the Japanese army occupied Luoyang by surprise attack with airborne troops, so as to achieve the goal of organizing the convening of the National Reconciliation Conference.
"Tell me, in your judgment, how many people there are in the Japanese army, a brigade, or a squadron."
In Li Youting's report, the size of the Japanese army occupying Luoyang was probably between a brigade and a division, but the division commander was hesitant to say his judgment.
"Say, how many people are there?"
Wu Xiaoliang's voice suddenly exploded like a volcano, and the division commander was frightened and blurted out.
"Yes, there's a brigade."
A brigade, at best, is equivalent to a regiment of the squadron, Wu Xiaoliang's chest swelled with a sense of powerlessness, a brigade is only a thousand people, and it is easy for an army of nearly 20,000 people to fight in an uproar, and it cannot be an army.
The Japanese army only used a brigade to defeat an army and occupy the ancient capital Luoyang, which was not only humiliating, but also more severe was to deal a heavy blow to the anti-Japanese fighting spirit of the warlords of various factions.
Completely using air raid units to carry out lightning-like strikes, blossoming in the center, and using tactics to suddenly knock down the opponent's command system and paralyze its command network, the Japanese army's battle will probably become a textbook model for air raids on ground operations in the future, while Yang Xiaoou's Second Army has unfortunately become a negative teaching material.
In fact, Yang Xiaoou is not to blame, and no one in the army of China would have expected such a previous tactic from the Japanese army.
However, this also reassured Wu Xiaoliang, the Japanese army only used a brigade to carry out a surprise attack, although it was able to achieve the record of defeating a medium **, but it was wishful thinking to stick to the ancient city of Luoyang.
"Jing Cong, let your troops garrison the 1st Brigade of Henan Independent and the 2nd Brigade of Henan in Yanshi and Yiyang respectively to encircle Luoyang from the east and south, I hope to end the battle within three days, recover Luoyang, and restore order."
Li Youting was stunned, did Wu Xiaoliang really believe the false words of the commander of the Second Army, and really thought that the Japanese army could beat the entire army with one brigade, despite all kinds of misgivings, Li Youting still carried out Wu Xiaoliang's order to the letter, and the two independent brigades really did not encounter the Japanese army's blockade, and almost broke through to the suburbs of Luoyang on the day of the attack.
The sudden attack on Luoyang made the warlords of various factions dare not attend the meeting in the cities along the Yellow River, and the two commanders of the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, took the opportunity to propose that it would be better to choose the site in Xi'an.
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