Chapter 458 Lifeline
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The battle in Jiangyin was fought by the Japanese army without even sending a message, and in less than two hours, it was completely over. And the large army, which was not even used for an hour, was routed and quickly cut by the advance army like a wave.
"Move fast! Build a line of defense! ”
Liu Haisong looked at the flashing 105 howitzers on the artillery position, and quickly ordered to clean up the battlefield and defend Danyang.
Sun Tao learned that the battle was controlled in twenty minutes, and the main battle would be over in an hour, so he sent a telegram to Lao Zhao to prepare for the fierce battle.
At the same time, to send electricity to Dong Ku, the enemy of Nanjing has completed the cutting, if they want to leave, the only way to retreat is Yangzhou, and then go north.
Dong Ku looked at the map and reconfirmed the previous strategic plan, knowing that it was time to determine the structure of the troops. Then he ordered: "Inform Yu Lei of Wuhu to assist Gu Zhutong to conquer Nanjing, and let Gu Zhutong coerce Yangzhou with an army on the north bank of the river!" ”
"Appoint Liu Rongcheng as the chief of logistics affairs, in charge of all logistics work of the advance army, and responsible for the construction of a temporary city management administrative body!"
"Appoint Sun Tao's troops as the First Group Army of the Advance Army, and Sun Tao as the commander-in-chief!"
"Goudan (Li Bao) is appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Second Army, and the troops are based on all the current Mongolian troops, including Xing Yuan's First Army."
"Appoint Junzi (Park Jingquan) as the commander-in-chief of the Third Army, commanding all troops in Heilongjiang!"
"Appoint Liu Zhong as the commander-in-chief of the Huya Special Brigade and the commander-in-chief of the Air Force of the Advance Army! Appointed Huzi (Zhang Hu) as the commander-in-chief of the Flying Tigers! ”
"Appoint Liu Hai as the commander-in-chief of Heilongjiang defense, command the air defense and urban defense forces in Heilongjiang, and be responsible for all the defense of Harbin, Qiqihar and other cities!!"
"Appointment of Mengzi (Zhao Meng) as Commander-in-Chief of the First Combined Fleet of the Advance Navy......"
With the issuance of one appointment after another, the command of the various departments of the advance army was no longer chaotic, and all the strength was in the hands of the first person to follow Dong Ku.
He couldn't wait any longer.
The big counteroffensive that is about to begin. He needs all departments to be able to coordinate and unify command, so as to avoid the centralization of command and chaos. These people are the ones he trusts the most, and they are also hard work, and their abilities are there, and no one will have ideas. For example, Xing Yuan.
He was busy on his side, and the Japanese army also began to deploy troops. The recapture of Jiangyin cut off the lifeline of land and waterways, which surprised Nishio Shouzao.
He paced back and forth in the headquarters, and after confirming that Jiangyin could not be contacted, he gave a loud order: "Order the four divisions of Danyang to attack Changzhou and Jiangyin, and order the two divisions of the Wuxi army to attack Changzhou, open the supply line of Nanjing, and stabilize this lifeline at any cost!" ”
With his command. The troops of Danyang and Wuxi made a big move, and they divided their troops in many ways, and went straight to Changzhou and Jiangyin. Changzhou, in particular, is caught between two sides.
After Dong Ku finished issuing the appointment, he called Guo Weiquan.
Guo Weiquan didn't know what he was doing now, he was a little apprehensive in his heart, and in the past two days, he felt a little prosperous. Life borders on luxury.
After Guo Weiquan saluted, Dong Ku pointed to the sofa and said, "Sit." ”
"Sir Xie."
Guo Wei sat down in a proper manner.
Dong Ku looked at Guo Weiquan, neither humble nor arrogant. With a calm and comfortable expression, he smiled and said: "Guo Weiquan, you have just joined the advance army, and you don't have enough combat merits, so you don't have a high rank for the time being." But this does not mean that your merits are wiped out, I will give you ten days, equip you with 200 well-trained female soldiers, 500 Huya members, I need you to form a special force that far surpasses the level of the world. ”
"Sir......
Guo Wei knew that this would be the result. But he really didn't know the bottom of his heart.
Dong Ku picked up the brown paper file bag on the coffee table in front of him and handed it to him and said, "Make a plan for the structure, responsibilities, training, selection, etc., and your sixteen henchmen will also be tested, and it will start in ten days." Including you, you will also have to undergo devil training, which is the training syllabus, and the instructors of the training will have Huya elites to complete. ”
"Yes!"
Guo Weiquan took the paper bag and received the order loudly, without hesitation.
He didn't know what to do, but this bag contained all the training materials for future agents. These are not the same thing as what Dong Ku taught Du Fei to them in the dark hall, those are just some foundations that are suitable for the present, and at the same time, Dong Ku is also because the dark hall is someone else's child, for the time being, he can't give all the hole cards to the dark hall.
If he wants to use the dark hall, he must have an underground force of his own, which can restrain the power of the dark hall, otherwise, it is difficult to say whether there will be problems in an organization led by the rules of the rivers and lakes, and he has to guard against it.
After Guo Weiquan took the cowhide bag, Dong Ku took out a few folded pieces of paper from his pocket and handed them to Guo Weiquan.
"Memorize this for a short time, and then burn it."
"Yes!"
Guo Weiquan didn't open it. But he knew that the things in this were definitely not simple.
This is Dong Ku's camouflage technique for Guo Weiquan, and it is also what he will rely on to hide his identity in the future, so as to avoid showing his head and being assassinated again.
These, except for the guards and the guards company, Liu Zhong and others, plus Shui Linglong, no one else knows, what Huya knows is just simple makeup, not camouflage.
Dong Kuzhi said that before Shanghai won this time, Guo Weiquan had no task for the time being except for forming a team and training and selecting personnel. As for the Underworld and Shadow Slash, he still needs to wait for Guo Weiquan to finish selecting the core before teaching it. Assassination and stealing information are their tasks in the future.
Lao Jiang got a large number of weapons and equipment at this time, and Gu Zhutong was transformed there, and he was already the elite under his hands in terms of equipment.
After receiving Gu Zhutong's report, he closed his eyes and pondered in the temporary residence, considering the relationship with the advance army.
For the time being, he believed that he had never had a bad relationship with the advance army, including the current transportation and supply lines from Liangguang, and the officials along the route had strictly ordered him not to slack off, and that he could not consider dissociating himself from the advance army for the time being under the condition that he was constantly receiving financial support from the advance army. He knew that the advance army only took away some antiques, calligraphy and paintings from Gu Zhutong, and even the ocean gold was not touched, and it seemed that the other party had no idea, and the taste of friendliness was very strong. At least not for now.
After half an hour of thinking, he gave an order to the commanders of all departments to maintain coordination with the advance army, and the trophies on the battlefield should be cleaned mainly by the advance army, and no looting should be carried out.
He believed that the advance army would be able to give a large number of weapons. Then, if there is more, it will be given to him. As for those calligraphy and painting gadgets, he only thought that Dong Ku of the advance army had a habit of collecting these, and the playthings were just discouraged, and he should not spend money.
Other parties were also paying attention to the war situation, Britain and the United States and other powers did not know that the Japanese fleet had disappeared, they were also watching, anyway, a large number of supplies were sold to Japan. They earn what they get.
At this time, Lao Xi began to swell, and his tanks there had already begun to be installed, at most a year, including airplanes, and his troops could complete the level of full rearmament. After a flood of resources from that Swiss company poured into his hands, his ambitions began to take shape.
He needs opportunities, he doesn't need excuses, he wants to make those countries that suppressed Germany regret it!
In the midst of these secret surrounds. A battle that decided the outcome of the Chinese war was quietly going on.
In order to open this lifeline, Danyang's troops dispatched four divisions. At a distance of several tens of kilometers, in the afternoon, it had already entered the reconnaissance range of the blocking front.
After Lao Zhao received a report that the enemy was less than ten kilometers away from the position, he passed on the information to Sun Tao.
As the commander-in-chief, Sun Tao also already knew the enemy's movements. He was here, and the Japanese army in Wuxi was only three kilometers away from them. They are lining up along the way, preparing for a big attack.
He directly picked up the phone with Lao Zhao and said with a smile: "Boss, the pressure on you is not small, can we cut off the lifeline of the Japanese army." Blocking the enemy in Nanjing depends on this battle! ”
"Ha Lu Ha! With so many machine guns and artillery, I can't stop the Japanese army anymore, isn't that dough? ”
Lao Zhao said confidently.
Sun Tao smiled and said solemnly: "Boss, you must resist there, there are two divisions here in Wuhu, attacking Changzhou on both sides, I can't spare the strength to reinforce you here, Jiangyin also has two divisions attacking, it is estimated that after suffering a heavy blow there, you will focus on the long defense line, so the pressure on you there must be not small." ”
Lao Zhao also put away his relaxation and said calmly: "Attacking fortifications, my troops don't have enough experience, defense, it's not a problem, I have four divisions and two reinforced brigades here, weapons and ammunition are sufficient, the commander-in-chief can rest assured!" ”
"Good! I'm here to concentrate on cleaning up Wuxi, and I can pull out the strength behind the enemy! ”
Sun Tao said proudly.
Fighting, getting closer and closer in a tense atmosphere. Sun Tao's heavy artillery is on its way, building bridges and paving roads all the way, and will arrive in Changzhou tomorrow morning at most. And these artillery pieces are the weapons to support Lao Zhao!
The Japanese troops in Wuxi were only less than 30 kilometers away from the position intercepted in Changzhou, and their speed was slightly faster than that of Danyang, and less than 20 minutes after the end of the call between Lao Zhao and Sun Tao, they had already set up a posture and were ready for an attack.
The 32nd Division of the Japanese Army was a reinforcement of Central China, which was supposed to be formed in 39, but appeared three years ahead of schedule. The commander of the division is still Lieutenant General Hyotaro Kimura, and the 33rd Division also appeared on the battlefield in China in advance, and even the first division commander Shigetaro has not changed.
Their two divisions, one on the left and one on the right, were less than two kilometers away from the blocking position of the advance army, and they had already deployed their formations and artillery to set up in the rear, ready to attack.
Sun Tao had already received information on the deployment of all Japanese troops from the sleeper scouts. The Japanese army, several scouts, and scouts have been quietly killed, and they still don't know all the situation in the position opposite the road.
Sun Tao, in order to attract the Japanese army, deliberately exposed the blocking position on a hill, in fact, there was only one company of soldiers on it, and those light and heavy machine guns also jumped out with problems, and they were placed there to wait for the Japanese artillery to bombard.
And the mountain has been seen by Kimura Hyotaro.
"Order the 1st and 2nd Artillery positions to bombard the hills ahead, and the 3rd Artillery positions to bombard the hills on both flanks!"
Kimura Hyotaro did not rush to attack, and calmly ordered.
With his order, the seventy-five artillery guns from a kilometer away in the rear roared.
The shells whistled and flew towards the hilltop position.
"Shelling! Enter the cat's ear piercing!! ”
In the shouting on the position, the figure quickly threw down the ragged clothes, threw down the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, and got into the trenches to hide from the shelling, and into the cat's ear hole.
They had just burrowed into the cat's ear hole, and the fire was blazing in the field with a loud noise.
As the flames rose, the gravel and dirt were splashed more than ten meters high by the shock wave, and the smoke and dust covered the mountain.
In the binoculars, Kimura Hyotaro saw corpses blown up and torn apart, and it was clear that the enemy's position was not properly constructed.
In the cat's ear hole, the warriors covered their ears in twos and threes, squatted inside, and let the top of their heads be blown upside down, motionless.
Beside it, on the two slightly lower mountain beams, there were also clusters of fire, and in the loud roar, the trees of the entire mountain beams were uprooted, and the soil was turned out dozens of centimeters in just a few minutes, revealing the rocks underneath.
Listening to the loud noise on the top of the mountain behind him, the advance soldiers lying in the grass realized that Wei Lu was not building a position on the top of the mountain, but at the foot of the mountain.
As soon as the shelling began, Sun Tao sent a telegram to Dong Ku, reported the situation here, and told the troops in Wuxi that they had been transferred and received fire, and that the forces of the two divisions were making a detour and completing the encirclement of the enemy in an hour.
After reading the telegram, Dong Ku did not hesitate to give an order, let Liu Zhong's army move, leave a small number of garrisons, and all go to Shanghai, interspersed with Suzhou, capture Wuxi, and encircle Shanghai.
At this time, Liu Zhong's troops also had a strength of 100,000 troops, in addition to the two divisions of Lao Zhao, which were reinforced, although most of them were new recruits, but it was enough to start a big battle with the Japanese army! After receiving the order, the men and horses were divided into two teams, one team went straight to Taihu Lake, sticking to the edge of Taihu Lake, interspersed with Suzhou to attack Wuxi, and one team surrounded Suzhou, blocked Shanghai's reinforcements, and defeated Suzhou, completely isolating Shanghai.
In the headquarters of the Shanghai garrison army, Nishio Shouzo did not know that he was about to become an isolated island, and here, he would be surrounded, and he had no reinforcements, no support from warships and aircraft, and he was alone to bear the attack of the advance army.
After Dong Ku gave the order, he directly found Ma Rulong and handed him a battle plan.
At this time, it doesn't matter if the news has leaked or not, the troops have been deployed, and the battle has begun, even if the Japanese army knows the strategic intentions of the road? If Lao Jiang moves in Xuzhou, then there will be no suspense in the battle situation, and if he takes Shanghai by himself, the Japanese army in Nanjing will not be able to run!
Soon, this battle plan was drawn into the hands of Lao Jiang, and Lao Jiang was overjoyed when he saw it. As long as his side does a good job of attacking, under the condition of concentrating firepower, he will not only be able to take back Nanjing, but also hope to completely annihilate the defending enemy. You must know that Lu Dao, he electrified the whole country and took Wuhu, and his popularity skyrocketed! If he recaptures Nanjing, his position will be unshakeable in the country, and those who are disobedient and have messy ideas will be honest in this battle. (To be continued......)