Chapter 1580: The Bitter Stilwell

Seeing Chu Tian's telegram, Tang Qiuli couldn't help but laugh, thinking about it, the captain of a special operations detachment of an independent division, but he was aggrieved to serve as a guard for a Japanese officer, and he was not pushing the boat down the river with a reconnaissance mission, but was forced to go, thinking of Chu Tian having to grit his teeth, that kind of helpless look, Tang Qiuli wanted to be happy!

Tang Qiuli saw the telegram, but Tang Qiusheng and Zhao Yuhe didn't see it, as soon as they heard the words of the teacher, their faces changed greatly, and Tang Qiusheng hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" Chu Tian had an accident? Discovered by the Japanese army? ”

Tang Qiuli stopped laughing, handed the telegram to Tang Qiusheng, and said: "It's not so strict, it's that on the way back, I met a field patrol group from the General Staff of the Japanese Fourteenth Army, and was ordered to temporarily act as a guard unit, and the place I went to was in the Calais Mountains, where the Japanese and American troops were fighting fiercely. ”

After Tang Qiuli explained to Zhao Yuhe, Tang Qiusheng also finished reading the telegram, but he was not in a happy mood, and said with a somewhat solemn face: "Division commander, the Chutian team cannot evacuate according to the original plan, which will add a lot of accidents, and besides, unlike the previous reconnaissance mission, the special operations team acted alone, and now, it is circling in the nest of the Japanese army." ”

"I don't need to say the dangers and risk factors, everyone understands them, so my opinion is to order the Chutian team to get rid of the current situation and withdraw from Luzon as much as possible, even exposing their identities! As long as you can get out safely, it's worth it! ”

Zhao Yuhe didn't speak, he intuitively realized that after reading the telegram, the division commander didn't mean to be nervous, and it seemed that he was not worried about the current situation of Chutian's group at all, but had a kind of, how to say, it should be the idea of watching a good show.

Tang Qiuli said with a smile: "Brother Qiusheng, there is no need to be nervous, with the ability of Chutian and his group, there is no problem at all in maneuvering among the Japanese, not to mention, he is a bodyguard for Qin Cha this time, his identity is naturally different, ordinary Japanese officers, dare not look for trouble, Director Chen, call Chutian back, go with the flow, act at the opportunity, wait for the opportunity to evacuate, safety first!" ”

After Chen Feng left, Tang Qiuli said to Tang Qiusheng and Zhao Yuhe: "But in this way, our plan against the Japanese army in Hong Kong will be postponed, this is an unexpected situation, fortunately, the operation in Hong Kong is just in the preparation stage, Chutian postponed the evacuation, so as not to affect the overall situation, Yuhe, order the troops of the Guangzhou garrison area to temporarily stop the movement, and wait for the arrival of the special operations detachment to make the next deployment!" ”

The newspaper operator handed the division commander's reply to Chu Tian, Chu Tian quickly browsed it, and the little dog Shaozuo on the side came up, wanting to see the content of the call, but before he got to Chu Tian, he saw Chu Tian's face first flushed, and then his face was full of black lines, gritting his teeth, tearing the telegram to shreds, and then, panting heavily, he looked wronged and unable to defend his grievances.

This is very much in line with Chu Tian's current identity, a junior commander at the grassroots level, and the squadron leader of the search force who is known for his fierceness and bloodthirstiness, and expect him to be as elegant as the senior officers of the imperial army.

The little dog smiled a little gloatingly, he could even imagine the content of the reply call, Captain Fujino's boss Captain Co-Captain, must have scolded him for a bloody squirt, his subordinates were inexplicably requisitioned by other officers, and he was not good at finding other theories, and his anger could only be vented on Captain Fujino's body.

But this has nothing to do with himself, it's good to have a guard force, Nishibashi Dazuo, without a guard unit, rushed to the front line, along the way, you can put the little dog Shaozuo who is responsible for the safety of the convoy, worried to death, His Excellency Dazuo has the spirit of bushido, you can not take your life seriously, but it can affect more than a dozen other people, then it shouldn't be, now, in your hands, there are finally more than 50 fierce soldiers, you should be able to sleep well!

Xiqiao Dazuo and Little Dog Shaozuo, seeing Chu Tian's dark face, shouted and scolded his subordinates: "Baga! You fools, don't get on board yet! Second Lieutenant Inoue, you lead the first squad and go to the car behind, and the rest of the people, follow me to the first car, Hayakhu! ”

Nishibashi Osa shook his head a little funny, but when he saw the movements of the special combat team members waiting for the car, they were clean and neat, without dragging mud and water, their eyes lit up, and they secretly pondered in their hearts: "This Captain Fujino's subordinates are all well-trained soldiers, veterans who have rolled over on the battlefield, and, as far as individual soldiers are concerned, I am afraid that they are not much worse than the personal guards of His Excellency the Commander, if they find a way to transfer to the General Staff Department and act as a guard unit, the Chief of Staff, General Hashimoto Ichiro, will definitely be very satisfied, and it will be very good for himself!" ”

Chu Tian, who was already sitting in the cab of the truck at the front, didn't know that this devil Dazuo was thinking about this kind of ghost idea in his heart, otherwise, Chu Tian would have the urge to immediately solve all these devil officers.

Chu Tian whispered to the team members driving the truck: "Pay attention to the terrain, ensure the safety of our own people, and drive!" "Two trucks one after the other, more than a dozen cars in the middle, the convoy rolled up the dust, and galloped towards the mountains of Calais, who would have thought that this was a group of the special operations detachment of the independent division, and a dozen Japanese officers, a temporary combination of the convoy?

The Japanese troops invested were more than 10,000 troops of the 103rd and 104th Divisions, while the US troops in the Calais Mountains were more than 80,000 men from four divisions plus a brigade, more than twice as many as the Japanese army, and more than several times the firepower of the Japanese army.

Despite this, the American army fought very hard, and the commander of the Calais Campaign Cluster, the former chief of staff of the headquarters, General Stilwell, did not even have the ability to organize a large-scale counterattack.

It is not a question of strength or equipment, but a problem of the morale of the US soldiers; aside from the Seventh Infantry Division, which has been half-crippled, even the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division, the 5th Infantry Division, the 8th Infantry Division, and the 1st Independent Garrison Brigade of Manila, which were transferred later, were also afraid of the Japanese army like tigers, and as soon as they heard that they were going to take the initiative to attack, several division commanders and brigade commanders were as pale as dirt at that time.

Originally, Stilwell wanted to use the new troops to carry out a fierce counterattack against the 103rd and 104th divisions of the Japanese army in the two directions of Batangas and Legazpi in the Calais mountains, and then push the Japanese army back 40 to 50 kilometers.

If the outcome of the battle was as he expected, Stilwell was very confident that he would rely on the more than 80,000 troops under his command to block hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in the Calais Mountains for more than a month.

However, it backfired, not only did the commanders of several divisions and brigades under his command try their best to oppose the operational plan of taking the initiative to attack, and the plan was rejected by MacArthur without hesitation, but he also sent his acting chief of staff, Colonel Kleist, to make a special trip to the headquarters of the campaign cluster in the mountains of Calais, and brought a few words, "It is best to preserve strength and be safe, and this commander does not want to see such a risky battle plan again!" ”

In this regard, Stilwell was speechless, he did not understand and did not understand, MacArthur was also an experienced commander, participated in the First World War, how could he not see the situation in front of him, as long as the two divisions of the Japanese army in the mountains of Calais were repelled or defeated, in order to ensure that there was enough time to calmly deploy the plan for the defense of Manila.

The night is as deep as water, and the battlefield in the Calais Mountains at night is no longer as noisy as a volcanic eruption during the day, only the sporadic sound of shell explosions, which are heard from far and near, and in the Calais Mountains, in Stilwell's campaign cluster headquarters, several snow-bright gas lamps illuminate the headquarters as bright as day, the incessant "ticking" sound of the radio, and the hurried and messy footsteps of the staff officers entering and exiting all add to the tense battlefield atmosphere.

In less than a few days, Stilwell lost a lot of weight, and the beard on his chin was strong and luxuriant, almost covering half of his face, and his bluish and dull face because of the lack of enough sleep showed that the American general who blocked the Japanese bullets for MacArthur was under great pressure, both in the external situation and mentally!

Whether it is a crippled Seventh Infantry Division against two divisions of Japanese troops, or now with four divisions and a brigade of 80,000 people, he has been fighting hard, in other words, the Japanese army has been attacking, and his own troops have always been passively defending.

"Under a long war, there is no place to defend!" Blindly defending, can only put the initiative and rhythm of the battlefield in the hands of the Japanese, is it me Stilwell who likes to take risks, or you MacArthur don't know, Stilwell felt that there was a fire in his heart, burning so that his internal organs were almost ripe, and the suffocating atmosphere in the command headquarters was even more depressing, and Stilwell simply walked out.

On a June night in the mountains of Calais, there was not the slightest coolness, and in the air, with a damp and viscous vapor, Stilwell lit a thick cigar, his pale blue eyes, through the inky night, looking south, tracer cannonballs dragging their long tails, piercing the dark night sky, and plunging headlong into the earth, and then, visible to the naked eye, a ball of fire, a dull explosion, with the night wind.

The Calais hills at night are not quiet, just behind the low and rolling hills, there are hundreds of thousands of wolf-like Japanese soldiers, this is what Stilwell does not understand, why the Japanese army did not concentrate all its forces and storm the defense line of the Calais mountains, if this is the case, Stilwell himself, does not think, can stop the Japanese army for long.

Stilwell vaguely grasped a glimmer of light, and was about to think deeply, when the communications staff officer ran over, "Report to Your Excellency Commander, I have received an urgent telegram from the Fifth Infantry Division!" ”

(To be continued)

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