Chapter 12: The Aftermath of War (29)

"What? Special Bullet! Major General Naoyuki Kiyono, the commander of the 119th Brigade in Anqing, widened his eyes bigger than a copper bell.

"What? Burn down the barracks! Liu Zuoxin, commander of the Anqing Garrison Command and commander of the Sixth Division of the First Front Army of the Peaceful Founding Army, also gasped and was dumbfounded. Although there are only two planes at Dalongshan Airport, and the combat personnel can be basically ignored, there are a lot of ground crews, as many as five or six hundred people, and there is also an infantry brigade as a garrison, more than 1,000 people, and all the fires have been reimbursed, and only six people have survived.

Commander Liu Maizai, who was sitting below, nodded secretly, he was sure that this was the handiwork of the 176th Division's Field Supplement Regiment, and he had dealt with this Field Supplement Regiment more than once, and he knew them well. Fighting a war is the invincible style of the commander of the field supplement regiment, but there is actually a special ammunition unit hidden in this regiment, which is even more frightening.

Kazuo Aoki, the captain of the 109th Wing, was also very happy, he confronted the Chinese army in Meicheng before, and the Chinese army has not used special bombs, which seems to be very face-saving for him! It was not easy to escape from Meicheng and return to Anqing, and he impassionedly performed a farce of disembowelment in front of the brigade commander, and as a result, he not only saved his own life, but also kept the position of wing commander of the 109th Wing. In the past two months, 3,000 fishermen have been replenished from Hokkaido, and his 130 Wing can be regarded as a happy horse, no longer a cold fire. After a period of training, these fishermen learned not only to march in queues, but also to fire their guns. Kazuo Aoki knows that as a general of the defeated army, his current status in the 119 Brigade is not ordinarily low, and everyone disdains to interact with him, even if he is subordinate to the 109 Wing, he often does not take himself seriously, so he, like Liu Maizai, tries to keep a low profile as much as possible, and if he can not speak at the meeting, try not to be silent.

"The other side has news of special forces, immediately report to the military department and ask for tactical guidance." Major General Naoyuki Kiyono, who had recovered his composure, turned sideways and told the chief of staff beside him, and the chief of staff, Haiyi, stood up, he knew what the brigade commander meant, that is, he hoped that the headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army in Nanjing, and the commander-in-chief, His Excellency Lord Nishio Shouzo, would send a special force to Anqing for reinforcements.

There are two types of professional special forces of the Japanese army, one is the 731 water supply unit in the northeast, and the other is the Rongzi 1644 Jinling unit in Nanjing, the former is mainly to produce chemical gas bombs, and the latter is mainly to cultivate deadly bacteria on a large scale, no matter which one, the Japanese army is very rare. Not all divisions, regiments, brigades and regiments of the Japanese army's chemical gas units are equipped, and even if they are equipped, they are given priority to key units in front-line operations. In the Central China Theater, the 11 th Army is the focus of deployment, and as for the garrison of the 116th Division, it is impossible to equip special forces. Front-line combat units, even if they are equipped with poison gas bombs, are mostly equipped with incapacitating ones such as Red No. 1 and Green No. 1, and the real lethality is such as Yellow No. 1, Yellow No. 2, and second-class Qing No. 1 and Cha No. 1, and the special forces of key Japanese divisions and regiments may not be able to equip them. When it is necessary for operations, it is necessary to apply to the military headquarters or even the headquarters of the dispatch army at the division and regiment level before it can be approved for use.

After all, there is a tactical and strategic distinction between the use of poison gas, as early as the First World War, the two warring sides had already paid each other's tuition, and found that when used as a tactical attack, the poison gas with too much lethality could not play a good role, and some temporarily incapacitating poison gas appeared to be more useful. After all, the purpose of combat is not to simply annihilate the other side, but to occupy the other side and gain benefits. Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the strategic purpose of the Japanese army was to occupy China, so the use of poison gas was much more cautious, and even if it was used, the disabling was the first choice. Although they can deal with prisoners or civilians in enemy-occupied areas, they can have no scruples, but in the process of frontal combat between the two sides, from a strategic point of view, the use of poison gas is not only to achieve a lethal effect, but also to force the other side to submit psychologically.

And this time, the Chinese army actually used the Tea No. 1, which was very against the sky.

When the news reached the headquarters of the East China Front Army in Nanjing, Senior General Nishio Toshizo, commander-in-chief of the headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army, also shook his head involuntarily and said to Lieutenant General Tsukada, chief of staff, that it was really difficult for us to explain this matter to the media, so we could only knock out our teeth and swallow blood. Tea No. 1 is a thing that is only produced and manufactured by the empire, not to mention that China does not have it, even European and American countries do not have it, if we protest against the use of Tea No. 1 by the Chinese army in public opinion, we will only lift a stone and shoot ourselves in the foot. Tsukada also smiled and said, in the past two years, I haven't heard that the special forces have lost the Cha No. 1 bomb, and the most recent loss was during the Battle of Xubu, the 13th Division lost a batch in the Mingguang area, it can't be that the Chinese army got it, and it has been preserved until now. Nishio Shouzo shook his head and said, it's completely possible.

Tsukada asked for instructions on whether to send a special force to support Anqing, Nishio Shouzao smiled and said, "Send it, it's still mainly red bullets and green bullets, after all, this place is what we need to occupy, and it won't do us any good if it is corrupted." Tell Seiichiro Shinohara, it is necessary to open up the He'an line within this year and connect Anqing and Hefei into one. Tsukada was a little embarrassed and told Nishio Shouzo that after the commander of the 116th Division, Seiichiro Shinohara, took office, he formulated a plan for raising troops, that is, to try not to engage in too fierce conflicts with the local Chinese army in the area of Anqing and Hefei, and to raise the 116th Division to be strong and strong within a period of time, and to be promoted to a first-class division, as a strong army, and then put into Lianghu to join the frontal battle. The two brigades of the 116th Division, the 119th Brigade and the 130th Brigade in Hefei, between the two brigades, there is the 21st Group Army of the Chinese army. Nishio Shouzo waved the pencil in his hand, obviously disagreeing with Tsukada's opinion, saying, fighting in the two lakes is a battle, and fighting in Anqing is not a battle? There is anywhere to destroy the enemy as long as necessary. The Chinese army is entrenched in the Dabie Mountains in western Anhui, not because of the outside legend, because the imperial army has some agreement with the Chinese Gui army, but because the Dabie Mountains are high and the valleys are deep, and it is not easy to fight, and a large number of troops are invested in the mountainous areas, even if the battle is won, the results are very small. Therefore, the battle plan of the base camp is to find the main target first, and let Dabie Mountain go for the time being. This time, the Chinese army took the initiative to provoke the fighting, and we could not refrain from it. As for the combat strength, they are in contact with the Peaceful Founding Army, they have a large number of people, and Anhui is their defense area, so they should be the main attacker. Tell Shinohara, Seiichiro, in this place in Anhui, the lives of imperial soldiers are precious, and they can only serve as overseers, and they cannot be used as vanguards to increase consumption.

With a sentence above, a dead horse running below, the First Front Army of the Nanjing Peace Founding Army suddenly jumped up.

With the two divisions of the First Front Army as the main force, opening up the He'an line, Ren Yuandao feels exciting when he thinks about it. When I think about it carefully, I think it is unlikely, because the trooping arrangements of the forces of both the enemy and the enemy are obvious. If it was before the 29th of the Republic of China, the Japanese army and the Peaceful Founding Army still had a slight advantage in this place, but after the second half of last year, this advantage became very weak. Lu'an Chaohu took a new Fourth Army, came into a Seventh Army, the Seventh Army is known as the Steel Army, although in recent years this steel army is a bit of a fire, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, the Seventh Army of Steel is worse than the 48th Army of the Yellow Eel stationed here before. If the 116th Division of the Japanese Army is allowed to fight together with Shen Xiru's Fifth Division in Hefei and Liu Zuoxin's Sixth Division in Anqing, it may still have a little upper hand in this area, but at present, it seems that the attitude of the Japanese is very clear, they are only cooperating, supervising the battle, not the main attack, that is, they only take advantage of the work without work, so the difficulty of the battle can be imagined.

In order to win this battle, in order to hold the He'an Line in his hands, and in order to truly make Chaohu Lake his own inner lake, Wang Jingwei not only saw the military significance, but also saw the social significance, and almost frantically ordered Ren Yuandao to concentrate all the forces that could be concentrated to take all the areas north of the Yangtze River in Anhui except for the Dabie Mountains. In October last year, the first Anhui Provincial Government was established, and the provincial government personnel composed of nine people, including Ni Daohong, Ye Zhendong, Tao Sicheng, Deng Zanqing, Qian Weizong, Fu Junshi, Xu Zhongren, Zhang Gongchen, and Hu Zhining, can only be temporarily stationed in the Bengbu area.

In order to achieve the goal of victory, the first thing is to expand the establishment of the Fifth Division and the Sixth Division, and on the basis of the previous Second Brigade and Four Regiments, each division will increase three garrison regiments, and the Sixth Division of Liu Zuoxin in Anqing will add the Anqing Guandaoyi Garrison Regiment, the Huaining Gaohebu Garrison Regiment, and the Wangjiang Huayang Garrison Regiment. The three garrison regiments were responsible for the defense of the garrison, and the two brigades and four regiments of the standing brigade were responsible for foreign campaigns. The same is true of Shen Xiru's Fifth Division, in addition to the completion of the second brigade and the fourth regiment with serious shortages, the Hefei garrison regiment, the Shucheng garrison regiment and the Lujiang garrison regiment have also been added. Supplementary personnel entered the various departments from the Yangtze River and Chaohu respectively, and the special forces brigade reinforced by the Chinese army will also arrive in Anqing at the same time, and at the same time, the Dalongshan airport will be repaired, and a flying brigade will be dispatched from the Nanjing Daxiaochang airport to reinforce the He'an line battlefield at any time.

The news of this series of dazzling troop movements soon reached the Chongqing National Revolutionary Army Committee, and on the desk of the chairman, a thick file showed the enthusiasm of the staff below. The Japanese army has just suffered a big loss in southern Henan, what do they want to do this time? Chairman Jiang scratched his white hair, which was getting shorter and shorter, and he didn't quite understand. In southern Henan, in order to find and annihilate the Tang Enbo Group Army, the commander of the 11th Group Army, Kazuichiro Sonobe, personally commanded and dispatched the 3rd, 17th, and 40th divisions and a special forces unit to attack the Tang Group Army in two ways. After Zhang Xuezhong's 13th Army regained Wuyang, it approached Nanyang. The 17th Division and the 15th and 4th Divisions of the Japanese Army, which had withdrawn south from Wuyang, were severely attacked by Liu Ruming's 68th Army near Xianghe Pass, suffering heavy casualties and retreating southward. By February 11, the Japanese troops from all directions had withdrawn to the Xinyang area, returning to the starting point before the battle, the Battle of Southern Henan, which ended in a great victory for the Chinese side. The aggressors will not be willing to lose, they will definitely start another war, but this time where will it be, the Military Commission will not be able to find a target.