Chapter 14: Advanced (30)

Beginning yesterday, the Japanese army sent a large number of small reconnaissance planes to search the southern foothills of the Dabie Mountains in the northern part of Taihu Lake, presumably in an attempt to find the crash site of the Tsukada attack. At noon today, about 20 sorties of light critique planes flew over Taihu Lake and indiscriminately bombed some military buildings in Taihu Lake, and some large landlords' estates were not spared.

The office of the director of the military academy is very relaxed, and some people think that this is the Japanese army venting, after all, a general has died, and it is unreasonable not to say anything. Wu Zhongjian believes that if it is to vent, it will not be so simple, and with the strength of the Japanese army in the Yangtze River area, it will not stop if it is not bombed for three days or two days. A military academy instructor disapprovingly thought that no matter how many Japanese troops there were, they couldn't fill the ravines and ravines of Dabie Mountain. It is not without jokes that if you clean up the * skin, you can also recreate a few kitchen knives. The crowd laughed, and it was.

Mo Di sat on the side with his head down, holding the newspaper in his hand, silent. Liu Qinglong's telegram went around in everyone's hands and returned to Mo Di's hands. Ignoring the other people's high-minded discussions, Mo Di looked at Liu Qinglong's telegram over and over again, hoping to see something more on it, but as a result, he was very disappointed that there were no flaws.

"What do you think?" Seeing Mo Di's abnormality, Yang Bin asked.

"Oh, sir." Mo Di, who was awakened, raised his head, smiled at Yang Bin embarrassedly, and said: "From Anqing's Dalongshan Airport to Taihu Lake, the distance is very close, and it is quite convenient for the Japanese army to bomb, but if it is only a light crit fighter instead of a large Jiuqi heavy bomber and an Italian BR20 heavy bomber, it means that the Japanese army has further plans." ”

Hearing Mo Enemy talk about the 97 heavy bomber and the Italian BR20 heavy bomber, everyone invariably remembered the bombing over Chongqing, the Japanese army basically concentrated all the large bombers in Chongqing, and most of the bombing in other places used the old 92 bomber or Mitsubishi critter, in the past six months, from time to time to the skies over Guilin to bomb a round, most of them are 93 Kawasaki single-engine bombers, slow speed, small capacity bombs, average endurance. In Taihu, it is estimated that it is not that there is no desire to use heavy bombardment, but that there are no idle aircraft.

"The bombardment of the Wuhan airfield from Chongqing on the return of the bombing mission has enough time to wander around the Taihu Lake, and as long as the Japanese are willing, it is not difficult to bombard the Taihu Lake." Yang Bin said. Yang Bin is the executive deputy director and acting director, and he naturally speaks with strength. Seeing that the instructors were no longer coaxing, he asked Mo Di again: "Tianzong, looking at your appearance, you are still waiting for news, will there be any accidents?" ”

"I'm waiting for the news from the military department about the movement of the Japanese army, if nothing else, the Japanese army in the Huangmei area of Jiujiang will have abnormal movements, and the Japanese army in Anqing will not be idle, and there may even be troop carriers on the Yangtze River." Mo Di said.

"The implication of Mo Di's classmates is that the Japanese army will carry out an armed strike on the ground in the Taihu Lake area?" An instructor asked.

Mo Enemy nodded and said, "The plane was shot down on Friday, and Isamu Yokoyama took the position on Saturday, so it should be adjusted on Sunday and start the operation today." If nothing else, the bombing of the planes will continue for three days, after which the ground offensive will begin. ”

The instructors all looked at Mo Di with a suspicious eye, and you are not Shunroku Hata, Nanjing, who dares to be so precise in the plan.

In the face of the instructor's questioning, Mo Di looked helpless, the other party is the instructor, his own is the student, in the face of the instructor's questioning, you must explain one by one, otherwise you will be judged to fail. So, I picked up a pencil and a ruler, and started a map assignment on the map on the desktop, the distance, the time estimate, the offensive line, the time estimate, and finally drew a circle at the Xunyanglou Wharf in Jiujiang and the Huayang Town Wharf in Wangjiang, and said: "The Japanese army gave up the point of Wangjiang last time in order to concentrate its forces to defend Anqing, and this time it will definitely occupy here. If nothing else, the attack should be more than this point, after all, the 119th Brigade of the 116th Division of Anqing is not subordinate to the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, although they share the same hatred of the enemy, after all, they are separated by one layer, so the main attacker should be the 68th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Jiujiang and crossing the river from Huangmei. ”

There was a sudden silence in the office of the director of the military academy, and everyone did not speak again, Mo Di said, the amount of information was too large, and the instructors who were used to reading from the book were a little unable to come back to their senses. Everyone was nervously smoking cigarettes, and the thick smoke filled the office. Mo Di was so smoky that he pushed open the door and walked outside the office, the cold north wind blew the strange rocks of the peaks and rocks of Qifeng Town, making gusts of wind roaring, and the gloomy sky was difficult to see. I put up the collar of the tweed coat and blocked the blowing of the north wind. Mo Di was walking in the corridor, and after a while, he saw a confidential staff officer running over, holding a folder in his hand. Seeing Mo Di standing at the door, the confidential staff officer approached, opened the folder, took out a telegram draft, handed it to Mo Di, and said: "Mo Di, you can read it first, you have to read it in the morning and evening." ”

Mo Di said thank you and took the telegram with a smile. Quite simply, it was the power of the military headquarters, and sure enough, the Japanese army in Jiujiang had crossed the Yangtze River and entered Huangmei. The work of the military commander was done well, and the unit of the Japanese army crossing the river was the 58th Brigade of the 68th Division, about one infantry wing, and the number was unknown, and the military commander called it the Sekine Wing. Mo was not familiar with the 68th Division, let alone its composition, and it was estimated that the wing commander of this wing was surnamed Sekine, so the military commander called it Sekine. As for the composition of the wings, the military reunification is accustomed to not caring about it, and in the eyes of the military commanders, the Japanese wings are the same, whether they are the wings of the 6th Division or the 116th Division. In fact, the wings of the Japanese army were very different, and the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and ninth divisions of the main force had more than 4,000 men under their command, and there were infantry artillery squadrons, rapid-fire artillery squadrons, curved artillery squadrons, and cavalry squadrons. As for the 116th Division, a regiment of Tuntian troops, a wing will not exceed 3,000 people, and a squadron of curved artillery or infantry artillery is already very good. As for the 68th Division, Mo Di only knew that this was an expanded division formed by the 14th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, and he had never dealt with it, and he was very unfamiliar with all aspects. However, one thing is certain: Today, when many divisions and regiments have abolished the brigade system and implemented the three-wing team system, the 68th Division is not bad if it is able to maintain the two-brigade and regimental structure. Although a Sekine Wing will not exceed 4,000 people, at least it will not be less than 3,000 people, and with these 3,000 people, it is enough for Li Benyi's 138th Division to eat a pot.

Yang Bin read the telegram and asked, how many days does it take to march from Jiujiang to Taihu Lake, and an instructor measured it on the map with a ruler and said, "Three days, right?" After finishing speaking, I thought of what Mo Di said before that the bombing would last for three days, and I was stunned.

Throughout the afternoon, no news came, Mo Di and Wu Zhongjian Wu Tingjun returned to the cadet team led by them to discuss and deduce the battle situation in Taihu Lake. In the last Zhejiang-Jiangxi war, the team led by Mo Enemy, tactical deduction and battle prediction achieved the first good result in the whole team, and this time the new situation in Dabie Mountain gave the young students infinite impulse and reverie. Yang Bin was not idle, and after sending all the people away, he organized the results of the discussion into words and telegraphed them to the Ministry of Education of the Central Military Commission. The attack on Taihu Lake by the Sekine Wing of the 68th Division of the Japanese Army and the Aoki Wing of the 116th Division was not only not the end of this series of military operations, but the beginning of the operations.

On the morning of the next day, news came that the Japanese fleet docked at the Huayang Wharf on the Wangjiang River, and the 130th Wing of the 119th Brigade of the 116th Division from Anqing landed on the surface of the Wangjiang River and immediately marched towards Taihu Lake.

"Kazuo Aoki, this old rival again." Mo Di smiled: "This guy has courage and no strategy, but I'm afraid that he will suffer a big loss in the hands of Shi Chong." ”

"You've dealt with him?" Wu Tingjun asked.

Mo Di nodded, the Battle of Meicheng, his opponent was the Japanese army Dazuo, this is the representative of the middle-level officers of the Japanese army, more than enterprising, lack of strategy, was dizzy by himself in the Anhui water diving area, came victorious, and returned in defeat. In the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign, the 130th Wing was responsible for the defense of Anqing, and did not follow Major General Harada to Quzhou, but went to the 131st Shima Wing.

The wing structure of the 119 Brigade in Anqing is very clear to the enemy, three infantry brigades, each with three squadrons (one squadron less than the regular brigade), according to the establishment of a squadron of 180 people, plus the brigade headquarters, three infantry brigades of 2,000 people. Plus the wing headquarters, as well as the squadron of infantry artillery directly under it, four 70 infantry guns. In addition, there is a 600-strong support unit, for a total of about 2,800 people. The Aoki United, which did not have heavy artillery, went deep alone, and it was Liu Qinglong, Liang Yisheng and Shi Zhong who greeted him, and Mo Dou believed that even if he couldn't win easily, he would win by a big score.

As for the Guangen United, which entered Dabie Mountain from Huangmei, it first faced He Shusheng's 412th Regiment, and then Luo Weiye's supplementary regiment in Yuexi.

Deputy Director Yang Bin asked what Wu Zhongjian meant, and Wu Zhongjian reluctantly told Deputy Director Yang that if Mo Di was placed in Li Benyi's position, it was estimated that the two Japanese troops would shed their skin if they did not die, but Mo Di was in Guilin, and Li Benyi was in Taihu Lake, which determined that the battle would not be carried out according to Mo Di's ideas. Yang Bin asked how it would run, and Wu Zhongjian said with a smile, according to the idea of Commander Li of the 21st Group Army of Lihuang.

Mo Di laughed, but his heart was bitter, he didn't know that Li Benyi was a killer, and he was a sharp blade. However, as a sharp blade, there needs to be a blade holder, otherwise, no matter how sharp the blade is, it will not jump up and hurt people on its own. This Wu Zhongjian is a clear-eyed person!