On the evening of the military meeting of the Theater Command, Han Lin hosted a banquet for Guan Linsheng in a prestigious restaurant in Tanzhou City, and with him came Zhang Yaoming, commander of the 52nd Army, and Liang Keyi, deputy commander of the 52nd Army, both of whom were the main generals of his 15th Group Army.

When Guan Linsheng was at his peak, he was a person who dared to argue with Chen Xuan and made Chen Xuan vomit blood, his strength was also a small branch of the Whampoa Department, Han Lin wanted to show his skills in the Ninth War Zone, so he naturally needed to seek Guan Linsheng's support.

"I heard that you carried out a reorganization in the intelligence department this morning, and removed three of the four chief and deputy chiefs of the reconnaissance section and the intelligence section at once, and rearranged and started anew, and this incident also caused a shock among some people in the headquarters."

"Of course, for you now, with the support of the old chief, Chen Wei and Xue Boling, this discussion is like a chaotic wind, and it will have no effect." Guan Linsheng said with a smile.

"The internal affairs of the intelligence department have only reached your ears in half a day, and such an intelligence department, what kind of intelligence work is still talking about, it is just a broken sieve leaking everywhere!"

"I also know that the intelligence department of the field army is mixed with many related households, and it doesn't matter in peacetime, and I don't want to come out to be this villain, but now is an important juncture of life and death, and if we don't rectify it, there will be big problems."

"Commander Guan, when this campaign is over, I plan to concentrate all the troops at all levels of the group army, army, division, and brigade, as well as all the personnel involved in intelligence work, to conduct a quick training, and send professional agents to be instructors to teach them how to conduct intelligence and comprehensively sort out this matter, and I also hope to get your support in this matter." Han Lin said.

He was not too surprised that Guan Linsheng could know the news so quickly, the current intelligence department does not even have the least sense of secrecy, and it must be returned to the furnace and re-smelted.

"I think this is a good thing, intelligence can sometimes determine the outcome of a war, and it has a decisive role in commanding operations, and I am also very troubled by the performance of the intelligence department, of course I support your work."

"Think about it carefully, it's really only you who can do this, those spies of the Military Command Bureau are disliked by everyone in the field army, their reputation is infamous, and they don't provide any high-value information, Dai Li wants to do it, and the only ones who cooperate with him may be Hu Brownan and Tang Anbo."

"For example, in this large-scale operation, the news provided by the Military Command Bureau to the Military Commission is that only the 11th Army of the Japanese Army is organizing an attack on Tanzhou, and then it is gone! And you, given the accurate time, the troops participating in the battle, and the real-time dynamics, which provided a great help to the operations of the theater command. Guan Linsheng nodded and said.

Han Lin's ability in intelligence work has long been felt during the Beiping garrison, and Han Lin's ability to become the head of the international intelligence team of the second division of the commission's chamberlain also shows that he is a great expert in intelligence, young but outstanding.

On the second day of the military conference, the inspection department of the garrison headquarters carried out a large-scale arrest operation, eliminating the second Japanese spy stronghold in one fell swoop, arresting six Japanese spies, seizing code books and radio stations, and arresting 16 bribed traitors.

Subsequently, the Japanese 6th Division advanced to the north of the Xinqiang River and exchanged fire with the defense forces of the 52nd Army of the 15th Army stationed on the north bank, but the attack was not strong, and the performance of the Japanese army completely confirmed Han Lin's intelligence.

Two days later, the 106th Division of the Japanese Army, with the Saeda Detachment formed by Major General Yoshishige Saeda of the 102nd Infantry Brigade of the 101st Division, approached Gao'an. On the 19th, the 32nd Army, which was in charge of guarding, abandoned Gao'an, and the 106th Division left the Saeda detachment, and the main force prepared to advance westward, and on the 21st, Gao'an was recaptured by the 32nd Army.

Theater Command War Room.

At the moment, they were very busy, and the staff officers were constantly marking the situation of the enemy on the sand table and on the map according to the telegrams of the troops at all levels and the telephone numbers of the troops in northern Tanzhou.

Xue Boling and Wu Fusheng were also judging the direction of the Japanese attack according to the situation.

"Han Lin is here, what's the news?" Xue Boling asked with a smile.

No one in the war room did not admire Han Lin's ability, the entire battle plan of the Japanese Eleventh Army was basically found out by him, and the combat strategy he judged was also correct, first launching a fierce attack from northern Jiangxi in the east, and then the Sixth Division and the Nara detachment attacked the Xinqianghe defensive position.

"I received news from Baling, the Japanese army has not moved the Shangcun detachment, assembled at the wharf, ready to take the navy's ships along the Dongting Lake to launch a sneak attack, is expected to enter the battle area tomorrow morning, the possible landing site, one is Lujiao Harbor on the east bank of Dongting Lake, the other is along the river to the Miluo River, and then land in Yingtian to cut off the Guangdong-Han line, the 33rd Division set off from Tongcheng, and the direction of attack is Maishi." Han Lin said.

There were many battles between the Japanese army and the Yamashiro government army, and it was impossible for him to remember all of them with his professionally trained memory, but he did remember a lot of things in several large-scale battles.

In particular, the Japanese army attacked Tanzhou three times, and it has a very high status in the history of the Anti-Japanese War, for which he also specially consulted historical materials and remembered the two landing places of the Shangcun detachment very clearly.

"The Uemura detachment landed from the east of Dongting Lake, cut off the Guangdong-Han line, and went around to the back of the 15th Group Army, the 33rd Division attacked Maishi from Tongcheng, and cut off the east, the 6th Division and the Nara Detachment attacked head-on from the north, Okamura Ningji is going to encircle and annihilate the 15th Group Army, what a big appetite!" Xue Boling listened and looked at the map, and immediately made a judgment.

In the end, Han Lin couldn't help but secretly admire, he didn't remind him, he could analyze the intentions of the Japanese army by himself.

"Your news is very timely, and it almost caught the Japanese army off guard, the 70th Army guarding on the east bank of Dongting Lake, the 73rd Army along the Miluo River, I immediately sent a telegram to the army headquarters, asking them to pay close attention to the Japanese troops who landed, and look for fighters to annihilate this enemy. At the same time, the 52nd Army was telegraphed to gradually and orderly retreat to the south bank of the Miluo River to bypass the enemy's encirclement. Wu Fusheng said with a smile.

"A detachment will be divided into two parts, although it has also been strengthened, but we have the strength of two armies, plus the right time and place to occupy the right people, the possibility of being annihilated this time is very high, you just wait for me to ask for credit from the commission!" Xue Boling said with a smile.

Han Lin was very relieved, there was no such thing as encircling and annihilating the 15th Group Army in history, and this time he was able to inflict a heavy blow on the Shangcun detachment, which became his achievement in the first Battle of Tanzhou.

On the morning of 22 July, the first part of the Shangcun Detachment, which had landed on the eastern shore of Dongting Lake, fell into an ambush circle of the 70th Army as soon as it landed, resulting in heavy losses to two infantry squadrons and one baggage squadron.

The other part of the attack along the Miluo River, when it landed in Yingtian, was surrounded by the 77th Army, and if it were not for the support of naval ships, it would have been almost lost.

The detachment leader, Major General Kamimura Mikio, was wounded, and the Japanese barely rescued the man, but fortunately, he died on the returning ship without timely treatment.

When the news reached Baling, Okamura Ningji, who was in command, was suddenly furious, and the battle plan was leaked!

(End of chapter)