Anti-Japanese War: Starting from Yaobai

Chapter 1051: An old horse knows the way!
The sudden attack of the Japanese Second Army on the northern front not only caught Li Zhongren by surprise, but even Kitashirakawa was the same.

Kitashirakawa was very worried that the first war on the northern front would attract the Dragon Boat Festival.Moreover, the intelligence department reported later that it found signs of departure from the Independent Regiment and the [-] Regiment.But then for unknown reasons, the two regiments returned to normal.

Kitashirakawa scolded Terauchi, the commander of the North China Dispatch Army, as an idiot, and almost ruined his plan.

It's just that he didn't know that Shouichi Terauchi's Second Army had already made preparations for battle a few months ago.

As early as the beginning of the Battle of Songhu, the North China Front Army believed that the decisive battle between China and Japan would break out in Hebei.

For this reason, the North China Front Army has made sufficient preparations to quickly cut and annihilate the Chinese army, forcing China to surrender in one fell swoop.

But what no one expected was that the top strategic decision-makers of the national government moved the location of the decisive battle to Central China, allowing the Central China Front Army to pick up the opportunity for the decisive battle and capture the capital Nanjing.

Not only did the North China Front Army not even have the chance to assist, but it also had to deploy two and a half divisions to support the Central China Front Army in combat.

Originally, the North China Front Army wanted to perform on the battlefield, but unexpectedly, a standby order to fight against the Soviet Union left the North China Front Army with no room for display.

General Shou in the temple watched in vain that the Central China Front Army won the great victory and honor of capturing Nanjing, and because of this, he became more and more unable to restrain himself.

Therefore, Terauchi Shouichi asked the base camp to present the North China Front Army's plan to go deep into China.

In particular, the 2nd Army under the command of Hisao Nishio was even more dissatisfied, because the North China Front Army believed that the focus of the decisive battle with the Chinese army should be along the Ping-Han Railway, which was mainly attacked by the 1st Army, and the Japanese 2nd Army, which fought on the Jinpu Railway. The army is responsible for assisting and encircling the right wing.

However, since the main force of the Chinese army did not gather on the Ping-Han Railway, the Japanese Second Army had no chance to use force.

What is even more unexpected is that due to the expansion of the war situation in Shanxi, the main force of the Japanese First Army entered Shanxi to assist the 5th Division in combat, and the Second Army became a reserve corps, and therefore could not attack the Chinese army in depth along the Jinpu Road. , can only stay in the area north of the Yellow River on standby to prevent the Soviet Union from attacking the Japanese army.

It was not until the Central China Front Army successfully captured Nanjing, ice and snow blocked the traffic in Siberia again, and the Soviet army did not threaten to gather, so the Japanese Second Army was released from the standby state of the reserve team. Therefore, Hisao Nishio actively asked for the permission of the Second Army Attack the Shandong Peninsula.

At this time, the Japanese base camp saw that the central China combat goal was close to being achieved, and the Soviet army did not gather activities, so they allowed Terauchi Shouichi to send the North China Front Army to cross the Yellow River to attack Shandong.

But what no one expected was that this almost ruined Prince Bei Bai's plan.

He issued an order to call Terauchi Shouichi to slow down the attack of the Second Army, and reprimanded Terauchi Shouyi for advancing too aggressively and sending troops on the southern front before it was ready. The imperial army on the northern front was in danger of being encircled and wiped out.

Therefore, Bei Shirakawa was not as stupid as he seemed.If he reprimanded Shouyi in the temple for saying that the devils on the northern line had affected his plan, then his situation as the Prince of Beibai would be too small.

Instead, he reprimanded Terauchi Shouyi for being greedy and aggressive, and the devils on the southern front attacked before they were ready. Once a large number of Chinese troops from the southern front were dispatched to surprise the northern front, then Terauchi Shouyi would definitely suffer huge losses.This seems to be caring, and I am afraid that even if he is scolded, Shuichi will be grateful.

So it is the same thing, but different sayings have completely different effects.

Kitashirakawa once again proved his wisdom. In this battle, he will play with the Chinese lunatic who made the Imperial Japanese Army fearful, just like playing with a mouse.

However, at this time, putting aside the operation of washing the black box in Kitashirakawa, it is said that the Japanese army on the northern front soon stopped and continued to advance.

Jinan was saved for the time being, not only Li Zhongren was surprised, but even Duanwu was also surprised.

After Jiyang was broken, Jinan had no natural moats to defend except the city walls, but the Japanese army stopped attacking. This abnormal behavior, even in the Dragon Boat Festival, is puzzling.

Because he would never have imagined that there would be a prince like Bei Shirakawa who was staring at him all the time.

However, this bought enough time for the Dragon Boat Festival, because just two days later, that is, on December 12, he waited for the person he wanted to wait for-Ma Ping'an.

Ma Ping'an is an old underground party member, as he said, he knows everything.

And what Duan Wu wanted was his words.

When Ma Ping'an arrived at the headquarters of Duan Wu, Duan Wu went straight to the point and said that he would ask Ma Ping'an for help.

But Ma Pingan said with a smile: "Let's put the helping thing aside, because there are more important things than this."

As he said that, Ma Ping'an and Duan Wu whispered for a while, and Duan Wu frowned immediately, because in Bengbu, there had been devil spies lurking in the city early on.

Of course, Duan Wu also guessed that there might be devil spies operating in the city, but he didn't have the time and energy to take care of it.

All the battalions are stepping up their training, now who has the time to search the whole city for spies?
What's more, many spies have been lurking in the city for several years or even more than ten years. If they are new faces in the city, then most likely they are the Dragon Boat Festival Independent Regiment and Zhou Weiguo's [-] Regiment.

Therefore, without clues, there is no way for spies to investigate.As for the police station in the city and the local county magistrate, if they could find out, they would have found out a long time ago, and they wouldn't wait until the Dragon Boat Festival came.

But the arrival of Ma Ping'an just provided this clue for the Dragon Boat Festival.

Ma Ping'an said: There is a [-]% probability that the Feixiang Photo Studio in the south of the city and Fenglaide Foreign Firm in the east of the city are dens of Japanese spies.

Ninety percent of this is enough, Duanwu asked Lao Suan to go to the secret service camp in person and tell Lao Bo about this, and he believed that Lao Bao would know how to do it.

As for fishing for big fish for a long time, don't even think about it. The Dragon Boat Festival simply doesn't have the time to use these two devils' dens to go fishing, and there is no time to catch them all.

Because after Ma Ping'an arrived, the war was about to start. If he waited any longer, I'm afraid Han Fuju would withdraw his troops from Jinan again and send out the whole Shandong.

Therefore, it is enough to make a direct adjustment, and then search and arrest the whole city, drive the devil's spies out of Bengbu, and put the Japanese spies in a vacuum in Bengbu city in a short time.

And what to do next?People from Arima Ping'an are watching in the city, he is very relieved now! .
(End of this chapter)