Anti-Japanese War: Starting from Yaobai

Chapter 1079: The Prince of Beibai Calls!

Matsui Iwane finally met a smarter staff officer who coincided with him.

He also thought so, the deployment of troops early in the Dragon Boat Festival must be to lure the 26th brigade from Chuzhou.

"Huh, I almost fell for the Dragon Boat Festival. If the 26th Brigade keeps chasing after it, I will definitely be surrounded by the Dragon Boat Festival. If I had known, I would not have left the 150-kilometer buffer zone."

Matsui Iwane was very angry, but he also had his own considerations at the beginning.Some of Yangzhou's weapons and equipment and military supplies were taken away by the Dragon Boat Festival, and the rest were burned by him.

Therefore, the weapons and equipment transported by the Japanese army to the front line are gone, and once the war starts, they will fall into great passivity.

Therefore, Matsui Iwane simply negotiated an armistice with the Chinese government and established such a 150-kilometer buffer zone to prevent the two sides from ignoring each other.

Of course, the peace talks are fake, and Matsui Iwane's real intention is to delay time, use the peace talks as a guise to quickly increase troops to the front line, and replenish the weapons and equipment lost on the front line before going to war.

But I don't want the North China Dispatched Army to wait to share the cake in China.

As I said before, the commander of the North China Dispatch Army originally thought that the decisive battle between China and Japan would break out in Hebei, and the North China Front Army was well prepared to encircle and annihilate the Chinese army and force China to surrender in one fell swoop.

However, the highest strategic decision-making level of the national government moved the location of the decisive battle to East China, allowing the Central China Front Army to pick up the opportunity for the decisive battle, and achieved great benefits, occupying most of Central China.

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 Kotobuki of the Terauchi watched in vain the great honor of the Central China Front Army's capture of Nanjing, so he became more and more unable to hold back, so he asked the North China Front Army to prepare for the battle concept of going deep into China.

And especially 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 2st Army fighting on the Jinpu Railway. The [-]nd Army is responsible for assisting and encircling the right wing.

However, because the main force of the Chinese army did not gather on the Ping-Han Railway, the Japanese Second Army had no chance to show its combat power. What is even more unexpected is that due to the expansion of the battle situation in Shanxi, the main force of the Japanese First Army entered Shanxi to assist the 2th Army. The divisions fought, while the 5nd Army was directly reduced to a reserve team, and therefore could not attack the Chinese army in depth along the Jinpu Road, and could only stay in the area north of the Yellow River to prepare for battle, in case the Soviet army attacked the Japanese-occupied area.

It was not until the Central China Front Army successfully captured Nanjing, ice and snow blocked the traffic in Siberia, and there was no threat of massing in the Soviet Army, that 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 and snatch the few cakes.

At that time, the North China Dispatch Army thought so. The Central China Dispatch Army robbed a lot of benefits in eastern China.

This includes territory, gold and silver treasures, minerals, food, etc., and so on.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the little devil came to China to snatch it.They grab what they see.

That's why the North China Dispatch Army was in such a hurry, and even the army and navy almost lost their guns because of the territorial grab.

Long before the battle of Xuzhou started, the navy and army of the Japanese invaders made an appointment first, and after the relevant troops of the army and navy were ready, they would jointly attack the Shandong Peninsula and occupy the place together.

But when the Central China Japanese army captured Nanjing, part of the Second North China Army impatiently took the lead in moving towards Shandong.Seeing that the navy was in a hurry, it decided not to comply with the agreement, and attacked Shandong in advance, and was determined to land in Qingdao before the army arrived.

The Navy concentrated a large number of Marines.In the name of education and training, 20 transport boats were borrowed from the Army Transportation Department, together with the 4th Fleet. They did not wait for the arrival of the Army's shipping base construction team, that is, they were transported by sea alone to the Shandong Peninsula and landed in Qingdao. .

And when the 5th Division of the Army arrived in Qingdao according to the schedule agreed by the Army and Navy commanding agencies, the Navy had already occupied the place for nine days.

They saw that the port docks, transportation and all the security and administration of the area had been seized by the navy.The army came all the way from the Shanxi battlefield, suffered a lot, but didn't get any money, and was furious, scolding the navy for selfishness, incompetence, and bastards.

The navy, on the other hand, used the seized ports, terminals, and transportation power to block the army. Since then, the two armies have been at war with each other, and have formed a long-term sharp confrontation.

So it can be seen how impatient the devils were at that time. ,

At this time, the side of the Central China Dispatch Army is not ready yet, but the North China Dispatch Army has already moved.And if Prince Beibai hadn't sent a letter reprimanding him, I'm afraid the battle of Xuzhou would have already started at this time.

In this regard, Matsui Iwane also had a very headache, but he felt that this might be one of the reasons why the Dragon Boat Festival suddenly came to An County.

If the Dragon Boat Festival eats up his 26th Brigade, then the military power in Central China will be obviously insufficient, unless he draws back troops from the offensive troops on the western front.

But if this happens, the troops on the western front will be empty, and it is not certain that the Chinese army will counterattack.He didn't want to hand over the land he had finally obtained.

Matsui Iwane sighed deeply, like snoring.After a while, he said: "It seems that the 26th Brigade can't go any further. Once they are surrounded by the Dragon Boat Festival troops in the middle of Lai'an County and Mingguang, the consequences will be disastrous.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have to say that our pursuit plan this time was a failure.We only saw that the Dragon Boat Festival ran to our occupied area to act recklessly, but we ignored it. This is a cunning guy.

When he came to An County, it would not be as simple as fighting an artillery brigade. He wanted to take advantage of this more than 150-kilometer-long mountain road to eat up our entire 26th Brigade.

Send my order, no matter what the current battle situation is, let the 26th brigade withdraw immediately, there must be no mistakes. "

Matsui Iwane ordered, and all the staff stood up and bowed at the same time.Because they finally passed this test again today. Regarding the Dragon Boat Festival, everything they said was wrong.

Of course, there was Lengtouqing's tactical analysis on the Dragon Boat Festival before, and he gave Matsui Iwane a lot of advice, but after repeated defeats, he was dismissed by Matsui Iwane.

So if you want to keep your official position safely and spend your days and nights in the headquarters, then you must not get involved in the Dragon Boat Festival. Even if you have ten thousand ways to catch the Dragon Boat Festival alive, don't say it at this time.Because if you talk about it and fail to catch the Dragon Boat Festival, then your good life may be over.

But at this time, when many devils' staff think that today's level is finally over, the communication officer trotted into the conference room and reported: "Report, Prince Beibai is calling!"

(End of this chapter)