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Chapter 531 Who Is The Ghost?

New Jersey Basin.

The sun is shining.

"Captain, do you want to take the horse meat back?"

Cavalry Battalion Commander Cao Jiang came to Li Yunlong on a military horse, got off his horse, paid a military salute and asked.

Li Yunlong's expression changed: "How many army horses were killed?"

Cao Jiang replied with a happy tone: "There were probably more than 400 army horses that were killed or injured, and about 300 army horses were captured by us."

Although the Cavalry Battalion suffered more than 100 casualties, the Devil Cavalry Wing suffered more than half of the casualties.

The strength of the Devil Cavalry Wing is more than twice that of the Cavalry Battalion.

This is mainly due to the 40 light and heavy machine guns in the jeep platoon.

Without the 40 light and heavy machine guns arranged by Li Yunlong, the cavalry battalion alone might not be able to defeat the 13th Devil Cavalry Regiment.

Although the machine gunner on the jeep had tried his best to shoot at the devil cavalry on horseback.

But after all, it was on a jeep, and the jeep was moving at a high speed. Later, the devil cavalry stood up as chicken thieves, sticking their bodies to the back of the horse, and it was even more difficult to grasp the aim of the machine gun.

This resulted in the killing and wounding of more than 400 army horses, plus the army horses shot and killed by the new cavalry battalion, a total of nearly 500 horses.

"What a good army horse." Deputy head Xing Zhiguo sighed, "It's a pity."

Li Yunlong did the math, and it is estimated that dozens of military horses were killed in the cavalry battalion this time.

However, there were about 300 army horses captured by the little devil, and the captured army horses minus the killed army horses resulted in more than 200 horses.

Now the strength of the cavalry battalion can be expanded to more than 800 cavalry, which can be regarded as a level of strengthening the cavalry regiment.

This battle also made Li Yunlong see the importance of cavalry.

In plain terrain, cavalry still have advantages, with strong mobility and assault capabilities, and fast response.

If there were no cavalry battalion and 20 jeeps to restrain them, the devil cavalry would definitely go around and attack the infantry, and the situation would be very bad.

Even if you are surrounded by enemy troops, you can use the mobility of cavalry to break through.

War horses have a strong ability to run. If a cavalry has two or three horses to transfer, they can even run a long distance for thousands of miles, and then launch a sudden attack.

In the Second World War, the Soviet Union, Britain, and Germany all had a considerable number of cavalry.

Several Soviet marshals were born as cavalry generals, such as Marshal Zhukov with great military exploits and so on.

Of course, if cavalry is used improperly, that is another story, such as Polish cavalry head-to-head with German armored forces, and Japanese cavalry head-to-head with Soviet tanks in the Battle of Nomonkan.

At present, there are not many tanks equipped in the new regiment, and Li Yunlong has to hand over a tank battalion after the anti-mopping operation.

Therefore, it is still necessary for the new regiment to develop cavalry.

"Take all the horse meat away!"

Hehe smiled, and Li Yunlong said again: "When the horse meat is transported back to the base, the whole group can eat fresh horse meat."

"Yes!"

Cao Jiang stepped forward to respond.

Immediately afterwards, according to Li Yunlong's order, the staff department notified the automobile battalion to pull horse meat.

These army horses that were shot were relatively scattered and needed to be driven over to tow them.

Fortunately, most of the cars from the car camp have come, and the capacity is sufficient, so there will be no situation where the horse meat cannot be taken away.

Although the taste of horse meat is not as comfortable as the canned meat provided by Boss Chen, it is still meat and can supplement nutrition.

The nearly 500 army horses that were shot to death would add up to 40 million catties of horse meat.

The battlefield at the 39th Regiment of the Japanese Army was quickly cleaned up by the first and second battalions.

It has to be said that Type A divisions are much better equipped than the second-line divisions. They not only use Type 20 light machine guns, 37mm anti-tank guns, 70mm rapid-fire guns, 75mm Type [-] infantry guns, and even [-]mm mountain guns. All equipped.

The firepower is formidable.

If it weren't for the new regiment equipped with two tank battalions, the 2st and 1nd battalions of the new regiment, it would take a lot of trouble to defeat the 2th regiment.

And the casualties will be great.

On the frontal battlefield, if the national army wanted to annihilate Japanese troops like the 39th Wing, it would have to pay at least three times the lives of Japanese soldiers.

But the new regiment had heavy artillery and medium tanks, and directly defeated the 39th Regiment within half an hour.

Although the equipment of the devils in the Type A division is very good, the main force of the new regiment has long looked down on the devils' equipment, but these equipment can be used by the militia.

The militia is equipped with first-class equipment, and its combat effectiveness will not be bad.

After training and accumulation of actual combat experience, these militiamen will be the main reservists of the new regiment in the future.

As for the Devils 108 Artillery Wing and the Devils who were killed by aerial bombs, there were basically no intact weapons and ammunition, and even the mountain artillery and howitzers were blown to pieces.

However, these tattered mountain cannons and howitzers can also be pulled back with a car for repairs, and those that cannot be repaired are all good steel. At that time, they can be taken to the Jindongnan Arsenal to melt down and re-produce cannons.

Before Li Yunlong led his troops back to the base area, a call back from the headquarters came.

In addition to rewards and instructions, the boss also said that after the anti-sweeping campaign is over, he must be rewarded properly...

After reading the telegram, Li Yunlong muttered to himself, why does he feel like he is about to be congratulated for his fortune?
After clearing up all the battlefields, Li Yunlong led his troops to the base area in Northwest Shanxi.

……

The next morning.

Peiping.

A Japanese transport plane slowly landed at Beiping Airport.

Lieutenant General Moritake Tanabe and Major General Tadamichi Kuribayashi stepped off the transport plane.

Immediately, under the protection of the guards, the two boarded a bulletproof armored vehicle and headed to Iron Lion Alley.

Originally, Mori Tanabe was going to fly back to the headquarters from Taiyuan yesterday, but it was canceled by Mori Tanabe before leaving.

The reason was that he didn't understand the process of the Xinzhou Campaign, and even if he returned to the headquarters, he couldn't explain why.

Therefore, Moritake Tanabe waited in Taiyuan for Major General Chubayashi Chumichi to return to Taiyuan, and then took a transport plane to Peiping together.

After the armored train on which Miyano Michiichi was riding was attacked, the Japanese army stepped up protection for officers above the major general level.

Several armored vehicles stopped at the gate of No. 3 Iron Lion Alley in Beiping City. Tadamichi Kuribayashi and Moritake Tanabe got off the armored vehicles and walked quickly into the headquarters with a general's sword in their hands.

The defense here is particularly tight, with five steps, one post, three steps and one whistle, and there are countless secret whistles.

Even if someone drives by nearby, you can't help but feel nervous, because you don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at you upstairs, and how many sniper rifles are aiming at you.

Tanabe Mori is familiar with the door, and he took Kuribayashi Tadao into the office of Commander Okamura Ningji.

Coming to Neiji Okamura, Moritake Tanabe and Tadamichi Kuribayashi paused and said, "Your Excellency!"

Neiji Okamura gave Moritake Tanabe and Tadamichi Kuribayashi a cold look.

Although the fishing plan was planned by Neiji Okamura himself, he was going to deal a severe blow to the Xinyi Regiment of the Eighth Route Army before the official launch of the raid, but the battle ended like this, and the Kuribayashi detachment returned in a big defeat. Can't shirk responsibility.

I have to say that the fishing battle plan is very beautiful.

The good news is that the fish took the bait, but the bad news is that the fish not only bit the bait, but almost ate the fisherman too.

Okamura Ningji's tone was cold: "Tanabe-kun, Kuribayashi-kun, don't you have anything to explain to me?"

Moritake Tanabe glanced at Tadamichi Kuribayashi.

Tadamichi Kuribayashi grasped the combat report under his armpit in no time, and handed it to Neiji Okamura with both hands: "Report to Commander, this is the combat report I wrote on the plane!"

Neiji Okamura glanced at Tadamichi Kuribayashi again, took the combat report and read it.

Although Kuribayashi Tadamichi had ordered the Communications Department to send the battle damage report to the Front Army Command, there were no specific operational details.

It took just over an hour to fly from Taiyuan to Beiping, and the battle of Xinzhou ended in one morning, which was not complicated, so Kuribayashi Tadmichi wrote the battle report in more detail.

After reading the combat report, Neiji Okamura looked at Tadashi Kuribayashi and said, "So Kuribayashi-kun, do you still insist that the information has been leaked?"

"Hi!"

Kuribayashi Tadamichi bowed his head, and his tone was extremely certain: "Your Excellency, Commander, I firmly believe that the fishing plan has been leaked. There must be spies from the Eighth Route Army among the top officials of the North China Front Army or the First Army!"

At this time, even if the plan had not been leaked, Kuribayashi Tadamichi would say so.

Otherwise, he would have to bear the blame for the disastrous defeat in the Xinzhou Campaign. If he had to bear the blame, unless he made great contributions in the future, it would be difficult for him to be promoted to lieutenant general, let alone general.

Neiji Okamura read the battle plan and was almost certain that the real reason for the fiasco of the Xinshu Campaign was the leak of the battle plan.

Who is the ghost?

Okamura Ningji's eyes behind his glasses narrowed.

Tanabe Moritake asked: "Your Excellency, could it be that Daqiao Changan leaked it?"

Kuribayashi Tadamichi's expression changed. He didn't know that Neiji Okamura's trusted staff colluded with the enemy, but he couldn't help but secretly elated.

As long as there is a blame man, although he can't escape the responsibility, it is fine if the main responsibility does not lie with him.

Of course, you still have to do superficial work. You must take the responsibility for the defeat on yourself and ask for punishment. The more you do this, the lighter the punishment.

"It shouldn't be him!"

Okamura Ningji looked thoughtful: "It is impossible for Ohashi Changan to come into contact with the fishing plan. The only ones who know about this plan at the front army headquarters are me, you, Tanabe-kun, and Yumo-kun."

Moritake Tanabe's eyes flashed, the undercover spy couldn't be the deputy chief of staff Yusue Seizo, right?

He himself will definitely not be a spy, and the commander Neiji Okamura is even less likely to be, and Yusue Seizo...

Arisue Seizo was a senior officer of the Front Army who knew both the fishing plan and the timetable of the Hayate armored train that Lieutenant General Miyano Michiichi took.

But it's just a guess. After all, Sue Seizo is the deputy chief of staff of the front army. Without evidence, Moritake Tanabe dare not speak nonsense.

Neiji Okamura suddenly looked at Moritake Tanabe, causing Moritake Tanabe to tighten his chrysanthemum. Your Excellency, you don't doubt me, do you?
Moritake Tanabe hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, besides the three of us, there are also Kuribayashi-kun and the five captains who participated in this battle who know about the fishing plan."

When Kuribayashi Tadao heard this, he couldn't help but thump in his heart, why did he bring me into it?
Neiji Okamura fell into deep thought when he heard this.

The old devil with rich experience in spy work has no clue now.

Seeing this, Tanabe Shengwu asked: "Your Excellency, since the fishing plan has been leaked, then the autumn mopping up plan for northwest Shanxi may also be leaked. Are you going to launch a mopping up of bandit areas in northwestern Shanxi as originally planned?"

(End of this chapter)