Age of Rebirth

Chapter [-]: Information from Nanjing

Tang Qiuli commanded an army of 18 to surround Taiyuan. In order to reduce the casualties of the siege troops, he used his brains and adopted layer-by-layer skinning tactics to gradually conquer the important defense support points on the periphery of Taiyuan and remove obstacles. Other strongholds were conquered. , only Jinzhong was left, which was the last target of attack and the last support point outside Taiyuan that the Japanese army desperately defended.

The Japanese defense forces fought fiercely in Jinzhong, and repeated attacks had little effect. After landing in Taiyuan, six Japanese fighter jets and a transport plane took off in a hurry. The order to lead the fleet to take off to intercept and shoot down all the Japanese planes in the airspace around Liaoyang in Shanxi. The guard brigade responsible for searching for the wreckage of the Japanese planes sent back a document that was enough to shock the whole country.

Okamura Ning once dropped his gun, Tang Qiuli couldn't believe it, he ordered Shanhu again to confirm the identity of the Japanese soldiers who died in the wreckage of the plane, this time it was really confirmed, and he brought back a pair of gold Japanese soldiers. The general's collar badge, Tang Qiuli believed it was true. Among the besieged Japanese army, only Okamura Ningji had such a high rank.

He ordered Shen Jun's investigation office to immediately start publicizing the Japanese army in Taiyuan City, using the news that Okamura Ningji had died, to disintegrate the fighting spirit and morale of the Japanese soldiers in the city. , Let every Japanese soldier know that Okamura Ningji has died. [

The news that Okamura Ningji was shot to death in the Chaoyang area quickly spread through Shen Jun's deliberate propaganda, leaflets, and "Dingbian Voice" radio broadcast to the whole country. It not only shocked the people of the country, but also made the Japanese army in Taiyuan panic. It can't be all day long, the hearts of the local people in Taiwan are shaken, and Koichi Minai, the military minister of the cabinet of the Communist Party of China, is full of bitterness, wishing to hit the wall, and it is his instruction to let Neiji Okamura take a plane to leave the beleaguered Taiyuan.

Okamura Neiji was surrounded in Taiyuan, and the most anxious one was Minai Koichi. Seeing the situation in North China deteriorating, after several battles, the army was lost and the general was lost. , finally seized the control of North China from Prince Zairen, the chief of staff, and took advantage of the series of military mistakes and defeats of Xiangyue Qingsi to squeeze out this obstructive guy and expand the power of the Kwantung Army to North China .

This move achieved Koichi Minei's goal, but everything went wrong in the subsequent development. Neiji Okamura, who had high hopes, occupied Taiyuan and Shanxi, which excited Minei Koichi's faction for a while. Then, Zhangjiakou was lost, Tianjin was lost, Beiping was besieged, the troops on the east bank of the Yellow River were defeated, and the troops of the Kwantung Army going south were struggling. Then more than 8 soldiers and Neji Okamura were besieged in the isolated city of Taiyuan.

Judging from the situation in North China, the troops of the Kwantung Army going south could not save Ningji Okamura no matter what. Tang Qiuli was determined to eat up the main force of the North China Dispatch Army, and Ningji Okamura could not break out from Taiyuan and withdraw In Pingjin, even if the Kwantung Army once again formed a powerful southward corps to rescue Okamura Neiji from danger, time did not allow it. Hundreds of thousands of troops went south, and it took time, and what Okamura Neiji lacked was time.

On balance, Okamura Neiji was in Taiyuan, whether he was killed in battle or captured, it was not in the interests of his own faction. Although this blustery guy made Mine Koichi very angry, he had to be saved. When Cun Ning was there, North China was still in the hands of the Kwantung Army, so Zai Ren could not intervene in arranging his cronies. Mi Nei Guangyi knew very well that Taiyuan was not guaranteed. Thousands of troops.

In order to firmly control the dominance of North China, he secretly instructed the Minister of the Army, Shigemitsu Aoi, to quickly form no less than [-] first-class army divisions, ten artillery regiments, five cavalry regiments, and three chariot regiments in the mainland. The troops of the brigade, as a supplementary force to the North China Dispatch Army, entered North China at the fastest speed. Before that, the Kwantung Army immediately organized troops to go south and enter the pass. Turn over, North China is still within the sphere of influence of the Kwantung Army.

Combining various factors, Okamura Neiji cannot die at present, nor can there be any problems. He personally sent a telegram to General Nanjiro, the commander of the Kwantung Army, and sent a plane to Taiyuan to pick up Okamura Neiji and go to Tianjin to command Cangzhou. The Japanese army left [-] troops behind, and the commander ran away alone in the precarious isolated city. This is an extremely shameful behavior in any army, let alone the Japanese army that has always flaunted the spirit of bushido.

Minnei Koichi found a high-sounding reason. The special envoy of the base camp arrived in Tianjin and asked Okamura Neiji, the commander of the North China Dispatch Army, to report the situation in person and jointly seek a fundamental solution to the North China problem. Stubborn, unable to comprehend his true intentions, in the name of the base camp, he gave Okamura Ningji an order to go to Tianjin to report on the battle situation, and specially asked the Kwantung Army Headquarters to send a senior staff officer there on the same plane.

Not for anything else, but when Ningji Okamura was desperate for face and refused to leave Taiyuan, he used persuasion and coercion to get this guy on the plane. Things went surprisingly smoothly. The plane landed in Taiyuan. Order, the senior staff officer thought that Okamura Ningji would show the spirit of a Japanese samurai and the strength of a Japanese general.

He has already prepared a lot of words to persuade The hero in his mind, the pride of the Kwantung Army, His Excellency Okamura Ningji.

Unexpectedly, Okamura Neiji did not hesitate at all after reading the order issued by the Minister of the Army Minai Koichi himself, and only said: "It is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders," and then he was busy packing things and handing over the command to the army. For the commander of Taiyuan city defense, he hurriedly got into the plane, so that the senior staff officer who was about to burst into a lot of tongues didn't say anything, but he felt a wave of anger stirring back and forth in his stomach, tangled into a ball of contempt, and everyone He was disrespectful, and he didn't expect it, but because of Nanjiro's order, he became Okamura Ningji's companion on Huangquan Road.

The death of Okamura Neji had a huge impact on the morale of the Japanese defenders in Taiyuan, especially Shen Jun, who made a big fuss about it. The news that Okamura Neji left his troops and fled for his life spread like a plague among Japanese soldiers and The spread spread among commanders at all levels, and the will of the Japanese soldiers to resist was greatly shaken. It was rare for any kind of death-fighting, near-death and madness to occur. Two days later, Jinzhong surpassed Tang Qiuli's expectations. During the battle, minimal casualties were conquered, the last nail on the outskirts of Taiyuan was pulled out, and more than [-] Japanese guards were wiped out.

Taiyuan, like a naked beauty stripped naked, appeared in front of Tang Qiuli. However, this beauty was covered with thorns all over her body. The Japanese soldiers who fled from the outside all fled into the city, which greatly increased the strength of the Japanese guards. Although Shen Jun's psychological attack strategy was very effective, there were also many Japanese soldiers who resisted and finally became crazy. Tang Qiuli didn't want to attack In Taiyuan, there were too many casualties.

Tang Qiuli convened a meeting of commanders above the attacking force regiment to readjust the deployment. The chief of staff, Yang Ketian, was giving tasks to the troops. Chen Feng, the chief of communications, came in and handed Tang Qiuli a telegram, which was sent by Tang Qiusheng , while the Battle of Taiyuan was going on, the units of the encircling Kwantung Army's southward troops had arrived at the designated positions and would launch an attack on the Japanese army tomorrow evening. Tang Qiuli was relieved that the next wave of Kwantung Army's southward troops could be resolved before they arrived in North China. This part of the Japanese army is of great significance to the overall situation in North China.

As soon as Chen Feng left, Yu Deshui, the director of the intelligence department, hurried in. Tang Qiuli smiled. Whenever the director is in a hurry, there is always important information, and most of it is not good news. After reading the first few lines, I couldn't laugh anymore. It was indeed not good news, and it was definitely extremely bad news for him and the independent division.

This is a telegram translated by Yu Deshui himself, which represents the highest top-secret level. In the Intelligence Department of the Independent Division, only Yu Deshui has this kind of authority, and the others have no right to intervene. Tang Qiu was heartbroken. "Director Yu personally transferred to Division Commander Yue. Tanaka Hongichi, the special envoy of the *** base camp, arrived in Nanjing a few days ago and met secretly with Duan Jingquan, a senior official of the Nanjing Military Commission, on a yacht in Mochou Lake. The content of the meeting is not yet known."

"According to the investigation, Duan is in the military committee, responsible for external liaison affairs, with the rank of lieutenant general, and is a senior senior military officer in the military committee. , The General Staff Headquarters of the Communist Party Headquarters is in charge of senior officials in China affairs, with the rank of major general, who specializes in instigating rebellion, and wins over the party, government and military officials and senior generals of the Nationalist government. The mission of coming to Jinling this time is to unilaterally negotiate peace with the Nationalist government."

"In addition, Nanjing has secretly formed a group that opposes the division commander. The members are all important personnel in the government or the military committee, and they often meet in secret. Our station has spies infiltrated into it, but it has not yet entered the core layer. The information sent out The rank is low, and the core content is unknown. Dai Lizhi’s military command bureau is also monitoring the special envoy of the Communist Party of China, Tanaka Hongichi. At present, Chairman Jiang’s attitude is ambiguous, and other information will be reported later.”

After reading this telegram, Tang Qiuli no longer had the heart to preside over the battle meeting for the general attack on Taiyuan. They, too, stopped arguing and turned their attention to him. [

(To be continued)