At the headquarters of the New Second Army, Yan Haoyu was looking at the map boredly. The general offensive had been launched, and he could not get much involved in the rest. As his position got higher and higher, he was getting further and further away from the battlefield. Now he could only Listen to the sound of cannonballs in the distance.
"Old Chu can't even hear the sound of cannons now. People are contented."
Yan Haoyu laughed at himself and used Chu Xiong to find some psychological balance.
If Chu Xiong knew, would he remove this unkind boy?
At this time, Gao Dezhu's loud voice was heard from a distance outside the headquarters. Yan Haoyu knew that the brothers must have finished their work. He actually couldn't wait to know the result, but he still chose to bury his head deeper. , staring at the map intently, as if there is Yan Ruyu in the map.
But his pair of stunned ears had betrayed him. In this regard, his skills were still shallow. He was at least ten miles behind Chu Xiong. Chu Xiong could pinch a few soybeans and throw them into his mouth, but his ears were lying down.
"Commander, Commander! Gou Ri's First Division was annihilated by us."
"Gao Dezhu, what are you talking about? Didn't you see me looking at the map?
What a big deal, wouldn't it just annihilate the First Division? So excited, so promising! "
Yan Haoyu stared and said, Tan Tao laughed and said to Gao Dezhu:
"The lieutenant general's command sword belongs to me!"
Gao Dezhu looked at Yan Haoyu helplessly. The commander's reaction was all guessed by Tan Tao. For this reason, he lost the bet with Tan Tao. The bet was to capture Mitsuo Nakazawa's ancestral sword.
Yan Haoyu, who reacted quickly, immediately guessed what was going on and said angrily:
"You Gao Dezhu, Tan Tao, you dare to make a bet with me, do you still have a leader in your eyes?
The gambling money has been confiscated. Hand it over honestly, otherwise the main attack mission will be handed over to the Third Division in the future. "
When the Third Division Commander Wang Tie heard this, his eyes suddenly shone.
Gao Dezhu immediately gave in and handed the command knife to Yan Haoyu respectfully. It would kill someone if he was a senior official.
Yan Haoyu took Zhongze's command sword, pulled out the blade and took a look at it. He praised the sword very much (he didn't know why it was so good), and then threw it to the military staff aside. He was so happy that he didn't know what to say.
"Why are you so excited? Keep it with me and give it to General Stevie in exchange for cannonballs!"
After finishing speaking, I asked casually:
"What was the result?"
The three division commanders looked at each other, and Gao Dezhu reported to the army commander:
"Reporting to the commander, after half a day of fierce fighting, with the assistance of the air force and artillery, we completely wiped out the first division, killing more than 18,000 Japs in total, and captured 4 people below the chief of staff, Colonel Kawasaki, and the rest are in bits and pieces. If it’s broken, it’s hard to count, and the guns and ammunition seized are useless!”
Yan Haoyu frowned and said:
"Why are there so many prisoners? Aren't they going to fight until every soldier is killed?"
Tan Tao said disdainfully:
"It might have happened before when the Japanese had the upper hand, but now they are used to surrendering. There will only be more in the future."
Yan Haoyu nodded and said:
"I didn't expect that there would be a colonel this time. He could make a fuss and transfer these Japanese prisoners to the Political Department, so that the Anti-War Allied Forces can expand again, and save the old man Stevie from always saying that we can't capture the prisoners. Just shut their mouths this time!"
Yan Haoyu and others also don’t want to take prisoners, but now the expeditionary force is not like before, everything is on the surface, there are many Yingjiang reporters, so they can’t go too far;
Now that the Japanese have surrendered, they can't go too far. Of course, no one will care about those who were seriously injured. Not only are they worthless, but they also waste precious medicines and medical resources. They will be replenished when cleaning the battlefield. One knife.
They didn't say they would surrender, so they would naturally be eliminated, so cleaning the battlefield was also a technical job.
Next, the battle report of the New Second Army was compiled and submitted to the expeditionary force headquarters. The troops rested on the spot and waited for new instructions.
The next day they received a telegram from the headquarters, ordering them to hand over their positions, captures, and prisoners to the New First Army. They continued their attack and marched towards Thailand.
"Comrades, we have work to do. The third division stayed to hand over to the New First Army. The military mechanized division acted as the vanguard and continued to attack Taijing. The first division attacked from the left and the second division attacked from the right. The mechanized division of the new first army As a reserve team, we must drive all the Japanese to Taijing City!"
Yan Haoyu quickly made battle arrangements and launched the main battle in Taijing. A month and a half had passed since Commander Chu made the bet with Yuren, and there was not much time left for them.
The Japanese seemed determined to fight the expeditionary force in Taijing. Except for leaving the 102nd Division to fight guerrillas in the mountains, the main force retreated to the vicinity of Taijing City and no longer offered any unnecessary resistance.
The First Division had all been lost, and there was no need to continue to resist on the plains. All hopes were placed on the decisive battle in Taijing.
The atmosphere in Taijing and the 18th Army Headquarters is quite depressing.
Yamashita Fengfumi has received the final message from the First Division. A first-class division in the southern battlefield was annihilated by the expeditionary force. The commander of the operational army will naturally be under a lot of pressure.
The Second Division was also crippled not long ago. Although the base camp allowed the two independent brigades to be dismantled and replenished into the Second Division, and at the same time some supplementary troops were added to complete the Second Division's structure, but in this way The second division is incomparable to the previous undefeated division.
The current 18th Army still has the Guards Division, the 2nd Division, the 51st Division, the 102nd Division, and the Military Heavy Artillery Brigade. The 102nd Division fights guerrillas in the mountainous areas. There are only more than 80,000 people near Taijing City. The air force had been depleted and the airports had been bombed.
Commander Lieutenant General Yamashita Tomofumi said with a gloomy face:
"Gentlemen, half of the bet between Your Majesty and Chu Xiong has passed. The imperial army has paid a heavy price for this. The entire first division was shattered, the second division was severely damaged, and the air warriors lost thousands of fighter planes. The price Not too big!
There is a Chinese saying that goes, "A hundred steps and a half are ninety-nine steps. The more you go to the last moment, the more you must go all out, otherwise the previous losses will be worthless."
I have to admit that Chuxiong has crazy capital, and the Chinese Expeditionary Army is also the strongest enemy our 18th Army has encountered, regardless of the gap in weapons and equipment;
Even in terms of individual combat effectiveness, they are not weaker than us, so the battle in Taijing will be the biggest challenge for you and me. Are you confident that you can win this challenge for your majesty? "
Yamashita Fengwen asked sternly. After hearing this, several other division commanders stood up and shouted:
"have!"
Seeing that his morale was working, Yamashita Fengwen nodded with satisfaction and said:
"Yo Xi! You are indeed the elite of our empire. Your Majesty has placed high hopes on you. I believe that you will not disappoint Your Majesty.
Although we have lost absolute air control, Taijing City is a big city, and the imperial army has 100,000 elite troops. There is no problem in holding it for a month and a half!
Since Chuxiong was born in Hedong Hengkong, he has never been defeated. He has almost become the god of war in the hearts of the Chinese people, and is their spiritual support for daring to fight against the imperial army;
As long as Taijing City holds on for forty-five days, Your Majesty will have won the bet of the century, and we will also give Chuxiong its first defeat. This will be a fatal blow to the morale of the Chinese people.
I decided to fight the Eastern Tsaritsyn defense battle with the Chinese in the Thai capital..."
