Faced with all the Chinese troops entering the Fairy Temple, the little Japs would naturally not just sit here and watch.
While they were reporting the situation in the Fairy Temple to their superiors, the two Japanese leaders ran together to meet.
Honda Kazuo is also a left-center player, but he is nearly twenty years older than Taro Aso.
So when Honda Kazuo saw Taro Aso, he felt that he was dwarfed by him.
He said politely: "Aso-kun, are you really young and promising?"
Taro Aso said modestly: "It's just a fluke. Senior deserves the award."
Honda waved his hands and said: "Aso-kun is too modest. Your telegram just now was very timely. Otherwise, I might have attacked directly. By the way, Aso-kun, did you have any ideas when you came this time?" "
Taro Aso smiled slightly and said, "You really can't hide anything from me, senior."
Speaking of this, Taro Aso looked in the direction of Tianchang Town and said: "Senior, the Fairy Temple is seventy kilometers away from Tianchang Town, and at such a long distance, why don't we insert a force to intercept them halfway?"
Honda thought for a while and said: "I understand what Mr. Aso means, but we don't have the troops to intervene now. You know the fighting style of Dragon Boat Festival, he fights very fast. And to be honest, I learned just now pass.
My vanguard troops suffered heavy losses in just a few minutes. They were shattered into pieces without even seeing their enemies.
This fighting style is very crazy and does not count the cost. It is really hard for me to imagine that they came out from our hinterland and still have such fighting power.
Mr. Aso, if you and I can hold a stalemate with Duanwu at the Fairy Temple now, it is already within the best of our capabilities. If we divide our forces to stop the attack, I believe that with Duanwu's current strength, they will attack before our reinforcements arrive. Defeat each of us, and then leave calmly. "
Taro Aso nodded and said in agreement: "What the senior said is absolutely true, but this is our only chance to stop this force. In this way, you can see if it works. We can mobilize a brigade of troops from Yangzhou and go to Tianchang Town to ambush the front line."
Honda looked around, then lowered his voice and said: "Aso-kun is not an outsider, I will tell you the truth. Yangzhou City is currently empty of troops, and apart from me, the troops that can be mobilized are less than one infantry brigade. If all the people are transferred away, Yangzhou will become an empty city."
Taro Aso said in surprise: "Senior, doesn't Yangzhou originally have a detachment of combat troops?"
Honda waved his hand and said: "What you are talking about was before. Since receiving the order from above, the Second Regiment of the Tiangu Detachment, including part of the First Regiment, a total of three infantry brigades, have rushed to the aid of Changzhou. .
Afterwards, the Dragon Boat Festival did not appear in Changzhou, and they searched downstream along the river.
At this time, the headquarters said that the Dragon Boat Festival had crossed the river, and they turned back to the east of Yangzhou and deployed defenses in the southeast.
In addition, part of the Tiangu detachment extends towards Taizhou to consolidate the defense line there. Tell me, where else can there be people in Yangzhou? "
Hearing this, Taro Aso frowned. He did not expect that Yangzhou was already empty of troops.
However, he still said: "Senior, we must make a decision when it's time to make a decision, and the intention of our headquarters is to intercept Duanwu at all costs and prevent him from returning to Bengbu.
At this time, you have also seen that the two of us together are at most equal to each other. Moreover, most of the people I brought were from the Imperial Association Army with low combat effectiveness. The combat effectiveness of these losers is less than one-tenth of the imperial army. If the other party wants to leave, we can't stop them. "
Honda nodded and said, "That's right!"
After thinking for a while, Honda turned around and asked his adjutant: "Don't you have any new instructions from the headquarters? Send another telegram and say that there is a huge disparity between the enemy and our forces. Tell the headquarters that Aso-kun and I can only hold the enemy back." At this time, if you want to stop Duan Wu from returning to Bengbu, you must send an army to intercept outside Tianchang Town to ensure the successful implementation of the interception plan."
"Hi!"
Honda 12's adjutant was ordered to send another telegram to the headquarters.
At this time, Matsui Iwane had actually been thinking about this matter for a long time, and his head was about to explode.
He and the staff in the command room stayed awake all day and all night just to catch the Dragon Boat Festival. But every time the Dragon Boat Festival appears in their field of vision, it is an illusion.
They had been fooled around by the Dragon Boat Festival, and only when Zhou Weiguo led people across the river did they realize that they had been completely fooled.
Those who crossed the river to the north bank were just bait. The large troops of Dragon Boat Festival never crossed the river. They lurked, waiting for their Imperial Japanese Army to run around stupidly, and then crossed the river in one fell swoop when their troops were empty, and then escaped. Arrive at the Fairy Temple.
In fact, when the Dragon Boat Festival's independent group arrived at the Fairy Temple, they had already escaped from the encirclement he had set.
But for some reason, the independent group was not in a hurry to leave after entering the Fairy Temple.
This made Matsui Iwane very puzzled.
Because now that we have escaped from the encirclement, shouldn't we go all the way north to Tianchang Town and then transfer back to Bengbu? Why don't you leave?
But at this moment, from the Fairy Temple, Honda No. 12 sent a telegram requesting to mobilize troops to intercept the independent regiment in Tianchang County.
In fact, this is a very good idea, but at this time, all the troops in Yangzhou that are far away from the Fairy Temple have been mobilized, and the Japanese troops returning from the southeast will take at least two hours to arrive. Do we want to abandon Yangzhou? defensive strength?
Old Japanese Matsui was hesitating, but at this moment, a staff officer said: "We will continue to suffer the chaos. Your Excellency, shall we abandon Yangzhou?"
Matsui frowned and said, "Have you forgotten that in order to open up the Jinpu Line, we have hoarded a large amount of weapons and equipment, food, and part of the military expenditures in Yangzhou. If anything goes wrong in Yangzhou, we will no longer be able to implement it."
The staff officer added again: "To use a Chinese saying, if you can't let go of the child, you can't trap the wolf. Although we have temporarily transferred our troops away from Yangzhou, our enemies will not know it.
What's more, we can dispatch people from other places to Yangzhou. In this way, we not only have the force to intercept the main force of the Dragon Boat Festival, but also ensure the safety of Yangzhou. Sir, what do you think? "
"Yoohee!"
Old Japanese Matsui nodded, thinking that his staff was indeed very smart. After all, they had already used the Dragon Boat Festival to compete in Shanghai to replace all the original secret codes. It is impossible for the Chinese to decipher their secret codes anymore! .....
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