December 8, 1940, Mountain City
Wu Heqing's armored convoy was discovered by a formation of bombers taking off from Guiyang near Zunyi. The Air Force had already received instructions from the Ministry of Military Affairs and dropped the bombs without hesitation. Fourteen of the latest armored vehicles from Country F were bombed indiscriminately. Then they were blown into parts. In order to ensure that everything was safe, the bombers still hovered in the sky for a while, making dives from time to time. Only after it was confirmed that not even a single person had escaped, a few planes shook their wings and left.
Later, people from the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee also arrived at the scene. The scene had been completely destroyed. Although there were many corpses, they could not be identified. Only one person wearing a general's military uniform was found among the pile of corpses. After seeing the corpse, they took it for granted that it was Wu Heqing, and passed the information back to the headquarters. At this point, the Wu Heqing gang that had been entrenched in northeastern Guizhou for nearly two decades was completely destroyed.
Li Yunlong, who was far away in Europe, did not delay for long. He quickly completed the follow-up visit and returned to the mountain city. The difference was that there were four transport planes when he went there, but only three transport planes were left when he came back. The other transport plane was taken. They were given to the Air Marshal, and the two Valentine infantry tanks were also given to the Hans Army. Although they are not new equipment, they are also the latest tanks in Britain, and they are a great reference for the equipment research and development of the Hans Army. effect.
Two tL37 combat passenger vehicles were presented to John Rabe, and the other six tL37 combat passenger vehicles and four bA-10 armored vehicles were left to the embassy in Hans, which was completely emptied. The load that came out was used to carry the gift given by the Air Marshal - a total of six hundred technical workers. Although the population transaction with Hans was still in the process, this did not affect the personal friendship between the Air Marshal and Li Yunlong. Six hundred He was just a skilled worker, pulled out of a concentration camp, and he didn’t even need to keep a record.
After returning to the mountain city, Li Yunlong received an unprecedented warm welcome. Even the highest authorities, who had not appeared in public for a long time, took his wife to the airport to greet Li Yunlong in person. It was definitely the highest level of treatment. Even Zhang Erliuzi and the Fat Finance Minister visited Hansi. Even when I returned, I didn't have this attitude. The high-level government, military and political officials in the mountain city had arrived, plus the students from colleges and technical secondary schools, making the entire airport a lively affair.
Commander Zhou of the Air Force was in a bad mood. In order to ensure the safety of the welcome ceremony, he sent out almost all his strength. He used up less than half of the aviation fuel he bought from northern Shaanxi. If it happened again, The Air Force is afraid that it will be in trouble again.
After the welcome ceremony, Li Yunlong wanted to return to Qijiang County to rest on the pretext that he was tired from the journey. He had heard that the government also organized a large number of people in the city to take to the streets to welcome him, which made it a huge fan. However, Li Yunlong did not want to torment the people like this. , he didn’t even feel that he had made any contribution during his trip abroad, and he didn’t deserve such a welcome from the people.
Unexpectedly, Comrade Hu Bicheng leaned into his ear and told him that there would be a highest-level military meeting later. As generals, Hu Bicheng and Li Yunlong would attend the military meeting as representatives of the Eighth Route Army. And judging from Comrade Hu Bicheng's serious look, this meeting is very important.
Li Yunlong and his entourage's motorcade entered the city and were welcomed by hundreds of thousands of people. Compared with Hans's entrance ceremony that had been rehearsed countless times by the propaganda department, the entrance ceremony in Shancheng was obviously purer and more intense. The whole city became a scene. In the sea of joy, people cheered, shouted, and vented to their heart's content. Everyone stretched their necks hard, waved their arms, and tried hard to get closer to Li Yunlong, which made the military police responsible for maintaining order almost cry.
After several hours, Li Yunlong finally arrived at the underground command center of the Ministry of Military Affairs. As soon as he entered, Li Yunlong was stunned for a moment. Without him, there were too many big shots. Almost all the senior generals of the national army were here. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as If Kazuki Yamamoto can attack this place, the Yamashiro government will be completely finished.
Comrade Hu Bicheng sat next to Minister Chen, while Li Yunlong found a corner and sat down. There was no other way. Although he was also a parallel import general, he was really incomparable to these people here, let alone him. , Even when the brigade commander comes here, he has to be honest, okay?
After more than 20 hours of flying, he just wanted to take a good rest. The military meeting was still the highest level military meeting. What did it have to do with a small division commander like him? He didn't want to just go through it. In less than five minutes, he became energetic again, because the content of this military meeting was really shocking.
The top authorities actually planned to launch a large-scale counterattack in early 1941. The Ministry of Military Affairs planned to mobilize more than 80 divisions of elite troops, coordinated by naval and air forces, to recapture three towns in Wuhan in one fell swoop and completely drive the Japanese army out of Hunan and Hubei provinces. If conditions permit, the Japanese dispatched troops from Central China will also be gathered in the Wuhan area to annihilate them.
Not to mention, in the south, the troops from Yunnan and Guangxi provinces will also mobilize 60 divisions to launch a counterattack, encircle and suppress the Japanese and puppet troops in the two provinces, and push the front all the way to Guangdong Province to prepare for the next step of regaining Guangzhou. To prepare for the battle, the highest authorities even directly assigned a naval force that had been huddled in Gui Province to the warlord leader who returned to Gui Province. Li Yunlong actually felt so heroic and heroic. This is wrong. This script is really There's something wrong with it, okay?
In the north, in order to deal with the growing threat from the Japanese army, the highest authority approved the deployment of an additional training force of about 50,000 troops from the First World War Zone to Zhongtiao Mountain. As for who these troops are going to guard against, I am afraid that only the highest authority General Hewei knows.
Although the North China Expeditionary Army suffered a big loss at the hands of the Eighth Route Army, in fact, after Yoshio Shinozuka took over the North China Expeditionary Army, he continued to increase the intensity of his offensive against the mountain city army, and even mobilized troops to Henan Province. , maybe a larger-scale military operation will be launched at some time, so the top authorities in the north did not even mention it.
In addition to the battle-level counterattacks in both directions, the highest authorities have also deployed counterattack plans in several other provinces. Although they are all composed of one division and two divisions, when added up, a total of fifty training divisions have been mobilized. With more than 600,000 troops, launching a counterattack is not just about mobilizing troops. The subsequent supply of materials, weapons and ammunition is the bulk of the effort. Adding in transportation costs, it is another large-scale campaign-level consumption of materials.
Calculated in this way, the Yamacheng government actually mobilized more than two million regular troops to launch a counterattack at one time, which was a big move.
