Chu Yunfei naturally didn't believe Li Yunlong's lies.
He has paid a heavy price and has not recovered yet. He has just come from Dagu Town, where the situation of the new regiment and battalion is very good.
Not only are they equipped with jeeps and trucks, they are also slightly motorized, but they also have all automatic firepower equipment.
You told me that you paid a big price and you haven't recovered yet?
Chu Yunfei glanced sideways at Li Yunlong, his expression seemed to say, I'm too embarrassed to point you out.
"Brother Yunlong, I am serious." Chu Yunfei said: "After eating the Japanese 36th Division, Chu can do without all the battle captures and honors, and all the credit will go to the New Regiment."
"Then what is Brother Chu trying to do?"
Li Yunlong's eyes showed doubts. This Chu Yunfei was not a fuel-efficient lamp either. He did not believe that Chu Yunfei would help the Eighth Route Army in the war.
Chu Yunfei smiled and said: "Brother Yunlong, to tell you the truth, Chu loves American equipment. After the matter is completed, I only need to send Chu a fine equipment camp."
There was a hint of wariness in Li Yunlong's eyes. He did not include the 358th Regiment in his battle plan, which had been fighting the Chinese army for ten years. Li Yunlong did not trust them.
Li Yunlong laughed: "Brother Chu rarely comes to the new group once. Brother, I have prepared a small amount of wine. Please be sure to appreciate it."
"There is no need to eat." Chu Yunfei stood up and said, "Brother Yunlong, I really want to cooperate with you to eat the 36th Division. I hope Brother Yunlong can seriously consider it and say goodbye!"
Li Yunlong cupped his hands: "Brother Chu, walk slowly!"
Then, Chu Yunfei, Sun Ming and Fang Ligong walked outside.
Li Yunlong was sent to the entrance of the Youth League branch.
Arriving at the entrance of the village, Chu Yunfei and the others got on the jeep of the New Regiment and headed towards Dagu Town under the escort of soldiers from the First Battalion and the First Company.
When Zhao Gang came back from the army for inspection, he happened to see the back of Chu Yunfei driving away at the entrance of the village. He then turned around and walked quickly towards the village.
Walking into the inner room of the regiment headquarters, he saw Li Yunlong thinking about the battle plan again. Zhao Gang asked: "Old Li, I seem to have seen Chu Yunfei at the entrance of the village just now?"
"That's right!" Li Yunlong nodded.
"What is Chu Yunfei doing here?" Zhao Gang asked.
Li Yunlong immediately explained Chu Yunfei's intention to join forces with the New Regiment to eat up the 36th Division and exchange for a battalion's fine equipment.
"Then did you agree to him?"
Zhao Gang looked stunned. He estimated that Chu Yunfei must have guessed something, so he came to ask for cooperation.
"How can you agree?"
"It's okay if you want other things from me, Lao Li, but you can't try to get my American equipment."
Captain Li shook his head like a wave, thinking clearly.
Not to mention the fine equipment of a battalion, not even the fine equipment of a company.
Fighting the Japanese is Chu Yunfei's duty and obligation as a Chinese soldier. We, Old Li, are not Chu Yunfei's superior, so why should we allocate him beautiful weapons and equipment?
Zhao Gang breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that after Chu Yunfei and others found out, the information that the new regiment wanted to eat the 36th Division would be leaked.
However, it was obvious that Captain Li was not an economical person. It was impossible to disclose such a big matter to Chu Yunfei in advance.
"Where is the battle plan?" Zhao Gang asked.
Next, the two men chatted quietly in the inner room of the regiment headquarters, gradually improving the battle plan.
…
Beiping.
No. 3 Iron Lion Alley, the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front.
Commander Okamura Neiji and Chief of Staff Moritake Tanabe are discussing the international situation.
The communications staff officer walked in with a telegram in his hand, paused and said: "Report to the commander, chief of staff, this is the telegram just sent from the base camp!"
"Give me!"
Without letting the communications staff read the contents of the telegram, Okamura Neiji took the telegram from the hands of the communications staff.
Then with a wave of his hand, the communications staff member nodded and walked out.
Then, Okamura Neji picked up the telegram and read it. Then his eyes darkened slightly and his expression changed.
"General, what happened?"
Chief of Staff Moritake Tanabe asked in a low voice.
Okamura Neiji said quietly: "The base camp rejected the application to transfer elite divisions from the Kwantung Army to Shanxi to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army."
"Nani?" Tanabe Moritake couldn't believe it, "How is this possible? With the outbreak of a full-scale war between the Soviet Union and Germany, the Soviet Union's forces in the Far East will inevitably move westward. The pressure on the Kwantung Army will be greatly reduced. At this time, one or two troops can be mobilized. The troops of the permanent division will go to Shanxi to deal with the Eighth Route Army."
As soon as he finished speaking, Tanabe Moritake seemed to have thought of something, and asked incredulously: "The base camp rejected the request... is it because we want to go north to attack the Soviet Union with Germany?"
Okamura Neiji nodded, with a worried expression: "The cabinet does have this plan. The base camp is preparing to implement the 'Guan Special Exercise Plan' and is ready to wait for the Soviet Far East Army to move westward for more than half before launching an attack with superior strength."
The so-called Guande exercise plan is the special large-scale exercise plan of the Kwantung Army, which is also the plan to prepare to attack the Soviet Union.
In this way, not only would the base camp be unable to draw troops from the Kwantung Army to reinforce North China, but North China might also be able to draw one or two divisions to reinforce the Kwantung Army.
This made the North China Front Army, which was already insufficient in strength, even worse.
In addition to troops, the base camp also needs to mobilize a large amount of combat materials for the Kwantung Army, leaving even less combat materials for the North China Front Army.
Okamura Neji and Tanabe Moritake carefully analyzed how many troops would be needed if the Japanese army attacked the Soviet Union.
It was concluded that at least 25 divisions were needed.
But now the Kwantung Army only has 13 divisions, and including 1 North Korean division, there are only 14 divisions.
Therefore, 11 divisions must be mobilized from the mainland and the pass, and 6 divisions must be mobilized from the pass as a reserve force.
In terms of combat supplies, the Kwantung Army did not have sufficient combat supplies. In order to prepare for the war against the Soviet Union, it had to transport a large amount of combat supplies from Japan.
Finally, Okamura and Moritake Tanabe concluded:
The base camp does not have sufficient resources for combat supplies. It is not in the interests of the Japanese Empire to waste so much supplies to attack the Soviet Union.
At this time, the military focus should be placed on the south, taking advantage of the Soviet Union's weakening of the threat to Japan's north, to strengthen force and move south to solve strategic supplies.
"The base camp should not really attack the Soviet Union."
Okamura Neiji said: "There is a high probability that it will just be a huge military exercise to scare the Soviet Union."
Tanabe Moritake agreed: "What the General said makes sense, but the matter of mobilizing troops from the Kwantung Army to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army will have to be postponed later."
"As it goes, let it go."
Okamura Neji's eyes flashed sharply: "Let the Eighth Route Army be proud for a short time first. After the imperial army's military exercises outside the pass are completed, it will not be too late to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army!"
Although the Kwantung Army currently has only 13 divisions, 7 of them are Category A divisions with a number of less than 20, and their combat effectiveness is extremely strong.
In the view of Okamura Neiji and Tanabe Moritake, the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi can be solved by simply transferring one or two A-type divisions from the Kwantung Army to the First Army.
First deal with Li Yunlong in northwest Shanxi, and then deal with the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi!
…
"Nani, can't you mobilize troops and supplies for the time being?"
Taiyuan.
At the First Army Headquarters, communications staff officer Takeo Nakamura finished reading the telegram, and Yoshio Iwamatsu suddenly stood up with a gloomy expression.
The expression on his face was very different from the news he heard a few days ago about Germany's attack on the Soviet Union.
At that time, Yoshio Iwamatsu was really overjoyed, thinking that it would not be long before the Kwantung Army's Class A Division would mobilize the First Army, and with it a large amount of combat supplies.
However, the ideal is full and the reality is cruel.
The operational plan to encircle and suppress the new regiment has been nearly perfected, but the troops and supplies have been delayed, and now it is said that it will be postponed for at least one to two months.
This puts Yoshio Iwamatsu under a lot of pressure.
The 36th Division had only arrived in northwest Shanxi for more than a month and had already lost almost a regiment of troops.
If the sweep is postponed for at least two more months, and if this situation continues, most of the 36th Division may be eaten up by the new group.
However, I thought of the thickened and reinforced bunkers and gun towers being rebuilt by the 36th Division.
Yoshio Iwamatsu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
With thickened and reinforced bunkers and gun towers, even if the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army possesses those new weapons with big speakers, it shouldn't be able to carry them away, right?
Unfortunately, even though most of China's land and resources have fallen into Japanese hands, in addition to cheap labor, materials such as cement and steel bars are still insufficient.
Otherwise, reinforced and thickened reinforced concrete and bunkers will be built throughout North China.
Even if the Eighth Route Army is equipped with 105 mm caliber howitzers and new weapons with big horns, it will not help.
…
Northwest Shanxi.
Near Heyuan County.
The first batch of thickened reinforced concrete bunkers and gun towers built by the 36th Division have been repaired.
The thickness of each bunker and turret is about 2.5 meters, and the thickest position can reach 3 meters.
This is far from the 3-meter thickness required by the headquarters, with the thickest part reaching 3.5 meters.
However, cutting corners is a traditional skill of the Japanese.
The division commander Jing Guanren used the saved materials and applied for another batch of materials to strengthen the city walls and build barricades and other fortifications in the city.
He knew that Commander Yoshio Iwamatsu was afraid of death and did not dare to inspect northwest Shanxi, so he felt confident and cut corners boldly.
However, Jingguan Ren also knew very well that these gun towers and bunkers were related to the life and death of the 36th Division, and they could not be careless.
These newly built bunkers and gun towers were not only used to blockade the new regiment, but also to preserve the 36th Division until the big sweep came.
If the newly built bunkers and gun towers are also taken away by the new regiment, then the 36th Division may be in danger.
Therefore, after the first batch of bunkers and gun towers were repaired, Jingguan Ren ordered two Type 99 105mm howitzers to be brought in to test the defensive capabilities of the new bunkers and gun towers.
"fire!"
As the flag in the hands of the flag order soldiers was suddenly lowered, the two Japanese artillerymen pulled back the match rope of the Type 99 105 mm howitzer.
"Boom!"
Because they were aiming straight, the two explosive shells hit the turret in front of them in an instant.
Accompanied by two explosions like landslides, fireballs and gunpowder smoke suddenly rose from the turret.
When the smoke cleared, Iningoseki, Ishikawa Zhishui and others hurried forward to watch. The 105mm armor-piercing projectiles only left two small craters on the turret.
Jingguan Ren looked satisfied: "Such a strong turret and bunker, with the firepower of the New Regiment, it is absolutely difficult to break through. Even if one is destroyed, the New Regiment will have to pay a heavy price. Ishikawa-kun, there are 200 such bunkers." And the artillery towers, how many troops does the Eighth Route Army need to destroy them all?”
Ishikawa Zhidao: "Based on the loss of 100 Eighth Route Army soldiers if a bunker or gun tower is taken away, the Eighth Route Army must lose at least 20,000 soldiers to completely destroy it."
A sneer appeared on Jingguan Ren's lips: "Yo Xi!"
