klisemfg Chapter 165 1 The 4th Division as before
Chapter 165 1 The 4th Division as before
Comrade Li Yunlong, who was praised by the leaders, was heading towards his base in high spirits.
I'm rich, I'm rich! I was given 5,000 new cotton-padded clothes all at once. Which great god helped me with this?
If I knew who helped, I would definitely beat him to death.
You should know that Li Yunlong’s current strength is almost reaching the following heights.
He doesn't have the legendary 8,000 troops, mainly because at this stage, the Japanese are still very strong.
Li Yunlong was too close to the division and brigade headquarters, and if you made any small move, you would be discovered by the brigade commander.
If it had not been agreed in advance, the battalion of Gansu troops would not be moved.
Based on Wu Changfeng's current abilities, the brigade commander would have already let him take charge and establish the new Second Regiment of the 386th Brigade.
However, the normal combat strength of the new regiment now exceeds 6,000 people.
But Li Yunlong had no way to tell the brigade commander, resulting in many soldiers now looking like militiamen, with only a white towel on their heads.
If one could own an Eighth Route Army military cap, that would be the treatment of a platoon-level official.
Fortunately, this time the Yan'an headquarters stepped in and directly approved 5,000 sets of cotton military uniforms for him, which finally solved his urgent problem.
However, the great man that Li Yunlong had in mind was none other than his good partner, Wu Changfeng, deputy commander of the New 1st Regiment.
Wu Changfeng: My Captain Li, please thank me properly as soon as possible.
If it weren't for me, I would often secretly report your difficulties to Commander Song.
How could the higher-ups specifically give you so much extra weapons, uniforms and cotton-padded clothes?
The Japanese also had different views on the large-scale sweep before the Spring Festival.
It is freezing cold in North China right now, and the Japanese don't want to move.
According to the original plan, we had to wait until spring to start sweeping the base.
The conspiracy was used to disrupt the spring ploughing of the people under the rule of the Eighth Route Army in order to weaken the strength of the Eighth Route Army.
Who would have known that the North China Expeditionary Army Headquarters would transfer two strange troops to Yoshio Shinozuka's First Army.
They are the 4th Division transferred from Wuhan, and the 39th Division of the Kwantung Army transferred from the Northeast.
As soon as this "good" news came out, Yoshio Shinozuka looked gloomy.
Needless to say, the Fourth Division was afraid of fighting, cowardly, and avoided fighting, and it had a very bad reputation.
In the Battle of Wuhan that ended in October, the combat results of the Japanese 4th Division made the Central China Expeditionary Army very dissatisfied.
As long as they blocked the gap for two days and two nights, they could block the retreat of nearly 300,000 nationalist troops who were short of ammunition.
Unexpectedly, they set up camp and made a fire to cook on the side of the road.
The 4th Division chose to turn a blind eye as the Nationalist troops retreated to the other side of the road.
When the main force of the National Army retreated the next day, the 4th Division chose a tactic rarely seen in the world.
Under the constant urging of the Central China Expeditionary Force, they packed up everything and began to confront the National Army.
They rushed recklessly on the road and directly pushed the national army off the road.
Several generals of the Gui army came to see the commander of the Fifth War Zone, all wanting to fight this group of Japanese troops.
This was not a good idea, because there were already four or five Japanese divisions chasing us from behind.
If we get entangled with the 4th Division, let’s not talk about whether we can get rid of them.
If they were surrounded by the Japanese pursuers behind them, the hundreds of thousands of nationalist troops left behind would be finished.
At this time, the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone suddenly remembered what Song Wenwan said to him before leaving.
If they had encountered the Japanese 4th Division while breaking out, they might have had some chance of survival.
He thought about the reaction of the 4th Division in the past two days and immediately gave the order.
Let all the retreating troops clear the road and wait on both sides of the road.
As expected by the commander of the Fifth War Zone, the Japanese soldiers ran along the road smoothly, as if they did not see the National Army.
The most bizarre thing was that they saw some Kuomintang troops abandon their vehicles and run away.
They also went to the Nationalist Army and asked them if their cars were out of gasoline.
Finally, a division commander of the National Army on the car gave the Japanese devils ten large yellow croakers.
Then the Japanese took action themselves and filled up the fuel tank of the Kuomintang division commander's car.
They also exchanged contact information, and the Japanese officer even said: Fighting is not good, doing business is the most important thing.
Before leaving, the Japanese officer also gave the National Army division commander two barrels of gasoline.
He also repeatedly stated that he was very honest in doing business and hoped to continue doing business in the future.
When the Kuomintang division commander came back, he was almost taken away by the Military Control Commission on suspicion of treason because of this incident.
Finally, thanks to the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone, he gave his full guarantee and helped explain.
The Kuomintang division commander handed over the contact information of the 4th Division, thus saving his own head.
The 4th Division continued to advance and finally met their own pursuers.
When asked whether they had stopped the Kuomintang army from retreating, the 4th Division said that they were surrounded by the Kuomintang army.
After they broke out of the encirclement, they never saw any national army again.
The angry Central China Expeditionary Army headquarters sent three consecutive telegrams of reprimand.
In the end, they really looked down upon this unit and assigned them to the First Army of Shanxi.
Yoshio Shinozuka didn't want them either, but he had no choice but to grit his teeth and accept them because he really didn't have enough troops.
The 4th Division, the "rogue" in the army, is already disgusting enough.
As a result, the North China Expeditionary Army sent another "ancestor" to reinforce Yoshio Shinozuka.
The ones coming this time are the 39th Division of the Kwantung Army.
This is a well-equipped Type A division with nearly 30,000 people.
It is said that the division commander, Inoue Ueyasu, is the illegitimate son of a Japanese nobleman.
Because he has some talent in fighting, with the support of their family, he has now become a division commander.
When this guy was in the Kwantung Army, he relied on the protection of his family and was usually quite arrogant.
In the First Army's combat meeting room, his presence made Shinozuka Yoshio feel very awkward because everyone was actually a lieutenant general.
Although Yoshio Shinozuka was the commander of the First Army, he was superior to the division commander Inoue.
However, the North China Expeditionary Army Headquarters had already secretly informed Yoshio Shinozuka.
This Inoue is a troublemaker. He has people backing him up. If you have nothing to do, just stay away from him.
The 39th Division came to Shanxi this time for the purpose of training troops in the Second War Zone.
This is also a preparation for the battle to the north half a year later.
But Inoue was too arrogant and didn't give Yoshio Shinozuka any face at all.
The words were full of sarcasm, indicating that Shanxi's First Army was fighting at a disadvantage.
Not only did he have more than 100,000 elite imperial troops, but he also had more than 100,000 imperial aide troops.
You said that you guys, it's one thing that you can't defeat the Second War Zone, but you can't even defeat the Eighth Route Army, which makes you seem like a waste.
Yoshio Shinozuka, who was sitting next to Inoue, was shaking with anger.
I thought to myself that you, the Inoue family, are nothing. All you can do in the Northeast is bully the Anti-Japanese United Army.
Don't forget how tight the blockade of Northeast China was by your Kwantung Army.
The Anti-Japanese Allied Forces are now fighting entirely by captured supplies. How long has it been since they received any material support?
You've been suppressing them for so many years, but you haven't done anything to them, right? How dare you talk nonsense here?