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Chapter 71 Return to the capital (5)

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    Over the smoke-filled Jingjiang City and beneath the moon-shielding Northeastern transport fleet, waves of paratroopers from the 44th Airborne Brigade fell unstoppably from the sky like raindrops between the land and air firepower nets on both sides, in the dark blue night sky.  It was densely covered with white umbrella flowers, which symbolized death to the Japanese army, and hundreds of fighter planes from both sides flying up and down, fighting with each other. The roar of the fighter planes was deafening.  The well-equipped and well-trained Northeast Army paratroopers skillfully took off their heavy parachute bags as soon as they landed on the ground, and used their elite individual weapons to engage in fierce street fighting with the Japanese army; and those who witnessed this exciting scene  The soldiers of the Northeastern Army who defended the city were even more motivated and launched wave after wave of strong counterattacks against the Japanese troops who were bathed in the death fire rain consisting of overwhelming rocket shells.  The fierce artillery fire from the air caused the Japanese army's vehicles transporting wounded soldiers to the rear and ammunition to the front to explode and overturn one after another.  As time goes by, the Northeastern Army's powerful air superiority, new land-air cooperation tactics, and new weapons participating in the war are clearly and rapidly changing the balance of victory on the Jingjiang battlefield; and other units of the 1st Front Army on the ground are also  Under the cover of the air force and the path opened by napalm bombs, they attacked the Japanese army's shaky encirclement with increasing ferocity.  For Long Yunfeng who was trapped in the city, the dawn of victory had slowly appeared like the white fish belly exposed in the east, but he was still worried because the brigade headquarters of the Liaojun 45th Brigade had been lost to the 101st Division for nearly an hour.  .

    "Abe-kun, first of all, congratulations on your ability to avenge the humiliation of Gaoyou. As commanders and colleagues, we are all very happy for Abe-kun's achievements. You must be sitting at the headquarters of the enemy's 45th Brigade to receive my report.  Message, while congratulating you on your great military achievements, I dare to ask Mr. Abe, where is Chu Qiming¡¯s head now?¡±

    The Northeastern Army's 45th Brigade Headquarters has changed its owner. In a small farmyard hidden among the green vines and trees, Major General Abe Norihide, commander of the Japanese Tenth Brigade, is watching Commander Tsukada's attack with a complicated expression.  Message to him.  The tone and wording of this message are almost flattering, and the reason is not difficult to guess.  At this moment, all the Japanese troops in Jingjiang were in a dangerous battle situation, and the victory of the 10th Brigade's raid unknowingly became a little comfort in Commander Tsukada's heart.  Like many senior Japanese generals, Tsukada had subconsciously developed a fear of the Manchurian army. For Japanese generals, the glory of defeating a brigade of the Manchurian Army was definitely greater than the annihilation of a reorganized division of the Kuomintang Central Army.  For many years, the Northeastern Army's tenacious combat effectiveness, endless new weapons, and the huge lethality it brought to the Japanese army have become a dark cloud for the Japanese army.  Norihide Abe, who had witnessed the combat effectiveness of the 45th Brigade of the Northeastern Army in the Battle of Gaoyou, was extremely disturbed by the nickname "God of War" given to him by reporters accompanying the army. In this raid, he led a brigade with 60% of its strength.  The regiment defeated an opponent's regiment that was seriously short of ammunition and wiped out no more than a hundred or ten enemies. It was really not something worth showing off to.  However, Abe also understood that every confrontation between the Imperial Army and the Manchurian Army basically ended in failure. In the process of fighting against the Manchurian Army, the country needed a war hero to publicize and boost the morale of the soldiers and civilians, but he was not biased.  Unfortunately, I was pushed into this limelight.  When he thought that tomorrow's "Asahi Shimbun" would definitely exaggerate his "victory", Major General Abe smiled bitterly and stared at the message sent to him by Lieutenant General Tsukada. The last sentence made his smile freeze on his face.  : "Chu Qiming must not have gone far, send out all the troops to search for me!" If the opponent's top commander can be captured alive or killed, then this "victory" will be even more perfect, and the domestic propaganda will be more confident.

    In fact, Chu Qiming¡¯s current position is just like the saying to Abe Norihide: far away in the horizon, close in front of you.  Less than fifty meters away from the Jiangnan courtyard house that had become the headquarters of the Japanese Tenth Brigade, under a grape tree in an ordinary manor, there was an inconspicuous well that had dried up, entering the courtyard.  The Japanese army made several cursory inspections but failed to find anything else underneath.  A tunnel was dug out sideways at the bottom of the well, leading to an underground storage room the size of an ordinary room.  This was originally a place where the owner of the courtyard, a rich man, hid money and food. It was accidentally discovered by the engineers of the 45th Brigade when they were laying landmines.  When the Japanese army suddenly attacked his headquarters, Chu Qiming, who had no time to retreat, had to hide inside with his accompanying guards.

    ¡°Brigadier, what should we do now?¡± In the darkness filled with humid air, deputy brigade commander Mu Zanchun, who was hiding here together, lowered his voice and said softly.  Because hiding here, one could clearly hear the heavy sound of Japanese soldiers¡¯ leather boots trampling on the ground outside. If the sound was louder, they might be discovered, so everyone held their breath and tried not to make any noise.

    "I think Abe Norihide is deploying all his troops to search for us at this time. Presumably his headquarters does not have many troops to defend us."??, splitting waves of flesh and blood, and ugly Japanese heads flying up with streams of dirty blood amidst the strange screams.  The small village of Gaozhuang was immediately flooded by a mountain of corpses and a sea of ??blood.

    When the dark clouds that had dominated the sky for more than ten days finally dissipated and were replaced by the scorching sun, more than 2,200 people from the two main brigades of the Japanese 10th Brigade that invaded Gaozhuang had become the Northeast Army.  The fallen souls of the 1st Cavalry Brigade.  The complete destruction of the main force of the 10th Brigade marked the complete failure of the Japanese army's offensive plan against Jingjiang. At the same time, the Japanese 12th Front Army, whose frontal offensive also failed, immediately fell into great passivity.  Faced with the regained strength of the Northeastern Army, which was chasing and annihilating them all over the mountains and plains, Commander-in-Chief Tsukada, after receiving the approval of Yuan Sugiyama, gradually reduced his troops and retreated to the Nanjing and Jiangyin lines, and began to build the Japanese army's "last Jiangbei defense line."

    Although the East China Theater had achieved another major victory, and the development of the war seemed to be getting closer and closer to Chiang Kai-shek's dream of "returning the capital to Nanjing," the war in South China was further deteriorating.  By September 6, the two provinces of Guangdong and Hainan were basically occupied by the Japanese army; on the 7th and 8th, the Japanese army divided into two groups and captured Yongzhou in Hunan and Ganzhou in Jiangxi; on the 9th, the Japanese Third Division  One group also captured Longyan and other places in Fujian, and continued to move northward.  Faced with such a dangerous situation, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the South China Theater of the National Army, General Xue Yue, immediately mobilized heavy troops to prepare for the front line in Hengyang to stop the Japanese invaders from continuing to invade the north. Another bloody battle in southern Hunan was about to begin.

    Almost at the same time, on September 10, under pressure from all parties at home and abroad, Chiang Kai-shek finally issued a statement in Huanggang, Hubei Province, recognizing the legal status of the Communist Party of China and issuing an order to formally announce the reorganization of the main force of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in the northwest Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region.  The Eighteenth Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army and the Southern Red Army guerrillas were reorganized into the new Fourth Army; the leader of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong, also issued a corresponding statement, announcing that "the Red Army of the Communist Party of China accepts the unified command of the National Government and fights to defend the Chinese nation."  At this point, the national anti-Japanese national united front based on the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was finally established after going through ups and downs and the efforts of all parties.  After receiving the order, the Red Army in northwest Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Jiangnan took off the red star, replaced it with the blue sky and white sun military emblem, which was regarded as a symbol of hostility in the past, and marched boldly into the battlefields of East and South China.

    Although the names of the Eighteenth Group Army and the newly formed Fourth Army are the same as in history, their scale is much larger.  Among them, the 18th Group Army has 7 divisions (in addition to many independent brigades and independent regiments), numbered from 201st to 207th divisions. Each division has three brigades (regiments) and one division directly under its headquarters.  The actual strength of the entire group army exceeds 150,000. The commander-in-chief is Zhu De and the deputy commander is Peng Dehuai. The newly formed 4th Army has 8 detachments with more than 25,000 troops. Ye Ting is the commander and Xiang Ying is the deputy commander.  On the whole, the equipment of the New Fourth Army is relatively inferior, but the main divisions of the 18th Group Army are basically all Japanese-made weapons. The soldiers have strong and durable Type 38 rifles. In addition, the grassroots units also have a large number of Northeast-made weapons.  Field artillery, mortars, light and heavy machine guns and other weapons, the firepower of the troops is not even inferior to that of the direct troops of the Kuomintang Central Committee. The reason is self-evident. This is also the reason why Chiang Kai-shek, after seeing the equipment of the CCP troops, can't wait to send the Red Army to the front line of the anti-Japanese battlefield as soon as possible.  One of the reasons.

    After the news of the reorganization by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China came out, it immediately attracted a wave of praise and congratulations in the country.  Zhang Xueliang, who contributed the most behind the scenes, was naturally the first to send a congratulatory message to Yan'an. In addition, a large number of famous Kuomintang generals such as Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren, and Zhang Zhizhong also sent messages expressing their sincere welcome to the Chinese Communist Red Army's joining the ranks of the Anti-Japanese War.  As the president of the National Government, Chiang Kai-shek's personal prestige also increased sharply because of this move to promote unity within the nation. Naturally, he himself would not miss such a great opportunity to put money on his face.  Throughout his life, Chiang Kai-shek could tolerate warlords, politicians, and gangs from all over the world who opposed him, but he had always been incompatible with the CCP, which had firm political beliefs. Now that Chiang Kai-shek can even be included in the CCP, who else can he not tolerate?  For a time, the number of warlords from all over the country calling the central government to request military personnel to fight the war increased sharply.  Long Yun, chairman of Yunnan Province, wrote to the central government and declared: "Yunnan Province can send ten divisions and provide 300,000 strong men."; Chairman of Sichuan Province Liu Xiang sent a telegram to the whole country and generously stated: "Sichuan Province can support the central government with 3 million tons of grain.  and 600,000 strong men, and several other civilian military supplies"; Qinghai Provincial Chairman Ma Bufang also took the initiative to apply to dispatch several cavalry divisions and Hui militia to support the Central Army in the warShandong, Shanxi, Ningxia, Xikang, Guizhou and other local generals all agreed in unison  He was anxious to ask for help to join the battle.  In this golden autumn season when the Japanese invaded in 1937, China ushered in an era of unprecedented unity.  (I was dumped by my sister and I was depressed) (Remember this website address: www.hlnovel.com
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