"What hubris! Your Excellency Commander, I, Gu Shoufu, request to lead my troops to dispatch and immediately enter the new regiment! ”

Gu Shoufu also heard the report of the Japanese staff officer who came to report the situation, and asked for war with righteous indignation.

As soon as Gu Shoufu finished speaking, the brigades and wing-level officers to which his division belonged also asked for battle. Li Yunlong's move is simply contempt for the combat strength of the 6th Division and an insult to the 6th Division!

Okabe Naosaburo waved his hand and motioned to the generals of the 6th Division in Gu Shoufu and other places to sit down first, and then said in a condensed voice: "Li Yunlong's move seems to have received the news that the commander of Gu Shoufu's division led your troops to Taiyuan by air. The intelligence of the Eighth Route Army was really fast, and not long after your unit arrived in Taiyuan, the other party actually called to demonstrate. ”。

"Your Excellency Commander, Li Yunlong is arrogant, and he has not comprehended the power of my 6th Division. Your Excellency, Your Excellency, His Majesty the Emperor has given me the order of the 6th Division to dispose of the new Division within a few days. Now the other party is now humiliating our 6th Division, and he is humiliating his own army to lead his troops to attack Hengshan. ”

For Gu Shoufu, there has never been such a Chinese army that would dare to despise the 6th Division so much. As Gu Shoufu himself is concerned, the 6th Division under his command is one of the two units that the Japanese Army can fight the most, with strong combat effectiveness and well-equipped, and there is no hard battle that the 6th Division cannot handle.

What's more, the other party is still a unit of the Eighth Route Army, which makes Gu Shoufu feel that Li Yunlong's clear invitation to battle is a great insult to the 6th Division.

As the current division commander of the 6th Division, Gu Shoufu's anger has been aroused, and he at least wants to declare it.

Okabe Naosaburo said: "The head of Gu Shoufu's division will stabilize first, Li Yunlong's move is to provoke your department to go out immediately. But your department has just been airlifted to Taiyuan, and you need to rest at least for a day to replenish your strength. Miyano-kun, head of the Gu Shou Division, what do you think? ’。

Taro Miyano, chief of staff of the First Army of the Japanese Army, sat on the left side of the below, but got up and said, "Gentlemen, Your Excellency Commander's suggestion is right. The headquarters of the new regiment occupies the depths of Heng Mountain, and there are many important strongholds to control and contain its hands. General Shinozuka led his troops to storm the base of the new regiment, and gnawed into the foot of Cuiping Peak and Tianfengling Mountain little by little, but at that time it was already in the predicament of outflanking the new regiment. So, we have to learn our lessons. ”。

Taro Miyano and Naosaburo Okabe both said so, and the generals and officers of the 6th Division in Toshio and other places sat down one after another, and at least they needed to give Naosaburo Okabe and Taro Miyano face.

Seeing this, Naosaburo Okabe continued to condense: "Judging from the content of Li Yunlong's explicit invitation to fight, the other party obviously wants to provoke us to send troops immediately. It's just that this makes our preparations very troublesome. If you are not prepared, you may be captured by the other party. Li Yunlong's new regiment is not an ordinary national army, like other Chinese armies, which can be crushed with a single blow. ”。

"What do you mean, Your Excellency the Commander?"

Gu Shoufu said in a condensed voice, Okabe Naosaburo is at least the commander of the First Army. The 6th Division is currently being airlifted north and is part of the First Army, so it has to obey the orders of Naosaburo Okabe.

Even if Gu Shoufu is arrogant, it is impossible not to obey the orders of his superiors.

What's more, Okabe Naosaburo is the commander of the Mongolian Xinjiang garrison, and on the surface, at least he has a much higher status than him as the commander of a division Gu Shoufu, and Gu Shoufu does not dare to act without authorization.

Okabe Naosaburo didn't expect Gu Shoufu to have such a mental activity in his heart at this time, but pointed to the military map of Jin Province on the wall, and said: "Li Yunlong's base is still in the depths of Heng Mountain, and he controls the valley mouth of the Jinlong Gorge, the valley road, the plank road, and the Yunge Hongqiao Pass, Cuiping Peak, Tianfeng Ridge, Hutou Mountain and other dangerous places. His troops stuck in the mountains, relying on the advantage of the steep terrain and easy to defend and difficult to attack, provoked our army to attack and defeat our army with leisure. What this commander means is that after resting in Taiyuan for a day, your troops will assemble and set off the next morning, first go north to Yangmingbao through the Tongpu Railway, exit the Guandong from Daixian, Fanzhi, and Pingxingguan and enter the Guanshui River, and go north along the river to attack in a big way. ”。

"Your Excellency, Commander, isn't that inconsistent with what you meant before!" Gu Shoufu was a little puzzled at this time.

Okabe Naosaburo said slyly: "It's inconsistent, but His Majesty the Emperor has ordered us to deal with the new group of Li Yunlong's troops entrenched in Hengshan within a few days, and there is no other way." Because Li Yunlong's troops occupy Hengshan and can't hold out, it is impossible for us to carry out a dragnet blockade, which is too long. Only to carry out the orders of His Majesty the Emperor! ”。

"But!"

Naosaburo Okabe turned around: "This is a clear solution. The terrain of Hengshan is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Therefore, on the surface, the commander of Gu Shoufu's division, you led your troops to attack Hengshan on a large scale, and secretly, we selected an elite special operations small unit from your department to sneak attack from the side of Hutou Mountain. I've been told that there is a trail that leads to the back of Hutou Mountain. But this information, only Gu Shoufu can know! ”。

"Hai, Your Excellency Commander, I understand my humble duties!" Tani Toshio knew what Okabe Naosaburo meant.

Okabe Naosaburo and Miyano Taro looked at each other and said: "Commander of the Gu Shoufu Division, after you led your headquarters into the city to rest for a day, you assembled and set off the next morning, and after going north to Yangming Fort by train, you turned to Dai County, Fanzhi, and drove straight to Pingxingguan. I have ordered Daisuke Kotani, who is stationed at Heixing Pass, to lead the garrison to restock the food, grass and ammunition needed by your army of 23,000 within Heixing Pass. ”。

"Hay, please rest assured, Your Excellency, Commander. Our 6th Division is good at attacking fortified positions, and once it is able to sneak attack and capture Hutou Mountain from Hutou Mountain with a small force of special combat troops, the new regiment under Li Yunlong's command will inevitably be frightened! Gu Shoufu patted his chest and reassured.

Okabe Naosaburo was very satisfied when he saw this, at least although Yoshio Shinozuka was killed by the Eighth Route Army, and the loss of troops was reduced to 20,000 troops, which once caused the morale of all the departments under the jurisdiction of the First Army of the Japanese Army to be demoralized for a while.

However, the 6th Division went north to Jin Province, so that after Naosaburo Okabe temporarily took over the First Army, he finally had a somewhat stable mentality.

"Yo Xi, the commander of Gu Shoufu's division really deserves to be a strong general of the empire. However, the new regiment, under the command of Li Yunlong, has defeated the encirclement and suppression of various armies of our empire several times, and it cannot be underestimated! In order to be able to destroy the base area of the new regiment in Hengshan in one fell swoop, I plan to send additional men and horses of the 36th Division, the 37th Division, and the 9th Brigade to carry out a tight blockade around the towns around Hengshan in Hunyuan, Guangling, Lingqiu, and Pingxingguan. Once your troops conquer the base area of the new regiment, the remnants of it will inevitably escape from Hengshan, and these troops will be used for blockade. ”

Gu Shoufu paused heavily and said, "Your Excellency, commander, there will be no problem in this way." Your Excellency the Commander has laid a net from heaven and earth, and the new regiment and Li Yunlong will inevitably die! ”。