Due to the poor sight of the road at night, coupled with the rugged mountain roads in Shanxi, Shaanxi, it is impossible to go far in one night, although Liu Lang wants to hurry as soon as possible, but Liu Lang believes that it is more important to keep the number secret. After such a delay, by the time the independent regiment arrived in the Niangziguan area of Jindong, it was already late September.

By this time, the Japanese army's intention to attack Shanxi in two directions had become more and more obvious.

In addition to Zhengding and Shijiazhuang, which were still in the hands of the Chinese army headed by Cheng Qian, the commander of the first theater of operations, most of Hebei was lost, and once the important town of Shijiazhuang was lost, Japan would use Hebei as a base to attack the five provinces of North China, and Shanxi was the place where it must be attacked.

There was an endless stream of troops rushing to Jindong, and the 4,000 people of the independent regiment belonging to the 22nd Group Army of the Sichuan Army were just one of them. Two of the three divisions of Feng Qinzai of the Northwest Army have arrived at Niangzi Pass, one division of Zeng Wanzhong's 3rd Army of the Central Army has arrived at Niangzi Pass, Feng Anbang's division of the 42nd Army of Sun Lianzhong's division has arrived at Niangzi Pass, and the rest of the divisions have not yet set off, the main force of the 22nd Group Army is still on the mountain road out of Sichuan and into Shaanxi at this time, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army is still waiting for the military order of the old man in Shanxi, and the 129th Division is still waiting.

That is to say, the strategy of more than 100,000 troops in the Niangzi Pass area deployed by the old Han in Shanxi to resist the enemy in front of Niangzi Pass has not even half of the troops in place at this time, and a total of 40,000 or 50,000 people have arrived in the defense area.

However, Liu Lang's independent regiment was really famous in the Great Wall battle, and the day after the independent regiment was stationed in the Niangziguan area, several lieutenant generals and division commanders called the regimental headquarters of the independent regiment one after another, hoping that Liu Lang would go to see him.

Liu Lang admires these lieutenant generals of the national army who are about to cooperate in the women's association and fight very bravely in the past time and space.

For example, Lieutenant General Feng Anbang, commander of the 42nd Army and commander of the 27th Division, was not only heroic in the Battle of Niangzi Pass, but also fought bloodily for more than 50 days in the defense of Dabie Mountain a year later to annihilate a large number of Japanese invaders.

For example, Major General Wu Shimin, commander of the 169th Division of the Northwest Army, is also a fierce general, even if he was promoted to lieutenant general and division commander for his military exploits in the future, he also went to the front line to command the soldiers to fight bloody battles against the Japanese invaders, and finally sacrificed his life for the country in the most difficult anti-Japanese battle in 1941.

They were all posthumously recognized as revolutionary martyrs by the future republic.

Since they were invited, how could Liu Lang not go? Liu Tuanzuo's characteristic has always been that he can unite all the forces that can be united to fight, rather than a young man sleeping on a cool kang ---- relying on firepower. That would not do you the slightest benefit except to be saddened by the casualty figures of the troops.

If you want to be united, you can't just have a mouth, you have to take some practical action. Fortunately, Liu Lang had anticipated the complex composition of the troops in the defense zone before he set out on the expedition, and if he wanted to build a relationship, he naturally had to prepare gifts.

The current independent regiment is not an independent regiment that went to Rehe four years ago and did its best to arm itself. Not to mention that the wealth is so rich that it is very rich, looking at the domestic armies, the richest is, of course, the non-independent regiment.

Liu Tuanzuo's original intention of pulling the wealthy businessmen of Beiping to form the Chinese Business Group was only to empty the wealth of Beiping, so that the little devils would not get their property and transport it back to China to make guns and cannons, and then attack China. His goal was achieved, and the Japanese, who captured Beiping and were happily preparing to harvest "grain", were a little confused.

Beiping, the largest city in northern China, is so poor that the rare treasures of the Palace Museum were transported by the Chinese before the war, and those treasures must be protected in that country. However, why are the merchants in Beiping so poor? Aside from the goods in the storefront, where are the legendary mountains of silver and gold bars piled up in the cellar?

Anyway, they searched through Beiping City and didn't find much, and the Supreme Commander of the Japanese North China Invading Army, Kazuki Kiyoji, had to admit sadly that this important town in northern China had a bad economy. If he hadn't been a little sane, he would have almost died in the north of China as his predecessor ---- Tashiro who died of anger because of his sudden dismissal.

I don't know if the Japanese lieutenant general who died violently in Tianjin, China, is the first high-ranking Japanese general to "die" in China since the July 7 Incident. Anyway, the Chinese newspapers have already written about him as the result of the Chinese army.

Liu Tuanzuo's original intention of emptying the wealth of Beiping has not only been achieved, but the development of Huashang Group in the past three years has far exceeded his imagination. The independent regiment, which accounts for 20 percent of the shares of the Chinese business group, has a disposable military expenditure that even exceeds that of a Chinese theater of operations.

This time I came to Jindong Niangzi Pass, considering that the national army was already equipped with Chinese official rifles in addition to the Central Army, and the rest of the Red Army, such as the Northwest Army, the Jin Army, and the Red Army reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, were still equipped with old-fashioned equipment such as Hanyang-made and Czech ZB-26, and the gifts prepared by Liu Lang to the lieutenant generals of various armies did not use the new weapons equipped by the independent regiment. Those new weapons were given to them, and they didn't take long, and there was no logistical ammunition supply, and it was a burning stick.

Therefore, the gifts prepared by Liu Lang were 50 submachine guns and 30,000 rounds of submachine gun ammunition for each division, as well as ten ZB-26 light machine guns, five Makqin heavy machine guns, and 30,000 rounds of 7.92 caliber ammunition.

Not to mention anything else, just to pull this batch of gifts, the baggage company of the independent regiment used a full 20 tripods, and pulled a lot of military supplies. But in Liu Lang's view, this is a must.

Establishing a good relationship with friendly forces, reducing your own casualties, and reducing friendly casualties, and killing and injuring more Japanese criminals, killing two birds with one stone, can be done by just sending some weapons.

The lieutenant generals and division commanders who received Liu Lang's gift were full of praise for the very "sensible" Colonel Liu, but every time they talked about defense matters during the banquet, Liu Lang talked about him left and right, even if he was in a hurry, he never expressed his willingness to be the defender of the frontal positions in the area of Jingcheng and Xuehua Mountain at Niangzi Pass, but only shirked and said that he was willing to listen to the deployment of the theater headquarters.

This is somewhat disappointing for Liu Lang for the enthusiastic lieutenant generals and division commanders. The Japanese army was very strong, and although they had a lot of troops, they were not very sure of themselves.

The reason why they invited a little colonel like Liu Lang to the barracks to talk with the respect of a lieutenant general is somewhat because of the reputation of Liu Lang leading the independent regiment and the two regiments of the 29th Route Army to resist the Eighth Division and finally rely on a sneak attack on its heavy artillery brigade to successfully defeat the Eighth Division in the Battle of the Great Wall four years ago. They also need to have such a unit to snipe the Japanese on the front line to boost morale.

Morale is a subtle thing, but it's there. Why is it necessary for every army to have a unit of sharp knives? There are vanguard soldiers in front to resist hard, and the rest of the army will grit their teeth and follow even if it is difficult, this is morale. As long as the sharp knife does not fall, the whole army will not collapse.

Reduced to each division, the first regiment is basically their sharp knife, and enlarged to the entire theater, Liu Lang's independent regiment, which has a brilliant record of defeating a division of the Japanese invaders, is the most suitable sharp knife unit in the minds of these generals.

However, Liu Lang made them a little disappointed this time, not only did he not have any intention of being a sharp knife army, but he also had a lot of complaints about the current defense line of nearly 150 miles from Longquan Pass to Jiulongguan and Maling Pass, and even the location where he is stationed now, although it is in the Niangziguan area, it is nearly fifty miles behind the Niangziguan defense line.

Is this to avoid war? The generals were a little dissatisfied with Liu Lang's approach, but they did not question it face-to-face. Liu Lang's Independent Regiment suffered 70 percent of the casualties in the Great Wall battle, and even blocked ten gold medals on the battlefield to pursue the Japanese invaders.

The generals couldn't figure out what Liu Lang was thinking, but Liu Lang himself was very numerous. He came to the Niangziguan battlefield, but he didn't fight hard with the little devils, so naturally he would immediately pull the Zhao Shoushan Division of the 17th Division of the Northwest Army from the Baoding battlefield into Jindong.

What he has to do now is to wait for Zhao Shoushan's 17th Division and the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of Liu Shuai, the Eighth Route Army, who is about to march to Jindong, with their assistance, he can use the strategy used by the 20th Division Kawagishi Fumizaburo in the past time and space to use the blank space of the defense lines of various Chinese armies to intersperse attacks on the defense points of various armies, and eventually lead to the failure of the Battle of Niangziguan to beat them.

In the past time and space, the little devil's strategy of dividing troops into two ways to continuously sneak attack the back of the national army was successful, but in this time and space, with his little butterfly, the little devil's behavior of stealing chickens and dogs will be locked by him Liu Lang and beaten in his own house, then, it is not just as simple as crying dad and calling mother.

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PS: I saw a message from a book friend, and there were a lot of complaints about the participation of animals like Xiong Er and Xiong Si in the Anti-Japanese War. All right! Fengyue will explain here a little that in the Anti-Japanese War, whether it was our Red Army or the National Army, there was actually a precedent for training animals to participate in the war. For example, the military dogs of the national army, as well as the training of military dogs of the Eighth Route Army in the Anti-Japanese War behind enemy lines, blowing up bunkers with explosives on their backs, and the sweep of the Japanese army with Chinese pastoral dogs in yellow clothes in the mountain passes, they used dogs to bark to remind the villagers in the distance, these are not Fengyue's nonsense. Of course, the panda's participation in the war is compiled by Fengyue, but Fengyue also hopes to add some warmth to the iron-blooded and ruthless artillery fire through the addition of a few small animals, and also to present the picture of both the Chinese nation and our animal partners swearing to fight back in this war, which was conceived by Fengyue before the book opened, and Fengyue itself is also a person who loves animals very much, which can be regarded as a little willfulness of Fengyue! Thank you for your understanding.