Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 702: Information from Nanjing

Tang Qiuli commanded an army of 180,000 to surround Taiyuan. In order to reduce the casualties of the siege troops, he used his brains and adopted layers of skinning tactics to gradually conquer important defense support points on the periphery of Taiyuan and clear obstacles. Other strongholds were destroyed.

After conquering, only Jinzhong remained, which was the target of the final attack and the last support point on the outskirts of Taiyuan that the Japanese army desperately defended. (Baidu search,)

The Japanese defensive forces fought fiercely in Jinzhong, and repeated attacks had little effect. Six Japanese fighter jets and one transport plane took off in a hurry after landing in Taiyuan. The commander of the ** Division Air Force, Le Yiqin, followed the commander of the division, Tang Qiu.

On Li Li's order, he led the fleet to take off to intercept and shoot down all the Japanese aircraft in the airspace around Liaoyang in Shanxi Province. Among the various documents sent back by the guard brigade responsible for searching for the wreckage of the Japanese aircraft, there was a document that shocked the whole country.

Okamura Neiji was killed, and Tang Qiuli couldn't believe it. He once again ordered Shan Hu to confirm the identities of the Japanese dead in the plane wreckage. This time they were really sure, and he also brought back a gold Japanese military uniform.

General's Badge, Tang Qiuli believed this was true. Among the surrounded Japanese troops, only Okamura Neji had such a high military rank.

He ordered Shen Jun's investigation department to immediately start propaganda against the Japanese troops in Taiyuan City, and use the news that Okamura Neiji had been killed to disintegrate the fighting spirit and morale of the Japanese soldiers in the city. As for the method to be adopted, Shen Jun chose on his own and asked for only one

, let every Japanese soldier know that Okamura Neji has been killed.

The news that Okamura Neiji was shot dead in the Chaoyang area was quickly spread across the country through Shen Jun's deliberate propaganda, leaflets distributed by the "Voice of Dingbian" radio station, which not only shocked the Chinese people, but also shocked the Japanese army in Taiyuan.

The people in Japan were in a state of panic all day long. Koichi Yoneuchi, the Minister of War in the Japanese Cabinet, was bitter and wanted to hit the wall. It was his instruction to let Okamura Neji take a plane to leave the embattled Taiyuan.

Okamura Neiji was surrounded in Taiyuan. The one who was most anxious was Koichi Mineuchi. Seeing the situation in North China eroding, after a few battles, he lost his troops and generals. Okamura Neji was also helpless. As the biggest backer of the Kwantung Army system, Army Minister Mitsui Isshin Mineuchi

In such a hurry, he finally wrested control of North China from the hands of the Chief of General Staff, Prince Zai Ren, and took advantage of Xiang Yue Qingji's series of military mistakes and defeats to squeeze out this troublesome guy and reduce the power of the Kwantung Army.

Expanded to North China.

This move achieved the goal of Koichi Yoneuchi, but everything went wrong in the subsequent development. Neji Okamura, who had high hopes, in addition to occupying Taiyuan and Shanxi and cheering up Kouichi Yoneuchi's faction for a period of time, the situation in North China suddenly changed.

Turn, Zhangjiakou was lost, Tianjin was lost, Peiping was besieged, the east bank of the Yellow River was defeated, the Kwantung Army's southward troops were struggling, and then more than 80,000 soldiers and Okamura Neji were surrounded in the isolated city of Taiyuan.

Judging from the situation in North China as a whole, the Kwantung Army's southward troops could not save Okamura Neiji no matter what. Tang Qiuli was determined to eat the main force of the North China Expeditionary Army, and Okamura Neiji could not break out and withdraw from Taiyuan.

In Pingjin, even if the Kwantung Army once again formed a powerful southward corps to rescue Okamura Neji and the people in danger, time did not allow it. Hundreds of thousands of troops went south, which took time, and Okamura Neji lacked time.

After weighing the left and right, whether Okamura Neji died in battle or was captured in Taiyuan, it was not in the interests of his group. Although this boastful guy made Koichi Mineuchi very angry, he had to save him. Arioka

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As long as Ningci is here, North China will still be in the hands of the Kwantung Army, and Zai Ren will not be able to intervene and arrange for his cronies. Yonei Koichi knows very well that Taiyuan cannot be protected, and the only thing he can count on is the more than 400,000 people in Cangzhou.

troops.

In order to firmly control the dominance of North China, he secretly instructed the Minister of War, Shigemitsu Aoi, to establish no less than twenty first-class army divisions, ten artillery regiments, five cavalry regiments, and three tanks in the mainland.

brigade troops, as a supplement to the Chinese

The troops of the Northern Expeditionary Army entered North China as quickly as possible. Before that, the Kwantung Army immediately organized troops to move south into the pass. As long as the Pingjin area was defended, Okamura Neiji would stand up as soon as additional troops arrived. The Kwantung Army in North China was still there.

within the sphere of influence.

Taking into account various factors, Okamura Neiji cannot die at the moment, nor can any problems arise. He personally sent a telegram to the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Nanjiro, and sent a plane to Taiyuan to pick up Okamura Neiji and go to Tianjin to command Cangzhou.

The Japanese army left behind 80,000 troops and left the precarious isolated city. The commander ran away alone. This is an extremely shameful behavior in any army, let alone the Japanese army, which has always flaunted the spirit of Bushido.

Koichi Mineuchi found a high-sounding reason. The special envoy from the base camp arrived in Tianjin and asked the commander of the North China Dispatch Army, Okamura Neiji, to report the situation in person and jointly seek a fundamental solution to the North China problem. But he was also afraid that Okamura Neiji, a guy like Okamura, would commit a sin.

Stubborn and unable to understand his true intentions, he issued an order to Okamura Neiji to go to Tianjin to report the war situation in the name of the base camp, and specifically asked the Kwantung Army Headquarters to send a senior staff officer to go on the same plane.

For no other reason than to use persuasion and coercion to get this guy on the plane when Okamura Neji was determined to save face and refused to leave Taiyuan, things went surprisingly smoothly. The plane landed in Taiyuan, and after reading the book from the base camp

Order, this senior staff officer fully expected that Okamura Neiji would show the spirit of a Japanese samurai and the character of a Japanese general.

He had already prepared a lot of rhetoric, such as living and dying with the soldiers, being loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, fighting to the end for the Yamato nation, shedding the last drop of blood for the Greater East Asia Holy War, living and dying with Taiyuan, and never leaving the front line. He had already prepared a lot of words to persuade.

The hero in his mind, His Excellency Neji Okamura, the pride of the Kwantung Army.

Unexpectedly, after reading the order personally issued by the Minister of War, Koichi Mineuchi, Okamura Neiji did not hesitate at all. He just said: "It is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders," and then he hurriedly packed up and handed over the command.

He gave it to the Taiyuan city defense commander and hurriedly got into the plane.

This senior staff officer, who was ready to speak out loud, felt a breath of anger stirring back and forth in his stomach without saying anything, and it became a knot of contempt and disrespect. He himself did not expect it, just because

Nanjiro's order became Okamura Neji's companion on the road to the underworld.

Okamura Neiji's death had a huge impact on the morale of the Japanese defenders in Taiyuan. Shen Jun, in particular, took advantage of this incident to make a big fuss. The news that Okamura Neiji abandoned his troops and escaped by himself spread like a plague among Japanese soldiers and

Spread among commanders at all levels, Japanese soldiers' will to resist

He was greatly shaken. It is very rare to fight to the death and go crazy even before death. Two days later, Jinzhong was conquered with extremely few soldier casualties beyond Tang Qiuli's expectations. The last battle outside Taiyuan was

A nail was pulled out, and more than 13,000 Japanese guards were wiped out.

Taiyuan appeared in front of Tang Qiuli like a naked beauty. However, this was a beauty covered in thorns. The reinforced concrete fortifications and fortifications all over the place were enough to chew on for a while, and,

Japanese troops fleeing outside Taiyuan

The soldiers all fled into the city, greatly increasing the number of Japanese guards. Although Shen Jun's strategy of attacking the heart was very effective, there were also many Japanese soldiers who resisted stubbornly and went crazy in the end. Tang Qiuli did not want to attack Taiyuan.

There were excessive casualties.

Tang Qiuli held a meeting of commanders above the regiment of the attack force to re-adjust the deployment. Chief of Staff Yang Ketian was assigning tasks to each unit. Director of Communications Chen Feng came in and handed Tang Qiuli a telegram, which was sent by Tang Qiusheng.

, while the Battle of Taiyuan was going on, the siege of Guandong

The various units of the Kwantung Army's southward troops have arrived at designated positions and will launch an attack on the Japanese army tomorrow evening. Tang Qiuli is relieved that this part of the Japanese army can be eliminated before the next wave of Kwantung Army's southward troops reaches North China. For the overall situation in North China,

, is of great significance.

As soon as Chen Feng left, Yu Deshui, the director of the Intelligence Department, came in in a hurry. Tang Qiuli smiled. Whenever the director was in a hurry, he always had important information, and most of it was not good news. He took the telegram and just

After reading the first few lines, I couldn't laugh anymore. It was indeed not good news, and it was definitely extremely unfavorable news for him and the doctor.

This is a telegram that Yu Deshui personally translated. It represents the highest level of top secret. In the Intelligence Division of the Army, only Yu Deshui has this authority. Others have no right to interrogate the contents of the telegram.

This made Tang Qiu Li tremble with fear. "Director Yu personally conveyed to the division commander that the special envoy of the Japanese base camp, Koichi Tanaka, arrived in Nanjing a few days ago and had a secret meeting with Duan Jingquan, a senior official of the Nanjing Military Commission, on a yacht in Mochou Lake. The content of the meeting is not yet known."

"According to the investigation, Duan is responsible for external liaison affairs in the Military Commission. He has the rank of lieutenant general and is a senior senior officer in the Military Commission. He studied in Japan in his early years and was trusted by many people. He has a close relationship with Wang Jingwei, the current chairman of the National Government. Tanaka Hongichi, Japan

The senior official in charge of China affairs in the General Staff Headquarters, with the rank of major general, specializes in instigating rebellion and winning over high-ranking party, government and military officials and senior generals of the Nationalist Government. The mission of coming to Jinling this time is to negotiate unilateral peace with the Nationalist Government."

"In addition, Nanjing has secretly formed a group against the division commander. The members are all important personnel in the national government or military committees. They often meet in secret. Our station has agents who have penetrated into the group, but they have not yet entered the core level. The intelligence coming out

The level is low and the core content is unknown. Dai Li’s Military Control Bureau is also monitoring the Japanese special envoy Tanaka Koichi. At present, Chairman Chiang’s attitude is ambiguous. Other information will be reported later.”

After reading this telegram, Tang Qiuli no longer had the intention to preside over the battle meeting for the general attack on Taiyuan. His expression changed several times. His mind was completely attracted by this top-secret information. When he saw the division commander suddenly changed his expression, the senior officers present at the meeting

They also stopped arguing and turned their attention to him.

(To be continued)