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Chapter Twenty-Eight: Iron Warriors


Suddenly Shen Kai had an idea and said, "I have an idea.

Wouldn't it be better to use the Japanese radio station to send false information back?"

Chen Zikun laughed loudly: "You are indeed a talent, where did you learn these?"

Shen Kai said: "I read a lot of books when I was a child, so I naturally learned it."

Chen Zikun was very interested: "What book are you reading?"

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Legend of Heroes of the Embroidered Statue, and The Legend of Shushan Swordsman by Huanzhu Louzhu."

Shen Kai counted the treasures on his fingers.

Chen Zikun smiled: "Okay, you can go and receive the reward."

Shen Kai's reward for reporting the spy was one thousand yuan in French currency, which was a large amount of money, enough to cover his expenses for two to three years.

The soldiers who carried out the arrest mission were also rewarded, and Lin Wenlong also received two hundred yuan.

I was so happy that I was rewarded, and I wanted to catch a few more spies to improve my life.

Chen Zikun had already thought of Shen Kai's plan, but after interrogation he found out that the two agents were not from the Central China Expeditionary Army, but from the North China Front Army, which meant that they could not be used to induce the Ushijima Manchu Brigade to carry out wrong actions.

Combat.

I'm afraid these two spies are just the tip of the iceberg.

Beitai must have spies gathered all over the streets.

Huayuankou burst its banks and the Yellow River flooded.

A large number of refugees crossed the mountains and came to the north of the Yangtze River, which caused a sharp increase in food pressure in Beitai.

The food reserves originally prepared for a year became insufficient due to the sharp increase in the refugee population.

We are all compatriots.

We can neither expel them nor let them starve to death.

We can only create refugees to nourish them.

In the refugee camp, old and weak people in ragged clothes were queuing up to get food.

In the distance, there was a Taishi chair beside the straw hut.

A man with a cold eyebrow was sitting on it.

Standing on the left and right were four big men.

They were members of the Red Spear Congregation from Henan.

When they arrived in the refugee camp, they were still so domineering that even the police could not control them.

Instead, they had to use their power to manage the refugee camp.

No one recognized that the leader of the Red Spear Society was none other than Xia Jingqi, the adjutant of the Jiangdong Provincial Army who had been defeated and fled during the warlord melee.

In the past three months, the population of North Thailand has increased dramatically.

The original municipal government team is no longer able to cope with it.

The civil servants headed by Xiao Lang have been working day and night, sleeping only four or five hours a day.

How can they have time to take care of the refugee camps?

These trivial things.

Ruan Mingchuan, editor-in-chief of Huaijiang Newspaper, was not idle either.

The newspaper moved west to Beitai, and its sales increased instead of falling.

It was unexpected.

Reporters and editors were busy interviewing people everywhere, compiling anti-Japanese news, motivating the people and boosting morale.

Every day the newspaper published the first Second edition, fixed Setting aside a space to report on the current situation of Chen Zikun's family, such as General Chen Zikun's inspection of the artillery positions today, and Ms.

Yao Yilei's condolences to the wounded soldiers tomorrow, may seem ordinary, but in fact it conveys a message, that is, the determination of the top management to defend Beitai.

As long as Chen Zikun and his family stayed in Beitai, their military morale would be stable.

A ship transporting iron ore set sail.

The Beitai Steel Plant has stopped production and all the machinery and equipment that can be transported away.

However, the mine is still working overtime.

Before the Japanese army takes over here, it must be as much as possible.

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Resources are transported away.

Shen Kai and Lin Wenlong were sitting on this bulk carrier.

They were people specially approved by Chen Zikun to leave Beitai.

Shen Kai reported to the Bureau of Military Investigation and Statistics, and Lin Wenlong went to study at Southwest Associated University.

In the great era, everyone's fate is different.

You can't control it yourself, you can only go with the flow.

A Japanese reconnaissance plane flew over the sky.

Shen Kai pointed at the sky and said: "Heaven, it will be sunny one day."

Lin Wenlong looked at the blue sky and understood what his old classmate meant.

He nodded vigorously and said, "Yes."

The whistle blew, the cargo ship loaded with iron ore sailed upstream, the chimney spewed black smoke, and the steam engine roared overwhelmed, just like this disaster-ridden motherland.

The Japanese reconnaissance plane flew back to the provincial capital airport after making a circle and reported to the brigade commander, Major General Ushijima Mitsuru, that no trace of Saito's brigade was found.

At the same time, plainclothes reconnaissance teams discovered a large number of Saito Brigade relics in the rural areas of Jiangnan, including military uniforms, leather shoes, lunch boxes, raincoats, etc., but no survivors were found.

There are various signs that the Saito brigade has been completely destroyed.

Ushijima paced back and forth in the office, frowning.

A group of more than a thousand people disappeared without a sound.

It was really strange.

Even in an encirclement and annihilation war, it was impossible to wipe out all of them.

Could it be that the Chinese army was in Beitai?

Heavy ambush However, according to intelligence from Chongqing, there are no regular troops in Beitai.

The Saito Brigade must be found no matter what, so Ushijima Mitsuru ordered the Forty-fifth Regiment to attack.

The Forty-fifth Regiment is the one to which Saito's Battalion belongs.

The commander of the Regiment, Okamoto Joeji, is a steady-style colonel.

General Ushijima is relieved when he is sent to attack.

The Okamoto regiment marched out of the provincial capital singing military songs.

Among the crowd watching the excitement at the city gate, someone silently wrote down the number of soldiers, weapons, horses and vehicles of the unit.

An hour later, in a remote corner of the provincial capital, the radio transmitter started ticking.

The Okamoto Regiment is short of a brigade, but still has 2,300 troops.

It is equipped with six infantry guns, two anti-tank guns, and more importantly, it has a radio station that can report the situation to the brigade and regiment headquarters at any time.

A brigade was inexplicably annihilated.

Captain Okamoto did not dare to advance arrogantly.

The troops huddled together and rolled forward.

Scouts came out in all directions and were stationed at every step.

The road from the provincial capital to Jiangbei has been destroyed.

Every distance is a big pit, or Huge boulders blocked the road, and there were rivers and ditches on the roadside where there were obstacles.

Vehicles could not get around it, so engineers had to build the road.

This journey took three days to complete.

After finally driving to the southern coast of Beitai, Colonel Okamoto sent several squadrons to sweep around to investigate the situation, but the nearby villages were all deserted.

The raiding troops stepped on landmines and lost dozens of people.

They came back in a state of panic, even Not a single chicken was caught.

While thinking about how to attack, suddenly the outpost came to report that several people holding white chess pieces and pulling carts came from the north bank.

The commander of the company hurriedly went to check.

He raised his binoculars and saw three guys in ragged clothes stumbling over while pulling a broken car.

There was a white flag on the car.

A closer look showed that it was not a white flag, but looked like a spiritual flag.

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"Your Excellency, let's fire, it may be a Chinese conspiracy."

A major shouted, holding his saber.

Colonel Okamoto calmly raised his right hand wearing a white glove: "No, look carefully, they are wearing the Imperial Army's 98-style uniforms."

The officers picked up their binoculars one after another, and sure enough, the rag strips on the visitor's body were exactly the 1998 military uniforms.

Because the lapel uniforms of this new equipment were similar to the uniforms of the Kuomintang army, they almost recognized it.

As expected, the prisoners who came were the prisoners of Saito's brigade.

They burst into tears when they saw their own people, as if they had been greatly stimulated.

Three of their fingers were cut off, leaving only the thumb and little finger, let alone holding a gun.

Even doing ordinary labor is difficult.

"Your Excellency, come and see" someone pointed at the cart and exclaimed.

The car was equipped with many ears and a human head.

Okamoto wiped his glasses and took a closer look.

The head turned out to be that of Major Shinjiro Saito.

"Baga" Captain Okamoto was furious.

He saw a blood-stained letter under Saito's head.

He opened it and saw that it was a letter of challenge, asking Okamoto to fight to the death on the south bank.

If he agreed, Just fire a red flare into the sky at night.

The captain of the Imperial Army was certainly not a fool.

Colonel Okamoto sneered, tore up the challenge letter, and personally questioned the released prisoners.

He gradually figured out the reason for the destruction of Saito's brigade, and his expression gradually became serious.

It turned out that The opponent did not use any conspiracy, but was indeed extremely powerful, with heavy artillery support and the cooperation of a powerful cavalry team.

"Since this is the case, it might as well be a fair fight."

Okamoto's ambition was aroused.

Since the Battle of Nanjing, he has never encountered a decent opponent.

The enemy in Beitai is so powerful, but it makes him more motivated to fight. .

After discussing the situation with his subordinate captains, they all expressed their willingness to engage in a head-on battle with the Chinese.

However, Okamoto still had some reservations.

He sent a telegram to the brigade headquarters requesting bomber support.

The Okamoto Regiment arrived at the bank of the Huai River.

Although the iron bridge was close at hand, the Regiment Commander was not allowed to attack.

He wanted to wait for the enemy to take the initiative to attack the next day, and then launch a annihilation campaign to eliminate the enemy on the south bank.

In the evening, a reconnaissance balloon was raised on the other side.

After seeing it, Colonel Okamoto cursed secretly that the cunning Chinese people could actually use technical weapons.

That night, the commander of the wing headquarters fired a red flare into the sky.

The Okamoto Regiment quietly laid down its pocket formation and waited for work.

It ambush an infantry squadron on the south side of the railway bridge, dig trenches, and set up crooked light machine guns and grenade launchers to specifically guard against enemy night attacks.

On the north shore, twenty American-made Christie T3 fast tanks drove out of the underground cave.

This is Chen Zikun's secret weapon.

He purchased it when he traveled to the United States two years ago and spent a lot of his savings.

This kind of tank equipment is 37 mm artillery and four machine guns, the firepower is quite fierce.

It can walk on crawlers or remove the crawlers and use road wheels.

At this time, the speed is as high as 74 kilometers per hour, and it has super maneuverability.

With the Tax Police Headquarters' lessons learned, Chen Zikun did not dare to reveal that these tanks were imported in the name of agricultural tractors and had been stored in Beitai since they were shipped.

Tank crews were secretly recruited for training.

Beitai had hundreds of hectares of public land. , let the tanks with their turrets removed run wildly inside, declare to the outside world mechanized farming, and build a steel army in two years, just for today.

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In addition to these twenty tanks, the Beitai City Mobile Police Brigade also has several British-made Cadenroyd light armored vehicles, as well as dozens of trucks with iron plates welded on the outside.

The trucks are full of infantry, carrying portable machine guns in their arms, and looking very solemn.

Military policemen wearing armbands maintained order on the streets and guided the tank formation to the Beitai Railway Station, where they would set out to attack the Japanese troops on the south bank.

Four German-made 105 howitzers have quietly entered the fighting position, and dozens of old Gruson 57 fast guns have also been pushed to the river bank, ready to use their remaining heat.

At Beitai Airport, four Boeing 281 fighter jets are being nervously armed.

Four 52-kilogram bombs are hanging under the belly of the aircraft.

The magazines of two 762-mm machine guns are filled with yellow bullet belts.

Chen Zikun has been running Jiangdong for more than ten years and has made a lot of money, but in the end he spent it all on these gadgets

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