vrcanaries Chapter 255 Let’s Fight First
Chapter 255 Let’s Fight First
Xinglong County, Rehe Province
After settling his brothers in the Sichuan Army, Li Shaoyi immediately traveled into Rehe Province. Since there was nothing urgent in North China, Li Shaoyi planned to strike first.
If all the 12th Division arrives and we give them time to settle, Li Shaoyi will have no confidence in defeating them. But if they come little by little, and we attack them separately, then our chances of winning will be much greater.
"How are the plans going? How many teams can be deployed?"
Li Shaoyi leaned on the backrest of the jeep, wearing sunglasses and looking up lazily. The sun was shining nicely today.
"Marshal, all the elite troops from the First and Second Regiments have been assembled. We currently have over 2,300 men. The police from the Beiping City Police Station can also gather over 1,000 men. Now we have approximately 3,500 men available for the attack."
Tang Guoping was sweating profusely. When he saw this number, he himself couldn't believe it. All of our personnel in training and registration are already nearly 30,000 people, but now we can only use one-third of them for the attack.
"Why so little?"
Li Shaoyi also took off his glasses immediately. He couldn't believe that they could only gather such a small number of people. He had calculated some time ago that it would take at least 5,000 people, which was a fully staffed division.
"I'm also puzzled. We've gathered all the information from various places. We can't leave a place empty. If we do, someone else will take it over right after we occupy it, and it won't count as our territory. Excluding the garrisons in various places, there are only these 3,500..."
Tang Guoping had a bitter look on his face and took out various documents in his hand, telling Li Shaoyi to look at them if he didn't believe him.
"Too many field troops are occupied. The security groups in various places need to speed up their training. If they can be trained, the front-line troops will be able to go to the battlefield."
Li Shaoyi took the information from Tang Guoping. Some troops of the first and second regiments were stationed in various places. There were only a few hundred people in a county, which was already the limit. If these people were withdrawn, it would be just as Tang Guoping said. As soon as you leave, someone will come out and say that the territory is his.
"These three thousand men are more than enough. I heard there aren't many people stationed in Chengde right now. There are only two infantry battalions and a cavalry squadron, and at most an artillery squadron. Only one infantry battalion among them is from the 12th Division, and the rest are former Rehe Province defenders. Let's eat them up first."
Tang Guoping took the battle map, and Natasha's intelligence had also arrived. Currently, in the entire Rehe Province, 80% of the Japanese were concentrated in Chengde.
Three thousand against three thousand, the advantage is on my side.
Li Shaoyi thought about it and realized that although we were on the attacking side and had to travel more than a hundred kilometers, our weapons and equipment were better and the Japanese were in a state of defeat, so the advantage was of course on my side.
"Take one-third of the troops and occupy Wuling Mountain to cut off the connection between Rehe and Chahar. The remaining troops will be divided into two groups and march directly to Chengde."
Li Shaoyi did not discuss with anyone, nor did he hold any combat meetings. He just gave the order directly, but Tang Guoping thought there was nothing wrong with it.
The situations in various places have been investigated for you, and the road conditions have also been investigated for you. If you still can't fight, then you really are not doing justice to the armored vehicles under your feet.
"The Second Battalion of the First Regiment has occupied Wuling Mountain and is on standby."
"The First Battalion of the Second Regiment will take the northern route, and the Second Battalion will take the southern route. They will meet in Chengde and annihilate all enemies encountered along the way, whether they are Japanese or puppet troops."
Tang Guoping's voice appeared in the intercoms of each car, and the brothers below also began to move, and the sound of motors starting could be heard everywhere.
More than 3,000 people have more than 800 combat vehicles and armored vehicles of various types, which has never happened before.
"Reporting to the commander, number one is reporting to observation point number four. No abnormalities."
As soon as Tang Guoping gave the order, a telegraph operator under his command reported that we now have no aerial reconnaissance, so we can only send out reconnaissance personnel in advance and have them conduct reconnaissance in various places along the way.
The equipment of the investigators was very simple. Most of them rode horses, and a small number rode two-wheeled motorcycles. One was responsible for driving and the other was responsible for sending the message.
These people are active within a 200-mile radius around the main force. Without these equipment, they would probably not be able to transmit information about the surrounding area in a timely manner.
Li Shaoyi started his career by relying on sneak attacks, so he paid great attention to the surrounding situation and tried not to let others ambush him.
Japanese Headquarters in Chengde.
Last month, we received an order from Fengtian to reorganize all the troops stationed in Chengde into the 36th Brigade.
It is composed of two infantry battalions, a cavalry squadron and an artillery squadron.
The Rehe Autonomous Alliance Army had four regiments, totaling more than 13,000 people.
Of course, the combat effectiveness of these four regiments is worrying. The only ones with real combat effectiveness are nearly 4,000 Japanese devils. The remaining 8,000-odd autonomous allied forces are similar to the army of the Jidong Autonomous Government. They will be scared and kneel down when they hear gunshots. If you expect them to charge, there will be no one left halfway.
Major General Ryohei Nomura was originally a civilian. No one was willing to serve as the commander of the 36th Brigade, so this guy volunteered. His qualifications were not a problem, but he did not have much combat experience.
In the past, if a brigade was expanded, many people in the rear would want to come and take advantage of it, but if it was placed on the front line fighting against the 72nd Brigade, more than half of these people would be missing.
We are not fools. The combat effectiveness of the 72nd Brigade is obvious to all. They killed so many of our troops some time ago. Those people were all elites, especially the Miyazaki Regiment.
The 36th Brigade, to put it nicely, is a brigade, to put it bluntly, it is just an infantry regiment.
The rest of the people are just put together at the last minute. Can you expect them to play much of a role?
So when Major General Nomura proposed it, he didn't encounter any competitors, and everyone was holding a cocktail party for him in Fengtian, but this guy just came here stupidly.
In his opinion, if anything goes wrong, the 12th Division will take over. The 72nd Brigade has just made such a big move in North China and will never continue to attack. As long as we wait for the 12th Division to arrive, the mission will be over.
At that time, all matters will be handed over to the 12th Division, and he will be able to take the people of the 36th Brigade back to the Northeast, and then assign all the personnel to him, and he will be a brigade commander with real power.
This plan is sound, but there is a prerequisite, that is, the 12th Division's mobility must be stronger than the 72nd Brigade... and faster...