Chapter 840 Killing Two Birds with One Stone

Xia Chuzhong, male, from Hunan.

In 1924, when he was 22 years old, he graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy.

It must be said that he is not an ordinary Whampoa student, he is the first graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy!

Later, Xia Chuzhong studied in the special class of the Army University and the Central Officer Training Corps.

After graduating from the first class of the Whampoa Military Academy, Xia Chuzhong started as a platoon leader, and after working as a company commander, battalion commander, and regiment commander, he became a major general brigadier.

In fact, major general brigadier is far from his end.

After that, General Xia Chuzhong was successively promoted to the positions of division commander, army commander, and group army commander.

As a soldier from the countryside, General Xia Chuzhong's resume was very shining in the all-out war of resistance.

General Xia Chuzhong was one of the generals in the government army who was at the forefront of the war of resistance and had the most direct confrontations with the devils!

After the outbreak of the full-scale Anti-Japanese War, in accordance with the order of the Chinese Supreme Command, General Xia Chuzhong led the 98th Division and rushed to the Songhu battlefield, and joined Luo Zhuoying's 15th Army.

In the large-scale and extremely tragic Songhu Battle, Xia Chuzhong's performance was absolutely remarkable.

And his 98th Division was described as extremely brave.

Specifically, in the anti-landing operations, Baoshan Defense War and other battles, the 98th Division fought bravely and became famous at home and abroad.

Although like other government troops, under the leadership of the national hero Xia Chuzhong, the 98th Division repeatedly fought with the devils, but unfortunately, the results were not satisfactory.

The reason is very simple, the devils' military literacy is too high and their weapons are too advanced.

The devils have hundreds of large warships, more than 400 aircraft, hundreds of tanks and heavy artillery...

Of course, China is not without heavy artillery, but the number is seriously insufficient.

This often happens. As soon as the Chinese heavy artillery opened fire, it was bombed by the devils.

Before the battle started, the Chinese artillery positions were smashed to pieces by the devils.

For this reason, in the battle with the devils, Chinese soldiers rely more on flesh and blood.

Now is the era of hot weapons, and the advantage of human sea is not very meaningful.

A heavy artillery can easily wipe out a company!

There is no way. Like other government troops, the 98th Division is extremely passive most of the time.

In fact, passivity is not the point.

The most important thing is that because it has always been one of the main attacking forces, it has suffered countless casualties from the devils' superior firepower attacks!

At the worst time, the 98th Division had only one regiment left!

For this reason, the 98th Division has replenished its troops and various weapons and equipment four times.

It must be said that these supplementary troops all came from the rear troops, and their military literacy is not as good as that of veterans.

It is sad that some new recruits died heroically before they knew the unit's number!

However, despite the heavy losses, Lieutenant General Xia Chu still led his troops to fight bloody battles.

Because of his outstanding military exploits, he was promoted twice before the Battle of Shanghai ended.

The first time, the Supreme Command appointed him as the commander of the 70th Army.

The second time, he was appointed as the commander of the 79th Army of the 32nd Army of the Third War Zone.

The 79th Army is under the jurisdiction of: the 98th Division, the 76th Division, the 118th Division, and the 5th Reserve Division.

The higher the position, the greater the responsibility!

In the following days, with the 98th Division as the main force, he continued to lead the entire army to fight bloody battles with the devils in the spirit of "one inch of land and one inch of blood".

As before, because the flesh and blood could not withstand the superior firepower of the devils, the entire army continued to suffer countless casualties.

Later, after receiving the retreat order from the Supreme Command, Lieutenant General Xia Chu also led his troops to retreat.

According to the order of the Supreme Command, Xia Chuzhong was also playing an orderly retreat.

That is to say, of the four divisions under his command, after leaving one division to block, the other three divisions quickly retreated.

Then, this division also began to retreat, and the other division was responsible for blocking and guarding.

Considering that the 98th Division was the main force of the entire army, General Xia Chuzhong set up his headquarters in this division.

What made General Xia Chuzhong depressed was that when he and the 98th Division were responsible for a blocking and guarding mission, they encountered the Shigeto Detachment of Shigeto Chiaki and a brigade of traitors led by the big traitor Li Qingshan.

It must be said that because it was carrying out the retreat mission, this time, although the 98th Division suffered heavy losses in the previous battle, it did not replenish its troops.

The most important thing is that some of the rare heavy artillery had long been destroyed by the superior firepower of the devils.

Even for the artillery of ordinary caliber, the 98th Division has entered a situation where it is better than nothing.

There are only more than 5,000 people left on our side, while the opponent's troops are more than 13,000.

The most important thing is that, apart from the Li Qingshan Brigade of the Imperial Army, although the Shigeto Detachment is also a traitorous unit, its combat effectiveness is no less than that of the devil's unit!

That's not all, the enemy has a lot of heavy weapons!

How to fight this battle?

Is this going to be a heroic death?

Inside the 79th Army Headquarters.

Looking at the military map, Lieutenant General Xia Chuzhong and Lieutenant General Wang Jiaben, the commander of the 98th Division, and others looked at each other.

Fight!

In order to keep the other three divisions alive and prevent the devil from catching their tails, fight a blocking battle!

Dumbfounded, these national heroes quickly agreed on this opinion.

Soon, after writing the will, these more than 5,000 warriors entered the role.

Considering the serious lack of heavy weapons, Lieutenant General Xia Chu decided to wait until these traitors were close before taking action.

If it doesn't work, then we will fight them hand-to-hand!

...

Inside the detachment headquarters of the Tieshi Independent Detachment.

With Liang Yi as a precedent, the other traitors dared not say more and were waiting for the decision of Chief of Staff Kameda Mayu.

In fact, the Japanese officers in this traitor unit also wisely shut their mouths.

However, looking at Kameda Mayu, their heads were full of question marks.

Yes, what the detachment leader Liang Yi said made sense.

Set up an ambush first, and then wait for the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army to appear.

When the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army comes, the whole team will suddenly rise up and directly annihilate it!

In this way, won't the goal of establishing this unit be achieved?

Seeing the awe of the Japanese officers, especially the traitors, Kameda Mayu is very useful.

In fact, in order to become the helmsman of this elite traitor unit, Kameda Mayu paid a great price.

For this, he almost gave away all his property to his superiors.

That's not all, he also gave away his wife, sister, cousin, etc.

Feeling that he was still not sure, Kameda Mayu also asked several staff officers to follow suit.

Kameda Mayu thought it was worth it.

When he commanded the Iron Stone Independent Detachment, found the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, and annihilated it, he would definitely become a general.

At that time, he could easily get the money and women he lost.

The most important thing is that he can definitely do better in these two aspects.

In other words, he will have more money and women.

After thinking about it, Kameda Mayu pondered: "Gentlemen, the most important thing in this war is to be real and fake, real and fake!"

"As for me, in order to successfully annihilate the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, I plan to use the strategy of killing two birds with one stone!"