Chapter 503: Catching Fujita Shin alive
"What?!"
"All annihilate the Third Japanese Division?!"
Hearing this, Principal Chang and Lin Wei were immediately stunned.
Principal Chang obviously couldn't believe his ears and subconsciously said, "What did you say just now?"
Tang Zong took a deep breath, and then said word by word: "Principal, the Hanyang Front Command, which is under the Wuhan Garrison Command, launched a counterattack last night and wiped out the 3rd Japanese Division in one fell swoop!"
After a pause, Tang Zong continued: "More than 17,000 enemies were killed, countless people were seized!"
At this moment, I finally heard it clearly, and a flash of flush immediately surged on Principal Chang's thin face.
"Beautiful, this battle was fought beautifully!" Principal Chang said excitedly, "Sun Liren fought so beautifully!"
Lin Wei also said: "Yes, Principal, this battle is so morale. This is not only a heavy blow to the morale of the Japanese army on the Wuhan battlefield, but also a great encouragement to the morale of our army!"
"Weiran, you are right. We must inform the whole country of this good news so that the people of China and millions of soldiers on the front line will know the good news!" Principal Chang walked back and forth with his hands pinched his waist for a few steps, and then continued, "Since the full war between China and Japan, our army has been defeated repeatedly. Even if we win occasionally, it will be a crushing defeat. But this time, our army finally fought a hearty annihilation war!"
"Who said no!" Lin Wei clapped his hands and asked Tang Zong again, "By the way, do you know how many casualties our army has been?"
"This, the telegram didn't say it." Tang Zong said, while handing the telegram in his hand to Lin Wei, and said, "But I think the casualties should not be serious!"
"By the way." Principal Chang suddenly said, "The Hanyang Front Command has only four brigades. How did Sun Liren eat a permanent division of the Japanese army with four brigades?"
"Yes." Lin Wei also said, "This is simply a miracle!"
Tang Zong said: "I'm afraid this can only be waited for the detailed battle report from the Wuhan Garrison Command!"
After a pause, Tang Zong said again: "It's already past 6 o'clock now. In less than half an hour, the voice of Jianghan will be on the air. If nothing unexpected happens, many details will definitely be announced in the program!"
"Let's go!" Principal Chang stopped taking a walk at the moment, and didn't even bother to eat breakfast. He said to Lin Wei directly, "Weiran, hurry up and prepare the car. Let's go to the commander-in-chief to listen to the voice of Jianghan this morning with Ci Xiu and others!"
"Yes!" Lin Wei said respectfully, "I'm going to ask someone to prepare a car!"
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At this time, it was in the north of Hanyang City.
Sun Liren accompanied Zhong Yi and Stilwell slowly into the battlefield.
Sun Liren whispered while walking: "Zi Ren, how can you do this?"
What Sun Liren said was that Zhong Yi said that the battle last night was commanded by him and reported it to the attendant's room and the commander's headquarters, which made Sun Liren feel very embarrassed.
It feels like snatching someone else's baby.
Zhong Yi said: "Fujin, don't feel embarrassed. This is what you deserve, because no matter what, you are the front-line commander-in-chief of the Hanyang Command, a subordinate of the Wuhan Garrison Command!"
Sun Liren frowned and said, "But you obviously commanded this battle!"
After a pause, Sun Liren continued: "Especially the concentrated use of the fifty tanks in the Tank Battalion. If Zi Ren had not proposed it, others would have never thought of it. Maybe even if they thought about it, they would never dare to try it! In this way, there would not be this exciting victory last night!"
What Sun Liren said is the fact that the key to this battle last night was the tank assault!
In fact, in this era where Zhong Yi is now in, the large-scale concentrated use of tanks is still a new topic worldwide, and only the German Guderian has some experience in this.
For this reason, the Japanese were completely unprepared for the attack on the national tank cluster. As a result, they were hit by Ding Yan's tank cluster in less than half an hour! Then the two main groups of the Anti-Smuggling Corps followed suit, rushing and tearing each other, and the Japanese's defense was immediately in chaos!
Speaking of this, Stilwell's curiosity was also aroused.
Stilwell asked, "Zhong, you are really a genius. How did you think of it? You actually used fifty tanks together? What I even more unexpected is that the concentrated use of tanks is so effective!"
Zhong Yi smiled and said nothing. Of course, the concentrated use of the tank is good, this is the essence of blitzkrieg!
However, there is no way to explain this to Stilwell. How to explain it? Could it be that this tactic has been proven to be in the German-Polish war next year and the Soviet-German war three years later?
At that moment, Zhong Yi pushed the credit on Ding Yan's head casually and said, "I also overheard Ding Yan mentioning that it was the concentrated use of tanks, and the effect in penetration may be better, so I tried it with a try-out mentality, but I didn't expect that the effect was so good that it even penetrated the entire defense line of the Third Division in less than half an hour!"
"It turned out to be Ding Yan?" Stilwell nodded and said, "I have to communicate with him about the tank tactics when I look back."
While the three of them were talking, they had already entered the garrison of the Third Division, and then they saw a group of officers and soldiers of the Anti-Smuggling Corps escorting a team of Japanese prisoners coming over.
The team was led by Chen Mingren, the battalion commander of the 1st Battalion of the 112th Regiment.
Seeing Sun Liren and Zhong Yi, Chen Mingren quickly stepped forward and saluted: "Parent seat, captain!"
Zhong Yi and Sun Liren returned to the military salute, and Zhong Yi continued to ask: "Bail Commander Chen, I heard that your 1st Battalion captured Fujita Jin, the commander of the 3rd Division of the Japanese?"
Chen Mingren smiled and turned around and shouted loudly: "Old Hang!"
A thin veteran immediately ran out of the queue of prisoners of war.
"Battleman, are you calling me?" Liu Laohang ran to Chen Mingren and saluted.
When he turned his head and saw that Sun Liren was also there, Liu Laohuan quickly stood up and stood at attention: "Captain!"
However, Liu Laohang had no expression to Zhong Yi because he didn't know Zhong Yi at all.
Chen Mingren said: "Old Hang, lift the lieutenant general of the Japanese who you captured and showed it to the captain and the attendant!"
"Yes!" Liu Laohang agreed, and immediately walked back to the group of Japanese prisoners, then forced one of the old Japanese to sneak out, and pushed him to Sun Liren and Zhong Yi.
Seeing the mustache left on the old Japanese lips, Zhong Yi smiled.
Just from this mustache, it is enough to show this guy's identity!
In addition to the epaulette and the two generals on the collar, it is enough to prove that this old Japanese man is undoubtedly Fujita Jin, the commander of the Third Division!
Chapter completed!