Sword of Light: I Can Summon the Fourth Disaster

"General, what orders did the Chairman send in the telegram?"

Seeing Hu Shoushan throwing the telegram onto the coffee table, Sheng Guohui stepped forward and asked.

"Look for yourself!" Hu Shoushan said casually and closed his eyes tiredly.

Sheng Guohui immediately picked up the telegram from the coffee table and looked at the order on it with a look of surprise.

"Commander-in-chief, they want us to attack with our entire army!"

"Since the order was issued by the chairman, we have lost eight divisions. The formation of these eight divisions has not yet been completed. The chairman ordered us to attack the enemy's base camp."

"The situation is different now. The enemy is strong and we are weak. Blindly attacking is definitely not a good idea. Please understand, General Manager!"

Listening to Sheng Guohui's earnest advice, Hu Shoushan sighed deeply.

"The old man sent me a telegram. If I don't do what he said, the next time he sends me a letter, it will be his own handwritten letter."

Sheng Guohui was stunned when he heard this, then he smiled bitterly and said, "Judging from the result of the previous debate, the old man's request is completely beyond our reach."

"The previous attack on the Eighth Route Army's Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region showed that the Eighth Route Army's equipment was updated very quickly in the past year. Often our troops would be defeated by the Eighth Route Army in a short period of time."

"Now the old man has changed his usual behavior and asked us to attack Shanxi. Shanxi is almost becoming the back garden of the Eighth Route Army. How can we fight!"

Upon hearing this, Hu Shoushan slammed the table, pointed at Sheng Guohui and said angrily: "Are you asking me to report to this old man that my troops are no match for the Eighth Route Army and are afraid to fight?"

Then Hu Shoushan said with emotion: "Brother Guohui, if this telegram of fear of war is sent today, the military police from Shancheng will take you and me to the military court for trial tomorrow. You and I will have no other choice."

Hearing this, Sheng Guohui calmed down and pondered Hu Shoushan's words, and then suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, and he suggested to Hu Shoushan: "General, why don't we mobilize a few troops to make a feint, then we will have the final say on whether to fight or not!"

Hu Shoushan was obviously surprised when he heard this suggestion, and then he looked at the expression on Sheng Guohui's face and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Are you saying that we should ignore it and rely on our own previous plan to mobilize the troops?"

"Yes, we have long planned to station heavy troops on the west bank of the Yellow River to confront the enemy. Now we are just following orders. If the old man asks, the general manager can use the lack of logistics as an excuse."

"Okay...you go down first, I'll think about it."

Sheng Guohui adjusted his military uniform, saluted, and left.

Looking at Sheng Guohui's leaving back, Hu Shoushan stood up and paced in the yard with his secretary.

"Do you have any reliable information about the Eighth Route Army commander who is confronting us?"

"Only a little bit of news came from the Military Control Commission." The secretary said softly.

"Read!"

"Wang Yusheng, male, 24 years old, graduated from Saint-Cyr Military Academy, served as battalion commander, regiment commander, and brigade commander of the adjustment division."

Hearing that the secretary had finished, Hu Shoushan asked somewhat unhappily, "Is that all? No record or anything?"

"That's all the information we have. Commander Wang just returned to China not long ago, and the entire division has joined the Eighth Route Army."

"Assholes! A bunch of assholes! They didn't even investigate a person's beliefs, but allowed him to achieve three jumps in a short period of time. All the people in the Military and Political Department should be court-martialed!"

This adjustment division has always been what Hu Shoushan coveted, but this division has always been under the command of the old man, so he has no chance to take action.

But when he heard the news from the adjuster again, it had become someone else's.

How could this not make him angry?

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Wusong area

Since the arrival of the support troops from the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Column, the entire Wusong area has been in chaos.

After the battle line was deployed, Li Qingping ordered each detachment to fight on its own. There was only one combat goal, which was to annihilate the enemy's reinforcements coming south from Wujun and reduce the pressure for the future liberation of Wujun.

At this moment, all the teams below started to prepare themselves and show off their skills.

For example, the Seventh Detachment received the support order later. Because they set out late, the road heading east from Lin'an became a battlefield.

After observing the map, Chen Hanqian, captain of the Seventh Detachment, decided to head north to Huzhou.

Before Huzhou, the First and Second Corps of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Column had already captured it once when they marched northward. However, at that time Lin'an was threatened by Gu Mosan, so the Third Corps stationed in Huzhou moved the people to Lin'an and abandoned the city.

This time, when the Seventh Detachment was preparing to move east from Huzhou, it dragged along two detachments from the Third Corps, preparing to have them consolidate the Seventh Detachment's defense line.

However, when the troops arrived in Huzhou, they found that Huzhou had become an empty city, with neither the Japanese nor the puppet troops stationed there.

Chen Hanqian realized it as soon as he thought about it. Without the civilians, the Japanese and the puppet army would not be able to get supplies. Now that the massive liberation war in the southeast of Longguo has begun, the Japanese are naturally withdrawing their troops.

The Seventh Detachment did not delay and hurriedly passed through Huzhou and rushed to Wujun, preparing to attack the enemy's retreat.

However, as soon as the Seventh Detachment arrived in the Wujiang area, it encountered the Japanese head-on, and both sides immediately became angry.

The Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions were the headquarters of the Nationalist government. Ever since Wang Zhaoming surrendered to the enemy and established a puppet government, the officials of the Nationalist government were divided into two.

One side obeyed the Shancheng government as the legitimate government and fought against the Japanese aggressors to save the nation; the other side obeyed the orders of the Nanjing puppet government and became a puppet army.

Many of the puppet military forces in the Wujun area were converted from Wang Zhaoming's former die-hard supporters, and their combat effectiveness is good.

It happened that a lot of Japanese soldiers from Wujun area were transferred to support Taicang. So the Japanese command discussed and decided that the Seventh Detachment was not easy to deal with, so they should let the puppet army go. Suddenly, the enemies of the Seventh Detachment became the puppet army.

However, after the puppet troops were sent to the battle point, they found that the Japanese battalion that the Japanese command had ordered them to rescue had all become cannon fodder.

They originally wanted to stop the Seventh Detachment, but the Seventh Detachment launched a direct attack and dispersed them.

All of a sudden, the Japanese defense line in Wujiang area was broken, and some Japanese even wanted to kill a puppet army division commander to establish their authority.

But the other division commanders of the puppet army refused to accept this. They said, "We joined the puppet army to have good food and good drinks, not to follow you Japs until the end of time."

Several puppet army division commanders discussed it and concluded that now that the Japanese had been driven out of North China by the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese in East China were like grasshoppers in autumn and could not jump much.

Now if we follow the Japanese till the end, it will be a dead end. We might as well change our clothes and become the commander of the Kuomintang guerrilla column again. When the Eighth Route Army attacks us, they will be unable to do anything to us.

The more the division commanders discussed, the more ideas they came up with. When the Japanese wanted to chop off their heads to show their authority, they simply rebelled.