The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 534 Reminder (Two-in-One Chapter)

Time: September 7, 9, a little after 8 a.m.

Location: Hunan Branch of the Northern Jiangsu Independent Regiment, in the regimental headquarters in Xinning City.

It should be noted that, in order to better communicate and trade with the dignitaries from all walks of life in Xinning, the headquarters and barracks of the Hunan branch of the Northern Jiangsu Independent Regiment were separate.

Initially, Hu Biao from the regiment headquarters planned to place it in a temple called the Release Pavilion.

This is also the location of the county government. Hu Biao was thinking of asking County Magistrate Hou to see if they could squeeze out a large hall to be used as the office space for the regiment's headquarters.

Although it's a little cramped, it's still just enough.

Unexpectedly, on the day he entered the city, he had a brief chat with Liu Bobin, the biggest landlord in the county, while watching a play. Liu Bobin agreed to let his eldest grandson serve in the logistics department of the army, first as a lieutenant deputy section chief.

That very evening, Liu's steward came to the door, bringing not only a large courtyard house in the city for Hu to use as his regimental headquarters for the time being, but also as his residence when he returned to his hometown.

This can be considered Hu Biao's first fixed asset in this era. I wonder if there is a former residence of Hu Biao in the modern world today.

In response to this, Hu Biao plans to go to the site to verify it when he takes Annie home for the holiday.

In addition to this courtyard, the Liu family also delivered a large quantity of rice, pigs, sheep, chickens, and ducks, as well as five thousand silver dollars.

So even though Hu Biao and Commander Hu are tired of eating cured meat, free-range chicken, and free-range duck every day, and are sick of watching plays, their achievements are still quite good.

Of course, the above situations are not important.

The important thing is that at this point in time, Huang Adi walked into the regimental commander's office cursing and found that Hu Biao, whom he was looking for, was nowhere to be seen.

Only Anne stood by the window, gazing absently at the scenery outside, lost in thought, before finally asking:
"Boss lady! Where did that dead guy go?"

“I went to Guilin. I left home just as dawn was breaking,” Annie replied casually.

Upon hearing this reply, Huang Adi reacted as if someone had stepped on his tail, jumping up and down and cursing: "Damn it! Has this bastard gotten too big for his britches? Does he have any self-awareness at all?"

"What time is it now? He still has the mood to go sightseeing in Guilin? Does he want to fly to the moon?"

It's no wonder that Huang Adi reacted so strongly, considering that according to the historical records they had seen, the Second Battle of C-Sha had officially begun today.

That old Japanese devil Anami Yuichi, the 11th Army under his command, has mobilized a total of 12 troops this time.

This 12-strong Japanese army was also incredibly well-equipped, including a tank regiment with more than 300 cannons of various calibers, as well as extensive air support from the army and navy.

In terms of strength, they were far superior to the Japanese troops they had encountered in the Guinan region.

However, in comparison, the strength of the Chinese side in this battle not only did not increase much, but in some places it was even significantly lower than in the Battle of Guinan.

On the one hand, in the last Battle of Guinan, the National Revolutionary Army deployed its only mechanized force, the Fifth Army.

The Fifth Army had a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, as well as a heavy artillery unit with 150mm caliber guns, which were advantages in countering the Japanese.

Although the number of aircraft deployed by the Air Force was not large, there were still more than forty aircraft, which played a significant role at the critical moment.

In this Battle of C-Sha, the Nationalist Army had no armored units whatsoever, and the quantity and quality of artillery were not on the same level as the other side.

The most crucial element is actually the Air Force.

Since the Nationalist Air Force had almost exhausted its last reserves on the Guinan battlefield, it had not received any replenishment.

Judging from the current international situation, it is estimated that the National Revolutionary Army's air force will not be able to be replenished until the outbreak of the Pacific War.

This also means that in this Battle of C, the air will be completely controlled by the Japanese.

On the other hand, in the Guinan battlefield, their Northern Jiangsu Independent Regiment, although its firearms were all kinds of miscellaneous brands, were still legitimate firearms, and the ammunition was barely enough.

Now that things have come to this point, they don't even have a gun.

Under such circumstances, Hu Biao wandered around the county, claiming to be coordinating food and military pay, and the military commanders of the various battalions accepted it.

He came to the regimental headquarters today cursing and swearing, actually urging that damned Hu Biao to hurry up and get the weapons and equipment back, but he heard that Hu Biao had gone to Guilin.

What's this called? They're not satisfied with just playing around in this huge new place, they're going to Guilin for sightseeing, huh?

Huang Adi could no longer hold back and burst out on the spot.

Fortunately, at the crucial moment, Annie spoke up and gave an impeccable explanation:

"Big Fatty, don't be anxious! Boss Hu went to Guilin to get weapons and equipment; I guess you've forgotten that after we recaptured Nanning in southern Guangxi, the bigwigs of the Guangxi clique made a promise that you owe us a favor."

It just so happens that recently, that Commander Li from the Guangxi clique has been living in Guilin.

Hu Biao used to ask around; with that one person's connections, he could easily get weapons for two or three thousand men. Add to that borrowing more through connections, and he figured getting light weapons and ammunition for five thousand men wouldn't be a problem.

Upon hearing this, Huang Adi immediately made a connection to something; he quickly went to the wall on one side and looked at a map on it.

After taking a quick look, I realized that these people had overlooked something.

By the way, although he didn't participate in the Battle of Guinan, he had heard in the chat group that the Gui clique owed them a huge favor.

The reason why we didn't consider the Guangxi clique as a channel to solve the equipment problem this time was because we subconsciously thought that the two places were too far apart and there simply wasn't enough time.

Now, upon closer inspection of the map, I realize how wrong I was.

The straight-line distance from Xinning to Guilin is only a little over 100 kilometers; the actual distance is definitely more than that, probably just over 200 kilometers.

Along this 200-kilometer journey, there are many mountains, and the mountain roads that cross the valleys are probably very difficult to travel.

However, there is a river that is wide enough for boats to navigate, which saves you a lot of mountain paths.

In short, as long as Hu Biao's trip to Guilin goes smoothly, the equipment should be delivered within a week at most.

Having put aside his biggest worry, Huang Adi excitedly returned to the Liushan Shazhou military camp to intensify the training of his brothers.

Now that the equipment issue has been resolved, the only remaining problem is that the military lacks a sufficient number of qualified junior officers.

There's no good solution for this right now; the only thing we can do is select some clever, well-behaved, and respected recruits and appoint them as junior officers.

In addition, I gave them extra training during their daily sessions...

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After Huang Adi's brief visit, he left in a hurry.

Annie remained standing by the window, gazing blankly at the scenery outside, her fingers unconsciously tapping on the windowpane, lost in thought.

This continued for ten minutes until she finally stopped tapping on the windowsill, seemingly having finally figured things out.

Indeed, that was the case. Annie first sat down at Hu Biao's desk, picked up a pen, and wrote two telegrams in one go.

Then he took out two password books from a backpack that he had never used since he first got them.

Translate both manuscripts into the corresponding numbers using the password provided above.

After doing all this, Annie went out and turned left, heading straight to a telecommunications room a few rooms away. She dismissed everyone who was studying inside, leaving only Mina, who was acting as the teacher.

He sat down in front of a high-powered transmitter, found the relevant frequency, and started sending messages himself.

Before long, she had skillfully sent both telegrams.

As Mina lit a match and ignited the two telegrams, watching the papers quickly turn to ashes, the two girls wore rather smug smiles.

The reason for this was that the two telegrams were sent to Uncle Sam's family and the Russian family's liaison office in Shuangqing, respectively.

To be more specific, the international situation has been completely different since this time travel began.

Back on June 22nd of this year, the Germans launched Operation Barbarossa, with millions of troops, spearheaded by a massive armored force, surging into Russia's territory.

The Russians were completely stunned by the Germans' attack, and their border troops suffered a complete rout.

A large number of personnel were defeated and captured, and the losses in equipment were even more staggering.

Just yesterday, Hillary Clinton issued Operation Order No. 35, the key part of which is the 'Typhoon' offensive to be launched on the 30th of this month.

In this so-called "Typhoon" offensive, the Germans will concentrate 180 million troops, including a terrifying array of 1700 tanks and 1.4 artillery pieces, with their target being Moscow, the capital of Russia.

Historically, the Russians were completely unprepared for the German "Typhoon" offensive and only managed to withstand the attack thanks to the weather and terrible casualties. Anne, however, obtained a communication frequency and codebook from Andrei, a Russian military observer she met during the Battle of Guinan.

Andrei was informed in advance by telegram of the German "Typhoon" offensive, as a warning to the Russians.

Frankly speaking, Annie didn't really care whether the Russian family would take such a reminder seriously or just throw it away like trash.

Her telegram served merely as a preliminary test.

Or perhaps, it's to demonstrate the intelligence capabilities of these individuals.

It doesn't matter if we don't take their situation seriously this time, but once the intelligence is proven to be true, the Russians will definitely not dare to be careless next time they provide intelligence.

If you're given such important and confidential information, it's only reasonable for you to offer some compensation, right?
With the same thought in mind, Anne and Mina sent another telegram to Uncle Sam's house, to Lieutenant Colonel Bill Eulton, a military observer they had met during the Battle of Guinan.

As in history, the Pacific War has not yet begun.

However, on August 1, Uncle Sam's family still imposed a complete oil embargo on the Japanese and froze all of their assets in the United States.

Given Japan's resource-poor island nation, the attack on Pearl Harbor was bound to happen at the same time.

Therefore, in the telegram, Anne pointed out that the Japanese would launch a naval attack on Pearl Harbor in early December, with air power as the primary means of attack.

In the modern world, a conspiracy theory is popular, claiming that Robert Ford, the head of Uncle Sam's family at the time, actually knew about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor long ago.

However, in order to break the prevailing isolationism in the country and get Uncle Sam's family to fully participate in the war.

Therefore, Lao Luo pretended not to know and allowed the Japanese to launch a successful sneak attack, which aroused the anger of the whole country and thus achieved the goal of formally entering the war.

Just like with the Russians, whether the above conspiracy theories exist, and whether Uncle Sam's family will take them seriously after receiving the warning, are things that Anne will not care about much either.

Anyway, the main purpose is to demonstrate their strength first, which can also be seen as a preliminary arrangement for future cooperation.

And so, after Anne and Mina sent the telegram in one go, they didn't concern themselves with anything else.

They didn't care at all how much trouble these two telegrams would cause.

This approach can only be attributed to spending a lot of time with Hu Biao and being somewhat influenced by Hu Biao's style of digging holes but not filling them.

Yes! That must be it...

Half an hour later, at the Maozi family liaison office in Shuangqing City.

After taking a deep breath, Andrei finally put down a telegram he had read countless times, but his face still showed a hint of hesitation.

Then, he took out a bottle of strong liquor from the bottom drawer of his desk, twisted off the cap, and started drinking it directly.

The telegram in his hand was naturally the one sent by Annie, revealing the German "Typhoon" offensive.

The first telegram I received was marked as coming from the Northern Jiangsu Independent Regiment.

And when the code words agreed upon to prove their identities matched up one by one in the telegrams, Andrei was filled with ecstasy.

It's important to know that in the last deal with the Soviet Union's independent regiment, although the Russians gave up the equipment of five divisions, they gained much more.

Especially after the Germans launched a full-scale offensive more than two months ago.

Although the Russians were badly beaten in a series of battles, the radar and rocket launchers they developed using technical data acquired through trade still played a significant role.

The presence of the former's radar allowed them to detect German air force attacks on their airfields multiple times in advance.

This prevented a large number of planes from being bombed at the airport before they could take off; for this alone, the Russians made a huge profit.

Moreover, the latter rocket launcher was one of the most powerful individual weapons for resisting the German armored onslaught.

Therefore, Andrei also gained a lot from this deal. As early as when the deal was completed, his rank was promoted to colonel.

After the start of Operation Barbarossa, Andrei received instructions from home to find a way to contact Hu Biao and the people of the Northern Jiangsu Independent Regiment.

We should strive to obtain more advanced technologies from these people that can be used to defend our great motherland.

Andrei wouldn't work for nothing. He was told very bluntly by the authorities that if a similar deal happened again, he could become a major general.

If you do this a few times, you could even become a lieutenant general.

Unfortunately, more than a year has passed since Andrei parted ways with Hu Biao and the others in Nanning City; during this time, Hu Biao and the others only appeared briefly in a place called Yi County.

Soon after, there was no further news, and for a while, even if he wanted to contact them, he couldn't find them.

Now that we have finally received news from the Northern Jiangsu Independent Regiment, we are naturally overjoyed.

However, after reading the above information, Andrei hesitated.

The key reason is that the purge carried out by Comrade Steel a few years ago left a deep impression on the Russians.

So much so that Andrei worried that if he reported this intelligence and it was adopted by Comrade Steel, what would happen?

If it is ultimately proven true, it will naturally be a great thing; Mo Cheng will then be able to make more preparations, and he himself will also have a share of the credit, becoming a glorious major general.

If it's fake news, given Comrade Iron's style, he won't listen to my explanation, and I won't even have a chance to explain before I face terrible punishment.

Being able to go to Siberia to dig potatoes seems like the best possible outcome.

After much hesitation, whether it was due to the alcohol or the long time he had spent in China, Andrei had come to understand the principle that "fortune favors the bold."

Anyway, he arrived at the telecommunications office reeking of alcohol and personally sent back a report containing the contents of the telegram.

Then, Andrei began to wait patiently for an explanation from back home.

The main reason was that he knew that even if a report from someone as insignificant as himself could be delivered to Comrade Steel, it would still take a considerable amount of time.

But what Anne and Andrei didn't expect was that, due to a series of coincidences...

Five hours later, such a report not only appeared on Comrade Steel's desk, but he also picked it up and read it quickly.

After quickly finishing reading, Comrade Steel turned to the head of the Russian intelligence department below and asked:
"Comrade Belia, do you think this intelligence from the East is credible?"

"When analyzed in conjunction with other intelligence, I believe it is quite credible, so we must prepare as soon as possible."

After a moment's hesitation, Belia answered in this way, and also offered a suggestion.

However, Comrade Steel was somewhat dismissive of this suggestion.

Later generations of onlookers said that Xue Boling was a bit stubborn and wouldn't listen to other people's opinions, but compared to this iron-willed comrade, he was nothing.

Once Comrade Steel has made up his mind, it's very difficult to change it.

For example, even though he agrees that the Germans will launch a large-scale offensive against Mo City at the end of the month, he doesn't think it's a big deal.

Because the Russians have deployed multiple large military groups in and around Mozambique, he believes they can hold the city.

Ultimately, even after receiving a reminder from Annie, the Russian family did not make many adjustments in the face of the 'typhoon'.

However, the objective was achieved. Combining the radar and rocket launcher technology from the previous transaction with this reminder, Comrade Steel thoroughly remembered the regimental commander named Hu Biao from the East, as well as his comrades.

It is believed that as the battle to defend Mo City begins and the situation for the Russians becomes increasingly difficult...

Comrade Gangtie will also pay more attention to Hu Biao and others.

Because of the time difference, by the time Uncle Sam's father, Old Luo, saw the contents of Annie's telegram, fifteen or sixteen hours had already passed.

After reading it, Lao Luo shrugged noncommittally.

Then he casually tossed it aside, as if he didn't take the information seriously at all and treated it as a fake.

However, the rather amused look in his eyes when he lowered his head proved that this was not necessarily the case.

"Hu Biao, quite an interesting Easterner." He muttered to himself before picking up a new document to look at it...

(End of this chapter)