Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

Shen Quan loudly questioned Lieutenant Colonel Mao Xiong, who immediately waved his hand and said, "Commander Shen Quan, we are friends. I don't want this kind of thing to happen, but this is General Belia's decision. I can't make the decision!"

"As for the number of troops, there will be one division in the first batch, with approximately 8,000 men, and two more divisions to follow, for a total of an army's strength, totaling approximately 30,000 men."

"So many people? What about their weapons, ammunition, and supplies?"

"You don't need to worry about this, we will take care of it!"

After hearing this, Shen Quan frowned and asked, "Since I don't need to worry about you, then why are you looking for me now?"

"They've run into some minor difficulties and need your help."

"difficulty?"

"Yes, the supplies we promised them will take three days to arrive due to weather issues. They came from the south and haven't experienced bad weather. They are short of supplies now. I hope you can allocate some to them."

"Supply them? Lieutenant Colonel Vasily, don't you know the relationship between our army and them?"

"Aren't you soldiers from the same country?"

Vasily said in surprise.

"Well, it's hard for me to explain these things to you. I will send people to help them!"

"Commander Shen Quan, please hurry!"

After Vasily finished speaking, he quickly left Shen Quan's tent.

The brazier in the tent was burning, making crackling sounds.

"Shen Quan, what do you think?"

Old Han's intuition told him that this matter was a little strange, but he didn't know what was strange about it.

"I don't know, I always feel that this matter is weird!"

Shen Quan threw a piece of coal into the brazier and said while shaking his head.

"I find it a little strange too. Send someone to check the situation and report to the commander. I believe the commander should be able to see the clues!"

"Yes!"

After Lao Han had a brief exchange with Shen Quan, he left the tent and took his men away from Shen Quan's base. After a circle, he returned to the small town that was being attacked by Shen Quan's troops.

At this time, Li Yunlong, who had just returned to Hailar, received a telegram from Shen Quan.

"Brigade Commander, do you have any intelligence about this Nationalist army unit?"

After seeing the telegram sent by Shen Quan, Li Yunlong immediately found the brigade commander. The brigade commander was in charge of intelligence work and should know some specific information.

"Are there nationalist troops heading north? That shouldn't be the case!"

After reading the content of the telegram, the brigade commander couldn't help but frown. Now Shanxi Province is under the control of our army, and the Kuomintang army is in Zhongtiao Mountain. If they want to go north, our army will definitely know, but there is no news at all from the brigade commander.

"Brigade Commander, have you not received any intelligence?"

The brigade commander shook his head. "No news at all. Strange, where did this unit come from? Wait a moment, I'll have someone check it out!"

"Okay, I'll tell Shen Quan not to act rashly!"

Li Yunlong looked carefully at the contents of the telegram in his hand and smelled a conspiracy.

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Here are the third updates. I updated five yesterday, but I don't have any drafts saved today, so I can't make up for it. I saw a comment saying that my updates are like constipation. I want to say that you can scold me for my poor writing and watered-down writing, but I am considered a conscientious author on Tomato. I guarantee at least 6,000 words a day, and often update to 8,000 or 10,000 words. I don't understand why they still scold me for this.

Chapter 481 Outer Mongolia Expeditionary Force

"We've found out. It's the National Army's 7th Temporary Division, an old friend of ours. The division commander, Wang's troops, were suddenly transferred some time ago and then disappeared. There's also the 35th Army from Suiyuan!"

"Since Shanxi Province has transferred too many cadres north to support you, the focus of their work is now shifting to the Hebei, Shandong, and Henan regions. Some problems have arisen and were not reported in a timely manner, so they have been asked to rectify them!"

"Also, the Chahar troops are retaking important cities in the Chahar region. There are also intelligence vacuums in some areas, which the Nationalist army has exploited!"

The brigade commander quickly figured out the whole story. This was a major work mistake, and someone was probably going to be in trouble, but this was not something Li Yunlong needed to worry about. During wartime, military discipline must be strict!

"Temporary Seventh Division, Seven and a Half Route?"

After hearing these two names, Li Yunlong felt as if he was in another world. His goal was no longer the domestic situation, but the international situation. Li Yunlong did not pay much attention to the movements of the National Army.

"Seven and a half?"

The brigade commander was stunned for a moment when he heard Li Yunlong's name for the 35th Army, and then seemed to have discovered something "highlight" and silently wrote it down. From the name, it seemed that he could fight for it.

"The issues in Shanxi Province have been dealt with on their own. There are certain vacuum areas in the Chahar region, and we need to send troops to these areas. I failed to report such important intelligence immediately, and that's my fault!"

As the brigade commander spoke, he quickly walked to the front of the map and began to arrange tasks.

"I think Mao Xiong and Shan Cheng have reached some kind of agreement!"

Li Yunlong squinted his eyes and looked at the content of the telegram. There must be a reason why the National Army and the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army went north together.

"Didn't Mao Xiong sign a treaty with you? Why is he still contacting Shancheng?"

The chief of staff also received the news and rushed over at this time, asking curiously.

"It's probably about Chita. Belia suspects there's something wrong with me!"

Regarding the Chita incident, Li Yunlong was not worried that the Russians would find out that he was behind the scenes, and Li Yunlong was not worried because it was Li Yunlong who asked the Russians to deliver supplies in the first place.

Li Yunlong was still worried that the Russians would not notice and would continue to withhold supplies from him.

The Russians will see it but won't expose it. After all, the two sides are still allies and the relationship needs to be maintained. Unless it is necessary, no one will tear each other apart. Li Yunlong is indeed tying down the Japanese troops, which is very important to the Russians.

As long as Li Yunlong can continue to tie down the Japanese troops, the Russians will not completely fall out before the end of the European war.

However, not tearing each other apart does not mean that the Russians will not make any tricks. Li Yunlong can use the Japanese to ask for supplies, and the Russians can also reach a cooperation with Shancheng and use Shancheng to contain Li Yunlong and make Li Yunlong obedient.

"Belia really overestimates those people in Shancheng! I guess Belia got the news about the expeditionary force and wants to send an Outer Mongolian expeditionary force as well?"

Li Yunlong roughly figured out what the Russians wanted to do. It was nothing more than a warning to Li Yunlong that the situation in Siberia and Outer Mongolia did not require Li Yunlong to deal with. We can also contact Shancheng and ask them to send troops to help.

"What are you going to do?"

The brigade commander and the chief of staff did not need Li Yunlong's introduction. They understood it immediately. After the three words "Expeditionary Force" came out, they knew the Russian bear's purpose.

"The Russians are sending us weapons, equipment, and even people. We should just accept them with joy. What we lack most in our current position is people. There are nearly 30,000 of them. If you can recruit them over, they can serve as our soldiers!"

After Li Yunlong finished speaking, he looked at the brigade commander and said, "Brigade commander, I heard that the deputy division commander is good at training soldiers. I would like to invite him over."

The brigade commander rolled his eyes at Li Yunlong and said, "Are you planning to take us all over?"

"It's not that we don't have people. Look, we still have tens of thousands of new recruits in training in Arxan, and now another 30,000 have arrived. We need people to manage their training and ideological work. I'm just worried that the division commander and deputy political commissar will be too exhausted."

"You want to talk to the rear headquarters yourself!"

After the brigade commander finished speaking, he was about to take out a cigarette and smoke it. Li Yunlong did not say anything, but just looked at the brigade commander straight.

The brigade commander was a little scared by Li Yunlong's gaze. Thinking of Li Yunlong's words, he gritted his teeth and took out two lighters from his pocket and handed them over: "Here are all for you. I will quit smoking from now on!"

Li Yunlong looked at the two lighters in front of him. One was the one he had just used to light his cigarette, and the other had the words "Shen Quan" engraved on it. When did his lighter end up in the brigade commander's pocket?

Seeing Li Yunlong's somewhat puzzled look, the brigade commander pretended not to see it and continued looking at the map.

"Commander, chew this from now on. It's American chewing gum. It's refreshing!"

Seeing that the brigade commander was about to quit smoking, Li Yunlong took out a piece of chewing gum and handed it to him.

"it works?"

"A little bit, right? Anyway, something is better than nothing."

"Too!"

"Are you preparing this national army unit?"

"Don't eat it yet!" Li Yunlong shook his head, feeling that something was wrong.

The brigade commander and the chief of staff were a little surprised. According to Li Yunlong's character, knowing so much information, he would definitely be unable to resist "eating meat".

Li Yunlong pointed at the telegram report and said, "Brigade Commander, if you were a lieutenant colonel in the Russian army and wanted to ask Shen Quan for help, would you describe the situation in such detail? It seems like you deliberately told Shen Quan that the supplies would arrive in three days!"

"What do you mean? This is a trap?"

Li Yunlong shook his head and said, "It's not really a trap, it's more of a test. Old Han and Shen Quan have been acting in Outer Mongolia for so long, there are bound to be some loopholes. I suspect the Russians must be suspicious. We can't treat others as fools."

"Once is a coincidence, twice, three times? Shen Quan received the news, and the supplies were robbed by Old Han. It would be easy to be discovered."

"And in all the fighting, the ones who died were all Outer Mongolians and the Japanese, while our people didn't suffer any casualties."

Shen Quan was in charge of the attack and Lao Han was in charge of the defense. The fighting had been going on for two or three months, and both sides had lost more than 50,000 people.

Among them, Shenquan’s troops suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and Lao Han’s troops suffered 30,000 casualties.

Among these 50,000 people, almost all were from Outer Mongolia, especially the casualties of the Shenquan troops, who were all diehards of Choibalsan, that is, those who supported the independence of Outer Mongolia.

These people were the foundation of the Russian-backed puppet government in Outer Mongolia, but now they have become cannon fodder.

By the time Shen Quan drives away the Outer Mongolian rebels, there will probably be very few people left who support the Russians. The Russians will definitely be anxious and will pull in the mountain city to fill the line.

"What are your plans?"

"Let's cooperate with them first. They can't cause any trouble in the middle of winter anyway. Let's dispel the Russian bear's doubts first, and then find an opportunity to take in the people and supplies!"

"The Russians don't understand the National Army, but don't we understand them? The only difference between giving the Russians their supplies and giving them to us is that there's an extra middleman. The money can be deposited with them first!"

Li Yunlong said with a smile. In fact, Li Yunlong probably guessed what the Russian bear wanted to do.

He told Shen Quan the news of the Shancheng troops coming, and also revealed to Shen Quan that a large amount of supplies would be delivered in three days.

These things are bait. They want to see whether Shen Quan is really cooperating with them or doing other things under the banner of cooperation.

The reason why Li Yunlong thought so was mainly because something was too abnormal this time, that is, Shancheng did a very good job of keeping this matter confidential.

According to the "nature" of the people in Shancheng, if a decision is made today, the whole world will know it tomorrow. However, this time, there was no news until the Temporary 7th Division appeared 20 kilometers behind the Shenquan troops.

Moreover, it was the Russians who took the initiative to reveal the news, which shows that there was someone behind the scenes directing and planning this matter. Shancheng did not have such ability, so it must have been the Russians who did it.

There must be a reason why the Russian bear went to so much trouble to do this. Li Yunlong thought it was a trap, so he planned to remain unchanged in the face of all changes. After all, the meat was at his fingertips and he could eat it anytime, so there was no need to rush.

"Brigade Commander, please take the trouble to check what kind of cooperation Shancheng has reached with the Russians. I feel like Shancheng has signed some kind of treaty. We have to be on guard!"

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away!"