Rise from the sword

Chapter 600
"Ah!."

"The little devil is cunning enough."

Looking at the information in his hand, Huang Quan raised his eyebrows:

"On the surface, we are mobilizing flying troops from Southeast Asia and the Pacific region, but in fact, we are mobilizing aircraft from the peninsula, the Kwantung Army, and the mainland, and the number is more than expected."

"370 three fighters, twice the expected number."

"If we don't have information about Boss Chen, we might suffer a small loss."

Compared with Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands theater, the devils can mobilize aircraft from the mainland, the peninsula, and the Kwantung Army garrison much faster.

Especially after the departure of the American bomber fleet, the pressure on the devil's local air defense dropped sharply, and the huge force of the local air defense force was completely released. It was not difficult to mobilize hundreds of fighter jets.

"The little devil is not an idiot."

Kong Jie was not surprised by this.

Before Boss Chen showed up, he had fought with the little devil for more than three years, and suffered countless losses. He was well versed in the cunning of the little devil. Even Li Yunlong suffered a lot back then.

At that time, the equipment of the troops was really poor, and they were too poor, and the gap between them and the devils was too great.

Just like the gap between the current devils and the independent regiment.

"However."

Looking at the detailed information on each fighter jet and its pilots in his hand, Huang Quan snorted coldly:
"Return to the Eighth Air Force, which is clearly aimed at us."

"Now that I have the information provided by Boss Chen, I will make it impossible for any of the little devil's planes to fly."

With such detailed information, if the devil is still allowed to fly in a plane, Huang Quan will not have to be the head of this independent flight regiment, and just find a piece of tofu to crash him to death.

"Haha."

Kong Jie smiled with satisfaction.

As long as the devils can't seize the air supremacy, the hundreds of thousands of devils in the southern region will not even think about jumping up and down.

"Speak up."

Finally, Huang Quan couldn't help feeling:
"There is a big gap between our intelligence capabilities."

Even the intelligence forces at the headquarters couldn't detect such a huge movement of the devil, which made Huang Quan feel emotional.

"Although we have Boss Chen's support, we can argue with the little devil, and even fight against the little devil."

Kong Jie also said with emotion:

"But there are still many gaps between us and the little devils, especially in the aspects of intelligence that need to be accumulated."

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at the same time.

Jinling, dispatched army headquarters.

"how?"

"There is no problem with the confidentiality work."

Commander Hata Shunroku looked at a lieutenant general in front of him.

Lieutenant General Ping Bubo, commander of the Eighth Air Force.

At this time, there were only two people in the headquarters, not even a staff officer or guard.

"no problem."

Ping Bu Bo's tone is confident:
"I studied in depth half a year ago, the Independence Regiment launched that large-scale air strike."

"The opponent was able to destroy almost all the airports of our army, blow up almost all combat aircraft, and kill more than half of the pilots in one fell swoop. It must be because of sufficient intelligence support."

"They know where our planes are parked, the locations of the airport warehouses, the residences of the pilots, and even the accurate schedule of our air force, which is why we can formulate such precise combat plans."

"Although Tegoco failed to investigate the source of the enemy's intelligence, and it was still unable to investigate the whereabouts of that Chen Fan, it's not a big problem."

"The other party can obtain our intelligence, there must be a large number of spies in the flying troops, and they can decipher and monitor our communications. As long as we target this point, we can take good precautions."

"At present, the Eighth Air Force has two flying divisions, six flying wings, eighteen flying groups, forty flying squadrons, and a total of 370 three fighter jets."

"I stripped off the command of the brigade, wing, and division, and let the troops act independently in the form of squadrons, each of which went directly to the station and performed concealment. There are several departments, and the various departments do not want to communicate information."

"Forty groups of staff report directly to me."

"Including me, only three people know all the information about the troops."

"In such a situation, unless the enemy has the ability to obtain all the information of the entire locust army, including the Tokyo garrison, or"

Speaking of this, he paused at a steady pace and raised his tone:
"I am the commander of the Eighth Air Force, the chief of staff of the Eighth Air Force, or the staff officer directly under me is the spy of the other party, otherwise I know the intelligence of a few squadrons at most."

"in addition."

"The Division Headquarters, Wing Headquarters, and Brigade Headquarters of the Eighth Air Force are still under normal command, sending and receiving telegrams according to the scheduled plan, and mobilizing troops to assemble."

"and."

"I also arranged for a part of the flying troops to assemble normally from the Pacific and Southeast Asia to the Changheng area according to the order."

"Yo Xi."

After listening to Pingbu Bo's deployment, Hata Shunroku expressed his satisfaction.

On the surface, it is a routine deployment. From the military headquarters, to the division headquarters, to the regiment headquarters, to the regiment headquarters, to the brigade headquarters, the troops are still commanded and mobilized normally, and then assembled in the Changheng area step by step to attract the attention of the enemy.

In fact, the real army is concealed. The squadron is used as a unit to act alone to hide in the arranged station, and all the squadrons are directly under the command of the army headquarters, and the staff is also separated to ensure the concealment of intelligence to the maximum extent. .

Unless there is a problem at the top, at most a few squadrons will have problems.

But with nearly four hundred fighters, the loss of a few squadrons had little effect on the battle.

The only problem is that, as a commander, the command task will be very heavy. Commanding forty squadrons is not an easy task.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Hata Shunroku said.

"As long as the air supremacy in the Changheng area can be regained, it should be done."

Pingbo said:
"However, this can only be a stopgap measure and cannot be spread in all troops. We must investigate where the enemy obtained information and cut off the source of this information, otherwise..."

"I know."

Hata Toshiroku smiled wryly.

They all know it, the high-level officials of the empire know it, and so does TGK.

It was Chen Fan who provided information to Eighth Road.

But the problem is.

It's been four years.

It has been four years since the empire tried its best to investigate this Chen Fan, during which countless human, material and financial resources were spent.

There are countless hidden intelligence personnel exposed for this reason.For this reason, the empire even organized multiple intensive self-investigations on all the personnel of the locust army and the government personnel of the empire itself, resulting in a large loss of talents—

An espionage investigation of this scale will inevitably lead to internal factional strife.

Throwing out a piece of evidence, or simply falsifying a piece of evidence, manipulating during the investigation, can easily eliminate opponents with disagreements and conflicts of interest.

But at such a huge cost, nothing has been investigated.

Not even any intelligence personnel have seen this Chen Fan, they can only hear from other people's mouths, and from the materials that appeared, it proves that such a person exists.

No lurking personnel were found either.

Under such circumstances, how to find and cut off the opponent's intelligence hand?
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at the same time.

Baoding.

Inside Yamamoto headquarters.

"Southern troops, are you going to gather aviation forces from the Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia to regain air supremacy in the Changheng area?"

Looking at the information collected by his own intelligence force in his hand, Yamamoto narrowed his eyes.

With Yamamoto's keen intelligence, he easily discovered the problem in this plan.

He, a dignified lieutenant general of the empire, didn't even know about this plan, and the base camp didn't intend to inform him at all. Of course, as the person in charge of training recruits and collecting supplies in North China, he didn't need to know.

But it can also be seen from this that the degree of secrecy of this plan is very high, and it is even very possible that the information he sees now is just smoke bombs.

It was a smoke bomb released to confuse the enemy intelligence department and Chen Fan.

During the Henan-Central Battle, almost all airports in North China, Central China, and South China were bombed almost simultaneously. Most of the aircraft warehouses were destroyed, and more than half of the pilots were killed. The losses were so heavy that during the No. [-] battle, they lost almost all air supremacy. .

The loss was so great that the whole country was shaken.

Afterwards, the base camp organized a large-scale investigation of the army, trying to find out the spies, but there was still no result. It just gave a group of hilltop forces a chance to fight themselves.

Because of intelligence, after suffering such a big loss, of course we have to learn a lesson. It is inevitable to keep the assembled flying troops highly secret, so as not to be blown up in the airport again.

but.

"Humph."

Yamamoto put down the information in his hand and sneered:
"Is it useful?"

After fighting against the Independence Regiment for four years and fighting nearly a hundred times, Yamamoto deeply understood one thing.

The means that Chen Fan possessed were beyond the understanding of the empire, just like the materials that appeared in the base of the Eighth Route Army, the empire has not yet figured out how they appeared.

The empire's current methods are likely to be useless and just futile.

But Yamamoto didn't bother to remind.

Not to mention that no one believed it at all, even if someone believed it, so what?The empire has nothing to do at all, is it possible to surrender directly?
"General, the award telegram from the base camp has arrived."

A staff officer came over and handed Yamamoto a telegram.

Yamamoto took it and opened the telegram. With the help of the light, he saw that there was an order on the telegram, which was a commendation order for the No.15 Brigade.

The front is full of medals, titles, praise from the locust, praise from the prime minister of the base camp, etc. A bunch of nonsense, a bunch of unnutritious things, Yamamoto looked directly at the end, that is, for the promotion of the officers of the No.15 brigade participating in this battle .

The No.15 Brigade was expanded into the 125th Division, with its subordinate No.15 Brigade, No.19 Brigade, and an armored brigade with a total strength of 5000.

The head of the brigade, Major General Tanaka Qin, was promoted to lieutenant general division head.

The captain of the 77th regiment, Daisuke Marukawa, was promoted to major general and became the head of the No.15 brigade.

The head of the No.19 brigade is temporarily replaced by the head of the division.

Commander Tani Kaku, Lieutenant Commander, and Commander Maruo Shigeru, have been promoted to the captain of the General Commander, and are candidates for the head of the No.19 brigade.

"What a big hand."

Looking at the order on the telegram, Yamamoto was surprised.

The brigade head was promoted from major general to lieutenant general, which he expected, and the expansion of the No.15 brigade into the 125th division was also expected, but the establishment of 5000 people exceeded Yamamoto's expectations.

This is already the establishment of an ordinary Class A division.

It even allowed the Fifteenth Brigade to form an armored brigade, leaving some of the captured tanks for use by the armored vehicles.

In particular, the two captains were directly promoted to brigade commanders, directly skipping one and a half levels, and they were at least the key level of the general.

"This reward is what they deserve."

Ito, who was on the side, suppressed the surprise in his heart and added something.

"really."

Yamamoto also nodded in agreement.

The No.15 brigade fought beautifully in this battle. They won a perfect victory in a disadvantaged state, which greatly improved the morale of the troops.

"General Yamamoto."

After the two chatted for a while, Ito said goodbye to Yamamoto.

So far, all of Ito's plans to come to Dingzhou have been successfully completed, and even exceeded.It won't be long before he has an ally at the division level.

(End of this chapter)