spy cloud

"Commander, should we mobilize some more troops and attack the Subei Army directly?"

"Is your brain full of shit? They have already mobilized. As long as we mobilize the army, his hidden trump card is likely to be exposed and he will fight us to the death. Do you believe it?"

Asaka looked at him as if he were an idiot.

"The Subei Army has 20 divisions, which are regular troops, and there are also garrison regiments in various counties. I heard that they have started recruiting again. Don't you know how many troops they have?"

"If he wants, he can temporarily mobilize 250,000 regular troops. Do you understand?"

"Hi!"

"Alas, the Subei Army doesn't want to fight anymore, so let's just drag it out!"

"Commander, I suspect this is a trick by the Subei Army. It's impossible for him to give up like this before achieving his goal."

"That's what we said, but we can only passively defend now, do you understand?"

"understand!"

"By the way, Commander, we can send a small force to harass the Subei Army. What do you think?"

"Okay! You make a plan!"

"Hi!"

With Asaka's consent, no one expected that a fight between small forces would break out in Yangzhou, especially the Japanese army that came to Yangzhou in small teams to cause trouble.

Liu Jiangjiang was not willing to be outdone, and began to send out a large number of troops, divided into companies, and began to sweep away the Japanese squads. The fighting between the two sides lasted for two or three months before it stopped.

Naturally, the losses on both sides were quite serious, but that is a story for later.

……

Yan'an.

Minister Li walked directly into the offices of several leaders with a document.

"Commanders, this is the intelligence about the war in northern Jiangsu. Take a look at what Zhang Tianhao means."

"Oh, what is this little guy up to?"

The leader took the information and looked at it casually, and immediately his expression became a little strange.

Then he handed the information to others. Obviously, he also wanted to think about why Zhang Tianhao did this.

Ten minutes later, after reading the intelligence, several leaders also sat there with strange looks on their faces.

After all, when Zhang Tianhao first attacked Xuzhou, he used planes and cannons, but only took over two counties and then there was not much else.

However, he secretly took Yangzhou and is now in a stalemate in Xuzhou. Obviously, this is somewhat inconsistent with Zhang Tianhao's character.

"Tell me, why didn't Zhang Tianhao continue to attack?"

"Commander, the Japanese have mobilized three divisions, about 50,000 people, plus the local garrison battalion, about 60,000 Japanese troops, and a large number of imperial troops. Zhang Tianhao does not have an advantage in terms of troop numbers, which is one of the reasons why he does not want to attack directly."

"Although he mobilized five more divisions, a total of nearly 70,000 troops, there is still a gap between them and the Japanese army. If they attack directly, the losses will still be considerable."

"Not to mention that in a siege, the losses would be even greater."

At this time, another leader raised his head, thought for a moment, and said softly: "The resources in northern Jiangsu are scarce, and there is simply not enough to support him to launch a full-scale war. If he launches a full-scale attack directly, it is likely that their ammunition will not last long."

"Yes, I thought of this as well. In addition, there is another important reason, that is, Zhang Tianhao has already achieved his goal of taking Yangzhou, plus the four counties of Anhui and the two counties of Xuzhou, this is enough." "The Japanese are not inferior in equipment, and the Subei Army is also a well-trained force, not worse than the Japanese, so if the two sides fight, Zhang Tianhao may really not gain any benefit."

"If his target was Yangzhou from the beginning and everything else was just a cover-up, that makes sense. In addition, the Subei Army has started recruiting again, and each county is recruiting garrison regiments. I suspect that the Subei Army wants to continue expanding its army. I heard that in Yangzhou, they are directly recruiting three divisions of troops this time."

"Although we didn't directly recruit three divisions of troops, the garrison regiments in various places, as well as the incorporated Imperial Army, are estimated to have three divisions, and no more."

"Their junior officers are not much different. All of them will be sent to the Subei Army Group Headquarters for training. Each training session will take about two or three months, which is enough to train a group of junior officers."

"Ok!"

"Do you think these are not Zhang Tianhao's real goals?"

"I suspect Zhang Tianhao has a certain goal. He may want to take Xuzhou, but Xuzhou is a tough nut to crack. With the strength of three Japanese divisions, it will be too difficult to take it down!"

"In addition, Xuzhou is a major transportation route and an important transportation hub, a key place connecting Central China and North China. The Japanese will never give it up easily. Therefore, it will be too difficult for Zhang Tianhao to take Xuzhou."

"Do you think the Japanese will counterattack and directly attack the Subei Army Group?"

"It's too difficult. Zhang Tianhao still has a lot of cards. As long as he wants, he can mobilize 500,000 troops at any time. He is not afraid of the Japanese counterattack at all. I believe that the Japanese have attacked northern Jiangsu more than once, and the northern Jiangsu Army has become stronger and stronger as a result."

"Most of the people in the surrounding areas have begun to migrate to the territory of the Subei Army Group. The population is almost several million, so it is not a problem to organize an army of 500,000."

"No, I suspect that Zhang Tianhao's attack this time and his direct confrontation with the Japanese was definitely not due to population issues, but rather that his territory might not be able to accommodate so many people. The population exceeded the limit of his territory, so he had to expand outward."

"It's really possible. Our people have learned from northern Jiangsu that the population there is too large."

Minister Li on the side added, somewhat helplessly: "Our people only occasionally learned from Huaiyin that there are more than four million people in Huaiyin alone."

"What, four million people?"

When the leaders heard this, their eyes almost popped out. After all, the large population of northern Jiangsu almost broke the imagination of all of them.

That’s a population of four million, and it’s just Huaiyin.

"That's true. He heard it occasionally while in the Population Statistics Bureau. Later, for some unknown reason, Zhang Tianhao directly investigated government officials from all over the country, and our people were kicked out of the Statistics Bureau."

"That time, many people were kicked out. As for the reason, our people don't know either. We only know that Zhang Tianhao talked to all the government officials and then kicked them out directly."

"When did this happen?"

“Two months ago!”

Everyone gasped again. After all, two months ago, the entire northern Jiangsu province had undergone a major reshuffle. All government departments, even the police department, were called in for questioning by Zhang Tianhao. Many Japanese spies and traitors were arrested, and many were publicly executed.

Almost all the personnel planted by these forces within the government were swept away.

Now that this topic has been brought up again, everyone fell silent.

"It seems that Zhang Tianhao has his own special method to distinguish whether someone is a spy or not. In other words, can he distinguish between good and bad?"

"No wonder he can still live till now. His ability is really weird!"

"Could it be that he has the same power as Truth Toner?"

"It's very likely, but we just don't know."

"Commanders, should we give some support to Su Bei?"

"Don't worry about this for now. Even if we provide some support, it will only be a drop in the bucket and will not help." (End of this chapter)