The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 527: Lying about military intelligence and stirring up trouble

He Wei slammed the table, which frightened Wang Yuanling. Then, Wang Yuanling asked He Wei with a little suspicion: "Captain, what are you doing?"

"Brother Yuan Ling, has the enemy situation at the General Staff Office been sorted out?"

Wang Yuanling nodded: "It has been basically handled. The general enemy situation, the enemy's organization, and the enemy's offensive deployment have all been sorted out. Now we are interrogating the Japanese prisoners, hoping to get something out of them."

“Bring me the sorted content.”

He Wei said solemnly.

Soon, a staff officer brought over the enemy situation information compiled after the end of the operation. He Wei did not look at anything else, but directly turned to the content that recorded the organization and establishment of the Japanese landing troops in southern Guangxi.

This information on the enemy was compiled by the General Staff based on the remains of Japanese soldiers, the documents on the bodies, and the confessions of Japanese prisoners of war. It is therefore extremely accurate, and the organizational structure of the Japanese army has been detailed to the regiment level.

According to the information, the Japanese landing force included the entire 5th Division and a Guards Mixed Brigade, which was considered a heavy military group, and the numbers of its subordinate brigades and regiments were also clearly shown on paper.

This huge Japanese landing force was affiliated with the 21st Army of the Japanese Army in terms of its organization. Its original base was in Guangdong. This army was not only the main force that captured Guangzhou a year ago, but also the main combat force deployed by the Japanese Army in Guangdong. Among them, the 5th Division was the main force of the army, and the Imperial Guards Mixed Brigade, which also landed in southern Guangxi, was recently transferred from the Japanese mainland.

除此之外，在广东地区，21军还有18、38、104、106等四个师团。

He Wei's eyes did not linger on the 5th Division and the Imperial Guards Mixed Brigade, which had already landed, but were closely staring at the numbers of the four Japanese divisions that remained in Guangdong. Theoretically, these troops were the main force of the Japanese army used for operations in Guangdong, and they were also reserve forces that could be transported to Guangxi and southern Guangxi by sea at any time.

He Wei carefully read the information for a while, and suddenly asked: "Brother Yuan Ling, have you sent out the report on this battle?"

Wang Yuanling shook his head and said, "Not yet. After all, the results of the battle have just been counted, and the battle report has not been sorted out yet."

He Wei thought for a moment and said, "Brother Yuan Ling, when you have drafted the message to Nanning, add this paragraph to say that the Japanese landing force includes not only the Fifth Division and the Imperial Guards Mixed Brigade, but also the Eighteenth Division and the Thirty-eighth Division, as well as a large number of artillery, cavalry, engineering, logistics and other special forces, and a large number of follow-up reinforcements are on the way by sea and may be transported to land at any time."

"Captain, this? I've read all the Japanese military data we seized. It doesn't say that the Japanese reinforcements are at sea. There are no 18th and 38th divisions among the Japanese troops fighting against us. If we report this, wouldn't it be a lie?"

He Wei sneered, shook his head helplessly, and said: "Brother Yuan Ling, the Japanese army has landed in Guangxi for some time. Can you see what big moves our top leaders have made and how many reinforcements have been sent?"

Wang Yuanling was confused by He Wei's irrelevant words, but he was not a stupid person. He had worked in the rear-line units for a long time and attended the Army University. He was also quite politically savvy and quickly realized He Wei's intention.

Indeed, as He Wei said, since the Japanese army landed in Guangxi, the situation was not optimistic, and the garrison in Guangxi was seriously insufficient. It was the time to draw a large number of troops from other provinces to Guangxi for reinforcement, but Chongqing did not make any movement, and the same was true for Guilin. According to common sense, it should not be the case, but the superiors acted calmly and calmly at this critical moment, and did not send even a single troop to reinforce.

Wang Yuanling didn't believe that Chongqing would be happy to see this, and he didn't believe that the leaders of the New Guangxi Clique would sit idly by and watch the Japanese army attack and capture cities in their own lair.

Wang Yuanling naturally had no way of knowing that the reason why the Chongqing National Government central government and the New Guangxi Clique had been slow to take action was actually due to the local factional disputes between the central government and the Guangxi Clique. He thought about it over and over again but could not find the reason, and in the end he could only guess that the higher-ups had not yet realized the seriousness of the current situation.

According to this logic, He Wei's reason and motive for lying about military intelligence was very legitimate.

Since the superiors did not realize the seriousness of the matter, if they were to be urged to send reinforcements in a timely manner, they had to be made aware of the severity of the current situation in Guangxi. In this way, He Wei's exaggeration of the enemy situation would come in handy.

Tsk tsk, Wang Yuanling suddenly felt that his captain was really daring. He dared to think anything and do anything.

This was indeed what He Wei intended. He had no idea about the situation above, but in order to get them to send troops, he could only lie about military intelligence. He fabricated the size of the landing Japanese troops to four divisions and created a bunch of reinforcements that did not exist at all. He wanted to use the Japanese army to put pressure on them and try to scare the top brass so that they would send reinforcements as soon as possible.

"Captain, what you mean is that we exaggerate the current enemy situation and report it to the higher-ups, so as to force them to dispatch reinforcements as soon as possible. This is not impossible, but it is still suspected of lying about military intelligence."

Wang Yuanling said with some hesitation.

He Wei didn't care at all. He waved his hand and said, "This can't be considered as false military intelligence. Let's just say that we got the enemy information from the documents found on the Japanese corpses. This method of obtaining enemy information based on spoils of war is not 100% accurate. Some deviations are normal. Besides, our intentions are good. Since the higher-ups have not yet sent troops to Guangxi for reinforcement and have not taken any action, at this critical juncture, shouldn't we add fuel to the fire and add more firewood?"

Wang Yuanling was slightly startled, and after thinking for a moment, he also smiled knowingly and said, "Okay, I'll arrange it right away."

Watching Wang Yuanling leave, He Wei became worried again.

He had no choice but to do so. No one knew what had happened to the senior officials in Chongqing. They seemed to be paralyzed ever since the Japanese army landed in Guangxi. He had clearly done a lot of preparation before the war. The Chairman of the Standing Committee and the senior officials of the National Government had clearly made preparations to send the Central Army into Guangxi. The Secretariat had clearly communicated with him on a series of plans to extend their hands to the Guangxi clique's territory. But when the time came, this was the result.

Alas, He Wei, who was completely unaware of the struggle among the upper echelons, felt extremely tired, and now he could only resort to the trick of lying about military intelligence. If things went well, this lie about military intelligence would surely stir up the general situation and even revitalize the overall situation. If things went against his wishes, he would only be able to take it one step at a time.

I can only hope that this move of mine is enough to scare the higher-ups.

(End of this chapter)