allonlinenovel Chapter 200 Ike's Ambition and Asano Onryo's Conspiracy
Chapter 200 Ike's Ambition and Asano Onryo's Conspiracy
In fact, even the Skeleton Division, which was of world-class level, loyal to Su Zhengyang, and fearless of death, reached its limit many times in this tug-of-war, and was almost breached by the first line of defense by the troops led by Bai Qigang. But no one could have imagined that Su Zhengyang specially reserved a part of the system points to replenish the lost soldiers and ammunition supplies for the Skeleton Division. This made the Skeleton Division completely become a BUG-like existence. Let alone 200,000 troops, even if it was 300,000 or 500,000, it would undoubtedly be a pipe dream to want to completely defeat the Skeleton Division.
Of course, after consuming a large amount of points for replenishment several times, the amount of system points Su Zhengyang now has reached the bottom, which means that the Skeleton Division’s real difficult time is about to come.
In the Battle of Shanghai, which lasted a total of 25 days, the 200,000-strong army led by Bai Qigang lost at least a quarter of its troops on the battlefield.
Bai Qigang has not slept for two days and two nights. He looks visibly older by 20 or 30 years, with white hair on his temples and bloodshot eyes. He sits in his commander's seat, as restless as an ant on the hot pan. He is completely in a trance and as irritable as a stick of dynamite that can be ignited at any time.
In the headquarters of the Skeleton Division in Changning District in the central area of Shanghai, Ike sat at the conference table with a calm expression and said slowly: "After more than 20 days of bloody battles, the patience of Bai Qigang's Northern Expedition Army should have been worn out. What is the situation on the front battlefield today?"
Chief of Staff Li Kaisi said, "Division Commander, starting five days ago, the Northern Expedition troops under Bai Qigang began to launch wave after wave of continuous attacks on our outer defense positions day and night. At least two division-level combat units were completely crippled by us. Now the tenacious fighting spirit shown by our Skeleton Division has completely frightened our enemies. Today, the opponent's offensive momentum is obviously not as strong as in the past few days. After all, facing our dense firepower network defense line, any troops intending to attack our blockade will suffer a fatal blow. No one is willing to sacrifice their lives on a battlefield where there is no hope."
"The time is almost right. Tell Wang Kaier and Wang Taisi at the front that if the enemy launches another desperate and fierce offensive, they should pretend to retreat and abandon the outer defense positions. We have prepared a huge surprise for them in the inner area of Shanghai. Especially when they have suffered repeated setbacks, once they win a hard-earned victory, their commanders at all levels will be overwhelmed by the sudden joy and will step into our trap without any preparation."
"What I want is not only to stop the Southern Government's Northern Expedition Army on the Eastern Front, but to annihilate them all on the battlefield in Shanghai! To give the Southern Government an unbearable blow! To completely change the situation on the entire Chinese battlefield!"
"Yes, Commander! All members of the Skull Division will complete any order issued by the Commander at all costs! Give the leader a perfect answer!"
When everyone thought that Ike's ultimate goal was to make the SS Division a solid nail stuck in the Eastern Front, in fact, Ike had already set his sights on the entire 9th Corps of the Northern Expedition on the Eastern Front.
The SKELETON DIVISION put up a desperate resistance on the periphery and kept the enemy out of Shanghai. Its ultimate goal was to delay time and allow Ike to complete a series of deployments in the city, thus luring the enemy into a trap and inflicting a fatal blow to the enemy's 200,000 troops.
At the headquarters of the Ninth Corps, Bai Qigang once again received a telegram sent by Huang Guangtai himself.
In the telegram, Huang Guangtai's attitude was extremely impatient, and he even expressed his extreme disappointment with Bai Qigang.
After Bai Qigang patiently read the telegram, he suddenly couldn't help but let out an angry roar and tore the entire telegram into pieces. He led an army of 200,000 on the eastern front, but was blocked by less than 50,000 enemy troops in Shanghai and could not move an inch. This would undoubtedly make him, Bai Qigang, a laughing stock of the entire Southern Government.
"Pass on my military order! Have the 5st and 41nd Divisions of the 42th Army, and the 45th and 46th Divisions of the th Army, attack at all costs! Even if it means sacrificing lives! You must take down the outer garrison positions of the Skull Division within one day! If you can't take them down, let them die on the battlefield and never come back to see me!"
During these twenty days, Bai Qigang racked his brains and commanded the Seventh Army to bypass north to Jiading District, northwest of Shanghai, when he was unable to cross the outer defense positions of the SKELETON Division. However, here, he was also blocked by the 2nd Armored Grenadiers Regiment and the Heavy Armored Regiment of the SKELETON Division. The outer area of Jiading District is all flat plains, and the armored forces of the SKELETON Division are like fish in water and tigers with wings. Under the impact of a large number of steel beasts, the entire Seventh Army's combat troops of 30,000 people were beaten back by the two regimental combat units of the SKELETON Division, and their retreat was almost completely blocked by the highly mobile heavy armored regiment, and the entire army was wiped out.
This Skeleton Division, which had extremely advanced armored combat units, an astonishing number of artillery pieces, and soldiers with a strong fighting will, caused Bai Qigang a lot of trouble and headaches.
Bai Qigang secretly swore in his heart that if he could one day break into Shanghai and win, he would cut the commander of the Skeleton Division into pieces, grind his bones to dust, torture him to death, in order to make up for the great psychological trauma he had suffered these days.
Under Bai Qigang, four division-level combat units that were put together once again launched an extremely ferocious offensive. The battlefield was raining bullets, blood and flesh were flying, and the ground was filled with smoke. Over the past twenty days, the blood of soldiers from both sides had almost completely soaked the land, dyeing it a bright red.
On the other side, in the Fuso Consulate in Jinggang City, Asano Wenliang, who had met Su Zhengyang once before at Su Zhengyang's wedding banquet, sat quietly in a quiet room, sipping the fragrant tea leisurely.
After a moment, Inoue Aota, the Fuso Consul in Beijing and Hong Kong, pushed the door open and knelt respectfully opposite Asano Atsuyoshi.
"General Asano, our people have successfully completed the task you assigned us. Xia Zhenhua's son is now in our hands."
With a smile on his face, Asano Wenliang personally poured a cup of tea for Inoue Qingtian and slowly said, "Has it attracted the attention of other people in the Northern Frontier government?"
"All the attention of the Northern Xinjiang Central Government is currently focused on the Northern Expedition battlefield. For the time being, no one should have noticed what happened to Xia Zhenhua."
"Well done. Please make an appointment for me with General Xia Zhenhua. I want to personally have a chat with the most outstanding general of the younger generation in Northern Frontier."
Inoue Aota showed a hint of hesitation and said thoughtfully: "Xia Zhenhua is a hardliner who has no good feelings towards us Fuso. I'm afraid it will be difficult to make an appointment with him."
Asano's smile remained unchanged, but a cruel and fierce look flashed in his eyes.
"Tell him to come to Jinggang to see me. If he refuses or leaks the news, I will remove a component from his son every day and personally send it to him. I don't think he will watch his only bloodline being tortured by us like this."
"I understand, General Asano. I will take care of this matter."