Take Taobao to fight against Japan

Although Shimomura does not have much military command ability, he is also a person who "reads poetry and books". He has been studying at the Japanese Army Central Junior School since he was a child, and has successively graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, the Japanese Army University, and the French Army University. Graduated from a series of prestigious military schools.

Before taking office as the commander of the North China Front Army, Shimomura Sada spent most of his time working in the General Staff Headquarters, engaged in military research, so he had a lot of research on the current world military theory and the Huben Army.

After some not-too-difficult discussions and deliberations, Shimomura decided to implement a larger-scale siege and layer-by-layer defense circle against the Huben Army.

Instead of implementing the orders issued by the base camp before, it is necessary to counterattack and retake the Lubei Plain while the Huben Army is not stable, keep Jinan City, and drive the Huben Army back to the south bank of the Yellow River again.

Somewhere in the Indian Ocean, a huge fleet is sailing westward,

In the past three days or so, the fleet has sounded the alarm several times at night, and has discovered several enemy submarines cruising nearby in an attempt to attack the fleet.

But fortunately, under the full vigilance of the escort fleet and powerful anti-submarine countermeasures, none of the sneak attacks by the enemy submarines succeeded, and several ships were sunk.

As for whether it is a German submarine or a Japanese submarine, it is still unknown. Of course, the answer to this question is not important to the fleet.

Yang Fan stood on the bow deck of the warship, with a Cuban cigar in his mouth and a glass of red wine in his hand, looking at the calm sea level and the fleets sailing side by side with great interest.

Wu Juan and Xia Yu were dressed in military attire, but they didn't smoke and drink like Yang Fan. Although they just stood beside Yang Fan empty-handed, the two women were in a very good mood, chatting and laughing.

It has been three full days since we set off from Yangon Port. It stands to reason that for this kind of featureless vast sea, three days is enough to make people tired.

But Mr. Yang, who was crossing the ocean by boat for the first time, had a sense of freshness that he would never tire of seeing. He was in a good mood and brought his wife and concubine to the bow of the boat to enjoy the sea breeze and the sun, and abruptly put the boring long voyage to rest. Chongyang deduces the visual beauty of a yacht beauty.

Boom, boom, just as Yang Fan was enjoying himself, there was a rush of footsteps in the distance.

Yang Fan subconsciously turned his head to look, it turned out that the intelligence officer Huang Hong came to report again, and it seemed that things were still in a hurry.

Sure enough, after a while, Huang Hong stood still in front of Yang Fan and saluted: "Report to the chief, Shandong urgent call."

Yang Fan turned around and leaned against the side of the boat, shaking the red wine in his hand, the corner of his mouth slightly curled up, and a word popped out: "Read!"

"Yes!"

Huang Hong responded, and then took a telegram and read: "More than 30 Japanese Kwantung Army reinforcements have arrived in Hebei, and are heading to Cangzhou, Hengshui, Xingtai, and Handan to deploy defenses.

At present, the total strength of the Japanese North China Front Army has reached more than 60 people, and it has 2 flying divisions and 3 armored divisions under its jurisdiction..."

"These little devils came very fast!"

After listening to Huang Hong's report, Yang Fan frowned slightly and said, "Call back Deputy Commander-in-Chief Miu, don't care how many devils have come, first take down all the Luxi Plain for me, and the occupied areas must be returned as quickly as possible." Consolidate the defense at a high speed, establish a solid defense line and prepare for the tug-of-war with the Japanese army."

"Yes!"

Huang Hong quickly responded.

Yang Fan went on to say: "Don't force the siege of Jinan Prefecture too hastily, and still adopt the strategy of besieging all three. It is best to force the little devils to abandon Jinan voluntarily, and minimize the damage to Jinan."

"Yes!"

Huang Hong nodded again.

Yang Fan took a sip of the red wine, and changed the subject: "What's the current situation in Henan?"

Huang Hong's complexion suddenly darkened, and he said in a deep voice: "Reporting, the situation is getting worse and worse. The famine has become more and more serious since the second half of this year. Henan should be a season with plenty of rain, but even a single drop It didn't even rain, but the sun was scorching like fire.

In the wild dance of the drought demon, the formerly fertile land has been cracked into pieces, and finally turned into sandy land, completely unsuitable for farming.

Hua County, originally known as Henan's granary, has no harvest this year.

Coupled with the man-made disasters caused by successive years of war, many people in Henan are already on the verge of life and death. "

Speaking of this, Huang Hong paused, and said extremely sadly: "Boss, although we have tried our best to rescue the victims, we have been rescuing the victims to our Shandong Peninsula through various channels these years.

But it is still a drop in the bucket. The yellow flooded area caused by the bursting of the Huayuankou embankment, the successive years of severe drought, the flood of locusts, and the man-made disasters caused by the war have devastated more than 1000 million people in Henan!

If there is no effective improvement within two or three months, the consequences will be unimaginable, and the phenomenon of starvation and cannibalism will be inevitable..."

As a time-traveling man, Yang Fan is naturally very aware of how horrible and tragic the 1942 Henan Famine was.

Therefore, in order to minimize this catastrophe, Yang Fan began to do his best to rescue the disaster-stricken people from various disaster-stricken areas and settled in the Shandong Peninsula as early as that year when the Huayuankou dike broke.

Over the past two or three years, Yang Fan has brought millions of people from Henan, Hebei, Anhui and other places to the Shandong Peninsula in various ways and methods.

Although such efforts have achieved great results, not only have millions of people escaped disaster, but also caused the rapid expansion of the population resources of the Shandong Peninsula, and all walks of life have become extremely prosperous in a short period of time.

But then the Japanese army gradually came to their senses. When they understood that these disaster victims, whom they considered cumbersome, would not bring trouble and difficulties to Yang Fan, but would become a strong resource for the Huben Army. become extremely difficult.

At present, the number of disaster-affected people stranded in Henan alone is still as high as 1200 million, which is a suffocating astronomical figure.

Chapter 1270 Ark Project

Henan has been a strategically important place for the world since ancient times. No matter who unifies the world, Henan cannot be bypassed, even if foreign enemies invade.

Therefore, the military disasters suffered by Henan people are often the heaviest. During the Anti-Japanese War, 111 of the 109 counties in Henan were occupied by the Japanese army. The tug-of-war between China and Japan in Henan brought great harm to the people of Henan.

In 1937, under the fierce offensive of the Japanese army, the national army retreated steadily. It was not until relying on the natural danger of the Yellow River that it had a slight respite, and the whole northern Henan fell.

In order to slow down the crazy attack of the Japanese army, the Chairman secretly ordered to blow up the levee of the Yellow River at Huayuankou in Zhengzhou, allowing the raging Yellow River to rush southeastward and seize the Huaihe River into the sea.

After the Yellow River broke its embankment and flooded, it flooded 44 square kilometers of land in 5.4 counties belonging to the three provinces of Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu, killing more than [-] people in the water.

The national army's "replacing soldiers with water" could only temporarily stop the pace of the Japanese attack, but it caused immeasurable damage to the people downstream.

After the Yellow River receded, a yellow flood zone of more than 400 kilometers was formed. Tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land in the Eastern Henan Plain became beaches and river branches, which could not be cultivated.

Since then, the Yellow River has flooded year after year and burst frequently.After the land in the yellow flood area has been scorched by severe drought, the abandoned land has become a hotbed for the rapid breeding of locusts.

From the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937 to the catastrophe in Henan in 1942, the amount of food produced during these five years ranked first in the country.

During the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, for most of the time, Henan, which had only half of the province left, sent a total of 1 troops, which is the second largest province after Sichuan.

Such a heavy burden, even if the weather is good, farmers in Henan can only rely on wild vegetables and miscellaneous grains to make ends meet after paying grain and taxes.

The military's excessive demands from the civilian population have brought the civilian population's ability to resist disasters close to zero, and many farmers have already fallen to the brink of bankruptcy.Once natural disasters come, the outbreak of famine is inevitable.

In 1942, when a catastrophe struck, tens of thousands of people in Henan fell into starvation.

The victims slaughtered the chickens, dogs and cattle that they loved as life, sold their hoes, padded jackets, sold their land, and finally cut off their hearts—sold their children and wives.In the end, he was still taken away by the god of death.

Wang Yunsheng, chief editor of Ta Kung Pao, wrote in an editorial in 1942, "Looking at Chongqing, Thinking about the Central Plains":

"Those who died of starvation lost their bones and flesh, those who fled with their old and young, their wives and children separated, crowded into crowds, and beaten with sticks, may not be able to obtain a registration certificate from the Relief Committee.

Those who ate the poisonous hair of weeds died, and those who ate the dry bark could not bear the pain of throat piercing and colic.

Carrying wives and daughters to a distant human flesh market may not be able to exchange for a few buckets of grain. ..."

The victims began to eat grass roots and bark, and soon the grass roots were almost dug up, and the bark was almost stripped off. The victims began to be anemic, emaciated, sick, and their faces were swollen.

In Luoyang, a disaster victim from Xingyang couldn't bear his family's suffering from hunger, so he personally killed his wife and two sons and threw himself into a well.

In many places, the tragic situation of "human cannibalism" also appeared. In the beginning, only dead bodies were eaten, and later killing and eating of living people was not uncommon.

After quelling the severe drought, there was another locust plague. Because Henan is located at the front line, there were reasons such as lower-level concealment, policy mistakes, and traffic jams. As a result, 111 counties out of 96 counties in Henan were affected. Among them, 39 counties were seriously affected. The number of people reached 1200 million.

According to the results of comprehensive statistics obtained later, from 1942 to 1943, the population of Henan dropped sharply from 3000 million to more than 2100 million.

More reliable analysis results show that at least 300 million of them died of starvation, another 500 million migrated to Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, and about 100 million died of cholera after the disaster or disappeared.

At present, Henan has not yet reached the most difficult time in another time and space, but the famine has begun to come on a large scale, and millions of victims are already in a state of semi-starvation.

If left unchecked, it is clear that the same mistakes will only be repeated.

"Brother Fan!"

"Is there something we should do?"

After listening to Huang Hong's story, the pretty faces of Wu Juan and Xia Yu, who were standing aside, turned pale. They never thought that such a serious natural and man-made disaster was happening in Henan just a few hundred kilometers away.

"In this case, start the Ark project immediately!"

After thinking for a while, Yang Fan nodded and said: "The lurking personnel of various ministries in Henan were ordered to split up and act immediately, and the deputy commander-in-chief Miu was ordered to attack the remaining counties in the Luxi Plain as quickly as possible, and at the same time dispatched a The elite troops march westward to open up the Henan channel, and try to guide the victims from Henan to Shandong as much as possible!"

"Yes! I'll send a telegram right away to arrange the implementation of the Ark plan!"

Hearing this, Huang Hong immediately smiled happily, saluted Yang Fan, and ran away in a hurry.

"Brother Fan, so you have already planned the layout?"

After Huang Hong ran away, Wu Juan hurriedly asked with strong curiosity: "Brother Fan, what is the Ark Project? If it is convenient,..."

"Convenience, how can it be inconvenient, as long as you want to listen, I will naturally know everything and say everything!"

Yang Fan laughed, and then released the long-planned Ark plan.

In fact, this Ark plan is not mysterious. It is nothing more than Yang Fan's layout in Henan in advance, making two-handed preparations for the possible famine.

The best thing is the result. Naturally, the whole territory of Shandong was recovered before the famine came in 1942, and the connection with Henan was directly connected, and then the victims of the disaster could be moved into Shandong on a large scale through land transportation.

This will not only save the victims from the severe suffering of natural and man-made disasters, but also greatly enrich the population resources and increase the potential for war.

If the goal of penetrating Henan cannot be achieved, then Yang Fan can use external power to transport a large amount of grain to various commercial firms or strongholds in Henan for disaster relief.

In any case, Yang Fan will not just sit idly by and let the starving famine appear in the current time and space.

"Wow, you are so powerful, you are simply a clever plan!"

"Yes, Brother Fan, you are truly a god!"

"Fortunately, with you here, we ordinary people can find a paradise in this troubled world!"

"That's needless to say, when I first arrived in Shandong Peninsula from Shanghai, I was dumbfounded by everything here. I really never dreamed that the poor and remote areas in my impression were more expensive than the big Shanghai or even the United States. Rich and advanced..."

After listening to Yang Fan's narration, both Wu Juan and Xia Yu turned into fan girls, and they all gave their thumbs up and praised them fiercely.

"Hey, what is this? It's just an unintentional insertion."

Yang waved his hand very modestly, but there was a mean smile on the corner of his mouth, and his heart was as sweet as eating honey.

It's different from other big men's flattering. His wife's admiration and praise make Yang very useful, and he doesn't have any sense of disobedience.

Well, there is nothing wrong with being privileged everywhere in the beauty industry.

There are two more chapters in the afternoon

Chapter 1271 Heartbroken

Jinan 12th Army Headquarters.

"Baga! How can this be reasonable? More than 30 Kwantung Army elites have already arrived in Hebei and are under the command of the North China Front Army. However, idiots like Shimomura Sada and Tanabe Moritake are holding back and dare not take the initiative to attack the Huben Army?"

"Baga! Aren't they going to sit back and watch Jinan Prefecture, and even the whole of Shandong, fall into the hands of the Huben army?"

After hearing the latest information, Otaka Kamezo, who had been waiting for reinforcements, was completely angry. He never dreamed that the North China Front Army would be so cowardly.

After receiving powerful reinforcements from more than 30 elite troops, over 800 armored combat vehicles, and nearly a thousand combat aircraft, they only dared to deploy defenses in the river border and confront the Huben army at a distance, and they dared not come to participate in the one-sided battle. Shandong War!

Otaka Kamezo really couldn't figure out what was in the heads of Shimomura Sada, Tanabe Moritake and others!

Before the Kwantung Army arrived in Hebei, most of the elite veteran troops were transferred to the North China Front Army in the Myanmar theater, which is completely understandable.

But now that the North China Front Army has become stronger than ever, they still dare not take the initiative to attack. This not only makes Odaka Kamezo extremely uncomfortable, but also an extremely heavy blow to the morale of all Japanese troops in the 12th Army.

"I also don't understand. The imperial army of the Great Sun Empire really doesn't even have the courage to fight head-on with the Huben Army? Are they the most elite Kwantung Army in the empire?"

Kobayashi Asaburo is also constipated, looking forward day and night, gritting his teeth and persisting until now, isn't it just to be able to cooperate with the reinforcements of the Kwantung Army to fight a hearty defensive counterattack?

But the result is that after waiting for more than 10 days, I didn't get the desired result, only a fart.

Kobayashi Asaburo's heart is almost broken at this moment, he just feels that his heart has been stabbed hard again and again, and there is a dull and empty feeling in an instant: all the persistence and sacrifice before suddenly become meaningless , and even turned into a joke!

After venting, Odaka Kamezo looked at Kobayashi Asaburo with blank eyes and said, "Kobayashi-kun, what should we do now? Is it necessary to continue?"

"Otaka-kun, to be honest, I really want to know the correct answer."

Kobayashi Asaburo shook his head bitterly, and said in a deep voice: "The powerful reinforcements we have been looking forward to and looking forward to will not be available in a short time.

It is impossible for the Huben army to give us too much time to stand by and wait for help. They are now adopting the tactics of encirclement and oneness.

It is not that the Huben army is incapable of encircling Jinan on all sides. It is obvious that they want to use this insidious ancient tactic to disintegrate our morale and weaken the fighting will of the imperial warriors. "

Otaka Kamezo snorted coldly: "So what, the warriors of the empire will not be fooled, they are all the best soldiers, and they will definitely persevere to the end!"

"Otaka-kun, let's stop fooling ourselves!"

Asaburo Kobayashi sighed lightly, and said with a heavy tone: "Although this tactic is very old-fashioned, it is indeed very effective. In fact, it has already had a great impact on the fighting will of the warriors of the Empire, especially now that the Kanto region has been completely lost. In the case of foreign military aid!"

"Baga, damn it, the Chinese Tiger Army!"

Otaka Kamezo gritted his teeth, and asked in a muffled voice, "Then you mean that we are going to give up Jinan on our own initiative?"

Kobayashi Asaburo did not answer directly, but said to himself: "The reason why we can still fight vigorously with the Huben army at present is actually because they do not want to carry out a devastating bombing of Jinan City.

After all, it's not that they don't have that ability, but they want to keep the places of interest in Jinan City as much as possible, and don't accidentally hurt the Chinese people in Jinan City too much. "