"What? Brother Fan, are you going to lead troops out to fight again? Can you stop taking risks?"

"Yes, Brother Fan, you have only been home for less than a month, why are you going out for an expedition again?"

Hearing Yang Fan's bold thoughts, the sisters Wu Qian and Wu Juan instantly looked dim, full of sadness and panic. Although he knew that Yang Fan was a restless lord, as long as the Japanese devils were still rampant in China, he would not stop the War of Resistance Against Japan!

However, after only half a month of living happily, Yang Fan was going to lead his troops on an expedition again. The two sisters felt very uncomfortable and worried!

"Don't worry, I'm just going out to fight guerrilla this time, and I will never fall directly into the ambush circle of the Japanese devils like I did last time!"

Yang Fan smiled and comforted her, although he was sad since ancient times, a real man did something and did not do anything. This time he had to go out and take a gamble. Not only did he hurt the Japanese army, but he also had to buy more time for the 700,000 national troops that were about to retreat!

The Battle of Shanghai entered the end of October and early November. Although the Chinese army was in a passive position and retreated repeatedly, it still controlled Shanghai, which was undoubtedly contrary to Japan's original judgment and calculation.

The Japanese Command decided to turn its strategic focus to Central China and East China.

To this end, it was decided to establish the Central China Front Army. On October 20, the Japanese Command also ordered the transfer of about 120,000 troops from North China and the country, including the 6th, 18th and 114th Divisions, to form the 10th Army, with Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke as the commander, preparing to carry out landing operations to open up the situation.

At the same time, the Japanese Command also ordered the transfer of the 16th Division of Nakajima Imao in North China to the Shanghai Expeditionary Army, and the Japanese troops on the Songhu Front increased to 270,000.

These include 9 divisions and 2 brigades of the Army, the main force of the 3rd and 4th Navy Fleets and the Air Force.

Just as the enemy mobilized troops and was about to face the siege, Chiang Kai-shek was deeply trapped in the hope of the great powers interfering in stopping Japanese invasion, and announced the withdrawal order, and the troops held their original positions.

The orders were repeated twice in a short period of time, which greatly affected the morale of the Chinese defenders and the team order began to become chaotic.

In the original history, on November 5, the newly formed Japanese army, Yanagawa Heisuke's 10th Army, commanded its 6th, 18th, 114th Divisions and 9th Brigades, suddenly landed in Kinshanwei, becoming the last straw that broke the camel's back!

More than 100 Japanese ships covered such a huge army and suddenly landed. At that time, the troops deployed by our country near Shanghai no longer had the strength to carry out a planned annihilation war on them.

On the evening of November 8, Chiang Kai-shek ordered a full retreat, and all troops retreated from Shanghai to the battle, and retreated in two directions to Nanjing, Suzhou-west areas.

Due to hastily orders and commands lost control, the major retreat turned into a complete retreat, laying the fatal failure for the fall of 300,000 soldiers and civilians in Nanjing and the massacre of Japanese devils.

So even if the danger is high, Yang Fan decided to take a big gamble at this critical node. As long as you operate carefully, you will have a chance to try to turn a bicycle into a motorcycle!

"Brother Fan, then you must pay attention to safety! You must come back safely no matter what. Our family, as well as hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Zhucheng County, Jiao County, Gaomi County, can't live without you!"

Wu Qian and Wu Juan knew that Yang Fan’s decision was impossible to change, so they could only put thousands of words in their hearts, praying and blessings silently to Yang Fan’s good fortune in the world!

"Well, you must keep it confidential. I will not bring too many troops to fight this time, and the entire operation will be highly confidential!"

Yang Fan nodded lightly, then walked out of the house and went straight to the conference room of the division headquarters!

"Secretary seat, are there any military operations?"

"Yes, Master, brothers have trained recruits every day these days, and I have long wanted to take the team out for practical exercises! Haha!"

"Master, no matter what you say this time, you have to take me out and practice seriously, right?"

As soon as they saw Yang Fan and Liu Qiang walking into the conference room one after another, Chen Ergou, Yang Chengliang, Miao Dadong, Zhou Hao and others stood up and greeted Yang Fan with a smile!

"You guys guess it's right. I'm really planning to go out for a long trip in these two days!"

Yang Fan nodded with a smile, and when everyone sat down again, he replied solemnly: "But this time, I don't plan to bring too many people to war. It's enough to bring five or six hundred people to the war!

I asked you to come here mainly to communicate with you, and there are some specific tasks to be assigned to you!"

In fact, Yang Fan had already broken it into pieces through various channels before, and arranged four or five hundred elite troops in Jinshanwei on the north bank of Hangzhou Bay!

In addition, the troops that are about to take out the expedition this time can break through thousands of people at will, which is definitely an assault force that cannot be underestimated. You can choose the weak points of the Japanese army to cause trouble!

"What, I'm going to take some people out? Master, where are we going to fight this time?"

Miao Dadong was slightly surprised, and then said anxiously: "I'll agree first. No matter how many people I take out, I have to count me!"

"Okay, don't make a fuss, listen to me finish your words!"

Yang Fan pressed it with his hands for a moment, and the room became quiet instantly!

Yang Fan then said: "I do not intend to fight a large-scale tough battle with the Japanese devils in this operation, but are planning to use skill to achieve a huge impact. If there are too many people, it will be a burden!

You don’t need to know the specific action plan. You are only responsible for helping me screen out 500 capable officers and soldiers. You don’t need to go. This is the matter at home!

At most two months, the Japanese will come to the door. Are you still afraid that there will be no war? Leading me to train troops is more important than anything else!

There is another important thing to tell you. Three days later, each of them will send some capable personnel to go out to poach, and strive to recruit more veterans from the Songhu battlefield for me!

Han Xin’s army has more soldiers, and if we want to defend the defense zone under the full attack of the Japanese army, we must have strong potential for war…”

Instead of letting those defeated soldiers who completely lost their establishment be killed by Japanese planes, or eventually being reduced to prisoners and slaughtered after they arrived in Nanjing, it would be better to let them go to their own defense zone to join the army to fight Japanese!

Yang Fan is confident about this. If he has raised the recruiting flag, he will be a food-eating person. If the operation is done well, it would be no big problem to make him a veteran of 20,000 or 30,000 people come here!

In this way, these veterans only need to train carefully for two or three months to come in handy!

These days, Yang Fan and others have tried their best to recruit troops to expand their troops, but the population base has always limited the cap and quality of the troops. The number of troops in each brigade and regiment is far from meeting the predetermined indicators, let alone forming the strongest combat power!

In the early morning of November 1, Yang Fan quietly left the city with 500 elite soldiers. The entire convoy had 15 large trucks, including 10 transport troops, and the remaining 5 were ammunition supplies!
Chapter completed!