Rise from the sword

Chapter 551

"No wonder, Yokoyama is eager to destroy Hengyang Airport."

Looking at the letter in his hand, General Fang, the commander of the Tenth Army, had a dazed expression.

Three days ago, Hengshan Yong's two divisions had approached the city.

But the devils were not in a hurry to launch an attack, but continued to expand to the two wings of Hengyang, intending to form an encirclement circle of Hengyang first, encircle it, and occupy the surrounding commanding heights and small towns.

The general had expected this for a long time, but because of insufficient troops, he was unable to deal with it.

But what surprised General Fang was that three days ago, when the Japanese army had just arrived in Hengyang, Yokoyama ordered troops to surround the flanks of Hengyang, and at the same time sent a wing to raid Hengyang Airport, broke into the airport and destroyed the airport and other facilities.

Because of the hasty attack, the devils paid a high price for this, leaving almost 250 corpses behind.

At that time, there were no planes in Hengyang Airport, and the few front-line support were all flown from the rear airport, and the devils almost lost the air supremacy, so it was meaningless to capture this airport.

At this moment, looking at the letter in his hand, he understood.

The devil is afraid that the Eighth Route Air Force will support Hengyang, and even airborne support Hengyang.

"General..."

Cai Jigang looked anxiously at General Fang who had never made a statement.

He was asking if the Hengyang garrison would agree to help from the Eighth Route Army.

"I will organize the staff to contact the other party."

General Fang's tone was firm.

Although contacting the other party, even if you win afterwards, it will be the end of the military court, but so what?
Hengyang defended.

Millions of surrounding citizens were saved from falling into the hands of Japanese invaders.

That's enough.

"Let me take care of this."

Cai Jigang said with a smile.

General Fang asked the staff department to be in charge of liaison, not to seize power or something, but to protect him, but since he opened the letter and handed it to General Fang himself, he was already prepared.

Besides, he has already sent someone to contact the other party.

"I have already sent someone to contact the other party."

Cai Jigang added.

Hearing this sentence, General Fang was stunned for a while before nodding:

"Okay, I'll send a few people from the staff with you."

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Taiyuan.

After the last devil was wiped out, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, and Ding Wei, who had completed the layout abroad, also came to this city together.

"Pity."

Looking at the ruins in front of him, Zhao Gang sighed.

In the Battle of Taiyuan, the troops actually entered the city on the first day, and it took some time for the follow-up sweep and annihilation.From the first gunshot to the last gunshot, the battle was over in just five days.

The price paid was not only 20 tons of weapons and ammunition including 50 ground penetrating bombs, more than [-] tanks specially modified for street fighting, but also almost all buildings in Taiyuan.

Throughout Taiyuan, all the buildings, including the stone brick floor, were blown to pieces in this battle, and not a single piece remained.

This ancient city has witnessed Shanxi's 500 years of history.

because of the war.

Become a gravel ruin.

"If the old ones don't go, the new ones won't come."

Li Yunlong looked very open:

"Just right, we can build a new city on top of this ancient city."

"The new tractor factory is here, Taiyuan Tractor Factory, I think it's very good."

Annihilation of 350 devils, together with the army stationed in Mongolia, and the devils wiped out in the Battle of Central Henan, that is, seven large factories, machinery and equipment for supporting facilities, and [-] masters.

It can be said that in a super-large industrial zone, equipment, talents, and technology are in place in one step. They only need to organize the middle and low-level engineers and workers step by step.

Although the latter countries are also lacking, there are still a lot of them together, especially Chinese and overseas Chinese, who can still recruit from abroad. First, put up the shelf, at most the production capacity is not enough, and the quality is poor.

Moreover, it is not difficult to cultivate these talents by themselves, and it does not take a long time. It is estimated that after ten years, they will be fully satisfied. At the same time, under the leadership of the master, a group of top talents will emerge.

The future is expected.

"Too."

Zhao Gang quickly regained his composure:
"It's good to leave a place for commemoration at that time, and erect a monument to commemorate this arduous war and commemorate the sacrifices and contributions made by the people of Northwest Shanxi to the war."

I have been in contact with Boss Chen for four years, but in the early stage, Boss Chen’s support was relatively small. Only the independent regiment had a better life, while the other troops were still suffering, and were chased away by devils every day.

Only in the last year and a half has the army really gotten better.

Of course, the speed at which the income has improved in the past year and a half is really a bit fast. I feel that I have changed from a beggar army to a mechanized army in one click.

In the past, I was worried about the lack of equipment, but now.

Commissar Zhao was still having a headache before he came. What should he do when the equipment arrives next month? There is really no place to put it!

"What's next?"

Ding Wei interrupted at this time.

The First Army was wiped out, the main force of the independent regiment was 15, and the main force of the brigade was 20. A total of more than 35 troops were completely freed. As the upper level of the independent regiment, the brigade was naturally close to the water. The fastest growing force in the entire army.

Where this power will go next, the three of them can participate in the discussion. Of course, in fact, the three of them have a lot of power to speak and basically have the right to decide.

As for public security in Shanxi, the Independent Regiment still has 1 newly expanded troops, [-] new recruits in training, and more than [-] elite troops stationed in various places in Shanxi. The brigade also has a corresponding number of newly formed troops, which is enough.

"Old Zhao is engaged in construction and education at home."

Li Yunlong said with a smile:

"Old Kong is playing with the devils in the south. Lao Ding, you can bring people to the quilt to play with the devils of the Kwantung Army, and the devils from the peninsula are also yours."

"As for me, I'm heading east. To the east is the North China Front Army, which happens to be connected to Wang Gensheng's small base."

Hearing what Li Yunlong said, the corners of Zhao Gang and Ding Wei's mouths twitched at the same time.

This dog thing is still the same as before, every time there is meat, it is the biggest piece that I eat.

It seems that among the Iron Triangle, the one who suffers is Li Yunlong.

Calculated by the number of devils.

There are more than 40 devils in Kongjie in the south, and the Kwantung Army and the peninsula have only a lot more people, but in the east, only the North China Front Army still has some recruits, with a total strength of about 20 at most.

But to the east is the native land of devils.

In the coastal area, Wang Gensheng has also preliminarily established a naval base with a torpedo boat provided by Boss Chen. He is secretly training sailors and recruiting former sailors by the way.

Of course, relying on the navy is impossible.

A ten-year army and a century-old navy are not only talking about equipment, but also people.

Don't look at the fact that the army has changed from millet plus rifles to aircraft, tanks and cannons in a short period of time, but the 20 elite independent regiments have already consumed almost all of the army's talent reserves, and now the expansion of elite troops has slowed down significantly.

Now that the tank force is suspended, all talents give priority to supplementing the air force.

As for the navy, the demand for talents is comparable to that of the air force, and the number is even greater. A ship has a hundred or ten people, and they are all elite intellectuals.

Even with the technical equipment provided by Boss Chen, in the current Republic of China, there is no way to train a powerful navy in less than ten or twenty years, and the arrears are too much.

Moreover, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Although the Little Devils Navy has suffered heavy losses in the face of the United States' defeat, it is still in the top five in the world, and it can even be said to be in the top three.

However, the Independent Regiment has aircraft, a large number of aircraft, and now the human resources of the army are fully tilted towards pilots.

Formation of land-based aviation is not a problem.

At coastal airfields, the 'bomb trucks' had range enough to threaten mainland Japan.

Actual combat has proved that any naval warship can only flee in the face of a large number of aircraft attacks.

Therefore, the east side is the fattest piece of meat.

"it is good."

Ding Wei readily agreed.

Zhao Gang also has no objection. Now he is not very interested in the military. He wants to build a base area, develop the education economy, make the country's economy rich, and its industry and technology stronger.

"Next, let's occupy Shuangfeng Town first."

Before the three parted, Li Yunlong suddenly said something.

Ding Wei and Zhao Gang suddenly revealed memories.

Shuangfeng Town.

This is the first business deal between the independent group and Boss Chen!
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That night.

Shijiazhuang, Shuangfeng Town.

Although it is the base camp of Hebei and the North China Front Army, it is different from the past, and the mountains and rivers take turns.At this time, the base area of ​​the Eighth Route Army had extended all the way to the edge of the SJZ.

Shuangfeng town is at the very edge of the devil's line of control.

A cat mountain forest outside the town.

A man in tattered clothes, slovenly like a beggar, emerged from the forest.

Although this person is like a refugee, or worse than a refugee.

Not to mention other places, just in Henan, Jin Province, and the west side of Hebei, refugees can get a bite of food in that base area casually, and if they are diligent and honest, they can get clean clothes in exchange.

And this person obviously hadn't eaten for several days, and his complexion was sallow and emaciated.

But this person was very vigilant, and after repeatedly observing that there was no one around, he got out of the forest, and at the same time, he waved back.

Then, two people exactly like him emerged from the woods.

"finally reached."

Seeing Shijiazhuang in the distance, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief, and someone said in Japanese with tears streaming down their faces.

Weeping with joy.

This person is Maeda Kili who escaped from Taiyuan.

The old devil didn't want to die, so he and Ono Duren joined forces with some locust soldiers who also wanted to escape and planned to escape. At first, a group of 12 people set off together.

By hiding in the soil of the bomb crater, pretending to be dead, and escaping at night, this group of people managed to escape from the encirclement of the Independence Regiment. Of course, only three of the original 12 people remained, and even Ono Duren, who was organized at the beginning, also died. up.

After that, the three of them ran towards Shuangfeng Town in the distance without stopping.

Running all the way, Maeda Jili carefully took out the cloth-wrapped and sealed medal, identity card, squadron leader's certificate, and night attack order from his arms.

With these things, he can return to the team and have a full meal.

As for the rhetoric, he had already made it up.

He said that the squadron he led was dispersed by the enemy and lost its way at night. After a series of bloody battles, only three of them survived.

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the next day.

The heart of America, the west coast, Washington.

Inside a white palace.

"What do you think of Wedemeyer's opinion?"

The person in the wheelchair asked the generals, staff, and think tanks around him.

"I agree with General Wedemeyer's proposal."

Lieutenant General Doyle who spoke first, as the general in charge of logistics, coupled with his good relationship with MacArthur and Eisenhower, gave him a high right to speak:
"The Japanese army has a strong will to fight and often fights to the death. According to the forecast of the staff department, if we finally conquer the Japanese mainland as planned, we will need to pay about 100 million to 150 million casualties."

Hearing this number, everyone present was horrified.

Whether it is 100 million or 150 million, this number is unbearable for the United States.

Lieutenant General Doyle continued:

"Once we weaken the pressure on the Japanese according to Wedemeyer's proposal, suspend the bombing of their homeland, and deploy troops outside their 'absolute defense circle', they will inevitably deploy a large number of forces to the mainland of the Republic of China."

"Because there are all kinds of resources they need, then, food, population, and even industrial facilities."

"The strength of the Republic of China today has greatly increased."

"According to the available information, the Shanxi Eighth Route Army has more than 50 aircraft, 10 tanks, thousands of barrel artillery, more than [-] regular troops, sufficient logistics supplies, and its strength is still increasing rapidly. The army has just wiped out the Japanese Shanxi First Army with a total strength of [-], and is preparing to continue its westward and northeastward offensive."

"Even if we let it go, the Japanese will not be able to draw troops from the mainland of the Republic of China. Instead, they will have to continuously increase their troops."

"According to the rehearsal of the General Staff Department, if the two sides want to decide the outcome, the Japanese must invest at least 200 million troops on the battlefield of the Republic of China, and even if they win, they will suffer heavy losses."

"No matter who wins, it is beneficial to us. It can greatly reduce the difficulty for us to completely defeat Japan in the future, and it can also consume the power of the Republic of China. Of course, we must appropriately strengthen support for preserved fruits and increase our influence."

Hearing this, everyone including the president was obviously moved.

As long as the casualties of the United States can be reduced, as long as the ultimate goal can be achieved, defeating Japan will do.

A weak and easily controlled Republic of China is more in the interests of the United States.

"Will this weaken our influence in the Far East?"

Some people worry that US interests will be affected.

Deliberately delaying the war process can easily cause disputes and affect the international reputation of the United States. Although these things are useless, they will affect the interests of the United States after being reduced.

This is unacceptable.

"Will the Japanese be fooled?"

Some people worry that the Japanese will not be so stupid.

"It's simple."

Lieutenant General Doyle smiled slightly:
"We can say that the current domestic logistics transportation capacity has reached its limit, and it is impossible to support the battles on both sides at the same time. Priority is to ensure the consumption of the second European battlefield and suspend operations in the Pacific."

Hearing this sentence, everyone nodded.

That's a good idea.

Lieutenant General Doyle continued:

"Of course, the Navy must continue or even strengthen its blockade of the Southeast Asian shipping lanes to prevent the Japanese from using Southeast Asian resources, forcing the Japanese to only increase their troops to the Republic of China."

"That group of monkeys dared to sell fuel to the Japanese, so let them reap the consequences."

After finishing speaking, Lieutenant General Doyle snorted coldly.

Amidst the generals, staff, and think tanks approving, the man in the wheelchair finally nodded.

Then the person in the wheelchair suddenly changed the topic:
"Chen Fan, who provided weapons, supplies, and technical equipment to the Shanxi faction, and the faction behind it, have you investigated clearly?"

　The typo is really......
　　Go to bed first.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)