The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 1214 Please give the commander an order
In order to comprehensively examine the determination of the Chiang Kai-shek troops to resist the Japanese attack, after visiting the 74th Army of the Huben Army, Li Yunlong and his party specially applied to visit other units resting and reorganizing in the theater.

After the final visit, this is what Li Yunlong felt.

"The quality of the troops is like the teeth of an old man in his [-]s or [-]s who are about to lose all their teeth. They vary in length, have different levels of armaments, will to fight, and have different mental outlooks. By the way, I even went to see them specially. In addition to their meals, the meals of different troops are also different."

Li Yunlong said this during a private discussion.

The chief of staff asked with a smile: "This is a consistent characteristic of Chiang Kai-shek's troops. Different troops, different factions, equipment conditions, combat effectiveness, food and other conditions are also different."

"So the problem here is huge!" Li Yunlong pointed out pointedly: "These are obviously troops fighting side by side. Some of them have three meals a day, and they can have a round belly every time. Some of them have two meals a day. There is no food to eat, and the conditions are so different, how can people get together?
Of course, this is different from the situation of our Eighth Route Army. In the past few years, our Eighth Route Army fought in various base areas blocked by the Japanese army on the front line. The troops could eat meat and drink soup based on their own abilities.

It's all about fighting the Japanese and finding ways to capture it. If you can't eat meat, who can you blame?
But this general's team is different. They rely on logistics and military pay. As a result, the treatment of each unit is still different. This is obviously too unfair. It is inevitable for soldiers to have complaints in their hearts. "

Speaking of this, Li Yunlong also gave a special example.

"Let me tell you, Lao Li, the situation of Chiang Kai-shek's army is really similar to that of the Ming Dynasty's army of servants! These warlords raised their own troops and each played his own way. When the devils came up, they muddled together. After fighting a few battles, if people's hearts are not united, how can they win a battle?"

The chief of staff smiled and said, since he started learning cultural knowledge, Lao Li has become more and more proficient in speaking.

Speaking of the determination of Chiang Kai-shek's troops to defend against the Japanese army.

Li Yunlong said: "When it comes to the determination to resist Japan, these soldiers who still have Chinese blood in their bones are quite strong, especially elite troops like the 75th Army. The overall spirit is good. Such a team will definitely go to the battlefield. Don't be a coward either.

Including the Battle of Songhu, which was originally called the Meat Grinding Factory, and later the Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Taiyuan, the Battle of Xuzhou, a Battle of Changsha, the Battle of Guinan, and so on.

It is a fact that Chiang Kai-shek's army was defeated, but it cannot be denied that during the battle, those soldiers who were not afraid of life and death, marched forward bravely, and sacrificed their lives to protect their homeland and country.

These soldiers are what we, Lao Li, admire. Their patriotic and sincere hearts are no essentially different from those of our Eighth Route Army soldiers.

It's just that compared with the equipment of our Chinese army and the elite Japanese troops, it is still far behind.

In a real fight, once the Japanese army is willing to spend a lot of money, the outcome of the battle is hard to say.

The last time I talked about this matter with Lao Kong and Lao Ding, we had very unanimous opinions in this regard. This little devil has the nature of a gambler. The more desperate he is, the easier it is for him to make crazy bets.

Since the Japanese dare to launch the fourth Changsha Operation without warning, who can guarantee whether the Japanese will continue to expand into the Henan, Hunan, and Guangxi regions in the next step, in order to completely open up the mainland's transportation lines? "

The chief of staff agreed.

When they finally left, the chief of staff and Li Yunlong specifically told Zhang Zongling that they would apply for a batch of material reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army headquarters to the Ninth Theater to express the encouragement of the entire Eighth Route Army to the determination of the Ninth Theater to resist the Japanese army.

This includes 5000 rounds of barreled artillery shells.

Although Zhang Zongling was deeply grateful for this, he felt bad for a moment. Once upon a time, the Eighth Route Army, which was not even a regular army and had to rely on the national military government for military pay, was now able to reinforce him in terms of resources and equipment. Central Army!
In addition, Li Yunlong also specially prepared several newspapers as gifts. The newspapers were published by the Eighth Route Army's propaganda department and reported on the Eighth Route Army's recent offensives in Shanxi, Shandong and other regions to firmly attack the Japanese occupation areas.

In addition, Li Yunlong also said: "In order to support frontal battlefield operations, our Eighth Route Army is also preparing to launch an offensive in the direction of Taiyuan and Licheng in the next step to contain the Japanese troops behind enemy lines.

Including the New Fourth Army in the south, they will also take active actions to indirectly support the operations of your Central Army! "

After these actions, the generals and officers represented by Zhang Zongling were speechless, and even felt a little ashamed in their hearts.

Especially when I think of the friction between the two sides in the past few years.

For the sake of the anti-Japanese cause and the united front, the Eighth Route Army took the initiative to lend a helping hand regardless of past grudges. They admired this broadmindedness and pattern.

At this critical moment for the survival of the nation, the Chiang Kai-shek Army and the Eighth Route Army once again united in a rare and unprecedented way and united to the outside world. The anti-Japanese national united front was thus once again stabilized.

Two days later, the chief of staff and Li Yunlong and his party returned to the base area behind enemy lines from the ninth theater.

At this time, as time passed, the Japanese army had also begun to prepare for the second phase of the offensive in Operation No. [-], and the early combat situation was still overwhelming. Although the Chiang Army resisted tenaciously, it was still retreating steadily.

The British, American, Soviet and other representatives who were negotiating with the Eighth Route Army in the Eighth Route Army base area could not sit still. The reinforcements promised to Kong Jie arrived successfully a few days later under their repeated urging.

So when Kong Jie came forward to receive them on behalf of the Eighth Route Army again, Kong Jie's face was full of smiles. The lunch prepared by the cooking team that day was specially upgraded and several more meat dishes were added.

Accommodation conditions have also been improved.

During the meal, Chennault said with a dark face: "Kong, you are really a pragmatic guy. In our words, you are simply more capitalist than a capitalist."

Kong Jie said disapprovingly: "The general really misunderstood me. It is precisely because of the arrival of the Allied assistance that we have the conditions. No, I immediately improved the food and accommodation standards for the generals."

"..." Chennault.

He turned to greet the comrades in the cooking class who were bringing the food: "Man, please bring me an extra lunch. I will never tolerate such exploitation by capitalists!"

cough cough-

The American cold humor made Kong Jie laugh for a moment. If one more meal could defeat the capitalists, there would be no exploitation in this world.

A few days later, with the help of the smooth opening of air transportation channels from the stable base of the Eighth Route Army, reinforcements from the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union and other allied countries arrived one after another.

Kong Jiaqian once again demonstrated the integrity of the Eighth Route Army to the Allied countries with practical actions.

We get money, but we do real work!
In the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Force, at the invitation of Kong Jie, Chennault and his delegation came to visit. After the group entered the headquarters, they heard Kong Jie order to the correspondent:

"Contact me immediately to the mountainous area headquarters outside Licheng."

Soon, the call was connected, and Commander Wang's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hey, Lao Kong, it's me!"

Kong Jie took the call, but did not answer immediately. Instead, he turned to Chennault and asked for instructions: "General Chen, please give the order to start counterattack!" "What???"

Chennault's head was filled with questions. What the hell? Didn't he come to visit the headquarters? What order should I give myself?
Besides, this is the territory of the Eighth Route Army, what on earth are you playing?
Kong Jie struck while the iron was hot and said: "General Chen, please give the order on behalf of the headquarters to launch a counterattack against the Japanese troops in the Licheng area! As long as the general gives the order, the 385th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army will immediately launch the Licheng Campaign and will recapture Licheng in one fell swoop. counties and other areas.

Maybe we can have dinner in Licheng tomorrow evening! "

Chennault is still quite famous in Chiang Kai-shek's army. He currently serves as the aviation commander in China and is the military adviser to the aviation force of Chiang Kai-shek's military government.

This time, he and the delegation rushed to the Eighth Route Army base area. On the one hand, it was secretly instructed by the Chairman of the Standing Committee, hoping that Chennault could represent Chiang Kai-shek's military government to apply for some reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army for active operations behind enemy lines, and preferably some air firepower. of reinforcements.

At this moment, facing Kong Jie's request for instructions and the fact that the situation seemed a bit urgent, Chennault didn't think much about it. Anyway, the purpose of his trip was to ask the Eighth Route Army to take action.

Maybe my great image of heroically commanding the troops in the Eighth Route Army will be published in the newspapers later!
Therefore, Chennault followed Kong Jie's wishes and said: "Very good, I order you to immediately launch a counterattack against the Japanese troops in Licheng!"

"Yes, Commander, please rest assured, we will definitely complete the mission!" Commander Wang's resounding reply came from the other end of the phone.

There was a reporter on the side who had already recorded the complete scene of Chennault ordering the attack.

After the order was issued, Kong Jie explained to Chennault and his delegation, claiming that the Eighth Route Army would take the lead in launching a large-scale offensive in response to Chiang Kai-shek's Hunan-Guangxi border battle.

Poor Chennault probably didn't know exactly what order he had just given.

But after Chennault's order was issued.

The Eighth Route Army troops from all sides, who had long been ready to attack, quickly attacked.

Around Licheng and Taiyuan, including the western Shanxi region, a series of battles of various sizes soon broke out in the territories that originally belonged to the Shanxi-Sui Army and the Chiang Kai-shek Army.

At this time, the Japanese army, due to its temporary focus on military battles in various places in the south, and the formation of various elites, jihadi armies, armored divisions, etc., deployed too many elite and mechanized troops.

Facing the counterattack of the elite combat troops of the Eighth Route Army who were well-equipped and had even more obvious advantages in mechanization, they almost lost their armor and armor.

Especially in Shanxi, the area where the Japanese First Army was stationed in Shanxi was directly facing the combat headquarters in the Taihang area, the most elite of the Eighth Route Army. The Japanese First Army complained that the pressure was great. The Japanese and puppet troops were beaten and fled in panic, and continued to attack the rear. The direction of the county seat is shrinking.

Especially in the western Shanxi area, whose territories were occupied by the Japanese before the Eighth Route Army suddenly attacked?
——The Jinsui Army and the local army.

In order to gather resources in the early stage, the Japanese slaughtered them like pigs, occupied many of their well-developed territories, and also seized a large amount of military resources.

Including some of the territory that the Japs deliberately abandoned to the development of Chiang Kai-shek and the Shanxi-Sui Army some time ago in order to use Chiang Kai-shek's troops to restrict the development of the Eighth Route Army.

If we use the words of later generations, the little devils regarded these Jiang Jun and Jin Sui Jun as pig-killing trays. When the leeks grew fat, they would just cut them off.

As a result, the Eighth Route Army counterattacked, and the Japanese army was caught off guard. The wealth accumulated by the Chiang Kai-shek Army and the Jinsui Army for many years of operation and development was first robbed by the Japanese army, and then fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army. .

They were still in the poor ravine and didn't even react.

Including some areas managed by Chu Yunfei of the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army, they inexplicably became the territory of the Eighth Route Army.

Chief Yan, who heard about this incident, indeed took his shamelessness to the extreme. When these territories were snatched away by the little devils, the Jinsui Army did not even dare to let go. Now that they are watching the Eighth Route Army snatching the territories back from the Japanese army, they are He asked for it with a stern look on his face.

Unfortunately, the Eighth Route Army already had countermeasures.

The Jinsui Army wanted to return to its original station, but kept expressing its gratitude verbally for the help of its friendly forces and regaining its position.

In the end, they were rejected. The troops who went to ask for the garrison were not even able to see the Eighth Route Army commander inside the garrison, but they were taken out with guns by the Eighth Route Army soldiers stationed outside.

The representative company commander said: "We are troops marching eastward from Yan'an. We are not familiar with this area, and we don't know which region, which part and which number of the national army you belong to.

I don't even know where your original location was.

And we have to watch out for any Japanese spies among you.

As for your difficulties, I understand, but I can't help you. How about I go back and ask the headquarters for you, and then help you contact the local Eighth Route Army troops to clarify the situation. If it is really the original location of the friendly troops , we will definitely return it to you. "

It dragged on like this for a while.

When the liaison officer from the garrison arrived, the Eighth Route Army garrison stated that the administrative area had been divided into other departments and that it was no longer their responsibility.

Hehe, it’s just one word anyway, drag, it’s impossible to give.

Just like this, the Eighth Route Army suddenly launched an offensive and quickly seized a large amount of territory. The most uncomfortable thing was not the First Army stationed in Shanxi, but the Jinsui Army and the local army who completely lost these territories.

Even Chu Yunfei, who wanted to ask for his original residence, was disappointed and wanted to scold his mother in anger.

If you want to find trouble, they are fighting against the Japanese. They are snatching the territory from the little Japanese.

Secondly, they did not deny that this was the territory of the Jinsui Army and the local army, but they just found various excuses to refuse to give it.

Thirdly, as soon as some photos were published in newspapers, the truth became clear. I am sorry for the Eighth Route Army's active offensive this time, including the military operation to quickly occupy the territory in the western Shanxi area. The final combat order was actually issued by General Chennault. of.

Chennault came on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek's military government.

Isn’t it equivalent to a military operation that the Chairman of the Generalissimo indirectly endorses?
At this point, even Chu Yunfei could only hold his nose and admit defeat.

(End of this chapter)