The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1371 Opening up the third battlefield (first update)

The former enemy headquarters of the northbound detachment from Chaoyang City.

For the first time since arriving in Chaoyang, Zhao Gang showed a heartfelt smile.

The strategy of forming a settlement force is very effective.

After learning that all captured Puppet Manchurian Army soldiers would be incorporated into the farming units and would be released after spending more than five years in the Eighth Route Army base areas, those Puppet Manchurian Army prisoners who wanted to join the Eighth Route Army no longer had any worries.

Those who knew that they had betrayed the Japs and joined the Eighth Route Army all stayed in the reclamation army to farm.

Moreover, the Eighth Route Army announced that all prisoners of the Puppet Manchuria Army would be incorporated into the reclamation troops to atone for their sins. The Kwantung Army was even less likely to know that they had joined the Eighth Route Army, so their family members living in enemy-occupied areas would not be retaliated by the Kwantung Army.

Less than three days.

There were more than 3,000 puppet Manchurian prisoners who voluntarily joined the northbound detachment.

They are all veterans trained by the Kwantung Army.

In the past, when they worked for the Japanese, many people with a little conscience would fool them if they could, and would not really be traitors. As a result, outsiders looked at them as having very little will to fight.

It's different now.

After mobilization and education by the Eighth Route Army political cadres, everyone knows that joining the Eighth Route Army to fight the Japanese is a very honorable thing. Not only can they wash away the shame of being a traitor, but they can also kill the Japanese and perform meritorious service, and protect their families from being bullied by the little devils. , drive them out of their homes as soon as possible, and rescue their family members who are still suffering in enemy-occupied areas...

With these thoughts in mind, every prisoner of the Manchurian Army who participated in the back detachment was very excited, feeling that he could finally stand upright and be a Chinese.

To put it bluntly, the will to fight means whether they want a big war and whether they are willing to fight sincerely.

Now that they have decided to join the Eighth Route Army sincerely, their fighting power and will will definitely be the same.

In addition, they do not have any fighting ability, and the fighting ability that bursts out after joining the army must be very strong.

After Li Yunlong visited the prison camp several times, he decided on the spot that the puppet Manchu prisoners who were willing to join the Eighth Route Army would be directly added to the army, and they would undergo restorative training with the veterans in the team to integrate into the army as soon as possible and form combat effectiveness.

then……

The total strength of the 2nd and 3rd Regiments of the Northward Detachment has increased sharply from more than 1,000 people to more than 4,000 people now.

Not only that, the headquarters also has eight new battalions directly under its command, all of which are recruits recruited by the army from the base area.

Coupled with the new recruits and prisoners of the puppet Manchuria Army who later joined the northward detachment, for Li Yunlong, expanding the northward detachment to 10,000 people was no longer a dream.

"Chief...emergency..."

The headquarters radio operator hurried to Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang and reported nervously.

"Scout report..."

"The Kwantung Army troops stationed in Heilongjiang suddenly assembled a main division and showed signs of moving south..."

"There is no war going on anywhere in the Northeast except Jinzhou and Chaoyang. They suspect that the main division's southward destination is probably Jinzhou and Chaoyang, reminding us to prepare for war immediately."

"Another main division has been transferred...are the Kwantung Army crazy?" Li Yunlong immediately opened his eyes and asked with disbelief on his face.

In his eyes, the total number of the northbound detachments operating in Chaoyang and Jinzhou battlefields only amounted to a few thousand people. The local garrison of the Kwantung Army plus the main divisions that had already reinforced Jinzhou totaled 30,000 to 40,000 people.

The strength is already more than ten times that of the northward detachment. Assembling so many troops to besiege the northward detachment was already an exaggeration. Unexpectedly, the Kwantung Army headquarters also planned to dispatch a main division from Heilongjiang to besiege itself. This was too high of a view of itself.

Zhao Gang also frowned, shocked by the news.

When I was the political commissar of the brigade in northwestern Shanxi, Shanxi's little devils could only send out brigade-sized little devils to raid the base areas.

When he arrived in the Northeast, he was still serving as the political commissar of a brigade-level unit, and the troops under his command were not even half of those in northwestern Shanxi. He did not expect that the Kwantung Army he faced would not play by the rules at all and would send a fully-strength division. This was too scary.

Li Yunlong was the first to react from the shock.

He frowned and looked at the map, analyzing as he read: "The base area has just been established, the main force has just been expanded to 4,000 people, and there are thousands of new recruits who have just started training, and they haven't even learned how to shoot a gun yet."

"Let alone the elite Kwantung Army from a main division, even if Umezu Umejiro deploys a brigade of Kwantung Army to attack Chaoyang, we are no match."

"Otherwise we would not have let Kong Jie hold back the Fujita Division at all costs on the Jinzhou battlefield and prevent them from attacking Chaoyang..."

"Therefore, the main division from Heilongjiang must not come to attack Chaoyang..."

"If we must attack, we must find a way to delay it for two months."

"As long as the prisoners of the Puppet Manchuria Army who join us have fully formed combat effectiveness, integrated into our Eighth Route Army, and several new battalions have initially formed combat effectiveness, I will have the confidence to rely on the favorable terrain of the base area to deal with a division of the Kwantung Army."

Zhao Gang frowned and suddenly interjected: "If this main division sent by the Kwantung Army Headquarters is really going to deal with us."

"With the base area unable to be attacked, we can only find a way to force them to Jinzhou."

"The pressure on Huang Yu and the others to hold back a main division of the Kwantung Army is already great enough. If there is another main division on the Jinzhou battlefield, Huang Yu and the others will definitely not be able to survive..."

"In case Huang Yu and the others are defeated on the Jinzhou battlefield, or something unexpected happens, the Kwantung Army attacking Chaoyang will not be one main division, but two..."

Li Yunlong answered firmly: "This main division drawn by the Kwantung Army Headquarters from Heilongjiang must not join the Jinzhou battlefield."

Zhao Gang shook his head and asked: "The little devils have legs. They really want to join the Jinzhou battlefield, and we can't stop them..."

"Then find a way to open up a new battlefield..." Li Yunlong suddenly fixed his eyes on Fuxin, north of Chaoyang, and answered decisively.

"Opening up a third battlefield?" Zhao Gang immediately wanted to understand Li Yunlong's inner thoughts and analyzed along his train of thought: "This is indeed a good idea..."

"Fuxin is close to Shenyang..."

"If Fuxin is captured by us, Shenyang's security will be threatened."

"Shenyang is the location of the Kwantung Army's Liaoning Garrison Headquarters. The Kwantung Army Headquarters will definitely not let any accidents happen there."

"If our third battlefield is really successfully opened, 80% of the main divisions transferred from Heilongjiang by the Kwantung Army will reinforce Fuxin. After stabilizing the public order in Fuxin, they will reinforce the Jinzhou battlefield and attack Chaoyang."

"I agree to do this, but the time left by the Kwantung Army for us is very limited."

"The troops that open up the third battlefield must be very powerful, and the Kwantung Army stationed in Fuxin must feel threatened when they take action, otherwise they will not ask for help from the Kwantung Army headquarters."

(End of this chapter)