Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 163 Intelligence Support
The situation on the front line was changing rapidly, and Ren Zhong received the news a little late. It was basically on the third day that he heard part of the news from the commander of the 8th Guard Regiment.

This made Ren Zhong a little confused.

According to the current situation, the Eighth Route Army had inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese several times, which should have attracted the Japanese's hatred and made them focus on the Eighth Route Army, so that they would not be so desperate as to cause trouble for the preserved fruits.

The preserved fruits from the Zhongtiao Mountain area didn't actually do anything stimulating to drive the Japanese crazy, did they?

Ren Zhong couldn't understand the Japanese's thought process and why he suddenly became like this.

However, Ren Zhong was very clear about the consequences of this battle.

The preserved fruits trapped in Zhongtiao Mountain were originally under the command of Commander Wei. They supported and supported the Eighth Route Army. In addition, Commander Wei was very skilled and could command them to fight and bite each other, which made the Japanese return empty-handed every time they raided.

But someone was too stubborn and insisted on cutting off the combat coordination between the two armies. He transferred away those who could do things, leaving a group of people scattered. In addition, the Japanese also became ruthless and gathered a force far exceeding the previous times to launch a ruthless attack.

This time they were doomed. The army of more than 200,000 preserved fruits was defeated and almost wiped out!

From a strategic perspective, as the Zhongtiao Mountain area fell into the hands of the enemy, the main force of the Guoxuan army lost its last foothold in North China on the front battlefield north of the Yellow River, allowing the Japanese to directly threaten Luoyang, Xi'an and other areas, which fueled the Japanese's arrogance and made the main force of the Guoxuan army no longer able to threaten the Japanese battlefield in North China.

After the main force of the preserved fruits withdrew from the battlefield in North China in such an inglorious way, the situation of the Eighth Route Army fighting against Japan behind enemy lines became extremely difficult due to the lack of restraint. The Japanese, no longer under pressure, could unscrupulously draw on their main divisions to join the "encirclement and suppression" of the base area, making the scale of the mopping-up operations larger and larger, and more and more frequent. The Eighth Route Army faced unprecedented pressure, and the base area suffered huge losses after repeated mopping-up operations.

This was the most difficult and dangerous time in the history of the Eighth Route Army Base Area!
Although Ren Zhong had anticipated all this and developed some preventive strategies for the Eighth Route Army, such as having the armed work teams behind enemy lines develop in sub-bases ahead of time, and having sparrow warfare, mine warfare, and tunnel warfare deployed in advance, these strategies have now been implemented and have achieved tactical success in some areas of the battlefield behind enemy lines.

It began to spread among the guerrillas and armed work teams, who used piecemeal tactics to bleed the Japanese and puppet troops for a long time.

But for the overall situation, the impact of what we are doing now is too small and does not affect the wheel of history moving forward.

The turning point that triggered this was the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountains, which caused huge losses and had a huge impact.

Unexpectedly, it happened as expected.

Judging from the news Ren Zhong has received now, the situation he is facing is almost exactly the same as in historical time and space, and it seems that the outcome will not change much.

From the perspective of both the attacking and defending sides, there are many defenders in Zhongtiao Mountain, belonging to the first and second war zones respectively. There are 7 main armies stationed in Zhongtiao Mountain; the 9th Army Pei Changhui's troops are stationed in Jiyuan, northern Henan; the 43rd Army Zhao Shiling's troops are stationed in Yuanqu, Shanxi; the 17th Army Gao Guizi's troops are stationed in Jiangxian area; the 3rd Army Tang Huaiyuan's troops and the 80th Army Kong Lingxun's troops are stationed in Wenxi and Xiaxian areas; the 15th Army Wu Tinglin's troops are stationed in Gaoping area. In addition, there are 4 armies in Taihang and Taiyue areas to support the battle, with a total force of about 20 in the area.

The Japanese army's main force was the First Army of Shanxi Province, with a total of seven divisions participating in this battle, in addition to the Air Force. The commander-in-chief was Tada Shun, commander of the North China Front Army, with a total force of about 7.

小鬼子人数虽然少，但是装备好，经过重组后小鬼子的第1军增强为第33、第36、第37、第41师团，独立混成第4、第9、第16旅团以及军预备队为主力；在方面军配属了两个师团：第21、第35师团，加上原配属35师团之骑兵第4旅团一部及第3飞行集团。

Nearly 400 fighters and bombers were assembled to participate in the battle. The Japanese played the role of gambling on the fate of the country, and made a desperate move in Zhongtiao Mountain, launching a crazy attack with 10 troops assembled from the Kwantung Army, the North China Front Army, and the Central China Front Army.

Relatively speaking, the Japanese forces in this battle were unprecedentedly strong and concentrated, so from the beginning they adopted a four-sided encirclement tactic to leave no chance for the preserved fruits to survive.

On the eastern front, the main force of the 35th Division commanded by Lieutenant General Harada Yukichi, part of the 21st Division commanded by Lieutenant General Tanaka Hisaichi, and part of the 4th Independent Cavalry Brigade, about 25000 people, with the cooperation of the puppet troops of Zhang Lanfeng and Liu Yanfeng, attacked Jiyuan and Mengxian in three routes along the western section of Daoqing Road.

On the western front, the main force of the 37th Division commanded by Lieutenant General Ando Nijuzo, part of the 36th Division commanded by Lieutenant General Iseki Ren, and the 16th Independent Mixed Brigade commanded by Major General Wakamatsu Heiji, about 25000 people, invaded Zhangdian Town from the southeast of Wenxi and Xia County.

On the northern front, the Japanese 41st Division commanded by Lieutenant General Shimizu Noriyuki and the Independent Mixed 9th Brigade commanded by Major General Ikegami Kenkichi, totaling about 30000 people, used the lightning tactics of a central breakthrough to launch a fierce attack from Hengling Pass to the west side of Hengyuan Avenue.

On the northeast front, part of the 33rd Division commanded by Lieutenant General Sakurai Shozo and part of the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade, about people, attacked Dongfeng Town from Yangcheng.

Ren Zhong was completely confused when he flipped through the book and read the Japanese's historical strategies. He could understand the words, but when all these things were put together, it looked a little confusing.

Fortunately, some people in modern times drew battle maps, which gave him some intuitive understanding of the battle situation.

After working hard to come up with a top-middle-bottom strategy and giving a slight spoiler of the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, Ren Zhong returned to the Dawn Research Institute and started working on new things.

Ren Zhong has experienced the virtues of preserved fruits.

Therefore, Ren Zhong did not have much hope for the effectiveness of this information.

The only advantage is that the Eighth Route Army can make some preparations some time in advance.

Judging from the outcome of this battle, the impact on the Eighth Route Army was really huge.

A total of four divisions were originally confronting the preserved fruits in Zhongtiao Mountain. After the Zhongtiao Mountain issue was resolved in one fell swoop, this part of the Japanese troops was released.

In North China, if the Japanese were allowed to have so many additional troops all of a sudden, the pressure on the Eighth Route Army would not only double, but would be like a mountain pressing down on their heads.

As for Li Yunlong, Ren Zhong reminded them that they would be facing a storm of wind and rain from the Japanese invaders and they must make some preparations in advance, especially now that more and more new factories were being developed unscrupulously and had already started to set up camp in the village. If the Japanese invaders came, they would have no way to hide from these things.

You can shrink it quickly.

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