Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 214: Full Attack
Ren Zhong was silent for a long time. He summarized the information he had come across and confirmed that at this stage, the Japanese must focus on the South Pacific, and they would launch a large-scale operation with more than 20 troops in North China. This was already at the level of a front-line campaign. The North China Front Army only had the right to propose but not the right to decide. The decision must be made by the headquarters, and only then could more than five main field divisions be drawn from the Kwantung Army as the real main force to launch the campaign.

After all, the opponents they faced were no longer weak troops like Guosu who lacked heavy weapons.

On the grassland, the Eighth Route Army has created a precedent of crippling two divisions. Although this battle example may not be able to be replicated, the powerful firepower demonstrated is enough to attract the attention of the Japanese strategic research staff.

The Eighth Route Army's rocket launcher, which claims to have a firepower of 107, has extremely good mobility. Even though it is a little lacking in firepower accuracy, this accuracy issue is not a big problem for large-scale combat.

With a large army gathered together, even if the deviation is a few hundred meters, the battlefield can be covered by tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands square meters at a time. Who can withstand this!
What's more, the battlefield in Shanxi was extremely special. The mountains were rugged and difficult to travel, making it difficult for the army to deploy, leaving little room for the Japanese to use their bulky heavy weapons.

Even if the Japanese concentrated more than 20 main forces to attack and mop up the enemy, the casualties would probably be difficult for them to bear.

The most important thing is the harvest. They merely drove the Eighth Route Army back into the mountains, nothing more. They had no ability to keep all the main forces of the Eighth Route Army.

Now the Eighth Route Army and the border areas will certainly not foolishly fight a passive positional warfare against the large-scale invasion of the Japanese. Instead, they will use their expertise in mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare to wear down the Japanese. The logistical supply of hundreds of thousands of troops is so complicated, and the Japanese have only a few lifelines for logistics in Shanxi.

Now that they have mortars, RPGs, and 107mm artillery fire, the Eighth Route Army's ability to destroy traffic lines should be too strong.

"We have determined that even if we launch a recovery operation of this scale, the Japanese will eventually have no choice but to accept it instead of concentrating their main forces to fight a decisive battle with us." After sorting out all the causes and consequences, Ren Zhong answered very solemnly.

"For one thing, the Japanese are not aware of our growing strength," Ren Zhong answered.

"The main strategic focus of the Japanese is now in Southeast Asia. The resources there are what the Japanese must obtain. The Japanese headquarters is unlikely to approve the Japanese North China Front Army to concentrate more than 10 main forces to attack just for the sake of a few mountainous areas in Shanxi. This is the second reason."

"The Japanese are now stretched thin, and the North China Front Army has no strategic reserve to threaten us. If one or two divisions of troops come in, we have the energy to gather and annihilate them. This is the third point."

"Our strength is growing rapidly almost every day. Now our ordnance production capacity is enough to equip more than 10 Type B regiments in a month. After we capture these target areas, as our resources increase, the quality of our weapons production will be substantially improved, especially for heavily armed tanks and even fighter jets! We are about to start large-scale mass production. If we give us half a year, even if the Japanese concentrate main forces to attack us, what can we do? We can still annihilate them!"

At the end, Ren Zhong spoke in a sonorous and heroic tone.

Even Staff Officer Ye was greatly affected.

The situation faced by the Eighth Route Army is different from that of the Japanese. In the city, the Eighth Route Army has basically not carried out any industrial construction. When the war comes to a critical moment, they can just evacuate people to the mountainous area and leave, and then concentrate the main force to fight mobile warfare and annihilation warfare!

You can come and go freely in the mountains without any heavy baggage.

The border region leadership never had the idea of ​​defending a city or a place to the death, which was something the Japanese devils simply could not do.

To put it bluntly, the Eighth Route Army is still barefoot, while the Japanese are wearing shoes. They are afraid of losing core cities like Taiyuan, but there is nothing to be afraid of for the Eighth Route Army.

Even in Luzhou City, when it came time to retreat, the brigade commander could retreat calmly without blinking an eye.

After annihilating the devils, they will come back again.

The commanders on the front line basically have no intention of throwing away any bottles and jars.

Such a force is actually an unsolvable problem for the current technical means. The entire Taihang Mountains stretches for about 2000 kilometers. The main mountainous area is about 200 kilometers wide from north to south and about 500 kilometers long from east to west, with a total area of ​​about square kilometers. It is full of steep peaks, vast canyons, deep caves and dense forests. It has long become the best battlefield for the Eighth Route Army to fight against the Japanese.

As long as they dare to abandon their heavy weapons and go into the mountains with Type 41 infantry guns and Type 107 mountain guns, they will face the relentless attacks of overwhelming mortars and rocket launchers. Not to mention , even will not be enough to fill the Taihang Valley.

Ren Zhong is very confident about this.

"Let's do it!" Staff Officer Ye slammed the table and said, "These three areas are just right for doubling our base areas in northwest Shanxi and southeast Shanxi. If we succeed, our strength will increase dramatically. If we fail, we can just go back to the mountainous areas."

During this time and space, due to Ren Zhong's unexpected influence, the Border Region General Staff had a heavier burden, and some strategies had to be executed around Ren Zhong's industrial planning. Facts had proved that Ren Zhong's vision was correct.

The copper exchange in Wuyuan, the prospecting in Yikezhao League and Jiuyuan, have now proved that Ren Zhong will not act without purpose, and there must be something worth investing in the place he is interested in. Therefore, the influence of Staff Officer Ye in the border area has also risen sharply, and his opinions basically represent support for Ren Zhong.

"Except for the slightly more troublesome Zhongtiao Mountain area, where there is now a division and a brigade, let Brigade Commander Chen find a way to solve it," Staff Officer Ye made up his mind, feeling relieved, and smiled at Ren Zhong, "Anyway, Brigade Commander Chen is now truly the best brigade in the world, and he also has the best independent regiment in the world under his command, so I don't think the problem will be too big."

"As for the northwest of Shanxi and Wutai area, our forces have almost penetrated the periphery of the county. With just one order, we will probably take it down in less than a week. How to build this area will still be up to you, brother Ren."

Fighting is the business of the border areas and the Eighth Route Army. What Ren Zhong needs to follow up on is where to build mines, power stations and factories. Now the water resources of Luliang Mountain, Wutai Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain are much worse than those of Taihang Mountain and Taiyue Mountain. It seems that hydropower can no longer be relied on, and thermal power construction must be vigorously carried out locally.

This is obviously impossible to accomplish for the base.

Therefore, all technical aspects depend on the border area, especially the Dawn Research Institute.

"No problem. Our organization already has plans for the resources and construction sites in these places. Next we just need to implement them according to the plans." Ren Zhong said easily.

After returning to the main world, he was not idle. He went to Jindi for an in-depth self-driving tour and traveled all over the mountains and rivers in these places. Ren Zhong had a densely packed record chart of where there were minerals, factories, and power stations.

If he were caught, it would be hard to explain these things, but fortunately Ren Zhong had recorded them earlier and sent them to the world of Bright Sword right after, so he would not be exposed in the main world that he was investigating these things that might seem insignificant individually but are extremely sensitive secrets when taken together.

As a large-scale combat plan, Staff Officer Ye certainly would not work hard without any effort. He would try his best to get what he wanted from General Shi. Taking advantage of this battle, Staff Officer Ye asked for another wave of resources. Not much, just 5 sorties of C-47 weapons and ammunition and 20 pilots, to temporarily provide air cover for the Eighth Route Army during the battle.

Taking off from the border area, the entire Jin area is within reach. This time the P51D Mustang fighter jet's first attack is obviously a dimensionality reduction attack on the Japanese Air Force in Jin. This time they will not have the opportunity to provide air support for the ground forces.

Northwest Shanxi.

From Yonghe to Xingxian, along the more than 200-kilometer river bank, multiple channels have been completely opened up in the border area and northwestern Shanxi. Now, a temporary floating bridge built on several iron boats has been built to transport the Daliwang and Victory I tanks to the east bank one after another.

Along the rugged path traveled by mule and horse carts, dragging the S41 mountain cannon and 107 cannon, they transported heavy firepower to the front line. This time, the attack in northwestern Shanxi was mainly aimed at large strongholds above the county level in the Luliang Mountain area. No other weapons were as effective as these two.

Although the main force regiment in northwestern Shanxi had received some heavy weapons before, compared with attacking so many urban strongholds, the weapons provided by the Type B regiment would not have any major problems in capturing the strongholds, but the firepower density was not enough to support a quick victory.

Now with the support of a heavy-duty ordnance industry system, the troops' firepower shortage has not only not been alleviated, but has become even more hungry, and the demand for heavy weapons is growing.

Of course, for Ren Zhong, if the problem can be solved by firepower, then use firepower to solve it. Now that the production of low-end weapons and ammunition has exploded, there is no need for soldiers to take the initiative to fight with bayonets anymore.

The purpose of Ren Zhong's existence is to provide these brave soldiers with more powerful weapons to kill the Japanese.

For the early Eighth Route Army, attacking a city was a task harder than climbing to the sky, but now, they had a large number of artillery.

Especially mountain artillery and rocket launchers, this kind of heavy artillery has a strong destructive power on city walls, turning the loss of life in the siege into the consumption of ammunition.

More than 40 mountain cannons and 40 107 rocket launchers were sent to the front line in northwestern Shanxi, and the city walls were quickly reduced to ashes amid the sound of artillery fire.

The Japanese invaders in northwest Shanxi total less than a brigade, which is nothing compared to the powerful Northwest Shanxi Military Region.

From time to time, fighter planes from the Divine Eagle Squadron of the border area flew over the sky. No matter how the Japanese in Luliang cried for help, they did not dare to take off or get close to this side.

At the same time, Fanyi Dai County, Wutai, Dingxiang and Meng County in the Wutai Mountain Range also launched attacks at the same time, calling in the Divine Eagle Brigade for air deterrence.

Taiyuan, Yansong Yixiong saw the telegrams requesting tactical guidance coming from everywhere, and he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. He never expected that the Eighth Route Army dared to launch a full-scale attack before the locust army was dispatched to sweep. How dare they? ? ?
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