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Chapter 290: Great Leap Forward

After readjusting the defensive strategy, the Japanese, feeling that the Northeast was already in danger, began a new retreat strategy, and preparations for the relocation of certain equipment in the Northeast were in full swing.

Out of absolute concern for the safety of Tianhuang, the Japanese shamelessly sent a telegram demanding that the Eighth Route Army not attack civilian cities again!
The honor of a soldier is a direct confrontation on the battlefield! The implication is that we can no longer send rockets to the mainland, especially Dongjin!
But the Japanese didn't dare to mention it directly, for fear that the Eighth Route Army would be unhappy and launch a few attacks!

After hearing the Japanese's announcement, the Eighth Route Army gave them two days to evacuate the residential area!

Ren Zhong saw that the effect had been achieved and there was not much stock left. The experimental results of the new rocket also looked very ideal. Although he could not witness it with his own eyes, Ren Zhong could imagine the miserable scene in the Japanese city.

However, this is just to recover a little interest. After recovering the lost territory, we will find a way to deal with the Japanese.

Now, let's temporarily stop this game of brushing rockets and playing with the Japs.

At least now the Japanese in Pingjin were forced to come out of the residential areas, even if they did not have the courage to fight outside the city and hid in the city relying on the protection of the city walls. They did not have the courage to fight a decisive battle with the Eighth Route Army outside the city.

But for the Eighth Route Army, the current situation is tantamount to sentencing the Japanese to their doom.

After receiving a telegram from an underground intelligence agent in the city, it was confirmed that the Japanese had indeed retreated from the residential area, and the division commander immediately launched an attack.

We can’t give the Japanese any more chance to think now.

Outside Pingjin, artillery fire rained down on city towers and walls, making the Japanese soldiers guarding them cry for their parents. The remaining Japanese artillerymen in the city also tried to fight back, but to no avail. The Japanese artillerymen, who were disproportionately small in number, were discovered after firing, and then more artillery were mobilized to destroy them!
Although the division commander's time was wasted for several days, the frightened Japanese soldiers were so scared that they did not dare to lead a large force into the residential area to resist until their death.

After hearing the report, Ren Zhong finally breathed a sigh of relief. In this way, when they marched into the Northeast, the Japanese would be afraid of using the city as a shield to cause a new round of retaliation, and the probability of turning the entire Northeast into ruins could be minimized.

But the next battle must be fought quickly. Otherwise, the Japanese will not hesitate to leave the things behind when they see that they cannot keep the Northeast. They will find ways to move away a large number of useful materials.

The production of rockets still needs to be continued at full capacity in large quantities! The game we are playing with the Japanese has not yet ended!
While the division commander was pacifying Pingjin, on the other side, the First Attack Group, which had been well prepared, was leaving Shanhaiguan on a train.

The plan to conquer the Northeast began.

"Our mission is to open up the Liaoxi Corridor as soon as possible!" The brigade commander of the first attack group pointed to the map at the frontline headquarters. "In these hundreds of miles, only Jinxi and Jindong are the most important. My plan is to concentrate the four mechanized brigades of the first attack group, together with the heavy artillery regiment, to quickly bypass Suizhong and head straight for Jinxi. I will use this jumping method to launch attacks along the line at the same time!"

The brigade commander now has sufficient capital in his hands and is not afraid of the Japanese devils cutting off his retreat.

It is now impossible to advance one by one along the Japanese positions.

That would be too time-consuming. For small strongholds, large-scale mechanized infantry brigades would go in the front, and the Japanese inside the strongholds would not dare to open fire to provoke them.

In this war, even against the Type A Regiment, the Japanese's firepower completely lost its advantage. Compared with the mechanized infantry brigade with absolute firepower advantage and tank troops, the Japanese were even more insignificant.

This time, Li Yunlong served as the vanguard. Old Li was already adept at commanding the mechanized infantry brigade, and he led the troops forward as soon as the meeting ended.

The tank battalion was the first to lead the way, but in the front were two bulldozers!
Obviously this is a simple mine-clearing method, but it is very effective. The mines buried by the Japanese on the road were basically detonated one by one by the bulldozers, and then the road surface was quickly flattened again!
Although the team's advance was slowed down by this method, it was not a big deal for Li Yunlong. With the bulldozer clearing the way, the team set out in the morning and reached Jinxi at 10 o'clock in the evening.

Even without using fuel-air explosive bombs, the pace of the mechanized infantry brigade's attack is now extremely fast.

After the heavy artillery regiment and rocket artillery regiment bombarded the Japanese positions, the tank battalion began to attack! Using the powerful protection and direct firepower of the tanks to advance step by step, the Japanese positions were now really unable to resist.

The T-34 heavy tank at the forefront may only be considered medium-sized in the European battlefield, but compared with the Japanese tanks and medium tanks, the total weight is twice that of the Japanese medium tanks, which is indeed considered heavy in the Eastern battlefield. Moreover, the side armor has been strengthened. The effect of the Japanese main 37mm anti-tank weapon is almost equal to 0 in this tonnage!

What bunkers and underground bunkers, in front of the 76mm tank main gun, it’s just a matter of one shot, there is not much suspense at all.

Li Yunlong's attack was like flowing water. Before the brigade commander and his troops drove over, Jinxi was easily captured by the mechanized infantry brigade. The reconnaissance team sent out in the early stage continuously sent back a large number of intelligence on the railway strongholds outside the pass. This allowed our army's team to maintain a very strong sense of rhythm through the railway. With a train, they knocked down the Japanese strongholds along the railway! Constantly open up the railway route.

By the time Li Yunlong and his men captured Jinxi, the railway attack team had also opened up the road to Jinxi. Soon, a few hours later, a Type A regiment was transferred to Jinxi by rail. Li Yunlong handed over Jinxi to this Type A regiment, replenished fuel and ammunition, and began to lead the team to continue attacking Jindong!
This is an important strategic location in the Liaoxi Corridor, and the Japanese deployed a brigade to defend it.

Under the protection of the solid city walls, the Japanese were ready to exhaust the Eighth Route Army's weapons and ammunition here.

After all, this is a fortified city far superior to Jinxi!
According to this pattern, Li Yunlong led three mechanized infantry brigades to rush to the front, while the main force of the first attack group advanced along the opened railway line, and the other part followed the highway to knock down all the strongholds on both sides of the railway and highway one by one.

Behind them, the second attack group will continue to move northward, extending to both sides along the railway and highway lines, completely eliminating all the Japanese devils and puppet troops, and handing them over to the third wave of organizations and local defense forces of the Type C Regiment to take over.

The entire routine of attacking, occupying, and establishing new grassroots autonomous political organizations is continuously advanced wave after wave to ensure real occupation.

Everything was in order. The brigade commander and his men led a large force and basically maintained an advance speed of 50km a day. They launched attacks on the county towns and other cities near the railway line. They were unstoppable along the way. The Japanese defense has always been mainly aimed at the big bear in the north, and all large fortifications were built on the border with the big bear.

In this way, the Japanese defense in the corridor leading from the inside to the outside of the Great Wall was like a forfeit (of course, this was in response to the powerful artillery offensive. If it were a team without artillery, the countless Japanese strongholds along the line would be enough to be attacked. Now with 75mm mountain cannons and even 30 captured Japanese 150mm howitzers, the Japanese strongholds were like a turtle shell waiting to be knocked down, with no room for resistance at all).

It collapsed under the attack of the first attack group and fought all the way to the city of Jinzhou.

"Commander, our advance team has infiltrated Jindong and has been working against the enemy for some time. In Jindong City, we contacted a puppet army commander who used to be in the same unit with me. After our efforts, he agreed to revolt on the battlefield and open the east gate of Jindong for us."

Yu Zhenze, who had moved to Jindong earlier, reported a great news.

Li Yunlong did not have much prejudice against this old general of the Northeast Army.

"Thank you for your hard work, Captain Yu. After a night's rest, our army will launch an attack tomorrow morning. Please inform your person that we will attack the east, west and south at the same time, leaving only the north for the Japanese to escape from the city. We will then annihilate them in the wild. Does the person you contact have instant messaging equipment now?" Li Yunlong asked.

"Yes, we have secretly sent a walkie-talkie in." Yu Zhenze said, "We can establish direct contact with the city."

"That's great. I don't ask them to do too much. Just tell us the targets for our shelling. When the battle starts tomorrow, I hope the radio will be connected to our front line."

In Jindong City.

More than a dozen people came from the headquarters of a puppet army regiment, all of whom were the battalion, company and platoon commanders of the regiment.

“Brothers, this is the situation.

Now the Eighth Route Army is much more powerful than the Japanese. More than 50 Kwantung Army soldiers have been killed by the Eighth Route Army in North China!

It can be said that Northeast China is no longer the world of the Japanese devils.

If we miss this opportunity, we will basically have no chance to continue eating at the next restaurant.

I believe you are all aware of Jinxi's defense situation. It only took the Eighth Route Army about two days to wipe out the Japanese!

The Japanese have been deceiving us, saying that they have won victory after victory over the Eighth Route Army. But today, everyone has seen that the Eighth Route Army has already attacked right under our noses. What kind of victory is this for the Japanese? !
The Eighth Route Army is no longer the same as before. They have more artillery than the Japanese, more powerful firepower, and more powerful tanks. Their attacks are extremely sharp. It is impossible for us to defend Jindong City. If we don't revolt, we will become cannon fodder for the Japanese. I've had enough of this kind of life. "Ma Tiancheng, the commander of the puppet army regiment guarding the east gate of Jindong, stared at a dozen of his backbones and said indignantly.

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