Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

We must make the Americans aware of the drawbacks of the island-hopping tactic and magnify them infinitely, so that they will eventually be forced to abandon this tactic.

"Call Stilwell back first and tell him we welcome them to come and exchange ideas and learn from us!"

The reason why the Americans sent people to learn from Li Yunlong was because Li Yunlong's achievements during this period were too dazzling and he could easily defeat the Japanese troops.

So the Americans also want to learn from us to reduce their own casualties.

From this we can also see how difficult it is to change the American island-hopping tactics, because the biggest advantage of the island-hopping tactics is that it can reduce casualties and skip some unimportant islands, thus reducing casualties in landing operations.

However, this was an opportunity for Li Yunlong. On the one hand, it allowed the Americans to misjudge the combat effectiveness of his own troops and prepare for the future. On the other hand, it also allowed the Americans to feel that island hopping was not a good option.

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Thanks to the master for not giving too many broken faces and sending the master certification, four more chapters are here, please give me some free reminders and free small gifts, thank you! ~

Chapter 667 Dealing with Some People

"Report, urgent call from rear headquarters!"

Li Yunlong was a little surprised and took the telegram.

The rear headquarters had full trust in Li Yunlong and they exchanged telegrams on a daily basis, but rarely sent urgent telegrams.

Moreover, the rear headquarters did not participate in the command of Li Yunlong's Heilongjiang-Jilin-Liaoning-Chahar Military Region. Usually, they would make some suggestions, and if Li Yunlong adopted them, he would implement them as required; if he had any opinions, he would also express his own views.

Li Yunlong did not want to make the affairs around him his own. Except when going to war, when encountering problems in daily life, everyone would hold a meeting to discuss and work out the best solution.

Even when the war broke out and problems arose, everyone gave each other suggestions and ultimately let Li Yunlong make the final decision.

"Urgent?" Li Yunlong couldn't help but feel a little worried. Did something go wrong? After reading the contents of the telegram, a sneer appeared on his face: "These people can't help it! I don't have time to deal with you, but you actually jumped out on your own initiative. It's a good time to deal with it all at once!"

During the Lunar New Year holiday, Li Yunlong set up some "hooks" at the rear headquarters. Of the researchers who followed him back to the rear headquarters, all the important scientific researchers had been released, and the ones left behind were just "scraps" who were responsible for handling simple problems.

Many people in the rear headquarters knew about the existence of these people. Li Yunlong deliberately let them know in order to lure some people out. Unexpectedly, less than a year later, some people took the bait. I wonder if he can catch some big fish.

"Send a telegram to the rear headquarters. I personally suggest that these people should no longer be reused and should be hired with caution! If there are serious circumstances, they can be dealt with secretly." After saying that, Li Yunlong rubbed his temples.

Li Yunlong is gradually changing many things and is also working hard to cultivate national self-confidence.

However, the ideological scars left in the hearts of some people by a century of humiliation and decades of confusion are difficult to erase. This takes time. Sometimes, once the scars are burned in the heart, it is difficult to eradicate them. Even if the country becomes strong in later generations, there will still be a lot of people who kneel down.

The content of this urgent telegram is that someone is preparing to secretly release those Russian "experts" for the ridiculous reason that these people are from Russia and we should respect them.

Li Yunlong didn't want to comment too much on these people. As long as they showed up, he would find a way to deal with them. He must not let them covet high positions in the future, otherwise it would be a big obstacle to dealing with many things in the future.

"Yes!"

Li Yunlong took a look at the list on the telegram and didn't find the people he wanted to catch. He was a little anxious, but he was not in a hurry. Those people would jump out sooner or later. Anyway, Li Yunlong knew who they were. If they didn't show up in this lifetime, Li Yunlong would generously let them go, but if they couldn't help it, don't blame Li Yunlong.

"Have Kong Jie's troops retreated?"

"We have already started retreating and are expected to arrive in Fengtian in a week!"

After Kong Jie captured Birobidzhan, Li Yunlong didn't let him hold on. Birobidzhan was too far from Li Yunlong's main force and was in the heart of the Japanese encirclement. Keeping Kong Jie's troops stuck in Birobidzhan would have made them easy targets. Therefore, upon learning of Kong Jie's success, Li Yunlong immediately ordered his troops to return along the same route.

"What's the movement of the Japanese Siberian Front?"

"We have already begun to move south and are retreating towards Khabarovsk along the Trans-Siberian Railway. We expect to reach Khabarovsk within three days and then continue to Harbin by train. The first batch of troops is expected to arrive in Harbin within a week!"

Li Yunlong took a look at the map and the enemy and our situation were very clear.

Li Yunlong's troops occupied the core area of ​​the four eastern provinces, Changchun and Fengtian. They were surrounded on three sides by the Japanese. To the north were the Japanese troops from Harbin, including the elite Far Eastern Front Army and the Siberian Front Army.

In the south, near Tashan, of the ten divisions that had previously moved south, only about eight remained. After several days of fighting, the Japanese had suffered heavy casualties, with at least two divisions crippled.

To the east, they faced the Japanese troops in the Peninsula region. The Peninsula region had the largest concentration of Japanese troops, exceeding one million, but most of them were new recruits. Moreover, coming from the Peninsula required crossing the Changbai Mountains, which offered many suitable ambushes. Li Yunlong did not take the Japanese troops from this direction too seriously.

"Order Ding Wei's troops to retreat to the Arxan area, and order Lao Han to quickly find out the specific deployment of the Japanese troops heading south!"

Li Yunlong turned his attention to the only gap - the west side. The Japanese must have noticed this area as well.

This area was the direction of Li Yunlong's original attack. From Arshan to Baicheng, and from Tongliao to Chaoyang, Li Yunlong did not deploy too many defensive troops.

But Li Yunlong never took these places lightly and always kept an eye on the movements of the Japanese Siberian Front.

"Old Li, do you suspect the Japanese are setting off smoke bombs?"

Li Yunlong pointed at Kurkusk and then at Birobidzhan, forming a line.

"The distance from Kurkutsk to Khabarovsk is very long. Even by train, it would take two or three days. The Japanese would then take another seven days to reach Harbin by train from Khabarovsk. If we focus all our attention and manpower on this front, and the Japanese attack from this direction, we'll face the same problem they faced when they first entered the four northeastern provinces."

"Moreover, our problem will be even more serious. We will be blocked by the Japanese in the four eastern provinces. The Japanese have not taken any action in this direction. I suspect they are planning something!" Li Yunlong said to the chief of staff while looking at the map.

"Well, this direction is where we originally marched, and it's also the area we previously controlled. It's indeed easy to overlook. From Outer Mongolia to the Chahar Rehe River, and then to the Greater Khingan Range, this area is too vast and the population is too sparse. The Japanese could have secretly sent in 100,000 troops, and we might not have even noticed!"

Li Yunlong hand-drawn an area, except for the Arxan region and Ulaanbaatar in Outer Mongolia, where his troops were stationed, the rest of the area was vast and sparsely populated. Even if Li Yunlong sent 100,000 troops there, the Japanese would still find a gap to slip in, so he had to be on guard.

"So what are you going to do?"

"Let's wait for Old Han's telegram. If the Japanese plan to launch a surprise attack on these areas, Old Han is the best 'guide'. He is familiar with the terrain of this area and has fought Shen Quan many times. I think Old Han should have some news!"

"What if the Japs suspect Old Han?"

Li Yunlong thought for a moment and said, "Order the Air Force to strengthen patrols in this area. Report any suspicious activity immediately!"

"Yes!"

Just as Li Yunlong was thinking about the next defensive operation, in the Japanese Army Headquarters, the newly appointed Kwantung Army Commander Terauchi Moriichi was sending telegrams to Private First Class Tojo and others, formulating a battle plan and planning how to counterattack and retake the city liberated by Li Yunlong.

Although Terauchi Morikazu belonged to the emperor's faction and was at odds with the Japanese army headquarters, for the sake of the army's face, the two sides chose to cooperate once and planned to completely solve the problem of Li Yunlong before winter.

Chapter 668 Finally succeeded

"Report, there's a telegram!"

A staff officer delivered an encrypted telegram to Li Yunlong.

When Li Yunlong saw this staff officer, he knew what was going on. Normally, this staff officer would rarely appear in front of Li Yunlong.

Li Yunlong took the telegram excitedly, checked the seal on it, and after confirming that there was no problem, he opened the outer document bag, took out a code book, and began to check the contents of the telegram.

"It wasn't easy, but I finally succeeded!" Li Yunlong smiled when he saw the content of the telegram.

This staff officer was in charge of this radio station, but he only needed to record the content transmitted by the radio and did not need to translate it because he did not have a code book.

There are only two code books, one with Li Yunlong and one at the rear headquarters, both of which are top secret.

The code in the code book is based on some later songs and also contains some Internet memes. Even if I got my hands on it, I would probably just think it was a book for recording lyrics and would not have any other doubts.

Even if someone knew that this lyrics book was a code book, it would be difficult to decipher because some of the key words used were later internet memes and had been processed many times, such as some names.

These matters are highly confidential. Even to the person Li Yunlong trusts the most, Li Yunlong will not reveal a single word. This is a major matter concerning the country and the nation.

"Chief of Staff, Lao Zhao, you guys keep an eye on the troops for a few days. I have something to do and have to go back to Taihang Mountains! Telegram me if there is any emergency!" Li Yunlong said while packing up.

"So urgent?"

Li Yunlong nodded. "It's estimated to be two days. You should pay close attention. If the Japs show any abnormality, you must follow the contingency plan. Now notify the airport and prepare the plane! Oh, and send a telegram to the UN General Assembly to invite President Mei and the professors to come along. Here is the invitation list!"

"it is good!"

The chief of staff and Lao Zhao did not ask Li Yunlong what he was going to do, and quickly made arrangements. The reason why Li Yunlong was so anxious to return to Taihang Mountain, or more precisely, to Heiyun Mountain, was because the encrypted telegram told him that the missile research was successful and it was ready for test launch.

The importance of missiles is self-evident. Despite the high cost of a missile, Li Yunlong persisted in his research. There was no other way. If you start slowly, it will be extremely difficult to catch up later. Just like Miss Qiu, no matter how difficult the conditions, Li Yunlong would push forward with his research.

In addition, Li Yunlong also recruited people to research chips, but not the silicon crystal chips of later generations, but its ancestor - magnetic ferrite core memory. It uses the two stable magnetization directions of the ferrite core to represent binary 0 and 1.

Before the breakthrough of integrated circuits, this has always been the key core of computer storage and calculation of data. Compared with the transistors of integrated circuits, its research difficulty is much lower, and it is easy to invent with this idea.

Li Yunlong planned to manufacture a few of these to assemble several large computers to aid in scientific experiments. Meanwhile, he was also looking for someone to research transistors. His knowledge of the field was limited, so progress was slow, but he still considered it a key project.

In addition, this magnetic ferrite core memory was invented by Chinese Wang An in 1949 and sold to IBM for US$1956 in 50. Li Yunlong has sent someone to find him.

The missile research at Heiyunshan was conducted under the leadership of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, the Russian expert who agreed to work for Li Yunlong for twelve years.

Li Yunlong acted quickly and boarded a Pei-8 transport plane two hours after receiving the news. After the plane took off, it circled over the Tashan position and then flew towards the Taihang Mountains.

At present, Li Yunlong's troops firmly controlled the air superiority. Although the Japanese wanted to mobilize fighters to regain air superiority, it would be difficult for the army to mobilize hundreds of aircraft in a short period of time unless they dispatched naval carrier-based aircraft.

The Tashan position was firmly under the control of the Fourth Corps. From the air, the narrowest section of the Liaoxi Corridor was awash in black and yellow. The black was the mark left by the burning napalm bombs, while the yellow was the color of the Japanese corpses piled on the scorched earth.

There was still fighting below, but the intensity was far less intense than before. Some of the Japanese troops in the Liaoxi Corridor were now stationed in Huludao and other places. They only launched a few attacks on the front line of the Tashan position every day to harass the Tashan defense position.

After taking a look at the Tashan position, Li Yunlong put down his telescope. He had a vague feeling that the Japanese were going to make a big move, but he was not sure what specific methods they would use to attack Tashan.

"Duan Peng, give me the map!" I shouted twice before Duan Peng finally heard me. These days, airplanes are so noisy that you have to shout to talk.

Duan Peng pulled a map from his pocket and handed it to Li Yunlong. Li Yunlong quickly unfolded the map and looked at the locations of Tashan and Jinzhou. To conquer Fengtian from south to north, Jinzhou was a necessary target; and to capture Jinzhou, Tashan was necessary first. Li Yunlong surveyed the locations of Tashan and Jinzhou, pondering the possible methods of attack by the Japanese.

"We can use the fleet to bombard Tashan and eliminate the Tashan defenders. At the same time, we can send a force across the Yanshan Mountains and go around to the rear of the Tashan position, that is, the area between Jinzhou and Tashan. In this way, we can capture Tashan by attacking from both sides!"

At the Army Headquarters, the Japanese Army Vice Minister, Tojo's "belt", Kyoji Tominaga, announced his battle plan.

In fact, Kyoji Tominaga was not capable of coming up with such a sharp plan. These contents were all thought up by his subordinates, and he was mainly responsible for conveying them.

This guy has no other skills except being good at internal fighting. During his time in the Kwantung Army, he tried to curry favor with the frustrated Private First Class Tojo. After Tojo became Prime Minister, he rose through the ranks and became the Vice Minister of the Army. He was truly Tojo's "good dog".

His "main achievements" included falsely accusing the "farming master" Imamura Jun of raising troops to establish his own regime, sending a reporter who questioned Private First Class Tojo to Iwo Jima to die, sending a lieutenant general who scolded Private First Class Tojo to jail, and later sending him to the front line to die.

In addition, taking advantage of his duty to provide relief to the families of fallen soldiers, he insulted the bodies of a large number of fallen Japanese soldiers. Afterwards, the urns given to the widows were filled with soil.

Because there were so many Japanese soldiers who died in the Pacific War, they could not be packed, transported back, or burned in time, so he came up with the idea of ​​putting dried soil in the urn and "excellently" completed the task.

Also, one of his greatest "achievements" was that he actively learned from the Navy, borrowed the practices of the Navy's Kamikaze Special Attack Force, and promoted them widely in the Army, allowing Army Aviation pilots to also set up the Army's version of the Kamikaze Special Attack Force.

As for how ordinary Japanese soldiers could conduct special attacks without planes, they had explosive packs, and charging with explosive packs was considered a symbol of bravery!

Chapter 669: The New Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army

"Not bad!"

Private First Class Tojo slowly uttered these two words and glanced at Kyoji Tominaga with some surprise. He was well aware of the ability of the guy in front of him. To be able to make such a suggestion, he must have done his homework and put in a lot of effort.

"It's all because of your good teaching!" Tominaga Kyoji completely ignored the fact that a meeting was being held at the army headquarters and that there were army generals around him, and he started to flatter him.

"Send this battle proposal to Terauchi Shouichi and see what he thinks!"

"Hai!"