Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

"Now that we have solved the problem at Tashan, the next step is to annihilate Li Yunlong's main force in Manchuria!"

After Private First Class Tojo finished speaking, he drew a circle on the map and said, "According to the intelligence we have, Li Yunlong's troops currently have a total strength of 600,000 men in Manchuria, possibly even more! Their weaponry has also been greatly improved since the occupation of Fengtian. They are now the Imperial Army's number one enemy."

At this point, Private First Class Tojo couldn't help but snort coldly: "The Kwantung Army is a bunch of rubbish. They have ruled Manchuria for so many years, but they haven't been able to gain a firm foothold. They haven't even succeeded in the slave education. And yet so many Manchus have joined Li Yunlong's army!"

This was also what annoyed the Japanese the most. According to the Japanese Special High Section intelligence, after Li Yunlong's troops entered Manchuria, they were warmly welcomed by the local people. There was an endless stream of people signing up to join the army at the recruitment points, with tens of thousands of people signing up every day.

This figure of 600,000 troops was calculated by Japanese spies based on the number of people who registered at various recruitment points. It won't be long before this number increases. If Li Yunlong can survive this winter safely, the number may reach millions.

"I personally suggest that the main attack direction be chosen here!"

At this time, a voice sounded, and the former Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army, Ishihara Kanji, stood up and pointed at Baicheng.

Ishihara Kanji has retired from active service, mainly because he had disagreements with Private First Class Tojo, and as a member of the Kwantung Army, Ishihara Kanji was not in the same faction as the people in the headquarters.

In 1937, he was transferred back to Japan to serve as Chief of Operations. Because he offended Private First Class Tojo, he was transferred back to the Kwantung Army. However, he was demoted from Chief of Staff to Deputy Chief of Staff, which was a humiliation for Ishihara Kanji.

Later, in 1941, he was forced out of active service and became a university lecturer in Japan.

This time, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Michijiro, was captured, and Kong Jie had almost wiped out the Kwantung Army's top brass. With no one left to take up the reins, Ishihara Kanji was once again invited out of retirement to serve as the Kwantung Army's Chief of Staff. Since he was in mainland Japan, Ishihara Kanji was also invited to participate in the planning of this counterattack.

Seeing that it was Ishihara Kanji who spoke, Private First Class Tojo snorted coldly and said slowly: "Go on!"

Private Tojo looked down upon Ishihara Kanji. He had already overthrown him when he was still a prime minister, so it was even easier to deal with this outdated old man now.

"Baicheng was the first city captured by Li Yunlong's troops during their counterattack on Manchuria. Outer Mongolia and the Chahar region have always been under the control of Li Yunlong's troops. In Li Yunlong's mind, this area is tacitly considered his own territory."

"If I were Li Yunlong, when deploying the defense forces, I would place heavy troops on the Songyuan line to block the imperial army's southward advance from Harbin. Then, I would establish a solid defense line in Jinzhou and Tashan to block the imperial army's northward advance. I would then take advantage of the complex mountainous terrain of the peninsula and establish a defensive position in Changbai Mountain to block the imperial army stationed on the peninsula."

"This way, Li Yunlong can drag the war into winter. Once the long winter arrives, Li Yunlong's troops will have ample time to develop. With the production capacity of the Fengtian Arsenal, the appeal of Li Yunlong's troops in Manchuria, and the supplies seized from us, by the end of winter, Li Yunlong's troops are likely to expand to over one million!"

"So, we must end this battle before winter arrives! We must employ both conventional and unconventional tactics. Taking advantage of Li Yunlong's negligence in this area, we must send elite troops to raid Baicheng. Using the same method Li Yunlong's troops used to attack Manchuria, we must split Li Yunlong's forces into two and defeat them separately!"

After listening to Ishihara Kanji's introduction, many people nodded in agreement.

However, Private First Class Tojo retorted, "If we fight like this, what if this elite force is discovered and ambushed by Li Yunlong in advance?"

Ishihara Kan'er smiled and said, "So we need the Kwantung Army to cooperate with each other and continue to put pressure on Li Yunlong's troops from Harbin, Jinzhou and the peninsula, so that Li Yunlong will focus his defense on these areas."

"At this moment, if a troop suddenly attacks, it will definitely throw Li Yunlong's formation into disarray. By then, whether we march south to attack Fengtian and Jinzhou, or march north to defeat Li Yunlong's main force in the Songyuan area, we can catch them off guard!"

There was nothing wrong with Ishihara Kanji's plan, but Private First Class Tojo was determined to find fault with it.

But Ishihara Kan'er spoke first, "This plan does have some problems. To execute this plan, we must first gain air superiority, otherwise Li Yunlong's reconnaissance planes will easily discover our troops' whereabouts."

"Therefore, the first step in the counterattack on Manchuria is to regain air superiority. And to regain air superiority, we must eliminate the traitors within our ranks, otherwise the tragedy of Sasebo will happen again!"

The Japanese called the Sasebo Massacre the Sasebo Massacre. The Sasebo Massacre not only destroyed the Japanese army's naval base, but also spread the fire to the city of Sasebo, setting ablaze many Japanese houses.

The losses have not yet been fully counted, but it is roughly estimated that at least tens of thousands of Japanese civilians were burned to death and more than 8,000 houses were burned down.

Hearing Ishihara Kan'er's words, Private First Class Tojo felt a little embarrassed and said, "Don't worry about this problem. After you arrive at the Kwantung Army, you will first deal with the Kwantung Army's problems. If Li Yunlong can reach Khabarovsk, there must be problems within your Kwantung Army!"

Ishihara Kaner smiled, said nothing more, and sat back in his seat.

"Let's keep this battle plan for now. Do you have any other plans?"

"I suggest……"

"I suggest……"

At the suggestion of Private First Class Tojo, some Japanese generals proposed some unrealistic battle plans. Whether these plans could be implemented was not important. The key was to have a large number of them, so that the army headquarters would appear to be full of talents and not be outdone by Ishihara Kanji, a retired soldier.

Just as the Japanese army headquarters was formulating a battle plan, Li Yunlong's plane slowly landed at the Taihang Mountain Airport. The guests invited by Li Yunlong also arrived one after another after he arrived at Taihang Mountain.

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Chapter 670 The Hope of the Nation

"General Li Yunlong, we meet again!"

After arriving at Taihangshan Airport, Li Yunlong did not leave immediately, but waited for someone. Three hours later, another Pei-8 landed.

Now, most of the Pei-8s have been converted into passenger aircraft. As a bomber, the Pei-8 is not very qualified, but as a transport aircraft or passenger aircraft, it performs well.

Li Yunlong's Arxan Airport, Hailar Airport, Xinjing Airport, and Fengtian Airport all had Pei-8 aircraft parked there. In addition, there were two at the rear headquarters and two at Taihangshan Airport.

Some urgent information or information that is inconvenient to transmit by radio is transmitted by Pei 8.

This was a plane flying from Spring City. Mei Yiqi got off the plane with some professors from the United Nations University.

For this missile test, Li Yunlong specially invited Principal Mei.

At present, President Mei’s one gram of radium is still in his hands, but some teachers from the United Nations University have entered the Heiyunshan Laboratory or the Arshan area to work.

Some students from the United Nations University also came to Heiyun Mountain and Arshan. They also participated in this missile test.

In addition, there were also some students from the National University of China in Li Yunlong's air force. As long as they were liberal arts students, Li Yunlong persuaded them to change their minds; as for science students who wanted to become pilots, Li Yunlong also persuaded them not to do so.

"Principal Mei, welcome! Professors, long time no see!"

Looking at the group of people behind Principal Mei, Li Yunlong felt a little jealous, but he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, so he could only dig them over bit by bit.

“General Li, we have all heard about your battles in the four eastern provinces.

Principal Mei gave Li Yunlong a thumbs up.

"Principal Mei, what about that one gram of radium?"

Hearing Li Yunlong mention radium again, Principal Mei smiled and said, "Okay, I brought it to you. But you called us here so mysteriously this time, it's definitely not for that little bit of radium, right?"

Li Yunlong never gave up on his request for the "vegetable jar" in Principal Mei's hand. At first, Principal Mei was a little hesitant to give it to Li Yunlong. It was not because Principal Mei had any selfish motives, but because he was worried that after giving it to Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong would not cherish it and would not know how to use it correctly.

However, since coming to Heiyun Mountain, Principal Mei's opinion of Li Yunlong has changed to a certain extent. Later, many students and professors came to work in Heiyun Mountain, and Principal Mei would occasionally come to visit and care about his colleagues and students.

Some time ago, Principal Mei gave a few classes at a school in Heiyun Mountain.

The more he interacted with Li Yunlong, the more Principal Mei's mind tilted. He also saw that Li Yunlong was really saving the country, not only in the military, but also in the industry.

So this time when Li Yunlong invited him to watch the experiment, he brought the "vegetable jar" given to him by Professor Zhao.

"Of course not. We've made some technological breakthroughs here, and I want you to see the hope of our nation!"

"The hope of the nation?"

When this statement came out, many people were a little surprised, especially Professor Gu, who asked in a trembling voice, "Have you figured it out?"

"almost!"

Professor Gu is the talent that Li Yunlong wants to discover. He has visited some core things and knows some inside information, so he is so excited.

"Mysterious, what is it?"

"Don't worry, everyone. We'll know soon!"

Li Yunlong got on the car with a group of people.

We drove directly into a valley around Yitiantian.

A ten-kilometer area around the valley has been placed under martial law, with at least 50,000 people mobilized to patrol the area. No one who has not passed the inspection is allowed to approach this area.

In fact, Li Yunlong did not want to conduct the experiment in the Taihang Mountains, but this thing was too large to be transported, so he simply found a place in the mountains to build a launch platform for the experiment. After the experiment was successful, the production would be transferred to another place.

When Li Yunlong got off the car with Principal Mei and others, more than 20 experts from the Russian Bear were busy surrounding a big guy.

This unnamed missile is larger than later missiles and is pulled by a specially modified car.

At this moment, the missile is being slowly transferred from the vehicle to the launcher using a lifting device. It is not the vertical launcher commonly seen in later generations, but an inclined launcher.

In addition to the Mao Bear experts, there were more than 200 Black Cloud Mountain staff members also circling around this big guy.

Among them were several students from the National Southwest Associated University, including Jia Xiaohou's family.

Jia Ji is the deputy head of the entire project and is discussing the specific launch process with Korolev.

Although it looks similar to the German V2 missile.

However, Germany's V2 missile used liquid fuel, consuming nearly four tons of alcohol and five tons of liquid oxygen, but Li Yunlong directly skipped the liquid fuel and used solid fuel.

The technical aspects were provided by Li Yunlong. Based on what some people in later generations learned from "I don't understand, some people don't know how to make solid fuel", as well as the directions provided by some other materials, Korolev and Jia Xiaohou conducted theoretical and practical work and finally developed solid fuel.

The process was a bit dangerous, but it was finally developed.

Principal Mei and the others looked at the large object not far away and couldn't help but widen their eyes. "Li Yunlong, is this what you showed us?"

"Yes, missiles. Germany developed them last year. They're capable of directly bombarding John Bull's homeland from the European continent. After obtaining some intelligence, I believe this is an essential weapon of mass destruction in future wars and a country's primary means of deterrence, so I immediately sent people to begin research!"

"Hard work pays off, and I finally figured it out!"

Li Yunlong raised his head and said, "By now, the German-made V1 should have been completed, but it has probably only been tested for launch and has not yet been deployed on a large scale or used in actual combat."

As for why Korolev knew about Deutsche Zeitung's missile plan, there was no secret in the Mustache Combat Command. All major intelligence agencies around the world knew that Deutsche Zeitung was researching a flying bomb and was manufacturing and testing it.

Principal Mei and others watched the missile from afar with binoculars. "How far can it hit? Is it farther than a naval gun?"

It’s not the fault of Principal Mei and others. It was their first time to come into contact with missiles. It was not a weapon they could imagine. They knew that the most powerful weapon was the Japanese naval guns.

"Much farther than naval guns!"

"Suck……"

At this moment, Jia Ji and Korolev, who were not far away, also saw Li Yunlong.

"Commander!"

Jia Ji waved his hand and ran towards Li Yunlong, looking very excited.

Korolev saw this and walked over quickly.

"How are you preparing?"

"The preliminary preparations have been completed and we are doing the final inspection."

"How far are you going to fight?"

"This time the test firing is expected to reach 200 kilometers!"

"Two hundred kilometers?"

Upon hearing these words, Principal Mei and others beside him couldn't help but exclaim.