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#283 - Seven and a half road determination

After Ren Zhong received the news of the annihilation of the Japanese Eighth Division, First Division, and the 3rd Heavy Field Artillery Brigade, he contacted Staff Officer Ye immediately and asked the headquarters to immediately announce the news to the world!

Ren Zhong knew the power of the cloud-explosive bomb, and he didn't have many doubts about winning this battle, but he didn't expect the brigade commander's ability to seize combat opportunities to be so strong, grasping the key to the entire battle on the first day.

This unexpected surprise gave Ren Zhong hope.

"Staff Officer Ye, we should strive to start the Seven and a Half Route plan immediately. After announcing it to the world, immediately report the brief situation of the battle to Seven and a Half Route in your name, telling him that within three days, however many troops of the Suiyuan Army can reach Pingbei lightly armed, our army is willing to rearm them to the standard of an 'A' class regiment, and support the 35th Army to immediately launch the Rehe Campaign."

"At the same time, our main force in the Saibei Military Region must take Shanhaiguan with all our strength, and all the Kwantung Army entering the pass must be wiped out within the pass! To this end, we can order the air force to advance north to ZhangHuan Airport to cooperate with the Saibei Military Region in taking Shanhaiguan and defending it!"

The Japanese aren't stupid. After suffering a major blow and realizing that there is no possibility of victory in the war, they can escape overnight.

For Ren Zhong, letting the elite of the Kwantung Army escape back to their base was the worst outcome of this battle.

The Kwantung Army entering the pass must be sent to the sky neatly and become fertilizer for North China, which is their due treatment.

"The difficulty is great, but we must overcome all difficulties to achieve it." Staff Officer Ye had already understood Ren Zhong's thoughts, so after receiving the brigade commander's battle report, he also thought of this problem.

However, now that things have suddenly changed, with the strength of the Saibei Military Region, it is easy to suddenly capture Shanhaiguan, but to defend the pass under the enemy's frantic attacks from both sides, the difficulty is not ordinary.

This is a tough battle.

There are still 700,000 Japanese troops in the Northeast! There are also many airplanes and tanks, of course, these are deployed separately in the vast Northeast.

In the short term, within a few days, at most three to five divisions can be concentrated to rush to Shanhaiguan.

The difficulty is a bit high, but it is not impossible to do.

For the Eighth Route Army, there have been many miraculous battles, and Staff Officer Ye is not much weaker than the brigade commander in grasping combat opportunities.

So Ren Zhong's suggestion is also logical for Staff Officer Ye. The main reason is that the strength in the north is a bit unable to keep up in the short term.

"I have a way to deal with reinforcements," Ren Zhong walked to the map and said to Staff Officer Ye, "This place is narrow, and the area for the enemy to launch a frontal attack is not large. When the time comes, with the help of aerial reconnaissance, after figuring out the deployment of the Japanese, we can use rocket cloud-explosive bombs to carry out long-range strikes on the Japanese clusters! We are not afraid of them coming in large numbers, but afraid that they will come too few!"

Ren Zhong's eyes flashed with a sharp light, "If Seven and a Half Route agrees to our plan, we can immediately concentrate the Sui-Mongolian Autonomous Army, the Jinchaji mobile vehicles, and the Jinchaji elite main force, and form a mechanized mobile attack group with the main force of the Saibei Military Region, concentrating about 30,000 troops to march day and night, avoiding the large strongholds of the Japanese along the way, and go straight to Shanhaiguan to take it down!"

The Pingbei base area is about 500 li away from Shanhaiguan. With the speed of mechanized advancement, the road from Pingbei to Shanhaiguan is clear, and the army can arrive in at most seven or eight hours. The Eighth Route Army is so swift that the current garrison of Shanhaiguan cannot stop the attack of this group at all!

Success is undoubtedly a sure thing.

The most important thing is how to defend it.

So the second wave requires Seven and a Half Route to be effective, break through Rehe, and create a situation of attacking the Northeast from Rehe.

Then the Jinchaji organization will send fresh troops to the east to support, and the Jinbei troops will move east to fill the gaps left by the departure of the Jinchaji main force.

One link after another, firmly blocking the opening for the Japanese to escape outside the pass!

Staff Officer Ye understood Ren Zhong's thinking, and his eyes shone with brilliance. Although it was a bit risky, it was very worthwhile!

In particular, Ren Zhong guaranteed that he could use rocket cloud-explosive bombs for long-range strikes on the enemy's heavy troop clusters in the Northeast, which eliminated half of Staff Officer Ye's worries.

If we simply deal with the enemies inside the pass, the Saibei Military Region plus the Jinchaji main force can block the Japanese for half a month without any problem!

After all, the brigade commander and division commander are now strong and powerful, and they are not waiting for the Japanese to escape easily.

Now that the brigade commander's side has launched a general offensive, the division commander's side has already moved upon hearing the news to cut off the Pinghan Line, blocking the route for fleeing north through the Pinghan Line.

Although the central Hebei Plain is open and easy to walk, the main road still has the conditions to pass heavy weapons only along the Pinghan Line. Taking a detour through the middle route of Hebei, it is not so easy to walk now.

In this case, how can the Japanese two legs run over four wheels?!

The possibility of the Japanese being chased and beaten violently by the division commander and brigade commander is almost 99%! So as long as the escape route to the north is blocked, none of the Kwantung Army entering the pass will want to escape!

"Has the Eighth Route Army become so powerful now?" In Qingcheng, Seven and a Half Route looked at the telegram in his hand and couldn't help but sigh.

"Chief, the Eighth Route Army is indeed not what it used to be." The intelligence staff officer next to him interjected.

"The new weapons they produce have a fatal striking power against dense formations. It's still unclear exactly what kind of weapon it is, but the telegram said the range of the lethality is astonishing, with a kill radius of up to 50 meters with a single shot! Currently, no weapon can compare to this kind of weapon.

It is said that the Eighth Route Army previously used this weapon to attack the Little Devils' homeland, and five rockets destroyed half a city of the Little Devils!"

The intelligence staff reported all the information he had to Seventh Master Fu.

"Zhiwu, do you think we should lean towards the Eighth Route Army now?" Seventh Master Fu suddenly asked a soul-searching question.

Of course, those who could stay by his side as military advisors were all absolutely trusted confidants.

"Chief, frankly speaking, we really have no choice," intelligence staff officer Liu Zhiwu said sincerely.

"The development of the Border Region, the chief must know better than me. Zhiwu is not talented, but he has studied in Japan and has some knowledge. In Zhiwu's view, the industrial and technological capabilities of the Border Region have already surpassed those of the Little Devils. The converter steelmaking technology alone is a unique new technology in the world today. I heard experts say that compared to the previous steelmaking technology, the efficiency has directly increased several times, which has multiplied the productivity of the steel plant in Jiuyuan in the Border Region. Now it can produce one million tons per year!"

"Chief, this one steel plant is one million tons. There is also a large steel plant in the Jin area of the Border Region that is comparable to Jiuyuan, Northwest Steel! These are still high-quality steels that can be used to manufacture guns and cannons. As for the small steel plants that use indigenous blast furnaces to produce pig iron and wrought iron, there are countless of them. We have also built a lot of these small blast furnaces in Wuyuan, and the chief naturally knows the productivity."

"In terms of steel production alone, the Border Region has surpassed the best period in the history of the Nationalist government, and even surpassed the Northeast, which was occupied and managed by the Little Devils."

"There is no need to mention the weapons. The ordnance factories in the Border Region are changing almost every day. There are countless guns and cannons, and they have achieved self-production of artillery, tanks, and fighter jets. This is already the ability of the world's great powers! Although there is still a big gap in production capacity compared with the great powers, the technology has already overwhelmed the Little Devils, which is an indisputable fact!"

"This shows that there is an unparalleled expert in the Border Region who is secretly in charge of research. It is said that the boss named Ren Zhong has been in charge of the Liming Research Institute, which now has a scale of tens of thousands of people! Looking at the world, this is an extremely large research institute."

"There is no need to elaborate on the troops. Now the Kwantung Army elites are suffering a lot when they encounter the Eighth Route Army. The First Division and the Eighth Division are among the strongest divisions of the Little Devils, but now they are gone."

Speaking of these two divisions, Seventh Master Fu raised his eyebrows. He knew that Seventh Master Fu had suffered losses from the Eighth Division.

At that time, he was really using human lives to block the Little Devils' offensive, but he couldn't hold on in the end.

He had to abandon so many sacrificed brothers and retreat.

Now, overnight, they were wiped out by two regiments of the Eighth Route Army. It was a true wipe out, because this time the Eighth Route Army used a very strange weapon that could directly burn the Little Devils into ashes in a short time!

Thinking of this, Seventh Master Fu felt a little shuddering.

If this weapon is popularized, then having a large number of troops will not make much sense in the future.

If one shot goes down, a 50-meter radius will be gone. On the position, 50 meters * 150 meters is at least a company's position, and now one shot can wipe it out?!

This weapon can directly make the traditional positional warfare withdraw from the stage of war!

Hundreds of thousands of cloud explosive bombs are fired, and the positions of a division or an army may be finished in a few minutes!

Therefore, Liu Zhiwu's opinion seems to be no problem.

"Zhiwu, the Border Region is not justified, and it is unlikely that they will accept us, right?" Seventh Master Fu slowly made up his mind, but there were still some problems to be solved.

"Chief, this is not a problem. We are just defecting now, not changing the flag. The Border Region also knows very well that it is impossible for us to change the flag at this stage. Look at the Suiyuan-Mongolia Autonomous Army model, isn't that enough?" Liu Zhiwu said with a smile, and he also breathed a sigh of relief.

That's right, as one of the deepest hidden intelligence officers of the organization, Liu Zhiwu has always been a top-secret underground intelligence officer of the Border Region.

"We only need to transfer all the main forces to Pingbei, and change equipment according to the deployment of the Eighth Route Army, directly attack Rehe, and then spy on Liaobei. With the chief's great talent, being able to attack the Northeast and restore the land is not only a hero of the world, but also lays the foundation for a good position in the future!

As for the name, why bother now?"

Seventh Master Fu suddenly became enlightened.

"Zhiwu, you are really my Fu's Zhang Liang and Xiao He reincarnated. It's a pity that Fu can't be the King of Han. Well, it's not bad to be the King of Qi. Fu has a place among the heroes of the world, and Fu is not in vain in his life.

Zhiwu, you are right. The next goal of the Eighth Route Army must be the Northeast. As long as our main force follows the strategic deployment of the Eighth Route Army to the east, they will naturally know my intentions. And look at the equipment change to know the clues."

When Staff Officer Ye received the telegram from Seventh Master Fu that 80,000 people were heading east to wait for equipment changes, he almost thought he had read it wrong. Not to mention that all the main forces of the 35th Army were there, Seventh Master Fu even transferred the elite city defense regiment from his hometown of Wuyuan, saying that Suiyuan would go all out to recover Rehe and even the Northeast!

"This General Yisheng is really straightforward, all in. Now, a Minister of Water Resources is not enough to arrange," Ren Zhong couldn't help but sigh after reading it.

"What Minister of Water Resources?" Staff Officer Ye asked in confusion.

"Haha, it's nothing, I'm talking nonsense," Ren Zhong said vaguely.

Such a major event is settled!

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