The Fifth Theater originally had more than 200,000 troops, but for this battle, the command increased the strength of the Fifth Theater to 350,000. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info No, if you don't increase it, the most important point for Huaxia in this battle is not in the Huozhou headquarters, but in Zhengzhou.

Zhengzhou is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, in the south of the North China Plain, north of the Yellow River, in the geographical center of China, this is nothing, the important thing is that Zhengzhou is now the most important point on the logistics line of the Chinese army.

At present, there are only two railway bridges on the Yellow River, one in Jinan and one in Zhengzhou, and both of these railway bridges were built during the Qing Dynasty. Jinan is now in the hands of the Japanese army, only Zhengzhou, the Yellow River railway bridge, is left, and the logistics of the army in North China basically have to pass through this railway bridge, and its importance can be imagined.

In order to prevent the Japanese army from raiding Zhengzhou, it was heavily guarded in Puyang, Heze, and Shangqiu, and the troops on the Jining and Linyi lines were also increased, which can be described as strictly defending.

The Japanese army from Shijiazhuang to Handan, one is to divide the Chinese army, and the other is to threaten Zhengzhou through the Pinghan Railway, Handan to Zhengzhou is only 200 kilometers, and the train can reach it in ten hours.

Defending Zhengzhou is not only the Fifth Theater, but also the First Theater, with nearly 550,000 of the 1.3 million troops distributed in the north and east of Zhengzhou; if the Japanese army breaks through to Handan, the First Theater and the Fifth Theater will be tightened at the same time, and the Japanese army will hold back the main force of the Chinese army, and the large army will move south along the two railways to occupy Zhengzhou.

"General Lin, the point is not how many people there are in the Fifth War Zone, but Terauchi Shouichi is betting that if we can't hold the Pinghan Line, even if we put the armies of the Western powers here, we will also lose the battle." Mr. Zhu hates iron and steel, is this a problem of many people and few people, and no matter how many people don't have the logistics to fight with burning sticks?

"Speaking of logistics, we still have air transportation, except for the night, we can also transport 40,000 or 50,000 tons of materials a day." Lin Feng didn't think so, if the logistics were really poor, we would save trouble, it was a big deal to find a ravine and get a few warehouse groups, and pull as many as you want.

"In the battle of the large corps, logistics is the top priority, and it is not whose weapons are advanced at the same time, without logistics, no matter how powerful the weapon is, it is not as good as a big sword and spear." He Yingqin is the Minister of Military Affairs and Chief of the General Staff, and he still has some insight in this matter.

Several bigwigs were educating Lin Feng about the importance of logistics in Lin Feng's ears, and Lin Feng, who was upset by the chatter, stretched out his left hand, palm down, and his right index finger on the palm of his left hand, "Stop!" ”

plucked out his ears that were still buzzing, "Isn't it just guarding the Pinghan line, and transferring troops to defend it!" ”

Everyone said in unison: "No soldiers can be adjusted!" ”

"What the hell!" Lin Feng was surprised, the army of 1.3 million had no soldiers to adjust, what about the calves?

"In addition to the extraterritorial group army, there are indeed no troops to adjust, including the right wing of our main force near Zhengzhou, there are 550,000 people on the right flank, 200,000 between Yulin and Xiaoyi to defend the left flank, 400,000 between Xiaoyi and Xingtai on the front, and 50,000 people near the headquarters to defend, and the rest is the strength of the extraterritorial group army." A group of people waited for Lin Feng to open his mouth and transfer the extraterritorial group army to the direction of Shijiazhuang, and with the marching speed of the extraterritorial group army, he could kill Shijiazhuang in less than a day.

"Oh!" Lin Feng understood, this group of people was actually unhappy to watch the extraterritorial group army hide behind and watch the show, and the record of the extraterritorial group army in Central China was spread evilly, but these people had never seen it, and they tried every means to make the troops nervous, so as to mobilize the extraterritorial group army.

"Sun Liren."

"Here!"

"Take an armored division and two mechanized infantry divisions, march rapidly in the direction of Shijiazhuang, put into battle within eight hours, and before noon tomorrow, at least three divisions reinforced by the Japanese army will be defeated, and as soon as 12 o'clock arrives, withdraw from the battlefield."

"Yes!" Sun Liren stood up and saluted, glanced at the senior generals around him, and expressed with his eyes, "Look at how we fight, learn a little"!

The extraterritorial group army had only one guard division in Huozhou, and Sun Liren wanted to go to Lingshi and Jiexiu to mobilize troops, and before he set off, Sun Liren had already issued an order for the transfer of troops, and by the time Sun Liren arrived in Jiexiu, the three divisions had already been assembled.

"Brothers, the Japanese army in Shijiazhuang has increased its troops to three divisions of nearly 80,000 people, the front is tight, and reinforcements are urgently needed, let's teach them how to fight!"

"Good!"

"Target Shijiazhuang, all the troops march in a hurry, go!"

The three divisions had exactly 30,000 men, 322 tanks, more than 500 armored vehicles, more than 2,000 trucks, and 1,500 light and heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns.

Starting from Jiexiu to the east through Liao County (now Zuoquan County), Xingtai, to the north is the direction of Shijiazhuang, the whole journey is 350 kilometers. This section of the road is really not easy to walk, the Taihang Mountains block the middle of Jiexiu and Xingtai, more than 200 kilometers of path.

Sun Liren was ordered to go into battle within eight hours, and to run 50 kilometers in an hour, and the heavy tanks to open the way in front, flatten those that could be flattened, and those that could not be directly bombarded with tanks, in short, could not delay the march.

Waste of ammunition? There has never been such a word for the extraterritorial group army, and the accompanying trucks are loaded with ammunition and materials in addition to loading people, as long as they can complete the order, it doesn't matter if the ammunition is gone, call the logistics department to drop the materials, and 10,000 tons of ammunition can be dropped and replenished within an hour and a half.

All the way to the march, but the small road was expanded into a big road, after arriving at Xingtai to the north, the road is much easier, along the Pinghan Railway there is a big road.

Deng Xihou, commander-in-chief of the 22nd Group Army, this is a Sichuan army unit, which arrived in Shanxi last year, is under the jurisdiction of the Second War Zone, and also participated in the defense of Niangzi Pass. Originally, at the beginning of the year, the party-state was going to transfer the 22nd Group Army to Shandong and include it in the Fifth War Zone, but it was tossed by Lin Feng, and there was no need to leave.

The 22 nd Group Army was under the jurisdiction of the 41 st Army and the 45 th Army, including six divisions and two independent brigades, totaling more than 70,000 people.

Just these 40,000 people, after a short period of training after changing clothes, were transferred to the front line of Zanhuang County, Yuanshi County, and Zhao County, which belonged to the front line facing the Japanese army in Shijiazhuang.

Although there were still nearly 60,000 people in Gaoyi County, Baixiang County, Lincheng County and other places in the south, these 60,000 people were ordered to stay in place and defend the Pinghan Railway, and not to let a single train or Japanese soldier go south, but they did not receive an order to support the 22nd Group Army.

Deng Xihou also knew that the 60,000 people behind him would not move, and if he wanted to let these people move, he had to be ordered by the general headquarters. The Japanese army was originally 30,000 people in Shijiazhuang, and Deng Xihou had a good guy in his hands, and he felt that he could launch an attack on Shijiazhuang.

Deng Xihou immediately ordered the troops to withdraw and return to the fortified defense line in Yuanshi County, and then asked for help from the Northern Temporary General Headquarters, so Sun Liren led three divisions to come to reinforcements. (To be continued.) )