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The battle of Zhoukou.

Yang Chen led the Tiger Ben Regiment to win several battles, annihilating more than 40,000 devils and seizing a large number of weapons, equipment and ammunition.

As well as a large number of merit points and experience points.

In Gushi County's action to crack down on local tyrants and divide the land, a large amount of property and grain were obtained.

plus a large number of baggage materials and weapons that were also seized from the hands of the little devils before.

Therefore, when Yang Chen settled the people of Gushi County.

The time is ripe for the Tiger Regiment to recruit new recruits and restore its proper strength and structure.

In a word, the Tiger Ben Regiment is now not short of money, guns or food, the only thing that is lacking is recruits.

As a result, the plan to recruit new recruits was put on the agenda and began in full swing.

The people have their own land and can eat enough, and they are grateful to Yang Chen and the Tiger Bentuan.

Therefore, when the Tiger Regiment pasted the recruitment notice in various places inside and outside the city.

Soon, it received a positive response from the people.

Hundreds of people sent their sons and husbands to join the army.

So that the recruitment plan of the Tiger Ben Regiment was carried out smoothly.

In less than 10 days, the Tiger Regiment recruited 5,000 recruits, restoring the strength of the regiment to more than 7,000 people.

Yang Chen did not make any further adjustments to the structure of the Tiger Regiment, but strengthened each battalion.

After the recruitment was completed, Yang Chen, Wang Gui, and the battalion commanders began to lead the troops to intensify training, and at the same time sent people to make military uniforms and military shoes and other equipment for the recruits.

Among them, the special operations brigade, as the sharp knife unit of the Tiger Regiment, did not pull out the training for a moment.

On the third day after the Tiger Battalion was stationed in Gushi County, Chen Ming and Duan Peng began to conduct closed systematic training for the special operations brigade and did not participate in all the subsequent activities of the Tiger Regiment

And Xu Hailang's reconnaissance battalion was secretly dispatched by Yang Chen to collect intelligence.

Because he knew that with the wolf ambition of the little devil, it would be impossible to stop there.

The defeat in the Battle of Zhoukou will not only not dampen the enthusiasm of the little devils, but on the contrary, it will only stimulate their anger more and more.

Next, the little devil will not move, once he acts, it will inevitably be overwhelming thunder!

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During the period when Yang Chen took the Tiger Ben Regiment to recuperate in Gushi County, the frontal battlefield had changed dramatically.

The first was the battle in the direction of the Longhai Railway, because Yang Chen led the Huben Regiment in the Zhoukou area, won several battles, and almost completely annihilated the Japanese army's roundabout corps.

As a result, the Japanese army was unable to attack the frontal front, and was forced to end its strategic plan to advance westward along the Longhai Railway and invade the Central Plains.

Of course, the end of the Japanese army's operation in the direction of the Longhai Railway also had the factor that its two major armies in North China and Central China suffered excessive losses in the previous Battle of Xuzhou.

The combination of various unfavorable factors forced the Japanese army to stop the offensive and turn to rest.

After all, after several major battles, a large area that was defeated also needs to be digested and guarded.

Other than that.

The heavy losses inflicted on the Japanese army by the Tiger Ben Regiment in the Battle of Shanxi, the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Battle of Lanfeng, and the later Battle of Zhoukou shocked the government and the opposition of the small Japanese Empire.

The high-level of the angry devil's base camp ordered the Japanese army to invade China and eliminate Yang Chen and the Tiger Ben regiment under his command at all costs.

To this end, the Japanese base camp carried out a strategic mobilization on Japanese soil.

250,000 retired soldiers were conscripted and re-enlisted to replenish the losses of the invading Japanese army and the two major fronts of Central China and North China.

After nearly two months of rectification, the two major fronts of the Japanese army have recovered their strength.

It is worth mentioning that of these 250,000 soldiers, 150,000 have been replenished into the Japanese army in Central China.

The purpose of the Japanese army was very clear, to enhance the strength of the Central China Front, so that the Central China Front had the ability to eliminate the Tiger Ben Regiment led by Yang Chen.

In this way, together with the original strength of the Central China Front, its total strength has exceeded 400,000.

In late July of '38, it was about a month later than in history.

The Japanese army in central China mobilized 250,000 men and attacked westward along both sides of the Yangtze River, aiming directly at Wuhan.

Another 10 armies were assembled from Hefei and prepared to attack Gushi, Lu'an and Huoshan.

First destroy the Yang Chen and Huben regiments that may be entrenched in this area, then follow the northern foot of Dabie Mountain, cross Dabie Mountain, attack Xinyang, and attack Wuhan from north to south along the Pinghan Railway.

In addition to these more than 300,000 troops, the Japanese army also mobilized more than 1,000 aircraft and more than 300 ships for the strategic purpose of simultaneously launching the occupation of Wuhan and the elimination of the Tiger Buntuan.

The total strength of the three armed forces together exceeded 400,000.

In view of the strength of Yang Chen and the Tiger Regiment, the Devil Base Camp was appointed, and Okamura Ningji, who was the commander of the 11th Army at the time, commanded the 100,000 troops in Hefei and came to be responsible for exterminating the Tiger Regiment.

Okamura Ningji, the old devil, is a man of action, and after receiving the appointment, he immediately took a plane and arrived in Hefei first.

Subsequently, a large number of reconnaissance troops were dispatched to conduct military reconnaissance in the area around the northern foot of Dabie Mountain.

And at this moment, Yoshiko Kawashima, who had been dormant among the refugees for a long time, passed on an important piece of information, revealing the news that Yang Chen and the Tiger Bentuan were in Gushi County to Okamura Ninji.

"Yo Xi!"

Okamura Ninji couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard the news.

Because before this, the Japanese army did not know the specific location of Yang Chen and the Tiger Ben Regiment.

It was only based on the end of the battle in the Zhoukou area that it was speculated that the Huben regiment might retreat to the northern foot of Dabie Mountain to rest, and made a rough prediction.

It would be better if the Tiger Ben Regiment was in the area of Gushi County, and it could be annihilated in one fell swoop.

If you're not there, it doesn't hurt.

Okamura Ningji, the old devil, will also command this army of more than 100,000 people, directly attack Xinyang, and then go out of Wusheng Pass, and cooperate with the main force of the Japanese army in Central China advancing west along the Yangtze River to seize Wuhan!

Now that the location of the Tiger Ben Group has been determined, Okamura Ningji, an old devil, has a clear goal and place to use.

You must know that the credit for killing Yang Chen and the whole Annihilation of the Tiger Ben Regiment is not even less than the capture of Wuhan.

How could this old devil not be happy?

"Tell Miss Yoshiko Kawashima not to act without permission, and not to expose the target!

As much as you can, gather intelligence for us!

As long as we kill Yang Chen in this battle and annihilate the Tiger Regiment, we should give her the first credit! ”

After learning that Yoshiko Kawashima's mission was to assassinate Yang Chen, the old devil Ninji Gangmura immediately ordered the adjutant to secretly contact Yoshiko Kawashima, ordering her not to take risks for the time being, continue to lie dormant in Gushi County, and continue to provide information for herself.

In order to ensure that he can accurately grasp Yang Chenhe's every move, so as to mobilize troops to encircle and suppress the Tiger Ben Regiment, and complete his work in one battle.

Don't give the Tiger Ben any chance to escape and break through!

When the time is ripe, Kawashima Yoshiko will secretly deliver a fatal blow to Yang Chen and the command hub of the Tiger Ben Regiment.

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