Chapter 334 Overture to the East

Daming County is located in the southeast of Hebei Province, subordinate to Handan, located at the junction of Hebei, Shandong and Henan provinces, and is the hub of economic and cultural exchanges between the three provinces. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After more than 10 days of concealed marching, the main force of instructors led by Zhang Cheng has already completed the assembly in Daming County under the support of the Eighth Brigade, and in addition to teaching the Eighth Brigade to develop in the southeast of Hebei on the spot, the rest of the troops will enter the Qilu territory in batches.

Due to the Japanese army and the Kuomintang army fighting in the surrounding area of Xuzhou, the instructor did not encounter any major trouble in the concealed march day and night, but the Japanese army occupied North China and the local people's wanton persecution made the troops always hold their breath, eager to advance into Qilu immediately, and kill all the Japanese troops in Qilu.

After the instructor set up camp in Daming County, Zhang Cheng reported the progress of the instructor's march to the headquarters through the radio, and reported to the headquarters that the main force of the instructor would soon advance to Qilu, and the Eighth Brigade would stay in southeast Hebei to create an anti-Japanese base in the Bohai Sea, vigorously carry out the war of resistance behind enemy lines, and vigorously expand the revolutionary contingent to support the war of resistance of our Eighth Route Army.

Historically, the Bohai anti-Japanese base behind the enemy line was originally created by Zhang Cheng's current partner Xiao Hua, when Xiao Hua served as the deputy director of the Political Department of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the political commissar of the 343 Brigade, he led the eastward anti-Japanese advance column to arrive in the Jilu region, reorganized the local anti-Japanese armed forces, established party, government and military organizations at all levels, established an anti-Japanese military and political school to train cadres, united the Kuomintang Army Gao Shuxun to resist Japan, and successively organized the Hanji ambush battle, Sanda Dengming Temple, fierce battle Dazongjia and other battles, and hit the invading Japanese army.

In the Jilu Border Region, since the end of 1939, the party, government, military, and people in the border region have persisted in the struggle against "sweeping," "encroachment," and friction under extremely difficult conditions.

After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the stage of strategic stalemate, the Japanese army successively occupied the county towns and larger villages and towns in the Qinghe District and the Hebei-Shandong Border Region, and began frequent "sweeps," "sweeps," "encroachments," and carried out the so-called "strengthening of public order" campaign. The situation of the War of Resistance in Qinghe District and Jilu Border Region is deteriorating day by day.

In October 1939, Xu Shuai, commander of the First Column of the Eighth Route Army, and others gave important instructions on the development of anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare in Qinghe District. With the support of the 3rd Brigade of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army led by Xu Shiyou, Qinghe District established an anti-Japanese base area in the vast wasteland area on both sides of the Yellow River estuary.

From then on, our anti-Japanese armed forces basically jumped out of the narrow circle that had been operating on both sides of the Jiaoji Railway, and turned from passive to active.

However, at this time, due to the chaotic invasion of Zhangcheng, the Jilu Border Area and even the Bohai Border Area in the future will be created by the instructor, compared with the difficulty of creating the border area in history, now the instructor is strong and strong, and it is presumably that the Japanese puppet army forces, the Kuomintang armed forces behind the enemy line and the bandit armed forces in this place will soon be swept away, and a clean anti-Japanese base area behind the enemy line of the Eighth Route Army will be established.

After the Eighth Brigade of the Eighth Brigade of the People's Republic of China, which remained in southeastern Hebei for development, was tempered by the Baotou Resistance Battle, its combat effectiveness was greatly improved, and Deng Hua's ability to take charge of one's own affairs was also initially displayed, and the officers of the Eighth Brigade headed by him initially won the trust of the soldiers, and became more and more handy in command.

With the strength of more than 10,000 people in the Eighth Brigade, coupled with powerful weapons and equipment, it is not difficult to sweep the empty southeast Hebei region under the condition that the center of gravity of the Japanese army is still in Xuzhou.

However, Zhang Cheng is a cautious person, at present, the two major heavy military groups of the Japanese North China Front Army and the Central China Front Army are all around Xuzhou, which is very close to Qilu.

Zhang Cheng thought about it for a while, and felt that it was more appropriate to implement the commander-in-chief's strategy of encircling the cities with the countryside at this stage, and it was not appropriate to overstimulate the Japanese army, lest the Japanese army turn its guns and shift its strategic target from the Kuomintang Army to the Eighth Route Army.

Especially now, the 115th Division, 120th Division, 129th Division and other fraternal units of the Eighth Route Army are still relatively weak compared with the instructors, and they have not fully developed in the land of North China.

Thinking of this, Zhang Cheng's plan to advance into Qilu has begun to take shape, and his plan is not very simple, that is, the instructor is divided into three steps according to this plan: the first step is to occupy the vast rural land of Qilu, do not use the formal establishment of the instructor, in the name of the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, vigorously mobilize the masses, extensively carry out the anti-Japanese movement behind enemy lines, and actively expand the accumulation of troops, with the huge population of the vast plains of Jilu, the strength of the instructor can be expanded by at least three times.

The second step is that on the eve of the Kuomintang army being pursued by the Japanese army and Chang Kaishen is about to dig the Huayuankou embankment, the instructor will implement the strategy of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, and the main force will be exhausted, and the main force will be attacked in Beijing, China, forcing the Japanese heavy army group to return to the key place of the Beijing division, and the instructor will be broken into pieces again before the Japanese army returns to the division, and return to the Qilu base area, so that the Japanese army will work in vain, and urge the Kuomintang army to escape south smoothly without digging the Huayuankou embankment.

The third step was that when the Japanese army launched the Battle of Wuhan and the fierce battle of the Kuomintang army was in full swing, Zhang Cheng once again gathered the main force of the instructor to make trouble in the Heavenly Palace in North China, took Jinan, the capital of Qilu in one fell swoop, and captured all the large and medium-sized cities of Qilu except for the coastal areas, developed the Qilu base area thousands of times, and expanded the strength of the Qilu column to at least 500,000.

As long as these three-step goals are completed, Zhang Cheng can rest assured that the Qilu base area will be in the hands of other fraternal units of the Eighth Route Army, and then he will lead the two major heavy army groups of the Shanxi-Shaanxi Sui Field Army and the Qilu Column to wave their divisions out of the pass, compete with the Japanese Kwantung Army for the northeast land, and implement the plan of a strategic counteroffensive.

If he can lead the instructors to take the land of Northeast China before the Soviet Union defeats the fascists, and counterattack into Korea, with the huge size of the Northeast Industrial Base, the strength of the Workers' and Peasants' Party will not be able to unify the whole country in three years, and it is estimated that it will be able to cross the Yangtze River in half a year.

In addition, Nanyang is also the object of Zhang Cheng's coveting, and many small countries in Nanyang in later generations have been in disputes with the Republic in the South China Sea under the instigation of Miri, and these small countries in this life do not want to be established again, Zhang Cheng must make Nanyang become the sphere of influence of the future republic.

If these goals can be successfully achieved, then the new republic will surely be able to grow and grow at the fastest speed, standing tall among the world's great powers as the first power in the East, and becoming the third pole after Misu.

Thinking of this grand goal, Zhang Cheng was excited, and he couldn't wait to go out of the pass now to defeat the little devil.

It's just that the ideals and prospects are undoubtedly very good, but at this time, Zhang Cheng needs to take every step step by step, after all, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.