In December of the 29th year of the Republic of China, Zhang Mingyu led the Reading Force Army to recover Taiyuan, and the Jin Sui Army and the Eighth Route Army also achieved brilliant results in the southeast of Shanxi and other places, so far the entire Shanxi has been recovered by the Chinese anti-Japanese forces.

The whole [***] people and even the Chinese and overseas Chinese all over the world cheered, and the morale of the people was greatly boosted, and the names of Zhang Mingyu and Reading Lijun once again resounded throughout the land of China, and in the minds of Chinese people around the world, Zhang Mingyu's status as a national hero of resistance was once again raised to an unprecedented height.

As long as Zhang Mingyu is here, as long as the reading force is there, China will not forget, and the Chinese nation will not forget .......

Although the industrial base of the army and the local area of the country did not suffer any losses, due to the three strategic decisive battles and several encounters with the Reading Army, the army suffered casualties in nearly a dozen main field divisions, and the rest of the divisions and regiments still had to control the two lakes, Guangzhou, and even Shandong, Henan, and Jiangxi, and other places, and the North China Army was unable to fight again in a short period of time.

So far, the three major transportation arteries in North China controlled by the Yue Army -- the Jinpu Railway, the Pinghan Railway, and the Zhengtai Railway -- were all cut off by the Chinese [***] team, but although the Reading Li Army, the Jin Sui Army and the Eighth Route Army cut off the three major railway trunk lines, and divided the Chinese Army into two sections, the Yue Army in South China resolutely could transport supplies to Guangzhou by sea, and send them to Wuhan via the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, or they could take the Yangtze River waterway to deliver supplies to their troops in South China and Central China.

While the Chinese people were singing and dancing to celebrate the victory of the anti-Japanese army in Shanxi, the people of Japan, who had provoked the war, were in a depressed mood, and some people put up slogans calling for the resignation of Konoe Bunma and held an anti-Konoe Bunma march in Tokyo.

At his behest, the Emperor was also extremely angry at the defeat of the North China Front and the loss of Shanxi, a strategically important place rich in coal resources and a strategic location, and at his behest, the cabinet was reorganized, and Konoe Fumima stepped down, and the commander of the Kwantung Army, Hideki Tojo, was sent back to Beijing to form a new cabinet.

As the commander of the North China Front, Shouichi Terauchi was removed from his post and investigated, and transferred back to Tokyo to be assigned to the reserve. After the cabinet of Hideki Tojo came to power, the first thing it did was to reorganize the army that invaded China.

In view of the domestic situation in China at this time, the cabinet of Hideki Tojo decided to organize the Chinese army into two group armies, the first group army, that is, the Northern Group Army, which was under the jurisdiction of the Kwantung Army in the four eastern provinces and the remnants of the North China Front Army in Pingjin, and even Shandong, and the commander-in-chief of the group army was Okamura Ninji, who was promoted from the rank of lieutenant general to the rank of general because of his outstanding performance in the Wuhan Campaign, and was responsible for commanding the newly formed Northern Group Army of the Japanese invasion of China.

The Second Group Army, that is, the entire Central China South China Army, was composed of the Shanghai Dispatch Army and the Central China Front Army, and was under the unified command of the six generals of Toshimi Hata.

However, the base camp also issued a special order to the two major group armies, due to the excessive consumption of the national strength of the army at this time, and the heavy losses of the North China Front, the base camp adopted a two-year recovery plan proposed by Ishihara Guaner, who had been discharged from the hospital and returned to Tokyo, Ishihara Guaner believed that after three major strategic decisive battles with China, that is, after the Battle of Wuhan, the national strength of the empire was already overloaded, but it still had a complete industrial chain and a strong heavy industry base.

It only takes two years to recover, and the empire's comprehensive national strength can recover most of it, so Ishihara proposed to carry out large-scale law and order rectification operations in the occupied areas during these two years to consolidate the occupied areas, and on the one hand, increase the strategic bombardment of the political axe in Yucheng to force the national political axe to surrender.

For the Reading Army in Shanxi, he took a defensive position, trying to block the Reading Army in the Hebei area and secure Pingjin and Manchukuo (the four eastern provinces).

After two years of waiting, the national strength was restored, and the Chinese anti-Japanese forces in North China were wiped out in one fell swoop by the two major armies of the north and the south, the most important of which was Zhang Mingyu's reading force.

I have to admit that Ishihara Wan'er's move to rest and recuperate is really clever, and it is also the most in line with the national conditions of Yuben at this time, because at this time, the Kwantung Army had to guard against the Soviet Union, and the Central China and South China Army had to deal with the main forces of each theater and the guerrillas of the New Fourth Army led by [***], and they were simply unable to transfer troops and financial resources on a large scale to exterminate Zhang Mingyu's Reading Army, so Ishihara Wan'er's move was adopted by the Yuben base camp and immediately executed as soon as it was proposed.

In Taiyuan City, Zhang Mingyu was so tired that he got out of bed the next afternoon because he played with the two girls last night.

Just walked out of the backyard to the front yard, Zhang Biao, Liu Cheng and others were already sitting in the hall waiting, seeing Zhang Mingyu limping in, Zhang Biao couldn't help but burst out laughing, Ling Tianbao, who was sitting on the side, asked puzzledly: "I said Lao Zhang, why are you laughing for no reason?" ”

Zhang Biao didn't speak, but looked at Zhang Mingyu, and couldn't help laughing again, everyone was inexplicable for a while, and Zhang Mingyu glared at Zhang Biao with a dark face, and then did it.

Liu Cheng took the lead in standing up with a document book in his hand and said: "Military seat, all regiments have cleared the remnants of the enemy army in the city, and captured more than 6,000 Yue troops, more than 20,000 overseas Chinese, including more than 12,000 women, children and old people, and the rest are all elite and mature people between the ages of 18 and 40, in addition to capturing more than 3,000 Han and Han spies, and more than 9,000 people of the puppet emperor's army. ”

After hearing this, Zhang Mingyu nodded slightly and said: "Select strong people from the puppet army to supplement the second regiment, as for the Han Annihilation spies to find out the details, if there are those who have done the scourge of the annihilation department, all the people will be shot, and the strong people who have been captured by the army will be taken into custody separately, and it is useless to waste food for children and the elderly to keep, all of them will be disposed of secretly, and the women will stay, and what will be lacking in our factories in the future is labor." ”

"Yes!" Liu Cheng stood up and sat down immediately.

"Chief of Staff, are the supplies and equipment we sent to the Eighth Route Army ready?" Zhang Mingyu asked.

"It's ready, I'll take a battalion and send them over in person after the meeting." Liu Cheng replied.

"Hmmm! Another thing, when we come back after this matter, I wonder if we should relocate all the arsenals and clothing factories in the base areas, after all, the arsenals are not safe on other people's territory. Zhang Mingyu proposed.

"I'm afraid this Ma Hongkui won't agree, if we move to Shanxi, then the arsenal won't have his share." Zhang Biao stood up and said.

"Yes, Ma Hongkui is a dog who can't afford to lose, I used to take my brothers to rob them of a few carts of grain, he turned over and mobilized two regiments and a cavalry battalion to chase Lao Tzu for more than 200 miles, and drove Lao Tzu from Ningxia to Gansu in a company." Speaking of Ma Hongkui and Ling Tianbao, he said with some anger.

"This is not simple, let Lai San swing the main force of the third division to Ordos, and if he Ma Hongkui has any abnormal movement, he will be killed immediately." Zhang Mingyu said indifferently.

"But ......" Zhang Mingyu changed his words and said: "Now is the period of resistance, we should unite all the forces that can be united to resist the Japanese, and do not have friction with other anti-Japanese armed forces until the last resort, in the end it is our Chinese anti-Japanese forces that will be lost, so after the chief of staff sends the equipment this time, you don't come back first, go directly to the base area, send someone to talk to Ma Hongkui, see what conditions he needs, of course, if he goes too far, ignore him, and immediately call on the local people to help us carry it, With the full assistance of the Logistics Department, I will keep the Air Force on standby at any time to cover the transfer of arsenals and base areas. ”

"Hmmm! Rest assured! Liu Cheng nodded and said, "I'll set off now." ”

Zhang Mingyu nodded and stood up and said, "Be careful all the way, pay attention to safety on the road, and if necessary, you can mobilize the third division to assist you!" ”

"Hmm!" Liu Cheng got up and strode out.

After Liu Cheng left, Zhang Mingyu said to Niu Tiangui: "Captain Niu, I will give you a task." ”

Niu Tiangui immediately stood up and patted his chest and said, "Junzao, if you have any tasks, you can rest assured that you will leave them to me, and I promise to complete the task!" ”

"Good!" Zhang Mingyu said with a serious face: "How much food do the more than 10,000 devil prisoners of war consume us every day?" ”

"Uh..." Niu Tiangui scratched his head and said, "I haven't counted this, and I don't know how much." ”

"If one person counts one pound of grain a day, they have to consume at least 10,000 pounds of our grain." Zhang Mingyu said coldly.

"There are so many, then we can't feed these dogs in vain, just kill them all!" The crowd was talking.

"No, it's a shame to kill them." Zhang Mingyu shook his head and said: "In the future, when the arsenal comes, we will need a lot of factories, and now the laborers needed to expand these factories do not need to invite ordinary people." Directly use those devils to annihilate the prisoners, Captain Niu, I will hand over this task to you, are you sure that you will complete the task within half a month? ”

"Rest assured, the mission is guaranteed! Tired of these beasts! Niu Tiangui swore and patted his chest.

"Hmm!" Zhang Mingyu nodded slightly, turned around and said: "Zhang Biao, Ling Tianbao, each of you will bring a regiment to the vicinity of Taiyuan to clean up the puppet army in the nearby county, and those who surrender will not be killed, and there will be no forgiveness for stubborn resistance!" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Biao and Ling Tianbao stood upright.

…………………… It is said that this Tokyo.

In Hideki Tojo's office, Ishihara Wanji and Hideki Tojo were playing against each other, Ishihara Wanji settled a white piece in his hand, and Hideki Tojo held a sunspot between his two fingers, and asked while watching the chess game: "Ishihara-kun, what do you think about the future of the empire?" ”

Ishihara's small eyes revealed the essence of the light and said: "Tojo-kun, please forgive me for saying that the empire is now in an extremely unfavorable situation, because the empire has now become a tiger riding in China, you and I both know that the people of China are vast, they have enough strategic depth and protracted war capabilities, and the empire is short of resources, and extremely important strategic materials such as oil, rubber, and steel all need to be imported." Therefore, a protracted war is not for us, and what is truly suitable for the empire is a quick victory. ”

Hideki Tojo dropped the sunspot in his hand, and then said: "Ishihara-kun, the situation in Shina has taken shape, I know this, please tell me your opinion, how can we get the empire out of the current passive situation and achieve the final victory?" ”

(To be continued)