A big battle is often followed by a period of calm, like two beasts having to recover their strength and lick their wounds after a fight. The army is the same, after the air battle, both China and Japan fell into a rare calm, and the Japanese army wanted to find a place as soon as possible and retaliate against Han Yunhua's department. But now the situation in the Southeast Asian battlefield is becoming more and more unfavorable to the Japanese side, last month the Allied 120,000 troops counterattacked Burma, although the final result was a failure, but it caused huge casualties to the Japanese Southern Army, although the Allies did not have much breakthrough in the tactical aspect, but in the tactical aspect it gave the Japanese heavy losses, the Japanese 18th Division, the 56th Division suffered more than half of the casualties, and there were 4 divisions each lost an infantry wing, The second invasion of Burma, which lasted 22 days, killed a total of 48,000 elite Japanese soldiers, forcing the Japanese government to continue to increase troops in Southeast Asia.

In addition, the Japanese army also suffered heavy defeats one after another on the Chinese battlefield, and although the final result of the Third Battle of Changsha was not as exaggerated as the Nationalist Government boasted, the 11th Army of the Japanese Chinese Dispatch Army also lost more than 70,000 people in this battle, which was greater than the losses on the Burma battlefield, so the request for additional troops made by General Yamada Otozo like the military headquarters was rejected by the base camp. After the Eastern Crusade of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, the Kwantung Army was no longer as strong as it appeared on the outside. In this air battle, the elite forces of the air force were basically lost, and the Kwantung Army, which was as strong as the Kwantung Army, had to temporarily avoid the front.

The same is true of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, although the battle of the Eastern Expedition was brilliant and the troops suffered heavy casualties, the captured puppet army and the rescued prisoners of war were enough to make up for these losses, but out of consideration for the consolidation of the base area, Han Yunhua did not launch a new campaign. Not to mention the air force, although this time the air force has achieved results that are enough to make the most powerful countries in the world ashamed, but after all, the air force of the Inner Mongolia Military Region has a weak foundation and cannot withstand the toss at all. Although the Japanese army has lost several hundred planes and several hundred pilots, the Japanese country has a great cause, and its aviation school can mass-produce pilots, and its powerful military industry can also replenish the lost fighters in a few months or even a month.

However, these conditions are not available to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and although the losses of the Japanese army are large, they do not hurt their muscles and bones, and the losses of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are small but they have already lost some vitality. In this battle, the Inner Mongolia Military Region lost 26 pilots, 110 fighters, and 127 fighters were damaged. There were no parts to replace the planes after they were damaged, and no one had the ability to repair the fighters; in this respect, there was still a big gap between the air force of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the air units of the Japanese army.

In the following period, Han Yunhua was busy with the formation of the Air Force Joint Command and the planning and construction of the rear industrial bases in Baotou, Ordos, and Guisui, so he did not have time to deal with the Japanese, and for a time the entire northern China was surprisingly calm.

But whether it is Han Yunhua or Yamada Otozo or Okamura Ninji, it is clear that this is just the calm before the storm. The tranquility at this time is nothing more than to gather strength and wait for the next outbreak.

A truly powerful air force does not only have good fighters and excellent pilots, but also requires many conditions, and these conditions are precisely what the Inner Mongolia Military Region does not have. At a time when dozens of large airports were in full swing, Baotou Aviation School and Guisui Aviation School were also officially opened, and the aviation school not only trained pilots, but also trained air force commanders and ground logistics support personnel.

It was difficult to set up an aviation school on its own under the current conditions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, so Han Yunhua had to ask the United States and the Soviet Union for help, which, in his words, was also part of the formation of a joint command of the Air Force. …,

On 16 July, 12 Soviet trainer planes for the Inner Mongolia Military Region and two senior teachers from the aviation school arrived in Guisui, and on the same day, the teaching equipment promised by the US government to Han Yunhua also arrived in Xi'an.

After discussions between the three countries and four parties, the United States and the Soviet Union will send some pilots and the most advanced fighters to the northern part of the country, but the Soviet side needs to keep it secret, after all, there has been no formal declaration of war between the Soviet Union and Japan, and the Soviets still do not want to provoke the Japanese when it is not necessary, but in Han Yunhua's view, this is just a cover-up and stealing the bell, and the Japanese intelligence agencies are not vegetarians, how can they not find out.

On July 22, 100 Lag-7 fighters and 110 Soviet pilots arrived at Erenhot Airport, where they conducted a month-long training for pilots sent by the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and then these planes were sent to the Northeast Theater as the main fighters in the war against Japan.

On 26 July, 100 US pilots flew 100 heavy bombers and landed at Shijiazhuang Airport, bringing the Inner Mongolia Military Region to 680 fighters, which could provide air support to any battlefield in northern China in a short period of time.

Han Yunhua is so busy here, but the hinterland of the Northeast is a different scene. After the Battle of the Eastern Crusade, although Lieutenant General Kasahara Yukio recaptured all the dozens of county towns controlled by Lü Zhengcao's department, he could not completely eliminate the main force of Lü Zhengcao's department, but was heavily prepared in the attack, and used strong fortifications to consume a number of troops. Although the final result was that Lu Zhengcao's troops retreated to the mountains and forests, they were both familiar with the victory and defeat of Kasahara Yukio and Lu Zhengcao in their hearts.

After more than a month of rest and recuperation, the various units of the Northeast People's Liberation Army (PLA) have finally completed their readjustments. Now, in addition to Lu Zhengcao's headquarters hiding in Qingyun Mountain, Li Dingguo's first field is in Weihuling, Li Zhaolin's second field is in Changbai Mountain, and Zhao Shangzhi's third field is resting in the Qitaihe and Jixi areas.

After the Eastern Crusade, the three major field armies of the Northeast People's Liberation Army have made great progress, and the troops are not only fully manned, but also have a great surplus. The Northeast is a good place, it has been very little developed for hundreds of years, rich in resources, and only a population of 30 million people in millions of square kilometers of land, which can be said to be a cornucopia.

According to incomplete statistics, from the beginning of the war to the present, at least 300,000 prisoners of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have been escorted to the northeast region to serve as coolies, and there are also an incalculable number of civilians or forced or deceived to the northeast region to serve as hard labor.

Hundreds of bases of Japanese invading consortia in Northeast China were completely destroyed, and 144 Japanese merchant leaders were recorded in the archives of the Northeast People's Liberation Army, and 240,000 laborers were rescued.

However, most of these people will not be able to join the army for a short time, because their bodies have been almost destroyed by heavy labor. It took a long time to recuperate, so in this month's time, Lu Zhengcao ordered the troops to consolidate the current occupied areas, and at the same time to infiltrate the largest rural areas in the northeast. In addition, Lu Zhengcao also ordered all field armies to recuperate and treat the captured miners who had been rescued, because these people would be the most loyal fighters of the Northeast People's Liberation Army, and they had the most direct hatred for the Japanese invaders.

With the efforts of Lu Zhengcao's department, the deep mountains and old Linton time have become a lively and busy place, and the sound of the machine sounded among the mountains in the northeast. Several large cities have been emptied, and the looted materials are piled up, and in the hinterland of Qingyun Mountain, there are huge caves dug everywhere, which is the military production department of the Northeast People's Liberation Army. There are not only Soviet ammunition production lines, but also weapons stolen from the Japanese. …,

Originally, the Northeast People's Liberation Army was equipped with all Soviet weapons, but in the battle, the soldiers found that although the weapons produced by the Soviet Union were durable, their performance was not as good as the Japanese's 38 big cover, and the most direct manifestation was that the Soviet rifle body was slightly shorter, and the Japanese army's 38 big cover plus bayonet was more than 10 centimeters longer than the Soviet rifle, which was very disadvantageous when fighting bayonets. In addition, the Soviet rifle is still an old-fashioned rifle from a few years ago, and the bullet is not the same model as the Japanese army's 38 cover at all, and even if the Japanese are defeated, they cannot replenish the ammunition. Therefore, after deliberation by Lu Zhengcao, Li Dingguo, Li Zhaolin and others, it was decided to select a part of the captured Japanese equipment to supplement the troops, and gradually replace the Soviet weapons and equipment.

Of course, because the number of weapons and equipment of the Soviet Union was so huge, it was of course unrealistic to replace them all, so when the war began, Lu Zhengcao moved one of the two ammunition production lines supported by the Soviet Union.

Lu Zhengcao saw the development of the army in his eyes and was excited, he never thought that this wish to go back to his hometown would be realized in his own hands, and he actually did it himself what his old boss Zhang Xueliang did not do. Thinking about the strength in his hand, Lu Zhengcao was excited. It's not 300, it's not 30,000, it's a whole 300,000. With such a large number of troops scattered in the hinterland of the northeast, Lu Zhengcao did not doubt his troops at all, because this army, which did not even have the most basic military uniforms, did have an innate tradition. This kind of tradition is that it cannot be defeated or dragged out, it is not arrogant in victory, it is not discouraged in defeat, it is self-confidence, self-improvement, and self-reliance.

The battle a while ago made Lu Zhengcao, a pure northeast man, have a deeper understanding of the army under his command, and he is very glad that he will be one of them, where Lu Zhengcao feels that he is a wolf, and he is an invincible head wolf. The Japanese devils who used to be regarded as tigers now seem to have turned into little sheep. More than ten years ago, he followed Zhang Shaoshuai into the customs how discouraged, it is shameful to lose the city and land, and it is shameful that as a soldier, he lost his hometown without firing a shot. Not only himself, but all the officers and men of the Northeast Army, including Zhang Shaoshuai, were labeled as deserters on their faces, what a shame.

But looking at the present, during the period when he was marching eastward, Lu Zhengcao deeply realized what it means to be high-spirited and majestic. So far, Lu Zhengcao has made everyone understand a truth, that is, going back to his hometown is not an empty word that has been shouted for more than ten years, and more than ten years of hard work is for the instant outbreak of today.

Although Lu Zhengcao is now in the mountains, he knows the news from the outside world better than anyone else. In just a few months, the tentacles of the Northeast People's Liberation Army have extended to all corners of the Northeast region. Compared with the Anti-Japanese Federation or other troops, Lu Zhengcao himself is more appealing, because the title of Adjutant Lu or Head Lu alone is enough to make anyone awe-inspired.

After the troops were settled, Lu Zhengcao began to plan a new battle. He already knows the result of the Guisui air battle, the little devil air force is seriously damaged, and it is difficult to recover within the calculation time, this is the best time to fight the Japanese puppet army, and I don't know how many years it will take to miss this opportunity.

Lu Zhengcao stayed in the central Hebei region for a long time, and he was very good at guerrilla warfare on the plains, and he knew very well that for the Japanese puppet army, the most troublesome thing was not the decisive battle of the main force of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops, but the constant harassment of small forces. Just like the previous Anti-Alliance, you have to hide from the little devils in the deep mountains and dense forests, and then drag the enemy down and finally drag them to death in the movement.

At the beginning of July, Lu Zhengcao ordered the three major field armies to immediately draw up their own operational plans, and then report them to the headquarters for review. In the middle of the month, in the name of the commander-in-chief of the Northeast People's Liberation Army, Lu Zhengcao ordered the three major field armies and the PLA headquarters to give full play to their respective operational plans to strike at the Japanese puppet army in the defense area and try their best to clear the Japanese puppet strongholds in the vast rural areas. The county town can not attack, but the existence of Japanese puppet forces is absolutely not allowed in the countryside. …,

At the same time, Lu Zhengcao also suggested that all units should try to attack mainly in small units, and the number should be small, but they should be dispersed to give the Japanese a headache, and the large troops should secretly prepare for the attack. One can imagine how terrible the results would be for a group of troops that were more flexible than the anti-coalition forces to appear in the northeast.

Lu Zhengcao was right, as soon as the battle began, thousands of strongholds in dozens of counties and towns in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces were attacked by the Chinese army. Although the strength of each Chinese army is strong, the number is extremely scarce, for example, Li Dingguo's unit often attacks in the form of special operations squads, and even Zhao Shangzhi's department, which likes to fight positional warfare and offensive and defensive warfare, is only about one battalion at most. The purpose of this battle was to pull out the stronghold of the artillery tower, not to grab territory, so all the troops fought cleanly. As soon as the purpose of the battle is achieved, he immediately flees.

No matter how hard the Japanese army tried, as an aggressor, their foundation in the vast countryside was still extremely weak, and it was incomparable with the Northeast People's Liberation Army. Except for a few isolated pillboxes and artillery strongholds, all counties and districts are almost everywhere with active PLA detachments.

Unlike encirclement points and reinforcements, Lu Zhengcao's tactics this time were to occupy as much territory as he wanted, and only to kill as many Japanese troops as he wanted. Beat the prestige of the Northeast People's Liberation Army out, let the people in the Northeast see it, and let our people know that the little devils are not invincible.

"Report to Your Excellency the Commander, Jiaohe Urgent?"

"Read, read out any bad news." General Yamada Otosan said a little weakly, by 11 o'clock this morning, he had received 12 telegrams asking for help, according to incomplete statistics, in just over a day, a total of 187 strongholds of the Imperial Japanese Army were conquered, 3 county towns were captured, and more than 2,000 imperial warriors were shattered.

"Your Excellency Commander, last night the new railway station in the northern suburbs of Jiaohecheng was attacked by a large-scale attack by the Chinese army, the captain of the defending squadron stationed at the new station asked for operational guidance from the humble post, and the inferior personally led an infantry brigade out of the city to reinforce after ascertaining the enemy's situation, and was ambushed by the Chinese in a mountain col five kilometers away from the new station, and the entire brigade suffered heavy casualties, while the Chinese troops besieging the inferior post had more than 3,000 people, and the combat effectiveness of the department was extremely strong, which was still not inferior to the most elite army in the empire, There is no hope of breaking through the siege today, and I am willing to lead the only remaining 266 Imperial warriors under my command to be loyal to the Empire and His Majesty the Emperor, long live the Great Japanese Empire! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! The lowly Jiaohe garrison commander Nancun is a young man! At 11:14 a.m. on July 24, Showa. The telegraph operator's voice was not fast, but every word was like a hammer slamming down on the heart of General Yamada Otozo.

From the words of this telegram, it is not difficult to hear the determination of Minamimura Shosa, but more often than not, it is deeply helpless. This is extremely terrifying, the courage to live and die with the position is commendable, but he does not even have the confidence to break through the siege or even ask for combat guidance, which can only show that Nancun Shaozo has lost confidence and can only defend the honor of his soldiers with death.

Looking at the huge quartz clock hanging in the office, the number displayed on it was 11:21, indicating that this telegram was sent here 6 minutes ago, Yamada Otozo hurriedly ordered the operator: "You land, immediately send a telegram to Nancun, ordering them to stand by and wait for reinforcements, and at the same time send a telegram to Lieutenant General Araki, ordering his aviation troops to set off immediately, send out all the fighters that can take off, and immediately reinforce Jiaohe, quickly, without delaying for a minute!" ”

"Hay!"

Soon, the operator returned, and reported a very bad message to General Yamada Otozo, that the Minamimura department had lost contact, and the radio signal of the department could not be searched, either there was a problem with the radio station or they had entered radio silence, or the radio station was turned off.

General Yamada Oto's heart sank suddenly, it was only a few minutes, could it be that the remnants of a brigade of more than 200 people couldn't resist it for even ten minutes, and that person was really so powerful?

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