The third part of the Bloody War of Resistance, Chapter 9, Rushing, and Section 5 Assault

Cairo, the Central News Agency, the heads of state of China, the United States and the United Kingdom issued a joint communique, the full text of which is as follows. \\.ｑВ⑤、ｃｏМ//

President Roosevelt, Chairman Chiang, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, together with their respective affairs and diplomatic advisers, held a meeting in North Africa. The following summary statement is hereby issued:

The personnel of the three major matters have reached a consensus on the future war plan against Japan. Our three allies are determined to inflict unrelenting pressure on a brutal enemy on land, sea and air, and this pressure is already growing.

The purpose of the war waged by our three allies this time is to stop and punish Japan's aggression, and the three countries will never seek profit for themselves, nor will they have any intention of expanding their territory. The purpose of the Three Kingdoms was to deprive Japan of all the islands in the Pacific that Japan had seized or occupied since the beginning of World War I in 1914; to return to the Republic of China the territories that Japan had stolen from China, such as the four northeastern provinces, Taiwan, the Penghu Islands, the Ryukyu Islands, etc.; Other land seized by force or greed by Japan must also be expelled from Japan. Our three allies, knowing the slavery treatment of the Korean people, decided to make Korea free and independent for a certain period of time.

In accordance with the objectives set forth above, and in line with the objectives of the other United Nations in the war against Japan, our three allies will persevere in their major and protracted war in order to obtain Japan's unconditional surrender!"

"According to the Central News Agency, President Roosevelt, Chairman Chiang, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued a joint statement: Our three countries support the actions of all colonial and semi-colonial nations in their pursuit of national independence, and we believe that any nation has the right to determine its own political system and state power, and we reiterate our support for all nations that have been deprived of their sovereignty and autonomy by force to regain their sovereignty and autonomy ......."

"According to TASS, the government of the Soviet Union issued a statement expressing support for the Cairo Declaration announced by the heads of the three countries, that the Soviet Red Army would continue to fight against the German, Italian, and Japanese enemies until they surrendered unconditionally

The Soviet Government solemnly declares that the Soviet Union has always supported the struggle of the colonial and semi-colonial nations to uphold the independence and freedom of the country, and we are glad to see that this struggle has been recognized by more and more people in the world who uphold justice, and the Soviet people will continue to support this struggle..."

"TASS news agency news that the Red Army, under the command of General Sokorovsky, continued to launch a counteroffensive against the German troops in the Orel salient today, and the German troops suffered heavy losses and were forced to flee to Orel, and the Red Army approached Orel"

According to the BBC, the Anglo-American Allied forces that landed in Sicily crushed the stubborn resistance of the German army, and General Patton commanded the American army to conquer Sicily and recover Palermo, capturing 50,000 Italian troops; General Montgomery commanded the British to storm Catania, and the Germans who held Catania suffered heavy casualties. ”

"BBC news, the Italian ** Sisi parliament passed a motion of no confidence in Mussolini, and King Emanuele III of Italy announced that Mussolini would be dismissed from all posts and replaced by Marshal Bardolio, the former chief of the General Staff, as prime minister."

"According to the Associated Press, General MacArthur announced that the Japanese troops entrenched in northern New Guinea had been completely wiped out, and the allies had fully recovered New Guinea, and that 30,000 Japanese troops had been wiped out in this campaign, completely breaking the Japanese army's attempt to attack Australia, Chairman Chiang, Prime Minister Churchill, and Marshal Stalin sent a telegram to Roosevelt to congratulate him"

"According to the Central News Agency, British Governor General Mountbatten announced the release of Indian Congress leader Gandhi and the spokesman of the Congress Party announced that he welcomed the measures of the British side, and at the same time stated that the Congress Party supports the allies' just war against the fascist camp,......"

"According to the Central News Agency, recently, our Jiangnan Theater launched an attack on Anqing and Nanjing under the command of General Xue Yue, and General Gu Zhutong commanded a first unit to launch an offensive in central Zhejiang, and the front was directed at Hangzhou, and General Chen Cheng announced that the soldiers would carry forward the fighting spirit of recovering Wuhan and Nanchang, fight bravely, and annihilate the strong enemy to recover Nanjing."

"It's done, you dragon can't run away." Feng Yi blinked his little eyes, put a sunspot on the chessboard with some pride, and then looked up at the middle-aged man in a suit opposite.

The middle-aged man also wore a pair of glasses, and his hair was neatly combed back to a more popular big back, and he sneered without raising his head: "Hmph, don't be too proud, the big dragon doesn't die, there is a famous saying, I'll see how you kill"

"Slap" said that the middle-aged man knocked the chess pieces on the chessboard fiercely, and then looked up at Feng Yi, Feng Yi looked at the chess pieces on the chessboard, the white flag was unwilling to disarm, and a flying leap broke the black chess pieces into two pieces. This unexpected hand made Feng Yi restrain himself and stare carefully at the chessboard to calculate.

"Brother Impermanence, Brother Juyang, the front formation has been completed, and it is about to start, when will Commander Zhuang come to his idea?" The slender lieutenant who was listening to the radio next to him looked a little anxious and spoke in a rather impatient tone.

The two people who were playing chess did not answer, Feng Yizheng was contemplating his eyebrows, holding a sunspot in his hand, and was hesitating to put it there, and the middle-aged man in the suit was also engrossed in staring at the chessboard, as if he didn't hear his words.

The lieutenant general shook his head and smiled helplessly, looked at the two of them who were engrossed in playing chess, and felt that he couldn't draw the attention of the two of them, so he simply opened the door and walked away.

In front of the main hall is a huge cypress tree, the huge trunk of the tree is too big for three people to hug, and the dense leaves form a huge shadow, enveloping the entire courtyard. The surrounding walls are covered with green vines, and yellow flowers bloom on them. The foot of the wall is covered with green moss, which leaches with fine droplets. The small courtyard surrounded by greenery is completely cool, and it is undoubtedly a good place to cool off.

But now this summer resort is surrounded by soldiers, and the small courtyard is full of tense air, the sound of ticking telegrams echoes in the air, and the courtyard is heavily guarded, with three steps and one post, and five steps and one sentry. The lieutenant general turned a blind eye to these sentry posts and walked quickly towards the main hall, and the officers who met him saluted the lieutenant general one after another, and the lieutenant general raised his hand to return the salute, and soon walked into the hall.

In the middle of the hall was a huge long table with seven or eight telephones, and on one side was a huge map, marked in red and blue. From time to time, a staff officer outside the door entered the house and handed the telegram to Xu Zuyi, the chief of staff who was in the house.

"Brother Yan Mou, what's the situation?" After the lieutenant general entered the house, he saw that Xu Zuyi also looked very relaxed, drinking tea while dealing with the telegram that had just arrived.

"Well, that's good, tell Lin Huaibin that I have transferred 500 trucks to him, and 20,000 shells must be transported to the front line before sunset tomorrow."

"Staff Officer Zhang, is the Air Force in place?"

"Report, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th divisions of the Air Force, as well as the first detachment of the US Air Force, are all in place and ready to take to the air at any time." One of the staff officers who was in front of the map immediately turned and replied.

"What about the New First Army and the New Sixth Army?" Xu Zuyi asked Shangguan Jun again, and Shangguan Jun replied: "The new 30th Division of the vanguard of the New First Army and the 50th Division of the vanguard of the New Sixth Army have arrived in Fuyang. ”

Xu Zuyi nodded, and then said to the lieutenant general with a smile: "Brother Xianchu, what's the matter, I'm in a hurry, don't worry, there are still two days." ”

Cai Tingkai sighed slightly in his heart, it is not an exaggeration to describe the Jiangbei Theater as arrogant and fierce, the huge victory in the Northern Hubei Campaign has raised the morale of the entire squadron and burst with confidence, especially the troops in the Jiangbei Theater, from the generals to the soldiers, they have some contempt for the Japanese army, and it seems that as long as they attack, the Japanese army will be invincible. The simplest manifestation is that Zhuang Jihua, the commander of the combat theater, has not appeared at the headquarters until now, and is still attending a bumper harvest celebration meeting in Zhengzhou and Xuchang.

The arrogant soldiers will be defeated, Cai Tingkai muttered in his heart. He arrived at the Jiangbei Theater at the end of June, after he had been in the Fourth Theater of Operations, and after the liberation of Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek made a major adjustment of personnel, and the Fourth Theater was abolished, Cai Tingkai took advantage of the situation to resign, and Zhuang Jihua asked Chen Mingshu to serve as a military counselor in the Jiangbei Theater.

Cai Tingkai also went north with his old friend and old superior, Jiang Guangnai, Jiang Guangnai was seriously invited to serve as the chief of education of the Jiangbei Theater Military Academy, and the two went north with their companions.

After arriving at the Jiangbei Theater, the two did not go to see Zhuang Jihua first, but first went to the military academy to meet with Zheng, and after the three of them met, Zhengzheng told them in detail the purpose of letting them go to the Jiangbei Theater.

With Zhuang Jihua's covert support, the strength of the Third Party in the Jiangbei Theater developed rapidly, and Zheng and Chen Mingshu respectively trained a large number of military and civilian cadres, and the armed forces under their control grew to two armies and seven divisions, with a total strength of more than 100,000 troops, and a number of generals held brigade and regiment-level posts.

"Zhuang Wenge is very important to us, he is supporting us at present, and it is with his support that we have such great development, but what confuses us is what his real purpose is, which he has never revealed or revealed."

"Xianchu, when you work by his side, you must pay attention to ways and means, our relationship with him is one of the core secrets of the party, your most important job is the liaison between us and him, and other work is secondary." When he said this seriously, his expression was extremely serious, and Cai Tingkai and Jiang Guangnai certainly understood the stakes.

Later, they were told that the Third Party was seeking to set up a group army, and that Jiang Guangnai would be the commander of this group army, and that the main source of troops would come from the militia group of Bei Tingfang in western Henan, but this involved equipment and cadres, but a group army was relatively large, and how it was established still needed to wait for the right time.

Cai Tingkai went to the Xuchang Theater Headquarters, and after meeting with Zhuang Jihua, he was sent to Fuyang outside the city the next day, the secret headquarters of the theater, considering the vast territory of the Jiangbei Theater, Zhuang Jihua set up three theater headquarters, the bright one is in Xuchang, the secret one is two, and one each in Shangqiu and Fuyang.

There was a reason for the establishment of these two secret theater commands, Chiang Kai-shek returned from Cairo with a full load, and on the way back he decided to take Shandong as soon as possible. As soon as they arrived in Chongqing, they secretly recalled Chen Cheng and Zhuang Jihua to Chongqing, and held a small-scale meeting in the Huangshan official residence, presided over by Chiang Kai-shek and attended by He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng, Zhuang Jihua, and Lin Wei.

At this meeting, Chiang Kai-shek informed them of the results of his trip to Cairo and then asked them to negotiate a plan for a summer war with a victory in the short term to boost the confidence of the allies.

He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi held that it has been five months since the Battle of Northern Hubei ended, the replenishment of various departments has been completed, the assembly of logistics materials has been completed, the Pinghan Line and the Longhai Line have also been opened to traffic, and the airports in various localities have also been repaired and perfected, and they can be used completely.

Zhuang Jihua also thinks that an offensive can be launched, but as for how to fight, he suggested attacking the north in the south of the sound. The Jiangnan Theater moved first and launched an attack on Anqing and Zhezhong, attracting Xiwei Shouzao's troops to the south of the Yangtze River; Then an offensive was launched north of the Yangtze River. First of all, the 21st Group Army went out of Qianshan Taihu Lake and attacked Anqing from the north of the Yangtze River; After the Japanese army in Hefei moved south, Huoqiu's 24th Group Army and Lu'an's 15th Group Army launched an attack on Hefei, and for this reason, Xinzheng's Fourth Group Army could be transferred south to Qianshan in Taihu Lake and placed under the command of General Li Pinxian. The First Mechanized Group Army under the command of Qiu Qingquan was stationed in Xinzheng as a reserve for the entire Jiangbei Theater.

After the Hefei offensive was launched, Nishio Shouzao was bound to send the Japanese troops in Huainan and Bengbu to reinforce Hefei; Once the Japanese army in Bengbu in Huainan moved south, it created an opportunity for the 22nd Group Army in Maozhou, and the 22nd Group Army could go down the vortex river and attack Bengbu; In addition, the Qing Third Army and the Qing Fourth Army were secretly transferred to Fuyang to attack the Japanese army in Huainan.

At the same time as the 22nd Group Army and the 3rd Army and the 4th Army of the Qing Army launched an offensive, the Sulu Theater sent two powerful armies to attack Bengbu, forming an east-west flank attack with the 22nd Group Army, striving to conquer Bengbu in one fell swoop and cut off the Jinpu line.

After the 22nd Group Army succeeded, the main force of the Jiangbei Theater assembled in Shangqiu launched an attack on the Japanese army in Xuzhou in two ways; The first road, commanded by Song Xilian, under the jurisdiction of the Second Group Army and the 36th Group Army, attacked eastward along the Longhai Line; The second road, led by Du Yuming, under the jurisdiction of the 50th Group Army and the First Group Army, went straight to Su County; After conquering Suxian, turn around and go north along the Jinpu line.

At the same time, the Sulu Theater was led by the 47th Army and the newly formed 12th Army led by the theater commander Guan Linzheng to attack from Suqian and attack Xuzhou from the east.

This huge plan made He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi very excited, but it made Chen Cheng feel a little uncomfortable, in this plan, the Jiangnan Theater was completely subordinate, and 90% of the entire campaign was completed by the Jiangbei Theater, he could fully imagine what would happen after the war.

However, after careful consideration, he believed that the strength of the Jiangbei Theater was still a little weak, and suggested that the time of the campaign should be postponed and that the new First Army, the New Sixth Army, and the 74th Army should arrive before launching an attack.

It should be said that Chen Cheng's suggestion was still pertinent, and Zhuang Jihua went on the offensive and pushed the Qing Third Army and the Qing Fourth Army, which did not have much experience, to the front line of the attack, which has already exposed that although the Jiangbei Theater has a large number of troops, because the theater is too wide, the troops are still slightly thin.

However, Chiang Kai-shek had already made up his mind and decided to use the air force to airlift the New First Army and the New Sixth Army to the theater, but because the time was too short, only the two vanguard divisions of the New First Army and the New Sixth Army rushed to Fuyang. The 74th Army, under the leadership of army commander Wang Yaowu, took the land route and has just entered Guizhou.

The whole campaign was carried out in stages, in order to better grasp the battle situation, Zhuang Jihua decided to set up another secret command in Fuyang, this command was led by Shangguan Jun in advance, and before the campaign was launched, Chief of Staff Xu Zuyi entered first.

"The commander knows in his heart that our time is running out, and in my experience, the commander will arrive before dawn tomorrow, and he will understand the changes in the enemy situation as soon as he arrives. Brother Xianchu, you should also make some preparations. Xu Zuyi's tone was full of kindness, but Cai Tingkai felt a little funny when he listened to it.

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