[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 1178: Havoc in the Heavenly Palace (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

On June 8, 1944, on the same day that the Allied forces landed in Normandy, France, Ma Zheng convened a military conference in Mukden attended by senior military and political cadres, which was attended by all field commanders and political commissars of the Northern Serbian Corps. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although the battle in the northeast of the photovoltaic has ended, the Kwantung Army has not been completely wiped out, so the strategic goal has not been fully achieved, so the former enemy command has not been revoked.

The main purpose of this meeting was to discuss the next stage of combat mission, whether to continue the pursuit of the Kwantung Army or to fight the last battle against the Japanese puppet army in North China, which required the decision of these senior cadres attending the meeting.

Now the Saibei Corps is full-fledged, and the total strength of all arms has exceeded 2.3 million, while the total strength of the Kwantung Army is only four or five hundred thousand, and the North China Front Army is roughly this strength, so whether it is to deal with the Kwantung Army or the North China Front, there is not much pressure on the Saibei Corps.

However, whether it is to deal with the Kwantung Army or the North China Front is a problem, if it is against the Kwantung Army, then it must enter Korea to fight, so that the advantages of the Saibei Corps will be offset a lot, after all, the Saibei Corps does not know much about this place in Korea.

Therefore, after some discussions, the delegates unanimously decided to take action against the North China Front Army first, and then make plans after recovering North China.

Under the command of Xue Yue, the Nationalist Government gathered a huge force of 85 divisions and counterattacked Wuhan with the assistance of hundreds of fighters, opening the curtain of the Third Battle of Wuhan.

In this battle, the Nationalist Government made a bloody investment. The total number of troops surrendered was 750,000, including 420,000 from the central military of the Nationalist Government and 330,000 from local troops.

The strong counterattack of the Nationalist Government really frightened the Japanese army, because the Nationalist Government invested as many as 780,000 troops in this battle, while the Japanese army in Central China was only more than 300,000, plus the 600,000 troops under the command of the Wang puppet regime were also comparable to the Nationalist Government, but the Japanese army did not trust the puppet army under the command of the Wang puppet regime.

So far, the total strength of the Japanese army in the Chinese battlefield has exceeded 1.6 million, including more than 300,000 in Northeast China, 700,000 in North China, 300,000 in Central China, and 200,000 in South China, as well as 100,000 military police units and air force units.

In order to resist the counterattack of the Nationalist government, the Japanese army immediately dispatched a large number of elites to the Wuhan battlefield, and continued to increase troops from Japan to Central China.

In mid-June, the Japanese Government issued a Fourth National War Mobilization Order to the whole country, and the military headquarters also promptly came up with a plan to expand the army by forming 40 C-class divisions, and so far the total strength of the Japanese army in various battlefields has exceeded 5 million.

Historically, the Japanese army once expanded to 6.8 million. But now that the industrial base and resource base of Northeast China has been lost, the war potential of the Japanese is greatly limited. Given Japan's economic situation, it can raise an army of less than 5 million at most, and it is now extremely close to the bottom line of Japan's combat strength.

At the same time as the Nationalist Government launched the Third Battle of Wuhan, Ma Zheng's troops also launched an offensive in North China, with 200,000 troops each from the Chahar Military Region and the Suiyuan Military Region of the Saibei Corps, plus the Yunjian Division in the hinterland of Shandong, with a total of 550,000 troops, and then, with the cooperation of the armored division of the Corps Headquarters and aviation units, launched a full-scale attack on the Japanese army in Shandong from Dezhou, Linqing and other places.

At this time, it was no longer Okamura Ninji who was in charge of the North China Front, but was replaced by Lieutenant General Nemoto Hiroshi of the Japanese Army, and Okamura Ninji succeeded Yan Junliu as the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invasion of China not long ago because of the trust of the base camp with a deep command level.

In the face of the strong attack of Ma Zheng's department, Genbo had a premonition, and formulated counterattack tactics, concentrating 8 divisions and 13 puppet infantry divisions on the plains, Gaotang, Dong'e, and Feicheng lines south of Dezhou, putting on a posture of defending Shandong.

At the same time, when Ma Zheng's headquarters had just acted, Gen Bo was like the Chinese Dispatch Army Headquarters asking for help, and after receiving the telegram from Gen Bo, Okamura Ningji did not dare to slack off, and immediately instructed the Japanese troops in Henan, Anhui, northern Jiangsu and other places to immediately assemble and be ready to reinforce Shandong at any time.

However, due to the Third Battle of Wuhan initiated by the Nationalist Government, all the main forces of the Japanese army in Central China were transferred to the Central China Front, so there was no extra troops to reinforce the Fundamental Bo.

In order to keep the last stronghold in North China, Okamura Ninji had to ask the base camp to let the Kwantung Army of North Korea attack the Liaodong Peninsula in order to contain Ma Zheng's troops.

After receiving a telegram from Okamura Ninji, the base camp immediately sent a telegram to the Kwantung Army Headquarters, ordering them to immediately formulate an operational plan for counterattacking Liaodong and implement it within a week.

Soon, a large number of troops of the Kwantung Army began to assemble in the east of Dandong, including a large number of armored units, and at the same time, a large number of Japanese fighters frequently appeared in Dalian, Shenyang and other places in the past few days, carrying out frenzied bombardment of valuable military targets of the Saibei Corps.

Ma Zheng naturally knew that this was the Japanese army's tactic to contain them, and immediately ordered the South Manchurian Military Region to prepare for the battle, and at the same time ordered the troops on the Shandong front to increase the intensity of the offensive, and be sure to break through the Japanese army's defense line in northern Lubei within a month and penetrate deep into the hinterland of Shandong.

In addition, Ma Zheng also called the Shandong Military Region in the Yimeng Mountains, asking him to blossom in the center at the right time and stab the Japanese army in the heart.

The battle in northern Shandong was extremely fierce, and Ma Zheng's division was to break into the hinterland of Shandong, strive to annihilate the North China Front Army, and completely liberate the area north of the Yangtze River. The North China Front is clear about its mission, once it is broken through by Ma Zheng's troops, then the only way the North China Front can take is to withdraw to the south of the Yangtze River, and it may be impossible to fight back.

So both sides know that they have no way out, the only thing they can do is to work hard, only one can survive in this duel, and the remaining one can only become a medal of merit and a trophy for the strong.

On June 26, on the fifth day of Ma Zheng's counteroffensive in North China, the heavy troops of 18 divisions and 8 brigades of the five main forces of the Nationalist Government's First Theater and the Second Theater suddenly left northern Henan and launched an attack on Jiaozuo, Xinxiang and other places where the Japanese army was slightly empty.

Since all the main forces of the North China Front were transferred to Shandong, Yan Laoxi's Second World War Zone and the First War Zone progressed very smoothly, and in less than a week, the troops approached Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, and Henan was restored.

However, the Japanese army did not seem to care about the attack of the Nationalist Government in the First and Second War zones, and the North China Front did not take fierce counterattack methods, and still focused its attention on northern Lubei.

The Japanese are not stupid, the First War Zone and the Second War Zone have long been tired by them, even if they take advantage of it, as long as they resist the attack of Ma Zheng's department, they can recover the lost ground in a few minutes with their hands free.

On the contrary, once Ma Zheng's department broke into the hinterland of Shandong, the consequences were unimaginable, and the best result would be to retreat to Jiangsu, and even be driven south of the Yangtze River.

But the Japanese army really underestimated Ma Zheng's department, Ma Zheng laid out in Shandong for four years, and even risked his life to personally go to Shandong to take charge, in order to be able to train a strong elite army in the core area of the Japanese army.

Although the strength of today's Shandong Military Region is less than 200,000, all of them are elites. In addition, there is a large amount of industrial equipment and weapons purchased by the United States hidden in the Yimeng Mountains, and the production capacity of the Yimeng Arsenal is not much worse than that of the Baotou Arsenal, perhaps only because it cannot produce tanks and artillery weapons.

After several changes of uniforms, all the troops of the Shandong Military Region, totaling 12 divisions and 7 brigades, were strong and strong, and after receiving Ma Zheng's telegram, the 170,000 troops quickly assembled and prepared to sing a good song in the core ruling area of the Japanese army!