Yue Weihan strode into the war room accompanied by Deng Gong and Zuo Zong, and Mr. Li, Mr. Xu, General Li, General Bai, and others who had been waiting in the war room for a long time hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

To be honest, the southwest campaign decided by Chairman Máo is really not easy to fight, because the combat area is too big!

The location of the front-line command alone made Yue Weihan very troubled, and after weighing it again, he still chose Bai Sè, and then with the help of the US Navy, he took President Xu, Mr. Li and the accompanying staff officers to the South China Sea, and then flew directly from the aircraft carrier in the South China Sea.

Although it was not easy, the shelves of the headquarters were erected, and the personnel were roughly complete.

But at this time, the situation on the southwest front changed abruptly, and the main force of the Japanese army in Central China actually shrank and retreated!

After a few simple words with everyone, Yue Weihan asked Mr. Xu directly: "Old Xu, what is the specific situation?" ”

"Here's how it happened." Mr. Xu nodded and said, "Since five days ago, the 4th Army (Long Yun) of Sanye has reported that the Japanese army in front of it has stopped advancing, and since the 'Campaign Joint Command' has not yet been established at that time, Xue and Long thought that the Japanese army was only doing a short rest, so they did not report it immediately. ”

"But just this morning, the Japanese troops on the north and south roads suddenly began to retreat in great strides, and the Japanese troops on the south route have even abandoned Kunming City, and the main force has retreated to the vicinity of Qujing!" After saying this, Mr. Xu said again, "I judge that Okamura Ningji must have smelled something, and the old devil wants to slip away in advance!" ”

Mr. Xu's judgment is quite correct, and he is worthy of being a veteran senior commander of our party.

However, the old devil Okamura Ningji is even more powerful, the campaign headquarters has just been set up here, and even the various departments participating in the war have not yet been fully in place, the old devil has already smelled the smell and reacted quickly, the Japanese army in Central China has contracted and retreated, and the situation is quite passive, and the southwest campaign has almost disappeared before the fighters have started.

The situation is clear, if the Japanese army in Central China is withdrawn to the Lianghu area before the deployment of the first participating units in place, the logistics supply line of the Japanese army can be greatly shortened, and as the main force of the campaign, the logistics supply line of the Siye (Chinese Expeditionary Force) has been greatly extended, and the harsh road conditions in the southwest will be a severe test for the logistics support of the mechanized equipment of the four fields.

If the mechanized heavy equipment of the four fields cannot keep up, and the troops of the first, second, and third fields alone, even if hundreds of infantry divisions are mobilized, they will not be the opponents of the Japanese army's heavy army group, let alone encircle and annihilate the Japanese army in Central China, and it will be in turn defeated by the Japanese army in Central China, repeating the tragedy of the Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Wuhan.

Grimly, Okamura Ninji had already built a large number of strong fortifications in the area of the two lakes.

Once the main force of the Japanese army in Central China was retracted back to the Lianghu area, even if the heavy equipment of the four fields was driven to the front line, it may not be able to win the victory.

All in all, once the main forces of the Japanese army in Central China were allowed to retreat back to the Lianghu area, the fighters of the Southwest Campaign were completely lost!

Seeing that Yue Weihan was silent, Mr. Xu continued to analyze: "The flanking attack on Xi'an is only a partial division of the Japanese army on the North Road, and the strength is only one division and another brigade, less than 30,000 people, and the Japanese army attacking Chongqing and Kunming is the main force of the Japanese army in Central China. ”

"But......" Yue Weihan said in a deep voice, "and what can be done to intercept these two Japanese troops?" ”

Mr. Li, who had not spoken beside him, suddenly said: "Actually, this is a problem, as long as the main force of the Japanese army on the North Road near Chongqing is intercepted, the Japanese army on the South Road near Kunming will be dragged." ”

"Oh?" Yue Weihan said happily, "Old Li, how do you say this?" ”

Mr. Li strode to the map, and then pointed to the map and said to Yue Weihan: "Boss, please see, there are three roads out of Sichuan from Chongqing, one along the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway to the north of Hanzhong, one along the Yangtze River waterway to the east of Zigui, through Yichang, to Wuchang, and the other along the Sichuan-Yunnan Highway to the south of Guizhou. ”

"Although Xi'an has been lost, but the hinterland of China in the depths of the northwest, separated from Shanxi and Taihang Mountain by the Japanese army in North China, if the Japanese army goes north out of Hanzhong, there is absolutely no return, it can be said that it is a place of self-surrender, so the Japanese army in central Sichuan will never take this route, then there are only two routes left to go east to Wuchang and south to Guizhou."

"If we can block Jing Mén before the Japanese army with a strong force, so that the Japanese army on the north route cannot go east, then the Japanese army will have no choice but to go south to Guizhou, and the Japanese army on the south route will inevitably stay in Guizhou in order to meet the Japanese army on the north road, so that the Japanese army on the north and south routes will all be dragged in the hinterland of the southwest."

Yue Weihan's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this, and the already hopeless battle situation seemed to be bright again.

Historically, it is not unreasonable for Mr. Li to stand out from thousands of communist generals and become the most proficient senior commander in the People's Liberation Army in large corps operations.

At least Yue Weihan and Mr. Xu failed to untie the dead knot of how to drag the Japanese army in the north and south at the same time!

However, this dead knot is only half untied, because it is not easy to find the "best one"!

Since it is a blockade of Jing Mén, this "capable force" can only be transferred from Sanye Chōu, Sanye has a total of four group armies, of which Xue Yue's 2nd Army is currently in Sichuan, is it Xue Yue's 2nd Army? This is indeed a problem.

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Yan'an, Wayao Fort.

When Chairman Máo was drafting a special report on "launching a strategic counteroffensive in the near future", Mr. Zhu suddenly hurriedly walked into his kiln, and then raised the telegram in his hand, and said loudly: "Old Máo, the front command of the Southwest Campaign has drawn up a detailed battle plan, and I think this plan is very feasible. ”

Chairman Máo put down his máo pen and said thoughtfully: "I heard that the Japanese troops on both the north and south roads have shrunk and retreated, has the front command of the Southwest Campaign come up with any way to intercept these two Japanese troops?" ”

Mr. Zhu handed the telegram to Chairman Máo and said, "Yue Xuli has a way to deal with it. ”

"Oh?" Chairman Máo happily took the telegram, and after reading it in a hurry, he said in amazement, "Okay, very good, this plan is quite good, I only sent a surprise army, and intercepted the Japanese troops in the north and south at the same time, which shows that our front-line commanders are still very good at fighting and are very good at using troops." ”

After a pause, Chairman Máo asked again: "Has Yue Xuli decided which army to send to take on this important task?" ”

"Janssen's 2nd Army." Mr. Zhu said, "Compared with Xue Yue's 2nd Army, he is more familiar with the terrain of eastern Sichuan, and it is easier to get the support of the local people. ”

Chairman Máo nodded, then snuffed out his cigarette and picked up the máo pen again.

Captain Li Wei, who was next to him, hurriedly stepped forward and spread out the rice paper, and Chairman Máo dipped his máo pen in ink, and then wrote on the rice paper with the words "Thousands of troops and horses block Jing Mén" Seven big characters of dragons flying and phoenixes dancing.

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Leshan, headquarters of the 2nd Army in Sanye.

Yang Sen is summoning the main generals of his headquarters for pre-war mobilization.

Although Yang Sen's Sichuan Army had been incorporated and given the number of the 2nd Group Army of Sanye, ** still retained considerable autonomy for the Sichuan Army, and instead of adjusting the commanders of each army and division, he did not even send political commissars to combat units at all levels like the other three major field armies, but only sent party representatives.

Yang Sen's 2nd Army had 6 armies and 12 divisions, with a total strength of nearly 100,000 troops.

In the 26th year of the Republic of China, when the Sichuan army just came out of Sichuan, it had an army of 400,000, but until now, there are less than 100,000 people left in the 400,000 army.

When Yang Sen was giving lectures to his subordinates, large groups of warplanes flew by in the sky from time to time.

It was the fighters of the 2nd Division of the Siye Aviation that were in transit, and from time to time there would be a group of huge transport planes skimming the sky, and it was Siye's transport planes rushing to Chengdu Shuangguisi Airport to transport weapons, ammunition, and aviation fuel.

"See, the sky is full of our planes, planes piloted by Chinese!" Yang Sen said excitedly, and shouted at his subordinates in front of him, "In the next ten days to half a month, these planes will cooperate with our 2nd Army throughout the whole process, and our Sichuan Army can also get air support like Xiǎo devils, haha!" ”

The generals of the Sichuan army present were also excited, and they didn't even dare to think about it before.

I think that when the Battle of Songhu was the most difficult, even the Central Army could not get the air support of the Air Force, but now, their Sichuan Army can even get the full escort of the Air Force when they are marching, and the days when the devils can show off their might in China's airspace by sending a few planes are gone forever!

"Having said so much, it's actually just one word." After talking for a long time, Yang Sen finally began to summarize xìng's speech, "Run! Spread your legs and let Lao Tzu run to death, run as fast as you can, grab the devil in front of him as fast as possible, and then nail Lao Tzu like a nail between Wanxian and Yichang, even if you die, you can't let a xiǎo devil go over! ”

On June 2, the 32nd year of the Republic of China (1943), 100,000 Sichuan troops began a large-scale long-distance rapid march.

From Leshan to Wanxian, the straight-line distance is nearly 1,000 miles, according to the marching intensity of 250 miles a day, it takes four days to complete, but the main force of the Japanese army on the north road has mostly retracted to the vicinity of Chongqing, from Chongqing to Wanxian, the distance is less than 600 miles, although the Japanese army is a pseudo-mechanized force, but it is not a problem to travel more than 100 miles a day.

In the face of an almost impossible task, the tenacious Sichuan soldiers did not give up.

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In the middle of summer, the clouds are light and the wind is light.

Suddenly, two Japanese reconnaissance planes emerged from the thin clouds.

Jiro Kondo is from Sendai, a son of Orion, since Xiǎo longed to soar in the blue sky like an eagle, after graduating from middle school, he reported to the Kyoto Aviation School without hesitation, and was admitted with excellent grades, and after graduation, he successfully joined the 4th Air Group of the Japanese Army in Central China and became a rookie pilot.

Come, a rookie like Jiro Kondo has no chance to take to the skies.

However, in the Pacific and Southeast Asian theaters, the Japanese army has consumed too many veteran pilots, and the current Japanese air force has become a little overwhelmed, and as a last resort, the Japanese air force can only transfer a large number of rookies like Jiro Konto to the front line, hoping that they can grow up rapidly in actual combat.

As soon as Jiro Kondo flew out of the clouds, the wingman Toshio Kitajima exclaimed from the communicator: "Kondo-kun, look, Shina Army!" The brigade of the Chinese army! ”

Jiro Kondo slightly sideways the fuselage, looked at the ground through the porthole, and immediately saw an incomparably spectacular marching scene, tens of thousands of people were marching forward in the formation of Ling Luàn on the open plain terrain, like thousands of migrating wild horses, never stopping to run towards the unknown ahead.

"Kitajima-kun, no matter where these Chinese troops go, we must stop them as much as possible!" Jiro Kondo gave the order to attack the wingman through the communicator, but just as Jiro Kondo was about to dive the plane, four P51 Mustang fighters suddenly appeared in the thin clouds ahead, and the blue sky and white sun flags painted on the wings were so dazzling.

"Kondo-kun xiǎo heart, Shina Air Force!" Almost at the same time, wingman Toshio Kitajima also spotted the Chinese fighter.

In just two rounds, the four Chinese field planes easily shot down two Japanese reconnaissance planes by virtue of their ability and numerical superiority, and the officers and men of the Sichuan Army, who were marching at full speed on the ground, witnessed the whole air battle scene, and suddenly burst into a tsunami-like cheer.

"Chinese Air Force, rise up!"

"Chinese Air Force, you want it!"

Amid the overwhelming cheers of the officers and men of the Sichuan army, the four Chinese war eagles in the air formed a formation and flew around the field three times before turning around and roaring eastward.

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: Jing mén in the book does not refer to Jing mén city alone, but to the gap of the Yangtze River out of the river.