"It's going to be a hell of a dead end." Reading the war report, Zhao Zhi immediately had the idea of banging his head against the wall, what did the damn Wang Yaowu do. The 74th Army is still nominally a corps-level structure, and its actual strength has long been similar to that of the two armies of the group army, and Zhao Zhi also provided the 74th Army with American-style equipment that can equip two divisions. A few days ago, Zhao Zhi also received a telegram from Wang Yaowu saying that the 74th Army was ready to deal with the southward movement of the Kwantung Army.

Jeju Island has been recaptured by the Japanese army, and if there is no Jiaodong, these mercenaries under Zhao Zhihe, as well as the more than 300,000 mixed troops, will really become a lonely army without roots. The struggle with the Japanese army on Kyushu Island was only a foreshadowing for Zhao Zhi's follow-up action, and only by attracting enough Japanese troops into Kyushu Island as much as possible, Zhao Zhi ordered the Jewish troops to go north to Jiaodong to cross the sea and land before they would not go empty, otherwise the loss of labor and money would outweigh the losses.

Zhao Zhi had sent a telegram to Wang Yaowu before, suggesting that the 74th Army should stick to the current defense area, and not to attack lightly. As long as the 74th Army can hold on to Jiaodong for more than 3 months, Zhao Zhi's side will have enough time to completely turn Kyushu Island into a big battlefield, and now it seems that Wang Yaowu should not listen to his own opinions, otherwise how could the well-equipped 74th Army be pushed back to Binzhou by the Kwantung Army going south.

"Send a telegram to our Jewish regiment in Yangquan immediately, ordering them to set off to blitzkrieg Shijiazhuang, and then go east of Baoding to Cangzhou." Zhao Zhi looked at the map, the only force that can be used in the domestic battlefield is the 20,000 Jewish troops that have been assembled in Yangquan, if the Kwantung Army division that went south to besiege Binzhou to turn back to rescue Cangzhou, the 74th Army may lose control of Jiaodong, and maybe the 74th Army will continue to be defeated by the Kwantung Army.

The 20,000 Jewish troops in Yangquan alone were obviously not enough, and Zhao Zhi, who was forced to helpless, prepared to use the Spark troops that were resting, and the Spark troops had been scattered in Hebei for rest and recuperation. In Zhao Zhi's overall plan, now is not the time to use them, but the current situation can no longer allow Zhao Zhi to continue to rest with the Spark troops. "Immediately contact the Spark troops, after Shijiazhuang was blitzkrieg by the Jewish troops, the Spark troops took over the attack on Shijiazhuang, and cut off the transportation and supply lines of the Japanese puppet army in Hebei as much as possible."

"Sir, I have just contacted the troops from Burma to the north, and the forward troops have arrived in Anyang." The operational staff officer handed Zhao Zhi a telegram, which was sent by the troops heading north who had already arrived in Anyang. Roads in Henan were slippery due to heavy rains, muddy roads were making the troops in the north miserable, tanks and armored vehicles were better, and trucks carrying soldiers and supplies were now moving at a slower pace.

The house leak was rainy and rainy, and the news that the northbound troops were delayed in Anyang by the torrential rain made Zhao Zhi's mood extremely bad in an instant, and one bad news after another made the situation facing Lei Ting even worse. Zhao Zhi ordered more than 150,000 troops to go north, as well as a large number of tanks and stalker armored vehicles and other offensive equipment, which was a bargaining chip that Zhao Zhi used to attack the Japanese army on Kyushu Island. But now they are delayed in Anyang by the torrential rain, not to mention rushing to Jiaodong on time, even if Zhao Zhi wants them to rush to Binzhou to support the 74th Army, I am afraid it is impossible.

What to do? The problem has been placed in front of Zhao Zhi, and the staff officers under his command are waiting for Zhao Zhi to make an idea, not that these operational staff officers don't want to contribute, but they really can't find a possibility to break the situation. The Kwantung Army mobilized two divisions to go south to Shandong at one time, and its purpose could only be for Jiaodong, as long as Jiaodong was recaptured, it would completely cut off the back road of all the Thunder troops on Kyushu Island. There has been a Japanese landing force in Kitakyushu, as long as they control Kitakyushu Bay, which is connected to Honshu Island, the Japanese troops on Honshu Island will continue to kill, and the Kyushu Island landing battle that Thunder has planned for so long can only end in failure.

"Sir, can we contact the Nationalist Government and the CCP, after all, they also have their own troops in Shandong, and the materials and equipment we used to get from the Japanese army have been given to them in vain, so it's time for them to take action." Someone among Zhao Zhi's operational staff officers finally spoke, and Thunder's strength in China's internal battlefield was already stretched, and judging from the current situation, contacting the Nationalist Government and the CCP was undoubtedly the best choice.

"Then send them a report, and say that as long as we send troops, we will send weapons and equipment that can be equipped with one American weapons regiment or two Japanese weapons regiments." At the moment of crisis, Zhao Zhi had to come up with the advantage of being able to speak with a straight waist. The troops going north fought with the Japanese puppet army along the way, and they also saved a lot of captured weapons and equipment, so it was natural to make up the equipment to equip the two infantry regiments. "Wait a minute," Zhao Zhi suddenly stopped the intelligence staff officer who was going to the telecommunications room to send a report, "You immediately check for me where our Burmese mercenary troops are resting, I almost forgot that we still have Burmese troops in Shandong." ”

The staff officers gathered around heard Zhao Zhi mention the Burmese mercenary troops, and they all showed a look of shame, not only Zhao Zhi had forgotten that there were more than 200,000 Burmese mercenaries in Shandong, but even their staff officers had completely forgotten everything, if Zhao Zhi hadn't suddenly remembered this matter, I am afraid that no one among the dozen or so staff officers present would have mentioned this matter.

"That's right, we still have more than 200,000 Burmese mercenaries in Shandong, why don't I forget it." The intelligence staff officer hurriedly rushed to his information box, and after leaving Jiaodong, all the information and information received were in the box, and it didn't take much effort, and the smiling intelligence staff officer rushed back with a few pieces of paper. "Sir, this is the information I received a week ago, the Burmese mercenary troops retreated to Tai'an and Laiwu after inflicting heavy losses on the defenders of Jining, and it would be just when we were facing the combined forces of the Sixth Division and the Twentieth Division, so I forgot about it."

"In a week's time, they should have almost rested, immediately contact them, and order them to march north to the front line of Weifang and Zibo to stand by, if the Kwantung Army troops continue to move south, they must be blocked on the front line of Weifang." Zhao Zhi leaned over the map to calculate the distance from Laiwu to Weifang, and the distance calculated was farther than the distance of the Kwantung Army from Dongying to the south, but the Burmese mercenaries were all Burmese natives who were good at mountain marching, and as long as they used all their strength, they should be able to arrive before the Kwantung Army broke through Weifang.

Jiaodong is not without thunderous troops, but Zhao Zhi left only 10,000 Jewish troops and 2,000 reserve mercenaries parachuted from Burma, this is Zhao Zhi's last mobile force in Jiaodong, before the Kwantung Army really stepped into Jiaodong, he could not show his family background at one time. "Send a telegram to Yan Wudao, telling him to stop training the Korean People's Army, immediately assemble troops and march towards Gyeongsangnam-do, and intercept and prevent the Japanese army from continuing to send troops from Korea to cross the sea and land on Kyushu Island." Only seven days had passed since the 20-day deadline given by the U.S. fleet, and Zhao Zhi had to prepare to mobilize all the forces at his disposal.

Letting Yan Wudao help train the Korean People's Army was something that Cho Zhi had agreed to, and Kim Il Sung was worthy of being the founder of the Kim Fat family, and the Korean People's Army, which originally had less than 30,000 people, had expanded to more than 100,000 after Kim Il Sung's efforts. 100,000 men is equivalent to the strength of 6 divisions of the Japanese army, and it is unlikely that the Japanese army will be driven out of Korea, but there is already a possibility of fighting the Korean Japanese army.

While Yan Wudao was training recruits, the mercenaries under him were not idle, and they were attacking the Korean Japanese army in all directions, and the Korean civilians launched by the North Korean *** relied on their own hands and legs to continuously send the weapons and ammunition captured by the mercenary troops to the training camp. By the time Yan Wudao contacted Zhao Zhi's side for the last time, the Korean People's Army already had weapons and equipment capable of equipping 40,000 people, and of course, this batch of weapons and ammunition also included the part of the Soviet Union's support for the Korean People's Army.

The 40,000 ultra-long People's Army, which is already equipped with weapons, plus the Jewish troops under the command of Yan Wudao, is equivalent to the strength of four to five divisions of the Korean Japanese army, and there are four Japanese division-level troops tossing around in South Gyeongsang Province in North Korea. Throwing away the pencil in his hand, Zhao Zhi looked at the map silently, and roughly calculated, in order to ensure the smooth operation of the battlefield on Kyushu Island, Zhao Zhi actually mobilized more than 300,000 troops in North Korea and Shandong to cooperate with the battle, and Zhao Zhi himself now does not know whether these decisions are worth it.

Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing reacted first after learning that Thunder had landed on Kyushu Island to fight, and he sent a telegram urging Zhao Zhi to leave Kyushu Island immediately. Thunder is good at long-distance running or blitzkrieg operations, whether it is running or blitzkrieg operations, you need to play deep areas, if Zhao Zhi really wants to set up a battlefield on Kyushu Island, maybe Thunder's mercenary troops will lose their tactical advantage.

Now it seems that Chiang Kai-shek's proposals are not all useless, it is Zhao Zhi himself who is too optimistic, and at the same time he also overestimates the combat effectiveness of the Youth Army and the 74th Army. Although the Youth Army and the 74th Army have been equipped with American-style ordnance, even if Thunder has trained them in stages, they are from the National Army after all, and they still have the kind of fighting style of the National Army that invades their bones, and being forced to retreat by the Kwantung Army is already the best result, if they do not retreat in a desperate battle, the 74th Army is very likely to be surrounded and annihilated by the Kwantung Army.

"That's it, the most important thing is to fight the battle in front of you first." After receiving the information that the 23rd Division had appeared from the forward scout, Zhao Zhi instructed his staff officers to pack up their things and prepare to meet the 23rd Division, the Korean battlefield and the Shandong battlefield are too far from here, what Zhao Zhi needs to do is to kill the 23rd Division that has appeared first, and then regain control of the rhythm of the battlefield on Kyushu Island, to ensure that he and his mercenaries can survive until the day when the US fleet appears in the waters of Japan.