Shijiazhuang, said to be the headquarters of the army.

Major General Shiro Sekawa, the commander of the 8th Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade, slowly put down the microphone in his hand, and the chief of staff of the brigade Yoshida Minetaro Osa, who was standing next to him, hurriedly asked, "General, how is the 7th Infantry Brigade?" ”

Segawa Shiro said expressionlessly: "Five minutes ago, the 7th Infantry Brigade had already broken the jade collectively. ”

"What!?" Yoshida Fengtaro shouted in disbelief, "Collective jade shatter? That's impossible! ”

Segawa Shiro said: "Not only the 7th Infantry Brigade has been collectively shattered, but the county town of Qinghe has also been lost. ”

"Hiss......" Yoshida Minetaro suddenly gasped when he heard this, and said awe-inspiringly, "General, could it be that the remnants of the Baoshan Brigade have fled from Lunan to southern Hebei?" ”

Segawa Shiro said compassionately: "Ten **! ”

"General, Lunan is a lesson for us in southern Hebei!" Yoshida Minetaro said in a deep voice, "If the remnants of the Baoshan Brigade that have entered the country cannot be eliminated in time, the entire southern Hebei will probably lose control like Lunan, and when the time comes, all local armed forces will gather in Jingcong, and it will soon form a beacon fire!" At that time, the situation will be out of control. ”

"Hmm." Shiro Segawa agreed, "Decisive measures must be taken to nip the danger in the bud!" ”

"Order ......" Segawa Shiro said for a moment, and then coldly ordered, "The 1st, 4th, 5th, and 6th Infantry Brigades, and the 8th Reading Artillery Brigade will be assembled immediately, and they will be pulled out in half an hour, and the target is Qinghe County!" ”

"Hello." Yoshida Minetaro bowed his head suddenly, and immediately took the order.

Seeing Yoshida Minetaro's figure go away, Segawa Shiro called the Shota Railway Garrison Command again.

Responsible for the Zhengtai Railway garrison task is the 4th Brigade of the Reading Mixed Brigade, the headquarters is located in Zhengding Town, Zhengding Town is very close to Shijiazhuang, it is for this reason that the Sechuan Brigade dares to come out, because if Shijiazhuang is attacked, the Reading Mixed 4th Brigade can arrive for reinforcements in half an hour.

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Qinghe County.

The headquarters of the military police has now become Yue Weihan's temporary headquarters.

Chi Chengfeng strode into Yue Weihan's office, immediately stood upright, and suddenly raised his right hand to Yue Weihan to salute the standard military salute, and shouted loudly: "Report to the brigade seat, Chi Chengfeng, the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the Baoshan Brigade of the National Revolutionary Army, led the regimental headquarters guard company to return to the building, please give instructions ......."

Yue Weihan replied with a cold expression and said solemnly: "Welcome back!" ”

Chi Chengfeng's upright posture suddenly collapsed, and he said with a hippie smile: "Brigade, I can look forward to you!" ”

Yue Weihan took two steps forward, punched Chi Chengfeng in the chest, and muttered: "Good job, Lao Chi, a stunned company makes you expand to a group, it's not easy!" ”

Chi Chengfeng scratched his head and said with a smile: "It's far worse than the brigade." ”

The two of them were making a noise, and Liu Yi and Liu Tiezhu also walked in front and back.

"Okay, all the officers above the battalion commander level have arrived." Yue Weihan nodded, strode to the map hanging on the wall, and said solemnly, "Now have a brief battle analysis meeting, analyze the possible retaliatory actions taken by the army, and then discuss the countermeasures that our army should take, Chief of Staff, let's talk about the overall situation first." ”

Liu Yi nodded and said, "Yue Jun has always been arrogant, and he has suffered such a big loss this time, he will definitely not give up!" As long as there are no major accidents, the 8th Brigade of Reading Power Mixed in Shijiazhuang will definitely make a big mistake! Judging from the map, Shijiazhuang is about 400 miles away from Qinghe County, and the 8th Brigade is only a garrison brigade, and the degree of mechanization cannot be too high, so it will take five days to reach Qinghe County at the earliest! ”

Liu Tiezhu said: "There are five days, enough for the troops in the nearby Linxi, Nangong, and Linqing counties to be rebuilt, and when these troops are returned, our Baoshan Brigade can also gather tens of thousands of troops, and then we will be able to fight with the little devils. ”

Liu Yi picked up the ruler and measured it on the map, frowned and said: "There are at least six hundred miles from the Nishan base to Qinghe, even if you take a small road and march quickly, it is impossible for the Reading Force Regiment to arrive without eight days!" And the devils in Shijiazhuang can arrive in only five days, so I am afraid that the reading force group will not be able to catch up with this battle. ”

Yue Weihan said categorically: "The Reading Force Regiment can not come, but the artillery battalion must be transferred!" ”

"Huh?" Liu Yi faintly heard Yue Weihan's words, and said awe-inspiringly, "What do you mean by ......?"

"That's right, this time our goal is not to mix the 8th Brigade into the army, but Shijiazhuang!" Yue Weihan slammed his fist on the map, and said in a cruel voice, "Shijiazhuang is an important town in southern Hebei, and it is also the connecting pivot of the Zhengtai Railway and the Pinghan Railway. ”

In fact, as early as when Xuzhou divided his troops, Yue Weihan had already made up his mind to fight Shijiazhuang!

Yue Weihan's strategic concept is actually very huge, and his vision is no longer limited to the corner of southern Hebei!

Yue Weihan's specific idea was that as long as the Baoshan Brigade took Shijiazhuang, the Pinghan Line would be cut off, and then the large amount of war materials transferred by the Yue Army from the four eastern provinces would no longer be able to be quickly transported to the Wuhan front line through the Pinghan Railway.

If Li Yulong's Reading Force Regiment can launch a large-scale sabotage campaign against the Lunan section of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway with the cooperation of the Lunan Guerrilla Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, then the two major strategic communication lines of the Yue Army in North China will be completely paralyzed!

Once the two strategic communication lines of the Pinghan Railway and the Jinpu Railway were paralyzed, the army had to first transfer the war materials to Lianyungang by sea, and then take the Longhai Railway to Zhengzhou, and then transport them to the front line in Wuhan through the Pinghan Railway, but the problem was that this transportation line was not safe, and the two strategic groups of Sun Lianzhong and Yu Xuezhong were eyeing the north and south sides of the Longhai Railway!

As a result, the army's logistical supply lines will immediately fall into a dangerous situation on all sides, and nearly 500,000 troops of more than 20 field divisions and regiments that are fighting the front line in Wuhan may fall into a desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food at any time.

Once the heavy army group on the Wuhan front line collapses, the consequences will be catastrophic, and then the situation in the whole of North China and even Central China will also be deteriorating, and the best result of the army at that time is to keep the small occupied areas near Pingjin and Shanghai, and the worst result will be to completely withdraw from Shanhaiguan and hold the four eastern provinces.

If Chairman Chiang can fully adopt Yue Weihan's strategic vision, then the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is likely to be completely rewritten!

However, it is a pity that Chairman Chiang only adopted the first half of Yue Weihan's strategic plan, and in the most critical part of the battle of Wuhan, Chairman Chiang once again reverted to his old ways and insisted on launching a counterattack on all fronts, which not only put more than 100 divisions of the [***] main force in the Wuhan battlefield in danger, but also disrupted Yue Weihan's plan.

In the end, the Baoshan Brigade's plan to advance to southern Hebei and capture Shijiazhuang was forced to advance.

In Yue Weihan's view, now is not the best time to recover southern Hebei and seize Shijiazhuang.

If the [***] of the Wuhan battlefield can hold on for another two to three months, then the various units of the Baoshan Brigade that have infiltrated southern Hebei will be able to gain sufficient time for development, and at that time, not only will the size of the troops be greatly expanded, but the combat effectiveness will not drop too much.

However, after all, the idea can only be the imagination, but the reality is cruel, due to Chairman Chiang's insistence, Yue Weihan can only advance the plan to advance into southern Hebei greatly in advance! The only thing to be thankful for is that the troops left behind in southern Hebei are quite empty, and it is still entirely possible for the Baoshan Brigade to recover the entire southern Hebei and seize Shijiazhuang.

Hearing that they were going to fight Shijiazhuang, Chi Chengfeng and Liu Tiezhu were immediately excited!

Liu Yi said worriedly: "Travel, it's too difficult to hit Shijiazhuang, and the risk is too great!" Why don't you fight the relatively empty torture platform or Handan where the army garrison is relatively empty? Taking the torture platform or Handan can also cut off the Pinghan Railway! It can also deal a heavy blow to the heavy army group on the Wuhan front. ”

"Nope." Yue Weihan said categorically, "If you want to fight, you have to fight, you have to fight Shijiazhuang!" ”

Liu Yi was silent, he never thought that Yue Weihan's determination to attack Shijiazhuang would be so great!

In fact, there is another very important reason why Yue Weihan wants to fight Shijiazhuang, that is, Taiyuan Arsenal!

According to historical records, after the army occupied Taiyuan, it dismantled and packed all the machinery and equipment of the Taiyuan Arsenal, and then transported it to the northeast, expanding the scale of the Shenyang Arsenal.

Judging from the time, the equipment of the Taiyuan Arsenal is likely to be stuck at Zhengding Station!

Because after the occupation of Taiyuan by the 5th Division, followed by the Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Wuhan, the Pinghan Railway, as one of the two most important and busiest strategic communication lines in North China, undertook the heavy task of transporting strategic materials, and it was impossible to free up too much capacity to transport the machinery and equipment of the Taiyuan Arsenal.

For the sake of this batch of machinery and equipment, Yue Weihan even did not hesitate to exchange a brigade or even a division of troops!

If the troops of a brigade or division are gone, they can be recruited and trained again, but if this batch of machinery and equipment is gone, it will be gone forever, and if this batch of equipment is lost, the Baoshan Brigade will forever lose a stable supply of ammunition.

Yue Weihan is ambitious and ambitious, he doesn't want to learn from the Eighth Route Army to hide in the east and save the province.

Yue Weihan wants to create an unprecedentedly strong base in Taihang Mountain, his troops must not rely only on capture to persist in fighting, the Baoshan Brigade must have its own arsenal, and it is a large arsenal, not only to produce enough weapons and ammunition for the Baoshan Brigade to fight, but also to sell surplus weapons and ammunition to Chairman Chiang in exchange for military salaries!

(To be continued)