"Forget it, this time in Taiyuan, we will fight by ourselves, even if it is to let the troops experience more battlefield experience" Discussing the rupture with the Eighth Route Army, Zhao Zhi knew about it half an hour after receiving a call back from Rowling in Yan'an. Zhao Zhi, who is familiar with Rowling's character, did not accuse Rowling of being too anxious, but gave Rowling a new task, Thunder can support some of the weapons and equipment of the Jin Sui Army, but the Jin Sui Army will use three times the mass of metal in exchange, and the recovered Taiyuan Airport will be used by Thunder for 2 years free of charge, if the Jin Sui Army loses control of Taiyuan again within 2 years, the Jin Sui Army will have to repay the cost of the Thunder weapons according to the original price, and the metal that has been collected by the Thunder will not be returned.

Taiyuan, Zhao Zhi must fight, the German army has already started a war with the Soviet Union, based on the fact that Thunder now needs the support of Germany, Zhao Zhi cannot refuse the task of helping the German army contain the Soviet army. The Northeast was still occupied by the Japanese Kwantung Army, and it was obviously impossible to enter the Soviet Union from the Northeast, so Zhao Zhi had to go north to enter the Soviet Union from Mongolia. But before that, he must open up the road to the north of the thunder, first take Taiyuan, and then use Taiyuan as a barrier to send troops to occupy Baotou and then enter Outer Mongolia, as long as the thunder has an advance base and an airport in Outer Mongolia, Zhao Zhi can airlift weapons and supplies to Yan Wudao, who is active in the Russian region, at any time.

Zhao Zhi suddenly decided to go south to Burma, his real intention was to cover the troops to attack Baotou and continue to move northward, after clearing the Japanese puppet army in Shanxi, the thunder that attracted the attention of the Japanese army quickly moved south to Burma, which would only attract the attention of the Japanese army to Burma, and no one would notice that there was a secret infiltrated force approaching Baotou. There was an early agreement between Zhao Zhi and Chiang Kai-shek that he would train the 30,000 elite Nationalists for free and provide some American-style weapons, and in return, the 30,000 Nationalist troops would take Baotou for Zhao Zhi.

Chiang Kai-shek did not know why Zhao Zhi was interested in Baotou, so Chiang Kai-shek summoned many advisers to talk about the matter, but he did not get a clear answer, at least the answers that his advisers told him did not satisfy Chiang Kai-shek. "Baotou has minerals that Thunder needs" Zhao Zhi's answer to Chiang Kai-shek couldn't be simpler, Thunder's arsenal needs raw materials, and Baotou and its surrounding areas are currently the richest places for Thunder to know various metal minerals, so Thunder must take Baotou in order to alleviate the problem of raw material shortage.

It was not only Zhao Zhi's rhetoric that played a role, but Chiang Kai-shek was too lazy to dwell on such an issue, in short, after Zhao Zhi talked to Chiang Kai-shek, the 30,000 national troops who stayed in Zhangwu County to train became the peripheral troops of Thunder. At the same time that Zhao Zhi dispatched troops to prepare for the Taiyuan Campaign, the elite troops of the National Army, which had a source of more than 30,000 troops, also received an order, and Zhao Zhi asked them to move to the Luliang area.

"What about Zhangwu County? What to do with Qinglongping? After receiving Zhao Zhi's order to immediately withdraw all the troops deployed in Zhangwu County, Luo Lin was worried that the emptiness of Zhangwu County's troops would lead to a retaliatory attack by the Japanese army, after all, there was also a Qinglongping airport here that served as a material transit, and once Qinglongping was lost, it would cause a series of chain reactions, which would pose a great threat to Zhao Zhi's entire layout and action plan.

There are gains and losses, Zhao Zhi did not intend to regard Zhangwu County as a permanent base for the thunder, the Shanxi war was just a move for Zhao Zhi for him, a move that could make the thunder lay a solid foundation before going to glory. Zhao Zhi not only has nearly 50,000 Jewish troops in Zhangwu County, he also has a national army of 30,000 troops and nearly 80,000 militia troops, Han Sen, who served as the bishop of the training camp, in this half a year, from the national army, the Jewish army and the militia troops, a total of nearly 20,000 reserve mercenaries for Zhao Zhi, these 20,000 people will be the backbone of Thunder's future strength, and it is also the focus of Hansen's training in the second half of the year.

Those Jewish soldiers who were recruited by Zhao Zhi, Zhao Zhi never really believed them, it was not that he didn't believe in those Jewish soldiers, Zhao Zhi didn't believe in those Jewish patriarchs. Once the war is about to end and these Jews see the dawn of victory, they will definitely make Zhao Zhi arrange for them to return to Jerusalem or European countries, and those Jewish soldiers who follow Zhao Zhi all the way will also be used as bargaining chips by the Jewish patriarchs to negotiate with Zhao Zhi. If Zhao Zhi relies too much on the Jewish troops, once they withdraw, Thunder will face a catastrophe, so Zhao Zhi must plan in advance.

When Zhao Zhi learned to play chess or was injured and stayed in Chongqing to recuperate, the director of the army hospital was a chess fan, and when Rowling was called by Song Meiling to be a guest at the South Bank Villa, the director of the army hospital would pull Zhao Zhi to play chess, and Zhao Zhi, who came and went, became interested in Chinese chess, until he reoccupied Zhangwu County, and Zhao Zhi's new hobby did not fall. In Chinese chess, each piece is given its own mission, the loyalty and steadfastness of the warrior-elephant guard, the rampage of the rook sweeping all obstacles that dare to stand in the way, the strange footwork of the horse is unguardable, and the cannon that never fights the opponent face to face.

A good chess player, each move has his own considerations and layout, once the killing game has been decided, what awaits the opponent will be a sharp killing move, and this is the case with Zhao Zhi now. The first battle to become famous in Zhangwu County was to attract the attention of the Nationalist Government, to gain Hitler's favor in the battle between Germany, Britain and France in order to obtain those factories and weapons in Britain and France, to help the Jews just for the millions of cheap labor and soldiers, and to lay down Taiyuan to cover the thunderous northward passage operation, he was playing this war as a game of chess, and all this Zhao Zhi is doing now is just layout.

In Zhao Zhi's chess game, the Nationalist Government is a chess piece, the Eighth Route Army is a chess piece, his Thunder Force is also a chess piece, and he even puts himself into the chessboard as a chess piece. Taking Shanxi, Thunder's northbound passage has a solid barrier, and the smoothness of the northbound passage is the key to ensuring the smooth success of Yan Wudao in the Soviet Union. Thunder has no shortage of troops, no shortage of weapons, what it lacks is a stronghold base that can be held for a long time, all of which Zhao Zhi pinned on the Soviet Union bordering China.

Thunder has built several airports in China from the bottom up from south to north, which are nothing in isolation, some of them are even rudimentary, but if you connect them together, you will find that this is actually an air passage connecting the north and south of China. Thunder's fighter troops can quickly transport the weapons and equipment produced by the Kunming Arsenal to Shanxi, thousands of miles away, through those airports, and also allow the Thunder soldiers to appear in the rear of the enemy in a very short period of time by parachuting, once the northbound passage operation is completed, this air passage that runs through the whole of China will continue to the territory of the Soviet Union, and the bullets from the Kunming Arsenal will be shot into the heads of Soviet soldiers in 2 days.

With Zhao Zhi's order, Zhangwu County was in an emergency mobilization and alert, almost all the Jewish troops were transferred, and the 30,000 national troops who had received special training for half a year were also transferred. Zhao Zhi distributed all the Japanese-style weapons hoarded by Thunder to the militia troops, and let them participate in the Taiyuan Campaign just Zhao Zhi wanted to train the troops, so that these enthusiastic guys could feel the atmosphere of the battlefield in advance, which could not only allow them to adapt to the cruelty of the battlefield in advance, but also slightly alleviate the increasingly tense food problem in Zhangwu County.

In just three days, Zhangwu County, which was originally overcrowded, was much more empty, and only 3,000 Jewish soldiers and 20,000 reserve mercenaries guarding Qinglongping Airport were left in the originally crowded barracks and training camps. The transfer of a large number of troops made the county magistrate Zhang Lan the most relaxed person, and the departure of more than 100,000 people alleviated the original tense food problem in Zhangwu County, but the merchants in the county were a little depressed, and almost all the big-nosed foreigners who were generous were gone, and who were the goods in their stores to sell to.

"Send 30,000 of the 300,000 recruits in Yungui to Zhao Zhi, and you can't make the training camp in Zhangwu County idle" The Jewish troops are gone, but the airport and training camp in Zhangwu County are still there, and Chiang Kai-shek, who likes to calculate Zhao Zhi, immediately took out 30,000 of the 300,000 recruits recruited last year and sent them to Zhangwu County. The strong combat effectiveness of the mercenary force has always been what Chiang Kai-shek yearns for, and he also knows that there is still a big gap between the elite of his national army and the mercenaries, but he is actively shortening the gap between the two.

"Sir, I just received a telegram that the armored corps has arrived at Laiyuan and is heading towards Lvliang, and it is expected to enter the Lvliang area before dark tonight" Zhao Zhi's front-line command headquarters in Shimen Township was very busy. According to Zhao Zhi's hard and fast rules when he issued the order, in order to achieve radio silence, only in a certain period of time, the troops on the march would turn on the radio to get in touch with Zhao Zhi, which also became Zhao Zhi's only means of commanding those troops.

"Bring the map" Zhao Zhi put away the chess on the table, it was not interesting to play the endgame alone, he now had to face another more cruel chess game, a chess game that could fill in the lives of hundreds of people at any time. The beacon fire plan in Hebei has been launched, and the mountain bandits gathered at the junction of Shandong and Shanxi provinces have also begun to be launched, Zhao Zhi is still waiting for the attitude of the national army troops in Zhongtiao Mountain, as long as those national troops can bite the Japanese puppet army troops who confront them, Zhao Zhi will not be a dream to take Taiyuan with tens of thousands of troops with thunder.