"Are you sure you want to do this?" Looking at Owen standing in front of him, Zhao Zhi wanted to laugh, this Owen who insisted on joining the cleaning team was an authentic British nobleman, although Owen's generation had lost his family, but after all, he was still a descendant of a nobleman, so why did he have to marry a Chinese daughter-in-law and go home.

"Yes boss, I'm sure I'm going to marry Xiulan as my wife, and Xiulan's family has agreed." Owen, who had deliberately shaved his beard, stood straight in front of Zhao Zhi with messy blond hair, although his boss had a serious face, Owen still saw a hint of ridicule in Zhao Zhi's eyes. Owen is the tactical instructor in Zhao Zhi's cleaning team, and he is also the first batch of foreign mercenaries when Zhao Zhi got up early in Shanghai to form Thunder, and the woman he wants to marry is called Miao Xiulan, who was rescued from the Japanese army when the cleaning team cleared the Japanese puppet army on the periphery of Texas.

Seeing the affirmation in Owen's eyes, Zhao Zhi nodded slowly, "Okay, my boss can only bless you, but I'm afraid you can't hold a wedding yet, we're still at war now, why don't you send her and her family to Myanmar first, and when the battle here is over, I approve you to go back and get married, how about it?" ”

"Boss, you are simply more merciful than God, praise you." Zhao Zhi's words made Owen ecstatic, and regardless of the difference in identity, Owen opened his arms and hugged Zhao Zhi firmly, and then turned around and ran away with a look of excitement. Thunder in Mandalay set up a special family area, Thunder army family members of the married people can be assigned to a European-style villa, compared with the war-torn China, Myanmar has completed most of the infrastructure is simply a paradise on earth, I believe that their lover will soon like it.

"Okay, let's discuss the next plan of action." Owen's appearance was just a small episode, and Zhao Zhi summoned a group of officers to the headquarters, the purpose of which was to discuss the next course of action. Zhao Zhi believed that they could command the Burmese well with their experience in European troops, and as long as the 30,000 Burmese mercenaries who remained in Hebei continued to besiege Baoding, he believed that Okamura Ningci, who was stationed in Shijiazhuang, would not dare to go south to Hengshui easily.

Three days after the Texas operation, all the Japanese puppet troops deployed on the periphery of Texas have been wiped out, and nearly 8,000 Japanese puppet troops can only retreat in the city of Texas to rely on the city to defend and wait for reinforcements. Zhao Zhi What they need to discuss now is to continue to encircle the point to send reinforcements or take Texas in one go, Binzhou is already under the siege of 100,000 Burmese mercenaries, they are determined not to send reinforcements, Liaocheng Japanese puppet army also has to guard against the sneak attack of the thunder troops from Handan, and the most likely to send reinforcements at the moment is Jinan and Cangzhou Japanese puppet army.

The Second Armored Division, which was working day and night, had rushed to Pingyuan County between Dezhou and Jinan, and Linyi, which was also located between Dezhou and Jianna, also had Zhao Zhi's 3,000 Jewish Airborne troops and more than a dozen guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army.

"Sir, the inside line in Dezhou City reported that about 1,400 people in the two regiments of the Imperial Alliance Army plan to cooperate with our attack on Dezhou, but even so, there are still more than 6,000 stubborn enemies in Dezhou City, plus the Japanese puppet army has made Dezhou into a fortress-like thing, if we insist on attacking, the casualties are bound to be not small, I think we still use the old way to continue to surround and send reinforcements. As long as Texas is still in the hands of the Japanese army, they can't help it" A staff officer from the national army under Zhao Zhi expressed his opinion, which was not brilliant but decent.

"I think it will work, anyway, Texas has been surrounded by us, and they can't run away if they don't fight, so it's better to free up your hands first to clean up the reinforcements sent by the Japanese army." Zhao Zhi's Jewish legions and most of the mercenaries were placed in Thailand and Vietnam to fight, and the troops he brought back to China were mainly Burmese mercenaries, and they were scattered.

The staff officers under him have different opinions, but they all mean the same thing, that is, to use Texas as a bait to encircle and send reinforcements. "Well, I mean, like everyone else, I also tend to just encircle Texas and hang them first, and shift the focus to the reinforcements that the Japanese army is about to send." Zhao Zhi's statement made everyone's hearts fall to the ground, they were afraid that Zhao Zhi would propose to attack Texas, and the casualties would be too great.

"Let's do this, take things in two steps at the same time, contact the inner line in Texas City, and ask them to step up contact with those Imperial Cooperative troops who intend to surrender, once the number of Imperial Cooperative troops who surrender exceeds 2,000 people, we will fight Texas. But before that, we should focus on the Cangzhou Japanese puppet army, I speculate that the one who can send reinforcements to support Texas is Cangzhou, contact the military commander, immediately find out the movements of the Cangzhou Japanese puppet army, and must report the situation every two hours. "The Texas operation is related to the implementation of the entire cross-cutting plan, and Zhao Zhi at this time needs to integrate all the intelligence at hand in order to make the correct deployment, and the intelligence network of the military command is naturally the best choice.

"Nanpi and Dongguang are the only way for the Cangzhou Japanese puppet army to go south, and I am ready to set up an interception line in these two places." On the map, Zhao Zhi marked two big red circles, which are the locations of Nanpi County and Dongguang County.

"Sir, we know that we have set up an ambush here, how could the Japanese army not think of it? Moreover, Nanpi is too far away from Texas, once our ambush force is discovered by the Japanese army, it is likely to fall into the siege of the Japanese puppet army, is it too risky to do so? "Dezhou is only more than 120 kilometers away from Cangzhou, and Nanpi County is less than 40 kilometers away from Cangzhou, if the ambush troops in Nanpi County are discovered by the Japanese army, if the troops on the Dezhou defense line want to rush to the rescue, it will definitely be too late, and this combat staff officer is right to have such worries.

"The alert troops we deployed in the direction of Cangzhou have exchanged fire with a small group of Japanese puppet troops for three consecutive days, but they are all in the area south of Dongguang and north of Wuqiao, and Dongguang and Nanpi are still in the hands of the Japanese puppet army." Zhao Zhi used the red pen in his hand to mark a region on the map, "It is precisely because Nanpi County is less than 40 kilometers away from Cangzhou that the Japanese army never imagined that we would set up an ambush between Nanpi County and Dongguang County, and I plan to set the main battlefield north of Wuqiao and south of Dongguang, and the ambush soldiers in Nanpi are just to cut off their back road." ”

"We are scouting the Japanese puppet army, and they are also scouting us, so I don't plan to use the troops on the periphery of Texas to go north to Nanpi, the Burmese mercenary troops besieging Binzhou will send at least 10,000 people to the north to detour to Nanpi, once we start on the Wuqiao side, they will take Nanpi as soon as possible and follow Dongguang to the south to flank the Japanese puppet army reinforcements." Two huge red arrows appeared on the map, one south and one north.

"Sir, the attacking troops in Binzhou are facing reinforcements from the Japanese puppet army in Jinan, Zibo, and Weifang, is it appropriate to transfer their troops?" Although the Burmese mercenary troops sent back by Zhao Zhi to participate in the war had a scale of 300,000 people, after they were transferred to Henan and Shandong, less than 250,000 could survive, and Zhao Zhi also sent 30,000 people north to Baoding to act as a bait to contain Okamura Ningji. If we have to draw troops from the Burmese army to the north to Nanpi, I am afraid that those Burmese who use bolt-action rifles will not be able to withstand the counterattack of the Japanese puppet army.

"Then you don't have to worry, the troops of the Sulu Theater of the National Army will help us contain the Japanese army in Jinan, but the Japanese puppet army in Zibo and Weifang is not enough for Lewis and them to fight." Zhao Zhi had already obtained the support of Chiang Kai-shek before carrying out the cross-cutting plan, and with the assistance of the Ludong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, he thought that the siege of Binzhou would be carried out smoothly. As long as Binzhou and Dongying are taken, Zhao Zhi's next target is Jinan, and then move east to blitz the Jiaodong Peninsula.

A port suitable for docking large ships is what Zhao Zhi needs most at present, Thunder has its own weapons factories and bullet production lines in Myanmar and Kunming, but Thunder is now fighting on two fronts, if it weren't for the hundreds of thousands of Burmese mercenaries who use bolt-action rifles, just the ammunition consumed every day is enough to bankrupt Zhao Zhi. In addition, many of the heavy weapons supplies of Thunder come from the inventory that Zhao Zhi brought back from Europe, once the inventory is exhausted, although Thunder, which is known for its strong firepower, will not collapse, but its combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

Like Chiang Kai-shek, Zhao Zhi was also looking forward to military aid from the United States, but he couldn't even plug Zhao Zhi's teeth with a small batch of military aid by plane, and the seaports of Burma and Vietnam were too far away from the Chinese battlefield, and Zhao Zhi needed a port very close to the Chinese battlefield. The Jiaodong Peninsula has a port more convenient than Dongying, Weihai, Qingdao and Yantai are all suitable for large ships to dock, and the blitzkrieg on the Jiaodong Peninsula will not only allow Zhao Zhi to get a seaport suitable for military aid ships to dock, but the most important thing is that he can get a lot of locations suitable for large-scale landing of troops.

"It's decided, let's all go back and prepare, it is very important for us to successfully intercept the Japanese puppet army reinforcements from Cangzhou, you must remember your mission and must not make mistakes." Seeing that the staff officers under Zhao Zhi had no other opinions, Zhao Zhi finally made a decision, and the staff officers under Zhao Zhi had long been accustomed to acting according to Zhao Zhi's orders, and when they saw that Zhao Zhi had already determined the battle plan, they didn't say anything more, but hurriedly took the mission notice and acted separately.