[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 872: Yan Junliu's Big Plan (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

At this time, the situation in North China was turbulent, and Ma Zheng did not dare or have the ability to withdraw too many troops to block the southward movement of the Kwantung Army, so he had to use the banner of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation to contain the Japanese puppet army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ma Zheng believed that with the existence of the "Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance" force, the Kwantung Army Command would not dare to arbitrarily transfer troops to the south. After all, there is a strong and abnormal force in the hinterland of the northeast, which is definitely a challenge for the Kwantung Army, and with the caution of the old devil of Umezu Mijiro, even if he really has the heart to send troops south, he can only have more than enough strength to do so.

Of course, Huang Haitao, the commander of the group army, is only talking to the outside world, in fact, the Suicha Military Region has long made a conclusion on this, and the name of the First Group Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance is only suitable for use in the northeast region, and it is positioned as a guard brigade within the Suicha Military Region.

Huang Haitao didn't care about these things, he knew his ability very well, even if he really gave him tens of thousands of people to command, he didn't have that ability. Fortunately, before that, he served as the chief of staff of the cavalry brigade directly under the military region, and also served as the political commissar of the regiment for more than a year, so it is still possible to command a cavalry brigade to fight.

It's just that from the bottom of his heart, Huang Haitao is unwilling to serve as the commander of this group army, because in his eyes, the combat effectiveness of this group army is really a bit rubbish. Although the number is quite large, the infantry regiments in the puppet Manchurian areas have not undergone strict training, and they are oppressed by the Japanese in peacetime, so their combat effectiveness is very scummy.

Now not to mention compared with the Kwantung Army, the most elite of the Japanese army, even compared to the regular army of the Suicha Military Region, it is not a level. The most important thing is that such a large force suddenly appeared in the northeast region, it would definitely be regarded as a thorn in the side of the Kwantung Army, compared to the special combat team, this so-called group army is like a fat and strong big stupid elephant, without any flexibility.

However, Huang Haitao also knew Ma Zheng's true intention of sending him to the northeast region, and he also knew that the more than 100 members of the special operations brigade alone could not cause much trouble to the Kwantung Army, and only the attack of a large army in formation would make hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army scruples. So despite his reluctance, Huang Haitao decided to take up this burden.

July 30, 1940, was a very good day for the North China Front, which had been in a state of decay for some time. Although it was now the time when the heat was unbearable, all the officers of the entire North China Front Army had smiles on their faces, because just now news came from the front that the operations along the Zhengtai Railway of the Great Imperial Army had achieved phased results, and the tens of thousands of Eighth Route Army troops who were playing hide and seek with the Imperial Japanese Army had finally been repulsed.

Although the main force of the Eighth Route Army was not completely annihilated in this battle, more than 20,000 people were killed and wounded by the Eighth Route Army, and there were more than 2,000 corpses of the Eighth Route Army left along the Zhengtai Railway alone, and according to the ratio of casualties of 5:1 in international practice, the number of wounded of the Eighth Route Army should be about 10,000, plus those killed, the loss of the Eighth Route Army in this battle was at least more than 20,000 people, which can be described as a heavy loss.

Of course, the losses of the imperial army are also very large, the Eighth Route Army at this time is not the Eighth Route Army two years ago, their weapons and equipment are obviously much better than before, and there are even snipers equipped with sniper rifles in the troops.

In the pursuit of nearly half a month, the imperial army lost more than 3,200 soldiers, but less than 1,000 died. The only deficiency was that the Eighth Route Army captured five county seats, blew up four military trains and 27 bridges, and as for the destroyed artillery strongholds and damaged roads, there were countless ones, and the losses of the imperial army were also very large on the whole.

But in any case, it was a fact that the Eighth Route Army had suffered a heavy blow, and it was the first major victory of the North China Front since the great rout at the beginning of the year, so every Japanese officer's face swept away the previous depression, and they all thought that this was a sign of the rise of the North China Front.

What made Okamura Ninji happiest was that because of their "prominent" performance during this period, the base camp had unprecedentedly praised the entire North China Front in the whole army, and postponed the time limit for resolving the North China issue by two months.

This is undoubtedly good news, although an army-wide commendation is nothing, and even when Okamura Ninji was in charge of the Eleventh Army, he did not look down on such a reward at all. However, the current situation in North China is different, since the 15th year of the Showa era, the North China Front has been reprimanded by the base camp a lot, and the number of commendations is very small, and even less in the past six months.

Originally, the last time General Nagano Xiushen inspected the North China Front, he had commanded the troops to conduct a small-scale sweep, and the result was not bad, and the base camp was also very satisfied, but the result was that General Nagano Xiushen disappeared mysteriously when he returned home, along with a heavy cruiser and a large freighter of the Empire, and more importantly, more than 100 tons of gold.

For this reason, the base camp almost went crazy, and the North China Front Army was also scolded from above, and the previous efforts were also wasted.

Although it was later confirmed that His Excellency Nagano was likely to have encountered a storm at sea, so that both large ships were buried at the bottom of the sea, no one dared to mention this incident at this time, so this commendation was extremely important for the North China Front.

What's more, the base camp also postponed the resolution of the North China crisis by two months, so that Okamura Ningji's original time of only three months suddenly became five months, which gave Okamura more time to prepare, and the chances of victory were much greater.

At the same time, with the expansion of the war of aggression against China, in order to consolidate its rule in the occupied areas of China, to deploy troops in a unified manner, and to facilitate the implementation of political strategies against the Nationalist Government, the base camp of the Japanese army carried out a large-scale adjustment of the Japanese troops in the entire Chinese theater, and ordered the headquarters of the Chinese Front to draw up a detailed operational plan, requiring the Chinese Front Army to work out all the strategic objectives for the next few years and submit them to the base camp for examination.

The six generals of Yanjun did not dare to slack off, and immediately handed over the operational plan that had been formulated to the base camp. According to the plan formulated by the Chinese Front Command, the 11th Army in Wuhan will first carry out a short sortie this year, that is, in 1940, with the offensive as the main body, and contain the main force of the Nationalist Government. In the autumn of the same year, he launched a campaign against Yichang, Hubei, and after occupying Yichang, launched an air attack on Chinese mainland in a vain attempt to lure the Chinese government down.

At the same time, in North China, with the North China Front Army as the main force, the tank divisions and regiments, and the aviation corps as the auxiliary, a new operational plan was formulated, and the strategic goal was to initially remove the threat of the Suicha Military Region to the Pingjin region, restore the situation in North China to the same as it was in the summer of '38, and completely remove all hidden dangers in North China by the autumn of '41 at the latest, and in particular, it was necessary to completely eliminate Ma Zheng's headquarters.

In addition, the Chinese Front also expected to draw the main force of the North China Front Army to form the 5th Front Army, cross the Yellow River in the winter of 42 and occupy Xi'an in the dry season, and cross the Qinling Mountains in the summer of 43 and capture Chengdu. At the same time, the 11th Army was ordered to attack and occupy Chongqing along the Three Gorges. Then it took a year to clean up the mess, and around 1944, the Chinese problem was completely solved, and the result was the complete occupation of China and the destruction of China.

This military plan was formulated in great detail, elaborating on every step and every possible problem, even if the Soviet army entered the war and possible external intervention by the United States and Britain, it also took into account, in this military plan for the first time the Japanese army mentioned the war against the United States and the southward occupation of the islands in Southeast Asia, and gave detailed suggestions.

The Japanese base camp attached great importance to this military plan, and after nearly a week of debate, although the base camp did not fully adopt Tada's plan, it almost completely adopted the pre-1942 battle plan.

He also urged the Japanese troops in all theaters to immediately deploy according to the plan, especially the North China Front, which is now in the most complicated situation, must launch an attack before the rainy season arrives in mid-August.

On August 1, Okamura Ninji, in the name of the commander of the North China Front Command, issued an operational ****** against the Eighth Route Army in North China, mainly against Ma Zheng's headquarters. In accordance with Okamura Ninji's order, all the units of the North China Front Army immediately entered a combat state, and except for the First Army stationed in Shanxi, which only used one division, the remaining 12th Army stationed in Shandong and the troops directly under the Front Army almost all went north, and the transfer must be completed within a week.

On 5 August, there was a surge of people outside Beiping, where the headquarters of the North China Front Army was located, and the Japanese army now gathered in the vicinity of Beiping and Tianjin had as many as six infantry divisions and one chariot division, as well as five independent mixed infantry brigades, plus the puppet army that cooperated with the operation, with a total strength of 250,000 troops. With so many troops, even the Battle of North China organized by Tada Jun was much worse. (To be continued.) )