"Nani? You say that the thunder has appeared in Hebei again? Okamura Ningji's angry roar sounded in the Japanese army headquarters in Jinan, and a lot of manpower and material resources were consumed, and Okamura Ningji blocked Zhao Zhi and his troops in Shandong on the Jiaodong Peninsula.

Okamura Ningji has always been unable to understand Zhao Zhi's way of using troops, according to Thunder's strength and performance in Shanxi, Zhao Zhi does not need to mobilize any guerrillas to stir up trouble in Hebei, and it would be better to directly use Thunder's troops to fight all the way into Hebei along Yangquan. If it was an encounter with the thunderous heavy troops commanded by Zhao Zhi, Okamura Ninji thought that he would not be able to win if he did not have more than twice as many Zhao Zhi's troops, but Zhao Zhi did not do so, he actually sent those Tubalu guerrillas to fight against the imperial army twice in a row.

When Zhao Zhi suddenly gave up Dezhou, Okamura Ningji also thought that Zhao Zhi was afraid of the Kwantung Army troops going south, until Zhao Zhidong entered and took Weifang and Zhucheng, Okamura Ningji knew that he was wrong, and the mistake was outrageous, because from the beginning, Zhao Zhi's goal was not Hebei but Jiaodong. Why did Zhao Zhifei scrap so many twists and turns to take Jiaodong? This is not a difficult question to understand, because Jiaodong is close to the sea, and Thunder's allies are the Americans, the Americans have won the naval battle, and Zhao Zhi wants to use the American fleet to transport troops to land in Jiaodong.

Knowing Zhao Zhi's true intentions, Okamura Ningji had to transfer troops eastward to block the passage from Jiaodong to the outside world, but now that he is in Jinan, there are thunderous mercenaries in Hebei, and the damn Zhao Zhi is playing tricks again. Okamura Ningji didn't want to pay attention to the thunder mercenaries who would appear in Hebei, but he couldn't ignore it, because the first two attacks on the Japanese puppet army made him understand a truth, the seemingly calm Hebei is like a heated oil pot, and the thunder is like a glass of water, a cup of water that will be poured into the oil pot at any time, Okamura Ningji knows what will happen after the water is poured into the oil pot.

Tang Lei is accustomed to fighting in a melee, and there are less than 1,000 mercenaries under his direct command, so Tang Lei did not disperse his troops to attack the Japanese puppet army in Hebei on a large scale like going back to Shanghui, but first started from several counties and towns around Baoding, and carried out a large-scale attack on the Japanese puppet army. The guerrilla forces that were cleared by Okamura Ningji's heavy troops were not uprooted, but scattered and fled or hid to wait for the opportunity, Tang Lei's move was to send a signal to the guerrillas in Hebei that Thunder had returned.

In just five days, hundreds of mercenaries commanded by Tang Lei successively uprooted several villages and towns garrisoned by the Japanese puppet army around Baoding, annihilated more than 400 enemies, and accepted more than 1,000 surrendered Imperial Cooperative Army troops. The thunder came back, and the news spread like a bird with wings throughout the Hebei territory, and the guerrilla forces who were hiding and waiting for the opportunity dug up the weapons and ammunition buried deep in the ground and gathered on the periphery of Baoding, ready to join Tang Lei.

Tang Lei's attack on Hebei this time can be described as a shotgun for artillery, Yangquan is still in the hands of the national army, there is a flight team in Yangquan military airport 24 hours a day, and they have only one task, to provide material airborne support for Tang Lei's troops who infiltrated Hebei at any time. After reducing the task of large-scale assembly and sortie of fighter troops, the fuel reserves of the Thunder fighter unit reached a new height, and it was easy to provide material airborne support for Tang Lei and them.

Joey's trip to Vietnam was coming to an end, and the mercenary forces and the Jewish Legion stopped greatly alleviating the problem of ammunition supply difficulties in the Kunming Arsenal, and a large number of ammunition in stock was used to support Tang Lei and Zhao Zhi in Jiaodong. Large-caliber Browning heavy machine guns, Browning light machine guns, steel fortresses, bazookas, mortars, 92-step guns disassembled into parts, submachine guns, Garand rifles, bullets, explosives, grenades, as long as everything needed for war, even a pair of babies, were listed in the scope of the airdrop, not to mention the canned beef and compressed biscuits produced by the Kunming factory.

The busiest people under Tang Lei are the mercenaries in charge of the radio station, and in the past five days, they have received more than 20 guerrilla units using the radio to send contact signals. Although the total number of these 20 guerrillas is only about 300 now, Tang Lei will not give up on them, and 300 people are enough to show the effect of 3,000 people. Not only Tang Lei, but even Zhao Zhi, who planned the Spark plan, now doesn't know how many guerrillas are left in Hebei, but as Joey's trip to Vietnam begins to enter the palace closing stage, Tang Lei knows that there will be more and more mercenaries sent by Thunder to Hebei.

"Here, here and here, these three places are our goal today, I want you to take them before dark today, there will be an airdrop after dark, we need to clean up the surrounding Japanese puppet army." Tang Lei has a map spread out in front of him, the target location has been marked by a red circle, and Tang Lei is sending a task to the squad commander under him. Unlike Zhao Zhi's habit of changing the action plan at any time, Tang Lei still used the same set of the national army when he issued the task, all the action plans had been evaluated in advance, and the team that carried out the task only needed to complete its own task, and there would not be many complications.

Tang Lei was not denying Zhao Zhi, and because he had too few troops in his hands, Tang Lei would never easily let his mercenary team attack those places without conducting a risk assessment of the target. Relevant intelligence, the terrain around the target, the proportion and deployment of the Japanese puppet army in the target area, these are the basis for the target risk assessment.

Tang Lei's current location is in Hejian County between Baoding and Cangzhou, Baoding has been tossed by Tang Lei, his current goal is Cangzhou, Tang Lei believes that as long as he tosses and turns between Shijiazhuang, Baoding, and Cangzhou to attack and harass the Japanese puppet army, Okamura Ningci, the old fox, will not sit idly by. Attacking and uprooting the strongholds and turrets of the Japanese puppet army in the form of squads is at most a way to kill and injure some Japanese puppet troops and cause psychological panic among the Japanese puppet army, which is actually not a fatal blow to the Japanese puppet army in Hebei, which is already the consensus reached by Zhao Zhi and his officers.

Zhao Zhi also thought about mobilizing Jewish troops to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army, but now is not the best time, most of the Nationalist troops are still disobedient to Chiang Kai-shek's orders, and those faction bosses in the Ministry of Military Affairs are also fighting separately and do not listen to orders, Zhao Zhi needs the best time. Only half of the 74th Army landed in Jiaodong, and half of them were still waiting in the Gulf of Vietnam for help from the American fleet, and the 300,000 reserve troops mobilized by Chiang Kai-shek had just arrived in Anyang, and Zhao Zhi gave them a predetermined place in Handan.

The 74th Army, 300,000 reserve troops, and more than 200,000 Burmese mercenaries controlled by Zhao Zhi have poured into Central China to more than 500,000 troops. "Boyuan's battle is not easy to fight" After receiving Zhao Zhi's battle plan, Chiang Kai-shek locked himself in the study for a whole afternoon, and after Song Meiling urged several times in succession, the exhausted Chiang Kai-shek walked out of the study and said a word quietly.

Song Meiling is a soldier who doesn't know how to fight, but she has been with Chiang Kai-shek for many years, and she has heard and witnessed some military things. "Boyuan is ready to fight hard with Okamura Ningji" with 500,000 troops against Okamura Ningci, who commanded a million-day puppet army, this is an unreliable thing in itself, not to mention that Zhao Zhi cannot guarantee that he can win Okamura Ningci, if Zhao Zhi kills Chiang Kai-shek's 300,000 national army reserves, then the loss of the national government will be too great.

"You also know Boyuan's temperament, even Rowling's girl can't resist him, and now it's impossible to send someone to persuade him to change the battle plan, and half of the 74th Army has already landed in Jiaodong, I think Wang Yaowu and Boyuan have a tacit understanding." Although Chiang Kai-shek was not very optimistic about Zhao Zhi's decisive battle plan, but because of his consistent trust in Zhao Zhi, Chiang Kai-shek finally decided not to persuade Zhao Zhi to change this battle plan.

"If it fails this time, the 74th Army and the 300,000 reserve army will be finished." Song Meiling looked at Chiang Kai-shek with some concern, and it is not just by prestige that can be done in charge of the national government, but also by absolute power and influence, and these all come from the support of the military. If Chiang Kai-shek loses the 74th Army and the 300,000 reserve army, the old guys in the Ministry of Military Affairs don't know what kind of tricks they will come up with to defile the villa on the south bank.

"We can't lose, we will definitely not lose, as long as we follow my battle plan, Okamura Ninji can only be defeated by our men." Wang Yaowu also questioned this battle plan, and Zhao Zhi's intermittent answer really did not satisfy Wang Yaowu, because he was responsible for the lives of tens of thousands of people up and down the 74th Army. "Don't worry, after you read this, let's talk about it." Zhao Zhi smiled and handed a piece of paper to Wang Yaowu, who was full of doubts.

"God, is this all true?" After only half of the content, Wang Yaowu jumped up. It turned out that Zhao Zhi not only mobilized the 300,000 reserve troops through Chiang Kai-shek to enter Handan to hide and wait, but also gathered 200,000 Burmese reserve troops and waited in Yangquan early. Once the 74th Army and the more than 200,000 Burmese mercenary troops currently under Zhao Zhi's control fight against Okamura Ningci, Handan's 300,000 National Army reserves will go straight to Jinan, and the Burmese reserves assembled in Yangquan will move east to Hengshui and Dezhou.