Mid-August. {}

Aspect.

The troops besieging Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, and Luoyang had sufficient weapons and ammunition, and the troops had made marked progress, and after nearly 10 days of bloody fighting, most of the troops had already arrived in the city.

The little devils in these three big cities are also more than half killed and wounded, because the little devils have no supplies, and the ammunition in the city is about to run out, and the little devils are about to fall into trouble.

On the side of the Eighth Route Army.

The Eighth Route Army was extremely active in the Shandong battlefield, and since it successively recovered more than a dozen small counties around Jinan, the Eighth Route Army attacked everywhere, and almost half of Shandong was recovered by the Eighth Route Army.

The number of troops of the Eighth Route Army operating in Shandong has reached nearly 200,000, and if we add the militia contingents such as county brigades and district squads, the number of the Eighth Route Army has far exceeded 300,000, and it has a far advantage in numbers.

Several medium-sized cities in Shandong, such as Zibo, Tai'an, and Liaocheng, have also been recovered by the Eighth Route Army one after another, and the Eighth Route Army has also captured a lot.

On the side of the 36th Army.

During this period of time, the 36th Group Army was in a state of great strength, and the momentum of its southward movement was unstoppable, not only successfully recovering Dezhou and Cangzhou, but also the vanguard of the 36th Group Army, the 6th Column, had approached Jining, and the 6th Column's troops had been directed at Xuzhou.

In addition, the recruitment work of the 36 th Group Army is nearing completion, and in Beiping, Tianjin, Tangshan, Qinhuangdao, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, and other newly recovered cities, the recruitment points are unusually hot.

A large number of aspiring young people were able to join the 36th Group Army. Originally, the 36 th Group Army only planned to recruit more than 100,000 people, but there were at least 300,000 or 400,000 young people who came to enlist in the army.

The 36 th Group Army was selected on the basis of merit, and many educated and enthusiastic young people joined the ranks of the 36 th Group Army.

In Datong.

Liao Yaoxiang, who recently joined the 36th Group Army, was also entrusted with the important task of being the commander of the newly established 36th Group Army Division.

Originally, Zhang Yunfei was going to send Liao Yaoxiang to a certain column to serve as the commander of the infantry division. However, after consideration, Zhang Yunfei believes. Serving as a division commander in the column is subject to many restrictions, which may not be conducive to giving full play to Liao Yaoxiang's military talents.

At last. Zhang Yunfei simply set up the 36th Group Army Division, transferred several thousand veterans from the guard division, and added more than 10,000 new recruits to form a division.

Liao Yaoxiang served as the division commander of the major general, and assigned Liao Yaoxiang a chief of staff, a political commissar and two deputy division commanders. []

The division is directly under the command of the 36th Group Army, with a total of more than 20,000 troops, which is the largest division at present, with two brigades and six regiments, plus a mechanized infantry regiment, a tank regiment, and an artillery regiment, and a full nine regiments. The station is tentatively located in Zhangjiakou.

As soon as the division was established, Liao Yaoxiang immediately seemed to be a different person, and the whole person burst out with amazing passion and full of enthusiasm. I also immediately threw myself into intense training.

Xuzhou.

The headquarters of the North China Front Army of the little devils has now been moved to Xuzhou, and under the blows of the 36th Group Army, the headquarters of the little devils has been moved from Beiping to Tianjin, and now, from Tianjin to Xuzhou.

Nishio Shouzo and a group of high-ranking officers of the little devils. It has been many days since I came to Xuzhou.

But now, although he came to Xuzhou, Nishio Shouzao's life was not easy, and the bad news from the front line came one after another, and Nishio Shouzao felt that he seemed to be more than ten years old in the past few days.

Today.

Nishio Shouzo was still as usual, frowning, looking at the map in front of him in a daze, as if flowers could be seen on the map.

The military map in front of Nishio Shouzo is marked in a mess and looks dazzling, which also shows how complicated the current war situation is. …,

The chief of staff of the little devil pushed the door in, and when he saw that Nishio Shouzo was still looking at the map, he couldn't help but sigh, and quietly stood to the side, silent, his head lowered.

In fact, the chief of staff of the little devil came in to report on his work, and several telegrams were sent from various units on the front, and the situation was getting worse and worse one by one.

After looking at the map for a long time, Nishio Shouzo noticed that the little devil's chief of staff had come in, and quietly stood aside, seeing this, Nishio Shouzo frowned.

Nishio Shouzo said a little impatiently: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, what news is there?" ”

The chief of staff of the little devil lowered his head and said: "Your Excellency, the troops on the front line have sent a few telegrams, and at present, the 200,000 or 300,000 troops besieging Zhengzhou, Kaifeng and Luoyang, after paying nearly 50,000 casualties, are already approaching the outskirts of these three cities. ”

Seeing that the troops were approaching the city, Nishio Shouzo immediately asked with concern, "How many troops do we have in these three cities?" ”

"We have less than 50,000 warriors in these three cities, but there are still 50,000 or 60,000 in the Imperial Army."

"Yaga! Are there more than 50,000 warriors in our Jade Shatter? ”

"Hey!"

The chief of staff of the little devil, with his head lowered, did not dare to look at Nishio Shouzo's cannibalistic gaze.

At this time, Nishio Shouzo was very angry in his heart, when did he start, he could also play a 1:1 casualty ratio with his own troops.

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the little devils were often a wing that could fight two or three divisions of the Kuomintang, but now, seeing the 1:1 casualty ratio, Nishio Shouzo couldn't accept it for a while.

The two sides fought fiercely for nearly 10 days, killing 50,000 soldiers on the side, and more than 50,000 on the little devil side, and the death toll on both sides was roughly equal.

The chief of staff of the little devil saw that Nishio Shouzo was very angry, and said in a low voice: "Your Excellency Commander, the 36th Group Army has airdropped supplies to the troops in Zhengzhou, Kaifeng and Luoyang, and dropped a large amount of ammunition with aircraft. ”

"Yaga! The 36th Army is dead, dead! ”

Nishio Shouzao was so angry that he yelled and lost his mind a little.

It didn't take until two or three minutes before Nishio Shouzo stopped shouting, and the chief of staff of the little devil continued: "Your Excellency Commander, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the 36th Group Army have been moving south, and its vanguard troops, at least thirty or forty thousand people, have already come straight to Xuzhou, and they are only nearly 100 kilometers away from Jining City. ”

Hearing this, Nishio Shouzo's face was unusually ugly, and then he coughed violently, and the little devil's chief of staff hurriedly took out a snow-white handkerchief and gave it to Nishio Shouzo.

Nishio Shouzo took the handkerchief, covered his mouth and coughed violently, and it took a long time to stop, and on the handkerchief, there was a cloud of red blood, which looked shocking.

Nishio Shouzo, under a series of defeats, is already physically and mentally exhausted, and his body has collapsed, and now he is holding on.

Zhangjiakou, the division station.

A few days ago, Liao Yaoxiang came to Zhangjiakou, a big city and the former provincial capital, and now, Liao Yaoxiang is stationed in the first regiment of the first infantry brigade in the west of the city, personally inspecting the training of the soldiers.

Liao Yaoxiang was dressed in an olive-green major general's regular uniform, looking at the soldiers in camouflage uniforms, who were training in full swing, Liao Yaoxiang's heart has not completely calmed down yet.

The formation of the division, the initial troop formation, made Liao Yaoxiang a little unbelievable that this was true, a division, there are actually mechanized infantry regiments, tank regiments and artillery regiments.

This is unbelievable, even the most elite Central Army, even the original Central Army Teaching Corps, Tax Police Corps, etc., did not have such a configuration.

As soon as he saw the troop structure issued by the 36th Group Army, Liao Yaoxiang was shocked for a long time and did not come back to his senses, but what shocked Liao Yaoxiang even more was still to come.

When he saw the 105mm howitzer, Type 39 tank, and Type 39 armored personnel carrier, Liao Yaoxiang felt like he was dreaming, and such equipment was too good. …,

In addition to these heavy equipment, the fighters were small arms, AK-47 assault rifles, chain-fed squad machine guns, sniper rifles, 40mm rocket launchers, and so on.

In the past few days, although Liao Yaoxiang has been very busy, he has not been able to calm down in his heart, full of excitement and joy.

Now, in just a few days, Liao Yaoxiang admired Zhang Yunfei so much that he was full of gratitude to Zhang Yunfei, such an advanced weapon and well-equipped army, let him be the division commander, this great favor made Liao Yaoxiang feel a little unrequited.

The soldier dies for his confidant, and Liao Yaoxiang feels this way now.

With such a well-equipped army, even if he makes himself a regiment commander, Liao Yaoxiang will be happy and full of enthusiasm.

Liao Yaoxiang stood next to the training ground, watching the soldiers training in a queue, and in the distance, on the shooting range, there were bursts of shooting sounds, and there were many fighters who were conducting shooting training.

Although there are many new recruits in the division, there are also many veterans, and the number of veterans exceeds a quarter.

After watching the queue training of the recruits for a while, Liao Yaoxiang, accompanied by several senior commanders of the division, came to this shooting training ground again.

On the training ground, the fighters of at least one company were practicing shooting, and the gunshots of "da, da, da" came and went, and the soldiers lay on the ground and shot seriously.

The 36th Group Army had sufficient ammunition, and in the division's shooting training, each soldier had to shoot dozens of rounds of ammunition every day.

Liao Yaoxiang looked at a soldier who was shooting, looked at the AK-47 assault rifle in the soldier's hand, and couldn't help but feel a little impulsive to shoot a few shots.

Liao Yaoxiang tried this kind of automatic weapon called the "AK-47" assault rifle two days ago, and found that not only was it not small in power and had very strong firepower, but also that the shooting accuracy was not low at all.

In the end, Liao Yaoxiang still suppressed the impulse in his heart, and secretly made up his mind that he must not train this army well in order to repay General Secretary Zhang's kindness.

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