"Jiaodong? Zhao Zhi is actually for Jiaodong? Don't he want Hebei and most of Shandong? "In the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, Peng Dehuai looked at the information he had just received and was puzzled, he didn't understand why Zhao Zhi would give up most of Shandong that was about to arrive and went to Jiaodong instead." Inform Yang Dezhi to withdraw his troops immediately, Zhao Zhi doesn't want Texas, what is he doing there. "The intelligence of the Kwantung Army's southward movement was also intercepted by the Eighth Route Army, and like other commanders of the Eighth Route Army, Peng Dehuai also thought that Zhao Zhi went to Jiaodong to avoid the powerful Kwantung Army.

"Deputy Commander, look at this." This is a piece of intelligence from Chongqing, and it is information sent back by CCP intelligence agents lurking within the Chongqing Military and Political Department. After a closer look, Peng Dehuai found that this was not any intelligence about the movement of Japanese puppet troops in North China and Central China, but an order for the 74th Army to move south, which was dubbed Tiger Ben by the Nationalist Government.

"Yunnan training?" Peng Dehuai realized the mystery, the 74th Army is one of the few troops in the current national army that can only be good at fighting, Zhao Zhi's appearance in Central China has made the situation strange and unpredictable, according to Peng Dehuai's ideas and Chiang Kai-shek's consistent style, the Nationalist Government should send troops like the 74th Army to Henan and Shandong at this time, but he just transferred the 74th Army south to Yunnan for training.

"Myanmar? Jiaodong? Jiaodong? Myanmar? Peng Dehuai, who had a lot of words, paced back and forth in the command headquarters, and after turning his head to see the large map on the wall, Peng Dehuai suddenly realized. Come on, immediately send electricity to Yan'an, this Zhao Zhi is cunning and powerful, so he can secretly Chen Cang. The freshly baked telegram was sent quickly, but Peng Dehuai's heart could not be calm for a long time, Zhao Zhi deceived everyone, and when everyone thought that his target was Okamura Ningci, Zhao Zhi suddenly went to Jiaodong, which was nothing, but if you add the 74th Army that went south to Yunnan and Jiaodong and Burma that were connected by sea, the whole thing would be clear.

No wonder Lao Chiang will urgently transfer the 74th Army south to Yunnan, no wonder Zhao Zhi will send a large number of Burmese troops into Shandong to fight, no wonder Zhao Zhi's Jewish Legion will attack Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, it turns out that Zhao Zhi is for the coastline of those small countries. From the very beginning, Zhao Zhi's goal was Jiaodong, and he wanted to use the Jiaodong Peninsula as a bridgehead or springboard. As long as Jiaodong is still in Zhao Zhi's hands, he will continue to help the Nationalist Government send troops to the North China Theater, and as for the ships that transport troops, Peng Dehuai knows that Zhao Zhi will not be able to help them.

"Lao Peng has sent a telegram, and he seems to be in a hurry." Zhou Enlai read the telegram sent by Peng Dehuai, and his eyes showed a fierce color, Shanxi was recovered, and the Nationalist Government had taken the lead by virtue of its good relationship with Thunder, and had compressed the control area of the Jin Sui Army and the Eighth Route Army to the extreme. Although Zhao Zhi participated in the two attacks of the Hebei garrison, although the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army participated in the armed forces, it seems to be a little worthless compared with the achievements of the guerrillas of the National Army, and now Zhao Zhi is helping the National Government transport troops to land in Jiaodong, and if this continues, the area of the base area controlled by the National Army will become smaller and smaller, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Ming Xiu plank road dark Chen Cang, okay, Zhao Zhi has deceived all of us with this hand, he is worthy of being a person who is valued by Lao Jiang, there is no such talent in the Kuomintang." Mao Zedong still had a calm face, and only those who knew him well would perceive his unrest at this time from his frequent smoking. As an excellent military strategist, Mao Zedong even looked at the long-term beyond Zhou Enlai, Zhao Zhi's purpose of taking Jiaodong could not be as simple as helping the national army land in Shandong, if Zhao Zhi had enough ships to transport the 74th Army, then he also had the strength to go north or south along the coastline.

Zhao Zhi is a person who likes to be dictatorial, he was already like this when he was in Zhangwu County, if he took Jiaodong, then what about the anti-Japanese armed forces formed in Jiaodong? Was it co-opted by Zhao Zhi or was it co-opted by the national army? Or was he kicked out of Jiaodong by Zhao Zhi? Mao Zedong knew that no matter what kind of answer it was, Zhao Zhi would not allow another voice to appear in Jiaodong. Zhangwu County is a living example, until now, Zhangwu County, which is under the control of Thunder, still can't get into the water, and the former guerrilla leader Zhang Lan has already been transferred to Myanmar by Zhao Zhi.

"What should I do?" None of the high-level CCP leaders in the cave spoke, but everyone's mind was the same question, what about the anti-Japanese forces that developed in Jiaodong? Although Zhao Zhi and the Eighth Route Army have always had a good relationship, but it is all aid weapons and ammunition or something, if you want Zhao Zhi to agree to the Eighth Route Army's anti-Japanese armed activities in Jiaodong, this possibility is basically unlikely, after all, the example of Zhangwu County is there, and he doesn't even give the face of the National Government, let alone the guerrilla forces of the Eighth Route Army.

"Tell them to withdraw, staying in Jiaodong won't help." Mao Zedong spoke, Zhao Zhi was obviously determined to win Jiaodong, and going to have a relationship with him at this time would only make the relationship between Zhao Zhi and the Eighth Route Army tend to break down, which would be too much to gain and lose. Rather than waiting for Zhao Zhi to mention this matter after he got the initiative, it is better to withdraw the anti-Japanese forces in Jiaodong to the west now, and take the initiative to make concessions now to lay the foundation for great strides forward in the future.

There is no better way, Mao Zedong's proposal became the final resolution, the telegram sent to Zhao Zhi was deliberated by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, with a hint of tactfulness between the wording, I believe that Zhao Zhi should understand the meaning of the CCP after seeing this telegram. Coincidentally, at this time of the CCP's shirt, Chiang Kai-shek in the villa on the south bank also gathered a group of staff to talk about Zhao Zhi's plot to take Jiaodong, but Chiang Kai-shek was luckier than Yan'an, at least he already knew some inside stories when Zhao Zhi had this plan, but he didn't expect Zhao Zhi to succeed so quickly.

"Jiang Gong, I thought General Zhenguo's springboard plan was feasible." Chiang Kai-shek's aide surnamed Wang first pointed to the map on the table and said, "General Zhenguo's troops have taken all the coastal cities of Thailand and Vietnam, so that we can choose greatly more access to the sea, and with the fleets of our American allies as our backing, I believe that the plan to land in Shandong by sea and land will go smoothly." And the most important thing is that our 74th Army is equipped with American-style equipment, and it is not difficult to see the difference between American-style equipment and Japanese-style equipment from General Zhenguo's mercenary troops, as long as the 74th Army lands safely in Jiaodong, the recovery of Shandong is just around the corner. ”

The staff next to the "sycophant" secretly scolded this guy surnamed Wang in his heart, as long as he is a discerning person, he can see such a result, and he still needs to say here, this is not clearly patting Lao Jiang's sycophant. The 74th Army was called the Tiger Ben by Lao Jiang, and it was incomparable to the ordinary national army troops, coupled with the all-American weapons and equipment that Zhao Zhi equipped the 74th Army, the 74th Army with wings like a tiger is not like a bamboo.

Chiang Kai-shek, who was concentrating on reading the war report, didn't think anything about it, the facts were in front of him, Zhao Zhi did take most of the Japanese-controlled area in Jiaodong, if nothing else, before the 74th Army reached the coast of Jiaodong by sea and land, Zhao Zhi would be able to take the entire territory of Jiaodong. The change of hands in Jiaodong meant that the Nationalist Government had a springboard, and the troops of the US fleet going north along the China Road could easily reach the North China Theater, and with the joint efforts of the garrisons in Shanxi and Henan, the plan of recovering Shandong and cutting the north-south connection of the Japanese army could be realized.

Everyone, including Chiang Kai-shek, affirmed Zhao Zhi's Jiaodong operation, and since Zhao Zhi initially transferred troops south to besiege Dezhou and Binzhou, Chiang Kai-shek had been paying attention to the information sent by the military commanders, and he was also worried that the Japanese Kwantung Army that had gone south to support the South Asian theater would divert its route to flank Zhao Zhi. Fortunately, Zhao Zhi gave up the Dezhou passage in time, and the Japanese Kwantung Army troops who were eager to go south did not stop long and went straight south, although Okamura Ningji took the opportunity to regain control of Hengshui, Dezhou, and Xingtai, but Zhao Zhi's attrition action against the Japanese puppet army in Hebei and Shandong in the early stage had been successful.

After more than a month of non-stop raiding and harassment operations, the Japanese puppet army in Hebei and Shandong lost more than 40,000 people, although this casualty was nothing to the wealthy Okamura Ningji, but once the 74th Army landed in Jiaodong attacked strongly, what awaited Okamura Ningji would be a greater disaster. Compared with the guerrilla forces of the national army under the Spark Plan, the 74th Army is more courageous and has stronger firepower, and with the cooperation of those guerrilla forces who were ordered to lurk in enemy-occupied areas, it is believed that the anti-Japanese situation in China will be reversed with the attack of the 74th Army.

"Order, the reserve army stationed in Henan is ready to fight with the 74th Army to flank the Japanese puppet army in Shandong, and all the reserve army's material supplies will be distributed first." The 300,000 reserve army trained by Thunder was Chiang Kai-shek's hope, and Chiang Kai-shek bet almost everything for Zhao Zhi's Shandong cross-cutting plan. If the Shandong battlefield could contain more than 500,000 Japanese puppet troops, Chiang Kai-shek would not mind throwing all these 300,000 reserve troops into Shandong, compared with the entire anti-Japanese situation, this sacrifice of troops was nothing at all.

"So the government agrees with our plan." Looking at the telegram sent from the villa on the south bank, Zhao Zhi's face showed a smile, the Nationalist Government had been stumped by its own Shandong cross-cutting plan, in order to win a big victory, Chiang Kai-shek had to take out all his family funds to support him, it seems that his early foreshadowing was not in vain.

According to Zhao Zhi's plan, at this time tomorrow, the last wave of Japanese puppet troops in Jiaodong will be surrounded and annihilated in Yantai. At that time, Zhao Zhihui ordered more than 100,000 young men to be recruited from Jiaodong to enter the training camp set up here by Lei Ting for training, and three months later, the 74th Army had a reserve supplementary force of 100,000 people, and I believe that Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Chongqing, would be happy and unable to sleep.