The Changshan Mountains were broken through by the Chinese army!

When the news broke, the situation that had just calmed down boiled again.

Because everyone knows what it means for the Changshan Mountain Range to be breached.

As the main mountain range on the Indochina Peninsula and the watershed of the Mekong River and the South China Sea system, the Truong Son Mountain Range runs parallel to the coast and is roughly in a gentle arc from northwest to southeast, which is the boundary between Vietnam and Laos. This mountain range runs diagonally across the entire territory of Vietnam and is the natural border between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. It is about 1,000 kilometers long, but only a few mountain passes can connect Vietnam and Laos. The Truong Son Mountains form the backbone of Vietnam's topography, and the eastern slope of the Truong Son Mountains, from the Lan Giang River to the Vu Gia River, is the narrowest part of the country.

The Jiaonu Pass, also known as the Jiaonuo Pass, was known as the "Wushi Ridge" during the Tang Dynasty in China, which was the most important mountain pass in the northern part of the Chang Son Mountains. Vinh is not only an important town in central Vietnam, but also at the mouth of the lower reaches of the Blue River.

In other words, the Chinese army's move directly cut off Vietnam's waist.

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"Impossible, this can't be! What exactly do they want to do? ”

Just bombed the Chinese out of Vietnam, I was thinking about resting and recuperating, and then taking advantage of the victory to pursue, it is best to advance the front into China, and then occupy the entire Guangxi, threaten the southwest, and undermine the strategic intention of the Chinese government to use the southwest as a base to launch a war of resistance, but I did not expect to be stabbed in the back at this time. But even if he knew the way, Guzhuang Ganlang still didn't understand, even if the Chinese split the Vietnamese waist into two, what could they do to them? It is nothing more than forcing them to divide their forces and look south. However, compared to the Japanese army in Vietnam, the situation of the Chinese army, which had to be supplied through thousands of miles of waterways, should be more difficult.

"Did the Chinese army occupy Vinh?" Koiso Kuniaki on the side sipped the tea slowly and asked casually.

"Yes." Guzhuang Ganlang replied in a low voice. After all, Terauchi Shouichi still failed to retain his position as commander of the Chinese dispatch army with a victory, once upon a time. Hideki Tojo and others, who could only bow down to him, were now extremely dissatisfied with his behavior of "fornicating" Ishihara Wan'er, Tohihara Kenji and others, and did not pay attention to the fact that he had just achieved a strategic advantage over Guangxi, on the contrary, when they heard that Terauchi Shouichi might win a big battle, he hurriedly ordered him to be transferred back to Tokyo. Then, Koiso Kuniaki, known as the "Tiger of Korea", came to Nanjing and began to preside over the dispatch of troops.

However, it is clear that the Chinese do not "welcome" Koiso Kuniaki very much.

"As soon as Rong City was lost, Vietnam was cut off. In order to prevent this enemy from moving north, it attacked from the north and south with the Guangxi army. We can only divide our forces and look south. Koiso Kuniaki slowly put down the teacup, "I heard that Hebian Zhengsan has gone north along the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway and threatened the Honghe Prefecture area in Yunnan, right?" ”

"Yes." Guzhuang Ganlang nodded, "But according to the latest news. The Chinese army, known as the 'New 1st Army', did not show any intention of advancing north after occupying Vinh. Rather, it was a hasty construction of a line of defense. It seems to want to defend. ”

"Defense?" Koiso Kuniaki was slightly stunned, "They didn't plan to attack?" ”

"At least for now. Otherwise, with the difference in our defenses to the south, they should have entered Thanh Hoa by now. Guzhuang Ganlang replied.

"So, is this move by the Chinese regarded as sharing the pressure for Yunnan?" Kuniaki Koiso asked again.

"Probably not." Guzhuang Ganlang glanced at the newly appointed army general. "If they want to share the pressure on Yunnan, they should have placed their troops directly in front of the river, rather than flying thousands of miles along the Mekong as they are now...... It's okay to have a shorter time, but it's longer. This expeditionary force will find itself in an extremely difficult situation. ”

"Understood." Koiso Kuniaki smiled, "In other words, this should be an attempt by the Chinese to open up international communication lines again." ”

"International lines of traffic?" Guzhuang Ganlang was stunned, and then he was a little stunned. There is some truth to this. Guangzhou, Vietnam and other places have been occupied one after another, and China's coastal areas have been completely blocked by the Japanese army, and now China can only rely on the Yunnan-Burma Highway to transport supplies from the outside to the inside. But how many things can be transported by a single Yunnan-Burma highway? But it's not the same with water. Although it may be necessary to go to Vinh or some other place first, and then cross the Changshan Pass, and then enter the Mekong River, and then go north along it into the Lancang River......

"But do the Chinese have so many ships?"

"The boat is not a problem. After all, it is only inland waterway shipping, and it does not need great shipbuilding skills, and the Chinese can get it themselves. With a little effort, it won't take a year or two for thousands of boats of all kinds to float on the Mekong. Kuniaki Koiso replied.

"Isn't the Vietnamese territory south of Zirong City dangerous?" Guzhuang Ganlang frowned. If the Chinese really just want to open international lines of communication, then, in the face of the Japanese navy blockading the Gulf of Tonkin Gulf, they must not just defend a small Vinh city, but from Vinh to the south, all the way to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) in Vietnam, a total length of more than a thousand kilometers. There are quite a few ports among them, and this should be the goal of the Chinese. After all, unless a considerable part of the Japanese navy was moved, it would be impossible to hold the coast of Vietnam, which stretched for one or two thousand miles. Although Japan took over French Indochina, most of its forces were concentrated in North Vietnam, and the French were not strong in Vietnam, so they could not resist tens of thousands of Chinese troops. And obviously, since taking the initiative to send troops to Vietnam and Laos, the Chinese no longer care about France or not France, even if De Gaulle is called in Europe, it is useless.

"I'm really just a possibility. It is also not excluded that the Chinese have the intention of attacking from both sides and eating our three divisions in Vietnam. Koiso Kuniaki said again. Although he put forward an idea, it still has a very big flaw. That is, the Chinese do not have a navy, and the territory of southern Vietnam is mostly extremely narrow. This also means that if the Chinese army does not go north, but chooses to go south, it may be attacked from the sea at any time, and it may be intercepted at any time, like Vietnam today. Once trapped in a narrow area, there is no mountain pass on the west side to escape into Laos or Cambodia. Then the Chinese army that went south was doomed. With the intelligence of the Chinese, this problem is not difficult to think of.

"Eat our three divisions? Do they think this is the Battle of Nanchang? Guzhuang Ganlang sneered. He did not think that the Chinese army would encounter much difficulty after the occupation of South Vietnam. The Chinese Air Force is here. This is not like the Beibu Gulf period, when the Chinese had only one port of Haiphong available, and their air force could not really threaten Japanese naval ships that could be evaded on both sides. The most important thing is that the Navy only needs to send small boats to complete the blockade mission. However, if the Chinese army really goes south and occupies South Vietnam, then China will be tantamount to adding a long coastline, and if they want to blockade this coastline again, it will not be like blockading North Vietnam, and whether the navy is happy or not is still a matter of two words. As for the three divisions in North Vietnam...... He simply did not believe that the Chinese army could have this capability. Unless the Chinese send large armies from Hunan and other places. If troops can be transferred from Hunan, how can Anan Weiji in Wuhan make them feel better?

"In any case, it is necessary to guard against this sudden enemy." Koiso Kuniaki thought about it again, "Let Hyakutake Haruyoshi go south." He had gone through a big war and was exhausted. It's just the right time to deal with an enemy who has no intention of fighting. ”

"Hey!"

I couldn't understand the intentions of the Chinese army, let alone the danger of my three divisions being surrounded on both sides by the Chinese...... After all. Even the Chinese Air Force has regained the upper hand. It was impossible to stop them from carrying supplies to their troops because of their superiority at sea. On the contrary, the new 1st Army that was killed from the Changshan Pass may fall into a situation of running out of ammunition and food. In that case, Koiso Kuni, Showa Furujo Michiro, decided to wait and see. The entire southeast of Vietnam is bordered by the sea, there is a navy, and no matter what tricks the Chinese play, they will be invincible.

But. Just two days after they got the news that Sun Liren had occupied Rong City and cut off Vietnam, the arrival of another piece of news directly knocked out their original mood of sitting firmly in Diaoyutai: Chinese paratroopers landed in Hainan, and Haikou fell!

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"That's amazing. There are more and more capable people under Lao Jiang. ”

Taihang Mountain.

General Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

Peng Dehuai couldn't help but shout while taking a hand-drawn map of Asia:

"To the north, there are Du Yuming's 5th Army and Xu Tingyao's 35th Group Army; To the south, there were two divisions of Sun Liren's New 1st Army and the Dian Army; To the east is Hainan Island, which will soon be recovered by the Kuomintang; To the west is the mountains of the mountains...... Tsk, unless the Japanese immediately retreat from the sea, these three divisions in North Vietnam will be considered trapped. Not to mention fighting, as long as the Kuomintang only defends and does not attack, surround them to the death, and in a few months, they will be finished! ”

"The most unexpected thing is the airborne landing on Hainan Island!" Chief of Staff Zuo Quan couldn't help shaking his head, "The Japanese couldn't imagine that the Kuomintang would actually seize Hainan Island, let alone that they would be able to capture it." This airborne force is really a big killer. ”

"Mr. Zhu, how did the central government talk to Lao Maozi, and how many planes did you leave for us?" Not to mention that the airborne troops were fine, as soon as he said it, Peng Dehuai couldn't help but ask Zhu De again. At the beginning, in order to persuade the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to make a quick decision, the Soviet Union moved to Khalkha and agreed to many conditions, one of which was to help train the air force, and also to leave some planes for the Chinese Communist Party, so that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China could not be slandered. But now that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has moved in and has basically taken root, the Soviets have begun to hesitate again. Saying that these transport planes and bombers need to support the decisive battle in Siberia, and the Nationalist Government is still firmly opposed, they have no choice. In fact, to put it bluntly, they just don't want the CCP to have an air force, so the CCP Central Committee in Khalkha is tantamount to being pinched by them. And as soon as he heard the news, Peng Dehuai was furious, if it wasn't for the impossibility of knowing the way, he almost killed the Eighth Route Army to Khalkha and went to settle accounts with Lao Maozi.

"Negotiations, how can there be results so quickly?" Zhu De sighed. Because of their determination not to concede the interests of the Khalkhas, the Soviets have completely closed the door to the Air Force. And this time they really saw the faces of the Soviets...... When I begged them, it was called a passion, but after I was done, I became a cold-faced person. As for the socialist brothers, they have a deep understanding of what the "interests" mentioned by Qin Wei in those books are all about, and they understand more deeply what Bismarck's sentence "The axiom is only within the range of the cannon" means. You don't have the strength, you ask others, of course you have to be taken care of by others, after all, other people's things are not blown by the wind.

"Okay, let's not talk about airplanes." Peng Dehuai could see that Zhu De was in a bad mood, and he didn't want to ask any more, "But now that the Kuomintang has counterattacked, once it succeeds, it will be another big victory." What shall we do? ”

"The central government has already issued an order." Zhu De habitually put his hand in his sleeve, "Hit!" (To be continued......)