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Chapter 205: Lifting the Alarm (Asking for Subscriptions, Asking for Monthly Passes, Asking for Various !! ）

As it turned out, Wu Liande's conjecture was correct, and the purified penicillin was indeed miraculous in treating the plague. When three Japanese-made Type 94 military vehicles loaded with penicillin drugs arrived in Zhangjiakou, the countdown to the plague had already begun.

In just three days, the epidemic in Zhangjiakou City was brought under control, and then good news also came from Datong and Wei County and Xuanhua, and the plague that ravaged Chahar Province for nearly a month was finally completely controlled.

Of course, the damage of this epidemic to the entire Chahar is quite serious, as of noon on June 16, the total number of direct deaths in the four major epidemic areas of Zhangjiakou, Datong, Weixian and Xuanhua is 9,634, plus those who were secretly buried, the plague caused at least 10,000 deaths in Chahar Province.

In addition, the plague has also completely destroyed the economic development plan of Chahar Province, and the plague, in this era, is a living death, and the entire province of Chahar Province has been completely isolated since the outbreak of the plague. Not to mention that the phenomenon of rushing to Chahar in droves to defect to the 40th Army is gone, and there is a large number of people fleeing, they don't want to stay here and wait for death.

Not only that, but the outbreak of the plague and the shelving of plans to attract investment and set up industries in Chahar Province have also been put on hold, and it is important to make money. But it is also necessary to spend money to make money, don't make money at that time, but people die, then they will not die unjustly.

Because of the plague, a large amount of land in Chahar province has been barren, and only two-thirds of the land in the province has been sown, so it is conceivable that if the harvest is good, it will barely make do this year. If the harvest is not good, there will definitely be a great famine in Chahar province.

June 16th. The death toll in the four affected areas plummeted from 1,123 per day at its peak to 213. On the 17th, it dropped to 186, on the 18th to 98, and on the 19th to 66. By June 22, no deaths had been reported from the four affected areas. The death toll has finally returned to zero. The epidemic has finally been extinguished.

The epidemic has been extinguished. However, Chen Feng did not report to the Nationalist Government at the first time, let alone the people in the province, and strictly ordered those who knew the matter to keep secrets. And the buses transporting corpses from the four epidemic areas to the outside of the city are still transporting "corpses" outside the city every day. The frequency is increasing daily.

On June 24, Chen Feng held a division-level military meeting in Xinghe.

Now that the threat of the plague has been lifted, the next thing is how to settle accounts. Chen Feng was extremely angry at the Japanese army's wanton capture of ordinary people as prisoners of war, and at the same time using chemical weapons on civilians to deliberately create a plague.

This kind of behavior must be severely punished, this is Chen Feng's most direct thought. So at the beginning of the meeting, Chen Feng said loudly: "There is only one thing that summons you here this time, and that is revenge." Since the Japanese dared to use chemical weapons in our defense zone and created a plague, they had to have the courage to withstand the retaliation of our army. ”

"Commander, how do you say how to fight, our 222nd Division is willing to be the vanguard of the group army." Li Yifeng said loudly.

"Boss, this battle must be fought, and if you don't fight, I'm sorry for the people who died, and I'm sorry for the soldiers who died of the plague. Our Seventh Independent Division is ready to wait for orders from the commander-in-chief. Xu Hu said.

Zhangjiakou was the hardest hit area by the plague, more than 10,000 people died in Zhangjiakou, in addition to those ordinary people, a total of 722 soldiers of the Seventh Independent Division died of the plague this time, which made Xu Hu, the division commander, very sad, and vowed to avenge the unjust death of the soldiers.

"This battle must be fought, but how to fight it back is planned carefully. Chief of Staff, tell me about the current movements of the Japanese army! Chen Feng asked coldly.

Yang Yi said with a grim expression: "Now the Japanese army is taking advantage of the fact that we are busy dealing with the plague, concentrating more than 200,000 troops from the North China Front Army and the Central China Dispatch Army to launch an attack on southern Lunan and northern Anhui, in an attempt to open up the Jinpu line and connect the two major battlefields in North China and Central China. At the same time, he also hoped to advance westward along the Longhai Road and capture Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, with the ultimate goal of flanking Wuhan with the navy in the Yangtze River and forcing the Nationalist Government to surrender. ”

"What is the current progress of the Japanese army, and how is the Nationalist Government responding?" Chen Feng asked again.

On May 29, the Japanese army captured Linhuai Pass and Bengbu. Then, the main force of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army crossed the Huai River at Bengbu and Linhuai Pass respectively and launched an attack on the north bank. The 51st Army of the National Revolutionary Army fought fiercely with the Japanese army, suffered heavy casualties, and retreated in the direction of the Lu River and the Hu River on the 30th. The Fifth Theater of Operations led by Zhang Zizhong, commander of the 59th Army, rushed to the Guzhen area, and cooperated with the 51st Army to stubbornly resist the Japanese army in the area on the north bank of the Huai River. At the same time, on the south bank of the Huai River, the 48th Army of the 21st Group Army held the Luqiao area, and the 7th Army coordinated with the 31st Army to attack the Japanese flank of Dingyuan in a roundabout way, forcing the main force of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army to return from the north bank of the Huai River. The 59th and 51st armies took advantage of the situation to counterattack and restored all positions north of the Huai River by early June. The 21st Army and the 31st Army were concentrated from the south bank of the Huai River to the north bank. The two sides confronted each other across the river. ”

However, the fighting on the northern front was extremely fierce, and the 5th Division of the North China Front Army was successively captured in Yishui, Juxian, and Rizhao, and captured Linyi on June 4. The 10th Division's Commander's Detachment crossed the canal from the west of the Jining area and attacked Jiaxiang, but was met with stubborn resistance from the 3rd Army and the attack was thwarted. However, the Seya Detachment, which was also subordinate to the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, was progressing smoothly, trapping Lincheng, Zaozhuang, and Hanzhuang, and was advancing towards Taierzhuang. In addition, the first detachment of the Japanese army Sakamoto was fighting hard with the 20th Army Corps of the Nationalist Government on the front line of Chashan and Xiangcheng. The Japanese 16th Division, Sakai Detachment, Ida Detachment, and the 109th Division also joined the battle. In addition, on the Xinkou front, the Japanese army gathered more than 50,000 people from the 108th Division, the 14th Division, the 1st Brigade of Field Artillery, the 2nd Brigade, the 1st Wing of Independent Combat Vehicles, and the 2nd Wing to launch an attack on the Second War Zone. ”

"However, the Kuomintang troops on the Shandong front fought very bravely this time, and the Fifth Theater gathered the 27th Division, 30th Division, 31st Division, 30th Army, 43rd Army, 44th Independent Brigade, 4th Division, 89th Division, 6th Division, 139th Division, 2nd Division, 25th Division, 110th Division, 13th Army, 52nd Army, 75th Army, 85th Army, 333rd Brigade of the 57th Army, 13th Army Cavalry Regiment, 9th Cavalry Division, 13th Division and other troops, with a total strength of 400,000 per month, In addition, a large number of troops are gathering in the Xuzhou area, and Chairman Chiang is preparing to fight the Japanese army to the death in the Xuzhou area. ”

After listening to Yang Yi's report, Chen Feng frowned and said: "Xuzhou is the place of four wars, and there is no danger to defend, the most suitable for the Japanese army's mechanized troops to advance, Chairman Jiang is afraid that he will suffer a big loss this time." ”

"Sosa, what are we going to do?" Yang Yi asked.

"Of course it was fought, we couldn't intervene in Xuzhou, and we couldn't transport our troops to Xuzhou in a short time, so we reopened the battlefield and pulled the attention of the Japanese army back from Central and North China. Now that the fall of Taiyuan City is imminent, the troops in the Second War Zone may have been frightened by the little devils, and if we don't take them a hand, Jinzhong and Jinnan will probably all fall. At that time, the main force of the Japanese army entered Henan from Shanxi, and the main force attacked the Nationalist Government from the east and west. Saying that, Chen Feng stood up, picked up a teaching stick casually, walked to the map hanging on the wall, and said: "The main forces of the North China Front are now concentrated in Lunan and Jinzhong, and there is only about one division in the Pingjin area, and only half a division in the Hebei region, so we want to teach the Japanese army an unforgettable lesson this time." ”

"This time, we will launch an all-out attack on the Japanese army from the southeast, northwest, and northwest, with the main offensive direction of the Western Route Army being Guisui and Baotou, the Northern Route Army's offensive direction being the Saibei Grassland, and the Eastern Route Army's main offensive direction being Rehe Province and the vast areas of eastern Hebei."

"Now listen to my orders: the 101st Division, the 222nd Division, the Guard Brigade, and the Armored Brigade will form the Western Route Army, which will be under my direct command, and the strategic goal is to annihilate the Japanese army in Mongolia and seize key cities such as Guisui and Baotou. The strategic goal of the cavalry group and the Mongolian National Salvation Army was to capture the grassland towns such as Xilinhot, Ulanhua, Sunit Right Banner, Zhengbai Banner, Yellow Banner, and Zhenglan Banner, and destroy the strongholds of the Japanese puppet army on the grassland. The instructor, the air defense brigade, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd independent battalions of eastern Hebei formed the Eastern Route Army, with Shi Jianfei as the commander-in-chief, and the strategic purpose was to capture Chengde. In addition, the 7th Independent Division, Xinghe Garrison Brigade Chen Bing Xuanhua, launched an attack in the direction of Luxia Garden, Changping, and Beiping. At the same time, the new 1st Brigade was urgently stationed in Datong, the new 2nd Brigade was urgently stationed in Tianzhen, the new 3rd Brigade was stationed in Zhangjiakou, and the New 4th Brigade remained in Xinghe. ”

After giving the order, Chen Feng said: "The soldiers are divided into four routes, but they are divided into primary and secondary. This time, it was mainly based on the Western Route Army, supplemented by the Northern Route Army, followed by the Southeast Army. The overall strategic goal was to eliminate the Mongolian army and seize the Japanese-puppet occupation areas in Suiyuan and Chabei. The last point to say is that this time the Japanese army is very lax on our army's vigilance, so our army can completely give them a surprise attack, so the special operations division is divided into four, and each line army is equipped with a special operations brigade to operate. The time for the general assault was June 28, at 1 a.m. ”

"Okay, immediately after I go back, I will step up my time to prepare, but we must not let the Japanese army find any clues, remember, the plague in Chahar Province has not been resolved, and I am also infected, do you understand?"

"Got it!"

"Adjournment!" (To be continued......)