If there is one thing that can boost morale the most now, it is undoubtedly a victory, a hearty victory. Although Yan'an's strength has developed and it has the determination and confidence to dominate the world, it cannot compete with the Japanese in this situation, and Yan Xishan in the second war zone and He Jian and others in Hunan do not have this strength, so Chen Feng can only shoulder this burden.

This battle must be fought, and it can only be won and not defeated, and Chen Feng wants all the people of the country to see that Japan's aggressive attempt is impossible to achieve. Their ambition is just a dream, and in the end, together with the whole of Japan, they are the whetstone for the rise of the Chinese nation, and they will eventually be swept into the garbage heap of history, and the final destination of all traitors and lackeys who follow the Japanese will only be a pillar of shame in history.

The cruel war tests people's souls, the poor family produces filial sons, and the country is difficult to show loyalty. A war of aggression will only educate the Chinese people, make the Chinese people more conscious and united, and eventually turn the crisis of national extinction into a turning point for national rejuvenation. The traitor puppet army headed by Wang Jingwei is just a handful of sinners who can't see hope, they can't see the hope of national rejuvenation, they can't see the dawn of victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and they fell in the darkness before dawn, these people don't deserve sympathy, they are the sinners of the Chinese nation.

Wang Jingwei is a very politically minded figure, and he will not be ignorant of what a traitor is, he will not know what a traitor is, and he will not know the fate of a traitor. So why is he willing to take the risk of disapproval and not hesitate to leave a stench for 10,000 years? All this was inseparable from his strong desire to become a leader, that is, to rely on the support of Japanese imperialism to replace Chiang and realize his dream of "restoring" the supreme leader of the Kuomintang and the government.

The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was the greatest patriotic self-defense war in which the Chinese people waged heroic struggles against foreign invaders in the past 100 years and fought for national independence and liberation. At the grim moment when the survival of the Chinese nation is uncertain, every patriotic politician and conscientious Chinese should closely link their own destiny with the destiny of the country and the nation. Lao Chiang was such a person, and the vast majority of military and political officials of the Nationalist Government were such people. The princes of Yan'an are such people, the Eighth Route Army and guerrillas who fought bloodily in various battlefields in North China are all such people, of course, Chen Feng is also, the entire Eighth War Zone behind Chen Feng and the entire military and civilians in Saibei Province are such people, so it is the most correct choice to raise the sword and whip.

Although he had decided to give the little devil a ruthless blow, how to fight this battle still made Chen Feng think about it a lot. The Japanese army has always regarded the Eighth Theater as the greatest threat to northern China, so the Japanese army has long operated two defensive lines in North China to guard against Chen Feng's headquarters. The first is to start from Jingle County in Shanxi, and then pass through Xinkou, Dingxiang, Wutai, Lingqiu, Laiyuan, Taohua Town, Dabao Town, Zhulu, Xiahuayuan, Huailai, Yanqing Huairou, on this line The Japanese army stationed a total of three divisions and two mixed brigades of heavy troops, which is also the first line of defense for the Japanese army to block the attack of the Eighth Theater.

The starting point of the second line of defense was Gujiao, west of Taiyuan. Then pass through Taiyuan, Shouyang, Yangquan, Jingcheng, Shijiazhuang, Dingxing, Laishui, Zhuozhou, Gu'an, Langfang. Then Langfang can be used as a node to reinforce Beiping in the north, and the north can become the northern gateway of Tianjin. On this line of defense, the Japanese army deployed 3 divisions and 3 mixed brigades, which were also reserve reinforcements for the first line of defense.

With these two lines of defense, Chen Feng's troops did not dare to use troops against the Japanese army even if they had an army of five or six hundred thousand. Otherwise, it would not be beautiful to fall under the siege of the Japanese army.

After learning Chen Feng's thoughts. Dozens of senior staff officers of the Eighth Theater Staff Headquarters at the rank of lieutenant colonel and above were confined to the operational command room for a whole week. A total of three operational plans were drawn up for Chen Feng to choose.

The first operational plan was to seize the Battle of Eastern Hebei, including the entire Rehe Province and eastern Hebei, and to concentrate the main forces of the 52nd Group Army and the newly established 61st Group Army in accordance with the operational plan of the General Staff. At the same time, all the fighters and armored units in the theater were concentrated, and the new fighters of the Japanese army were contained with new fighters, and then the tactics of the German blitzkrieg against Poland were imitated, and the B47 strategic bombers were used to open the way and bomb all the strategic points of the Japanese army in the east of Rehe and Hebei.

The second operational plan was aimed at annihilating the Japanese First Army stationed in Shanxi, and the tactics of the General Staff were arranged in this way, and the entire operational plan was divided into four stages, the first stage was to concentrate the 52nd Group Army and all the cavalry units and more than half of the artillery in the theater to launch the largest blow against the Japanese puppet army in the Pingjin area, creating the false impression that the Eighth Theater would recover Beiping. In the second stage, the 40th Group Army stationed in Shanxi was concentrated and launched an attack on the Japanese army on the front line of Xinkou from Yanmen Pass and Ningwu Pass, aiming to contain the Japanese First Army stationed in Shanxi and prevent it from fleeing eastward.

The third stage was to quietly concentrate the armored forces in Wei County, and suddenly rush to Jizhong at the most tense time of the war. Jizhong is the largest plain in North China, which is very suitable for the group charge of armored forces, and Wei County is not far from Baoding, the capital city of Hebei Province, if the attack goes well, the troops can come to Baoding in one day and one night, and then the large-scale infantry will follow closely and advance in a surprise attack, and Baoding should be taken soon, and then the army will go south to attack Shimen, and completely encircle the first army of the Japanese army in Shanxi on the Shanxi Plateau.

As long as Shimen is taken, the rear road of the First Army stationed in Shanxi will be cut off, and as long as the attack is rapid, it is entirely possible to annihilate it in Shanxi.

Although the first operational plan has a high probability of success in the front half of the plan, the second half is very dangerous, although it can cut off the connection channel between the two heavy army groups of the Japanese army, but at the same time, he also puts himself between the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army, and is very likely to be attacked by these two heavy army groups, even if it is as strong as the eighth theater, he cannot easily put himself in the danger of being attacked by the enemy.

Although the second operational plan had to go through four stages, it fully considered the comparison of the strength of the enemy and us, and even more considered the restrictions of the terrain on various arms of the armed forces, so the feasibility was relatively high. More importantly, the main purpose of the Eighth Theater's southward operation this time was to boost morale, and the real results were the most convincing. Although the first operational plan is not bad, after it succeeds, it can only take the initiative strategically, and it will be of great help to the future war situation.

However, it is said that the short-term results are not very large, and the operational goal of the second operational plan is extremely clear at the beginning, that is, to completely annihilate the first army of the Japanese North China Front in Shanxi, and if it succeeds, it will be able to wipe out nearly 100,000 Japanese troops in one fell swoop, and this result is enough to shake the whole of Japan. Therefore, even for the sake of the current situation, Chen Feng could only choose the second combat plan.

Chen Feng was quite satisfied with the quality of the senior staff officers of the General Staff, although the instructor level of the Saibei Military and Political University was not very high, but there were many talents trained, after all, the huge library was not an ornament.

After Chen Feng revised some details of the second operational plan, he quickly summoned the principal officers of the five general departments of the group armies and other units directly under him to hold an operational meeting to prepare for the use of troops against Japan.

After receiving Chen Feng's order, the main officers of the various units did not dare to slack off and immediately set off for Saibei.

Soon, the Eighth Theater War Machine was activated again, this time unlike in the past, this time the Eighth Theater almost poured out of the nest, and although it was still the 52nd Group Army responsible for the first phase of the operation, it was supplemented by the 1st Air Defense Division, the 3rd Army Aviation Brigade, the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade, the 1st Field Artillery Brigade, and a large number of local troops.

The 40th Group Army was still in charge of the second phase, but it was also supplemented by a large number of technical arms, including armored troops, air defense units, artillery, cavalry, and aviation units, with a total strength of more than 120,000.

The forces responsible for the third phase of the offensive consisted of four infantry divisions and three armored divisions, as well as a large number of aviation units and special operations units. The 4 infantry divisions are the 8th Theater Guard Division, the 101st Division, the 222nd Division, and the Independent Seventh Division, which is the only 4 integrated divisions retained in the 8th Theater, each division has more than 32,000 people after being strengthened, and it is also the only 4 infantry divisions in the Eighth Theater that have all been reequipped, and the soldiers use guns are AK47 assault rifles with strong combat effectiveness, plus 3 armored divisions and the main force of the Northern Air Force.

In addition, at the same time as the second phase of the tactics began, Chen Feng ordered Shi Jianfei's 61st Army and the Mongolian salvation process. The 59th Group Army, which had been transformed into an army, attacked the eastern grasslands and Rehe at the same time, and only Li Yifeng's 49th Army was left in the entire Eighth Theater without any combat mission, and was used by Chen Feng as a reserve for the whole army.

In this battle, the Eighth Theater mobilized nearly 500,000 troops from more than a dozen arms, including infantry, cavalry, artillery, armor, engineers, baggage troops, aviation units, air defense troops, medical troops, radar troops, and information troops. (To be continued......)