Anyone who knows something about the Liberation War will definitely know the three major battles, and if you know the three major battles, you will know the importance of the Liaoshen Campaign, and you will understand the strategic significance of Jinzhou to the northeast. It is reported that Lin Biao, who was in charge of commanding the Northeast operation at that time, was unwilling to attack this place connecting the Northeast and North China because he was afraid of losses, and was finally forced to take this important town by Mao Zedong. Although after Du Yuming's various plans, a group of ships were finally withdrawn from Huludao, but most of them still became prisoners of the People's Liberation Army, and eventually became soldiers of the Fourth Field Army, which made the strength of the People's Liberation Army grow suddenly.

And this time, contrary to everyone's expectations, the Eighth Route Army actually carried out the Jinzhou operation "again", and after paying considerable losses, took it.

Faced with this situation, whether it is the Japanese or the puppet Manchukuo emperor Aixin Jueluo who is hiding in Changchun. Pu Yi was terrified. Because the Eighth Route Army simply put on a posture of swallowing the northeast, and with the might of having just defeated the "Japanese-Manchurian Coalition Army", both the Japanese and the people of the puppet Manchukuo also deeply felt the threat of the Eighth Route Army. But then again, although I felt a little frightened and aware of the unexpected combat ability of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese and those old and young remnants of the Manchu Qing still had a trace of luck in their hearts: even if the Eighth Route Army was strong, what would it be? With only about 100,000 people, can you still conquer the entire Northeast?

Because of the failure of the attack on Khalkha, Umezu Mijiro's military command was replaced by Kenkichi Ueda. And this general of the Kwantung Army, who was originally in charge of sitting in the Far East, made an analysis of the battle situation. He immediately organized a large number of troops to launch a counteroffensive against Jinzhou, and at the same time, he also asked for help from Yoshio Shinozuka of the North China Front. Part of the troops were mobilized from North China to carry out a north-south flank attack on Jinzhou.

Many people thought that the Eighth Route Army would choose to retreat voluntarily in the face of such pressure. After all, the Eighth Route Army has always been famous for guerrilla warfare. Contrary to almost everyone's expectations, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army sent Peng Dehuai, deputy commander-in-chief, to Jinzhou to direct the Jinzhou defensive battle. That is, they have no intention of withdrawing at all.

Thus began a fierce battle.

Kwantung Army, Puppet Manchu Army, North China Front Army, North China Puppet Army...... The total number is said to be more than 150,000, and under the command of Kenkichi Ueda, Jinzhou was heavily surrounded. And inside the city of Jinzhou. It was less than 40,000 Eighth Route Army commanded by Peng Dehuai, and this army also suffered considerable losses in the siege battle not long ago.

The victory and defeat seem to be quite obvious...... If the Eighth Route Army does not have external recruitment.

But the problem is that the Eighth Route Army never fights dumbfounded.

Peng Dehuai led his troops to drag Ueda Kenkichi and the main force of the Kwantung Army to Jinzhou City. The remaining Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army took advantage of the situation to enter the northeast. Ye Ting, Liu Bocheng, He Long, Lin Biao, Nie Rongzhen, Luo Ronghuan, Xu Xiangqian...... Coupled with Mao Zedong and Zhu De, who were in charge of the overall situation in Ulaanbaatar, the Japanese rule in Northeast China fell into a stormy situation almost instantly. The Eighth Route Army, which was fully equipped, showed everyone what it means to be strong.

Umezu Mijiro, who was forced to stay, was stumbling under the opponent's almost frantic attack. In a panic, he asked Tokyo for help. But at this time, Tokyo could not draw any troops. Thereupon. Nishio Shouzo, who had been watching the European battlefield in Yekaterinaburg, was forced to transfer half a division from the already small number of troops under his command, and some troops from the labor reform units formed by Soviet labor prisoners as the main cadres, and sent them to the northeast to support. But before this army crossed Lake Belga, it was caught off guard by Chen Yi and Li Xiannian who came out of nowhere. Chen and Li's troops were not many, but such a "small army" actually dragged Nishio Shouzo's reinforcements to the death, making it difficult for them to advance half a step.

The Northeast fought into a group.

In the end, Ueda Kenkichi besieged Jinzhou for more than three months. Losing nearly half of its troops, it still failed to take the city. In desperation, he had to withdraw his troops, hoping to use the remaining troops to drive away the CCP that was "raging" in the northeast. But the problem is that at this time, most of the townships in the Northeast have fallen into the hands of the CCP, and most of the remaining townships are also extremely unstable and may be taken down at any time. Not only that, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, which originally had only about 100,000 troops, have more than tripled their strength in just three months, and this number is still growing rapidly. Therefore, Ueda Kenkichi had no room for implementation at all, and he could only disperse his forces into the major cities in the northeast and try to ensure Japanese rule over these major cities. But this is only temporary. Although the top brass of the Kwantung Army desperately propagandized, after the troops rested, they would launch a counteroffensive to drive the CCP out of the northeast. But everyone understands that with the further enhancement of strength, just waiting for the CCP to digest the results of the previous operation, after the troops have rested, a new round of offensive will be launched, and at that time, the Japanese can only be passively beaten.

In other words, after a bloody battle, the Northeast has changed its offensive and defensive positions!

Obviously, this is a situation that many people do not want to see. The Japanese, Lao Chiang, and even the Germans did not want to see it.

To a certain extent, the Northeast can be said to be the lifeline of the Japanese, and in order to support their own war of aggression, the Japanese have grabbed all kinds of strategic materials from the Northeast like crazy, but now that most of the Northeast has "fallen," they have lost a huge logistics base, and their war potential will be further exhausted. As for Lao Jiang, he naturally saw the situation that the CCP would develop rapidly after seizing the Northeast. You must know that the original Feng warlords were the most powerful force in China, not only with a vast territory, rich resources, and a large population, but also with various industrial ...... developed by Zhang Zuolin

Therefore, during the Battle of Jinzhou, Lao Jiang stumbled many times, and the craziest time was to order Hu Zongnan and Fu Zuoyi, who were stationed in the north, to attack Khalkha directly. However, this order was never carried out. After Fu Zuoyi received the order, he disobeyed the yang and the yin, and on the surface he transferred troops, but his movements were so slow that he was to death, and when Ueda Kenkichi couldn't hold on to the city of Jinzhou, he retreated, and his troops had not yet been assembled; Although Hu Zongnan is a little better than Fu Zuoyi, his main forces are in Shaanxi and Shanxi, and he has to prevent Yan Xishan from making a comeback and taking away the territory he has finally occupied. Although Fu Zuoyi ostensibly obeyed Lao Jiang's instructions, he was actually a warlord who divided one side, so he was naturally afraid that Lao Jiang would play a trick of destroying the enemy. Therefore, under Fu Zuoyi's obstruction intentionally or unintentionally, after the war in the northeast ended, Hu Zongnan's vanguard troops had not yet seen the Khalkha border.

In this way, although Lao Jiang was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, he had no way to deal with the CCP. I have the intention to take Fu Zuoyi, but I am worried that Fu Zuoyi will be forced directly to the CCP's side, if that is the case, the CCP will not only occupy the northeast, and the people's troops can point directly at Pingjin, and then peek into the entire North China.

But just looking at it like this is not an option. Lao Chiang would never sit idly by and watch the CCP occupy the northeast and then obtain a huge amount of capital. Although this seems to be no way to stop it at present, the open block is not good, and there is still a hidden block. Therefore, from the very beginning, he secretly reached an agreement with the Japanese, promising that the national army would not attack the Japanese army for the time being, so that the Japanese army could send troops from northern, central, and southern China to support the northeast. To his surprise, the Japanese did transfer troops, but this army was not transferred to the Northeast, but to South Asia...... At the end of the Battle of Jinzhou, Seishiro Sakagaki won a great victory on the Indian battlefield, destroying the troops of eight British and Indian divisions, defeating the Indian Governor Wavell and capturing Calcutta. Kolkata was no ordinary town, having been the capital of British India during the colonial period for 140 years, from 1772 to 1911. During this time, the city has been the center of education, science, culture and politics in modern India. Thus, the fall of Calcutta plunged the whole of India into chaos, and British rule in India began to show signs of collapse. In the same way, because of the fall of Calgada, Alexander's troops, who were fighting fiercely with the Japanese troops retreating from North Africa in the Bombay area, were also greatly affected, and their morale was greatly reduced, especially those Indian soldiers, and there were a large number of desertions and mutinies...... It can be said that the fall of Mumbai is almost foregone.

So the British were really in a hurry, coupled with the urgency of the Egyptian side, Suez could fall at any time, Churchill finally lowered his arrogant head, in order to cancel the "McMahon Line", cede East Bengal Province, support weapons and baggage as a condition, in exchange for the support of the Chinese side. However, at the price of such "humiliation", what Churchill got was not the attack on Sakagaki Seishiro by the Chinese Expeditionary Force that he hoped for, but the southward movement of the Sichuan army, which had already arrived in Tibet and recuperated for a long time...... Tens of thousands of Sichuan-Tibetan troops, led by Pan Wenhua, Liu Wenhui and others, entered Nepal and then arrived at the future Indian capital before Wavell, the Indian governor, withdrew to New Delhi, where they awaited the British to carry their weapons and baggage. In other words, the Sichuan army, which was supposed to support the British and face the Japanese bullets for the British, ran to the rear of the British and Indian troops, and began to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight...... And the British not only could not trouble them, but they had to be kind to them, because they really needed such a reinforcement. (To be continued......)