Chapter 679: Chongqing Raiders

In order to completely destroy the Chen Feng regime, the Japanese army base camp deliberately dropped 2 tank divisions, 3 artillery brigades and 800 fighters from Tokyo to the Chinese battlefield and assigned them to the battle sequence of the China Dispatch Army.

After receiving the telegram from the base camp, Yan Junliu felt a great pressure, and the meaning of the base camp was very clear, allowing him to mobilize all the war resources that Japan could mobilize now to organize a major war of unprecedented scale, and reverse the current decline in one fell swoop. And there is only one goal - to occupy Chongqing and destroy the command center of the Chinese government.

The Japanese army has now conquered Changde, and the front of the troops is directed at Yichang, which is not far from Chongqing, and the straight-line distance is only three to five hundred kilometers, and with the marching speed of the mechanized troops, it is only one and a half to two days. However, since Chen Feng entered Chongqing, a large number of elite troops have been transferred south, including the original Chen Feng's guard unit and the mobile corps of the Eighth Theater, all of which are first-class elites.

In addition, Chongqing was originally the temporary capital of the Nationalist Government, and the most elite troops of the Nationalist Government were stationed, and now he wants to eat all these elites in one fell swoop, Yan Junliu thinks that he does not have this good tooth.

However, the order of the base camp could not be disobeyed, so Yan Jun summoned all the senior officers of the Chinese Dispatch Army except the North China Front Army to Nanjing for a meeting to discuss the formulation of a combat plan.

After several days of meetings and studies, the Chinese Dispatch Army Command initially formulated a plan for the operation of the "Yong" brand. For the sake of secrecy, the battle plan was replaced with the number 8, and the battle plan was sent to the headquarters and Emperor Hirohito.

In addition to the cooperation of the army, navy, and army and naval aviation, it also requires the dispatch of special forces and airborne troops, as well as the close cooperation of intelligence agencies.

According to the thinking of the Chinese Dispatch Army Command, this operation is not only a military duel, but also a duel between intelligence and science and technology.

According to the "brave" name battle plan. China's dispatch force will concentrate 800,000 troops, 1,600 combat vehicles, 8,000 artillery pieces, 1,200 aircraft, and 50 small and medium-sized ships at one time. Then, with the cooperation of 220,000 puppet troops, they marched to Chongqing in three ways, with the North Route Army mainly based on the navy and supplemented by the first-class marines of the army. Go north along the Yangtze River. The main goal was to capture Yichang. Then the main force went straight to Chongqing.

The Middle Route Army was dominated by the Eleventh Army, and the direction of attack was out of Changsha, Changde, Zhangjiajie, Longshan, and Wulong. Go straight to Fuling.

The Southern Route Army was the main force of the 13th Army stationed in Shanghai, with a large number of puppet army troops, out of Hengyang, through Shaoyang, Huaihua, to capture Tongren and Zunyi in Guizhou, and then along Zunyi to the north, straight to Chongqing Banan.

While the army and navy were launching an offensive on the ground, the Burmese Front was to launch an offensive in northern Burma to contain China's limited air power, and then concentrate its forces on an unprecedented bombardment of Chongqing, completely destroying the determination of the Chinese army and people to resist.

In addition, the last assassination of the Chinese leader Jiang and the Shanxi warlord Yan showed a very high combat quality, but also for the Japanese Empire to make immortal contributions, this operation also needs the power of the special high-tech side of the cooperation, the target of the assassination is not only Chen Feng such a high-level figure, but also includes the commanders above the division level, the county and city level above the government personnel, the people can mess up the social order of the Great Japanese Empire, the Great Japanese Empire can also be.

I have to say that this battle plan of the Japanese army has taken into account everything that can be considered, and it is very rigorous, but as mentioned above, this is a big gamble, and if the bet is won, Japan still has the strength to continue to deal with the Chinese, and even completely occupy China according to the original plan.

However, once it fails, the Japanese army's war resources will be completely exhausted, and the Japanese defense system in the Jiangnan region will be full of loopholes, and it will soon be destroyed by Chen Feng's troops.

On 5 August, the base camp made an accurate reference to this operational plan of the Chinese Dispatch Army.

At a time when China dispatched its army headquarters to prepare for war, the living space of the Japanese troops in North China and Northeast China was being compressed, and in the northeast, there was no Japanese stronghold north of Changchun, and more than 300,000 Japanese puppet troops besieged in Songyuan and Shuangcheng were completely annihilated because of the puppet army's uprising.

After capturing the Mudanjiang River, the Chinese and Soviet armies continued to move south, aiming at Yanbian and Dunhua until they captured Tonghua and Dandong, cutting off the retreat of the Japanese army to the Korean Peninsula.

In North China, the only big cities that the Japanese army still controls are Beiping and Tangshan and Qinhuangdao, and other cities have been captured, although the North China Front is still insisting, but Okamura Ningji is pessimistic about this battle, because the gap between the two sides is too obvious, the number of troops is not as large as that of others, and the weapons and equipment are not as good as those of others.

The only way now is to withdraw the troops, taking advantage of the favorable opportunity when the Chinese have not yet cut off the main passage into the customs, to withdraw the large forces to the northeast, or to hold the Liaoshen line, or to directly retreat to the Korean Peninsula, otherwise, if the war continues, the entire army will be annihilated.

However, Okamura Ninji's suggestion was not adopted by the base camp, which asked Okamura Ninji to command the troops in North China to continue to deal with Chen Feng's troops, and even launch a local counterattack to attract more troops from China to reinforce North China.

Although Okamura Ninji didn't know exactly what the base camp was trying to do, it was not difficult for him to think of it as if he wanted them to beat the side drum and support the actions of the brother troops on the side.

Although Okamura did not think that two unreliable actions could save the decline of the Chinese battlefield, he still carried out the orders of the base camp and commanded the troops to launch three counterattacks in succession against the lower garden and the outer positions of Beiping.

On August 15, two months and seven days after the start of the thunder operation, the Chinese dispatch army in central China launched the entire front line in Xiangxi, and in addition, the naval headquarters of the Chinese dispatch army was moved to Wuhan, and General Yan Jun personally went to the front line to supervise the battle.

The Japanese army reopened the battlefield in the south of the Yangtze River, which was expected by Chen Feng, and this was also the usual practice of the Japanese army. However, he did not expect that the intensity of the Japanese army's attack would be so great, and so many troops and heavy equipment would be dispatched at one time, and it seemed that the Japanese were targeting Chongqing and him, the leading figure, and they would not give up until they reached their goal.

Chen Feng immediately ordered the Central China Theater, the Southwest Theater, and the Chongqing Special Theater to formulate a response plan and resolutely wipe out the Japanese army in Xiangxi and northern Qianbei.

The Central China Theater and the Southwest Theater urgently convened a military meeting to discuss the war against Japan, and initially decided that the Southwest Theater would deal with the Japanese army's southern Hunan direction, and at the same time be ready to reinforce troops in the northern Burma direction at any time. The Central China Front, on the other hand, concentrated its large forces to meet the Japanese troops in the direction of Yichang and western Hunan.

Xue Yue and Long Yun personally went to the front line to command the battle, and the Japanese soldiers would face off against each other in the future.

In just one week, more than one million troops gathered on the front line, and follow-up troops were also arriving, and Chinese and foreign newspapers called the battle the Sino-Japanese decisive battle, and the attention of all parties was attracted to western China. (To be continued......)