Chapter 211: The Prelude to the Great Counteroffensive

Zhangjiakou.

The conference room of the military headquarters of the 29th Army can be said to be star-studded, and there are five second-class generals and four lieutenant generals sitting in the small room, and almost all the miscellaneous princes in the north have arrived, and even Li Du has rushed from the front line.

He now occupies the area of Linxi, with Jingpeng, the Japanese army on the front line of Lindong is deadlocked, all supplies are transported by car from Zhangjiakou through Duolun, Daribo, and the Japanese army supplies rely on the Ye-Chi Railway that has just been built, both sides are full of food and ammunition, no one can destroy the other, and the battles of all sizes continue.

"I won't say much about the situation, everyone understands the impact of Tang Juwu being kicked out of Changbai Mountain on us, so I hope you can help him!" Yang Feng pointed to the large map and said.

"Why don't you just tell me?" Han Fuyu said that he knew that it would not be his turn to send troops, so he was extremely active.

"The method is very simple, that is, we will carry out a big operation in the northeast, of course, we refer to the Northeast Liberation Army, and it is impossible for our National Revolutionary Army to do this kind of thing, after all, peace and friendship between China and Japan are still the mainstream." Yang Feng said.

A group of old foxes immediately laughed, they have all played for a lifetime, and they don't know what Yang Feng means.

"How big do you want to be?" Song Zheyuan asked with a smile, he knew that only the 29th Army could send troops to the Dao, after all, everyone else had defensive tasks, but he had three divisions of mobile troops in his hands.

"Then naturally the bigger the better, not afraid of directly attacking Shenyang." Yang Feng said.

"Then it's better to go directly south to Rehe, first take Chifeng, and then go down to Chengde, I will also get together a division, let's turn the Great Wall north upside down first." Sun Dianying said that this is the most beneficial to him. The more chaotic the battle in Rehe, the safer it will be, but this is not good for Tang Juwu, and now the Japanese army in Rehe has a total of four divisions, the eighth division looks at him, the second division is staring at the Great Wall line, and the four or six divisions are dealing with Li Du. Doing so would be tantamount to squeezing them together, and even Yang Feng felt that doing so was a bit too contemptuous of the enemy.

These are all standing divisions of the Japanese army, not those miscellaneous goods, if it were the original history, these people would be enough to sweep North China.

"This won't help Tang Juwu much, in my opinion, it's better to attack Shenyang." Yang Feng said.

"But it's too difficult to counterattack Shenyang, right? The distance is too far, our logistics are all by car, and now it is not the same as before, when one person could go anywhere with a pole gun on his back. Now I can't move a single step without logistics. Sun Dianying said.

He is also telling the truth, now the firepower of his subordinates has increased I don't know how many times, the combat effectiveness is strong enough, but it is absolutely impossible to do without sufficient logistics supply, this is also the evil result of Yang Feng's American-style education, no one is afraid of short-term assaults, and there is no bottom in his heart when he runs long-range.

"Ask a question, after laying down Shenyang. Are we going to hold on there, or what? Fu Zuoyi asked.

A bunch of people look at him like fools, isn't that nonsense? Is that a place that can be held? Are they all as stupid as he was back then?

"Then Brother Yang. What is your purpose? Fu Zuoyi asked Yang Feng.

"Scrap the Shenyang Arsenal!" Yang Feng said that this was the reason why he was full of resentment towards Shenyang, knowing that the armory of Ludao almost supported the entire Chinese battlefield for the Japanese in the later period.

"Then ask another question, in addition to Changbai Mountain and Rehe, are there more Japanese troops in other places in the Northeast?" Fu Zuoyi said.

"If you have something to say, don't be like an old girl." Han Fuyu said dissatisfied.

"It's almost nobody. That is, a few garrisons, and then there are puppet troops, these guys can be ignored. Yang Feng said that he was still more optimistic about Fu Zuoyi, and to be honest, among these people, his military command ability ranked first.

Boss Yang's intelligence gathering ability is very strong. Not to mention the infiltration of his special reconnaissance brigade, even from those businessmen who travel back and forth between the north and the south, he can get enough things.

The Japanese army in the entire northeast is strong on the outside and weak on the inside, except for the heavy troops in Rehe and Changbai Mountain, the rest of the place is all pointing to the puppet army, and the rest is a scattered independent garrison brigade, usually a few hundred people, and the defense area is terrifyingly large, mainly to defend the railway hub, if Li Du attacks to the east, not counting the four or six divisions that confront him, then the nearest enemy is far away in Zhengjiatun, an independent garrison brigade of 800 people.

There are not even a few people in Shenyang, although it is the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, but in fact there is only one wing of defenders, and there is also about a wing of marines of the Navy in Lushun.

"That's very simple, first, Zhi Chugong's Northeast Liberation Army is equipped with a division of Brother Kui Yuan, and launches a large-scale attack to the south, and the momentum must be large, so that the Japanese feel that the target is Chengde, and at the same time, the armies of the Great Wall Line also follow to provoke trouble, drills, accidental attacks, and misfires.

Second, concentrate 20,000 cavalry, Brother Mingxuan has a cavalry division, Brother Kuiyuan has a cavalry brigade, and Brother Zhuge seems to have almost a brigade in his hands, right? This is enough, just use these people, accompanied by cars to carry supplies and heavy weapons, and then raid Shenyang.

The reconnaissance brigade of the security division, as far as I know, should be very good at sabotaging behind enemy lines, right? Let them put the railway bridge in the Northeast. It is best to paralyze all the railway lines from Rehe to Shenyang, from Changchun to Shenyang, and from Andong to Shenyang, and it is not necessary to be paralyzed for ten more days.

Ten days is enough time for the cavalry to hit Shenyang, and when Shenyang can go down, it will be down, and if it can't be retreated immediately, anyway, our goal of mobilizing the Japanese army has been achieved, and it is still very simple for the cavalry to run. Fu Zuoyi said.

"Are you playing Li Cunqiao to destroy Hou Liang?" Han Fuyu exclaimed.

It should be said that this plan is still very risky, after all, now is not the time of Houliang, there is the most developed railway network in China around Shenyang, and the Japanese reinforcements can be reached in a day as soon as possible, but the problem is that there must be reinforcements, and the four divisions of Rehe are not to be counted on, as long as they dare to move, then Li Du will change from a feint attack to a real attack, and it is not impossible for him to add two divisions to Chengde directly.

If this really happens, Yang Fengzhen doesn't mind completely turning his face with the Japanese, and then the Great Wall line counterattacks on all fronts and recovers the entire Rehe in one fell swoop, even if it is at the risk of triggering a full-scale war between China and Japan.

If the defense line can be advanced to the western Liaoning corridor, then Pingjin will be completely safe.

The Japanese will not fail to see this, they will definitely not move these four divisions. The DPRK still has a division, but it is impossible for them to come in time to blow up the Yalu River bridge, and there are also troops from the country to land in Arthur, but this also depends on the railway, not to mention blocking them by blowing up the railway. There must be no problem with a little delay.

"I agree with this plan, even if Shenyang can't be defeated, as long as the Japanese army blocking Rehe here, the raiding troops can retreat in their entirety, the danger is not great, but the gain is huge." Song Zheyuan said that no matter whether Shenyang can be captured or not, the 29th Army will be powerful in the world, and of course he is willing to do it.

And he's telling the truth. A lone surprise attack looks dangerous, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, it is actually very small to take risks, as long as the Japanese army blocking Rehe, then the 20,000 cavalry can completely advance and retreat freely in the northeast.

Since the main ones are willing to send troops, then the others naturally have no opinion.

"But there is one more point, what about the Japanese planes?" Sun Dianying said.

In the Battle of Duolun, he relied to a large extent on Yang Feng's air support to stop the Japanese army. So I paid special attention to the safety of the overhead, but this time it was fighting in the northeast. It is impossible for Yang Feng to openly send planes to cover.

"I am responsible for this, while the special brigade bombs the railway, it also bombs the Japanese airfield, and all the accompanying trucks are loaded with large-caliber machine guns, and another batch of trucks is loaded with double 37 anti-aircraft guns. It can be used both for air defense and as artillery support. Yang Feng said.

There were not many Japanese planes in the Northeast, in fact, at this time, the entire Japanese Army, that is, hundreds of aircraft, and the vast majority of them were old-fashioned biplanes, with a speed of only more than 300 kilometers. The latest Type 95 only flew four hundred.

In this way, a group of guys made a plan for a surprise attack on Shenyang, and of course the details had to be perfected by the staff officers.

"I found this way to be good, if there is anything in the future, everyone will sit together and discuss together, not only externally, but also internally!" Yang Feng said with a smile.

A group of old bandits and warlords laughed and didn't speak, they can sit together now because of Yang Feng, who will sit down and discuss with them amicably when they want to grab land to make a living? I've already hit each other with knives and guns.

"There is another point, our secrecy work must be done well, except for a few of us, and the staff officer who is responsible for formulating the plan, everyone else must be hidden, including the troops responsible for the raid on Shenyang, can only tell their senior officers, middle and lower officers and soldiers must also be hidden, and tell them before the operation begins." Yang Feng said that the secrecy of these guys has always been not very good, and they must be reminded first.

"This is easy to do, just tell them that we are going to join forces with Zhichugong to counterattack Rehe, and we will pull people over first." Sun Dianying said.

After the plan was determined, all that was left was all kinds of preparations, material reserves, army transfers, and the vehicle modification that Yang Feng was responsible for, and it happened that he had just got a hundred four-like vehicles, all of which were sent to Duolun, and then installed large-caliber machine guns and anti-aircraft guns here, the drivers and machine gunners of these vehicles, and the gunners were all members of the security division, plus the special reconnaissance brigade, Yang Feng also invested more than 2,000 people this time.

The 1,000 members of the special reconnaissance team were divided into small groups and infiltrated into the northeast in batches, these people did not carry any weapons, first determined the targets that needed to be destroyed, made all preparations, and waited until the battle began, Aunt Junker, who was deployed in Duolun, would airdrop them at night.

At this time, the Sichuan disaster area no longer needed them, and a large amount of grain purchased from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Nanyang had been transported to the disaster area by land, and all the transport planes and bombers sent by Yang Feng had returned to Beiping.

In addition to these, there are also tens of thousands of things needed to change vests, Li Du's Northeast Liberation Army still wears the gray and blue military uniforms of the Northeast Army, since it is to change the vests, it is natural to change the same military uniform, plus flags and all kinds of bits and pieces, these also need a little time to prepare, of course, this is not worth mentioning to the countless Yang bosses in the factories under the hand.

He didn't even bother to keep it secret, it was impossible to keep it secret for such a big operation, and there were so many Japanese spies in China that there would be no shortage of them even in the army, and if they didn't notice the movement of tens of thousands of horses, they would simply have their own seppuku.

However, even if the Japanese know the way, they are helpless, the 29th Army and Sun Dianying's support for Li Du has long been made public, they have threatened the bald guys countless times for this, but the bald guys can't help it, Chahar's three armies have long since stopped listening to his command, and besides, he wants these guys to fight with the Japanese!

Anyway, the Japanese are in a hurry. He said very secretly, I can't control these guys, if you have the ability, you can clean them up yourself, and our national government will not interfere.

When Yoshiaki heard this, he wanted to spit on him, Nima, we have to clean it up. I still need to look for you?

So even if they know the way, the Japanese can only silently prepare for the battle, just when the two sides are gearing up, recuperating and preparing to fight, Boss Yang left again, because he suddenly remembered that he should prepare something good for the Japanese.

Japan is already preparing to increase its troops in the Northeast, and the numbers have been determined, the 1st and 11th Divisions. The time was before the end of May, mainly because their internal clean-up had not yet been completed, especially the 1st Division, which had to be completely cleaned up of the hidden rebel comrades.

Someone is responsible for Tokyo's shelling of its own navy's battleships, thousands of soldiers and civilians killed and wounded, and an international laughing stock. During this time, thousands of people were arrested, and even the chief military attache of the Honjo attendant was reprimanded by His Majesty the Emperor. While there is no evidence that he was indeed connected to the mysterious chariot, the Emperor's wrath was something to bear.

Although it is unlikely that the Northeast will be strengthened until the internal cleanup is completed, if the battle starts, the Japanese army, which lacks troops, may really transfer them in advance. So Yang Feng wants to prepare a welcome gift for them.

"The Igdem-500 sunken mine with a non-triggering fuze, weighing 500 kilograms, with an airdrop parachute." Inside the dock in Mozambique, Sablin said, pointing to a pile of big round guys. Feng Zhigang next to him broke out in a cold sweat.

Ever since he knew what this Russian had sent to his boss, he had always kept his heart pounding, and hundreds of kilograms of explosives were packed inside, and he would just explode a dock and it would be gone.

"Can such a mine blow up and sink a battleship?" Yang Feng couldn't put it down, stroked the cold shell of the mine, and asked curiously.

"There should be nothing wrong with heavy damage, but it is difficult to sink, if it is replaced by a tonnage, it is estimated that it will still be possible, of course, there are no battleships to blow up now." Sablin said casually.

"Is this thing easy to salvage?" Yang Feng asked, he didn't want to cheap the Japanese.

"Salvage? Why do you want to salvage? This is a voice-activated induction fuse, as long as a ship passes nearby, it will automatically explode, such a mine can only be eliminated by inducing detonation, it is impossible to salvage, it is too dangerous and no one will do this. Sablin said.

At this moment, Yang Feng was relieved, this batch of Sablin sent 200 pieces, and he didn't bring anything else, so he directly loaded a ship of mines and ran back, and he was going to throw all these mines on the channel outside Lushunkou and Yingkou.

Of course, you can't throw it now, you have to wait until the Japanese troop carrier arrives, and secretly throw it over with a submarine, as for whether it will blow up other ships by mistake, it has nothing to do with him, who knows that it was a mine thrown by him? Maybe the Japanese threw it down and forgot about it! Or the remnants of the Russo-Japanese War are also possible.

"Water, mines?!" Li Guotang looked at the big guys in front of him, and his lips were not so neat.

In order to keep it secret, Yang Feng could only put these mines in Beitang, and his shipyard selling dog meat on sheep's head was fully equipped with all kinds of facilities, and it was confidential enough, and it was convenient to load ships in the future.

As a veteran navy, Li Guotang also often came to guide Yang Feng's torpedo crews, who had been trained in Qingdao for more than half a year and had completely mastered the knowledge of torpedo boat operations, but what they lacked was only experience.

Ten torpedo boats lined up neatly at their berths also looked quite fleet-like, behind the Dagu battery, there was another torpedo boat base under construction, and another ten torpedo boats ordered from the British were also under construction, which could be delivered in two months at most.

"Don't be so loud, this thing must be kept secret, and it is not allowed to be revealed to anyone, do you know it?" Yang Feng said to his shipyard manager or base commander with a serious face.

"Boss, where are you going to throw these mines?" Li Guotang asked in a low voice.

Yang Fengshen mysteriously bowed in the northeast direction.

"Lushun Kou?!" Li Guotang's eyes almost popped out.

"Confidential, must be confidential!" He turned to the shipyard manager and said viciously, throwing mines at the opponent's port, which was exciting to think about.

"No, what kind of mine are you? Why are there only so many tentacles? And there is no anchor, you are not going to bomb Japanese warships with drifting mines, right? Only then did he realize that the mines brought by Yang Feng were not quite right.

At this time, neither magnetic mines nor acoustic mines were invented, and it was not until 1939 that the Germans used magnetic mines for the first time.

"This is called a non-triggered sinking mine, just throw it at the bottom of the sea, as long as a ship greater than 500 tons passes through the area of its fuse, then it will be detonated, and hundreds of kilograms of explosives will explode under the water more than ten meters or even a few meters away from themselves, what will be the result?"

"The water pressure of the explosion will break a destroyer or even a light cruiser! Even a battleship could cause a tear in the hull, and if the tear was in a particular location, or if the battleship was flawed in design, then this single mine was enough to send it to the bottom of the sea, and in World War I a British battleship was sunk by a mine with a charge of less than 100 kilograms. Li Guotang was knowledgeable, and immediately described the result to him.

"Then it seems that we should get more of them, get 10,000 pieces, and one day when I am in a bad mood, I throw them all outside the ports of Japan, well, it seems that this is what the Americans did back then.

It's too ruthless, no, our friendly neighbors with a strip of water have not yet embarked on the journey of conquering the world, and it would be too inhumane to bankrupt others.

Forget it, let's see! Yang Feng touched his chin and stopped his urge to turn the Seto Inland Sea into the Dead Sea with some regret. (To be continued......)