Xu Hu did not know that his special task force 3rd Brigade was now facing the crisis of being dumpled by the Japanese army, and Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigera was also unaware of the large number of China. The army had also reached the periphery of the battlefield, and the firepower was strong enough for his infantry division to be wiped out in a short time.

Originally, this battle was fought in a blur, and both sides were not prepared, but they both wanted to catch the other party off guard first and give the other party a dismount. Now that each other has calculated each other, and at the same time has been calculated by the other party, so now you can see it.

Not to mention the strange battle situation on the Xuanhua front, the news of the war between the Eighth Theater and the Japanese army came to the whole country to be excited, and then the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Nationalist Government held a press conference in Chongqing.

Now Chen Feng's reputation has long been gone, not to mention at home, the vast majority of national elites abroad have also heard of Chen Feng's name, so the National Government's praise of Chen Feng is not open to it at all, but the words of the National Government can make Chen Feng extremely happy. First of all, the Nationalist Government went so far as to call on the people in the enemy-occupied areas to move to the north, and ordered the Kuomintang troops along the way to make it easier. Secondly, the Nationalist Government assigned the three counties of Hequ, Gufu and Shenmu to the jurisdiction of Saibei Province, and at the same time gave the number of one group army in the Eighth Theater as the 55th Group Army. Later, the Nationalist Government appointed Chen Feng as Deputy Chief of General Staff and National Defense Commissar of the National Revolutionary Army.

The third Chen Feng didn't take it seriously, the deputy chief of the general staff was just a chicken position. It is impossible for Lao Jiang to hand over the elite of his lineage to him for command, and he will also not use the hundreds of thousands of elites in his hands to block the guns of the Central Army, so this deputy chief of general staff looks like a bull, but in fact he is a fart.

However, the call for immigrants to Saibei Province and the assignment of the three counties in northern Shaanxi to the Eighth Theater are real benefits, because the lack of population in Saibei Province is the biggest shackle restricting the development of the Eighth Theater, as long as the population problem is solved, the industrialization process of Saibei Province will be completed soon, and with the current industrial foundation, Chen Feng is confident that he will be able to form an elite army of several million people within three years.

The three counties in northern Shaanxi are the top priority of Chen Feng's development, and Hequ and Gufu are easy to say. There are no specialties. But Shenmu is different, not only with coal, but also with oil, which is lacking in the Eighth War Zone. Chen Feng had already coveted that place, but it was hindered by Yan'an's reaction. So there has been no action. Coupled with the fact that there is oil, Chen Feng still doesn't dare to leak it. Therefore, Chen Feng is planning to contact Yan'an. I hoped that I could send troops to Shenmu, but I didn't expect Lao Jiang to give him a good opportunity.

In fact, there was no reason for Chen Feng to stop Chen Feng from entering Yan'an, Shenmu County, because these three counties in northern Shaanxi were not within the scope of the Eighth Route Army's power at all. In the past, it was indeed under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Provincial Government, but since the Red Army captured the Northern Shaanxi Plateau, the northernmost counties in northern Shaanxi were occupied by Yan Xishan in Shanxi, so the Shenmu River Meander and the three counties of Gufu were under the jurisdiction of the Second War Zone for a long time.

After the Japanese army captured Xinkou, the front of the troops pointed directly at Datong, and the Jin Sui army in the northwest of Jin Province scattered and fled, so the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army was stationed in the northwest of Shanxi Province and opened up many guerrilla areas. When Chen Feng defeated the Mongolian army and forced the Fourth Division and other units to flee from Saibei, the Japanese army's southward route passed through the northwest of Shanxi, and tens of thousands of troops suddenly appeared, and the Jin Sui army that stayed in the northwest of Shanxi and northern Shaanxi fled, and then the Eighth Route Army sent troops to occupy these three counties, which was two years.

The reason why Lao Jiang assigned these three counties to Saibei Province this time was, of course, from Kang Ze that Chen Feng wanted the territory of Shenmu County, so in order to curry favor with Chen Feng and the entire Eighth War Zone, he simply assigned all three counties in northern Shaanxi to Saibei Province.

Of course, it is not excluded that Lao Jiang took the opportunity to attack the Yan'an side, if the Yan'an side became hostile to Chen Feng's department because of this, then Lao Jiang really killed more than one stone, not only currying favor with Chen Feng's department, but also hitting the Yan'an side, what a clever plan!

Although Lao Jiang is not better than fighting, and his vision is so-so, but when it comes to political skills, only Mr. Mao in Yan'an can compare with him, as for Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Yan Xishan, He Jian and he Chen can't catch up with Lao Jiang, this hand alone makes Chen Feng admire.

Knowing that Lu Dao was a pit, but for the sake of oil and large-scale mechanized troops, Chen Feng had to jump in, and if he had a bad relationship with Yan'an, there was nothing he could do.

Although it doesn't make much sense for Chen Feng to take over these counties now, the oil fields of Shenmu can't be exploited anyway. However, it can be arranged in advance, for example, oil refining equipment and related facilities can be built in advance, as long as the Japanese army does not see that it is preparing to extract oil.

However, what made Chen Feng happy was that just when Chen Feng was about to send someone to Yan'an to talk with Zhu Mao, Deng Ping brought Li Yunchang to find him, saying that Yan'an agreed to hand over the territory of these three counties to the Eighth War Zone, but Chen Feng needed to guarantee Yan'an that the army of the Eighth War Zone could not go south to northern Shaanxi under any circumstances. At the same time, the Eighth Route Army is now developing rapidly, and there is a big gap in weapons and equipment, and it is hoped that Chen Feng can sell another batch of weapons and equipment to the Eighth Route Army.

These two conditions were not a matter for Chen Feng at all, and he originally did not have the idea of going south to eliminate the Eighth Route Army, so it was not a big deal to agree to Yan'an. Speaking of weapons and equipment, the Eighth Theater is now wantonly eliminating old weapons, and the Guard Division, the 101st Division, the 222nd Division, the Seventh Division, the Paratrooper Corps, and the Marine Corps have all been replaced with automatic rifles.

The 8th Theater now has a total of 9 production lines producing AK rifles, and the monthly production has exceeded 30,000 units, and this number is still increasing. Now the Eighth War Zone is equipped with nearly 280,000 AK rifles, and another 250,000 or so can all be reloaded, and at least 300,000 Mauser rifles and 100,000 38 rifles will need to be eliminated, and it doesn't matter if some are sold to Yan'an.

After discussing with Yang Yi and others, Chen Feng decided to sell five divisions of German-made light weapons to the Nationalist Government, and to provide the Nationalist Government with weapons and equipment for two more cavalry divisions. At the same time, he provided Yan'an with weapons and equipment for 2 infantry divisions and 1 cavalry division, and the price was very fair, less than half the price he paid when he bought it from the Germans. However, only Chen Feng himself knows that even this price is enough to cover the production cost of the Mauser rifle, and he can make a small profit.

Chen Feng's decision made Lao Jiang and Mao of Yan'an extremely happy, the Nationalist Government is not short of people now, there are people in the rear, and there are too many refugees who cannot be resettled, what is lacking is only weapons and equipment, as long as there are enough weapons and equipment, Lao Jiang can form a million army in the shortest possible time. With the weapons and equipment of these 5 infantry divisions and 2 cavalry divisions, it was a piece of cake to form 100,000 troops.

Yan'an thinks the same, they are also not short of people, the three main divisions are developing extremely rapidly, according to the statistics of some time ago, the total strength of the three main forces has now exceeded 550,000. But there are only 150,000 elites in it, and the other troops are still as short of guns and ammunition as in history, and it is okay to conduct a big guerrilla attack, and it is not possible to really fight with the Japanese devils, with these weapons provided by Chen Feng, Yan'an is confident that it will increase the elite troops of another 50,000, and the elite troops of the Eighth Route Army will be increased to 20 at that time, and it will not be difficult to fight the county towns and provincial towns of the little devils.

In addition, there was good news from the Soviet side, the Soviet government had delivered 37 warships to the Heilongjiang fleet, including 2 heavy cruisers and 5 light cruisers, 4 frigates, 3 guards armored ships, 4 destroyers, 2 transport frigates, 1 low-side battleship, 2 submarine hunters, 8 torpedo boats, 5 submarines, and 1 minelayer. This is equivalent to 34% of the total number of warships ordered by Chen Feng.

However, according to the news sent back by Jiang Haitao and Hu Haibin, not all of the warships delivered by the Soviet Union were new ships, and a small part of them were converted from warships in service in the Soviet Union, and the thickness of the armor did not meet the design requirements at all, and in addition, according to the tonnage and combat capability calculations, the Soviet Union's heavy cruisers were actually equivalent to the battleships of the United States, Japan, Britain, France, and other countries, but the three heavy cruisers delivered to them by the Soviet Union were only strengthened versions of light cruisers, which were far from battleships, and not only the caliber of naval guns was much smaller. Even the hull was only two-thirds the size of the Soviet Union's own heavy cruisers.

After listening to the report of Jiang Haitao and others, Chen Feng felt a burst of anger in his heart, these old hairy people really have a fucking no business reputation, and they are really fucking a group of uncivilized bastards compared to Americans. I really think that Lao Tzu doesn't know the goods, those rags and fools with labor and management, and when the master comes back, he is settling accounts with you bastards.

Now that the first batch of ships has arrived, there is no need for the Heilongjiang fleet to stay in the Soviet Union anymore, so Chen Feng ordered Jiang Haitao to lead half of the navy to the south of the Nanyang Territory first, while Hu Haibin took the other half of the navy soldiers to stay in the Soviet Union and wait for the reception of another batch of ships two months later.

At the same time, Chen Feng also sent a report to Tian Haiyang, Liu Shun and others who served in the navy of the Nationalist Government, ordering them to immediately resign to Admiral Chen Shaokuan and rush to Nanyang to take charge of the formation of the Yangtze River Fleet, and now there are 158 new and old warships in the Eighth Theater, with a total tonnage of nearly 300,000 tons, which is equivalent to the strength of a detachment of the Japanese Navy, so it is time to integrate all naval resources. (To be continued......)