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As for the commander of the 71st Army, Lao Jiang also agreed with Chen Mingren, the candidate recommended by Hu Weidong, although the unruliness of this Whampoa student gave him a headache, but he was indeed very talented in military affairs, and this time he not only kept the backbone of the three Central Army Divisions in the north, but also gave Lao Jiang an excuse to take the opportunity to annex and incorporate the miscellaneous army, and by the way, he could also push the blame to Hu Weidong (Hu Weidong doesn't care about this, his relationship with those local powerful factions has long been in shambles, And with the strength of the red party liliang in this time and space, you don't have to care too much about the existence of these warlords), if it weren't for the difficult situation now, Lao Jiang would wake up laughing in his dreams.? In addition, although Lao Chiang has always been reluctant to reuse Chen Mingren, he has always believed in the loyalty of this student (in history, Lao Chiang's attitude towards Chen Mingren has always been to attach importance to Chen Mingren and not to reuse, and only give him military power when he has no choice, and often do not reward meritorious service, and even demote or reduce power, but Chen Mingren still waited until the national liberation was imminent, and the Red Party showed its sincerity again and again before changing its flag. This may have been the key to his decision

At the same time as the formation of the 71st Army, it also took over the heavy task of resisting the Japanese attack alone, but fortunately, Hu Weidong only asked them to hold on for three days, wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and then decide whether to hold on or counterattack according to the specific situation at that time, otherwise Chen Mingren was afraid that he would have to habitually disobey again

In addition, it is worth mentioning that after the devil successfully used his deciphered telecommunications code to deceive the Red Party, he quickly changed to a new communication code generated by the "purple cipher machine." After all, this "anti-intrigue scheme" was also a way to hurt people, and although the 15 th Group Army had successfully completed the deployment of troops against the Fifth Theater, the Japanese troops who were still fighting with the Red Party army had paid a greater or greater price for this.

However, what the Japanese headquarters did not expect was that if they did not change the code, Hu Weidong might be so suspicious because of this lesson that he would not be able to make full use of the convenience of deciphering the code of the devils (Note 1). Hu Weidong was relieved at this time, although China does not yet have the most powerful decoder in history as Britain and the United States, but it has a first-class team of mathematicians and decoder experts on Shijie, after the last time they seized the code book of the devil, they have been working tirelessly to carry out painstaking research and repeated shiyan. Finally, I succeeded in figuring out the pattern. Therefore, even if the devil changes the new telecommunications password, as long as it is still generated by the "purple cipher machine", the experts of the Luoyang Telecommunications Center can successfully decipher the devil's new password within ten days

I am afraid that there is no one else on this shijie who understands better than Hu Weidong, a time-traveler from later generations, how important the "right to control information" is, as long as he can decipher the telecommunications code of the devil. He was confident that even if he only had the 200,000 or so men of the 15 th Group Army, he could not compete with the main force of the Japanese army in Central China, which was more than three times his own total strength, and even if he could not eliminate them all because of the disparity in strength, at least it should not be difficult for him to retreat with his whole body

Canal Town's location is very important. However, because the town is too small to be stationed in a large army for a long time, and the Japanese Central China Front Army Command believes that this place is located between Xuzhou and Lianyungang, the two major heavy army groups, and the south has also been occupied by the Japanese army. With only such a small number of troops, and no permanent fortifications to rely on, how can they defeat the more than 30,000 tigers and wolves of the new 38th Division? What's even worse is that Sun Liren relied on the super mobility of the motorized unit to make a large-scale roundabout maneuver. He made full use of the flat terrain of northern Jiangsu, led his army to go around in a large circle to the east of the Japanese army's defense, and defeated the Japanese army in Canal Town in one fell swoop, while the armored battalion quickly penetrated to the south of the railway to cut off the retreat of the Japanese army, and at this time the railway bridge on the canal had been completely blown up by a few heavy bombers of the North China Air Corps with a high-explosive bomb weighing 2 tons. Many devils jumped into the canal in extreme panic to escape, but their limbs were frozen because of the early winter water, and most of them were drowned alive.

It took only two or three hours for the new 38th Division to take full control of Canal Town from the time the first shot was fired. Countless Japanese soldiers were killed and drowned in the battle, and more than 1,000 devils were captured. But for Sun Liren. The real test has just begun, after receiving the telegram from the general of the group army again, Sun Liren finally understood the intention of the chiefs to seize the "dead land" of Canal Town, and was shocked by the grandeur of the structure of this campaign, but also felt the unprecedented heavy pressure, "It is up to us to rely on a reorganized division of more than 30,000 people to eliminate at least 100,000 devils?" ”

"On the surface, we are using one division to deal with more than 100,000 Japanese troops in Lianyungang, but in fact, the troops we dispatched are worth 300,000 elite soldiers, but there are not many of them." , Hu Weidong confidently reported to the central government. Although the new 38th Division is strong, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to defeat the hundreds of thousands of elites of the Japanese army whose combat effectiveness is still quite strong by relying on these more than 30,000 people, but even if Hu Weidong takes all the field troops in his hands to contain the main force of the Japanese army in Xuzhou, how can he still draw out mobile forces to support the new 38th Division? But the army can't send it, but the air force and navy can

Due to Hu Weidong's "offensive and defensive" strategy, the North China Air Corps and the Soviet Air Force (including the part supporting the border areas) had also been separated from the North China Air Corps, and with the gradual arrival of 1,200 I-16 fighters purchased from the Soviet Union, the original First Air Force Division was soon expanded into three air divisions. The vast majority of its aircraft are located at Qingdao Airport and a number of field airfields within a hundred kilometers of Qingdao. The location of Qingdao is easterly, so although it is beyond the reach of Xuzhou, the westernmost part of northern Jiangsu, Lianyungang in the east is at the best combat distance of thousands of aircraft

Note 1: However, Hu Weidong also figured out later, in the present when communications are far more developed than in ancient times, the cost of counter-plotting is very large, as long as there are not too many loopholes in the use of their own troops, even if the devil uses anti-intermediary tactics and successfully deceives himself, it is definitely not worth the loss, because if you want to successfully deceive the enemy, you must not show signs, so those Japanese troops outside the layout will inevitably be sacrificed. Therefore, Hu Weidong didn't particularly care about this, and it was much better to be able to decipher the enemy's communication code than not to be able to decipher.

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