As for the overall situation, it is controlled by a great man personally, just like the three major battles in history, and although there is no accurate number of where the two battlefields of the Western Front and the Eastern Front will be, the distance will definitely not be too close, so it does not need to be too meticulously coordinated, so this arrangement is enough to be appropriate, Hu Weidong is naturally very relieved about this, and Xu Xiangqian's activity in the Northeast Battlefield has made his fighting spirit unprecedentedly high, although the "Seven Battles and Seven Victories" at this time have not been completed at all. However, Hu Weidong is not a blind and arrogant person, he knows very well that the combat of large corps is not his specialty, and there is only one person in the 15th Group Army who can be better than Xu Shuai in this regard, and that is Hu Weidong's old partner Su Yu.

"Lao Su, do you think the devils will attack our canal defense line? Or do you divide your forces and move westward? Hu Weidong asked as he paced in the command headquarters.

Su Yu smiled when he heard this, "The canal defense line is like a dog chain tied to the enemy's neck, and the hinterland of the Central Plains is a very tempting meat and bones, I think the devil will still go west after all, right?" But before that happens, they're going to attack our canal defenses, because dogs have to struggle when they're chained."

"It's best to help us train new recruits, and it can also consume a little bit of the enemy's strength and ammunition." Hu Weidong said, but there was also worry in his smile, "In fact, what I am most afraid of is that the devils take the initiative to recover, if they only leave two or three hundred thousand people in Xuzhou to confront us across the river, and the rest of the troops will retreat to Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou as reserves and mobile corps, then it will be much more difficult for us to annihilate the main force of the Japanese army." ”

"With the devil's tradition of 'not shedding tears when you see the coffin', it should be difficult to make such a rational decision, and didn't you say it, commander? The devil's economy is almost untenable, they are more anxious than us, I think they shouldn't be so calm, right? ”。 Although Su Yu was a little worried in his heart, he still smiled and comforted a few words.

"Also, if the devil fights a protracted war. Perhaps the Central China military will live a few more days, but Japan's economy will surely collapse sooner. Hu Weidong said with a smile, and then the phone of the headquarters suddenly rang with a "jingle bell". He immediately stepped forward and picked up the microphone

"Lao Su, you are really a roundworm in the enemy's stomach, the enemy really launched an attack on the canal defense line, Jiashi is quite big. Hanzhuang, Taierzhuang and many other places were heavily shelled by the enemy. After listening to the report, Hu Weidong put down the microphone and smiled at Su Yu.

When Su Yu heard this, he muttered, "It seems that the enemy actually knows very well that they will not be able to break our defensive line, so they put on a full-scale attack, but in fact, they just want to attract our attention, and they want to have a 'Ming Xiu Plank Road, secretly crossing Chen Cang.'" 'That's it"

"Just inform the command of the Western Front. Mr. Peng is also a person with a lot of finesse, so we don't have to worry. After hearing this, Hu Weidong couldn't help but sneer, "But according to the current momentum of the devils, it is difficult for them to keep all the cannons with a caliber of more than 105 mm." In this case, the Western Front may be easier to win than expected. ”

"I'm afraid the Japanese army can't help it, the heavy artillery must be pulled by car, but in the case that our army has completely mastered the air supremacy, it is very difficult for this kind of inconvenient heavy equipment to travel long distances with the army safely, even if it is covered by night, it will seriously affect the speed of the march. On the contrary, staying in those fortifications to prevent our army from crossing the river may be able to play a little role. Su Yu immediately guessed the devil's intentions, but he still suggested that Hu Weidong give a wake-up call to the Western Front Command, "Although the Japanese army's abandonment of heavy artillery will weaken their firepower superiority, it will also greatly reduce the adverse effects of losing air supremacy (the most afraid of air raids is actually heavy equipment, and the situation of light infantry is much better.) And the mobility of the troops has also been greatly enhanced, the Eighteenth Army does not have such haode weapons and equipment as ours, and I am afraid that it will be a little difficult if there are too many devils. ”

"It's best to be around 300,000, 400,000 is very reluctant, and if it is more, it will definitely be sandwiched rice, even if you don't have to encircle and annihilate the way of playing", Hu Weidong muttered, pressing the index finger of the hand on the table repeatedly tapped the table, obviously he was still thinking hard, in addition to worrying that the Eighth Route Army would not be able to eat the Japanese army advancing westward, he also had a little bit in his heart that he didn't want to give too much of his military exploits to people to think carefully, the 15th Group Army had a lot of advanced weapons and equipment beyond the other units of the Red Party, if the battle record could not open the gap, That's a shame

"In any case, let's repel this attack of the devils first, the greater the price they pay, the more resolute the division of troops will be to march westward, but we can't blindly defend, we must make the devils aware of our threat to Xuzhou, so they don't dare to go westward with all their might." , Hu Weidong finally made a decision.

However, when the 15 th Group Army used long-range artillery to launch a retaliatory artillery attack on the Japanese positions on the other side of the canal, Hu Weidong soon found that the level of defense of the Japanese positions had been greatly improved, especially in the survivability of the troops when they were densely covered by artillery fire and the protection of artillery.

In the early days of the Japanese invasion of China, due to the extremely weak firepower of the Chinese army, especially the heavy firepower, the Japanese army was more inclined to concentrate its forces in both the charging formation and the deployment of troops during the defense to strengthen the local firepower as much as possible. But it is precisely because of this that the devils will suffer a big loss every time they encounter the 15 th Group Army, and the reason is very simple: since the beginning of the unexpected windfall in Fengtai, the firepower intensity of the 15 th Group Army has far exceeded the domestic level, and with the rapid development of military science and technology and production in the border areas, it is now much stronger than the Japanese army, which makes the drawbacks of the Japanese army's excessive concentration of troops increasingly prominent. Previously, due to the limited strength of the 15th Army, the predecessor of the 15th Army, the 15th Army, the devils could only achieve some tactical victories, so the devils were reluctant to weaken the advantage in the battle with other Chinese armies in order to deal with the 15th Army more effectively, but since the new 38th Division unbelievably killed 200,000 devils, the Japanese finally realized that the threat of the 15th Army force had exceeded that of all other Chinese armies combined, so they were forced to make changes (to be continued). )