Kong Jie's dedication to building the aviation unit of the Eighth Route Army and the building of the aviation force of the Eighth Route Army was nothing more than "obsessing with the battle for the founding of the country" after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

How many people's soldiers crossed the river with high spirits.

One after another, not afraid of death.

In the end, we won the battle for the founding of the country that attracted worldwide attention and raised the prestige of our Chinese army.

But who can truly appreciate how hard and tragic this battle was fought by China?

Who can really feel sorry for the precious lives of the people's soldiers who should have lived in a peaceful and prosperous world?

It can be said that the people's soldiers won this battle with an iron will.

We paid too much for this.

After all, all this was because of the weak national strength, and the motherland at that time could not even send a decent fighter.

Air supremacy is entirely in the hands of enemy forces.

The logistics transport line was directly cut off by the enemy forces.

How tragic and tragic the battle was!

I don't know how many heroic souls were finally buried on this tragic battlefield.

Kong Jie can't get over this hurdle in his heart, so even if it's just a butterfly that instigates the effect, it will do its best, flap its wings, and find a way to change all this and avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.

If......

If it is said that by the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it had successfully created a powerful aviation force belonging to the Eighth Route Army.

If in that battle for the founding of the country, the people's soldiers also had their own fighters and bombers, and had an air force that could compete with the enemy.

What will happen then?

In this regard, Kong Jie often dreamed of such a situation in his dreams, waking up with a smile on the corner of his mouth, but then he realized that he should do everything for this goal at the moment and strive hard!

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By the beginning of July, the May Day sweep of unprecedented scale set off by the Japanese army, after the Eighth Route Army launched a full-scale counteroffensive operation, officially ended with the final battle, the Battle of Licheng, as the finale.

There weren't too many twists and turns along the way.

If the fiasco in the May Day Sweep made the Japanese army realize the strength of the Eighth Route Army's defense, then the Eighth Route Army's rapid attack on Licheng with lightning speed made the Japanese army realize the sharpness of the Eighth Route Army's attack.

In this way, under the eyes of the Japanese army, in desperation, Licheng was completely broken and occupied by the Eighth Route Army.

Not only Licheng, but also the four cities around Licheng, including Liao County and Shexian County, were all captured by the Eighth Route Army, and the last Japanese troops stationed there were basically wiped out.

At this point, the Eighth Route Army captured the five cities, and if these five cities were to be included in the scope of the base area, it would be impossible to know how much vast land would be expanded.

When the people's soldiers entered the city in a mighty way, the common people of the five cities greeted each other.

There are even more old people crying bitterly in their sighs, shouting, and finally waiting for this day.

Wait until the day when the fallen land will be restored.

For this reason, when the troops entered Licheng, in accordance with the instructions of the former enemy headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, a ceremony was held outside the city.

To strengthen the military prestige of the Eighth Route Army.

The Eighth Route Army's successful completion of the May Day counter-sweep this time, and the heavy damage to the Japanese army, and the further growth of the prestige, pushed to a climax.

Of course, the Eighth Route Army also specially invited some guests, such as the nominal Supreme Commander of the Second World War Zone - Chief Yan.

In the external propaganda, the words were sincere, and the Chinese armed forces led by Chief Yan fought quite beautifully in this battle.

The Jin Sui army led by him also participated in this battle and achieved a lot of results.

In fact, it is true - it's just that Chief Yan exaggerated a little, probably because the devils were sweeping up the fiasco, and when they were in a comprehensive rout, there were Jin Sui army troops, such as Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment, Yang Chongshan's 57th Regiment, etc., who took the opportunity to launch an ambush in the middle of the way, robbed the Japanese army while the fire was fired, and then made two mouthfuls of soup to drink.

For this kind of good thing of showing up and earning a wave of fame, Chief Yan will never refuse.

At the preaching meeting of the entrance ceremony, Chief Yan also pretended to say a few words, in addition to vigorously praising him for the courage of the Jin Sui Army in this battle and the defeat of the Japanese invaders, but also mentioned the heroic performance of the Eighth Route Army troops in passing.

In this regard, in private, Li Yunlong scolded and said: "Damn, Lao Yan, this kid has become a fine, he didn't do anything serious, and he let him say all these good things, if we didn't know what the situation was, listening to this old boy's speech, I almost believed that he commanded this battle!" ”

Kong Jie said with a smile: "After all, he is the nominal supreme commander in the World War II Zone, and this kind of thing can't get around him."

Besides, we have to converge when we should converge, with Chief Yan to help us attract attention and block the gun, maybe it will really work! ”

On the other hand, in order to exaggerate the heavy price paid by the Eighth Route Army in this counterattack operation, in order to seek more support from international countries.

In the meeting attended by the headquarters, Kong Jie also made suggestions:

"After the May Day Sweep, after the fiasco of the devils, they were in a hurry to find a fig leaf, and in the post-war propaganda reports, they would publicize what was beneficial to them.

It's like this casualty data, the little devils have a little concealment of their own casualty data, and they don't know much about our casualties, but for the sake of face, it's a big deal to speculate!

Let's just push the boat down the river and give the little devil a taste of sweetness.

We not only have to respond to the casualty data publicized in the little devil report, but also have to emphasize that our Eighth Route Army has indeed suffered heavy casualties and huge losses in this anti-sweeping operation! ”

"What are you doing?"

"On the one hand, in order to paralyze the Japanese army, we can't let the devils shift all the military focus to our Eighth Route Army because of a May Day sweep.

In the future, we still want to take advantage of this stable situation to vigorously develop and build a base behind enemy lines, and take the opportunity to rise our military industrial force!

On the other hand, in the Pacific theater, including the Southeast Asian theater, the little devils are now in full swing, and the Allied countries are fighting very fiercely, and they need a strong armed force like us to hold back more Japanese troops in China.

But some people can't hold up the wall with mud!

The battle of Zhejiang and Jiangxi will be sparsely fought.

In contrast, I think that at this time, as long as you are not blind, you will realize that if you want to contain the Japanese army in the future, cause more trouble to the Japanese army, and thus indirectly support the Chinese anti-Japanese forces in the Pacific and Southeast Asian theaters, it depends on our Eighth Route Army.

Then let's apply for assistance from Britain and the United States.

Let's just say that this counter-sweep has led to heavy losses for our troops, and if there are no more international reinforcements, our Eighth Route Army may not be able to hold on.

Let's talk about such a situation, don't the British and American countries still understand who they should bet on and who they should invest in in this game between the two sides in order to achieve greater value of interests?

This is also our once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy equipment, equipment, technology, arms, in short, we can buy what we need! ”

These words touched the hearts of the commanders.

And so the matter was settled.

The specific propaganda work is the responsibility of the propaganda department of the team.

The strategic camouflage bureau led by Lao Yin Bishi Dahu shot at the same time.

Under some propaganda, the Eighth Route Army deliberately exaggerated some casualties.

In addition, he also wore a lot of high hats to Okamura, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in North China.

For example, the heavy casualties of the Eighth Route Army this time were entirely due to the efficient operational command of Okamura, an old devil, and the fact that the base area was almost destroyed by the Japanese army's sweeping troops, and this counter-sweeping almost wiped out the Eighth Route Army's family base......

In the end, one conclusion was drawn:

His Excellency Commander Okamura is indeed the most difficult one to deal with among the commanders-in-chief of the North China Front of the Japanese Army!

It is said that when the news of the relevant reports issued by the Eighth Route Army reached the ears of Okamura Ninji, who was sitting in Beiping of the Japanese Army's North China Headquarters.

The old devil Okamura's entire face is black.

What is it? It's humiliation!

Shame on the bright!

"Bastard!" No matter how good the self-cultivation is, he can't stop such humiliation, and Okamura is so angry that he almost smashed the headquarters.

But there are really officers who are not long-sighted, and there are old friends of Okamura in the Chinese fleet of the navy, and they even called to celebrate.

Congratulations to Okamura for his victory in this May Day sweep.

"In this way, the rear can be stabilized, and our empire can rest assured that it will fight a decisive battle with the enemy in the Pacific Theater and Southeast Asian Theaters, and it will win the battle! Okamura-kun, you will be the hero of victory! ”

Okamura: "......"

Not to mention the hero, this old devil is ashamed at the moment, and he can't wait to take out a knife and kill himself by disembowelment.

He didn't know that this was a deliberate means of the Eighth Route Army, but the fiasco of the May Day Sweep shocked the army's morale and plummeted, and it was also in need of these superficial work.

In the end, Okamura could only bite the steel teeth and swallow them in his stomach, pinching his nose and admitting it!

At present, the most important thing for him is to quickly stabilize the situation in the entire North China.

After such a crushing defeat during the May Day Sweep, the empire held a solid occupation zone and an important line of communication.

You can't just let Great Xia overturn.

Okamura was very worried about this, and he was worried that after he stepped down, the next commander of the North China Front would completely collapse the security and stability of the entire North China Front because of this already unstable situation.

This old devil is dutiful, and he worked hard to plan before stepping down, hoping to make up for some more shortcomings.

As for the five cities of Licheng, Shexian, Lucheng, Xiangyuan, and Liaoxian, which were captured by the Eighth Route Army with great fanfare, Okamura is now unable to manage so much, and his mobile troops in North China are basically buried in the Mengxi area, and there is no way to quickly reinforce the armed forces of the past.

So what can be done?

I can only honestly report the information to the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Dispatch Army, Junroku Hatata.

"Yaga, Okamura, stupid and incompetent guy!" After hanging up the phone, Shunroku Hata couldn't help but scold Okamura.

He probably forgot that in the first year of his tenure, Okamura-kun had spoken highly of him: Okamura-kun is the most refined and capable officer among the senior officers of the empire I have ever seen!

It's really a slap in the face.

Faced with the urgent situation of Licheng being fully captured by the Eighth Route Army, Yan Junliu also had a headache.

The Eighth Route Army, with lightning speed, suddenly pressed the border with heavy troops and attacked Licheng, and the Japanese army had no time to adjust and deploy, and Licheng was directly broken.

However, the special location of Li Cheng determines its extremely important military status.

It served as a hub for the special communication lines of the Japanese army.

Once something happened in Licheng, the impact on the Japanese army was extremely heavy, especially the four cities around Licheng were captured by the Eighth Route Army at the same time.

At least three arterial transport lines will be completely cut off by the Eighth Route Army.

It will even lead to complete turmoil in the entire rear of North China, which the Japanese army can never bear.

He then began to scold Okamura for being stupid.

If it weren't for this fool, he would have mistakenly believed some nonsense about the large oil field in Mengxi.

How could this be the result of this terrible situation?

Originally, in Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong, the May Day sweep was almost over.

But Okamura, an old boy with the nature of a gambler, put all his bets on the Wuyun oil field.

He transferred one mobile unit after another to the Mengxi area to build a permanent fortification group to defend the Wuyun oil field.

This old devil even asked the troops to prepare long-term stubborn materials, as well as various supporting facilities, and began to vigorously build, mobilizing a lot of manpower, material resources and various construction machinery.

At this point, Okamura still has a dream that he can use the Muyun oil field as a large-scale development oil field to directly supply the oil consumption of the imperial war machine!

Until the final discovery, the Wuyun oil field was basically shale oil and could not be exploited on a large scale.

Okamura was completely stunned!

At this time, the rest of the Eighth Route Army was full of guerrillas, local armed forces, and autumn harvest grain collection teams, which clashed with the Japanese army everywhere and sabotaged the autumn harvest in the occupied areas.

Japanese intelligence showed that the main forces of the Eighth Route in the Yan'an area, the Taihang area, and the Luliangshan area were constantly gathering in the Mengxi area.

As time continues, the rainy season in the Monsi area has come again.

And this year's rainfall is even more exaggerated, and it is expected to come half a month in advance.

At this time, the devil was guarding a chicken rib oil field, and the Eighth Route Army and the 35th Route Army were facing off in the mud, and whether to retreat or hold on became a choice that almost collapsed Okamura.

Words that stick to it are worthless.

If you attack, there will be more and more numbers of the Eighth Route Army, and there will probably be no difference between throwing yourself into the net.

The retreat route was almost cut off, and the supplies could not be supplied if there was a long-term confrontation with the Eighth Route Army.

The mobile troops were caught in the mud and the encirclement and blockade of the Eighth Route Army, and there was even a danger of annihilation.

Okamura had no choice but to bow his head and ask Junroku Hata for help.

Now, his prestige as the commander-in-chief of North China has been greatly reduced, and it may not be effective for him to issue an order.

In desperation, he had to personally contact the commanders of the First Army, the Twelfth Army, the Mongolian Army, and the Kwantung Army to directly transfer troops and send generals to reinforce the Mengxi mobile troops, so that the Mengxi troops could abandon all the materials that could not be taken away, and quickly evacuate under the cover of reinforcements and air force, so as to avoid entanglement with the Eighth Route Army, and get rid of the situation of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the Yan'an Army, the 129th Division, and the 35th Route Army surrounded on all sides.

At this point, the Japanese mobile troops in North China were basically disabled, and they were unable to reinforce Licheng.

In addition, North China suffered such a big defeat.

Junroku Hata also wanted to get back on the field and save face.

It just so happened that the Japanese spies found out what kind of military parade the Eighth Route Army was going to hold on August 1, the day of their Army Day, and he immediately called the chief of the intelligence agency and the commander of the army aviation headquarters to prepare to gather the air teams of Central, Eastern, and North China to carry out a devastating air raid on Licheng in three batches.

First of all, the army aviation units of the North China side were dispatched, and the flight teams at the airports in Beiping and Shandong carried out reconnaissance and exploratory air raids, and cooperated with the ground sleeper agents and airborne troops to comprehensively explore the air defense forces and distribution positions of the Eighth Route Army in Licheng.

Carpet bombing, air raids on the whole city.

"Blow up all those damn Eighth Route Army!"

Hata's eyes were full of coldness.

"The North China Air Force tested the anti-aircraft fire of the Eighth Route Army and carried out a preliminary strike, after exhausting the Eighth Route Army.

The main force of the air force that took off from the airfields in Wuhan and other places in central China launched an all-out air raid on Licheng, striking targets in various parts of the Eighth Route Army and attacking air defense positions.

Finally, the heavy bomber squadron in the Shanghai area of East China carried out an incendiary bomb attack and burned Licheng to a scorched earth for me! ”

(End of chapter)