Bargaining with the representatives of the Allied forces, the Eighth Route Army launched a full-scale counteroffensive in the base area, and Kong Jie naturally concealed the final operational purpose - to take the opportunity to cover the advance of the Iron Triangle Army into the Kwantung region.

As for the disturbances, on the one hand, they were for the Allied forces to see, and on the other hand, they were also really to obtain more benefits for the Eighth Route Army.

On the issue of subsequent negotiations.

A negotiating team composed of General Chennault of the U.S. Army, General Sprin of the British Army, and General Lotovsky of the Soviet Army went to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountain to negotiate the issue of assistance.

When the deputy general staff first received them, according to Kong Jie's idea, they were invited to eat ordinary meals, and the accommodation was also an ordinary condition, so that they could feel what it means to be cold, and when they were bored, they visited the troops, but they didn't mention the matter of launching a counterattack, they were just playing Tai Chi.

The representatives of the negotiating team are obviously drunk, and they are so anxious that they are helpless, after all, you can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Every time the question of reinforcements in the direction of Changsha was mentioned, Kong Jie, who answered on his behalf, was very resolute: "Our Eighth Route Army has always been responsible for containing the Japanese army behind enemy lines, and we are just an inconspicuous team that is not even a regular army.

The main combat forces on the frontal battlefield have always been Chiang's troops, and if even they are not opponents of the Japanese army, what can we do?

What's more, the Japanese army has recently been dividing its forces to attack the major base areas of our Eighth Route Army, and we are still unable to protect ourselves, so how can we have the spare strength to reinforce the Ninth Theater? ”

In the face of Kong Jie's statement, the members of the negotiating team obviously did not believe it.

The rapid growth of the Eighth Route Army in recent years, all countries have witnessed that the Japanese army failed to defeat the Eighth Route under many sweeps, but it was a crushing defeat, and now it can only transfer its troops to the frontal battlefield, seeking to fight with the national army, in order to support the war with war.

If the Eighth Route Army is willing to attack in an all-out way to contain the Japanese army, it can play a role.

Kong Jie insisted that it was impossible.

This made the representatives of Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union feel helpless and at the same time a little emotional.

Once upon a time, these weak Chinese troops had to count on the allies to provide military reinforcements, but now they are coming to beg the Eighth Route Army to deal with the Japanese army!

Until the news of the loss of Changsha came.

The allies, who had been holding on to it, finally relented, and then Kong Jie smiled and took out the list of aid he had prepared a long time ago.

Then he said righteously: "In order to protect the motherland and win this just war, our Eighth Route Army is not afraid of sacrifice, but we can't let us fight with the little devils with our bare hands, right?"

Our Eighth Route Army is poor, lacking equipment, materials, and everything.

As long as the Allies can provide these supplies and equipment assistance to our Eighth Route Army, we will definitely be willing to send troops to fight the Japanese army to the death! ”

After a few words, the members of the delegation were speechless.

It is said that several members of the delegation left the conference room with old faces on that day, and after returning home, they did not eat dinner, and eighty percent of them were angry.

But in the end, he was relieved, in order to use the front of the Eighth Route Army to drag the Japanese army in the Sino-Japanese battlefield.

Then the boss made arrangements for the delegates of the delegation to visit the Huangyadong strategic bomber permanent airfield and the intensive training of the Licheng counteroffensive troops, so as to open the eyes of the generals of these countries.

This really came as a shock to the Allied delegates.

Only then did they realize that the Eighth Route Army had already grown into a force that could not be underestimated on this battlefield behind enemy lines.

As far as the Allied representatives were concerned, they had no troops on the Sino-Japanese battlefield, and the only thing they could do was the question of who should be directed to the equipment and resources they had at hand to help.

Although on the surface, the national army seems to be the master of China.

But so far, the owner seems to be in a state of embarrassment.

Especially with the outbreak of the Battle of Western Hubei and the Fourth Battle of Changsha.

The Nationalist Army on the frontal battlefield was defeated and retreated, losing its armor and removing its armor, but the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield behind the enemy was in the limelight, and the Japanese army was complaining bitterly.

There is no harm without contrast.

In fact, the representatives of the Allied countries were also aware of the seriousness of the problem, and they most likely overestimated the combat power of the national army.

There is a kind of mud that can't support the wall, and that's called mud.

There is one type of wood that cannot be carved into a work of art, and that is called rotten wood.

If we continue to invest in this wrong direction, Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries may lose all their money.

The only bargaining chip for the Allied forces was to bet that after the Nationalist army retreated from Changsha, to the Xianggui border, it could block the devil's intention to open up the communication lines in Chinese mainland.

In this regard, when the command talked about this matter, Ding Wei and Li Yunlong also expressed deep worries, and in Li Yunlong's straightforward words:

"Changsha City has been lost, and I think the Xianggui area is enough to choke!"

"But once the Xianggui region falls, the Japanese army will completely open up the communication lines of our Chinese mainland, and then all the airports in our south will be destroyed by the Japanese army, including the airports established by the allied countries in our country, and the Japanese army can use this to ensure the safety of the homeland!" Ding Wei pointed out the crux of the problem.

Then he sighed: "On the surface, the Japanese offensive was fierce, and the national army was losing and retreating, but I saw a desperate posture from the Japanese offensive."

The little devil is now Wang Xiaoer's New Year, this is completely out of the way, and he still wants to do the battle of trapped beasts! ”

Kong Jie then confidently analyzed: "To borrow a sentence from the old brigade commander back then.

War is a test of a nation's endurance, and both we and Japan are enduring attrition to see who has more endurance!

We can afford to spend it, and if we fight for another ten or twenty years, China will still be China, and we will not be able to die!

Even if the Japanese army comes up with a desperate posture, desperately bets, and retreats 10,000 steps, even if it completely opens up the communication lines of our Chinese mainland, then what can it do?

As long as there is our Eighth Route Army behind the enemy, don't think about this little devil on a peaceful day, as long as there is still our Eighth Route Army, the communication line opened by this little devil cannot be guaranteed to be smooth, maybe it is a mobile arsenal to send us supplies and equipment!

The devils are just a futile struggle, and the only thing that awaits them is destruction! ”

"And what our Iron Triangle Army has to do is to add a little more help to the defeat of the little devils, before the little devils surrender, we can slaughter a few more, blood debts should be paid with blood, how many brave comrades-in-arms, innocent and tragic compatriots, are still waiting for us to send the good news with the souls of the little devils piled up under Jiuquan!"

"Haha, Lao Kong's words are uplifting!" Li Yunlong echoed: "We're still afraid that the little devil won't be beaten, and Lao Tzu will surrender without beating!" ”

Ding Wei also showed a strong fighting spirit.

Kong Jie was also smiling, but his heart was quite heavy.

Send troops in the direction of the Great Khingan Mountains, open the passage into the Kwantung region, and lead the Iron Triangle Army into the Kwantung region to deal with the Kwantung Army.

This is the final strategic direction that he planned a few years ago, except for accepting the big cake of the Kwantung region and achieving the greatest fruit of the victory of the anti-Japanese resistance, which must not be cheapened by the Soviet side.

Kong Jie was still worried that after the end of the Battle of Yuxianggui, the disastrous defeat of the Nationalist army would cause the Chinese military and civilians and even the Allied countries to completely doubt the combat strength of Chiang's army, and a certain commander might only pin his hopes for the recovery of Kwantung on the Allies.

As a result, he picked up the sesame seeds and lost the watermelon, which was not what Kong Jie wanted to see.

So at the critical juncture, the national army was defeated, and it didn't work, and the Eighth Route Army had to stand up and become the new pillar.

I have to pat my chest clearly and tell the allies: With your assistance, we can fight this war of resistance, and without your assistance, we will fight this war of resistance against Japan! The humiliation inflicted on China by the great powers will surely be countered by the Chinese themselves!

……

Soon after, the two sides negotiated the first stages of cooperation.

In the entire rear of North China, the troops of the Eighth Route Army were dispatched from various base areas to launch counterattacks against the Japanese army, contain the strength of the Japanese army's rear, and indirectly respond to the battle in the south.

In the face of the heavy pressure of the Japanese army, Chiang's army and the Eighth Route Army also reached a relatively rare and relatively sincere cooperation.

Soon after, in order to exchange and learn from each other, the two sides sent their own delegations.

The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army sent the chief of staff of the 129th Division and Li Yunlong to the front line of Hunan and Guizhou with a delegation of the Eighth Route Army to observe.

Before leaving, Li Yunlong patted his chest and said: "Lao Kong, you can take a look, we only need to take a few casual glances when we get to the place, and we can immediately understand the follow-up combat deployment of the Jiang army."

As for how far this Jiang army can resist, it can be judged that eight or nine are not far from ten. ”

In order to express the sincerity of the joint operation, the Eighth Route Army also sent a batch of medicines, canned food, white rabbit toffee and other materials to Jiang Jun.

Before leaving, Li Yunlong found Kong Jie and Ding Wei and asked them to help him come up with ideas.

What's the idea?

"Our Lao Li represents the platoon of our Iron Triangle Group Army this time, and represents the great image of the generals of our Eighth Route Army.

Lao Kong, Lao Ding, please help me think about it, how am I going to dress up this time, and what equipment will I bring with me? ”

Kong Jie said with a smile: "Lao Li, if you want me to say that there are more equipment belts, and the row is very well decorated, it makes people see jokes, it is better to keep everything simple."

You can bring the saber of the commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, which was captured before, and if it is not enough, you can use the burned and only half of the wing flag of the captured 14th Division of the Kwantung Army as leggings.

Then remember a sentence, this is the most pretending to be compared invisibly, you don't seem to be pretending, but between the lines are all pretending to be compared, then you will definitely not be able to drop the row! ”

When Li Yunlong heard this, it really made sense, and he kept Kong Jie's insight in his heart, and then set off with the delegation.

When he got off the plane, hehe, Li Yunlong saw the familiar face in Jiang Jun's welcome team at a glance - Zhang Zongling, that is, the major general and division commander of the 58th Division of the 74th Army of the Central Army.

At the beginning of Yan'an, Zhang Zongling, Kong Jie and Li Yunlong had met, and both sides had conversations, but Li Yunlong sneered at Zhang Zongling unceremoniously at that time.

Goodbye now, Li Yunlong's face could almost be piled with flowers, he waved the saber of the devil commander on his waist in a particularly conspicuous way, and then stretched the leggings made of the wing flag.

"Little devil, this broken knife, if you want me to say that it's really not good, if you want to say that it's the devil's commander's saber, why do you have to work hard to chop firewood?

If this Kwantung Army's wing flag is used as a legging, it would be quite practical. ”

"Ahem, Master Zhang, meet again! Master Zhang is young and promising, and I heard that he has won a lot of battles during the time when he didn't meet! ”

"......" Zhang Zongling.

Victory?

In the Battle of Quzhou, Zhang Zongling led the 58th Division to fight the Japanese army on the outskirts of Quzhou for three days, killing more than 4,000 enemies, which can be said to be a general.

Unfortunately, because of an order to avoid the decisive battle of Quzhou, it was ultimately a failure, and the casualties of the troops were also quite heavy.

In the Fourth Battle of Changsha commanded by Xue Boling, Zhang Zongling was specially appointed by the chairman of the National Committee as the deputy commander of the 74th Army and the commander of the 58th Division because of his dazzling performance in the Battle of Quzhou, and participated in the Fourth Battle of Changsha.

In the battle, Zhang Zongling's team did play well.

Unfortunately, the Fourth Battle of Changsha was defeated and the city of Changsha fell.

Looking at it this way, although Zhang Zongling fought well in this small aspect, the battles he participated in basically ended in failure.

When Li Yunlong arrived, Changsha City had completely fallen, and some depressed looks inevitably appeared on the faces of Zhang Zongling, the defeated generals.

Lao Li said at this moment that he had won a lot of battles, and it was inevitable that it would be a little harsh in Zhang Zongling's ears.

The so-called show talent meets soldiers, and it is unreasonable.

Zhang Zongling heard that this Li Yunlong was born in a big old man, and as a scholar, he thought he had self-cultivation, but he did not continue any verbal disputes with Li Yunlong.

After all, if you lose, you lose, and your skills are not as good as others!

Subsequently, a staff officer took Li Yunlong and others to the headquarters of Chiang's army to learn more about the first phase of the Japanese army's operational deployment.

Zhang Zongling and his entourage served as accompanying officers.

In the General Staff, Zhang Zongling seemed to be deliberately trying to make things difficult for Li Yunlong, as if to fight back at Li Yunlong's cynicism, so when Li Yunlong looked at the combat deployment of the Japanese army on the map, he suddenly asked:

"I've heard that Brother Li is good at dealing with devils, and the troops under his command are even more brave and good at fighting, I don't know what Brother Li can see from the deployment of the Japanese army?"

Li Yunlong didn't reply immediately, and all his thoughts at the moment seemed to be immersed in the huge map in front of him.

For a long time, just when Zhang Zongling thought that he had stumped Li Yunlong, and a little ridicule inevitably appeared on his face, Li Yunlong slowly spoke:

"Interesting, a little interesting, this devil's tactics are very flexible, you take a closer look, these various roundabout tactical plays, how do we look familiar?"

Then, Li Yunlong talked eloquently, and all kinds of combat tactics that should have belonged to the Eighth Route Army were said by him one after another.

From time to time, you can also use some ancient books and art of war to quote a few sentences.

During the conversation, Zhang Zongling, who was a little disdainful on his face, gradually became solemn, and then turned into stunned.

He suddenly wanted to scold those stupid people in the intelligence department.

Can this be a mud leg?

With such a stupid intelligence department, it is no wonder that the Fourth Battle of Changsha failed.

When leaving the conference room, Li Yunlong was especially shocked by the various tactics used by the Japanese army, and he had asked Zhang Zongling and others about the new commander of the Sixth Front Army of the Devils.

However, Jiang Jun has limited information, and it seems that he only knows that it is a devil commander called No. 1.

Suddenly, Li Yunlong couldn't help but shudder and muttered:

"Damn, it's really a hell, the tactics used by this devil, how come there is the shadow of Lao Kong's combat everywhere, the style and characteristics are exactly the same, it's just a copied tactic, but it's a little blunt in use."

Li Yunlong, who often fights with Kong Jie in sand table simulations, is quite familiar with Kong Jie's tactical style, focusing on a flexible and changeable one, not playing cards according to routines, in addition, various tactics are stacked step by step, and they are a ring on top of each other.

He was astonished:

"Could it be that Lao Kong was busy and ran to the devil's camp to be a commander, right? Or is it a devil who has fought with Lao Kong, is it possible that the road is narrow, and he has bumped into an old acquaintance? ”

(End of chapter)