Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei are not characters who sit and watch the excitement.

On the frontal battlefield, the battle between China and Japan on the western Hubei side was in full swing, and the bloody battle in Hengyang was also intensifying, and the Eighth Route Army was not idle at all.

In addition, after the various batches of material aid from the reinforcements arrived.

The Eighth Route Army quickly launched an active offensive behind enemy lines as planned.

As for the effect......

Finally took the small city of Hengyang, and under the command of the old devil Okamura, the Sixth Front Army continued to sing and fight, all the way to the Guiliu area.

The commander of the First Army, Sadaichi Yoshimoto, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot under the offensive launched by the Eighth Route Army from all sides.

Today, behind enemy lines, especially in Shanxi, the elite units of the Eighth Route Army have long been strengthened.

In North China, especially the Japanese puppet army, which was dominated by the First Army stationed in Shanxi, was almost defeated.

This time, in order to take advantage of the victory in the frontal battlefield, the Japanese army shifted its focus to the frontal battlefield, including the battles in Changsha, Hengyang and other areas, including the formation of the jihadist army and mobile units, and the large number of elite and mechanized vehicles from North China.

As a result, the Japanese army, which had only barely maintained its rule in northern China, became more and more unsustainable.

When the troops of the Eighth Route Army took the elite of the Taihang area as the main attack point and quickly launched an offensive against the Japanese occupation area, the Japanese army in North China, especially the Devil's First Army in Shanxi, was defeated and retreated.

The old devil Yoshimoto Sadachi can only live in a few isolated counties along the Tongpu line.

The Japanese army in Yuncheng in the west could not stop the offensive of the Eighth Route Army and was forced to retreat to Linfen.

Both sides of Jincheng in the south were controlled by the Eighth Route Army, which could cut off the communication channel between Jincheng and northern Henan at any time.

In the east, Licheng Shexian was lost, the Japanese army was forced to retreat to Changzhi, and the Handchang Highway was completely cut off.

The heights west of the city were shelled in the west, and the Luliangshan troops of the Eighth Route Army could launch the siege of Taiyuan again at any time.

The northern Mongolian army has retreated to Datong, and almost all of the middle from Datong to Taiyuan is in a blank area.

In the central Zhengtai line, Shouyang, Yangquan, Jingcheng and other places are still there, but Xiyang, Heshun, and Yushe counties were all lost under the onslaught of the Eighth Route Army.

All of a sudden, the First Army was in a precarious situation, and it could be surrounded by the Eighth Route Army on all sides at any time, and the whole army would be annihilated.

With the launch of the large-scale counteroffensive of the Eighth Route Army, the entire North China, eastern Mongolia, Shandong, and northern Henan, including the Lianghuai and Dabie Mountains, were almost all the troops of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army's counterattack.

The Japanese army's lines of communication were almost completely cut off, and a large number of mechanized troops from North China were transferred to the south to fight.

The Japanese defenders who were attacked in various places did not have mechanized troops coming from all directions to reinforce them, and then they were completely surrounded and isolated under the absolute superiority of the Eighth Route Army, and directly became an isolated city.

Yoshimoto Sadachi, who was in a hurry, finally understood:

The position of the commander of the First Army stationed in Shanxi is really not easy to sit in, it is completely dancing on the top of the crater, and it will be wiped out if you are not careful!

However, some people were happy and some were worried, and not all the Japanese officers were in a hurry.

For example, Lieutenant General Harada, who is especially good at making war money and doing business, this old boy is not in a hurry at all, the confrontation between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army is becoming more and more intense, he is able to deal with it with ease, and he also got on the line with the commander of the Mongolian army Nanata.

What's going on?

It turned out that under the successive wars, the army stationed in Mongolia shrank to Datong, and even the food supply in Zhangjiakou was almost unavailable, and Qitian was also at a loss, and then received a message from Harada, Harada said that he could provide food for Qitian's troops, but the condition was that some corresponding military supplies were needed.

Then, Harada, who was especially good at middlemen to make the difference, got military supplies from the Mongolian garrison, and then exchanged money and food from the Eighth Route Army.

The money made from it is abundant.

As for the call for help from the commander of the First Army in Shanxi, Yoshimoto Sadachi.

Harada and Qitian tacitly lit firecrackers in response: The Eighth Route Army is attacking the city, and the two sides are fighting in Jiaozuo, not to mention reinforcements in Shanxi, and the two old devils even asked Yoshimoto for help in turn.

Sadachi Yoshimoto: "......"

To say, in the face of the offensive of the Eighth Route Army, the various departments of the First Army of the devil were already unsustainable.

However, as soon as Yoshimoto came to power, he asked them to go out of the city to find a decisive battle with the Eighth Route Army under various pretexts, and for this reason, the First Army had long been separated from Germany.

These troops were supposed to be transferred to the Pacific Ocean, but because of the entanglement of the Eighth Route Army, they could not change their defenses on a large scale.

Now that the Japanese army in the Pacific Theater is already at a disadvantage, or the old devil Okamura would not be in a hurry to launch an offensive in the south, and he is bent on opening up the mainland communication line to turn the tide of the war.

Therefore, these devil officers don't want to go to the Pacific theater to be cannon fodder.

As a result, these officers all had the idea of staying in Shanxi and not leaving, and even maintained a tacit understanding with the Eighth Route Army - as long as your Eighth Route Army does not come to fight us, we will definitely not take the initiative to provoke your Eighth Route Army.

Including the offensive launched by the Eighth Route Army this time, why were all the county towns such as Xiyang and Heshun lost, but Shouyang, Yangquan and other areas were able to be safe and sound?

Do you really think that the Harada Division stationed in the Yangquan area of Shouyang is strong in combat?

Hey.

As soon as the Eighth Route Army showed signs of taking the initiative to launch an offensive, a batch of materials from Harada's side to honor the Eighth Route Army, including a large number of munitions, as well as all kinds of military supplies, were sent to Kong Jie.

The so-called eating people has a short mouth, and taking other people's hands is soft.

In the end, even the boss who heard about this said with a smile: "We can still carry this saturation and fullness, and the pig Harada will continue to be raised, and there is no hurry to slaughter it!" ”

Therefore, after the Eighth Route Army launched an offensive, Shouyang and Yangquan launched several attacks almost symbolically, and then Harada sent troops to pretend to fight a few defensive battles, and then they could claim to hold the occupied area!

To what extent is the tacit understanding between the two sides exaggerated?

Let's just say that there is a town under Yangquan, which can be said to be the best place for public security in the rear of the entire North China University, and I have never heard of the Eighth Route Army making trouble, and there are not even thieves in the county.

For this reason, this town has been rated as an excellent public security town almost every year in the rear of the entire Japanese occupation area in North China.

But what about the actual situation?

If you enter this town, you will find that there are a lot of Japanese soldiers and puppet troops in this town, but the situation is different is that the Japanese soldiers in this town are not like the devils in other counties, one by one, with their heads held high, flying and domineering, and they can be as low-key as they can on weekdays.

As for the puppet soldiers in the town, in front of these Japanese soldiers, they will not flatter and laugh, and they will be inferior or something.

Some ordinary people even noticed that those little devils even looked quite flattering in front of these puppet soldiers one by one, and even spoke softly.

These puppet soldiers are all friendly faces on weekdays, and even take the initiative to help the villagers in the town do some farm work and help with some chores.

Why is this so?

It turned out that these teams wearing puppet troops in the town were all disguised by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, and everyone swaggered into the military uniforms of the puppet army, holding the military noise issued by the devils, eating the military rations of the devils, and brazenly practicing in the county town.

And the little devils in the town can only turn a blind eye and pretend not to see it, and they have to accompany them carefully.

It's so rampant!

The idea was naturally Kong Jie's idea, which is also one of the tacit understandings between him and the old devil Harada, why do you think the security in the town is so good, and it is rated excellent every year?

That's because almost the entire town is occupied by the Eighth Route Army.

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As for the old devil Harada and other officers who are in the same stream, their thoughts are very simple.

Anyway, the imperial army is already in the twilight of Shanxi, so it will be here until the end of the war and return to China.

They also saw clearly, what is the No. 1 combat plan, even if it is opened? What good can a line of communication without the transportation of supplies and without the garrison of troops?

As Harada said when he was drinking with other division commanders stationed in Shanxi: "When Yan Junliu opened up the communication line to the south, the Eighth Route Army cut it off in the north, and when you turn back, the national army will come out to cut off the south, can you take care of such a long line of communication?"

If you can't change the result, what's the use of the process no matter how good it looks?

It's better to get some more money to go back before the war ends, at least you won't starve your family, and you can still end up rich, right? ”

In fact, it is not only Harada who has this kind of thought, but even a large number of devil officers and soldiers in Shandong and Hebei also think so.

Especially as the war continues, this holy war can be seen by any clear-eyed devil, and there is basically no hope.

Poor old devil Okamura is alone on the front line to turn the tide.

But the colleagues in the occupation zone of the rear began to rot one by one.

Soon after, even the air power that the Japanese army had relied on for many years was completely out of play.

After the rest and regrouping, the Eighth Route Army Air Force grew to 60 squadrons of new fighters and began to compete for air supremacy in the rear of North China.

After a series of encounters, the devil's Taiyuan airport was almost completely blocked.

In addition, Kong Jie also hid 20 ace flight squadrons, recuperating in secrecy, preparing to compete with the Kwantung Army.

Speaking of which, Kong Jie has to thank the old devil Okamura.

In order to compete with the Nationalist army for air supremacy, the Japanese army almost transferred all the air fleets in South China, East China, and Central China, and barely managed to compete with the Chinese and American air forces that were supported by the fuel of the Eighth Route Army.

The North China Air Force in North China, with the support of the Kwantung Army Air Force, barely defended itself, focused on defense, and had little ability to compete with the Eighth Route Army.

There was no longer a scene where twenty or thirty air squadrons could be dispatched at every turn, and after the Kwantung Army Air Force lost its troops, it was unable to draw more air squadrons out of the customs to reinforce them.

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When he left from the Ninth War Zone, Li Yunlong also used some special means to plant a seed in the heart of Zhang Zongling, deputy commander of the 74th Army of the Central Army.

At that time, the two secretly discussed a possible battle plan at the staff headquarters.

Li Yunlong circled the two places of Ningxiang and Yongfeng on the map, and then inserted the chess pieces of the 40th Division of the Devils, and then analyzed: "After the main force of the Devils captured Changsha, the 40th Division of this flank battlefield was moving towards Changsha with baggage. One of them is in the Ningxiang area, and they are fighting with your 74th Army, but the main force has not been reinforced, and they should have escorted supplies to the rear of Changsha and prepared to participate in the offensive and defensive battles of Hengyang.

This old devil Aoki Chengyi was anxious to make meritorious service to Hengyang, but he only sent troops to clean up the vicinity of the supply line, and did not pursue it deeply, and did not love to fight.

But there is a shortage of mechanized transport vehicles in the department, and it is out of touch with the main mechanized troops of the devils, who will you fight if you don't beat him?

Changsha has been lost, I'm afraid that Chief Xue hasn't come back to his senses yet, and when Chief Xue comes back to his senses, in order to shirk his responsibility, maybe he will join you.

If your 74th Army can win a battle at this time, what will the Jiang Guild think?

When the time comes, all of you here, you will not be added to the official rank, and the ocean gold bars will be soft? Maybe the whole country will sing the praises of your anti-Japanese heroes, congratulations in advance! ”

At that time, Li Yunlong had already shouted the slogan of showing the sword to Zhang Zongling.

He also severely reprimanded the national army for only being passively defensive and lacking the spirit of active attack.

Zhang Zongling is also a hot-blooded general, the battle plan given by Li Yunlong is indeed feasible, Zhang Zongling was also moved at that time, and hurriedly said: "Brother Li, no, Brother Yunlong!" I haven't skimmed this eight characters yet, I'm afraid I can't do it. And there is no order from the upper peak, how can I fight privately? ”

In fact, at this time, the commanders and staff officers of the regiments in the headquarters were also thinking in their hearts, this is indeed a good opportunity, even if the 40th Division cannot be encircled and annihilated, it will be a great achievement to repel it.

Li Yunlong hit the railway while it was hot: "This so-called general is not subject to foreign military orders, I said Brother Zongling, I am from a mud leg who understands this truth, you are a cultural person who has read books, you can't not know, right?"

Rely on asking for instructions to fight, it's strange that you can seize this rapidly changing fighter.

Why do you think our Lao Li, including Lao Kong, can make his current fame in just a few years? Tell you, it wasn't just by being a good boy! ”

Zhang Zongling was speechless for a while, and thought for a while: "Brother Yunlong, your idea is very good, but relying on my department alone may not be able to succeed!"

You also know a thing or two about the situation of friendly and neighboring troops, and after the war starts, it is possible that the friendly forces will not move, and without their assistance, I am afraid that the war will not be won. ”

Li Yunlong said: "This thing is easy to say, but difficult to say, the world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit, if this credit is divided and they are united, it will definitely be successful."

First of all, the pre-19th Division near your department, as well as the rest of your 74th Army, as well as Li Yaozong's 100th Army, can all be united, you take the lead, they copy the tail, I can apply for air reinforcements!

We can't fight a little devil with the cooperation of many parties?

If you want me to say that the specific way of playing is also very simple, first hit the headquarters of the 40th Division in Yongfeng, and then go straight to Yuelu Mountain, after attracting the attention of the devils, the friendly army will directly outflank the back road! ”

Zhang Zongling said: "All units of the 74th Army can ask the old commander for help, but I have a conflict with this Li Yaozong!" ”

Li Yunlong said: "Any contradiction is not worth mentioning in front of the devil, you will definitely be able to do it if you go and ask for it in person!" ”

Later, after Li Yunlong returned to the headquarters of the experimental area, he tilted his head and said:

"Hehe, Lao Kong, what do you think we're going to do in the Ninth War Zone? Let me tell you, we are teaching Zhang Zongling and those senior officers of the Jiang Army to fight! ”

According to Li Yunlong's idea, the Eighth Route Army sent air fire reinforcements to cooperate with Zhang Zongling's 74th Army to fight a winning battle, and then assisted the 74th Army to advance to the periphery of Hengyang and establish a communication channel with the defenders of Hengyang.

At that time, the Japanese troops advancing in the Hengyang area will definitely be delayed for a longer time.

Nayan Junliu could only continue to contact the Kwantung Army and send additional reinforcements to aid the North China Battlefield, further weakening the strength of the Kwantung Army stationed in Kwantung.

Kong Jie also praised this plan.