The battle situation is gradually becoming clearer.

After the Battle of Western Hubei, the Japanese army completed the set operational objectives, and in order to avoid greater losses, it retreated to the original defense line under the defensive situation of the national army and confronted the national army.

The second phase on Okamura's side proceeded smoothly, and after the Holy War Army and the Panzer Army cooperated with the Sixth Front Army to capture Hengyang, they continued to advance to the Guiliu area on multiple routes, preparing to join forces after the third phase of the campaign was completed with the cooperation of the Southern Army to support the operation in the Jinghan area.

Central Henan direction.

The Japanese army also launched an offensive against Tang Keqin's group, with the support of the Devil's Jihadist Army and the Panzer Army, intending to attack Tang Keqin's troops from the south first, and then cooperate with the Kwantung Army troops attacking in the direction of southern Hebei and northern Henan.

Soon after, Tang Keqin received a letter from the chairman of the committee, which was credited:

"For my brother Zhongzheng, I hope that my brother Keqin will stick to the defense line in central Henan, dispatch materials for our rear, send additional personnel to buy time, carry forward the spirit of Huangpu, and stick to it until the reinforcements arrive, and we will be able to turn the crisis into safety and make immortal achievements!"

Putting down the letter, Tang Keqin gritted his teeth, although he also knew that the chairman of the committee who always liked to talk about his advantages was not necessarily an expert in command.

But as the chairman of the committee, Tang Keqin, who is also a soldier in his bones, can be said to be forbidden.

Knowing that he couldn't win, he could only grit his teeth.

Fortunately, with the Japanese offensive pressing.

The anti-Japanese national united front of the Eighth Route Army and the Chiang Army was still relatively solid.

The chairman of the committee also realized that at this moment, the great enemy is present, and the Central Army on the frontal battlefield still has to rely on the Eighth Route Army behind the enemy to contain the Japanese army!

…… At the end of the summer harvest on the side of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army can be said to have not taken any advantage in the operations against the outer base areas of the Eighth Route Army and the resumption of the harvest, but was blocked by the Eighth Route Army along the way, causing quite heavy casualties.

In accordance with the deployment of the General Headquarters of the former enemy of the Eighth Route Army.

After the summer harvest is over, you can further serve hard dishes to the devils.

The 385 Brigade in the Licheng area took the lead in launching a counterattack, like firing the starting gun!

Immediately after that, Commander Han, who was studying in Yan'an, graduated ahead of schedule and led an eastward detachment to cross the sieve-like defense line of the First Army and successfully advance to the southern Hebei direction to join the original Commander Chen's troops.

At this time, the main force of Commander Chen in southern Hebei, as well as the Lao Pi Mobile Detachment, the Lao Xu Detachment, the Lao Cheng Detachment, and the main force of Commander Yang in northern Henan, plus the Yang Detachment that returned north from the Longhai Line to join the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the Luxi region.

The main forces of southern Hebei, northern Henan, and western Shandong have successively completed the assembly in the Puyang area.

The three forces jointly set up a command headquarters to prepare for a feint attack on the Fourth Armored Mixed Brigade in Puyang, attract the main force of the devils in central Henan, and then carry out encirclement and reinforcements.

Cooperate with the central Henan region to fight.

Lao Cheng took the lead in saying at the command meeting: "In the early stage, we fought southward and the Kwantung Army ran around, dizzy, and retreated in embarrassment to rest.

This time it's our turn to be the protagonist, and we have to eat the Yuzhong detachment composed of the devil's bullshit jihadist army and armored army.

More than 10,000 Japanese pigs, I am sure to eat it! ”

After thinking about it, he probably felt that it was too high-profile, and Lao Cheng changed his words and said: "It's me who has settled with Lao Xu, besides, we will fight in place of the Iron Triangle Army, and this time Lao Xu and my main forces are all dispatched, and they are fighting the elite of devils."

If we can't make some achievements, we can't let Li Yunlong's kid laugh at us? ”

At this time, Commander Han from Yan'an dismantled the stage first: "I said Lao Cheng, this Xibei goods are Xibei goods after all, and they can't be real."

More than 10,000 elite devils can eat as you say, and they are not afraid of bragging and blowing their bellies?

Don't break your teeth anymore, think that your 771st and 772nd regiments, as the only two main teams on the entire 386 Brigade, are all elite.

But the current situation is different, in the entire Taihang area, the iron triangle suspects that the regimental army does not claim to be elite, which of us is embarrassed to call itself the elite of the Eighth Route Army?

Moreover, you are only fighting in southern Hebei with a part of your troops now, and a considerable part of the elite of the old troops are still in the 386 base areas.

I'm afraid your combat power is almost meaningless, right?

Maybe in the end, we will have to rely on our Yan'an troops to deal with this little devil! ”

Captain Yang on the side was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and he echoed: "That's it, that's it, everyone has seen the Iron Triangle Group Army, you see, isn't it still on this TV?" The overwhelming air power, the overwhelming artillery fire, the armored troops rolling forward, and the soldiers who drove the wolf and devoured the tiger.

You Lao Cheng and Lao Cheng, you said you have anything to do with this and that?

We didn't speak, you Lao Cheng just wanted to eat the elite of the devils by himself, Lao Kong beat the 14th Division, and almost the entire 120th and 129th Divisions were dispatched, how much ability do you have to tell us?

You can't fan your wings and really treat yourself as a Kunpeng, right? Hahahaha-"

To say that although this old comrade-in-arms is intimate, he will not drop the chain at all when he goes to the battlefield, and he can even help you block bullets, but he is also ruthless when it is time to dismantle the stage and fight each other.

After these three words, Lao Cheng's nose was almost crooked.

"Co-authored Kong Jie, Li Yunlong's troops are elite, and our Lao Cheng's troops are eating dry food?" He glared and cursed.

Lao Xu on the side was a real person, shrunk his neck, and was stunned that he didn't get involved.

The old comrades-in-arms laughed even more.

At this time, Li Yunlong's loud voice came from outside the headquarters: "Old comrades-in-arms, I, Li Yunlong, am here, how are you doing?" Ever thought about my cannonballs? ”

He walked into the house quickly and took a look, "Yes, Cheng Blind, you sick cat went up the tree, what kind of big tiger are you pretending to be?" ”

Lao Cheng scolded: ", what about me discussing the battle plan?" You don't sneak around drinking in your base headquarters, what are you doing here?

We have a combat meeting here, not a teahouse for idlers to brag about! Isn't it true that everyone said? ”

Commander Han and his entourage didn't say anything, and said in turn: "Lao Li, come, sit down, don't pay attention to this Cheng Monkey King, Lao Kong, has Lao Ding arrived?" With the support of the Iron Triangle Army, this battle will be more certain! ”

Lao Cheng: "......"

Soon, Kong Jie and Ding Wei arrived.

When discussing the battle plan with a group of old comrades-in-arms, Kong Jie said:

"During this period of time, I have been observing the situation on the battlefield at the Military Intelligence Department of the Huangyadong Headquarters and grasping first-hand information on the deployment of various base areas.

So far, we have played the first trump card of the information war.

The next thing is to see where to play the second trump card, Li Dai Taozhuang!

Although Lao Wang, Lao Xu, and Lao Cheng have been fighting in the name of the Iron Triangle Army during this time, this is not enough, and it is estimated that they will have to fight a tough battle next time.

It is not easy to hide such a large elite combat unit as the Iron Triangle Group Army in the midst of the battle between the two armies and under the mutual intelligence infiltration and reconnaissance of the enemy and us.

We have to convince the little devil that the Iron Triangle Army is really all involved in the war.

This time, with the thing of live TV, three M1 155mm cannon regiments and five M1 155mm howitzer regiments assisted by the US military had to be included; There are also four Soviet-made A19 Type 122 cannon regiments and six M20 Type 152 howitzer regiments, all of which were pulled out and unveiled.

With these batches of equipment on display, even if we go to watch the battle in person, I'm afraid we won't be able to identify which one is the Iron Triangle Group Army and which one is the disguised army of Lao Cheng and Lao Xu.

Not to mention the little devils.

In the final analysis, to fight a large cluster of devils, it is necessary to prepare long-range suppression artillery.

In this war, the allies paid a lot of money, and a lot of arms were aided, so we have to show with practical actions that we are different from Jiang's army, and we are really doing things when we take the money!

This propaganda film also has to be filmed for others, after all, the subsequent purchase of 105 caliber artillery and related processing equipment and spare heavy artillery barrels, as well as a large number of tractors and equipment, and even artillery shells, all have to rely on the cooperation of the Allies.

This is currently the shortest way for our Eighth Route Army to develop rapidly.

From this point of view, the little devils who are becoming more and more rampant at present have more and more promoted our cooperation with the Allies in all aspects.

The ancients said well, it's really a loss of horses, and you don't know the blessings and misfortunes! ”

The old comrades-in-arms thought about it and sighed.

Then we talked about the battle in Henan.

Ding Wei worried: "If before the Fourth Battle of Changsha, we still had certain expectations for Tang Keqin's troops in central Henan, after the fall of Changsha, we must be soberly aware that if we want to completely defeat the Japanese army, it is probably unrealistic to only put hope on the troops of Chiang's army."

That Tang Keqin's army, at first glance, is quite bluffing, it seems to have a large number of soldiers, but what is the actual situation? The internal factions are full of decay, and needless to say, the reputation has long been stinky.

As for whether the first theater of operations can hold back the Japanese offensive, I personally don't have much hope anyway! ”

Kong Jie said with a smile: "So our side must fight this battle even better, at least show Commander Tang the determination of our Eighth Route Army to resist the war."

Fang Keqin's troops don't look at it anymore, at least they are regular troops, such a large number of troops, even if they are all pigs, the little devil has to spend a lot of manpower and material resources if he wants to catch them.

If the First Theater is really defeated, what we have to do is to expose the flaws during the Japanese Army's attempt to launch an offensive in the First Theater and take the opportunity to launch a counterattack. ”

Will Tang Keqin's troops be able to hold off the Japanese attack?

The answer, of course, is no.

At least that's how the trajectory of history is played.

After the outbreak of the Battle of Central Henan, Tang Keqin dispatched more than 300,000 troops against the Japanese army of about 150,000, and finally suffered a heavy defeat, and even staged a humiliating rout of the three armies.

In fact, there are too many reasons for the fiasco of the Tong Keqin Group.

It is of course an indisputable fact that Tang Keqin's ineffective management of the troops and his lax management of the troops have resulted in uneven quality of the troops, and all kinds of empty noises are not uncommon, and the combat effectiveness of the troops as a whole is very poor.

However, what is even more helpless is the disparity between the equipment level and firepower allocation of the Chinese and Japanese armies.

At the time of the outbreak of the battle, the Japanese army invested a rather exaggerated number of mechanized combat vehicles in Henan, including more than 700 armored vehicles, more than 200 more advanced new tanks, nearly 300 large-caliber artillery pieces, and an abundant supply of various artillery shells.

It can be called the largest blitzkrieg of tank clusters since the Japanese invasion of China.

At that time, the elite combat units with the Tang Keqin group as the elite who resisted the advance of the Japanese army in the area of central Henan were confronted by the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield for many years, coupled with the shortage of materials in the rear, and the shortage of resources, in fact, the equipment was extremely poor, and the ammunition was even more scarce.

Tanks are almost none.

There are only a few dozen guns of all kinds put together.

The number of barreled guns issued is even smaller.

As a result, after the confrontation between the two sides began, there was confusion in command on the part of Chiang's army, and at the same time, because of the lack of intelligence collection, there was a miscalculation in the operational deployment, and the Japanese army fell for the tricks.

So it's a failure.

……

And what about today?

First, the outbreak of the Battle of Western Hubei, then the Battle of Changsha, and the Battle of Hengyang broke out one after another.

and then the Battle of Yuzhong began.

Although Chiang's troops fighting on the frontal battlefield were better off due to the lack of military resource consumption.

But very limited.

In order to free up their hands to fight a few victories on the frontal battlefield, in order to nourish the war with war, the Japanese army lost its troops and concentrated on dealing with the Eighth Route Army.

The offensives launched in Changsha, Hengyang, and central Henan have always had the intention of a quick victory.

In order to thoroughly penetrate central Henan and open up the mainland communication line, the Japanese army planned to transfer five divisions and five brigades from all sides in North China and Central China, and nearly 150,000 troops to deal with central Henan.

This time, there is a so-called holy war army led by Yamashita Fengfumi who went south to reinforce it.

and an armored corps led by Inoue Yosa that claims to be an armored division, but the actual establishment is much larger than that of an armored division.

Fight together.

In other words, once again standing at this critical historical juncture, facing the choice between life and death, the Japanese invaders of Tang Keqin, deputy commander-in-chief of the First Theater of Operations in Central Henan, have become more and more powerful.

In this regard, Kong Jie didn't know what to say.

The people of the world scolded Tang Keqin, and even more infamy of water and drought locust soup, like the people in the Central Plains who hated Tang Keqin even more.

But in fact, as far as Kong Jie's personal opinion is concerned, this Tang Keqin does have the nature of greedy for money and profit, and the military discipline of the troops has indeed collapsed, and the entire First War Zone has been infiltrated by the Japanese army.

However, it is still not deniable that he led the army to kill the enemy on the frontal battlefield and beat the Japanese invaders.

From the Battle of Nankou to the Battle of Zhanghe, and then to the Battle of Taierzhuang.

Tang Keqin's performance is not bad, and he is known as a firefighting general.

Later, the Battle of Central Henan broke out, even though he knew that he was invincible, Tang Keqin still forbade it, and the chairman asked him to fight wherever he wanted, and he fought as he wanted, and honestly fought a bloody battle with the Japanese invaders in Central Henan.

As for the infamy caused by the disaster in the Central Plains, Kong Jie was a little sympathetic to Tang Keqin, this guy couldn't have carried the black pot for a certain Zhongzheng.

This is also one of the reasons why Kong Jie advocated assisting the First Theater in the Battle of Henan-China.

In the end, the little devil's plan to open up the communication lines in Chinese mainland cannot be allowed to go too smoothly, and this Tang Keqin will collapse again, so it is also a huge anti-Japanese army!