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After the end of the Battle of Northern Henan, as Kong Jie and Li Yunlong speculated, in North and Central China, behind enemy lines, the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army began to recuperate.

In general, they entered a stalemate situation, and there was no large-scale war for the time being.

Although the Japanese army suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Northern Henan, the Central Henan operation successfully completed the set strategic objectives.

Successfully occupied the major cities in Yuzhong, and successfully opened up the communication lines around Yuzhong in Chinese mainland in accordance with the No. 1 battle plan.

It is a pity that the Japanese army did not complete the operational goal of completely destroying the Tang Keqin Group Army in central Henan.

In accordance with the suggestion of the Eighth Route Army, Commander Tang led the main force of the group army to be stationed in the northern Henan region, and together with the Eighth Route Army, selected a stable garrison area, and cleared the surrounding Japanese puppet army, repaired fortifications, and reorganized the army to rest and confront the Japanese army in central Henan.

As a result, although Commander Tang was ineffective in fighting in the middle of the Yuzhong Society, and even ended up with the name of a runaway general, even the principal was furious about it.

Fortunately, the vitality of the troops in central Henan was preserved.

Even if the Japanese army occupied central Henan, with Tang Keqin's group army in the northern Henan region, it was impossible to completely eliminate its worries and continue to advance the operation.

In addition, in the Battle of Northern Henan, Tang Keqin's group army also performed well, beating the Japanese invaders, and also made a lot of prestige.

Therefore, the chairman of the committee could only pinch his nose and admit that Commander Tang led his troops to avoid the war, directly abandon central Henan, and switch to the northern Henan region.

Now the Eighth Road is completely powerful.

The chairman of the committee looked at the withering talents around him, even there are not many subordinates like Commander Tang anymore, so he is still willing to be ruthless?

As for the end of the Battle of the Golden Causeway.

Under the so-called heavy reward, there must be brave men, under Commander Tang's incentives, when the final counteroffensive was launched, the officers and men of Tang Keqin's group army fought bravely to get the rewards in order to compete for the heads of the devils, and they were not sharp.

In the end, it was not only the soldiers of Tang Keqin's group army who made a lot of money.

The officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei, western Luxi, and northern Henan also followed the soup and ate meat, and the cooperation was win-win, but they made a lot of money.

This is a side that shows Commander Tang's strong financial resources, and he has really made a lot of money in Yuzhong over the years.

Towards the end of the battle, the Japanese were beaten and fled in disarray.

The officers and men of Tang Keqin's group army pursued all the way, and they were not willing to watch the walking ocean slip away like this.

On the side of the Eighth Route Army, Commander Lu and they are not confused, grab a few devils' heads for some ocean, at most to earn extra money.

These big heads are still on the battlefield!

Therefore, it has long been explained that after the little devil was defeated, the head will not be robbed by the friendly troops of the Jiang army, let's grab it first, and grab all kinds of military materials that the devil has no time to take away and destroy, all kinds of combat vehicles and tanks, guns and ammunition, including the aircraft resources that the devil fell and scrapped, etc.

In short, it was a goose plucking feathers, and after the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army quickly swept by, not even a bullet casing would fall.

When an officer on Jiang's side finally discovered the situation and hurriedly reported the situation to Commander Tang, Commander Tang rushed to question.

The transport units of the Eighth Route Army, all kinds of trailers that had been prepared long ago, had already towed away all the military resources and all kinds of armored vehicles of the devils who had been captured on the battlefield in large quantities, and the good and bad ones were not left behind.

As soon as you open your mouth:

"Brother Tang, you don't know, our Eighth Route Army has been poor and scared all these years, we are not as rich as your Central Army, we have our own military factories, we have our own economic industry, we have eaten the last meal but not the next meal, all pointing to this capture on the battlefield to live!

Just these two melons and dates, you must not look down on it, brother.

I simply arranged in advance and transported all the seized materials!

If you really want it, you should have said it! I'll definitely leave you some if you said it earlier! ”

These words were said quickly, how could he give Commander Tang a chance to come back to his senses?

However, Commander Tang has no base camp in central Henan, and is now stationed in northern Henan to recuperate, and I am afraid that the help of these Eighth Route Army snakes is indispensable to deal with the Japanese army.

Commander Tang could only snort, and he couldn't say anything about the bitterness of eating Coptis chinensis, so he acquiesced in the matter.

In this way, the officers and men of the Eighth Route Army, under the slogan of "we are poor, we are reasonable", pulled away all the material bases captured on the battlefield.

The mighty team, at a glance, the military appearance is neat, the military uniform is uniform, the equipment is well-equipped, the morale is high, and there are even many soldiers of the Eighth Route Army wearing leather shoes.

When it was time to say goodbye, Commander Tang led the troops to see them off, and most of the soldiers in his group army were still wearing rag shoes, and some even wore straw sandals!

At this time, I don't know which officer suddenly said: "Sir, have we been fooled?" I see that the conditions of the Eight Roads are so much better than ours? ”

Commander Tang: "......"

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The whole battle of northern Henan went very quickly, and with the battle of central Henan, it didn't take long.

At this time, on the frontal battlefield, in order to implement the No. 1 battle plan and completely open up the mainland communication line, the Battle of Guiliu had also entered a critical period.

The General Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

Led by the deputy chief of general staff, a post-war military conference was held at the headquarters of the Northern Henan Meeting, which was attended by the commanders of all military regions and the responsible persons of various base areas.

At the meeting, everyone summed up the combat experience of the Northern Henan Conference Battle.

This battle, led by the Eighth Route Army, can be said to be the first battle in the true sense of the Eighth Route Army's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it must be a strong stroke in the history of the Eighth Route Army's War of Resistance.

The joy of victory enveloped the whole meeting, and the emotions of the soldiers were high.

Finally, the topic returned to the evolution of the situation of the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army in the rear of North China, as well as the follow-up work direction and strategic guidelines for the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army in North China, Central China, and South China.

Speaking of the current situation.

The commanders smiled and said:

"After the fiasco of the little devils in the Battle of Northern Henan, in accordance with the second phase of the battle plan, guerrilla troops from all over the country attacked one after another, specifically targeting the devils' communication lines, including our New Fourth Army troops in Central and South China.

Didn't the little devil make some kind of No. 1 battle plan and want to completely open up the communication lines of our Chinese mainland?

The little devils beat theirs, let's fight ours, and we will destroy as many lines of communication as they knock down.

During this period of time, the main mobile force of the little devils has been running between North China, Central China, and South China, filling the gaps in the defense line under our multi-party offensive everywhere.

What we have to do is to completely exhaust the mobile troops of these devils, and even more so to completely wear out the military self-confidence of the little devils.

Some time ago, the devil first fought the Fourth Battle of Changsha, then the Battle of Central Henan, the Battle of Hengyang, and the current military victory in the Guiliu area, and he is proud!

If we don't kill his little devil's majesty, then what's the deal? ”

The Japanese army also had a big headache for this.

In the past, the Eighth Route Army had not developed, its equipment was backward, ammunition was scarce, and it could only survive in remote suburbs and in the wilderness.

But now the Eighth Route has grown, the equipment has been thoroughly developed, and the combat effectiveness has been formed.

In recent years, the Japanese army has continued to attack cities and seize land, resulting in an excessively large area of occupied areas, coupled with multi-front operations in the Pacific Theater and Southeast Asian Theater, the flaws in the overstretched strength of the Japanese defense have been completely revealed.

Originally, the Japanese army ruled China with China, and a large number of puppet troops were basically grass on the wall.

Seeing that the little devil is declining, how can there be anyone who is loyal to the devil? It's not bad if you don't turn against each other, and the little devil is even distracted to beware of the puppet army inside to revolt at any time.

The already small number of troops is becoming more and more insufficient.

When the offensive of the Eighth Route Army fell like a raging storm.

The Japanese army demolished the east wall to make up the west wall, and did not care about the end at all.

It's full of loopholes.

The only thing to rely on is the various mobile units that the Japanese army originally used for rapid reinforcement, including the mobile troops of the old devil at the foot of the mountain, and the armored force of the old devil Inoue.

But the mobile units that came out from all directions kept coming out with bad news.

Either the friendly forces that reinforced were all wiped out, or the mobile troops that went to reinforce were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army and suffered heavy losses.

Feelings of despair, fear, and war-weariness continued to spread among the Japanese puppet army troops.

…… At the military meeting of the headquarters, when it was said how to completely destroy the mobile forces of the Japanese army in North, Central and even South China.

In order to completely paralyze the Japanese army under the flood of the Eighth Route Army.

The commanders were helpless.

As Commander Lu said: "After the Battle of Northern Henan, plus the mobile troops that the devils have been losing over the years, although the mobile forces of the devils have been sharply reduced a lot, there must still be a lot of residual mobile troops.

Including the mobile troops and armored divisions that the devils invested in the battle of northern Henan, under our encirclement and suppression, a large part of them still escaped by virtue of their mobile advantages.

If these devil mobile units are not completely destroyed, they will pose a great threat to our base areas and our troops, and they will be a hidden danger after all. ”

"But how do you gather the scattered mobile troops of the devils and destroy them in one fell swoop?"

This is a difficult problem that bothers everyone.

In the end, the result of everyone's discussion was: "It is definitely impossible to wait for the little devil to take the initiative to gather the remaining mobile troops together and stick out his head for the Eighth Route Army to cut off."

Maybe you can use some bait to lure the devil's mobile troops over in a concentrated manner, and then destroy them in one fell swoop. ”

"Is there really such a bait?" Elder Wang asked the key to the problem.

There was a sudden silence in the conference room, and everyone was lost in thought.

Until he didn't speak much, Kong Jie, who was sitting in the corner of the conference room, suddenly opened his mouth and broke the silence: "Bait, maybe there are also ones!" ”

"Haha, Lao Kong, I know that you kid has a lot of ghost ideas, tell me quickly, what's the way?" Old Head Wang couldn't wait to ask.

The eyes of all the generals converged.

Kong Jie came to the huge military map hanging on the wall next to the conference room, and finally pointed his finger at the Jiaodong area in the Shandong region.

Commander Xu, the person in charge of the Jiaodong base area, who also participated in the meeting, was a little stunned, "I said Lao Kong, although the little devil has always wanted to destroy my Jiaodong base area, but the attraction of our Jiaodong base area is probably not enough to attract all the mobile elites of the little devils, right?" ”

Kong Jie suddenly laughed, smiling so confidently.

He asked rhetorically: "Comrades, do you still remember the direct cause of the outbreak of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi battle? ”

As soon as these words came out, the generals were stunned for a moment, and then their brains turned quickly and immediately said:

"If you want to say that the direct fuse of the Japanese army's attack on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi region, it must start with the bombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and his party.

The United States used the front-line airfield in our Zhejiang-Jiangxi region as a springboard to bomb the Japanese mainland.

The little devil was completely panicked, for fear that Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries would continue to use the airports in the Zhejiang-Jiangxi region as a springboard to bomb Japan, so they then launched the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Conference with the purpose of destroying the Chinese airports in the Zhejiang-Jiangxi region......"

At this point, the voice stopped abruptly.

Then he said incredulously: "Considering that our Jiaodong area also has a secretly built front departure airport, and if you really want to talk about it, our Jiaodong area is probably closer to the devil's home route."

I said, Lao Kong, should you be bold enough to learn from Doolittle and bomb Little Japan, right? ”

Hahahaha –

In the shock of the generals, Kong Jie laughed and said: "This is strange, when did the bombing of small Japan become a patent?" Why, what Lao Du and they can do, our Eighth Route Army can't do?

What's more, Lao Du, they are still staying in our base now! ”

The next words are even more domineering:

"We're going to blow up this little Japan!"

When the words fell, the conference room completely exploded, and even the deputy chief of staff and the deputy commander-in-chief looked at Kong Jie with a smile on their faces after coming back to their senses.

The horizontal knife was immediately slashed, and the deputy commander-in-chief, who never knew what fear was, even signaled:

"Kong Jie, tell me what you think."

"Yes!"

Kong Jie replied and said: "Comrades, think about it, over the years, the little devils have used the superiority of the air force to bomb our Chinese mainland for an unknown number of times, causing the death of a large number of our innocent people and the loss of property.

This hatred is engraved in our bones, and we will never forget it.

Now that we have the opportunity to take revenge, what are we polite to Little Japan?

We have airplanes, everything we need to fight during the day and at night, and we have no shortage of excellent pilots, and there are even old people like Lao Du who have bombed Tokyo as guides.

When I proposed to bomb little Japan, even the big guys were so surprised, can we also think from another angle, if we launch a secret air attack on Japan?

The Japanese army was also caught off guard?

Once the bombing campaign is successful, it will certainly be of great help to the morale of our three armed forces to resist Japan and to the image of our Eighth Route Army as a strong army on the international stage.

The little devil then learned that we were using the front airport of the Jiaodong Peninsula as a springboard to bomb the mainland of other countries, comrades think about it, will they be like crazy, send a mobile elite, and go straight to Jiaodong as fast as possible?

In this way, is the bait becoming? Can we set a trap in advance in the Jiaodong area? Why don't you catch all the elites of the devils who have gathered? ”

For a moment, the entire conference room could hear a pin drop.

Only Kong Jie's voice echoed in the room.

There was only one thought in the hearts of the old comrades-in-arms: "What a shocking bombing plan, this is too crazy!" ”

(End of chapter)