For the time being, I can't think of any solution, so I can only take one step at a time.

The Eighth Route Army began to take the second step in a multi-step plan:

According to the path discussed by Kong Jie and his wife Shen Wenyue, in terms of the Propaganda Department of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, four military-themed documentaries were published soon after.

In terms of the construction of aviation units - North China Eagle.

In terms of production mobilization and industrial construction in various base areas, China is rising.

On the army and armoured side - the Land Tigers.

In addition, the Allied commandos and construction experts cooperated with the Eighth Route Army to resist aggression.

The release of these four special propaganda documentaries, coupled with the huge results of the air raids on the mainland.

The effect was quite shocking, and it could even be said to be earth-shattering, and reporters from all walks of life, including international journalists, reported on it one after another, further increasing publicity.

In the documentary, on the battlefield behind enemy lines, in the base areas of China's Eighth Route Army, from major industrial parks, large machine production lines, to small rural workshops to produce all kinds of materials.

From trains and trucks in large logistics centers to front-line unicycles, there are also various agricultural and livestock bases.

It completely subverted the backward economic image of the Eighth Route Army's base areas in the past.

The fact that the factories and assembly plants of all kinds of heavy weapons produced by the military industry are in full swing reflects the rapid development of the equipment level of the Eighth Route Army.

There are also various facilities built by the aviation industry, factory production lines, and combat records of various aviation teams, which are even more exciting.

All kinds of Allied aid projects and Allied commando combat documentaries and praises are used to meet the face of the Allied countries at the same time.

Viewers who have watched the documentary, no matter what country they are, can't help but exclaim:

Is this still the backward China in my impression?

It is a miracle in the history of war that such a grand occasion can occur when such an environment in the base area of the Eighth Route Army is placed on the battlefield behind enemy lines and in the area occupied by the Japanese army.

Then more analysis will be extended: it seems that the Japanese army has declined and weakened to such an extent, and the base area of the Eighth Route Army in the occupied area has grown rapidly, and under the general trend, even the Japanese army is afraid that it is powerless.

With the help of this propaganda, because of the strength of the Eighth Route Army, even the image of China as a whole in the international community has been further enhanced.

In addition, the documentary even vaguely proposed that the Eighth Route Army was preparing to recover Shanxi, Hebei, central Hebei, southern Hebei, eastern Hebei, Shandong, northern Henan, and Huaibei in one fell swoop.

I almost told Okamura in person that the Eighth Route Army was preparing to recover the occupied area in North China behind the enemy, and it was up to you to deal with it.

It is said that at the General Headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army in Nanjing, the newly appointed commander-in-chief Okamura Ninji stumbled to his seat after watching these four feature documentaries, his face was extremely pale, and he could not recover for a long time.

Shunroku Hatata, who had officially left his post on the side, but had not returned to China for the time being, and Shunroku Hatata, who remained at the headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army as a military adviser, had a surprisingly ugly face.

The strength of the Eighth Route Army was undoubtedly a slap in the face to him.

A further demonstration of the incompetence of his predecessor, commander-in-chief of China's dispatch forces.

Not long ago, the victory of a series of battles such as Yuxianggui was like a great mockery at this moment.

Okamura, who had only just taken over as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Dispatch Army and had only given birth to some self-confidence, was suddenly a little confused - the Eighth Route Army, which had already been completely powerful, could the empire really eradicate them completely?

These dirt roads in the occupied areas have been fought for so many years, and the more they are beaten, the more tenacious they become, the more they are beaten, the stronger they become, and the area of the base area is also getting bigger and bigger.

Okamura couldn't help but wonder if China's strategic approach to sending troops was wrong from the beginning.

Perhaps, from the very beginning, the military focus should have been on these so-called Hanako troops who were surviving in the cracks in the occupied areas, and they should have been strangled in the cradle before they were fully developed.

It's a pity that it's too late to say anything.

When it came to fighting against the Jiaodong base area of the Eighth Route Army, Okamura, who was more and more shocked by the strong strength of the Eighth Route Army, played a careful mind again.

During the previous winter sweep, the Japanese army attacked Datong and Zhangjiakou and attacked from multiple directions, resulting in the dispersion of troops, and the time and space could not be synchronized, resulting in flaws in the interspersed troops, which were exploited by the Eighth Route Army, causing a series of heavy defeats.

This time Okamura learned his lesson.

The plan was to send only three large armies, one of which was the Kwantung Army to land from Weihai and advance along the Weilai Highway to the Haiyang area.

One route, the mobile unit of the 12th Army marched from Jinan to Laiyang, and then marched south along the Qinglai Highway to the Haiyang area.

On the last road, the Jihadist Army and the Panzer Corps set out from Qingdao and advanced to the Haiyang area, where they joined up with friendly forces from the Tsing Lai and Wailai roads, burning the area into a thousand white ground, and completely achieving the goal of this campaign.

This time, the four major promotional videos of the Eighth Route Army completely scared Okamura.

This old devil, who already felt strange, even doubted that the Eighth Route would be ready for war in the Jiaodong area early on.

For this reason, Okamura temporarily adjusted the deployment of the march into Jiaodong.

This old devil attaches great importance to his first battle in office, and he uses the resources of the dispatch army to replenish all the holy war army under Yamashita and the armored army of Inoue Yoshisa.

The 40th Division of Guanchuan and the 13th Division of Chilu were also transferred from the reserve to supplement them to enrich the infantry force of the attack, and two heavy artillery brigades were specially equipped.

In the direction of Jinan, the field corps formed by the Tanaka Division, the 110th Hayashi Yoshitaro Division, and the 6th Mixed Brigade moved south, supported by the heavy artillery brigade directly under the 12th Army.

The Weihai direction consisted of the 12th Division of the Kwantung Army, the Numata Division, and the 25th Division, the Yuyuan Division, supported by the heavy artillery brigade directly under the Kwantung Army.

Okamura's small plan was to let the troops of the 12th Army and the Kwantung Army advance to Laiyang, launch an attack on the north and east of Haiyang at the same time, and then join the local defenders after entering the territory of Haiyang, and then his main force would set off from Qingdao.

"These two armies can first test the resistance of the Eighth Route Army to see if there are any traps set in advance, otherwise I will feel uneasy after all." At the military meeting, Okamura analyzed.

In addition, Okamura specifically requested that the troops participating in the battle should especially strengthen their field air defense forces.

At the beginning, the Eighth Route Army dispatched strategic bombers and heavy bombers to carry out carpet bombing of the Morita Division that was advancing in Guisui, leaving an indelible shadow on the divisions and regiments attacking from all directions.

To be honest, Okamura doesn't trust the strength of the Army Air Force anymore.

He was worried that once the aviation units of the Eighth Route Army were dispatched on a large scale, the air supremacy surrounding the Jiaodong area would completely fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army.

If the ground forces do not have a certain air defense force, they will certainly fall into passivity.

In addition, in order to stabilize domestic public opinion and pressure, this cunning old devil played some small tricks: captured some crashed planes, and then found some Yankees and national soldiers from the prisoner of war camps to act as pilots, and began to spread the word all over the world that the air force attacking the homeland had been completely wiped out!

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The war is about to break out, and both sides are preparing for each other, and on the surface it is calm, but in fact there is an undercurrent.

In the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army's Special Experimental Zone, although the three generals Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei could not personally participate in the battle, they paid close attention to the evolution of the situation in this battle.

Ding Wei said with a smile: "The little devil is not as good as day by day now, and in the end, there is probably only this Okamura left."

It's a pity that this old devil has no skills, and he can't take care of such a big mess.

You see that this old boy was tossed, the battle of Yuxianggui had just ended, and it was too late for a moment to breathe, and he had to command the war in the Jiaodong area. ”

Li Yunlong said: "Having said that, Okamura, this old devil, has really become a master, after being transferred back then, who would have thought that he would be transferred back again, first secretly serving as the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Sixth Front Army, and this time he has actually changed his body and been promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Dispatch Army!" ”

Ding Wei said: "In this way, this battle around the Jiaodong area is the first battle in which this old boy from Okamura served as the commander-in-chief!" ”

Li Yunlong said: "Yes, why don't this old boy make such a big battle?" The multi-way army is encircled, and it seems that they want to make a good start! ”

Kong Jie reminded: "Even the boss once said that among the successive commanders of the Japanese army in North China, this Okamura Ningji is insidious and cunning, and it is difficult to deal with.

This old devil and we are old opponents, and many of our tactical ideas This old devil not only knows it, but even steals from the teacher to learn the arts, I heard that using our tactics, in the battle of Kuah Island, he was stunned to beat the landing force of the US army out of temper.

If we want to take the fourth step according to the plan and successfully advance into the Kanto, it seems that we must be fully prepared! ”

At this time, when it came to the news that the Japanese army had deliberately spread and had completely annihilated the local air force in the day, Ding Wei mocked: "The little devil probably won't do anything but deceive himself now, get a few broken planes that I don't know where to capture, and then find some prisoners to fill up, so I am embarrassed to say that our air force has been wiped out?" ”

Kong Jie said with a smile: "This is easy to do, we will make public the images of the air raid on Nagasaki recorded by the night cameras carried by some strategic bombers, and even allow journalists and military attachés from various countries to visit the daily training of our Huangyadong strategic bomber unit."

The best way to break a lie is to speak with facts.

This time, I have to swell the old face of this old boy Okamura! ”

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On the part of the Shandong Military Region.

In order to cope with the Jiaodong war situation.

The political commissar, division commander, deputy chief of general staff, and Commander Xu of the military region jointly formed the Jiaodong Former Enemy Command Headquarters, and exchanged letters with the Yan'an General Headquarters through telegrams to ask for instructions, and was specifically responsible for the deployment and command of the Jiaodong operation.

The headquarters passed back the information through the latent senior intelligence officers, and collected the intensive movement of the devil's mechanized troops and armored units and heavy artillery units in Dalian, Shanghai, Jinan and other places.

It was immediately predicted that the devil might attack the Hai Duong area in three ways.

In this regard, the commander-in-chief said with a smile: "Your Jiaodong Military Region cooked a pot of rice, and now there are three tables of guests, you have to be prepared, this may be a very big test."

Among them, the first guest at the table is from the Dalian area, and it is very likely that the Kwantung Army will come from your air attack on the regimental headquarters of the 12th Division in the Nagasaki area.

The guests at the second table should be the most arrogant, the main force deployed by the Japanese army in the Qingdao area, this little devil is very cautious, and it is likely to be the main force of the old devil Okamura, like a cold poisonous snake, hiding in the grass, waiting for the right time to come out at any time, and bite us hard.

However, this is also the main goal of our Tianluo net in the Jiaodong area this time, and we must resolutely eliminate it!

As for the guests at the third table, the Japanese army marched from Jinan to the Laiyang area, as well as the southward troops of the Japanese army, this is your old opponent, but some second-rate combat power guys, just leave some to contain them, they have no determination to fight to the death, and we don't have to waste too much energy to deal with it.

This is called encircling and annihilating one, encircling one, and containing one, we have to be clear about the priorities, even if it is a raw meal, we have to eat it.

Kill them, and the initiative in the entire Sino-Japanese battlefield will be in our hands, which will provide a good foundation for our next plan. ”

On behalf of the Shandong Military Region, Commander Xu reported: "Originally, it was expected that the devils would dispatch three divisions, but we have assembled three detachments of the main force of the Jiaodong Military Region in the Haiyang area, the Lao Pi Mobile Brigade, the Lao Han Mobile Detachment directly under Yan'an, the Lao Xiao Mobile Detachment, and a large number of militia and guerrillas, which may be insufficient. ”

He then proposed to increase reinforcements and expand the scale of the campaign.

After thinking about it again and again, and after communicating with the main persons in charge of the major base areas, the Yan'an headquarters made the following arrangements:

On the basis of the Jiaodong Military Region, the detachment directly under Commander Xu, the Lao Nie detachment, the Lao Wu detachment, the Lao Ou reserve detachment, the Lao Pi mobile brigade, the Lao Han mobile detachment, and the Lao Xiao mobile detachment.

The newly formed mobile detachment of Brigade Commander Zhang of the Luliang Military Region, the Wang Jinshan mobile detachment of the 385th Brigade of the Taihang Military Region, and the Lao Qin mobile detachment,

Jizhong sent Lao Sun's mobile detachment, paired with Lao Lu's mechanized armored troops.

The Southern Hebei Military Region dispatched the Lao Cheng Mobile Detachment, the Lao Xu Mobile Detachment, and the Lao Du Mobile Detachment.

Lao Yang in northern Henan led a mobile detachment to support, and the Lao Yang detachment of the Shandong Military Region, which was active on the Longhai Line, and the Lao Chen detachment of the Military Region came forward to support.

The Jinchaji Lao Yang mobile detachment also came forward to reinforce it.

After these troops arrive in the Jiaodong area in batches, the headquarters will replenish ammunition and heavy weapons by air to assist the Jiaodong Military Region in waging this battle.

In particular, the troops of Lao Wang, Lao Xu, and Lao Cheng were particularly strengthened in terms of equipment in order to completely camouflage themselves as the Iron Triangle Army and paralyze the judgment of the Japanese army.

Kong Jie also made a bloody investment, which always can't want the horse to run and not give the horse grazing.

After the Great War in Northern Henan, all the staff changed their clothes.

The equipment of the light machine gun has been fully upgraded: the Type 43 imitation DP28 light machine gun cartridge chain, and the universal version of the drum.

In terms of heavy machine guns, a large number of them are equipped with Type 43 imitation M1919A4 heavy machine guns and Type 43 imitation M2 heavy machine guns.

Rifles: Type 43 imitation Springfield rifle - a production line obtained from the United States, its own Type 43 M1 improved automatic rifle.

In addition, there are submachine guns: Type 43 submachine guns, imitation Type 54 submachine guns are officially finalized.

In terms of grenades: the old-fashioned border area has long been gone, and the melon grenades of the little devils are not as rare as in the past, and the Type 43 high-power attack grenades are equipped in large quantities, and the little devils who can explode are screaming.

In terms of decisive superior artillery fire: Type 43 76 mm infantry gun - improved by Type 92 infantry gun, Type 42 47 mm flat artillery, Type 43 76 mm field gun, Type 43 76 mm light howitzer, Type 43 82 mm mortar, Type 43 57 mm recoilless gun, Type 43 105 mm light howitzer and other standard weapons, almost everything, officially formed a model elite field detachment.

It's so strong that it's an exaggeration!