The situation continues to evolve.

Under the arrangement of Commander Fu, the Mengdong defense line was still carried out with great fanfare, and the entire defense line was almost not picky even from the perspective of an insider, and it was basically built in the direction of permanent fortifications.

At first, the Japanese army was still very vigilant, fearing that the 35th Route Army would take advantage of the opportunity to carry out a sneak attack under the pretext of building a defensive line.

As a result, as the timeline continued to lengthen, as the troops of the Eighth Route Army invested more energy and larger battles in the Mengdong defense line to build fortifications.

The troops stationed in Mongolia in Kwantung and Eastern Mongolia gradually relaxed.

As long as the Eighth Route is for the purpose of creating a defensive line, not for the purpose of launching an attack, they have nothing to worry about.

In order to sabotage the plan of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army also tried to launch several attacks when the 35th Route Army was building the Mengdong Defense Line.

It's just that they were easily repelled by the 35th Route Army.

After the initial part of the Mengdong defense line was completed, with the help of these solid fortifications, the Japanese army completely cut off the possibility of breaking through the Mengdong defense line and driving the 35th Route Army back to Mengxi.

Under the effect of this line of defense, no matter what the future holds, at least for the time being, the recovery area laid down by the 35th Route Army in Mengdong is gradually stabilizing.

Whether it is the Mongolian army stationed in the eastern Mongolian region, or the Kwantung Army in the north.

None of them could easily cross this large defensive line that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and launched an attack on the recovery area of the 35th Route Army.

At the same time, this line of defense also completely cut off the route of the Kwantung Army from Mengdong.

Then, according to the plan of the General Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

The boss and the deputy chief of the general staff adopted Kong Jie's original proposal, and after the recovery area of eastern Mongolia gradually stabilized, with the help of the defense of the large defense line in eastern Mongolia, troops from various base areas and troops of all arms were continuously assembled in the eastern part of Mengdong to carry out large-scale troop running-in training in advance.

It is necessary to reorganize the troops in the base areas in the future and lay the foundation ahead of schedule.

When this matter was mentioned at a military meeting of the former enemy's general headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the deputy chief of general staff, on behalf of the former enemy's general headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, said:

"After the run-in training of various units in the eastern Mengdong area, in accordance with the decision of the general headquarters, we are ready to reorganize the 35th Route Army operating in the eastern Mengxi area to build four integrated division-level combat units.

They were the 4th Armored Cavalry Division, and the 31st, 32nd, and 101st Divisions.

In addition, two integrated divisions within the old 120, 129 divisions were included.

and three mobile detachments of the headquarters of the Iron Triangle Army.

Jinchaji Yang Detachment, Yanbei Detachment, Beijin Detachment, Daqingshan Detachment, Qin Wei Detachment, Laopi Detachment; The Jireliao detachment, the Lu Dafa detachment in central Hebei, the southern Hebei detachment, and the first batch of reinforced Jiaodong detachments of the Shandong Military Region. ”

This is a large number of reorganized divisions and reorganized field detachments.

After the troops were calculated, the generals were all secretly amazed.

This is a fairly large armed force.

Li Yunlong's eyes were even more happy, and he leaned into Kong Jie's ear and said: "Good guy, old Kong, after the run-in training in the Mengdong region is completed this time, this series of integrated troops will be arranged, and our troops must be at least one or two hundred thousand, right?" ”

Kong Jie said: "Lao Li, I'm afraid you still want less!" ”

Li Yunlong immediately snapped his fingers and recalculated, and then said with a surprised face: "Damn, it's true that we are less, I just calculated carefully, how much do you guess?" Just these four integrated divisions, plus our various field detachments, must have at least 300,000 troops.

I'm only counting the elite, and if you add reinforcements from all walks of life, I'm afraid the strength will be nearly 500,000 people.

It's lively, it's really lively, I'm afraid it's even more lively than when the Hundred Regiments War was fought back then. ”

Kong Jie smiled: "Lao Li, where is this?" This is only the first echelon of combat units pre-planned by our headquarters, and the second echelon that we have already put into secret training! ”

As for the troops of the second echelon in Kong Jie's mouth.

These include the Jizhong Military Region, the Shandong Military Region, the rebuilt Fang Zishan's 10th Army (Fang Zishan was reluctant to go to the front, and the General Headquarters promised Fang Zishan that after the Japanese were completely defeated, he could be transferred to the rear and then be his instructor, so the battle was still under his personal command), and the Northeast 51st Army, which was reorganized.

According to the final statistics of the General Staff.

This time, the first echelon of the Eighth Route Army had nearly 30 divisions, and the specific size of the force was similar to Li Yunlong's calculation, totaling about 500,000 troops.

As for the specific plan for sending troops, in the headquarters of the Special Experimental Zone, Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Li Wenjie, Zhao Gang, and others analyzed and discussed the battle situation together.

Kong Jie specifically introduced:

"According to the final resolution of the General Headquarters, the main forces of our army in this imperial plan operation will be divided into two echelons and advance from three directions at the same time.

The main force of the first echelon is mainly our old 129th Division, which is responsible for advancing all the way to Chifeng and Chengde until Jinxi.

The other way to the middle of the Great Khing'an Mountains, ready to cross to Qiqihar, the main force of this road is the main force of the old 120th Division.

The main mobile force is directly through Xilin Gol, and with our Iron Triangle Army as the mainstay, to attack in the area of Hailar Manchuria, after defeating the devils in the Hailar fortress group in the north of the Great Xing'an Mountains, use this as a base, enter North Manchuria and join the main force of the 120th Division that crossed the Great Khing'an Mountains.

After the troops of the two sides converge, according to the follow-up battle plan, they will thoroughly establish a foothold in the northern part of the Daxing'an Mountains and thoroughly open up our northernmost anti-Japanese revolutionary base behind enemy lines.

At the same time, it advanced north and south with the main force of the 120th Division in the south direction until the Kwantung Army was completely defeated.

In addition, Commander Fu's main force will serve as a reserve force, and after the offensive in these three directions is opened, it will strengthen the offensive in these three directions at any time, so as to provide favorable conditions for the subsequent development of the second echelon.

Once the battle starts, the main force of the three-way advance will launch a fierce offensive at the same time, and it will definitely be a big battle that will fall apart! ”

Ding Wei nodded, and after analyzing the battle situation, he then proposed:

"Although our army is divided into two echelon main forces this time, the most important thing is naturally our first echelon main force.

The first echelon can be said to be the absolute elite troops of our Eighth Route Army, even including all our mechanized troops.

As for the second echelon, although it has also gathered a lot of troops, in the final analysis, after losing the advantage of mechanized combat, there are basically only some infantry left.

If there is no elite main force of the first echelon, open up the advance passage in advance, and set up advance camps along the way, it will probably be very difficult to advance to the north purely with infantry. ”

"yes!" Kong Jie deeply believes this.

With the analysis of this battle, the battle situation is about to start, and the excited Li Yunlong has been unable to close his eyes for several nights, holding the map and studying it all day.

Lao Li said with some pride: "If the focus of the two echelons is on the first echelon that takes the lead in advancing, then the core of the first-echelon three-way marching troops is obviously on the mobile troops of the third route.

After all, the devil has been operating and building in puppet Manchuria for so many years, and the defense is like an iron bucket, if our team rushes in, I am afraid that before we can gain a firm foothold and create a situation, we will be wiped out by the devil's concentrated forces.

Therefore, after successfully advancing into the puppet Manchuria, the most important and urgent thing for our troops is to be able to open up a solid base behind enemy lines, and to be able to gain a firm foothold and fight with his little devil.

Then in the northern part of the Great Khing'an Mountains, the stable base we expect to build on the basis of the Hailar fortress group is particularly important.

And when it comes to the mobile unit responsible for launching an attack in advance in the direction of the Hailar fortress group......"

Ding Wei took over the conversation and said with a smile: "Lao Li, you just say that the main offensive force of this mobile force is on our Iron Triangle Group Army!" ”

Hahahaha –

"That's what we mean!" Li Yunlong said: "What kind of fortress group built by the little devil in the north of the Great Xing'an Mountains, it is not a small name to the outside world, what kind of steel fortress, an absolute fortress.

Hehe, but Lao Tzu doesn't believe in this evil.

After the advance of the mobile force this time, our Iron Triangle Army, as the tip of the knife of the entire army, is an absolute mobile elite, and we must break through the bullshit fortress group of devils in the shortest possible time.

We have to let the little devil know that no matter what kind of steel fortress and fort he is, under the offensive of our Iron Triangle Army, it's all bullshit! ”

Kong Jie echoed and smiled: "Yes, although Lao Li's words have an element of bragging, but from this point of view, this time the plan to send troops to advance, if you want to quickly open up the situation, this first breakthrough is really focused on our Iron Triangle Group Army."

If the fortress group in the north of the Great Khing'an Mountains cannot be broken through in time and build a solid rear military base in time, the main force of our two-way advance in the south direction will face greater risks.

If this is fought, it will be a north-south advance.

Until finally eating the Kwantung Army!

But if our mobile elite doesn't go well, we fail to seize the initiative.

I'm afraid that this advance operation will be troublesome, but the situation is better, and we will completely fall into a stalemate with the Kwantung Army, and the two sides will start a tug-of-war.

But once the situation deteriorates, not to mention that this advance operation will be a complete failure, we may even be completely shut down by the devils and trapped in the territory of puppet Manchuria.

That would be quite a bad situation! ”

Of course, this is very unlikely.

Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Zhao Gang and other generals present were full of confidence and confidence at this time, but in fact, they only represented a microcosm of all the generals of the Eighth Route Army.

Although this devil has built the puppet Manchuria like an iron wall.

However, judging from the intelligence collected by the internal infiltration of the Eighth Route Army, the Kwantung Army has long since ceased to be in recent years, with a large number of elite transfers, plus continuous reinforcements to the Guannai.

The Kwantung Army's control over the entire puppet Manchuria had long since declined significantly.

Even if the Eighth Route Army gathers the main force to attack head-on, the victory or defeat of the two sides is not yet known.

Not to mention that the Eighth Route Army has been planning for many years for the three-way dispatch plan, and has been preparing for a long time, and it has been related to the internal and various offensives as a cover, and there are even internal troops that have already infiltrated the Kanto region, and the surprise troops have attacked.

"So, until then, we have to prepare everything as much as possible, and make sure that it is not a sound, and it will be done!"

As for the specific defensive arrangements of the base areas and military regions in the Guannai after the three-way army attack.

Kong Jie said: "We have a certain amount of main forces, plus the cooperation of local army troops and even militia troops, with the help of a solid defense system built in the base area, and the backing of our aviation forces."

Even if the little devils have the courage to launch a full-scale attack on our core base area, we can only throw the originally occupied recovery area to them and firmly hold the core base area.

In addition, the main force of our old 115th Division is still staying in the Guannai to contain it.

The comrades of the New Fourth Army in Central and South China will also cooperate in launching an offensive to contain the Japanese army.

As long as the offensive in the north is fast enough, by the time the little devil comes back to his senses and realizes that the troops in our various base areas in the pass are extremely empty, maybe our advance battle plan has been successfully completed. ”

In order to release more smoke grenades.

In order to cooperate with this astonishing northward advance plan.

The Eighth Route Army in the eastern part of Mongolia made a big move to build a permanent defense line in eastern Mongolia.

The Allied military conference in the direction of Li Cheng was still in full swing.

In addition, at this allied military conference, the General Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army also specially invited Commander Yan and Commander Tang, who had a good foundation for joint operations with the Eighth Route Army in the Battle of Northern Henan.

In North China, especially in Shanxi, the units in the base areas of the Eighth Route Army launched a multi-directional offensive to fully regain the lost territory.

There was a lot of noise.

"We have to make the little devil believe in our strategic plan to attack the south and defend the north!"

In this regard, Chief of Staff Xu Guoan said with a smile: "Lao Kong, now don't say that it is a little devil, there is a high probability that he believes in our battle plan of attacking the south and defending the north, even the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army basically believe in this."

No, some time ago, the headquarters of Commander Tang in northern Henan also sent us a special communication, asking if our Eighth Route Army had any intention of fighting with his Tang Keqin Department again after launching a counterattack! ”

Kong Jie said with a smile: "This Tang Keqin is a good hand at taking advantage.

Seeing that our offensive to regain lost ground is going well, this old boy also wants to drink some soup.

But this is a good thing, with the help of Tang Keqin's group army, the little devil is afraid that he will have more headaches.

By the way, Lao Xu, how about the devil's secret rebellion against the North China Security Army in Shanxi? ”

At that time, the little devils had a headache that the occupied area was too large, and the troops were stretched, so they proposed to govern China with China, co-opted a large number of traitors and puppet armies, and also formed a North China security army.

But now the army is defeated.

The little devil probably experienced what it means to fall a tree and scatter and beat a water dog.

Seeing that the small life is no longer good, do you still expect those puppet soldiers who are already grinding foreign workers to sell their lives to them?

Dream on!

Since then, the Eighth Route Army's superiority in frontal military operations has become more and more obvious.

For those puppet troops, the work of secretly plotting against the inducement of surrender is getting smoother and smoother.

How exaggerated is it?

When the little devils arranged dormitories for the puppet army in the defense area, they had to arrange the puppet army on the second and third floors, and they didn't dare to put them on the first floor, for fear that as soon as the puppet army came into contact with the Eighth Route Army in the middle of the night, they would be directly rebelled, and the devils would be hacked to death in the quilt silently.

After all, this is not uncommon.

- Xu Guoan really replied: "Several regiment commanders of the puppet army have promised to surrender, and promised us that once we launch an offensive, they will take the opportunity to defect and assist us in killing the enemy!" ”

(End of chapter)