Taiyuan.

Headquarters.

The chief of staff walked quickly to the chief's side and smiled slightly: "Chief, the national telegram to recover North China and eliminate the main force of the North China Front has just been sent. ”

This chief is not a deputy commander-in-chief, but a commander-in-chief.

"Yes, yes!"

The chief smiled and said hello twice.

After the main force of the Kwantung Army fled back to Manchuria, the Eighth Route Army did not continue the pursuit.

On the one hand, the conditions for attacking Manchuria were not yet ripe, and the battle plan, intelligence, and materials had not yet been prepared.

On the other hand, after nearly a month of continuous marching and fighting, the soldiers were exhausted and did not fit to fight again.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Eighth Route Army must first digest such a large territory and digest this business.

When the size of the army has expanded, it is not too late to recover Manchuria.

The chief could imagine what the headmaster of the mountain city would have when he heard the news.

The civil war has not been able to destroy our army for ten years, and now our troops are getting stronger and stronger.

If he were the principal of Chang, he probably wouldn't be able to sleep.

And now, the Eighth Route Army is not afraid of the National Army stabbing in the back.

Again, the power comes out of the barrel of a gun, not to mention tanks, heavy artillery and airplanes.

With the strength of the Eighth Route Army now, even if you start a war with the devil and the national army at the same time, you are not afraid.

The chief of staff smiled slightly: "Boss Chen's grain is entering Henan Province in a steady stream, and we have won the support of more than 10 million people in Henan Province, and now the people there only recognize our border district government, not the national government." ”

The chief nodded: "The drought in Henan Province this year is an opportunity for our Eighth Route Army. ”

The people take food as the sky, and for the common people, milk is food.

In another time and space, there was a severe drought in Henan Province, and the Nationalist Government not only ignored it, but did not allow the victims to go to Shaanxi Province to escape the famine.

Even the national army grabbed the little food left in the hands of the common people.

It happened that Okamura organized troops to attack Henan Province and gave the people a little food, and the people helped the devils fight the national army.

For many ordinary people in Henan Province, hating the national army is even better than hating devils.

However, the Eighth Route Army appeared with enough food to save the entire province of Henan, and even without propaganda, it immediately won the support of the common people.

"yes." The chief of staff said, "If Boss Chen hadn't appeared, the people of Henan Province would have starved to death at least one million this year." ”

……

Northern Shaanxi.

The town of Qiulin.

Second Theater Command.

With the rise of the Eighth Route Army, today's Second Theater Command has existed in name only.

Judging from the strength on paper, the Second Theater has already become China's No. 1 theater and the most combat-effective theater.

Because the second theater of operations included the Jin Army, the Sui Army and the Eighth Route Army.

The combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army is obvious to all, and it has the upper hand in single-handedly challenging the Japanese North China Front, the Kwantung Army, and the Japanese 11th Army.

But it's a pity that such a powerful Eighth Route Army does not listen to Yan Xishan's command.

Even Fu Zuoyi and his Suijun disobeyed Yan Xishan's orders, and only obeyed Principal Chang's orders, because Fu Zuoyi and Suijun's supplies came from the Shancheng government.

Yan Xishan sighed as he studied the map.

Deputy Commander Yang Aiyuan held a telegram he had just received in his hand and walked in with a dull expression.

At this time, this deputy commander and commander of the 6th Group Army, who was highly regarded by Yan Xishan, was in extreme shock, and even his expression was a little out of shape.

Yang Aiyuan shouted: "Commander? ”

"Brother Aiyuan, you came just in time, you come to take a look at this map."

In the room of the theater headquarters, there was a huge map on the table in the middle of the room, and Yan Xishan was studying the map with a magnifying glass.

Yang Aiyuan walked in with a telegram in his hand, Yan Xishan didn't look up, he was analyzing the tactics of the Eighth Route Army.

In case one day the Eighth Route Army is familiar with the tactics of the Eighth Route Army against the Jin Sui Army, the Jin Sui Army also has a countermeasure.

Yang Aiyuan's expression moved, and he walked quickly to Yan Xishan's side, looking at the map.

I saw several red arrows representing the attack of the Eighth Route Army jumping on the map.

Although the main force of the Jin Sui army was squeezed to northern Shaanxi, the Jin Sui army still had quite a lot of intelligence departments in Shanxi and North China.

The battle between the main force of the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese North China Front was learned by the intelligence department of the Jin Sui Army, and the information was transmitted to the headquarters by telegram.

However, the Second War Zone Commander's Department did not receive first-hand information, and the latest information received by Yan Xishan was still a few days ago.

To be able to achieve the position of deputy commander of the second theater, Yang Aiyuan's military quality is naturally excellent, he commented: "In this battle, the Eighth Route Army used a pincer offensive to attack the Japanese North China Front from the north and south, forcing Okamura to divide his troops to block the attack, so that the troops of the North China Front Army could not be clenched into a fist. ”

It was naturally impossible for the Jin Sui Army to know the battle plan of the Eighth Route Army.

However, the operational staff of the Jin Sui Army, according to the information that came, drew this combat map.

It is very similar to the combat map of the Eighth Route Army.

Yan Xishan's tone was sour: "According to the intelligence, the front-line commander of the Eighth Route Attack in North China is the commander of the new regiment, Li Yunlong, so this battle plan must also be from this person." ”

If Li Yunlong wants to come to the Jin Sui Army now, he can give up his position as the commander of the second theater to Li Yunlong.

But that was impossible, Yan Xishan had already contacted Li Yunlong privately several times and offered him high-ranking officials, but Li Yunlong was unmoved.

Even Chu Yunfei, who was a lobbyist, betrayed him and voted for the eighth road.

Yan Xishan was almost angry to death.

"Li Yunlong is fighting this person, and he does have a few brushes."

After a pause, Yang Aiyuan's tone entered the topic with exclamation: "Commander, just now the Eighth Route Headquarters has sent a nationwide telegram, and the Eighth Route Army has recovered North China and eliminated the main force of the North China Front Army. ”

While speaking, Yang Aiyuan handed the telegram in his hand to Yan Xishan.

"What do you say?"

Yan Xishan was suddenly startled, quickly took the telegram, and his tone suddenly increased:

"So fast?"

Although Yan Xishan had long expected that the Japanese army would not be the opponent of the Eighth Route Army in this battle, the victory of the Eighth Route Army was too fast.

In less than a month, the main force of the Japanese North China Front was eliminated, and North China was recovered.

After reading the telegram, it took Yan Xishan a full minute to regain his composure, but then his face was full of doubts: "Is it that the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army has improved, or has the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army decreased?" ”

"Commander, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army should not have decreased, it should be that the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army has improved."

"The 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army single-handedly defeated the Japanese 11th Army in the Xuzhou area and recovered the strategic location of Xuzhou."

"What's more, before the Eighth Route Army attacked, the Japanese army sent several additional divisions and a large number of supplies to North China."

"The strength of the North China Front is stronger than before, but the growth rate of the strength of the Eighth Route Army is too scary."

Yang Aiyuan's face was full of amazement, and even a little shocked.

"If I knew this, I shouldn't have let those people cross the Yellow River east and let them fend for themselves in northern Shaanxi." Yan Xishan sighed for a long time and regretted it.

The Eighth Route Army occupied such a large territory in North China, Xuzhou and even the Central Plains, and my Yan Xishan was red-eyed!

At the beginning of the Japanese army's large-scale attack on China, not only the Eighth Route Army, but also the Central Army and the Sichuan Army entered Shanxi and even North China to resist the war.

"Who would have thought." Yang Aiyuan smiled bitterly, "When the Yellow River was crossed eastward, the Eighth Route Army was only three divisions, with a full battle of 45,000 people, and now the main force is 1 million people, and it can single out the Japanese Kwantung Army, the North China Front Army and the Japanese 11th Army at the same time, and also won the war, which is almost the main force of the Japanese army in China, not including the militia, if you add the militia, I am afraid that the troops of this group have exceeded 2 million." ”

Yan Xishan also said: "In terms of equipment, the Eighth Route Army still relied on the logistics of the national government for supplies, but now the Eighth Route Army is equipped with a large number of heavy artillery, tanks and aircraft, which is better than the equipment of the little devils." ”

Saying this, Yan Xishan's eyes showed envy, jealousy, and hatred.

Up to now, Yan Xishan, Yang Aiyuan and others have analyzed it based on various intelligence.

As long as the Eighth Route Army won a battle, it would receive a large amount of weapons and equipment, including heavy artillery, aircraft, and tanks in addition to infantry weapons and ammunition.

Even the generals of the Eighth Route Army who killed the Japanese army would receive a lot of aid, all kinds of trucks, fuel and arsenal equipment.

Boss Chen's assistance to the new group has lasted for several years.

Even if there was no intelligence, Yan Xishan and they could guess it.

In a word, my Yan Laoxi's eyes are red!

That mysterious Boss Chen, why don't you do business with me Yan?

I'm a businessman in Yan, and I know how to do business more than the Eighth Route Army.

Yan Xishan also sent a lot of intelligence officers to find the legendary Boss Chen, but unfortunately, the current Yan Xishan doesn't even know what Boss Chen looks like, let alone do business with Boss Chen.

"Commander, the current Eighth Route Army has obtained two territories in North China and the Central Plains, and it is obvious that it is aiming for the world."

"When the Eighth Route Army drives away the Japanese, I'm afraid..."

Yang Aiyuan said in a worried tone.

"Why don't I know that?"

Yan Xishan sighed.

Everywhere the Red Army went, it fought the local tyrants and divided the land, saying that the poor were the masters of the house.

Who is the biggest local tyrant and inferior gentry in Shanxi?

Of course, it is him Yan Xishan, between the Eighth Route Army and the Jin Sui Army, there will be a battle sooner or later in the future.

In the first two years, when the Eighth Route Army was showing signs of growth, the government at that time allowed the Eighth Route Army to become bigger in order to contain the Japanese army in North China.

However, the growth rate of the Eighth Route Army was so fast that the Japanese army and the national army did not react at all.

In just two or three years, the strength of the Eighth Route Army has increased by more than 100 times.

At this time, by the time the Japanese army and the national army reacted, the Eighth Route Army had become a climate.

Now the worst is the Japanese army, but in the future, I am afraid that the national army will not be much stronger than the Japanese army.

Yang Aiyuan said, "Commander, we have to plan early. ”

Yan Xishan's eyes flashed slightly: "What do you mean..."

……

Yan Xishan and Yang Aiyuan were very panicked, but there was something more panicked than the high-level leaders of Jin Suijun, that is, Principal Chang in the mountain city.

After listening to the report of Defense Minister He Jingzhi, President Chang threw the teacup in front of him on the spot and scolded Niang Xipi.

Principal Chang's fear of the Eighth Route Army was no less than his fear of the Japanese army.

At most, the Japanese army occupied territory, and the common people on those territories could never really fall to the Japanese army.

Even those puppet soldiers who fell to the Japanese army, when the Japanese army failed in the future, would definitely betray the Japanese army in an instant.

The Eighth Route Army occupies North China and the Central Plains, with more than 1 million square kilometers of land and 100 million people.

This has been proven in the base areas of the Eighth Route Army in Jinggangshan, in northern Shaanxi, in the southeast of Shanxi, in the northwest of Shanxi, and in central and southern Hebei.

But Principal Chang had nothing to do with the Eighth Route Army.

Because the Eighth Route Army recovered North China and eliminated the North China Front, Principal Chang couldn't find any fault.

As for uniting with the Japanese army to attack the Eighth Route Army, Principal Chang would never dare.

Not to mention whether he can fight or not, if he really does this, the national army will lose the support of the people in an instant.

Many patriotic generals will also fall to the side of the Eighth Route Army, and I am afraid that the national army will soon collapse.

Now the national army can only continue to ask for great assistance from the United States to strengthen its strength.

When it competes for the world with the Eighth Route Army in the future, it will also have the power to fight.

But this is just Principal Chang's wishful thinking, not to mention that the United States supports the national army, and it can wrestle with the Eighth Route Army.

At that time, even if the Mi Army came in person, it was not the opponent of the Eighth Route Army.

……

Xinxiang.

The headquarters of the independent brigade of the new 1st regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

After Chu Yunfei killed the puppet army Sun Liangcheng and his remnants, he led his troops south and recovered Xinxiang County.

Today's new regiment of independent brigades, equipped with 24 105mm howitzers and 72 American-style mountain guns, plus air support that can be called at any time, there is only one squadron of devils in Xinxiang.

The Independent Brigade easily recovered Xinxiang, as well as Kaifeng, a military town dozens of kilometers away, which was also recovered by the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

At present, the entire eastern Henan has become the territory of the Eighth Route Army.

However, there were still troops of Jiang Dingwen and Tang Enbo in the First Theater of the Nationalist Army in western Henan.

However, there is a severe drought in Henan Province, and the people of western Henan are pouring into eastern Henan in large numbers.

The power of the large amount of grain flowing into Henan Province is emerging.

"Deputy Commander."

Fang Ligong held a telegram in his hand and walked in quickly, his tone excited:

"Just now, the headquarters has sent a national telegram, and our Eighth Route Army has recovered North China and eliminated the main force of the North China Front."

"What did you say?"

Chu Yunfei was staring at the map, when he heard this, he suddenly turned around, walked over quickly, and took the telegram from Fang Ligong's hand.

The political commissar Qin on the side also came over, and after the two read the telegram, they couldn't help but smile.

Chu Yunfei said in a heroic tone: "Well done, you have to fight against the little devils like this, kill all this group of Japanese beasts who exterminate humanity!" ”

Sun Ming on the side was also excited: "This battle can be regarded as raising the prestige of our country, our Eighth Route Army let the devils know that our country's territory is not so easy to occupy, the invaders must pay a heavy price, the recovery of North China is just the beginning, and then there are Northeast, Central China and South China!" ”

Chu Yunfei nodded, his eyes were shining, and his eyes were full of meaning.

Since he became the Eighth Route Army, Chu Yunfei learned about the greatness of communism after he came into contact with the theory of communism in depth.

Of course, Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles are also for China and the Chinese people.

Whether it is the Three People's Principles or Communism, the starting point is to build a new China.

In the past, Chu Yunfei also believed that the Three People's Principles could save New China, but what the government did made him chill.

The key is still the problem of people, and the government has rotted from the commander to the top level.

However, during this time, the Eighth Route Army made every effort to rescue the disaster in Henan Province, but the government was indifferent, and the Eighth Route Army successfully recovered North China and eliminated the North China Front.

Let Chu Yunfei see that the group of people in the Eighth Route Army can really build a new China.

Chu Yunfei's eyes froze.

I, Chu Yunfei, will follow the Eighth Route Army with all my heart in the future! (End of chapter)