"Haha! That's interesting, isn't it? "Yes! Tick me off! Li Zongren was still thinking about the meaning of Jiang Qiang's words, but Xia Yu, Wang Hui and others next to him were so happy that they leaned back and turned back with laughter. No way, people in this era have too low laughter, unlike modern people who are used to watching jokes and comedies, and they don't find it interesting to watch anything!

At this time, Li Zongren's eyes flashed with a gleam, and he asked with a smile: "Does Commander Jiang mean to cast a long line to catch big fish?" "That's right! The little devil in the Yujiayao fortress is almost dead, there is no oil and water left, the rest are hard bones, there is no need to change a life for a life now! Jiang Qiang explained with a smile, it is useless to occupy the Yujiayao fortress now, and it makes sense to wait for a new wave of devils to settle in before annihilation. Ha ha! ”

Li Zongren nodded as if he didn't understand, he always felt that there was something deeper in this, but he asked with a smile: "I just don't know how big a fish Commander Jiang wants to catch?" Jiang Qiang said with a smile: "Naturally, the more the merrier, after so many days of layout, how can you be embarrassed to close the net if you don't eat one or two hundred thousand people in one bite?" "Ahem, ahem! In this world, Commander Jiang has this skill and courage! When the little devil meets you, it's really eight lifetimes of blood mold! ”

Li Zongren really choked a lot, this tone and appetite made people not know what to say! "Yaga! The Chinese army finally retreated, but fortunately a large number of tank trenches were dug at the front of the position! Otherwise, I will be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor today! Xiangye Falcon felt that he was about to lose his life, and he had already rolled up his cuffs and was about to personally take the brigade headquarters to the front line to fight hard, but suddenly saw the Jiaodong Group Army retreating like a tide, and Xiangye Falcon secretly rejoiced and wiped a cold sweat!

After a while, Aiba Hayabusa shouted loudly: "Order the troops to immediately repair their positions, rescue the wounded, and count the casualties!" It didn't take long for a little devil officer to come and report: "Report to the captain, a total of 750 imperial warriors have been shattered!" Another 140 people were seriously wounded and incapacitated! "Baga, don't you mean that there are only more than 300 of us? How so! ”

Xiangye Falcon's head was blindfolded all of a sudden, knowing that there were heavy casualties this time, but he didn't expect that the entire regiment would be wiped out in one fell swoop! A fully manned brigade of the Japanese army had about 1,200 people, including 30 people in the brigade headquarters, 800 people in 4 infantry squadrons, 174 people in 1 machine gun squadron, 55 people in 1 brigade artillery squadron, and 110 people in 1 transport squadron. That is to say, the Aiba Brigade, now there are only more than 300 people left who can still stand, and more than 100 people from the transportation squadron and the brigade headquarters are removed, and the front-line combat troops are not much different from the regimental annihilation!

"Baga Ya Road! Request tactical guidance from the Wing Captain today! Thinking of this, Xiang Ye Falcon was full of excitement, just this person is not enough for the Jiaodong Group Army to attack, if he doesn't come to reinforce, he will really have to be loyal to the jade shatter! The real number of casualties on the side of the Jiaodong Group Army is only 33, but the consumption of ammunition is really a bit large, and the ammunition consumption of the national army is enough to support a large-scale frontal battle!

The 1st Division Mingjin stopped the attack, and the 2nd Division attacking Weifang also took the initiative to retreat after continuing to attack for more than 3 hours! "Nani, more than 1,300 people were killed? How can the casualties of holding the fortress be so large? And also the loss of 46 guns, 23 heavy machine guns? Soon, Tuqiao received the battle damage statistics reported by the 84th Wing and the 85th Wing at one time, and his brows instantly wrinkled, if the previous casualties are added, the total number of casualties of the 22nd Division in the Jiaodong area has exceeded 3,000!

This is equivalent to the loss of 1 wing, and the 22nd Division is only a B division, and the death of more than 3,000 people is enough to be called a broken muscle! The establishment of the Japanese Army's B division is as follows: The division and regiment headquarters directly governs three infantry wings, each infantry wing has jurisdiction over three brigades, and the division and regiment directly governs one wing of artillery, engineering, cavalry, and baggage, with a total strength of 13,000 people.

Because in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Japan thought that it could be quickly resolved, and kept clamoring for the destruction of China for three months, so it was not ready for a protracted war, and after the real full-scale war, Japan's troops were not enough! Therefore, since 1938, the riot mode was opened, and the 21st Division to the 49th Division of the Japanese Army were all B divisions of this formation.

The Japanese army chief of staff Kohei Ezaki explained in a low voice: "The Chinese army not only has planes, heavy artillery, but also heavy tanks, and we have suffered too much in terms of weapons!" Although we couldn't hold out, the heavy firepower of the Huaxia army was too strong, and the Huaxia commander was also very cunning, just constantly consuming our vital strength, and did not use infantry to storm the fortress!

Otherwise, it would be difficult for Yujiayao Fortress and Liujiabao Fortress to hold on to the end today! "Yaga! A bunch of bastards! Don't they want money for shells and bombs? "Tsuchihashi was so angry that he vomited blood, in the past, the Japanese Imperial Army was beating the Chinese army like this, how did he become the masochistic one when he got here!

At this time, Ezaki Kohei continued to mend his sword: "The most helpless thing is that the Imperial Naval Aviation Corps is also afraid of the air force of the Huaxia Army and does not dare to provide air support!" Otherwise, we wouldn't be so passively beaten! "Yaga! A bunch of cowardly bastards! The situation must be reported to the base camp immediately, the Imperial Navy has great strength but does not have the courage to defeat a strong enemy! This is a disgrace to the Empire! ”

Tuqiao screamed angrily once, before he thought that he was in the Shandong Peninsula, with the Bohai Sea behind and the Yellow Sea in front, and the Imperial Navy fleet could launch air support in any position! As long as the naval aviation regiment is dispatched, no matter how many troops come from the Chinese army, even heavy tanks will be bombed to ashes! If the Jiaodong Group Army dares to attack, it will definitely make them pay an unbearable price of casualties!

Because according to previous intelligence and experience, the Jiaodong Group Army is extremely good at defense, but it is not good at attacking fortifications, and it rarely attacks head-on! This is also the confidence of Tuqiao to dare to hold the fortress with more than 10,000 troops at one time! However, now, not only did the fortress not play the role of protection as imagined, but even the Imperial Navy, which had always boasted of being invincible in the world, dropped its chain at a critical moment, and Tsuchihashi suddenly felt an extremely serious crisis this time!

On the morning of August 12, the Emperor's Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. Tada Jun, deputy chief of staff of the staff headquarters of the base camp, knelt down with a happy face and said: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, I just received a telegram from Ishihara-san, 16 sets of direct coal liquefaction units have been built, and the diesel and gasoline produced after trial production fully meet the requirements of use!"

These 16 sets of coal direct liquefaction units can be officially put into operation on a large scale! "What? Was it really successful? Yo Xi, that's great! God bless me with the Great Japanese Empire! Hirohito instantly felt like a chicken blood, Huo Ran stood up, and paced back and forth excitedly, and the sorrow caused by the unfavorable wars in the past few months disappeared in an instant! Hayi, Your Majesty the Emperor, this is absolutely true, and there is nothing wrong with it! ”

Tada Jun paused heavily, and then said in an extremely excited tone: "And just these 16 sets of direct coal liquefaction units, the oil production capacity of the Imperial Chemical Plant can be 400,000 tons/year" "What? Doesn't that mean that if the scale is expanded several times, it can exceed several million tons per year? Yo Xi, it's great that we can greatly free ourselves from the constraints of the Americans! Hearing this, Hirohito became more and more excited, the current minimum annual consumption of oil in Japan is more than 5 million tons, and the amount of oil hoarded so far is only about 4 million tons, which is not enough for a year!

Relying on American technology and talent, in 1891, Japan's first oil field, the Nise Oilfield, was discovered, and soon the first oil well in Japan was erected here. In 1908, Japan introduced a rotary drilling rig from the United States, which was able to drill deeper oil wells. A series of exploitation actions by Japanese oil companies are believed to have led to the rise of the Japanese oil industry. However, Japan's "oil-poor" situation has not changed.

According to Japan's surveys in the twenties and thirties of the 20th century, including the colonies, Japan's oil mining area covers an area of 3.5 million square kilometers, and although the area is extensive, there are only a handful that can really be exploited for industry. In 1930, for example, 7,500 tons of oil were produced in Hokkaido and 226,000 tons in Honshu, while 32,000 tons were produced in other Japanese-controlled areas, such as China and Taiwan, and 193,000 tons from the North Sakhalin oil base leased from Russia, totaling 459,000 tons.

This compares to 123 million tons of oil production in the United States and 18.5 million tons in the Soviet Union. Due to the low domestic oil extraction, a large part of the petroleum products sold by Japanese oil companies are imported from the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries. At its peak, Japan was 90 percent dependent on foreign oil before World War II. At present, the demand for oil in Japan is increasing not only for civilian industries, but also for the military industry.

Most of the capital ships of the Japanese Navy have switched to petroleum fuel, and the oil consumption of the Japanese army and navy, which is growing day by day, accounts for 42% of Japan's total oil demand, which also indicates that the Japanese army will fight for oil to a large extent in the future. Now that the coal direct liquefaction plant has been put into operation, and the first phase of the project alone can reach an annual output of 400,000 tons, this is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the Japanese Empire!

After walking back and forth in the house a few times, Hirohito shouted in a loud voice: "Immediately send a commendation order to Ishihara-san, ordering him to expand the scale of the chemical plant as much as he can, and strive to exceed the annual output of two million tons as soon as possible!" "Hello!" Tada Jun bent down and paused, and then continued: "Your Majesty the Emperor, there is one more good news! Although our army failed to achieve its strategic goals during the Zhang Gufeng incident, the German allies were very satisfied with our performance, and in order to further strengthen the strength of our Imperial Japanese Army, they were willing to further strengthen cooperation in the research of firearms, heavy tanks, and anti-tank weapons! ”

"Shuffle!" Hirohito nodded and chuckled: "The Germans are eager for us to go north to attack the Soviet Union, and in the eyes of the Germans, the behemoth of the Soviet Union is the real enemy!" Not only are the enemies of our enemies friends, but the Soviet Union is also one of our greatest enemies, and the Japanese Empire should be united with Germany! Tell Ishihara-san to let him accelerate the construction of a new tank production line and do his best to develop and expand the military industrial system of the empire, and the empire will give the highest support! ”

The steel monster of the Jiaodong Group Army and the failure of the Zhang Gufeng incident made Hirohito have a very strong sense of crisis, deeply felt the shortcomings of the army units, and had already made up his mind that the army and navy should grasp both hands and be tough with both hands! "Hello!" Tada Jun paused again with a happy face, and then said:

"Your Majesty the Emperor, the Tuqiao Division stationed on the front line of Changyi in Weifang, Shandong Province has sent another urgent telegram, claiming that due to the lack of support from the Imperial Naval Aviation Corps, the 22nd Division has suffered heavy casualties and is difficult to hold the fortifications! ......""I got it! You don't need to tell me about this, you can just make your own decisions at the General Staff Headquarters! Before Tada Jun finished speaking, Hirohito interrupted, paused and added: "The most important thing for us at the moment is to capture Wuhan as soon as possible and force the Chongqing government to submit, and the rest can be put aside for the time being!"

That Huaxia army can stick to the city, fight street battles, and fight with the imperial army, why can't we? Even if the troops are damaged, or even a few cities are lost, what does it matter? Of course, we must also do a good job in expanding our armaments and continue to increase the recruitment and training of new soldiers, because the scale of the war will only get bigger and bigger in the future! "Hello! His Majesty the Emperor is wise! ”

Tada Jun instantly understood that Hirohito was going to give up his pawn to protect the car, and hurriedly echoed: "What His Majesty the Emperor said is extremely true, we have already occupied nearly half of the territory of China, not so much less than one city and one place!" Even if the Huaxia Tiger Army expands the territory of a few more county towns, at most it will only make the cage a little bigger, as long as the imperial army conquers the Huaxia government, we can concentrate on completely crushing them! ”

"Yo Si! That's how it should be! Hirohito nodded with a smile, and then said, "Yaga! Since that Huaxia army wants to expand its territory, let him gnaw more hard bones and see how powerful his teeth are! "Hello! I understand! ”

Tada Jun paused again, then chatted a few words before getting up and saying goodbye! Beginning at 8 o'clock this morning, the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Huaxia Huben Army still launched an attack on the Japanese fortresses outside their respective defense areas in accordance with yesterday's routine. After the aerial bombing and artillery bombardment, the tank armored unit guided the infantry all the way to the vicinity of the anti-tank trench dug by the Japanese and no longer attacked forward!

The thick-skinned heavy tanks not only served as infantry defensive bunkers, but also incarnated as fixed batteries, constantly firing heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft guns and other heavy firepower of the Japanese army that dared to rise to the top, even those fire-breathing pillboxes were not spared! After two or three hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese defenders of the two fortresses suffered heavy losses again, but today's victory was far less than yesterday's!

In view of the overwhelming heavy firepower superiority of the Jiaodong Group Army, the little devil not only did not use field artillery to bombard, but also adopted the tactic of adding fuel, and the troops put into the battlefield were always maintained in one squadron!

"Boss, why don't we just hit it, isn't it just an anti-tank trench a few meters deep? Put a few explosives packs and you'll be able to blow them up! "yes, Boss, it's no fun to bang and bang like this! The little devil has already learned well, and he doesn't fight us hard at all! "Hey, who's to say it's not, our Flying Tigers have been on standby for many days, but we can't see little Japanese planes to make trouble! We all want to go straight to bombing his grandmother's naval fleet! ”

When the summing up meeting was held in the afternoon, Xu Guangming, Shunzi, and Li Jinglin were dissatisfied and strongly demanded that the scale of the war be expanded. "Report to the general seat, the 3rd Division of our army recovered Mengyin, annihilated more than 1,400 Japanese puppet troops, and killed 82 people, and the specific battle report is being counted!" "Report to the general seat, the 4th Division of our army regained Linqu, annihilated more than 1,300 Japanese puppet troops, and killed 72 people, and the specific battle report is being counted!"

Around two o'clock in the afternoon, Ren Yixiong and Wu Kexiang sent good news one after another, and in just half a day, they went down to the two cities, although there were many mountains in these two counties, and the devils had built bunkers and fortifications on many highlands! However, due to the lack of troops, coupled with the characteristic guerrilla warfare of the Jiaodong Group Army some time ago, these defensive positions have long been completely destroyed! Even the special forces brigade formed by the little devils has been deflated, where do they dare to continue to deploy sporadically outside the core defensive positions!

The Huaxia army concentrated its superior forces, and under the cover and support of the powerful air force, it only took four or five hours to break through several defense lines of the devils and advance all the way to the vicinity of the county seat! The devil originally wanted to resist stubbornly according to the jade burning plan of the base camp, and fight street battles with the Jiaodong Group Army in the county town! However, the Jiaodong Group Army had already rebelled against the puppet army units in the city, and when they used aircraft, artillery and tanks to attack head-on, the special operations brigade detachment was airdropped to the county seat with lightning speed, and the brigade headquarters of the devils was eliminated!

Having lost the command system and being in a weak position in terms of weapons and equipment, the devil garrison of several hundred people did not last long before they were annihilated one by one! At the same time, as Jiang Qiang expected, Fei County and Linyi County encountered strong resistance, and there were many casualties on both sides of the enemy!

Because Fei County and Linyi County are the northern barrier of Xuzhou, which is related to the smooth flow and security of the Longhai Line, the Japanese army will not easily give up these two important military positions. Of course, Jiang Qiang didn't expect to be able to attack without blood, but just wanted to create an illusion for the Japanese: that is, he had no great ambition and only wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob and expand his territory, and he was still bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and being good at defending but not attacking!

"Send troops to Mengyin and Linqu to quickly repair the city fortifications, and do a good job in removing enemy specialties and maintaining public order! Digest these two counties first, and then we will continue to expand! "If the two newly conquered counties are done well, they will have resources and population, and if they are not done well, it will be a big burden and hidden danger.

However, Jiang Qiang is not worried, whether it is the army, government civil servants, or intelligence personnel, they all have enough strength to digest the two newly added counties, as long as they are careful to operate, they are not afraid that this is a sugar-coated shell! "Fei County and Linyi County can continue to maintain pressure, but don't storm it! Weixian County and Linyi County will fight another dozen to maintain the heat, I want to see if the little devil still wants the Jiaoji railway line! ”

After a pause, Jiang Qiang continued: "The news of the recovery of Mengyin County and Linqu County should be well publicized, and a press conference will be held, and we will take advantage of the victory to pursue and recover the entire territory of Shandong!" We can't go to the Wuhan battlefield to participate in the war, but we can show solidarity and create some trouble for little Japan! "You have to brush it when you should brush your sense of existence, and it's not okay to do good deeds without leaving a name!" Good! As soon as the meeting is dismissed, I will notify all the newspapers! ”

Liao Youtian nodded, and then said with a smile: "What the general seat said is extremely true, such an uplifting spirit will definitely boost the morale of the front-line soldiers!" Jiang Qiang smiled: "This is the effect I want!" Wait another three to four days, and we can enter the final general offensive stage! I really don't believe that the little devil will let us not Jiaoji railway line and let us expand our territory at will! Li Shuchun nodded and agreed: "Well, that's right, little Japan is far from enough troops in Shandong now, we really take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, there is a lot of room for display!" ”

Jiang Qiang shook his head and smiled: "Don't be too anxious about this!" "There were only 50,000 or 60,000 Japanese in Shandong, mainly distributed in Jinan, Tai'an, Weifang, Qingdao, Linyi and other vast areas, and their forces were relatively scattered. And according to the current situation, the Japanese army does not plan to have a large-scale decisive battle with Jiang Qiang in Shandong in a short period of time!

Therefore, if Jiang is stronger, he can indeed capture a large area, but there are too many mountains in Ludong and Lunan, and the devils have already built a large number of fortifications on many highlands! It took several months to complete the fortifications around the defense area, and if you are eager to attack the city continuously, you will inevitably pay a great price for casualties! Moreover, if the expansion is too fast, it will also cause the dispersion of troops and resources, and it will be difficult to form a closed defensive circle!

The base of the Anti-Japanese War is located on three sides of the Shandong Peninsula facing the sea, and if the coastal counties and cities captured do not have shore defense artillery as a fulcrum, they will easily be saturated and bombed by the Japanese Navy and directly become a ruin! Therefore, Jiang Qiang's main expansion direction is inland, and he does not plan to expand his territory frantically, and it is enough to lay down four or five counties at this stage and expand half of the defense area.

"Hello listeners and friends! This is Jiaodong People's Radio! "Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers! The Jiaodong Group Army recovered the two counties of Mengyin and Linqu! "Good news! Good news! The Jiaodong Group Army and the Japanese army fought a bloody battle for more than a month, and more than 3,000 Japanese invaders were annihilated! "Damn, I've finally heard good news!" "Yes, the Jiaodong Group Army is different! How many battles have been won? "Mother's Hippie!" "This Jiang Qiang is really good at picking up soft persimmons and pinching! Is there a kind of coming to Wuhan to do with the devil with real knives and real guns? ”

Soon, the news released by the military of the Jiaodong Group Army spread to all parts of the country through the radio, and then newspapers of all sizes began to print special special issues frantically! For a while, the Chinese military and civilians became extremely excited, and of course, it was inevitable that someone would criticize it from another angle! This kind of behavior of "sweeping the snow in front of the door regardless of the frost on the tiles of others" is indeed somewhat non-mainstream, and it is difficult not to criticize it! However, it is not enough, not to mention that Jiang Qiang can't hear it for thousands of miles, and even if he hears it, he doesn't bother to pay attention to it!

On August 18, at four o'clock in the morning, Jiaodong Longgang Mountain Fortress. After more than a month of preliminary preparation, it is finally a good time to close the net! Forced by the strong frontal pressure of the Jiaodong Group Army on Weifang, Changyi County and the Jiaoji Railway Line, the Japanese army not only transferred thousands of troops from other counties and cities one after another, but also dropped the newly formed 23rd Division in China to Changyi County! And what excites Jiang Qiang the most is that the main forces of these devils live in the plains of Changyi County and Yujiayao Fortress!

"Haha, Chief Li, I'm really embarrassed to call you to watch the battle before dawn!" With such an exciting event, how could Jiang Qiang not find more people to share! "Commander Jiang, where are you, this kind of good thing is called to me, and it's too late for me to be happy! I don't know how long I've been waiting for this day! Li Zongren waved his hand, and then asked with some curiosity: "Commander Jiang, how are you going to fight this battle today?" I've heard that the devil has just arrived in Changyi County with a division of troops! ”