"Bo Yuan's move is very risky." Looking at the intelligence sent by the military commander, Chiang Kai-shek in the South Bank Villa frowned. The combat plan against Shandong that Zhao Zhi came up with has obviously taught careful people.
The modification is somewhat similar to the plan that Zhao Zhi mentioned to himself earlier.
They are similar but different. In the plan mentioned by Zhao Zhi earlier, the purpose of the mission was only to seize Dongying and use Dongying's seaside advantage to transport the 74th Army, which had been training in Myanmar for more than a month, from the Vietnamese seaport north to Dongying for landing.
Now Zhao Zhi is trying to seize the entire Jiaodong Peninsula.
This is not the only thing in the revised combat plan. The 300,000 reserve troops trained by Lei Lei for the National Government have been stationed in Shanxi. This was originally used by Chiang Kai-shek to guard against the Kuomintang troops, but now Zhao Zhi seems not to want them to stay idle.
Nothing to do. Zhao Zhijian
It is proposed to urgently mobilize these reserve troops into Henan and be prepared to follow up on Shandong at any time. As long as the Jiaodong Peninsula is controlled, the troops stationed in Shandong will be able to continuously obtain military assistance from the United States through the sea. Moreover, the Japanese troops can even use the sea at any time.
Attack the three northeastern provinces.
Just by looking at the intelligence sent by the military commander, Chiang Kai-shek could see the danger. Unlike Henan, Shandong had a military garrison. The Nationalist Government's Ludong Theater had been struggling to support itself since the Japanese army began to implement the large-scale encirclement and suppression plan.
In Zhao Zhi's battle plan, those responsible for the main attack and to contain the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield were the Burmese mercenary department.
Chiang Kai-shek knew about Zhao Zhi’s purge plan. He was just worried about what if the Burmese troops could not stop the Japanese army. If the Burmese mercenary troops retreated or collapsed, the Japanese and puppet troops in Shandong would definitely take advantage of the situation to pursue them. Not only those on the front line in Shandong
Zhao Zhihui was in a desperate situation, and even the situation that was finally won may be recaptured by the Japanese army.
Chiang Kai-shek's worries were not unfounded. After Zhao Zhi commanded the guerrillas to carry out two consecutive uninterrupted harassment campaigns in Hebei, the whole of Hebei had become a mess. Okamura Neji, who was temporarily unable to do anything about Zhao Zhi, received successive reports from Japan.
Local accusations, even Tian who has always trusted Okamura Neji
The emperor also issued a stern order. The guerrilla armed forces active in Hebei were all dispatched in small groups, and with the intentional help of many people who had regained confidence in the war, the guerrilla forces expanded greatly in Hebei.
Okamura Neiji can only be busy dealing with those guerrillas now.
But the orders from Japan were not like this. The Japanese General Staff Headquarters ordered Okamura Neiji to immediately mobilize troops south to attack Zhao Zhi from the north and south with the Japanese and puppet troops in Jiangsu and Shandong, who were besieging Dezhou and Binzhou. Japanese politicians
They have long hated Zhao Zhi, especially the top military officials. Unfortunately, Okamura Neiji didn't think Zhao Zhi was that easy to deal with. If Zhao Zhi was like other Chinese commanders, maybe Yamashita Fengfumi wouldn't have done it back then.
It would be so embarrassing to lose.
But this was an order from the local staff headquarters, and Okamura Neiji could not disobey it. After spending four days uniting the garrison forces from all over Hebei to carry out a large-scale sweep of the guerrilla forces, Okamura Neiji gathered 50,000 troops.
The Japanese army and nearly 20,000 Imperial Army troops prepared to move south for a pincer attack.
Zhao Zhi, but his first stop was not Dezhou, which was already surrounded by Zhao Zhi, but Xingtai. Okamura Neiji believed that his tens of thousands of troops would be able to capture Xingtai, and then Handan. As long as Zhao Zhi and the
Due to the connection with Henan, Zhao Zhi, who besieged Dezhou and Binzhou, naturally became a lone army.
"Okay, let's do it." The mobilization of tens of thousands of troops by Okamura Neiji naturally could not escape the eyes of military intelligence personnel. At the same time as Okamura Neiji's army set off south, a piece of intelligence from Shijiazhuang was also submitted.
In the hands of Zhao Zhi. Zhao Zhi has been paying attention to Okamura Neji's movements and took down the Shi family.
Zhuang means that Shanxi's army has the possibility of attacking Hebei. Once Zhao Zhi successfully captures the Jiaodong Peninsula, the continuous troops entering Shandong by sea will be able to completely cut off the Japanese army. If the Japanese army still wants to occupy the entire China, it will inevitably
I will have to fight with *** again just like we did in 1938.
But now that the United States has sent troops to South Asia, Japan, which does not want to lose South Asia, can only send its elite troops south to fight against the US military. And the current military is not the same as before. With the military aid from the United States, the Nationalist Government can at least arm at least 5 more
Artisan. The difference between automatic firepower and bolt-action rifles has already been best proved by Thunder. In addition, there are hundreds of thousands of Burmese mercenaries from Zhao Zhi to help in the battle. The Japanese army wants to reopen North China.
The passage to southern Jiangsu obviously costs more.
But what Zhao Zhi is least afraid of right now is fighting a war of attrition with the Japanese army, because he can mobilize more cannon fodder troops from Thailand and Vietnam at any time into China to assist in the war. On the second day of the siege of Dongzhou, Zhao Zhi passed the military commander's intelligence in Shanghai
The station secretly ordered the lurkers in Japan to
They were ready for another large-scale attack on Japan's domestic military facilities. Three years was long enough for the surviving lurkers to infiltrate all levels of Japan. Without sufficient military supplies, Zhao Zhi could not think of a way out of the Japanese army.
What else are you using to fight?
Okamura Neji went south to Xingtai in order to cut off his own retreat. Zhao Zhi knew this very well, but now he had to pretend to be ignorant because he needed Okamura Neji's troops to leave Shijiazhuang. Only Okamura
A large number of Japanese and puppet troops commanded by Ning Ci left Shijiazhuang, and those who were ordered to disperse by Zhao Zhi
Only then can the guerrilla armed forces regroup to form a stable fighting force. Dispersed operations are flexible and maneuverable, but when facing a large number of enemy troops, they can only choose to retreat and give up the control area. What Zhao Zhi needs now is to consume the Japanese army.
With their own strength, it is obviously a wise move to gather forces for an attack.
"Sir, the latest information is from the Northeastern Station of the Military Command. The Kwantung Army has begun to mobilize, but their whereabouts are not yet sure." The Kwantung Army is an anomaly among the Japanese army. Since the Japanese army went south to fight against the Nationalist Government in 1937,
, the Kwantung Army
They have been stationed in the three northeastern provinces and rarely go south to participate in combat. The landing of the US military in South Asia is an opportunity. Zhao Zhi needs the Kwantung Army to mobilize. As long as they move their troops south, whether it is to deal with himself or the US military in South Asia, it will be extremely beneficial to Zhao Zhi.
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"People who contact the military command, I want to know the route of the Kwantung Army's southward march." Zhao Zhi was not so arrogant as to fight against the Kwantung Army with only Burmese mercenary troops. He just wanted to deduce the purpose of the Kwantung Army. If the Kwantung Army
The target of the army is himself in Shandong, so Zhao Zhi must immediately ask for help from the U.S. Navy. Only they have the ability to escort the 74th Army and the Jewish troops assembled in the Thai port to land in Shandong north.
Facing the Kwantung Army means casualties. Zhao Zhi doesn't care how many casualties there will be. Yu Dazhi's
Ten thousand Burmese reserve troops have already set off. I believe that more than 400,000 cannon fodder troops will be able to hold back the Japanese army and consume part of the Japanese army. The subsequent landing of the 74th Army and Jewish troops in Shandong is Zhao Zhi's real killer move. "Contact Chongqing immediately, I want to
Know the specific location of the 300,000 reserve troops in Shanxi." Zhao Zhi suddenly remembered the 300,000 Japanese reserve troops stationed in Shanxi, and nearly 20% of them were equipped with American equipment.
The intelligence staff officers under Zhao Zhi rush back and forth between the telecommunications room and the headquarters. Whenever Zhao Zhi needs to formulate a new plan, the intelligence staff officers and people in the telecommunications room are always the busiest, but everyone has obviously become accustomed to it. "
Sir, Shanxi called back. Most of the reserve army is in Linfen, and it was transferred from the World War II Area Headquarters.
They used part of their troops to suppress the bandits in Shanxi." Hearing that his intelligence adviser said that the World War II zone would deploy reserve troops to suppress the bandits, Zhao Zhi couldn't help but curl his lips. It seems that the friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party still has no intention of stopping. Shandong
The fight here is in full swing, and Shanxi is already thinking of playing friction.
How to mobilize the reserve forces in the World War II zone is none of Zhao Zhi's business. However, before that, the battle plan reported by Zhao Zhi to Chiang Kai-shek had already mentioned the issue of mobilizing the reserve forces. I believe that Chiang Kai-shek knew the importance of that battle plan and would not stop it.
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The troops entered Henan to prepare for war. "Sir, this is the news just sent by the military commander. Two divisions of the Kwantung Army have gone south, and their destination should be the Nanyang battlefield." Unfortunately, this news did not bring joy to Zhao Zhi, but made him sad.
Zhao Zhi's face looked very ugly.
It is impossible for the Kwantung Army to go south by sea. The Japanese army cannot send so many ships to the north for the Kwantung Army to use, so they can only take the land route south to the coast of Guangzhou and Fujian, and then take the sea route south to the Philippines or Indonesia. And Zhao Zhi is now in
The cross-cutting plan just cut off the Kwantung Army's path to the south. The Kwantung Army did not know that Zhao Zhi was not targeting them, and it was impossible for Zhao Zhi to make way for the Kwantung Army to move south. It seemed that a battle
The war is about to begin.
Zhao Zhi locked himself alone in the headquarters to think of countermeasures. It was not impossible to confront the Kwantung Army of the two divisions head-on, but this would inevitably lead to more sieges from the Kwantung Army. This was the old fox Okamura Neiji.
He was happy to see the result. Therefore, Zhao Zhi decided to take a gamble and bet that the Japanese army in the South Asian battlefield could not afford to wait. If the Kwantung Army, which was originally supposed to be transferred to the South Asian battlefield, did not arrive, it would be completely beaten by the US military in the Philippine battlefield.
The Japanese army with heavy heads may not be able to hold on.
"Inform the Hengshui garrison to call back to Xingtai. They must not fight the Japanese and puppet troops without my order. Order the troops besieging Binzhou to move to the Jiaodong Peninsula immediately. While killing as many Japanese and puppet troops as possible, they must capture Weifang and Zhucheng.
Then
Comprehensively eliminate the Japanese and puppet troops in the Jiaodong Peninsula." Allowing the Guandong Army to move south is Zhao Zhi's only option at present, but the Jiaodong Peninsula still has to be captured. Only by occupying the Jiaodong Peninsula can Zhao Zhi have the ability to deal with Guandong.