Time passed quickly, and the private agreement reached by Ouyang Yun and Guderian was not reflected in Sino-German relations for the time being. After the decisive battle between Soviet Russia and Ossia, Manstein sought Berlin's opinion and learned that for a long time After the internal general failed to obtain domestic support, he decisively led his troops to Kirov and assumed a defensive posture relying on the city fortifications that had been established there. Osa and Sabi fought decisively. The one who sacrificed the most under the Chinese Far East Expeditionary Force system was It was the Japanese Peace Army. Therefore, Stalin called Ouyang Yun repeatedly, hoping that Zhang Zizhong could decisively launch a counterattack to help the Soviet Russian government regain more areas. In this regard, after Ouyang Yun sought Zhang Zizhong's opinion, although he did not immediately refuse Stalin's request did not allow the Far East Expeditionary Force to immediately launch a larger-scale counterattack.
The reason why Zhang Zizhong does not agree to launch another counterattack at this stage is that the coalition forces are not fully prepared. In view of the excellent performance of the Japanese Peace Army in the decisive battles of Osa and Sabi, he intends to mix the coalition forces across borders to allow The Japanese officers headed by Oh Yewang can play a greater role and organize more combatable troops for the Far East Expeditionary Force. In a secret message sent privately to Ouyang Yun, he said: "The Japanese are indeed wolves, but as long as they have a chain Tie them tightly and feed them blood food in a timely manner, and they will become very good minions." As a time traveler, Ouyang Yun always thought that he knew the character of the Japanese relatively well, but after reading about the decisive battle between Osa and Sabi After the relevant battle report, he was confused. What made him doubt was, could this be the truest side of the Japanese? Regardless of whether he doubted it or not, since Zhang Zizhong, the front-line officer, thought it was feasible, he could reduce the number of Chinese officers and soldiers. Naturally, he would be happy to see the result. As for whether this would arouse dissatisfaction from other United Nations countries or even damage China's national reputation, he didn't care at all when Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and France all needed China's support.
Because of the strong rise of the Xuebing Army and its incorporation into Chongqing, the combat effectiveness of the former Central Army and other factions' troops also improved greatly after becoming the National Defense Force, and they began to show more and more strength in the war against Japan. This not only increased The casualty rate of the Japanese army also exposed Japan's shortcomings of insufficient population and resources early on. According to the news from Fox Tong lurking in Japan, Japan began to respond to the threat that the Chinese army had already arrived at its doorstep. The policy of all citizens becoming soldiers was implemented. Old men in their fifties and sixties, down to teenagers still in junior high school, were all organized into support teams based on streets or towns. All citizens were soldiers. From this policy, we can certainly see that Japan The government's war determination has also made its front-line troops no longer as elite and organized as they were at the beginning of the war of aggression against China. As a result, the situation in which the Chinese army could not capture a single prisoner even if it won a battle is gone forever. On the contrary, even if it is an encounter, if the Chinese army wins, it can capture dozens or even hundreds of prisoners of war. These prisoners of war have just entered China, and many of them are not familiar with the title of Taijun, so naturally they will not do much evil. These prisoners of war are not enough to be sentenced to death, and because the coalition government is now the de facto chair of the United Nations, it cares about its reputation more than ever. Naturally, it can no longer enforce battlefield discipline wantonly. Various reasons have combined to cause the following phenomenon. In order to In order to prevent these prisoners of war from occupying precious food resources in the country, and in view of the excellent performance of the Japanese Peace Army on the Soviet battlefield, the top brass of the Supreme Command unanimously agreed to incorporate them all into the Japanese Peace Army, even like Chen Cheng and Bai Chongxi. Those who like to play conspiracy have even begun to plan to use the Japanese Peace Army to counterattack the Japanese mainland. In their view, as long as the hands of these Japanese Peace Army are stained with the blood of enough Axis troops, then they will be able to annihilate themselves. The Axis powers will have no other choice but to obey the orders of the United Nations and land on the mainland to fight.
The Soviet-Russian battlefield temporarily entered a stalemate because the Far East Expeditionary Force needed to rest and recuperate. In North Africa, due to the strong demands of the French, the North African Expeditionary Force led by Chu Tiange had several encounters with the German North African Army Group commanded by Rommel, and in On July 11, a decisive battle was held in the southern border area between Egypt and Libya.
When Chu Tiange led the North African Expeditionary Force into North Africa, he was full of ambition and belief in victory because of Zhang Zizhong's outstanding performance in the Soviet Far East.
To this day, Zhang Zizhong and others who came from the old Northwest Army have long been imprinted with the imprint of the cadet army. However, even so, in the hearts of Chu Tiange and others, they still belong to the external army and cannot represent the cadet army. Direct lineage of the army.
"The Northwest Army fought well in Soviet Russia, and the junior officers have repeatedly praised it. Brothers, General Zhang Zizhong joined the cadet army much later than us. We cannot be compared with them." More than once, with Lao Chu Tiange said this when the brothers were getting along.
However, in hindsight, his motivational method seems to be counterproductive. North Africa is full of deserts, and the North African Expeditionary Force obviously does not have much combat experience in this area. Therefore, in several encounters, the North African Expeditionary Force always had a different strength. Being defeated by the German army with few or even superior troops made Chu Tiange feel angry, and he began to think of a decisive battle with the German army.
Chu Tiange was determined to make the situation on the North African battlefield clear through a decisive battle, and it was also because of the influence of Ang Bos.
Angpos was bent on fighting back to Europe as soon as possible and was naturally dissatisfied with such a small fight. Unfortunately, they had no experience in fighting the German army, did not know how powerful the German army was, and were too superstitious to learn the military's standard equipment. , thinking that the Nationalist Army, which had been equipped with the standard equipment of the Cadet Army, would definitely be able to defeat the Germans. It just so happened that Rommel also wanted to show his strength to deter evil guests from the distant east, so the two sides set up troops in the southern border area of Libya and Egypt. A desert area called "Duvalba", and then the French Zionist Army took the lead in launching an attack.
This decisive battle lasted for two weeks. At the beginning of the decisive battle, the vanguard of the German North African Army implemented Rommel's tactics of luring the enemy deep into the enemy's territory, luring one division and one brigade of the French Nationalist Army into a place called "Boujir". In the Qiulin area, the main force was immediately dispatched to surround the French army.
At that time, Chu Tiange had already identified Rommel's plan of "siege the city and mobilize reinforcements". Because he overestimated the combat power of the North African Expeditionary Force and could not bear Angbos's noise, he led the main force to advance northward. Chu Tiange advanced his troops lightly. On the one hand, he was confident that the North African Expeditionary Force would be able to withstand Rommel's "siege and reinforcements" plan. On the other hand, he believed that this was a great opportunity to annihilate the German North African Army. Before the attack, he called the Allied North Africa Command and reported the battle situation to Montgomery. He also made suggestions, believing that as long as Montgomery could send a force to outflank the German army, it would be possible to surround the German North Africa Army and annihilate it.