Major General Shiro Segawa, commander of the 8th independent mixed brigade, slowly put down the microphone in his hand. Colonel Minetaro Yoshida, chief of staff of the brigade standing next to him, quickly asked: "General, how is the 7th Infantry Brigade?"
Shiro Segawa said expressionlessly: "Five minutes ago, the 7th Infantry Brigade was collectively shattered."
"What!?" Yoshida Minetaro shouted in disbelief, "Group broken pieces? This is impossible!"
Segawa Shiro said: "Not only was the 7th Infantry Brigade collectively shattered, Qinghe County has also been lost."
"Hiss..." Yoshida Minetaro suddenly took a breath of air when he heard this, and said solemnly, "General, could it be that the remnants of the Baoshan Brigade fled from Lunan to Jinan?"
Segawa Shiro said sadly: "Nine times out of ten!"
"General, Lunan is a lesson for us in Southern Hebei!" Yoshida Minetaro said solemnly, "If the remnants of the Baoshan Brigade who fled into the country cannot be eliminated in time, the entire Southern Hebei will probably lose control like Lunan. By then,
Armed forces from all walks of life have gathered in Jingcong, and the situation will soon be like a prairie fire! By then the situation will be out of control."
"Yes." Segawa Shiro said with deep understanding, "Dercisive measures must be taken to nip the danger in the bud!"
"Order..." Shiro Segawa said this, and then ordered coldly, "The 1st, 4th, 5th, and 6th Infantry Battalions, and the 8th Independent Artillery Battalion gathered immediately and set off in half an hour. The target -
Qinghe County!”
"Hai." Yoshida Minetaro lowered his head suddenly and immediately took the order.
Watching Minetaro Yoshida's figure go away, Shiro Segawa made another call to the Shota Railway Security Headquarters.
The independent mixed 4th Brigade is responsible for the security mission of the Zhengtai Railway. The headquarters is located in Zhengding Town, which is very close to Shijiazhuang. It is for this reason that the Segawa Brigade dares to go out in full force, because if Shijiazhuang is attacked
Attack, the independent mixed 4th Brigade will be able to arrive with reinforcements in half an hour.
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Qinghe County.
The Japanese Military Police Headquarters has now become Yue Weihan's temporary headquarters.
Chi Chengfeng strode into Yue Weihan's office, immediately stood at attention, suddenly raised his right hand and saluted Yue Weihan with a standard military salute, and shouted sternly: "Reporting to the brigade, the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army Baoshan Brigade
Chi Chengfeng led the regiment's security company to return to the army and asked for instructions..."
Yue Weihan returned the military salute with a stern expression and solemnly said: "Welcome back to the team!"
Chi Chengfeng's tall and upright figure suddenly collapsed, and he said with a playful smile: "Host, I've been looking forward to seeing you!"
Yue Weihan took two steps forward, punched Chi Chengfeng hard on the chest, and said with a sigh: "Well done, Lao Chi, I was able to expand your group to a group in one continuous stupor, it's not easy!"
Chi Chengfeng scratched his head and said with shame: "It's far worse than the hotel."
While the two were chatting, Liu Yi and Liu Tiezhu also walked in.
"Okay, all the officers above the battalion commander have arrived." Yue Weihan nodded, strode to the map hanging on the wall, and said solemnly, "Now we will have a brief war situation analysis meeting to analyze the possible measures the Japanese army may take.
Let’s discuss the countermeasures our army should take in retaliation. Chief of Staff, let’s talk about the overall situation first.”
Liu Yi nodded and said: "The Japanese army has always been arrogant. After suffering such a big loss this time, they will definitely not give up! As long as there is no big accident, the independent mixed 8th Brigade stationed in Shijiazhuang will definitely come in force.
Criminal! From the map, Shijiazhuang is about 400 miles away from Qinghe County. The Japanese independent mixed 8th Brigade is just a garrison brigade. It cannot be highly mechanized, so it will take five days at the fastest to reach Qinghe County!"
Liu Tiezhu said: "Five days are enough for troops from Linxi, Nangong, and Linqing counties to be reorganized. After these troops are reorganized, our Baoshan Brigade will be able to assemble tens of thousands of troops.
Now that we can have a big fight with the little devils, it would be even more enjoyable if we could transfer the independent group from Lunan."
Liu Yi picked up a square ruler and measured it on the map, frowned and said: "It is at least six hundred miles from the Nishan base to Qinghe. Even if we take a small road and march quickly, the independent regiment will not be able to arrive without eight days! And the Japanese in Shijiazhuang only need five."
We can arrive there within days, so I’m afraid the Independent Regiment won’t be able to catch up in this battle.”
Yue Weihan said flatly: "The independent regiment does not need to come, but the artillery battalion must be transferred!"
"Huh?" Liu Yi vaguely heard Yue Weihan's words and said solemnly, "Prince, what do you mean..."
"Yes, our target this time is not the Japanese independent 8th Brigade, but Shijiazhuang!" Yue Weihan slammed his fist on the map and said in a ferocious voice, "Shijiazhuang is an important town in southern Hebei, and it is also the center of the Zhengtai-Taiwan Railway and the Pinghan-Hankou Railway.
The Japanese army must be heavily guarded by the connecting pivot. Therefore, to capture Shijiazhuang, it is impossible without artillery!"
In fact, Yue Weihan had already made up his mind to attack Shijiazhuang when Xuzhou divided his troops!
Yue Weihan's strategic concept is actually very huge, and his vision is no longer limited to this corner of southern Hebei!
Yue Weihan's specific idea is that as long as the Baoshan Brigade captures Shijiazhuang, the Pinghan-Han Railway will be cut off, and the large amount of war materials transferred by the Japanese army from the four eastern provinces will no longer be able to be quickly transported to the Wuhan front line via the Ping-Han Railway.
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If Li Yulong's independent regiment, with the cooperation of the Lunan Guerrilla Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, can launch a large-scale attack on the Lunan section of the Jinpu Railway, then the two strategic transportation lines of the Japanese army in North China will be completely paralyzed!
Once the two strategic transportation lines of the Ping-Han Railway and the Jin-Pu Railway are paralyzed, the Japanese army will have to first transfer the war materials to Lianyungang by sea, then take the Longhai Railway to Zhengzhou, and then transport them to the Wuhan front line via the Ping-Han Railway. But the problem is this
The transportation line is not safe either. The two major strategic groups, Sun Lianzhong and Yu Xuezhong, are eyeing the north and south sides of the Longhai Railway!
As a result, the Japanese army's logistics supply line will immediately fall into a dangerous situation, besieged on all sides. The nearly 500,000-strong army of more than 20 field divisions fighting the Chinese army on the front line in Wuhan may fall into a desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food at any time.
If there is another mistake on the battlefield, the situation will immediately collapse!
Once the heavy Japanese army group on the Wuhan frontline collapses, the consequences will be catastrophic, and the situation in North China and even Central China will also deteriorate. At that time, the best result for the Japanese army is to keep Pingjin and the small occupied areas near Shanghai.
The worst outcome is to completely withdraw from Shanhaiguan and stick to the four northeastern provinces.
If Chairman Chiang can fully adopt Yue Weihan's strategic vision, then the War of Resistance Against Japan is likely to be completely rewritten!
However, it is a pity that Chairman Chiang only adopted the first half of Yue Weihan's strategic vision. In the most critical part of the Wuhan Battle, Chairman Chiang once again returned to his old ways and launched a full-scale counterattack.
More than a hundred divisions of the main force of the army were placed in danger, which also disrupted Yue Weihan's plan.
In the end, the Baoshan Brigade's plan to advance into southern Hebei and capture Shijiazhuang was forced to advance.
In Yue Weihan's opinion, now is not the best time to regain southern Hebei and seize Shijiazhuang.
If the national army on the Wuhan battlefield can hold on for another two to three months, then the Baoshan brigade units that have sneaked into southern Hebei will have sufficient development time. By then, not only will the size of the army be greatly expanded, but the combat effectiveness will not drop too much.
Let's just talk about Chi Chengfeng's Chi Jiajun. If there had been another two months of training, the ambush of the Qiuye Brigade would never have ended up like this.
However, the idea can only be an idea after all, but the reality is cruel. Due to Chairman Chiang's insistence, Yue Weihan can only greatly advance his plan to advance into southern Hebei! The only good thing is that the Japanese troops left behind in southern Hebei are already quite empty.
, it is entirely possible for the Baoshan Brigade to regain the entire southern Hebei Province and seize Shijiazhuang.
When they heard that Shijiazhuang was going to be attacked, Chi Chengfeng and Liu Tiezhu were immediately excited!
However, Liu Yi said with concern: "Brigade, it is too difficult to attack Shijiazhuang, and the risk is too high! Why not attack Xingtai or Handan where the Japanese army is relatively empty? Taking Xingtai or Handan can also cut off the Pinghan Railway.
!It can also deal a heavy blow to the Japanese heavily-armed group on the front line in Wuhan."
"No." Yue Weihan said flatly, "If we want to fight, we have to fight hard, and we have to hit Shijiazhuang!"
Liu Yi was silent. He never thought that Yue Weihan was so determined to attack Shijiazhuang!
In fact, there is another very important reason why Yue Weihan wanted to attack Shijiazhuang, and that was the Taiyuan Arsenal!
According to historical records, after the Japanese army occupied Taiyuan, they dismantled and packaged all the machinery and equipment in the Taiyuan Arsenal and transported them to the Northeast, expanding the scale of the Shenyang Arsenal. After the Anti-Japanese War entered a stalemate, most of the Japanese troops in China
All weapons and ammunition are produced and supplied by Shenyang Arsenal.
Judging from the time, the equipment of Taiyuan Arsenal is probably still stranded at Zhengding Station!
Because after the 5th Division occupied Taiyuan, the Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Wuhan followed immediately. As one of the two most important and busiest strategic transportation lines in North China, the Pinghan-Hankou Railway shoulders a heavy strategic material transportation task and cannot be vacated.
Too much transport capacity is allocated to transport the machinery and equipment of the Taiyuan Arsenal.
For this batch of machinery and equipment, Yue Weihan even did not hesitate to trade a brigade or even a division of troops!
If a brigade or a division's troops are gone, they can be recruited and retrained. But if this batch of machinery and equipment is gone, it will be gone forever. Without this batch of equipment, the Baoshan Brigade will never have a stable supply of ammunition.
Just based on the seizure, you can only make a small fuss. If you encounter a larger-scale raid, you can only run away in confusion!
Yue Weihan was ambitious and ambitious. He did not want to imitate the Eighth Route Army and hide in Tibet.
Yue Weihan wants to create an unprecedented solid base in the Taihang Mountains. His troops must not rely solely on capture to continue fighting. The Baoshan Brigade must have its own arsenal, and it is a large arsenal. It must not only produce enough weapons and ammunition to supply the Baoshan Brigade for operations, but also a large arsenal.
There are also excess weapons and ammunition to be sold to Chairman Chiang in exchange for military pay!