At the northern foot of Taihang Mountain, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
Boss Peng, Chief of Staff Zuo and Commander Liu also stayed up all night and were paying close attention to the progress of the war.
After a hurried breakfast, everyone gathered in front of the combat map. Boss Peng took a picture of the map and said thoughtfully: "Okamura Neji, this old devil, is fishing. He wants to use Shimen as bait to catch Yue Weihan's 39th Army.
, and at the same time, he wants to use the strongholds and gun towers along the Ping-Han Railway as bait to catch our Eighth Route Army. This old devil has a big appetite, and he is not afraid of overeating."
Master Liu smiled slightly and continued: "However, Yue Weiguo, the two brothers Yue Weihan, and Crazy Wang obviously want to eat Okamura Neji's bait for free. Now it depends on who moves faster. However, Okamura
Mura Ningji will probably suffer a big loss this time, this guy Yue Weihan has been tinkering with a lot of good things recently."
"Oh?" Boss Peng said happily, "How can this kid come up with such a good thing?"
Master Liu said: "One is a rocket launcher, which can easily penetrate a 100mm homogeneous steel plate within a hundred meters! The other is a heartless cannon, with a range of only about a thousand meters, but the 'shotgun' it fires has amazing lethality.
All human and animal targets within 100 meters of the center of the explosion will be killed or injured, and no one will be spared!"
"What the hell?" Boss Peng said solemnly, "So awesome!?"
"That's not the most terrifying thing." Commander Liu shook his head and said solemnly, "The most terrifying thing is that these two weapons are very light. The rocket launcher plus the shells only weighs more than ten kilograms. It can be carried by a single soldier. It has no conscience.
The total weight of the cannon plus the bracket is only about a hundred pounds, and any soldier can carry it over the mountains and ridges!"
"What?" Boss Peng said in disbelief, "So light!?"
"Yes." Commander Liu nodded and said with some emotion, "Yue Weihan's Taihang Arsenal has gathered a large number of weapons experts. The chief engineer is also a doctor with two qualifications. That's why he designed these two weapons that are extremely powerful but heavy.
Extremely light infantry support weapons, with these two weapons, the firepower of the 39th Group Army will be greatly enhanced."
"What a pity." Mr. Peng suddenly said with regret, "These good things are not ours."
"Boss." Commander Liu smiled and said, "Yue Weihan just supported the 129th Division and 50 rocket launchers from the Jinan Military Region!"
"What else is there!?" Boss Peng immediately grinned when he heard this, and then said with a straight face: "I asked Yue Weiguo, how come Crazy Wang and the others have such a tacit understanding with the 39th Group Army?
I dare to take advantage of Yue Weihan, no, this is absolutely not possible, after the war is over, these 50 rocket launchers must be turned in!"
"Boss, this is not a seizure." Staff Zuo said hurriedly, "Is it exempt from the obligation to hand it over?"
"That can't be done." Boss Peng said inexorably, "Young guys like Yue Weiguo and Crazy Wang, together with Yue Weihan, played my old Peng like a monkey for two nights. Don't you think we should give you some compensation? If you don't want to
If you hand it over, let Yue Weihan support 50 more rocket launchers, and you, Lao Liu, will do this ideological work."
"Okay." Master Liu smiled and said, "After this battle is over, I will go and talk to Yue Weihan."
The Chief of Staff Zuo next to him could only shake his head and smile bitterly. This battle has just begun, but the boss and Commander Liu seem to have already defeated the Japanese army. This is not an exercise, and Okamura Neji is not a good person, let alone the Japanese and puppet coalition forces.
Whether it is military strength or firepower, they have an absolute advantage, and the outcome is still difficult to predict.
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Chongqing, General Staff Headquarters of the Central Military Commission.
In the spacious and bright war room, a large group of combat staff were busy around the sand table.
Chairman Chiang stood by the simulated sand table with a gloomy expression. Beside Chairman Chiang, there were also General Secretary He, Vice Chairman Bai, General Chen and other senior generals of the party and state. The atmosphere in the war room was very depressing.
The mood of the generals was all affected by Chairman Chiang, and they were depressed and heavy.
"That kid Yue Weihan!" Vice President Bai shook his head and said with a bitter smile, "We were all fooled by him!"
"It's not just us!" Chairman Chiang turned around and glanced coldly at Director Dai standing in the corner, and said angrily, "Even Yan'an and the Communist Party were fooled by him."
"What does this kid Yue Weihan want to do?" General Chen said sadly, "He was asked to eliminate the *** elements, but this guy staged a mutiny. What does he mean? He wants to fight with the ***
Join forces to deal with the Japanese army? Isn’t he drawing the Japanese army’s attention to the Nationalist Government?”
In recent times, the Communist government has continued to strengthen its propaganda against the Nationalist government.
The Communist government has proposed to negotiate with the Nationalist government more than once, but the prerequisites have never changed, that is, Chairman Chiang must step down, and Yue Weihan must go to a military court. Of course, Chairman Chiang will not negotiate with the Communists, but he
It would be nice to see the *** shift their main focus to the Eighth Route Army.
Under the premise that the Japanese army was unable to continue launching a frontal offensive, Chairman Chiang was even willing to cooperate with the Japanese to weaken the Eighth Route Army. For Chairman Chiang, the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese were both threats, and sooner or later they were necessary.
If the solution can be achieved so that both the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese will suffer losses, it will naturally be the best result.
However, Yue Weihan's actions destroyed this tacit understanding.
Moreover, Chairman Chiang had deeper worries in his heart. If Yue Weihan could cooperate so well with the Eighth Route Army, did it mean that the two had a deep relationship? When he thought that Yue Weihan's 39th Group Army might switch to the Communist camp, Jiang
The chairman suddenly felt shuddered. Such a result was really terrible and terrible!
General Chen seemed to have noticed Chairman Chiang's worries and said in a dark voice: "However, Yue Weihan was smart this time and moved his troops out of Jingxing Pass to attack Shimen, but he fell into the trick of Okamura Neji to lure the snake out of the cave. Okamura Neji
It is obvious that they are going to use Shimen as bait to stage a good show of 'surrounding them on all sides and blooming in the center'. The 39th Army will definitely be doomed this time."
"There is also the Eighth Route Army." Vice Commander Bai also said, "The Eighth Route Army will probably suffer heavy losses this time."
"Not necessarily." Chairman Chiang is not so optimistic. Since Yue Weihan was born in Baoshan County, hasn't he created too many miracles? Has he won too few battles that seemed impossible to win? Whether it's
Whether it was the Battle of Jiangpu, the Battle of Xuzhou, or the surprise attack on Shimen, he was always in danger, but he won every time!
This time, Neji Okamura seems to have a chance of winning, but it's still hard to say what the outcome will be. Let's wait and see.
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Cuimingzhuang, eastern suburb of Peiping.
At six o'clock in the morning, Okamura Neji got up on time, had a hasty breakfast and went straight to the war room.
In the war room, Major General Hirata was already very worried. When he saw Okamura Neji, he quickly stopped and stood at attention.
Okamura Neiji waved his hand, took off his white gloves and handed them to the adjutant behind him, and asked: "Hirata-kun, how was the battle last night? No accident happened, right?"
"Hai." Masahiro Hirata lowered his head suddenly and said, "The situation is basically normal."
Having said this, Shogun Hirata added: "At five o'clock in the morning, Yue Weihan's 39th Group Army launched a general attack on Shimen, but it was hit head-on by the 112th Infantry Regiment of the 28th Division. The attack was seriously frustrated. However,
***The six patrol teams dispatched by the 3rd Mixed Brigade last night all lost contact!"
"All six patrol teams have lost contact!?" Neji Okamura frowned, "This is strange. Could the Eighth Route Army still eat our tanks and radio stations?"
Masaru Hirata could only shake his head silently, and he was also puzzled.
The equipment on Tubal Road is extremely poor, so it is okay to use the terrain to carry out ambushes, but the terrain along the Ping-Han Railway is all plains, and the patrols sent by the Jize Brigade are all motorized infantry squadrons, equipped with tanks and armored vehicles. In such a situation
In the face of superior equipment, what can Tubalu do to resist?
Okamura Neiji said: "Order the reconnaissance aircraft brigade at Shimen Airport to immediately take off for reconnaissance!"
Masaru Hirata said hurriedly: "Your Excellency, Commander, all four flight groups at Shimen Airport have taken off."
After saying this, Shogun Hirata added: "Before launching the general offensive, a certain unit of the 39th Group Army first launched an attack on the Dakuo Village Airport. It was repelled by the infantry brigade of the 28th Division that assisted in defending the airport. Dakuo Village
The airport is safe and sound. The four flight groups stationed at the airport all took off safely after refueling and loading aerial bombs..."
Before he finished speaking, Major General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, commander of the Aviation Corps directly under the North China Front, suddenly walked in. He immediately put his feet back and stood at attention, and angrily said to Okamura Ningji: "Your Excellency, Commander, the 28th Division's defense is not good enough, let the China Army
Breaking into the airport, all four flight brigades of our Corps stationed at Shimen were severely damaged..."
"Huh?" Okamura Neji said solemnly, "All four flying brigades were severely damaged!?"
"Tokugawa-kun, this is impossible!" Masapan Hirata said anxiously, "Except for two planes of the four flight groups stationed at Dakuo Village Airport that crashed due to mechanical failures, haven't the rest all taken off safely?"
"It's indeed lifted off, but it's not safe!" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi said with great sadness, "Major Toshio Yanai of the 4th Flight Regiment reported that the plane had actually suffered heavy damage before it took off, but they did not
I didn't know anything about it, and I didn't realize anything was wrong until I was conducting dive strafing and bombing on ground targets."
Okamura Neji frowned and said, "What is the specific situation?"
Tokugawa Yoshitoshi said: "Yanai-kun reported to me before the fighter plane disintegrated that his plane's body and wings were covered with dense bullet marks. Although these bullet marks were small in area, they were huge in number and had seriously damaged the aircraft's wing aerodynamics.
The layout and the structural strength of the aircraft, when they dived and strafed and then pulled up, the aircraft disintegrated in the air!"
Okamura Neiji frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly asked: "Tokugawa-kun, have all the planes crashed?"
Tokugawa Yoshitoshi said sadly: "Only two reconnaissance planes survived and have now made an emergency landing at Baoding Airport."
"Immediately send technicians to Baoding Airport to thoroughly investigate the exact cause of the plane crash!" Okamura Neiji said this, and then told Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, "Order that the aviation forces stationed in Peiping, Tianjin, Baoding and Jinan take off immediately.
Provide air support to the 28th Division of Shimen, and at the same time find out the latest situation along the Ping-Han Railway!"
"Hai." Tokugawa Haomin suddenly lowered his head, then turned around and walked away.
Watching Tokugawa Yoshitoshi leave, Okamura Neji suddenly began to worry. The progress of this contest seemed to have gradually deviated from his expectations!