Chapter 364: The Far East Adventure (Part 1)

It can be said that the Japanese had successfully deceived Li Zongren with a previous fake shot. However, after the Japanese army's strategic attempt to attack Rehe was exposed, Li Zongren immediately asked the Wuhan government to use part of its troops to restrain the Japanese army in Central and China, defeat the main force of the Japanese army in North China with its main force, and reinforce and support Zhang Xuewu's 10th War Zone.

However, Li Zongren's plan was rejected by Chiang Kai-shek with the preparations for combat materials that had not yet been completed and the time was not yet ripe. Li Zongren, who found the opportunity to fight, originally wanted to give Chiang Kai-shek a general and was not subject to the orders of military orders from abroad, but he never expected that Chiang Kai-shek first used the excuse of Xu Wenwei's corruption case to control all the supply and supplement matters in the Fifth War Zone. In addition, the elite troops controlled by the Fifth War Zone in Xuzhou were all Chiang Kai-shek's Huangpu high-level players, and Li Zongren was also powerless. The miscellaneous troops suffered heavy losses in the previous defensive battles. Although many troops had completed the supplement, due to too many new recruits, their combat effectiveness did not increase but declined.

Li Zongren, who had lost a great opportunity, also knew that the battle against the Japanese North China Front Army he commanded this time would be difficult to get the support of Zhang Xuewu's 10th War Zone. Moreover, the Japanese troops of the North China and Central China fronts had moved together. The Japanese also realized that after the main force of the North China Front Army retreated into Manchuria, the only five divisions and seven mixed brigades of the North China Front Army were absolutely impossible to block Zhang Xuewu's attack. Therefore, the Japanese army secretly began to prepare to concentrate their troops in a planned manner, abandon most of the North China, and only defended a few key points on the Pinghan Line, echoing the main forces of the Central China Front Army's Japanese army.

In fact, Li Zongren was also very clear that Zhang Xuewu drove all the main forces of the entire Japanese North China Front Army into the Northeast, so the Wuhan National Government was very worried that Zhang Xuewu would take the opportunity to seize North China, so he ordered Li Zongren to launch a large-scale battle immediately to ensure that the main forces sweep the Japanese army in North China and recover North China.

It is easy to sweep the Japanese army, but in fact it is not so easy for Li Zongren. Although the ** troops are several times more than the Japanese army, the weapons are still quite different from the Japanese army in general. Moreover, most of the troops are recruits, their combat effectiveness is very limited, and the command structure of the troops is too complicated, resulting in delays in order issuance and execution. It is not easy to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army that has the advantage of ground and air firepower? The Fifth War Zone is not the well-equipped Tenth War Zone. Above Li Zongren, there is also the Supreme Commander Chiang Kai-shek who likes to mobilize the troops without saying hello.

Therefore, Li Zongren could only grit his teeth and use the Tang Enbo Legion and Hu Zongnan Legion to the Fifth War Zone as the mobile legion, and transferred the Fifth Army, the Eighth Army, the Thirty-Sixth Army, the Seventh Army, the Eighth Army, the Eighth Army, the Eighth Army, the Eighth Army, the Eighth Army, the Eighth Army, the Ninety-Eighth Army, and the 100th Army to form an attack cluster, and was assigned to the Second Artillery Brigade, the Fifth Brigade and the Armored Brigade of the Japanese Army to mobilize the remnants of North China.

In Li Zongren's opinion, is there still less so-called mobilization by the Japanese? If the National Government can really compassionate with the officers and soldiers of the troops, they should take advantage of the previous opportunity to attract the main force of the Japanese army in the 10th War Zone and seize the opportunity to eliminate the main force of the Japanese field troops in North China or China.

In fact, since the Battle of Xuzhou, the performance of the Chinese team has surprised the Japanese army, especially the persistence of each city and place of the Chinese team has caused great trouble to the Japanese army, especially the failure of the Japanese army's two large-scale attacks on the 10th War Zone of Rehe, which consumed a large amount of Japan's national strength and strategic materials, especially the losses of experienced veterans were even more serious.

Li Zongren's attempt to fight was clearly understood by the Japanese as soon as it was launched. It can be said that the Fifth War Zone faced a arduous and bloody battle. However, Zhang Xuewu, who was preparing for the war, did not think that the National Government could achieve its strategic goals. The Japanese army simply looked at national strength and comprehensive strength, and China was far from the opponent of the Japanese. Zhang Xuewu's repeated heavy damage to the Japanese army was a tactic of winning by surprise.

What is a surprise victory? In fact, surprise victory is a synonym for adventure. Zhang Xuewu defended the Japanese transportation line head-on and strangled the Japanese army with air superiority. He defeated the Japanese army by splitting the armored clusters. The consumption of this tactical consumption is not something that Zhang Xuewu could afford. The ammunition that had been reserved for more than two years, especially large-caliber shells, was almost consumed. Although he achieved victory, Zhang Xuewu also lost the ability to pursue and expand the results.

Zhang Xuewu's strategic purpose was to force the Japanese to choose to go north instead of south, because only in this way can China take back its own things from the Soviet and Russian red beasts, but how easy is it to force the Japanese to go north? The Japanese can be said to be quite stubborn in national strategy. They advance south for oil and rubber from Southeast Asia, but the prerequisite is that the Japanese army's advantage in China's battlefield situation maintains a certain degree of stability, and the march into Southeast Asia will inevitably be enemies of Britain, the United States, France and other countries. If they are enemies of the Soviet Union, they will not touch the interests of Britain, the United States, and the United States are happy to see.

The most important thing is that Zhang Xuewu, with the aid of the Soviets, has become a major concern for Japan. If Zhang Xuewu's headquarters in the 10th War Zone is not solved, the main force of the Japanese army will not be able to withdraw from the Chinese battlefield. Therefore, Zhang Xuewu believes that the Japanese must be eager to reach a non-aggression neutral treaty with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is also waiting and watching because of the Japanese's urgency. The final result is that the Japanese's patience is completely dragged down.

Zhang Xuewu, who was inspecting in Baotou, suddenly received a secret message from the Japanese army intercepted by the intelligence department. After deciphering, Zhang Xuewu was stunned. Are the Japanese really crazy? Or he really created an illusion for the Japanese that to defeat and eliminate the Tenth War Zone, the Soviets must completely cut off their support to Rehe. Zhang Xuewu analyzed from the secret message from the Japanese that the Japanese might be anxious to jump over the wall, and the mad dog bites a fool, and it is unlucky to watch the fun!

What surprised Zhang Xuewu the most was that the Japanese built the strongest line of defense in Jinzhou, which was known as the strongest line of defense in the Far East, while provoking the Soviet Union on the border?

In fact, it seems that the Japanese are extremely stupid. In fact, Zhang Xuewu knew that the Japanese were very wise. You should know that the negotiations between the Japanese and the Soviet Union were fruitless for a long time, so the Japanese were eager to jump over the wall and forced the Soviets to make a decision. The Great Japanese Empire had a surface ship fleet of 2 million tons and had an annual production capacity of 5,000 fighter jets. If Japan put all its efforts, the Chinese would definitely not be the opponent of the Japanese. The Chinese could only continuously consume the Japanese.

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