Hebei has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times.The Japanese occupied Hebei, and they could attack and retreat.At the beginning, the Japanese went all the way south from Hebei and almost encompassed most of China.Now that the People's Liberation Army has driven the Japanese out of Shanxi, as long as Hebei is taken, the situation in the Guannai will become safe.At that time, the real enemy of the PLA will be the Kwantung Army stationed outside the Guan, and the interior will have a long period of steady development.Therefore, it is imperative to take Hebei.Moreover, Hebei is the territory of the Chinese, and it is absolutely not allowed to be in the hands of the Japanese for a long time.Now the People's Liberation Army has the strength to compete with the Japanese, and the Second Army and the reinforced division, which have just taken Shanxi, are victorious divisions, and with strong morale, they will definitely be able to take Hebei in one go.Gao Dong immediately convened a military meeting, Huang Youde and Fang Kui attended at the same time, and Li Haolin, who was about to go to Mongolia to get horses, was also called back.The battle map was changed to Hebei, Gao Dong looked at everyone, and said slowly: "Although we have just taken Shanxi, the army is a little tired.But the morale of the troops is now at its highest, if we don't take advantage of the current time to take Hebei, I'm afraid it will take a while of deployment, and we may be able to drive out the devils in Hebei" "Kazuki Kiyoji is a good commander, compared to Tada Jun and others, he is much stronger.As for people like Shimada Kiyohide, compared to him, they are simply more chickens than phoenixes, and they are not at the same level at all.Having such a person stationed in Hebei is really a big trouble for our entire liberated area, so we must take advantage of his lack of preparation to completely eliminate him" Gao Dong looked at the people around him and said in a deep voice: "If you have any opinions, just say" Everyone looked at each other, and Huang Youde said: "Chief of staff, we have no opinion on the matter of fighting.Hebei is the land of our Chinese, and the Beijing-Tianjin area is an important city of our country.Drive the little devils away and recover Hebei, this is what we must do, you just have to make a decision. ”"Okay" Gao Dong nodded vigorously: "Since this is the case, then according to the strategy we formulated before, immediately send troops to Hebei, and target Beijing" "It is said that after the Central China Dispatch Army became the commander from Xiangyue Qingji, the army will be reorganized.Not only was the army re-enlarged, reaching 400,000 men.Moreover, they also trained the puppet army, and all the troops changed their weapons, and the whole of Hebei has been built into a fortress. ”Gao Dong said in a deep voice: "Hebei is not easy to fight, 400,000 elite Japanese troops, plus more than 300,000 trained puppet soldiers.I have applied for the Xi'an General Headquarters, and soon the First Army will come to our aid.And the air force is all under our command, we must win this battle and recapture Hebei" Gao Dong briefly briefed everyone on the situation in Hebei, and all this information was obtained by agents of the PLA intelligence department at the risk of their lives from the enemy's occupied areas, and it arrived in Gao Dong's hands after secret transmission.It can be said that every piece of information has a very high value and a very high degree of credibility.And this information is all recently obtained, and basically contains everything that the Japanese army has exposed on the surface in Hebei.After introducing everything, Gao Dong began to formulate the direction of the troops' operations.The first offensive target was selected in Shijiazhuang, and Shijiazhuang was used as a breakthrough point to march to Hebei in an all-round way."
Chief of Staff, aren't we waiting for the First Army" After Gao Dong finished arranging everything, Huang Youde asked."
The First Army is already on the way, Hu Xinghan will receive my battle order, and it will soon catch up with us.So we just need to march to Shijiazhuang, and we don't need to think about them," Gao Dong explained.After arranging everything, Gao Dong decided to send troops three days later and march all the way from Taiyuan to Shijiazhuang.The battle clouds suddenly became dense, and outside the city of Taiyuan, all the PLA troops quickly assembled.The troops began to distribute three days' worth of combat rations to individual soldiers, so as not to be self-sufficient in the event of a shortage of logistical supplies in future battles.At the same time, all the troops checked the equipment, weapons, distributed ammunition, and everything was preparing for the coming big war.The defense of Shanxi was handed over to the local armed forces who came to hand over the handover, and the cadres sent from Shaanxi were to take over everything in the city.They will also recruit troops locally in Shanxi and use local soldiers to guard Shanxi.Three days passed in a hurry, and on the morning of the fourth day, the Second Army took the lead in advancing towards Shijiazhuang.Fang Kui's reinforced division followed closely on the left flank, leaving the right flank to the approaching First Army.The large army of the People's Liberation Army marched towards Hebei in a triangular formation, and from a distance, the huge contingent was like a giant dragon swallowing clouds and spitting mist, rapidly approaching Hebei with an unbeatable majesty.Taiyuan is not very far from Shijiazhuang, and the speed of the army is very fast.In less than two days, the vanguard of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) was already approaching Hebei.But at this moment, the vanguard stopped advancing, as if it had hit an invisible barrier.Gao Dong was in charge of the Chinese army, and soon received a message from the front."
What Japanese have already taken the lead in guarding the border of Hebei" Gao Dong couldn't help frowning deeply when he heard the report of the herald officer: "It's really fast" "Report to the chief of staff, our division commander said, please go and see for yourself."
The Japanese line of defense, very strange," said the herald officer hesitantly.Gao Dong and Huang Youde glanced at each other, and without any hesitation, they immediately ordered the military vehicle to drive towards the vanguard force.Soon, they were in the vanguard.Li Qiang, commander of the Fifth Division of the Second Army, hurriedly ran over to salute the two, and said anxiously: "Chief of Staff, Army Commander, you are here."
The little devil not only blocked our way, but also put on an iron wall, as if he was threatening us" Gao Dong asked in surprise."
You better come and see for yourself," Li Qiang said with a wry smile.Gao Dong and Huang Youde immediately followed Li Qiang towards the front line, and the Fifth Division had already set up outpost positions to confront the Japanese in the border area of Hebei.Gao Dong raised the binoculars and looked at them for a while, and his face became even more solemn.Two kilometers away, there were large and small pillboxes on their way.If you light it up in the night, it will be like a star sprinkled into the world.These bunkers are connected together and look chaotic, but if you look closely, you can see that every fifth bunker forms an extremely powerful point of fire.Every five bunkers form a bunker group, and the three bunker groups make up a larger bunker group.It's as if someone has planned it bit by bit, and it's been used to deal with infantry attacks.If there is no armored group to protect it, as long as the infantry rushes in, there are basically as many deaths as possible.Gao Dong can imagine how tragic the picture was when the infantry was strafed by bullets from all directions.But what shocked Gao Dong even more was not these pillboxes, even if the bunkers were strong, he also had wolf tank groups and self-propelled artillery units.If it doesn't work, you can also send the air force to bomb, although you can't blow up all the pillboxes.But if you carve out a path, that's no problem.But there are still a large number of tanks scattered between the other side's pillboxes, and their tank Gao Dong is too familiar, it is the new Japanese tank that almost wiped out the wolf tank group at the Taiyuan Railway Station.Roughly counted, the other side actually had more than 300 vehicles, almost three times the number of wolf tanks.With these new tanks, let alone breaking through the pillbox groups in the border areas, even the PLA's wolf tank groups are in danger of being wiped out.Gao Dong put down the binoculars and smiled helplessly in his heart.The industry of the little devil has matured, after all, it has developed for hundreds of years since the Meiji Restoration, and it can be manufactured in large quantities after the research of new tanks.If the industry in the liberated areas could also develop to the speed of the Japanese, I am afraid that now that the Wolf tanks are running everywhere, the PLA would have been able to launch an armored group attack a long time ago.It's a pity that China has been poor and weak for too long.Now all industries are just getting started, and it will take some time to be able to manufacture tanks in large quantities.And even if they have tanks, they still lack tank crews.Cultivating a qualified tank soldier is not a matter of one or two days, and requires not only theoretical knowledge, but also a lot of battlefield practice.Otherwise, even if they were given tanks, they would only be beaten into a pile of scrap metal by the Japanese tanks when they went to the battlefield."
Chief of Staff, you saw that too.The little devil put the tank right in front of us, how dare I attack casually, even if we have heavy artillery fire cover, but other tanks will move, and our heavy artillery will not move.If we rush forward, we will still suffer.So, I'll stop the troops and wait for instructions," Li Qiang said with embarrassment.Gao Dong nodded: "Understood" As he spoke, he turned his head, looked at Li Qiang and said, "You are doing the right thing, you should stop advancing." ”Huang Youde said anxiously: "Chief of Staff, the Japanese put on this posture, we will definitely suffer heavy losses if we attack from here."
Otherwise, let's re-plan the battle" Gao Dong waved his hand: "No need to plan, the whole army will retreat immediately" "Retreat" Huang Youde said in surprise: "Our large army has approached Hebei, and now retreat, isn't that a show of weakness to the devil" Gao Dong smiled helplessly: "Then what can we do to fight hard with them We lack armored troops, and there is a certain gap between our wolf tank and the devil's new tank."
If we can't solve this problem, our tank troops will not be able to fight against the devil's armored forces, otherwise we will only have the end of the whole army" "Without the armored advance, relying on the infantry to charge, isn't this letting the soldiers go to death" Gao Dong shook his head and said: "It's me who is too anxious and wants to take Hebei in one go, but I don't know that the strength of the people is so strong." ”"The meaning of Seiji Kazuki arranging this line of defense, but not attacking us, is already clear.It is to tell us that the water from the well does not interfere with the water of the river.Even if they fight, they won't be afraid" Gao Dong looked at the Japanese defense line on the opposite side and sighed: "It's not the time yet, Hebei, let's take it step by step, we will take Hebei sooner or later" aa2705221: