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Chapter 474
The 11th Army of the Devil's first change of command made Changsha City seem to not face the threat of the Devil's attack in a short period of time, at least for the defenders within tens of kilometers outside Changsha City.

Li Chong took a piece of beef, dipped it in some hot sauce, put it in his mouth, and said while eating, "The 11th Army has changed its commander, and we are also happy to relax. They can't just change their commander and the troops are not familiar with it. Let's fight Changsha."

I have to say that the knife skills of the cooking team in the brigade are still good.

Chen Tinghe said in a sentimental tone, "North China is full of ups and downs. If this old boy Okamura goes to be the commander of the devil's North China Front Army, it will still be a headache for the eight roads."

These days, the national army has not fought any big battles, but there has been a lot of movement on the Eighth Route Army. The main reason is that after Okamura took office in North China, a new official was appointed as the third in command. Mopping up, so the flames of war on the battlefield behind the enemy continued.

The Red Party fought the war, while the Guomindang showed an attitude of being high-spirited and having nothing to do with itself.Of course, even if the troops stationed outside the city of Changsha and stationed in various places in the depths of northern Hunan, even if they wanted to join in and steal the ass of the devils who frequently moved in North China, it would be beyond their reach.

Li Chong drank a small cup and said, "Okamura, as a good general, must be in the north of China, but he has never heard of who will take over the 11th Army?"

Although Okamura did not fail to take down Changsha this time, no one doubted his military level. He commanded the 11th Army to conquer all the large and medium-sized cities along the river before. A person who has been tempered thousands of times, the devil's headquarters transferred him to North China to clear up the law and order.

"The theater intelligence department is also collecting information on the new commander of the 11th Army. In the past two days, I will go to inquire about it and go!"

The crisp sound of wine glasses colliding
The three months of two, three, and four can be said to be the most comfortable three months since Li Chong entered the army after graduating from the Central Military Academy. There was no pressure to take the lead alone. The old troops, especially those backed by Changsha City, have good food and drink standards.

Rarely, Li Chong found that he had gained ten catties in weight, which was the result of boxing every morning and evening.

At the level of Deputy Brigadier Commander, there is nothing to spend money on, and Li Chong did not follow the habit of other officers to raise a second wife in the city, so in three months, the unspent military salary alone reached 300 Yuan silver dollar.

In the second half of April, when Li Chongyi was dealing with brigade affairs as usual, and went to the troops below in his spare time to communicate with Lin Wanru, the weather began to feel hot and dry, and there was a puff of gunpowder smoke. The taste is also developing.

The divisions and regiments under the Devil's 11th Army, which had been quiet for several months, began to move frequently.

The Ninth War Zone has been watching the mobilization of the Devil’s 11th Army. As soon as there is a mobilization of the theater’s intelligence agency and a group of staff, they will be watching closely. After the Devil’s first attack on Changsha failed, no one would think that the Devil would give up attacking Changsha. When will the devils make a comeback?

But after close attention, the smoke that seemed to be burning was not as far away from Changsha as the North China mopping up battlefield, but it did not burn within the scope of the Ninth War Zone.

The mobilization of part of the Devil's 11th Army was only within the Fifth War Zone, and it looked like it was not facing Changsha City.

Devils are constantly gathering, and even the devils stationed in Wuhan City have also mobilized some. Although the army of devils is constantly mobilizing, the target of the troops is not very clear.

The Ninth War Zone, especially the officers and soldiers in the north of Changsha outside Changsha City, were a little surprised. Since the first time they repelled the devils, they have been preparing to continue to block the devils from attacking Changsha.

Just like Li Chong, although he handles affairs at the brigade headquarters every day, he also believes that as long as another battle starts, it will definitely be another bloody battle around Changsha City.But unexpectedly, the devils of the 11th Army actually shifted their attack point, directly spanning from the ninth theater to the fifth theater.

This made the officers and soldiers of the Ninth War Zone who were gearing up and had been training and preparing for the battle a little at a loss. The fists were ready, and they were ready to fight each other. As a result, the devils diverted their attention to attack.

In the city of Wuhan, the headquarters of the 11th Army Command.

After the last attack on Changsha failed, the temporary headquarters moved to Yueyang withdrew to Wuhan.

Although the mobilization of troops outside did not point to a clear target, it was done to confuse the Chongqing army. In fact, the target for attack had already been selected.

In the headquarters building, a huge sand table was newly made, and the entire sand table covered the entire Zaoyi area, which was about to be the direction the soldiers of the 11th Army were pointing at.

Sonobe Kazuichiro, the new commander of the 11th Army, followed the advice of the former commander Okamura in his first battle after taking office, and did not directly choose Changsha as the target of attack. Of course, he also knew that he was only temporarily taking over the 11th Army. The village was impatiently transferred to North China by the base camp to clear up public security issues.

Although Okamura left, the second battle plan against Changsha he left behind still deeply affected Sonobe and Ichiro.

After Okamura failed to attack Changsha for the first time, he made a self-criticism.

Looking back on the failure of the first attack on Changsha, Okamura believes that the turning point occurred when the channels for the 33rd Division, the 106th Division, and the Sae detachment to attack Changsha were not opened, but were surrounded instead. This directly led to the heavy task of attacking Changsha. Stayed on the frontal battlefield in northern Hunan.

Therefore, when learning from experience to re-formulate the combat plan against Changsha, the first thing Okamura wrote in the plan was to open up another route to attack Changsha.

Considering that during the previous attack on Changsha, Chongqing's Fifth War Zone also sent troops to Changsha for support, Okamura believes that the choice of another offensive route can be the passage from the China Five War Zone westward to Changsha.

It can not only prepare for the next attack on Changsha, but also cut off the land connection between the fifth theater of China and the ninth theater of China, so that when Changsha is attacked next, the fifth theater of China will not be able to support the ninth theater.

Sonobe and Ichiro believed that if a land passage from Wuhan to Changsha could be opened up, there might be an added benefit, that is, to attack the main force of the Chongqing Army in the Fifth War Zone of Remnant China, achieving the effect of killing two birds with one stone!

After all, although the 11th Army captured Wuhan before, the main force of the Fifth War Zone was hidden in the mountains, posing many potential threats to Wuhan.

If the Chongqing army in the five theaters of China can be defeated, a westward passage leading to the attack on Changsha can also be opened.

The Japanese base camp also agreed to this action against the five war zones in China, which can add fuel to the fire of "Tong Gonggong", which is stagnating in Hong Kong.

When the Yunnan-Burma Highway was blocked, the "winter offensive" planned by the Chongqing government broke out. Many devils saw that the Chongqing government, which had lost many elite cities, could still unleash so much power, and they were really speechless for a while. taste.

After reassessing the strength of the major war zones divided into Chongqing, the Devils Base Camp believes that the fifth theater and the ninth theater currently have the most active direct troops of the Central Army of Chiang Kai-shek, and they are the two theaters with the most combat effectiveness.

Based on the above factors, on May [-]st, the five divisions of the devils and the multi-route regiments that had been prepared suddenly gathered their offensive spears in the process of constantly disturbing the real target, and pointed their troops directly at Zaoyang and Xiangyang!

At this moment, the devil exposed the first target of this attack against the fifth theater.

(End of this chapter)