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Chapter 475
The attack of the five divisions and the multi-way alliance was very rapid, and they continued to march towards military targets such as Zaoyang and Xiangyang, and continued to attack cities and pools along the way.

After the Japanese 11th Army failed to attack Changsha, the reorganization in the past few months allowed the army to regain its previous strength. On the vast battlefield around Zaoyi, after the start of the attack, the devils attacked very quickly with the cooperation of bombers.

The officers and soldiers of the fifth war zone, who failed to judge the motives of the devils who were constantly mobilized, were a little caught off guard, which directly showed the disadvantage of insufficient preparation at the beginning of the battle.

The officers of the Ninth War Zone are also paying attention to the Zaoyi battlefield while training.

"What's going on, this situation is like a mountain of defeat?"

Standing in front of the map, Li Chong watched with several staff members of the brigade continuously modifying the situation of the enemy and us on the topographic map of the Zaoyi area on the map, and said with a frown.

After the devils attacked Zaoyang, Li Chong found out the topographic map of the Zaoyang area, and asked several staff members of the brigade to pay full-time attention to the dynamics of the frontier battlefield, and marked the positions of the enemy and us on the map according to the dynamics of the battlefield.

Hearing Li Chong's voice, Chen Tinghe also came over, folded his arms in front of his chest, looked at the blue standard on the map that marked the devil's offensive line, and frowned.

Chen Tinghe shook his head and said, "What happened to the fifth war zone? The Japanese soldiers advanced [-] kilometers in one day, and Zaoyang is gone? Why is it so fast? Even if the devils use two divisions to attack Zaoyang, our ninth war zone has Wouldn't it be blocked?"

"Hey!" Li Chong sighed as he stroked his chin with a stubble of beard:

"Still caught off guard! Although the devils mobilized their troops in the fifth war zone before, they didn't have a clear target. This time, the troops were condensed into a single group and pointed directly at Zaoyang. The fifth war zone deployed there was only General Zhang's 33rd Army. Although Chief Li We are actively mobilizing the remaining dozen or so armies, but most of them are still in the process of moving toward Zaoyang.”

"Relying on the 33rd Army deployed by General Zhang, although it is resisting section by section, but facing the offensive line of two divisions and devils, if there is no other troops to quickly replenish it, I am afraid it will be bad!"

Chen Tinghe listened and nodded. The last time Changsha was able to block the 11 troops of Okamura's 20th Army, it was only because the devils divided their troops into three groups, and Chief Xue mobilized [-] troops to fight against it. The offensive momentum of the [-] devils was suppressed.And in the end, to be honest at the last moment of the Xiangbei battlefield, it was the devils who took the initiative to retreat in order to avoid being surrounded by the Chongqing army that came to support them. It was Okamura's own initiative to reverse the order.

After paying attention to the latest battle situation in the fifth war zone, Chen Tinghe and Li Chong, the first and second in command of the temporary brigade, left the front of the map.

Many officers in the Ninth War Zone, like Chen Tinghe and Li Chong, pay attention to the battles in the Fifth War Zone when dealing with military affairs every day.

Because the Fifth War Zone and the Ninth War Zone are closely related, and the war zones border each other to support each other. When the devils attacked Changsha before, the Fifth War Zone also sent a large army to support. The battle in the Fifth War Zone will continue. The theater also had to mobilize troops to support it.

In the half month of May, when paying attention to the situation in the Fifth War Zone had become the daily habit of many officers in the Ninth War Zone, on this day in the middle of the month, a news came like a thunderbolt. Straightforward.

General Zhang Zizhong, Commander-in-Chief of the Right Group Army of the Ninth Theater and Commander of the 33rd Group Army, was killed in the pumpkin shop Shili Changshan!

In the first brigade, the officers and soldiers all tied white cloths on their arms, training and preparing for war without affecting their daily training and preparations.

Li Chong, who had a white cloth strip tied on his left arm, got into the jeep with Chen Tinghe and the chief of staff, and the three regimental commanders followed on horseback. They first went to the division headquarters to assemble, and then went to the army headquarters together.After the death of General Zhang, the Tenth Army, in accordance with the request of the war zone chief, must call the leaders of the subordinate units to mourn.

On the road where the jeep passed, Li Chong saw that the faces of the grassroots officers and soldiers in the camp along the road were the same as usual. When it came to the death of General Zhang, a figure at the level of the army commander, he had no intuitive feeling for the grassroots soldiers.

But for Li Chong, the second-in-command of the main battle brigade, he felt a little inexplicable.

Logically speaking, the commander of the group army rarely descends to the forefront of the battlefield, but plays the role of command and dispatch above the overall situation.

Now, all the missions at the commander level of the group army have been killed, so what is a small brigade-level second-in-command?

After gathering at the division headquarters, everyone came to the military headquarters.

The Military Headquarters of the Tenth Army set up a mourning altar on a spacious site, with a portrait of General Zhang hanging on it, and an elegiac couplet made of black and white wide cloth hanging on it, "General Zhang Zizhong is immortal!" The big characters are solemn and deep.

Commander of the Ninth Theater Command, and a group of commanders of the Ninth Theater Group Army headed by Xue Boling also carried out memorial activities in the theater headquarters building.

In the government building of the Republic of China in Chongqing, Generalissimo Jiang sat in front of the topographic map of Zaoyi with a cane, and a group of senior staff stood behind him.

"Chairman, please mourn, this is a handwriting written by General Zhang Zizhong before the war!"

Bai Chongxi sent a letter to the Chairman.

The chairman reached out to take it and opened it and read, ".As long as we can make up our minds, our country and our 5000-year-old nation will never die at the hands of mere Mishima Japanese slaves!"

Putting down the handwriting, the chairman's eyes were moist.

After a while, he opened his eyes and said word by word, "General Zhang Zizhong's body must be taken back and transported to Chongqing!"

Bai Chongxi said in a low voice, "General Zhang's remains were buried on a slope in the Chen Family Ancestral Hall in Chenjiaji Town, within the range of the 39st Regiment of the 231th Division of the Japanese Army. Now Huang Wei, the commander of the 33th Division under the 38rd Army, has formed The Death Squad, with Huang Wei personally serving as the death squad leader, vowed to take back the body of General Zhang Zizhong.”

After talking about this, Bai Chongxi continued, "Chairman, after the death of General Zhang, the main force of the 11th Japanese Army is still looking for a decisive battle with the other main forces of Chief Li. It has not stopped the current offensive situation, but the next offensive situation is unknown. "

Unlike the attack on Changsha, where the huge city of Changsha stands, it must be the center of the devil's attack, so the formation of troops in the ninth war zone only needs to be carried out around Changsha, but the central city of Wuhan in the fifth war zone has long been lost, and the five divisions currently in the fifth war zone The regiment and each detachment adopt a mobile combat posture.

The devil's constant mobilization of troops did not show his intention to attack a certain strategic location, but suddenly launched an attack on a certain strategic location during the mobilization of troops. This was the case in Zaoyang and Xiangyang, which were captured one after another. General Zhang's death There is also a reason for haste in dealing with it.

Therefore, the Supreme Command is also unable to judge what the Japanese army's next offensive target will be.

Bai Chongxi continued, "I believe that the 11th Army invaded our fifth war zone and mobilized several divisions from the third and ninth war zones, making the Japanese defense forces in these two theaters weak. If you take this opportunity, order Gu Zhutong and Xue Boling's attack on the frontal enemies in each war zone will definitely achieve greater results than the winter offensive, directly threatening the rear of the Japanese army in East China and central China, and providing a strong response to the current situation in the fifth war zone."

(End of this chapter)