Glorious Mission 1937

Chapter 670 IX: Chongqing Raiders

In order to completely destroy the Chen Feng regime, the Japanese base camp deliberately dropped 2 tank divisions, 3 artillery brigades, and 800 fighters from Tokyo to the Chinese battlefield, and assigned them to the battle order of the China Expeditionary Army.

After Yan Junliu received the telegram from the base camp, he felt a lot of pressure. The base camp had a very clear meaning, allowing him to mobilize all the war resources that Japan can mobilize now to organize a war of unprecedented scale and reverse the current decline in one fell swoop.And there is only one goal-to occupy Chongqing and destroy the command center of the Chinese government.

The Japanese army has now captured Changde, and their troops are pointing directly at Yichang, which is not far from Chongqing, and the straight-line distance is only three to five hundred kilometers. With the marching speed of mechanized troops, it will only take one and a half to two days.The combat objective of defeating Chongqing seems simple, but it is actually extremely difficult. Although it is only a few hundred kilometers away, since Chen Feng entered Chongqing, a large number of elite troops have been transferred south, including Chen Feng's original guards and the No. The mobile corps in the eighth war zone, these units are all first-class elites.

In addition, Chongqing was originally the temporary accompanying capital of the Nationalist Government, and the most elite troops of the Nationalist Government were stationed there. Now that he wanted to eat up all these elite troops in one fell swoop, Yan Junliu felt that he did not have such a good mouth.

But the orders of the base camp cannot be disobeyed, so Yan Jun Liuzhi called all senior officers of the Chinese dispatched army except the North China Front Army to Nanjing to discuss and formulate a combat plan.

After a few days of meeting and research, the headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Army initially formulated a combat plan for the "Yong" brand.For the sake of confidentiality, the battle plan was replaced by the number 8, and the revised battle plan was sent to the base camp and Emperor Hirohito for viewing.

The "Yong" battle plan of the Chinese Expeditionary Army Command is very detailed and cumbersome. In addition to the cooperation of the army, navy, and army and navy aviation, it also requires the dispatch of special forces and airborne troops, and also requires the close cooperation of intelligence agencies.

According to the thinking of the China Expeditionary Army Command, this battle is not only a military duel, but also a duel of intelligence and technology. There must be a frontal war and a secret spy war.

根据“勇”字号作战计划。中国派遣军将会一次性集中80万大军、1600辆战车、8000门火炮、1200架飞机、50艘中小型舰艇。然后砸22万伪军的配合下，分三路向重庆开进，北路军是以海军为主，陆军一级海军陆战队为辅。沿长江北上。主要目标是夺取宜昌。然后主力直扑重庆。

The Central Route Army is dominated by the No.11 Army, and the attack direction is out of Changsha, Changde, Zhangjiajie, Longshan, and Wulong.Go straight to Fuling.

The South Route Army, with the 13th Army stationed in Shanghai as the main force, accompanied by a large number of puppet troops, went out of Hengyang, passed through Shaoyang, Huaihua, captured Tongren and Zunyi in Guizhou, and then went north along Zunyi and went straight to Banan, Chongqing.

While the army and navy were launching an offensive on the ground, the Burmese Front Army was going to launch an offensive in northern Myanmar to contain China's limited air power, and then concentrated its forces to bomb Chongqing with an unprecedented level, completely destroying the determination of the Chinese army and people to resist.

In addition, TGK showed extremely high combat quality when it assassinated the Chinese leader Jiang and the Shanxi warlord Yan last time, and also made great contributions to the Japanese Empire. This operation also requires the cooperation of TGK's power , the targets to be assassinated this time are not only high-level figures like Chen Feng, but also commanders above the division level, and government officials above the county and city levels. Can.

I have to say that the Japanese army’s combat plan took everything into consideration, and it was very rigorous. However, as mentioned above, this was a gamble. Yu can completely occupy China according to the original plan.

But once it fails, the Japanese army's war resources will be completely exhausted, and the Japanese military defense system in the Jiangnan area will be full of loopholes, and will soon be destroyed by Chen Feng's troops.

On August 8, the base camp compared the combat plan of the Chinese dispatched army.

When the China Dispatch Army Headquarters was preparing for war, the living space of the Japanese army in North China and Northeast China was being compressed. In the Northeast, the Japanese army no longer had a stronghold north of Changchun, and more than 30 soldiers were besieged in Songyuan and Shuangcheng. The Japanese and puppet troops were wiped out because of the puppet uprising.

However, after the capture of Mudanjiang, the Chinese and Soviet troops continued to move southward, aiming at Yanbian and Dunhua, until they captured Tonghua and Dandong, cutting off the retreat route of the Japanese army to the Korean peninsula.

In North China, only Beiping, Tangshan, and Qinhuangdao are the only big cities controlled by the Japanese army. Other cities have already been captured. Although the North China Front Army is still insisting, Okamura Ningji is pessimistic about this battle because the gap between the two sides is too obvious. There are not as many people as there are, and the weapons and equipment are not as good as using others. There are also other people's spies and agents lurking on my side, which may make the puppet army with extremely unstable morale turn against them at any time.

No matter how this battle is fought, there is no way to continue. The only way now is to withdraw troops. Before the Chinese have cut off the main passage to enter the customs, they will withdraw large troops to the northeast, or stick to the Liaoshen line. Or directly retreat to the Korean peninsula, otherwise, if the fight continues, the entire army will be wiped out.

But Neiji Okamura's suggestion was not adopted by the base camp. The base camp asked Neiji Okamura to command the troops in the North China region to continue to deal with Chen Feng's troops, and even launched a partial counterattack to attract more Chinese troops to reinforce North China.

Although Neiji Okamura didn't know exactly what the base camp wanted to do, but with his wisdom, it was not hard to imagine that he wanted them to beat the side drums and support the actions of the brother troops from the side.

Although Okamura Neiji did not think that two unreliable actions could save the decline of the Chinese battlefield, he still carried out the orders of the base camp and commanded the troops to launch three counterattacks against Xiahuayuan and the outer positions of Beiping.

On August 8th, two months and seven days after Operation Shocking Thunder began, the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Central China launched its entire frontline to western Hunan. In addition, the Navy Command of the Chinese Expeditionary Army moved to Wuhan.

The Japanese army reopened the battlefield in the south of the Yangtze River, which was expected by Chen Feng, and this is also the usual practice of the Japanese army.However, he did not expect that the Japanese army's attack would be so strong this time, so many troops and heavy equipment were dispatched at once. It seemed that the Japanese's goal was Chongqing and him, the leader, and they would not stop until they achieved their goal.

Immediately, Chen Feng ordered the Central China Theater, the Southwest Theater and the Chongqing Special Theater to formulate a countermeasure to resolutely wipe out the Japanese army in western Hunan and northern Guizhou.

The Central China Theater and the Southwest Theater held an emergency military meeting to discuss the war against Japan. It was initially decided that the Southwest Theater should deal with the Japanese army in the south of Shonen, and at the same time, it was ready to reinforce the troops in the north of Burma.The Central China Front Army concentrated large forces against the Japanese troops coming from Yichang and Xiangxi.

Xue Yue and Long Yun personally went to the front to command the battle, and the battle with the Japanese soldiers will be a big showdown in the future.

In western Hunan and northern Guizhou, troops gathered on the front line. In just one week, more than one million troops gathered on the front line, and follow-up troops are also arriving one after another. Chinese and foreign newspapers called this battle the decisive battle between China and Japan. All eyes are on was attracted to western China. (To be continued..)