The sun rises southeast of the blue sky, and the colorful morning glow melts with the morning light. Threads of red smear on the edges of the newly rising white clouds, melting into a light crimson. The river water is dyed with golden light and flows slowly, and the birds in the forest stop singing and flies into the fields to find food.

The wooden bridge is like a long dragon lying on the calm river surface. The ancient bridge body is bearing the pace of soldiers with two barriers at the same time. The chief of staff of the Third Column and the New Fourth Army and the meeting personnel of the New Fourth Army walked towards the center of the bridge from both ends of the bridge.

Lin Cunxiao was wearing a straight military uniform of the National Army. The major's collar was shining with light. There was almost no expression on his calm face. Only through his bright eyes, people felt confident and followed four staff officers left and right. On the shore of the bridge, a thirty-person cavalry guard stood neatly and emitting a solemn murderous aura.

Tan yl, the political commissar of the New Fourth Army Guerrilla Detachment, had a medium figure, washed into a light gray military uniform and wrapped her body in a moderately tight manner, with bright eyebrows and bright eyes, clear and bright forehead, wide forehead, square chin, free and easy demeanor, and calm manners. A row of guards behind him also stood straight, and was not willing to be outdone and compared with the one across the river.

Both sides walked to the center of the bridge and stood down at the same time. Lin Cunxiao wanted to say hello first and make an offer, but unexpectedly, Tan yl took the lead and reached out and said with a smile: "Hello, Chief of Staff Lin."

Lin Cunxiao didn't mind it because he took the initiative to make money by Tan yl. He nodded with a smile, reached out and shook with Tan yl, "Political Commissar Tan, it's a great honor to be able to meet you."

"It's indeed a blessing. The two sides had some misunderstandings not far away here a few days ago. I hope we can let go of our past grudges here today." Tan yl said first.

"As the saying goes, "Don't fight, you won't know each other, this is not the best way for us soldiers to make friends." A smile appeared on the corner of Lin Cunxiao's mouth.

"Friends within the anti-Japanese camp should not fight for those who know each other." Tan yl shook his head and said.

"I heard that Political Commissar Tan has a good eloquence, and today I have learned it." Lin Cunxiao raised his eyebrows and said.

"As the saying goes, words are the key to happiness. If the disputes within the anti-Japanese camp can be resolved through debate, it will be much better than using force. I think Chief of Staff Lin will agree with this." Hu Wenzhong said calmly.

"Yes, Political Commissar Tan's idea is really happy."

"Everyone will be happy about this."

"oh--"

"Um--"

"Hahahaha." The two laughed loudly at the same time and shook hands again.

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"The Third Column has agreed to make way for us to advance eastward and provide convenience, but they also have their conditions, which is to divide the defense zone and ask us to move eastward in Jinpu Road." Political Commissar Tan returned to his residence and began to discuss with Commander Peng XF.

"This is about the same information as the information we have received." Peng xf nodded and said, "The established strategy of the Third Column is to penetrate the plains and then extend his hand along the railway. I was thinking that Yang Tianfeng used to avoid contact, so he wanted to seize and stabilize the area west of Xubeng. Now the Third Column has established a foothold here, so we can only go east to develop."

"Yang Tianfeng is a man who is thoughtful and has walked step by step, and there is almost no mistake in his mistakes. It is really surprising." Political Commissar Tan said in contemplation: "Lin Cunxiao once made a claim today, that is, if there are no defense zones, there may be misunderstandings in the future. Wherever there are Japanese, they will attack and grab territory from Japanese. This is nominally reasonable."

Peng xf thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "It seems that there is no problem, but after careful consideration, something is wrong. We are tangled with the Japanese. If we temporarily move and avoid the Japanese's edge, can the three lords come over and rob our territory legitimately?"

"That's about that." Political Commissar Tan smiled bitterly and said, "In this way, we must be tied firmly on the territory to fight against the Japanese. If you transfer and retreat, the third lord may reach out and kill the Japanese. This territory is theirs. With their strength, it can be done."

"It seems that it is beneficial to us to divide the defense zone." Peng xf nodded slightly and finally made a decision, "Okay, this can be agreed to them. Only when there are losses can you gain. To stabilize the overall situation of unity and anti-Japanese resistance, the third column should not be enemies with me at the lowest level. By the way, are there any other conditions?"

"It's nothing else. Lin Cunxiao also revealed some of Yang Tianfeng's meaning. As long as our army can advance east according to the route designated by it, the Third Column will also support some weapons and ammunition and provide a lot of information from the east to facilitate our army to open up the situation." Political Commissar Tan paused and said: "From Yang Tianfeng's attitude towards the various anti-Japanese armed forces, I think it is credible. Moreover, the Third Column may have to face the Japanese's large-scale sweep immediately, and there is not much time to get involved in the lengthy negotiations like bargaining."

"Yang Tianfeng is indeed very generous, and he can also see his long-term vision from this." Peng xf agreed: "The lips are dead and the teeth are cold, which is especially suitable for the anti-Japanese armed forces behind the enemy. The Japanese invaders are powerful, and the anti-Japanese armed forces are weak. If they cannot work together, they can only be defeated one by one. If they unite to fight the enemy together, you pull your hands and I pull your feet, and the Japanese army will lose sight of the other and cannot concentrate their strength. Yang Tianfeng supports and guides the anti-Japanese armed forces, and also reduces the pressure he faces. He did a good job in this."

"Then we--" Political Commissar Tan looked at Peng xf in consultation.

"Up eastward, implement the central government's instructions, go eastward to open up and establish our own anti-Japanese base, so that we can get rid of the current dilemma of rootless Ping." Peng xf made a decisive decision.

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After World War II, the United States conducted statistics and found that 50% of soldiers from various countries suffered from mortars during the war. In China, the casualties caused by this mortar were estimated to be more than 60%.

Due to different combat theories, the Japanese army did not manufacture and equipped them during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and mainly relied on mountain cannons and infantry cannons. At closer distance, they were grenade launchers.

The grenade launcher equipped by the third-row vertical can suppress the Japanese army that used the Taisho Ten Year grenade launcher (the range is less than 200 meters), but Yang Tianfeng knew that the Japanese army also had a grenade launcher - the Type 89 grenade launcher. The maximum range of this grenade launcher reached 700 meters and the effective range was 500 meters. In terms of range, the grenade launcher was inferior to the best.

At that time, the National Army and the Eighth Route Army began to imitate grenade launchers to deal with the Japanese army, and the National Army imitated more than 40,000. However, Yang Tianfeng's usual philosophy was not to imitate, but to strive to surpass. Moreover, the Grenade launcher was not an advanced weapon, and it did more harm than good to the army, and eliminating it was an inevitable trend.

According to the technical production level of the arsenal, Yang Tianfeng personally designed and improved the manufacturing process of the 60 mortar. It can be said that it is simple and has widely absorbed the experience of predecessors and formed large-scale production and manufacturing. Steel plate roll welding to make body tubes. Except for the springs of the buffer, the rest of the parts of the tripod are made of aluminum. Although the strength of the entire mortar has decreased, the weight has also been reduced.

As a company-level support artillery, it can fight with infantry platoons and provide firepower support to the front-line infantry at any time. According to the changes in the enemy situation, Yang Tianfeng first puts equipment into the Eastern Front. Each company has four standard equipment, with one to two gates per platoon, with a maximum range of 1,200 meters. The mortar shell weighs nearly two kilograms, and the charge is 120 grams, and the killing radius is more than ten meters. The range and lethality are better than the Japanese grenade launcher.

Moreover, the biggest advantage of the 60 mortar over the grenade is that it has aiming equipment and a stable gun stand, so it is a fairly stable shelling platform with high shelling accuracy. The grenade cannon is mainly based on the shooter's empirical probability of shelling, and the aiming cannot be effectively calculated.

In addition to equipping the troops, Yang Tianfeng also gave Sun Tongxuan's Third Army and Liao Lei's 23rd Army each. He was quite generous to the temporary cavalry division that had just been transferred, and he gave twenty 60 mortars to the 1st Cavalry Division, thirty Czech-made, and three hundred sludge guns.

It needs to determine the value. The First Cavalry Division is the closest friendly army to Luyi, and is still a very brave army, which can greatly reduce the pressure on the Western Front of the Third Column.

The enemy's mobilization in the east is imminent, and the soldiers and materials are concentrated in Xiaoxian and Sucheng, and the intention of the two routes of the north and south clamp attacks is becoming more and more obvious.

"Sucheng has successively gathered more than 3,000 Japanese and puppet troops from Lingbi, Si County, Guzhen and other places, as well as an artillery squadron in Bengbu."

"Xiao County has concentrated Xiao Tong and other counties, as well as the Japanese and puppet troops in Xuzhou, with a total of more than 4,000 people, and a mecha squadron."

"After the attacks in Sucheng, Kaifeng and Anqing, the Japanese army stationed in Xiaoxian and Sucheng, the two key points of the Japanese army will not have less than two squadrons, plus the puppet army, or there may be thousands of people. In this way, the total number of enemies swept away will be more than six thousand..."

Yang Tianfeng listened to the staff explaining the enemy situation, and flipped more detailed information in his hand. When he saw that the mobilization force of Sucheng would be commanded by the captain of the former Jinzi United, Taro Aso, he thought about it and couldn't help but smile.

When fighting with the Japanese, Yang Tianfeng would not use some evil moves to damage the moves, it would be uncomfortable. The headquarters of the Jinzi Regiment was removed and the military flag was destroyed, which was regarded as a great humiliation by its officers and soldiers. But they did not know that the military flag of the regiment was hidden in Yang Tianfeng's hands. This broken flag should be useful, right?

Yang Tianfeng touched his chin and thought hard, and his smile became worse and worse. I just like to torture the Japanese, and it was fun to torture them from physical to psychological to mental illness!
Chapter completed!