From battle to battle, and to the current large-scale battle, the Japanese army's Yellow River defense line has collapsed, and both battlefields in eastern and western Henan are in a passive state.

Around this battle, a larger-scale battle has begun. Pang Bingxun, Gao Shuxun, Tang Weiyuan and other troops, as well as the Taihang troops of the 18th Army, the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Detachment, the Su-Lu-Yu Detachment, and many local guerrilla armed forces are all following orders to restrain and delay the reinforcements of Japanese troops from all over the country.

It is difficult for the Japanese army stationed in an established place to mobilize brigades and divisions without preparation. Of course, this possibility is not ruled out. But judging from the current forces participating in the war, the Japanese army in a division is a great threat, and the brigade-level one may not be helpful. This division does not refer to a piece of force, but a built-in division with complete military forces and strong weapons.

Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the Third Army have been greatly improved. Not only are the 60 mortars, grenade launchers, steel fists, Czech-made, shotguns, flying thunder cannons and other weapons assisted by Yang Tianfeng. Under the order of Wei Lihuang, the Houzhai Arsenal in Nanyang also focused on the manufacturing of 60 mortars, shotguns, flying thunder cannons, land mines and other weapons, and began to equip the troops in the First War Zone.

Unconsciously, the overall combat power of the First War Zone has steadily improved, among which the Third Army benefited the earliest, and the increase was the most obvious. Moreover, from the earliest Zhou regiment to the aid to attack Kaifeng, and crossing the river with regiments as units, the training and tactics of the various units of the Third Army were the first to learn and imitate the Third Column.

After attacking and occupying Shangqiu, Yang Tianfeng transferred more than 100 engineers, more than ten heavy mortars, and 300 various ammunitions to support Sun Tongxuan. He hoped to take advantage of this favorable fighter jet, and the Third Army and various reinforcements could conquer Kaifeng again and annihilate the Japanese defending the city.

The importance of Kaifeng’s important towns can be restored is self-evident. If it can be stable in eastern and western Henan, it can march north of Henan in the future and reach the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, connecting with the Taihang Mountain base in the first war zone, and even forming an integral part of the National Army in southeastern Shanxi.

At that time, there were two major guerrilla areas in the First War Zone: one was the first guerrilla area in the east of the Pinghan Line, located in Puyang, Neihuang, Junxian and Huaxian areas in the southern Hebei region. Because the county town was quickly lost, there was no stable base, but it has always been the guerrilla area in the First War Zone and one of the activity bases of the *** guerrilla army. To the west of the Pinghan Line, relying on the Taihang Mountains, it has maintained a second guerrilla area centered on Shexian, Hebei and Linxian, Henan, for a long time. It is currently a relatively stable base behind enemy lines.

Judging from the development process of the entire enemy-behind base area, from July 1937 to the end of 1938, it was the first stage, which can also be called the initial development stage, either regular army or local armed forces. A number of guerrilla areas and base areas were established in four war zones, namely the first, second, third and fifth war zones, including the first, second, third and fifth war zones.

The second stage was the development and tide period. From the beginning of 1939 to the end of 1940, not only were the newly established guerrilla war zones, which were completely behind enemy lines, but also the other war zones including the occupied areas also generally established guerrilla areas and base areas.

During this period, except for important towns and major transportation routes that were controlled by the Japanese and puppet troops, almost all the rest became guerrilla areas. In areas where the Japanese army had weak rule and favorable terrain, relatively stable bases were also established.

Furthermore, Jun Tada has just taken over as commander of the North China Expeditionary Force, and the "cage" he invented has just begun to be implemented. The golden period of the development of anti-Japanese bases behind enemy lines in North China has not yet ended, and it will take some time for his idea of ​​making up for the shortage of troops with mobility.

From this we can also see that the Battle of Eastern Henan launched by Yang Tianfeng evolved into a battle, which had many favorable conditions at that time.

Especially in the early and middle stages of the War of Resistance Against Japan, although the Kuomintang army suffered more defeats and fought independently internationally, they still had the spirit of enterprising and desire to attack. On the contrary, after entering the stalemate stage, even after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Kuomintang army's troops declined in their will to resist, were lazy in spirit, were passive and complacent, and the general idea of ​​"waiting for victory" later caused the Kuomintang army to suffer a crushing defeat including Zhongtiaoshan and Henan, Hunan and Guangxi.

Regardless of whether there is foreign aid or not, the Chinese × army must maintain the will to fight independently and the confidence to win the war of resistance when fighting against the Japanese devils. This is crucial. If the Chinese × army shows strength to the world to attack the Japanese army, it may not become a victim of Yalta's secret agreement, and the Russian power will lose legal and moral support when entering Northeast China.

I was thinking a little too much! Yang Tianfeng shook his head with a wry smile, raised his hand to look at his watch. It was already twelve o'clock in the evening, but he was not sleepy at all. Because at this time, on Longhai Road, thousands of troops were launching fierce attacks on the Japanese invaders amid loud clamors, and thousands of joint defense teams and mobilized people were rushing to break the railway.

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The fire in the station town was already rising, and the shouts of killing were shaking the sky.

The special forces team disguised as the defeated soldiers of Xiayi and a brigade of Guo detachment, wearing the clothes of the Japanese and puppet troops, shouting fluent Japanese, fleeing in a hurry. After all, it was from Xuzhou, and he had never suffered the loss of the Third Column's disguised attack. Such a large-scale disguised attack, from clothing to language, also deceived the Japanese's eyes, causing the defense of the Station Town to be broken through in an instant.

The attack was fast and fierce. Before the Japanese sentry could even take the gun, they were knocked to the ground by a pistol with a silencer. Before the Japanese in the machine gun bunker made of sandbags woke up from their sleep, a few black shadows jumped up and shot the bullets into their bodies and their heads without mercy. The door of the armored vehicle was suddenly pulled open, and after a burst of fire, the Japanese who were dozing on the machine gun met the King of Hell in their sleep.

Song Qingpu directed the special forces members to rush into the station, and the sound of gunfire and explosions rang uncontrollably.

Captain Kawaguchi jumped up from the bed, his throat swelled, and the explosion woke him up, but he thought he was dreaming.

The electric light in the room suddenly went out, Kawaguchi pulled out the pistol under the pillow, the door opened, and several officers ran in panic, "Of course Kawaguchi, the enemy has entered."

"Who? Enemy, where is the enemy?" Kawaguchi was busy dispatching transportation and arranging defenses, and he had been resting poorly, and he was still a little dizzy now.
Chapter completed!