Time travel! Regrets will never happen again!

As the Japanese attack failed, all the Japanese and puppet troops outside Guancen Mountain became panic-stricken.

They were really scared, but without orders from above they dared not retreat on their own and had to hold on to the important roads leading to Guancen Mountain.

Of course, this was the Japanese army, and those puppet troops had already contacted the 78th Army privately, announcing that they would revolt and join the National Army.

Wang Chun did not make things too difficult for these puppet soldiers. As long as they were not guilty of heinous crimes or had done anything harmful to the world, he allowed them to join.

When the Japanese saw that almost all the puppet troops around them had run away, they became even more panicked and sent telegrams requesting evacuation one after another to their superiors.

At this moment, the Japanese First Army did not know how to deal with it. An entire division was wiped out in just two days.

How powerful was the 78th Army? Was it really as described by Western military observers that one 78th Army was almost equal to 2-3 ordinary divisions of the Locust Army?

Now there are less than three divisions left in the entire First Army, and they also need to garrison a large occupied area. How can they dare to continue sending troops to attack Guancen Mountain?

We should be thankful that they didn't rush out of the mountain to beat us up. In fact, the Japanese didn't know that the 114th Army was able to quickly annihilate the 78th Division because of internal strife.

Even under such circumstances, the 78th Army suffered more than 6000 casualties, including more than 4000 deaths.

But it was a good thing! The Japanese were shocked by the powerful equipment and military strength displayed by the 78th Army, and now they had no intention of taking the initiative to attack.

In fact, Okamura Neiji is also very troubled now, as the headquarters is constantly transferring large numbers of main forces from the Chinese battlefield to the Pacific battlefield.

The military forces, which were already stretched to the limit, are now even more unable to be deployed in a short period of time. The only ones that can continue to provide support are the Mengjiang Corps and the Kwantung Army, known as the flower of the locust army.

Today, the two armies are also having a hard time. Especially the Kwantung Army, although it claims to have 60 elite troops, the actual situation is only known to the Japanese military itself.

Today, the Kwantung Army has less than 20 elite troops left, and the rest are all newly formed divisions or some old divisions that have been withdrawn.

The commander-in-chief of the China Expeditionary Army, General Okamura Yasuji, demanded that within two months the Kwantung Army must dispatch two divisions to the interior of the country, and the Mengjiang Corps would also dispatch a division to Shanxi Province.

When the Japanese were mobilizing their troops, Wang Chun did not stop his actions. They had completely consolidated the Guancenshan base through the previous battle.

Now, after a period of rest, each division has begun to expand outward from the base. In less than a week, 53 Japanese strongholds of various sizes have been destroyed.

More than 1400 Japanese soldiers were killed, and more than 500 puppet soldiers were also killed. More than 7000 puppet soldiers were captured or committed to rebellion.

Even Zhang Biao's First Division was actively preparing to attack Pingyuan, which made a reinforced battalion of the Japanese stationed in Pingyuan feel like they had lost their parents.

The Japanese in Shuozhou also began to become extremely nervous, even though they had the 41st Division stationed in the city and nearly 3.5 puppet troops assisting in defense.

But no matter how the Japanese look at these puppet soldiers now, they feel that the way they look at them is so uncomfortable, as if they are staring at their buttocks.

In fact, we really can’t blame these puppet soldiers. They were already very familiar with Wang Chun (the original owner of this body), and several of them had eaten from the same pot.

Now that they have accomplished this, it is impossible for these former brothers to say that they do not have any ideas, especially since they now know to some extent that the Japanese First Army was frightened by Wang Chun.

At the top of Pingyuan County, Japanese Major Inoue watched several fighter planes painted with the blue sky and white sun emblem flying overhead.

Who can I tell about the bitterness in my heart? Once upon a time, the entire Chinese sky was dominated by locust armies, but what happened to Shanxi Province now?

The 114th Division was completely destroyed and Chinese fighter planes appeared in the sky. These fighter planes were the latest "Hellcat" equipped by the 78th Army Air Force - Grumman F6F fighter planes.

It’s just that it is no longer a carrier-based model, but a land-based model. Wang Chun is afraid that the F109G is no match for the Japanese Zero fighter.

Knowing that the Hellcat was known as the nemesis of the Japanese Zero fighter in the Pacific battlefield, 20 Hellcats were produced.

After a few days of contact, the pilots of the aviation team completely fell in love with this powerful fighter and began to fly it to perform daily combat readiness cruises and reconnaissance missions.

"Assholes! Are we just going to watch the Chinese show off their might in front of us? We must send out the army to deal with them!"

"Pingyuan County is not the Guancen Mountain area. It is relatively flat here. The Chinese can only fight the locust army in an upright manner. They can no longer engage in any conspiracy or trickery!"

The speaker was Yoshizawa Tadao, the commander of the newly expanded 62nd Division (formerly the rd Independent Mixed Brigade), because it was his subordinates who were stationed on the plain.

"Changji-kun! We understand your concerns, but the military is saying nice things now, saying they want to retaliate against the Chinese 78th Army, but look at what they have done?"

"The 36th and 37th divisions have been withdrawn. Although the 62nd and 69th divisions have been newly established, I'm sure everyone knows the actual situation!"

"Our 41st Division has not been effectively reorganized since the Battle of Guancen Mountain, and the number of soldiers is still more than one-tenth short! The reinforcements from the Mengjiang Corps have not arrived yet, and now we have to rely on our three understaffed divisions..."

At this point, the commander of the 41st Division, Shimizu Kijime, did not say anything else. It was true that after the headquarters learned about the tragedy of the 114th Division, it announced to the outside world that it would retaliate.

But the actual operation is to continuously transfer combat-capable divisions to the Pacific battlefield. Now the top leaders of the empire believe that the Pacific battlefield is the most important.

The strength of the First Army has now declined to a dangerous level. The entire army consists of three divisions, one independent brigade, and several guard battalions, with a total of less than 6 people.

Even the most advanced Zero fighters and bombers of the 3rd Air Brigade stationed here were all transferred away.

There are now less than 50 fighter planes left in the entire Third Flying Squadron. Faced with the increasingly powerful attacks of the 78th Army, these Imperial pilots are increasingly unable to hold on.

"But we can't just sit there and watch the Chinese show off their power in front of us!"

The commander of the 69th Division, Miura Tadajiro, roared angrily.

As a Japanese general who had just been promoted from brigade commander to division commander, he felt very aggrieved. Why did a freak like the 78th Army appear in his own territory?

"Alas! Now we can only swallow our anger for the time being. When the reinforcements from the Mengjiang Corps and the Kwantung Army arrive, we will deal with this damned 78th Army!"

The commander of the First Army, Yoshio Iwamatsu, answered somewhat dejectedly. Thinking about how high-spirited he was when he just took over as the commander of the First Army a few months ago, and how he has turned out to be like this, it is really a pity!

That night, the Inoue Battalion of the Japanese army stationed in Pingyuan and some Japanese soldiers from the garrison battalion withdrew overnight and handed over the city defense to the puppet army.

They retreated to Xinzhou overnight. The next morning, the puppet troops in Pingyuan took the initiative to open the city gates, raised white flags and sent people to announce the uprising to the 78th Army.

The Japanese army did not just retreat from one county town in Pingyuan. They basically gave up most of the county towns and rural areas around the 78th base.

One reason was to concentrate on guarding several major cities, while the 78th Army needed to divide its troops to garrison the towns and countryside that had just been occupied.

Second, their large-scale occupation of northwestern and central Shanxi would naturally cause dissatisfaction among the Eighth Route Army and the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. After all, the surrounding area is very complicated and the interests of all parties are involved.

But now Wang Chun doesn't care about these at all. As long as he has guns, soldiers and money, he doesn't care about these at all.

The Shanxi-Suiyuan Army is still supplying their main weapons, so it is even less likely that a conflict will occur with the Eighth Route Army. Although the massacre and burying of Japanese soldiers alive caused some Red Army personnel to worry about Wang Chun's character, which prevented them from joining the Red Army.

But it's also good this way. Wang Chun can get along with the Eighth Route Army in a cooperative way. As for the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, if they are willing to cooperate, then they can cooperate. If they are not willing, he doesn't mind taking the opportunity to annex some of them.

By the end of October 42, the area controlled by the 10th Army had expanded to 78 counties covering an area of ​​nearly 17 square kilometers, and the population had exceeded one million.

Northwest Shanxi had already begun to feel a hint of chill by the end of October, and the Japanese 10st Division stationed in Shuozhou City had all begun to enter a state of war, as the 41th Army was ready to attack the city where they were stationed.