Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

The 389th Division's base area has too much anti-aircraft firepower. The air force at Taiyuan Airport alone is probably not enough!"

After saying this, he looked at Yoshio Shinozuka with his bright eyes.

After hearing what Yamamoto Ikki said, Yamaoka Michitake suddenly realized.

No wonder the situation reported by the 109th Division this time was so strange.

It turned out that yesterday, when a battalion of the 109th Division was conducting a routine mopping-up operation outside Wutai, they discovered an Eighth Route Army unit transporting a batch of fuel to Yun County.

Because there were only a few hundred people transporting the fuel, the large team easily defeated this small force and transported the fuel back to Wutai.

When the new commander of the 109th Division, Tadaji Hosokawa, received a report from his subordinates that the fuel of the Eighth Route Army had been intercepted, he became curious.

When did the Eighth Route Army have this thing?

Hosokawa Chuji had a nose for war for many years and instinctively sensed that something was wrong, so he reported the information to Taiyuan.

After receiving the information reported by the 109th Division, Yamaoka Michitake immediately found Yoshio Shinozuka with the telegram.

After listening to Yamamoto's report, Yamaoka Michitake immediately understood why the Eighth Route Army's fuel was intercepted in the Wutai area.

You know, fuel is an important strategic resource, and both they and the Eighth Route Army are extremely short of it.

Now that the fuel collected by the Eighth Route Army troops has been intercepted by them, I'm afraid something might happen in the 109th Division.

At the same time, this also explains why the Eighth Route Army troops in Wutai were transporting fuel to Yun County.

So, the existence of the Eighth Route Army's armored training base in Yangquan explains everything.

Only in Yangquan is there an armored training base for the Eighth Route Army, and only the Eighth Route Army in the Beiyue District would transport fuel to the south.

After listening to what Yamamoto Ikki said, Shinozuka Yoshio stood up and walked around the room.

Then he thought for a moment and looked at Chief of Staff Michitake Yamaoka.

"Shanggang-kun~

Send a telegram to Beijing, requesting assistance from Shijiazhuang Airport."

When Yamaoka Michitake heard what Shinozuka Yoshio said, he immediately nodded and went out to agree.

Five p.m.

At this time, Commander of the North China Front Army, Tada Shun, was in the room checking the material preparations of the various troops under him.

To be honest, Tada Shun was a little surprised.

Ever since he sent a letter to the headquarters last year resigning from the position of Supreme Commander of the North China Expeditionary Army, there has been no movement.

At first, Tada Shun thought that the country was discussing a suitable candidate, and once the candidate was confirmed, his position as commander would be over.

According to the telegrams sent by his colleagues in China, Tada Shuncai realized that the actual situation was a little different from what he thought.

Those guys in the country actually started to make excuses, and each of them refused to be the commander no matter what.

Now, due to the embargo from across the ocean, many supplies are becoming scarce in China.

At the same time, consumption on the southern battlefield of China has been increasing.

If a new offensive is launched in North China at this time, it will inevitably affect the navy's resources.

So now the Navy is quitting.

However, if the new commander takes office, he will inevitably organize a new round of offensive against the Eighth Route Army.

At the same time, the headquarters is now beginning to worry about the situation in North China.

Therefore, after many objections, Tada Shun had no choice but to continue staying in this hot position of commander.

Tada Shun knew that if the locust army in North China failed again, he would be the scapegoat.

Therefore, after appeasing Tada Shun at the headquarters, Tada Shun wrote a long article explaining the current situation in North China.

It means that the situation in North China is not optimistic.

In order to reverse the declining war situation in North China, it is necessary to launch a new round of attacks on the anti-Japanese armed forces in North China with heavy troops.

But this will undoubtedly consume huge resources.

But Tada Shun was no pushover. After explaining the situation, he said that if the war situation in North China was allowed to deteriorate, once the situation became uncontrollable, it would inevitably affect the situation on the entire Chinese battlefield.

In particular, Tada Shun pointed out that in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the Chinese Eighth Route Army troops now had new weapons, and in some units, their firepower configuration had completely surpassed that of the Locust Army.

It even implicitly pointed out that the situation of the Eighth Route Army in North China must have been supported by the country to the north and across the ocean.

If the Eighth Route Army is allowed to continue developing in its current situation, Tada Shun cannot guarantee whether North China will still be able to defeat the Eighth Route Army in a battle after the Eighth Route Army develops.

At the same time, for nearly two years, every battle report between the North China Locust Army and the Eighth Route Army was sent back to the country.

After Tada Shun's report was sent back to the country, it caused a huge shock in the headquarters.

Previously, they thought that the battle in North China was unfavorable, mostly due to the terrain and the various sneak attacks by the Eighth Route Army.

However, when the battle reports of the Battle of Shijiazhuang and the Battle of Zhongtiaoshan were clearly placed on the tables of the masters in the domestic base camp, the group suddenly fell silent.

At the same time, there was a solemn look.

Watching the Battle of Yuncheng in Zhongtiao Mountain, where the Eighth Route Army's siege troops deployed Soviet artillery and new weapons to attack the city, a group of people immediately thought of the fate of the north and across the ocean.

Now, there are only these two countries that can support the Eighth Route Army without hesitation.

John Bull and Gallic Rooster have now been stripped of their underwear by Delin and have stopped supporting southern China in the Far East.

They had previously negotiated with the North, hoping that the North would also withdraw its support for China.

The negotiation was almost done, but unexpectedly the negotiating representatives from the north kept delaying.

They didn't take into account the possibility that they might launch an attack to the Far East in the north to attack Delin from both sides.

Now they finally understood why the North was so confident.

There is no doubt that the situation in North China is beyond their control.

In order to prevent the situation from escalating to an irreversible point, intense negotiations began at the headquarters.

The final result was that the navy took a step back and decided to reduce some of its resources to support the war in North China.

At the same time, the proposal put forward by Tada Shun on opening up the Shotai Line was revised, and the locust troops in Northeast China and Central China were mobilized to support North China, intending to severely damage the Eighth Route Army in North China in one fell swoop.

Then the North China Garrison Army began a dragnet sweep of the occupied areas to completely eliminate the resistance forces in North China.

Therefore, when Tada Shun received the telegram from the First Army, he looked a little surprised.