Chapter 869: It's not embarrassing
"The little devil wants to die with us!"
When it was determined that the Japanese army in Wuhan had deployed a large number of * and munitions to blow up Wuhan, Xue Boling knew that things were becoming more and more tricky, although there were fewer Japanese defenders in the city, but this move made Xue Boling dare not order to attack Wuhan City!
Their hundreds of thousands of troops can't stand by outside Wuhan for the sake of the little devils, 5,000 people, so Xue Boling must come up with a way to deal with the Japanese troops in the city as soon as possible.
"The explosives and munitions deployed by the Japanese army in the city are mainly concentrated in this area, but the buried area is too large, and we have no way to do it!"
Most of the city of Wuhan was buried by the Japanese army*, and the initiative was in the hands of the Japanese army, as long as the little devil detonated, the final result was unimaginable! In particular, the people in Wuhan will suffer.
"It's not a good idea to attack or outwit!"
Xue Boling has thought of all the methods, the best way at present is to trap the city of Wuhan to death, only in this way will the Japanese army not dare to easily detonate the explosives, but Xue Boling is worried about the supply of hundreds of thousands of troops!
If Wuhan is unwilling to take Wuhan for a long time, Chairman Chiang will definitely hold him responsible, and he has just beheaded Chairman Chiang's relative Qiu Qinghe before the battle, and Chairman Chiang will definitely force Xue Boling to break the city as soon as possible!
"Reconnoitre, if we don't have full certainty, we can only besiege the little devils in Wuhan City!"
This is the best way, and the only way, Xue Boling can't let hundreds of thousands of troops and people be buried with the little devil, he is responsible for the people and the army, and would rather spend a little time and manpower and material resources, after all, life will never come back to life after death!
"Chief Xue, do we have to ask Liao Fan if there is any good way?" The chief of staff suggested.
Xue Boling shook his head: "The capture of Wuhan is a matter for our national army, and there is no need for outsiders to interfere, and he Liao Fan is not an immortal, there is a way to do anything!" ”
As a generation of famous generals, he naturally has his own arrogance, before the war he can collect a lot of suggestions, and then make his own decisions, but once the war starts, the whole army must obey his orders and carry out according to his deployment, although Liao Fan has good suggestions, Xue Boling will not necessarily take it, this battle was originally intended to justify the name of the national army, if in the end it becomes the credit of the new 33rd army, then the prestige of their national army in the whole country will be in vain.
"Then let's report the matter here and Qiu Qinghe's matter to Chairman Jiang first!"
Although they don't know what agreement Liao Fan and Chairman Jiang have reached, after all, Chairman Jiang still controls the national army, and the actual power is in the hands of Chairman Jiang, even if Chairman Jiang steps down, his influence in the national army is unparalleled! Although these officers are doing some things for the country and the nation, they are actually for Chairman Chiang!
"Okay, send it to Chairman Jiang in my name!"
Xue Boling also knew that there were some things that Chairman Jiang would know sooner or later, and killing Qiu Qinghe would inevitably make him have some estrangement in his heart with Chairman Jiang! But Xue Boling doesn't care about these things anymore, he is just a simple soldier, and those political ties have exhausted him!
Liao Fan also quickly learned from Xue Boling that his guess was not wrong, but he didn't have the slightest solution, after all, there was such a huge amount of explosives in the city! Even if there are no Japanese troops in the city of Wuhan, it is very difficult to clean up so many, not to mention that there are Japanese patrols and guards, and it is impossible to clean up the explosives and munitions planted by the Japanese army without being known by the Japanese army.
The only way to avoid sacrifice is to besiege the city and turn Wuhan into a dead city! However, it is the people in Wuhan who suffer, and when the Japanese army is short of food, they will inevitably rob the people of the food, and it is even possible to threaten Xue Boling with the common people and let Xue Boling provide military rations!
Thinking about it, Liao Fan became more and more restless, if it continued like this, although it would not have much impact on the new 33rd Army, but the Japanese army in the entire south also had a lot of troops, if the national army in Wuhan refused to withdraw, it would inevitably be less of a containment of the Japanese army in other directions! If the Japanese army is less contained, it will inevitably have more troops to go to other battlefields! It's going to be a ripple effect!
"We can't help with Wuhan!"
Liao Fan knows very well that this is a dead end, the little devils have caught their weakness, and they will always have to face one thing when fighting on their own soil, that is, the local defenseless people are the weakness of the Chinese soldiers! Chinese soldiers are not little devils, little devils don't care about the lives of the people in the end, and use their own people as shields, but Chinese soldiers are different, these people raise the army with their hands, and what they have to do is for the people!
Faced with such a problem, Liao Fan was very distressed, although the main force of the Japanese army in Wuhan was wiped out, but the 5,000 Japanese troops were like a knife inserted in their hearts! As long as the Japanese army in Wuhan is not cleared, all the combat units around Wuhan will not be able to mobilize! In other words, the Japanese army dragged 500,000 people in Chongqing with 5,000 people!
"Since Wuhan can't help, then we will send troops from northern Henan to put some pressure on the Japanese troops near Anhui and Jiangsu, at least we can't let the little devil's life be too easy!"
Liao Fan is also helpless about Wuhan, after the new 33rd Army has gained a foothold in northern Henan, it can completely threaten the Japanese army in Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu, as long as the new 33rd Army is slightly moved, the Japanese army in the surrounding area will inevitably be full of soldiers!
The remnants of the Wuhan army have become a thorn in the flesh of the national army, and the new 33rd army is a knife that really hangs over the head of the Japanese army, and it can cut a piece of meat from the Japanese army at any time! However, the shortcoming of the new 33rd Army is the lack of troops, the area controlled by the new 33rd Army is too small, even if the economy is developed, it cannot support many troops, according to the calculation that ten peasants raise a fully armed soldier, the area controlled by the new 33rd Army can support 500,000 troops at most!
Of course, the development of the new 33rd military industry will give them enough economy to develop the troops! This is also the reason why Liao Fan couldn't forget to develop the rear when he fought with the Japanese army!
After all, unlike the vast area of the Kuomintang region, they can only raise more troops with a more advanced economic system, and although they can have a local advantage in fighting the Japanese army, the new 33rd Army still has a disadvantage in the overall situation.
Fortunately, the New 33rd Army has an advantage in equipment, and the Japanese front is too long, which is an advantage for the New 33rd Army! If the living forces of the Japanese army are not eliminated, once the space for the Japanese army's activities is compressed, the Japanese army will soon have enough troops, and even the current favorable situation of resistance against Japan is likely to rebound!
Liao Fan must prevent this from happening, so he must insist on destroying every combat strength of the Japanese army as much as possible when recovering the lost territory!
The little devil has been scared by the new 33rd Army, and in the absence of reinforcements, all the little devil can do is fight to the death! However, the New 33rd Army and the little devils who would not have been able to engage in melee and hand-to-hand combat with the little devils, and the little devils who fought with the advantage of the weapons in their hands did not have any temper at all. Unlike the national army, which still engaged in white-knuckle combat with them after fighting the ammunition in their hands, the new 33rd Army did not have a tradition of white-knuckle warfare!
Just when there was a stalemate in Wuhan, Katyusha rocket artillery began to be put into production in an arsenal in Shanxi! Of course, the resources needed are all from China, although the first batch of rocket artillery produced is not as good as the Soviet Union expected, but this is already the hegemon on the battlefield, especially the area covered by firepower, which is completely described as terrifying.
"The Soviets were quite secretive about technology, and the core of the factory was all their own people, and they didn't let our workers get even half a step close!"
For Liao Fan, what attracted him the most was not the Katyusha rocket artillery, but the technology of producing the Katyusha rocket artillery, after all, this long-range * technology is closely linked, as long as this technology can be obtained, in the future development of weapons, the new 33rd Army will have a qualitative leap!
"If only Chu Pengtian were here, he should be able to have a good way!"
Liao Fan remembered Chu Pengtian, since formal channels can't get technology, then use informal channels, anyway, everything is for the purpose of getting the technology in hand! What's more, the weapons produced by the Soviets are all from China, how can Liao Fan make a loss-making deal!
"Brother Fan, Chu Pengtian is not here, we still have others to choose from!" Li Lingfei knew what Liao Fan was thinking!
Although this method is not very good, but in order to be strong in the future, you can only use some different means, at least Liao Fan is not the kind of person who does everything, he only needs technology!
"Then this matter will be handed over to you, remember that once the matter is revealed, we must not let them suspect us!"
There are no eternal friends, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests! Now they still need to rely on the Soviet Union, get better equipment from the Soviets, and they can't just see results when they can drive away the customers they have brought in!
"Brother Fan, don't worry, this is on our territory, if this and that thing can't be done, what else can I do with your chief of staff!"
Li Lingfei also understands the importance of science and technology more and more, and during the time he has followed Liao Fan, his eyes are no longer limited to China! On the battlefields of Europe, all kinds of new weapons are constantly popping up, which is dazzling! And on the Eastern Battlefield, the equipment seems to be still at the level of the First World War, and the tactics are also at the level of the First World War! In other words, China is already completely behind the Western countries by a generation difference!
In order not to be bullied again, it is not so embarrassing to use some petty theft to quickly strengthen yourself! On the contrary, if the technology cannot be developed in the future, it will be embarrassing to be constantly bullied by Western countries!