"Looks like I'm really fit to be a loner!"

In the face of Li Zongren's analysis, Liao Fan laughed at himself, Liao Fan was very grateful to Li Zongren for his words tonight, after all, it is too rare for Liao Fan to have a senior who can give him a point or two in this regard.

The rise of a force may take more than ten years or even decades, but the demise of a force is often overnight.

However, the forces that perish are often not for military reasons, but for political failures, and sometimes political means are often many unsightly means.

"The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression will last a few years, although we have launched counterattacks in some areas, but our country is really too weak, if nothing else, let's talk about our economy, the Japanese army is an island country, their economy is six to eight times that of China! It is manifested on the battlefield, which means that it takes six to eight people to be able to replace the little devil alone! ”

The strength of military strength must rely on economic development, such as the new 33rd Army is indeed rare, but the new 33rd Army is not accidental, in addition to getting a large amount of equipment from the Japanese army, they have also established their own arsenal, especially the Taiyuan arsenal, from raw material processing to weapon production is integrated, the production of * artillery, although the quality is poor, but on the battlefield can definitely rely on these things to let their troops defeat a strong enemy.

"Yes, the military is the continuation of politics, and the war consumes money, China is poor and white, and at this time it can still resist the attack of the Japanese army, I have to say that our nation has sacrificed a lot!"

Liao Fan clearly remembered that in every large-scale battle of the New 33rd Army, the casualties were not less than 1,000, and even tens of thousands. Maybe tens of thousands are just a long list of numbers and dozens of pages of human lives for others, but in Liao Fan's heart, these are all fresh lives.

"The greater the sacrifice of the people, the more we should persevere, just like the one who falls first when two people fight, and the same is true for two countries to fight!"

"This battle is enough for our country to wake up for centuries!"

Liao Fan smiled bitterly, if you don't experience this, maybe there are still people living in the dream of the Celestial Empire, and only by falling a big heel can you know that there is a huge gap between yourself and others.

"We soldiers still have to work hard, the country is bullied like this, we soldiers have the greatest responsibility, fortunately the people are still supporting us!"

When the war is fought like this, it is the Chinese people who suffer the most, and it is precisely because of this that they cannot give up lightly, otherwise the Chinese people will never see the day when they will come out.

In this land, there have been kings and defeats since ancient times, but these weak people will never allow their country to be ruled by small Oriental countries, which is the most basic bottom line of the nation, advocating the strong, not advocating robbers.

After returning to Taihang Mountain, according to the agreement, Liao Fan dismantled the twenty cannons and loaded them into the car, and asked the Guijun officers who followed him to pull the cannons back.

Of course, the most unhappy person is Sun Boyong, so many cannons say that they will give people away, of course he, the minister of logistics, is not happy, but there is no way, no matter how Liao Fan's order is not understood, there is no way.

"Okay, don't be sad, when this battle is over, we'll go and get it from the little devil's warehouse, you can take as much as you want!" Liao Fan persuaded Sun Boyong.

"When you talk about lightness, where are there so many cannons in the little devil's warehouse, these cannons are all pieced together by us, and the parts are not complete, they are all collected by the soldiers from the battlefield, and then they are put together!"

Sun Boyong was distressed, each cannon was not taken directly from the hands of the Japanese army, but their soldiers looked for parts from the battlefield, and then pieced it together, and it took a year of hard work to piece together these cannons, and as a result, Liao Fan's mouth became someone else's.

"Okay, look at your stingy appearance, it's really a bit like a little daughter-in-law, living a careful life!" Although Liao Fan also felt sorry for these cannons, he was able to change them back to the Jingcheng area, and he was able to settle down the people in the Jingcheng area, even if he added twenty more cannons, Liao Fan was also happy.

"Don't you know that firewood and rice are expensive, and it's easy for the logistics department to save this little bit of belongings!"

Sun Boyong is not stingy, although the new 33rd Army has strong firepower, but these equipment are not everywhere on the street, they have accumulated little by little, just like they have saved a lifetime of money, and a robber suddenly came to the house, and everything was gone.

Liao Fan also knew that things were not easy to come by, but they had no way, if there was a way, Liao Fan would not have to go to the Fifth War Zone for help.

"Later, we will take better ones from the little devils, and make up your twenty cannons first!"

In fact, in the Taiyuan Arsenal, the new 33rd Army was already able to produce artillery, but the production efficiency was too low, and it took half a year to produce two cannons, and the most important thing is that they lacked steel, and the steel used to produce one cannon could make dozens of them*.

Moreover, heavy artillery will always be a short board for the new 33rd Army, there is not much difference between a less than 20 guns and a less one or two, in addition to the artillery brigade has a complete artillery group, the new 33rd Army also has artillery in the four divisions, but they are all from the wild road, and can only hit a few important firepower points, and the vast majority of firepower points still rely on the soldiers to bomb with * packages.

In contrast, the reinforcement of individual firepower is much more important than the addition of one or two guns.

The date agreed with Li Zongren soon came, and Ma Wanzhong took on the main task of launching an attack on the Japanese army in southern Henan, and other units directly under the military headquarters cooperated with Ma Wanzhong's actions.

Regarding the actions of the New 33rd Army, Okamura Ninji understood that this was the New 33rd Army looking for a breakthrough, and they would definitely not be able to break through the Japanese defense line east of Taihang Mountain, so they turned to attack the Japanese army in southern Henan.

It was precisely because the New 33rd Army launched an offensive in southern Henan that Okamura Ninji strengthened his confidence that as long as he held the defensive line east of the Taihang Mountains, he would be able to ensure that the New 33rd Army would not invade Hebei again, and the important transportation hubs in North China would also be effectively protected.

Okamura Ninji telegraphed that the Japanese troops in southern Henan must withstand the pressure and not let go of a single soldier of the New 33rd Army.

However, the Japanese army in northern Henan also had to have this strength, and most of their forces were divided in important towns in northern Henan, and they simply did not gather enough troops. Although there were some important pillboxes and firepower points in Yancheng, they could not stop the coverage of the heavy artillery of the New 33rd Army, and the Japanese troops in southern Henan were frequently defeated and retreated, and constantly sent telegrams to Okamura Ninji asking for help.

"At the beginning, it was the troops you took from us to attack Taihang Mountain, but now it's good, the troops are concentrated in Hebei, and there are not many troops in the Henan direction, of course, the new 33rd Army will pinch us first!"

When the commander in Henan asked Okamura for help, he complained that they were able to fight the Nationalist Army and the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army in southern Henan, but they could not stop the artillery coverage of the New 33rd Army at all.

Okamura Ningji was also helpless, he did transfer troops from the direction of Henan, resulting in a shortage of troops in Henan. Moreover, although the mountainous areas of northern Henan were in the hands of the Japanese army, guerrillas were everywhere in this place, relying on the terrain of the mountains to constantly maneuver with them, dragging a large number of Japanese troops in the direction of northern Henan, so the new 33rd Army entered a no-man's land.

"Let the troops in southern Henan support you, the troops in the Hebei direction can't mobilize a single soldier!"

Okamura Ningji was determined to clean up the New 33rd Army and control the development of the New 33rd Army in the Taihang Mountains, and he would rather mobilize troops in other directions than to lose the results he had achieved by losing nearly 100,000 troops a few days ago.

"Your Excellency Commander, the troops in southern Henan are an important barrier to defend Wuhan, what if Li Zongren's troops take the opportunity to invade southern Henan when we move our troops, once southern Henan is lost, Wuhan will have no way to retreat, and the hundreds of thousands of troops near Wuhan may be wiped out by the Chinese army at any time!"

Wuhan is the main artery of China's north-south communication line, and once Wuhan is lost, the Japanese army cannot be the same in the north and south of China, and this is a strategic issue related to the entire Chinese war, and no one can afford to bear this pot.

Okamura Ninji was of course aware of the importance of Wuhan, and he commanded the operation against the Chinese army in the Fifth Theater in Wuhan, but unfortunately the weather was not good, and when he attacked, it happened to be the rainy season, which caused his logistics troops to fall into a quagmire, and finally had to withdraw his troops.

"Anyway, I can't mobilize troops here, if you can't hold it, you can apologize to His Majesty the Emperor!"

Okamura Ningji also began to play scoundrels, because these two aspects were too difficult for him to choose, one was the new 33rd Army of Taihang Mountain, and the other was the safety of Wuhan, just like a daughter-in-law and mother fell into the river, who to save first!

Although Okamura Ningji hung up the phone as a scoundrel, he couldn't watch the troops in northern Henan being wiped out by the new 33rd Army, if the new 33rd Army really completely controlled northern Henan, the defense plan he arranged on the eastern line of Taihang Mountain would have no effect at all.

"Order the troops on my front line to launch an attack on the positions of the Chinese army and pin down their forces!"

First contain the strength of the New 33rd Army, at least not let the New 33rd Army fight too happily in northern Henan.

Just when the Japanese army began to deploy to contain the strength of the New 33rd Army, the Japanese army in northern Henan was losing and retreating, especially the guerrillas behind the enemy, not only the Eighth Route Army, but also the brave team behind the enemy line of the National Army.

Of course, the Japanese command will not apologize for what Okamura Ninji said, he has not lived enough, his future is immeasurable, how can he die in this place like this.