What the Eighth Route Army did did allow the New 33rd Army to tide over the difficulties, and it was Division Commander Chen who withdrew from Taihang Mountain, which laid the foundation for the development of the New 33rd Army, and later the Eighth Route Army and the New 33rd Army continued to communicate! The Eighth Route Army also never looked down on the New 33rd Army when it was weak, and deliberately suppressed it!

Liao Fan is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, and a little benefit to the New 33rd Army is enough for Liao Fan to repay him! However, Liao Fan is also a person who repays grievances with grievances, and Liao Fan will also keep in mind the harm to the New 33rd Army and Liao Fan.

"By the way, I have one more thing to ask you, a few days before you came, Chairman Jiang said that we want to take Wuhan back from the Japanese army, so that we are not too passive on the battlefield in the south, although the Pinghan Railway has been cut off by you, but the transportation from Wuhan to Fujian and Guangdong is still extending in all directions, and the Japanese army can continuously transport strategic materials from the sea!"

Wuhan's important economic and political center is very important to Chongqing, and if Wuhan is successfully recovered, Chairman Chiang will inevitably make a lot of publicity in order to increase Chongqing's influence in the hearts of the people.

"Do you have a map?"

For the strategy of recovering lost land, Liao Fan has always been good at not retaining, after all, as long as the land is in the hands of the Chinese, it doesn't matter which force is in the hands!

Chen Cheng quickly took the map, this map is not a real combat map, but it is enough for Liao Fan, in Taihang Mountain, as long as Liao Fan has nothing to do, most of the time is used to look at the map, and Liao Fan knows the map of his own country very well.

"I won't ask you how many troops you want to deploy! The Japanese army has been operating in Wuhan for a long time, and the defense facilities will definitely be more perfect, and since the Pinghan Railway was cut off, the Japanese army will definitely guard against Wuhan being recaptured by us! Inevitable overtime repair work! The superiority of the Japanese army is obvious! ”

The Japanese army did not just occupy Wuhan, if the Japanese army had just occupied Wuhan, they could take advantage of the fact that their foothold was unheard of, and the fortifications were not yet complete, and they suddenly attacked, they could have driven the Japanese army out of Wuhan in one go, but today is different from the past! The capture of Wuhan is bound to be a tough battle!

"Needless to say, the advantages of the Japanese army are already well understood!" Needless to say, Chen Cheng can also understand the Japanese defenders in Wuhan seven or eight points!

"Okay, then let's talk about the advantages of the terrain, Wuhan is surrounded by mountains, for our troops, which lack mobile troops and the infantry is the majority, the mountainous terrain is the most beneficial for us! The mountainous terrain is also impossible for the Japanese army to use its strength, but the Japanese army will definitely send elite troops to defend the passes around Wuhan! If you want to capture Wuhan, you must first break through these passes! ”

"The Japanese army is stuck in these passes, but we can't capture them if we want to!" Chen Cheng was most worried about these passes held by the Japanese army.

"Artillery, artillery is the best way to defeat the enemy, if you have enough running groups, directly blow up these passes, the troops can occupy the passes without a single soldier! If you don't have superior artillery, then concentrate your elite forces for a night attack! Night raid is the best option! The elite troops got as close to the Japanese army as possible, and finally touched the Japanese barracks! And then cooperate with the peripheral troops to carry out a strong attack! ”

As far as the New 33rd Army is concerned, Liao Fan will definitely concentrate superior artillery to bombard these passes for a few days first, and then blow them up in a few days, so that the little devils are worried all day long! Then rest for a few days, so that the little devil suddenly relaxes after a few days of nervousness, and launches a night attack while the little devil is relaxed!

"Commander Liao, you also said just now, there are many mountains around Wuhan, how can we send a large number of artillery around?"

"You know about ant moving, right? At night, it is sent little by little by manpower, and then camouflaged, and during the day it is as if nothing happened! No amount of stuff can withstand a long preparation! ”

"That's a good idea! However, the second plan must also be prepared, in case a large artillery does not work, we must also prepare troops for a surprise attack, only in this way can we ensure that nothing goes wrong! Chen Cheng agreed with Liao Fan's approach.

"After learning that the outer passes of Wuhan have been lost, the Japanese army will inevitably concentrate their forces in the city of Wuhan to fight you to the death! The trapped beast is still fighting, the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, and it is the most difficult thing to capture the main city of Wuhan! ”

Wuhan is a huge city, and if the Japanese army relies on the houses in Wuhan to fight street battles, even if the new 33rd Army is arranged, it will be a tragic battle.

"If the Japanese army cowered in the city, how should we deal with it!" Chen Cheng asked.

"Siege without attack is the best policy! We were able to surround the Japanese army for ten months and eight months, and the Japanese army may not be able to hold out for such a long time, and during this period, we can also send troops to constantly harass and strike at the hearts of the Japanese army! We attack when they sleep, we attack when they eat, we rest when they are nervous to prepare for war, and the Japanese army will definitely collapse after a long time! ”

As long as the Japanese army is surrounded, the best way is to encircle but not attack, tens of thousands of troops in the city to ask for food without food, to support without support, the final result can be imagined!

"I'm worried about long nights and dreams, is there a better way?" Chen Cheng asked.

Chairman Chiang must not be willing to launch a large-scale army to encircle Wuhan for several months, which is also a very stressful thing for them, after all, they still need troops to deal with the situation on other battlefields.

"Yes, there is a puppet army in the city, plot against the puppet army! No matter how strong the fortress is, it will be breached from the inside, but at most the puppet army will be arranged in inconsequential peripheral areas, and the important central areas will definitely be guarded by the Japanese army! If you want to fight a quick battle, the only way is to attack, so that the soldiers who will die will inevitably not be less, if you estimate according to the combat effectiveness of your current troops, there is no problem with the Japanese army for ten! In other words, if you want to storm and recover Wuhan, you will have to pay the price of at least 300,000 casualties! ”

Chen Cheng heard Liao Fan's estimation, and gasped in his heart, in the Battle of Songhu that year, 300,000 elite national troops died on the battlefield, and the final result was that they were unable to defend the national capital! If they pay the price of 300,000 troops for the capture of Wuhan this time, how many people will they be willing to fight the Japanese army in the future!

"Is there a better way?" Chen Cheng certainly did not want to sacrifice 300,000 troops in exchange for Wuhan.

"Yes, our new 33rd Army has recently been equipped with a weapon called a rocket launcher, which is a sharp weapon for urban fortification and street fighting, which can be carried by individual soldiers, and its power is similar to that of a little devil's small-caliber mountain artillery, which can greatly reduce the casualties of the troops!"

* It is a weapon for street fighting to defend the city, and the bazooka is a weapon for street fighting and siege! But Liao Fan still didn't want to use the method of forcible attack to fight street battles, and if he captured Wuhan, it would inevitably end up being bloody.

"Bazooka?" Chen Cheng asked.

"Yes, this weapon is simple to operate, it can be mass-produced and equipped with troops, there is no problem in fighting little devil tanks, if it can be used in this war, I can guarantee that it can reduce the casualties of the troops by half!"

As long as the fighters react quickly enough, once the Japanese firepower points are exposed, they will be cleaned up with bazookas, which will naturally reduce the casualties of the troops on a large scale.

"The cost of 150,000 casualties is still too great, and the troops in Wuhan and the surrounding areas are only about 50,000!"

Although it was a casualty of three to one, this ratio was already a very good number in previous battles with the Japanese army, but Chen Cheng was still unwilling! The main reason is that in the past few years of fighting against the Japanese army, the casualties of the national army are still too large, the strength of the army is constantly being lost, and the number of veterans is getting fewer and fewer, which means that the combat quality of the troops is getting worse and worse.

"This is already the best way I can think of for you, you must prepare fifty to eighty combat divisions in this war before you can launch a full-scale counterattack, otherwise it is difficult to predict who will win or lose in the end!"

Liao Fan has already calculated the combat effectiveness of the national army, and the strength of the Japanese army is also there, and the battle for Wuhan will definitely not be easy to fight! Perhaps in the end, the Nationalist army has not recovered Wuhan due to its losses, and Chairman Chiang's good calculations will become a bad situation.

Chen Cheng carefully considered what Liao Fan said, what Liao Fan said was not wrong, judging from the previous battles with the Japanese army, fifty to eighty divisions are still conservatively estimated!

"I'll tell Chairman Jiang everything you said!"

"As for the details of the operation, it is still necessary to go through on-the-spot reconnaissance before we can formulate a specific combat plan! I can't help you here! "Liao Fan didn't want to meddle in Chairman Jiang's affairs, and Chairman Jiang definitely didn't like Liao Fan's pointing at their operations.

"Hmm...... I know this, but can Commander Liao provide us with bazookas? Chen Cheng asked.

"Of course you can, but you have to spend money to buy it, and our new 33rd Army is not engaged in charity! As long as you have money, I will produce as much as you want! ”

The bazooka is indeed a good thing, whether it is against the Japanese tanks or playing a role in street fighting, Liao Fan did not deliberately elevate the role of the bazooka.

"It costs money!"

"Of course, it costs money, but we can train you to use bazookas for free!"

Of course, Liao Fan can't give it away for free, they also consume a lot of raw materials to produce bazookas, and the new 33rd Army needs money to develop!

"Okay, I'll discuss it with Chairman Jiang!"

Chen Cheng can't call the shots in these things, after all, Chairman Jiang is in charge! He could only inquire about the news from Liao Fan first, and the final decision was in the hands of Chairman Jiang.

"When you decide to attack, we can still put some pressure on the Japanese army, at least reduce the pressure on you!"

When the Nationalist army attacked Wuhan, the Japanese army would inevitably attack and support it with all its might, and the New 33rd Army could launch some counterattacks against the Japanese army in the north, so as to reduce the pressure on the Nationalist army on the front.