Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Taiyuan Plan

Chiang Kai-shek put down the Taiyuan Action Plan that was personally sent to the villa on the south bank by the Thunder mercenaries, and couldn't help but praise Zhao Zhi for his talent. A few days ago, Zhao Zhi telegraphed to Chongqing, asking for temporary command of the Spark Project, at that time Chiang Kai-shek still thought that Zhao Zhi just wanted to use the fire to harass the Japanese puppet army occupied by Hebei, after all, Thunder had issued two bounty orders, Chiang Kai-shek thought that Zhao Zhi's move was just another siege battle that concentrated on the consumption of the Japanese army's vital forces.

After receiving the plan of action sent by the Thunder mercenaries, Chiang Kai-shek knew that Zhao Zhi's plan was actually Taiyuan, and Thunder had done so much foreshadowing in Shanxi, and when everyone thought that the Thunder attack on Jindong was just to relieve the siege of the Jinnan National Army that was being squeezed by the Japanese puppet army, Zhao Zhi hit the idea on Taiyuan's head. "Bring up the map, ask for the map of Shanxi" Chiang Kai-shek, who was in a good mood, beckoned the attendants to take the map directly to the rooftop, since Zhao Zhi persuaded him to breathe more fresh air and bask in the sun, most of Chiang Kai-shek's official business was completed on the rooftop.

"Ding'an, Ding'an" Chiang Kai-shek's magnifying glass moved slowly, he was looking for Ding'an, a small county town currently under the control of the Eighth Route Army. Chiang Kai-shek never worried that Zhao Zhi would collude with ***, because he knew that *** could not afford to raise Thunder, and Zhao Zhi was a guy whose interests were paramount, and it was difficult for ***, who lived in Ganshan, to provide Zhao Zhi with the benefits he needed. Finally found the location of Ding'an, Chiang Kai-shek made a mark with a red pencil, and then continued to search for Wuxiang and Pingyao, and after a few minutes, several red marks appeared on the map, and the places mentioned in the Taiyuan plan were marked by Chiang Kai-shek.

"Coupled with Yangquan and Lu Liang, Boyuan is right, Taiyuan has become a lonely city" Looking at Taiyuan, which was vaguely surrounded by red marks on the map, Chiang Kai-shek smiled very happily, since the Anti-Japanese War, the troops under the command of the Nationalist Government have been defeated all the way, and most of China has fallen into the hands of the Japanese army. Even if the Eighth Route Army was born, most of the people who were recaptured from the Japanese puppet army were only small inconsequential counties and villages, Taiyuan is different, it is the capital of Shanxi, and the restoration of Taiyuan is of great significance, which can change the people's distrust of the national government to a large extent.

Regarding the Taiyuan plan, Zhao Zhi said very easily, but Chiang Kai-shek didn't think so, if the Japanese army was so easy to fight, why would the national army troops be defeated and retreated, he knew that this was just a pretext for Zhao Zhi to comfort him. "Order, all the troops in the Second War Zone must bite the Japanese puppet army that confronts them to the death, tell them not to care about the momentary gains and losses, as long as they entangle their respective Japanese troops against the enemy, I will give them a great credit, if anyone lets the Japanese army retreat to Jinzhong, they will come to see me, I don't listen to the explanation"

Chiang Kai-shek's order was full of murderous intent, and the attendant officer in charge of recording the order was a little panicked, and the old man's anger today was not ordinary. The reason why the war situation in the Second War Zone has reached this point today is mostly the result of the guys of each faction preserving their own strength for the war, and the old man's orders are also disobeyed.

"Darling, why are you so angry? Didn't Bo Yuan ask you to cultivate yourself and not lose your temper when you left? Song Meiling, who received the secret notice from the guards, walked quickly to the rooftop, just in front of Chiang Kai-shek who was knocking on the table with a cane, and the attendant officer standing opposite was already bloodless, and Song Meiling came up a little later, I am afraid that this young attendant officer would faint. Song Meiling, who had just returned from the United States a few days ago, was dressed very fashionably, carrying a pure leather bag on her arm, and wearing the most popular women's wide-brimmed sunhat in the United States on her head.

"Okay, you go down first" Song Meiling's arrival relieved the young attendant in an instant, and the young man jumped down the stairs like a rabbit, and Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling, who were watching, couldn't help laughing. "What's wrong with you today?" Chiang Kai-shek's laughter made Song Meiling pause when she took off her hat, since the war situation in the World War Zone fell into a stalemate, Chiang Kai-shek couldn't sleep all night long, and even his appetite was much worse, and he actually laughed today, this is really the sun hitting the west.

"Boyuan asked someone to send a battle plan, I just finished reading it, you can also take a look" Chiang Kai-shek handed the confidential document on the table to Song Meiling, and the uncontrollable smile in his eyes also made Song Meiling's mood relaxed. As the foreign affairs agent of the Nationalist Government, Song Meiling gained a lot from this trip, not only won the support of the US Congress and the Rockman family, but also distributed a share of the materials from the United States to support the Thunder to the Nationalist Army, and the new First Army to be formed in Yunnan and Guizhou was equipped with this batch of American-style equipment.

"Boyuan wants to fight Taiyuan, can he?" There are no large-scale heavy firepower weapons in the list of materials for the United States to support Thunder, and it is not as simple as a day or two for the Japanese army to entrench in Shanxi, and they want to take Taiyuan without heavy weapons, Song Meiling is not very optimistic about Zhao Zhi's Taiyuan plan, even if she has not carefully read the entire Taiyuan plan.

"You" Chiang Kai-shek knew what Song Meiling was worried about, "You don't know the real strength of Thunder at all, the weapons factory that Boyuan hired those Jews to set up in Kunming has already begun to produce tanks and armored vehicles, the Germans took Britain and France, and almost 10% of the heavy weapons captured went to Boyuan, as long as Burma has not been controlled by the Japanese army, heavy weapons from Europe will continue to be sent to Yunnan through Burma"

"But Yunnan is still far away from Shanxi, although Boyuan has a heavy weapon in his hand, but what about the oil? What about the road? Can the mountain roads over there allow those tanks and armored vehicles to drive? "Song Meiling was successfully diverted by Chiang Kai-shek, but there are more and more problems that follow, it is obvious that roads and transportation are indeed a big trouble, and the national government's own reserves of oil are not very much, I am afraid it will not help Thunder.

"These things, Boyuan has long thought of them" Chiang Kai-shek took a sip of tea, looking at ease with an old god, "More than 90% of the grain, iron ore and oil produced by Myanmar were pocketed by Boyuan through those British troops, and he used the grain collected in Burma to hire refugees to widen the road in Yunnan and Guizhou, isn't there still tens of thousands of civilians in Zhangwu County who want to join the army, Boyuan has long gathered them together to build the road from Sichuan to Shanxi, so the problem you are worried about can't be considered a problem at all, Boyuan had already considered these issues a year ago."

"Since Boyuan sent people to Chongqing to send this battle plan, I am afraid that those heavy weapons from Europe have already been sent to Shanxi, and your worries are unnecessary" Chiang Kai-shek may not be a good hand at fighting, but he is extremely accurate in thinking about people's psychology. His judgment was indeed good, just when this Taiyuan plan was sent to the villa on the south bank, the sneakers who came out of the Kunming base day and night and the British and French tanks sent by the German army had already marched to Zhangwu County, which was only a hundred miles away, and it was the 30,000 elite troops of the Nationalist Army that Chiang Kai-shek had given to Zhao Zhi to escort these mobile equipment.

It is a very troublesome thing for tens of thousands of troops and heavy equipment that stretches for miles to move, and Zhao Zhi has been thinking about this matter for a long time, and it just so happens that he has a national training force of 30,000 people in his hands, so Zhao Zhi used it as a dart player for a while. In the midst of the war, it was a very common thing for troops to move back and forth, and Zhao Zhi's large-scale transfer of heavy equipment such as tanks was to arouse the idea of the Japanese army, so that they would think that the mobilization of these equipment by Thunder was really for the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain to relieve the siege.

The armored troops are about to be in place, and the fighter units have also been transferred and scattered in the three locations of Qinglongping, Laiyuan, and Erhushan, and the entire northern part of Shanxi Province, including Taiyuan, is already within the range of the firepower of the Thunder fighter troops, and as long as the oil transported from Xi'an is in place, it is the beginning of Zhao Zhi's Taiyuan operation. "Boyuan's appetite is not small" After reading the details of the entire plan, Song Meiling's face also showed a relaxed look, it seemed that she was worried about being redundant, and Thunder had made all the preparations before the war.

"Taking Shanxi, we not only connect Shanxi and Sichuan, but also march into Hebei and Suiyuan at any time, and also pose a threat to the Japanese puppet army in Henan and Shandong.

"I have given the command of the Xinghuo plan to Boyuan, it seems that he wants to use the Xinghuo plan to contain the Japanese puppet army in Hebei to send troops to Shanxi to support, but now it seems that after Boyuan takes Taiyuan, he will clean up the Japanese puppet army in the entire Shanxi, maybe the Xinghuo plan will have other uses in Boyuan's hands, maybe "Chiang Kai-shek commented with words.

Since Zhao Zhi established Qinglongping Airport in Zhangwu County, Thunder's actions have been closely watched by the military commanders, and Chiang Kai-shek has increasingly felt that every shot by Zhao Zhi has a deep meaning, just like the shadows laid in advance when playing chess, and when the time comes, those shadows will be activated into a killing move. If there is no loss of Ding'an, how can the Japanese army transfer troops from Luliang and Jinzhong to rescue, and Zhao Zhi's troops arranged in Laiyuan in advance will not take the opportunity to take Luliang.

Even the Spark plan formulated last year was the same, if there was no Spark plan to contain the Japanese puppet army in Hebei, Zhao Zhi would not dare to concentrate on dealing with the Japanese puppet army in Taiyuan so reassuringly at this time. Chiang Kai-shek once took time to think carefully about all the senior generals in the national army, and he really couldn't find a few guys like Zhao Zhi who were so thoughtful about a rainy day.