When Meng Xiang received the news of the successful test of the Hummingbird helicopter, he was in the process of upgrading the other four sub-bases. If the base is not upgraded, it will not be able to take advantage of controlling a large area. After four or five days of fighting, more than half of the ammunition in reserve was gone, and the personnel were very tired.

300,000 troops seems like a lot, but those recruits can't fight alone, they can only follow the big army, and the remaining 100,000 who can fight have been fighting continuously. Although the spirit is still high, but the body is already a little tired in all aspects, and it needs to be slowed down and repaired.

At this time, the vanguard army was suppressing the devils in Shijiazhuang from the two directions of Hengshui and Handan along the line of the Fuyang River, although the devils in Shanxi had just gone over to reinforce. But they also had a fire burning behind them.

The victory of the vanguard army completely inspired the Chinese people. All kinds of forces took advantage of the time when the devils turned their attention to the vanguard army, and came to share the soup. Yan Xishan and the Red Party's army took the opportunity to counterattack, and although there was no large-scale battle, there were sneak attacks one after another.

The central army defending in Funiu Mountain, Tongbai Mountain, Dabie Mountain and other places also attacked, and Lao Jiang had other ideas, and he also knew to take advantage of the devil's weakness to attack at this time. Although the main force of the devils along the Yangtze River is still the same, the devils in the Central Plains are empty in defense, especially near Zhengzhou, which was beaten by the counteroffensive launched by the Central Army and had to retreat, so that the Central Army recovered Gongxian, Ruzhou, Yexian and other places, and forced the Luohe River and Zhumadian area, so that the 14th Division did not return for reinforcements.

The company regained the lost ground, which made Lao Jiang feel very proud, and ordered the troops to continue the offensive and recover Zhengzhou. Having lost the threat north of the Yellow River, he didn't have to worry about the devil's reinforcements. But he ignored the strength of the devil. The four devil divisions squatting near Zhengzhou only killed more than 10,000 people, and the main force was still there.

In the face of the vanguard army, they may not have been able to dissipate their lingering fears, but against the Central Army, in order to hide their timidity, they were angry and ignited all their anger on the heads of the Central Army. When the army commanded by Cheng Qian, who retreated in Funiu Mountain, hit Xingyang and Xinmi, the devil counterattacked.

The Central Army was caught off guard by the counterattack of the devils, lost several places in a row, and finally retreated to the area of Gongxian and Ruzhou before stopping its footing. Because at this time, the vanguard army came to the aid on the north bank of the Yellow River and sent fighters to attack the enemy. In order to prevent the vanguard army from crossing the river and attacking the Zhengzhou area, he had to slow down the pace of pursuit.

Meng Xiang also secretly screamed that it was a pity when he heard it. If the vanguard army knew that when the Central Army was moving, maybe the two would cooperate and the effect would be better, and maybe they would directly conquer Zhengzhou. However, the Central Army's action plan will not inform the vanguard army at all, and Meng Xiang is also not worried about the big colander of the Central Army's intelligence protection, and the action plan will not be informed to the Central Army in advance.

After a long time, it has also affected subordinates, and there is always a layer of estrangement between the two sides.

The vanguard army now calls itself the vanguard army, and rarely anyone mentions the third group army anymore, and even the people of the central army call them the vanguard army unconsciously.

Everyone knows that the establishment of a group army can no longer accommodate the vanguard army.

"Want to grab the fruit now? I really don't know whether to live or die! After Meng Xiang finished reading the information sorted out by Xiao Yi, the intelligence staff officer, he couldn't help but snort coldly.

At this time, the vanguard army occupied northern Henan, southern Hebei, eastern Hebei and other places, and even Beiping was occupied. There are still many bigwigs in Wuhan and Chongqing who have nowhere to go, and some people's eyes are fixed on the newly occupied territory of the vanguard army. It is enough for the vanguard army to occupy a place in Shandong, and it will be repaid if it is expanded. There are many people who think this way, and they don't see the threat of being around me at all.

Lao Jiang was very sober this time, and he still needed the vanguard army to be in front. After such a fuss by the vanguard army, the pressure on the north side of Wuhan was relieved, and they could concentrate on dealing with the devils on both sides of the Yangtze River.

But the vanguard army has made such a great contribution, it is not possible not to reward it. He knew that once the vanguard army was occupied there, it would be impossible for others to interfere anymore, and it would be useless to pass over. However, Meng Xiang's proposal to expand the scope of the special zone was still suppressed by him.

"The small scope of the special zone with the experimental surname is okay, but such a large territory still needs the special zone, exercising privileges, where is the central government?" Old Jiang said angrily.

"Mother, Xipi! Adapt! ”

On 7 November, the Central Army's long-prepared new army sequence was promulgated. A new theater of operations was divided.

The commander of the 1st Theater became Wei Lihuang. Cheng Qian was squeezed out because of the previous successive defeats in the Central Plains and the subsequent execution of the bombing of the Yellow River embankment, and was transferred to the director of the Hanzhong camp. Although the Hanzhong Xingying nominally governed thirteen provinces including Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningqing, and commanded the first, second, seventh, eighth, and tenth theaters, it had no real power.

Wei Lihuang was successfully attacked because the devil was dragged by the vanguard army, and he achieved a record of destroying 2,000 enemies near Zhongtiao Mountain. This time, Gao was promoted to commander, and his jurisdiction was the area south of the Yellow River in Henan, north of Zhumadian and the part north of Hefei in Anhui.

The commander of the second theater is still Yan Xishan. His jurisdiction was the whole of Shanxi and the northeastern part of Shaanxi Province.

The commander of the Third Theater was Gu Zhutong, and his jurisdiction was all of Zhejiang and Fujian, as well as the southern part of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu and Anhui.

The commander of the Fourth Theater is Zhang Fakui, and his jurisdiction is over all of Liangguang.

The commander of the Fifth Theater was Li Zongren, who had retreated to the area of Dabie Mountain, and was in charge of the part south of Zhumadian in Henan Province and the part west of Anhui, and the commander of the Eighth Theater in northern Hubei was Zhu Shaoliang, whose jurisdiction was Suiyuan, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, and other places.

The commander of the Ninth Theater was Chen Cheng, and his jurisdiction was over all of Hunan, southern Hubei, and western Jiangxi.

The commander of the 10th Theater of Operations was Jiang Dingwen, and his jurisdiction was still dedicated to guarding Shaanxi.

Liu Zhi is the commander-in-chief of the Wuhan Garrison General Headquarters.

And Meng Xiang was also on the list this time, becoming the commander of the Seventh War Zone, governing all of Shandong, Hebei, and the part south of the Yellow River in Henan. The ownership of the Beijing-Tianjin area was not mentioned.

However, there are still two small war zones behind, one is the Northern Jiangsu War Zone, the level has been lowered, and the supreme commander is only the commander-in-chief, which is assigned to Xuezhong.

The other is the Chahar Theater of Operations, and the commander-in-chief is Lu Zhonglin.

The original Lusu Theater and the Jicha Theater have been greatly reduced, and each of them has lost two places, Shandong and Hebei. However, there are more Seventh War Zones that have been abolished at the beginning of the year in history.

"Congratulations!" Pharmacist Tang bowed his hand to Meng Xiang again and again, and his heart was also infinitely emotional. Meng Xiang is only 26 years old, and in just over a year, he has jumped from the head of a small militia to a prince.

He was not the only one who sighed, hearing that Meng Xiang had become the commander, there were sighs everywhere. Before he was established, he was in a high position, and he could only be said to be a young man.

Meng Xiang listened to the admiration of others and was young and promising, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. There is no way, although it is close to standing, it is much younger than those commanders.

At this time, Time Magazine also came to join in the fun, planning to interview Meng Xiang.

"These are all false names! Useless! For the interview of Time Magazine in the United States, Meng Xiang directly refused. Why do you need to surprise Westerners with their youth to know themselves? Someday, when he wants them to mention themselves, they will look up and not look at rare animals with the same curiosity.

But Time came to interview his Lilith. After Jordan was rejected by Meng Xiang, he secretly took a photo, and the photo on the cover only had Meng Xiang's back, opposite him was a team of soldiers walking past him with Somi on their backs, and next to the saluted right hand were young and confident faces. In the direction they are heading, there is a big headline, "The future of China is in his hands!" ”

The title is a bit booyed, and it introduces the youngest general in China, the youngest commander, and the youngest big warlord leader, who is younger than Zhang Xueliang back then. Meng Xiang was still curious by the Americans after all.

"This is a young man full of mysteries!" Roosevelt finished reading the information about Meng Xiang handed over by Hoover, closed it lightly and sighed.

"The Germans and Soviet Russians had frequent contact with them, but it was not them who supported this young Chinese general, they had close contacts with copycat companies!" Hoover was annoyed that he couldn't get to the roots of the copycat company, and he once thought he controlled the best information network in the world. The FBI grew day by day in his hands and began to thrive according to his will. Under his conditioning, even if the president's wife can get nude photos, he has nowhere to start with that copycat company.

When the Umbrella Company sold battleships in South America, he was dealt another blow. Like copycat companies, what he pursued was some empty shells. He arrested eighty-three people, but only three of them could be copycats or official members of the umbrella company, but they were all dead, mysteriously dead.

Copycat companies and umbrella companies still sell arms all over the world, and I can only touch their shadows. The powerlessness of losing control made him uncomfortable, and he needed to summon more power to figure it out.

Roosevelt glanced at Hoover, and Roosevelt was also a little jealous of this person. This man has too many secrets in his hands, but he also keeps more secrets at the same time. He knows his authority and will not cross the line at will. He was used to hiding in the shadows, at least not peeking into the throne in the sun.

At this time, Hoover did not have the kind of authority that later generations covered the sky and did not pose much of a threat to Roosevelt.

"We may not need their weapons, but they control a huge market. If you add the area he now occupies, that young Huaxia general now governs an area with a population of more than 70 million. His territory bought at least 150 million marks of machinery and products from the Germans by October. And now his territory has expanded, and more products and machines are needed. Our experts estimate that it may also be more than $100 million, and they also have the ability to pay the bills. Roosevelt sat in his wheelchair, but with a powerful wave of his arms, he pointed at Vice President John. Garner said.

"Associating with them won't get in the way of our dealings with him! He said that his navy needed an opponent. Finally he blinked a little tiredly. He saw more of his threats, but what the country needed at this time was tranquility. Those oligarchs have just eaten a feast of global economic crisis and need a stable environment to digest it.

At this time, the United States was leveling down, and it was the time when the wool was about to grow wildly. Isolationism is their no-fight card.

Because at this time, their energies were drawn to Europe, where a greater feast awaited them.

"The volcano beneath Europa has awakened!" Roosevelt muttered.

"We need to get to know the army of that young Huaxia general again. This time, it is estimated that they may have reached 300,000 people. And if they recruit soldiers in the newly occupied territories, it could reach half a million in two years! Their combat effectiveness is very strong, although they are not as good as our empire, but compared with themselves, with the help of sophisticated weapons, they can reach one to three. And even more if you count planes and tanks. "Colonel Kahn has become a major general because of his dealings with the Vanguard.

He had been keeping an eye on the Vanguard, and the last time he was impressed by the sophistication of the Vanguard's weapons.

"Excellent! But our current ally is himself. Field Marshal Lunsted crossed his hands and looked at his old subordinate in front of him.

"We can reconsider our relationship with the Vanguard! I think that young general may soon become the new king of China. If we ignore their power, we will be very passive in the future. Kahn analyzed the strength of the vanguard army again and again, they already had the strength of the Chiang regime at this time, and they may soon replace the Chiang regime in the near future.

If they used the weapons at their disposal and the huge population of Huaxia, the power that erupted would be terrifying.

"This is a politician's business, we soldiers only need to fight!" Marshal Rensted said helplessly. Rensted, often translated as Rundstedt, was later referred to as "the last Prussian gentleman". He participated in the First World War, and he was highly respected in Germany [***], and he was also proficient in large army operations. He was also hesitant about Hitler, who was now as famous as he was.

The concessions made by Britain and France on the Munich Agreement gave him hope for a German revival. In the face of the honor of the soldier and the interests of the country, the balance in his heart has been tilted in favor of the interests of the country.

"Sometimes, the rise and fall of a regime is not just the strength of the army!" He stood up and walked over to the huge floor-to-ceiling window.

Outside, on the street, there was a lot of noise, and there were countless young people marching. Just today, the third secretary of the German embassy in France, Ernst. Feng. In front of the embassy in Paris, Rattle was mistaken for the German ambassador to France, and was taken by Herschel, a 17-year-old Jewish youth. Gruss was shot. This gave Hitler and Goebbels a good excuse.

At this moment, Field Marshal Rensted just silently looked out the window, he didn't know where the angry German youth were marching, but he knew where the hand behind him was pushing them to go. Outside, the procession of young Germans is just the beginning, followed by the famous Kristallnacht.

"We need to reconsider our relationship with the Vanguard!" Kenji Tsuchihara said with his head down.

The 14th Division had never encountered the vanguard, so they maintained a complete victory over the Shanghua army, and had a great reputation in the Battle of Lanfeng. It was precisely because he did not listen to the command of the base camp in the battle of Lanfeng that after the battle, he was replaced by Jingguan Longchang. He was ordered to be transferred back to China, but he was not punished, after all, his exploits were dazzling in front of the many generals who had been defeated at the hands of the vanguard army.

After returning to China, he joined the "Special Committee on China," which was composed of representatives from the army, the sea, and foreign countries, and was responsible for preparing for the establishment of a unified puppet regime in the occupied areas of China.

As soon as it was established, it was slapped with a stick, and the pseudo-provisional political axe in North China was completely wiped out by the vanguard army. Fortunately, he has a bigger card in his hand - Wang Jingwei, the No. 2 person before the central political axe.

Kenji Dohihara knew very well that it was impossible to swallow Huaxia with his own strength. The gradual erosion of the strategic plan was torn apart by the war promoted by the radicals at this time. The only thing that can save all this now is to use China to control China. Use another puppet regime to stabilize the Chinese people, and then slowly eat away at them.

Since the negotiation with Lao Jiang broke down, he has always been beating Lao Jiang hard, trying to make him a local power, creating a situation in which the Chinese heroes rise together, so as to choose a suitable agent from it. But before Lao Jiang was defeated, the vanguard army suddenly appeared.

Originally, everything was fine, but now there is more variable in the vanguard army.

Kenji Dohihara looked at Konoe Fumiji and said, "We can't let the Huaxia people unite, so we can win the final victory." At this time, there were only two of the strongest forces in China that posed a great threat to the empire, one was the Chiang regime and the other was the vanguard army. The vanguard army is strong, and the strength of the central army is not seriously damaged, and the empire is facing two powerful opponents at once. That's one of the reasons we've been passive. ”

He stopped talking and looked at Fumiji Konoe.

"Hmm!" Fumiro Konoe didn't say anything, but listened.

"We need to choose a friend and an enemy among these two forces. The rise of the vanguard army also made Jiang Zhongzheng restless. Although there was no obvious movement, it was clear that the contradictions between the vanguard army and the Chiang regime in China were intensifying. We need to mix more contradictions between them and set it on fire. Kenji Dohihara made a popping motion with the fingers of his right hand.