"Boyuan's move is very dangerous" Looking at the information sent by the military commander, Chiang Kai-shek in the villa on the south bank frowned, the battle plan for Shandong that Zhao Zhi came up with had obviously been carefully revised, and it was somewhat similar to but different from the plan that Zhao Zhi had proposed to him earlier. In the plan mentioned earlier by Zhao Zhi, the purpose of the mission was only to seize Dongying and take advantage of Dongying's proximity to the sea to transport the 74th Army, which had been training in Burma for more than a month, from the Vietnamese seaport to Dongying for landing, but now Zhao Zhi is plotting to seize the entire Jiaodong Peninsula.

The 300,000 reserve troops trained by Lei Ting for the Nationalist Government have been stationed in Shanxi, which was originally used by Chiang Kai-shek to guard against the CCP troops, but now Zhao Zhi seems to not want them to sit idle and do nothing. Zhao Zhi suggested that these reserve troops should be urgently transferred into Henan and be prepared to follow up Shandong at any time; as long as the Jiaodong Peninsula is controlled, the troops stationed in Shandong will be able to obtain US military aid by sea, and the Nationalist troops can even attack the three northeastern provinces at any time by sea.

Just by looking at the information sent by the military commanders, Chiang Kai-shek saw the danger involved, Shandong was not like Henan, where the Nationalist Army was already garrisoned, and the Ludong Theater of the Nationalist Government was basically struggling to support the Japanese army since it began to implement the large-scale encirclement and suppression plan. In Zhao Zhi's battle plan, it was the Burmese mercenary troops who served as the main attack and contained the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield, and Chiang Kai-shek knew Zhao Zhi's purge plan, but he was just worried that the Burmese would not be able to stop the Japanese army. If the Burmese mercenary troops retreat or break up, the Japanese puppet army in Shandong will inevitably take advantage of the situation to pursue, not only Zhao Zhihui, who is on the front line in Shandong, will be in a desperate situation, but even the situation that has been fought hard may be recaptured by the Japanese army.

Chiang Kai-shek's worries were not superfluous, after Zhao Zhi commanded those guerrillas to carry out two consecutive non-stop raids and harassment battles in Hebei, the whole Hebei had become a mess, and Okamura Ninji, who had no choice with Zhao Zhi for the time being, received accusations from the Japanese mainland one after another, and even the emperor who had always trusted Okamura Ninji also sent sternly worded orders. The guerrilla forces active in Hebei were all dispatched in small groups, and with the help of many people who had already regained confidence in the war, the guerrilla forces in Hebei were expanding very strongly, and Okamura Ninji could only be busy dealing with those guerrillas first.

However, the order from the Japanese mainland was not like this, and the local staff headquarters ordered Okamura Ningji to immediately transfer troops to the south, and the Japanese puppet army in Jiangsu and Shandong flanked Zhao Zhi in the north and south, who was besieging Dezhou and Binzhou. Politicians in Japan have long hated Zhao Zhi, and even more so in the military leadership, but unfortunately Okamura Ninji does not think that Zhao Zhi is so easy to deal with, if Zhao Zhi is also the same as other commanders of China, maybe Yamashita Fengfumi would not have been so embarrassed by defeat.

But this is the order of the local staff headquarters, Okamura Ningji can not disobey, it took four days to unite the defenders in Hebei to carry out a large-scale dragnet of the guerrilla forces, Okamura Ningji gathered 50,000 Japanese troops and nearly 20,000 imperial troops to prepare to go south to flank Zhao Zhi, but his first stop was not Dezhou, which had been surrounded by Zhao Zhi's regiment, but Xingtai. Okamura Ningji believed that his tens of thousands of troops would definitely be able to take Xingtai, but instead of Handan, as long as Zhao Zhi's connection with Henan was severed, Zhao Zhi, who besieged Dezhou and Binzhou, would naturally become a lone army.

"Okay, let's do it." The mobilization of Okamura Ningji's 10,000 troops naturally escaped the eyes of the military intelligence officers, and at the same time that Okamura Ningji's army set off south, a piece of information from Shijiazhuang was also submitted to Zhao Zhi. Zhao Zhi has been paying attention to the movements of Okamura Ningji, taking Shijiazhuang means that the national army in Shanxi has the possibility of attacking Hebei, once Zhao Zhi successfully takes the Jiaodong Peninsula, the steady stream of troops entering Shandong by sea will be able to completely cut off the Japanese army, if the Japanese army still wants to occupy the whole of China, it is bound to have a big fight with the national army like in 38 years.

But now that the United States has sent troops to South Asia, Japan, which does not want to lose South Asia, can only send elite troops south to resist the US army, and the current national army is not the original national army. The difference between automatic fire and bolt-action rifles has long been best demonstrated by the thunder, and with Zhao Zhi's hundreds of thousands of Burmese mercenaries to help in the war, it is obvious that the Japanese army will need to pay a greater price to reopen the passage between North China and Southern Jiangsu.

But what Zhao Zhi is not afraid of now is to fight a war of attrition with the Japanese army, because he can mobilize more cannon fodder troops from Thailand and Vietnam to enter China at any time to help in the war. On the second day of the siege of Dongzhou, Zhao Zhi secretly ordered the Japanese infiltrators through the military commander's intelligence station in Shanghai, asking them to prepare for another large-scale attack on the Japanese mainland's military industrial facilities. Three years was long enough for the surviving infiltrators to infiltrate all strata of Japan, and without sufficient military supplies, Zhao Zhi couldn't think of anything else the Japanese army could fight with.

Okamura Ningji went south to Xingtai to cut off his own back road, Zhao Zhi knew this very well, but he had to pretend not to know now, because he needed Okamura Ningji's troops to leave Shijiazhuang. Only when a large group of Japanese puppet troops under the command of Okamura Ninji left Shijiazhuang, could the guerrilla forces that had been ordered by Zhao Zhi to disperse and attack be able to regroup together and form a stable combat force. Although the scattered operation is flexible and mobile, but in the face of a large number of enemy troops, he can only choose to retreat and give up the control area, what Zhao Zhi needs now is to consume the strength of the Japanese army, and it is obviously wise to gather forces for an attack.

"Sir, the latest information is from the Northeast Station of the Military Command, and the Kwantung Army has begun to move, but it is still uncertain where they are going." The Kwantung Army was an outlier in the Japanese army, and since the Japanese army went south and the Nationalist Government started the war in 37, the Kwantung Army has been stationed in the three northeastern provinces and rarely went south to participate in the war. The landing of the US troops in South Asia to participate in the war was an opportunity, and Zhao Zhi needed the Kwantung Army to move, as long as they moved their troops south, whether it was to deal with themselves or the US troops in South Asia, it would be extremely beneficial to Zhao Zhi.

"Liaison with the military commander, I want to know the route of the southbound troops of the Kwantung Army." Zhao Zhi was not so arrogant that he went to meet the Kwantung Army with only the Burmese mercenary troops, he just wanted to deduce what the purpose of the Kwantung Army was. If the Kwantung Army's target was himself in Shandong, then Zhao Zhi would immediately ask the U.S. Navy for help, and only they would have the ability to escort the 74th Army and Jewish troops assembled in the port of Thailand north to land in Shandong.

Facing the Kwantung Army means casualties, Zhao Zhi doesn't care how many casualties there will be, Yu Dazhi's 200,000 Burmese reserve army has set off, I believe that more than 400,000 cannon fodder troops will be able to drag down the Japanese army and consume part of the Japanese army, and then the 74th Army and Jewish troops that landed in Shandong are Zhao Zhi's real killer moves. "Contact Chongqing immediately, I want to know the specific location of the 300,000 reserve army in Shanxi." Zhao Zhi suddenly remembered the 300,000 national army reserve troops stationed in Shanxi, and nearly 20% of them were equipped with American-style equipment.

Zhao Zhi's intelligence staff officers went back and forth between the telecommunications room and the headquarters, and whenever Zhao Zhi needed to make a new plan, the intelligence staff and the people in the telecommunications room were always the busiest, but everyone was obviously used to it. "Sir, Shanxi called back, most of the reserve army is in Linfen, and the Second World War Zone Command has transferred part of their troops to clear out bandits in Shanxi." Hearing that his intelligence staff officer said that the reserve army troops were dispatched from the Second War Zone to suppress the bandits, Zhao Zhi couldn't help but pout, it seems that the friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party still has no intention of stopping, and the fight in Shandong is in full swing, and Shanxi is already thinking about playing friction.

How to mobilize the reserve troops in the second war zone is not Zhao Zhi's business, but before that, the battle plan reported by Zhao Zhi to Chiang Kai-shek has already mentioned the transfer of the reserve army, and I believe that Chiang Kai-shek knows the importance of that battle plan, and should not prevent the reserve army from entering Henan to prepare for war. "Sir, this is the news just sent by the military commander, the two divisions of the Kwantung Army have gone south, and their destination should be the Nanyang battlefield." It's a pity that this news didn't bring joy to Zhao Zhi, but made Zhao Zhi's face very ugly.

It was impossible for the Kwantung Army to go south by sea, and the Japanese army could not take out so many ships to go north for the Kwantung Army to use, so they could only go south to Guangzhou and Fujian by land, and then go south to the Philippines or Indonesia by sea. And Zhao Zhi's current cross-cutting plan just cut off the Kwantung Army's southward path, the Kwantung Army did not know that Zhao Zhi was not targeting them, and Zhao Zhi could not give the Kwantung Army the way to the south, it seems that a big war is about to begin.

Zhao Zhi locked himself alone in the headquarters and thought about countermeasures, it was not impossible to confront the Kwantung Army of the two divisions head-on, but this would inevitably attract more sieges from the Kwantung Army, which was exactly what Okamura Ninji, an old fox, was happy to see. Therefore, Zhao Zhi planned to gamble that the Japanese army on the South Asian battlefield could not afford to wait, and if the Kwantung Army, which was supposed to be transferred to the South Asian theater, did not arrive for a long time, the Japanese army that was beaten by the US army in the Philippine battlefield would probably not be able to hold on.

"Inform the Hengshui defenders to call back Xingtai, and you must not fight against the Japanese puppet army without my order, and order the troops besieging Binzhou to move to the Jiaodong Peninsula immediately, and at the same time kill and wound as many Japanese puppet troops as possible, be sure to take Weifang and Zhucheng, and then completely clear the Japanese puppet army on the Jiaodong Peninsula." Letting the Eastern Army go south is currently the only way Zhao Zhi can choose, but the Jiaodong Peninsula still has to be won, and only by occupying the Jiaodong Peninsula can Zhao Zhi have the bargaining chips in his hands to deal with the Kwantung Army.