Three days later, outside Wuhu City, the flag was unfurled. Coupled with Fang Kui's division, more than 50,000 troops lined up in a long line, and they couldn't see the end from the beginning, and the momentum was magnificent!

This time, there were not only cavalry, artillery and other old units, but also new tank units. Although the number of tanks is still relatively small, they have some combat effectiveness, and everyone believes that these steel monsters will surely create brilliance in future battles.

There is another unit that Gao Dong could not have imagined in any way, and that is the self-propelled artillery unit.

This is a pleasant surprise to Gao Dong, the appearance of the self-propelled gun looks similar to that of a tank, but the performance and combat goals are very different.

The self-propelled guns that Jones and several of his colleagues developed for Gao Dong were all modified from captured Japanese tanks, using the Japanese tank's territory, replacing them with new engines, and then adding 155mm howitzers.

This combination immediately turned the Japanese tank, originally known as "Peewee", into a battlefield tiger, although the number of self-propelled guns was only thirty, but their addition could definitely change the entire battle situation.

Looking at the majestic and mighty team, Gao Dong couldn't help but feel emotional. I think that when he first crossed into this era, the team he led was all millet plus rifles, and the better weapons were all captured from the Japanese.

But looking at the present, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a shotgun for a gun. With such a majestic force against the Japanese, Gao Dong was confident that he would be able to win every battle below.

"Saving people is like fighting fire, and we won't say anything superfluous! Gao Dong, I wish you success! Ye Ting and Su Yu took a large number of generals of the Suzhou-Anhui Military Region to salute Gao Dong solemnly.

Gao Dong turned around and looked at the officers under him, and a sense of pride arose. This time it will be a name in history.

"Let's go!" With Gao Dong's roar, like a giant dragon sleeping on the earth, he slowly drove forward.

In Nanjing, at the headquarters of the North China Dispatch Army, Tada Jun triumphantly listened to a Japanese song playing on the radio.

The song made him very comfortable and reminded him of his hometown where he hadn't been back for several years. And the cherry blossoms that filled the tree, and the girl standing under the tree.

"This bastard Shunroku Hata still wants to command my troops, hmph, is my North China Dispatch Army so easy to command?" Tada opened his eyes, with a look of contempt in them.

Not long ago, a new Japanese general came to Nanjing, and this person was the new commander-in-chief of the Chinese Dispatch Army, Shunroku Hatata, who was responsible for commanding the Japanese army in the whole of China.

As soon as this man arrived, he asked Tada Jun to end the campaign in North China as soon as possible, and then reinforce the Japanese army in the south, striving to destroy the main force of the Chinese army in the shortest possible time.

But Tada Jun didn't buy his account at all, he knew what Shunroku Hata was thinking. Most of the armies in the south were fought under the command of Shunroku Hatata, who wanted to use his North China dispatch army to complete immortal feats for himself, and he Tada Jun would not be stupid enough to make wedding clothes for others.

Tada Jun stood up, looked at a telegram that had been sent not long ago, and said with a smile: "Another national, the party's divisional units have been annihilated. North China, Eighth Route Army, Country, Army! I'll see how long you can last! ”

"Report, report!" Suddenly, there was the sound of hurried footsteps outside the house, and an officer ran in in a panic, his face full of anxiety.

If it had been a normal time, Tada Jun would have slapped it in person. What he hates the most is that his subordinates don't have the calmness of the soldiers, what he asks is that each of his subordinates can do the collapse of Mount Tai without changing color, and nothing is enough to make them panic as the Imperial soldiers.

But he was in a good mood today, and he didn't bother to care, and said with a smile: "Panicked, adult body!" Is the sky falling? ”

The officer who came in gasped and shouted, "Oh no, no! Wuhu, Wuhu's independent army, the whole army is dispatched! ”

"What?" Tada's voice instantly rose an octave, as piercing as chalk rubbing across a blackboard.

He stared at his men with round eyes, and instantly forgot the maxim that Tarzan collapsed before and did not change color. In his mind, the word Independence was more terrible than any nightmare.

"Where did they go? Say, say, where did they go? Tada Jun was almost furious, and he was so anxious that he almost grabbed the collar of his officers and forced him to ask.

"According to our intelligence, the Independence Army is in full force, and the target is the Shandong area. But their real targets should be Shaanxi and Shanxi. The devil officer yelled.

"How is this possible? How is this possible? Tada Jun's face was full of disbelief, and he circled back and forth in the room: "They have all stopped for so long, isn't that Gao Dong still in the Northeast?" Who is going to command them? What are they going to do in the north if they have nothing to do? ”

"Your Excellency General, the Independent Army has set off, and it is Gao Dong who commands this force! Our spies have seen Gao Dong himself with their own eyes, and they can't be wrong! The devil officer repeatedly emphasized this fact.

Tadajun's face turned pale, and there was no Independence Army in his plan. The terrifying combat effectiveness of the Independent Army, as well as Gao Dong's demon-like command ability, are all deep pain in Tada's heart. If the Independence Army joins the battle, then.

"Tell the troops in Shandong that even if you die, you will die in their trenches. If anyone dares to let the Independence Army cross their positions, I will kill them all. Tada slammed to his feet, roaring with exhaustion.

"Hay!" The devil officer turned around and left.

"Slow, slow!" Tada Jun suddenly stopped his men and shouted: "Also, order the aviation unit to intercept the independent army along the way." We must not let them pass safely without a lot. Kill as much as I can, go! ”

After his men left, Tada slammed down on the front of the battle map as if he were in a nervous state. His eyes were bloodshot at this moment, and he looked at Shaanxi and the Shaanxi area.

"All fighting must be ended before the Independence Army comes, all fighting must be ended!"

In the room, only Tada's nervous murmur remained.

If you want to go from Anhui to Shaanxi or Shanxi, the nearest road should be from Henan all the way through. With the current size of the independent army, it was more than enough to deal with the less than 100,000 Japanese troops stationed in Henan. Even if there are more than 100,000 puppet troops, it is no exaggeration to say that it is equivalent to being captured.

However, Gao Dong chose to march from Shandong, which was the same as the cage policy that the Japanese were exerting, fighting steadily and steadily, striving to have no Japanese troops in the places they passed, and laying a solid rear for their future attacks.

For another purpose, it is because there are a large number of martial arts teams active in Shandong. These martial arts teams are all anti-Japanese armed forces established in the early years of Gaodong, and after the development of these years, the number of the entire Shandong armed forces has reached no less than 50,000 people, and even more.

They were all equipped with Japanese weapons, and in the long-term battle with the devils, they established a large number of base areas in the mountains. He is even more familiar with the topography of Shandong, and controls almost most of the Shandong territory except for the city.

Gao Dong's idea was to conquer Shandong, and then quickly organize the military engineering team into local armed forces to defend Shandong. Then a large number of recruits were recruited from the civilian sector to strengthen the anti-Japanese armed strength of the entire Shandong and build Shandong into the next Suzhou-Anhui Military Region.

There are many benefits in this way, and the biggest one is, of course, to recover the land and inspire the hearts of the people of the whole country. The second is to deal a severe blow to the Japanese army that is fighting, so that they have a sense of crisis that they are being attacked by the enemy. Secondly, there is a stable rear, and logistics support can keep up in time.

The three armies did not move, and the grain and grass went first. Gaodong's Independent Army plus Fang Kui's division had more than 50,000 people, including tanks, self-propelled guns, and all kinds of vehicles. People need food, tanks need fuel, and a lot of weapons and ammunition need to be transported to the front from the rear.

If there is no solid rear as a guarantee, then the battle should not be fought, they will be dragged to death by their own logistics first.

In the past, the reason why the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army were always able to win battles was because they had prepared their own dry food and sufficient weapons and ammunition for two or three days, and immediately retreated after ambushing the devils and fighting a small battle alive, so the logistical embarrassment could not be shown.

Moreover, they fought on a small scale, unlike the national army and the army, which could not move hundreds of thousands of people to fight against the Japanese army. The importance of logistics can only be highlighted when a large corps is engaged in large-scale operations.

No general wants his soldiers to go hungry on the battlefield, and no general wants to be at the height of the battle with the enemy, only to suddenly have to retreat because he has run out of ammunition.

The successive defeats of the country and the army are not because they lack courage, on the contrary, many countries and army soldiers have died on the battlefield, throwing their heads and spilling blood, and there is no need to doubt their heroism. They are lost in the extreme difficulty of logistical supplies, and often the soldiers have to fight the devils without food for several days, defeat the four wheels of the devil's car with two legs, and fight the devils with plenty of ammunition with their guns that will run out of bullets at any time. The fact that such a force can occasionally achieve large-scale victories is a miracle in the entire military history of the world.

Gao Dong is well aware of the importance of the logistics supply line, throughout the ages, how many generals have led the troops because the logistics line was broken by the enemy, which eventually led to the touching of military power! There are too many such examples, and Gao Dong will never make such a mistake.

Therefore, in this expedition to Shaanxi and Shanxi, the first thing he had to ensure was logistics supply.

However, there is a Henan Province between the Suzhou-Anhui Military Region and Shanxi in Shaanxi, and they do not have any anti-Japanese armed forces in Henan. Therefore, we can only abandon the near and seek far, and it is the wisest choice to go from Shandong.

When the Suzhou-Anhui Military Region was approaching the border, Gao Dong suddenly stopped the advance of his troops. He suddenly realized a serious problem, a problem that could most likely cost them a lot.

Gao Dong quickly convened an emergency military meeting, and he had to solve this fatal problem in order to be able to do it without any negligence!