"It's still less!" 13 bases, Meng Xiang didn't need to count them with his fingers, he filtered them all in his mind.

Now the expansion of the vanguard army is inseparable from the support of bases, and these bases are all placed one by one.

Zhangjiakou is about to be captured, and if you try to attack the devil's garrison corps, it is good to place a base here.

The scale of Rat Yi's troops is getting bigger and bigger, and it is very difficult to transport supplies by air and submarine, but fortunately, they have captured several surrounding counties such as Ningguo County, and they are self-sufficient in food and clothing, and what they lack is only ammunition and weapons. It is precisely because of the lack of ammunition that they have not been able to organize large-scale battles. can only take advantage of the mountainous terrain and focus his offensive on the Central Army, so he has always been able to protect himself.

But in the next step, I am afraid that I will carry out a large-scale purge of them. Rat 1: They are now almost the largest guerrilla group in Jiangnan. In this way, it is also necessary to need the support of a base.

The guerrillas led by Wei Hanchao who entered the northeast also faced difficulties in the supply of weapons and ammunition. The lack of such steep mountain ranges in the Northeast as Taihang also lacked a suitable place to take refuge, coupled with the lack of support, infighting continued, and the public base was lacking, so in history other guerrilla forces in the Northeast fought less and less. Even in this time and space, with some weapons and ammunition funding and trading from time to time by the Vanguard Army, the scale is getting smaller and smaller. From 31 years to today, many people have lost confidence.

Meng Xiang also saw this situation, so he let Wei Hanchao's guerrilla column enter the northeast in advance. The anti-Japanese organizations in the Northeast need a leader to avoid becoming a mess. It stands to reason that the Northeast also needs the support of a base.

But there was only one vacancy. The one on Kalimantan Island in the South Seas, Meng Xiang has other uses, since it has been shipped out, there is no need to send it back, and it will be transferred and placed in other places after the Chinese armed forces organized by Ye Zizhong and Niu Wu have been stabilized for a period of time.

"After the capture of Zhangjiakou, we need to stabilize the situation in North China. The next step is to carry out the subsistence allowance policy, and we need to prevent the offensive of the Japanese army, and we need to stabilize for a period of time before attacking. The outside is suitable for guerrilla harassment and containment. When Meng Xiang asked about the next combat goal, this time Tang Yaoshi and Fan Chong, Zhou Bai and others agreed on the same opinion, and agreed that it was necessary to stabilize the defense first and digest and absorb the territory occupied.

The economic development of the Beijing-Tianjin region is promising. Using the financial income obtained from these sites to support the next step of development, it is too bottomless to only rely on the special funds mentioned by Meng Xiang.

Meng Xiang also needed to stabilize the interior of the vanguard army, so he acquiesced to this stubborn opinion. Although the smoke of World War II is imminent, its own foundation is unstable, and it is impossible to reach out to others.

"Zhangjiakou is mainly defensive for the time being, and can use the Pingsui Railway to obtain the support of the Langfang sub-base." Meng Xiang tilted his head slightly sideways and looked at the display of the large screen in the command center, because the Langfang sub-base needs to take care of Tianjin's seaport, so it is slightly biased towards Tianjin, so the farthest tank factory and logistics equipment center can only be distributed to Changping and Panluo areas. Considering that the devils in Shanxi are attacked on all sides and have few troops, they can do without the support of the base in this regard.

"Defend Taihang Mountain, let you hit your head and break the bloodstream. When you know that you don't like it, go and attack elsewhere! Hey. "Shanxi already has three bases in Xinxiang, Handan, and Shijiazhuang to defend nearby, and in the future, slowly advance little by little within the direct jurisdiction of the base, and you can directly overwhelm the devils.

"The Northeast region is also not considered for the time being." Meng Xiang pondered for a while, and also crossed out the Northeast sub-base. Because of the weather, Wei Hanchao's guerrilla column only entered Suiyuan and western Liaoning. Here it is more convenient to obtain the supplement of the Luanxian sub-base. And the factional disputes within the anti-war armed forces in other places are still serious, and Meng Xiang has no intention of interfering at this time. The advantage of the base lies in advancing step by step, and after Suiyuan and Rehe are resolved, it is time to plot the northeast.

"The South needs a base too!" Meng Xiang watched it for a long time, and finally decided.

In the end, war pursues profits. The many resources of China are what I covet.

At this time, the Beijing-Tianjin region, Hebei, Shandong and other places had fallen into the hands of the vanguard army, and they could not get the resources here. Shanxi's outward passage has also been blocked, and the devils there are barely able to protect themselves, and coal and other resources cannot be transported. Most of the rich land along the Yangtze River has been occupied by the devils and approached Wuhan. The essence of Jiangsu and Zhejiang also fell into the hands of devils, and the looted property was looted every year, so that he didn't ask if he built a few more aircraft carrier battleships. As long as there is money, steel and weapons from the American side will continue to be sent.

The number of rats is there, but the weapons are not enough, and the impact on Jiangsu and Zhejiang is still too weak, so that the devils can plunder unscrupulously. If you put a nail in the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, you can halve the control of the devil in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Wuhan had always been under the control of the Central Army, and the best concession area in Shanghai was still in the hands of the Westerners, and the looted property they plundered from China was afraid that it would not be enough to fill the hole in the country's finances. When the time comes, the devil who jumps over the wall in a hurry will naturally choose to attack other resource-rich places. For example, Nanyang.

Rat Yi has been looking for coal resources according to Meng Xiang's requirements. With the help of Xie Jiarong and others, a number of mining sites were discovered in Changxing one after another. In addition, several mining sites have also been discovered in the Guangde area. It can be regarded as solving the energy needs of the base.

The domestic base has been considered stable, and in addition to the recycling and adjustment of the buildings of the relevant bases, new bases have also been built.

Two shipbuilding centers were built in Qinhuangdao and one in Tianjin. On land, the vanguard army had overpowered his own army. But the sea is still a weak point.

"According to reliable information, the vanguard army has built a number of fortresses on the line between Tianjin and Qinhuangdao, and is installing fortress artillery. When the time comes, it will be difficult for us to attack there. Listening to the news from his subordinates, Kawasaki Lingzhi frowned, this news is not very good. The power of the vanguard army's shore artillery has long been experienced by the navy. Even the battleship Mitsu did not please.

Because of the threat from Qinhuangdao and Yantai Weihai, there were many fewer ships passing through the Bohai Sea at this time.

"Go to the area around Huangcheng Island in front of you to take a look, I heard that the submarines of the vanguard army often haunt over there, everyone should be careful, and the sonar should pay attention to listening." Kawasaki Lingzhi ordered.

Their destroyer was the last of the Peak Wind class according to the completion progress, a little later than the last in the sequence. With a speed of 39 knots and 16 depth charges deployed, it has no fear of getting on a submarine.

It was accompanied by a gunboat, which had come to scout the submarines here. The skies above the Bohai Sea were controlled by the Pioneer Army's aircraft, and the underwater Sea was controlled by the Pioneer Army's submarines. The successive sinking of his merchant ships in the Bohai Sea made him begin a large-scale search for these submarines, preparing to annihilate them. The Bohai Sea is shallow, and submarines should not hide.

"Watch out for ice floes!" Kawasaki Lexus reminded. These sea ices, which are less than ten centimeters thick, do not have a great impact on a sturdy warship, he reminds of the impact of large pieces of ice floe on sonar displays.

Not far above his head, there was a devil's reconnaissance plane hovering, one was searching for the submarine of the Pioneer Army, and the other was paying attention to the movements of the Pioneer Army's aircraft. If the vanguard army dispatched a large number of fighters, the destroyer Bokaze, which was not strong in air defense, could only run away in advance.

"Damn, the threat from heaven has to be watched all the time!" Kawasaki Lexus' telescope looked at the plane and couldn't help but hate it in his heart.

A few days ago, the news came that the destroyer Fanfeng was damaged by the aircraft of the Pioneer Army, but fortunately, the devil's plane rescued it in time and was not sunk by the bomb. Thinking about the 500-kilogram bomb dropped from the Vanguard plane, he also felt worried in his heart.

His telescope followed the reconnaissance plane in the direction of Long Island, where the Vanguard had already occupied and begun to station troops.

"Huh?" His telescope swept past a black spot, and he hurriedly retracted it to take a closer look, but before he could look closely, the ship's alarm had already sounded.

"Cannonballs!" The shrill voice of his second mate echoed through the ship.

"Boom!" A column of water rose more than thirty meters away from them, and the hull creaked under the drastic change in water pressure.

"Where's the shell?" Kawasaki Lingzhi asked loudly, ignoring the icy sea water that poured half of his body.

"It seems to be from shore artillery, or it could be a warship anchored near the island." The judgment of the reconnaissance plane came from the sky.

"It's not Beihuangcheng Island yet, could it be that they have set up shore artillery on Huangcheng Island or Daqin Island in the north and south, and there has been no movement in the past few days? Could it be the ship of the Vanguard Army, the caliber just now was almost 300 mm or more, which ship could it be? Is that Zhenyuan or Ashigaku? Kawasaki Lex's mind was racing sharply, constantly analyzing.

"Boom!" It didn't take long for another shell to land near the Wave Wind. Even though the Bokaze had shifted to the left and shifted some distance, the cannonball still blasted up a high column of water not far from him, causing it to shake incessantly.

"The direction is from Dangji Island!" This time, the reconnaissance plane in the sky quickly judged the direction of the shot.

"Dangji Island? At least 16 nautical miles here? Kawasaki Lingzhi couldn't help but be surprised.