When he said this, although it was about Du Kaishan's next work arrangement, Yang Zhen did not look at Du Kaishan. His eyes were always on the co-pilot's seat, nervously holding the weapon in his hand, and constantly observing Zhang Zixiong's body outside the car window. It's as if he was saying this to Zhang Zixiong, not to Du Kaishan to explain his work.

After saying this, Yang Zhen was slightly silent for a while. But then he said firmly: "This is the last chance I give you, and it is also the last time to tolerate you." If you act without regard for the overall situation, what will happen to you, I don't need to say more. I just want to say one thing to you today, and that is to absolutely not take it lightly. ”

"You are a capable person, and among the senior commanders of the Anti-Japanese Federation, your ability is definitely among the top three. But no matter how capable a person is, if he cannot obey the needs of the whole, I will not use it. The Anti-Japanese Federation does not need commanders who have no overall interests in their eyes and only care about their own pleasure. ”

"Don't say that you are now the commander of a front army, not even a platoon commander. Even if this person is capable, I will definitely not want it. This anti-landing operation is of vital importance to our next operation, and it is impossible for me to hand over such an important battlefield to a person who does not have a sense of the overall situation in mind. ”

"This anti-landing operation is also the deployment that I am most unsure of in recent years, and it is also the only time that it is difficult to accurately judge the enemy's strength and the direction of the main attack before the battle begins. Under such circumstances, it is impossible for me to give such an important direction to a person who cannot hold his breath. ”

"We don't have a navy, and we can't say that we don't have a reconnaissance force at sea, but it's also quite weak, and there are only a few planes with long-range reconnaissance capabilities in the whole army. It is even possible that the Japanese landing fleet will hit our doorstep before we can find out. In this anti-landing operation, we are quite passive. ”

"Although the Bohai Naval Region has mobilized some troops who are familiar with the sea conditions, and is selecting and training manpower, and is buying some fishing boats. After the Bohai Bay freezes, he will carry the radio station to the sea to serve as a guard. The Shandong Military Region also telegraphed to the Jiaodong Military Region to send personnel to secretly enter the waters of the Miaodao Islands to monitor the Bohai Strait. ”

"But whether these measures will work or not, at least for now, remains to be seen. And the main shipping lanes of the Bohai Strait are closely monitored by the Japanese Navy in Port Arthur. With a considerable number of islands in the Miaodao archipelago also stationed with Japanese troops, it is difficult to guarantee how much valuable information can be obtained. ”

"And if the Japanese army really had the idea of landing from Bohai Bay, it would not follow our baton. They will land whenever they think they need to, where they see fit. Therefore, whether or not you can endure the Jinpu line is of great importance to our anti-landing operations. And the future battlefield east of Jinpu Road is the lifeblood of our whole army. ”

"Once there is danger in this direction, the troops of more than a dozen divisions in our front line will be exposed to the enemy, and at the same time, our entire battlefield will be divided into two. Even the Pingjin front, which has just been recovered, will be in an extremely dangerous situation. In other words, once there is a problem on the right flank, the entire North China battlefield is in danger of collapsing. ”

This requires that commanders in this direction must be calm and patient, and the most important thing is to have the ability to both attack and defend. It is necessary to be able to ensure that no matter what abnormalities occur in other directions, no matter whether the Japanese army will land in the Bohai Bay or not, it must be firmly nailed to its own theater like a nail and defend the flank for the entire Hebei theater. ”

"Don't be in a hurry to answer me, what would you do if you were asked to go to Jinpu Road. What you're doing now is to think carefully about whether you can actually do it. I'm not in a hurry to ask for your answer, I'm talking to you after Chen Hanzhang gets there. ”

"Lao Du, no matter what you think. But one thing I can tell you is that the entire Bohai Bay operation is of vital importance to our entire battlefield. If you say yes and don't do it, it will affect the development of the entire battle. At that time, even if I can't live without you, I won't be able to keep your head. If you can't do it, bring it up as soon as possible, and don't affect the outcome of this battle because of your mistakes alone. ”

After Yang Zhen's words were finished, Du Kaishan fell silent. Number One's tone was like talking to himself, but he knew it was the last chance One had given him. If he chooses to give up, although No. 1 can't say anything, he is also destined to be abandoned. If you want to go to the battlefield and lead the troops to fight in the future, I am afraid that you will not have this opportunity.

As a soldier, Number One doesn't like the kind of subordinates who don't dare to accept challenges. As a commander, No. 1 dislikes the kind of cadres who avoid the heavy and do not dare to bear the burden. If that cadre touches on these two points, especially the second point and the military cadre, he will not hesitate to abandon it.

If you choose to accept it, then once you make the same mistake again, it is very likely that you will not even have the opportunity to wear the military uniform again. Du Kaishan knew very well that once the Japanese counterattacked, what would the entire Bohai Bay line mean? That was the right flank of the entire Hebei battlefield, and it was the right flank without any barriers.

Don't look at the fact that Bohai Bay is close to the sea, but for an army with a strong navy, this sea is not enough to be an obstacle at all. Whether it was the Second Opium Battlefield during the Manchu Dynasty or the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entering Beijing during the Gengzi Incident, they all landed from the sea.

China as a whole has a history of being defenseless at sea, so China's thousands of kilometers of coastline have never been a natural barrier against foreign enemies. On the contrary, it has become a convenient passage where there is no gate, and the enemy troops can come and land wherever they want.

Even at the beginning of the 77 Incident, the Japanese army also increased a large number of troops from the Tanggu port under its control in a short period of time by sea. Du Kaishan, who has been forced by No. 1 to study the history of naval landing operations in the past few days, knows very well that for a country that does not have strong coastal defense. When fighting against an army with a strong navy, the sea simply cannot be a natural barrier.

The entire coast of Bohai Bay is in a plain area. Once the Japanese army breaks through the Jinpu Road, it can threaten the Pingjin area to the north and cut off the direct connection between the Hebei battlefield and the Guanwai. To the west, a deadly threat can be posed to the flanks of the entire Hebei battlefield. With such a good prospect, the Japanese army will definitely not use its brains in this direction.

Although the newly civilized sea water is still very cold, it does not mean that the Japanese army will honestly wait, and the sea water will warm up enough to take a bath. When the Japanese army landed at Jinshanwei in the Battle of Songhu that year, it was already November in Shanghai. The sea temperature in Jinshanwei is not so warm.

If the Japanese army really landed, Du Kaishan would not have any fear. For him, he was only afraid that the Japanese army would not come, and he would not worry about how many Japanese troops would come. But just as the No. 1 said, no one can guarantee that the Japanese army will not land in Bohai Bay. After all, the overall battle situation at present has long been different from the beginning of the 77 Incident, and the Japanese Navy does not have the strength it had back then.

It is difficult to judge whether the current Japanese army still has the ability or confidence to carry out a large-scale amphibious landing operation. Although Japanese people often have convulsions at every turn and love dogs to jump over the wall, it does not mean that they will dare to do it at all costs.

For an island nation like Japan, the importance of the navy is not the same as the army. Even if all the hundreds of thousands of troops on the Chinese battlefield were lost, as long as the main naval force was still there, the enemy would not be able to land on the Japanese mainland. But if the naval losses are too large, then for the Japanese, they will weaken their shields.

At present, the Anti-Japanese Federation does not have a navy, and even except for the few old shallow water gunboats on the Songhua River that captured the puppet Manchurian army, there is not even a speedboat, and there is not even a sailboat that has been classified as a military sailboat. However, the Anti-United Nations has a tactical air force that is not small in size and quite strong.

Although there is a lack of weapons of mass destruction such as torpedoes, there are not even a few mines. The mines made by the Anti-Japanese Federation themselves were also copied in the arsenals in the northeast. The only weapons that can be used against ships are ordinary aviation high-explosive bombs and rockets. At the same time, it also lacked experience in anti-ship operations, and the threat to the Japanese Navy was not very great.

The previous anti-ship air operation was somewhat of a fluke in Du Kaishan's view. If the Japanese army had prepared in advance, would it have achieved such results? For this, Du Kaishan is quite skeptical. In any case, with the example of the last battle, the Japanese must have been somewhat taboo when conducting landing operations.

Perhaps the Japanese, who were already aggressive in the face of the US Navy, might be reluctant to come up with a large number of ships to hold a landing operation on the newly civilized coast of North China. Just as No. 1 said, perhaps the deployment on Jinpu Road can only be a helpless passive wait.

However, regardless of whether the Japanese come or not, in the second phase of the operation, it is necessary to make preparations for anti-landing operations. Even if it is this anti-landing operation preparation, it is just a waste of troops, and it will not wait for the people who want to wait. However, preparations for this anti-landing operation must also be made.

It's just that if the Japanese army really didn't carry out a landing operation, where would it hang the deployment of the Anti-Japanese Alliance? Or, as in the Battle of Songhu, a large-scale landing operation was carried out at the last moment. So can you really stabilize your breath and watch the heat in other directions, without any changes in your mind?

Thinking of this, Du Kaishan was a little dazed in his heart, or he suddenly lost his confidence. He listened to the noise of the No. 1 engine, which had been used intensively for several years and had become a little dilapidated. On the surface, it looks as stable as Mount Tai, but in fact, he keeps asking himself in his heart.

Seeing that Du Kaishan's face was red, white, and even mixed with a hint of iron blue, Yang Zhen smiled and said nothing. These problems have to be figured out by himself, and others can't help him. Only when he figures it out for himself will he be like a nail in the position where he needs him, instead of always wanting to reach out and grab a handful.

Yang Zhen didn't ask, and Du Kaishan, who was a little distracted, didn't answer him immediately. And when he arrived at Nangong halfway to rest and sharpen, Yang Zhen even kicked Du Kaishan out of his car and back into his own jeep, so that he could think about it and talk about it.

This time from Xingtai to Jingxian, Yang Zhen was not in a hurry, but stopped and stopped along the way. From southern Hebei to Hebei and Shandong, Yang Zhen looked at the terrain on this road quite carefully. Especially in the area where the two armies are facing each other, Yang Zhen looked at it quite carefully. Just like when he went to Xingtai from the river, he specially took the Pinghan Railway, just to take a closer look at the terrain.

Although after the whole line was transferred to the defense, he immediately dispatched a surveying and mapping staff officer to travel all over the southern Hebei and Hebei-Shandong borders to re-examine the map. But many times, Yang Zhen is still determined to see it with his own eyes. Although he does not interfere with the specific deployment below, it is still necessary for him to have a detailed grasp of the terrain of the entire combat area as much as possible