Yang Zhen's judgment of the shape shì was very clear, although he showed that he would not be too greedy for merit, but he also showed his stubbornness in a certain way, which made the boss shake his head and say nothing. After a long time, the boss spoke: "You, you are always too confident. I can't say you're wrong with self-confidence, but overconfidence is dangerous. Any accident can happen on the battlefield, and if you don't have enough reserves in your hands, how do you deal with the accident? ”

"On the battlefield, as the supreme military commander, it is common sense that everyone who is a battalion commander knows enough reserves. Why are you so stubborn now? Take the hundreds of thousands of best-equipped and well-trained troops in the whole army, and take this risk that you could have avoided? ”

"As a battlefield commander, the most important thing is to always keep a cool head. The shape on the battlefield is not the same. He is always changing radically as the forces invested by both the enemy and the enemy change. Being a conductor is necessary and requires a certain sense of adventure and even gambling. ”

"But I don't advocate taking the whole army for a total gamble in the middle of a battle of this magnitude. We can't do the kind of thing that runs out of money, and as commanders, we must be prepared for everything. It's a bit too risky for you to put the whole game on the Kwantung Army's death to protect Nanman. ”

"I admit that what you say makes a lot of sense. The perspective of analyzing problems is also judged from the overall situation. But there's one thing, I don't know if you see it or not. It is precisely because of the important position of South Manchuria in the entire strategic pattern of the Japanese army that it is likely to become the biggest variable in this campaign. ”

"The Japanese army has not yet drawn the main force of its Korean army, once the main force of the Korean army crosses the Yalu River and joins the northeast battlefield. Even from the territory of North Korea, directly outflank you, what will you do when the time comes? With your current strength on the Eastern Front, even if you have favorable terrain to rely on, you are still at an absolute disadvantage. ”

"Don't forget, North Korea is connected to the mountains and rivers of the Northeast. In all the Japanese invasions of China, the first one was the Kwantung Army, and the second was the Korean Army. At present, although you are in control of the northeastern part of Korea, the threat of the North Korean army has not been completely resolved. The most important thing is that this North Korean army is still fully manned. ”

"You have dealt with the Japanese army more than once, and frontal assault and flank detour are the consistent combat methods of the Japanese army. If the Japanese army really forced a detour to the eastern front with the Korean army, what else would you do to deal with the situation? Your entire flank depth will be completely exposed to the Japanese guns. I just want to know, what are you going to do then? ”

Facing the boss's tone, Yang Zhen was silent when he couldn't hide his worry about the flank of the Northeast Battlefield of the United Nations. Can he tell the boss that he consciously created the current situation? If he hadn't expected the current situation during the initial campaign, then the battles of the past few years would have been fought in vain.

Bluffing, with his previous record against the Kwantung Army, he scared the top brass of the Kwantung Army by four points, and invested six points into real strength to use the Kwantung Army in terms of mentality, which first weakened the psychology of one layer. The main force of the Kwantung Army was firmly detained in the northeast battlefield, so that it could strategically put itself into passivity and put itself into a trap in the use of troops.

Taking South Manchuria as the target of the attack, the Japanese base camp not only did not dare to draw troops from the northeast battlefield, but also focused at least half of its energy on the northeast battlefield. In this way, the Kwantung Army, the largest strategic group in the Japanese army's base camp, was contained in the northeast.

The attack was supplemented by a large-scale assault of armored clusters, which psychologically overwhelmed the Kwantung Army. Let the Kwantung Army hesitate again and again every time it moves, and give up the strategic initiative by itself. So that the Anti-Japanese Federation can occupy the initiative when the actual strength is at a disadvantage, this is the main tactic adopted by Yang Zhen in the Northeast Battlefield.

In fact, when Yang Zhen made the plan, he had already calculated the total strength of the Japanese army. Including the strength of the Japanese army that can be mobilized in the short term, he has calculated it. The Japanese army does not have so many troops left in the mainland that can be mobilized in a short time.

Although the Japanese army's war in Southeast Asia has come to an end, it does not mean that they can rest easy. First, it is necessary to prepare for a counterattack by the US and British forces and deploy defensive forces in important strongholds in the South Pacific. Second, it is also necessary to consolidate the occupied areas, ensure the stability of the occupied areas, and prepare for the plundering of strategic resources.

Even the aborigines of Southeast Asia welcomed and cooperated with the Japanese army under the banner of liberation. Before the Japanese army invaded Southeast Asia, it also did a lot of preliminary work. But this does not mean that the current Japanese army can sit back and relax. Judging by the scale of the Japanese army's current operations in Burma, as well as the operation against New Guinea. Even if these two battles are over, the Japanese army can draw out three divisions, which is already its limit.

So far, there has been no general mobilization in Japan itself. With Japan's national strength, it simply cannot afford the economic and national strength of the premature implementation of general mobilization, coupled with the large-scale expansion of the Japanese army before and the need for naval replenishment, the actual replenishment of the Japanese army is far less than the boss imagined.

As a matter of fact, many of the divisions and regiments that the Japanese army has expanded at present are formed by an infantry wing drawn from the original four-unit division. There is also a part of it that is simply the expansion of the original independent mixed brigade. Among the supplementary soldiers, there are many veterans who have been mobilized for secondary service.

Moreover, Japan itself is far from being fully mobilized, and the speed and efficiency of troop replenishment are not high. After several expansions, the firepower of its various divisions and regiments has decreased instead of rising. The strength of each division and regiment has also decreased by nearly half compared with the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War.

Although most of the divisions and regiments have not experienced a large-scale decline in combat effectiveness due to the reduction in troop strength. However, the independent combat capability of each division and regiment is far from being comparable with what it used to be. At least half of the increased troops, including the Kwantung Army, were reorganized after the original division was divided into two and reorganized.

In the Kannai Battlefield, unless the Japanese abandoned any of the occupied areas such as Central, South, or East China, they were limited in the number of troops they could draw. Even if the Japanese army is arrogant, but such a large occupation area needs troops to stay. At present, in addition to ammunition, most of the military supplies of the Japanese army can only rely on war to support the war. As a result, the Japanese army needed to have a larger number of troops left behind in the various control areas within the Guannai.

Before the Anti-Japanese Federation launched this battle, these circumstances were carefully calculated. How many troops the Japanese army might invest, Yang Zhen has carefully calculated. At the same time, it mobilized the resources of the first qiē inner line to find out the reserve strength of the Japanese army in the entire Chinese theater and the Southeast Asian and Pacific theaters.

Yang Zhen did this because he knew that the strength of the army was really unsustainable, but this battle could not be fought without fighting, or even a small battle, and it was a kind of large-scale psychological warfare. At least for now, the results are acceptable. The Kwantung Army always placed its main force south of Xinjing and around Siping Street, and did not dare to send a single soldier to reinforce the Rehe battlefield.

Even in Chifeng and Chengde, at the most critical moment, not a single soldier was mobilized to reinforce it. Under the circumstance that all the outlying strongholds of Chengde had been lost, and the first section of the Advance Army had reached the main gate of Chengdeli, the Kwantung Army took the initiative to withdraw the rest of the Chengde defenders from Chengde, and took the initiative to abandon this famous city outside the Seychelles, the provincial capital since the establishment of Rehe Province.

In order to shrink the troops, we will make every effort to ensure the safety of the puppet Jinzhou Province and the Bac Ninh Railway. The Kwantung Army withdrew the defensive line in Rehe to the line of Qinglong, Lingnan, Beipiao, and Chaoyang. Although two divisions were invested, they always put on a defensive posture, and the two sides only confronted each other across the line of Laoha River and Nuruer Hushan.

Although there were constant artillery battles all day long, fierce battles between small units between the two sides took place almost every day. But there was no large-scale military operation. Compared with the entire front, the Rehe battlefield is currently the calmest battlefield. It was obvious between the two armies that neither wanted to stir up trouble at this time.

At this time, there was no such thing as psychological warfare, and the feints were only in the early stages of the campaign. In this case, how can Yang Zhen explain to the boss? Sue the boss, he is scaring the Kwantung Army? If you say this yourself, others can't say that you are arrogant?

Yang Zhen didn't want to explain anything, the boss looked at Yang Zhen's solemn face, and didn't say anything. The two of them were quietly in the reception room, both silently waiting for something. It's just that this calm didn't last long. The mission sent by Yang Jicai in Taiyuan has been completed, and the telegram requesting the headquarters to assist in the retreat has broken this peace in an instant.

After receiving Yang Jicai's telegram, Yang Zhen quickly adjusted his deployment. All the air forces around the Shanxi battlefield were ordered to be dispatched to cover the retreat of the Taiyuan troops immediately in accordance with the predetermined plan and with maximum fire support. Ordered Chen Hanzhang and Wang Minggui to immediately mobilize troops, go out of Shuo County, seize Ningwu to cover Yang Jicai's retreat.

The boss also ordered the Jin-Cha-Ji Second Division, the troops of the Southern Hebei Military Region, which had already entered the vicinity of Taiyuan, and the two independent regiments of the Jinsui Military Region, to immediately launch a diversion attack behind the Japanese troops around Taiyuan. At any cost, the troops around Taiyuan that were already under the semi-siege of the Japanese army and the dismantled equipment were rushed out.

After receiving the telegram from the boss, the headquarters of the 2nd Jin-Cha-Ji Division also mobilized the only regiment in its hands to seize Xinxian County to cover the retreating marshalling train. At the same time, all the bomber groups with night flight capability stationed in Yan'an, Jining, and Guisui were all dispatched to launch a large-scale air raid on the vicinity of Taiyuan.

In particular, the Il-4 bomber group, which had just been transferred from the northeast, was all dispatched to launch a large-scale air raid on the positions of the 32nd Division in the east of Taiyuan City. Yang Zhen repeatedly told him to use napalm as much as possible when the Japanese army was only covered by field fortifications.

At the same time, Yang Zhen ordered the use of the 16 special aerial bombs stored in the entire northwest battlefield at Guisui Airport when necessary. Looking at the words of special aerial bomb written by Yang Zhen on the telegram, the boss hesitated for a moment, and finally didn't ask anything.

After receiving Yang Zhen's handwritten telegram, Chen Hanzhang did not hesitate and immediately mobilized the four cavalry battalions of the cavalry brigade that had been assembled, with the strength of a tank battalion and an infantry regiment, to forcibly carry out a large-scale interspersed campaign along the Tongpu Railway from Shuo County. The goal is not only Ningwu, but to forcibly break through the Yanmen Pass and go straight to the front line of Laoxian and Yuanping.

The air forces stationed at the airports in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, Guisui, and Jining have also suspended their support for other fronts. All the bomber groups took off and went straight to the periphery of Taiyuan City. Eight of the Il-4 bombers were hung 16 air-fuel bombs of the 500-kilogram class of so-called special aerial bombs written on Yang Zhen's telegram.

The reason why the boss wanted to ask was because the boss didn't know what these so-called special aerial bombs were. The boss also thought that these so-called special aerial bombs were poison gas bombs that were commonly used by the Japanese army and were codenamed special bombs. The boss is well aware that there are a lot of seized gas bombs in the Anti-Japanese Alliance.