PS: Bow and thank Shen Qi and Cangwu Li for their tips, thank you!!

If we want to make the country strong, we must let other countries lag behind in their weapons research, and only with absolute force can we develop rapidly and steadily economically. Before that, he could only temporarily find a way to mislead these countries that started faster than China, change the direction of research in some fields, and leave enough time for himself to use force first, and then turn back to improve people's livelihood and overall industry.

Yangzhou, the battle ended in the early hours of the morning, and the bloody atmosphere on the streets made the people dare not go to the streets at all, and did not dare to open the doors. The advance army also did not recruit people, and transported the corpses to the suburbs for burning and burial in teams and trucks. At dawn, after two tense hours of busyness, the blood stains and wreckage on the streets were cleared. If it weren't for the thick smell of gunpowder smoke in the air, Yangzhou would really not look like a big war.

In these two hours, Sun Tao had already crossed the river with all the baggage on the other side, built a defensive position on the periphery of Yangzhou, firmly guarded Yangzhou, and set up a military supply point in the fairy temple on the other side of the river on the east side of Yangzhou, that is, the fairy town in later generations, and used it as a military material supply point for attacking the northern front, and strictly armed, so as to facilitate the attack on Gaoyou by land and go all the way north.

At the same time, he ordered Yu Lei to lead a division of troops to disperse and pursue the enemy, chasing after the Japanese troops who had not had time to cross the Jiajiang River and fled in the direction of Jiepai Town and other directions along the way, so as to avoid these stragglers from causing disturbances to the common people, and lest they have the opportunity to enter Gaoyou Lake and return to Gaoyou or Bengbu.

After receiving the order, Yu Lei dispersed the troops, and used the captured motorcycles and trucks to take the platoon as a unit to launch a pursuit and suppression of the fleeing Japanese troops.

At their speed, it is expected that most of the scattered Japanese troops will be pursued in one day. And to pacify the population, recruit troops to buy food for supplies.

The fleeing Japanese troops did not dare to enter the villages and towns in the process of fleeing for their lives, for fear of attracting pursuers, and most of them rushed all the way along the river bank, and robbed boats if they had them. Without a boat, they fled in the direction of Gaoyou Lake.

But even so, the villages and towns along the way inevitably suffered from misery, but fortunately, Lei and their pursuit speed was fast, and they did not give these routed soldiers a chance to stay and recuperate, so that the villages along the way avoided the doom of the entire village being slaughtered.

After dawn, the follow-up troops on the other side of the river, all the recruits crossed the river, and after Sun Tao arranged the overall defense of Yangzhou, this allowed Gu Zhutong to move closer to Yangzhou. And the materials and ammunition were divided into two, a small part was given to Gu Zhutong, and a large part was given to Lao Zhao, leaving more than 10,000 38 covers and most of the bullets and mortars for recruit training.

Gu Zhutong sent a brigade of convoys to the Yangzhou battlefield, and all they saw was a miserable image after the war. Although the artillery of the advance army of Zhilu Dao is powerful enough. It's dense enough, but I can't imagine how the Japanese army can be defeated so quickly.

It's the new ones. The semi-new weapons and equipment made these national troops who came to pull weapons very excited. With equipment, their combat effectiveness has skyrocketed, although some of them have to be transported to the rear for unified allocation, but of course what they have left behind is good, and the number must also be prioritized, right?

Lao Jiang. When he learned that the advance army did not let Gu Zhutong enter Yangzhou, he was not annoyed, as a leading figure, he knew the intention of the advance army of the Dao Dao, and he knew that the supply line of the advance army of the Dao was from Liangguang. Therefore, it is normal to use Yangzhou as a supply point and a military stronghold, and not let others interfere in defense. So, in addition to being excited, he ordered Gu Zhutong not to make contradictions at will, and he would not enter Yangzhou if he did not enter.

Lao Zhao is beautiful. After crossing the river, their troops deployed and cleaned up the Japanese positions. The most important thing is that the weapons and ammunition in the holes were not destroyed by artillery fire, so to speak, they were stuffed in the anti-artillery holes before they even had time to open the air.

Lao Zhao's troops, who cleaned up the battlefield, meticulously did not even let go of bullet shells, and opened all those anti-artillery holes, and then used them as pits to bury the corpses of Japanese soldiers.

Those Japanese soldiers who survived were handed over to the advance army. Lao Zhao knew very well what happened to these soldiers. Although he couldn't accept it, he didn't see it, and he didn't know what to do.

The two armies are still in the old habit of sending the items cleaned on the position to the advance army, although Gu Zhutong did not make too much money, but the materials are quite sufficient.

After dawn, the bold people on the streets slowly increased, and then, when they saw the notices posted all over the streets and the orderly troops, and they were Chinese troops, not yellow-skinned Japanese soldiers, they went crazy.

The news spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and quickly detonated the entire Yangzhou. The streets were crowded with people, some of them were excited and wept bitterly, and some of them shouted in celebration, and they no longer had to be humiliated by the Japanese, and their troops fought back.

Sun Tao had long expected this, so the recruits in Yangzhou City who had not landed on Hainan Island were all veterans who had undergone hard training for more than half a year to avoid causing riots.

They marched through the streets in whole groups, maintaining law and order, and at the same time, intensified the cleaning of traitors and tobacco houses, gambling houses, kilns, etc., and under the guidance of the angry crowd, they arrested these troubled tumors, and then hung up the sign of the recruitment office to recruit new soldiers.

In the surging crowd, the crime was announced on the spot, the traitors who had been verified and some villains who were angry and had their lives on their backs were shot, and the smoking ban was announced, which made Yangzhou boil for a whole day, and only in the evening did the order on the streets be restored and the business of the shops resumed.

Yangzhou, so far has been solid, the surrounding townships, it is estimated that after Yu Lei's return, it will also tend to be calm, and the restoration of people's livelihood can be completed in a few days at most, when the time comes, this beautiful and rich place will return to the previous prosperity, perhaps, it will also improve.

Dong Ku in this day, will be some of the things that should be discussed, and the concession of those bosses, official figures to carry out a quick research, has already done a good job of foreshadowing things, naturally will not be too troublesome, in a day, the temporary office location Longxiang International is busy, waves of people left, waves of people come again, so that Longxiang International branch is very popular.

At this time, although Longxiang International next to Sixing had already opened, Dong Ku had not gone there in order to take care of these bigwigs in the concession, and had a temporary office in this branch. After Dong Ku finished arranging these, he was about to leave Shanghai. Followed the troops to the north.

One day, at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, including inviting the military attache of the concession to see the effects of artillery and AK54, Dong Ku handed over the matter of liaison to Guo Weiquan, and asked him to be responsible for contacting the people in the concession on his behalf, and merging Shui Linglong's women's special combat team into the wolf smoke organization under Guo Weiquan's real name. Become another branch of wolf smoke.

Everything was arranged, Dong Ku quietly took the guards and the five hundred Huya team members who had been trained and were only short of time to improve, handed over the defense of Shanghai to Zhao Liqiang, and handed over the management to Gu Pengfei of the dark hall, and together with Liu Zhong, took the last thousand-ton freighter and sailed towards Yangzhou.

In the second half of the night, Dong Ku rushed to Yangzhou. Immediately, the military chief was summoned overnight to conduct research.

In the headquarters, everyone was very excited, and the captain personally came to show that the real battle was about to begin. That is, the time has come to defeat the Japanese army.

Dong Ku looked at the young faces, but they were already full of iron and blood, and they were becoming more and more mature, and sighed at the strength of the environment to transform people. These people are his earliest team. Except for Li Rongbin who went to Crescent Island, Zhao Liqiang stayed in Shanghai. Others, including Liu Zhong, Sun Tao, and others, who followed first, were all present.

Dong Ku sighed with emotion, pointed to the sand table that had been done and said: "Today's goal is to discuss how to take Gaoyou at the lowest cost, and the war of annihilation can be fought as soon as it can be fought, and our purpose is still like that, to attack as quickly as possible." Otherwise, once the stalemate is reached, the war will turn into attrition, and we will not be able to afford to drag it out. ”

Sun Tao looked at the sand table and said confidently: "Captain, there is no problem with Gaoyou's attack. Tomorrow the aftermath here will be dealt with, the rest of the troops will be over, and the day after tomorrow they will be able to attack. The number of Japanese trucks we have captured is already six or seven hundred, and it is completely possible to speed up the pace of the attack with the speed of maneuvering, and the arrival of self-propelled artillery will make the attack faster. ”

Dong Ku didn't look up, pointed to the sand table and continued: "Our maneuver can be fast enough, but we still can't run through the train controlled by the Japanese army, in this way, the infiltration and sabotage will be carried out simultaneously, starting tomorrow afternoon, the troops will enter the offensive preparations, cross the Jiajiang River, assemble at the Fairy Temple, and then divide the troops into three ways and march towards Gaoyou, especially pay attention to our two friendly forces, so as to avoid them intersecting and causing friction." ”

Qu Jun just knew the intention of Dong Ku, took over and said: "Captain, the attack is still in the way of Yangzhou, only when it reaches Xuzhou, the large army can be launched, and there will be a decisive battle, during this period, the right flank of Lao Zhao's troops, the left flank of Lao Jiang's troops, we will march together, but they cannot enter the cities along the line of our army, so as to avoid our supply lines being cut off." ”

Dong Ku is exactly what he meant, his troops separated the two armies in the middle, let them also participate in the attack, divided the battlefield into three, the center of the advance army broke through, and their two armies advanced with a left and a right flanking attack, believing that it was difficult for the Japanese army to block the offensive steps on this side, so they could only retreat all the way to Xuzhou, and at that time, it was the time for a decisive battle. The recruits on their own side, in a month's time, the initial training can be completed, and after the decisive battle, the strength of the Japanese army will be greatly reduced, and it will be time for a real counteroffensive.

In the command headquarters, with everyone's deduction on the sand table, the offensive plan was slowly released, and the army was to advance at the fastest speed, arrive at the Xuzhou battlefield at the fastest speed, and form a flanking attack with Zhang Zizhong to have a decisive battle.

With the formation of the plan, after dawn, the movement of the large army began. The collection of food has basically been put in place, and the compressed biscuits transported on the shelves do not have to worry about half a month's supply for the army. The ammunition, except for the ones that were retained for defense, was all transported to the Fairy Temple, and the supplies transported in a straight line in Hangzhou were still arriving in a steady stream.

In the afternoon, a new batch of self-propelled artillery and 200-caliber cannons arrived at the Fairy Temple along the Jiajiang River. The captured trucks were also intensively remodeled, whether they were one-ton or two-ton trucks, all of them were modified, and anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were mounted. Sun Tao left all the captured anti-aircraft machine guns behind and installed them on trucks for use as armored vehicles to follow the mobile troops.

For the time being, there were no armored vehicles of their own, so Dong Ku had to temporarily replace them with trucks. Fortunately, the Japanese tanks have become waste, and on the Chinese battlefield, there is still armor that can threaten the copycats, which saves a lot of trouble.

By the time it got dark, in addition to the troops and recruits left behind in Yangzhou, the large army had all crossed the Jiajiang River, and Lao Zhao's troops had also crossed the Jiajiang River, as the right flank, sweeping the surrounding area of Gaoyou, which had become a Japanese-occupied area.

Gu Zhutong's army went directly to Jiepai Town, around Gaoyou Lake and Hongze Lake, and went straight to Bengbu and Lingbi. He was accompanied by two divisions of Yu Lei, which served as artillery support and fought in coordination.

At this time, Takayou's Tenya and Nakajima Imaigo had already received orders from the base camp to prepare and withdraw to Bengbu, where they would fight the advance army in a decisive battle.

Although Tiangu was unwilling, he also knew that the offensive of the advance army of Ludao was very fierce, and Yangzhou, which he originally thought was impregnable, was taken down in a few hours, and the troops who fled back were not even one-tenth, and they were like lost dogs, and they had no fighting spirit.

Dong Ku, who was preparing for the attack, had already dispatched several reconnaissance teams, and as early as yesterday, they had already rushed to the vicinity of Gaoyou to reconnoitre.

When they saw that the Japanese army was evacuating, all the reconnaissance teams were very confused, and at the front end, the two divisions were in formation, as if they were going to defend it strictly, but Gaoyou was moving here and was evacuating.

Soon, the news reached Dong Ku, who was nervously preparing to attack.

Dong Ku looked at the telegram and was shocked: "Not good! The Japanese army is going to give up Gaoyou, and it seems that they are also preparing for a decisive battle in Xuzhou! ”

Sun Tao and others hurriedly came to the map, and compared the retreat route of the Japanese army mentioned in the telegram, they found that it was unrealistic to intercept it, and the only way to speed up the attack on Gaoyou was to make more supplies too late to transport away, otherwise, Gaoyou would be an empty city.

Dong Kuyan didn't know that the Japanese army seemed to be preparing for a decisive battle, and they were also gambling, betting that they would be able to win on the battlefield in Xuzhou.

He didn't look at the map, put down the telegram and ordered: "Sun Tao, launch an attack on Gaoyou in advance, send a telegram to Yu Lei, let him capture Bengbu as quickly as possible, enter the Xuzhou Theater, occupy Suzhou, and transfer the second transport brigade to ensure the supply of ammunition to Yu Lei!" ”

"Yes!"

Sun Tao, who was looking at the map, received orders loudly, and then orders were issued one by one.

The army was busy preparing to march to Gaoyou, and after receiving the order, the self-propelled artillery and all the trucks started first, and the troops, marching overnight, rushed to Gaoyou.

Lao Zhao's army also received an order to advance in concert, and as soon as he crossed the Jiajiang River, he ordered his troops to rush to Gaoyou's flank.

Yu Lei, after receiving Sun Tao's telegram order, after simple communication with Gu Zhutong, also ordered the mechanical troops to be in front and the infantry to advance to Bengbu overnight, striving to seize a favorable position on the battlefield, that is, Suzhou. (To be continued......)