"Commander Gao, Commander Chen sent the Fifth Division to transport away all the Japanese weapons and ammunition of a reorganized division near Yiyang." Operations Staff Lin Haihui reported.
Gao Jianwu looked at the position of the fifth division on the map, nodded, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He had succeeded in forcibly increasing the HP and mana of the surrounding friendly forces, and his flanks would be more assured in the future.
After opening up the connection with the Dabie Mountain base area, the Jianghan Cluster began to connect with surrounding friendly forces.
Gao Jianwu, who always pays attention to the cooperation between friendly forces, immediately communicated with Commander Chen via telegram to discuss the cooperation between the two sides. Although Commander Chen's base areas in the south and north of the Yangtze River are also developing well, weapons and ammunition have always been the most important factor restricting their development.
After all, not everyone is cheating. Commander Chen's department relies entirely on capturing the Japs and puppet troops to develop his department. Life is considered to be one of the more difficult among various base areas at the moment.
Due to the limited combat terrain and combat targets, it is now difficult for Commander Chen to engage in large-scale annihilation battles and obtain seizures. After all, his own weapons and equipment are poor. The reinforcements from the better Japs in Jiangnan and Jiangbei are also very fast. Even the Japs at the annihilation squadron level are not good. Operation, let alone the little devils at the brigade level.
After the rise of Gao Jianwu in this time and space, because the distance was too far, they did not receive a wave of dividends from Gao Jianwu's development and expansion of the military industry.
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Relatively speaking, in the past year or so, various base areas around Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan have received a batch of weapons and ammunition produced by Jinyang Arsenal, especially 60mm mortars and Type 43 assault rifles.
These two weapons are powerful and relatively easy to transport. They are a great enhancement for guerrillas and main force groups that mainly rely on guerrilla warfare. After the guerrillas in these places are equipped with a certain amount of new weapons, they can fight against squad and squadron-level imps. The number of annihilation battles suddenly increased many times.
Therefore, these troops are getting stronger as they fight.
The New Fourth Army was a little behind in terms of geography and missed the first wave of dividends. But now that Gao Jianwu has reached the next door, he will not lose to them. He doesn't have much else in his hands, and he really has a lot of weapons and ammunition from the captured Japs. Remaining.
From Hunan to Hankou, the main force of the Japs was annihilated, with more than a dozen divisions. However, if we expand more than a dozen guard regiments and more than 30,000 new main troops, less than half of them will be used. If the New Fourth Army is there, There are as many transportation capabilities as you need!
Gao Jianwu is so arrogant now!
Of course Commander Chen would not be polite, but there were currently only two divisions close to Gao Jianwu's base area, which made Commander Chen fall into trouble. He first approached the fifth division of Yiyang to receive a wave, and took away the 101st Division's troops. Seize, this is a reorganized division, let the Fifth Division gather most of the troops before transporting them back.
The main reason is that big guns such as mountain artillery and infantry artillery are difficult to deal with. When they first discussed it, they did not say that Gao Jianwu could provide a large number of artillery. Instead, they provided 3 artillery battalions with a total of 54 mountain artillery and infantry artillery. The package also provides 3 basic shells, which is a bit large and cannot be taken away by the fifth division at once.
Another group of cadres was assembled from behind, and many large carts and mules and horses were gathered before they happily brought out the artillery and artillery shells.
All of a sudden, the Fifth Division was extremely rich!
When this news came out, the Second Division could not sit still even as far away as Huainan. It concentrated its two main traveling armies for hundreds of kilometers, alerting the surrounding little devils, thinking that they were going to do something big.
For a time, everyone in the small and medium-sized strongholds was in danger, but they did not expect that the Second Division would rush directly to the Dabie Mountains without even looking at the unblocked strongholds.
They finally joined forces with Kong Jie's Ministry who had broken through here. After receiving weapons from the newly eliminated brigade from Kong Jie's Ministry, they also received a reorganized division's full set of Japanese weapons and several bases specially transported from the port by Gao Jianwu. of ammunition.
In terms of artillery, Gao Jianwu also generously provided 3 artillery battalions, which greatly expanded the strength of the Second Division. Commander Chen immediately created 2 super reorganized divisions!
After receiving the goods, Commander Chen became very arrogant. He felt that he could not let the Fifth Division and the Second Division run so far in vain, so he simply asked them to prepare for a major counterattack in the Huaihai area.
The starting point is the Dabie Mountains where Yiyang and the Second Division join forces with Kong Jie. They open their arms to prepare to take the Lianghuai River in their hands. At the same time, they will completely open up the strategic channel from the Lianghuai River to the Dabie Mountains and establish a new Lianghuai base area, together with the Jianghan cluster, Hubei and Henan. The Anhui base areas are connected together, and you can go directly to the seaport from Yiyang and Dabie Mountain respectively!
It is equivalent to opening up another channel for Gao Jianwu's Nanyang material supply. Although the transportation of this channel is quite complicated, the Huaihe River can directly reach Yiyang from the seaside and then transfer to Hankou. Compared with the Yangtze River waterway that has not been opened now, The reliability and capacity of this channel are relatively impressive.
Of course, Gao Jianwu strongly supported this plan, and directly dispatched a part of the main force of Kong Jie's department and the main force of the air force to coordinate operations, on the one hand to solve the threat of the local Japanese air force, and on the other hand to participate in ground attack and other combat tasks.
Commander Chen, who received strong reinforcements, used the Second Division and the Fifth Division as two arrows and began to concentrate the main force to launch a war of annihilation in the Huaihe and Huaihe areas.
With the support of more than 100 artillery pieces provided by Gao Jianwu, the siege capabilities of the Second Division and the Fifth Division increased dramatically, and they were unstoppable along the way. The Fifth Division was north of the Huaihe River and even defeated Yingzhou (Fu/Yang), Suzhou, and the Fourth Division. The main forces of the divisions gathered together to threaten Xuzhou;
The second division, with the cooperation of Kong Jie's troops, quickly captured the two large cities of Shouchun (Huai/nan) and Dangtu. The main force went south to attack the city and seize the territory. It joined forces with the third division and pointed at Huaiyin. The two Huaihe lands were reporting frequent victories every day. .
Since this battle was mainly about encirclement and annihilation, not only were a large number of weapons and equipment of the Japs captured, but a large number of puppet troops were also mobilized to instigate rebellion. The troops participating in the war were constantly replenished, and the snowball snowballed the security of more than one division of the Japs in the Huaihe River. Catch all the troops and more than 4 puppet military divisions in one fell swoop!
Relying on the rich captures from this battle, the Third Division and the Fourth Division suddenly became rich. The strength of Commander Chen's Department more than doubled, and the number of reorganized and local security second-line troops also more than doubled.
Forcibly building a base area bordering Hubei, Henan, and Anhui to the east, and connecting the Qilu base area and the New Lianghuai base area to the north, completely cutting off the Jinpu line. In addition, the First Division also stepped up its offensive in northern Jiangsu to prepare to connect the two Huaihe base areas. The strategic situation suddenly changed. In order to improve, it also provided strong support for Gao Jianwu's flanks.
Now northern Anhui and northern Jiangsu have almost become Commander Chen's territory. The only threats to the east of Gao Jianwu are enemies from the direction of Jinling and Magic City.
Although there are still Japs in big cities in other areas, there are no Japs from five or six divisions without the support of a large number of air forces. They dare not come to Hankou to touch Gao Jianwu's tiger butt!
Looking around, I feel like I can finally concentrate on developing something.
But Gao Jianwu did not expect that Major General Smith, who had not been in contact for a while, suddenly sent a telegram inviting Gao Jianwu to attend a high-level Allied meeting in Hong Kong and Kowloon.
But Major General Smith did not reveal at all what the meeting was about in his telegram.
Gao Jianwu was a little hesitant as to whether he should go to this meeting or not. After all, his allies are far apart now. Frankly speaking, primitive accumulation has been completed, and he can continue to develop himself now that he no longer relies on the Allies.
From this perspective, it’s okay for him to go or not.
Gao Jianwu, who was sitting at the command post, checked the map repeatedly, especially the southeastern coastal area. My mind was constantly speculating on the purpose of this Allied meeting, and I suddenly looked at Southeast with one foot in a daze.
An idea suddenly flashed into my mind, and it became increasingly crazier. Like a burning flame that is out of control.
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"Gao, I knew you would come, and my guess was absolutely correct." Major General Smith embraced Gao Jianwu as enthusiastically as ever.
"Hello, John, long time no see!" Gao Jianwu also patted Major General Smith's shoulder. After all, this international friend was a great blessing to the expeditionary force group. In a very short period of time, he helped Gao Jianwu complete the original mission. Although objectively speaking, Gao Jianwu has helped them attract and annihilate a large number of Japs, greatly reducing their casualties.
However, Major General Smith's help to the expeditionary force cluster was also real. Without Major General Smith's help, Gao Jianwu would not have been able to obtain so many weapons and equipment. Gao Jianwu must recognize this favor.
"It's true that we haven't seen each other for a long time, but seeing your spirit as always, I feel relieved. Gao, this time, we have a chance to do something big." Major General Smith said to Gao Jianwu mysteriously.
Sure enough, I knew that this must be a new large-scale strategic plan by the Allies. Gao Jianwu thought to himself, if he guessed correctly, he must now want to launch an island-hopping tactic, and there are only a few targets to choose from.
Major General Smith did not know that his simple remarks made Gao Jianwu think of many things. On the one hand, this benefited from Gao Jianwu's memory of history, and on the other hand, he also understood the beautiful country's high-level thinking in this regard.
They were tired of fighting off island after island in the Pacific.
This does not just mean that military casualties are huge and protracted.
According to the original time and space, their patience will not last long, and they will soon release the ultimate move to end everything.
But in this time and space, Gao Jianwu wanted to make a change.
After all, it turns out that the timing of the end of the war in time and space was very suitable for the beautiful country, and they reaped the greatest dividends of the war.
But this is not the case for China, because its strength is too weak. This resulted in a victorious country not receiving the respect it deserved, let alone receiving reasonable war dividends.
But now Gao Jianwu vaguely feels that he has a major opportunity to change all this.
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Stepping into the Allied Forces' temporary headquarters in Hong Kong and Kowloon, Gao Jianwu felt dizzy as time and space were confused. Some characters he had only seen in history books and movies suddenly appeared in front of him.
The seat was filled with the five-star General Mike, the commander-in-chief of the Western Pacific, who was smoking a pipe, the General Lemonbottom who always maintained an aristocratic demeanor in the Southeast Asian theater, the four-star General Steven who had just been promoted, and a group of generals who could not be named. The headquarters conference room.
"General Mike, General Montbatten, General Steven, and our distinguished guest Commander-in-Chief Gao are here!" Major General Smith led Gao Jianwu into the conference room and reported to the three Allied giants sitting in the middle.
"Welcome Commander-in-Chief Gao, please take a seat!" Five-star General Mike nodded slightly and motioned Gao Jianwu to sit in the empty seat second to him, while Major General Smith's position was obviously at the bottom.
In other words, Major General Smith had the lowest status among these people, which shows the high standard of this meeting.
Facing the generals and lieutenant generals in this room, Gao Jianwu didn't have any stage fright and acted quite calmly. For him, he basically has no desire for the Allied Forces, so Gao Jianwu does not feel the need to lick these beautiful countries and the British military giants who may be famous in history.
"Thank you General Mike for the invitation, but I don't have any military rank now. Just call me Gao or Mr. Gao." Gao Jianwu replied politely.
Because he refused the arrangement of the principal's Ninth Route Army designation, Gao Jianwu is actually still a gangster, including his Jianghan Cluster, which is actually recognized within the Eighth Route Army. Outside, he does not even have a designation, let alone a formally appointed military rank.
Therefore, among this group of generals, Gao Jianwu seems somewhat out of place.
"Commander Mike, I regret that an outsider was invited to participate in our high-level meeting of the Allied Forces." Gao Jianwu had just sat down here when a general with the rank of three-star lieutenant general jumped out and raised questions about General Mike's arrangements. objection.
Obviously, some generals did not know Gao Jianwu and knew nothing about Gao Jianwu's past achievements.
Most of what they heard was the defeat of the Chinese soldiers along the way, and even the country had lost more than half.
"General Hill, if your 11th Army can complete the next mission, I will be happy to end the meeting immediately and hand over the combat mission to you." General Mike stared at the Lieutenant General named Hill and slowed down his voice. said.
"The man in front of you has left a record of destroying more than a dozen Japanese divisions in the Southeast Asian peninsula. General Hill, how many Japanese divisions has your 11th Army killed so far?" Steve on the side General Wen said with a finishing blow.
General Hill lowered his head in silence. He obviously did not expect that Gao Jianwu was such a god of war. Being able to kill several small Japanese divisions would make him a famous general in this beautiful country. Such a famous general title was obviously not something he could afford. .
General Hill's episode made all the generals who didn't know Gao Jianwu feel solemn.
Sure enough, anyone who can step into this room is not an ordinary person, even if he has yellow skin.
"Oh, Gao, this is just an insignificant detail. I believe you won't mind. Compared to most of the people here, you are fully worthy of the title of a famous general." Shi, who had a great impression of Gao Jianwu General Tivin said with a smile.
"General Steven, Gao recently led his troops to annihilate more than ten Japanese divisions. They annihilated the 21st Japanese Army in South China. In central China, they disabled the 11th Japanese Army and severely damaged the 11th Japanese Army. The 12th Army, General Gao is the well-deserved nemesis of the little Japanese." Major General Smith stood up and introduced General Steven's explanation.
After listening to the generals present, the expressions of those who were unfamiliar with Gao Jianwu changed. Some of them may have simply heard of Gao Jianwu's reputation, but those were all achievements in Southeast Asia. They thought that Gao Jianwu had the cooperation of the Allies. The victory they just won was due to the Allied air superiority, which was able to turn all the Japs' heavy weapons into scrap metal. It was no surprise to them that they could defeat such a Japs division.
After all, the generals and lieutenant generals who can sit here all command an army or several armies, and none of them has annihilated a small Japanese division. But they didn't expect that Gao Jianwu would still be able to annihilate legions of little Japanese without the help of the Allies and return home. This was not easy.
Anyone who has actually fought against the Japs knows that without the fire suppression of the Air Force and Navy, as well as the Army's weapons and equipment far superior to those of its opponents, it is still a question whether the Army infantry can win under the same conditions with a force of 1:1.
What's so miraculous about Gao Jianwu? He can actually form a legion to eliminate the little devils.
Now, no one dares to say that Gao Jianwu is not qualified to participate in this meeting. These people are all old and mature. They now knew the reason why Gao Jianwu was called here.
If you can hit one person in this way, it is of course more cost-effective to use it to deal with those little devils who are difficult to beat.
"Gao, it was me who urged you to come to this meeting." General Steven looked at the generals around him and saw that no stubborn generals stood up to object, and then said to Gao Jianwu with a smile.
"Our cooperation in the Southeast Asian peninsula has been seamless and effective. Now we have to open a springboard to attack the local area. I think in this great battle, Gao, you will not be willing to be absent, right? Next, let's listen to General Mike. Plan." General Steven finished the matter briefly and passed the topic back to General Mike.
"Okay, generals, let us return our attention to the battle plan. This time we have two targets to choose from, one is Luzon Island and the other is Bay Bay!" General Mike opened the map and began to explain a new campaign plan.
Sure enough, Gao Jianwu heard something in Steven's heart. The beautiful country finally couldn't bear the island-by-island fighting on the Pacific islands. On the one hand, it was protracted and on the other hand, it caused heavy casualties.
Now they have begun to decide to jump islands to approach the Little Japanese homeland, and then force the Little Japanese to surrender by constantly attacking their homeland.
This was the tactic used in the original time and space. In this time and space, he was just a little ahead of schedule. The reason was because of Gao Jianwu's sudden appearance. The Japs were the first to be defeated in Southeast Asia. In Operation No. 1, Gao Jianwu directly choked him to death in the two lakes.
Gao Jianwu understood clearly in his heart that he had a complete understanding of General Mike's plan before they finished talking.
When General Mike finished explaining the entire plan, it was as expected by Gao Jianwu. This plan has two options, one is to attack Luzon Island directly, and the other is to attack Wanwan.
In General Mack's preference, he was to attack Luzon first. After all, he fell down here, and he wanted to get up again from here.
It was there that he commanded hundreds of thousands of American troops and was destroyed. Speaking of which, this so-called famous general is indeed a bit unworthy of his reputation.
But it was no match for the beautiful country's strong national power. The dumpling-like aircraft carriers and battleships held the little Japanese's combined fleet at sea. The equipment of the army and air force far exceeds that of the little devils. So he came back in the past two years.
However, in Gao Jianwu's view, his plan to attack Luzon Island first is of little use in attacking the Japanese mainland. After all, the distance is too far. It takes about 2,000 kilometers to fly from here to the little devil's homeland. Most of the beautiful country's bombers cannot make a round trip.
However, Gao Jianwu hadn't figured out what they wanted to do yet, so he sat here quietly and listened to their non-stop discussion. In general they were divided into two groups. One faction supports General Mike's plan to attack Luzon Island. The other group supports General Steven's plan to attack Wanwan first.
General Steven also had the support of Admiral Nimitz, a heavyweight in the Navy.
After all, anyone without prejudice can see Wanwan's unique strategic position. Starting from there, we can attack not only the homeland of the Japs, but also the territories occupied by the Japs in East China in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
From a defensive perspective, the Japs deployed more troops on Luzon Island, a total of 280,000 people. On Wanwan Island, there are now only about 200,000 people. Many of them are still second-line troops, and many of the elite troops of the Little Devils have been sent to the Nanyang area.
Gao Jianwu listened to them arguing for a long time and felt a little bored.
However, he is very clear about his role and position, and he has the least say in this plan. If he guessed correctly, when the plan was finalized, they would ask him to send troops to participate in the plan.
So more often than not, Gao Jianwu is thinking about how to obtain new conditions. After all, he knew very well that no matter where he attacked, this combat mission would be relatively easy.
If he remembered correctly, in the battle on Luzon Island, the beautiful country had a rare battle loss ratio of 5 to 1. This was something we had never encountered in the bloody battles on the Pacific Islands.
The most important factor is that here, the little devils did not dig criss-crossing tunnels, and the beautiful country has very strong artillery support this time. Only then did they use 1:1 troops to achieve a battle loss ratio of 5:1.
And Gao Jianwu's application in artillery is even more superb. If he were allowed to participate in this battle, the battle loss ratio would be even more terrifying.
If nothing else goes wrong, Gao Jianwu will make a lot of money again this time. After all, there are more than 200,000 little Japs here. The explosive rewards of uniting the United States to fight will make people crazy.
This is one of the most important reasons why Gao Jianwu is willing to sit here and argue with these people.
