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    Just when he was fighting vigorously, he was transferred back to the headquarters at this time. His old partner Tao Jingfei didn't know the reason why he was transferred back.  But he still understands that obeying orders is a bounden duty. He was confused and didn't know what mistake he had made. Du Kaishan, who was replaced, returned to the headquarters on the plane that sent Tao Jingfei to replace him.  Yang Zhen, who received him personally, only handed him the battle plan drawn up by Chen Hanzhang and had no time to deal with this guy.

    Looking at the battle plan in hand, Du Kaishan was really confused this time and couldn't figure out what No. 1 was going to do.  Aren't Chen Hanzhang and Liu Changshun commanding the Western Front there?  Why do you want to see the battle plan on the Western Front?  Should I let myself replace Chen Hanzhang?  It's impossible. Chen Hanzhang is not himself, so he won't make mistakes easily.

    As the main combat direction is in the direction of Jilin, Du Kaishan, according to the confidentiality regulations of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, did not know that Chen Hanzhang was about to command an armored cavalry group to launch a large-scale and deep penetration operation in the direction of Suidong and Suizhong.  He thought that he was transferred back to the headquarters and ordered to familiarize himself with the situation in Western Manchuria in the shortest possible time. Chen Hanzhang had made some mistake and was to be replaced.

    Du Kaishan, who was confused and confused about the situation, looked at the busy No. 1 and No. 3, but he did not dare to ask the headquarters what it meant to transfer him back from the front line at this time.  I could only take the battle map and the battle plan drawn up by Chen Hanzhang in confusion, and start studying and thinking about it myself.

    Du Kaishan, who was carried back to the headquarters here, was confused. After receiving the order from the headquarters, Chen Hanzhang immediately handed over command to Liu Changshun.  And transferred Wang Minggui and Yang Jicai back to their headquarters.  As for the task of encircling and annihilating the Japanese troops in Sunit Right Banner and Zhengxiangbai Banner, it was given to the unified command of the division commander and political commissar of the 17th Division.

    After describing his next frontal battle plan and ideas to Liu Changshun in detail, Chen Hanzhang, who was a little worried, talked to Wang Minggui and Yang Jicai alone, and personally drafted a top-secret telegram to the headquarters before taking a plane and rushing to the headquarters.  The roundabout troops assembled in Sunit Left Banner.

    The roundabout troops assembled there at this time have already made preparations.  The huge armored mechanized cluster consisting of two tank regiments of the 1st Armored Division, 180 tanks, 60 armored vehicles, 340 half-track armored vehicles, and 300 American-made IWC trucks has already been prepared.  .

    The T-26 tanks among the two tank regiments of the 1st Armored Division have all been replaced by BT-7 tanks in accordance with Chen Hanzhang's request.  The trucks of the division's infantry regiment had long been replaced by German-made half-track armored vehicles transferred from the Soviet Union and the British.

    The division's artillery regiment and anti-aircraft artillery regiment have been modified using Italian tanks, and all equipment has been completed.  The entire division is now fully manned and well-equipped.  Excluding field refueling trucks and logistics support trucks, the entire division is fully mechanized.

    As for the two cavalry brigades, in addition to their own mounts, the headquarters made great efforts to provide the two cavalry brigades with a batch of supplementary horses before departure.  Although each person did not have a spare war horse, each of the four subordinate cavalry battalions had a hundred spare horses.  When running long distances, it is very critical whether the horsepower can be guaranteed.

    The equipment of the Fifth Division has also been adjusted accordingly according to the mission.  In addition to replacing all the Soviet-made GAZ trucks in the division's automobile battalion with American-made Dodge ten-wheel trucks, the headquarters also added a large number of draft horses to the division.  The regiment-level command organizations are all equipped with an American-made jeep and a German-made officer's command vehicle that was converted into a radio vehicle.

    Although most of the U.S-made equipment in early March was seized by the Soviets, some were still given to the cars.  Of the first batch of 100 jeeps from the US aid, in addition to 30 jeeps given to the advancing army, the remaining 70 jeeps were reinforced by Yang Zhen and used as a roundabout force.  There are also twelve German-made officer command vehicles exchanged from the Soviets.

    The artillery regiment of the division, in addition to the original structure, also added a 150 mm heavy mortar battalion.  The engineer battalion added two more companies to the original three companies.  Together with the regiment-affiliated engineering companies, the division's engineering establishment actually reached eight companies.

    The Thirteenth Automobile Regiment, which serves as the fifth transportation division, is also fully equipped with the latest American-made Dodge ten-wheel trucks and IWC five-ton trucks.  All the auto soldiers in the regiment are veterans with at least one year of military service.  And every car is equipped with a co-pilot.

    Not only the fifth division, except the cavalry, all participating troops have one American-made jeep for each regiment.  The regiment-level command structures are all equipped with radio trucks.  The entire army wore German-made steel helmets with sufficient ammunition.  The whole army held back their energy and wanted to fight the Japanese army decisively.

    These troops and a large number of attached equipment have been assembled in Sunit Left Banner.  All equipment has been completed?Inspection and maintenance to achieve the best condition.  Taking into account combat needs, in addition to fuel trucks, each tank of the 1st Armored Division is also equipped with two spare oil barrels.

    According to Yang Zhen¡¯s request, this roundabout force relies on the supplies it carries. The entire army, excluding fuel and artillery shells, must be able to guarantee self-sustainability for at least fifteen days without relying on airdrop supplies from the rear.  There is no way. For such a large force, it is difficult to meet the supply needs in the scheduled combat area.

    It is precisely because the Daqingshan guerrilla base area and the Shanxi-Sui Military Region suffered heavy losses due to frequent raids by the Japanese army, making it difficult to support the supply of such a large force.  The entire Suiyuan area was barren and the people were poor, and the food production was not much. Before the roundabout troops attacked, the Anti-Japanese Alliance tried their best to bring an extra batch of supplies.

    Among the supplies they carried, there were also a batch of weapons and ammunition for the Daqingshan guerrilla detachment, as well as gas masks.  In the continuous sweeps launched by the Japanese army last year, the extremely rare large-scale use of poison gas by the Japanese army was one of the main reasons for the failure of anti-mopping up operations in various base areas in North China.

    There were a large number of Japanese-made gas masks and a large amount of anti-gas equipment seized by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and the Kwantung Army's poison gas warfare had nowhere to play its role.  But the battlefield inside the pass is different. Whether it is the troops of the Eighteenth Group Army, the New Fourth Army, or the troops of the Nationalist Government, almost all of them are severely lacking in anti-toxic equipment.

    However, whether in the attack and defense on the frontal battlefield or in the sweep of the battlefield behind enemy lines, the Japanese army always regarded poison gas warfare as their trump card. The large-scale use of chemical weapons has become a common phenomenon for the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield.  It was these chemical weapons that caused considerable casualties to the squadron.

    Many battles that failed were not because the squadrons were not brave, nor because the Chinese were afraid of death.  In addition to some command problems, many battles were lost because of these chemical weapons.  The lack of anti-virus equipment, the lack of even the most basic replacement towels, and even the lack of necessary anti-virus knowledge, has brought an unbearable price to the squadron and the Chinese.

    The central government had previously requested the Anti-Japanese Alliance to allocate some gas masks to various base areas behind enemy lines.  It's just that the Anti-League's own reserves at that time simply could not meet the needs.  Even though Yang Zhen mobilized some of the combat troops, he was unable to meet such a large demand.  After the Soviets sold a batch, the dilemma was roughly resolved.

    This time, the Anti-Japanese Alliance specially transferred 2,000 German gas masks from the Soviets to the Daqingshan guerrilla detachment.  On the Soviet-German battlefield, although everyone had the ability to fight gas, no one used it tacitly as everyone had the ability to retaliate on a large scale.  For the Soviets, these gas masks were of no use on the Soviet-German battlefield. They might as well take the opportunity to get something from the Anti-Alliance.

    The Soviets not only handed over all captured German gas masks to the Anti-Alliance.  At the end of January, at the price of 5 million US dollars, 5,000 tons of wheat, 10,000 tons of corn, 3,000 tons of meat, 300,000 gas masks in stock, and a batch of anti-virus equipment were all sold to the Anti-League.

    After the arrival of this batch of supplies, Yang Zhen, in addition to changing the uniforms of the advancing army, handed over many parts to various bases in the pass.  Before the roundabout troops set off, Yang Zhen allocated two thousand weapons to the roundabout troops according to the current strength of the Daqingshan Guerrilla Detachment and handed them over to the Daqingshan Guerrilla Detachment.

    After arriving at Sunit Left Banner, Chen Hanzhang held a combat meeting to deploy the combat plan.  At 4 o'clock in the morning on the 26th, we detoured through the group, with the 1st Tank Regiment of the 1st Armored Division and the 1st Cavalry Brigade as the left and right lead respectively. The troops divided into two lines along the border of Outer Mongolia and inserted directly into the Siziwang Banner and  The front line of Maoming'an Banner.

    At this moment, the main force of the Japanese and Mongolian troops are in fierce battles with the anti-alliance forces breaking through in the Sunit Right Banner and Zhengxiangbai Banner.  In this direction, only after the battle of Keshiketeng Banner last year, the commander-in-chief of the Puppet Mongolian Army Li Shouxin, who was made a bare commander, painstakingly collected a group of bandits from the Yinshan Mountains and reorganized two cavalry divisions of the Puppet Mongolian Army.

    These puppet Mongolian troops, who have basically no fighting power and are more than capable of disturbing the people, have seen such a large formation.  Seeing the tanks rushing over the mountains and plains, they collapsed on the spot without even a decent resistance.  Chen Hanzhang led the troops through circuitous routes and encountered almost no resistance along the way.  The trouble caused by these puppet Mongolian troops is not as much as the trouble caused by the terrain along this road.

    The imminent collapse of the puppet Mongolian army only increased Chen Hanzhang's worries.  Because these defeated puppet troops were not worth his time to pursue.  But these are all cavalry puppet troops, but they can report messages to the Japanese army.  With the operational efficiency of the Japanese army, they would not sit idly by and ignore the situation after learning the whereabouts of the outflanking troops.

    With most of its own forces on the eastern front and the strength in the Suiyuan area relatively empty, large-scale mobilization is unlikely.  However, according to changes in the situation,Adjusting the defense posture will definitely be done.  Especially since, at least for now, it still occupies a favorable terrain.

    If the Japanese army really wants a decisive battle with him, Chen Hanzhang will not be anxious, but will also be very excited.  With the troops and strength in his hands, even if a division comes, there is nothing to worry about.  But what worries Chen Hanzhang is that if the Japanese army blocks the passes of the Yinshan Mountains in advance, it will cause great trouble for the roundabout troops to move south across the Yinshan Mountains, and even delay the entire campaign.

    Chen Hanzhang, who knew that time is victory and time is a fighter opportunity, did not order the pursuit of the puppet Mongolian army that collapsed on the spot.  Instead, he commanded the troops to gallop westward without making any stops along the way, except for a short break for tank drivers and truck drivers to rest.

    ¡°The landforms along this route are covered with grasslands and Gobi landforms that lack rivers, which also creates innate conditions for the rapid assault of this intersecting force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.  The flat terrain of the prairie and Gobi is suitable for the anti-alliance armored forces to carry out large-scale penetration operations.

    Although Chen Hanzhang also knows that this kind of terrain is only part of the terrain that he may encounter in this battle.  The real test is yet to come across the most dangerous Daqing Mountains in the middle section of the Yinshan Mountains.  But after all, this pair of Chen Hanzhang's interweaving troops is a good start.

    Chapter 179: Time is victory:
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