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    At present, the huge number of tanks and trucks on the battlefield in northern Shanxi are all oil-drinking tigers. Although the amount of oil seized in Guisui is quite large, under such huge consumption, the inventory is declining extremely fast, and the average daily consumption  The amount also exceeded Chen Hanzhang's original judgment.

    The huge consumption of oil every day, in the words of the boss, does not have to go to the warehouse to see it every day, just looking at the loss report will make people feel frightened. And as the front moves southward, the daily oil consumption  Still increasing.

    Under the increasing consumption, the oil that had been responsible for the main oil supply in the northern Shanxi battlefield was now running out of oil seized in Guisui. When Yang Jicai moved to Taiyuan City, only half of the oil and aviation fuel seized were transferred  In addition to being used as reserves in northern Shaanxi, the actual number transferred to the battlefield in northern Shanxi is not very large.

    And the most important thing is that the amount of diesel required for T34 tanks is very small. Only a hundred were seized in Guisui. No diesel was seized in Taiyuan. Although the amount of fuel seized there was large, it was all gasoline and aviation.  Fuel, the fuel required by this kind of tank, itself all depends on transportation from the rear.

    There are still some reserves of gasoline, but they cannot last for long, and there are only 150 barrels of diesel reserves. These oils cannot even meet the needs of the troops for one day. It used to be to support wars and to partially solve the problem through seizures.  , it is now difficult to move around, and the amount of urgently needed aviation fuel shipped from the rear has now dropped to half of what it was before.

    Now most of the transportation force is used to transport more needed food. Even so, the need for food can only barely meet the requirements. At present, in order to ensure the supply of the battlefield in northern Shanxi, the headquarters has reached the point where it will do anything at all costs. In addition,  Chen Hanzhang is still very aware of the pressure on the logistics department due to the loading of ammunition and the increase in fuel transportation.

    Although he didn't know how much fuel the headquarters had stored before the war, Chen Hanzhang knew that the headquarters' inventory must be running low now, otherwise there would be no call on the 1st. In order to ensure the supply of ammunition, fuel and food for the northern Shanxi battlefield,  The headquarters has gradually begun to reduce its combat intensity in the Northeastern battlefield, and has switched from offense to defense in most battlefields.

    In addition to the operations around Siping Street, combat operations have even been suspended across the board in Dongman, and all troops on the battlefield in Dongman have been transferred to a defensive posture. The offensive of the advancing army in Chanan, in addition to the siege of Zhangjiakou, has been  Other directions also began to gradually weaken.

    What kind of troops are the newly transferred 10th Division being supplemented by? The two battalions of the headquarters guard regiment, the guard troops of the own armored training bases, the guard troops of the artillery and aviation training bases, plus the current headquarters  The only mobile engineering corps in hand.

    This shows that the effective strength in the hands of the headquarters has been basically exhausted and it can no longer provide additional troops. Otherwise, the headquarters would not have switched from offense to defense in the Northeast battlefield before achieving the intended combat purpose, and would have moved the majority of troops.  Some of the fronts were turned to defense.

    Judging from the current situation of the entire battlefield, it should be time to speed up the battle process and put the end of the battle on the agenda. However, Chen Hanzhang also knew that they would not give up the counterattack in a short time unless the Japanese army was completely hurt.  Thinking about northern Shanxi, the battlefield in northern Shanxi will not be stable for a day.

    In this case, Sui Changqing intervened and launched a counterattack against the main force of the 21st Division in Ying County. Although it caused a certain passivity in the overall layout, it was not necessarily a bad thing. As long as the main attacker was defeated,  With these two divisions, the Japanese counterattack was completely disintegrated.

    Especially the 21st Division, which was coordinating in the middle of the battlefield in northern Shanxi, once it was defeated, it would mean that the connection between the two wings of the Japanese army had been cut off. Therefore, Chen Hanzhang did not intend to hold Sui Changqing responsible for his unauthorized attack. On the contrary,  According to the progress of the war situation, some of his troops were increased.

    Since Yi Liangpin was unable to mobilize troops, he allocated the most urgently needed tank troops from Du Kaishan's battlefield in northeastern Shanxi to allow him to completely eliminate the enemy forces in front of Yingxian County in the shortest possible time.  On the front lines of Mayi and Zhangzhuang, the progress of the war also accelerated.

    Chen Hanzhang had made up his mind to completely defeat these two Japanese divisions before the arrival of the Japanese Fifteenth Division and subsequent reinforcements, that is, to deter possible follow-up troops from the Japanese army, and at the same time speed up the process of the battle.  Be prepared to end this battle.

    Although he is also very clear that this will bring some troubles to the counter-mopping up and operations in the Taihang and Jinsui regions, especially the inability to contain the 15th Division, which will bring considerable trouble to the operations in the Taihang and Jinsui regions.  pressure, but under the current unsustainable situation of logistics and military strength, he believed that it would be more appropriate to defeat these two divisions to terminate the battle.??'s.

    After completing all deployment adjustments, Chen Hanzhang drafted a telegram to the headquarters, giving a detailed report of his determination and considerations, especially his thoughts and intentions on terminating the battle, as well as the possible consequences.  Chen Hanzhang's report was quite detailed.

    After receiving Chen Hanzhang's telegram, Yang Zhen did not reply immediately. Instead, after repeated deliberation, solving the two Japanese divisions first would have an impact on the war situation, especially ending the northern Shanxi operation early, which would bring consequences to other directions on the Shanxi battlefield.  After the danger came, Yang Zhen finally approved Chen Hanzhang's suggestion.

    However, Yang Zhen requested that after the two divisions were resolved, Mu Changqiu's troops deployed in Nao County immediately moved west to join the battlefield in northwest Shanxi and speed up the resolution of the Zuojian detachment to prevent the Japanese army from going north to regain northern Shanxi.  Under such circumstances, he turned around and entered the battlefield in northwest Shanxi.

    And ordered Chen Hanzhang to find a way to mobilize all available forces to speed up the repair, widening and lengthening of Datong Airport. Now it is too late to convert it into a concrete runway, but in terms of take-off conditions, it must be as heavy as possible.  conditions for bombers to take off and land, and at the same time strengthen the alert and air defense work at Datong Airport to prepare for bombers to take off and land.

    After drafting the order to Chen Hanzhang, Yang Zhen personally called the aviation headquarters and ordered all its B-17 heavy bombers currently stationed in Western Manchuria to be ready for attack at any time. Except for the aviation units supporting the Taihang District operation, the rest  All bombers and attack aircraft currently use high-yield bombs and napalm bombs.

    After sending the telegram to Chen Hanzhang, Yang Zhen walked to the map and looked at the situation of the enemy and ourselves on the Northeast battlefield. He was silent for a long time before saying to Guo Bingxun next to him: "Lao Guo, on the Northeast battlefield, should we be ready now?"  Shift to a full-line defense posture.¡±

    In response to Yang Zhen's question, Guo Bingxun pondered for a moment and then said: "If we follow our current material reserves and soldier recruitment, we should switch to defense not only in the Northeast but also on the entire front. But the current situation, no matter which one  Neither side can stop the offensive. In the Northeast battlefield, we must persist even if we grit our teeth.¡±

    "On the 1st, our remaining fuel reserves, based on the current daily consumption, can last for up to half a month. Since the launch of this campaign, we have received a total of two thousand tons of fuel from foreign aid, and these two  One thousand tons of fuel is basically a drop in the bucket based on our current consumption.¡±

    "What's more, since the battle started, the external fuel we have received is mainly aviation gasoline, and most of the rest is diesel. The gasoline actually used for vehicles and gasoline tanks basically relies on  These are all our pre-war reserves.¡±

    "Because there are enough railway lines as the backbone transportation force in the Northeastern battlefield, the intensity of automobile use is far from comparable to that of the Western Front. The current amount of fuel consumed is not too large in general. Our fuel consumption is except for the northern Shanxi battlefield.  Except for the largest one, most of the rest was consumed in transporting supplies to the battlefield in northern Shanxi."

    "The hundreds of kilometers of supply lines from northern Shanxi to Tongliao are like a bottomless pit that is constantly devouring our fuel reserves. Coupled with the poor road conditions, the roads were muddy during the spring Dakai some time ago, which further increased our fuel reserves.  Attrition, we must either receive a large amount of assistance in a short period of time, or we can only give up mechanized equipment such as cars and tanks. "

    "In addition, since the launch of the campaign, the troops have been fighting continuously for nearly two months without any rest or replenishment. Not counting the huge number of casualties, the front-line combat troops are already extremely tired, and our troops are in various battlefields.  , there is no fully-manned division, not counting the troops that have been withdrawn for replenishment, now the front-line combat troops are generally only 70%, or even half have only 50% strength. "

    "This does not include the consumption of ammunition and the loss of other equipment. The inventory of artillery shells, especially the inventory of heavy artillery shells, is running low. Several tank shells, except for the British 40mm shells,  The rest of the artillery shell reserves have been exhausted, especially the lack of 45mm, 76mm, and 50mm high-explosive grenades.¡±

    "The Japanese army has very few tanks and armor left on the battlefield. Our tanks mainly face the Japanese infantry and various fortification groups. Without high-explosive grenades, our tanks can only crush and ram.  tactics, or use vehicle-mounted machine guns to destroy enemy forces.¡±

    "The situation we are facing now is that the reason why we terminated the battle last year is very likely to happen again this year. From this point of view, we have now reached the point where we have to switch to defense across the board, but the current battle situation requires us to  This last breath must not be relaxed.¡±

    "In the Northeast battlefield, as long as the fighting in other aspects continues, weNot only can the offensive not be slowed down, but it will even be strengthened. If we switch to defense in advance, the Japanese base camp is likely to dispatch reinforcements from the Northeastern battlefield to reinforce the North China battlefield. In that case, the war in Chanan and Northern Shanxi battlefields is likely to continue indefinitely.  The delay continues.  "

    "Once the war in northern Shanxi and southern Shanxi drags on, it will be a real disaster for us. Needless to say, if it drags on for a month, our supply line on the western front will be completely collapsed, and the base areas in the pass have already been  If we are unable to afford our army's supplies, or are unable to afford our army's supplies at all, once the supply line completely collapses, our army will collapse without a fight on the battlefield in northern Shanxi."

    "Without guns and artillery, we can use bayonets, but without food, our troops will completely collapse from hunger, let alone fighting or marching. The collapse of the most critical battlefield in northern Shanxi will cause a series of chain reactions.  It is even possible that all the achievements of our army on the Western Front will be wasted, and it will even affect the Advance Army and the Shanxi-Sui Military Region, as well as other base areas in North China."

    "For the Japanese army, Southern Manchuria is far more important than northern Shanxi. As long as our army maintains the momentum of attack on the northeastern battlefield, the Japanese army, which has also reached its maximum strength, will still have to ensure the success of Southern Manchuria.  Under such circumstances, it will be difficult to deploy too many troops to reinforce the North China battlefield, so that we can avoid the risk of prolonging the war on the Western Front. "This book was first published on 17K Novel Network, read the original content first!
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