Are you a spy? Killing the enemy is too cruel.

Chapter 630: Forging the Military Soul

Zhang Ye continued, "Commander, according to the intelligence gathered by our scouts, although the Japanese have deployed heavy troops in Taiyuan, they have also built many fortifications in the east of Taiyuan, on the route to Hebei."

The implication.

Once Taiyuan falls, the main force of Japan will immediately move eastward towards Hebei.

Ye Feng smiled and said, "This is the best. We chase them all the way and they flee all the way. It would be the best if they don't even defend Hebei, and even give up the areas of Beijing and Tianjin, and retreat directly to the three northeastern provinces."

In this way, by locking up Shanhaiguan, we can close the door and attack the enemies in the three northeastern provinces.

"Send a telegram to Commander Liu and Political Commissar Deng."

"Let them not insist on attacking one city after another. Time is precious. We must march south to Taiyuan as soon as possible and surround the enemy's main force."

"Let them take the route of Ningwu, Jingle and Xinzhou as soon as possible and bypass the big cities controlled by the enemy."

"Oh, I believe the enemy will be able to quickly determine our intentions. Tell Commander Liu and his men to make sure they have a strategic plan to launch an offensive while defending the rear."

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Commander Liu and Political Commissar Deng were both among the best high-ranking commanders of the underground party’s forces.

Their military command level is not much weaker than that of General Su.

then.

Ye Feng asked for help from Yan'an, telling them about the current complicated situation in Shanxi and making direct requests, hoping that Commander Liu and Political Commissar Deng would be responsible for the military support. Otherwise, according to the course of history, these two celebrities would not be able to form a command team so quickly!

"Commander, is it too risky to ask them to bypass the important cities and counties controlled by the enemy and head straight for Taiyuan?"

Zhang Ye continued:

"Liu, Deng's army now has less than 20,000 troops, and their weapons and equipment are poor. If they advance to Xinzhou, they will also be attacked from both sides, and will be attacked by the enemy from Taiyuan in the south and Yuanping in the north."

Ye Feng said, "Although the three columns don't have many soldiers, many of them are veterans of our underground party. Many of them walked through grasslands and snow-capped mountains and experienced countless dangers and deaths. The combat effectiveness of this unit is definitely extraordinary."

In Ye Feng's opinion, if a fight really broke out between Liu and Deng's troops, their combat effectiveness would definitely not be inferior to the main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army with the same number.

Your Kwantung Army is very powerful.

But we, the old underground party soldiers who have walked through grasslands and crossed snow-capped mountains, are not vegetarians either.

Ye Feng remembered that he had seen a report in his previous life.

It is said that there was a period when the underground party troops seemed to be in a bad state and their manpower was greatly reduced, but the combat effectiveness of the troops at that time was absolutely unprecedentedly strong.

The reason is very simple. There are no new recruits, no old or weak soldiers in the army. All of them are veterans who survived the Long March.

In terms of individual combat capability, these veterans of the underground party were stronger than the enemy's Kwantung Army.

This is not a fabricated statement or an exaggeration, and Ye Feng also believes that it is true.

He even fantasized about it.

If the 8 troops of the th Army are not new recruits, they are all veterans who have walked through the grasslands and snow-capped mountains in the past.

It is hard to imagine how terrifying the combat power of these 8 troops can be.

Especially when equipped with sufficiently advanced weapons and equipment, it will definitely be like a tiger with wings, able to defeat all enemies.

If there were really 8 veterans like a steel torrent, Ye Feng could directly sweep across Shanxi and Hebei.

"Report, on the left wing of our position, Captain Niu and his troops suffered heavy losses. Currently, there are more than a thousand casualties, most of whom died from incendiary bombs and artillery bombardments fired by the enemy."

"Report, the right wing of the position, led by Commander Zheng, suffered more than a thousand casualties in the face of the Japanese mad dog charge, but the position is still in our hands. Relying on the frontline position, the soldiers have repelled the enemy's first wave of offensive."

"Report, we have successfully eliminated over 3,000 enemy troops from Division Commander Song, and we have suffered only a few hundred casualties."

After understanding the last sentence, Ye Feng also became interested and asked, "Commander Song is very good at fighting!"

The messenger elaborated:

"Faced with the charge of tens of thousands of enemy troops, Division Commander Song divided the position into three parts, with fewer troops in the middle and heavy ambushes on both sides. When the enemy approached, the firepower networks on both sides opened fire crazily."

"Also, because there were few troops deployed in the middle, although the enemy's artillery fire was fierce, the casualties were not heavy."

Ye Feng said, "Tell Commander Song that in the next week, the enemy will definitely attack our position frantically regardless of cost or casualties. No matter what method he uses, we must hold the front position. At the same time, we must block the enemy while deepening the trenches and constantly strengthening the defense line."

Just as Ye Feng expected, the desperate Japanese had no intention of defending and only focused on attacking.

Day and night, rounds of mad dog-style bombings continued in an attempt to destroy the direction of the underground party's 12th Army.

There was continuous artillery fire and gunfire, as well as the sounds of charges, shouts, and screams.

The land was blasted into scorched earth, and the fighting became more intense day by day, but Ye Feng stayed in the command center, issuing various combat orders, dispatching troops for support, distributing supplies and so on.

This was the first time that Ye Feng sat firmly in the back and no longer led the team to charge.

He took his duties as a commander seriously.

Zhang Ye seemed very conflicted about this for a while, but what made him happy was that his commander finally stopped carrying a gun and charged into the front line under enemy fire. After all, as the highest military commander in the 12th Army, Ye Feng, as the commander, naturally had to stay in the rear, mobilize the army in the headquarters, and command the battle on the front line.

What made Zhang Ye sad was...

The casualties on the front line were too heavy. The daily death toll was shocking and heartbreaking.

Without Ye Feng's powerful firepower support, the fighting on the three battlefields was extremely fierce, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Five days.

The Japanese suffered more than 30,000 casualties, and the 12th Army was not in a good situation either, with casualties approaching 20,000. There were not many seriously injured or slightly injured, and the number of people who died in the battle was large, mainly because the enemy's firepower output was too terrifying.

"Commander, we have suffered too many casualties. Do you want to personally support the frontline battlefield?"

As a liaison clerk on the battlefield, Zhang Ye was suggesting to a commander that he should go to the front line and fight in person?

This kind of thing is almost impossible to happen in other troops.

Unless the troops are almost wiped out and the commander is almost left alone, he will only charge with a gun.

For Ye Feng, the situation is different.

"If I were on the front line to stop the enemy these days, there would definitely be thousands more Japanese soldiers who died at the hands of my gun."

Ye Feng said with emotion:

"But the soldiers of the 12th Army have always been under the protection of my firepower. How can they truly become elite soldiers on the battlefield?"

The super agent's addiction has seriously hindered the growth and transformation process of the Twelfth Army.

In the eyes of the soldiers, as long as the commander carried a gun and rushed to the front line, the weak would be able to defeat the strong and win a great victory.

This way.

How do the warriors grow?

Do not die in silence, but explode in silence.

This time, Ye Feng stayed in the commander's headquarters and let the soldiers bear the enemy's artillery fire and face the enemy's charge themselves, hoping that the soldiers of the 12th Army could truly be reborn in blood through dangerous situations.

As long as they can get through this hurdle, Ye Feng firmly believes that the 12th Army will definitely be able to forge its own military spirit, possess an iron will, and an indomitable determination to fight to the death.