Datong, the 36th Army Command.

When we learned that Tangshan was successfully restored, everyone was confident and inspired, and they were in a very relaxed and happy mood. Many soldiers in the command center were much lighter in their work.

In the command hall, the senior executives of the 36th Army were also happy. As Tangshan was restored, the subsequent battle would be much easier.

Now, everyone has a lot of choices. They can either restore Peking and Tianjin, or attack Shijiazhuang, and advance from the south to the Beijing-Tianjin area.

Logically speaking, there are now a large number of troops of the 36th Army outside the Tianjin area. They should attack Peking or Tianjin first, but Zhang Yunfei has his own ideas.

Zhang Yunfei is preparing to attack Shijiazhuang first this time.

Having a plan in his heart, Zhang Yunfei smiled and said, "Comrades, we have now recovered Tangshan. The next goal is to attack Shijiazhuang."

"Oh! Do we want to attack Shijiazhuang for the next target?"

Many people were surprised. Everyone did not expect that Zhang Yunfei would attack Shijiazhuang.

Zhang Yunfei looked around and saw that everyone was puzzled, and couldn't help but explain patiently: "Comrades! Peking and Tianjin are the two largest cities in North China. If we revive these two cities in the next stage, according to our strength, there will definitely be no problem."

After a moment of pause, he cleared his throat, Zhang Yunfei immediately continued: "However, because these two places are important places in North China, the Japanese will have a very fierce resistance, and maybe our losses will be greater."

"If we restore Shijiazhuang first, it would be much easier to fight. According to information, the Japanese are currently only two and a half divisions in Shijiazhuang and its surrounding areas. The 54th Division, which was crippled by us, can only be considered half a division at best."

"We have more than 30,000 people in the 1st Column outside Shijiazhuang and more than 10,000 people in the 7th Column. In addition, the Eighth Route Army in North China can also cooperate with us in combat. So, if we attack Shijiazhuang, we will be much easier."

After hearing Zhang Yunfei's words, everyone slowly gave up their plan to attack Peking or Tianjin immediately, and instead decided to attack Shijiazhuang the next step.

So everyone expressed their support for Zhang Yunfei's decision and attacked Shijiazhuang in the next stage.

Seeing everyone's unification, Zhang Yunfei immediately said seriously: "Send a report to Yan'an immediately and explain the situation. In the next stage, we will restore Shijiazhuang and ask the Eighth Route Army to cooperate with us in the battle."

The 36th Army has more than 50,000 troops outside Shijiazhuang, and the Air Force can also cooperate in combat, and is fully capable of dealing with the Japanese devils in Shijiazhuang. Zhang Yunfei said in a telegram that asking the Eighth Route Army to cooperate in combat is a manifestation of lowering his attitude.

Now, as the 36th Army becomes increasingly powerful and has established great military achievements one after another. In order to reassure the central government, Zhang Yunfei usually puts his posture very low.

Not long after, a telegram was sent to Yan'an. On the same day, Yan'an replied, agreeing to the decision of the 36th Army.

In fact, Zhang Yunfei first wants to restore Shijiazhuang, and he still has his own ideas. However, the time is not yet ripe and cannot tell everyone.

First of all, by restoring Shijiazhuang, Zhang Yunfei could lead the Eighth Route Army to advance northward. At present, the Eighth Route Army has more than 300,000 regular troops, and the weapon status has improved greatly compared to before.

Zhang Yunfei planned to lead the Eighth Route Army to advance northward, and then restore the important places of North China, Beiping and Tianjin. The 36th Army only needs to grasp a few big cities, and some small and medium-sized cities can be handed over to the Eighth Route Army.

In this way, the entire North China will be restored, and the big cities in North China will be controlled by Zhang Yunfei, and more than half of the small and medium-sized cities should be controlled by the Eighth Route Army.

At present, the ** in North China are also launching a tentative attack on the Japanese and have also restored several small counties.

Zhang Yunfei predicted that with his victory, as long as the Japanese devils were defeated, this tentative attack of ** will immediately become an active attack, and ** will immediately seize the territory.

Therefore, Zhang Yunfei must control the area and quantity of the territory, preferably the restoration of North China, which is basically the same as the small and medium-sized cities controlled by the Eighth Route Army.

However, without his own help, the Eighth Route Army would definitely not be able to seize nearly one million ** without his own help. Therefore, Zhang Yunfei must make efforts to keep the two sides at a basic balance, preferably at the same time.

This is not only true in North China, but also in the process of restoring the whole country in the future. Only by maintaining this balance can we avoid civil war after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.

By then, if the War of Resistance Against Japan is victorious, the areas controlled by the Eighth Route Army are basically the same, and the strength of the two armies is almost the same. At that time, even if someone wants to fight a civil war, he should look at his attitude and see if the officers and soldiers of the 36th Army agree.

As a time traveler, Zhang Yunfei does not want a civil war, so from now on, Zhang Yunfei must work hard to maintain this balance and form a three-legged situation in which the Eighth Route Army, **, and the 36th Army are in harmony.

Of course, these are just what Zhang Yunfei thought. At present, we cannot tell you. However, if time is ripe in the future and if there is a chance, Zhang Yunfei will communicate with several senior executives of the 36th Army.

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On the third day after the restoration of Tangshan, the battle to restore Shijiazhuang also began.

The First Column has been besieging Shijiazhuang for a while. Everyone has already made all preparations and everyone has long wanted to try it out.

Some time ago, I saw that various columns were liberation of Chengde and Qinhuangdao, and severely damaged the reinforcements of the Japanese Kwantung Army. The day before yesterday, Tangshan was liberation.

Seeing that the columns were fighting so well, the 1st Column was still holding its troops, but they were just confronting the Japanese soldiers stationed in Shijiazhuang. Whether it was the soldiers or the commanders of various troops, everyone could no longer hold back.

Today, as soon as each regiment received the combat orders conveyed by the 1st Column, the soldiers cheered and happily made the final preparations before the attack.

Comrade Wang Haiyang, the commander of the 1st Column, also had a rosy face and was energetic holding a telescope, watching the soldiers moving forward in the distance from afar.

Further away, Wang Haiyang could even vaguely see a large number of fortifications built by the Japanese. There was no natural danger outside Shijiazhuang City, and the surroundings were filled with endless and very flat North China Plain.

In order to protect the big city of Shijiazhuang, the Japanese built a large number of fortifications, long trenches, solid cement strongholds within dozens of kilometers outside Shijiazhuang, and even barbed wire fences were drawn in some places.

In the past few days, the Japanese saw that a large number of troops of the 36th Group were on the verge of attack on Shijiazhuang. The Japanese quickly built some fortifications. Seeing that the 36th Group Army had a large number of chariots, the Japanese also dug some anti-tank trenches temporarily.

This time, the policy adopted was to encircle Shijiazhuang. The first column was all, the 7th column had more than 10,000 people, and more than a dozen regiments of the Eighth Route Army troops who came to participate in the war in the past two days.

With so many troops, they slowly advance from all directions, and will break through the defense lines built by the Japanese, and finally achieve the goal of completely annihilation of the Japanese and restoring Shijiazhuang.

As for the Japanese reinforcements, don’t worry for the time being. The Japanese troops in the Beijing-Tianjin area can only protect themselves at present, and they cannot temporarily draw the people who go south to reinforce Shijiazhuang.

The Japanese troops in Shandong and Henan are not able to relieve near-term thirst. Even if the Japanese want to mobilize troops to reinforce from these areas, the distance is too far, and the second is to attack many Eighth Route Army and ** defense areas. As long as the Japanese troops come to reinforce, they will definitely be blocked by the Eighth Route Army and **. If there is no ten days or half a month, they will be afraid that they will not reach Shijiazhuang.

Because of this, Zhang Yunfei dared to adopt such a bold offensive strategy, pressing all the troops outside Shijiazhuang up and attacking the Japanese from all sides at the same time without considering their own backs.

In order to adopt such a tactic, Zhang Yunfei waited for two days, and after all the more than a dozen regiments of the Eighth Route Army that participated in the war reached the periphery of Shijiazhuang, he began to order the troops to launch an attack.

Putting down the telescope, Wang Haiyang, commander of the 1st Column, looked at his watch. It was eight o'clock and the general attack time was about to come.

Sure enough, a signal flare rose slowly into the sky in the distance, sending a dazzling light. Many soldiers saw this signal flare, and everyone knows that the general attack has begun.

The first thing that was attacked by the soldiers was the outermost line of defense of the Japanese. This line of defense was at least ten kilometers away from Shijiazhuang, and many Japanese were stationed in the defense line.

Many Japanese devils also saw the signal flares launched by the 36th Army. Many Japanese devils thought, is the 36th Army on the opposite side going to start an attack?

Sure enough, the attack of the 36th Army immediately began.

Led by tanks, armored vehicles and off-road vehicles, tens of thousands of soldiers slowly approached the Japanese's outer defense line.

This time, the attack was the outermost defense line of Shijiazhuang. Most of the soldiers participated in the battle. In order to deal with the huge attack of the Chinese team, the Japanese also held 30,000 to 40,000 troops on the outer defense line.

With the troops of the 36th Army of tens of thousands, more than a dozen Eighth Route Army units launched an attack on the Japanese, and the battle immediately became fierce.

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