At noon.

All the Japanese inside and outside Shijiazhuang City were wiped out. As the soldiers controlled all the urban areas, Shijiazhuang, a city that had been occupied by Japanese for more than two years, was completely restored at this time.

Now, the soldiers began to clean the battlefield, and the weapons and equipment of the three Japanese divisions were also gradually collected by the soldiers. In the future, all of these equipment will be handed over to the Eighth Route Army...

The Japanese's corpses were pulled out of the city by truck by truck. Many large pits that had been dug long ago will be the last destination of these Japanese.

When Shijiazhuang was completely recovered after learning that all the Japanese were wiped out, the people who had been terrified at home for several days also began to walk out of the house in large numbers.

Many ordinary people helped the soldiers clean the battlefield and the streets, and many ordinary people began to cheer and celebrate and go around and tell each other.

By the afternoon, the people even spontaneously organized yangge teams, dragon lion teams, waist drum teams, etc. On many streets, gongs and drums were loud and firecrackers were ringing.

Many military reporters, when they saw this scene, immediately pressed the shutter and freeze the festive scene on the photo forever.

Many young students in Shijiazhuang spontaneously organized a large parade and cast a large number of banners. Everyone took to the streets to celebrate the revival of Shijiazhuang.

Datong, the 36th Army Command.

Zhang Yunfei was in a good mood when he learned that Shijiazhuang was revived and the Japanese were wiped out.

"Comrades! Shijiazhuang is restored. We have achieved another major victory. The Voice of Datong and the Datong Daily will report this great victory in detail and declare the news of this number to the world."

Zhang Yunfei said happily to the top officials of the 36th Army.

"Commander-in-Chief! This time, the three Japanese divisions were completely wiped out. This is really exciting. Such good news. I think it should be made known to the people of the whole country as soon as possible."

Comrade Zuo Qingquan, the General Staff Director, also smiled and agreed happily.

Hearing this, Zhang Yunfei smiled, took a sip of tea, and then said, "Comrades, restoring Shijiazhuang can be said to be a major victory for our counterattack against North China. Next, our battle will be much easier, and we can attack the Beijing-Tianjin area from north to south."

After hearing what Zhang Yunfei said, everyone looked happy and thought to themselves, is the commander-in-chief about to attack Peiping, Tianjin and other places?

Seeing that everyone was looking at him with hope, Zhang Yunfei couldn't help but smile and said, "Comrades. Although the time for us to restore Peking and Tianjin is relatively ripe, I want to slow it down for the time being."

Hearing this, everyone was slightly surprised. Among them, the deputy commander-in-chief Liu Dazhu couldn't help but ask curiously: "Commander-in-chief, do you have any plans?"

Zhang Yunfei nodded gently. "Comrades, we have been fighting with the Japanese devils for two or three days. Everyone is tired. I want everyone to rest for three days for a while and go north after three days. What do you think?"

"Commander-in-Chief, if the troops are resting now, what should we do if some counties near Shijiazhuang are doing? Wouldn't we hurry up and restore the liberation?"

Comrade Deng Wenping, director of the General Political Department, was a little puzzled and asked immediately.

The others also had the same idea as Comrade Deng Wenping. Everyone believed that now was the best time to take the opportunity to restore these counties.

Now, several counties near Shijiazhuang are empty in their troops. In order to defend against the 36th Army and the Eighth Route Army tens of thousands of troops, it turns out that the Japanese garrisons stationed in the county have long been mobilized back to Shijiazhuang.

At present, the main ones stationed in these county towns are a small number of puppet troops. The combat effectiveness of the puppet troops is low. As long as they send small groups of troops, they can immediately recover these county towns.

Therefore, everyone is a little confused about why Zhang Yunfei didn’t take the opportunity to restore all these counties and completely control them.

Seeing everyone's doubts, Zhang Yunfei smiled slightly.

Zhang Yunfei explained patiently: "Comrades, when we eat meat, we must let the Eighth Route Army comrades drink some soup. We don't need to liberation of these county towns. I think the Eighth Route Army will send troops to liberation of these county towns soon."

After hearing what Zhang Yunfei said, everyone suddenly realized that these county towns were specially left to the Eighth Route Army by Zhang Yunfei.

Everyone did not expect that Zhang Yunfei was so generous and so wise, he gave these several counties to the Eighth Route Army. However, after thinking about it, he felt that it was not surprising that this time, Zhang Yunfei gave all the equipment of the three Japanese divisions seized by the Japanese.

In everyone's hearts, Zhang Yunfei's tall image has become more and more majestic and noble, and everyone admires Zhang Yunfei's selfless and generous spirit very much.

In fact, Zhang Yunfei did this with careful consideration.

As the 36th Army became more and more powerful, various advanced weapons were exposed to the world one after another, so it was necessary for Zhang Yunfei to maintain a low posture, especially in front of the central government.

As long as there is a chance, Zhang Yunfei will unconditionally help the Eighth Route Army and the Party Central Committee. Zhang Yunfei wants to use this method to gain everyone's favor towards him, while eliminating suspicion and reducing internal friction.

In addition, Zhang Yunfei must also strive to maintain a balance, so that the 36th Army, the Eighth Route Army and the ** will maintain a rough balance, and no one side can be too weak.

Of course, in Zhang Yunfei's heart, the most powerful one is the 36th Army, while the Eighth Route Army and ** are roughly the same strength.

But now, the most powerful one should still be **. Although the weapons are not as advanced as the 36th Army, they are too numerous and too large, at least several million, and the area they control is the largest.

The weakest one should be the Eighth Route Army, with a population of only more than 300,000, and it is mainly distributed in North China. It is basically established bases behind enemy lines, mainly in rural areas and few county towns.

Therefore, Zhang Yunfei has been helping the weakest Eighth Route Army to give up all these counties to the Eighth Route Army. Zhang Yunfei’s plan is to wait for the entire North China to be restored, and the strength of the Eighth Route Army will have a relatively large development, and there will be many small and medium-sized cities in the base area.

Zhang Yunfei's true thoughts may have been vaguely guessed by several senior executives of the 36th Army, but now the time is not yet ripe, and Zhang Yunfei doesn't want to tell you in detail.

Now, everyone agrees very much when Zhang Yunfei generously gave all these county towns to the Eighth Route Army. Everyone is very willing to see the growing strength of the Eighth Route Army, especially Comrade Zuo Qingquan and Comrade Deng Wenping.

Therefore, while admiring Zhang Yunfei's approach, everyone also agreed.

Seeing that everyone was not opposed, Zhang Yunfei immediately sent a message next to him: "Send a report to Yan'an immediately. First, report that we have completely restored Shijiazhuang, and second, it is recommended that the central government instruct the Eighth Route Army to immediately restore the empty county town around Shijiazhuang."

Seeing that it was the commander-in-chief's personal order, the correspondent immediately saluted and went to send a newspaper to Yan'an immediately.

Seeing the correspondent soldier leaving, Comrade Zuo Qingquan, Chief of Staff, thought for a moment, "Commander-in-Chief, now we have restored Shijiazhuang. In the future, we will definitely restore the entire North China and the huge number of puppet troops in North China. What should we do?"

According to intelligence, there are at least hundreds of thousands of puppet troops in North China. These puppet troops basically belong to the "North China Autonomous Government", and these puppet troops are collectively called "Imperial Army".

There were still not many puppet troops in North China, but after Wang Jingwei rebelled against the National Government and established a new government last year, he implemented the slogan of "Saving the Country on Curve", allowing the commanders of the National Revolutionary Army to "suppose temporary surrender" in the face of unfavorable situations of the war, the number of puppet troops began to increase explosively.

The number of puppet troops in North China has grown from tens of thousands in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan to hundreds of thousands now. Given the large number of puppet troops and the difficulty of handling, Comrade Zuo Qingquan, Chief of Staff, specially proposed it.

Seeing Comrade Zuo Qingquan mentioning the puppet army, Zhang Yunfei also thought carefully before deciding: "If these puppet army take the initiative to surrender to us, we will be punished lightly. Ordinary soldiers will be released after half a year of forced labor. Those captured on the battlefield will be forced labor for at least one year. As for those puppet army officers, those who have helped the Japanese to bully the people before will be dealt with strictly."

When it comes to the puppet army, Zhang Yunfei has no good impression. Many of these puppet army are in the past. After surrendering to the Japanese, they basically became traitors and often bullied the people.

Especially the big leaders of the North China puppet army, Zhang Yunfei had already made up his mind to not let them go. These traitors and national scum must give them a miserable end.

After Zhang Yunfei finished speaking, everyone thought to himself that it seemed that the commander-in-chief would deal with these puppet troops seriously. These puppet soldiers were better, but those puppet military officers were probably unable to escape.

Comrade Fang Zheng, deputy director of the General Political Department, saw that Zhang Yunfei was preparing to deal with these puppet troops in this way, immediately said happily: "Commander-in-Chief, in this way, at least in the past or two years, we will have sufficient labor for use."

Thinking that there may be hundreds of thousands of free labor, everyone's mood gradually became relaxed, and the smile on their faces became stronger.

Throughout the afternoon, Zhang Yunfei handled a lot of things. Seeing that it was getting late, Zhang Yunfei was about to go home, and there were still surprises waiting for him at home.

In the past few days, due to constant wars on the front line, Zhang Yunfei usually didn't go home all night, or he just went home very late. Today, with the complete recovery of Shijiazhuang, Zhang Yunfei is preparing to go home earlier.

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