In fact, the performance of the Hu Ben Army is too eye-catching.

Although the Hu Ben Army gave up its favorable defensive position and turned to an offensive, it took the initiative to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese heavy army group that was defending the fortress.

However, after a few months, the Hu Ben Army still achieved a series of brilliant achievements with its powerful offensive power.

Among them, the 5th Army and the 6th Army, which started the counterattack in Guangxi, have completed the recovery of the entire Guangxi area, and have recovered more than 20 towns in Guangdong, and have penetrated into the Japanese-occupied area in Guangdong.

At present, the two Hu Ben Army have joined forces with the Fourth War Zone and the Seventh War Zone, which has put huge military pressure on the Japanese army in the entire Guangdong region, including Guangzhou City, the Guangdong Provincial Prefecture.

The four Hu Ben Army, which used Shandong as the offensive fulcrum, had a more fierce offensive momentum. After more than three months of hard fighting, after paying a considerable price, the Hu Ben Army finally made a major military breakthrough.

The Hu Ben Army successively destroyed more than ten strong fortresses with heavy troops from all over the world, broke through the numerous interception defense lines carefully constructed by the Japanese army, and accumulated more than 150,000 elite Japanese Kwantung Army troops.

The remaining main Japanese troops have retreated to major cities such as Shijiazhuang, Baoding City, Tianjin, and the Taihang Mountains area at the junction of Shanxi and Hebei.

After destroying many defensive fortresses of the Japanese army at the junction of Shandong and Hebei, the vast Hebei Plain was exposed in front of the Hu Ben Army.

The Hebei Plain is an area north of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. It borders the Yellow River in the south, ends at Yanshan Mountain in the north, borders the Taihang Mountains in the west, and the Bohai Sea in the east, with an area of ​​about 150,000 square kilometers. It is mainly composed of the Yellow River and Haihe River alluvial. The terrain is low and flat, and the altitude is reduced from about 100 meters to about 3 meters along the Bohai Sea coast.

The Hebei Plain has a large population, prosperous economy and culture, and developed transportation. It has been the political, economic and cultural center of China since ancient times.

Since its fall, it has naturally become an extremely important economic center for the Japanese invaders. The Japanese have always attached great importance to it. Before that, they also put in full force to transfer the most elite Kanto Army field troops to guard the heavy troops.

However, their opponent is the powerful Chinese Tiger Army. Even if the Japanese want to defend the extreme, it is just wishful thinking, because there is no shield in this world that cannot be broken.

It has to be said that for the highly mechanized Hu Ben Army, it is exactly the same as "the sea is wide and the fish leaps from the sky, and the birds fly". Such a plain area is undoubtedly the most favorable terrain for combat!

After breaking through the numerous sieges, the Hebei Plain gate opened wide. Faced with the great temptation of siege, the soldiers of the Chinese Tiger Ben Army all became unprecedentedly excited as if they were injected with chicken blood.

The four Hu Ben Army rushed to launch a series of sharp attacks. In just half a month, they conquered more than 30 towns and recovered large areas of lost land. The Siege pointed directly at important Hebei towns such as Handan, Anyang, Xingtai, and Cangzhou.

Even the Japanese and puppet troops in large cities such as Shijiazhuang, Baoding, and Tianjin felt the extremely strong war crisis and began to tremble.

It is no exaggeration to say that the northward offensive momentum of the Hu Ben Army has seriously threatened the security of the entire North China Plain and even the puppet Manchukuo, seriously shaking the Japanese invaders' rule over China.

In addition, Yang Fan's strategic bombing of Japan's mainland and Manchuria Industrial Zone has been trying and in progress, but the Japanese army is extremely vigilant of this aspect and has built a strong warning network and defense network.

The more than ten night strategic bombings of the Hu Ben Army had limited bombings, and they could only say that they had taken some small advantages.

Of course, this is mainly because Yang Fan did not make up his mind to carry out large-scale strategic bombings at all costs. The reason is very simple: With limited resources, Yang Fan could only focus on ground attacks and break through the Japanese army's defensive encirclement.

Therefore, under this situation, the Japanese base camp had to order Okamura Yanji to immediately end the large-scale military operations against the Kuomintang-controlled areas and the enemy-backed base areas, and devote all his energy to dealing with the Hu Ben Army.

The Japanese army finally showed its fangs and concentrated more than 4,300 combat aircraft, 5,000 tank and armored vehicles, and more than 7,000 artillery powerful technical equipment, preparing to attack the Chinese Tiger Army from both north and south.

It is because of this that the military pressure the Hu Ben Army under increased several times in a short period of time. With the large-scale participation of the Air Force in the war, the offensive momentum of the ground troops was instantly blocked and entered a new round of strategic stalemate.

After all, the Japanese army is not a mud, especially when the air force is unprecedentedly powerful, continuing to use ground troops to make breakthroughs in depth will only be more than worth the loss.

At present, what Yang Fan has to do is to do step by step, bit by bit, and get the Japanese Air Force done first!

As for the international situation, the Allied camp has also improved quite well.

First of all, on the battlefield of North Africa, the Allied forces further strengthened, compressing the living space of Rommel's African Legion, sieging it in the Tunisian Highlands, strengthening attacks on its supply lines, and starting strategic bombings against Sicily, Sardinia and other regions in Italy.

Rommel not only completely lost the possibility of a counterattack, but also gradually reduced the chips in his hand. The retreat and demise of the African Legion are just around the corner.

On the battlefield on the Eastern Front of Europe, the Soviet Red Army still engaged in cruel urban street fighting with the German army in Leningrad, Stalingrad, Moscow, and the Caucasus.

As the harsh winter approached again, the German army that could not be captured for a long time began to have problems in terms of personnel, equipment, and supplies, and the balance of victory had begun to tilt towards the Soviet Red Army.

It should be noted that the US Pacific Fleet and the Huben Navy have made great progress in the past few months, and the Sino-US Pacific Combined Fleet already has as many as 55 aircraft carriers.

Among them, the Hu Ben Navy's aircraft carriers reached 12, and the total number exceeded 50, and the total force exceeded 10,000!

At the same time, the p-61c and p-47n production lines in the United States have also completed construction tasks and are mass production at full capacity.

With the strong industrial strength of the United States, it is not long before these two powerful new fighter jets should appear in large quantities in the Allied camp, and at that time the Sino-US Pacific Combined Fleet should officially start operations.

As for the Japanese Navy, while feeling great pressure, it is also stepping up the construction of the naval fleet and making every effort to produce and manufacture aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft.

In just a few months, a total of 8 aircraft carriers, 6 destroyers, and thousands of carrier-based aircraft were launched.

Both navies were full of energy and prepared for the final life-and-death battle.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, Gaomi, the combat room of the General Command of the China Tiger Ben Army, Yang Fan, Miao Dadong, Wang Liguo and others were gathering together at the moment, discussing the situation of the war before them tensely.
Chapter completed!