...After the Eighth Route Army implemented the Tiancoleng Plan and launched a comprehensive counterattack, the Japanese army was completely defeated, from the Sixth Division to the Ushijima Division, to the Thirteenth Division, the Third Division, etc.
Hastily retreated in a disastrous defeat.
On the entire North China battlefield, the 120th Division in the northern Shanxi region fought a battle with the Japanese army around Taiyuan.
In the Taihang area, the main force of the 129th Division even fought with the Japanese army.
In East China, when the Battle of Zhejiang and Jiangxi broke out, the battle between the Japanese army and the Central Army was in full swing.
Duan Peng, captain of a commando team, led the team to take advantage of the opportunity and made considerable gains.
First, they found the remaining US military pilots and successfully rescued them.
Secondly, Duan Peng and his party also discovered a lot of relevant information about the prisoner concentration camps built by the Japanese army in Shandong.
Duan Peng also specially left two team members to lurk in advance and wait for the subsequent rescue mission issued by the detachment.
In addition, Duan Peng and his party are also talented and courageous people.
After the Battle of Zhejiang and Jiangxi broke out, Duan Peng and others, as a small group of elite combat troops, even penetrated back and forth in the Quzhou area where the Japanese army and the Central Army were fighting.
As a participant who witnessed the outbreak of the Battle of Quzhou.
Duan Peng still gave certain support to some Central Army troops who fought desperately in the Battle of Quzhou.
He even led his team members to blow up some Japanese arsenals at night, burn down some Japanese material depots, and destroy some Japanese communication stations and power supply stations.
At night, fires were everywhere, explosions were heard one after another, and the Japanese army's rear was in chaos.
Duan Peng originally thought that this was an excellent opportunity. If the commanders on the other side were commanders of the Eighth Route Army, such as detachment leader Kong Jie, regimental commanders Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, etc., they would definitely be able to seize this fleeting opportunity and take advantage of it.
Amid the chaos behind the Japanese army, they launched an attack.
What disappointed Duan Peng was that the Central Army, which was facing the Japanese army, did not take an active offensive, but instead remained in a passive defensive posture.
In this way, the Japanese reorganized the rear area, mistook the troops who attacked at night as infiltration troops of the Central Army, and vented their anger on the Central Army.
During the battle the next day, the Japs launched a more violent offensive.
Chiang Kai-shek's troops were beaten and retreated more and more.
In this regard, Duan Peng actually didn't know what to say.
Perhaps the detachment leader was right: this mud cannot hold up the wall!
He has always been thinking about the Japanese plane.
Due to the fact that he was fighting far away from the base this time, Duan Peng had not received the news yet, and he did not know that a team had captured an aviation unit from the Japanese army's Wuchagou Airport.
Duan Peng only knew that what the detachment leader wanted most was to build an aviation force belonging to the Eighth Route Army.
This requires the capture of Japanese fighter planes as the basis.
So while the confrontation between the Japanese army and Chiang Kai-shek was intensifying, Duan Peng led his team members to secretly infiltrate and lurk, constantly exploring relevant information about the Japanese airport.
Hard work pays off.
The Chiang Kai-shek troops who avoided the decisive battle in Quzhou retreated hastily, causing all the previous deployments of a desperate fight outside Quzhou to be in vain.
The Japanese army advanced rapidly and successfully occupied Quzhou Airport. The main force of the Japanese was busy pursuing the victory and continuing to attack the city and plunder territory.
The airport lags behind.
The Japanese army also has a certain number of aircraft temporarily parked at these airports as nearby air fire reinforcements.
Duan Peng, who secretly detected the news, led his troops to sneak attack the Japanese airport at night.
Nearly half of the dozen or so Japanese planes parked at the airport were directly blown up, and another seven or eight planes flew away from the Japanese airport under the control of Duan Peng and his party.
But at this time, in North China, the main battlefield in Shanxi, and all the Japanese airports were basically visited by the Eighth Route Army, and a large number of fighter planes were destroyed by the Eighth Route Army.
Many airports and their fuel reserves were blown up.
Especially in Shanxi, Dai County Mingbao Airport, the most important large-scale airport for the Japanese army, was attacked by the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
The Eighth Route Army did not know when it had infiltrated the airport, which was riddled with holes. Not only did they sneak attack on the airport, they even directly plundered the fighter jets and bombers belonging to the Japanese army and drove them away.
Since the Eighth Route Army robbed planes at the Japanese and puppet Wuchagou Airport and tasted the benefits, this method of attacking Japanese airports seems to have become the mainstream.
It seems like everyone wants to snatch a few planes from the Japanese and fly them back.
... When Duan Peng and his party drove the plane that was temporarily parked at Quzhou Airport by the Japanese and flew back to Shanxi along the established aviation route, they did not encounter any air resistance from the Japanese.
The little devil would probably never think of it even if he tried hard.
How could this plane flying from the Zhejiang-Jiangxi region be part of the Eighth Route Army?
In the end, Duan Peng led the team to successfully fly eight fighters, including three fighter jets, two reconnaissance planes, and three light bombers, and successfully arrived at a team's secret aviation base.
Doolittle, who had received the news in advance and was in command at the airport, could not help but sigh with emotion when he saw Duan Peng again, the savior who rescued his party.
"Duan, is the Japanese airport empty? Did you fly all the Japanese planes back without any hindrance?
I originally thought it was a miracle that we were able to successfully attack Tokyo, Japan. But now it seems that you, the Eighth Route Army, are the guys who are better at creating miracles!"
Yes, in Dolittle's opinion, Duan Peng and his team are so full of magic.
The first aviation force built by the Eighth Route Army, located in the secret aviation base of the First Army, has once again grown.
First, the fighter planes captured by Kong Jie and Li Yunlong from the Japanese army's Wuchagou Airport, plus the 120th Division's successful sneak attack on the Japanese army's Mingbao Airport in Dai County, and the seizure of more than a dozen aircraft, plus the ones captured by Duan Peng and his party.
These aircraft.
Who would have thought that after this May Day sweep, the Japs failed to achieve the set strategic goal of wiping out the Eighth Route Army, but instead made the Eighth Route Army grow stronger.
It is just the first aviation force to be built. So far, if it is based on the Japanese army's establishment, it is more than enough to build a flying team!
The leaders in Yan'an also laughed from ear to ear after hearing the news.
In addition, in accordance with the requirements of Yan'an, some relatively advanced fighters and bombers were left in the secret aviation base of a team.
As for some old aircraft, they were sent back to Yan'an as training aircraft.
It is used to specially train pilots and provide stable output of flying talents for frontline combat troops.
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Mengxi region.
EEDS Basin.
The battle surrounding the large oil fields accidentally exposed by the Eighth Route Army has gradually come to an end.
From a certain perspective, the successful seizure of the EEDS oil field can be said to be the last fig leaf for the Japanese army in North China.
The old devil Okamura also placed all his last bets on this large-scale oil mine based on intelligence exploration.
According to this old devil's idea, if this large oil field in western Mongolia has abundant reserves, it can really solve the empire's oil crisis, eliminate the US oil supply monopoly, and completely solve the oil shortage problem for the empire's large war machines.
This can even bring about a reversal of the overall war situation, which is far more important than the outcome of a battle.
He was defeated in the May Day raids launched on the North China battlefield, and ended in a disastrous defeat. He did not even complete the scheduled combat mission of destroying the Eighth Route Army Depot in the Jizhong Military Region.
But if enough returns can be harvested from the large oil fields in western Inner Mongolia, there is still hope for all this.
For this reason.
After the main forces of all parties that were swept away on May Day were completely defeated.
Okamura did not withdraw troops from the battlefield in Western Inner Mongolia. On the contrary, he even continued to mobilize more troops to reinforce the Western Mongolian area. Even several additional armored forces were sent there.
He is bound to win this large oil mine in western Mengxi.
In order to achieve this goal, he even did not hesitate to cause a shortage of troops on other battlefields and defense lines.
The two sides engaged in a fierce battle. The Eighth Route Army, including the 35th Route Army in the Hetao area, fought fiercely with the Japanese army. They put on a posture that would never retreat easily, and seemed to defend the oil fields to the death.
This also further stimulated the Japanese army's strong desire to occupy the oil fields.
In the end, the battles in northern Shanxi, around the Taiyuan City area, and in southeastern Shanxi, around the Taihang area were basically coming to an end.
The Japanese troops fighting in the western Inner Mongolia area, after paying a heavy price, finally succeeded in seizing the large oil fields in the western Inner Mongolia area from the Eighth Route Army and the 35th Route Army.
The excited senior Japanese officers even agreed in the meeting to regard this large oil field as a turning point in the imperial jihad.
They also affectionately named this oil field "Imperial Wuyun Oil Field".
As the saying goes, "The holy war will be won, and the military destiny will last forever."
The acquisition of the Wuyun Oilfield gave the Japanese army great hope - hope that they had finally waited for after defeats in battles.
In order to ensure the safety of Wuyun Oilfield, after successfully capturing Wuyun Oilfield, Okamura also specially ordered to mobilize heavy troops to defend the EEDS area.
To create a stable situation, a large amount of crude oil will be extracted from Wuyun Oilfield in the future.
Solve the fuel supply shortage problem of the imperial war machine in one fell swoop.
Japanese mining teams also stationed in Wuyun Oilfield in large numbers.
Okamura paced back and forth in the headquarters, eagerly awaiting the good news from Wuyun Oil Field.
He is extravagantly hoping that perhaps the smooth operation of Wuyun Oilfield can reverse the current bad situation, and maybe he can retain his position as commander-in-chief of North China.
News from the front comes one after another.
Good news!
"Your Excellency General, the mining team has successfully entered the oil field!"
"General, the preliminary mining work has gone extremely smoothly. It won't be long before we can officially produce crude oil!"
The Japanese Chief of Staff brings good news almost every day.
It wasn't until the morning of the seventh day that he suddenly walked over with a heavy face and a rather heavy pace.
With expectation on his face, Okamura raised his head and asked: "Has the crude oil been successfully mined?"
The chief of staff sighed bitterly, "General...General, the situation does not seem to be as smooth as we expected. According to the detection provided by the technical personnel of the mining team, it is true that Wuyun Oilfield has an exaggerated storage capacity, but...
…It belongs to a category of shale oil that is extremely difficult to develop.”
"Shale oil!!!"
Okamura's eyes widened and he almost fainted from anger.
This old devil has some cultural background.
He knows exactly what shale oil means.
The storage of this type of oil deposit is particularly complex, and the technical difficulty of mining is very high. In addition, the initial investment is very exaggerated, and the cost of mining is very high.
In other words, if you want to extract crude oil from such shale oil deposits, the investment cost may be more expensive than the price of the extracted crude oil.
It’s basically a loss-making business.
Whether the Japanese army has mastered the technology of extracting shale oil is still a question.
What the Japanese army needs is a large amount of oil that can be mined quickly.
In this way, the Wuyun Oilfield is basically a piece of chicken ribs, tasteless to eat, and a pity to abandon.
"Baga, how could this happen?"
The sudden blow made even Okamura, who had always been as calm as a mountain, unavoidably lose his temper under the successive setbacks. He roared angrily.
"What about the Eighth Route Army? Didn't news come out some time ago that the Eighth Route Army has successfully mined a large amount of crude oil from the Wuyun Oilfield, and even hundreds of thousands of tons of crude oil can be mined in a day?"
Hearing this, the chief of staff smiled bitterly and said, "General, we have been completely deceived by the cunning Eighth Route Army.
The so-called crude oil they mine is not shale oil at all, but the oil they secretly transported from the oil fields in Yan'an, just to deceive us.
We discovered this situation only after we captured the Wuyun Oilfield and discovered the ready-made oil that had been prepared by the Eighth Route Army in advance!"
"Asshole——"
Okamura was almost confused, it was another scam, another scam!
Regarding oil, he has been fooled by the Eighth Route Army twice, once in the Huangyadong area, and then in the Wuyun Oilfield in front of him.
But things have come to this, what else can be done?
Okamura knew that if nothing unexpected happened, he, the commander-in-chief of North China, would soon become the laughing stock of the entire army.
At this time.
Eighth Route Army Precursor General Headquarters.
The whole house burst into laughter.
In the words of the old brigade commander, "Even with my eyes closed, I can still imagine that when the Japanese army spent a lot of manpower and material resources to finally capture the so-called large oil field, they found that it was difficult to exploit at all.
What a wonderful look will appear on your face when you use shale oil.
I think that old boy Okamura’s nose is probably going to be crooked with anger!”
"This is called stealing the chicken but losing the rice!"
Everyone's eyes then focused on Kong Jie, who was also attending the meeting.
Captain Wang couldn't help but said happily: "Old Kong, Old Kong, you are really a bad boy. If the devil encounters you, it will be a bloody misfortune for eight lifetimes!"
Kong Jie took over the conversation and said with a smile, "So, the greatest cruelty to the enemy in the world is not to directly give the enemy despair, but to give them hope first, and then give them this hope with your own hands.
Cut it off!
This is the cruelest thing!"
"Cow!"
Everyone admired him, but secretly murmured in their hearts, who in the future will say that Lao Kong is a real person and a kind person, I will just reward him with two big ears.
Isn’t this bitch talking nonsense with her eyes open!