After Chifeng was recaptured by the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese 39th Division arrived late, but they no longer dared to attack Chifeng where the Eighth Route Army was stationed.
After all, the Type 97 anti-tank gun cannon is useful in field operations, but has little room to function in city operations, especially siege warfare.
However, the 39th Division did not leave, but built a defensive line twenty miles east of CF City to confront the Eighth Route Army.
Normally, the Japs and the Eighth Route Army were only two miles away from each other, as long as they were out of rifle range... In the past, the Eighth Route Army only had rice and rifles, and the Japs were just two miles apart. The Eighth Route Army couldn't beat the Japs, but the Japs could beat them.
distance, and can launch an attack on the Eighth Route Army's defense line at any time, which will put great pressure on the Eighth Route Army.
But now if the Japanese are still trying to create a "confrontation" by separating the defense lines, it will be no different than seeking death: the Eighth Route Army stationed in Chifeng is a mechanized force, including tanks and half-tracks. A sudden charge can kill them.
The Japanese suffered heavy casualties.
Five miles?
No, five miles only takes five or six minutes for Eighth Route Army tanks and half-tracks. The time for a round of artillery fire is already in front of you!
Ten miles?
Still not working. Although the Japanese have time to prepare at this distance, the Eighth Route Army has artillery detection radar! If we engage in an artillery battle with the Eighth Route Army at this distance, wouldn't we just get beaten?
In the end, the Japanese had to withdraw twenty miles in one breath to escape the range of the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire!
Okabe Naosaburo also urgently transferred artillery and several newly produced "Tiger" vehicles from Fengtian, which gave him some peace of mind.
Naosaburo Okabe knew that although the "Tiger" was no longer a match for the Eighth Route Army's new tanks at this time, it was the only tank capable of fighting, and the other tanks were just for fun.
As soon as Chifeng was reached, the Japs in Duolun County had no choice but to retreat.
Because their transportation lines have been cut off, if they continue to stay in Duolun County without retreating, they may end up like "Paulus".
What made Wang Xuexin regretful was that these Japs had room to retreat: more than 1,200 kilometers north of Duolun County was Manchuria, the Japs' important defense line west of the Daxingan Mountains, where several Japanese divisions were stationed.
The Japanese's defensive idea against Mao Xiong on the west side of the Northeast is to use the Daxingan Mountains and Nuruerhu Mountain to block Mao Xiong's offensive. Therefore, they deployed heavy troops on major transportation routes such as Chifeng, the connection point between the two mountains, and Manzhouli, the other end of the Daxingan Mountains.
In other places, only a few sentries or puppet troops are arranged for reconnaissance and control of local people.
Wang Xuexin did not order the troops to pursue, because the strategic purpose this time had been achieved. Taking the important town of Chifeng almost meant driving the Japanese out of the area west of the Daxingan Mountains. The Eighth Route Army could make more complete preparations for the next battle in an orderly manner.
For example, Wang Xuexin immediately deployed aviation, air defense systems and mosquito bombers in Duolun County and Chifeng, and had transport teams transport supplies to the two places around the clock.
This is a meeting convened by the chief's headquarters. Although it is a meeting, there are actually only three people, the chief and the chief of staff, because the chief believes that what is being discussed is a strategic level issue. Too many people participating will not only be meaningless but may leak secrets.
The eyes of the commander and the chief of staff shone when they saw Wang Xuexin. The commander personally came up to greet him, patted Wang Xuexin on the shoulder and said happily: "Come on, come on, our great hero, sit down quickly!"
The chief of staff handed Wang Xuexin a cup of tea before he could salute and asked: "It's been a hard journey, do you want to take a rest?"
"Report to the Chief of Staff!" Wang Xuexin quickly replied: "It's not hard work!"
In fact, Wang Xuexin was extremely tired. The reason was that the headquarters was still located in the western Shanxi area with inconvenient transportation for safety reasons. Wang Xuexin took trains and buses all the way, and finally had to take a three-wheeler for more than two hours to catch up.
arrive.
However, the time of the chief and chief of staff is so precious, how dare Wang Xuexin say such words as "take a rest when you are tired".
The chief looked at Wang Xuexin and nodded happily, saying, "It's been a while since I last saw you. He's much more mature! The battlefield is still very training!"
"Chief!" Wang Xuexin replied: "I haven't been on the battlefield for a year!"
"Hey!" The chief of staff raised his head: "You have been commanding on the front line, so what do you call it if you don't call it the battlefield? If you don't call it the battlefield, why don't we at the headquarters become just idlers?"
As he said this, the chief and the chief of staff looked at each other and smiled.
Then the commander sat down at the table and said seriously: "Comrade Wang Xuexin, you have fought well in this series of battles and developed very well. It has opened up a new situation for our Eighth Route Army. Now you have a tendency to overwhelm the Japanese."
!but……"
As he spoke, the chief turned his attention to the chief of staff. The chief of staff understood, took out a document from his bag and handed it over, saying: "This is what our intelligence personnel on the Japanese side risked their lives to detect. It is very likely that it is
The Japanese’s new fighter plane!”
Wang Xuexin took a look at the document and saw that it was a sketch. He thought that the intelligence personnel had neither the means nor the conditions to take photos... taking out the camera to take pictures would easily reveal one's identity, so the information could not be transmitted and could only rely on memory.
Draw what you see.
Perhaps because the painting didn’t look very similar, Wang Xuexin looked at it for a while before he realized: “Is it Hans’s fighter plane?”
The leader nodded: "It is estimated that the Japs imported it from Hans. Hans is also in a very difficult situation now. They hope that the Japs can make a breakthrough and put more pressure on Mao Xiong, so they spare no effort to give the Japs new equipment."
!We are not sure if Hans has given the Japs any other new equipment or new technology!"
The chief of staff took out another document and handed it over and said: "This is the data of this fighter jet we asked for from Mao Xiong. You can take a look first!"
Wang Xuexin took the document.
In fact, he knew without looking that this fighter plane was Hans's BF109. Its maximum flight speed exceeded the "La 5" and exceeded it by a lot... The maximum speed of the BF109 was 710 kilometers per hour, while the "La 5" was only 650 kilometers per hour.
"How is it?" the chief asked, "Are you feeling any pressure?"
It would be false to say that there is no pressure, because in this era of fighter aircraft, speed is king. If the speed is not enough, it will almost only be passively beaten.
Seeing Wang Xuexin's silence, the leader and chief of staff understood what this meant.
The chief of staff asked: "Comrade Wang Xuexin, is there any way to upgrade our fighter planes?"
Wang Xuexin shook his head and replied: "Chief of Staff, the 'La 5' fighter jet has a wooden fuselage, and its potential has been almost exhausted unless the fuselage is changed to metal!"
So the chief and chief of staff understood the difficulty. If the fuselage was changed to metal, the difficulty of manufacturing would immediately increase to a higher level!