On January 30, 1939, Hata Shunrok agreed to Okamura's combat plan and decided to eradicate the huge threat of Nanchang. The date of launching the attack was determined on March 20.

On February 4, Okamura Yasuji issued an order to attack Nanchang: The 11th Army was preparing to attack Nanchang!

The main purpose of this battle is to cut off the Zhejiang-Jiangxi railway, expand the occupation area in northern Jiangxi, protect the Yangtze River shipping line, defeat the Chinese field troops in this area, maintain stability in the area south of Jiujiang, and occupy the airports in Nanchang to shorten the distance of air strikes in southern China.

On February 18th, the 30th day of the 12th lunar month, the Chinese Tiger Army finally conquered Weihaiwei, the last port on the Shandong Peninsula before the Spring Festival!

After two months of arduous battles, the Chinese Tiger Army successively conquered 18 counties and districts including Xintai, Yidu, Shouguang, Yexian, Laiyang, Jimo, Qingdao, Qixia, Haiyang, Zhaoyuan, Huangxian, Penglai, Fushan, Mouping, Yantai, Wendeng, Rongcheng, Weihaiwei, etc. The "Ice Breaking Operation" finally achieved the strategic goals set!

At this point, the China Hu Ben Army Defense Zone soared to 72,000 square kilometers, and it can be regarded as a prince!

According to statistics, in the past two months, a total of 128,000 people have participated in the battle, and the main forces of the Chinese Tiger Ben Army have been on the battlefield at least once, and have obtained extremely valuable experience in the battle!

Thanks to the luxurious protective equipment and strong logistical medical support, the total number of casualties in the Chinese Tiger Army in this "Ice Breaking Operation" was only 478, while the number of minor and serious injuries was as high as 3,410!

As for the Japanese army, the number of casualties will definitely not be less than 4,000, and the number of injured people is uncountable. If it weren't for the back of the sea on three sides, the wounded and the remaining soldiers could be withdrawn safely, and the results of the battle would definitely not be so small!

In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Yang Fan has always proposed that firepower is the first priority, so the consumption of ammunition can be described as "a cannon of gold is 10,000 taels of gold" and the shells of various calibers alone fired at least 800,000 rounds!

Although there was no large-scale frontal war or air war, under the Japanese army's stubborn resistance by relying on geographical advantages and desperate resistance, heavy equipment such as tanks, armored vehicles, helicopters, artillery and other weapons also suffered considerable losses!

In the past two months, the total value of war materials consumed by the Chinese Tiger Army exceeded 90 million wealth points!

Fortunately, the United States can buy artillery bullets continuously, and the system Taobao manor is also very powerful. Otherwise, Yang Fan would not be able to support such intensity of consumption, and the casualties of the troops would definitely increase several times!

"Oh, I didn't expect this battle to be so difficult! It turns out that the time is worse than the location!"

After receiving the good news from the front line, Yang Fan breathed a sigh of relief. This time he almost showed up. At least he completed the strategic goals set before the Spring Festival!

Although it cost more than 90 million wealth points, it is more important for Mr. Yang to save face.

When formulating the "Ice Breaking Operation", Yang Fan was sure that the Japanese devils could not make up their minds to choose to fight with him at this stage, and would only choose passive defense. So they optimistically estimated that the battle would last for one month!

How could I know that the Japanese army had built so many fortifications, especially those mountains, which were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and they were simply indestructible fortresses!

Fortunately, the Chinese Hu Ben Army has heavy equipment and many methods of attacking tough battles. Under the high-intensity wheel battle, the attacking troops finally bit by bit!

It is also because of these hard-to-kill hard bones that consume a large amount of shells, bombs, and heavy equipment, and also caused great casualties to the troops!

However, I can’t bear to leave my children and can’t trap the wolf. These consumption and sacrifices are not in vain. After a long battle, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Tiger Army has been greatly improved, especially a large number of new recruits have been greatly trained!

"Master! These brothers are all satisfied with fighting, but our Flying Tigers are getting cooler! These little Japanese are so tolerant. They fought for two consecutive months, but the Japanese Air Force didn't even let go of a single fart!"

Just as Yang Fan was sitting on the sofa chair and making a deep voice, Wang Liguo complained with dissatisfaction!

Yang Fan retracted his thoughts and quipped with a smile: "Who told you that you had a great fight last time? You were afraid of the Japanese Aviation Corps!

There is no way, the Japanese are just a group of bad guys who bully the weak and fear the strong. As long as you are strong enough to completely defeat them, he will obey you and obey your orders!"

Yang Fan's words were not intentionally burying the Japanese, but were inspired by the Japanese-US relations in later generations. Although the Japanese were destroyed by the United States and dropped two atomic bombs, killing at least 2 million Japanese!

The United States is well aware of the Japanese wolf nature and dog nature: Japan is a wolf in front of the weak, and is ruthless in the face of the strong, and is a dog in front of the strong, and obeys everything.

In a word: only persuasive but not reasonable.

So after the US military occupied Japan, it treated the Japanese as animals, and it took Japan's life to stare at it.

The Americans controlled Japan's food distribution, starved a large number of people to death, forced a large number to death, and domesticated and trained the new Japanese.

For example, many soldiers who withdrew from Japan were unable to find a job and obediently gave their wives and daughters, aunts, etc. as long as the American soldiers could take a fancy to them, they would send them to them themselves.

In the 21st century, everyone on earth knows that Japan is the only one who takes the lead in the United States, and always watch Uncle Sam's face.

In front of the United States, today's Japan nodded and bowed the same angle as the angle of its predecessors bowing on the "Missouri" warship, and completely regarded the Americans as their own fathers!

It has to be said that Japanese people are naturally capable of "breaking the superiors and bullying the inferiors": if they think they are not as good as themselves, they must bully them, and those who are better than themselves should be favored by them.

"Hehe, what the chief officer said is very true!"

Wang Liguo nodded with a smile, then rubbed his hands and said, "Maintain, if the Japanese plane does not come, then we can go out! For example, Jinan Airport is only more than 200 kilometers away from our place, and it only takes more than an hour to travel back and forth!"

Wang Liguo didn't finish his words, but the implication was obvious, that was, he wanted to lead the team out for a "driving a ride"!

“How is that easy?”

Yang Fan shook his head and said, "Most of the Japanese Army aircraft are concentrated in Wuhan. Although there are airports in Jinan, there are not many planes that stay. The enemy's target is too small and the chance of mistaken bombing is too high. This is not a good deal!"

As for other valuable ground goals, Yang Fan has also considered it, but the risk is not proportional to the benefits, and it is easy to accidentally hurt his own people!

Although heavy bombers can even bomb in Japan, the combat radius of fighter jets is limited. If there is no fighter escort, it is easy to pretend to be defeated instead!
Chapter completed!