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"Given the critical situation overseas, what do you think the Japanese will do?" Xie Jinyuan asked, seemingly implying something.

"Mobilize troops?"

Zhao Gang frowned and said.

But then he shook his head at himself.

Opening up a new route requires a massive amount of troops, completely different from sea routes!

A massive military force is needed to support it!

The Japanese did have a considerable number of troops inside the Great Wall, but it was clearly insufficient to sustain them!

"Commander! You don't mean that side of things, do you?"

Zhao Gang seemed to suddenly realize something, and said with a shocked expression.

He subconsciously pointed north.

"Ok!"

Xie Jinyuan nodded in a deep voice.

Old Zhao is still very quick-witted. Indeed, with the large-scale strategy unchanged, the Japanese only have this one option!

"Commander! Is this really possible?" Zhao Gang swallowed hard.

If it really was that elite Japanese force that entered the pass!

The consequences would be enormous; who in the entire Chinese nation could possibly be his match?

Seven hundred thousand elite troops!

If ordinary Chinese troops are like teenagers, then this force is entirely composed of adult men, and adult men wielding powerful firepower at that!

After all, they were the elite Japanese troops who had truly completed the mechanization process!

"Old Zhao! Aren't you curious why Yan Laoxi compromised?" Xie Jinyuan said in a deep voice.

"Correct!"

Why did Yan Laoxi compromise?

Zhao Gang suddenly realized what was happening.

"Because the new Third Regiment has already decided to head north!"

"So Yan Laoxi will definitely agree to my request unconditionally!" Xie Jinyuan said slowly.

After all, if the Kwantung Army decided to enter the pass, it would be a catastrophe for the entire China. The Second World War Zone was the closest to the pass, and the only force capable of buying time for the entire China was the New Third Regiment!

If I abandon this responsibility, no one else can take it!

The second reason is that the strength of the New Third Regiment has been completely exposed to the city, and with the outbreak of the Taiyuan Campaign, the whole of China is paying close attention to the New Third Regiment!

The chairman isn't stupid; there's only one option to resolve this uncertainty!

"The New Third Regiment is heading north?"

Zhao Gang froze on the spot!

"Commander! You're not kidding, are you?"

"An army of 700,000!"

Zhao Gang's face turned deathly pale.

The mechanized forces numbered 700,000, while the entire New Third Regiment had at most 50,000!

Let's add Group 358!

That's more than ten times different!

"Ha ha!"

"Old Zhao! Don't worry!"

"Even if the Kwantung Army wanted to enter the pass, it couldn't muster many troops!"

Xie Jinyuan said with a smile.

"Impossible! Seven hundred thousand Kwantung Army soldiers!"

"Old Zhao!"

"You need to know that the Japanese really had the final say in the three northeastern provinces!"

"But a large-scale troop mobilization!"

"The Japanese are even more afraid of having their base wiped out!" Xie Jinyuan said meaningfully.

"They took down the stronghold?"

"Commander! You mean the Fighting Nation?" Zhao Gang suddenly realized and asked.

The Japanese didn't just fight against China; they also fought a major battle against the fighting nation to the north! Although they lost!

"Ok!"

"This is a blood feud!"

"And Lao Zhao! This might not be a dead end for the New Third Regiment!"

Xie Jinyuan said in a deep voice.

Moreover, he knew his northern neighbor's personality all too well!

From the very beginning of the founding of the nation, there has been a morbid obsession with territory. If it weren't for the constraints on the western front, we probably would have sought revenge long ago!

And once the Japanese troops enter the pass on a large scale!

They clearly won't sit idly by and wait to die!

The Japanese devils weren't stupid, of course!

It's impossible to lose the big picture for the small gains!

"This..." After Xie Jinyuan finished speaking, Zhao Gang fell into deep thought!

The commander's words were crystal clear!

The new Third Regiment is destined to move north!

Faced with such a momentous situation, if the regimental commander were to utter even a single word of dissent, he would face condemnation from the entire nation of China!

Staying inside the pass will only lead to certain death!

Heading north might offer a glimmer of hope!

"However! Commander!"

"Even if we get Chu Yunfei, it still won't solve our immediate problem!"

"Moreover, we are a regimental-level unit. If Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment comes over, there will be issues with the organizational structure..."

Zhao Gang shook his head.

Including Chu Yunfei, the entire New Third Regiment's strength is definitely approaching 50,000!

Or rather, there will be even more in a couple of days, because there are now many spontaneous armed groups joining the New Third Regiment all the time!

Even if we could just ask Yan Xishan for a brigade's worth of resources, it would be much better than what we have now!

"Old Zhao! You believe I'll get a government job delivered to your door in less than three days?"

Xie Jinyuan said with a joking expression.

"Delivered to your door?"

"Correct!"

"Report! Commander!"

"Telegram from the Second War Zone Command!"

Just as Zhao Gang was about to ask a question, the monk's voice rang out from outside the door again!

Immediately afterward, the monk's figure appeared in the command room!

"The Second War Zone Command Headquarters?"

Zhao Gang asked with a puzzled look.

Yan Xishan just left, and now the Second World War Zone Command has sent a telegram. What's going on here?