Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

But the Shanxi-Suiyuan troops were different.

It didn't take long to form the field army.

Zhang Zhongxun nodded.

Zhang Zhongxun was somewhat disappointed. After all, in terms of seniority, besides Marshal Nie, Luo Qirong was no match for Zhang Zhongxun. During the Red Army era, Zhang Zhongxun held a high position, and now he was the deputy commander of the Jinsui Military Region.

But this time the top military and political leader was Wei Hongjun.

But he knew that he had suffered a major setback in his battle with Fu Zuoyi last year. Unless he could perform well in the Datong Campaign this time, the memory of last year's defeat would always haunt him.

Therefore, Zhang Zhongxun said, "That's right. The entire army must act in unison, and the lower units must no longer harbor guerrilla tactics. Before the Battle of Datong breaks out, our Central Column will definitely hold a meeting to emphasize this matter thoroughly. Anyone who disobeys orders and acts without authorization will be subject to military law."

Wei Hongjun nodded.

In fact, Wei Hongjun already had a complete plan for the Datong Campaign. He launched the Datong Campaign this time because he valued Fu Zuoyi more than Datong itself. As the saying goes, annihilating the enemy's active forces was more important than destroying the city of Datong. Without destroying the enemy's active forces, Datong would not be able to escape the PLA's grasp.

Wei Hongjun hoped to use this battle to completely eliminate Fu Zuoyi's troops, rather than just severely damaging Fu Zuoyi like last year.

Then, they would pursue the victory, capture Baotou and Wuyuan, and liberate the entire Suiyuan. As long as Fu Zuoyi was gone, Yan Xishan, Sun Lianzhong, and Pang Bingxun would not be a problem for the Jin-Cha-Ji faction.

Therefore, this most important task must be handed over to his old troops.

This is not Wei Hongjun favoring one over the other.

Rather, it was because Wei Hongjun was familiar with his old troops. After fighting with Fu Zuoyi, Wei Hongjun trusted his old troops even more. So Wei Hongjun said: "The 27th Column of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region, the 28th Brigade of the th Column, the th Brigade of the Suimeng Military Region Cavalry Brigade, and the rd and th Cavalry Brigades of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region will form the Northern Route Column. I will serve as the commander and political commissar of the Northern Route Column, Comrade Zheng Weishan will serve as deputy commander, and Comrade Zhu Liangcai will serve as deputy political commissar. The purpose of the Northern Route Column is to lure Fu Zuoyi's troops into Jining, and then encircle and annihilate Fu Zuoyi's main force in Jining."

After Wei Hongjun finished speaking, he looked at Marshal Nie.

Marshal Nie remained silent, watching Wei Hongjun's deployment, and he grew increasingly satisfied with him. Marshal Nie hadn't told Wei Hongjun about the Central Committee's appointment before the meeting. Unexpectedly, Wei Hongjun quickly came up with a plan.

Marshal Nie smiled and said, "What Comrade Wei Hongjun just said was only a general idea for the Datong Campaign. We can continue to refine the more specific combat plan in the meeting. Comrade Zhao Lu will be fully responsible for the logistics needs of the troops. We in the Jin-Cha-Yi base area will do our utmost to meet the needs of the front line."

Chapter 666: Preparing to Encircle and Annihilate Fu Zuoyi's Forces

Marshal Nie left quickly after the joint meeting because the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei troops were planning to launch not only the Datong Campaign but also the Pinghan Railway Campaign.

So Marshal Nie had to discuss the Pinghan Road Campaign with Yang Quanwu and others.

Wei Hongjun also quickly convened a meeting of the front-line headquarters of the Datong Campaign.

Guo Tianmin's case is simple.

The Wei Hongjun army did not expect to cooperate with the Second Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army in any way, so they gave Guo Tianmin a lot of freedom. As long as they cut off the Tongpu Railway and the connection between Taiyuan and Datong, Guo Tianmin could do whatever he wanted.

Hit wherever you want.

Wei Hongjun ignored him.

As long as the Datong front needed it, he could quickly dispatch two brigades for support. The main purpose of the Wei Hongjun meeting was to discuss how to attack Datong and encircle and annihilate Fu Zuoyi in Jining.

"Commander, there is something I hope you can resolve."

Although Zhang Zhongxun was not satisfied, he still understood the rules.

During the meeting, they kept calling Wei Hongjun "Commander". Wei Hongjun immediately said, "Please speak.

Wei Hongjun felt a little awkward.

When Zhu Liangcai and Zhao Lu came to visit Wei Hongjun, he felt a little awkward, but he quickly adapted. After all, they hadn't been close before. But Zhang Zhongxun was different; he had once been Wei Hongjun's direct superior.

But now he has become his deputy.

"Commander, our Jinsui troops lack heavy firepower, especially artillery. I wonder if the Jin-Cha-Ji troops could allocate some artillery units to us to participate in the attack on Datong.

Wei Hongjun nodded.

Zhang Zhongxun’s request is quite normal.

Of all the troops currently deployed in North China, the Jin-Cha-Ji troops possessed the best weapons and equipment. This was not only because during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Jin-Cha-Ji troops captured the most major cities and annihilated the most Japanese and puppet troops in organized units, but also because they had the largest military factory in Xuanhua and produced the most weapons and ammunition.

The current Jin-Cha-Ji Arsenal also has the strongest foundation.

Backed by the North China University of Technology, they trained batches of skilled workers. At the same time, Jin Chayi recruited all the students who had originally come to study industry from various military units and began to study again at the university.

The arsenal in Jinchayi currently has over 60,000 workers, and weapons and ammunition are delivered to the front in batches.

"That's fine. I'll deploy three artillery regiments to the Shanxi-Suiyuan troops."

The Third Field Army of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Region originally had a large number of artillery pieces.

Not to mention the Chahar-Suiyuan Military Region, the former Hebei-Rehe-Chahar Military Region alone was able to produce more than 100 artillery pieces of various types when it besieged Chifeng.

After taking Chifeng, the Jirecha Military Region seized dozens of cannons.

Even the howitzers were captured.

Later, the Japanese and puppet troops in Rehe were annihilated and a large number of cannons were seized.

After the merger with the Chahar-Suiyuan Military Region, the number of artillery increased significantly. In the previous Jining Campaign, the 67th Army was completely annihilated, and then Fu Zuoyi's forces were recaptured. Fu Zuoyi's forces were fleeing in panic, losing most of their heavy weapons along the way, which led to the capture of even more artillery. Therefore, the most abundant weapon in Wei's Red Army's arsenal was artillery.

With a stroke of his pen, three artillery regiments were temporarily allocated to the Shanxi-Suiyuan troops.

Zhang Zhongxun was very happy.

In fact, Zhang Zhongxun was still nervous when he served as the commander of the attack on Datong. After all, Datong had more than 20,000 Shanxi-Suiyuan Army troops, but all his troops combined only had more than 50,000.

It is not so easy to take over Datong.

In particular, the Jinsui troops' offensive capabilities were clearly insufficient. Now that Jinchayi was willing to allocate three artillery regiments to him, it would greatly make up for the Jinsui troops' weakness in heavy weapons.

“Old Chief, my idea for attacking Datong is to attack quickly first and then slowly.

After launching the Datong Campaign, we should launch a fierce assault on the enemy positions outside Datong, using both artillery and shells. This will catch the enemy off guard, denying them an opportunity to retreat into the city, and primarily aiming to annihilate their vital forces. However, there's no need to rush the attack on Datong. We should hold off for now, as we should use Datong to lure the big fish, Fu Zuoyi.

As soon as Fu Zuoyi's troops arrive in Jining, we will encircle and annihilate Fu Zuoyi's main force in Jining.

Because Wei Hongjun needed to cooperate with the Shanxi-Suiyuan troops.

Therefore, he directly told Zhang Zhongxun his thoughts. As long as the Uprising Corps was destroyed or rebuilt, the enemy troops in Datong would be trapped and unable to escape. Therefore, compared with Datong, Wei Hongjun was more concerned about attacking Fu Zuoyi.

Zhang Zhongxun frowned and asked, "How do you intend to annihilate Fu Zuoyi's forces?"

"Suidong and Suizhong have been the bases of our Chasui Military Region and Suimeng Military Region for many years. After suppressing bandits and carrying out land reform, we have a very good mass base here. Fu Zuoyi's troops have been fighting in Suixi for many years and have a good mass base in the Wuyuan area. But they have never had any foundation in Suizhong and Suidong. What's more, when Fu Zuoyi's troops attacked Suizhong and Suidong last year, some of the puppet troops and bandit troops he incorporated had very poor military discipline, which caused great harm to our Suiyuan base. The people in the liberated areas of Suizhong and Suidong hate Fu Zuoyi's troops very much. Therefore, if Fu Zuoyi wants to rescue Datong, it is difficult for him to obtain the deployment information of our troops in Suizhong and Suidong areas. It can be said that his troops are blind here. So how will he rescue Datong?"

Wei Hongjun pointed on the map and said, "If Fu Zuoyi wants to rescue Datong, there are two ways. One is for the troops to directly capture Guisui, then pass through Liangcheng from Guisui, attack Fengzhen, and rescue Datong. The other is for the troops to pass through Guisui and directly attack Jining. We will rescue Datong by using the strategy of besieging Wei to save Zhao. I plan to deploy fake troops in the Liangcheng and Fengzhen areas, so that Fu Zuoyi will think that we have deployed heavy troops in Liangcheng and Fengzhen to block the attack. In this way, Fu Zuoyi will give up the plan of attacking Guisui and go to Liangcheng and Fengzhen.

"I will choose to attack Jining instead, and use the strategy of besieging Wei to save Zhao. I will then deploy my main forces outside Jining. As long as Fu Zuoyi's main force attacks Jining, the Eighth Column will then counter-encircle Fu Zuoyi's main force."

Zhang Zhongxun looked at the map.

Wei Hongjun had a good idea.

Let Fu Zuoyi abandon the plan of attacking Guisui and passing Liangcheng to Fengzhen, but instead directly attack Jining, and then annihilate the main force of Fu Zuoyi's troops in Jining.

The plan was good, but it was not that simple. Fu Zuoyi was a famous general, especially during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, where he won many victories.

Moreover, the last time the Shanxi-Suiyuan troops were defeated so badly by Fu Zuoyi.

Therefore, Zhang Zhongxun was more afraid of Fu Zuoyi than anyone else.

Why would Fu Zuoyi listen to you, give up Guisui, and go to Jining obediently?

Therefore, Zhang Zhongxun asked directly: "Commander, how can you get Fu Zuoyi to go to Jining obediently?

"telegraph."

Wei Hongjun said, "Old Commander, I just said that. Suizhong and Suidong have been our bases for many years, and we have a very strong mass base here. Fu Zuoyi is a general who likes to take risks, but his risks are based on having sufficient intelligence. However, in Suizhong and Suidong, he cannot obtain any intelligence on our troops in a short period of time. He does not have enough time to slowly understand our troop deployment. Therefore, he will definitely choose an alternative method. That is to monitor our telegraph signals. Where the signals are dense, it must be the location of our main forces.

"Use signals to deceive Fu Zuoyi?"

"Correct."

Wei Hongjun said affirmatively: "We already have many troops around Datong and the signal is busy. I will make fake signals in Liangcheng and Fengzhen, at least the signals of three or four brigades. Then Fu Zuoyi will definitely not choose this path. He will judge our troop deployment based on the direction and strength of our signals. At that time, I will have the 8th Column shut down most of the telegraph machines outside Jining to weaken the signal strength. Let Fu Zuoyi think that our main forces are around Datong, so as to attract Fu Zuoyi to attack Jining. I will leave a brigade in Jining to fight against Fu Zuoyi's troops. After attracting them to Jining, we will attack from the center.

"But Fu Zuoyi's direct troops alone number over 60,000. Adding in some of his miscellaneous units, there are over 100,000. Are you sure you can encircle and annihilate their main force?"

Wei Hongjun nodded.

He said: "Old Chief, Fu Zuoyi suffered a heavy blow last year. Although the direct troops have expanded a lot, the combat effectiveness will not increase much. As for the other troops, they are all miscellaneous troops, many of which are puppet troops and bandit troops reorganized by Fu Zuoyi, and their combat effectiveness is very poor. As for some other troops, although they obey Fu Zuoyi's orders, they have other masters behind them. It is still difficult for Fu Zuoyi to mobilize them. Moreover, it is impossible for Fu Zuoyi to send all his troops to Jining. He also has to leave troops in Baotou and Wuyuan to look after his hometown. At the same time, he also has to send troops to look after the returning Guisui, we can't let the troops from Guisui cut off his retreat. Therefore, the number of people who can actually participate in the Jining Campaign will not exceed 1, at most around 7. I will concentrate the 24st Brigade, the 25th Brigade, the 27th Brigade, the 28th Brigade, the 12th Brigade, and the th Brigade, as well as three cavalry brigades. And if the Jining Campaign breaks out, I will transfer two more brigades from the Datong front to join the battle. By then, we will have concentrated troops, which will be three times the strength of Fu Zuoyi's troops. Not only will we have more troops, but we will also catch Fu Zuoyi off guard. In the end, we will definitely be able to severely damage or even completely wipe out Fu Zuoyi's main force."

Zhang Zhongxun kept looking at the map.

Zhu Liangcai, Zhao Lu, Tang Jie, and Li Tianhao standing next to them all looked calm, because this was an idea they had discussed together in the past.

But no one expected that this time Wei Hongjun would become the top military and political leader of the Datong Campaign.

Zhang Zhongxun nodded.

At the same time, it is worrying.

But Zhang Zhongxun didn't have much to say.

After all, the main force of this Datong battle was the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei troops.

However, Zhang Zhongxun still said cautiously: "If there is a problem in any link during this process, we will fail."

"I believe in our officers and soldiers."

Wei Hongjun answered with certainty.

Wei Hongjun was certainly nervous, but he remained confident. This confidence came from the fact that the Jin-Cha-Ji troops had already begun building a field army and engaging in large-scale operations.

Many grassroots commanders from Jin-Cha-Ji have undergone rotation training.

They have all received training in large-scale combat.

The Wei Hongjun army did not believe that the Jin-Cha-Ji army was inferior in combat effectiveness to Fu Zuoyi's. Furthermore, their weaponry was not much superior to that of the Jin-Cha-Ji army. The Wei Hongjun army planned to concentrate the main forces of the Jin-Cha-Ji Third Field Army, along with all available troops, to annihilate Fu Zuoyi's main force in a single battle, and in an organized manner. After this operation, the Wei Hongjun army would never allow Fu Zuoyi another chance to rise.

"Okay. Let's submit this battle plan to the Central Committee together.

Chapter 667 Fu Zuoyi’s Choice

"Yigong, Lao Jiang has sent another telegram."

"What content?"

Fu Zuoyi is in Baotou.

Since being defeated by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei troops last year, Fu Zuoyi has been licking his wounds for some time.

After all, the 67th Army was completely annihilated, and several divisions under Fu Zuoyi suffered heavy casualties. If it were the same situation in the past, Chiang Kai-shek would have been so happy.

Because destroying the Eighth Route Army and destroying the miscellaneous troops were equally important to Chiang Kai-shek. Both the Eighth Route Army and the warlord troops were a threat to Chiang Kai-shek.

But not now.

Chiang Kai-shek was always worried about the tyranny of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region.