The boss suddenly interrupted: "Li Yunlong is right..."
"If the Peking Guerrilla Brigade is used properly, their effectiveness on the battlefield will be no less than that of a brigade."
"Xiao Huang is the acting captain of the guerrilla brigade... we must develop them quickly..."
"Just tell Kong Jieti if you need anything. The stronger the Peiping guerrilla brigade is, the less pressure you will have to raid the Tianjin dock in the future."
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The Sixth Military Division of the Yizhong Military Region had just been established, and Gangcun Ningji, who was far away in Peiping, received the news.
It's not because the Eighth Route Army's confidentiality measures were not done well.
But the enemy and we have been fighting for so many years. We have long been among the enemies, and we have been enemies among ourselves...
The establishment of the Sixth Army Division is such a big thing, it can't be hidden even if you want to.
And the deputy commander had no intention of hiding this matter.
The Japanese North China Front suffered successive defeats and suffered particularly heavy losses in troops. There was a shortage of troops everywhere.
Even if Neji Okamura wanted to retaliate against the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong, he would have no soldiers to spare.
It would be better to expose the establishment of the Sixth Army Division and take the opportunity to promote the Eighth Route Army.
At the Japanese North China Front Headquarters, Neji Okamura was indeed very angry when he first heard the news. He smashed several antique vases in succession to vent his anger and dissatisfaction.
After calming down, he threatened to take revenge on Kong Jie and others at the headquarters.
As a result, before he could discuss the matter with the chief of staff, the head of intelligence came back to him again.
His expression looked more solemn than it had been for more than an hour.
Without waiting for Neji Okamura to speak, he hurriedly reported: "Your Excellency, Commander..."
"Our intelligence agents lurking inside the Eighth Route Army have just sent out a piece of information."
"It's urgent..."
"They spent a huge price to get it, and lost two senior intelligence officers before sending it to low-level officials!"
Okamura Ningji immediately asked: "Is it related to the newly established Sixth Army Division of Yizhong Army of the Eighth Route Army?"
"Hayi..."
The head of intelligence nodded.
"It is the latest expansion plan of the Eighth Route Army in the Sixth Army Division."
"They plan to reorganize two main brigades and rebuild three garrison regiments with the existing troops in the base area..."
"With the addition of the troops directly under the division...the total strength of the Sixth Army Division in the Wings will directly exceed 30,000 people."
"It is expected that the reorganization of the troops will be completed within two months and combat effectiveness will be formed within half a year..."
"Take Baoding City, which we inserted into their base area, and expand the base area to the southeast and northeast..."
After hearing this, Neji Okamura became even more angry than before. He stared at the person in charge of intelligence and asked: "How many troops do they have now..."
"How many more troops do we need to expand to reach full strength?"
"Less than fifteen thousand people..." The person in charge of intelligence had memorized these intelligence data in his mind before coming, ensuring that Sakata could answer every question.
"It has three garrison regiments, two main force regiments, and some directly affiliated troops..."
"After the army expansion is completed, the Sixth Army Division in the Wing will have two brigades and six main regiments, one guard regiment, three garrison regiments... and a newly established special forces regiment. It is said that this team is equipped with a large number of tanks and The artillery should be similar to our chariot brigade..."
Okamura Neiji slapped the table and said: "We must not let them complete the expansion..."
"It's so difficult to deal with more than 10,000 people. If their total strength really exceeds 30,000 people and they form a fighting force..."
"If the headquarters gathers 50,000 elite imperial troops, they will not be able to compete with them..."
"Our next round of raids against the Eighth Route Army in the Wing must be launched in advance!"
The chief of staff shook his head like a rattle and quickly reminded: "Your Excellency, Commander, think twice..."
"Even if the Korean divisions at home to support us are in place, the imperial army we have assembled in our wings has only exceeded 35,000."
"In addition, the Imperial Alliance Army did not even reach 50,000 people. There are not as many people as the last big sweep, and the combat effectiveness is even worse..."
"There will definitely be no advantage in attacking rashly..."
"We must act in advance..." Neji Okamura ignored the chief of staff's persuasion and stared at the sand table to make a decisive move.
Seeing that the chief of staff was trying to persuade him again, Okamura Neji continued: "Don't worry..."
"The attack I am talking about is not a direct decisive battle with the Yizhong Eighth Route Army."
"It's not like sending a lone force deep into the Eighth Route Army's base area to conduct a surprise attack, consuming the strength of the Eighth Route Army in the center."
"Instead, they use a new way of fighting to consume their troops and living space, consume their combat potential, and make them unable to further expand their troops..."
"I named this plan: Iron Wall Encirclement..."
"The troops encircling the base area in the wing are organized into regiments. Each time they advance ten kilometers, they move to defense and build gun towers and strongholds."
"At the same time, a hundred thousand young men and women were recruited from the occupied areas to accompany the troops, dig deep trenches between strongholds, lay out a railway network, cut off all connections between the Eighth Route Army in the wing and the outside world, and at the same time compress their living space..."
"Then gather all the common people within their base areas together, cultivate the land in the form of concentration camps, burn down their original villages, and completely cut off the connection between the Eighth Route Army and the common people."
"After all the deep ditches and barbed wire fences are deployed, the troops will continue to advance towards the interior of the Eighth Route Army base area."
"It advances ten kilometers every five days. It only takes one month to advance sixty kilometers. The base area of the Sixth Army Division in the Wing will be reduced by half."
"Without land and population, it is useless no matter how ambitious the expansion ambition of the Eighth Route Army is. We cannot let the new recruits who have just joined the army drink the northwest wind!"
The war scenes introduced by Neji Okamura quickly appeared in the chief of staff's mind.
After thinking for a moment, he asked: "What if the Eighth Route Army in Yinzhong massed a large number of troops to launch a counterattack against us, tore a hole in the iron wall and broke out of the encirclement?"
"The Yizhong Eighth Route Army is different from other Eighth Route armies in North China."
"They are well-equipped, have sufficient ammunition, and have very strong combat effectiveness. They also have a large number of heavy siege weapons and chariots to assist them. They can attack and defend."
"As long as they want to open an opening, our troops advancing step by step in brigade units are no match for them."
"If they are willing to break out, they can break out..." Neji Okamura said nonchalantly.
"The iron wall encirclement can not only compress the living space of the Eighth Route Army in the wing and reduce the population in their jurisdiction, but also consume their war potential."
"If we can drive them out of the Yi Zhong base, their expansion plan will naturally go bankrupt."
"The troops will become weaker and weaker because they are not in a hurry. Sooner or later they will be wiped out by us."
"Even if they want to build a new base in the enemy's war zone, they can't."
"After we occupy the Eighth Route Army base area, we will gather the common people together and manage them like a concentration camp, without giving them any chance to contact the outside world."
"Without the support of the common people, the Yizhong Eighth Route Army, which stands out from the encirclement, will never be able to reestablish a base in the area occupied by the imperial army, no matter how powerful it is."
