The commander perked up as soon as he heard this.
He also knew how difficult it was to train a force that could compete head-on with the Japanese army. He had just proposed it as a precaution. After Zhou Wen's analysis, although he was slightly disappointed, it was expected.
Now that I heard Zhou Wen say this, I felt happy in my heart. If you can't train hard, it would be good to train a team that is good at defense!
And why Zhou Wen is willing to spend time to help the commander has his own purpose.
Needless to say, there is a personal relationship with senior Zhao Changshu. The main reason is that Zhao Changshu is the only senior officer with military power in the Jin army who is worthy of Zhou Wen's trust. At the same time, Zhao Changshu has the trust and favor of the commander, so his troops naturally become It gave Zhou Wen a friendly force that he could fight side by side with without too much precaution now and in the future.
In the past, Zhou Wen had spared no effort to develop relationships within the Nationalist Army. In addition to building a high-level relationship network and establishing contacts for the subsequent development of the mercenary group, he also had another important purpose, which was not to be easily betrayed by his own people on the battlefield.
In the current and future wars of resistance, Zhou Wen did not have the unrealistic idea of letting the mercenary group fight alone.
The all-out war of resistance is a national war related to the life and death of the country and the nation. It is not about playing house and doing whatever you want behind closed doors. It is about gathering the strength of the whole country and uniting all the forces that can be united to unite as one and unite. Only then can we persevere until the final victory.
The history that Zhou Wen knew well also developed in this way.
Zhou Wen's purpose in establishing the mercenary group was just not to become a tool in the hands of others. The ultimate goal of developing industries, developing troops, developing relationships, etc. is to use the advantages of being familiar with historical trends and the tactics of the Japanese army during the Anti-Japanese War to make those robbers and beasts who invaded China pay a higher price than in the original history. More blood will hurt them to the bone.
However, the tide of history cannot be changed by a small time traveler. There will still be defeats in the war, and the land that should be lost will still be lost. This is determined by the national strength of the two countries.
No matter how powerful the mercenary group is in combat, it only has over a thousand people. This special training model, advanced equipment and logistical support capabilities were built with countless amounts of money. No amount of Zhou Wen could afford it. And it’s easy to be tabooed by others.
But can these more than a thousand people fight the Japanese army alone? Even if all the soldiers in the mercenary group can equal one to ten, how much results can they achieve by fighting alone? And how much sacrifice do you have to make? How many people will be left in eight years?
The Japanese army is a professional army, and the country has established a complete reserve system. If a soldier dies, he can be replaced from home. But the soldiers he had trained so hard were not so easy to replenish.
Therefore, many future battles of the mercenary group will require cooperation with friendly forces. The role of the mercenary group is like a catalyst for chemical reactions. It can maximize its role, so as to achieve more Japanese deaths and more casualties. More blood for purpose.
Just like the previous Songhu Anti-Japanese War, without the cooperation and coordination of the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army, how could Zhou Wen's troops achieve such great results? According to Meng Yuting's preliminary estimate, the number of Japanese soldiers who died directly at the hands of the mercenary group was no less than 3,000.
Without the trust and support of the two generals of the 19th Route Army and Chief Zhang, and without the heroic resistance of the 70,000 soldiers under their command, where would Zhou Wen have been able to find a lethal fighter and find the weak links of the Japanese army?
Think about it, that is a total of three thousand human lives. Even if there are three thousand pigs, let you kill them all. If you have more than a thousand people searching and chasing them all over the mountains and fields, you may not be able to kill them all, let alone three pigs. Thousands of Japanese troops armed to the teeth.
It was the brave fighting of the 19th Route Army on the front that forced the Japanese army to take risks and enter the ambush circle of the mercenary regiment at Yunzaobang. It was the heroic Fifth Army who launched a full-scale counterattack at Miaohang that made thousands of already frightened Japanese soldiers He was driven into the fire circle of the mercenary group like a sheep.
Without the support of friendly forces, the mercenary group would be unable to support itself and could only fight in small quantities, and its role and effectiveness in the war of resistance would be greatly reduced.
Therefore, in Zhou Wen's mind, the role of friendly forces is crucial.
On the Songhu battlefield, with the trust of Generals Chiang and Cai, who were loyal to the country and selfless, and with the support of Commander Zhang, who knew people well and used them well and was kind, Zhou Wen could be said to be like a fish in water, giving full play to his abilities to create a Another brilliant achievement.
But what about the future?
Does Zhou Wen still dare to expect that his future friendly armies will support and trust him like the Nineteenth Route Army and the Fifth Army, and that the generals who will lead troops in the future will have the same selfless mind as Commander Zhang?
It's not Zhou Wen's style to place hope on others. He has already begun to plan ahead and make arrangements.
The first choice is Zhao Changshu's Sixth Brigade.
Zhou Wen considered that the future headquarters of the mercenary group would be in Lishi County. Judging from the historical trend, although Lishi County was occupied by the Japanese army in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, there were not many troops left behind after the occupation. After tens of thousands of Japanese troops launched a large-scale attack on Shanxi, and after the Japanese troops deployed their main force to other frontal battlefields, it would not be very difficult to recapture Lishi with the strength of the mercenary group.
In the next few years, the mercenary group will compete with the Japanese army near Lishi, which requires a strong friendly force to contain the Japanese army, and Zhou Wen's plan is not to compete with the Japanese army back and forth. Simple, but to turn Lishi into a nightmare for the Japanese army, a flesh-and-blood millstone that makes them so painful that they have to make a choice.
This requires even more coordination and support from friendly forces.
Only after stabilizing the base camp first, can Zhou Wen have enough energy to participate in battles on other domestic battlefields. Because the combat mode of the mercenary group has very high requirements on logistical supplies, a relatively safe environment must be created for steel factories, ammunition factories, and pharmaceutical factories.
The most friendly forces in Shanxi are the Jin Army and the future Eighth Route Army.
From any perspective of future generations, Zhou Wen's trust in the Eighth Route Army is undoubtedly unquestionable. However, in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Eighth Route Army had a small number of people, the anti-Japanese base area was new, weapons and equipment were scarce, and conditions were extremely difficult, making it difficult to mobilize large forces for combat. What I consider more is how to support and support the development and growth of the Eighth Route Army. Large-scale coordinated operations may not be possible until the mid-to-late period.
In the early days, they could only cooperate with the Jin army, and there were many factions in the Jin army, including the resistance faction and the wavering faction. Later, many surrendered and became puppet troops. At present, the only ones that can be relied on are Zhao Changshu's 6th Brigade and Zhou Wen Of course, plan ahead.
