Chief of Staff Miyamoto is also an elite member of the Japanese Army. He understood Xiao Zhuoyi's tactics against Liu Zhen and the Independent Regiment as soon as he heard them. He quickly got into the role and put forward his own opinions:
"Your Excellency, Commander, the cage policy is definitely the best tactic to deal with the independent regiment, and it is also a very effective tactic. However, for this tactic to be effective, it will take a certain amount of time and a large amount of manpower and material resources to support it;
Manpower is easy to solve. There are many free migrant workers in China, which can be recruited directly. However, building a large number of artillery towers, bunkers, and road networks requires the consumption of a large amount of materials. "
As the chief of staff, Miyamoto stopped here. The rest is the decision of the commander.
Xiao Zhuoyi was very satisfied with Miyamoto's performance. He pointed out the pros and cons of the cage policy in a few words. This is the quality of an excellent staff officer. He was not in a hurry to make a decision and continued to ask Miyamoto:
"Miyamoto-kun, if you have sufficient supplies and manpower, how long will it take you to complete the blockade of Liu Town and its surrounding base areas?"
Miyamoto silently made an estimate in his mind and quickly gave Xiao Zhuoyi'an an answer:
"Six months! Chuxiong's headquarters has a lot of 81mm or 90mm mortars produced by the empire, as well as some captured infantry guns from the empire. The gun towers built simply with bricks cannot withstand the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army;
A large amount of cement and stones need to be raised to build the turrets and bunkers into semi-permanent fortifications. The core bunkers should be built into permanent fortifications with steel bars and cement!
In addition, the road network surrounding Chuxiong's base area also needs to continue to be expanded. The roads surrounding Liuzhen must be connected. Blocking trenches must be between the gun towers. A large number of mines and barbed wires can even be laid, and a large number of troops can be stationed. Armored vehicles patrol regularly along the highway;
Important strongholds should have rapid response forces, with the strength between a squadron and a large number of cars and motorcycles. Once a certain point is attacked by the Eighth Route Army, the imperial army at the core stronghold can arrive within half an hour or even ten minutes. …”
Xiao Zhuoyinan couldn't help but applaud. He only proposed an idea. As the chief of staff, he came up with a complete set of specific implementation plans in a short period of time. They were very targeted and operable, which made him very of satisfaction.
"Miyamoto-kun, you are worthy of being a top student of the Imperial General Staff Headquarters. I agree with your plan in principle. Please organize the staff of the headquarters to come up with a specific implementation plan as soon as possible. I will coordinate with the base camp on material issues. If necessary, You make a separate list of supplies and I will try my best to satisfy you;
I give you half a year. By the end of this year or the beginning of next year, I need to see a huge iron chain with a large number of permanent and semi-permanent fortifications as fulcrums and with gun towers and roads as chains, appearing around Chuxiong's base area. It will take another year to trap Liu Zhen alive!
This Eastern Maginot Line is a prison cage tailor-made for Chuxiong by the imperial army. If the effect is good, it will be extended to the entire Hedong Province and solve the Eighth Route Problem in one fell swoop! "
Major General Miyamoto's blood boiled when he heard this. He did not expect that the Commander had such a big strategy in his mind to solve the problem of the Eighth Route Army in Hedong in one fell swoop. What a great achievement this was?
Even if most of the merits are due to the Commander's foresight and talent, as the concrete implementer of this great undertaking, he will definitely be remembered throughout the ages and the Japanese island will be praised.
It only takes a matter of minutes to be promoted to the coveted lieutenant general!
"Your Excellency, Commander, I will do my best to complete this imperial mission and serve His Majesty the Emperor!"
"Yoshi, Miyamoto-kun, I'm optimistic about you! Go ahead and ask Duanmu to come over. The intelligence department must also keep up!"
"Hi!"
Miyamoto had already admired Yoshio Shino. He could still think about the cage policy and the cooperation of the intelligence department. He had never thought just now that this was the difference between the chief of staff of a major general and the commander of a lieutenant general!
Those who do not plan for the overall situation cannot plan for one area!
Ten minutes later, Duanmu walked into the commander's office with her iconic big butt twisted, accompanying the commander in planning the overall situation, and receiving some encouragement along the way!
Eleven minutes later, Duanmu came out of the commander's office happily. The moment he turned around, he was caught by Amaterasu floating in the sky, and his instant disgust was captured.
Perhaps because the Commander was in a good mood, the time for urging was once again shortened by three minutes. The responsibility of the intelligence department was thus relieved, and everything was transferred to the preparation and implementation of the cage policy...
As Major General Miyamoto said, the implementation of the cage policy did not happen in a day or two. The Japanese May Day raids had just ended in a disastrous defeat, with the loss of more than 20,000 troops and a huge emptiness of troops;
In order not to be wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, other troops also took the initiative to shrink into the city. The Japanese only controlled the cities and traffic arteries, and the vast towns and villages became a vacuum zone. The development of the Eighth Route Army in Southeast Shanxi entered a golden period ahead of schedule.
In this May Day raid, since the independent regiment attracted more than half of the Japanese, and at the same time, the Liuzhen base area supported a large number of Wei Yixiao artillery and Hua Mulan rocket launchers for the headquarters, each regiment was allocated a part;
This made the counter-mopping up in their base areas much easier than in history. Not only did the number of enemy annihilations increase, but the losses to themselves and the base areas were also reduced a lot. The Japanese almost did not break into their base areas, and the casualties of the common people were greatly reduced. This made the base areas The common people really saw the strength of the Eighth Route Army.
More and more people realize that only by following the Eighth Route Army to fight against the Japanese will their homes be protected from being ravaged by the Japanese, and more and more people choose to join the Eighth Route Army.
In various base areas, people enthusiastically signed up to join the army. The strength and strength of each regiment have been greatly improved, among which Li Tiejun's new regiment is the most important!
Li Tiejun has been living a very comfortable life recently. He has started to use Japanese canned beef as a snack for his drinks. The key point is that he still dislikes it after eating a few bites:
"Damn it, what the hell? You can return a can of beef, and you don't even see any beef dregs. The little devil's life is getting worse and worse these days! It's not as good as our Chinese peanuts!"
"Zhang Dahu, get me some peanuts to drink with my wine, what the hell!"
"Captain, we are really out of peanuts. All the puppet soldiers we captured last time have been eaten. Now the puppet soldiers are avoiding us. We can't even see a few puppet soldiers in the town. How about I take a battalion to the county town for a walk?" Come on, go get some pig head meat and bring it over for you to drink with?"
Zhang Dahu could really do this. Li Tiejun, the tiger’s boss, quickly stopped him and said:
"Zhang Dahu, just pull him down. You want to be my commander, right? If I dare to let you go to the county town to find the Japanese for pig head meat, the brigade commander can chop off my big head and use it as a chamber pot. This is more than three thousand The position of leader is yours!"
"Hahaha, why do you think it's so beautiful? Okay, go ahead and do what you have to do. I'd better eat the canned beef. Regardless of whether there is beef or not, I can still smell it."
Zhang Dahu was waiting for Li Tiejun to speak. As soon as Li Tiejun finished speaking, Zhang Dahu left in a flash.
"You're just kidding. If you don't slip away, the regiment leader will really let me go to the county town to get him pig head meat to drink. The regiment leader's big head will be chopped off by the brigade commander, and his own head will not be saved!"
After sending Zhang Dahu away, Li Tiejun ate the tasteless canned beef while thinking about it.
"Oh, peanuts are such a good thing - there is no overnight food!
This Mulan bazooka is really easy to use, the Iron Bastard can hit it accurately every time, and two or three shots can kill a Japanese gun tower several meters high;
As soon as the counter-mopping up went smoothly this time, the rockets were almost gone. If I wanted to attack the Japanese strongholds again, it would be impossible without rockets. I had to find a way to get a few dozen rounds from Brother Chu and bring them back for use - my brother, I There's no point in being polite to him, but you have to find a reason. Being an older brother also has to save face! "
Li Tiejun was muttering alone and wondering how to get some more rockets from Chu Xiong. Zhang Dahu ran back in a hurry again. Li Tiejun stared at him with big eyes, waiting for him to explain.
"Captain, a group of female students came from Jiangcheng. They said they were going to Liu Town to find Captain Chu to fight Japanese invaders. By accident, they came to the jurisdiction of our new regiment!"
As soon as Zhang Dahu finished speaking, he burst into laughter when he saw the regiment leader's face, which made him look like a sorghum flower, and said to himself:
"Our captain is in his thirties, so he wants to marry his mother-in-law as soon as he hears about the female students, right? This is against discipline, and I have to persuade the captain!"
