Taiyuan, First Army Headquarters
"Your Excellency, Commander, the garrison troops in the Yuci area reported that many Tuba Roads suddenly appeared in the security area. They armed themselves to resist the imperial army's food collection, resulting in a significant reduction in the food collected this year. Many food collection teams were attacked. Heavy losses, requesting tactical guidance.”
After hearing this, Lieutenant General Iwamatsu asked in surprise:
"What about Na? Has the public security in Hedong been so corrupted? The Yuci area is the foundation of the Imperial Army in Hedong, and the Eighth Route Army must not be allowed to extend its hands in;
Your Excellency Okamura is already formulating a plan to strengthen public security in North China. The First Army should not alert the enemy for the time being. It will quietly replenish troops and mobilize supplies first. If it does not take action, it will be a thunderous strike to completely solve the security problem in Hedong. "
Miyamoto nodded in agreement. The First Army had been severely damaged since the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain and had not recovered yet. It was indeed not the time to launch a war against the Eighth Route Army.
Yancheng Iron Lion Alley, North China Front Headquarters
Major General Moritake Tanabe is playing chess with General Okamura. General Okamura is undoubtedly a master in chess, and his white piece is about to succeed in slaying the dragon;
Tanabe Moritake was taking the long exam, Okamura closed his eyes and rested, looking very patient. The old Japanese man was on the chessboard, but his mind was on the entire North China Plain. He was thinking about new measures to strengthen public security in North China.
Playing chess will make his thinking more divergent. This has been his habit for many years. Many strategies are inspired by chess games;
After a long time, Major General Tanabe sighed and surrendered. A long-lost smile appeared on General Okamura's face...
It has been more than a month since he took office as the commander of the North China Front. People say that the new officer has three things to do when he takes office, but he has not made any moves so far. Many people think that he is a conservative faction. In fact, he has been holding back a big move;
If you don't take action, that's it. If you take action, you will slay the dragon!
Major General Tanabe knew as soon as he saw the smile on Okamura's face that the Commander must have...
Sure enough, Okamura spoke:
"Tanabe-kun, are you curious why I have done nothing since I took office?"
Major General Tanabe nodded reflexively, accidentally revealing his inner thoughts, and by the time he realized it, it was already too late.
“Tanabe-kun, it’s okay, I want to hear your true thoughts;
It's not that I want to do nothing, but that I'm waiting for soldiers and supplies from the base camp.
I have long had a set of methods to deal with the resistance forces in North China, especially the base areas of the Eighth Route Army. My strategy requires a large amount of supplies to support it, and the soldiers lost in the Central Plains battle must also be replaced. "
Major General Tanabe suddenly realized and looked at him expectantly. General Okamura was not a religious man.
"Tanabe-kun, my policy can be summed up in two sentences: implement the three no's policy in the public security area, no killing, no robbing, and no fornication;
It is necessary to vigorously promote the imperial army's tolerant policy in politics, promote enslavement education, and let the Chinese people in the public security areas get used to the rule of the imperial army.
Boil a frog in warm water. By the time the frog reacts, he has no strength to resist!
The other is to implement the three-light policy on the Eighth Route Army's base areas, kill them all, burn them all, and rob them all!
It is necessary to dig deep blockade ditches and build high blockade walls to strengthen the role of fortresses. It is necessary to build roads, build gun towers and bunkers, and dig deep trenches. They must be dug deep and wide enough to divide the Eighth Route Army's base areas into countless small pieces, just like this chessboard. , 19 horizontal lines, 19 vertical lines, make their base area small enough to be penetrated by one shot..."
Tanabe understood Okamura's strategy, which sounded very exciting, but he also had a question in his mind:
"Your Excellency, Commander, use the fortress policy to deal with the Eighth Route Army's base areas. Xiao Zhuojun has implemented it in Hedong, but the effect is not satisfactory;
I heard that the Eighth Route Army has a Mulan cannon, which is very effective against gun towers, and a Wei Yixiao cannon, which is similar to a mortar. It is very lethal and can blow up a bunker with one shot. "
Tanabe stopped here. The implication is that the fortress policy may not be effective for the Eighth Route Army.
The smile on Okamura's face became even wider. He understood what Chief of Staff Tanabe meant, and he was not angry after being questioned. This shows that Tanabe is also thinking about the problem. He does not want his chief of staff to be just a yes man. He continued to say patiently:
"Tanabe-kun, Xiaozhuo-kun's fortress policy is not ineffective, but it is not implemented thoroughly enough. In addition, it is more effective in plain areas than in mountainous areas;
The Mulan Cannon and Wei Yixiao Cannon are indeed powerful, but they both have flaws. The biggest flaw is the range problem.
The range of the Mulan cannon is less than 150 meters, and the accuracy of the Wei Yixiao cannon is very poor. It is very difficult to hit the turret from a few hundred meters away:
We only need to dig a large number of trenches around the turrets. The trenches must be dug wide and deep enough. The distance must be controlled within a hundred meters. The shooting range within two hundred meters should be cleared and all creatures that appear in this area should be shot!
In addition, they need to repair enough, tens of thousands of them, even if one consumes 2 to 3 artillery shells, how many artillery shells can they produce with the productivity of the Eighth Route Army?
As much as they bombed, the imperial army would build twice as many. There was a lot of free labor in the Jizhong Plain;
The public security strengthening campaign should be implemented throughout North China, focusing on southern Hebei, central Hebei, eastern Hebei, the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan region, and the plains of Hedong, while encroaching and raiding other areas..."
Okamura is finally going to implement his entire campaign to strengthen public security. This policy can only be described as terrifying. In another time and space, Okamura Neji's "Three Guangs" and "Three Nos" policies resulted in a loss of more than 2.7 million people in North China. The Eighth Route Army troops dropped sharply from 400,000 to 300,000, and about 400,000 Kuomintang troops surrendered to the Japanese. This led to an explosive growth in the number of puppet troops, and the Japanese soldiers had more strength to carry out the law and order strengthening movement.
Old Japs Okamura is right about one thing. As long as he builds enough gun towers and crams hundreds of thousands of puppet troops into the gun towers as consumables, how many rockets can the Eighth Route Army have?
It can’t be consumed at all. It can be said that this is the conspiracy of the old Japanese Okamura. With the implementation of the policy of strengthening public security by the old Japanese Okamura, the most difficult period of the Anti-Japanese War is about to come...
The Japanese were sharpening their swords, but the Kuomintang army, which had won the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, was fighting among its own people to gain territory.
Zhongtiao Mountain, New 93rd Army New 9th Division Defense Area
The Kuomintang troops who had retreated to Guanzhong during the war all withdrew from Zhongtiao Mountain when they saw the Japanese. Some wanted to return to their original defense areas, and clashed with the New 9th Division.
"I am the chief of staff of the 93rd Army. I asked Luo Weimin to come to see me. The army has new instructions for him. Can you bear the penalty for offending the commander?"
An officer wearing the rank of major general yelled arrogantly.
"Hey, who is this? Such a powerful person? When did the chief of staff of the 93rd Army dare to yell at the commander of the new 93rd Army? You are the one who offended Shangguan, right? Do you still understand the rules?"
An officer with the rank of lieutenant general came out. This man was Zhang Yu, the commander of the new 9th Division, a newly minted lieutenant general who was personally taught by Zhong Cai.
