After talking about submachine guns, Brigadier Wang mentioned the recent situation to them.
Although the Eighth Route Army's strength has been significantly strengthened.
But for some reason, the Japanese seemed to have sensed a dangerous fox and kept using the turtle tactic.
You can't survive hiding in large strongholds and cities.
Even the puppet troops stopped.
Recently, they haven't even fought a battle of any size.
It gave the Eighth Route Army soldiers a feeling that they had no place to use their strength.
However, the Japanese were not idle for a moment.
Comrades in the local army have discovered that spy activities have become more frequent recently.
Everyone tried to find out the whereabouts of the Eighth Route Army Arsenal.
The Japanese also kept dispatching troops to the Eighth Route Control Area.
Arm the new Japs in large numbers.
Weapons and ammunition were brought in truckload after truckload, and just one look at them could make the soldiers' mouths water.
But unfortunately, every time he was transported, there would be at least one squadron of Japanese soldiers and two puppet military camps accompanying him.
It was so vast, there were more than a dozen trucks alone.
Exaggeration?
exaggerate!
But reality is so magical.
"What is supposed to come has come!"
Zhu Han said to himself.
It seems that his appearance has begun to change history. I don't know if I can control the future situation.
Brigadier Wang just thought that he expected the Japanese to take action, so he didn't think much about it.
Instead, he comforted:
"Don't worry, we just don't quite understand the Japs' intentions just yet."
"You have already shared too much for us. Leave this kind of thing to us soldiers."
Zhu Han nodded and said:
"If something goes wrong, there must be a monster. If the Japanese are so actively preparing, I'm afraid a big one is coming."
Brigadier Wang: "Yes, we think so too."
Zhu Han: "Haha, it seems that I finally caught up after hurrying and slowing down!"
"Ah? What did you catch up with?"
Zhu Han's sudden words startled Brigadier Wang.
I have long heard that no matter what guarantee this guy makes, he always has a back-up plan.
It seems that every step is a leap forward, but in fact it is a steady step towards a super goal that everyone finds incredible.
"Recall, since the beginning of the year, how many times has Baldhead had friction with us?"
"That's too much. I've been pressed to the ground and rubbed against you many times, big and small. Why are you bringing this up?"
"Hmph!" Zhu Han snorted coldly, his look in his eyes making Brigadier Wang, a real man who dared to sleep in a graveyard, shudder.
"You don't really think that they are causing friction this time because of political differences, do you?"
"Uh... isn't it?"
"It's a pity that the truth is more despicable than your guess. The bald man wants to make peace with the Japanese!"
"What!!!?"
This simple and indifferent sentence was like a bolt from the blue, making the ears of the two people present ringing.
"Is this source reliable?"
"Reliable, but I'm afraid I can't give you a source."
"How dare he be bald!? Want to be the second Wang Jingwei?"
Zhu Han shook his head and sighed:
"Hey, haven't you seen it yet? Jiang, Song, Kong and Chen were nominally China's great businessmen and capitalist class, but in reality they were the comprador class."
Brigadier Wang didn't speak, but his clattering teeth and fists with bulging veins were enough to show his anger.
Yes, Soong Meiling could use the military expenditures from the government to buy airplanes to invest in real estate, stocks, and financial management in the United States.
Song Ziwen was able to take advantage of his position to engage in smuggling, smuggling grain, tea, and tobacco in the name of transporting medicines to earn high prices.
But he didn't care at all about the shortfall in the medicine book and the lives of soldiers who had no cure.
He was born in this poor and weak land and became the richest man in the world by sucking human blood!
They are not afraid of chaos in the country, but they are afraid that they will not make any money!
Even if Song Ziwen's grain shipments were never interrupted, when did the price of grain in the Kuomintang-controlled areas change?
Everyone is hoarding. Once someone wants to sell cheap goods, I'm afraid that person's body will be floating on the Huangpu River the next day.
The price will never fall, and the goods will never run out.
The common people had objections, and they casually posted news that they were out of stock, and if the price went up, they would still rush to buy it.
You think others are black, others think you are cheap!
Zhu Han continued with a dark face:
"Of course he doesn't want to risk the disapproval of the world, otherwise he would have surrendered long ago."
"But now that the Japs are in full swing, the capitulation faction within the Chiang government is strong and they are clamoring every day to follow the so-called 'Pétain line'."
"Since the Anti-Japanese War, his territory has become smaller and smaller, while our territory has become larger and larger."
"Our soldiers are united and becoming more and more numerous. His officers are disloyal and scattered."
"If this continues, won't it mean that we are fighting for our country?"
"And Baldy Jiang has always believed that war relies on weapons and capital, not the insignificant masses of the people."
"So his biggest reliance is on the assistance of international allies."
"Some time ago, the war in Europe was urgent, and the British were retreating steadily. The Japanese took the opportunity to put pressure on them, threatening to leave India if they continued to support China's war of resistance."
"Now the international assistance that Chiang Kai-shek regarded as his lifeblood is gone..."
"Bang!" Brigadier Wang couldn't bear it anymore and punched the table hard. "So he will just be an international beggar? Like a pug, wagging his tail to the great powers and begging for mercy?"
Zhu Han nodded, saying nothing and continued to explain.
"I felt that I couldn't defeat them, and surrendering would be too embarrassing, so I could only negotiate secretly to get a sufficient price."
"But paper can't cover up the fire. If he is exposed, not to mention the common people, even the main militant faction inside will turn against him. So..."
Brigadier Wang joined the conversation viciously: "So there was a lot of friction. After being punished by us, they made a shit basin of 'you don't attack but only attack friendly forces' and put it on our heads!"
It goes without saying that the method behind it is known.
Pretending to be stabbed by the Red Party, the White Party was forced to surrender.
If the Japs win, they are winners; if the Japs lose, they can look good.
Only the Red Party lost from the beginning to the end.
Brigadier Wang is now eager to take out his gun and fight for the bald man.
"Then we can just sit back and wait for death?"
"Of course not possible."
Zhu Han patted his shoulder.
Perhaps it was because too many miracles had been shown during this period that Brigadier Wang actually believed that Zhu Han had the ability to reverse the status quo.
"Look here."
Zhu Han took out another map of North China, with many lines densely drawn on it.
The thick ones refer to railways, and the thin ones refer to roads.
"With the implementation of the cage policy, the Japanese army built a large number of highway and railway lines, and relied on these transportation lines to set up a large number of watchtowers and bunkers."
"This spider web-like transportation line not only blocks the activity space of our Eighth Route Army, but also allows the enemy's troops to quickly maneuver to any point. It can be said to be the most helpless and most effective method of dealing with guerrilla warfare."
"It's helpless because most of these costly infrastructure projects have nothing to do with the Japanese strategic purposes and are just for maintaining stability."
"It's effective because we didn't have the heavy weapons to attack fortresses before. The enemy defended a village with a few people or a city with dozens of people, but we couldn't do anything about it before."
"It has only been less than a year, and there are only two county towns left in our anti-Japanese base areas. If we don't take action, our efforts over the past few years will be in vain."
"Before? You mean..."
Brigadier Wang keenly grasped Zhu Han's choice of words.
"That's right, it's 'before'! That's why I said 'caught up'."
"Their greatest reliance is the delaying effect of the artillery towers, which enable them to mobilize a large number of troops for reinforcements through roads and railways."
"Such a tactic looks like a sea urchin that has nothing to eat and is covered in spines, but that's the problem - it's just a sea urchin that can only passively defend itself."
"Once the shell is cracked, the few people in each of their fortifications will have delicious sea urchin meat."
"As long as we throw out a large number of troops, scatter them all over the sky, make these turrets look forward and backward, and take care of themselves, and at the same time remove them all, this cage tactic is bullshit!"
Brigadier Wang's eyes lit up: "The rumors of wandering without attacking will naturally be disproven by then!"
"I'm going to report to the division commander right away. No, they should be asked to report to Commander-in-Chief Zhu!"
Zhu Han pushed Brigadier Wang, who was about to leave, directly onto his seat.
"You are not needed. I guess Commander Zhu and the others are discussing a plan of action at this time."
"Those crappy turrets may be effective at resisting bullets and grenades, but any direct-fire artillery can make them kneel down and call them daddy."
"So the means to attack difficulties is a key. If we don't have it, we need to use human lives to fill it."
"But now, we have the key."
Brigadier Wang was confused again.
Many of the technicians at the factory have never even seen what a body-building tube and artillery machine looks like.
That's why we spent a lot of effort to get a 92-step gun and imitate it.
Didn’t you just deliver it yourself?
"You don't mean to say mortars, do you? Although our soldiers have invented a method of firing mortars horizontally, it is still almost impossible to deal with bunkers."
But Zhu Han smiled slyly:
"Who told you that direct-firing artillery must have body controls?"
