On the other side, Li Yunlong ushered in the golden era of career development.
The original Ping'an base area expanded a lot from south to north after conquering Lu'an City. Li Yunlong now has no restrictions. He is not lenient at all in developing troops and unceremoniously recruits local guerrillas and miscellaneous armed forces. After collecting and integrating them first, not only did they quickly reorganize the independent regiment, but they also directly increased the number of guard regiments by six in the Lu'an City area.
In a short period of time after Gao Jianwu left, Li Yunlong had successfully doubled the number of troops again.
Li Yunlong is indeed a little expert in the eight-way middle team.
Fortunately, Gao Jianwu did not forget to explode equipment along the way when he attacked Yangcheng and Lu'an City, leaving Li Yunlong with at least five brigades of weapons and equipment. Otherwise, Li Yunlong's army equipment would have returned to the past - each person had one weapon. The March 8th period was probably a time when life was good.
Now, Li Yunlong has achieved at least one mountain artillery battery and one 92nd Infantry Artillery Company in the garrison regiment. Together with the original 90mm small steel cannon mortar battery, the garrison regiment has exceeded the firepower standards of many main regiments. .
After Li Yunlong fought with Gao Jianwu and tasted the sweetness of firepower coverage, his pursuit of artillery had reached a perverted point. Each regiment was embarrassed to be called a regiment without one or two artillery companies.
The artillery produced overtime at the Jinyang Arsenal has now been uniformly deployed by the headquarters. Li Yunlong has no way to directly call it and can only queue up. However, after Gao Jianwu captured the Japs, he directly assigned them to his own troops.
After capturing the two big cities of Yangcheng and Lu'an City, Gao Jianwu's explosive equipment was also very abnormal. He directly reported forty mountain cannons and more than sixty 92 infantry cannons. Anyway, he annihilated five or six brigades of Japs.
It is relatively normal to have so many seizures.
However, the newly formed guard regiment is not so equipped in terms of 81 mm and 82 mm mortars. After all, Gao Jianwu does not have many of these mortars left. The newly produced 60 mm and 82 mm mortars are more important to other brother units. It's urgently needed, especially in the Qilu area. Big guys can't send it there, so these little guys are just right!
In this way, the number of artillery pieces in Li Yunlong's garrison regiment has decreased, but the caliber and quality have increased.
Of course, the overall lethality has continued to increase. One guard regiment can defeat a regiment of little devils.
The entire Ping An base area has also expanded more than five times, to more than ten county towns, as well as the two big cities of Yangcheng and Lu'an City.
In the current situation, if it were Li Yunlong alone, he would be thankful that he got Yangcheng.
Even if a big city like Lu'an City was conquered by Li Yunlong, it must be handed over to the brigade commander to manage. After all, the area from Yangcheng to Lu'an City is too big. Although Li Yunlong is a little bloated, he is still a bit forced. Count, the higher-ups will definitely be worried that Li Yunlong won't be able to grasp it.
But now because Gao Jianwu is here, Gao Jianwu conquered this place. Although he left, the superiors still gave it to the Ping An Base to expand its territory.
Maybe he just wants to use Gao Jianwu's hands to see how far he can build it, which is equivalent to expanding Ping An's vibrant development experimental field.
Although the property in Jinyang City was disposed of in advance by Gao Jianwu and the others, which was a bit of a headache at first, but judging from the results, all the bosses at the headquarters were soon overjoyed.
They are more practical people. When they see the vitality and production capacity in Jinyang, it is far more than several times the bureaucratic factories in the rear area, and even far exceeds the same type of factories in the border areas.
So judging from the results, Gao Jianwu and his colleagues are undoubtedly correct in their approach. At this time, all methods to increase production capacity are good methods.
If it hadn't been for a relatively short period of time, no one would be sure how long this effect would last, and the headquarters would begin to prepare to summarize their experience and report it.
Although Gao Jianwu is not in the Ping An Base Area, Gao Jianwu's shadow is everywhere in the Ping An Base Area. Almost all major policies in the base area will be released by Zhao Gang after consulting Gao Jianwu.
There are high-power radio stations for communication, and there are no barriers to communication between them.
But it was the telegraph operator who did the hard work. Sometimes Zhao Gang would send the full text of an important policy to Gao Jianwu for advice. Such policy articles often had several thousand words, and the telegraph operator had to translate them one by one, which was really hard work.
Therefore, the telegraph operators are the ones who work the most overtime every day. But all this is worth it. Gao Jianwu knows almost everything about the development of the Ping'an base area. Under the influence of Gao Jianwu, the development of the Ping'an base area has advanced by leaps and bounds, far exceeding other base areas.
On the one hand, of course, Gao Jianwu’s five small factories began to bloom everywhere, achieving fruitful results and exporting a large number of industrial products;
On the other hand, Gao Jianwu's investment policies were much more flexible than those in other base areas. He mobilized local landlords and wealthy people and began to invest the capital accumulated over several generations into large-scale industrial production. In this way, the Ping An base area Industry has certainly developed far more than elsewhere.
This phenomenon first attracted the attention of the brigade commander, who sent all the main managers in his area to Zhao Gang for collective study.
Starting from policies and guidelines to management systems, the introduction is carried out comprehensively. In terms of the five small factories, the Grand Brigadier also regards the introduction of technology from the Ping An base area as a top priority.
And now the brigade commander has learned to be smart. He no longer reaches out for it, but converts the technology into shares according to the Ping An base area, turning Ping An factory owners into technical shareholders of the local factory.
This greatly increases the enthusiasm for safe mode and rapid replication. Not only did this model spread from southeastern Shanxi to northwest Shanxi, it was also comprehensively promoted in Shanxi.
And now it has begun to spread to the border area, which has greatly eased the economic pressure on the border area. Holding a gun while engaged in production has become a spectacle in the base area.
Although this model also reduces the output of products in the Ping An base area, Gao Jianwu doesn't care at all. The whole country is now in a state of product shortage. Even if there are no sales in the base area, it can still transport these goods to enemy war zones and other areas. Sales in Kuomintang District.
Yamashita Sanosuke, who Gao Jianwu planned in advance, has now become a base and a major channel for external sales, especially sales in enemy-occupied areas. Yamashita Sanosuke is like a fish in water.
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Yamashita Sanosuke's pure Osaka blood and his flexible methods of doing things have now become the guest of many local military police captains in enemy-occupied areas. Because every time he comes to these places, he will bring them a lot of benefits.
Yamashita Sanosuke, who knew how to share profits, soon became a big businessman in the north and now has sales channels all over North China. Of course, he did not expose these himself, but through different relationships. Weave it all together into a tight sales network.
You can completely rely on Yamashita Sanosuke's talent in this regard.
Seeing the success of Sanosuke Yamashita in intelligence, Gao Jianwu was moved and sent a telegram directly asking him to recruit him from the north to Nanyang, and asked him to hand over the business in the north to his compatriots.
Gao Jianwu, the general manager of Nanyang Investment Co., Ltd. who has been pending for a long time, wants Yamashita Sanosuke to give it a try. Of course, this time, Yamashita Sanosuke will no longer use his real name when he goes to Nanyang, but will openly assume the pseudonym of Sanosuke. , acting under the name of Deputy Director of Commerce of the Ping An Base Area.
As for secretly conducting business transactions with the areas occupied by the Japs, he still used his own real name to carry out activities.
Gao Jianwu planned to let him weave a sales and transportation channel in Nanyang, and at the same time supervise all projects of Nanyang Investment Co., Ltd.
There are really not many people in the Heian base area who are better at settling accounts than Yamashita Sanosuke.
Gao Jianwu's telegram was quickly implemented. Yamashita Sanosuke handed over the work in hand without almost thinking, and let a fellow countryman take over his position.
This small group of them has almost been branded as a safe base. If they really want to do other dangerous things, the "protection personnel" sent by Gao Jianwu around them can ruin their reputation at any time.
Belief is one thing, but control means is another. Gao Jianwu will never base himself on personal self-discipline, but needs some control means to restrain them.
Fortunately, Sanosuke Yamashita and the others have already reaped the benefits from the safe base, and they have not had any objections yet, but are going all out to do their own thing.
What's more interesting is that the better they do, the more promising they will be here, and the stronger their attachment to the Ping An base will be.
When it comes to danger, they feel that it is much better now than when they were fighting in the army. At least they feel safe no matter which way they walk. Except for the bandits on the road, there seems to be nothing on either side that can threaten their safety.
Everywhere they go, they are flattered as the God of Wealth, which naturally makes them feel that this kind of life is indeed not bad.
Although Gao Jianwu didn't know about these psychology, Gao Jianwu was able to learn from the people who monitored them that they did work with all their heart and soul when doing things, without being lazy or doing unnecessary things.
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This allowed Gao Jianwu to continue to use their work while maintaining a certain degree of vigilance.
After all, Gao Jianwu really didn't have many business talents, and talents who could infiltrate the sales network into the enemy's side were even rarer.
However, Sanosuke Yamashita could only be put behind the scenes by Gao Jianwu as the general manager of Nanyang Investment Co., Ltd., instead of directly placing him in a more critical place like a mining company.
After all, in an investment company, Yamashita Sanosuke always works a lot behind the scenes and has fewer opportunities to appear in public, which is suitable for a person like Yamashita Sanosuke who has a relatively sensitive identity.
After securing this key position, Gao Jianwu was temporarily relieved. Other companies in front of the stage naturally asked big businessmen like Nanyang to send their own people to serve as professional managers and handle all aspects of the company's affairs.
Through Colonel Smith, Gao Jianwu has put these Nanyang investors in touch with the commercial authorities of the British-Burmese territories. The British-Burmese authorities have no reason to stop this kind of investment. Although they also want to have an exclusive monopoly on well-known resource points like Mogok, There is simply no other way to stop it now.
Now that this territory is in the hands of Gao Jianwu, they don't have the ability to control it even if they want to, so they can only recognize it first by pinching their noses.
In just two weeks, Gao Jianwu completed the registration of several companies in the British-Burmese territories and became companies recognized by the British-Burmese authorities.
Of course, the shadow government, which was promoted by Dechen Dengpei, a high-ranking military official, and has no public activities in the local area, also issued legal business licenses to these companies.
No one can find any flaws in the procedures now.
Next, the first one to complete the auction of sales agency rights was the agency rights of jewelry companies. Huang Qingyuan's group won this agency rights with a bidding price of delivering 17% of annual sales revenue.
This 17% income will be the first wave of long-term income sources for Ping An Base in Nanyang.
According to current sales forecasts, the jewelry company's annual sales are at least several million. In other words, Gao Jianwu can already earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from here.
It's just that except for those giant businessmen in Nanyang, few people at Ping An Base can see the huge interests hidden behind this agency.
Only Ding Wei, who followed Gao Jianwu, had a slight feeling. Because what he heard those giant businessmen talking about were deals involving hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.
Something that they can all fight for will definitely not be too cheap.
As for the jewelry company, they will receive 70% of the annual sales. The bulk of the income will eventually be transferred to Nanyang Investment Co., Ltd., and the sales company will get 13% of the income.
In other words, Gao Jianwu can obtain more than 50% of the income from these companies, and all he invests are other people's resources.
Not many people can see this trick clearly now, so Gao Jianwu can only have fun secretly.
With such great fun, Gao Jianwu can certainly be very happy in Mandalay, and he is not in a hurry to expand.
On the one hand, the control of these resources has not yet been settled, and on the other hand, the local geography and climate do not support him from launching a major military operation now.
Now that the rainy season has entered, it will be very difficult to carry out military activities here, especially the artillery that Gao Jianwu is interested in, even moving it is particularly difficult.
Iida Shoji, seeing that Gao Jianwu's troops had not moved, finally felt relieved and began to ask Yahara Hiromichi to assist the 56th Division in strengthening their defensive positions. At the same time, he also began to use the changes in the war situation in the British-Burmese territories as an excuse. Requested the dispatch of two additional divisions into the British-controlled Burma territory.
In Sammana and Dagon, the 56th Division began to dig tunnels desperately under the plan of Yahara Hakutoshi. Yahara Hakutong forced them to do this work during the rainy season. The people of the 56th Division were so grumpy that they almost killed the Eighth Route Army. The original Broadcom and collapse!
When this information reached Gao Jianwu's ears, he smiled slightly and didn't take it seriously at all. Because as long as he doesn't attack these tunnels, they are useless shit in his eyes.
If others are not convinced and want to try the little devil's tunnel defense, then they have to prepare themselves to die. When the little devil really plays with the tunnel, Yingjiang will cry. Gao Jianwu is not in a hurry to take down all here. Just keep encroaching on the places you can control starting from Mandalay.
He didn't even touch the Yan'anqiang oil field, because he knew that this was the sensitive nerve of the Burmese and British authorities. Even Gao Jianwu was in urgent need of oil, but the Burmese and British authorities valued it even more. The fledgling Gao Jianwu was still unable to do anything there for the time being. Meddle into something.
Anyway, his record is now the most outstanding, even the Allied Command has nothing to do with him.
This was more than a month after fighting on the northern front, and there was still little progress. Gao Jianwu had already done a very good job.
It's just that he didn't quite obey the command, which also left the Allied Command scratching its head. So when Gao Jianwu requested through Smith to send another 20,000 people, there was now a disagreement at the headquarters.
“Damn, our troops will arrive in Mandalay soon, what else does he need so many troops for?
With his ability, he can already use these troops to go south to Ren'anqiang, Shanmana and Dagon, and directly eat up the main force of the 56th Division of the Japs. Now he is staying motionless in Mandalay. I don't think he can be spoiled anymore. . "The commander of the Allied forces, John Mountbatten, said with some annoyance.
"John, if you are given 30,000 people, what can you do? Let alone 30,000 people. If Gao Jianwu's troops withdraw and you take 50,000 people to Mandalay, can you still attack south now?" Qiao Shi General Tivin asked unceremoniously. He had had enough of this incompetent commander, who had barely won a single battle under his command.
Let him serve as the commander of this war zone only because of his background, not his talents.
Montbottom was choked by General Steven's words and could not say anything. More than 30,000 British and Indian troops who set off from Imphal a month ago have not yet arrived in Monywa.
Compared with the marching speed of Gao Jianwu's troops, it was like a tortoise crawling. On average, they only walked more than ten kilometers a day before asking to rest!
This is the veteran soldier from Third Brother. They don't care what your superiors ask you to do. When it's time to rest, you must rest.
Although Lemonbottom was not at the scene, through the on-site commander's report, he basically understood the current situation of his army. Now they just couldn't help Adou.
The scene when he was rushed away by the little devil was still vivid in Lemonbottom's mind. If Gao Jianwu's troops give up and let him face the 56th Division of the Japs by himself, it will be over.
Thinking of these bad things, Montbottom felt very annoyed, but he had no choice but to endure Gao Jianwu to stay there. His desperate attempt to take back the entire British-Burmese territory as soon as possible was shattered again.
His team is not up to par and he wants to rely on others to win the championship. In fact, he is overthinking.
Lemonbottom has not yet thought that someone is wielding a small hoe fiercely to dig out the base of their leadership. When Gao Jianwu and the others beat away the little Japanese and leave, what will be left to them is not a stable territory.
Instead, a violent crater is waiting to swallow them up again.
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Seeing the first batch of 300 people participating in the training, fully armed and energetic, standing there waiting for his inspection, Deqin Dengpei felt very gratified.
Although Dechen Thein Phei has no military ability, he can find from the mental outlook of these people that compared with the previous Burmese British Territory Army and Aung San's army, they are completely different in spirit and spirit, and they are already a bit like little devils. The taste of field elite.
"Commander Ding, thank you for your great contribution to our Burmese and British people. We will always remember the brotherly assistance given to us by the Eighth Route Army. Every brother in this first demonstration camp is very grateful to the instructors for their careful teaching. We will We will always stand together to achieve the liberation of the whole world." Dechen Dengpe said sincerely to Ding Wei beside him.
"Mr. Thein Pheu, thank you. We are here to fight off the invaders and do our best to help the local people stand up for themselves. We hope that we can coexist peacefully with the people of Myanmar and Britain in the future, help each other like brothers, and develop together." , to improve people's living standards and welfare." Ding Wei responded with a smile.
After Ding Wei instilled advanced ideas and beliefs into them, these organizational members, who had just developed from workers and farmers, began to undergo great changes, and they also had a lot of resonance with the expeditionary force group. At this time, They sincerely thanked the expeditionary force for coming here to help them drive away the invaders and build their own homes for them.
Relatively speaking, Gao Jianwu's construction plan has also greatly improved the local area. The start of each project requires a large number of workers. This provides them with a lot of employment opportunities.
Being able to get real wages every day is the greatest welfare for local residents.
"Commander Ding, you are true comrades and brothers. I hope that we can get further help from you on our road to independence. Even after independence, we still ask you to help us build a new country." Deqin Dengpei He went on to say that there were so many things he longed for.
"Proletarians all over the world should stand up and become the masters of the country. At this point, of course we will support you. We will not be stationed in the British-controlled Burma for a long time. For us, it is our task to eliminate the little devils. and goals.
After that, of course we will do our best to support your development and construction. Mr. Thempe, you see we have begun to introduce businessmen to develop and construct in Sagaing and Mandalay. These projects will bring more benefits to the local area. Multiple jobs.
What is completely different from the colonists is that while we are developing, we will also carry out public welfare development plans such as education, road and bridge infrastructure construction, and urban construction to inject long-term impetus into local economic development. "
He is worthy of being a great strategist. He has been following Gao Jianwu for a period of time. Through many in-depth exchanges, he has indeed made a lot of progress in his thinking. Ding Wei can also accurately apply some of the ideas and terms brought by Gao Jianwu from later generations.
At the same time, Ding Wei also understood that Gao Jianwu did not plan to stay here for a long time. For their expeditionary force group, staying here was just to complete one of their raw material supply goals.
Once this goal and mission are achieved, it will be time for the expeditionary force group to leave.
"This is the biggest reason why I am very grateful to you, Commander Ding. You are the comrades who really helped us become independent." Deqin Dengpei said.
Hearing from Ding Wei's mouth that the expeditionary force group really would not stay for a long time, although his face did not change, he was really relieved in his heart.
It is easy to ask gods but difficult to send them away. Deqin Dengpei has a profound experience. At first Wengshan and the others thought that the little devil came and could help them independently. What was the result?
They were all lies and deception. When he found the expeditionary force cluster, Deqin Dengpei actually had this concern as well.
Of course, now it seems that this worry is somewhat unnecessary.
Ding Wei looked at Deqin Dengpei with a slight smile on his face, but he couldn't help but admire Gao Jianwu's vision. Sure enough, these people are not worthy of being fully entrusted, and they all have their own Xiao Jiujiu in their hearts.
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After deciding to support the three parties to form a pattern of mutual assistance and checks and balances, Gao Jianwu reported to the Allied Forces Command and requested to train local police teams to maintain law and order. He was prepared to use this name to let these forces stand in the sun and take over some simple tasks. Security mission.
At the same time, it is also convenient for him to better support these three forces. Before the original Burmese and British bureaucrats arrive, Gao Jianwu can use these people to manage the local area, otherwise many local human resources cannot be dispatched.
In a state of war, these demands of Gao Jianwu are reasonable and reasonable. At least in the eyes of General Steven, these are very wise measures. Therefore, even if General Lemonbottom feels that something is wrong and wants to object, the bureaucrats who used to manage this place are now running away. Before the war is over, the real leaders will never come in easily.
Because if Gao Jianwu and his expeditionary force group left, the Japs might come back, and their lives would not be guaranteed, let alone money.
How cruel the little devil is, the predecessors have already answered with their lives.
Under such circumstances, the Allied General Headquarters acquiesced to Gao Jianwu's use of local people to establish a local management system. The supervisor was Colonel Smith. In his eyes, Gao Jianwu's approach was very fair and they hardly interfered too much in the local area. various tasks.
Whether it was local development or engineering construction, Gao Jianwu and others used the food and materials provided by Yingjiang to pay their wages. The accounts were fair and reasonable, and there was no discount at all. Regarding this, Colonel Smith, who had a deep understanding of the bureaucrats in the rear area, even followed the entire process. I learned about the labor and food receipts of more than a hundred workers at a construction site, and the results were not different from the accounts at all!
So very quickly, Gao Jianwu's expeditionary force group and Dechen Dempei's shadow government established a high reputation.
They began to support Dechen Dempei and their management work. The bridge construction and port construction in Monywa, as well as the road construction from Monywa to Mandalay, and the construction of the Mandalay port were carried out very smoothly. Monywa was the first to be restored. Wa Bridge, allowing the tank troops waiting on the west bank of Monywa to finally have the opportunity to advance to Mandalay.
On the other side, after pacifying the Allied Forces Command, Gao Jianwu now supports the three local forces very strongly and begins to carry out semi-public efforts in large quantities.
In addition to the training mixed with private goods, after the basic ideological training was completed, military training was also carried out.
In the dense forests around Mandalay, there are now thousands of people training at the same time under the training of instructors from the expeditionary force group and beginning to learn various basic tactics.
In this regard, Gao Jianwu provided targeted tactical guidance to the Allied Burmese, British and British Indian forces based on their operational characteristics.
In other words, the imaginary enemies designated by Gao Jianwu for them now are Dai Ying's two territorial troops. This big hole will soon make Dai Ying miserable after Gao Jianwu leaves.
As for the main force of the expeditionary force group, they are not completely sitting around with nothing to do now. Although Gao Jianwu has no short-term plans to attack Dagon southward, his plans to encroach along the south and eastward directions have not stopped.
For these small cities, even in the rainy season, the attack power of the three major attack groups was completely overwhelmed by the local puppet troops and the small Japanese brigade-level defenders.
Xu Shida pushed the front along the Yinlowaddy River into the Myingyan and Muge areas, which was more than 100 kilometers away from the Ren'anqiang Oil Field;
Chu Yunfei's troops pushed the front along the south to Meiktila and Yangmiding, less than 100 kilometers away from Shanmana.
Zhang Dabiao's troops headed east, toward Taunggyi Laining, and as far as Meng Sa, which borders Siam, and controlled the land communication line with Siam.
In this way, the escape route to the east for the Japs was basically cut off. At the same time, the Japs' activity space was greatly reduced, and nearly a quarter of the British-Burmese territory was controlled. Of course, this was achieved before new reinforcements arrived. It reached the limit of the area controlled by Gao Jianwu's military strength.
At the same time, the reinforcements of the 33rd Division of the Little Japanese arrived in Dagon, finally letting the stressed Iida Shoji breathe a sigh of relief.
