"The devil has stopped for so long, it seems that he is going to make a big move."

Li Hong fell into a deep groan, thought deeply for a moment, and then ordered the signal troops: "Pass my order, order all units to send additional scouts to reconnoiter and monitor all communication arteries within 15 kilometers of the station, pay close attention to the movements of the Japanese army, and report any situation immediately." ”

"Yes, Tuanza!"

"Also, in order to avoid delaying the fighters, if there are special circumstances, each department can act with cameras."

The signal soldier immediately turned around and walked away, and then conveyed Li Hong's order to the various departments of the security regiment.

……

The fundamental reason why the Japanese army has not launched a large-scale offensive to expand the occupied area for so long is that there is a shortage of troops.

Of course, the Japanese army was like a jackal that could never get enough to eat, and the enemy's ambitions were very great, and they mobilized heavy troops from the North China Front in order to swallow all the cities in Shanxi in one bite.

The Japanese army did not attack Shandong and Hebei first, but continuously mobilized heavy troops to attack Shanxi with all its might, in addition to the strategic purpose, another purpose was to plunder resources.

As we all know, Shanxi's coal mines are famous all over the country, ranking second in the country, and from the perspective of economic resources, coal resources alone are enough to tempt the greedy Japanese.

Shanxi's coal reserves are about 128 billion tons, 16 times that of Japan, and in terms of production, Shanxi is about 2.7 million tons.

There are more than 50 counties and cities in Shanxi that are rich in coal, so every county town is fat for little devils.

According to the telegram, last night the Japanese army reinforced 3 brigades to the Shanxi battlefield, in fact, this information is not completely accurate, in addition to these 3 brigades, there are also 3 independent Japanese first-class wings.

Taiyuan, the station of the Japanese Itagaki Division.

The 5th Division of Itagaki is the most elite mechanized unit of the Japanese army, known as the Steel Army, with only half of the brigade strength and a part of the Japanese army's first-class wing, it swept more than a dozen divisions of the squadron ** and occupied the territory of Shanxi.

Seishiro Itagaki was an extremely cunning, greedy, and arrogant Japanese general, of course, this man had outstanding military talents and strategic vision, and at this time, he was preparing the next banner at the headquarters.

Spacious meeting room.

Dozens of senior Japanese officers sat in the conference room, and the old devil of Itagaki was sitting precariously, his eyes coldly sweeping the officers.

Originally, there were not many troops that the old devil of Itagaki could mobilize to participate in the battle, but now he had 3 more elite brigades and several elite wings under his command.

The transferred Japanese troops were the 1st Independent Infantry Brigade, the 6th Independent Infantry Brigade, the 14th Independent Brigade, the 113th Class A Infantry Wing, the 127th Class A Infantry Wing, and the 143rd Class A Cavalry Wing.

The total number of these Japanese troops added up to more than 32,000 people, and so many Japanese reinforcements made up for the emptiness of the Japanese army in Shanxi, which was enough to change the battlefield in Shanxi.

The old devil of Itagaki summoned so many Japanese commanders to further plan to invade Shanxi Chengxian County.

The commander of the 1st Devil Infantry Brigade stood up and said: "Your Excellency, there are not many troops in the Luliang area, Fenyang, Jiaocheng, Fangshan and other places, and our 1st Brigade can easily take these county towns. ”

Soon, the 6th Brigade of the Devil Infantry also stood up and said, "Your Excellency General, my suggestion is to concentrate forces to attack the more strategically valuable Gucheng County first, Changzhi, Jincheng, and Linfen. Although these strategic areas have a heavy army, if these areas are captured, it is equivalent to taking the whole of Shanxi, and the rest of the counties and towns will also be self-defeating. ”

Wu Teng Xinnan sat silently, listening to the stupid attack plan of the two brigade commanders just now, and his face showed a trace of disdain.

Itagaki Seishiro was also not satisfied with their attack plan, and immediately, his eyes noticed the look of the old fox Wu Teng Shinnan.

"Wu Tengjun, don't be silent, tell me your high opinion."

Wu Teng Xinnan wasted one leg and didn't stand up, he thought for a few seconds, and said rigorously: "General, occupation alone is not enough to eliminate the living force of the Chinese army, if you want to end the war in Shanxi as soon as possible, the only way to do it is to adopt in-depth and roundabout tactics to carry out a big encirclement." ”

"Roundabout encirclement tactics in depth?"

The Japanese officers in the conference room looked at Wu Teng Shinnan in astonishment.

"Yo Xi, what a deep and roundabout encirclement tactic."

Seishiro Itagaki smiled slyly, as if he agreed with Wu Teng Shinnan's roundabout battle plan, and then he stood up and walked under the map.

"Everyone, please look at the map, most of Shanxi is our occupation area, the heavy troops of China are mainly concentrated in the southwest of Shanxi, if we have a strategic movement to encircle and annihilate the soldiers of China, not only will most of the troops of the army of China be wiped out, but also the entire east, west and south of Shanxi will also be prostrate at the feet of our Japanese Empire......"

After Itagaki Seishiro finished speaking, he drew a large circle on the map with his hand, and then smashed his fist on the southwest location of Jinnan on the map, full of ambition.

"Bang Bang!"

There was applause in the conference room, and the Japanese commanders all agreed with this magnificent encirclement strategy!

Next, the old devil of Itagaki began to mobilize troops for a big roundabout combat deployment.

……

Two days later, the headquarters of the security regiment.

Just now, Li Hong received a report from various departments of the security regiment that in the past two days, Japanese troops have been moving around on the road, as well as the baggage troops of devils.

There is nothing strange about the activities of devils, the strange thing is that devils are only active in small groups of lightly armed troops during the day, and at night the large army of little devils is marching at night, and there are also a large number of baggage troops.

The little devils act sneakily and do not dare to march in broad daylight, which can only show what kind of conspiracy the enemy is engaged in.

Li Hong, who had been studying and thinking at the headquarters all morning, read the telegrams sent by other garrison troops to the war zone, and the defenders from all walks of life found a large number of Japanese troops.

He sat on a large map, puzzled, and thought as he smoked a cigarette.

The fact that the Japanese army mobilized troops and did not launch an offensive is really incomprehensible.

What exactly is the military purpose of the enemy?

After thinking for a long time, Li Hong's gaze turned to the map on the ground again, and gradually, he seemed to understand the enemy's true intentions.

Just now he thought of one thing that the enemy had in common, that the Japanese troops were all interspersed with roundabout movements.

Tens of thousands of Japanese troops rushed hundreds of kilometers, interspersed with detours along the garrison area of the Chinese garrison, what does this mean?

This shows that the enemy is preparing to take a big detour.

The devil's roundabout route is very clear, judging from the enemy's movement position, the little devil has opened a huge encirclement in the southwest of Shanxi, which is a deep and roundabout operation.

The success of the Great Roundabout Interspersed Tactic can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty.

The 19-year-old hussar general Huo Quai, in the two Hexi battles, once again ran thousands of miles, interspersed with detours, marched 1,000 miles in 6 days, and annihilated 9,000 Hungarian enemies.