In June, the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army in Shanxi ushered in a new owner, Yoshio Iwamatsu, a lieutenant general of the Japanese Army.

Yoshio Iwamatsu graduated from the 30th class of the Japanese Army University, while Yoshio Shinozuka graduated from the 23rd class. Before taking over Yoshio Shinozuka's position, Yoshio Iwamatsu was the commander of the Central Army of the Japanese Army.

Because Yoshio Shinozuka did not make the slightest achievement in fighting the Eighth Route Army in the occupied area of Shanxi, Iwamatsu Yoshio was ordered to take over Shinozuka Yoshio's position. For Yoshio Shinozuka, Yoshio Iwamatsu is a little envious, he knows that Yoshio Shinozuka once received a saber from His Majesty the Emperor, what a great honor it is.

It's a pity that Yoshio Shinozuka lived up to His Majesty's expectations, and in the end he could only be transferred out of the First Army in Shanxi and returned to his homeland as a cold bench.

Walking into the headquarters, Iwamatsu Yoshio could see that the officers in the First Army were waiting for him, which made him very satisfied, and it seemed that these officers were still very smart. Otherwise, if something really goes wrong, then Iwamatsu Yoshio, the new commander of the First Army, doesn't mind doing something.

To be able to become a lieutenant general in the army, Yoshio Iwamatsu has seen too many things, and he has quite a weak means.

The Japanese Army's base camp chose to let Iwamatsu Yoshio take over Shinozuka Yoshio's position, also because Iwamatsu Yoshio's ability is quite good, and he has made certain achievements in the Central Army. There is an urgent need to keep the Shanxi occupation area a sufficiently stable base camp, and it is natural that people like Yoshio Iwamatsu need to be transferred to ensure the stability of Shanxi.

Shanxi's strategic location is very important, and its rich coal resources are urgently needed by the devils, coupled with the fact that Shanxi has a strong transportation network, most of the materials of the devils need to be transported from Shanxi to the front line, which makes the devils very important to the stability of Shanxi.

What's more, with the movements of the Eighth Route Army troops in the occupied areas, as well as those expanding anti-Japanese base areas, the devils felt a deep threat. If they don't make certain changes to the situation in Shanxi, then the Eighth Route Army will inevitably become their henchmen, and even now, the Eighth Route Army has become the object of jealousy of the devils.

After a brief understanding of the situation of the First Army, Iwamatsu Yoshio began to strengthen his control over the First Army, and when he learned about Yamamoto Kazuki's secret team, he even expressed his support for Yamamoto Kazuki.

Whether it is the family behind Yamamoto Kazuki or Yamamoto Kazuki's own ability, Iwamatsu Yoshio is quite satisfied, and he also needs to control Yamamoto Kazuki's special team to ensure that he can make certain achievements in Shanxi. In Iwamatsu Yoshio's view, the fact that the secret service team did not make enough achievements before was entirely due to Yoshio Shinozuka's wrong command.

And now that he, Yoshio Iwamatsu, is in control of the special team, then he will inevitably command the special team well and make the special team a weapon to kill people in his hands.

When Iwamatsu Yoshio continued to strengthen his control over the First Army, the units of the Eighth Route Army were also constantly developing, and after knowing the devil's fear of the Eighth Route Army, the 129th Division implemented the countermeasures of localizing the main force and merging part of the main force with the army divisions in phases and batches.

At the same time, the 129th Division also adopted the principle of all-round struggle against the enemy with armed struggle as the core, vigorously organized guerrilla warfare, intensified the struggle against the enemy in the border areas, launched a political offensive, and smashed the Japanese puppet army's sweeping and encroachment on the Japanese base areas.

In order to deal with the devil's various means, the 129th Division, under the command of the headquarters, adopted various ways to carry out defensive counterattacks.

Before, the bosses thought that after Iwamatsu Yoshio took over the First Army, the devils would stop for a while and reduce the sweep of the base area. After all, Iwamatsu Yoshio, who had just taken over the First Army, did not have enough control over the troops under his command at all, not to mention that he could not gain anything in the sweep, so the materials consumed by the devil's sweep troops were not a small amount.

But who knew that after Iwamatsu Yoshio took over the First Army, not only did he not reduce the sweep of the base area, but instead ordered all the troops under his command to carry out the sweep against the Japanese base area from time to time. In just one month, the devil's troops carried out more than a dozen large-scale sweeps of the base areas.

This kind of sweeping intensity made the bosses more and more aware of the hardships of the war of resistance in the areas occupied by the devils, and the devils had already noticed the strength of the Eighth Route Army and intensified the attack on the anti-Japanese base areas, so as to avoid the growth of the Eighth Route Army and the anti-Japanese base areas.

In the entanglement with the devil sweeping troops, the troops on the front line also passed down the news that the devil troops were not only sweeping, but also digging deep blockade ditches and building blockades high, which once again strengthened the fortress policy. In a short period of time, there were many more fortresses built by devils on the periphery of the base area.

Relying on the fortress they built, the devils restricted the development of the anti-Japanese base areas and constantly compressed the space for the development of the various units of the Eighth Route Army.

The bosses also noticed that since Okamura Ninji became the commander of the North China Front, he has constantly pursued the barbaric and vicious 'three lights' policy, which has caused the devils to wantonly burn down the houses of the masses and rob the masses of food when they launched a sweep of the base areas, and looted all the chickens, ducks, fish, meat, birds, and animals, and killed the masses of the people even more frantically.

In the recent sweeps carried out by the devil troops in the anti-Japanese base areas, they have all carried out murder against the masses of the people, and as long as the masses appear in their sight, they will inevitably suffer from their slaughter. Several villages were found by the devil's sweeping forces, and hundreds of people unfortunately died at the hands of the devils.

In the artillery school, Liu Genyou got relevant information from the division headquarters, but he couldn't do anything, let alone tell the students and soldiers of the artillery school the news. Liu Gen was very worried that the cadets and soldiers of the artillery school would not be able to help but rush out after learning such news.

Liu Genke knew that after the troops of the Eighth Route Army learned of such news, many soldiers rushed out of the garrison and ambushed the devil sweeping troops. It's just that these fighters didn't cause much damage to the devil sweeping troops, and in the face of the formed devil troops, even if the soldiers fought desperately, they couldn't cause too much damage to the devils.

For this reason, all units of the Eighth Route Army have strengthened the management of the soldiers to prevent any soldiers from leaving the camp easily. Everyone knows that the devil is doing this in order to print out the troops of the Eighth Route Army, and if there are really troops of the Eighth Route Army, then they will inevitably be entangled by the devil's sweeping troops, and they will not be able to get out easily, and then they will be killed by the devil's sweeping troops.

From the information sent by the intelligence officers, the bosses know that the various units of the devils have long been fully prepared, and once they find the traces of the troops of the Eighth Route Army, then they will go all out and make certain results.

However, the units of the Eighth Route Army did not blindly hide, under the command of the bosses, every time darkness fell, the units of the Eighth Route Army would turn into a deadly reaper, constantly causing casualties to the devil's sweeping troops. In the darkness of the night, even if the devil sweeping troops wanted to pursue, there was no good way, and they could not catch up with the footsteps of the troops of the Eighth Route Army.

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