The IRA was also forced to do so. Because they need more room to grow. Especially the demand in the market. Both the north, the west, and the eastern markets have become saturated. In addition, the Republican Army's various resource needs, for example, the need for a large number of cheap labor, require the Republican Army to fight a risky war.

Because the internal economy needs more resources, and more resources have been tilted towards economic construction, in such a situation, the republican army seems to have no choice but to develop such a situation in such a situation.

In this case, it is a problem for the Republican Army, and if they cannot move from the wartime economic track to the civilian track in time, the Republican Army economy will be biased towards starting a war. Arguably. The attack on Luoyang was an important turning point. In the past, the wars of the Republican Army were fought with the intention of developing space, but the attack on Luoyang was carried out to meet the needs of the development of the market economy. They need more and more resources, and it is this favorable turn that makes the IRA even more advantageous.

Zezhou, within the valley. Temporary station of the 5th Infantry Division. The 5th Infantry Regiment received a temporary order. They had to stop. As originally ordered. They were going south to fight, but it seemed that it would be much more beneficial for them to stop. A lot of people don't know exactly what's going on, but for them, it seems like a good option.

Cao Ang also felt very strange. Because in accordance with the order to attack given by the superiors. They are going to form a second echelon to advance. But just as they were ready to go. Suddenly, an order was given to stop advancing. This came as a surprise to him. I don't know what's going on.

The engineering power of the IRA is strong. It was so powerful that Cao Ang felt very surprised.

In order to save the troops to the greatest extent possible the difficulties on the formation of the passage of the advance. Especially in mountainous areas, if you build a road, you will inevitably use a winding road, so that the speed of progress will be extremely slow, and the difficulty and amount of work will increase to an astonishing extent. In order to reduce the difficulty of such a project, the engineers used the construction of bridges to build new bridges between the valleys to reduce the distance.

And these bridges cost a lot of money. Most of the materials are made of iron. Even many key units use steel. To ensure the safety of the bridge, cable reinforcement was also used. This is probably the earliest type of chain bridge. They don't know exactly how the problem will develop, but what is clear to most people is that in such a situation, the IRA can move quickly. Their logistical supply can also be greatly reduced.

The only criterion for the road is the passage of horse-drawn carriages.

What Cao Ang didn't know was that this was only the first phase of the Republican Army's goals. In their rear, the second phase has already unfolded.

The first phase was carried out mainly to ensure the passage of the Republican troops, as well as the passage of logistical vehicles, especially horse-drawn carts and ox carts. Therefore, the engineering task is intense, but not difficult. Cao Ang can even see that many engineering hoisting equipment has no time to retreat. A lot of them are still working.

The goal of the second phase is to lay the railway. Relying solely on horse-drawn carts and ox-carts could not guarantee the two infantry divisions of the Republican Army and more material guarantees in the later period. To solve this problem, the best thing to do is to use the railway. Although it is difficult, the convenience of personnel and material transportation brought by the railway will provide convenience to the greatest extent. In fact, there is one more important practical consideration. That is, the biggest constraint of these factors is that the Republican Army can easily transport materials, and it is very difficult to transport them in mountainous areas. The Republican Army is carrying out logistical support across the entire Taihang Mountains. This difficulty is still very testing, in order to save the carriage and ox cart to the greatest extent. In the republican army's battle plan, horse-drawn carriages and ox carts are important tools used in the Hanoi area to support the logistics and supply of the republican army. This will put a lot of pressure on logistics and transportation, and if that is the case, the troops will not be able to advance into the Luoyang area at all. That's the biggest pressure on the IRA.

"Whoa." That's when it happened. Suddenly, a convoy of ox carts, horse-drawn carts, appeared. Those are all vehicles used for logistical supply transportation. There are chests of arms and ammunition on them. The fleet is huge, more than 300 vehicles. Cao Ang felt very strange, and even, he felt very confused.

Because what he knew was that the Republican Army had already set up military stations on its way forward long before the military operation, where a large amount of ammunition was stockpiled. Logically speaking, they are not short of ammunition.

But why transport ammunition at the same time? This is something that Cao Ang can't understand. Could it be that the scale of the battle will develop further?

But such a huge ammunition supply measurement was enough for their division to launch more than two large-scale attacks. This is not normal.

What Cao Ang didn't know was that these munitions were used to support the development of guerrillas in the Hanoi area. Following the approval of the Ministry of Intelligence's request, more than half of the ammunition reserves at the front of the IRA have been allocated to Hanoi. Some of these munitions were used to strengthen the ammunition stockpile, and more were used in the guerrilla zone, because the Republican army usually stockpiled more munitions than was actually needed for operations. It is very advantageous to use it in guerrilla areas.

And the establishment of the guerrilla zone in Hanoi far exceeded the expectations of the IRA intelligence officers.

In the opinion of IRA intelligence officers. The establishment of guerrilla zones is carried out only after the approach and arrival of the large army, and it is very difficult to establish a guerrilla zone before the arrival of the large army.

Because of the lack of necessary support, the guerrillas are, in fact, a helpless move to get the weak people to organize against the army.

More often than not. That's how they usually do it.

In fact, this kind of intelligence, the IRA thinks too much.

in Hanoi. Small villages of more than 500 people have suffered the most attacks and suffered the most losses, not only because they have lost their food rations, but also have no chance of development. The threat of death from hunger is far greater than the fear of their death in battle. Because their family simply can't survive.

And the Republican Army can provide rations, and most importantly, weapons, training. They set up militia squads based on villages. A village guerrilla zone was formed. This can go a long way towards providing a sense of security. This feeling is definitely not the kind of hope that the IRA intelligence officers can come up with.

If one village can survive, more villages will live. Because small villages are married to each other. Most of them have all sorts of kinship relationships, which can be maximized to meet the speed of the spread of the creation of guerrillas, militias.

Of course. Some of the larger villages are not able to do this because they have their own armed forces. At the same time, they are relatively independent economically and have superiority, they are not enough to attack, but they are far more than enough to protect themselves. Therefore, this kind of militia organization is widely developed in some areas.

To make it easier to manage, the IRA set up militia squads in the villages, which usually ranged in size from fifteen to forty. This is the equivalent of a Republican squad, platoon. Then several villages joined forces. Kinship is more conducive to the organization. They formed militia squadrons. This is equivalent to the establishment of an infantry company of the Republican Army.

Immediately after that, several militia squadrons will be expanded into militia brigades, so that, in terms of the situation, militia battalions will be created. The power will be expanded a lot.

This is more advantageous for the IRA reserves, as well as for the intelligence organization.

Of course. There are still many problems, the militia brigade is only a command headquarters, more forces are still at the grassroots level, and the brigade is mainly responsible for logistics and intelligence gathering, especially in food distribution. It is not yet possible to effectively unite and organize the various militia squadrons. But that's enough to get the militia excited. Because they are no longer afraid of the arrival of those bandits.

This may be an important impetus for the establishment of militias, and why. Confrontation, in the face of existential threats, forms an important way of self-resistance, and the establishment of this method will satisfy the development of the Republican Army to the greatest extent, which is extremely beneficial to the future development of the Republican Army.

In the development of the militia. There are also some special forces that exist, and that is women, children.

Women have suffered greatly from past disasters, and most of them are vulnerable. It is difficult to resist effectively. But the IRA offers such an opportunity. In such a situation, women and children are actively involved. Children stand guard. Women are also actively involved in logistics. Although the three of them have only one firearm. More women use weapons such as scissors, kitchen knives, and sticks. But they are determined to defend their homeland, to defend themselves. This further strengthened the strength of the Republican Army. This has never been done before.

In short, in suffering, not everything is suffering. A lot of times, people's development feels like they need to organize themselves and unite with each other.

And the IRA became the cohesive nucleus of this cohesive force. With such power. This is one of the important factors for the Republican Army to develop guerrilla zones and engage in more extensive fighting.

The situation was extremely favorable for the Republican Army.