After the military and civilians in the base areas perform their duties and all kinds of development are on the right track, the base areas are directly thriving!

It is certain that as long as this great form is not destroyed, in a few months, the three counties of Laiyuan will develop into an iron-clad base area!

It can't be broken, it can't be broken, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians are twisted into a rope, just like the Lingqiu base area!

However, the old opponents of the garrison obviously don't want to see this happen!

At this moment, the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan has presented a diametrically opposite picture!

The atmosphere is solemn, although everyone is also doing their own duties and busy with their own business!

But everyone is cautious, for fear of doing something wrong, and then incurring the displeasure and anger of the commander!

It has become a foregone conclusion that the garrison regiment will take the three counties of Guangling, Laiyuan, and Hunyuan, and no one can change it!

By the time the news reached here, the commander had already fired once!

A lot of things in the headquarters were smashed to pieces in that rage!

However, the garrison regiment is too capable of tossing!

It's only been a few days since the stoppage, and a lot of bad news has come one after another!

The chief of staff stood in front of the army commander, holding the information in his hand, and in the face of the army commander's anger that might explode at any time, he reported hard!

"Sir, in order to develop the three counties of Laiyuan, Guangling and Hunyuan into their base as soon as possible, the garrison regiment will gather the hearts of the people! After the end of the military battle, the development steps were specially worked out, a total of five things! ”

"In the words of the garrison regiment itself, as long as the five things are done well, the three counties will become the base of iron fighting, just like Lingqiu!"

"What five things?" The commander asked rhetorically with a calm face, don't say a word of nonsense!

"The first thing is to form an anti-Japanese government within the scope of the three counties and form a whole!"

"According to the intelligence: they have already put up the shelf of the anti-Japanese government in the three counties, completely replacing the maintenance committee established by the imperial army, and unified the management of the three counties!"

"The second thing is to divide the field!"

"During the period of imperial control, most of the land in the three counties was in the hands of the landlords!"

"And most of these landlords have joined the maintenance association, working for the imperial army and assisting the imperial army in controlling the place!"

"Now that the imperial army has been defeated, the landlords who were branded as traitors by the Eighth Route Army are also finished, and the land in their hands has become borderless!"

"The Eighth Route Army distributed all of them to the people free of charge, and promised to reduce the grain tax to win the hearts of the people!"

"The third thing is to recruit troops and expand the main force!"

"After the division of the fields, the people's favor for the Eighth Route Army has increased greatly!"

"Then they put forward the slogan of joining the Eighth Route Army, protecting the land, and encouraged them to join the army!"

"Therefore, the enthusiasm of the people of the three counties to participate in the Eighth Route Army is very good, and it can even be described as enthusiastic!"

"Seven or eight thousand recruits were recruited from the three counties in a few days!"

"In addition to expanding the main force, they also formed a large number of local troops to assist the main force in defending the place!"

"The fourth thing: follow the example of other base areas of the Eighth Route Army, set up guerrilla units in each village, send experienced soldiers of the main force to serve as captains, and train them, which can not only enable each village to have a certain self-protection ability, but also achieve the role of hiding troops from the people!"

"The fifth thing: organize the common people to reclaim a large number of wastelands, increase the area of land cultivation, and increase grain production!"

"Now the first four things have been done by the garrison regiment, and the fifth thing is being done!"

"In addition, judging from the current development form of the three counties, the people of the three counties are standing on the side of the Eighth Route Army step by step and becoming loyal supporters of the Eighth Route Army!"

"Once they unite and twist into a rope, it will definitely be difficult for us to besiege the garrison in the future!"

After hearing that the garrison regiment had recruited seven or eight thousand recruits in the three counties, the army commander was frightened.

Furrowed his brows, he didn't react for a long time!

As for what the chief of staff reported next, he didn't hear a lot of it!

As soon as the chief of staff stopped, he hurriedly asked: "In other words, the total strength of the garrison regiment has reached 10,000 people!" ”

"More than 10,000 people!" The chief of staff answered truthfully!

"The main force is at least six thousand people, and the rest are local troops!"

"In addition, they have formed guerrilla units in each village, and these guerrillas must have numbered more than 5,000 people combined!"

"Now, both the main forces and local troops, and even the guerrillas, are stepping up their training!"

"Especially the main force and local troops, a large number of gunfire are heard from the station every day, and it must be a live-fire exercise!"

"Lack of ammunition has always been a hard wound of the Eighth Route Army, and the garrison regiment is willing to take out bullets for the troops to conduct live-fire training, which shows two problems!"

"Either they have enough ammunition and don't care about the little bullets they use for training!"

"Either they are very anxious, and they have a new plan, eager to make the troops form combat effectiveness, and they have no choice but to cut out a part of the already small number of bullets for live-fire training!"

"Two possibilities are more inclined to the latter!"

The army commander's face became even more solemn, and he scolded: "Bage Yalu, do you still need to analyze this, it must be that they are eager to make the troops form combat effectiveness!" ”

"The troops have expanded several times at once, and if you don't strengthen training, those recruits will be cannon fodder on the battlefield!"

"I judge that they are in a hurry to train their troops and form combat effectiveness, and they must want to send troops as soon as possible to take the three counties of Guangling, Hunyuan, and Laiyuan, kill the garrisons we have nailed there, and completely connect their so-called base areas!"

"Of course, your first guess is not impossible!"

"Our opponents are too cunning to be fathomed all the time!"

"The other Eighth Route Army units can't even make a rifle per man, they have begun to unify the caliber of equipment, and only use the captured Japanese equipment of the imperial army! In addition to heavy weapons, some light weapons are even more equipped than the Imperial Army! ”

"And the secret weapon they made, the power is comparable to the heavy artillery equipped by the Imperial Army!"

"What's more, the production of this weapon is extremely simple, if the Eighth Route Army equips troops on a large scale, the imperial army will definitely be overwhelmed, and there will be heavy casualties!"

"With the ability to research and manufacture new weapons, and when you think of the fact that the garrison regiment has hardly run out of ammunition in battle! I have reason to suspect that the garrison is getting ammunition in a constant stream through means we don't know about! ”

"It may be that they produce it themselves, reassemble it, or it may be purchased directly!"

"Bang ......"

Speaking of this, the commander's clenched fist smashed directly on the table in front of him, and his eyes were red and red, as if he could breathe fire!

Then he looked at the chief of staff, gritted his teeth and scolded: "Chief of staff, we must find a way to stop them!" ”

"The garrison group buys the hearts of the people through five things and establishes a base area!"

"Once their expanded recruit units form combat effectiveness, and hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in the three counties are also twisted into a rope by them to fight against the imperial army, we will definitely pay a very heavy price when we eliminate them in the future!"

"As I said just now, after the garrison regiment recovers its combat effectiveness, our imperial troops stationed in Hunyuan, Guangling, and Laiyuan counties will definitely bear the brunt and become the first targets for their attacks."

"If the garrison group can take down the heavily defended Lingqiu, it will definitely be able to take them as well!"

"The three counties are like three nails nailed into the hinterland of the garrison regiment, threatening the rear of the garrison regiment at all times."

"It can not only be used as a bridgehead for us to attack the garrison regiment in the future, but also help us drag the main force of a large number of garrison regiments on the battlefield and reduce the pressure of our frontal attack!"

"So before the imperial army launches a full-scale attack on the garrison, the three county towns must be saved!"

"They are all lonely cities, surrounded by heavy garrisons, and if you defend them, sooner or later the troops will run out, and they will be lost in the end!"

"The best way is not to give the garrison a chance to attack the three county towns!"

The chief of staff furrowed his brows and replied thoughtfully: "As long as those recruits who have just expanded the garrison regiment do not form combat effectiveness, they will not take the initiative to attack and let the recruits be cannon fodder!" ”

"Sir, you mean to find a way to prevent the garrison regiment from training, so that the seven or eight thousand people they have just expanded will not be able to fight at all!"

"This is a good solution, and it can directly solve all problems once and for all!"

"It can not only ensure the safety of the three counties of Laiyuan, but also reduce the operational pressure of our future offensive garrison regiments!"

"Even if the people of the three counties all support the Eighth Route Army in the future, stand on their side! Without troops, the Imperial Army can still easily defeat them! ”

The army commander replied with a sneer: "It's this operational idea, find a way to completely destroy the few things that the garrison is doing, so that they can't achieve their goals!" ”

"Sir, have you figured out a solution?" The chief of staff asked expectantly!

"A tooth for a tooth!" The commander did not hide it, and replied with murderous air in his words!

"The garrison group wants to completely take down the three counties through five things, and it just so happens that I also think of a few countermeasures!"

"This time, I decided to have a good fight with the commander of the garrison regiment to see who is better!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the communications staff officer appeared, handing over a telegram in his hand!

"Sir, the front army is in a hurry!"

The commander reacted quickly, although he didn't know what was going on with the telegram from the front army at this time, but he still got up from his seat and took the telegram with a respectful face!

The telegram was very long, and it took a full half a minute to read it, and then a smile flashed on the commander's face.

Apparently the telegram brought good news!

Under the curious and expectant gaze of the chief of staff, he said with emotion!

"Yo Xi, this telegram could not have come at a better time! God bless the Imperial Army, God is helping us this time! ”

Then he didn't hide it, and directly introduced: "The front army decided to transfer a major general to Laiyuan, and decided to increase our troops to deal with the garrison regiment!" ”

"Reinforcements and related ammunition supplies will be in place in two months!"

"In other words, as long as we hold the garrison regiment for two months and make it impossible for them to achieve combat effectiveness, the imperial army will gather heavy troops and launch a new round of all-out attack on them to solve this big problem at once!"

"How many reinforcements are there, and are there any heavy artillery units coming?" The chief of staff immediately asked!

This is what he is most concerned about, the imperial army lost too many troops some time ago!

If there is no sufficient number of reinforcements to ensure the superiority of the attacking troops, the chief of staff has no confidence to attack the garrison at all!

The commander replied confidently: "It was not said in the telegram, but I am sure that there will be absolutely no shortage of them!" ”