In order not to let his subordinates directly face the risk of interruption at that time, from now on, Shimoshin has implemented various measures......

On the one hand, small units were constantly sent to sweep farther away, nominally to exterminate the Eight Routes, but in fact they were simply to loot all kinds of food and increase food sources!

In addition to open source, the letter also finds ways to throttle internally!

For example, every few days, he called on the whole army to hold a fasting operation, and throughout the day, except for those teams with combat mission training tasks and so on, the rest of the teams would not eat anything except drink some wild vegetable mush......

Of course, it is said that it responds to the emperor's call and feels the emperor's divinity, but in fact, it is still to save food!

I have racked my brains for the letter that there is not enough food to eat, but now I have received a message that I am going to send troops to help Sakai and others, and I have to prepare food and grass for the other party......

Hearing this news, I didn't want to scold my mother......

But Okamura Ningji's order, but he didn't dare not agree to it, and he was making preparations full of commotion......

In a shack, Sakai is holding a military meeting and listening to reports of various injuries.

"At present, there are too many burned people in our army, and there is a serious shortage of medicines, except for the wounded who are seriously burned, almost all of the remaining wound......ed are barely supported by the spirit of bushido," said one general with a sad face.

The rest of the generals also immediately began to complain, for example, the original rations were not much, and some of them were destroyed by the fire, and now the soldiers have a total of enough rations to last five days......

Not only the bedding rations, but even those ammunition have been burned a lot, and they are not even enough to support two decent big battles!

injuries, combined with insufficient food rations, inability to consume adequate nutrients, and insufficient ammunition......

All of this has made the morale of the devil puppet army in the entire city have languished to the extreme!

Everyone is worried that if this situation continues for a few more days, they themselves will collapse without a large-scale attack by the Jindong detachment!

But this kind of bleak situation, not to mention that these officers have never seen it in their lives, even in the entire history of warfare in the empire, they have hardly seen it!

Coupled with the fierce eyes of the Jindong detachment on the periphery, these officers argued for a long time, and almost no one could come up with a reliable solution, so they could only look at Sakai with a blank eye......

"If you want me to say, the injuries of the wounded, food and ammunition, these are all trivial, and the most important thing is the cold!"

Jiang Kou walked in as he spoke, pointing to the imperial soldiers and the Imperial Cooperative Army who were coughing one after another because of the cold in the dense shacks next to him, and said, "We must find a way to solve the problem of heating as soon as possible, otherwise, we are afraid that it will be over soon......

"I also agree with Eguchi-kun's opinion!"

Sakai said: "The problem of injuries, even if the serious ones are seriously injured, I am afraid that they can't be saved, and if the injuries are light, with the samurai spirit of our army, I believe that those soldiers will be able to grit their teeth and overcome them, as for food and ammunition......

Our army is now holding on to the spot, as long as there is no mass activity, the physical strength of the soldiers will not be greatly affected in a short period of time, and the consumption of ammunition is relatively small......

What's more, I have already telegraphed the military department, and Major General Yoshikawa is already urgently mobilizing fighter planes to airdrop ammunition and food to our army in order to solve our army's current urgent needs -- in a few days, Major General Shimonobu will send troops to carry grain and grass to help us, and when the time comes, these problems can be solved......

Speaking of this, Sakai's voice paused and said: "Only two nights have passed, and the situation of cold and fever in our army has reached half, if we don't solve the problem of heating, I am afraid that the problem of cold and fever will spread rapidly, and in another day or two, I am afraid that our soldiers will be so weak that they can't even hold their guns because of the cold and fever......"

"Sakai Nakasa, Eguchi Shaosa, we all understand what you said......"

A group of generals said with sad faces: "But now, almost everything that can be burned in the city has been burned out by the fire, and the rest of the burning has been dug out for those soldiers to dig out three feet of ground to keep warm in the first two nights, and now there is really nothing to burn in the city......

As for going outside the city to chop wood for warmth......

Within a few miles, they were cut down by the Jindong detachment, and there were not even a few weeds left!

If you want to chop wood for heating, you have to go to the slope of the mountain seven or eight miles away from the county seat - a distance of seven or eight miles, how many mines have been planted and how many ambushes have been hidden in the Jindong detachment......

Although I can't see it, after a few days of purgatory, even if these generals think about it with their toes, they know that it is absolutely indispensable!

They didn't want to send a large number of soldiers to their deaths just to keep warm on fires......

How could Sakai Eguchi not know this?

Why did they want a large number of soldiers to go out of the city in order to chop wood and burn fires for warmth, and be killed by the Jindong detachment like chickens and dogs?

But they can't think of anything other than to chop wood for warmth!

After all, ammunition and food can still be supported by airdrops, but if the firewood needed to make a fire for heating has to be airdropped - it is obviously impossible!

"If you force yourself out of the city to chop wood for warmth, you may be ambushed and killed, but if you don't chop wood for warmth, we can only wait for death!"

Eguchi gritted his teeth and said: "Immediately organize the Imperial Cooperative Army to chop firewood, and at the same time send tanks and uninjured elite troops to protect from the side - no matter what, you must also fetch firewood and come back......"

I don't know how many Japanese generals who attended the meeting almost burst into tears when they heard this—if they could, they really didn't want to do it!

After all, it was not pleasant to think that the Imperial soldiers would die in hundreds in order to go out to chop wood and come back to keep warm!

"You don't have to be sad, after all, this is also done to take care of the overall situation - when Major General Xiaxin's reinforcements arrive, the blood we shed now, we must bring back his Jindong detachment ten times and a hundred times!"

Sakai grinded his back teeth and said: "Go and prepare, my side will try to coordinate with the Lingjiang Command to strive for our team to go out to chop wood for warmth, and the time of the team that airdrops materials to our department can coincide, so that our army's wood-cutting team can not only get the protection of tanks, but also get a certain degree of cover from fighters......

Hearing this, the faces of many Japanese generals finally looked a little better, and they immediately split up to prepare.

As soon as everyone left, Sakai smashed his fist on the dirt by the shack!

The rubble in the dirt cut a deep crack in his fist in an instant, and the flesh rolled up, and the blood dripped like water!

But Sakai was unconscious, and exclaimed sadly: "In order to make a fire for warmth, my dignified Imperial Army actually had to send tanks and fighters to cover it, which is really a great shame for our Imperial Army......

Eguchi was also sad and indignant on the side, and said in his heart that this is where to fetch firewood for warmth, this is clearly burning the lives and bones of imperial soldiers!

"Zhang Ran, Zhang Ran, you must not fall into the hands of my Sakai, otherwise I will cut you with a thousand knives, peel your skin and cramp, otherwise it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart......"

Sakai grinded his back sockets over and over again, and after a long time, he forcibly calmed down, turned his head to look at Eguchi, and said, "Kudo Tojo, how is it going?" ”

"Worse than all of us!"

Eguchi almost cried about Kudo Tojo's situation!

Under Cangshui Castle, Kudo Tojo left seven or eight hundred corpses, and in the process of escaping, he was intercepted by the Jindong detachment using mines, and was chased by the tanks and mobile artillery with their tails......

From Kurasui to Giejiaoya, Kudo Tojo's department left more than 1,700 corpses behind!

In addition to the loss of troops from the Tiger Kill Pass to Kurasui, Tojo Kudo's side had already lost more than 2,000 men by the time they arrived at the pre-war meeting, if they could not take Kurasui and had to capture Sheep's Horn Pass!

Hearing this number, Sakai's whole face was twisted and twitched - because the casualties of the other party can definitely be described as being soaked with the blood of imperial soldiers in every footprint!

Although his side is also miserable, the loss of troops is only about a thousand people after all, and compared with the other party, it is indeed the same as what Eguchi said - Kudo Tojo's department is much worse than them!

"Fortunately, Tojo Kudo and the others have taken the position of Giejiaoya with the cooperation of our army's fighters and temporarily stabilized their position......"

Eguchi said, and said that because of the experience of his own department, after the Tojo Eguchi department took the Sheephorn Pass, they did not immediately enter the town, but carefully inspected it, destroyed the fire oil set up in the Sheephorn Pass, and did not encounter the same tragedy as he and others burned the company camp in Dongjiang County......

Hearing this, Sakai suddenly felt that he was worse than the other party!

Although when the other party attacked Sheephornya, it encountered the stubborn resistance of the Jindong detachment and lost more than 300 people, and now the remaining troops of the entire department are only more than 3,400 people......

But compared to himself, there are not so many wounded in the opponent's formation, and the opponent's clothes and bedding are also complete, so they will not send a team to die in vain because of the lack of facilities for heating the fire......

Thinking that in the two years since he stepped on the battlefield of Shina, he had beaten the Shina team again and again with a river of blood and bones, and now he had to rely on the miserable comparison with his allies to seek a little comfort, Sakai couldn't help but want to cry out loud......

After adjusting his mood again, Sakai asked: "Kudo Tojo's department, in Cangshui and Yangjiaoya, fought two positional battles with the Jindong detachment, and it should have eliminated a lot of people and horses of the Jindong detachment, right?" ”

"In total, it is estimated that it is less than a thousand ......," Eguchi said with an ugly face.

"Yaga ......"

Hearing this number, Sakai gritted his steel teeth again and said: "Our army fell for that damn Zhang Ran's treacherous scheme, but it is understandable that they eliminated three or four hundred people of the Jindong detachment, but they, obviously in Cangshui and Yangjiaoya and Jindong detachment, fought two positions and killed two thousand, three or four hundred, and actually eliminated less than a thousand Tubalu?" Kudo Tojo, what are they doing to eat......"

Although he knew that Sakai was so angry, it was not that he was really annoyed by Kudo Tojo's incompetence, but that he was annoyed that he did not ruthlessly clean up the Jindong detachment and help his subordinates vent their evil anger......

But Eguchi also had to admit that Kudo Tojo paid so many casualties, and it was really disappointing that he actually wiped out less than 1,000 Tsuchihachi Road!

You must know that in any war with the Chinese army that he has experienced, in any positional battle, the comparison of the casualties of the imperial soldiers and the Chinese soldiers can almost be achieved to the point of one for five!

But in this Jindong base, it is actually the other way around, and only two people can exchange one for the other party!

Even if the Imperial Association Army is removed, it will not be possible to exchange it with the other party one by one......

"Kill a thousand, lose eight hundred......"

While Sakai gritted his teeth, he was terrified and said: "If all the armies of China are as difficult to deal with as the Jindong detachment, I am afraid that our empire will have no hope of winning this war......

"It is impossible for other Chinese armies to replicate the miracle of the Jindong detachment!"

From the initial arrogance, to the horror after being hit head-on, to the reflection that calmed down at the end, after summing up, the current Eguchi finally understands a little bit of the reason why he and the others will suffer such a tragic failure this time!

The fundamental reason why the Jindong detachment was able to fight fiercely with the imperial army led by himself and others, not only did not fall into the disadvantage, but took the lead, and the fundamental reason for this was by no means in the equipment of the other party, as well as the individual soldier quality and tactical literacy of the militia members and those detachment members, and the tactical literacy was no worse than that of these imperial soldiers led by himself and others!

The most critical factor is because the other party completely occupies any of the right time and place!

The military and civilians in the Jindong base area are too united, and their execution power has reached an unprecedented level!

It's like the other party's strong wall!

Chongqing also carried out a fortified wall clearing in the face of the attack of the imperial army, and the rest of the Eighth Route Army base areas also carried out a fortified wall clearing in the sweep of the imperial army......

But why was the army led by himself and others beaten so badly, while other friendly teams did not?

It's because of the execution!

In other places, no matter how strong the walls are, there will be people who refuse to leave with a fluke mentality, so the imperial soldiers, more or less, can get some supplies and find sheltered houses......

But what about the Jindong detachment?

From the first step into the Jindong base area, I have never seen any ordinary people other than the armed personnel of the Jindong detachment who fought in various ways with himself and the team led by Sakai, and they did not get any supplies in the Jindong detachment, and they could not even drink clean water for a long time......

As for the houses, people are even willing to burn down a good county town, let alone the houses of ordinary villages!

In addition, there are many mines like pebbles that can be picked up everywhere on the ground - Eguchi felt that in this case, not to mention himself and Sakai, Tojo Kudo, even if he changed to a god, he would not have to fight this battle for the time being......

But this is only the Jindong detachment!

It is simply impossible for other Chinese armies, as well as other guerrilla areas of the Eighth Route Army, to have such an executive power, so many mines......

"So Sakai-kun, you don't have to worry about any team we encounter in the future being the same as this damn Jindong detachment......"

Eguchi said: "I have to say that this Jindong detachment did create a miracle, and used this miracle to inflict heavy damage on us - but the reason why a miracle is a miracle is because miracles do not occur often, and if they occur often, it is not a miracle at all......"

If Zhang Ran heard this, I am afraid that he would be impressed by this guy in Jiangguchi.

Because what Eguchi said is the truth!

Except for his own Jindong base area, none of the Eighth Route Army base areas, as well as the chairman's team, have the conditions to create such a miracle at all!

Leaving aside the chairman's troops, it is impossible to say that the rest of the Eighth Route Army base areas are impossible!

The most important factor why the detachment was able to create this miracle was resources!

Take execution, for example!

Why don't other Eighth Route Army base areas have such a high level of execution as their own base areas? Is it really because the mass work in other base areas is not in place, and the quality of the masses in those base areas is not as high as that of the masses in the base areas?

That's not true!