After taking over the chief of staff of the 36th Division, the first thing that this Oi did was to abolish the blockade lines that could only startle the snake and could even be said to be flashy. And activated all intelligence resources, especially to use the renegades in the Eighth Route Army captured in the previous sweep to infiltrate the Taihang Mountains.

Especially for those traitors, this guy is far more important than those plainclothes agents. As soon as he took office, he transferred all the 30 or so traitors in the jurisdiction of the 36th Division to the division headquarters and organized them separately. It is directly assigned to the special high-tech section of the Changzhi Military Police Corps, and priority is given to ensuring both funds and weapons.

In addition to these, he also sent a new intelligence staff officer to the headquarters of the First Army in Taiyuan with a few traitors. I want to select another batch of captured Eighth Route military and political personnel from the sweep of Taihang Mountain in the Taiyuan prisoner of war camp last year and from spring to winter this year.

Last year and this year, the Japanese North China Front carried out many sweeping sweeps in the major base areas in North China. From Jinchaji to Jinsui, from central Hebei and southern Hebei to Hebei, Luyu and Taihang, there is a wolf smoke everywhere. In many anti-sweeping operations, because of the weapons, equipment, and training, they were no match for the Japanese army, and the losses of all units of the Eighth Route Army were not light.

Where there is war, there are casualties, there are prisoners. At present, there are many cadres and soldiers in the Taiyuan concentration camp who have been captured during the many sweeps of the Japanese army, as well as some local workers. Oi sent people to the prisoner of war camp with traitors in order to win over more people to work for him.

Of course, the captured personnel in the Jinsui and Jinchaji base areas are of little significance to Oi Koichi. Because those places were not under the jurisdiction of his 36th Division, it would be useless even if he wanted to come over. However, for the captured personnel of Taihang and Taiyue around the 36th Division, Oi did make a lot of effort.

However, these methods of this guy, if Li Ziyuan knows about them, they will definitely feel familiar. That's right, after several comparisons, Oi Koichi chose Li Ziyuan's sworn enemy, the former senior intelligence staff officer of the 36th Division, Tsuruta Numa. It's not the new stupid guy after Tsuruta Numan was removed and transferred.

Although he is not familiar with Tsuruta Numan as a junior, the two of them knew each other at most. However, a passage written by Tsuruta Numan on a document made the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong base area, which had been the leader of the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong base area in North China, carry out an unprecedented May Day sweep for 42 years, and gave this once the backbone base of the Eighth Route Army and caused devastating damage to Oi Tsui's big agreement.

The best way for the strongest fortress is to attack it from the inside. And even if it is tightly organized, there will be gaps to drill inside. As long as you are careful and patient enough, there will always be opportunities. For a well-organized army with a variety of tactics like the Eighth Route, it may be more effective to use traitors who have no way back.

After seeing these words, Oi couldn't help but give a thumbs up to this former intelligence staff officer, and secretly scolded Lieutenant General Iseki for his stupidity. If this Tsuruta Numan was still in the 36th Division, such a serious loss of the 36th Division could not have been completely avoided this time, but it would definitely not have been so great.

As a result, this guy pushed others out as scapegoats, but he lifted a stone and shot himself in the foot. It's really a sin that can be lived, and his own sins are unforgivable, and he deserves a stroke of anger. Of course, Oi also knew that if Li Ziyuan had not fought Changzhi City three times, the losses caused to the 36th Division would have made the base camp and the North China Front army unbearable.

The chief of staff of the 36th Division will not be able to do it himself. In the North China Front Headquarters, being a senior operational staff officer, although it seems to be a high position, is not responsible for actual work after all. Drawing up battle plans all day long, is it comfortable to be the chief of staff of a division below?

When he arrived in Changzhi, judging from the authority of the chief of staff of the Imperial Army, he was actually the emperor of the entire southeastern Jin region. Here he has adjutants, orderlies, his own special car for entering and leaving, and a fairly sufficient amount of funds for his own control. And as long as you need it, this funding can be greatly increased.

The most important thing is that the right to grasp the power to kill the life of the Chinese is far from being something that can be experienced as a staff officer in the North China Front. This is the difference between a high-ranking officer with a real job and a high-ranking staff member with a position but no power.

Of course, Oi also knows that whether he can be in the position of chief of staff of this division and regiment, whether he can sit firmly or even go further, depends on his performance in this position. If you repeat the mistakes of Shintaro Imamura, there will be nothing. The priority of the matter, this Oi is indeed very clear.

Oi Tsu Osashi decided to adopt the approach of Li Ziyuan's old opponent, instead of blindly adopting the seemingly tough but stupid method of sweeping and purging to deal with Li Ziyuan's division, which had caused serious losses to the 36th Division. This is to deal with a dirt eight roads, not to deal with the entire Taihang Mountain area.

There are not many people in this Tuba Road, but it is slippery like a loach, and it uses its advantages in the terrain and familiarity with the people, making it difficult for the 36th Division to catch him. I don't know if I will be caught by this guy and give a bite back.

Such a frequent mobilization of the army is not only futile, but also makes the officers and soldiers below tired and weakens their own combat effectiveness. In private, it will also make the people laugh at the incompetence of the Imperial Japanese Army, and they can't deal with a regiment-level Tubalu, and they still work so hard.

Since the open is not good, then come to the dark, start from within them to collect intelligence, determine their specific location, and completely annihilate them in one fell swoop, this is the way to use troops. It is precisely with this determination that this Oi Koichi formulated the current situation of tightening inside and loosening outside.

Moreover, a group of plainclothes spies were selected to go deep into the Taihang Mountains and Taiyue Mountains respectively to find information on Li Ziyuan and other eight routes. This guy even prepared a batch of poison for these spies, all of which were secretly transferred from the North China Front's Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department, which specializes in bacteriological warfare weapons, by a special plane.

At present, the Japanese army, which still has absolute air supremacy in the Chinese battlefield, has already transferred most of the army and naval aviation units stationed in China. But it still firmly grasps the air supremacy of the entire Chinese battlefield. Aircraft, a fast and terrain-dependent means of transportation, allowed the Japanese army to transport certain important personnel or special supplies, which could effectively avoid dangers on the ground.

And when the Japanese 98 battlefield observation plane that took off from Beiping landed at the Changzhi Field Airport. No one knew that the several sealed iron drums unloaded from the plane were actually poisons developed by the Japanese.

This Oi has decided to abandon his so-called dignity of the imperial army and use whatever method works. It's just that his determination and the method he adopted are not known to Li Ziyuan, who is still hiding in the Taiyue Mountains and waiting for the time, but is fighting a lawsuit with the Taiyue Military Region.

However, Li Ziyuan had already learned the news that the commander and chief of staff of the 36th Division had been replaced by the enemy engineering department of the Taiyue Military Region. As for the lawsuit with the Taiyue Military Region, it is not for other reasons. It was because after Li Ziyuan entered the Taiyue Military Region to hide and wait, the Taiyue Military Region wanted to keep them in the Taiyue Military Region.

At present, although Li Ziyuan's troops are not many, they are definitely strong. The equipment is so well-equipped that the troops of the Taiyue Military Region are very greedy. But this is not the reason why the veteran commander of the Taiyue Military Region wants to keep them. The reason why he wanted to keep Li Ziyuan was because his performance in this operation was very appreciated by the commander.

The Shangdang Basin, where Changzhi City is located, is surrounded by the Taiyue Mountains and the Taihang Mountains. With regard to Changzhi City, which is located in the core area of the Shangdang Basin and is also a link between the two military regions, the two military regions attach great importance to it and have deployed quite powerful intelligence systems.

Li Ziyuan fought Changzhi City three times, destroyed the ammunition depot of the Fire Temple in Changzhi City, hijacked the Japanese army's grain train, and blew up the Baijin Railway Bridge. At present, the overall environment of the entire North China base area is in an unprecedented cruelty because of the Japanese army's sweeping sweeps.

In this situation, cadres like Li Ziyuan who can fight are also rich in ideas and have strong independent survival ability, and they are popular everywhere. As for Li Ziyuan's performance in this year's summer sweep, the commander of the military region has long known. In addition to Li Ziyuan's performance in three battles against Changzhicheng this time, he appreciated Li Ziyuan even more.

Moreover, after the current Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the Taiyue Military Region was ordered to develop southward into the Zhongtiao Mountain Area to form a new anti-Japanese base area, and there was a great demand for cadres who could take charge of themselves. This time, Li Ziyuan was unable to return to the Taihang base area in a short period of time, and crossed the Shangdang Basin to lead his troops into the Taiyue Mountains to hide and wait. After receiving the report from the local division, the commander of the military district made the idea of keeping him behind.

In order to leave Li Ziyuan behind, this veteran commander rode a horse from the headquarters of the Taiyue Military Region for two days to rush to Li Ziyuan's resting area. And at present, the Taiyue Military Region is also facing extremely difficult circumstances, which provides sufficient guarantees for Li Ziyuan's department. asked the local military subdivision to kill a few sheep and improve the food for Li Ziyuan's department.

In the conversation with Li Ziyuan, he also bluntly asked him to stay. And guaranteed that as long as Li Ziyuan could stay, several main regiments of the Taiyue Military Region would be selected by him, and if he went, he would definitely be the commander of the regiment. As for the transfer procedures, he went to the division to handle it.

Regarding the thoughts of this veteran commander who is no stranger to him, Li Ziyuan is not a stupid person, and he is not unincomprehensible. But the problem is that he is a member of the Taihang Military Region, and this transfer work must be ordered by his superiors. Before the clear order of his superiors, how dare he agree to this matter.

Although the transfer of people at this time is far less cumbersome than decades later, and there are not so many messy procedures, which have to be stamped by this department and signed by that department. The procedures are quite simple, as soon as the two superiors meet and negotiate, the Political Department issues a handwritten piece of paper that is the appointment, and in many cases there is not even a letter of appointment.

But the problem at the moment is that he has not received orders from his direct superiors. If you agree to others casually, if the superiors here don't agree to release them, then you will be on wax. Although his old chief, who repeatedly assured that the Taihang Military Region would do his own work, he would definitely not embarrass him.