Wuhan, the headquarters of the 10th Army of the Japanese Army.

Okamura Ninji closed the Wen Jiàn folder in his hand excitedly, and said with a grateful face to the chief of staff Isamu Kinoshita: "Kinoshita-kun, thanks to you this time, otherwise maybe I would have been with Tada Jun in the military prison at this moment?" ”

"Hehe, the old chief is strict, if it weren't for your perfect 'Qingxiang Plan' to impress the base camp, no matter how much I do, it will be useless!" Yumichi Kinoshita.

"Hahaha!" Both laughed out loud.

The failure of the attack on the 331 base caused a terrifying number of 100,000 battle losses of the imperial army, and more than half of them were veterans of the permanent divisions, and two permanent divisions and regiments were annihilated in formations, and the loss of various strategic materials was innumerable, and the bad impact caused was simply immeasurable.

As the commander-in-chief of the former enemy in this campaign, Okamura Ninji naturally has an unshirkable responsibility. So, for a month after the war, Okamura Ninji lived in fear every day, and today, he can finally sleep peacefully, because the base camp has just called, agreeing to his 'clean-up plan' and ordering him to implement it immediately. This means that there is no intention to hold him accountable, and this difficulty can be regarded as temporarily evaded.

The so-called 'Township Cleanup Plan' was in fact a huge battle to enforce law and order, to deal a devastating blow to the anti-Japanese forces in the occupied areas and to consolidate the foundation of the occupied areas.

The first step was to organize the Japanese puppet army to build blockhouses ★, turrets, blockade ditches, blockade walls, and bamboo and wood fences in the Qingxiang area, and set up barbed wire and power grids to divide and blockade the anti-Japanese base areas, and then carry out "sweeps" against the Japanese base areas.

The second step is to "govern and clear the township", widely publicize the "Sino-Japanese friendship" and "peaceful nation-building" in the Qingxiang area, and at the same time carry out propaganda to the masses, implement the formation of the group to protect the armor, the joint security of the joint security, the formation of police and security forces, and the implementation of the method of voluntary surrender and instigation of informants, so as to strengthen the rule of the Japanese army;

The third step is to "economically clear the townships," implement a strict material control policy and a material blockade and embargo policy in the Qingxiang areas, and impose an economic blockade against the Japanese base areas.

The fourth step is to "ideologically clean up the townships", establish institutions and schools in the Qingxiang areas, publish newspapers and periodicals, organize "youth groups", and carry out peace education.

Okamura Ningji's move can be described as extremely vicious, and the Japanese army occupied Shanghai and Nanjing. Xuzhou, Hangzhou, Wuhan, and then Nanchang, in fact, only control a few major cities, transportation arteries, large areas of rural and remote towns, are still in the hands of the New Fourth Army, the Eighth Route Army, and even the armed forces such as doorways and bandits.

These armed forces brought endless trouble to the occupied areas of the Japanese army, they changed places with one shot, came and went without a trace, pulled out a turret today, dug a railroad tomorrow, and blocked the road the day after tomorrow to attack a convoy, in the words of the Japanese army, they were simply more hateful than bed bugs and mice. What made the Japanese army even more troublesome was that they propagated the anti-Japanese ideology everywhere and encouraged the common people to join in it, which brought an immeasurable negative impact on the Sino-Japanese friendship between the Japanese army.

But Okamura Ninji's plan will make them have nothing to hide, and their living space and living environment will become worse and worse, and they will even be hit by the destruction of their sexuality.

The first to bear the brunt of the 20 divisions of the Third Theater of Operations, they have a large number of people and large targets, and they will definitely be included in the ranks of the Japanese army's first elimination, and once the Japanese army begins to implement an economic blockade, these hundreds of thousands of people will have all their food and drink gone, and I am afraid that they will not be able to wait for the Japanese army to start a clean-up, and they will be starved and faint a group of them.

After a series of rectification and arrangement, the Nanshan Independent Army ushered in a new look, the recruitment work of each division has been completed, and it has entered the stage of intense and cruel training, the Zhuzhou branch of the Whampoa Military Academy has also been completed, and commanders at all levels have also begun to take turns to enter the academy to make up for military knowledge, and Jiang Haoran has also painstakingly recruited a group of well-known instructors from Germany and the United States to supplement the teaching force, and of course, he will also make a few cameo appearances.

But most of the time, Jiang Haoran was not at the base, and everything was handed over to Deputy Army Commander Zhang Dabiao and Chief of Staff Liu He.

Of course, it's not a tour. Before the war, Jiang Haoran promised the brother troops in the war zone that all the captures in this battle would belong to them, and Jiang Haoran would personally send them the loot under this pretense, of course, he also had to bring them some weapons independently produced by the 331 base, bazookas, AK47, time bombs or something, the number is not much, but the favor is not light, and it is good to contact the feelings with force.

Luo Zhuoying of the 19th Group Army is the foundation of the Central Army, and the subordinate troops of the chairman of the committee are equipped with American weapons, so he naturally looks down on the capture of these Japanese troops, so Jiang Haoran can only offer more "local specialties".

Lu Han's First Group Army belongs to the Dian Army, and its equipment in the ** army is poor, but compared with Yang Sen's 27th Group Army, the Sichuan Army, it is still much more generous, at least there are still guns and decent military uniforms regardless of whether they are good or bad.

What kind of equipment is the Sichuan army? At that time, it was known as the "Hanako Army", and most of the soldiers in the winter wore straw sandals on their feet and single clothes on their bodies, and it was good to have an old sleeve for their firearms, and it is said that they also carried cannons from the Qing Dynasty. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, 100,000 Sichuan troops walked to Shanxi to reinforce the Second Theater, and Yan Xishan, the commander of the Second Theater, did not raise his eyelids and directly ordered them to return to Sichuan.

But it was such a Sichuan army, the Battle of Xuzhou, the 21st Army of the Sichuan Army defended the southern front, of which the 145th Division defended Guangde, under the siege of the superior enemy, the position was lost, and the division commander Rao Guohua resolutely led the remaining only one battalion of troops to rush into the enemy formation, in order to restore the position, and finally because of being outnumbered, he was encircled, and the ammunition was exhausted. The general did not want to be a prisoner, so he raised his gun and killed himself.

In the Battle of Songhu, the 26th Division of the Sichuan Army was one of the five divisions with the best combat record, with more than 4,000 officers and men in the division, and only more than 600 people remained when they were evacuated from the battlefield, with more than 85 percent casualties.

The Sichuan army was famous for its hard fighting and bloody battles in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, with 3 million soldiers before and after Sichuan, with a total of more than 640,000 casualties. The various units of the Sichuan army were scattered and transferred to the front line, and they could not be supplied, and the equipment was too simple, so they suffered heavy casualties.

Strictly speaking, the Sichuan army in the Anti-Japanese War could not be regarded as a regular unit of the squadron, but a local warlord army. Neither the equipment, military qualities, nor treatment of the troops could be compared with those of the Kuomintang Central Army. However, in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, this unit exchanged its fearless sacrifice for the reputation of "the Sichuan army can fight" and "the army cannot be formed without Sichuan".

Therefore, when Jiang Haoran sent the weapons to their troops, they were welcomed like never before, and the Yang Sen Department of the Sichuan Army even organized the honor guard of the three armed forces. This is a great gift to them.

After this emotional contact, Jiang Haoran's popularity has risen in the Ninth War Zone, and any general will give him a thumbs up and say: "Jiang Haoran wants to get it, he is a man, and he is also a good brother of my so-and-so!" "I looked proud, and I felt that I had a lot of face.