In addition to guns, Lu Yuan is also considering casting some large-caliber artillery on his own.

They were not able to produce shells in a short period of time, but they were often able to capture some shells from the Japanese army, and with some simple reassembly of shells, they could also solve the situation of insufficient artillery fire in Muma County and the Eighth Route Army.

Of course, in terms of artillery fire, it is not only the presence of artillery and shells that is sufficient, but also the ability to transfer artillery accordingly, which is the most important thing.

Now, whether it is the Sichuan Army Independent Regiment or the Eighth Route Army, the biggest reason why they can occupy a certain advantage in the battle with the Japanese army is their mobility and national strength. The army is stronger, and if they have artillery and do not have the ability to quickly transfer artillery, it is by no means good news for them.

Not only will it reduce their mobility, but it may also turn the hard-won artillery into trophies for the Japanese army, which is more than worth the loss.

However, this point has long been considered by Lu Yuan.

After all, the only purpose of these cannons he wanted to forge was to fight this battle on his own turf, not to run long distances with the cannons to find trouble with the little devils.

Of course, the mass production of semi-automatic rifles, as well as artillery, must be done with heavy stamping machines, and the use of heavy stamping machines must have enough electricity, which cannot be solved by a few diesel generators.

The construction of hydropower plants, which has been proposed for a long time, is imperative!

In fact, the work of constructing the dam of the hydropower plant has already begun, and all preparations have been put in place, and the work of cutting off the flow and closing the water will begin immediately after a while in the winter, when the dry season arrives.

At present, most of the steel and cement produced by the cement plant of the steel plant, in addition to ensuring the supply to Chen Liang and Sun Liang, are making reserves for the dam.

Considering that Trojan County will bear the brunt of the Japanese attack, the hydropower station will be built within the territory of the Eighth Route Army, and the manpower in the territory of the Eighth Route Army is also sufficient, so there is no need for Trojan County to send more manpower.

The construction of dams is actually related to many things, and even needs to take into account geological problems, and if you are not careful, it may even lead to ecological disasters.

But fortunately, they are only building a small hydropower plant now, and there are not too many things to consider, in fact, even if they want to build a large hydropower plant, they do not have the ability and strength.

Every day as soon as the sky is bright, Lu Yuan will take the cow pimple and a few guards from the county, rushed to the Black Tiger Cliff, at this time most of the people have not gotten up, until the sky is dark, they will return to the county, the hardship, needless to say.

Until one day, Chen Tianmin, who got up early, met Lu Yuan and his party at the county entrance, and walked away with a blue face, every time he set off in the future, he could hear the sound of fighter planes roaring and taking off and starting training, and the militia and soldiers also muttered and began to practice, and the people also got up one after another.

The sound of those fighter planes roaring and starting training has simply become the alarm clock for everyone in the county to get up early.

"This Chen Tianmin, everything is good, but he loves to compete too much!"

Looking at the fighters that rose into the air in the morning light, Lu Yuan couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

"I heard that when he saw that we got up so early that morning, Captain Chen went back and was furious with the pilots, and almost sent someone to watch in front of your door, so he must get up earlier than you......"

Niu Pimple also smiled: "But recently, the technical and tactical level of the pilots has indeed improved a lot, and Captain Chen still has some real materials - that is, aviation fuel, now the consumption is getting bigger and bigger, Su Yan has just been comfortable for a few days, and now he is being chased by Captain Chen every day for aviation fuel, and he is almost driven crazy......"

"It's a good thing, what people are most afraid of is not being forced, but being afraid of getting by!"

Lu Yuan said with a smile, looking at those fighters and the trained soldiers, he rode into the morning light and hurried away.

The cold wind gradually blew up, and the weather became colder and colder.

After the last war, Nishio Toshizo was transferred back to the main island, and Okamura Ninji took office.

In the Shanxi area, the Japanese army launched several large-scale clean-up activities, strengthened its control over the entire territory of Shanxi, and dug several trenches and towers in the periphery of Taiyuan and Datong to ensure that the situation of being easily broken would not happen again.

Taiyuan, inside the military headquarters.

Okamura Ninji stood in front of the window, looking at the white earth outside the window, his face gloomy.

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General, the generals have arrived!"

A staff officer came over and whispered a reminder.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!"

Many generals stood up in unison and bowed to say hello.

"Sit down!"

Okamura Ningji said, and then signaled the staff officer to start.

"Datong, Zhangjiakou, Baoding, Chahar and other places, the strength of our army is converging towards this side, and it is expected that the strength of the four divisions and regiments requested by His Excellency the Lieutenant General will be able to be deployed before the end of the year!"

The staff officer said: "When the time comes, we can set up a perfect blockade line in the liberated area of the Eighth Route Army and the periphery of Trojan Horse County, and completely trap these guys in a cage!" ”

"The first step is to block the supply lines of the Eighth Route Army and Trojan Horse County on the periphery, I want them to no longer be able to get even a little bit of supplies from the outside world!"

"The second step is to compress their activity space and gradually recover Laiyuan, Weixian, Anyuan and other places!"

"The last step is to smash Huanglong, completely destroy Trojan County, and smash the base of the Eighth Route Army!"

"This is the cage policy!"

Okamura Ningji said viciously: "As soon as the New Year passes, we must go all out to fight these rats who dare to make trouble behind us, trap them, and completely destroy their living soil, we must do three lights, kill them all, burn them all, rob them all, and don't leave a piece of tile, a grain of grain, and a person for the damn Sichuan Army Independent Regiment and those eight roads!" ”

"Hey!"

Many generals replied loudly.

"How is the intelligence collection work on Trojan County and the Eighth Route Army going on now?" Okamura asked.

"It's not going well......"

Yoshikawa Sadasa, who rushed to the meeting, replied: "Lu Yuan saw through my beauty plan last time, and now he is doubling his vigilance, the Eighth Route Army suffered a big loss last time, and it is even more so, any new face appears on the hey side, it will trigger countless investigations, plus the recent cold and freezing weather, which is not conducive to concealment, so the collection of intelligence has slowed down a lot......"

"Yaga!"

Okamura Ninji scolded unceremoniously: "The collection of intelligence must not be stagnant, I'm sure that Lu Yuan's bastard, not to mention the snow in the sky, even if there are knives in the sky, he will never stop killing the soldiers of my empire - we must be more tenacious and tenacious than him!" ”

"Understood, I'll do my best!" Yoshikawa replied.

"This year, it's almost over!"

Okamura Ninji said: "I hope that in the coming year, we can completely uproot the cancer of Trojan County!" ”