Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Japanese Army's Strategy

Gou Tianxiao was overjoyed when he saw Zhang Xiwu's statement, since people have this intention, then things will be easy to do! Pulling Zhang Xiwu and letting him gather several of his main leaders, Gou Tianxiao announced Hu Fei's order in public.

"Order Zhang Xiwu to lead his troops to carry out guerrilla operations on the periphery of the Japanese army, waiting for an opportunity to destroy the Japanese convoy and cut off the transportation channel of grain, grass and ammunition for the Japanese invaders!"

"Yes! Xiwu will do his best to live up to the trust! Zhang Xiwu replied with a full tone and a loud voice. With Hu Fei's order, then he can be regarded as doing things for the country, although he has no military rank and position now, will these be less in the future? If you want to be an officer, isn't it just a matter of one sentence in front of the commander of the theater.

After Tianzhao announced the order to Zhang Xiwu here, Gou Tianxiao rushed to the next family non-stop. There is always a little connection between the beards of the various hills, and I heard that Chief Hu's order was to be conveyed to all the locks who came to the Badao trench to participate in the battle, Zhang Xiwu specially assigned two clever little leaders under him to be guides.

In this way, one by one, each family will be ceremoniously received and enjoy the highest courtesy. Almost all the gang bosses Gou Tianxiao met expressed their willingness to follow Chief Hu's orders.

The reason why I say almost, it is because there are a very small number of cottage family members who have been hung up in the previous battle, and their new family members have not yet been selected. Despite this, those candidates still rushed to express their attitude, saying that they would resolutely obey Chief Hu's military orders!

Military orders are like mountains. As soon as Chief Hu gave the order, all the Hu bandits moved when they heard the news, and a series of fierce armed forces launched an attack from behind the devil. All of a sudden, the Japanese army's grain convoys and arms convoys were frequently attacked. Emergency telegrams flew like snowflakes to the desk of the devil's commander, Mitsuo Nakazawa, and the old devil was busy.

"Yaga! Yaga! Eight grid tooth road! Commander Nakazawa angrily grabbed a stack of emergency telegrams on the table and smashed them at the intelligence staff officer standing next to him, and the telegram drafts flew all over the sky, fluttering and spilling all over the ground. The hapless staff officer Nakasa lowered his head and didn't even dare to come out.

"You say, what's going on? Why are all of a sudden so many convoys being attacked at the same time? What is your intelligence department doing? Why was there no report before the attack? ”

"Hi, Your Excellency General, these attacks are all from the bandit forces. These bandits had recently arrived from elsewhere and were not locals. My intelligence agents had no way of knowing what was going on with them in advance. Your Excellency General, please give me a certain amount of time. ”

"Time? How much time do you need? Yamamoto-kun, do you want the bandits to rob all my convoys, so that the emperor's samurai have no food to eat and no ammunition to use? I'll give you a day, and if the situation doesn't change now, you can be a god! ”

"Hey!" Yamamoto Nakasa lowered his head and assured His Excellency the General in a loud voice.

As soon as intelligence staff officer Nakasa Yamamoto went out, Mitsuo Nakazawa immediately called his chief of staff in. As soon as the chief of staff entered the door, he was startled by the pieces of paper all over the ground, looked at Mitsuo Nakazawa in disbelief, hesitated to bend down and picked up a piece of paper and looked at it a few times, and the chief of staff's expression became solemn.

"Takahashi-kun, the Imperial Army's convoys are frequently attacked, these are urgent telegrams. Do you have any good plans for this unfavorable situation? ”

"General, if all these are urgent telegrams after the convoy has been attacked, we can see that the recently massed bandit forces have changed their tactics. Knowing that frontal combat was no match for the Imperial Army, they changed their strategy and changed their frontal attack to guerrilla warfare. They want to learn from the guerrillas, using harassment and sneak attacks as their main tactics. ”

"Oh? So, what kind of strategy should we take to deal with this? Mitsuo Nakazawa had always admired this scholarly chief of staff, and when he heard his analysis of the incident, he immediately made a gesture of asking for advice.

"The Imperial Army has already had a way to deal with the guerrillas. The general already has a countermeasure in mind, so why bother asking me again? "Takahashi Osa is not only a scholar, but also proficient in the way of subordinates, and unconsciously patted a sycophant, which made Nakazawa Mitsuo feel big.

"No, no, no, we still have to brainstorm. I've always admired Takahashi-kun's strategy, so if you have any good ideas, please tell us and we'll study them together. ”

"Hi. Actually, for guerrilla warfare, we can do both. First, to give back to others in their own way. We sent plainclothes teams to infiltrate and attack the command organs and key departments of the First Volunteer Army; Second, strengthen the strength of the transport fleet. In the face of absolute strength, a single conspiracy and trick will be useless. When the convoy is strong enough, the attack of the bandits will only kill themselves! ”

"Yo Xi, Takahashi-kun's method is really clever. I then informed the 11th and 12th Divisions to strengthen the strength of the transport teams, and at the same time each sent a number of plainclothes teams to carry out infiltration operations. The two guys, Yamaho Sotake and Numata Takazo, don't know how to actively think of a way when they encounter problems, they will only have to rescue. Are their two standing Class A divisions paper-paste? ”

Regarding his own general's practice of slandering the commanders of the other two divisions, Chief of Staff Takahashi could not interject. The level is different, Nakazawa Sanfu said that it was okay, if he added oil and vinegar, it would be troublesome to spread it.

Fortunately, Mitsuo Nakazawa did not mean to embarrass Chief of Staff Takahashi, so he just said it. Next, the Japanese army began to change its tactics and force composition according to the order of Mitsuo Nakazawa, and the strength of the convoy was greatly strengthened.

When a certain bandit team attacked the Japanese convoy and suffered heavy losses because it encountered the superior Japanese convoy, almost all the sneak attacks against the Japanese convoy suffered a setback.

When Cheng Laogang reported the situation to the headquarters, Hu Fei immediately informed all the bandits of the situation of the strengthened vigilance of the bandits. If you want to sneak attack, you first have to weigh your own capital, be careful not to steal chickens and don't put yourself in it.

After that, the scale and number of participants in the sneak attack on the Japanese convoy became larger and larger. So much so that when a sneak attack on a transport convoy, it is often a few big locks that converge together, and there are hundreds or thousands of people fighting with devils. Sneak attacks often develop into a small campaign.

That's not all, when Xiong Weilai reported that our army's baggage troops had been attacked by unknown militants five times in a row, Hu Fei knew that the devil's countermeasures not only strengthened the strength of the transport team, but also had the trick of plainclothes infiltration!