Chapter 251: The Eighth Route Army's Countermeasures and Concerns

Small fights and big fights are all fights, and Yang Tianfeng is preparing to attack violently after the soldiers are well fed, completely cut off the devil's communication line, isolate the strongholds built by the devils, and annihilate them one by one. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

According to Xiao County's devil strength, it is now close to a wing, and it is only laying the foundation for a larger-scale offensive and establishing a more threatening forward base. If the army is mobilized, there is a certainty of victory. It's just that it's too close to Xuzhou, and at this stage of accumulating strength and recovering blood, Yang Tianfeng doesn't want to stimulate the devil too early.

Flipping through all kinds of information, Yang Tianfeng felt that there was a need to support the Miyayama team. Miyamoto not only built roads, but also strengthened law and order in the prefecture, and the plainclothes raid teams he organized, in coordination with the regular army, caused considerable obstacles and threats to the guerrilla activities of the Miyayama brigade.

Miyamoto is really a studious guy and wants to learn guerrilla warfare, but this trick is really powerful. Yang Tianfeng pondered for a long time and gave several orders.

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A small village of only about 30 households, with only one street, lined with bungalows with black tiles and white walls.

A bungalow in the north of the village has a black-lacquered door, and the paint has peeled off a lot, becoming mottled and ugly. Next to the door was a large locust tree, its dense foliage almost covering half of the roof. If you look closely at the green and yellow foliage, you can see the antennas and telephone lines sticking out.

The big house in the north house was already full of people, and Huang KC, commander of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, was sitting on a wooden chair on the left side of the front, wearing a grass-green military uniform, the green had been washed lightly, but it was very neat. His face was very serious, and he listened intently to the reports of the various ministries.

In the spring of 1938, local party organizations in Zhinan, northern Henan, and southwestern Shandong established guerrilla units, which initially opened up the situation in the Hebei, Shandong, and Henan base areas. At the end of the same year, the troops of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army entered the southwestern region of Shandong and promoted the anti-Japanese guerrilla war and the construction of base areas in the area.

In February 1939, Yang Dezhi, acting commander of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, led part of his troops from the southeast of Shanxi Province to the areas of Puyang, Neihuang, and Huaxian, and combined them with the local armed forces to form the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Detachment to carry out guerrilla warfare, and successively won the victory of the "sweeping" of the anti-Japanese puppet army, and the force was expanded to more than 7,000 people.

Subsequently, the main force of the second column of the Eighth Route Army, under the leadership of Huang KC, marched eastward from the Taihang Mountains to the Hebei-Shandong-Henan border area, and was combined with the Hebei-Shandong-Henan detachment to form the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, with Huang concurrently serving as the commander. At the same time, the Luxi Military Region was established, with Xiao H as commander and political commissar and Yang Y as deputy commander. In this way, the Hebei-Shandong-Henan anti-Japanese base areas, including the southern, northern, and southwestern Shandong, were initially formed.

“…… The enemy is changing from the city as the center to the countryside as the center, and on the basis of consolidating the points and lines of occupation, the enemy is building roads and forts, further expanding from points and lines to areas, and cooperating with each other in military, political, and economic forces in an attempt to achieve the goal of all-out occupation......"

"In addition to military sweeps, the enemy is actively building puppet regimes, puppet organizations on the political front; On the economic front, it destroys production, plunders assets, and indiscriminately issues counterfeit money......"

"The enemy used new tactics for the sweep." Huang KC nodded and said: "Around the points and lines that have been occupied, the enemy continues to build additional pillboxes and roads, and encroach on our base area. In the past month, the number of enemy strongholds has increased by hundreds. Centered on the strongholds, the enemy has been building 'Airo Villages', and around railways and highways, Aiji Villages have also been established. A situation in which the enemy and ourselves are intertwined and the dog's teeth are intertwined is taking shape, and the complexity and arduousness of the struggle are becoming greater and greater. ”

"How are we going to deal with the enemy?" Someone asked eagerly.

Huang KC smiled slightly and said: "After Tada Jun became the commander of the North China Front, he implemented the so-called bull knife tactic, mainly to lead the points into a line and gather the line into a surface, and wanted to use the cage policy to divide our anti-Japanese base areas. During the offensive, the enemy often built forts inward and roads outward, consolidating his lines of communication with strongholds, and dividing our base areas by increasing the number of lines of communication with points. ”

After a pause, he continued: "Then we're going to do the opposite. First cut off the enemy's line of communication, so that his communication will be cut off, the aid will be cut off, the transportation will be inconvenient, and there will be no reinforcements. Then we have all kinds of methods, surprise attacks, sieges, and storms, trying to annihilate the enemy in the stronghold and pull out the stronghold nailed by the enemy. To put it simply, it is to cut the line, pull the point, and squeeze the surface ......"

"The commander has summed up the experience of the struggle against the enemy and raised the theoretical level, so we will have more ways to deal with the enemy in the future." Xiao H said admiringly.

"The experience is summed up by the various units through operations, and I will only summarize it briefly." Huang KC waved his hand and said, "You also have good experience, which is worth learning from." Comrade Xiao H, can you give me a brief introduction! ”

Xiao H knows that Huang KC's words and deeds are very rigorous, and he does not easily praise anything, and all the people and things that are praised are even more precious and cherished. There was some joy in his heart, but he tried his best to hold it back, and said modestly: "Some methods are forced by the environment, and some are learned from friendly forces. It turned out that we were only disrupting the enemy's road-building plans in sections, but it did not work well. Later, we mobilized the masses and sent troops to cover and destroy all the railways and highways. The first time it was not destroyed, the second time was carried out, and it also took the opportunity to strike and destroy part of the enemy. ”

"It's another good lesson." Huang KC nodded approvingly and said: "In the past, simply destroying transportation could only cause difficulties and losses to the enemy, and could not annihilate the enemy more effectively; If only the battle is carried out, and the communication is not destroyed, the enemy's reinforcements are very fast, and it is not easy to win the battle. In my opinion, in the future, it is necessary to coordinate the destruction of roads with the combat and improve the efficiency of the transportation struggle. ”

"In this way, we can break the enemy's cage policy. If some heavy weapons are distributed to uproot the stronghold of the devils, the deterrence of the enemy will be even greater. "There was a cadre who was gearing up and looking very excited.

"We will try to break the enemy's cage, but it will depend on how the struggle develops in the future." Huang KC expressed hope with reservations, paused, and said: "Of course, we lack heavy weapons, and it is a difficult problem to uproot the stronghold of the devils. Think of ways to minimize casualties. ”

"The New Seventh Army is expanding, and it is preparing for war with all its might, and the output of weapons has been greatly reduced, and the number of weapons we have obtained is far from enough!" Political Commissar Cui TM said with a wry smile: "What's more, we are poor, and other people's weapons are not given for nothing." ”

"No matter how poor you are, you have to buy it, and you have to change it." Huang KC frowned slightly and said, "Using people to send explosives to the stronghold is too big a casualty." In addition, we urgently need medicine, and the injuries and illnesses of our soldiers must be addressed. ”

"Comrade Xiao H, your Luxi Military Region borders the defense area of the New Seventh Army, and there are many contacts. In the Battle of Eastern Henan, we pinned down the Japanese army and helped Yang Tianfeng. Cui TM turned to Xiao H and said, "Do you want to send someone to contact Yang Tianfeng, weapons, medicine, and get more." The conditions can be discussed. If you can take credit, so much the better. ”

The Luxi Anti-Japanese Base Area is a part of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Anti-Japanese Base Area, and the main areas are the northwest area of Cao County in present-day Shandong Province, Dingtao County in Shandong Province, and parts of Minquan and Lankao in Henan. It can be seen that it is located in the north of Longhai Road, very close to the defense area of the New Seventh Army.

"Yes, communicate more, contact more, even if you can't negotiate, you can also enhance the relationship with friendly forces!" Huang KC smiled and said: "What's more, Yang Tianfeng doesn't seem to be a stingy person, and he is still more generous to friendly troops who can sincerely resist Japan." ”

"A battalion of Japanese-style equipment, Yang Tianfeng is indeed very generous." Xiao H smiled bitterly and said, "If it weren't for catching up with the expansion and preparation of the New Seventh Army, it shouldn't be a problem to change more weapons and ammunition." Now, okay, I'll send someone to contact and get it. ”

"Not only your Luxi Military Region, but we also have other channels that have been doing Yang Tianfeng's work." Huang KC groaned and said: "The strength of the New Seventh Army is very strong, unexpectedly strong. If we become our enemy, it will cause us unimaginable difficulties. Therefore, with regard to the New Seventh Army, we must do our best to avoid conflicts, and if there are contradictions, we should mainly negotiate and make concessions. ”

"Of course, it's not that we're afraid of him, it's instructions from above." Cui TM said solemnly: "Yang Tianfeng is still very resolute in resisting Japan, and we must try our best to maintain the anti-Japanese united front." Moreover, in the Shandong-Henan-Anhui region, although there was no as severe a situation as in southern and central Hebei, the Japanese army was still strong and was the number one enemy of the anti-Japanese army. One is prosperous, and one is lost. Judging from the information transferred from the inside, Yang Tianfeng's understanding of this is still sober and rational. ”

The instructions above, the information on the insider, everyone understood the implicit meaning. Yang Tianfeng has been valued at a higher level, and his research and spying on him have been ongoing.

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During the Anti-Japanese War, the tall turret stronghold built by the devils was a living target and a dead coffin if it was to be a European battlefield. But in China, the devils bullied the anti-Japanese armed forces for lacking heavy weapons and played fortress warfare.

These turrets generally take the form of brick and timber structures, and even the figures are fast and have rammed earth structures. But the building is high and the walls are thick, and the grenadiers and machine guns are helpless against it. Although there were still mortars at that time, the mortar shells were fired into a parabolic landing, either too far away, flying over the turret, or too close, and it was very difficult to hit the top of the turret directly.

It was not the same if there were infantry or mountain guns, for which the destructive power of the artillery was not a problem, and the artillery could also fire outside the enemy's firing range, there was little danger.

Whether it is an infantry gun, a battle defense gun or a mountain artillery, or even a 37mm rapid-fire gun that captures the devil, it has the ability to destroy the village. Even if there is no recoilless cannon, Yang Tianfeng is not very afraid of the devil's fortress advance.

On the surface, Yang Tianfeng paid the most attention to the military, and he directly interrogated and personally dealt with the expansion and training of the army and the expansion of production in the military industry.

But for government affairs, Yang Tianfeng did not let go, but he did not have to do everything personally, but always paid attention to it and made suggestions from time to time. (To be continued.) )