Jingcheng County, Headquarters of the 39th Group Army.

Liu Yi walked into the war room in a hurry, and said to Yue Weihan and Division Commander Liu: "General seat, Division Commander Liu, the Jinchaji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army has done its work!" ”

"Oh?" Yue Weihan exchanged glances with Senior Commander Liu, and said happily, "How was the harvest?" ”

Liu Yi said: "Of the two regiments of the Jin Sui Army, only a few scouts ran away, and this was deliberately let go by the Eighth Route Army, and the rest were all taken prisoner, as for the infantry brigade of the little devil, it was completely wiped out in Mazhuang Village, and none of them ran away!" However, the little devil has aerial reconnaissance, so it is not easy to deceive the old devil Okamura. ”

"There's no need to lie to Okamura." Senior Commander Liu smiled and said, "Just let Chief Yan have doubts." ”

"Lao Liu's words." Yue Weihan also said, "Chief Yan has no shortcomings, but he is a little bad and suspicious!" This time, he lost millions of catties of grain and cotton, and lost the equipment of two regiments, and the loss was not small. ”

………… In the end, Chief Yan still failed to catch Keiroku Kato.

Keiroku Kato has lived in China for 16 years, and has also stayed in Shanxi for 6 years, and can speak an authentic Shanxi dialect, as long as this little devil drills into the pile of people, the gods can't find him.

Okamura Ninji is still investigating thoroughly, but Chief Yan has already made up his mind to suspend cooperation.

Three days later, the special high section of the special service of the military stationed in Beiping found out the cause of the incident, and Okamura Ningji also sent people to Taiyuan again to try to explain the ins and outs of the matter, but Chief Yan did not hesitate to reject Okamura Ningji's suggestion, and shot the envoy sent by Okamura Ningji.

In Chief Yan's words, who knows if this is another trap for Okamura?

Shanxi people have always been known for their shrewdness, and Chief Yan didn't want to fall in the same place twice.

………… Eastern suburbs of Beiping, Cuimingzhuang.

Major General Hirata Masashi hurriedly walked into Okamura Ninji's office, and immediately retracted his feet and said: "Your Excellency Commander, Yan Xishan refused to continue to cooperate with the imperial army, and killed Kimura-kun!" ”

"Yaga Yaru!" Okamura Ninji's eyes suddenly showed a fierce light, and then he returned to normal.

In fact, Okamura Ninji is by no means as gentle as the "three noes policy" he promoted, this old devil is actually a complete militarist, even more ferocious than Tada Jun, but Tada Jun is just a brainless idiot, while Okamura Ninji is an extremely insidious poisonous snake, and his sharp fangs have been well hidden by him.

"Your Excellency Commander, shouldn't you teach Yan Xishan a lesson?" Hirata said with a grim voice.

The Jin Sui Army is not the 39th Group Army, and Yan Xishan is not Yue Weihan, with the ammunition reserves and troop allocation of the North China Front, it is of course very difficult to carry out a comprehensive sweep in the entire North China region, but if it is just a small punishment of Yan Xishan, it is not a difficult matter.

"Nope." Okamura Ninji waved his hand and said, "As the saying goes, if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, and the most important thing for the imperial army at the moment is to prepare military rations and winter cotton uniforms, so it's better not to make extraneous branches, since Yan Xishan refuses to cooperate with the imperial army, then we need to think of another countermeasure......

Hirata said, "Your Excellency Commander, if you really can't do it, then loot the Mengsui area." ”

"Ransacking the Mengsui region?" Okamura Ningji's heart suddenly moved, although the Mengsui area does not produce grain or cotton, but it produces cattle, sheep and livestock.

As long as a brutal sweep is carried out in the Mengsui area, it will almost be able to raise enough military rations and enough furs, and there will be no cotton uniforms, and the same will be true for fur coats, and the population of the Mengsui area is small, and the impact is relatively small, even if the cruel three-light policy is implemented in the Mengsui area, it will not affect the stability of North China.

However, the plan to sack the Mong Sui area is likely to be met with fierce opposition from the base camp.

Because so far, the Mengsui region, like Korea, Taiwan, Manchuria and other places, has been basically integrated into the rule of the empire, and even formed a cavalry corps based on the children of Mengsui, the loyalty of the Mengsui cavalry corps to His Majesty the Emperor is unquestionable, and it bears the heavy responsibility of guarding against the Soviet Union.

When Okamura Ninji was hesitating, Nanzo Yunzi suddenly walked in with her round and fat buttocks.

"Your Excellency, Commander." Nanzao Yunzi suddenly closed his feet towards Okamura Ningji and stood upright, "Just now, the Beiping Station of the China Military Command Bureau sent a secret letter to the secret service, claiming that Hu Zongnan, the commander of the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater in China, is willing to exchange 500 tons of grain and 200 tons of cotton for the imperial army's arms!" ”

"Hu Zongnan?" Okamura Ninji said, "The Central Army of China!? ”

"Hello." Nanzao Yunzi suddenly bowed his head and said, "Your Excellency, Commander, this should be true. ”

"Nakajo Mountain?" Okamura Ninji muttered, and suddenly strode over to the map hanging on the wall, and Hirata Masatsune hurriedly followed, picked up the command pole and found the location of Nakajo Mountain on the map.

"Yo Si." Okamura Ningji said, "Immediately send someone to secretly contact Hu Zongnan, if Hu Zongnan is really willing to cooperate with the imperial army, then the grain and cotton in exchange can be directly transported to Henan from Zhongtiao Mountain, where the Central Army of China is stationed, and the 39th Group Army and the Eighth Route Army are beyond the reach of the whip even if they want to make trouble!" ”

"Hello." Nanzao Yunzi bowed his head suddenly, and immediately took the order.

………… Cangyan Mountain, officer training camp.

After the army occupied the various communication lines and major county towns in North China, there was no movement, and the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army were disturbed several times, but the result was a small loss, and the two sides fell into a stalemate, but everyone knows that this stalemate is only temporary, and both sides are secretly holding their strength, waiting for the upcoming battle to the death.

It is even more impossible for the 39th Group Army to be idle, and it is carrying out an unprecedented large-scale military training campaign!

Today's 39th Group Army has four divisions and four brigades under its jurisdiction, with more than 80,000 officers and men, and Yue Weihan will never be able to train alone, and as the commander-in-chief of the group army and the director of the Jilu Pacification Office, Yue Weihan has already piled up a mountain of official duties that he needs to deal with every day, and it is impossible to be distracted from military training.

In the final analysis, the training of front-line troops depends on grassroots officers!

However, the 39th Group Army, like the vast majority of [***], grass-roots officers generally have little education, let alone a formal military academy education, so the methods and effects of military training are very worrying, in order to improve the effect of military training as much as possible, Yue Weihan spent a lot of manpower and material resources to set up an officer training camp in Cangyan Mountain.

The officer training camp is completely different from the Taihang branch of the Central Military Academy.

The purpose of the Taihang branch of the Central Military Academy is to train senior commanders, not to mention the division commanders and brigade commanders of the senior command class, they have all set foot in the senior command position, even those regiment and battalion commanders of the junior command class, Yue Weihan also trained them as future division commanders and brigade commanders.

The purpose of the officer training camp is to train the grassroots officers of the group army in rotation.

In the combat sequence of the regular army, officers at the company and platoon level rarely carry out combat missions alone, and they usually only need to mechanically carry out orders from above, so it is tolerable that they do not have tactical command ability, but as a grassroots officer, if they do not have excellent military qualities, they will not work.

Military literacy mainly refers to military skills such as shooting and stabbing, especially being able to lead soldiers!

There are two main meanings of leading soldiers here, the first meaning is to mingle with the soldiers, with a strong personal appeal, this sounds quite mysterious, in fact, it is not difficult to start, as long as the officer's own military skills are excellent, and can take the lead, basically you can get the sincere support of the soldiers; The second implication is that the officers must learn to consciously train the troops when they are not fighting, and this is actually a matter of habit.

Therefore, the purpose of the Cangyan Mountain Officer Training Camp is twofold, one is to improve the military skills of grassroots officers, and the other is to strengthen the military style of the officers, and cast four words in their bones: "Train, fight!" "As a soldier, in addition to fighting, it is training, when you step off the training ground, when you go to the battlefield.

The officer training camp recruits 200 officers in each phase, and the main training subjects include shooting, stabbing and physical fitness, and survival in the field.

The instructor of the shooting subject is Zhao Youting, the instructor of the stabbing subject is Zhao Hanjie, who was born in the Northwest Army, and the instructor of physical fitness and survival in the field is Liu Tiezhu.

That night, as soon as Yue Weihan told the officers about street fighting, Chief of Staff Liu Yi came to him with a black face.

"Headquarters!" Liu Yi vigorously ripped off the wind and discipline button on his collar, and said with a hideous expression, "I just got the news that Hu Zongnan, the bastard, has hooked up with Yu himself, and has accumulated thousands of tons of grain and cotton near Zhongtiao Mountain, and he will be sent to Jiyuan, Henan in exchange for his own arms." ”

"What did you say?" Yue Weihan said abruptly, "Hu Zongnan!? ”

"Yes, it's Hu Zongnan." Liu Yi said angrily, "This bastard really dares!" ”

"No, such a big matter, I'm afraid Hu Zongnan won't dare to call the shots." Yue Weihan shook his head and said.

"Hiss......" Liu Yi suddenly gasped and lost his voice, "Boss, what do you mean ......?"

Yue Weihan sighed and said: "This is obviously instructed by Chairman Jiang, otherwise he would not dare to borrow Hu Zongnan's courage." ”

At this moment, Yue Weihan's mood couldn't help but become bitter, when the army attacked on the frontal battlefield, when the Chinese nation faced a threat of life and death, the whole [***] people could still hate the enemy and unite with the outside world, but once the army stopped the offensive on the frontal battlefield and turned its main energy to the occupied areas, friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party inevitably broke out.

Chairman Chiang instructed Hu Zongnan to make a deal with Yue himself, and his fundamental purpose was to deal with the Eighth Route Army in North China.

As a politician, Chairman Chiang is quite clever in playing the hand of "controlling the Communist Party by saying", but from the national standpoint, Chairman Chiang is really the enemy this time!

(To be continued)