Guo Meng was a little surprised, and said, "Take down the stone gate?" You mean we took the initiative to attack Shimen? ”

Qiao Youhua nodded and said, "That's right." ”

Guo Mengdao: "However, didn't the strategic plan you made before say that you would keep the stone gate unmoving?" ”

Qiao Youhua explained: "It was before, this time and that time, when the Japanese army was newly defeated, and it was busy with the battle of Wuhan, there was no time to increase troops to attack us, in order to avoid overstimulating the devils and breaking the balance, so I did not take advantage of the victory and took Shimen in one fell swoop."

However, the situation is different now, the Battle of Wuhan has ended, and the strategic focus of the Japanese army has changed from the original frontal offensive against the resistance forces dominated by the Central Army of the Nationalist Government to the attitude of holding a positive attitude towards the frontal battlefield and turning to encircling and suppressing the anti-Japanese guerrilla forces in the areas it has occupied.

And because of Wang Jingwei, a traitor, the Japanese army got a large number of traitorous puppet troops, and the strength suddenly became sufficient.

If we don't take the initiative to attack, the devils and the puppet army will soon be overwhelmed, and then Shimen will become an important advance base for the Japanese puppet army to encircle and suppress us.

Originally, the location of the stone gate was very important, it was equivalent to a nail placed under our noses by the devil, and now we take the initiative to pull out this nail first!

It will certainly be able to greatly boost the morale of the army and the people in our Longya anti-Japanese base areas, strike a blow at the arrogance of the Japanese puppet army, and turn passivity into initiative. ”

Guo Meng nodded as if he didn't understand, and said a little worriedly: "However, the Japanese army seems to have increased its troops in Shimen, can we take it?" ”

Qiao Youhua said: "This has to wait for the cavalry battalion to come back to see the situation, everything is possible, because it is man-made!" ”

Beiping City, the headquarters of the North China Front of the Japanese invasion of China.

Today it is unusual and crowded with people, but most of them are not Japanese generals, but "national ~ army" generals wearing gray-yellow military uniforms and wearing blue sky and white sun emblems on their military caps.

Of course, these people are not real national~ army generals, but a group of puppet national government army generals who have just followed Wang Jingwei to commit treason and defect to the enemy as traitors.

They were originally all **** senior officers in North China, but now they have all become notorious imperial allies, dogs and traitors.

This time, the top brass of the Japanese army in North China led by Sugiyama Yuan followed the instructions of the base camp and planned to completely eliminate the Longya anti-Japanese column of the Eighth Route Army headed by Qiao Youhua, so all the officers above the brigade level of the Imperial Association Army who were ordered to participate in the battle this time were transferred to Beiping City.

On the one hand, it is advisable to give face-to-face teaching, but the main thing is to win over the hearts and minds of the people so that they can better serve the Japanese invading army.

In fact, because of the existence of Qiao Youhua's dragon tooth column, there are still some deviations in history compared with the original, that is, Wang Jingwei, the big traitor, established the puppet national government earlier, which is also one of the reasons why Qiao Youhua was so angry before, originally Wang Jingwei really established the puppet national government in 1940.

Although he has been charming for a long time, he has not publicly invested in Japan for various reasons, which may be the butterfly effect brought by Qiao Youhua and others.

Because of their existence, the Japanese army suffered greater losses than in its previous history, and the dilemma of insufficient troops led the Japanese imperialists to strengthen their efforts to win over Wang Jingwei and other high-ranking officials of the Nationalist Government, thus creating today's situation.

After making generous speeches, Sugiyama Moto, Kawabe Shozo and other high-ranking officials of the North China Front shook hands with the puppet army generals who participated in the meeting, showing Xiàn very close and kind, and then arranged a banquet and a dance party for this group of dog traitors.

Full of wine and food, and arranged a group of beautiful beauties to accompany them, sugar-coated cannonballs, beautiful women's money, and tried their best to win over them, and fascinated this group of puppet army generals, and they couldn't wait to kneel down and call the Japanese father.

In order to continue to enjoy this kind of drunken life, they naturally strengthened their determination to serve the Japanese, and as for the hatred of the country and the hatred of the family, and the righteousness of the nation, they have long forgotten about it.

These Imperial Allied armies were nominally controlled by the Nanjing government of Wang's puppet regime, but in fact the power of mobilization was in the hands of the Japanese army, and in the past six months, the Japanese army had reorganized and supervised each of the Imperial Allied armies that had surrendered to Chengcheng, and sent military advisers at all levels to these troops.

The army is also organized into brigades and regiments according to the Japanese army's B divisions.

The nearly 200,000 Imperial Allied troops that participated in the war in North China this time were composed of more than a dozen B divisions and independent mixed brigades, and these units were all reorganized from some previous resistance armies, corps, and divisions.

However, due to the continuous attrition of the previous large-scale battles on the frontal battlefield, the Japanese government's vitality was greatly damaged, and in addition to some ammunition supplies, the Japanese army was temporarily unable to replace a full set of Japanese-style weapons for these surrendered puppet troops.

Therefore, the weapons and equipment of the Imperial Allied Army are very mixed, and the combat effectiveness is naturally inferior to that of the Japanese army, which is also one of the main reasons why Qiao Youhua does not take it seriously.

While the Japanese puppet army was sharpening its knives, Qiao Youhua finally got the specific situation of the current Japanese puppet army in the Shimen area.

"Commander, there are many two devils in Shimen, my cavalry battalion has just attacked, and it encountered a group of two devils who do not know whether they are alive or dead to invade my Zhengding base area, and launched an attack on the spot, destroying dozens of enemies, according to the prisoners, now there are three enemy forces in Shimen.

They are the remnants of the 21st Division of the former Japanese Army, a puppet army from the direction of Dezhou, which turned out to be the first part of the Shandong Army of Han Fuqu. and the former Jin Suijun from Shanxi.

The strength of these two puppet armies is about five or six thousand, and the new name given to them by the devil is the 23rd and 24th Mixed Brigades of the Independent Independent of the Imperial Cooperative Army. Liu Jianhua, commander of the cavalry battalion, reported to Qiao Youhua in the conference room of the column headquarters.

Qiao Youhua said: "In other words, the total strength of the Japanese puppet army in the Shimen area is at least 20,000 people?" ”

Liu Jianhua nodded and said, "That's right, the number of troops is twice as many as ours!" ”

"It seems that the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front is still vigilant enough, and before the army is assembled, it will first transfer two mixed brigades of the Imperial Allied Army to strengthen the strength of the Japanese army in Shimen!" Qiao Youhua smiled slightly.

Political Commissar Guo Mengxiu frowned slightly: "Commander Qiao, then what should we do next?" Do you want to attack the stone gate? ”

"Yes, of course, don't look at the fact that they have 20,000 people, in fact, except for the thousands of devils in the 21st Division, the other puppet troops are in the hands of these miscellaneous people, and they are not vulnerable at all!" Qiao Youhua said very confidently: "Moreover, this may be a rare expansion opportunity for us, how can we not grasp it?" ”

"What? A rare opportunity to expand? Guo Meng was confused and puzzled.

"That's right, it's an opportunity to expand, those two Imperial Allied armies are mixed into brigades, and together they are at least tens of thousands of troops! With so many people, we can get seven or eight out of ten, and the size of the army can be doubled. Qiao Youhua said.