The Battle of Wuhan was also because of this earth-shattering change, and finally failed to escape the fate of **** failure, but the defense of Wuhan was not afraid of sacrifice, and millions of Chinese soldiers and civilians resisted hard, and indeed gave a large number of casualties to the Japanese army in Central China.

It dealt a powerful blow to the enemy's vital forces and laid a solid foundation for a protracted war of resistance, and since then, after a series of large-scale frontal battles such as the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Xinkou, the Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Xuzhou, and the Battle of Wuhu.

The situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has generally entered a stage of stalemate, and the only difference is that Wang Jingwei has become a puppet Nationalist government, and has led nearly two million resistance troops to turn against each other, which is not only extremely unfavorable to the entire War of Resistance against Japan, but also greatly alleviates the dilemma of insufficient strength of the Japanese Army because of continuous fighting in the past two years.

It gave the Japanese Army a great respite.

The formation of the armed forces is not only a matter of whether there are still soldiers of the right age in the country, but also depends on whether their weapons and ammunition and military supplies can be supplied.

This is the whole of a country's war potential, even in the period of cold weapon warfare, it is only the resources such as grain, grass, iron and steel weapons that are fighting, and this is especially true of modern thermal weapons warfare.

Therefore, although there were still millions of soldiers of appropriate age in Japan at this time, it was not possible to form new divisions in a short period of time.

The continuous fighting not only consumes a huge amount of strategic materials, but also loses a lot of officers and men on active duty who have rich experience in training and combat; even if the supply of weapons and materials can keep up, the combat effectiveness of the newly formed division and regiment will need a period of training and combat tempering before it can be enhanced.

Therefore, as in history, since the Battle of Wuhan was fought, the Japanese Government has adopted a strategy of supplementing the war with the enemy and recruiting surrender as the main policy.

It is designed to recharge and rejuvenate.

Wang Jingwei, a big traitor, openly surrendered to Japan, driving more than 2 million national~ troops to turn into a puppet army, which greatly alleviated the dilemma of insufficient troops of the Japanese army in the Chinese battlefield and enabled the Japanese army to better recover.

At the same time, it also gave the Japanese authorities the opportunity and strength to mobilize a large army and prepare to completely wipe out the Longya Column, an anti-Japanese force that had repeatedly inflicted great losses and embarrassment on the Japanese army.

Therefore, when he learned that Wang Jingwei openly defected to the enemy and set up a puppet national government in Nanjing, Qiao Youhua was furious, and he couldn't wait to break this dog traitor into pieces.

"Commander, the headquarters of our Eighth Route Army forwarded an urgent piece of information detected by our underground intelligence officers, and in the past month or two, the headquarters of the enemy's North China Front Army has mobilized a large number of newly surrendered puppet troops and some Japanese troops in the area north of the Yellow River, with a total strength of at least more than 200,000 troops.

At present, these Japanese puppet troops have gathered in various places around our base area, and I am afraid that it will not be long before they launch a large-scale attack on us. Qiao Youhua was angry, and political commissar Guo Meng came over with a telegram and said to him.

"At least two hundred thousand?" Guo Meng's words made Zheng Yunshan, Liu Jianhua, Zhao Tiezhu and others present couldn't help but change their color, and gasped, obediently, the little devil is really willing to spend his blood.

Qiao Youhua snorted coldly with some disdain: "Last year, there were more than 100,000 devils in the army, and we were not afraid of only one regiment, and finally won the battle." A mere 200,000 puppet army, a group of rabble, what is there to be afraid of, but the hateful thing is that once the war breaks out, our base areas will recuperate and recuperate, and the rhythm of secret development will be disrupted.

Moreover, Wang Jingwei, a traitor, openly surrendered to Japan at this time, and the entire anti-Japanese situation in the whole country suddenly took a sharp turn, and even if we repelled the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese puppet army, the entire base area would inevitably fall under the blockade and encirclement of the Japanese puppet army.

It will be difficult to think of any development in the future, not to mention far away, but the supply of ammunition and materials that the Germans cooperated with us will never think of easily transporting them in! ”

Indeed, after a large number of puppet troops surrendered to the devils, they greatly made up for the lack of devils' troops, and the original devils' control area was only within more than ten kilometers of highways and railways, and they were mainly important towns along these transportation arteries.

Now it has been strengthened and supplemented by a large number of puppet troops, and the area controlled by the devils is directly connected by lines into a network, which greatly compresses the space for the survival and activities of the anti-Japanese armed forces.

This is the reason why Qiao Youhua is very angry and can't wait to greet Wang Jingwei's ancestors countless times.

When everyone heard Qiao Youhua say this, they obviously thought of this, and they all frowned, their faces were full of sorrow, and Liu Jianhua asked Qiao Youhua directly: "Commander, then what do you say we should do next?" ”

Qiao Youhua pondered for a moment on the map and said to Liu Jianhua: "The cavalry battalion immediately dispatched to search everywhere for the actual situation of the Japanese puppet army on the Zhengtai railway line around our base area, and then report back quickly. ”

"Yes!" Liu Jianhua replied abruptly and was about to turn around and leave.

Qiao Youhua did not forget to instruct: "Remember, the cavalry battalion companies should not be in love with war, but mainly to collect intelligence and reconnoiter the enemy!" At least more than 200,000 Japanese puppet troops, you will fight the next battle! ”

"Yes, I understand." Liu Jianhua nodded again, and then strode out.

Seeing Liu Jianhua leave, Qiao Youhua turned to Guo Meng and asked, "How is the equipment of our Dragon Tooth Column at present?" ”

Guo Mengdao: "The strength of each regiment has been fully established, and the weapons and equipment have all been replaced with British 77 rifles and German-style general-purpose machine guns and submachine guns, and in terms of artillery, the artillery battalions directly under the column and the artillery companies directly under the regiments are also equipped with 37mm anti-aircraft guns, and the firepower has been greatly strengthened, especially the anti-tank and armor capabilities have been greatly improved."

As a result of the training in the past six months, the combat effectiveness of the various units has also been markedly enhanced, and the arsenals have also entered into normalization; since the regiments were reequipped with Ying-77 rifles a month ago, the newly produced weapons and equipment of the arsenals have been transferred to warehouses for storage.

The only thing that is not too abundant is food, after all, it has been several months since the last autumn harvest, and the people do not have much surplus food in their hands, but it is still not a problem to survive this year and reach the beginning of spring.

As long as we can hold the base area, there will be no famine when the grain is ripe next year! ”

Qiao Youhua nodded: "That means that we are now soldiers with enough food and ammunition?" ”

Guo Meng nodded and said, "So to speak, Commander, do you have any plans?" ”

Qiao Youhua looked up at the sky outside the headquarters with deep eyes, and said meaningfully: "Since it is inevitable that there will be a war, and the little devils will not let us live in peace, then we can't sit still, and when they come to the door, we will take down the stone gate first and cut off the Zhengtai Railway!" ”