At the beginning, Hu Weidong handed over most of the instructors and more than eighty percent of the soldiers in the special operations brigade to the plateau to take them to the northeast, and the plateau incorporated most of them into the South Manchurian column and went south with Yang Jingyu. As a unit, their combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of an elite infantry wing of more than 3,000 people, and the smaller the troop establishment, the greater their advantage, a platoon of special forces can completely compete with an infantry squadron of the devil's permanent division, and if it is a "soldier king" like Wang Zicai, it will be even more terrible, as long as it is not the kind of open area with no cover, and there is enough distance between the two sides during the engagement, he alone can eliminate a team of devils with just an 81 assault rifle, and the prince is still young, He is more inclined to benefit his own intelligence far beyond ordinary people to defeat the enemy, and if the light wheel combat ability is concerned, the other three will only be above him

But Yang Jingyu was a little strange when he heard it, because in his opinion, didn't the South Manchurian Column always do this? However, after Wang Zicai's further explanation, Yang Jingyu finally understood that the difference between Wang Zicai's idea and the previous development strategy of the South Manchurian column was that he did not seek to establish a solid base area, but gave priority to expanding the guerrilla zone or even only having a military presence in as many counties as possible. In this way, the devils want to encircle and suppress on a large scale, but they can't find a target. And they can't slaughter all the people in a county because a few military and police officers died in a county, after all, they still need to exploit the Chinese people in the northeast to seek benefits for Japan, so the cost of excessive chaos is too great, and it will only lead to the rapid collapse of the Japanese economy, so Wang Zicai's idea can greatly reduce the casualties of the South Manchurian masses compared with the previous South Manchurian column.

At the same time, after the South Manchurian column was dispersed into smaller units, the combat exchange ratio was also more favorable than it is now, so it could kill and wound more devils and puppet troops. And once the situation changes, the main force of the Japanese army in South Manchuria is led away. Even if it doesn't take long, the scattered South Manchurian column can form a prairie fire in South Manchuria, and quickly pull up a force far larger than the previous heyday, and even if the main force of the South Manchurian Japanese army can free up its hands at that time, the South Manchurian column will always have much more confidence to confront it than it is now

To say that the only flaw of this method is that the headquarters of the South Manchurian Column will become more dangerous, after all, no matter how small the number is, Yang Jingyu's name alone is enough to attract an army of devils, but how can Yang Jingyu be a person who is afraid of death? What's more, there are dozens of special operations elites including "Bears, Tigers and Leopards" to protect them. Yang Jingyu himself is also very skilled, and the devil wants his head. It's not that easy!

Wang Zicai's clever plan succeeded in stopping the rapid deterioration of the situation in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in South Manchuria and laid the groundwork for its future development, but for the time being, because the Japanese army in South Manchuria continued to increase its troops on the basis of its existing absolute superiority, it was not easy for the South Manchurian column to completely get rid of the existential crisis

Relatively speaking, the situation in North Manchuria was much better, because the main force of the Anti-Japanese Union was here, and there was the direct leadership of the plateau and the weapons and ammunition purchased from the Soviet Union, and the Japanese army in Liliang here was also relatively weak. The Anti-Japanese Federation also grasped the weak period of the Kwantung Army for a short time, and thus rapidly expanded the base area and the ranks of the Anti-Japanese Union, not only brilliantly completed the tasks assigned by the central government, and successfully forced back the reinforcements sent by the Kwantung Army to Guannai, but also took the opportunity to control most of the territory of North Manchuria, especially in the vast area east of the Great Khing'an Mountains and north of the Songhua River, only the isolated city of Qiqihar was not taken, so they could use the two natural barriers of the Great Xing'an Mountains and the Songhua River to resist the large forces of the Japanese Kwantung Army. As a result, they won time to consolidate the North Manchurian base area and expand and train the troops.

However, with the continuous increase in the total strength of the Kwantung Army, even the steel-willed plateau felt unprecedented pressure, and the Qiqihar, which could not be taken for a long time, made everyone feel like a fish in their throats. In fact, when the main force of the Kwantung Army entered the customs for reinforcements. Qiqihar only has one infantry wing stationed, if the Anti-Japanese Federation concentrated superior forces to attack at that time, it may not be impossible to take it, but in order to better complete the tasks assigned by the Party Central Committee, the plateau from the political work chose to attack Harbin, which the Japanese Kwantung Army attaches more importance to. Qiqihar, on the other hand, received strong support from the 23rd Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army stationed west of the Great Khing'an Mountains and the Puppet Manchurian Xing'an Division, whose combat effectiveness was almost not inferior to that of the Japanese permanent division, and the strength of the troops rapidly increased to more than 15,000 people.

During this period, Gao Yuan also exposed his shortcomings in strategy, large-scale corps operations, and urban fortifications, and it was difficult to rely on guerrilla warfare alone to force the devils to continue to increase troops in the northeast, so as to prevent the Japanese army from Central China from receiving too many reinforcements. For this reason, the great man who was far away in Lanzhou had the idea of sending a new military commander to the northeast as early as October of that year, and considering that Hu Weidong, as an old leader of the plateau, had a good understanding of the Japanese army and the northeast, the great man also sent a special report to ask for his opinion. Hu Weidong expressed his support for the great man's idea, and proposed that the commander of the 27th Army of the 18th Group Army should be the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, but after some deep thought, the great man rejected this plan and proposed a candidate who surprised Hu Weidong very much, he was Xu Xiangqian, the commander of the 37th Army, who also belonged to the Eighth Route Army (after being transferred to the northeast, his original post was taken over by Nie Shuai)

Think about it, Xu Shuai is indeed more suitable than Mr. Lin, first of all, he is the commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army, and he has a very high prestige among the old subordinates of the Fourth Front Army, and Gao Yuan is also from the Four Front Army system, no matter how arrogant his personality is, he still respects this old chief very much, so there is no need to worry that he will not cooperate with Xu Shuai's work; Secondly, Xu Shuai is better at military command, but relatively less good at the construction of base areas and organizational and political work, which is precisely the specialty of Gao Yuan, and the two are very complementary in ability; Zuihou, Gao Yuan's character is more rigid, while Xu Shuai is more gentle and introverted, and the personalities of the two are also very complementary

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