What's more, the four major base areas all have some artillery brought by the starting troops (such as Type 92 infantry guns, 37mm flat-fire infantry snipers, etc.). ) and gun grenades (this one is relatively easy to make, even in the arsenal behind enemy lines.) Therefore, there are 3,500 people in a main force regiment in the base areas behind enemy lines (the four major base areas add up to 20 main force regiments, and veterans drawn from the Eighth Route Army or the 15 th Army, and even grass-roots officers as the backbone, if the cause of weapons and ammunition is not considered, the combat effectiveness may not be weaker than the main force of the Eighth Route Army, which has been rapidly expanding in the past two years, but compared with the 15 th Army, which has always controlled the size of the field corps, it is still a little worse. If an independent regiment of less than 2,000 people dares to fight a county town or village where a squadron of devils is stationed, there will be no situation like the fact that the more than 20,000 people of the Eighth Route Army could not take the more than 500 people of the Okazaki Brigade in history. In this way, the results of the battle naturally increased greatly, and the battle was fought and captured a lot, which in turn strengthened the strength of the anti-Japanese armed forces in the base areas, and formed the "better the weapons and equipment, the more they can fight, and the more they can fight, the more they will get more weapons and equipment." A virtuous circle

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Hu Weidong also made the "economic warfare" invented at the end of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression appear on the battlefield of resistance against Japan in advance, because at present the devils only occupy large and medium-sized cities and major communication lines, and most of the villages fall into the hands of the Red Party, so when the central government adopted Hu Weidong's suggestion and ordered the base areas behind the enemy lines to impose an embargo on agricultural products in the occupied areas, especially the large and medium-sized cities in the occupied areas, the hundreds of thousands of Japanese puppet troops in North China soon fell into an unprecedented predicament. It was not surprising that the logistics and supply of the Japanese army on the Jinpu Line were increasingly difficult due to the continuous raids, and even the Japanese puppet troops in the "big rear" such as Pingjin began to starve.

In fact, the situation of grain is relatively easy to handle, and the most troublesome thing is the vegetables that are not resistant to storage, especially in the spring when the flowers are blooming, and the demand gap in the Japanese-occupied areas is very large, and as a result, scurvy, beriberi, and even various infectious diseases suffered from by the decline of resistance in the Japanese puppet army in North China are becoming more and more common. For this reason, the Japanese army in North China was forced to ask for help from the Kwantung Army. However, all kinds of food that had been painstakingly collected and loaded onto the wagons were either destroyed or robbed under the unprecedented frantic raids of the military and civilians in the eastern Hebei base area, and less than 20 percent of the food that could be safely transported to Tianjin was a drop in the bucket. The Japanese base camp, which had to transfer supplies from the northeast and even from Korea and Japan to help the North China Front, was not only unable to profit from the invasion of North China. Instead, it was forced to paste a lot of people's financial and material resources

Even the Japanese army is short of food and clothing, let alone a puppet army, so it's good to be able to barely starve to death. When the puppet army was originally mostly just to make a living, now they can't even eat, and how many people are willing to die for the devil? Therefore, the number of people in the puppet army in North China is increasing day by day, so that the leaders of the puppet army in the later days almost uninterruptedly catch strong men, but they do not dare to go to the countryside to arrest them, but not the population of China's cities in this year is not large, and the seedlings of honest and obedient soldiers who are not afraid of hardship and death cannot be compared with the countryside, and as a result, the puppet army not only cannot increase in number, but also weakens its combat effectiveness day by day

The hungry Japanese puppet army could no longer care about maintaining the illusion of "Sino-Japanese goodwill" in the occupied areas, and began to vigorously solicit daily necessities for Chinese citizens in the occupied areas. During this period, many people were ruined and their families were destroyed. Fortunately, due to the continuous wars before, many people in North China fled, and when the 15th Army occupied the large and medium-sized cities of Beiping, a considerable number of citizens were taken away or scared away, and the degree of urbanization in China during the Republic of China was not high, so the losses were not as big as Hu Weidong expected. This somewhat relieved his guilt. No matter how guilty he is, in order to drive away the devils, he has no hesitation, because the Japanese army is a jackal dressed in a civilized coat, even if they submit to obedience, they can't exchange their mercy, as evidenced by the 300,000 unjust souls in Nanjing in history. Forcing more people to embark on the road of resistance against Japan is not to harm them, but to save them, not to mention just considering the heavy blow that this method can inflict on the Japanese army, he will not abandon it...,

Although Hu Weidong was not afraid of infamy, in order to reduce the losses of the people in the occupied areas as much as possible, he still asked (under the management of the Central Plains Bureau) and suggested (not under the management of the Central Plains Bureau) the comrades working in the white areas to rescue as many people as possibleBut his sacrifice and meritorious deeds will never be forgotten by the country and the people

Although the perverse actions of the devils have temporarily eased the difficulties in supplying daily necessities in large and medium-sized cities in the occupied areas, they have awakened a considerable number of Chinese who were still lucky and even had illusions about the devils, and thus consciously or unconsciously sided with the people and joined this great war in which the entire Chinese nation mobilized to fight against the Japanese invasion

Terauchi Shouichi, the commander of the Japanese North China Front, is not a fool, and naturally knows that this one-time approach can only be an emergency, and in the long run, it will only weaken the supply capacity of the Japanese army even more, after all, even if the citizens cannot produce food and vegetables, it is also indispensable for the operation of a city, if there are only soldiers left in a city, and the lives of the officers and soldiers will be miserable, and the fact that the occupied areas do not produce any actual output is enough to make the Japanese army base camp that is counting on "fighting to feed the war" be overwhelmed. And the anger of the base camp will eventually fall on the heads of these Japanese troops who invaded China, so the current status quo must end as soon as possible no matter what

In order to break the economic blockade of the anti-Japanese base areas behind the enemy line against the Japanese-occupied areas, the Japanese North China Front Army Command thought of many methods; out of fear of the strength of the red party army, they did not immediately send troops into the base areas to sweep the troops at the beginning, but first adopted similar economic means, because although the anti-Japanese base areas behind the enemy lines were mainly self-sufficient agricultural economies, there were also a small number of daily necessities that had to be purchased from outside, such as salt, iron tools, and so on.

Note 1: There is a big gap between the infantry brigades under the jurisdiction of the Japanese garrison and the elite infantry brigades of field divisions in terms of numbers, weapons, and combat effectiveness. In terms of overall combat strength, none of the three garrison brigades may be as good as one field elite infantry brigade.