At the same time, in the floating bright mountain.

"Lao Ding, Lao Kong, are you here? Come and sit. ”

Li Yunlong carried the teapot and enthusiastically poured a bowl of hot tea for Ding Wei and Kong Jie.

Ding Wei took a sip of the tea bowl, frowned and said, "How is tea?" What about wine? It's not easy for the old war friends to come here, and they don't take out wine to entertain, like words? ”

"Don't mention it." Li Yunlong didn't have a good airway.

"I haven't tasted wine for three months."

"Political Commissar Zhao is so strict?" Ding Wei said, "You really don't want to drink?" ”

Li Yunlong waved his hand and said, "This has nothing to do with Lao Zhao, I don't drink it myself." ”

"Hey? Big head Li, you really changed sex in your dog's day? Kong Jie smiled, "In the past, you didn't drink or have fun, and Political Commissar Zhao didn't let you drink, and you were still anxious with him. ”

Li Yunlong said: "Isn't this what Xiao Wang said, we will have a hard life in the next two years, so we have to stock up on cigarettes, alcohol, and these materials as much as possible, these are hard currency, and they will not be outdated at any time, and when there is trouble in the future, you can take them out and exchange some food and even weapons and ammunition with the devil puppet army." ”

Ding Wei said: "It's such a reason, but it's not bad for this two-pound bar." ”

Li Yunlong said: "It's a bite to be able to save a bite, anyway, if you drink a sip less, you won't lose a piece of meat." ”

Ding Wei said helplessly: "Then get a few good dishes to eat, it's no problem, right?" ”

"Of course there's no problem with that." Li Yunlong smiled and turned his head and shouted, "Xiuqin, two good dishes, put more bacon, Lao Ding and Lao Kong finally came over." ”

After speaking, he instructed Ge Erdan: "Erdan, go and call the chief of staff over." ”

Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo were not there, but Wang Ye happened to be at the regiment headquarters and had to be called over to accompany him.

After a while, Wang Ye came over, and after greeting Ding Wei and Kong Jie, he sat down, and Li Yunlong added another pair of dishes and chopsticks.

"Head Ding, Head Kong, in the past two months before the New Year, you should have gained a lot of money, right?" Wang Ye asked, "I heard that the devil strongholds along Tongpu Road have been almost uprooted by you. ”

In the blockade operation a year ago, the division of labor among the three regiments was very clear.

The new 1st and 2nd regiments were responsible for uprooting the strongholds along the Tongpu Road, while the independent regiments were responsible for ambushing reinforcements from Anhua, Laoxian, and Ping'an counties.

Later, even Chu Yunfei's department and Liang Gang's department were added, and the movement of the whole thing was even greater, half a winter and a whole spring, dozens of battles with devils of all sizes, more than a dozen strongholds were pulled out, and the total number of devil puppet troops annihilated was three or four thousand, and there were a lot of weapons and ammunition captured.

But the casualties of the Eighth Route Army itself were minimal.

Because this is a sparrow war, if you can fight, you can fight, and if you can't fight, you can run.

The devil puppet army is powerless if they want to retaliate, because they dare not go deep into the base area.

At this time, the fiasco of the 2nd Guards Division in the Fuliang Mountain base area began to show its might, and with the bloody example of the 2nd Guards Division in front, the devils no longer dared to easily enter the base area to sweep and sweep, which greatly reserved the war potential of the base area and also preserved the vitality of the Eighth Route Army.

Li Yunlong also smiled and asked, "Tell me honestly, how much benefit did you get from this vote?" ”

"Actually, it's not much." Ding Wei pouted and said, "Compared to the vote that your independent regiment did in the Fuliang Mountain Fortress, we can only be regarded as piecemeal. ”

Kong Jie said: "Yes, a total of one and a half battalions of weapons and equipment have been captured. ”

Ding Wei said: "This is thanks to the help of Chu Yunfei and Liang Gang, otherwise the two largest strongholds will not be able to take it, maybe we will lose money on this vote." ”

"Lao Ding, let your kid speak."

Li Yunlong said with a dark face: "With this vote, we will lose money." ”

"Lao Li, what a loss?" Kong Jie said, "Can't you? You're a shrewd boy. ”

"Lao Kong, what a loss." Li Yunlong said with a dark face, "You can occasionally fight devils in strongholds, but we are all puppet armies, and the puppet army of the puppet Seventh Division is really different now, damn it, if this is put aside, as long as our guns go off, these puppet soldiers will not be obedient to kneel on the ground with their heads in their hands?" ”

Wang Ye said: "But now these puppet soldiers are stubbornly resisting to the end. ”

Ding Wei said: "I also discovered this, the puppet army in the stronghold is also very tenacious." ”

Kong Jie said: "Lao Li and Lao Ding, don't you say that I haven't found out yet, as soon as you say it, I will remember, one of my battalion commanders told me that when they attacked the stronghold of Dingjia Village, there were less than a hundred puppet troops in the entire stronghold, and there was not a single puppet army, but their battalion fought for a night and did not take it." ”

Li Yunlong said with a dark face: "Therefore, we have eliminated a lot of puppet troops, and we have captured a lot of weapons and equipment, but the amount of ammunition captured is very small, far from enough to make up for the consumption of our ammunition." ”

Ding Wei said: "Lao Li, don't think so, at least the troops have been trained." ”

"yes, I can only comfort myself like this." Li Yunlong said, "Otherwise, you will have to be angry to death."

Ding Wei turned his gaze to Wang Ye, and said: "Xiao Wang, in this way, this pseudo-Seventh Division Commander Pan Ren is a great threat to us, do you want to find a chance to kill this dog traitor?" ”

"If you have the chance, you will definitely kill this dog traitor." Wang Ye nodded and said.

"However, it would be too much to exalt him and not be worth it to plan a beheading operation specifically for this dog traitor."

"Not worth it?" Kong Jie said, "Xiao Wang, this evaluation of yours surprised me a little, anyway, Pan Ren, a traitor, has built the Pseudo-Seventh Division into a combat-effective force, just by virtue of this, he is qualified to be the beheading target of your Wolf Warrior Squadron, right?" ”

At this time, Ding Wei said: "The change of the pseudo-seventh division actually has nothing to do with Pan Ren. ”

"Lao Ding, what did you say?" Kong Jie was stunned and said, "The Pseudo-Seventh Division is that after Pan Ren served as the division commander, its combat effectiveness has been significantly improved, how can it be said that it has nothing to do with him?" ”

"Lao Kong, it really doesn't have much to do with Pan Ren." Ding Wei waved his hand and said, "The main thing is that the devil's control strategy has changed, all along, the devil has two different strategies on how to control the puppet army, one is to raise dogs, and the other is to raise wolves. ”

"Our devils here in the Taihang Military Region have always adopted the strategy of raising dogs."

"But now, the devils on the side of the Taihang Military Region have also begun to raise wolves, at least the devils in the northwest of Jin."

"Wolves and dogs?" Kong Jie nodded and said, "It's true that you say this, the puppet army in the past was a group of pugs, not only to the devils, but when they saw our Eighth Route Army, they all waged their tails, but now the puppet army has become a group of wolves, not only biting the people, biting the Jin Sui Army and biting the Central Army, our Eighth Route Army dares to bite." ”

Wang Ye said: "Sooner or later, one day they will dare to bite." ”

Kong Jie said: "It's good to bite the devil, let them eat the dog and have a mouthful of hair." ”

Wang Ye said: "So it's really not worth it to design a decapitation operation specifically for Pan Ren, if you really want to behead, at least you have to pick high-value targets like Iwamatsu Yoshio and Okamura Ningji." ”

"Yes." Kong Jie smiled and said, "It's really not worth it to be said by you." ”

Ding Wei asked again: "Then this blockade war, do we still want to continue to engage in it?" ”

Li Yunlong said without thinking: "Of course, Lao Tzu has to earn his book back." ”

However, as soon as the words fell, Wang Ye waved his hand and said, "Commander, let's take a break." ”

Hearing this, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Kong Jie instantly became alert, because they knew Wang Ye's character very well, and they would never be untargeted, Wang Ye must have discovered it again.

At that moment, Li Yunlong asked, "Xiao Wang, did you find anything?" ”

Kong Jie also asked with blazing eyes: "Xiao Wang, do we have any big battles to fight?" ”

Only Ding Wei looked at Wang Ye and fell into deep thought, obviously, Ding Wei had already made a judgment in his heart.

Wang Ye said: "Commander, Commander Kong, if there is no accident, the devils in North China will definitely launch a large-scale sweep in the first half of this year, and our devils in Shanxi will probably be no exception." ”

"It's very likely." Ding Wei said, "The devil has made a windfall in Southeast Asia, and the domestic financial situation has improved, so he has the capital to launch an offensive on the Chinese battlefield." ”

Wang Ye said: "Moreover, the main target this time is our Eighth Route Army. ”

As a matter of fact, in the first half of 1942, the Japanese army did launch a frenzied sweeping operation against the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in the battlefield behind enemy lines, mobilizing more than 10,000 people to sweep up eight times, and mobilizing more than 1,000 people to carry out countless sweeping operations.

The largest of these was the May 1 sweep of the Jizhong Military Region.

In the May Day Sweep, the Japanese army alone dispatched 50,000 people, and even more with the puppet army.

The Japanese army in Shanxi will also launch a spring sweep against the base area in southeastern Shanxi from March to May, and it is in this counter-sweep that the deputy chief of general staff unfortunately dies.

From the perspective of time, this Spring Festival sweep is about to begin.

At that moment, Wang Ye said: "So, let's rest for a while." ”

"I agree." Ding Wei said, "Take a break for a while, there will definitely be a big battle next." ”

"That's a good idea." Li Yunlong grinned and said, "This period of time is either a sparrow war, a mine war, or a tunnel war, and the scale of each time is only a few hundred people, and I, the regiment commander, are about to be idle, if I don't find a big battle to fight, I will soon be unable to walk." ”

Kong Jie smiled and said, "Lao Li, your face seems to be bigger than before." ”

Just as Yang Xiuqin came in with a large pot of bacon, she smiled and said, "Xiuqin, what did you give Lao Li to eat?" ”

Kong Jie asked something right, but Yang Xiuqin didn't know what they were talking about just now, and thought that a few old comrades-in-arms were chatting about some topics between men, and their faces turned red.

Because recently, Xiuqin has indeed often given Li Yunlong more meals at night.

Li Yunlong laughed and said, "What does Xiuqin give me to eat, can I tell you that Kong Er is stunned?" ”

This time, Xiuqin's face turned even redder, and she pinched Li Yunlong's arm vigorously, but Li Yunlong didn't care at all, this was just an itch for him.

Li Yunlong said again: "When will you wait until you marry your daughter-in-law, haha." ”

Kong Jie is not in a good mood now, what are you proud of your dog's day? Isn't it just to marry a daughter-in-law a few days earlier than our old Kong? When I turned around, Lao Tzu also married a daughter-in-law, and married someone who was stronger than your family Xiuqin.

……

The Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.

Although he has not been prime minister for a long time, Hideki Tojo's prestige has reached its peak.

The reason for this is also very simple, because the Japanese navy and army have won great victories one after another.

First of all, the Combined Naval Fleet gambled on the success of the country's fortunes, and in one fell swoop dealt heavy damage to the Pacific Fleet of the Drifting Navy, completely controlling the entire western Pacific and Southeast Asian waters.

Immediately afterwards, the army swept across Southeast Asia and opened up thousands of miles of territory.

Excluding the sea area, the land area of the invasion in the past three months alone has reached more than 4 million square kilometers.

What is this concept? This is equivalent to the Japanese army occupying ten Japan in less than three months!

Therefore, in recent times, Hideki Tojo's presence has even surpassed that of Emperor Hirohito, and the people of Tokyo and even the whole of Japan are discussing Hideki Tojo's wisdom and determination.

All of this is a great honor that Hideki Tojo has brought to Japan since he became prime minister.

However, after a period of sincere cooperation, the Japanese Navy and Army began to pull back again.

The Japanese Navy wanted to concentrate superior forces and continue to fight large-scale naval battles to find and annihilate the navies of the Yin Kingdom and the Drifting Kingdom.

The Japanese Navy is even planning to completely occupy the Hawaiian Islands, completely control the eastern Pacific Ocean, and attack the west coast of the beautiful country, destroying ports and shipyards such as Los Angeles and San Francisco.

This was undoubtedly an expedition of great scale, and it was expected that it would be extremely costly.

However, the Japanese Army wants the Navy to maintain the status quo by eliminating the submarines of the Pretty Country, which are attacking merchant ships everywhere, and at the same time assisting the Army in taking Burma in order to completely cut off China's communication with the outside world.

The two sides quarreled endlessly, and finally quarreled to the prime minister's residence of Hideki Tojo.

Although Hideki Tojo is the prime minister, he was born in the army, and of course his heart is towards the army.

"Under the Fushimi Palace." Hideki Tojo said to the Japanese Navy's Chief of Military Command Fushimi Miyahiro with a serious face, "We had an agreement at the beginning. ”

"Our Army fully cooperates with your Navy in the Pacific Theater."

"But your navy also needs to assist the army in the Southeast Asian theater."

"Now is the time for your navy to fulfill its promises, and I hope that your navy can mobilize transportation capacity as soon as possible to transport the trophies captured by the army in the Southeast Asian battlefield back to the mainland, especially the weapons and equipment captured from the Yin army and the drifting army, which must be transported back to the mainland as soon as possible, or transported to the Chinese battlefield."

Seeing that Fushimi Palace Hiroko was still a little hesitant, Tojo Hideki said again: "Under the Fushimi Palace, you must understand that the Eastern Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean are too far away from the empire itself, and there are no core interests of the empire there, and the core interests of the empire are always in the Far East, in the western Pacific, and in Southeast Asia. ”

"What's more, your navy's hand is so long, even if you seize the eastern Pacific and the Indian Ocean, our army may not be able to help your navy hold the territory, so please give priority to ensuring the vested interests of Southeast Asia."

"Okay." Fushimi Miyahiro finally nodded, "I will send a navy to protect merchant ships and ensure the safety of the shipping lanes from Southeast Asia to the mainland of the empire and the coast of China." ”

Hideki Tojo paused: "Please." ”

"Hello." Fushimi Gong bowed slightly, turned around and walked away.

As soon as Hideki Tojo saw off Hiroko Fushimi Miya, the secretary reported that the Chief of the Army General Staff, Sugiyama Moto, had come to visit.

After a while, Sugiyama Moto was invited into the meeting room of Hideki Tojo, and after the two sides met, Sugiyama Mototo said, "Your Excellency Prime Minister, Okamura-kun has sent another telegram. ”

Hideki Tojo said, "Is it for war materials?" ”

"Yes." Sugiyama Motomichi, "Your Excellency Prime Minister, you can tell me the truth, how much war materials can be provided to the Chinese army?" I'll reply to Okamura-kun too. ”

Hideki Tojo said: "Sugiyama-kun, although the Southern Army has captured a lot of loot from the Southeast Asian battlefield, and nearly a thousand tons of gold alone have been captured, but the arrears of the imperial treasury in the past two years are too much, and a thousand tons of gold is not enough to completely make up for this huge hole. ”

Sugiyama said: "Didn't you also seize a large amount of strategic materials? Crude oil, glue, scrap steel, these are all valuable strategic materials, and they can also be used to fill the holes in the empire's finances, right? It can also be directly used to produce weapons and equipment urgently needed by the imperial army, and at least the mountain artillery wing of the three-unit field division after the number 50 must be complete, right? ”

"Sugiyama-kun, don't be in a hurry, I didn't say I wouldn't make it up." Hideki Tojo waved his hand and said, "I mean, although the empire's finances have improved this year, we can't forget the hard days of the past just because we have a surplus, so I hope that the front-line troops in all aspects can save a little, improve efficiency, and not cause waste." ”

"I'll tell you that." Sugiyama nodded and said, "How many supplies can you provide?" ”

Hideki Tojo pondered for a moment and said, "The materials of the ten divisions will be warn, that is, 100,000 tons!" But this is all the war materiel for a year to send a remittance to China. ”

"Ten divisions and regiments will share war supplies?"

Sugiyama Moto's spirit suddenly perked up when he heard this, this is a huge amount of material.

This means that China can send a reprietary army to launch a large-scale battle with more than 10 divisions, but in practice it is certainly not possible to do so, because the situation on the Chinese battlefield has become very different.

Hideki Tojo asked again: "Sugiyama-kun, as for how this batch of war materials will be distributed and how to use it, I think it is best for you to ask Okamura-kun's opinion first. ”

Sugiyama Motomichi: "Don't you ask for the opinion of Hata-kun first?" ”

"Shunroku Hatata?" Hideki Tojo said disdainfully, "What does he know?" ”

Hideki Tojo didn't even take Ishihara Waner in his eyes, how could he put Shunroku Hata, that is, Okamura Ninji was barely able to get into his eyes, this was because of his early friendship.