The autumn offensive launched by the Eighth Route Army on its own initiative was near the end, and although the operations in large areas had ended, the situation that the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army were facing each other around certain areas and that they could break out again at any time continued.

For example, Zhangjiakou, such as Datong.

These two important county towns have extremely high military value and are of great importance to the Japanese army.

Among them, Datong is the base camp of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army in Mongolia and has been operating for many years.

However, it was broken by the Eighth Route Army twice, so it lost a large number of hoarded war materials.

Zhangjiakou, which is located in the transportation hub, is a military important place that the Japanese army has painstakingly managed.

After the Eighth Route Army launched the autumn offensive, the Japanese army was even more clamoring that Zhangjiakou had been built into an absolute permanent fortification like an iron bucket, and even claimed to be the Japanese army's version of the "Huangyadong Permanent Fortification Group". ”

In this regard, the commander of the Mongolian army stationed in Zhangjiakou, Qitian Old Devil, who was originally responsible for guarding Zhangjiakou, still shouted proudly: Even if the main force of the Eighth Route Army poured out, he would be able to hold Zhangjiakou for at least three months with limited forces until reinforcements arrived.

In this way, the main combat force of the Eighth Route Army was consumed.

Of course, the final result was that Datong, the base camp of the 26th Division of the Mongolian Army, was breached in less than a day, and Zhangjiakou, which was blown into a steel fortress by the devils, was also completely taken in less than three days.

On the side of the Eighth Route Army, although according to the strategic thinking of the headquarters, although the autumn offensive achieved a great victory, it was still not the time for a full-scale decisive battle with the Japanese army.

Therefore, after capturing some county towns and towns and seizing a large amount of supplies, the troops of all walks of life were immediately ordered to evacuate in an orderly manner.

On the side of the Jin-Cha-Ji base area, the main force retreated to Zhangjiakou.

The troops used the fortifications built by the devils in Zhangjiakou to confront the Mongolian army and the Kwantung Army that had come from reinforcements, and prevented the Kwantung Army and the Mongolian army from moving south.

Considerations for garrisoning Zhangjiakou and Datong.

The deputy chief of the general staff and the deputy commander-in-chief of the entourage considered the issue of how to make the troops withdraw to the base areas in an orderly and foolproof manner.

Although they retreated to the base area, they retreated one after another from Shandong, then to Pingjin, then to Baoding, and then to Taiyuan, and it was not possible to evacuate all of them at once.

Therefore, there must be two nails like Zhangjiakou and Datong to contain more Japanese troops and attract the attention of the Japanese army.

Otherwise, it will not be possible to cover the withdrawal of friendly forces and carry supplies.

In addition, in addition to supplies, after the Eighth Route Army launched the autumn offensive this time and captured some county towns and towns of the Japanese army, according to the policy, as long as the people in the city who originally belonged to the Devil's Security Zone were willing to move to live in the base area of the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army would be responsible for escorting them along the way and helping the people settle in the base area.

At the military conference before the war, Kong Jie once said about this: "In fact, from the perspective of economic development, the reason why for a long time our country's economic center of gravity was mainly in some towns and counties.

In addition to the problem of historical accumulation, it is precisely because these counties and towns have a denser population, more convenient transportation routes, more abundant materials and more frequent transactions. ”

"To put it simply, population is the basis of all development, so even if the little devils build the occupied area, even if they are hypocritical, they have to find ways to stabilize the people, help them create wealth, and maintain the economic operation of the region."

"So let's launch an autumn offensive this time to break the city and destroy the living forces of the Japanese army, this is only a preliminary goal; Capturing supplies to strengthen our base areas and troops is only a mid-polar goal; The ultimate goal is to find a way to bring back our compatriots in the area occupied by the devils safe and sound. ”

"The people are the power, and with the expansion of our base areas, we need a large inflow of population, and only when the number of people is large enough can we quickly develop the economy and military of the base areas in an all-round way."

"Even to form an economic advantage over the Japanese army."

"This can be said to be a plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, let's spare him the population base of his little devils, and see what else they can toss."

After the actual operation began, whenever the officers and men of the Eighth Route Army broke through the county towns and towns, and under the propaganda of the propaganda department, the common people in the security areas who had long been fed up with the oppression and exploitation of the Japanese army did not say a word, and one by one dragged their families and families with them, and rushed to the base area with the officers and men of the Eighth Route Army.

The people have long heard that the development of the Eighth Route Army base area is getting better and better, and the people living there have no worries about food and clothing, and they have enough to eat every meal.

The fact is even more obvious, since recent years, there has been a severe drought in various places.

The common people in the nationalized areas and the Japanese-occupied areas are living unspeakably, but the Eighth Route Army has been receiving the victims and helping the people tide over the difficulties.

Those ordinary people who want to live a solid life have long been looking forward to living in the base area of the Eighth Route Army.

It's just that it's been controlled by the little devils in the occupied area.

In order to cover the transfer of the common people.

The Eighth Route Army still has two places in its hands, Datong and Zhangjiakou, these two county towns are in important locations, except for facing devils on one side, and all of them are base areas behind them.

It can be described as an excellent line of defense.

In addition, if you don't put the blood of the devil here, the devil will be suspicious and suspicious during the New Year, thinking wildly, and doing things everywhere.

So......

The high-level military meeting held by Junroku Hata in Beiping was actually to discuss the difficult question of how to recapture Zhangjiakou and Datong.

In this regard, Hatatake Junroku said: "The military value of Datong and Zhangjiakou is extremely high, and they cannot fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army under any circumstances, and we must find a way to recapture them and incorporate them into the territory of our Great Japanese Empire." ”

Speaking of the situation that Zhangjiakou was broken under the offensive of the Eighth Route Army.

The commander of the Mongolian garrison, who was in charge of defending Zhangjiakou, said to the old devil Qitian: "Your Excellency, commander-in-chief, I have an unshirkable responsibility for the loss of Zhangjiakou, and I am willing to lead my subordinates to immediately counterattack and recapture Zhangjiakou!" ”

As he spoke, Commander Qitian, who was armed with a gun and a stick, also said to Commander Tuqiao of the 12th Army: "It's just that Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, if you want to recapture Zhangjiakou and Datong, I welcome anyone else to help, but I don't want to see the 12th Army's troops!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the entire conference room fell silent.

The devil officers are a little confused, so they don't know where Nanata's anger comes from.

The commander of the 17th Division, Hirabayashi Morito, who attended the meeting, quietly explained to Buntaiichiro of the 13th Division, "In this battle, our unit was confronted head-on by the mobile troops of the Eighth Route Army north of Linyi, and was repulsed by them.

However, as far as we learned afterwards, the 12th Army, which was closest to us at that time, not only did not come to the rescue, but even did not intercept the Eighth Route Army transport convoy passing through their defense area, and all of them retreated to important county towns, only guarding the transportation hub.

The disadvantages of jihad are all caused by these bastards, who have completely lost the confidence to fight.

During the war, everyone was a turtle with a shrunken head, but now that the war is over, they are as excited as if they are fighting chicken blood when they are in a meeting.

You see that Harada didn't lose a single hair, and he was also wrapped in bandages, why didn't this sniper of the Eighth Route Army give him a head? ”

The commander of the Takahashi Division of the Third Division said unevenly: "The Mongolian Army, the First Army, and the Twelfth Army have lost battles in turn, and even the First Division and the Fourteenth Division of the Kwantung Army have been beaten to the ground by the Eighth Route Army.

If he is all memorized, all the following will have to settle accounts after the autumn, and none of them will be able to run. ”

Don't look at them engaging in performance art, it's very funny, in fact, the purpose is to make the big board of the military department lift high and then fall gently.

After all, these are all front-line generals, all of them have been changed, the Eighth Route Army has reorganized the counteroffensive, and the defense line of the imperial army is afraid that it will be a big mess?

The old devil of Pinglin said angrily: "Then they don't have to be responsible for the heavy losses on our battlefields?" ”

Buntaiichiro said: "This living person is still useful, aren't those dead people the best targets to take the blame?"

Chinese don't have a saying that is very vivid, the rivers and lakes are not fighting and killing, the rivers and lakes are all human feelings!

Which of these people is not supported by interest groups? Including us, every bit of this board was beaten, and in the end, it was estimated that it fell lightly. ”

Hirabayashi said helplessly: "How can this be? In the past, Commander Okamura was also a pig defending the city, and this Mato Okabe has been led by the nose by the Eighth Route Army, and he doesn't even want his face? ”

That's a bit louder.

Hatatakeroku asked him what he thought.

Hirabayashi Morito said: "Commander Tsuchihashi, Commander Iwamatsu Yoshio, and Commander Nanata are right, we must pursue and attack the Eighth Route Army fiercely, and never let them flee back to the base area like this, and the Imperial Army will win."

There is also a need to severely punish those bastards of the so-called imperial intelligence agencies, the large-scale mobilization of the Eighth Route Army was completely unaware, and the information collected was either outdated or fake, and they must be responsible. ”

As soon as these words came out, a group of officers seemed to have found an outlet, and they began to scold the Japanese intelligence system for eating dry food, and tried every means to put all the blame on the intelligence department.

The final conclusion is:

The Imperial Army fought valiantly, but the intelligence system did not.

The centralized transportation of materials is easy to be captured by the Eighth Route Army, and it needs to be dispersed and mixed.

The air force must be dispersed in a stable permanent airfield, cover each other for each mission, and immediately pull into the aircraft fort as soon as it lands, and the airport must also set up a strong defense system and independent guard troops, and it is not allowed to attack privately under any circumstances.

The units have strengthened transport trucks and new tanks, as well as heavy anti-tank guns, must be clearly communicated in night sorties, have deployed scouts to strike cautiously, and have been issued submachine guns and a certain number of semi-automatic rifles to all units.

Finally, he ordered the head of the Japanese secret service to go to Zhangjiakou to negotiate with the Eighth Route Army, to return the bodies of the fallen warriors, and by the way to investigate the deployment of the Eighth Route Army, and immediately launch an attack once the supplies were in place in winter.

This result is obvious to the discerning person at a glance.

It is clear that he has fooled things up, and he has not grasped the point at all, and has not punished those commanders who do not save themselves when they see death.

On the contrary, the final spearhead was all blamed on the Japanese intelligence department, and anyway, the intelligence department ate dry food and did not use it, which led to the defeat of the battle.

All the basins were deducted from the Japanese secret services, and the caliber of all the devil officers, including the Central China, Kwantung Army, and North China Front Army, was surprisingly consistent.

What was supposed to be a good military meeting turned into a meeting of attack on each other's responsibilities.

In this regard, Tu Feiyuan, the head of the secret service who directly incarnated as the most miserable backbiter, was even more wronged than his mother Dou E, and he was full of anger.

Why do they blame me for all the mess?

To say that the information he collected was not accurate, but these pig-headed generals fought in a mess on the frontal battlefield, embarrassing, and had no samurai backbone at all.

Just these stupid pig-like guys, oh my God, are they really the commanders of my Great Japanese Empire that carry the hope of jihad?

Tu Feiyuan couldn't help but be suspicious.

What's even worse is that these commanders actually let their intelligence agencies pay for the corpses of fallen warriors in the hands of the Eighth Route Army.

It's shameless!

Shortly after the meeting, Tu Feiyuan was having a headache about how to redeem the corpses of the fallen warriors! Then came the news from his men:

"This Qitian, Iwamatsu, and Tuqiao actually took a group of officers to celebrate the success of the Okabe after the meeting, and took the initiative to retreat the Eighth Route Army to Pingjin, saying that he had a good command and proper deployment, repelled the Eighth Route Army, successfully defended Beiping, reversed the battlefield situation in one fell swoop, and rescued Taiyuan and Baoding one after another.

He also boasted that the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu Meijiro, rushed to the aid and sent charcoal in the snow, and was the greatest hero.

The last group of people touted General Hatajun Liu, who was confident and commanding, and played with the big counteroffensive launched by the Eighth Route Army in applause. ”

In this regard, during the banquet, what were the expressions of Junroku Hatata, Umejiro Umezu, and Naosaburo Okabe, and whether they could be thick-skinned enough to enjoy the banquet calmly, Dotohiro didn't know.

But when he received this news, his old face turned green.

"Yaga!"

"The shame of these empires, with a commander like them, is there really any hope?" Tu Feiyuan became more and more suspicious.

……

On the other hand, when these devil commanders were pushing each other's pots, the base area of the Eighth Route Army, the Jin-Cha-Ji Special Experimental Military Region.

Kong Jie, the newly appointed head of the army, convened the first special meeting of the experimental military region.

In addition to Ding Wei, the person in charge of the first experimental area, and Li Yunlong, the person in charge of the second experimental area, including some commanders of the Eighth Route Army around the special experimental area, they also rushed over to join in the excitement after hearing the news.

The so-called new officials take office with three fires.

What's more, it is still a rich man like Lao Kong, the God of Wealth, and the old comrades-in-arms came just by smelling the smell, and everyone's thoughts were surprisingly consistent:

This old Kong must have a way to make a fortune when he holds a meeting, if he comes late and can't eat meat or drink soup, then he will lose a lot of money.

Nowadays, Lao Kongna is not bragging to you, all kinds of ideas and wonderful ideas for economic development are in his head, and just mentioning them is enough for you to develop your base area and make a fortune.

This is the consensus of old comrades-in-arms and many commanders of the Eighth Route Army.

(End of chapter)