Harada, who passed the motion, was overjoyed, and without saying a word, he contacted Kong Jie's caravan within a few days, saying that he would increase business cooperation with the Eighth Route Army.

Of course, it also includes Chiang's troops who were stuck in the area where the Japanese army bordered the outer line of the Eighth Route Army.

In Harada's words: "We can further enhance the firepower of these national armies by cooperating with these national armies and exchanging some obsolete arms and equipment for a large amount of supplies from them."

In this way, once these national armies and the Eighth Route Army misfire, they will definitely be able to form a greater threat to the Eighth Route Army! ”

As for Kong Jie, he pushed the boat down the river according to the plan, and he calculated it.

On the one hand, it was to increase commercial and trade cooperation with the Japanese army and purchase a large amount of materials and equipment for the development of the anti-Japanese revolutionary base areas.

On the other hand, it also cooperated with the Chiang, Jin and Sui troops stuck in the central zone, using these teams to develop on the spot, and at the same time set traps to lay a good foundation for ambushing the Japanese army in the future.

Of course, as for these Jiang Jun and Jin Sui Jun's partners, Kong Jie has a choice.

For example, the 57th Regiment of the original Jin Sui Army, that is, the team led by Yang Chongshan at the beginning.

Speaking of the 57th Regiment of the Jinsui Army at the beginning, due to the shrewdness of the regiment commander Yang Chongshan, he has been following Kong Jie's buttocks, Kong Jie can at least drink some soup when he eats meat, and he has made a lot of money over the years, not only making the garrison decent, but also growing stronger.

Including a few years ago, when the anti-Japanese situation was the most severe, even the 358th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army, which was strong and strong, led by Chu Yunfei, was also under the military blockade of the Japanese army and could not move at all.

Yang Chongshan fought in conjunction with Kong Jie, constantly thwarting the Japanese army, and when other Jin Sui troops were struggling to survive and even forced to lose territory, Yang Chongshan was even able to lead the 57th Regiment to recover some remote towns and villages.

In such a comparison, the 57th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army is particularly outstanding.

Coupled with Yang Chongshan's own shrewdness, he made a lot of money and did not forget to honor his superiors, so he still had a few backers in the World War Zone Governor's Department.

That's it, with outstanding achievements, the station and the troops are developing beautifully, and the officers are favored.

This Yang Chongshan is simply unjustifiable if he is not promoted.

Half a year ago, the Commander's Department of the Second War Zone decided to further expand the 57th Regiment of the Jinsui Army.

The whole regiment has nearly 8,000 troops, which is even more exaggerated than the 358th Regiment with more than 5,000 people.

Plus all kinds of equipment, artillery, combat vehicles, that's everything.

Although it is still nominally a regiment, it is close to a division in strength.

In addition, the battle record of the Japanese army has been regained one after another, which is a feat that many Jinsui army divisions have never had.

That's it, even if Yang Chongshan is promoted to the next level and promoted from regiment commander to brigade commander, this establishment is obviously a little insufficient.

In the end, Chief Yan also gritted his teeth and was ruthless, so he simply gave him the rank of division commander, so that the officers of the entire Jin Sui Army knew that knowing his old Yan was rewarded and punished, as long as he followed him, it would definitely not be good.

So Yang Chongshan, who was originally only a lieutenant colonel, was promoted from regiment commander to division commander.

Even the military rank was specially promoted to the rank of major general.

This honor was quite rare in the entire Jin Sui Army at that time.

Among the regiment leaders in the same period, even the most dazzling 358 regiment leader Chu Yunfei, and the high-achieving students who graduated from Huangpu were all compared to Yang Chongshan.

For this reason, Yang Chongshan was very proud, and he sighed more and more about the foresight of the year, if he hadn't followed Kong Jieming, how could he be where he is today?

When the little devils led by Okabe secretly operated, deliberately ceding territory, and leading the ranks of the Jiang army and the Jin Sui army to the frontline area of the military advance of the Eighth Route Army.

Yang Chongshan, who was already the commander of the 57th Division of the Jin Sui Army, was quite interesting, and even sent someone to greet Kong Jie in advance.

Kong Jie pushed the boat down the river, saying that he didn't mind the insertion of the 57th Division, and specially brought a letter to Yang Chongshan, in which he said:

"Brother Chongshan, you and I are brothers, friendly forces who fight against Japan together, there is no excuse to regain the lost territory, as long as you are capable, even if you recover Beiping.

You and I will advance together to regain the lost territory, and we can further joint operations in the follow-up to fight the Japanese invaders and return my mountains and rivers! ”

Yang Chongshan, who received the letter, was very happy, and without hesitation, he directly gave the order.

Soon after, the troops dominated by the 57th Division of the Jin Sui Army occupied some county towns and towns in the outer line area advanced by the Iron Triangle Army led by Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei, and were stuck between the Japanese army and the Iron Triangle Army.

When the team set off, Yang Chongshan's chief of staff expressed concern about this:

"Division, although our army can subdue a lot of lost territory and occupy a lot of territory, it will also put our army in a dangerous place.

On the one hand, it is the Japanese army that is hostile to our army, and on the other side is the Eighth Route Army, which may have contradictions and frictions with our army at any time.

If the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army were to attack at the same time, wouldn't our army be attacked on two fronts? ”

Yang Chongshan said disapprovingly: "What do you know? Now it is the anti-Japanese national united front, we and the Eighth Route Army are friendly forces, and it is the top priority to deal with the Japanese invaders together.

Besides, don't I understand the situation this time? Is it that the Japanese army is deliberately borrowing a knife to kill people, and wants to use us to curb the expansion of the Eighth Route Army?

But this is also a rare opportunity for us, if it weren't for the Japanese army's years of setbacks and seeing that it couldn't deal with the Eighth Route Army, would we have the opportunity to come and easily recover the lost territory?

As for the occupation of these areas, it is an order from the Governor's Department, but don't the Commanders of the Governor's Department have not thought about it in the long term? ”

The chief of staff was scolded and walked away in disgrace.

This chief of staff is the commander of the airborne headquarters of the Second World War Zone Commander's Department, and his reputation is to assist Yang Chongshan, but in fact he is also suspected of surveillance, and after sending this chief of staff away, the deputy commander of the 57th Division, that is, the commander of the third battalion of the 57th Regiment, Qian Shoucai, entered the command center.

"Master!"

has been loyally following Yang Chongshan, the tide is rising, and Qian Shoucai, who has changed from the original battalion commander to the current deputy division commander, shouted.

"Come, sit down! You've heard everything, right? What do you think? ”

Qian Shoucai nodded and said, "I've heard about it, Tuanzuo, I have the same idea as you, since the Chief's Department has given an order, Kong Jie has no objection to our stationing."

No matter what kind of calculations this little devil and the Eighth Route Army are playing, at least from the immediate point of view, we can recover these lost territories and occupy these territories, which will definitely do more benefits than disadvantages to the development of our 57th Division. ”

Yang Chongshan said: "Yes, I think so too. ”

He sighed: "In this troubled world, what is the capital to settle down? That's the army under your hands, and when you have a gun in your hand, it's hard at the waist. The development of the garrison is good, and there is money, and the more this unit is raised.

In the final analysis, whether it is the Jin Suijun or the Jiang Army, or the Eighth Route Army, as long as we have such a growing team in our hands, they will not be able to sit idly by.

This is the undefeated capital that we are waiting to sell in troubled times.

Regardless of the three, seven, twenty-one, first grab the chassis, the troops will grow, in short, the Japanese are going to fight, after the Japanese are finished, as long as we have troops at hand, we will follow which side the situation is greater! ”

"The master is wise!" Qian Shoucai said with admiration.

And many Jiang Jun and Jin Sui Jun officers who are basically the same kind of characters as Qian Shoucai basically think so.

Soon after, Chiang's junta also boasted about this, saying that under the wise leadership of a certain commander, Chiang's army had regained a large number of lost territories and repelled the Japanese army, and the anti-Japanese situation was very good.

The next situation was indeed carried out according to the plan of Okabe and other old devils at first.

Due to the bordering of the territory, coupled with the active retreat of the Japanese army, and the stability of the external environment, the troops of the Jiang Army and the Jin Sui Army began to have a gap with the Eighth Route Army, and there were some friction incidents from time to time during this period.

Several times even came close to an exchange of fire.

In the end, it was basically the Eighth Route Army that took the initiative to retreat while taking into account the overall situation, which avoided friction between the two sides.

Who would have thought that the Eighth Route Army's initiative to retreat would instead encourage the rampant of these Chiang troops, especially some Japanese spies secretly fueled the flames, and the contradictions between the two sides were increasingly intensified.

Until Li Yunlong's proposed response tactics of blowing the lamp and pulling out wax were implemented.

A few years ago, Lao Li also quickly dispatched mechanized combat troops, and with lightning speed, killed a recalcitrant army unit stationed on the outer line of the Eighth Route Army's military experimental special special area.

That's really not moving, moving like thunder, breaking the earth.

The battle lasted less than half an hour, and the several towns and villages garrisoned by the recalcitrant army were all breached, and Lao Li was not polite at all, and the enemy who dared to fight against him killed half of them and captured half of them with almost one-sided slaughter.

Then, the Propaganda Department worked vigorously, and the news that this recalcitrant army colluded with the Japanese army and secretly surrendered, and the news that it was already a de facto puppet army unit quickly spread.

The Eighth Route Army claimed: "Eliminated a group of two devils who don't know whether they are alive or dead!" ”

In this regard, the Jiang Junjun, which was originally ready to play on the topic, was dumbfounded for a while, and could only eat Coptis chinensis dumbly, and could not say anything about the bitterness.

In this way, under Li Yunlong's knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, it was indeed a wake-up call to those Jiang Jun and Jin Sui Jun.

None of them dared to guarantee that these eight roads would not be the next to attack them.

And there are not a few of them who have secretly colluded with the Japanese army.

The Eighth Route Army's anti-traitor unit infiltrated again at night, and as soon as the threat passed.

These officers of the Jiang Army, who threw rat traps, no longer dared to be wanton.

The situation gradually calmed down.

In the rear of North China, there was a dynamic balance of the Japanese army, the Chiang army, the Jin Sui army and the Eighth Route Army for the time being, with small-scale exchanges of fire but very few large-scale confrontations.

The Japanese army took the opportunity to rest its troops and adjust its troop deployment to deal with the subsequent military offensive of the gradually growing Eighth Route Army.

The Eighth Route Army also seized the time to develop.

Soon after, Kong Jie, who rushed to the headquarters to participate in the follow-up construction meeting of the Eighth Route Army's base area, put forward the follow-up strategic policy of "multiple common development of agriculture, industry, commerce and military".

Kong Jie said: "With the victory of several battles, let's not talk about other places, at least in North China, the situation in the anti-Japanese revolutionary base areas behind the enemy lines of our Eighth Route Army is getting better day by day.

Now, with the change of the Japanese army's strategy against our Eighth Route Army, it has turned from offensive to defensive, concentrating its forces on defense in important counties, towns and towns and communication lines.

Our strategy for dealing with the Japanese invaders should also be adjusted accordingly.

At this time, it is very unwise to blindly launch a tough battle.

I believe that at present, for our Eighth Route Army, it is imperative to further consolidate and expand the existing anti-Japanese revolutionary base areas, strengthen military construction, increase the production capacity of the military industry, and increase the agricultural output of the base areas.

It was even more effective than defeating the Japanese in small battles and winning some battles.

As for our further planning, I believe that we can further promote the development of the anti-Japanese revolutionary base areas behind enemy lines in East China, South China, and other aspects with the steady development of the anti-Japanese revolutionary base areas behind enemy lines in North China.

In this way, we will fight steadily and steadily until the anti-Japanese situation in Central China and South China is completely clear, and then launch a full-scale military counteroffensive to win the final victory in the War of Resistance against Japan. ”

The generals who participated in the meeting agreed with this.

Then the topic was about how to vigorously increase the agricultural output in the base areas.

Kong Jie's point of view is very clear: "The most important thing in this period of war is food, and it can even be said that a large amount of food is the root of solving all problems."

With food, our villagers can eat enough, our soldiers can have the physical strength to carry out training, our team can grow rapidly, and a large number of ordinary people can join our military collective.

But how do you have a lot of food, even if you can't eat it at all?

On the one hand, through scientific planting and the cultivation of high-yield grain varieties, the yield per mu can be increased.

On the other hand, which is the most core aspect, is how to improve the production enthusiasm of farmers, so as to completely liberate the labor force and increase production capacity in large quantities.

This is the problem we need to solve now! ”

The deputy chief of staff said with a smile: "The so-called bell must be tied to the bell, since you have raised the problem Kong Jie, then you can tell the big guy about your solution!" ”

Kong Jie smiled, and then took out the plan he had prepared early on how to increase the agricultural output in the base area and handed it to the boss.

The boss nodded frequently during the browsing, and after reading it, his face was overjoyed, and then he handed the plan to the deputy chief of staff on the side.

After reading it, the deputy chief of general staff said with deep thought: "That's right, Kong Jie, I have to say that the ideas you put forward in the plan on how to increase agricultural production capacity are all to the point."

Listen, one of these articles is to abolish the compulsory sale of grain, raise the purchase price of agricultural products, allow the peasants to develop household sideline business, expand the right of independent production on collective farms, and reclaim wasteland on a large scale......"

(End of chapter)