"Is this?" Chen Zhengyu took the telegram with doubts.

"The information sent to me by Deputy Commander Zheng early this morning has not been available to you yet!" Zhou Cheng replied.

Chen Zhengyu became serious as soon as he heard this, frowned and looked very serious.

In less than a minute, the whole person became excited: "The Japanese army is adding troops to Yangquan and Shouyang, and most of the troops transferred are puppet troops. You should say that the replenishment of troops would be these puppet troops!"

Zhou Cheng nodded and agreed: "It was them. I learned from the intelligence department that the Japanese army not only went to Shouyang and Yangquan to increase troops, but also built fortifications around the two counties, preparing to build the two counties into meat grinders, and consume a large amount of our troops through defensive battles."

"The Japanese army suffered heavy losses in the just-concluded sweep. Before they were supplemented, they could not mobilize extra troops to attack us. So they decided to use a large number of puppet troops that had not been on the battlefield during the sweep before, and to draw at least 10,000 puppet troops and two brigades of Japanese soldiers to reinforce the battlefield from Shanxi. These puppet troops were all troops that the Japanese army had formed for more than half a year, and there were Japanese instructors. Although the combat effectiveness of soldiers was far from the standard of the Japanese, they were much stronger than the new recruits."

"As long as we have a good layout during the attack, we should be able to capture four or five thousand people at will. Not only can we fill the gaps in the two garrisons, but we can also allow thousands of additional troops to be replenished in the new camp."

Chen Zhengyu did not look down on the puppet army very much. On the field battlefield, he was confident that one battalion of the National Saving Army could fight against the puppet army and a regiment without any disadvantage.

But after reading the information in his hand, he was not happy at all.

Because the next battle was not the Japanese and puppet troops attacking the National Salvation Army, nor was the two sides fighting field battles on the battlefield, but the National Salvation Army took the initiative to attack the Japanese and puppet troops.

Although the combat effectiveness of the puppet army was not very good, if there were Japanese troops supervising the battle and strong positions to defend, their overall strength would definitely increase exponentially, and the pressure on the National Salvation Army to capture them would also increase greatly.

To give the simplest example: without the cooperation of heavy weapons, an infantry company of the National Salvation Army encountered the same number of puppet troops in the field, and a raid could kill them.

But if the same number of puppet troops had artillery towers and positions to defend, without the cooperation of heavy weapons, the infantry company would have almost no chance to capture the artillery towers and wipe out the opponent.

More than 10,000 Japanese and puppet troops defended their positions based on the three-dimensional fortifications they were building. Without the advantage of military strength, the National Salvation Army did not kill them so easily.

Unless the troops use a large number of artillery during attack, even so, the Japanese and puppet troops with a strong advantage in force will cause huge casualties to the national rescue army in battle.

The more Chen Zhengyu thought about it, the deeper his brows frowned. At this moment, he thought of a way to break the deadlock.

Looking at Zhou Cheng, his eyes lit up and suggested: "Captain, I suggest we launch an attack as soon as possible."

"Because the Japanese and puppet army's fortifications have not been built, kill them directly and fight against the Japanese and puppet troops who have entered the battlefield. First, use fierce artillery fire to bombard them, and then raid the infantry to defeat them in one battle. The rest is to capture prisoners..."

If there were no series of layouts in the past few days, Zhou Cheng would definitely agree with the Chief of Staff’s proposal.

Before the Japanese and puppet troops were ready, they suddenly entered Yangquan and Shouyang, caught the Japanese and puppet troops off guard, and took these two places at the minimum cost.

But now Zhou Cheng won't fight like this.

Temporarily change the unit organization, and by turning the main force into local troops to Tibetan soldiers, showing weakness by the enemy, the ultimate goal is to make the Japanese and puppet troops look down on themselves, and not send so many troops when attacking the National Savior Army in the future, and the National Savior Army can also gain some killer weapons through Tibetan soldiers. In the future, these killer weapons can be used to attack the Japanese army off guard.

It was not to hide troops to attack Shouyang and Yangquan, nor to capture more prisoners on the battlefield.

After all, at that time, Zhou Cheng didn't know that the Japanese army was drawing puppet troops to reinforce Shouyang and Yangquan on a large scale.

If the National Salvation Army launches an attack now, the false information emitted by the troops in order to show weakness by the enemy will be self-defeating and lose its meaning.

The information he deliberately spread out said: The National Salvation Army suffered heavy losses in the battle to attack the Noda United and no longer had the strength to continue fighting, especially the artillery and cavalry units, which were almost destroyed.

Infantry has recovered some strength because it has supplemented a large amount of absenteeism, so the strength of artillery and cavalry is not so easy to recover.

Normally, the current national rescue army should not have the ability to take the initiative to launch an attack.

If the Chief of Staff adopted the proposal just now: the troops attack Yangquan and Shouyang now, it means that the National Salvation Army still has strong combat effectiveness, and the lie that the National Salvation Army suffered heavy casualties when attacking the Noda United team will be self-defeating.

If you reduce the national rescue army yourself and reorganize local troops to Tibetan soldiers through the main force, you will be wasted all your efforts. If you waste such great effort, you will not get anything except one or two thousand prisoners, which is a loss.

Zhou Cheng's idea was: Even if his layout would be ruined in the battle against Shouyang and Yangquan, he would have to get the greatest benefit before the lies were broken.

The reinforcements entering Yangquan and Shouyang now have less than 4,000 people, and there are not many prisoners.

If the Japanese transfer all more than 10,000 reinforcements into Yangquan and Shouyang and launch an attack at that time, at least six or seven thousand puppet troops can be captured, and eight or nine thousand may be possible.

Wars will be consumed, especially defensive battles.

The Japanese army has transferred so many puppet troops to defend Yangquan and Shouyang, so they will definitely transfer a large amount of supplies and ammunition to replenish them.

If the National Rescue Army can seize these ammunition supplies, it will make a lot of money.

Facing the Chief of Staff’s gaze, Zhou Cheng shook his head decisively: “No, I can’t move yet!”

"You are right. If the Japanese and puppet troops are ready, we will attack Shouyang and Yangquan again, the troops will definitely have to pay a huge price to take it down, but you forgot one thing."

"Whether the war zone or the Japanese and puppet troops, they believed in the false information we spread, and knew that our National Salvation Army suffered heavy casualties in the battle to attack the Noda United, and they no longer had the strength to attack them immediately. They also believed that our artillery was indeed only one artillery company, and the cavalry company was left, and the garrison was only equipped with light infantry weapons..."

"In this way, the artillery and cavalry we hide can become the killer weapon to crush the last straw of the Japanese."

"Not to say anything else, the more than 600 cavalry we have hidden can catch the Japanese and puppet troops off guard."

"Think about it, when the Japanese and puppet troops fought with us on their positions, more than 600 cavalry suddenly appeared behind them. Our artillery troops exploded again. The puppet troops who dared to fight against us would definitely collapse on the battlefield..."

"A single move moves the whole body. As long as there is a Japanese and puppet army on the battlefield that is defeated by us at a critical position, the remaining Japanese and puppet army will definitely be affected, and eventually lead to the collapse of the entire Japanese and puppet army..."
Chapter completed!