Jinzhong County has been very busy this time, just like a huge construction site.

Every day, various types of transport vehicles come in and out, sending supplies and ammunition from Taiyuan to the city.

In order to prevent the garrison's ammunition and food supply from being taken over by the National Rescue Army, the Japanese army became much smarter this time and did not put all the eggs in one basket.

The Japanese army built eight warehouses, large and small, around the arsenal and ammunition depots that had been blown into ruins.

After the nearly ten days of busyness, eight warehouses were already full of supplies and ammunition supplies.

These are all used to wipe out the national rescue army, which is enough to take a month for 20,000 troops.

One mistake has made one's wisdom. In order to prevent the ammunition depot from being attacked again, the Jinzhong garrison dispatched two infantry squadrons to protect the arsenal, and surrounded several warehouses, just as tight as an iron barrel. It also demolished the arsenal and the houses around the ammunition depot, leaving a 30-meter-wide unmanned land so that no one could climb over the wall and touch the arsenal!

A large group of Japanese soldiers and a regiment of Imperial Army all went to the city wall and patrol and guarded 24 hours a day!

The Imperial Army of another regiment was divided into two parts, some soldiers stayed in the city to maintain public order, and the other soldiers built more than 30 temporary observation posts and inspection checkpoints outside the city to ensure that the National Salvation Army was discovered twenty kilometers away from Jinzhong County.

Two infantry squadrons protected the arsenal and ammunition depot, and the remaining one and a half gangs of Japanese devils were scattered in Jinzhong City as reserves, ready to go to the city wall to participate in the battle at any time.

The mountain artillery brigade and the heavy artillery brigade are stationed in the center of the county town, and put the artillery at the original infantry garrison to provide artillery support to the defending troops at any time...

Such force configuration and firepower intensity directly armed the Jinzhong County City into a hedgehog covered with thorns, which can attack and retreat or defend. No matter who it is, as long as it leans up, you will be injured by the thorns!

The Japanese Army Headquarters in Taiyuan were particularly satisfied after hearing the deployment of Jinzhong County.

He has been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Everything is ready, but the east wind is not available. Now the supplies to sweep the National Savior Army are ready. As long as the troops are assembled and another good opportunity is found, the troops can go to the National Savior Army to avenge their hatred at any time!

Looking at the Chief of Staff in front of him, he opened his mouth and began to issue an order: "Chief of Staff, we have already formulated the combat plan for encirclement and suppression of the national rescue army!"

"I will give you five days. Be sure to transfer all participating troops to the best position to attack the National Salvation Army and lurk on standby. The whole process must be kept confidential!"

"If there is no accident these days, we will launch an attack on the National Salvation Army's garrison on time in five days, and use the most powerful offensive to catch the National Salvation Army off guard!"

"We have been defeated many times before in the hands of the National Salvation Army, and the most mistake we made was underestimating the enemy!"

"This time the military headquarters dispatched more than 20,000 people to attack the National Savior Army, and there were also a large number of aircraft, heavy artillery and chariots to help. We will definitely not be defeated by the National Savior Army because of underestimating the enemy!"

At the same time, the National Salvation Army was also making final preparations and mobilization for the second attack on Jinzhong County.

Looking at the deployment map of the Japanese and puppet troops sent by intelligence personnel, Zhou Cheng's confidence increased greatly and he was more confident in the subsequent attack.

"Old Tang, Lao Chen: Don't look at the large number of Japanese and puppet troops in Jinzhong City. In fact, there are only three infantry brigades who can really fight against us. Although the mountain artillery brigade and heavy artillery brigade are all Japanese, their melee combat capabilities are very weak. If two battalions of national rescue troops touched them and raided them with a crawler and a submachine gun at close range, more than a thousand gunners of the two artillery brigades would be slaughtered completely and would not even have a chance to resist!"

Chen Zhengyu very much recognized Zhou Cheng's analysis: "Captain, I'm not worried about the Japanese artillery. As long as our troops enter the city smoothly through the tunnel, no matter how many gunners there are, they will not be the opponent."

"But being left in the city with more than a thousand Japanese reserves is a big trouble."

"They have strong combat effectiveness and good equipment, so they will definitely not be so easy to be killed. If the two sides fight together and fight into a tense battle, and they are incompatible with each other and cannot end the battle in a short period of time. Our troops entering the city are likely to be trapped in the city and finally be made by the Japanese and puppet troops, then it will be a big loss!"

Zhou Cheng had already thought about the solution. After Chen Zhengyu finished speaking, he analyzed seriously: "First find a way to transfer the Japanese reserve team in the city to the top of the city to buy time for the troops entering the city to raid the Japanese artillery positions, arsenals and material warehouses."

"After taking down the most important raid targets, the troops entering the city were divided into four and attacking the city headed by one. Cooperating with the siege troops to attack the Japanese and puppet troops on the city headed and back, it would be best to block them at the city head!"

"So we can use artillery fire to kill them in large quantities and reduce infantry losses!"

"Chief of Staff, please record the order: the four garrisons of the entire army will draw two main battalions, one artillery company, one baggage company, and one cavalry company to participate in the battle, and their respective captains will lead the team in person!"

"The troops set off tonight and marched to Shouyang overnight and lurked and stood by!"

"The three main battalions, the special battalion, the guard battalion, the cavalry battalion, and the artillery battalion are all ready to set off."

"After darkness, we arrived in Shouyang, and all participating troops must move in place before dawn. Everyone should rest for a day and set off on time at 7 o'clock tomorrow."

"The cavalry left first, kill the guard posts and inspection levels placed by the Japanese outside the city with lightning speed, and prevent a puppet army from retreating into Jinzhong County."

"Four garrison brigades followed closely and rushed straight to Jinzhong. After that, under the cover of their respective artillery, they launched attacks from four directions at the same time, forcing the Japanese to transfer the reserve team to the top of the city as soon as possible, without waiting for the main force of the regiment."

"The cavalry battalion immediately blocked all entrances and exits in the same Japanese-occupied areas in Jinzhong, based on the company.

"If there is a small group of Japanese and puppet troops who want to enter Jinzhong to find out, the cavalry battalion will eat them directly!"

"If they encounter a large number of Japanese and puppet troops and cannot eat the other party by relying solely on their own strength, they should not show off. They should immediately send people to Jinzhong County to report to me, and then send troops to harass them, slow down their marching speed, and buy time for us to fight the Japanese and puppet troops!"

"All other troops followed the garrison to join the battle."

"The artillery battalion supports the artillery companies of the garrisons to attack the city, forcing the Japanese and puppet troops to use the reserve team in advance."

"The three main battalions and the special battalions do not participate directly in the war, and enter the county town through the tunnel in the company!"

"Finally, the main force of the regiment entering the city and four garrisons attacked Jinzhong for a second time, striving to end the battle before dawn, and kill all the Japanese and puppet troops in the city with internal and external attacks."

No matter how hidden the troops of nearly 10,000 national rescue troops were mobilized, they could not hide the Japanese.

Zhou Cheng took Chen Zhengyu and the guard battalion to enter Shouyang, and the information that the National Salvation Army planned to attack Jinzhong was sent to the military commander's desk.

The chief of staff's first reaction was to send troops to reinforce, wait for the labor, and severely damage the siege troops of the National Rescue Army. After the two sides fought almost the same, the Jinzhong garrison took the opportunity to break out of the county town. Maybe he could fight back against the National Rescue Army, and finally beat the dogs in the water and directly entered their defense zone.

He felt that his plan was perfect and immediately suggested to the commander: "Sir, we should immediately increase troops from Jinzhong, and arrange a net of heaven and earth there again, waiting for the National Salvation Army to take the initiative to drill in!"

"This time we are fighting a defensive battle, waiting for work, and we don't need too many troops."

"There are more than 7,000 people in Jinzhong County, with heavy artillery and ammunition... If we can immediately draw 5,000 people to reinforce Jinzhong and send some planes to cooperate with their battles, the National Salvation Army will definitely suffer a big loss in Jinzhong County!"

After saying that, the Chief of Staff looked at the commander with anticipation and waited for him to agree.

Surprisingly, the commander actually shook his head: "We cannot send troops to reinforce Jinzhong, at least we cannot send reinforcements to Jinzhong County now!"

"Why! This is an excellent opportunity for us to seriously damage the National Salvation Army. If we miss it, we can only wait for us to take the initiative to encircle them in the future. It will definitely be very difficult!" The Chief of Staff couldn't understand why the commander refused his excellent proposal!

When the commander made this decision, he thought about how to explain this issue.

Facing the Chief of Staff’s puzzled eyes, he analyzed: “I’m afraid that we will scare away the siege troops of the National Savior Army in the future.”

"When the troops just took back Jinzhong, everyone thought that the National Salvation Army would attack Jinzhong again. But we set up a network in Jinzhong for more than ten days but found nothing, and there was no movement from the National Salvation Army!"

"At that time, I thought of two reasons to explain why the National Salvation Army did not send troops!"

"Either the ambush we were lying around Jinzhong was exposed, and the National Salvation Army did not dare to attack; or they had no idea of ​​attacking Jinzhong twice in the beginning and the end."

"From their current actions, the National Salvation Army still had the idea of ​​attacking Jinzhong. So the reason why they were indifferent at that time was probably because they discovered our ambush and knew that Jinzhong County had been arranged by us as a net of heaven and earth, so they did not dare to attack."

"If we set up Jinzhong County again as a trap, the National Rescue Army will likely stop the attack immediately and return to our own defense zone. At that time, we will still lose the excellent opportunity to use Jinzhong County to severely damage the National Rescue Army!"

"In order not to alert the enemy and let the national rescue army continue the siege, our best way is to keep our troops still!"

"When the battle begins and the two sides are fighting hard around Jinzhong County, the reinforcements will then march into Jinzhong in a hurry. At that time, the national-savior army had no chance to retreat, so they could only continue to fight with us around Jinzhong County!"

After listening to the analysis of the commander, a lot of cold sweat broke out on the chief of staff's forehead.

He was frightened.

Put yourself in your shoes and think about it, if you were the commander-in-chief of the National Salvation Army, after learning that the military headquarters had been dispatched to the county town again, you would definitely choose to retreat, rather than lead the troops to hit the gun like a fool.

Fortunately, the commander did not adopt his advice, otherwise this opportunity that was within reach would definitely be lost due to his impulse decision!

Looking at the commander, he replied with a fearful look: "I am too impulsive and almost ruined the big thing. Your analysis just now is very correct. We really cannot send troops to reinforce Jinzhong now."

"In Jinzhong City, the ammunition supplies we stored this time are not concentrated. If the National Salvation Army wants to repeat the same trick and cut off the ammunition supplies of the Jinzhong garrison by destroying the ammunition depot, it will definitely not work."

"And the Jinzhong Central Army has sufficient troops and well-equipped, and heavy artillery troops cooperate with each other. The National Salvation Army will never be able to suppress us like the first time attacking Jinzhong, so their plan to consume our troops through night attacks would not work."

"That's how it counts, without any reinforcements, it will be fine for the Jinzhong garrison to block the national rescue army for a month!"

Colonel Jiangchuan is the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Jinzhong garrison of the Japanese army.

Before taking office, the commander and the chief of staff talked to him, which made him realize how important Jinzhong County is...

Colonel Jiangchuan was very disappointed when he first received the order.

Accepting the appointment of the military headquarters means that I will stay in Jinzhong City for a long time in the future.

There is no chance to encircle and suppress the national rescue army, so I can only stay in the rear to defend the ammunition supply.

For a soldier who particularly likes to go to the battlefield, this task is like sending her to the cold palace.

Although the Chief of Staff gave Colonel Jiangchuan a lot of benefits during the conversation, Colonel Jiangchuan still did not want to take on this task.

But the military order is like a mountain. Facing the commander's uncontroversial tone, he would even have the courage to refuse, so he could only accept the order.

After taking on the task, the frustrated Colonel Jiangchuan began to study his future opponents.

As the research deepened, he actually gradually changed his previous view.

Before, Colonel Jiangchuan didn't want to accept this task because he was worried that he would not be able to fight the Japanese even if he stayed behind.

Now he is not worried.

The intelligence said that the National Rescue Army was particularly powerful, with strong combat power and fine equipment.

Just compared with light weapons, the same number of light machine guns equipped with the National Salvation Army actually has more light machine guns than the Imperial Army.

These are all superficially powerful. What Colonel Jiangchuan likes is that the National Salvation Army is particularly cunning. He never plays cards on the battlefield and often catches the Imperial Army off guard.

Such an opponent will definitely not carry out counter-sweeping in accordance with the order of the Imperial Army.

With Colonel Jiangchuan's experience, he gave up the front battlefield, attacked the Imperial Army's logistics supply line, and cut off the ammunition supply of the front-line attacking troops... This is the most commonly used fighting method of the Eighth Route Army in the anti-sweeping raid.

Since the National Salvation Army is very cunning, they will definitely use this kind of fighting style.

If the National Salvation Army really attacks Jinzhong, staying in Jinzhong will not only have a chance to fight, but may also seriously damage the main force of the National Salvation Army.

With this idea, Colonel Jiangchuan lived up to expectations and led his troops into the county town for only three days to fully control Jinzhong. Then he gradually developed this place into a logistics base for the main force to besiege the National Salvation Army...

After all this, Colonel Jiangchuan’s first thing every day when he wakes up was to ask if there were any national rescue activities around the county town!”

After more than a month of suffering, two good news finally came this morning.

One of them came from his subordinates: the National Salvation Army had assembled a large number of troops on the edge of Jinzhong and could be besieged Jinzhong at any time.

Another good news comes from the military headquarters, which further confirmed the judgment that the National Salvation Army wanted to attack Jinzhong...

The command center that had always been in an orderly manner before, and with several orders sent out from the mouth of Da Cang Jiangchuan, the place suddenly became busy.

The telephone soldiers made calls continuously, and the commanders were in and out. The combat staff discussed and marked the city defense situation on the sand table...
Chapter completed!