Li Yunlong was silent for a while before answering with a frown: "Xiao Huang is right..."
"Unless it is absolutely necessary, we must avoid street fighting with the Japanese and puppet troops."
"It's too wasteful of troops..."
"One of the main forces rushed in and couldn't hold on for twenty minutes. They were immediately strangled to death by the Japanese and puppet troops."
"The key is that when all the troops are exhausted, where is our company's opponent hiding? How many troops are there..."
"I don't even know, my mind is still a mess."
The more Li Yunlong spoke, the deeper his frown deepened. Even Kong Jie was worried when he heard this. However, Huang Yu, who was standing aside, remained calm, with no change in his expression. His eyes were fixed on the map on the table from beginning to end.
Li Yunlong felt annoyed for a while and said angrily: "Xiao Huang..."
"It was your boy who suggested the raid on the blockade."
"Now Okamura Neiji is retreating to advance and voluntarily abandoning the blockade, which suddenly disrupts our combat plan."
"Now we can neither bypass the heavily defended county towns by the Japanese army to fight other Japanese and puppet troops, nor can we gather heavy troops to surround these counties for a decisive battle with the Japanese and puppet troops."
"What do you think we should do next?"
Huang Yu didn't answer immediately, and his attention was still focused on the map.
When Li Yunlong wanted to say something else, Kong Jie suddenly interrupted: "Old Li..."
"Let Xiao Huang think about it..."
"He seems to have already thought of something, don't interrupt his thoughts..."
Two minutes later, Huang Yu finally looked away from the map, faced Li Yunlong and Kong Jie and asked with serious eyes: "The purpose of Okamura Neji's retreat in order to advance is to trap us in the Sixth Army Division in the wing.
They fought decisively to replenish the North China Front with new troops and buy time to regain their strength."
"So whether it's a decisive battle or standing still, it will play into the hands of Okamura Neji and be led by the nose."
"I think the best way for our division to break the situation is to seize the initiative on the battlefield into our own hands. All subsequent actions will not be led by Okamura Neji, but let Okamura Neji fight according to our ideas.
, and in turn were led by the nose by us."
Li Yunlong frowned and answered: "I also want to take the initiative on the battlefield and not be led by Okamura Neji."
"But Okamura Neiji's move of retreating to advance makes it difficult for us to regain the initiative on the battlefield, let alone switch from defense to offense and lead the Japanese and puppet troops in the fight."
"We can open up a new battlefield..." Huang Yu said in surprise.
"Baoding and Xiongxian are not the only ones around us."
"There are still many places where the Japanese and puppet troops must defend, such as Shijiazhuang..."
"If we let Okamura Neji have a sense of crisis that the Time Suit is about to be breached by us, and there are no troops around the Time Suit to deploy, we can only mobilize reinforcements from Baoding and Xiongxian County."
"As long as the Japanese and puppet troops leave Baoding and Xiong County, we will have more ways to eliminate them."
"We can also forcefully attack Baoding to make Okamura Neji feel that the base area in Yinzhong has insufficient troops and empty defenses, so that he will have the idea of taking advantage of the situation and move troops from Baoding and Xiongxian County into our base area, and attack from the east to the west.
Find a way to rescue Shijiazhuang."
"Our troops set up ambushes in the base area to wipe out all invading Japanese and puppet troops, thus consuming a large number of Japanese and puppet troops."
"When Baoding and Xiongxian have no more troops, we will launch siege warfare again. The Japanese and puppet troops want to fight us in street battles in the city, but they have no soldiers to use. They can only watch us break through the city fortifications, and the autumn wind sweeps them away like fallen leaves.
Go down to Baoding and Xiongxian to end the fighting."
Li Yunlong followed Huang Yu's wishes and answered: "Using Shijiazhuang as a breakthrough point, let Gangcun Ningci trick the civet cat in exchange for the prince..."
Huang Yu replied with an indifferent expression: "Whether it's a civet cat for the prince or other methods, as long as Shijiazhuang is in danger, Baoding and Xiong County will definitely send troops."
"Neji Okamura's move of retreating in order to advance is very good, but he forgot one thing."
"Assembling 10,000 elite troops can indeed defend Baoding for more than half a year, but we cannot attack rashly, otherwise this small number of troops will not be enough to fill a gap in front of our wing center troops."
"Whether Gangmura Ningci directly sends troops to reinforce Shijiazhuang, or sends troops to raid the base area, and force us to return to the base area by attacking east and west, and relieve Shijiazhuang, with the few troops in Baoding and Xiongxian County, we can assemble two main groups and eat one of them.
Send reinforcements."
"The one who will be in trouble will be Okamura Neji, not us."
"If Okamura Neiji arranges to have more than 15,000 troops stationed in Baoding and Xiong County, and 10,000 people can be mobilized to reinforce Shijiazhuang or raid our base area, then we need to consider the issue of civet cats for princes."
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Japanese Army Baoding Garrison Headquarters.
Lieutenant General Suzuki was very lucky.
Although the blockade garrison lost several more shots of the Imperial Army due to his wrong decision, considering that it was a taboo for military strategists to change generals on the spot, Okamura Neiji temporarily retained his position as division commander.
But his mood did not improve because of this incident.
As a senior military officer, he would never allow himself to suffer defeat in his military career.
Now it's happened.
The best way to get rid of this shame is to take revenge and kill the Yizhong Eighth Route Army.
These days, whenever he has free time, he locks himself in the headquarters and studies the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong.
When he encountered something he didn't understand, he would call the chief of staff into the room to discuss it together. After all, the chief of staff had fought against the Yizhong Eighth Route Army, and even if he lost the battle, it was an experience he had never had before.
They just had a discussion.
It was a classic battle of defeating more with less.
The Eighth Route Army used the strength of two regiments, combined with the ubiquitous tunnel fortifications in the Yizhong base area, to annihilate the four reinforced brigades of the Imperial Army.
If this kind of battle happened in the old army, Lieutenant General Suzuki wouldn't believe him even if he was killed.
After hearing the chief of staff's introduction, it was as if he had experienced it himself, and with the support from intelligence and battle reports, he couldn't help but not believe it.
"The Eighth Route Army in the Wing is indeed different from other Chinese armies I have encountered before..." Lieutenant General Suzuki rarely put down his airs in front of the Chief of Staff and sighed.
"I really should listen to your thoughts more on this."
The chief of staff did not really think that the division commander would listen to his opinion more when he fought with the Yizhong Eighth Route Army in the future. He immediately showed a humble expression and said: "The division commander made a strong statement..."
"The humble position only lasted half a year longer than you did in the wing."
"After this period of understanding, I believe that the division commander has a sufficient understanding of the Yizhong Eighth Route Army. He will definitely not make the same mistake when fighting against them in the future."
"Baizhi has reorganized all the troops retreating to Baoding into three infantry brigades in accordance with the order."
"Including the original garrison in Baoding, the troops we have in hand have exceeded seven full-strength reinforcement brigades and four regiments of the Imperial Army, with a total strength of more than 12,000 people."
"These troops are enough for us to defend Baoding. As long as the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong dares to come, they will be beaten to death here."
