Kong Jie did not deny Huang Yu's analysis, and then said: "Even if it is difficult, you have to try it..."
"No one knows whether it will work or whether it will be able to test out the real, fake and puppet troops without trying it."
"Reply a telegram to Duan Peng immediately: ask him to immediately launch a tentative attack on the Japanese and puppet reinforcements..."
"The Japanese and puppet troops captured a large number of ordinary people pretending to be troops to confuse us..."
"When testing the attack, try to shoot in the air, so as not to accidentally injure civilians..."
Huang Yu suddenly interrupted: "Commander..."
"We can't put all our hopes on the assault company. Since Okamura Neji dares to use ordinary people to confuse us, he must be prepared!"
"If the assault company fails to detect the real, fake, and puppet troops, not only will time pass, but the remaining troops in the base area will not be prepared at all!"
Kong Jie immediately asked: "What do you think?"
"Fight a tough battle with the Japanese and puppet troops each!" Huang Yu blurted out while staring at the map.
"There are more than 14,000 troops stationed in Baoding."
"In order to defend Baoding City and not give us the opportunity to sneak in, Okamura Neji will leave at least 7,000 to 8,000 people to defend Baoding."
"Based on this calculation, Baoding can send at most 6,000 to 7,000 troops to reinforce Shijiazhuang."
"So among the reinforcements just sent by Baoding, only one is a real Japanese and puppet army, and most of the remaining three reinforcements are ordinary people pretending to be there."
"But in order for the common people to act more realistically and not be discovered by us so early, we will definitely arrange for some real Japanese and puppet troops to be mixed among the common people."
"We calculate based on the fact that Baoding City can exclude 7,000 troops from reinforcing Shijiazhuang. After deducting one of the real reinforcements, which is more than 4,000 days of puppet troops, there will be at most 3,000 days of puppet troops and ordinary people pretending to be reinforcements from the other three routes."
"Each reinforcement is only like a thousand days of puppet troops."
"If the assault company fails to test out the authenticity of the four-way sweep force, then we will go ahead."
"Deploy two garrison regiments to establish a defense line in front of the two reinforcements in our base area in Jinghong, and resist their attack head on."
"If the opponent is a real Japanese and puppet army, under the cover of aircraft and heavy artillery, more than 4,000 elite Japanese and puppet troops will definitely be able to break through our defense line in a very short time."
"If the enemy is pretending to be ordinary people, there are only a thousand real Japanese and puppet troops in the attack force. No matter how much air support and artillery support we receive, they will not be able to break through our defense line in a short time."
Just as Kong Jie was about to nod, the operator rushed to Kong Jie and Huang Yu again and reported nervously: "Report to the commander, deputy chief of staff..."
"The troops monitoring Xiong County just sent an urgent message."
"The Japanese and puppet troops in Xiong County also sent four reinforcements. Each reinforcement troop consisted of more than 4,000 puppet troops, half of which were Japanese troops and half of the puppet troops. They were equipped with a large number of light and heavy machine guns, mortars, and mountain artillery. They marched towards us in a hurry.
Base area and Shijiazhuang.”
Another question suddenly popped up in Kong Jie's mind: "Xiao Huang..."
"If only the Japanese and puppet troops in Baoding send troops to raid our base area and reinforce Shijiazhuang, I completely agree with your proposal just now."
"The remaining troops in the base area have three independent regiments and three main regiments. Even if four regiments are divided to block the attack and test the authenticity of the Japanese and puppet troops' attacking troops, the headquarters still has two regiments in reserve."
"After discovering the real Japanese and puppet troops, the reserve team immediately rushed to the battlefield and besieged them."
"Now the Japanese and puppet troops in Xiong County have also sent out four attack troops. The six regiments we have are not enough to test all the Japanese and puppet troops at the same time."
"Even if we successfully find the real Japanese and puppet troops, the headquarters does not have the reserve team to immediately reinforce the battlefield. In the end, we can only watch them attack into the hinterland of our base, or towards Shijiazhuang..."
"I think this is another purpose for Okamura Neji to send eight attack troops at once."
"With our forces dispersed, even if we target the real Japanese and puppet troops, we will not be able to immediately gather our troops and annihilate them."
"When other troops arrive on the battlefield, perhaps the Japanese and puppet troops have completed their mission of reinforcing Shijiazhuang."
Huang Yu was noncommittal: "Commander..."
"This move of Okamura Neji is really powerful..."
"It not only achieves the purpose of confusing us, but also achieves the purpose of dispersing our forces, killing two birds with one stone!"
"But as long as we don't follow his ideas to break the situation, no matter how good the strategy is, it will have no effect in front of us?"
Kong Jie was confused and asked with confusion on his face: "Be more specific..."
"Obviously you were the one who wanted to send the main force to directly block the Japanese and puppet troops' attack. Why did you suddenly do the opposite and not follow Okamura Neji's ideas?"
"With such a layout, Okamura Neiji definitely wants us to divide our forces to block all the reinforcements he sends."
"Is not this contradictory?"
Huang Yu looked at the map and explained: "We only need to intercept the four groups of Japs who have entered our base area. There is no need to consider the two or four groups of Japs who will directly reinforce Shijiazhuang."
"Although the deputy commander only has one independent brigade, the head of the headquarters has transferred six main regiments to his command. Together with the troops directly under the brigade headquarters and the special forces regiment, the number of troops he can command has reached ten regiments."
"Divide four regiments into attacking Shijiazhuang, and it should be very easy for the remaining six regiments to deal with the four reinforcements of the Japanese and puppet troops."
"We have six regiments in hand, and four regiments are divided into four regiments for frontal blocking. The remaining two regiments are divided into two and serve as reserves in the direction of Baoding and Xiongxian respectively."
"After discovering the real reinforcements of the Japanese and puppet troops, the reserve team immediately pounced on them. Even if they couldn't encircle and annihilate them because of their limited strength, they would definitely have no problem holding back the more than 4,000 Japanese and puppet troops."
"Wait until the remaining two regiments have defeated the fake reinforcements and end the battle before heading to the battlefield."
"Every real attack force of the Japanese and puppet troops will face the siege of three main groups of our army at the same time. Even if they die, they will lose a layer of skin."
"If it is confirmed that the real attack force of the Japanese and puppet troops is in the base area, then the four Japanese and puppet troops that reinforced Shijiazhuang are fake. With the combat effectiveness of the independent brigade, they should be easily eaten."
"If our attack force here is fake, then there are real ones among the four Japanese and puppet reinforcements to reinforce Shijiazhuang. The deputy commander can make battle preparations in advance and let the Japanese and puppet reinforcements come in front of them.
Hit your head and bleed."
"But based on my understanding of Okamura Neji, 80% of the real Japanese and puppet reinforcements are in our base area."
"The Japanese and puppet troops forced the deputy commander to return to the reinforcement base area by attacking in the east and west. The reinforcements entered our base area after leaving Baoding and Xiong County."
"If we directly reinforce Shijiazhuang, we will have to walk for dozens of hours on the road alone, and the chance of an accident may be too high."
"Neji Okamura can't afford to gamble, so raiding our base is undoubtedly his best choice."
