Chapter 1298 Commander, we are waiting for half a month
Half an hour later, a military order was transmitted from the Kwantung Army Headquarters to the Jinzhou Garrison Headquarters.
In order to eliminate the Eighth Route Army operating along the railway as soon as possible, the Jinzhou garrison dispatched a main brigade to join the local garrison to besiege the Eighth Route Army...
In order to destroy the northward detachment of the Eighth Route Army, the Kwantung Army stationed in Liaoning sent out heavy troops to encircle and suppress this area, and then sent out heavy troops to raid there... It turned into a mess.
As a trigger to trigger this chaotic war, Li Yunlong was leading his troops back to the station quietly under the cover of wind and snow...
This chaos has passed for more than half a month.
Apart from a large increase in non-combat attrition, the Liaoning Kwantung Army did not eliminate a single Eighth Route Army soldier during the encirclement and suppression operations.
Two to three thousand Eighth Route Army troops seemed to disappear out of thin air, without any news.
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At the temporary headquarters of the northbound detachment, Li Yunlong walked into the house rubbing his hands that were almost frozen. He saw Huang Yu sitting at the table studying the map and asked directly: "Xiao Huang..."
"The snow on the mountains is beginning to melt..."
"The troops are almost trained... The Kwantung Army stationed in Liaoning has also been exhausted by us..."
"I think we can break out of the mountains, use the banner of our northbound detachment, establish a base area, and expand our troops?"
"Otherwise, the total strength of our northbound detachment will always be only three to four thousand people..."
"Now the Kwantung Army doesn't know where we are hiding. When they figure out our movements, and our overall strength has not increased, they only need to dispatch one main division to swallow us up."
"The troops have been cowards in the mountains for so long. It's time to go out and show their faces. Otherwise, the soldiers will forget how to fight..."
"Wei Dayong, the chief of staff of the first regiment, comes to me every few days to ask for help. His ears are almost calloused!"
Although Li Yunlong was the commander of the Northward Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, he trusted Huang Yu very much and let him make the decision on many things. Relatively speaking, he preferred to lead troops on the front line to fight.
Therefore, in terms of troop decision-making, he, as the commander, would basically issue orders after discussing them with Huang Yu.
Sometimes orders were even issued by Huang Yu, who rushed directly to the front line to lead the troops.
Li Yunlong knew Huang Yu had a new idea as soon as he saw Huang Yu's expression, and quickly asked: "Where do you want to start..."
"The junction of Chaoyang and Fuxin..." Huang Yu answered, pointing to a large area on the map.
"The Kwantung Army stationed in Liaoning originally had many troops..."
"But because several main divisions were transferred south to reinforce the North China Front, the garrison in many places in Liaoning was reduced sharply, especially the garrison far away from the railway line..."
"Chaoyang and Fuxin originally had a main brigade garrison. After the reinforcements from the south left, the local garrison was reduced sharply to a regiment."
"Chaoyang and Fuxin must not be lost. The main forces of these two regiments must be stationed in the county."
"Accidents cannot occur in some important towns and traffic arteries. This is the basis for the Kwantung Army to rule the Northeast. The remaining troops of the two regiments are basically divided into squadrons and squads and are scattered in these places."
"Coupled with the cooperation of some puppet Manchurian troops, we can firmly control Chaoyang and Fuxin."
"Originally, a large number of Kwantung Army troops were stationed in this large area at the junction of Chaoyang and Fuxin. Together with the Puppet Manchurian Army, the total force exceeded 3,000 people..."
"Now that all the Kwantung Army has been mobilized, there are only about 2,000 Puppet Manchuria Army left. Their combat effectiveness is very weak. With our current strength, we can completely defeat them quickly, or even eliminate them silently..."
"The soldiers and officers in the Puppet Manchuria Army are basically Chinese. As long as they do their ideological work well, it is entirely possible to join our Eighth Route Army anyway and increase the strength of the northward detachment."
"We can even secretly control this large mountainous area with the cooperation of the puppet Manchurian Army, secretly establish base areas, and expand our troops..."
"We will nibble around a little bit and expand our base..."
"Strive to expand the total strength of the northbound detachment to 6,000 before the base area is exposed..."
"In this way, even if the Kwantung Army stationed in Chaoyang and Fuxin is mobilized in full, it will not threaten our safety..."
"When we completely capture Chaoyang and Fuxin and establish new bases, the northward detachment can be expanded to 10,000 people... We also have enough strategic depth, so that the little Japanese will not have to crawl into the ravine if they come over.
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"Rather, we will use the strategic depth of Chaoyang and Fuxin to protect the base area through our best guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare, eliminate the effective strength of the Kwantung Army, and finally fight them decisively to repel them..."
Li Yunlong knew this method was feasible as soon as he heard it.
He immediately said: "Then what are you waiting for?"
"I will immediately arrange for people to formulate a troop dispatch plan..."
Huang Yu suddenly stood up and objected: "Commander... I don't think we should rush this operation..."
"We have been waiting for the winter months, we don't care about the next half month..."
Li Yunlong immediately understood the hidden meaning of Huang Yu's words and asked directly: "Do you want to wait until all the reinforcements from the Kwantung Army southward have entered North China before taking action..."
Huang Yu nodded first, then shook his head: "To be precise, we will wait until the Kwantung Army's reinforcements from the south begin to sweep the Yizhong base area... before we start the operation..."
"I don't know if the Kwantung Army's reinforcements sent south to get familiar with our tactics or because they were plotted by that old devil Okamura Neji..."
"In the past two or three months, the three main divisions that have moved south have actually taken the initiative to attack other Eighth Route Army units around Yi Zhong..."
"Although the combat effectiveness and equipment level of these Eighth Route Army troops are not as good as those of the Wing Center troops, they should not be underestimated..."
"Two months later...although the Kwantung Army of more than ten regiments did not suffer serious losses, they also suffered a humiliation on the battlefield..."
"Each main division suffered one or two thousand casualties... The three main divisions combined to lose a total of more than 5,000 people, and more than 3,000 people were directly killed. It can be said that they lost both their wives and their troops."
"When all the reinforcements of the Kwantung Army south are in place and the sweep of the Yi Zhong base area begins, not only the Yi Zhong base area commanded by the commander can participate in the battle, but other Eighth Route Army units that have gone through a winter of actual combat training can also participate in the battle at the appropriate time."
"When the Kwantung Army is completely trapped in the quagmire of the internal war, we will break out of the mountains and establish a base. If the Kwantung Army wants to mobilize heavy troops to encircle and suppress us, we will have no troops available..."
"We can only mobilize troops from brigades one by one from Jinzhou, Shenyang and other places to reinforce Chaoyang and Fuxin... At that time, we could just sit back and wait for work, defeat them one by one, and hold on to the base area we finally built..."
