At the Baipogou Independent Regiment Headquarters, all the cadres of the regiment and battalion level and above gathered in the small conference room with solemn expressions, heads lowered, and said nothing...
It wasn't until Shen Quan and Huang Yu walked in that the oppressive atmosphere was broken.
"Chen Quan, Xiao Huang... have you checked everything out?" Kong Jie asked anxiously.
"If the Ergouzi in other strongholds are like Liuzhuang and fearless of death, our attack plan must be stopped!"
Shen Quan lowered his head and replied: "Report to the head of the regiment and the chief of staff... The specific situation is worse than we expected!"
"The soil in northwestern Shanxi is barren and the economy is not as developed as other places. The Japanese army does not pay much attention here as compared to other places, and there are much fewer troops stationed there!"
"In order to make up for their lack of troops, they can only form a large number of local Imperial Association troops!"
"Considering that the Japanese soldiers in other places have low combat effectiveness and weak fighting will, they are often defeated in one strike on the battlefield and captured by the Eighth Route Army in batches. Many of them even directly join the Eighth Route Army and turn their guns to attack the imperial army! "
"The little devil here found another way and personally trained the Imperial Alliance Army!"
"In the puppet army, platoon commanders, company commanders, and battalion commanders are all held by young devils who can speak Chinese, and these young devils train them personally!"
"The Japs also transferred a large number of hardcore traitors from North Korea and the Northeast region and made them serve as squad leaders to help the Japs manage the puppet army!"
"The military also implements the punishment method of sitting together!"
"On the battlefield, if there is a squad of Ergouzi who is afraid of fighting, the entire platoon will be punished!"
"If a squad of Ergouzi surrenders and we take them as prisoners, the whole platoon will be shot..."
"Under such high-pressure supervision, even if someone wanted to surrender, they would not dare to show it. Any mistake might be reported by the people around them, and the Japanese would make a fool of themselves."
"As time goes by, those losers we encountered would rather fight to the death than be prisoners when they go to the battlefield!"
"What a cruel little devil..." Kong Jie clenched his fists and gritted his teeth as he replied.
"Train the puppet army yourself, improve the combat effectiveness of the puppet army...and then use the method of sitting together to make the puppet soldiers feel insecure and dare not surrender and be taken as prisoners...forcing those Japanese devils to have to sacrifice their lives for them...What a powerful method!"
After saying that, he said to Li Wensheng on the side: "Chief of Staff, the enemy situation in northwestern Shanxi is far more complicated than we imagined!"
"I suggest that the troops suspend their original expansion plan...reconduct the surrounding enemy situation again, and get as thorough as possible...and then designate an expansion plan based on the latest enemy situation!"
"The previous plan to mobilize prisoners to join the independent regiment must also be changed!"
"Before we dismantle the Japanese control of the puppet army, we will definitely capture very few prisoners, and we will not be able to mobilize many people to join the independent regiment!"
"We need to report this matter to the brigade headquarters immediately!"
"If Lao Li and Lao Ding haven't started taking action yet, ask the brigade commander to immediately remind them to pay attention to the Ergouzi in the defense area. We must not use the methods we used to deal with Ergouzi to deal with the Ergouzi in northwest Shanxi!"
"I also want to remind the brigade commander to prevent the Japanese from spreading this new method of training puppet troops. Then our combat pressure will definitely increase exponentially!"
Li Wensheng nodded and said: "The plan must be interrupted!"
"If you attack a medium-sized stronghold with 300 people, you will lose hundreds of veterans... Our independent regiment has limited financial resources and cannot withstand the consumption!"
"I'll send a telegram to the brigade commander in a moment!"
"But there is something I must remind everyone!"
"In this attack on the Liuzhuang stronghold, we only seized 5,000 kilograms of grain and less than 15,000 rounds of ammunition... not as much as the weapons and ammunition seized when we attacked a small stronghold in the old base!"
"Especially food. More than five thousand kilograms of food seems like a lot, but our independent group has nearly a thousand people, more than a hundred war horses, and more than a thousand mules and horses... This small amount of food is not enough for us to eat for three days!
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Kong Jie frowned deeper and deeper, and quickly asked: "Is it because the food in the stronghold is almost eaten up by the Japanese and puppet troops, or is it because the stronghold does not have much food reserves in the first place!"
"The stronghold's reserves of food, weapons and ammunition are not much to begin with!" Li Wensheng replied.
"I learned from the prisoners that... the county town delivers ammunition supplies to the stronghold every ten days, and only delivers ten days' worth each time!"
"It is said to prevent us from seizing a large amount of weapons, ammunition and food supplies after the stronghold is captured, and take the opportunity to develop and strengthen ourselves!"
Kong Jie analyzed with a stern face: "In this case, our approach of using war to support war to expand our strength will not work?"
"Theoretically, it is true!" Li Wensheng replied silently.
"The previous idea of going to build a stronghold when a good opportunity comes up needs to change!"
"Before, we were able to make a steady profit from our strongholds. If the other strongholds in northwestern Shanxi are similar to the Liuzhuang stronghold, then we will lose money in every tough battle. If this continues, no matter how solid the family fortune is, it will be wiped out!"
This is the cruel fact that Kong Jie least wants to accept.
But the enemy situation was here, and he had to accept it.
The peripheral vision suddenly glanced at Huang Yu and saw that he was calm and unaffected at all.
Kong Jie's eyes lit up and he asked: "Xiao Huang, what do you think?"
"We are facing a formidable enemy. If you have any ideas, please come up with us... With so many of us discussing it together, we will definitely be able to come up with a way to break the situation."
"I agree with the chief of staff's analysis... temporarily give up attacking Japanese strongholds and change our thinking on expanding our troops!" Huang Yu said bluntly.
He is not only the future commando battalion commander, but also the deputy chief of staff of the independent regiment appointed by the headquarters.
Since the Independent Group has no political commissar or deputy leader, he is the third-ranked cadre of the Independent Group and has absolute say.
Coupled with his previous amazing performance, everyone is looking forward to his next answer.
Huang Yu did not disappoint everyone. He thought and replied: "Let me talk about the expansion of the troops first..."
"We have brought back a lot of weapons and ammunition from Jinzhong and Taiyuan. There is no shortage of weapons at present... In this case, we can completely shift the recruitment target to the local people!"
"They have been exploited and oppressed by the Japanese and puppet troops all year round, and many of them must be feeling angry!"
"In the battle at Liuzhuang, we have already established the reputation of the independent regiment. As long as we put up a recruiting sign, many people will definitely come after hearing the news!"
"Take out some more weapons and ammunition to support the local troops and guerrillas, and recruit some new soldiers from them. At the very least, we must first complete the first, second and third battalions so that they can form combat effectiveness as soon as possible!"
"Otherwise, the Japanese and puppet troops will send more than a thousand Japanese and puppet troops to deal with us, and the independent group will not be able to confront us head-on, and will only be able to cower..."
"Then our reputation will be discredited..."
"The next step is to fight the Japanese..."
"Since the stronghold is difficult to fight, let's change our tactics to force the Japanese and puppet troops out of the stronghold and slowly deal with them!"
"Didn't the prisoners say that each stronghold only has ten days of ammunition supplies? We specially selected their baggage teams to fight!"
"It can not only seize the ammunition supplies that the troops urgently need, but also cut off the ammunition supplies to various strongholds, forcing them to leave the strongholds and go to surrounding villages to collect food."
"Then our chance is here!"
Kong Jie suddenly realized: "Xiao Huang is right!"
"The Japanese strongholds do not stockpile food, weapons and ammunition, which makes it impossible for us to support war with war... But this also means that they themselves are prone to running out of food!"
"Cut off their ammunition supply, and each stronghold will not be able to hold on for ten days!"
"In this case, we will use siege methods to force the Japanese and puppet troops out of the stronghold and eliminate them bit by bit!"
As he spoke, he turned his attention to Huang Yu again and continued to ask with expectation!
"If you have any other ideas, please tell me!"
Huang Yu continued: "The siege can not only force the Japanese and puppet troops out of the stronghold, but also force the Japanese and puppet troops in other places to send heavy troops to reinforce the stronghold. We take the opportunity to encircle the stronghold and provide reinforcements!"
"Finally, the ammunition supply for the troops!"
"Fighting war to support war cannot meet the needs of the troops. We can only find other ways to obtain food, weapons and ammunition!"
"Build a repair shop first and learn to reload bullets as soon as possible."
"Although the reloaded bullets are not as good as the original bullets we captured, they are still fine for training new recruits!"
"In this way, we can concentrate all the limited original bullets on the battlefield and win more battles!"
"We also need to learn how to produce grenades..."
"Hand grenades are easy to operate. If there are enough, give each recruit five or six..."
"When you go to the battlefield, you use grenades to throw them... If a hundred grenades are not enough, throw out two hundred. If two hundred are not enough, throw out five hundred... If you don't believe that you can't defeat the little devil..."
"We can only buy food... I wonder if the Chief of Staff has bought food these days!"
Li Wensheng shook his head and replied with a wry smile: "The situation in northwestern Shanxi is bad, and the Japanese and puppet troops are exploiting the land severely, leaving the landlords with little food left."
"In the past few days, we have only bought more than 30,000 kilograms of grain from all over the defense area, and we are just short of entering the county seat!"
"But I heard that the county can't buy a lot of food!"
"In order to prevent food from falling into the hands of our Eighth Route Army, the devils strictly control the people's rations!"
"People in the city must hold a good citizen certificate to buy food, and they can only buy ten days of food rations at a time!"
"When the independent regiment is full, it will consume seven to eight thousand kilograms of food every day..."
“The little food we bought so hard can’t last even ten days!”
After saying that, he stared at Huang Yu and asked: "Xiao Huang, seeing how calm you are, do you have any channels to get food..."
"Speak up quickly and let's discuss it together!"
"If you have food in your hands, you won't have to panic when fighting..."
"No matter what we do, we must reserve rations for the troops for at least one month!"
"I can think of two ways!" Huang Yu replied.
"There are several groups of bandits entrenched within our defense area. Some of them never rob the people, and some do all kinds of evil... They eat well and drink spicy food every day, and they must have a lot of food and finances in their hands!"
"Killing those bandits who do all kinds of evil will not only eliminate harm for the people, but also harvest a large amount of ammunition supplies, killing two birds with one stone!"
"The second way is to buy food, but we have to change our goal!"
"There are not only Japanese and puppet troops in northwestern Shanxi, but also our Eighth Route Army and other anti-Japanese armed forces... Not all anti-Japanese armed forces are like our Eighth Route Army, which has no ammunition supplies and relies entirely on self-sufficiency!"
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