When the chief raises this question, everyone is in trouble.
Although the Eighth Route Army has a large number of troops, everyone is busy with large-scale production during this difficult period. The troops on the front line guarding against the Japanese are already nervous enough, but now they have to guard against the stubborn troops?
Zhang Wanhe frowned and said: "Chief, the border between us and the stubborn army is hundreds of kilometers away at least. If we send troops to guard this, I'm afraid we won't be able to do anything else!"
"That's why we need to hold a meeting to discuss!" The leader said: "Three cobblers can stand up to one Zhuge Liang and brainstorm together to find a solution!"
Xie Baolin said: "How about we lay mines at the junction? I think jumping mines will work. Laying mines at the junction can prevent both stubborn troops and Japanese!"
Laying mines might be a way, but Zhang Wanhe shook his head: "Let's just bury one mine at a distance of one meter. It would take hundreds of thousands of mines for at least several hundred kilometers. It is indeed not difficult to produce this mine, but how many mines are there?"
One hundred thousand or even millions... we still have no idea!"
This is a very real problem. The Eighth Route Army arsenal has insufficient production capacity and limited resources, so it cannot do such a large-scale thing.
In fact, Wang Xuexin thinks this is not the problem.
The root of this problem is that "offense is greater than defense."
The Japanese could infiltrate from any point along the defense line. The Eighth Route Army could not know in advance from which position the enemy would attack, so it had to defend the entire line.
In this way, whether it is using troops or landmines, the cost will be quite high.
It would be useful to pay these prices, but it may still be impossible to prevent, because the Japanese will always find weaknesses to break through.
so……
Wang Xuexin said: "Chief, I don't think we can do this. To prevent it, the most cost-effective way is to start with intelligence."
"The key is that they enter the defense area of the stubborn army first!" The chief of staff's face was full of helplessness: "Even if we get intelligence and know that the Japanese disguised themselves as entering the defense area of the stubborn army, what can we do to them? We cannot enter the defense area of the Jinsui Army to pursue and intercept them.
Still passive!"
This is what the Chief of Staff said.
The main problem is that Lujiagou is too close to the junction, only a dozen miles away.
The Japanese were in the stubborn army, which was equivalent to being protected by the stubborn army. The Eighth Route Army had nothing to do with them, and then the Japanese suddenly climbed over the mountains and ridges to Lujiagou, making them impossible to guard against!
"Chief of Staff!" Wang Xuexin said: "Don't the Japanese like to disguise themselves as the Eighth Route Army? They must carry the Eighth Route Army's uniforms with them... The Jinsui Army is not active in fighting the Japanese, but it is active in fighting our Eighth Route Army!"
"But they are Japs..." Before he could finish his words, the chief of staff said "oh" and then looked thoughtfully at the leader.
The chief also understood. He nodded in agreement: "That's a good idea! We can't be quacks who treat headaches and foot pain. It's not feasible to just defend ourselves. We can use Yan Laoxi's enthusiasm.
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The commanders and fighters in the conference room nodded in agreement.
This should be the lowest cost and effective method.
The Eighth Route Army lacks everything else except intelligence personnel, whether in enemy-occupied areas or recalcitrant military areas.
The Japanese special agents may be able to hide from the intelligence personnel located in the county town and the puppet army... This is because the Japanese special agents do not have contact with the county town and the puppet army.
However, our army can place intelligence personnel at the border between the Jinsui Army and the Japanese to take precise precautions. Many of these intelligence personnel are businessmen who sell salt to and from Yuncheng. Let them be reminded to discover that the Japanese are pretending to be salt merchants.
Not difficult.
Once clues are discovered and Yan Laoxi is informed through intelligence personnel that the Eighth Route Army has infiltrated, then Yan Laoxi will not go out to arrest people like chicken blood?
With this back and forth, there might be some conflicts between the Japanese and Yan Laoxi.
What happened later was indeed as Wang Xuexin imagined. After receiving "accurate" intelligence, Yan Laoxi ambushed those "Eighth Route Army" who dared to penetrate into his defense zone.
It was a beating with real swords and guns, and it was so severe that it was said that not many people were left alive.
Then Yan Laoxi interrogated him and found out that he was actually a Japanese, and that he was still trying to infiltrate the Eighth Route Army's defense area. He regretted it and quickly told him to relax his guard.
Unexpectedly, at this time, the Eighth Route Army really had room to play again, buying food, medicine, salt, etc., and was very busy.
In the end, Yan Laoxi found that he couldn't tell the true from the false, so he could only defend and defend the base. This could be regarded as helping the base to defend its flanks.
This matter is finally over.
Li Yunlong then received news from Chu Yunfei.
It turned out that after Chu Yunfei got a few rocket launchers, he immediately ordered Liu Shucai to wait for a group of military workers to imitate them.
As a result, everything else was fine and even made better and more refined than the original ones. For example, the bazooka charge was changed from black powder to more powerful smokeless powder.
But why can't the solid gunpowder column be rectified?
Not only was he unable to figure it out, but he also had no clue. Liu Shucai had no idea how to make gunpowder into a solid columnar shape.
Chu Yunfei thought, this is not possible!
There were only six rockets in total. One was test-fired, two were dismantled, and only three were left.
If a Japanese tank comes here, what use will three rockets do?
In desperation, I hope to buy a few more rockets.
He asked his adjutant to find Li Yunlong and say: "Brother Yunlong, although the rocket launcher is somewhat powerful, it still has many shortcomings. I wanted to make some suggestions, but I was short-handed and ran out of six rockets. I can only trouble Brother Yunlong."
Sell a few more rockets so that my brother and I can get addicted to shooting."
Chu Yunfei deliberately disparaged the rocket launcher in his words, but he actually meant to bargain for a lower price.
Chu Yunfei thinks so:
A rocket launcher is equipped with two rockets. The rockets are matched with at most hundreds of thousands of kilograms of food!
The Jinsui Army could afford it. Didn't they just "buy" a lot of grain from the Eighth Route Army using legal currency transactions some time ago?
Now that the property has been returned to its original owner, a hundred shots will be given!
Unexpectedly, Li Yunlong responded: "Brother Chu, you're welcome. Brother Chu is in urgent need of rockets. It's our duty to be brothers. But we brothers settle the accounts clearly. The old rule is to hand over the grain with one hand and deliver it with the other. One rocket bomb is 900,000 kilograms of grain!"
When Chu Yunfei heard this, he almost spit blood on the ceiling. After a long while, he slammed the table: "One rocket actually costs 900,000 kilograms of grain. Li Yunlong, you are going too far!"
Sun Ming said: "That's what I said, but Li Yunlong replied that the last rocket was half sold and half given away based on the reputation of the group members. It was originally supposed to sell 500,000 jins of grain, but only 200,000 jins were charged to the group members. If the group members were
If you are not convinced, Li Yunlong has no objection to paying the price difference of 300,000 kilograms of grain per car!"