Neji Okamura, who received the information, indeed thought so.
He doesn't think this hand-thrown petrol bomb is a big deal. His bigger concern is Wang Xuexin himself.
"Honggou Mountain!" Okamura Neiji looked at the location on the map and said thoughtfully: "Wang Xuexin has returned to Honggou Mountain, that is, he is with Li Yunlong!"
"Your Excellency, General!" Shinozuka Yoshio saw that Okamura Neji had an idea, so he asked, "Send Kazuki Yamamoto to get rid of them?"
No wonder Yoshio Shinozuka has such thoughts.
At this time, the Imperial Army had several small-scale attacks on the Eighth Route Army in other directions, and Shinozuka Yoshio knew the Eighth Route Army's tactics.
Generally speaking, the Eighth Route Army adopts the strategy of "fight if you can, then run if you can't".
Honggou Mountain retreated more than ten kilometers, which is considered a small amount, and others retreated thirty or forty kilometers. (Note: Luliang Mountain is 400 kilometers long from north to south)
In principle, the Imperial Army can continue to advance.
The problem is that the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army is mostly mountainous, and guerrilla activities are very frequent on both sides of the highway. The deeper the imperial army goes, the more difficult it becomes to provide logistics.
The Eighth Route Army, on the other hand, could concentrate its forces in the mountainous areas to encircle and annihilate the imperial army.
This flexible style of play once made Neji Okamura afraid to act rashly.
At this time, if Okamura Neji wants to capture Wang Xuexin and Li Yunlong...
According to Yoshio Shinozuka's opinion, it was impossible to use regular troops.
Because the regular troops pushed forward, Li Yunlong's independent regiment fought for a while and then retreated. They fought and retreated again, but they were still unable to capture them.
Therefore, the best way would be to send out a special agent brigade or a mainland advance team to carry out a sneak attack.
But Okamura Neji shook his head.
"Shinozuka-kun!" Okamura Neiji said: "Wang Xuexin has defeated Yamamoto Kazuki several times. Do you still have confidence in the special agent team?"
Yoshio Shinozuka was ashamed.
If the Yamamoto Special Agent Team had only failed once or twice, it could be said to be a coincidence, but now it was the third time it had been defeated by Wang Xuexin.
Moreover, Yamamoto's special agent team was severely beaten every time and had to be reorganized, which also made the special agent team less powerful each time.
Yoshio Shinozuka really doesn't have much confidence in the special agent team.
"But General!" Yoshio Shinozuka said: "If we don't use a special agent team, how can we deal with Wang Xuexin and Li Yunlong?"
Okamura Neiji thought for a while, then pointed to the map and said: "Road, Shinozuka-kun, the road is our blockade! We must use the road to separate Honggou Mountain...from the Eighth Route Army's defense line!"
Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at the area drawn by Okamura Neji on the map.
It was a roughly rectangular area, more than thirty kilometers long and twenty miles wide.
Yoshio Shinozuka understood what Neji Okamura meant.
The Imperial Army is better at advancing along roads, because as long as there are roads, logistics is relatively easy, and tanks, artillery and even aircraft are still useful.
If you leave the road and go deep into the mountainous area, logistics basically can only rely on manpower and mules and horses for transportation. Tanks cannot be driven up and heavy artillery cannot be transported. It is also difficult to guarantee the amount of bullets and artillery shells. In addition, the terrain is unfamiliar and it is impossible to obtain timely intelligence.
, so it was difficult to gain an advantage over the Eighth Route Army.
The problem is that advancing along the road means occupying the high ground on both sides of the road and clearing the guerrillas around the high ground to prevent sneak attacks.
Therefore, the area that Okamura Neji dug out, which is more than thirty kilometers long and more than twenty kilometers wide... must have at least one division with tens of thousands of troops.
Yoshio Shinozuka would not be surprised at all if a division was committed to the main battle of the Eighth Route Army.
But this is against an independent group.
Use a division of Imperial troops against an independent regiment!
To be precise, there are only two people targeted by Neji Okamura: one is Wang Xuexin and the other is Li Yunlong.
To be more precise, Neji Okamura's target is actually just one person: Wang Xuexin. Li Yunlong is just incidental.
Is this a bit too exaggerated?
Use the strength of a division to formulate an encirclement plan alone, just to encircle one person!
But Yoshio Shinozuka thought about it and felt that Okamura Neji was right.
This man is not an ordinary person, he is a man who has both tactics and strategies and can also develop equipment.
Without this person, the Eighth Route Army at this time would have been blocked in the base area by the imperial army and would have been unable to fight back.
But now, the Eighth Route Army is still gaining momentum and even has a tendency to reach a higher level.
Shinozuka Yoshio could not understand how the Eighth Route Army did this!
If this person could be removed from the Eighth Route Army, it would indeed be of great benefit to the imperial army.
At this moment, a staff officer came forward and reported: "Your Excellency, General, our army defeated a group of Eighth Route Army in Xiaobeizhuang and found that they were carrying a large number of brand-new 'Central Reserve Bonds'!"
Okamura Neiji was stunned, looked at his staff in disbelief, and said, "Counterfeit coins? The Eighth Route Army actually has the ability to produce counterfeit coins?"
The Eighth Route Army had been using fake "Central Reserve Coupons" to purchase supplies from enemy-occupied areas for some time. Only then did Neji Okamura discover that the reason was that the "Central Reserve Coupons" used by the Eighth Route Army to purchase supplies were actually real currency.
Even the Japanese money printing experts can't tell the difference between genuine and fake coins.
Yoshio Shinozuka also couldn't believe it.
He had personally seen the Eighth Route Army's printed materials, which were made with very rough ink and handwriting. This showed that their printing technology and equipment were extremely backward.
Making counterfeit banknotes based on this?
But now a large number of "China Reserve Banknotes" have been seized from the Eighth Route Army. What else could they be if they weren't counterfeit banknotes?
Soon, when these counterfeit banknotes were delivered to Taiyuan, Okamura and Shinozuka were even more surprised...these counterfeit banknotes were exactly the same as "China Reserve Bank Notes", with no flaws to be found.
"The Eighth Route Army, how did they do it?" Okamura Neiji looked at these "China Reserve Bonds" and sighed: "No wonder our blockade and economic offensive against the Eighth Route Army didn't work!"
Now that the Economic Fusion War has developed, the Japanese offensive against the Eighth Route Army has indeed had little effect.
Previously, the Eighth Route Army was still using legal currency, and the Japanese used legal currency to plunder the base areas. The Eighth Route Army did suffer losses.
But now the Eighth Route Army has banned legal tender and switched to border currency.
Border coins can also be counterfeited, and are even easier to counterfeit than legal currency.
The problem is that the border currency has poor paper quality and is simple to make, so it changes from new currency to old currency soon after circulation.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army began to launch a new version.
So the way to distinguish whether a currency is a real currency or a counterfeit currency is very simple... If the old version is still brand new, it is probably a fake currency.
The Eighth Route Army can play this way, but the Japanese cannot play this way.
Because each version of "China Reserve Coupons" is carefully produced and costs a lot of money, it cannot be changed at will like the Eighth Route Army.
The end result was that the Japanese, who had advanced printing technology and equipment, could not defeat the Eighth Route Army in the financial war.