Wang Xuexin actually had his own plan for doing this.
The Eighth Route Army continued to grow and won again and again in confrontations with the Japanese. Although this was a good thing, at the same time, crisis was quietly approaching.
It turned out that the Japanese commander-in-chief of the North China Front was Shun Tada. He never paid attention to the Eighth Route Army and therefore gave the Eighth Route Army a more relaxed environment.
At this time, two brigades were being surrounded and wiped out, and the situation was likely to deteriorate further in the foreseeable future, so Tokyo planned to replace Shun Tada.
Shun Tada dismounted and was replaced by Neji Okamura.
This guy is different. As soon as he took office, he immediately targeted the Eighth Route Army... The troops that were supposed to be on the frontal battlefield were transferred back to the rear to deal with the Eighth Route Army by Okamura Neji. The number of enemies faced by the Eighth Route Army tripled in an instant.
Reaching 300,000 people, there are also more than 100,000 puppet troops. The total strength is equivalent to that of the Eighth Route Army.
What's more important is that Okamura Neji's methods are extremely barbaric, cruel and cold-blooded.
Okamura Neiji believed that the Eighth Route Army was able to survive because of the support of the local people, so he adopted the so-called "separation of people and bandits" strategy.
To put it simply, the "Three Lights Policy" is implemented on villages near mountainous areas, and these villages are "robbed, burned and killed".
This makes the mountainous area and the living areas of the people form an uninhabited land with clear latitude and longitude.
As a result, it was difficult for the Eighth Route Army to obtain supplies from the common people and survive in the mountainous areas as before.
This was the most difficult period for the Eighth Route Army. According to the drastic reduction of the ground force, the number of troops dropped sharply from the original 400,000 to 300,000. The civilians also died tragically under the knife of the Japanese in large numbers, and many were captured as laborers.
, and finally died of exhaustion, starvation, freezing... countless.
Wang Xuexin, who knows these situations, will certainly not sit back and watch history repeat itself... Maybe he is unable to reverse the overall situation, but at least he can make some preparations for it.
Tunnel warfare was originally developed during this difficult period to deal with the crazy raids by the Japanese, and was used in advance.
Tunnel warfare... It is actually a sublimation of tunnel warfare. It is a tunnel on a high ground. It not only has higher flexibility but also better initiative. Of course it must be used.
If this combines the tunnel combat system with the tunnel combat system...
Is it that easy for the Japanese to create a "no man's land" in this area?
Is it so easy to separate, blockade, and separate the common people from the Eighth Route Army?
Is it possible to compress the Eighth Route Army's living space or even shake the foundation of the Eighth Route Army?
Although the chief did not know this, he very much agreed with Wang Xuexin's idea from the perspective of protecting the arsenal and gaining the initiative.
Finally, the leader came to a conclusion and said to Wang Xuexin: "Okay, let's do it in Lujiagou! Comrade Wang Xuexin, I will leave this matter to you. Whatever you need, the headquarters will fully cooperate! Wait until Lujiagou becomes famous, and then let
Other villages and towns should learn from it and publicize this tactic, and we will have a lively underground battle with the Japanese!"
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin responded: "I promise to complete the task!"
When Wang Xuexin came out, he found Li Yunlong and Zhang Wanhe sitting on a tree pillar outside, smoking and chatting while waiting.
He hurriedly ran up and reported: "Captain, I may have to stay here for a while."
"Sure!" Li Yunlong nodded with a smile and said: "You're a promising kid, and the headquarters will follow you to grab people! What I didn't say, do your best and don't embarrass our independent group!"
Then he turned around and asked Zhang Wanhe: "Old Zhang, could you please give me a few words to tell you whether what we discussed will work or not?"
Zhang Wanhe looked at Wang Xuexin and squeezed out one word from between his teeth: "It's done!"
"Still the old price?" Li Yunlong asked again.
"Old price!" Zhang Wanhe replied angrily: "I won't lose a hair from you!"
Li Yunlong laughed "hehe": "That's good, let's nail it with every spit... I'll be waiting to get the things!"
"Take what's yours!" Zhang Wanhe said with a look of disgust, "Who can live without your Li Yunlong's things?"
Li Yunlong replied with a smile: "It's easy to say, if we can't trust you, how can others not trust you? I'm just talking about it, so that I can be sure of anything in the future!"
Then as soon as he turned around, Li Yunlong pulled Wang Xuexin aside and confessed: "Xiao Dongbei, teach me to be more clever. We can slowly fix other things. You have to fix this grenade for me first. You can rest assured if you get it as soon as possible. Understand
Is it done yet?”
"Understood!" Wang Xuexin responded.
Wang Xuexin has long been accustomed to Li Yunlong's tricks. It would be strange if Li Yunlong didn't play like this.
As soon as Li Yunlong walked away, Zhang Wanhe's stern face immediately softened. He put his hands behind his back and looked towards the direction where Li Yunlong left, cursing: "Finally, I sent this god of plague away, I said Xiao Dongbei
, you must not imitate your regiment leader, who is disowning his relatives for the sake of equipment! He almost gave me, an old guy, cramps and bones!"
Wang Xuexin didn't know how to reply.
If you say yes, wouldn’t that mean you’re speaking ill of the leader behind his back?
If you say no, you will immediately offend Zhang Wanhe again.
Fortunately, Zhang Wanhe did not argue with Wang Xuexin about this. He raised his head towards Wang Xuexin and said: "Come on, I will arrange a place for you! Many people are waiting, especially that..."
After saying that, he said "hehe" and stopped his mouth, pretending to be watching a good show.
Wang Xuexin didn't take it seriously. He thought Zhang Wanhe was talking about the people in the arsenal. Who would have thought that Zhang Wanhe meant something.
Su Xin became nervous the moment the battle started.
She also felt strange in her heart. Although she would usually be nervous when hearing about war and worry about the soldiers on the front line, she had never been as anxious as she was now.
However, she did not dare to relax in the work she was doing, especially matching the shells for the 50 cannon.
Every cannonball was weighed and remeasured by her hands before being sent to them.
While taking the measurement, she was thinking: "If there is a problem... maybe it will harm Xiao Dongbei? He is fighting the Japanese on the battlefield, and I can't do anything wrong."
So Su Xin has been busy as long as the battle has been fought on the front line.
The night before, Su Xin had been working the night shift staring at the toughened stove. Just when she was about to rest the next day, there was a battle on the front line. She had been working for more than 20 hours without sleeping.
Zhang Wanhe saw this and tried to persuade her several times to rest for a while, but he still refused to do so.
Su Xin's answer was: "Director, now is when the frontline needs me most. How can I hold back at this critical moment? I will rest after the battle is over!"
As soon as Zhang Wanhe heard this, he knew that he could not persuade him.
If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have told her that the independent group had gone up. This was a good thing. There were no problems in Xiaodongbei, but Su Xin was tired and had problems here!