Okamura Neiji shook his head and replied: "No need to study, except for Shanxi Southwest, no other troops can be mobilized!"
"Now, not only in Taiyue, but also in other places, the situation is getting worse and worse. Every day, a large number of the Imperial Army and the Imperial Association Army are killed by the Eighth Route Army's guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare. If the Imperial Army cannot win one or two big victories as soon as possible,
, to change this situation, defeats like Taiyue will happen in more places!"
"Bageya Road, we still underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army. Under such difficult circumstances, we can persist in the confrontation with the imperial army until now, and we can also launch a small-scale counterattack!"
The chief of staff heard an unusual note from Okamura Neiji's emotion. He hesitated and asked: "But, Your Excellency, Commander, our troops in southwestern Shanxi still have to keep an eye on the Jinsui Army. If they are also transferred,
If we leave, the imperial army's power in southwestern Shanxi will be completely gone."
"If you want to fight back to southwest Shanxi in the future, you have to start from scratch!"
Okamura Neiji shook his head and asked: "Chief of Staff, tell me, which Imperial Army has a greater chance of winning compared to attacking the Jinsui Army or attacking the Eighth Route Army!"
"Of course it's the Jinsui Army!" the chief of staff replied without thinking.
"In the battle between us and the Jinsui Army, the Imperial Army almost never lost!"
After saying this, the chief of staff suddenly reacted: "I understand, Commander, you mean to cooperate with the Jinsui Army and return all the imperial army's occupied areas in southwestern Shanxi to the Jinsui Army. The imperial army will think about it in the future
If we fight back to the southwest of Shanxi, we will directly take it from the hands of the Jinsui Army!"
"There is another advantage!" Okamura Neji replied with a sneer.
"Don't forget, before the imperial army entered Shanxi, the entire Shanxi belonged to the Jinsui Army. But now, look at the sand table, more than two-thirds of the entire Shanxi has been occupied by the Eighth Route Army. As the local emperor of Shanxi, what do you think?
Is it possible that the Jinsui Army has been entrenched in a patch of land as big as a palm in southwest Shanxi?"
"It turned out that there was an imperial army between them and the Eighth Route Army. The Jinsui Army was afraid of the imperial army and did not dare to act rashly!"
"Once the imperial army retreats, the Jinsui Army and the Eighth Route Army will come into direct contact."
"Do you think the Jinsui Army will still let the Eighth Route Army stand in so many places in Shanxi?"
"When the time comes, they will definitely find a way to expel them. And those base areas where the Eighth Route Army is located have been carefully managed bit by bit, and they will definitely not be surrendered to the Jinsui Army without help."
"When the time comes, there will definitely be an open and covert fight between them, and what the imperial army needs to do is to wait and see what happens and reap the benefits!"
The more Okamura Neiji said, the more excited the chief of staff next to him became. His eyes lit up and he said: "Also, our division in southwestern Shanxi also has three infantry regiments, a supplementary regiment, plus a baggage regiment, and an engineering regiment."
The regiment, the field artillery regiment, the cavalry regiment, the heavy artillery regiment, and an Imperial Army brigade that cooperates with their actions, have a total strength of nearly 20,000 people, and their firepower is so powerful that they can kill us wherever they go.
A devastating blow to the opponent!"
"Your Excellency, Commander, I fully support your proposal just now, to mobilize troops directly from southwestern Shanxi to catch the new regiment off guard!"
At the World War II Area Headquarters, Commander Yan has had the most pleasant time in several years.
Although he had lost a regiment and millions of kilograms of grain for no apparent reason some time ago, he was so wealthy that he calmed down after only one day of being angry.
The chief of staff walked into Commander Yan's yard next to the headquarters and saw the commander lying on a chair basking in the sun with a comfortable look on his face. He was in a good mood and immediately seized the opportunity to report.
"Commander, after this period of training, all the troops of the Jinsui Army are fully equipped. In addition, we have also integrated several disabled Sichuan Army and Northwest Army. Some of the troops will make up for the vacancies in the divisions, and other troops will supplement some new recruits.
Then we reorganized an army!"
"These Sichuan and Northwest armies have very strong combat effectiveness. They can be put into battle after reorganization. The only problem is that the equipment is too poor!"
"The three divisions are actually equipped with seven or eight different calibers and models of rifles. Even so, one-third of the soldiers still don't have guns."
"As for light and heavy machine guns, there are even fewer. The average infantry company has less than one light machine gun, and the average infantry battalion has less than one heavy machine gun."
"There are even fewer artillery. There are only more than 20 mortars in the entire army. There are only five mountain artillery, field artillery and infantry artillery in total, and they are all old-fashioned mountain artillery!"
Commander Yan's good mood suddenly disappeared, his brows furrowed into a big "Sichuan" sign, and then he answered.
"How is the output at the arsenal? Can we produce some more equipment?"
"I know the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan Army and the Northwest Army. As long as they are equipped with good weapons, they can easily defeat the little devils head-on. I can be sure that it will not take long for this newly formed army to become the combat effectiveness of our Shanxi-Sui Army.
The most powerful main force!"
"As the future main force of the Jinsui Army, such equipment will definitely not work. They must be equipped with the best equipment, at least the same as the other main forces of the Jinsui Army!"
The chief of staff replied helplessly: "Because of the blockade imposed by the Japanese and Chongqing on us, the sources of raw materials for the arsenal have become less and less. Although production has not been stopped, the monthly output of rifles is only 800. I want to give the entire
It will take at least a year to change the military uniform!"
"And a main force needs not only rifles, but also light and heavy machine guns and artillery. However, these weapons arsenals have almost stopped production. They can only produce about a dozen light machine guns every month, which cannot meet the demand at all!"
"Where is Chongqing? Can we ask Chongqing to allocate some weapons to us in the name of battle losses?" Commander Yan continued to ask with full of hope.
The chief of staff still shook his head helplessly and then answered.
"It's very difficult. If it was two years ago, Chongqing would definitely transfer it, but now it's very troublesome!"
"Chongqing seems to be on the decline as soon as it sees that the Japanese have stopped attacking. In addition to continuing to guard against the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army, it has also begun to guard against local troops like ours."
"Last year, the total number of rifles allocated by Chongqing to our theater was less than 5,000, less than one-third of previous years!"
"Now, as soon as Chongqing has weapons, it will immediately equip the Central Army they are training in the southwest rear area to enhance other capabilities!"
"As for us, they hope that when the Japanese are defeated, we will be almost consumed by the battlefield!"
Chief Yan replied helplessly: "That's all, since they can't be relied on, then we have to rely on ourselves!"
"Now only the Japanese have weapons in their hands. If that doesn't work, let's resume trade with them!"
The chief of staff had long wanted to do this, and immediately said: "The commander is wise!"
"According to intelligence, the Japanese army's food shortage problem has not been improved. As long as we are willing, they will definitely agree!"
"However, there should not be many weapons that can be traded. In the past few years, most of the weapons they captured from us were in Linfen. Linfen was occupied by the Eighth Route Army. Those weapons must have fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army."
"However, this division that has been fighting with us must still have a lot of stocks!"
"If the commander agrees, I will contact the Japanese Noda now!"
"The Eighth Route Army is being advantaged!" Chief Yan said with a look of hatred, and then replied: "Go and contact the Japanese, but you must remember not to let them feel that we are begging him!"
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