Chapter 1054 Use the garrison as a sharpening stone
After the garrison regiment headquarters and the purchase of grain with the Jinsui Army were on track, Li Hao's mind returned to the garrison regiment.
At this moment, he was studying the twenty cadres who were supported by Commander Chen.
How to use them to train the garrison into an elite that cannot be defeated or dragged down.
Political commissar Wang Hong suddenly walked in, holding a piece of intelligence in his hand and looking anxious.
"Captain, there is a situation. The Japanese and puppet army camp that is confronting us has been coming and going since three days ago. Every day, cars are loaded with supplies that we don't know about and enter the stronghold, and then leave empty."
"Now there are two to three hundred vehicles in total, and there is no intention of stopping yet. I judge that the Japanese army must be preparing for a new round of attack."
"So fast?" Hong Linfeng shouted.
His face became ugly at that time: "Captain, it has only been more than four months since the last counter-mopping up. Although the new recruits have completed basic training and have been mixed with veterans and are undergoing running-in training, they are still far away from finally forming combat effectiveness.
Less time.”
"If the Japanese attack here now, they will have no choice but to respond hastily, and the casualties will definitely be very high."
Li Hao's face also darkened.
The training time he has set for the troops is half a year. During this period, the troops can only engage in small-scale battles, not large-scale ones. They mainly focus on training and restoring combat effectiveness.
The reason why this time was set was because in his memory: Okamura Neiji took office as the commander of the North China Front, launched a larger-scale raid on the Eighth Route Army base areas, dug deep blockade ditches, built high blockade walls, and strengthened the fortress policy
, further deepening the three-guang policy will be in half a year.
There is still one and a half months until this time.
Okamura Neiji has taken over as the commander of the North China Front, and it is not impossible for some units to be ordered to launch raids in advance to test their new strategies.
In Li Hao's memory, during the period when Okamura Neiji served as the commander of the North China Front, the Eighth Route Army suffered the greatest losses, the base area shrunk the most, the civilian casualties were the greatest, and the losses were unprecedented.
Li Hao has never really seen the strategies he proposed.
But it gave so many veteran revolutionaries in the Eighth Route Army a headache, which shows how powerful these policies are.
That's why Li Haocai proposed to spend half a year training his troops so that when the raids came, he would have an invincible and invincible force to fight against the Japanese and puppet troops and defend the base area.
Now it seems that the Japanese and puppet troops confronting the garrison seem to have sensed something unusual and plan to sweep the garrison in advance and use the garrison as a whetstone.
The more Li Hao thought about it, the more solemn his expression became, and finally he gave a serious order: "Chief of Staff, order each battalion to speed up the training progress, complete the running-in training as soon as possible, and be ready for battle."
"At the same time, replenish ammunition for each battalion."
"Each main battalion must stockpile all weapons and ammunition for three days of high-intensity combat."
"Political commissar, you also have a mission."
"Our intelligence personnel and reconnaissance forces all took action to find out what materials the little devils had transported to the front line."
"Also, keep a close eye on the major Japanese and puppet strongholds and garrisons around us, and report all troop movements of more than one small team."
Two days later, Wang Hong broke into Li Hao's office again, his face even more solemn than two days ago.
"Captain, there is a new situation!" Wang Hong rushed in and reported hurriedly, passing the information in his hand to Li Hao.
"The Japanese mobilized a large number of Imperial Army troops from the occupied areas into the Japanese and puppet army strongholds and garrisons around us, with a total force of more than 10,000 people."
"I checked and found that these puppet troops were all formed by the Japanese a year ago. Although their combat effectiveness and equipment are not as good as those of the real Japs, they are certainly no problem in defending."
"With the participation of these puppet troops, the total strength of the Japanese and puppet troops confronting us has directly exceeded 20,000 people, one-third of which are Japanese soldiers and two-thirds of which are puppet troops."
Seeing that Li Hao had a sullen face and did not answer, Wang Hong continued: "The little devils have suffered losses from the puppet army in the past, so when they attacked, they used their own people as the main force and the puppet army as the auxiliary."
"This time I suspect they're going to do it the other way around."
"These puppet troops are all transferred from other places. They don't know the garrison, and we don't know them either. The possibility of joining us on the battlefield is almost zero."
"When they attack, they mainly attack and consume us."
"The little devil is following behind to reap the benefits."
"It's possible!" Li Hao finally said.
Although he said so, he did not agree with this judgment in his heart.
He believes in his own memory and also believes that history will not change too much because of his arrival.
These puppet troops must be related to the new sweep strategy proposed by Okamura Neji.
Wang Hong did not know about this sweeping strategy that had not yet been launched, and he had no evidence to prove the existence of this strategy.
So even if I have a good reputation, I can only keep it in my heart.
At the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, the chief of staff is reporting on the preparations for a large-scale raid.
The army commander stood next to the sand table, his eyes shining, and he was confident that he would win this sweep.
"Sir, after forced transportation, the various offensive forces have accumulated more than 500 tons of cement, which is enough to build a thousand cement bunkers, gun towers, and bunkers." the chief of staff reported excitedly.
"Although the garrison is equipped with heavy artillery that captured the imperial army, it is extremely powerful."
"But these heavy artillery are only useful against ordinary bunkers and gun towers."
"This time we used cement to build the turrets and bunkers, and they were both double-layered. Only the artillery shells that directly hit the target can destroy these cement structures.
"Heavy artillery is a long-range artillery. If you want to hit the gun tower directly from a few kilometers away, the probability is too low, unless the garrison has endless artillery shells."
"Of course, they can also choose to shoot at close range, but the possibility of moving a several-kilogram heavy artillery to the vicinity of the gun tower without our eyes and ears is almost zero."
"The blockade trenches and walls we are about to build in the Eighth Route Army base area will become a hurdle that the Eighth Route Army will never be able to overcome. It will greatly limit the range of activities of those heavy artillery, forcing them to appear and then be destroyed by us."
"Yoshi..."
The smile on the commander's face grew wider, and he stared at the chief of staff and continued to ask.
"Are the people who built the ditches and the walls ready?"
"Hi!"
The chief of staff continued to report: "I have dispatched 10,000 Imperial Association troops from all over Shanxi to participate in the war. In order to prevent our battle plan from being leaked in advance, these Imperial Association troops have not yet moved."
"After the offensive begins, they will conduct raids on all surrounding villages and towns, deploying young men to help us dig blockade trenches and build blockade walls. They will cut the Eighth Route Army base areas through blockade trenches, blockade walls, concrete bunkers and bunkers, and then carry out raids in separate areas.
, eating away at the base of the garrison bit by bit, weakening their strength, and finally forcing them to come out and fight us."