At the Guanshan Town stronghold, Captain Yoshida was in a very bad mood.
I was woken up by my subordinates in the middle of the night yesterday to deal with the possible attack on the Zhouzhuang stronghold by the Eighth Route Army.
After working for several hours, there was a false alarm and the Zhouzhuang stronghold was not attacked.
Just when I was about to take a nap and go back to sleep, I was woken up by my subordinates again.
"Sir, the Zhouzhuang stronghold reported that they were surrounded by the Eighth Route Army and blocked inside the stronghold." The second lieutenant reported with a serious face.
"The Eighth Route Army established a defense line 500 meters away from the stronghold, connected the stronghold to the highway outside, blocked ditches, and blocked walls, all of which were cut off."
"The troops are guarding the defense line. As soon as any troops leave their strongholds, they will be immediately attacked by the Eighth Route Army. Not only are they equipped with rifles and light machine guns, they are also equipped with heavy machine guns and mortars, and their firepower is very strong."
"Because there are not enough troops stationed at the stronghold, they can only watch helplessly as the Eighth Route Army reinforces its defense line."
"I hope we can send mobile troops to reinforce them, attack from inside and outside to kill the Eighth Route Army blocking the entrance to the stronghold, or request aviation reinforcements to blow back the Eighth Route Army blocking the stronghold outside, and open up the entrance to the stronghold."
Captain Yoshida's anger suddenly rose up and came out, and his eyes were red and red, as if he could spit out fire.
What the Eighth Route Army did at the Zhouzhuang stronghold was definitely a slap in the face.
If word spreads, he will definitely become the laughing stock of his colleagues.
You know, on the Chinese battlefield, the imperial army has always been chasing the Chinese army.
Now, as a member of the Imperial Army, his subordinates were not only chased and beaten by the Eighth Route Army, but they were also blocked at the entrance of the stronghold and did not dare to go out. More importantly, they could not send troops for reinforcements, so they could only hide in the stronghold together and act like cowards.
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Because this operation made it clear that it was a conspiracy of the Eighth Route Army to force the mobile troops out of Guanshan Town, so that they could use guerrilla warfare to consume the strength of the mobile troops.
"Sir, something happened at the Zhongcun stronghold." Chief Cao rushed in and reported.
"The Eighth Route Army has established a defense line outside the stronghold, cutting off the roads leading to and from the stronghold, blocking ditches, and blocking walls."
"Because there were too few imperial troops stationed at the stronghold and almost no offensive capabilities, they could only defend the stronghold and watch the Eighth Route Army build a defensive line."
The deputy captain walked in and asked anxiously: "Sir, we must take action. If the garrison is huddled in the stronghold and unable to move, they will lose their deterrent effect on the nearby Chinese, and the nearby blockade ditch and blockade wall will become decorations.
Each stronghold will lose the meaning of their existence.
Captain Yoshida felt aggrieved, but he still had to bite the bullet and ordered: "Mobile troops stand still..."
"Don't you see? This is a typical encirclement of the Eighth Route Army for reinforcements, forcing us to dispatch mobile troops, and then use guerrilla warfare to attack them."
"I'm sure that when the mobile troops reach the stronghold, the Eighth Route Army that besieged the stronghold will retreat in advance."
"When the mobile troops return to Guanshan Town, they will also return to their stronghold, forcing the mobile troops to continue dispatching and continue to consume their troops until the mobile troops lose their combat effectiveness."
"So we can't be fooled. It's still my previous order: mobile troops must not attack rashly without absolute certainty."
Two days later, the Dawangzhuang maintenance meeting slowly approached the Zhouzhuang stronghold with ten carts filled with grain.
The Eighth Route Army on the defensive line and the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold all saw it.
"The troops should not move for now!" ordered the company and platoon commanders squatting in the trenches.
"When the convoy reaches 20 meters in front of us, the four platoons will rush out, disperse the escorting maintenance meeting, and seize the food!"
In the stronghold turret, the team leader looked solemn, as if he had seen what was going to happen next.
The subordinate stood nearby and shouted anxiously: "Sir, the Eighth Route Army is too cunning. They blocked the outside of the stronghold and the food that was handed over to us at the maintenance meeting could not be sent in. And they also gave the Eighth Route Army a free advantage?"
"They are taking food from us. They are so arrogant."
"Guanshan Town no longer plans to send us military rations. The food sent by the Maintenance Association will be our future military rations. If we are intercepted by the Eighth Route Army, we will starve..."
"Shut up..." the squad leader scolded with a stern face.
"Do you think I don't know these things? But there are only so many troops stationed in the stronghold, what can we do!"
While he was talking, the Eighth Route Army outside the stronghold had already begun to take action.
More than thirty Eighth Route Army troops, with their rifles fixed with bayonets pointed, roared and rushed out of the position.
It's okay to frighten the common people by escorting food maintenance, but if you encounter the real Eighth Route Army, they will definitely run away faster than a rabbit.
Abandoning the cart, he turned around and ran for his life. No one dared to fight back...
At the Guanshan Town stronghold, the second lieutenant in charge of communications just put down the phone and his face darkened.
"Sir, something happened again at the Zhouzhuang stronghold."
"At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Dawangzhuang maintenance committee was ordered to escort more than 20,000 kilograms of grain to the stronghold, but the Eighth Route Army stopped it at the gate of the stronghold and took it away."
"The troops garrisoned at the stronghold had no offensive capabilities and could only watch helplessly as the Eighth Route Army broke up the maintenance committee and escorted the troops and snatched food at the gate of the stronghold."
"What?" Captain Yoshida couldn't sit still, and his face darkened.
He became more and more solemn, and finally he suddenly realized and shouted: "I understand. The Eighth Route Army sent troops to block the stronghold. In addition to forcing us to dispatch mobile troops to surround the stronghold for reinforcements, it can also intercept the food that the maintenance committee was ordered to send to the stronghold."
"The food was stolen by the Eighth Route Army at the gate of the stronghold. The responsibility does not lie with the maintenance committee. The imperial army has no excuse to cause trouble for them and to scare the monkeys."
"What a cunning Eighth Route Army."
The deputy captain analyzed: "Sir, there is only one way left!"
"Ask each village maintenance group to gather the food together, and then send out mobile troops to personally escort the food back to the stronghold."
Captain Yoshida shook his head like a rattle and refused without thinking: "No."
"In that case, the attacking troops will be too far away from the stronghold. The Eighth Route Army will definitely set up a dragnet on the road, waiting for us to get into it, and then continue to attack us."
"I don't want to use up the last bit of mobile troops I have for food."
The vice-captain frowned, racking his brains and couldn't think of a second solution. Finally he shook his head and replied helplessly: "What should we do?"
"The food collection is an order from above and we must carry it out."
"And this food is our military ration for the next year. If the Eighth Route Army takes it all away, we will starve."
"There are also two strongholds in Zhouzhuang and Zhongcun. Their military rations in stock are only enough to last for five days."
"The Eighth Route Army is blocking the outside of the stronghold and preventing food from entering the stronghold. In five days, the stronghold will run out of food. We cannot let the troops fight hungry!"
"The Imperial Army may be able to hold on for a while, but the Imperial Alliance Army will definitely collapse on the spot."
"At that time, there will be no need for the Eighth Route Army to attack, just two strongholds will be finished."
Captain Yoshida seemed to have thought of a way, his frown slowly relaxed, his eyes shot out two rays of light, and then he answered.
"The mobile unit must not leave the stronghold too far."
"That's asking for death on your own and giving the Eighth Route Army military exploits in vain."
"I decided to grab food from the Eighth Route Army at the gate of the stronghold."
"Notify all maintenance committees: The order to escort food remains unchanged. Those who do not want to be settled by the imperial army should send the food to the nearest stronghold. The imperial army will send troops to defeat the Eighth Route Army guarding outside the stronghold and receive the food."
"Order the mobile force to be divided into three, one part to stay in Guanshan Town, and the other two reinforcement teams to set off now, to march urgently to reinforce the two strongholds of Zhouzhuang and Zhongcun, and assist the garrison at the stronghold to grab food from the Eighth Route Army at the gate of the stronghold."