Chapter 1195 The Japanese Army Wants to Be a Shrinking Turtle?
Seeing that the commander's eyes were always focused on the vicinity of Lingqiu, the chief of staff immediately asked: "Sir, are you still studying the Eighth Route Army Garrison Regiment?"
"Not bad!" The military commander did not deny it.
"This garrison has caused us to lose troops and generals time and time again. We must find a way to completely solve this personal problem."
The chief of staff thought for a moment and replied: "Sir, the intelligence department has not weakened its intelligence collection efforts on the garrison. Judging from what has been collected so far, the garrison mainly consists of two types of troops."
"One is the main force, and the other is the local force whose combat effectiveness is no less than that of the main force."
"The main force consists of three main battalions, a cavalry battalion, an artillery battalion, an air defense battalion, and several directly affiliated companies, with a total strength of more than 3,000 people."
"The local army has four independent battalions. Each independent battalion has its own artillery and heavy machine gun units and can conduct independent operations. The total strength is about 800 people, which adds up to more than 3,000 people."
"As long as the imperial army kills these more than 6,000 people, the garrison will be in name only."
The army commander nodded and asked: "Does your staff have any ideas?"
The chief of staff shook his head and replied with an embarrassed look: "Not yet."
"The garrison regiment is too cunning, and has strong combat effectiveness, well-equipped equipment, and sufficient ammunition. It is completely different from other Eighth Route Army units. Previously, the imperial army focused on attacking them, and then divided their forces... All kinds of tactics and tactics were exhausted.
Still haven't killed them."
"So the general staff has not yet thought of a better strategy to attack the garrison."
The commander replied seriously: "Since you have no idea, just listen to me."
"To deal with the garrison, we can no longer rely solely on military attack as we did before, but must combine other means to deal with this serious threat."
"What other means?" the chief of staff asked immediately.
The army commander replied: "With economic blockade, we must first disrupt their base areas so that their soldiers and civilians are not as united as before, and then take advantage of the chaos to launch attacks."
The chief of staff asked in confusion: "Sir, if I remember correctly, our economic blockade against the garrison has never stopped, but the problems of food shortage and material shortage in the base area have been resolved one by one by them, and their effect is very limited.
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"That's because our economic blockade is passive and has very little impact on them." The military commander shouted with dissatisfaction.
Then he changed the topic and continued: "If we find ways to expand their food gap by twice or even ten times, and also find ways to expand the material gap, they will not be able to solve this problem so easily."
The chief of staff's eyes immediately widened, he looked at the army commander with a look of disbelief on his face and shouted: "This is impossible."
"Sir, we have also had the idea of expanding the food gap of the Eighth Route Army, and we have implemented it."
"The plan at that time was to send agents and action teams to sneak into the garrison base and destroy their few food and supplies."
"It worked very well at first, but it didn't take long for these agents and action teams to be exposed."
"The military-civilian relationship in the garrison base area is very good, and a very strict foreign population inspection system is implemented. The agents and action teams we sent there are all outsiders. As soon as they were exposed, someone reported it to the nearby Eighth Route Army troops, and then sent troops to encircle and suppress us.
people."
"In half a month of operation, we only destroyed less than 200,000 kilograms of grain, but lost dozens of agents and more than a dozen action teams. The gain outweighed the loss."
The military commander shook his head and replied confidently: "Just because your plan failed does not mean that my plan will also fail."
"Don't the garrison base areas have strict immigration inspection systems? Then I will find a way to make these systems ineffective and see how they can find our agents and action teams lurking in their base areas."
"However, the top priority now is to mobilize troops, ask the superiors for reinforcements, and station a sufficient number of troops outside the garrison base area to form a tight encirclement, so that our economic blockade will be effective."
"So you have to warn the intelligence department and our troops stationed on the edge of the garrison base to keep their heads down from now on. No one can take the initiative to provoke the garrison without an order, so as not to alert the enemy."
At the Lingqiu garrison headquarters, everyone's faces were obviously much redder than before.
These are all the work of the fishing and hunting team and the purchasing team.
In order to reduce the burden on the base area and feed a few more people, the food supply of the main force has long been reduced to the lowest level, which can only ensure that the soldiers are well fed and have the physical strength to train and fight.
As for nutrition, don’t even think about it.
The emergence of fishing and hunting teams, wild vegetable teams, and purchasing teams not only greatly eased the food consumption of the main army, allowing more troops to be fed with limited food, but also increased the diversity of the army's rations.
Especially fish and meat, which are not only filling but also more nutritious.
After a few days, everyone's sallow and thin faces were obviously more rosy.
"Captain, the fifth batch of grain sent back by the purchasing team has just arrived at the regiment headquarters. It totals three thousand kilograms, which is two hundred kilograms more than the original."
"In addition, the fishing and hunting team also harvested more than we planned."
"I have ordered each battalion to send all the extra prey to the regiment headquarters, where it will be salted and dried in a centralized manner. When no prey or fish can be caught in the future, they will be taken out to satisfy the soldiers' hunger and supplement their nutrition."
Li Hao nodded and said, "All the extra food will be hoarded."
"The little Japs outside our base area have been too quiet during this period. This is not their character."
"As the old saying goes, there will always be monsters when things go wrong. They must be brewing a new conspiracy against our base area."
"So we must seize this rare peaceful time and stock up on food to prepare for emergencies."
"If a war breaks out, no one can guarantee whether Yixian's food channels will be temporarily interrupted."
Hong Linfeng's face gradually became serious: "Don't worry, captain, I'll be keeping an eye on this matter personally."
"All the extra food will be stored in the secret warehouse of the regiment headquarters."
"The soldiers and horses have to go ahead with food and grass before they use it. No matter whether the little devils outside the base area have any conspiracy or not, the soldiers' food rations must not have any accidents."
Speaking of this, Hong Linfeng thought of Li Hao's worries again, thought for a moment and reminded: "Captain, after the two independent battalions went to Datong, there are only two independent battalions left on the edge of the base area. Many of their troops are newly expanded.
They have not yet fully formed combat effectiveness. Should we transfer the three main battalions to their side so that if the Japanese army suddenly launches an attack, they can respond easily."
Li Hao shook his head and replied: "No need for the time being."
"The Japanese and puppet troops stationed near our base area have not yet had the strength to attack our garrison, so the base area is still safe now."
"What I mean by their lack of movement is not just offensive, but also troop mobilization, intelligence reconnaissance, and even economic blockade..."
"If I remember correctly, after the Independence Battalion pulled out the three nails planted by the Japanese army in our base area, all their intelligence personnel went into hiding and seldom took any action. There has been no intelligence war in the base area for a long time."
"Their economic blockade against us remains the same as before, there is no change."
"We pulled out three nails in a row, killed so many of their troops, and took such a huge advantage outside Datong City. Do the little devils really intend to swallow their anger and pretend that nothing happened?"
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