The army commander's idea is very good. As long as the imperial army is inserted into the imperial association army and the imperial army is on duty, the imperial association army will definitely not dare to have second thoughts!
But he forgot that the Chinese are Chinese and we can never be of the same mind as them!
Even if you are threatened by force and have to compromise and obey their orders, it is only superficial!
In their hearts, few people are truly willing to be traitors and betray their ancestors!
Although the military commander has thought of all the possible accidents and made relevant preparations, he cannot change people's hearts and cannot prepare for them!
So this idea is doomed to come to nothing, and end up being used as a wedding dress for the Eighth Route Army!
The commander did not expect this!
There was another thing he didn't expect either!
Last night, not only Shanxi was fighting, but the whole of North China was also fighting!
The commander of the Japanese North China Front Headquarters was furious in his office!
Since he took office, all battles against the Eighth Route Army were initiated by the Imperial Army, and then the Eighth Route Army passively faced the enemy!
Although these large-scale sweeps ended in failure or ended with the defeat of the imperial army, the initiative on the battlefield has always been in the hands of the imperial army!
Last night, the Eighth Route Army suddenly launched a full-scale attack on the areas occupied by the Imperial Army, which suddenly made the commander feel an unprecedented crisis! Especially after seeing the losses compiled by the garrison in various places, this sense of crisis became even stronger!
In just one night, the entire North China lost more than 5,000 imperial troops and more than 8,000 imperial troops!
Although this loss was still within the tolerance of the North China Front Army, the powerful fighting power unleashed by the Eighth Route Army made him feel scared!
This shows that the Eighth Route Army not only has the ability to repel the imperial army's attack, but also has the ability to take the initiative to attack, both offensive and defensive!
In this case, there will be many unexpected changes in the situation in North China in the future!
The initiative on the battlefield is not only in the hands of the Imperial Army, which takes the initiative to provoke a war and attacks the Eighth Route Army! It may also be controlled by the Eighth Route Army, just like last night, which proactively provokes a war and launches an attack on the Japanese Army in North China!
"Commander, I believe that we must concentrate our forces to attack the Eighth Route Army's two counterattacks and dampen their offensive momentum. It is best to severely damage the two Eighth Route Army! Only in this way will they retreat again and regain the initiative on the battlefield.
Come into our hands!" the chief of staff suggested standing aside!
He was previously the commander of the Major General Brigade and has very rich combat experience!
The only purpose of coming to the headquarters is to accumulate qualifications and create conditions for being promoted to lieutenant general and division commander in the future!
So he could see at a glance the impact this counterattack might have on the situation in North China!
Seeing that the commander remained silent, the chief of staff continued: "If we don't respond in time and let the Eighth Route Army continue to fight, our losses will increase!"
"But our opponent, the Eighth Route Army, can continue to grow and develop by feeding war with war!"
"In this way, we can gain more initiative on the battlefield, provoke wars anytime and anywhere, and proactively attack the imperial army, making us unable to defend ourselves!"
"My humble suggestion is that the independent mixed brigades that the front army is preparing to transfer to Laiyuan City should immediately withdraw to their respective stations and cooperate with the local garrison to attack the Eighth Route Army's two counterattacks to knock off the Eighth Route Army's offensive momentum!"
"The Eighth Route Army does not have a complete logistics system. The limited supplies mean that their combat potential is very limited. Even if they take the initiative to provoke a war, they will not be able to hold on for too long!"
"As long as we knock down their offensive spirit and exhaust their war potential, they will become the same as before!"
The commander quickly made a decision: "Let's do it!"
"Chief of Staff, you should give the order to the independent mixed brigade now to withdraw the troops to their original location and not go to Laiyuan for the time being!"
"Send a telegram to Taiyuan as well. In order to alleviate the bad situation in North China, the battle to attack the garrison must be postponed to make them ready. I will find a way to keep an eye on the garrison and prevent them from growing stronger!"
At the Eighth Route Army headquarters, after the attack order was issued, the deputy commander-in-chief did not feel sleepy at all and stayed in the war room waiting for news!
The flying thunder cannon did not disappoint him!
Good news began to arrive at the headquarters at one o'clock in the morning!
After dawn, the deputy commander's face was already full of smiles!
The results were greater than he expected, and the troop casualties were very small!
"Boss, all the troops have sent telegrams requesting war. I hope this battle can continue!"
The deputy chief of staff took a stack of telegrams and was happy to report!
"It seems that all the troops took advantage last night!" the deputy commander replied with a smile!
The deputy chief of staff quickly replied: "Boss, you guessed wrong this time!"
“They are not just taking advantage!
"I saw more than 9,000 corpses and prisoners of the Japanese and puppet troops, captured 113 strongholds, large and small, and maintained more than 200 strongholds!"
"Those strongholds are front-line positions used by the Japanese and puppet troops to confront us, and a large amount of supplies, weapons and ammunition are stored in them!"
"Because we used thunder cannons on the battlefield, the enemy was killed without resistance for a long time, so all the materials, weapons and ammunition fell into our hands without being used almost!"
"I just made statistics and found that among the seizures reported by each unit alone, there are more than 6,500 rifles, 127 light and heavy machine guns, 28 mortars, four mountain guns, and six infantry guns!"
"As for ammunition, there are more than one million rounds of rifle bullets and more than 3,000 artillery shells!"
"In addition, there are more than 500,000 kilograms of grain!"
"One more thing, these seizures were all taken from Japanese and puppet army strongholds!"
"We captured more than a hundred strongholds in one night, and all the villages and towns controlled by these strongholds fell into our hands!"
"Because the attack was so sudden, we killed the maintenance committees and traitor agents in various villages and towns before they had time to retreat. The weapons, ammunition and materials seized from them have not yet been counted!"
"Although there may be a little less weapons and ammunition, there will definitely be a lot of food and oceans!"
"I estimate that there must be three to four thousand guns, and as for the food, it must be more than two million kilograms!"
"Many of those maintenance committees and traitorous spies are local big landowners and bullies. They must have accumulated a lot of wealth by exploiting the people. Now they are all ours!"
The smile on the deputy commander’s face became even wider!
The shortage exists throughout the base area. It is definitely a surprise to harvest so much food at once!
There are also weapons and ammunition, enough for the Eighth Route Army to form ten more regiments!
But the deputy commander-in-chief was not dazzled by the victory in front of him!
The flying thunder cannon has weaknesses, and many of them are fatal!
Last night, the troops caught the Japanese army by surprise. They used flying thunder cannons on a large scale when the Japanese were not prepared, and achieved such a great result!
Now the Japanese army must be prepared. Even if they can survive another attack, it won't be too big, and they may be counterattacked by the Japanese, losing their wives and losing their troops!
But the deputy commander-in-chief didn’t want to miss this good opportunity to pursue victory!