After the headquarters of the garrison regiment and the Jin Suijun to buy food were on the right track, Li Hao's mind returned to the garrison regiment.

At this moment, he was studying the twenty cadres that Commander Chen supported him.

How to use them to train the garrison regiment into an elite that cannot be broken or dragged down.

Political Commissar Wang Hong suddenly walked in, holding a piece of information in his hand, his face full of anxiety.

"Regiment commander, there is a situation, the Japanese puppet army garrison that confronted us has been in traffic since three days ago, and every day cars loaded with materials we don't know enter the stronghold, and then leave empty."

"Now it adds up to two or three hundred cars, and there is no intention of stopping. In my judgment, the Japanese army must be preparing for a new offensive. ”

"So fast?" Hong Linfeng shouted.

His face became ugly at that time: "Regiment commander, it has only been more than four months since the end of the last counter-sweep, and although the recruits have completed basic training, they have been mixed with veterans, and they are undergoing run-in training, but they are still a lot of time away from finally forming combat effectiveness." ”

"If the devils kill now, they can only rush to the battle, and the casualties will definitely be very large."

Li Hao's face also sank.

The training time set by the unit is half a year, and during this time period, the unit can only fight in small amounts, not in large quantities, and the main focus is on training troops and restoring combat effectiveness.

The reason why this time was set is because in his memory: Okamura Ninji took office as commander of the North China Front Army, launched a larger-scale sweep of the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, dug a blockade ditch deeply, built a blockade wall, strengthened the fortress policy, and further deepened the three-light policy half a year later.

Now there is still a month and a half left before that time.

Okamura Ninji had already taken up the post of commander of the North China Front, and it was not impossible for certain units to launch a sweep in advance and test their new tactics.

In Li Hao's memory, during the period when Okamura Ningji was the commander of the North China Front, the Eighth Route Army suffered the greatest losses, the base area shrank the most seriously, the civilian casualties were the largest, and the losses were unprecedented.

Li Hao didn't really see the strategies he proposed.

But the fact that so many old revolutionaries in the Eighth Route Army had a headache shows how powerful these policies are.

Therefore, Li Haocai proposed to train elite soldiers for half a year, and when the sweep came, there would be a force that could not be dragged and defeated to fight against the Japanese puppet army and defend the base area.

Now it seems that the Japanese puppet army confronting the garrison seems to have smelled something unusual, and plans to sweep the garrison in advance and use the garrison as a whetstone.

The more Li Hao thought about it, the more solemn his face became, and finally ordered very seriously: "Chief of Staff, order all battalions to speed up the training progress, complete the run-in training as soon as possible, and prepare for battle." ”

"At the same time, replenish the battalions with ammunition."

"Each main battalion had to stock up on all the weapons and ammunition for three days of intense combat."

"Commissar, you also have a mission."

"Our intelligence officers, reconnaissance troops, all go into action, and we must find out what supplies the little devils have sent to the front line."

"Also, keep an eye on the major strongholds and garrisons of the Japanese puppet army around us, and report all the troop movements of more than one squad."

Two days later, Wang Hong broke into Li Hao's office again, his face even more solemn than two days ago.

"Commander, there's a new situation!" Rushing in, Wang Hong hurriedly reported, and handed the information in his hand to Li Hao by the way.

"The Japanese sent a large number of Imperial Allied troops from the occupied areas into the Japanese puppet army strongholds and garrisons around us, with a total strength of more than 10,000 troops."

"I've checked, these puppet armies are all units formed by the Japanese a year ago, and although their combat effectiveness and equipment are not as good as those of real little devils, they are definitely no problem in defense."

"With these puppet armies joining, the total strength of the Japanese puppet army facing us directly exceeded 20,000, of which one-third were devils and two-thirds were puppet troops."

Seeing that Li Hao didn't answer with a calm face, Wang Hong continued: "In the past, the little devils suffered losses on the puppet army, so when they attacked, they were mainly their own people, supplemented by the puppet army. ”

"This time I suspect they're going to do the other way around."

"These puppet troops are all transferred from other places, they don't know the garrison regiment, and we don't know them, and the possibility of joining us on the battlefield anyway is almost zero."

"When they attack, they attack and consume us."

"The little devil follows behind, taking advantage of the fisherman."

"It's possible!" Li Hao finally spoke.

Although he said this, he did not agree with this judgment in his heart.

He believed in his memories and believed that history would not change much because of his arrival.

These puppet armies must have something to do with the new sweeping strategy proposed by Okamura Ninji.

Wang Hong didn't know about this sweeping strategy, which had not yet come out, and he had no evidence to prove its existence.

So even if you are clear, you can only hold it in your heart.

The chief of staff of the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan is reporting on the preparations for the sweep.

The commander stood next to the sand table, his eyes shining, and he was full of confidence in the success of this sweep.

"Sir, after strong transportation, the various attacking troops have hoarded more than 500 tons of cement, enough to build a thousand cement bunkers, turrets, and hidden bunkers." The chief of staff reported with excitement.

"Although the garrison regiment is equipped with heavy artillery that captured the imperial army, it is extremely powerful."

"But these heavy guns are only useful for ordinary bunkers and turrets."

"This time we built turrets and bunkers with cement, and they were both double-layered, and only shells hit the target directly to destroy these concrete structures.

"Heavy artillery is long-range artillery, and if you want to hit the turret directly from a distance of a few kilometers, the probability is too low, unless the garrison regiment has an endless number of shells."

"Of course, they can also choose to shoot at close range, but the possibility of evading our eyes and ears and moving thousands of pounds of heavy artillery to the vicinity of the turret is almost zero."

"The blockade ditch and blockade wall that we are about to build in the base area of the Eighth Route Army will become a hurdle that the Eighth Route Army will never be able to cross, greatly limiting the range of movement of those heavy artillery, forcing them to show up and then be destroyed by us."

"Yo Xi ......"

The smile on the commander's face widened, and he stared at the chief of staff and continued to ask.

"Are all those who build the ditch and the wall ready?"

"Hey!"

The chief of staff continued to report: "10,000 Imperial Allied troops were transferred from all over Shanxi to participate in the war, and in order to prevent our battle plan from being leaked in advance, these Imperial Allied troops have not yet moved. ”

"After the offensive begins, they will sweep all the surrounding villages and towns, send young men to dig blockade ditches for us, repair blockade walls, cut the base areas of the Eighth Route Army through blockade ditches, blockade walls, cement bunkers and dark bunkers, and then sweep in different areas, encroach on the garrison base areas little by little, weaken their strength, and finally force them to come out and fight with us."