"Commander, our new battle plan has worked!"

Garrison regimental headquarters, Hong Linfeng rushed in with a telegram and reported excitedly.

"This is what the three independent battalions have just summed up: since the front-line troops dug the blockade ditch to the gate of the stronghold and attacked and shelled the stronghold with flying thunder artillery, the Japanese puppet army trapped in the stronghold has begun to be anxious."

"They all fought out of the stronghold, trying to destroy the flying thunder cannon and the blockade ditch."

"Our troops took the opportunity to launch an attack and used guerrilla warfare to consume a large number of Japanese puppet troops."

"The three battalion commanders promised in the telegram: as long as there are no accidents on the battlefield, at most one month, they will be able to consume more than half of the Japanese puppet troops trapped in the strongholds, and then take the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive, take all the strongholds, and completely recover the blockade area."

Li Hao shook his head and replied, "No, a month is too long." ”

"The Japanese army is not stupid, it is impossible to be pressed and beaten by us all the time, and it will definitely find a way to break the situation. Therefore, we must take out more people before the Japanese puppet army reacts and reduce the pressure of the next battle. ”

He sent a telegram back to the three battalion commanders: "Let them increase their offensive, force out the Japanese puppet army in the stronghold a few more times, and take the opportunity to kill some more Japanese puppet troops." ”

Hong Linfeng agreed: "This time the devil is indeed more difficult to deal with than before, I will send them a telegram now." ”

The Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan received a telegram for help from the front line after nearly 10 days.

When the stronghold was first attacked by flying thunder artillery, many commanders thought they could solve the problem and did not report it in time.

Of course, there are some careful thoughts of their own.

If you ask your superiors for help as soon as the stronghold encounters difficulties, then your own commander will lose the meaning of existence, and you will definitely leave a lot of bad impressions on your superiors, and finally affect your promotion......

It wasn't until the casualties were getting bigger, the morale was low, and the security of the stronghold began to be affected, that they dared to report to their superiors and ask for support.

"Sir, it's only been more than ten days, and the strongholds have already lost more than two thousand people under the attack of the garrison regiment's new tactics."

"The total number of garrisons in the nine strongholds is less than 8,000 people, which is equivalent to nearly thirty percent of the troops being wiped out by the garrison."

The commander read the telegram three times in a row before he spoke: "The garrison regiment is really powerful!" ”

"The blockade ditch and the flying thunder cannon attack the stronghold, they will not produce any logistical pressure, but they can cause huge pressure on the stronghold garrison, whether it is to defend the stronghold and be bombed, or to kill the stronghold to counterattack, it will lose the troops, hit their plan, and achieve the purpose of consuming us."

"Something has to be done to change that."

"If the front-line garrison is consumed by the garrison regiment with another 2,000 men, our strength advantage will be gone, and they will definitely take advantage of the victory to pursue and launch a full-scale counterattack against each stronghold, break through each and completely destroy all the troops we have stationed in their base area, and then Amaterasu will bless us and we will not be able to return to the sky."

After speaking, the army commander shifted his gaze to the map, and after a few minutes, he suddenly asked, "Laiyuan, Wei County, Guangling, how is the situation in the three county seats?" ”

"It's all in the hands of the Imperial Army." The chief of staff replied.

"Each county town has a reinforced squadron of the Imperial Army and a battalion of the Imperial Army."

"The Eighth Route Army was intimidated by the threat of imperial aircraft and did not dare to dispatch heavy artillery casually. In addition, a large number of ordinary people are stationed in the county, and they dare not use flying thunder cannons for fear of accidental injury. The three county towns have not been attacked. ”

"But there are a lot of Eighth Route Army activities around the county."

"Judging that they are waiting for an opportunity, they will enter the city in one fell swoop and retake the county seat."

The commander snorted coldly and replied, "They don't have a chance." ”

"Pass my order, the front-line troops abandon all their strongholds and retreat to the county seat."

"The reason why the new combat plan of the garrison regiment can hold the lifeblood of the imperial army and consume a large number of imperial army troops is that the stronghold is too small, and there are no ordinary people in it to take the imperial army hostage."

"The garrison can attack us without impunity, sending explosive packs into the stronghold with flying thunder cannons, killing and wounding our troops."

"It's different in the county."

"There are four or five meters high city walls around it, and there are ordinary people in it who take us hostages, even if the garrison digs the offensive position to a hundred meters outside the city, they don't dare to use the flying thunder cannon easily."

"The Flying Thunder Cannon has a short range and is notoriously poor in firing accuracy."

"If there is an explosive package that can cross the city four or five meters high and smash into the city, the power of the explosive package will definitely injure the people by mistake, and the Eighth Route Army will never want to see such a result."

"As for smashing the city, the possibility is too low, if you don't get the explosive package, it will fly into the city and accidentally injure the people, and the Eighth Route Army will definitely not take the risk for a small chance."

"In this way, the impact of the Flying Thunder Cannon on us will be minimized, or even have no impact."

"As long as the imperial army sticks to the county seat and doesn't come out, the garrison can't help them."

"As for their food supplies, they can be obtained under the cover of aircraft by sweeping villages and towns near the county seat."

"And this is also the only chance for the garrison to consume us, but as long as we control the number of times the imperial army goes out of the city to sweep, there will definitely be no problem for more than 2,000 garrisons in each county to hold on for two or three years."

"Of course, if the garrison gathers heavy troops and uses heavy artillery to attack the city, then the result will be uncontrollable."

"But the Imperial Army can also consume a lot of the garrison's vital strength through the defense of the city, which is not a good thing."

The chief of staff's eyes lit up and agreed: "The commander is wise. ”

"The offensive of the imperial army on other battlefields is also not optimistic, in the face of the ubiquitous guerrilla warfare of the Eighth Route Army, many troops have turned from offensive to defensive, and the Eighth Route Army has entered a stage of long-term confrontation."

"In this case, what the Imperial Army needs most is to stabilize the war situation, ensure the stability of the occupied areas, and then rebuild its strength and wait for a new sweep against the Eighth Route Army in the future."

"We have gathered heavy troops to defend Laiyuan, Guangling, Wei County, and the three county seats, and the garrison regiment is bound to deploy heavy troops to besiege the city in order to ensure the safety of the base area."

"In this way, they will not have more troops to attack the areas occupied by the Imperial Army."

The commander nodded in agreement, and then continued: "I have studied the garrison regiment, when they first captured Laiyuan, the imperial army also defended Laiyuan City, but it only lasted less than half a year and was defeated. ”

"The reason is simple: they underestimated the enemy."

"In the face of the garrison's plan to transfer the tiger from the mountain and steal the beams and change the pillars, they rashly killed Laiyuan City, and finally the whole army was destroyed, resulting in Laiyuan City being captured by the garrison."

"We must not make the same mistake a second time."

"After the troops retreated to the three counties of Laiyuan, except for grabbing food and getting supplies, there was no order from the military headquarters, even if the garrison regiment was exposed under their noses, the troops could not attack."

"After being stationed in Laiyuan, the troops will continue to strengthen the city fortifications."

"If I'm not mistaken, when we built the blockade ditch, we hoarded a lot of reinforced concrete in several counties."

"Let them all be used, and I will build the three county towns into impregnable military fortresses."