Chapter 1184: Worrying about casualties
Whether in an isolated place or in a peaceful and prosperous world, whoever controls the highest interests has supreme power!
The same is true in underground fortifications, as long as the resources of the underground fortifications are controlled, whoever is the soil emperor here, first of all, these resources will definitely be consumed, because they have no other way to obtain resources, they can only sit and eat or wait for death.
Of course, there is still one way for the little devils to go, and that is to surrender! However, in the eyes of the commanders at all levels of the little devil, the result of surrender is probably not much better than starving to death in the underground fortifications.
Moreover, the Chinese army has been fighting for so many years, and the little devil has watched China change from a weak little sheep that can be used as food in their mouths at any time to a vicious jackal!
Of course, this is under the condition that the little devils can still eat, so they will not choose to surrender, if they are starved for ten days and half a month, there is no guarantee that all the little devils will choose to surrender, at least half of the little devils will move the idea of surrender.
When people are full of food and drink, they will think about fighting! With bread there is war, and war also makes control of bread in power.
The weather was getting colder and colder, and the chief of the general staff of the Japanese army finally finished the preliminary work of coming to the underground fortifications, although it caused dissatisfaction among some soldiers, but these were still under control, and no one would be the first bird until their most real interests were touched.
"Come with me and see the five thousand soldiers!"
After all, the chief of the general staff of the Japanese army had to deal with the 5,000 soldiers who had escaped, and it was impossible to imprison them for the rest of their lives, whether they were killed or stayed.
In the dim light, it seems that you can see a trace of mist! The underground fortifications are full of mildew due to the lack of sunlight for a long time! If you've just come here, you're definitely not going to get used to it!
Since the little devils have chosen to be shrunken turtles, they must get used to the damp and moldy atmosphere, otherwise they will have to fight the Chinese soldiers on the bare flat ground.
The artillery of the Chinese army is getting more and more powerful, and the fortifications on the ground can no longer withstand the bombardment of the Chinese artillery, so this is the place where they can save their lives.
The conditions in which five thousand soldiers were held were very bad, and the infirm began to get sick! There was no doctor to look after them.
"The Chief of the General Staff has arrived, everyone stands up!"
The sound of the horn echoed in the underground fortifications, and the troops of five thousand people could not see the end in the underground fortifications at all, and the darkness was oppressive, especially when the light was not very good, even if someone slept in the ranks, they would not be detected.
After being guarded for so long, the defeated army and the little devil who fled back have long lost their original arrogance, and the originally neat team has become procrastinating!
The little devil's chief of staff didn't get angry when he saw all this, but he was happy with one thing, the team of five thousand people was quiet, and the sound of water droplets falling from the walls could be heard.
This can show that there is still awe in the hearts of these little devils, what the chief of the Japanese general staff needs is their awe, as long as these people who have fled back are still afraid, they can control it, if a person doesn't even have a sense of awe anymore, he dares to fight with God.
"His Majesty the Emperor's warriors, I know that it is not easy for you to survive, and it is even more difficult for you to escape back, but military law is ruthless, and those who flee from the defeated army and the battlefield should be punished with death!"
Since ancient times, deserters have been shot in any country, no matter what the reason!
When the 5,000 little devils heard the words of the chief of the Japanese army's general staff, they were saddened, they still couldn't avoid death!
"But the military situation is urgent, and His Majesty the Emperor needs you to defend our last place of survival, so I will make the decision for His Majesty the Emperor and spare you once, but from today onwards, you must obey my orders, if you disobey the military order again, we will settle the new account and the old account together!"
The changes before and after made the little devil fly from the mud to the clouds, which was originally a mortal crime, but now as long as he is loyal to their chief of staff, he can live, and he has become the descendant of their chief of general staff, which is a good thing that fell from the sky.
The Chinese soldiers lurking in the Japanese army breathed a sigh of relief, and scolded the chief of general staff of the little devil in his heart, can he not breathe without breathing, he thought he was going to lose his head, but he didn't expect to become a descendant in a blink of an eye.
Obviously, it is impossible for everyone to become a descendant, there are good and bad among the 5,000 people, and what the chief of the general staff of the Japanese army wants is an elite army, which can not only protect himself and the rights in his hands at a critical time, but also infiltrate the hundreds of thousands of troops in the underground fortifications at the critical moment, and control all the troops in the underground fortifications.
It may take a long time to meet the requirements of the Chief of the General Staff of the Japanese Army with a defeated army that has been temporarily organized, so he is not in a hurry either.
What he needs most now is to select personnel first and train this unit to be combat-effective! However, at this time, he needs someone he trusts to help him train this army, this person is not easy to choose, otherwise it will likely become someone else's wedding dress.
In any case, the five thousand imprisoned personnel were released, three thousand soldiers became the direct troops of the chief of the general staff of the little devil, and another thousand became his secret sons, responsible for supervising or monitoring all the officers in the army! The remaining 1,000 men did not enter his eyes and were scattered and divided into various units.
The chief of the general staff of the little devil has his own lineage, and the Chinese soldiers lurking in the army also have a place to stay!
Kill two birds with one stone.
Of course, there is another person, that is, the Japanese staff officer who led the defeat of 5,000 remnants, and he originally had the idea of fighting these 5,000 people, but ...... Now his immediate boss has taken away these 5,000 people, and he is unwilling.
But he still has no intention of giving up, because he wants to change his destiny and can no longer let himself be discarded at will. But he doesn't have the opportunity now, and he still has to do this innocuous position.
The infiltrated Chinese soldiers also had room to survive, although the environment in the underground fortifications was terrible, but they were tasked with making them willing to be ants in this underground castle.
The Japanese army's underground fortifications are intricate, and they are all available! power supply office, barracks, hospital, canteen...... There is everything, each of which can be independent, and each of which can take care of each other.
The soldier in charge of scouting the underground fortification structure also sighed that the person involved in this place is definitely a talent, and this underground project is also a masterpiece that has never been seen before or since, and it is simply an underground Great Wall.
Perhaps the real inspiration of the Japanese army came from the tunnel warfare against the guerrillas back then, and the tunnel warfare was the wisdom of the people who survived behind enemy lines.
If there is iron armor for defense, there is a way to break the enemy!
Since ancient times, the ancestors have broken the copper wall by the way of the iron wall, that is, the inside! No matter how strong a castle is, as long as there is a problem with the inside, it is made of sand.
Now that the lurking soldiers have room to survive, the mission will naturally come to fruition!
However, this is a pain for the soldiers, the scale of the underground fortifications is huge, and their more than 100 people, even if they are grouped, it is difficult to figure out the entire underground fortifications in a short time.
At the beginning, Commander-in-Chief Zhu asked Hu Guoshan for 200 people, which was not casually here, but after a detailed plan, but Hu Guoshan gave Commander-in-Chief Zhu a discount in order to protect his soldiers.
Commander-in-Chief Zhu was also helpless, originally 200 people were his minimum standard! But the 200 men were also the least in his plan, and he did it to protect the soldiers.
But fortunately, although there are few people, there is plenty of time!
The Japanese army still had a lot of troops in Manchuria, and it would take a lot of time for Hu Guoshan to completely wipe out the Japanese army on land, at least the Japanese army in South Manchuria would have to make him toss for a while.
Although the three Japanese military forces in South Manchuria, although they live like beggars, the hundred-legged insects are dead but not stiff, especially once the little devils are tossed, Hu Guoshan must also guard against being bitten by them.
The onset of winter has brought the two sides into a brief period of peace, which of course is only a superficial peace.
Hu Guoshan ordered to use various methods to send supplies to the front-line troops, and the little devils also used various methods to obtain supplies.
War is a tug-of-war, and whoever has adequate supplies will be able to hold out longer! The longer it drags on, the more and more bad it is for the little devils, especially if they don't eat in winter.
City, the Japanese army occupies three important cities in South Manchuria! But the three cities are gradually losing contact, and although there are only a few guerrillas between them, they definitely do not play such a big role.
When the ground forces stopped attacking in winter, they relied on the strength of the air force, and once the air force bombed, the Japanese army would have one less contact, and the price paid for one contact was too great.
The Japanese army did not dare to leave the city, the transportation of grain, grass, ammunition and medicine had been cut off, and the Japanese troops who left the city were only in groups of twenty or thirty people, and it was not worth bombing by bombers at all, so it was just left to the guerrillas to clean up.
The most troublesome thing is that the Japanese army is deployed according to the city, and the strong fortifications and the depth of the city's defense are indeed a headache.
At least the winter alone can't starve the little devil, but the little devil's fangs have gone through the wind and frost and are no longer so sharp.
"It's really getting colder and colder, Commander, can you bring me a glass of wine to warm up?" An army commander came to Hu Guoshan to receive orders.
"Alcohol is forbidden in the army, don't challenge my bottom line here, if you want to drink and go back to your military headquarters to drink secretly, I will also turn a blind eye, but if you drink too much and play drunk, you will feel that you have a hole missing in your head!"
Hu Guoshan has a sad face these days, the war situation is very good to them, but he is always calculating how to reduce the casualties of the troops!
He had already rehearsed hundreds of battles against the Japanese army in South Manchuria on the sand table, and each time they had to pay nearly 100,000 casualties, which was a large casualty figure.