In the case of mobilizing a large number of puppet troops from Shandong to participate in the war and disarming the local puppet army in Shanxi. In order to win over the effectiveness of these puppet army generals, Okamura Ninji personally made a heavy promise to them, and at the same time, he also made a large number of adjustments to the deployment of the puppet army in the entire Japanese-occupied area. The original deployment of the puppet army was almost completely disrupted. All the puppet army structures have also been dismantled.

The Japanese army reorganized the puppet security army in Hebei into the Seventh Front Army of Wang's puppet peace army, and all of them were transferred to Jiangsu garrison. The first part of the puppet Manchu army, which was withdrawn from Rehe and entered the Guannei, was reorganized into a part of the puppet security army as a whole, and was stationed in Hebei. Replaced the original puppet security army and served as the garrison of the first line of Hebei.

The puppet army deployed in the Suzhou-Anhui region is being transferred to Shandong and Hebei. In particular, the puppet army in Jiangsu, except for the puppet army left to the Wang puppet government with incomplete equipment, only a thousand Manlixia rifles handed over by the Japanese army, and a guard division of more than a dozen Danish Madsen light machine guns to decorate the façade, the rest of the puppet army was all transferred. Even Li Changjiang's subordinates, who had just surrendered to the enemy, were transferred to the Jiaodong Peninsula by him.

Local puppet armies, such as puppet garrisons and security teams, were either disarmed on a large scale or transferred to different locations. This time, the Japanese army disrupted the puppet army structure on a large scale and adjusted the deployment of the puppet army, which brought great trouble to the enemy's work and caused a considerable part of the intelligence failure.

The Japanese army not only prevented these puppet armies from being infiltrated by the underground organizations of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, but also used the territory and other promises to firmly control all the puppet armies in their own hands. directly turned the top superiors of these puppet armies, the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Wang puppet government, into an empty shelf.

The puppet government of Wang, which had worked hard to manage the matter, made a wish to seal the officials, and stuffed enough gold bars, turned out that in addition to the newly established Military Senate, there was a bunch of guys who ate white food, and the only few puppet armies in the past that were reluctant to obey were all transferred away by the Japanese army.

In particular, those puppet armies that have newly defected to the enemy, because they have all defected to the enemy in formation, their combat effectiveness far exceeds those miscellaneous puppet armies originally recruited by Wang's puppet government. The Japanese army used the territory that these miscellaneous forces had always desired, as well as the expansion of troops and equipment as a temptation, to completely divide and disintegrate the puppet army.

These puppet armies were originally a motley army that had been squeezed out, not only supplemented with food, ammunition, military salaries, recruits, etc., but also discriminated against, and were often sent to fight in the most dangerous places. The losses were too heavy, either the number was revoked, or the equipment and soldiers were not replenished at all.

In the Jicha Theater and the Sulu Theater, there was not a single unit of the Central Army. Either a miscellaneous unit like the 69th Army, which was later absorbed, or a miscellaneous unit like the Northeast Army, which was not welcomed in the first place. Among these miscellaneous troops, they all believe that this is a conscious drain of their strength in some way. In China in this year, guns are the king of grass.

In addition, most of those commanders are from warlords, and they have always spared no means to protect themselves. is facing the situation of being excluded and forced to be cannon fodder. The desire for a place in his heart is stronger than anyone else. Whether they are working for Chongqing or joining the enemy as a puppet army, territory and troops are their first choice.

The Japanese army also took advantage of this to lure these puppet generals to betray themselves and serve as thugs. In particular, these puppet troops from the former miscellaneous army who were newly transferred to Shanxi can be said to be quite desperate under the lure of territory and supplementary troops and equipment.

Okamura Ninji's strategy of using China to control China has achieved quite good results at least this time. These puppet armies are much more desperate in action than those puppet armies in Shanxi who often do not work hard. As for whether the Japanese army will fulfill its previous promise after these puppet troops and the Kannai troops are both defeated, it is another matter.

Anyway, these puppet armies are all fighting under the guns of the Japanese army. They themselves also participated in the war so hard for their own survival and with the intention of grabbing territory. After they and those so-called armed forces behind enemy lines of the CCP who are like tarsal bones, both defeated on the battlefield, the Japanese army can admit the original promise, and if they don't admit it, do these guys dare to have any different opinions?

Having lost the capital to bargain with the Imperial Japanese Army, these people could only obediently obey. For the ranks of the Beiyang warlords of China, there were many years of military counseling. As for Okamura Ninji, who has studied the military and political system in Chongqing very thoroughly, the methods used by the highest authorities in Chongqing to deal with the miscellaneous army are already very proficient without learning.

Use turf as a temptation to lure ragtag armies to work for themselves. Wait until these guys' troops are crippled and have no capital. Or adopt the means of mixing, directly annex it, or revoke the number. Raise those troop commanders for idleness. These Great Imperial Japanese Army can do the same.

When these not very obedient puppet troops are gone, what can you do without saying a word to yourself? Even if you replace those officers who are desperately serving the imperial army, and replace those commanders who are not very obedient and use the army in their hands as the capital, it is just a gesture.

For these wall grasses, in fact, they don't want anything but to get promoted and get rich. The people who turn the troops in their hands into armed groups for their own benefit. Okamura Ninji has to use it, but he is also more vigilant in his heart. In fact, the Japanese are more bare than the Chinese.

And now, Okamura Ninji has indeed fulfilled his promise. These people were not transferred to fight against the Chongqing side, but were transferred to the Shanxi battlefield, where they used their combat strength to surpass the advantages of ordinary puppet armies to fight against the anti-Japanese forces behind enemy lines. As for the southwestern Shanxi region, which confronted the Second War Zone, not a single soldier was dispatched.

It is obvious that Okamura Ninji did this in order to use China to control China. Make full use of the internal strife of the Chinese themselves and let the Chinese fight themselves. In order to save the strength of the North China Front Army, which has been used to the extreme, it will free up its hands to deal with the well-equipped anti-Japanese alliance on the battlefield in northern Shanxi.

He also knows very well that these puppet armies have formed and surrendered to Japan. If it is used to fight against Chongqing, not only will it be difficult to play the role that the Japanese army hopes they can play, but the Japanese army also needs to devote a large part of its energy to watch them and guard against these people from turning back on the battlefield.

But it is used to deal with the armed forces behind the enemy lines of the Chinese Communists, and these puppet troops who are unwilling to fight against the Chongqing side are extremely applicable. The political struggle within the Chinese allowed these puppet troops not to have any worries when sweeping the troops of the 18th Group Army, which could greatly reduce the pressure on the Japanese army.

In the face of the development and changes in the shape of shì, the Taihang Military Region and the Taiyue Military Region are now actively carrying out anti-sweeping operations. Taking into account the actual situation, the two major base areas still decided to adopt the old method, which was to pick the soft pinch first, first attack the puppet army, and then weaken the Japanese army's vital forces one by one.

Taking advantage of the fact that these two puppet army divisions had just been transferred to the Shanxi battlefield and the terrain and public conditions were all unfamiliar, they first ate these two so-called puppet peace-building army divisions composed of the former 69 Army instructors and a division of the 69th Army who defected to the enemy last year and a section in one fell swoop, and then turned around to deal with the main force of the Second Front Army.

The boss and the deputy commander-in-chief both believed that as long as the two puppet army divisions were solved first, the Japanese army's sweep of the base area would break an arm. Although the remaining Japanese troops were much stronger in combat, they could not hold on alone. Moreover, the lack of troops has always been a considerable weakness of the Japanese army.

In addition, the Japanese army disarmed the local puppet army who was familiar with geography and people's conditions, and it was difficult for those Japanese troops who were transferred from abroad to do anything in a short period of time. Even if the Japanese army continues to launch a sweep regardless of it, without the cooperation of the puppet army, it will give several base areas some respite.

The boss hoped on the telegram that the troops of the Anti-Japanese Union in northern Jin could dispatch some artillery to cooperate with the support. Most of the military commanders of these two puppet army divisions were born in the Northwest Army. Not only is he especially good at defensive operations, but his combat style is far stronger than those miscellaneous puppet armies in Shanxi. In terms of equipment, it is also far better than the local puppet army in Shanxi.

Without artillery support, I am afraid that the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. Although these soft persimmons are also soft persimmons, they are compared to whom. Compared with the Japanese army, the equipment and combat effectiveness, as well as the soldiers, were indeed very poor. But compared with the original local puppet army in Shanxi, these puppet armies are likely to turn into tricky hedgehogs.

The troops in the Guannai are now in various base areas, except for the Jinsui Military Region, Yan zhòng lacks artillery and offensive firepower. In the Taihang and Taiyue military regions, although the number of light and heavy machine guns is relatively sufficient, the ammunition reserves are now insufficient. There were less than 50 mortars in the whole army, and the number of shells was also insufficient.

Only the mountain artillery was retained after the formation of the advance army and the five that were retained after last year's anti-sweeping operation, but now there are only about 20 mountain artillery shells in the whole army. All the shells captured by Yang Jicai in Taiyuan were transported to the Jinsui and Jinchaji regions. The two major military regions of Taihang and Taiyue, which were fighting on the periphery, were not replenished.

Although the headquarters had transferred a batch of captured shells to Taihang, there was a lack of sufficient artillery to correspond. Moreover, this batch of artillery shells mainly coped with the terrain of Shanxi, and the Japanese troops stationed in Shanxi were equipped with the most 92 infantry shells, and the number of field artillery shells and mountain artillery was not very large.

Overall, there is a shortage of five 41-type mountain guns that can be used for that day. Infantry guns and rapid-fire guns, although there are more than ten of them combined. However, the consumption of artillery shells after last year's counter-sweep, as well as the consumption of this battle, is extremely scarce. Combined, the two military districts have less than 60 rounds of infantry shells, and the rapid-fire shells have all been depleted of embers.

Improving the firepower of the troops left behind in the customs has become the most concerned issue for the boss. Dealing with these puppet troops from the former miscellaneous army, he is not worried about the ability of the troops left behind and the ability of the commander to grasp the fighter. What he was most worried about was the firepower, whether it could meet the needs of solving the two puppet military divisions in the shortest possible time.

Faced with this situation, the boss and the deputy commander-in-chief are very clear. At present, it is indeed the best way to fight the puppet army first. However, the key lies in whether we can fight quickly and free up our hands in a short period of time to deal with enemy forces in other areas. Once they are dragged down by the puppet army of these two divisions, then under the premise of concentrating superior forces to annihilate the enemy, the consequences of the two base areas with weak rear air defense will be unimaginable.

And these two puppet army divisions were vigorously supplemented by the Japanese army with weapons captured in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain last year. At present, the squad has one Czech-made light machine gun with grenadier canisters, and the battalion has six Dagu-made water-cooled Makqin heavy machine guns. Each regiment was armed with four mortars, and the division had four mountain guns and two 20-mm Origen cannons and one company each.

The whole army was made of Liao 13, Czech-made rifles, Belgian rifles, Dagu barge guns, and each regiment also had a pistol company equipped with Dagu-made MP 18 submachine guns. Its equipment level is no worse than that of a division of the Central Army, which is the most well-equipped in Chongqing, and it can even be said to be quite sophisticated.

Moreover, the whole army is full of veterans of more than one year, and there are even those who served as soldiers during the Central Plains War and are still soldiers. The combat effectiveness can be described as quite good, and when it comes to fighting the Japanese army, it should be said to be a strong force. It's a pity that this unit has now become a helper for the Japanese to kill the Chinese.