Under such circumstances, how can the combat objectives be accomplished at the minimum cost? It has become the most concerned issue for the two CEOs. After several discussions, the two CEOs agreed that strengthening firepower is a key element in solving the problem. It is precisely because of the lack of this element in the current Guannai troops that the boss personally called Yang Zhen, hoping that the artillery of the Anti-Japanese Federation in northern Shanxi could send a part of it south to participate in the war.

Especially when the puppet army fights, no matter what kind of puppet army it is, there will always be a Japanese army to cooperate with the battle. The two puppet army divisions that attacked from Jinnan this time had a Japanese infantry brigade in each division, and they were dispatched together with them whether they were cooperating with the battle or supervising the battle.

Under such circumstances, it may be difficult to get rid of these two puppet army divisions in the shortest possible time without increasing the firepower of the combat troops. After several considerations, the boss still sent this telegram to Yang Zhen. In fact, the boss's consideration and hesitation were already a little too worried. The artillery he needs, Yang Zhen has already thought about it, and has already begun to deploy it.

However, the boss only informed Yang Zhen of the Japanese army's sweep of the Taihang and Taiyue base areas on the telegram, but the 21st Division, the current 32nd Division around Taiyuan, and the movements of the 41st Division were not mentioned in the telegram. In other words, the specific movements of these Japanese divisions have not yet been ascertained.

Putting down the telegram in his hand, Yang Zhen also understood why the puppet army was mobilized so frequently, but the various base areas were always slow in their movements. The main reason was that the Japanese army had completely disrupted the formation and deployment of the puppet army, which had brought considerable trouble and passivity to the development of enemy engineering and intelligence work in various base areas behind enemy lines in the Guannai.

Although the Shandong troops sent enemy cadres to Shanxi to hand over the relationship between the enemy and the workers as soon as these puppet troops were deployed. But people take a train, and the speed of transferring from Shandong to the surrounding areas of Shanxi is very fast. In order to transport these puppet troops to Shanxi, Okamura Ningji even dispatched a large number of trucks along the Pinghan Line to transport them when the railway was paralyzed. It is guaranteed that the puppet army will arrive at its designated defense area in the shortest possible time.

In addition to the main force of the Second Front Army, which followed up later, marched on foot after getting off the bus in Pinghan. The two wore Chongqing-style military uniforms, except for the armbands that read "Peaceful Nation-building", a red circle around the blue sky and white sun cockade, and a pennant like a yellow diaper on the flag.

There is almost no difference between the whole body and the military uniform of Chongqing. Even at the beginning, the local people regarded it as the vanguard of the two divisions of the Central Army sent by Chongqing because of the military uniforms on their bodies. In the strange eyes of Shanxi people, they were stationed in the designated area of Jinnan for the first time.

After surrendering to the enemy, these so-called puppet Central Army, which were organized into Wang's puppet system, wore almost no difference from the military uniforms of Chongqing. With the support of the Japanese bayonets, he not only staged a so-called grand ceremony, but also completely copied the Chongqing side in the setting of the qiē organization.

Even in the military uniform of the puppet army that was established, it also copied the civilian 24-style military uniform of Chongqing. The general will wear a Japanese-style military uniform and a Japanese military hat with a nest on his head. Or a Beiyang Army uniform, with the five-color five-pointed star in the Beiyang period as the cockade of those pseudo-armies of various numbers, all of them were uniformly replaced with civilian 24-style military uniforms.

As for equipping the puppet army with this military uniform, whether it will insult this military uniform, that is not something that people who think are orthodox should think about. That's why these puppet soldiers are dressed in brand-new civilian 24-style military uniforms, so that the local people regard them as the central army that came to Shanxi to fight in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.

After all, the difference between this military uniform and the original Japanese-style military uniform of the Shanxi puppet army is too great. The common people can tell the difference between these puppet armies and the previous ones. In particular, the people in the areas where the Central Army had been stationed thought that the Nationalist Army had returned to Shanxi for a counteroffensive, and they made some jokes.

These puppet armies used modern means of transportation under the control of the Japanese army, under the impetus to gain their own territory. In the shortest possible time, they rushed to the territory designated for them by the Japanese army. However, the cadres sent by the Shandong troops, under the strict inspection of the Japanese army, are not only unable to take the train and other means of transportation. You can only rely on your own feet and walk step by step.

In the middle, you have to pass through a blockade line to avoid the search and arrest of the Japanese puppet army along the way. The two puppet army divisions at the forefront here have all been deployed. The enemy cadres dispatched by the Shandong Military Region over there, under the cover of various guerrilla units and local armed forces, desperately rushed to the headquarters of the 18th Group Army in the Taihang Mountains.

The work of the enemy's engineering departments in the major strategic zones has always been strictly confidential. What is most important during the war, intelligence is the most important. Although the regulations of the major strategic zones vary greatly due to their own conditions and environmental constraints. But there is one thing in all, and that is strict secrecy.

Moreover, not only do the major strategic zones have strict regulations on enemy work and intelligence, but also the second-level military regions and military subdivisions under their respective strategic zones, as well as the local prefectural and county party committees, also have strict regulations. The one-line communication within each of them is the most basic means of secrecy.

Although this has caused some trouble, or it has also brought some internal losses. It is also because of the overlap in work, which has caused some waste and duplication, but this is also something that cannot be helped. Keeping the source of information is the most important thing. It is also related to secrecy, and there is no way to report many things through the guò radio.

Once the code was deciphered by the Japanese army, then a big string of them was caught. The entire underground organization, and all relationships, are in danger of being destroyed. The Japanese are not vegetarians. The monitoring and deciphering capabilities of its radio stations have suffered a lot from the various strategic areas in the Guannai.

Although Shandong also wants to transfer all the relations after the puppet army is transferred to Taihang and other strategic areas as soon as possible. However, it involves too many aspects, so we can only send enemy cadres to directly handle the handover to the corresponding people in the higher organs. However, the Japanese army took advantage of this blank time to preemptively launch a sweep dominated by the puppet army.

Problems in intelligence work caused the Taiyue and Taihang Military Regions to fall into a certain degree of passivity in the course of this anti-sweeping operation. Although they took advantage of the puppet regime that had not yet been dissolved in the local area, they also obtained some corresponding information and formulated a counter-sweeping plan. But in many ways, we can only make up for it after the fact.

For example, the mobilization of artillery, as well as the deployment of ammunition and supplies. If he had received the information earlier, Yang Zhen could have mobilized artillery to go south to participate in the war as early as the preparation of the Japanese puppet army. After all, the Japanese army's sweep of the base areas behind enemy lines in Shanxi, no matter what the considerations, will take time to transfer and prepare materials. If you get the information in advance, you can give it time to prepare.

But this time, the Japanese army even ignored the fact that these puppet troops had just been transferred to Shanxi, and they were far from being familiar with the terrain. Even some regiment-level troops, who had not even prepared a complete operational map, rushed to carry out sweeps. Whether it is the side of the Anti-Japanese Federation, or the base area behind the enemy line in Guannai, they can only find a way to make up for this loss of time.

In addition to these circumstances, the boss separately told Yang Zhen on the telegram that the main force of the Jinsui Military Region was seizing the time to retreat one after another. However, the train could only reach Datong, and the march south of Datong still had to be carried out on foot by the whole army. The infantry advance speed is acceptable, but the artillery advance speed is very slow because of traffic restrictions. It will take at least five days for the whole army to return to the base area in the northwest of Shanxi.

At the same time, the boss telegraphed to Yang Zhen that several regiments had arrived in Beiyue District in northern Shanxi, and the central authorities had decided to organize them into two brigades. All of them are included in the anti-Japanese alliance and are not allowed to fight in Beiyue District. However, during last year's anti-sweeping operation, the unit suffered heavy equipment losses. There were only six light machine guns and four grenadiers in the whole army.

At present, there is not a single heavy machine gun or more weapons and equipment in the whole army, and there is an extreme shortage of ammunition. The boss hopes that the Anti-Japanese Federation can transfer a batch of equipment from the battlefield in northern Jin to supplement the department. In particular, in terms of ammunition, it is urgently needed to be assisted by the Anti-United Nations. At least a batch of grenades and seventy-nine bullets will be allocated to replenish this force.

Compared with the boss's telegram, Chen Hanzhang's telegram was much more concise. Before reporting to the headquarters, it was already in full swing, with the cooperation of a brigade in Jinsui. The troops sent by Chen Hanzhang, who had already begun to move south to the front line of the Inner Great Wall, searched for them in Shenchi, Wuzhai, and Shuo counties on a large scale.

Except for some small units of the Left Detachment, the location of the main force of the Left Detachment was not found. That is to say, Chen Hanzhang thinks that the main force of this left detachment is not in the so-called combat area at all. This left-hand detachment had been adopting a false and real approach before, and sang an empty city plan with itself.

What Chen Hanzhang meant was that since the Zuojian detachment was not in this area now, judging from the current situation of the entire Shanxi battlefield, it must not have left the northwest of Shanxi, and it should still be hidden in the area of Guanshui Mountain. He asked the headquarters for permission to immediately organize a crack force to the south.

The right to find and capture this left detachment, at least bite them, not to let this left detachment pose a danger to the interior of the northwest base area of Shanxi. Especially at present, the northwest of Shanxi is empty, and Yang Jicai transferred a large number of machines and equipment, workers and their families from Taiyuan are still waiting for the transfer to northern Shaanxi in the northwest of Shanxi. Once it is attacked by this left detachment, the loss will be much greater.

At the same time, an additional radio communication jamming plane was dispatched to carry out a large-scale interference with the radio communication of the entire Japanese army in the northwest of Shanxi Province. Chen Hanzhang's idea is very simple, isn't your left detachment not showing its head? But you have to get in touch with your superiors. I suppress your signal and lose direct contact with Taiyuan and even Beiping, you will always show your head.

Looking at the telegram sent by the boss and Chen Hanzhang, Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun glanced at each other and shook their heads in unison. The changes in the battle situation are really in accordance with Yang Zhen's assumptions, and they may develop in the direction of the worst deterioration. The left detachment was really singing about the empty city plan, and the Japanese army also began to sweep the two districts of Taihang and Taiyue.

After carefully reading the two telegrams in his hand, Yang Zhen walked to the map of Shanxi and pondered for a long time before saying, "I'm really afraid of something, I'll just give you something." What I was most worried about before was that the Japanese army adopted the tactic of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle and carried out a sweep of several base areas behind enemy lines in Shanxi, forcing our army to move south and lengthening our depth. ”

But that's what happened now. The Japanese army has already started its operation, and we are afraid that it is too late for us to transfer troops and equipment. Now that the Japanese army has begun to sweep the Taihang area, it must have blocked the Zhengtai Railway. ”

"I estimate that the 41st Division around Taiyuan, together with the independent mixed 4th Brigade on the Zhengtai Railway, will probably also join the sweep of the Taihang and Taiyue Military Regions. From west to east or by squeezing from all sides, the last gap is completely sealed. ”

"In addition, the two armies of the puppet Second Front Army, which had now arrived at the front line of Anyang, and the Japanese troops stationed in Handan and Xingtai, launched an attack from the southeast. The connection between the Taihang base area and southern Hebei and Hebei, Shandong, and Henan, including the Jinchaji in the north of Zhengtai Road, has actually been severed. The entire Taihang District and Taiyue District are now actually surrounded on all sides. ”