Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

After fighting the Japanese for several years, the Eighth Route Army has already developed a set or even several sets of countermeasures for the Japanese mopping-up war! The most classic ones are the flip-over war and the sparrow war, and now there are tunnel warfare and mine warfare to cooperate.

The flipping war is at the strategic level. The simplest explanation is that when the Japanese come to raid, we place our main force on the edge of the base, and when the Japanese raid, we jump out and fight behind the Japanese. You raid me, and I will also attack your follow-up troops or even the county town you control.

The devils are cruel. When they arrive at a place, they rape, rob, burn, kill, and rob. They do all kinds of evil, so the people are afraid of them! When our main force arrives in these places and annihilates the devils and puppet troops here, it will naturally gain the support and love of the local people, and it will be very easy to open up new bases and safe areas...

Of course, in this anti-mopping-up war, the headquarters did not adopt a border-fighting strategy, but chose to mobilize the main force of the Jizhong Plain into the mountains for reorganization, choosing to avoid the enemy's front. In the base area, some local regiments, guerrillas, county brigades, district squads, militia teams, basic regiments, etc. will stay and continue to fight, tying down the enemy's forces and consuming their resources.

In Li Yuexuan's original time and space, the famous Songzhuang battle was fought by Commander Zuo Ye and his basic regiment in the plains! In the original time and space, the Eighth Route Army did not have semi-automatic, assault rifles, large quantities of Qi Lali light machine guns, and shotguns, but they achieved a record of killing and wounding more than 73 Japanese and puppet troops with 1200 casualties of their own.

Now that we have the support of the arsenal and the full deployment of the tunnel warfare, what will happen? No one knows!

As time went on, the independent regiment had taken the initiative to attack several times at the confluence of the mountain pass, covering the retreat of many groups of comrades who were being pursued into the mountains. In summary, the four battalion commanders of the independent regiment all returned, and the company commanders also returned with part of the team. The strength of the independent regiment has been restored to more than 1300 people!
Although the number of troops was much smaller, the necessary organization was in place, and the independent regiment had also restored its proper structure! Of course, the troops gathered were not just these few people, but also teams that broke through from other brother units, such as the 769th Regiment Commander Zheng, the 14th Regiment Commander Kong, and the New st Regiment Commander Ding Wei, who also entered the Taihang base from various entrances to the mountains during this period.

Some stragglers who did not follow the main force were taken into the team by the independent regiment, and were separated and divided into teams according to their own regiments.

In fact, Li Yunlong really wanted to "swallow" the soldiers of these brother units, after all, they were all veterans with rich combat experience. However, his independent regiment could receive soldiers from other brother units, and the scattered soldiers of their independent regiment might also go to other units and fight with the brother units... Well, he could only bear it.

After resting for 7 days in Shantou Town, the independent regiment finally received a new order - to move to Qinquan area to cooperate with the headquarters in the anti-mopping-up battle. So, the independent regiment, with its strength restored to 1500 people, set out and no longer cared about the comrades who broke through from behind. Of course, they didn't care, the militia in Shantou Town would help to receive them and inform the main force where to go.

At this time, the Japanese mopping-up had been going on for more than half a month. The mopping-up mission arranged by Gangcun had completed the first and second stages, completed the iron wall encirclement strategy, and then entered the third stage. The Japanese army left mobile forces in the central area of ​​the anti-Japanese base area, secretly assembled at the main points and lines, deliberately left a large gap to lure the Eighth Route Army back. It has to be said that Gangcun's research on the Eighth Route Army was really deep. He deliberately left this hand, judging from the previous mopping-up, the Eighth Route Army would transfer the main force, and then take advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese to end the mopping-up to return to the base.

It was this move that caused the Jizhong District to misjudge the enemy and think that the enemy might withdraw, so it mobilized the main forces of the three divisions to return to the base to eliminate the enemy and restore the base. As a result, the enemy's mobile forces were dispatched and collided with the main forces of the military division, and both sides suffered heavy losses! That's right, the Eighth Route Army is no longer the Eighth Route Army of the past, but the devils are still the devils of the past...

Now was not the time for the Eighth Route Army to engage in a head-on battle with the Japanese to consume their manpower. The troops of the three military sub-districts immediately withdrew from the battle, returned to the mountains and Baiyangdian, and left the base to the Japanese to continue to harass.

The main force withdrew, and the Japanese continued to sweep the base area, but they only encountered small-scale battles, which completely thwarted the Japanese goal of annihilating the main force of the Eighth Route Army!
The devil's goal failed, but the previous plan is not over! It doesn't matter if the main force of the Eighth Route Army escaped. Let's take down the Eighth Route Army's base first, and then stick here to prevent the Eighth Route Army from getting food and soldiers here, and trap the Eighth Route Army to death! It's May now, and the wheat is about to mature. I don't believe that the Eighth Route Army will be willing to give up the food that is about to be eaten!

To occupy the base, the most common method used by the devils is to build strongholds, build bunkers, build artillery towers, build roads, and pull barbed wire! According to Gangcun's opinion, that is to use the road to physically divide the Jizhong Plain into small areas, and the strongholds can see each other and are connected by roads! If one stronghold is attacked, the rest of the strongholds can immediately drive to reinforce.

The devils had a good idea, and even prepared a lot of building materials such as lime, cement, bricks, etc., barbed wire, generators, and searchlights! However, it was not until this time that the devils noticed a neglected thing - where are the people? Where did the people of the Jizhong Plain go? Without the people, how can we capture people locally to build a stronghold? Can we rely on the mopping-up team and the puppet army?
"What? You say, in such a large Ji Zhong Plain, in all the areas actually controlled by the Eighth Route Army, not many civilians were captured? Could it be that the civilians here can do anything?" In the North China Japanese Army Headquarters in Peiping, General Okamura Yasuji, who had just returned from Texas, asked in a calm tone to the intelligence officer who was reporting the situation.

"General, this is what we have learned! According to the intelligence we have received, the Eighth Route Army in Hebei Province had already been implementing a tactic called tunnel warfare when they first entered Hebei Province more than three years ago! Look, this is a diagram of the tunnels that our intelligence personnel obtained from one of the villages after a lot of effort!" The intelligence officer said, opening a map with a diagram of the distribution of the tunnels drawn on it.

Of course, if Li Yuexuan or some militia captains who have participated in the training look at it again, they will find that the distribution map in the intelligence officer's hand is clearly the original version in the textbook, probably torn from a student's classroom notebook.

"What?" Even though Okamura Neiji was an expert on China, he had never seen anything like tunnel warfare. He quickly looked at the distribution map. When he finished, he put the map under his palm, closed his eyes and fell into deep thought... (End of this chapter)