Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

"Damn, this matter... has no solution!" After thinking for a long time, Gangcun finally uttered such a sentence! His IQ is definitely enough, and it is precisely because of this that he can diverge and associate more and more vicious layout methods from this simple plane distribution map. However, the more he thought about it, the more headache he felt, because as an invader, the attacking party, such a tunnel really has no solution!

The underground warfare method has been mentioned before. At present, there is really no good way to deal with it! Poison gas, water attack, excavation, personnel entry... all these tricks are useless!

In this regard, the Eagle Sauce soldiers have suffered a lot in the home of the ungrateful wolf! The information on the tunnel warfare provided by Li Yuexuan is the culmination of the summary and improvement of the ancestors of later generations, so it will be more powerful!
Moreover, in the North China Plain, tunnel warfare can be carried out with the advantage of thick loess soil, so the tunnels can be dug deeper and the structures more complex...

In the headquarters of the Beiping Front Army, Gangcun held his forehead with a headache, and then said: "We don't have a very effective way to deal with the Eighth Route Army's tunnel warfare! Unless we can drain all the oxygen in this large area in a very short time, so that the Eighth Route Army hiding underground will suffocate to death! Or, our bombs can penetrate the soil and explode in the tunnel..."

"It's a pity that most of our military budget has been taken away by the navy. We don't have time to develop such bombs. We can only continue to use our existing weapons system! Moreover, there is no need to develop such weapons just to deal with the Eighth Route Army and the people hiding underground!"

"Okay, pass on my order now! The cleanup work in the Jizhong Plain will continue. The various teams that are clearing out the Eighth Route Army can appropriately disperse their forces, reducing the number of 500 to 200 to 300 teams! We have 40 Imperial Army troops, and one of our squads can lead two Imperial Army squadrons to form a team to carry out the cleanup!"

"And what I'm going to talk about next are some countermeasures for the tunnel warfare! First, from the areas under our control, we will recruit young and strong Chinese to serve as laborers to help our army build strongholds and artillery towers, set up barbed wire, dig blockades, and divide the Jizhong Plain first! During this period, all unsuitable villages can be erased from the map."

"After this operation, I hope to see that on the map of Jizhong Plain, the arrangement of villages will no longer be as chaotic as it is now, but will be arranged horizontally and vertically along our roads to form small towns! And where the small towns meet, they will all become uninhabited areas, so that we can control Jizhong Plain."

"Secondly, while building roads and strongholds, we will also move those civilians who are not afraid of us from the safe zone under our control into the Jizhong Plain and occupy the villages on the ground. They will also help us harvest and dry the wheat fields on the plain! Remember, we must have a complete official system and emphasize the discipline of the soldiers. They must not harass these civilians!"

"Your intelligence department and military law enforcement department must do a good job in this regard! We must adopt a conciliatory policy towards the people who have migrated from the safe zone. We must take care of them in terms of policy and make them lean towards our imperial army! With these people who support us, we have the basic strength to control the Jizhong Plain!"

"Moreover, because the newly arrived people occupied the houses of the indigenous people and snatched their food, this created a natural barrier between the people hiding underground and the new people! As long as they are not united, even if these indigenous people come out of the tunnel, we have a way to divide and disintegrate them! After all, the Chinese are better at internal struggles and mutual consumption!"

"The third point is that with our transportation capacity, we cannot complete the migration of too many people in a short period of time because we have to take the war into consideration. Therefore, you must make preliminary calculations in advance, and then select the areas where the people will be relocated. Carry out key inspections and investigations in these areas, and implement the policy of governing the Chinese with the Chinese!"

"As for those areas where we cannot relocate the people, we need to strengthen the iron wall encirclement and make two preparations! The first preparation is to organize the Imperial Army, prepare sickles and vehicles, etc., to harvest the wheat when it is ripe and compete for the food resources here! The second preparation is to burn all the places we cannot harvest!"

"The fourth point, which you don't need to do, is also the most effective principle in dealing with the Eighth Route Army's underground warfare, and that is to fight with attrition! The Eighth Route Army can hide in the tunnels for a month or two, but they can't live underground forever! Once the food that the Eighth Route Army has placed in the tunnels is consumed, the tunnels will be meaningless, and they must return to the ground to produce!"

"In short, during this period of time, all participating troops must strengthen patrols, strengthen public security, rely on our automobile transportation capabilities, implement a variety of targeted means on the Jizhong Plain, and conduct continuous dragnet searches so that we can control this vast land! Although I don't like the Navy's idiots, the Pacific War has already begun, and China must not become a burden to us!"

"On the contrary, we must strike with great force, expand our control area as soon as possible, and turn China into our granary and military station! Although the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army is low, if we recruit them, train them, and then send them to the battlefield in the Pacific, they can still fight against the Eagle Sauce and others! At least we can use them as consumables to consume their ammunition!"

Gangcun is a ruthless person. After some thought, he also came up with a relatively feasible way to deal with the tunnel warfare. Of course, this period may be very long, but after it is actually implemented, the effect should be very good!
In fact, there is a very unpopular speculation on the Internet in later generations. That is, if the Japanese army had maintained military discipline after invading China, had not killed innocent people indiscriminately, had not conducted those inhumane experiments, and had truly implemented a conciliatory policy from top to bottom, then what would the real outcome of the war of resistance be?
What would happen when the people in the occupied areas lived more comfortably than those in the KMT-controlled areas, and had no worries about food and clothing, and their happiness index was several times higher than that in the KMT-controlled areas? Then they used various benefits to lure the warlords who were good at infighting to attack each other...

Of course, this is just a guess. The bad nature of the Japanese means that they will never really implement such a policy!
After formulating the strategy for the Jizhong Plain, Ningci Okamura put the matter aside and focused on the Taihang area! In Okamura's view, since the main force of the Eighth Route Army had withdrawn again, the Jizhong Plain was already in his hands. In the next battle, the encirclement and suppression troops only needed to follow the strategy just specified.

He is a front commander after all. He will not participate in the specific battle process, and he will not make fine adjustments. (End of this chapter)