I am an artillery soldier

Chapter 428 The Three Lights Policy
Entering June, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi ushered in a new master, Yoshio Iwamatsu, Lieutenant General of the Japanese Army.

Yoshio Iwamatsu graduated from the 30th class of the Japanese Army University, while Yoshio Shinozuka graduated from the 23rd class. Calculating carefully, Yoshio Shinozuka is still Yoshio Iwamatsu’s senior.Before succeeding Yoshio Shinozuka, Yoshio Iwamatsu was the commander of the Central Army of the Japanese Army.

Since Shinozuka Yoshio did not make any achievements in fighting the Eighth Route Army in the Shanxi occupied area, Iwamatsu Yoshio was ordered to take over Shinozuka Yoshio's position.Yoshio Iwamatsu was a little envious of Yoshio Shinozuka. Did he know that Yoshio Shinozuka had received the Imperial Saber bestowed by His Majesty the Emperor, what a great honor it was.

It's a pity that Shinozuka Yoshio failed to live up to His Majesty's expectations, and in the end he could only be transferred from the Shanxi First Army and returned to the mainland as a bench.

Walking into the headquarters, Yoshio Iwamatsu could see that the officers in the First Army were waiting for him, which made him very satisfied. It seems that these officers are still very smart.Otherwise, if something goes wrong, Yoshio Iwamatsu, the new commander of the First Army, doesn't mind doing something.

To be able to become a lieutenant general in the army, Yoshio Iwamatsu has seen too many things, and he has quite strong means.

The Japanese army headquarters chose to let Yoshio Iwamatsu take over the position of Yoshio Shinozuka, also because Yoshio Iwamatsu's ability is quite good, and he has made certain achievements in the Central Army.There is an urgent need to maintain a sufficiently stable base camp in the occupied area of ​​​​Shanxi. Naturally, it is necessary to transfer people like Yoshio Iwamatsu to ensure the stability of Shanxi.

Shanxi's strategic location is very important, and the rich coal resources are what the devils urgently need. In addition, Shanxi has a strong transportation network, and most of the devil's supplies need to be transported from Shanxi to the front line. The stability of Shanxi is very important.

What's more, with the actions of the Eighth Route Army troops in the occupied areas and the ever-expanding anti-Japanese base areas, the devils felt a deep threat.If some changes are not made to the situation in Shanxi, then the Eighth Route Army will inevitably become their confidant, and even now, the Eighth Route Army has become the object of the devils' fear.

After a brief understanding of the situation of the First Army, Yoshio Iwamatsu began to strengthen his control over the First Army, and when he knew Kazuki Yamamoto's secret service team, he even expressed his support for Kazuki Yamamoto.

Whether it is the family behind Kazuki Yamamoto or Kazuki Yamamoto's own abilities, Yoshio Iwamatsu is quite satisfied. He also needs to control Kazuki Yamamoto's special agent team to ensure that he can make certain achievements in Shanxi.In Yoshio Iwamatsu's view, the fact that the secret service team did not achieve enough results before was entirely due to Yoshio Shinozuka's wrong command.

And now Yoshio Iwamatsu is in control of the secret service team, so he will definitely command the secret service team well and make the secret service team a weapon for killing people in his hands.

While Yoshio Iwamatsu continued to strengthen his control over the First Army, the various units of the Eighth Route Army were also developing continuously. After knowing that the devils were afraid of the Eighth Route Army, the 129th Division implemented the localization of the main force and divided part of the main force into the military divisions in batches. Countermeasures for mergers.

At the same time, the 129th Division also adopted a comprehensive policy of fighting against the enemy with armed struggle as the core, vigorously organized guerrilla warfare, strengthened the struggle against the enemy in border areas, launched political offensives, and smashed the raids and encroachments of the Japanese and puppet anti-Japanese base areas.

In order to deal with the various methods of the devils, the 129th Division, under the command of the headquarters, adopted various methods to carry out defensive counterattacks.

Before, the bosses thought that after Yoshio Iwamatsu took over the First Army, the devils would stop for a while to reduce the raids on the base areas.After all, Yoshio Iwamatsu, who had just taken over the First Army, didn't have enough control over the troops under his command, not to mention that he couldn't gain anything from the mopping up, so the materials consumed by the devils mopping up the troops were not a small amount.

But who knew that after Yoshio Iwamatsu took over the First Army, not only did he not reduce the raids on the base areas, but instead ordered the troops under his command to carry out sweeps against the Japanese base areas from time to time.In just one month, the devil's troops carried out more than a dozen large and small raids on the base area.

Such sweeping efforts made the bosses more aware of the hardships of the war in the devil-occupied areas. The devils had also noticed the strength of the Eighth Route Army troops and stepped up the attack on the anti-Japanese base areas to prevent the Eighth Route Army and the anti-Japanese base areas from growing stronger.

In the entanglement with the devil's mopping up troops, the frontline troops also passed on news that the devil's troops were not only mopping up, but also digging deep blockades and building high blockades, which once again strengthened the fortress policy.In a short period of time, many fortresses built by devils appeared on the outskirts of the base area.

Relying on the fortress they built, the devils restricted the development of the anti-Japanese base areas and kept compressing the space for the development of the Eighth Route Army units.

The bosses also noticed that since Neiji Okamura became the commander of the North China Front Army, he has continued to implement the brutal and vicious "three alls" policy, which made the devils wantonly burn down the houses of the masses and rob them The food, all the poultry, ducks, fish, meat, birds and animals were looted, and the people were even more frantically killed.

The recent raids by devil troops in the anti-Japanese base areas have all killed the people. As long as the people appear in their sight, they will inevitably be slaughtered by them.Several villages suffered from being discovered by the devil's raiding force, and hundreds of people died in the hands of the devil.

In the Artillery School, Liu Gen had obtained relevant information from the division headquarters, but he was helpless, let alone tell the students and soldiers of the Artillery School the news.Liu Gen was very worried that the students and soldiers of the Artillery School would rush out after hearing such news.

Does Liu Gen know that after the troops of the Eighth Route Army heard the news, many soldiers rushed out of the station and ambushed and killed the devils' mopping up troops.It's just that these soldiers didn't cause too much damage to the devil's mopping up troops. Facing the organized devil's troops, even if the soldiers fought desperately, they couldn't cause too much damage to the devils.

For this reason, the units of the Eighth Route Army have stepped up their management of the soldiers to prevent them from leaving the camp easily.Everyone knew that the devils did this to print out the Eighth Route Army troops. If there were any Eighth Route Army troops to take action, they would definitely be entangled by the devil's mopping up troops, unable to escape easily, and then killed by the devil's mopping up troops.

From the information sent by the intelligence personnel, the bosses know that the various troops of the devil have already made sufficient preparations. Once they find traces of the Eighth Route Army troops, they will go out with all their strength and make certain results.

However, the units of the Eighth Route Army did not blindly hide. Under the command of the bosses, whenever night fell, the units of the Eighth Route Army would turn into death gods, constantly killing and injuring the devils' mopping up troops.In the night, even if the devils mopped up the troops and wanted to pursue them, there was no good way, and it was impossible to catch up with the troops of the Eighth Route Army.

(End of this chapter)