Anti-Japanese War: Developing on my own, I brought back a US-equipped division

After a pause, Su Zheng continued: "Our bases are mainly in mountainous areas, rural areas and other relatively backward places. We mainly rely on small roads, mountain roads, etc. All roads really lead to Rome."

"But the Japanese are different. Without the assistance of railways and roads, they can only rely on their feet to march, fight and transport military supplies, which greatly reduces their marching speed and combat efficiency."

". To put it simply, if the Japanese want to carry out large-scale military operations and plunder, they must rely on modern transportation such as roads and railways. So if we want to smash the Japanese's cage policy, we must destroy their modern transportation routes."

Now, this is the time to demonstrate Su Zheng's ability as the senior chief of staff.

After Su Zheng's (well done) analysis, the general manager and the deputy chief of general staff nodded in agreement.

The boss looked at Su Zheng with admiration and said, "Su Zheng... When I asked you to be the senior chief of staff of the headquarters, you said that you were incapable and could not take on such an important task!"

"But now it seems to me...your abilities are well hidden!"

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Chapter 550: Consensus between Su Zheng, the General Manager and the Deputy Chief of General Staff! Show your skills (First update, please subscribe)

The praise from the boss and the deputy chief of general staff made Su Zheng feel a little embarrassed.

Su Zheng smiled and said, "There is nothing hidden, I am just expressing my opinion!"

The deputy chief of staff looked at Su Zheng and said, "Su Zheng, how do you think we should solve this problem?"

"Our base has been divided by the Japanese's road and railway network. The situation is not optimistic. If it continues to develop like this, our small base will be swallowed up by the Japanese!"

"The current situation is indeed quite critical!"

The boss nodded and said, "The cage policy is a net. We must break the Japanese's cage."

Su Zheng looked at the general and the deputy chief of staff, hesitated for a moment and said: "Yes, so what we have to do now is to destroy the traffic routes of the little devils and cut off the military supply of the Japanese army, so as to crush the little devils' goal of sweeping our anti-Japanese base areas."

"Moreover, Boss, Deputy Chief of Staff, think about it... If we can destroy the Japanese's transportation network, then we can improve the combat effectiveness of our troops, develop and expand our bases, and connect small bases into one!"

"In the Japanese's cage policy, the transportation network is the Japanese's network cable, so we must destroy it, because this will be more conducive to our expertise in guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare."

"On the other hand, if the Japanese want to colonize the country, they cannot do without these transportation networks."

The boss listened to Su Zheng's analysis, nodded and said, "Okay, go on!"

The Deputy Chief of General Staff also smiled and said, "I want to hear your analysis, too!"

Su Zheng continued, "In my opinion, the Japanese's current cage policy is probably like this."

"The roads are like pillars, the highways are like chains, and the strongholds are like locks. These are the Japanese devils' cage policy, which is to separate the soldiers and civilians in the anti-Japanese base areas and make it easier for them to slaughter them."

The boss laughed and said, "Hahaha... this metaphor is very vivid!"

The Deputy Chief of General Staff nodded and said, "Yes, that is indeed the case."

Indeed, the Japanese's campaign and public security actions to build roads are called public security roads.

On the one hand, the Japanese continued to oppress the enemy-occupied areas by building roads and creating cages.

On the other hand, the Japanese would not allow any acts that would damage their roads and railways.

Therefore, the reports from the enemy-occupied areas are now extremely miserable, with people being constantly enslaved.

Many of our compatriots in the Xinzhongcun base also escaped from the labor camps where they were enslaved to build roads and railways.

Su Zheng: "So if we want to destroy the Japanese's prisoner policy, we have to destroy their transportation routes, including railways, roads, bridges, etc."

Boss: “Tell me what you think.”

Su Zheng said, "First, we must arouse and organize the broad masses of soldiers and civilians in the anti-Japanese base areas and enemy-occupied areas, unite all forces that can be united, and fight against the Japanese devils in transportation, destroy their transportation routes, and smash their cage policy."

"Under the current circumstances, we can only destroy the cage policy, so that the Japanese will lose modern transportation conditions and cannot oppress, deceive and anesthetize the people in the enemy-occupied areas. At the same time, we can also expand the living space of our base areas and anti-Japanese forces."

The Deputy Chief of General Staff nodded and said, "That's right...you're right!"

Su Zheng continued, "Secondly, we destroyed the Japanese's transportation routes, which also delayed their plundering of our resources!"

"It's a simple logic. If the railways, roads, bridges, etc. are destroyed, they will not be able to plunder to support the war."

indeed.

Japan is an island country. The country's poor material resources and limited human resources are not enough to support its huge war of aggression against China. Therefore, Japan is now on the verge of political and economic collapse. Therefore, they can only plunder the resources and achievements of the occupied areas to meet the needs of fighting to support the war and maintain the war.

Fighting to support the war is a major policy of the Japanese at this stage.

There are many means.

For example, cultivating and keeping pro-Japanese traitors as captives to serve as cannon fodder in the war and helpers in plundering resources.

Take the northwest region of Shanxi for example. The Japanese began to shout the slogan of "self-sufficiency" and then began to operate and plunder mines, coal, iron and other military raw materials with all their might, madly plundering resources.

However, the basis for these plunders or the Japanese devils' war-to-war support was transportation routes.

Without the support of transportation lines, the Japanese would not be able to fight to support their war.

Therefore, transportation is very important to the Japanese.

The general manager, deputy chief of general staff and others are also very clear about this.

The boss slowly said: "The transportation routes are the blood transfusion tubes for the Japs!"

"As long as we unite the military and civilians to actively carry out transportation warfare and completely destroy the Japanese's transportation lines, we can strike a heavy blow to the Japanese."

"It's like cutting off all the blood vessels in the devil's body, making it impossible for them to plunder resources. As a result, their bodies lack nutritional supply and eventually become deprived and weak."

"After the Japanese were unable to plunder all kinds of supplies and resources, we had more supplies and resources, which could turn the tide of the war."

The deputy chief of staff nodded and said, "That's right, the boss and Su Zheng are both right."

"Politically and militarily, the Japanese are very dependent on transportation routes, and this is also true in terms of ideology."

"The Japanese invaders' colonial ideology and culture of enslavement, poisoning, gambling, and banditry were all carried out through transportation lines."

Su Zheng: "That's right. Railways are like big poisonous water pipes, and highways are like small poisonous water pipes. If we cut off the enemy's transportation, we will cut off its poison release device. In this way, we can completely cut off the source of all evil spirits and poisons, allowing us to freely promote anti-Japanese democratic cultural education. This is of great significance."

It can be said that the threat posed by the Japanese's cage policy is still very great.

These threats have a great impact on politics, economy, culture, ideology, etc., and they all rely on transportation routes to carry out.

Therefore, if there were no such transportation routes, there would be no cage policy and it would be impossible to sweep the anti-Japanese base areas.

Secondly, without transportation routes, there would be no way to transport and cut off the supply of foreign materials to the anti-Japanese base areas. These were all carried out through transportation networks such as railways and roads.

The same is true with regard to cultural ideas.

This is also done through transportation lines.

For example, textbooks, newspapers that promoted their colonial rule, and even colonial cultural products such as statues of gods as religious symbols were transported to various places and towns in the enemy-occupied areas. The purpose was to use them to enslave education and paralyze compatriots in the enemy-occupied areas.

Therefore, in order to implement the cage policy, the Japanese continued to build railways, find ways to enhance the efficiency of railway military transportation, and make full use of the railways to plunder the resources of the occupied areas.

Therefore, railways are a more important transportation route than roads.

Now, Su Zheng, the general manager, the deputy chief of general staff and others have reached such a consensus.

This time, Su Zhengshi showed off his skills again in front of the boss and the deputy chief of general staff.

The next thing to do is to make the Japanese road lines, railway lines...especially railways, important priority military strike targets.

Su Zheng looked at the boss and the deputy chief of staff and said, "The next thing we have to deal with is the Japanese railway!"

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Chapter 551 Su Zheng's shock: A regiment became an army? (Second update, please subscribe)

The Japanese have always caused severe damage to China's railways.

Starting from the three northeastern provinces, the railways were continuously destroyed.

For example, after the Japanese occupied Yingkou Station, the terminus of the Gouying branch line, they began to carry out air strikes on Beining, Datong and other roads, bombarding railway lines, passenger and freight trains in progress, some important stations, railway bridges, and residents along the railway, and began to loot railway locomotives and vehicles.

After the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai, the Japanese repeatedly sent planes to bomb and artillery to shoot at railway residences, locomotive factories, stations, tracks, bridges, locomotives, vehicles and other railway equipment and industrial materials along the Beijing-Shanghai main line, Wusong branch line, Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo railway, and railways along the railway, resulting in most of the railway equipment being blown up, destroyed or looted by Japan.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the first areas to be threatened by war were the northern ends of Pinghan and Jinpu, and several sections of Bac Ninh and Pingsui.

It can be said that the Japanese also knew the importance of railways.

So when the invasion took place, the first thing they did was to carry out various bombings to destroy the railways.

The Japanese used three main methods of sabotage.

The first, of course, is to use planes to continuously bomb the station.

Second, use tanks to destroy bridges and telephone lines.

The third is to use traitors to cut the wires and demolish the tracks.

In short, they spared no effort to destroy the railway.

But now that the Japanese have occupied and invaded, they have begun to build railways frantically again.

However, the Japanese also knew the importance of railways, so they provided very effective protection for railways in enemy-occupied areas.

and so.

At the beginning, the Japanese used the railway lines to advance their war of aggression against China and implemented the "cage policy" in the occupied areas.

In order to fight for control of the railway, the Japanese invaders destroyed and damaged it.

At present, in order to maintain the smooth flow of railways, the blood supply pipelines for their invasion of China, the Japanese implemented colonial management of the railways in the occupied areas and took some measures that were conducive to railway maintenance and operation.

For example, measures such as repairing old roads and building new ones, promoting the "Road Love Movement", and implementing railway combined transport can enhance the transportation capacity of railways.

Therefore, the Japanese army's railway transportation in the occupied areas was mainly for military transportation, while also responsible for transporting plundered resources and wealth.

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Therefore, if we want to break the cage policy now, we need to launch a sabotage war on the railways, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese's railway repair, construction, and operation. Then the Japanese's "cage policy" and "war to support war" delusions can be completely shattered.

Next, the boss, the deputy chief of staff and Su Zheng began to discuss how to attack the railways controlled by the Japanese, launch a transportation war, and break the Japanese cage policy.

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This routine will take several hours.

In these aspects, Su Zheng also put forward very professional opinions and operational thinking, which greatly amazed the general manager, deputy chief of general staff and others.

Because Su Zheng is now at the Eighth Route Army headquarters, even if Shangguan Yufei received combat reports from various battalions and units of the Tiger Guard Regiment, he had no way to notify Su Zheng.

Su Zheng is actually more curious about the size of the Tiger Guards. Could it be that a regiment has become an army?

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Chapter 552: Confirmed! Su Zheng's position as senior chief of staff is secured (third update, please subscribe)

During this morning, Su Zheng stayed at the Eighth Route Army headquarters, discussing with the general, deputy chief of staff and others how to break the Japanese's cage policy.

In fact, it is quite simple to break the Japanese's cage policy.

That is to destroy the Japanese's transportation routes.

Su Zheng: "According to my understanding, the Japanese's cage is made of railways as pillars, roads as chains, and strongholds as locks. They want to trap us like prisoners. This is the "103rd" weaving a cage, so we must break the cage and disrupt their transportation routes."

The boss nodded and said, "The Japanese have always relied on railways to transport troops, food, ammunition, gasoline and other equipment. This is how they can replenish their strategic war reserve materials and have sufficient supplies to compete with us."

"Moreover, the Japanese have another inherent disadvantage, that is, they do not have enough troops, and they simply cannot fight in China, where the land is vast and transportation is inconvenient."

"The Japanese troops cannot meet the needs of multi-front operations, and it is even more impossible to guard all these railways, so we can destroy their railways!"

Su Zheng: "That's right. If we destroy the railway controlled by the Japanese, we will cut off the transportation and material supply routes, which is very effective for us."

Therefore, the boss, Su Zheng, the deputy chief of general staff and others decided to launch a transportation war with the main focus on destroying railways.

According to the results of the discussion among the three, the Eighth Route Army will carry out sporadic and total destruction on the enemy's main transportation lines, the Pinghan and Zhengtai railways, demolishing roads, breaking bridges, blocking holes, overturning cars, attacking cars, destroying troops, and looting supplies... In short, destruction must be carried out at all costs.

The boss nodded and said, "Okay, then we will deploy the relevant combat plan immediately!"

Su Zheng looked at the boss and the deputy chief of staff and said, "Boss, deputy chief of staff, if we want to destroy their railways at the lowest cost, we just need to derail them."

"Each section of track consists of 52 spikes on two rails and 13 sleepers, so when we destroy it, we don't need to completely remove all the spikes. When we want the train to derail and fall to one side, we only need to remove the spikes on one side."

"After removing the spikes, we can move one end of the rail outwards a little. The method is very simple. Just remove the splint at the joint of the rails, and then we can move the rails slightly outwards."

"For this kind of damage, it is best to do it on a straight road, because the train is faster on a straight road, and once it derails, the damage will be greater..."

"Once the locomotive passes through the damaged area, it will definitely dig deep into the ground. It will take the Japanese a lot of time to remove the locomotive and repair it."

"If our army launches ambushes and attacks again, the Japanese will have no way to save the locomotive."