[69 Book Bar-www.] Chapter 69: Alternative Friction
As soon as Shuirou's training was over, he took these people and divided them into dozens of groups to conduct long-distance wilderness survival training and conduct actual combat assessments.
Langya dispatched manpower to lead the team to supervise the assessment and evaluation. The goal was to attack the Japanese strongholds, gun towers and other places. The excuse was to assess each student's academic performance and combat ability after special training. For Jiang Shuirou, it was nothing.
Who doesn't use the troops? If you don't use them, it's useless. If you don't use them, who doesn't use them?
Then they can expand the base area. They are constantly encroaching on the Japanese occupation area. It would be a fool not to do something that can be achieved in one fell swoop. The whole Shanxi Province is in a state of turmoil. Several bosses, when they see Shui Rou, do the same thing.
Smiling secretly.
"This kid is too slippery. It's useless to ask others to get soldiers, but they are elite soldiers. They still have to provide bullets, and they have to participate willingly and enthusiastically."
"If you just look at his happiness, it's not good happiness. It's too insidious."
The Japanese army also frequently harassed Jiang Tuan's camp. When guns and cannons were fired, it was impossible to tell where the fighting was going on. The National Army thought they were fighting Duan Dezhang.
After each incident, he asked with concern. The two families were so close that they really couldn’t tell which one was where. Duan Dezhang vaguely said yes, but it was just an encounter, or something else.
Sneak attack; anyway, the fighting was very fierce, and so on.
Then, he captured Shuirou and reported his merits to the superiors for rewards. In the encounter with the Japanese army, he defeated the Japanese army and captured a lot of weapons and equipment. His achievements continued to increase.
But later on, Shui Rou became smarter, and often used firecrackers to blast her for a while when there was no fighting, and then she used the name of Duan Dezhang's troops to report her merits and apply for arms.
In this way, sometimes with the approval of the headquarters, the two of them would advance together towards the Japanese-occupied area, with Shuirou occupying more and Duan Dezhang occupying less.
However, there were also achievements that I asked the higher authorities to take credit for. Gradually, the Japanese army was squeezed to only the area along the railway, which was occupied by the Japanese. The rest became liberated areas or Kuomintang-controlled areas.
This situation lasted until the early spring of 1941.
One day, Duan Dezhang came to Jiang Shuirou's residence lightly dressed in simple clothes. When Shuirou saw Duan Dezhang's face, which was covered with dark clouds and full of sadness, she asked
"Hey! Hey! - Brother, what's wrong with you? Tell me what's wrong with you?"
"Look at this and then talk about it."
"Order? What order? Attack the Eighth Route Army? Is your highest authority really able to speak out and open your mouth? Are you not afraid of burning your mouth just by saying this?"
"Shuirou, what do you think we should do?"
"I said Brother Duan, what are you worried about? It's easy to handle. Our big deal is here. You can support me with some ammunition again. We can get ammunition legitimately again.
You go back and prepare some big iron buckets. I have plenty of firecrackers here for you. You and I will set off the firecrackers vigorously in the evening. It is guaranteed to be extremely lively. It will surprise the reporters tomorrow."
"Still using the old method?"
"Of course, but you have to give me the ammunition you saved. I also paid for it. The brothers' expenses for the battalion you used in this battle are under my control. You can report the results of the battle yourself, don't
Just be too presumptuous.
In addition, you still have to publish denunciatory articles in newspapers. You have to do it in a decent way."
In this way, the tone of the battle between the two brothers was set.
In fact, earlier on, the government had issued several orders to Duan Dezhang to cause friction with the Eighth Route Army. Sometimes, in order to cover up their close relationship with Shui Rou, the two of them would have a fight with firecrackers, and the fight would be full of excitement and earth-shattering overnight.
Later, in order to make the sound more like a sound, Shuirou specially took out a batch of military gunpowder and made a batch of high-explosive firecrackers that sounded like guns. In this way, the combat at that time was extremely realistic.
.Can’t tell the difference between true and false.
The next day, there will be another day of war of words. I protest and you condemn. You come back and I go back and forth. In private, you have to give Shuirou ammunition.
Otherwise, how could we have fought all night after checking the ammunition and fighting all night without using it up? Shuirou exchanged firecrackers for ammunition. It was like making a fortune.
The next day, Duan Dezhang deployed his troops and generals with great fanfare and prepared for the battle. At night, suddenly at the junction of the two armies, guns and artillery fired. From a distance, one could tell that the fighting between the two sides was extremely fierce.
Duan Fang first fired a few live rounds into the air, overheating the gun chamber and adding smoke to create an illusion. Then he set off firecrackers.
Duan Dezhang ordered the troops to put on the tattered military uniforms from previous battles with the Japanese army, and their faces looked smoky.
Then each person was given a piece of gold, which was called war expenses at night. The money came from Jiang Shuirou. Lao Duan was a rich man and had no way to get the money.
An hour later, Duan Dezhang ordered the soldiers to bury the firecracker paper, deal with the scene, and then return to the camp. The group of soldiers happily worshiped Duan Dezhang as a god of wealth. They completed the order to go up the mountain.
There's no danger, and there's still money to be had. I just look forward to coming back more often.
The following days were very lively. Duan Dezhang also reported to the superiors in good condition. He successfully carried out the grinding and harvested something. He handed the seizures to the division headquarters and received a commendation from the superiors.
The Japanese army also tried to launch small-scale offensives against the national army. However, thanks to the help of Jiang Tuan, they were able to overcome the danger several times and survive the difficulties safely.
Besides, after Hechuan returned to Taiyuan, he was scolded by the division commander. More than 120 officers did not die on the battlefield, but fell in places where they should not have fallen.
This was a disgrace to the Imperial Japanese Army. The division commander placed the responsibility for this incident entirely on Hechuan. Hechuan was extremely angry and wrote a letter asking the Kwantung Army to return to the Northeast and restore the honor of the empire.
This matter was also approved by the Kwantung Army. In this way, Hechuan returned to the Northeast in despair. Shanxi also returned to peace. The Japanese army in Shanxi had no better way to deal with the Eighth Route Army's attack.
Because the North China Japanese Army Headquarters was dissatisfied with the situation in Shanxi, it replaced its commander, Okamura Neiji, a war madman who committed heinous crimes in China.
Gangcun felt that the previous commander was too kind to the Chinese and had no deterrent effect. He used the policy of enclosing land and forbidding mountains in the Northeast.
In view of the mountainous characteristics of Shanxi, we learned from the combat methods of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance. We adopted the structure of Go points and lines to trap the air. We forcibly merged villages, built bunkers, dug trenches, and widened roads in an attempt to trap the Eighth Route Army in the mountains.
The Japanese army used railways and highways as pillars to carry out frequent raids on the anti-Japanese base areas, and attempted to cut off the connections between Taihang, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and other strategic areas, and implemented the so-called "cage policy" of "using railways as pillars, highways as chains, and bunkers as locks"
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It is believed that under such a tight siege, the Eighth Route Army has run out of ammunition and food and has become a tired division, so there is nothing to worry about.
Due to the plundering of Chinese land, Japan's domestic economic use has ceased. In order to cooperate with Japan's strategic concept of deciding to plunder southward, it was decided to implement an appeasement policy on the occupied areas before the operation to ensure that when the Japanese army went south, it would become the rear area.