After the Shandong operations were discussed, Tanabe Moritake continued: "The Eighth Route Army is an old rival of the Imperial Army. The Eighth Route Army headquarters operates together with its 129th Division. The Taihang base area where the Eighth Route Army's 129th Division is located is bounded by the Baijin Railway to the west.
The so-called Taiyue Military Region of the Eighth Route Army is based on Taiyue Mountain. Its main forces include the 386th Brigade, the old rival of the Imperial Army, and the Three Columns of Death, which were transformed from the Shanxi New Army."
"The eastern part of the Baijin Railway is the Taihang Mountain base area based on the Taihang Mountains. Pingshun, Xiyang and other places in the north have its 385th Brigade. The counties in western Hebei to the east of the Pinghan Line have the New Tenth Brigade and the New Eleventh Brigade, along with them
Fighting at the division and headquarters are the New 1st Brigade and the Special Agent Regiment!"
"Three months ago, due to the internal fighting between the Eighth Route Army and the National Army, its main forces moved north one after another and were relatively concentrated!"
After Tanabe Shengwu finished speaking, Shimomoto Mixiong nodded and said: "This is a good opportunity to encircle and suppress the main force of the Eighth Route Army!"
"In recent years, the Imperial Army's intelligence department has been infiltrating the Eighth Route Army's base areas. Unfortunately, the Eighth Route Army's security measures are very tight, and the spies sent in have been uncovered many times!"
"Recently, the imperial army has been equipped with a new monitoring equipment and found that radio signals have been detected many times in the area south of Liao County, east of Wuxiang, Licheng, north of Shexian County, Wu'an, and west of Wuyi!"
"An advance team of the Imperial Army secretly sneaked into the Eighth Route Army base area. After multiple investigations, it was finally confirmed that the Route Army headquarters and its rear organs are located in the area from Wangjiayu to Matian, Piancheng!" Tanabe Shengwu said excitedly.
Compared to Tanabe Moritake's excitement, Shinozuka Yoshio was quite calm: "Chief of Staff, I'm afraid the Eighth Route Army's troops are not only the few brigades you mentioned. As far as I know, the Eighth Route Army also has a large number of basic troops and
Local armed forces, otherwise they would have only caused such a huge momentum against the railway line some time ago!"
"Hey, that's true!"
Later, Tanabe Moritake made a detailed breakdown of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, Shanxi-Suiyuan Military Region and even the Southern Hebei Military Region.
"As for the Tainan area, current intelligence shows that the independent detachment is entrenched in the mountainous area in the north of Wuyi. There are also Eighth Route Army troops entrenched here in southeast Li, southeast Lu, Cixi and other places. The number is unknown. Land reform was carried out in this area some time ago. It's just that
It is currently unknown whether these Eighth Route Army troops have anything to do with the independent detachment!”
Hearing about the independent detachment, the commander of the 108th Division present immediately cheered up. No matter where the independent detachment comes from, it is still in the defense zone of its 108th Division.
"The current number of the independent detachment is unknown, but judging from the momentum of its attack on Handan City, the number of troops is no less than 5,000. They are indeed the formidable enemy of the imperial army!"
In the end, the Japanese army had the upper hand in North China. Even though the Eighth Route Army's base area looked like a piece of iron to the outside world, the location of the Eighth Route Army headquarters and the numbers of each unit finally gave the Japanese army a clue.
"Gentlemen, please fight here to stabilize the public order in North China!" Neji Okamura said loudly.
"Hi!" Everyone present stood up and responded.
"I will announce the No. 1 combat plan below. The encirclement and suppression will be launched first in Tainan. The order for the encirclement and suppression will be issued uniformly by the headquarters!"
"The Independent Third and Ninth Mixed Brigades, the 222nd Infantry Regiment of the 36th Division, and the 36th Mountain Artillery Regiment gathered in Taiyuan to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army's Jinsui Military Region!"
"The independent 4th and 15th mixed brigades, the 110th Division, and the 27th Division respectively encircled and suppressed the Eighth Route Army's base areas in northern Hebei, central Hebei, and eastern Hebei!"
"The 108th Division encircled and annihilated Xingtai, and the Eighth Route Army around Handan. At that time, the first independent brigade will cooperate with the troops to go north to encircle and suppress them!"
"The 16th Independent Brigade set out from Linfen and marched westward. The 10th Independent Brigade set out from Tunliu to encircle the troops of the Taiyue Military Region of the Eighth Route Army!"
Okamura Neiji paused as he spoke: "Except for the 238th Regiment of the 41st Division to maintain security in the southern part of Changzhi, the rest of the 41st Division is responsible for encircling the independent detachment of the Eighth Route Army in the northern mountainous area of Wuyi with the 104th Brigade's Temple Yongbu!"
"The detailed combat plan will be distributed to all ministries after the meeting. Gentlemen, do you understand?" Okamura Neiji said loudly.
"Hi, got it!"
The Japanese army involved in this encirclement and suppression campaign involved five divisions and seven mixed brigades. Although many Japanese troops were required to stay in the defense area to maintain public order and prevent the Eighth Route Army from jumping to the outside and taking advantage of the loopholes, the number of Japanese troops participating in this encirclement and suppression campaign was not small.
To one hundred thousand people.
This is only the number of Japanese troops. There are also a large number of puppet troops fighting in coordination.
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Dark clouds are pressing down on the city, threatening to destroy it, and the armor's light shines towards the golden scales of the sun.
In the Tainan base area, various regiments have begun to distribute ammunition and prepare dry food. At the same time, villagers and soldiers patrol in shifts 24 hours a day to strengthen vigilance.
Although many people firmly believe that the Eighth Route Army can defend the base area, they are inevitably panic-stricken.
Many ordinary people had already moved with their families to the nearby mountainous areas. Zhou Weihan did not stop this and evacuated a group of ordinary people in advance. When the Japanese army actually came, the pressure on the combat troops would be lighter.
On the Yama Mountain.
Li Yunshan is reporting on the recent situation in the base area: "According to the Security Section report, many Japanese spies have infiltrated the base area in the past two days. Twenty-three spies were uncovered yesterday alone. There are still an unknown number of Japanese spies lurking in the base area.
Inside, once the war starts, these hidden secrets of the Japanese army will be hidden dangers. When the time comes, the hidden locations of the fellow villagers will be exposed, which will be a big trouble!"
"I suggest that before the Japanese army attacks heavily, we first conduct an overall inventory of the base area. Our Tainan base area is different from other base areas and forms a system of its own. Each of our regiments has its own defense area and will not easily divide its troops into the defense areas of other regiments.
, it is easy to investigate if new faces sneak in. I think we should let each regiment allocate part of its troops, supplemented by militia, to specifically investigate those new faces who have recently entered the base area!" Li Yunshan suggested.
"Okay, let's do it like this." Zhou Weihan nodded, and then continued: "Yunshan, the institutions on Yamawang Mountain, the cadre schools and farms will also be moved, all of them will be moved to secret camps deep in the mountains. You and Ding will do this.
The big abacus is responsible, this matter cannot be delayed, we will move it today!"
Zhou Weihan didn't know whether the little devil had a clear understanding of the specific location of the independent detachment headquarters.
But Zhou Weihan didn't dare to bet on this with the little devil. If the little devil sent a few bombers and wiped out the whole nest of King of Hell, the fun would be great.
Yama Mountain is connected to the main line of Taihang Mountain. After being reminded by political commissar Deng, Zhou Weihan also found a way out for himself.
Previously, we had sent people to explore from the back mountain of Yama Mountain to the depths of the mountainous area. This place was inaccessible and we could not find a way out after walking for two days. However, the Japanese army was unable to launch a surprise attack from behind.
So Zhou Weihan asked Ding Abacus to arrange for people to establish several secret camps in the rear. Once the battle situation endangered Yama Mountain, the people on the mountain could move to the back mountain.