Li Qinglin smiled and said, "Come on, anyway, they are considered friendly forces. If there is one more friendly force here, we will also reduce the pressure."

Pan Kewei stared at Li Qinglin and said, "The Eighth Route Army is not as powerful as Sun **. Their energy is very high. You should be careful that all your team will be pulled away by them."

Li Qinglin smiled and said, "I don't know my soldiers yet? How can they endure the Eighth Route Army? Maybe someone else will come over to the Eighth Route Army."

Pan Kewei said: "Eighth Route Army to you? You dream of it. I don't know what these people are made of. A soldier only costs three cents of oil, three cents of salt, half a kilogram of grain, plus a monthly allowance. These people are happy to work with them. Not everyone in the Eighth Route Army has a gun. It is impossible for more than twenty bullets in the bag of bullets with guns. Such troops can still fight and win battles. I really can't think of how they did it."

"They do a good job in political work, but what are the political liaison officers here doing? What can these people do? They can talk big truths and then make conspiracies? What else can they do except pull the team back?"

"The guys from the Central Commission for Discipline are so flashy. In fact, they are just vases and goods. Unlike our Military Control Commission, they all come here to kill blood from a knife. Our Military Control Commission is the only one who is a practical player." Speaking of the political liaison officer, Pan Kewei naturally answered and seized the opportunity to attack the Central Commission for Discipline personnel.

"When will anyone come over the Eighth Route Army?" Li Qinglin asked.

Pan Kewei stared at Li Qinglin: "Why are you so interested in the Eighth Route Army?"

Li Qinglin was shocked. He knew that the old spy had become suspicious and smiled and said, "I'm going to be prepared."

Pan Kewei said: "The information on the Eighth Route Army is difficult to obtain. All I know is that they only plan to have someone come this year. It seems that they are going to take root here. As for the specific time and expected location, we cannot grasp it yet, but I guess it is likely that I will have to wait for the beginning of spring."

Li Qinglin said: "I know what you said. I will notify the squadron leader below to be careful."

With Li Qinglin's approval, the reorganization work of the Ninth Detachment was progressing smoothly. All troops had reached their designated locations, and mortars and other equipment were successfully installed in each unit.

On the Japanese and puppet side, because they found that there were constant troops mobilizing the third brigade, they thought that the third brigade would not mobilize the troops for no reason, and judged that the third brigade might want to launch an attack. Therefore, Sasaki and Sakamoto were very nervous for a while, and Mizumaki and the Japanese and puppet troops at various strongholds were also very nervous for a while.

Later, they learned from other channels that this side was reorganizing the troops, and they also sent small groups of troops to tentatively fight once or twice. Seeing that the Ninth Detachment did not have the idea of ​​counterattack immediately, and Sun Dianying's New Fifth Army was already in a big way, the Japanese and puppets stopped attacking the small troops in front of them and turned their main attention to the New Fifth Army. The two sides actually started a military confrontation.

However, the Japanese army was extremely worried about Sun Dianying's side. They organized troops to fight Sun Dianying several times. Sun Dianying's troops were not strong in combat, but they had one characteristic, that is, they were very fast to transfer and reorganized very quickly after they were disbanded.

The Japanese army often captured Sun Dianying's troops' positions, but the results were not great, because Sun **'s troops often ran away after resistance for a while. The Japanese and puppet troops were afraid of Sun Dianying's troops' large numbers, and they did not dare to pursue them in depth without being sure. The Japanese and puppet troops could not achieve the goal of annihilation of Sun Dianying's main force.

Because the Japanese army had not many troops, they could not send corresponding troops to garrison after they captured the positions. After the Japanese and puppet troops retreated, Sun Dianying's troops made a comeback, and the situation of both sides quickly returned to their previous state.

However, what made the Japanese army a little relieved was that although Sun Dianying's New Fifth Army claimed to be 20,000, and its number was much larger than that of the Japanese army opposite, they did not have the spirit of proactive attack. The two sides are currently guarding each other and confronting each other.

Since Sun Dianying was re-granted by Chiang Kai-shek to establish the New Fifth Army. Through his hard work, the New Fifth Army has become the most powerful armed force in southern Hebei and northern Henan, which has attracted the attention of all parties. Sun Dianying summarized the experience and lessons from the previous military process and began to learn from Yan Xishan's "Dancing on Three Eggs" practice to deal with relevant parties.

Regarding the National Government, he repeatedly publicly expressed his loyalty and determination to fight to the end of the war; he generally implemented the orders issued by the Military Commission; he was not vague about the anti-Japanese war, and he fought as soon as possible. Of course, the supply of the Military Commission must not be lacking, after all, this is an important source of military expenditure for his New Fifth Army.

Sun Dianying is an extremely smart person. He knows that his troops are mixed and have low combat effectiveness. In order to expand his influence, enhance his political status, and improve his combat effectiveness, he invited progressive person Li Xijiu as a senior adviser, Han Linfu as the director of political training, and Communist Party member Xuan Xiafu as the secretary-general. At the same time, he also absorbed many Communist Party members. Communist Youth League members and progressive young people joined his team, which greatly improved his troops' combat effectiveness and gained a reputation among progressive people.

However, it is not completely correct to say that he is fighting against Japan. Just near his headquarters, the New Fifth Army set up three guesthouses. Each of these three guesthouses has different functions. One of them is to entertain visitors from the National Government, the other is to entertain visitors from the Communist Party, and the other is to entertain visitors from the Japanese army.

The Japanese side sent people to contact him, so naturally they wanted to instigate the largest national army in the region, so that Sun Dianying became the second Li Fuhe. But Sun Dianying was a clever figure. He had to talk with the Japanese, and they had to fight, and they still had to fight. After talking about this, fighting and fighting, the Japanese were confused. Apart from viciously scolding Sun Dianying behind their backs, the Japanese army really had no good idea to Sun Dianying.

The closest thing to the New Fifth Army Defense Zone is the big man in the Xiashangou area. Because Xiashangou has penetrated deep into the mountainous area and Sun Dianying's troops have not been completely transferred, there is a large blank area between the two armies. The big man also sent people to contact him several times, but they were all lower-level officers. The other party was still polite to friendly forces, but he still looked down on the small team of the Third Brigade in his words.

After a period of preparation, starting from March, the so-called "public security correction" of the Japanese army began. Specifically for the North China Front Army, the base camp required them to ensure the security and stability of the occupied areas.

In order to achieve "the improvement of the security situation in North China", the base camp requires that "under the ideal of building a new order in East Asia, Japan, Manchuria and China will become friendly 'neighbors'; in order to achieve the lofty goal of East Asia's peace hub, North China and Mongolia must form a highly integrated zone between Japan and China in terms of national defense, economic, and especially in terms of development and utilization of resources. In addition, in Mongolia, in order to prevent the Communist Party, it should create a special military and political status."

In response to the requirements of the base camp, the Japanese North China Front Army decided that "the front army should ensure stability as the foundation of all work, and to guide operations as the criterion for combat, and to determine the mission parallel to public security construction."

On the front line, although the Japanese army advanced rapidly and reported frequent success, in the occupied areas behind their front-line troops, the actual Japanese forces only controlled a small area along the railway, namely "points and lines". Other vast areas, especially rural areas, are controlled by anti-Japanese forces or civilian armed forces.

In response to this actual situation, the North China Front Army's public security rectification not only invades from the military, but also invades all-round in terms of economy, politics, ideology and culture, and also plunder from the all-round.

To rectify public security, of course, start with the reign of the war. The Japanese army carried out several small-scale operations against the Ninth Detachment. Because Yan Boling's intelligence system called the police in advance, and now the troops were added and weapons and equipment were strengthened, the Japanese and puppet troops did not get any benefits after several attacks. Because the Japanese and puppet troops in the water control field were indeed limited, they were safe to defend the existing areas and important military targets, and under normal circumstances they could not attack.

On the other hand, Sun Dianying's New Fifth Army, as long as the Japanese and puppet attacked, the New Fifth Army often resisted for a while. If the Japanese and puppet troops increased their attacks, the New Fifth Army's troops generally ended up retreating in order to preserve their strength. Therefore, the Japanese and puppet army often attacked the New Fifth Army with more powerful troops.

After the reorganization meeting, Wen Shaoxuan led Wang Desheng's fourth squadron into Xiashangou as planned. Because Xiashangou is located in the deep mountains, with few lands and few people, it really cannot support so many troops, so Wen Shaoxuan decided to advance the troops and try to send troops to the northeast to expand the survival space of the troops.

Yue Qianxu and Wen Shaoxuan, who came from the rear, both graduated from military academy and had experience in actual combat. They were also very experienced in combat. They were considered people who did practical things in a down-to-earth manner. Wen Shaoxuan knew that expanding the space under the current situation would inevitably harm the interests of the other two parties, so he did not take radical measures, but adopted a steady and steady strategy.

Wen Shaoxuan is a new member. The current expansion space tactic is his first battle to northern Henan. He knows that this battle is only allowed to win but not lose, otherwise his prestige in the army will be greatly damaged in the future.

To the northwest is Sun Dianying's defense zone, and to the east is the occupied area of ​​the Japanese and puppets. However, this Japanese and puppet troops do not belong to the jurisdiction of water governance, but to the guards of railways and warehouses, that is, the Japanese military police stationed at the Weiji Town Railway Station and its route - Maeda Squadron and two companies of the puppet army.

How to expand the space in the shortest time and at the lowest cost? Wen Shaoxuan thought of the previous actions of the Third Brigade, so he immediately reported his plan to Deputy Commander Li Qinglin, and humbly asked the big man Zhao Shoushan for advice...
Chapter completed!