If the enemy wants to kill you, you should kill the enemy first.

According to the old Chinese saying, it is better to act first, and then to suffer.

Yang Tianfeng wanted to take the initiative to attack, not because Zhao Yurou said casually, but because of this idea. It was just that based on factors such as military expansion, training, and reorganization, he felt that the time was not ripe enough.

Moreover, whether to use continuous small-scale counterattacks to curb the Japanese's road construction and encroachment, or launch a large offensive similar to the Hundred Regiments War, Yang Tianfeng also has to make a choice based on the specific situation changes.

Although he provided some of the Eighth Route Army's weapons, ammunition, as well as medicines and materials to a limited extent, the gap in military strength was still difficult to make up, and the Eighth Route Army could only delay and slow down the Japanese's cage policy, which could not be completely curbed.

On the one hand, the Japanese built roads and forts to divide and erode the anti-Japanese base areas, and on the other hand, they carried out mobilization and attacked the anti-Japanese armed forces. Especially since the beginning of winter, the situation of the entire North China's anti-Japanese war has become increasingly severe, and the Yongcheng base area has only been temporarily calm and cannot always be safe.

"After the autumn, the number of North China devils began to increase, and the main target was to the bases of the Eighth Route Army. First, they besieged Shanxi, Hebei and Henan, occupied Qin County, Wuxiang, Liao County, Changzhi, Tunliu, Licheng and other counties; then attacked the southern part of Beiyue District. According to intelligence, the devils will launch a third mobilization offensive in October, and the target may be Beiyue District, Hebei, Shandong and Henan..."

Yang Tianfeng listened to the Chief of Staff’s report on the enemy situation and his eyes wandered on the map. His memory was surprisingly good. If he remembered the previous information about the enemy situation clearly, he could contact further and see more thoroughly.

Since 1939, especially after Tada Jun took office, he began to point his finger at the Eighth Route Army in North China. Based on the principle of plains first and then mountains, the focus of the Japanese's mobilization was Hebei Central and southern Hebei, with the goal of occupying the granary and densely populated land in North China and cutting off the main supply channels for the Eighth Route Army's grain and personnel.

Tada Jun is a Chinese expert. He has sinisterly adopted a different strategy for different anti-Japanese armed forces from different factions. He did not take military action for the national army troops in the occupied areas with a low desire to attack, but specifically dealt with the Eighth Route Army. Of course, this is just a strategy of sorting out order, and does not always ignore it.

Although the Eighth Route Army mobilized its main force and after fighting, it saved the Hebei-central and southern Hebei bases, the losses were not small. This included the property and lives of the people, including food and houses, casualties of soldiers, and the consumption of weapons and ammunition.

Every time the Japanese raid was crushed, it was similar to a post-disaster reconstruction. This was the result of the gap in strength, which could not be resisted head-on, nor could it be rejected outside the base. The recovery of the troops after the war took a long time because of the weakness of the military industry.

Every time the Japanese swept, the soldiers were not exhausted, and most of them consumed were materials. They could recover quickly and make a comeback again, causing huge losses to the military and civilians in the base area.

Yang Tianfeng had long realized this, so he adopted a tactic of combining guerrilla warfare and regular warfare to try to avoid the destruction of the Japanese in the base area. Obviously, if he continues to wait and wait until the Japanese have completed the deployment, it will be difficult to achieve such an effect.

Fight out and strive to open up battlefields outside the base area; or strengthen the intensity and frequency of counterattacks, cut off the devil's claws extending to the base area through continuous small and medium-sized battles, kill and injure its soldiers, consume its materials, threaten its key points, increase the difficulty of gathering troops, expand its territory, and increase the buffer area to resist the Japanese's sweep.

Yang Tianfeng had already made up his mind, and his eyes were at the location of Xiao and staying in the two counties, thinking seriously.

"The Japanese army adopted a tactic of combining siege and dispersed 'advancement' against the anti-Japanese base in North China, which is different from before. But for our army, if the Japanese dare to disperse, it is a good opportunity for us to annihilate the enemy. It has become history for us to rush around in brigades..."

Yang Tianfeng looked up at the confident Chief of Staff, smiled, not thinking he was bragging. But he quietly made a gesture to signal the Chief of Staff to temporarily recess.

Chief of Staff Liang Moqing was so confident, which was naturally inseparable from the achievements made in military construction. More than 34,000 guns, shotguns, Czech-made, Japanese-slaughter chainsaws, grenade launchers, 60 mortars, 120 heavy-force large-scale equipment troops, urgent training, special training, concentrated training, large competitions, large training, and combat training. Two months greatly improved the combat quality of officers and soldiers...

This is just an improvement in the military's hardware. The soft aspects include surveying and mapping of base areas and peripheral areas, fortifications that guard the major traffic arteries of base areas, the number and speed of joint defense team mobilization, and the gradual improvement of the medical system...

The meeting was suspended and a short rest entered. Yang Tianfeng and Liang Moqing had some discussions and discussions. After all, the counterattack did not communicate with Liang Moqing in advance, and there were inevitably differences in opinions.

"Start a counterattack in advance?" Liang Moqing's expression was not too surprised, but just fell into thinking.

"Information has shown that the Japanese army is hoarding a large amount of supplies in Xiaoxian County, and Suxian is obviously preparing for the winter sweep. If we can launch an attack before the enemy, strive to take the initiative and disrupt the enemy's sweep plan, it will be beneficial to the base." Yang Tianfeng said slowly: "Just prepare for the battle, I feel that it is a bit passive, which is also beneficial to defending the base and reducing the losses caused by sweep."

"Before the enemy has not completed the transfer and assembly, we should take action first." Liang Moqing nodded thoughtfully, smiled, and said, "This is very similar to the anti-artery preparation."

"It's really similar." Yang Tianfeng also laughed, reached out and clicked the map, and said, "If the counterattack succeeds, I want to take the opportunity to incorporate Gongshan Brigade and turn the rural areas of Xiaoxian into guerrilla areas, or even the peripheral areas of the base."

"The Japanese wanted to slowly push the bayonet to our chests, so we broke their bayonets and put the rope around their necks." Liang Moqing was a little excited and said, "The problem of Gongshan Brigade should have been solved long ago. Now, they were overwhelmed by the Japanese. We beat them to relieve their siege. The merger of the two families is a natural thing."

"Shen Jianxiong has no problem." Yang Tianfeng paused and smiled slightly, "It is probably impossible for Ge Laokui to be his boss in the world."

Under the means of sweeping and encroachment, and bribery and plundering, the grass-roots armed forces in Xiaoxian began to have obvious differentiation and collapse. Some surrendered publicly, some secretly communicated with the Japanese, and some fled to other places.

After all, the Gongshan Brigade is just an ally of the New Seventh Army. Yang Tianfeng has always abides by the verbal agreement reached before and does not send troops into Xiaoxian. Faced with the disintegrating Green Forest Armed Forces, Ge Laokui, the leader, could not say anything. Shen Jianxiong repeatedly requested reinforcements and assistance, which must be due to Ge Laokui's instruction, and this old guy can't hide his face.

"The Japanese in Xiaoxian have increased to three brigades. If we continue to increase troops, it will indeed increase our difficulties in resisting." Liang Moqing narrowed his eyes and nodded vigorously, "Start the time is still right."

"There is another thing to pay special attention to." Yang Tianfeng's face became solemn. "We should reiterate it when the meeting is held later, reminding all ministries to be vigilant and not to give the Japanese an opportunity to take advantage of it."

"What's the matter?" Liang Moqing realized that this might be very important and looked serious.

In order to collect as much intelligence as possible, the special forces and guerrillas affiliated to the New Seventh Army also captured Japanese prisoners, calling it "grabbing tongues."

The Japanese devils received Bushido education since childhood and were full of the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor. They believed that after death, people would become military gods, their souls would transcend the body of the world, and fly to a place called Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo to enjoy the incense of descendants.

Therefore, they despise death and can endure unimaginable pain and situations. They do not know how to surrender and only want to kill a few more enemies, so they are often wiped out and the battle can end.

The Japanese command did not consider the possibility of captives at all. They thought that the Locust Army would die in battle. On the one hand, they tried their best to intimidate the soldiers and publicized that the enemy would execute all prisoners of war, and being captured was the greatest shame for soldiers; on the other hand, they had never conducted anti-interrogation training on the soldiers.

Therefore, once the Japanese are captured, they will be very obedient once the psychological defense line is lost. They will speak out and speak in everything, just as happy as pouring beans on bamboo tubes.

Moreover, the Japanese army did not pay attention to the confidentiality of the text. The root cause may be that they thought they would never fail. Yang Tianfeng and the base area's spy system had noticed this situation a long time ago, so they specially issued an order to the combat troops and must hand over the diary of the Japanese seized.

Most Japanese soldiers have the habit of keeping diaries, and Eastern people always like to express their feelings in implicit forms. From this, the intelligence center can get a lot of intelligence clues.

"... Imamura Jun was lucky to be taken away to join a strong and combat-friendly unit. I hope he will kill a few more cunning and despicable enemies. I really envy him..." Yang Tianfeng retelled the words from a Japanese diary and gave a further explanation, "Miyamoto is a cunning and studious guy. He may be organizing small troops similar to our special forces team. It was already half a month ago that he seized this diary. I just received a report from the intelligence department."

"In addition, the confession of a Japanese prisoner also mentioned this elite and combat-ready unit." Yang Tianfeng paused for a moment and continued: "After comprehensive analysis, the Japanese are likely to be drawing elite troops and organizing a special combat unit."
Chapter completed!