Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 170 Meeting
The weather was cold, and the commanders of various ministries gathered in the conference room rubbing their hands and stomping their feet.

The light in the meeting room was very weak, which forced the guards to hang kerosene lamps in several corners. The black smoke from the lamp wick soon smoked the yellow mud wall above into a fan-shaped spread of black, and everywhere in the meeting room There was a scorching smell, making it hard to breathe.

There were a lot of cadres who came to the meeting this time, and the whole meeting room was crowded shoulder to shoulder, so that when Wang Xuexin rushed to the meeting room, he stood at the door and was stunned. Doubt that I can squeeze in.

Moreover, it was full of cadres of regiment leader and above, and the platoon leader himself was a little embarrassed to squeeze in.

What's more terrible is the smell gushing out of the room, it's really hard to describe...

It is common for the Eighth Route Army to be busy fighting for several months without taking a bath. To be precise, it is not the Eighth Route Army, but people in this era seldom take a bath.

On the one hand, it is because of poverty and lack of time and energy to take care of personal hygiene. On the other hand, it is because of the strong wind and sand in this area. Not long after the shower, the wind and sand blow, and the whole body is gray and tossed.

That's why there is a legend that in the past, people in Shaanxi only took three baths in a lifetime: birth, marriage, and death.

Wang Xuexin didn't think much of it at ordinary times, but now there are so many people crowded together, the smell of sweat, foot odor, body odor, and kerosene are mixed together... If the chief of staff asked Wang Xuexin to participate by name, Wang Xuexin really wanted to steal it. slipped away.

How about we just stand outside and listen?

Or pretending to be a diary with a notebook?
Wang Xuexin touched his body and found that there was not even a piece of paper in his pocket, let alone a pen.

At this time, someone inside recognized Wang Xuexin.

"Isn't this Xiaodongbei? Come on, there's still land here!"

"It's cold outside, but it's warm inside!"

……

Wang Xuexin pretended to be polite and declined one by one.

Li Yunlong was also sitting inside. He looked back after hearing the voice, and shouted at Wang Xuexin: "They're all big men, what's the matter with you? Move fast!"

In desperation, Wang Xuexin could only bite the bullet and squeeze in.

While squeezing my heart, I read, what the hell would it be if I had a mask right now!
Soon the chief and the chief of staff came in through the front door. They looked quite busy, discussing with each other while flipping through the documents in their hands.

As soon as they entered the door, the originally noisy conference room fell silent instantly.

It was the chief of staff who spoke first, and he sent the document down, shouting in his mouth: "If you can't get it later, pass it on. There are a lot of comrades attending the meeting today, and the content of the meeting is a bit too much, so let's summarize first. A summary of the meeting, lest comrades miss it!"

Wang Xuexin also received a copy. He took a look at the document and found that it described the difficulties faced by the base areas recently. The first one was the enemy's military and economic blockade, the second one was material plundering, and the third one, Article [-]...

Before Wang Xuexin had time to take a closer look, the chief of staff held the document on top and said: "Comrades have all seen it, and it should be said that they have personally experienced it. The enemy has adopted a strict military blockade and economic blockade against our army. The legal currency carried out crazy plundering of my base area. This method is very vicious, and we were so unprepared that we were caught off guard."

After a pause, the chief of staff went on to say: "Fortunately, we have adopted a series of measures to reduce losses. However, the enemy will not let it go, and they will continue to plunder my base area. At the same time, they are guerrilla The team also made big moves.”

As he spoke, the guard hung up a topographic map like a spider web, and then pointed to the topographic map and said:
"This is what we drew after integrating the information obtained by scouts and intelligence personnel. The roads that the enemy has recently built are different from those in the past."

"First, they connected the blockhouses with deep ditches and high forts, so that the blockhouses could quickly reinforce each other."

“二是这些连接碉堡的公路比地面高出5尺，两旁的沟深8尺到1丈，沟底宽6尺，沟面1丈6。这样的沟和公路直接就可以作为战壕使用。”

"Three, the devils use this road to divide the guerrilla zone into isolated small pieces that cannot be reinforced by each other, so as to facilitate their search and suppression one by one!"

"Fourth, in addition to these north-south barrier roads, the devils also built many east-west roads. The purpose is to allow their cars to maneuver at high speed on the roads and quickly reinforce the front line, so as to make up for their shortcomings of insufficient troops!"

The regiment leaders in the conference room were discussing a lot, and some of them still didn't understand the relationship between the last sentence of the chief of staff, which was "road mobility and insufficient troops".

Wang Xuexin knew what was going on.

On the surface, road maneuvering seems to be a matter of maneuverability and reaction speed, but in fact it is more important to make up for the shortage of troops.

For example, Devil A and B were both attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and both places needed reinforcements.

If there are no roads in the two places and the reinforcements cannot reinforce the two places in time, it is equivalent to no reinforcements.

Or if there is only time to reinforce one place, it is equivalent to only one reinforcement.

If the roads extend in all directions, the reinforcements can first reinforce A and then quickly reinforce B, which is equivalent to using one army twice on the battlefield and playing twice the role, and there are two support troops.

Therefore, the construction of roads and automobile mobility are a kind of force multiplier in addition to the reaction speed, which can make the Japanese army's limited forces exert twice or even more combat effectiveness.

Obviously, after Neji Okamura took down the mountainous area and built fortifications on the dangerous high ground to block the Eighth Route Army with a small number of troops, he hoped to make full use of the advantages of the plains to maximize the combat effectiveness of the limited troops.

The chief took the words at this time, and he pointed to the topographic map and said: "We analyzed this tactic and believed that its basic characteristics are to use railways as pillars, roads as chains, and bunkers as locks, and then use ditches and walls as auxiliary tactics. Blockade the guerrilla areas. At the same time, they are also carrying out the 'cleaning of the countryside' in the guerrilla areas to control schools and implement enslavement education!"

The chief turned around, faced the cadres present, and said: "The situation is much more complicated and serious than we imagined! If the enemy is allowed to build these roads, it will make it extremely difficult for the soldiers and civilians in the guerrilla zone to persist in fighting the enemy. If the enemy is allowed to carry out the "village-clearing movement" in the guerrilla areas, in the not-too-distant future, we are likely to be misunderstood and opposed by fellow villagers. This is the bottom line! We must not allow the enemy's plot to succeed!"

At this time, Wang Xuexin realized that a battle against the devils to block and destroy their lines of communication was about to begin.

(End of this chapter)