Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 241
Taiyuan, the headquarters of the First Army of the North China Front Army.

The military department is composed of more than [-] rooms, including the main department, the combat department, and the communication department.

Among them is a hut with only a dozen square meters located in the northeast corner, which is the lounge of Neiji Okamura.

Yoshio Shinozuka suggested to Ningji Okamura more than once: "Your Excellency, the lounge space is small and the conditions are difficult. This subordinate can arrange a better accommodation for you!"

"Xiaozuka-kun!" Ningji Okamura declined, "Thank you very much for your kindness, but we are imperial soldiers, and more, we should consider fighting! I think this place is very good, it is close to the headquarters, which can save time , you can also feel the atmosphere of war, and the staff can find me at any time... There are many benefits!"

"Yes!" Shinozuka Yoshio could only stand up and answer.

Then Neiji Okamura patted Yoshio Shinozuka on the shoulder again, and said, "You won't be, you want to grab this lounge from me, right?"

Yoshio Shinozuka became nervous all of a sudden: "Well, Your Excellency the Lieutenant General, this subordinate absolutely... dare not have such a thought..."

Neiji Okamura laughed and said, "I'm just kidding with you, Shinozuka-kun, don't mind!"

Shinozuka Yoshio let out an "uh", then smiled awkwardly, and when Okamura turned around, he wiped away his sweat secretly.

The imperial army has a culture that is almost perverted, and subordinates must absolutely obey their superiors, otherwise they will be beaten and kicked, and severely punished by military law.

Yoshio Shinozuka also grew up being beaten and scolded in this way.

Therefore, Shinozuka Yoshio habitually remained cautious in front of Neiji Okamura, and just a joke could make him walk on thin ice.

At this time, Neiji Okamura was practicing calligraphy in the lounge, writing Chinese characters that Shinozuka Yoshio could not understand.

Yoshio Shinozuka stood in front of Ningji Okamura, and asked cautiously, "Your Excellency Lieutenant General, next...how should our army attack?"

Okamura Ningji's subordinates didn't stop, and asked in a calm manner: "Didn't we formulate a battle plan?"

Shinozuka Yoshio wondered: "Your Excellency Lieutenant General, you mean that we still use the previous blockade plan?"

"Why not?" Okamura Neiji asked back.

"However, Your Excellency Lieutenant General!" Shinozuka Yoshio said hesitantly: "If we continue to build railways, roads, and blockades to blockade as before, one day, when we are almost finished repairing, the enemy will launch another attack. What about the attack?"

What Shinozuka Yoshio said was not unreasonable. Even Neiji Okamura himself was worried about this point.

After all, it is difficult to build a bridge, but it is easy to blow it up. A pack of explosives can burn up the painstaking efforts of several months of construction.

But Neiji Okamura was not worried at this time.

"Xiaozuka-kun!" Neiji Okamura asked without answering, "Usually, does the enemy counterattack like this time?"

"Never before!" Yoshio Shinozuka replied, "This is the first time, it's very abnormal!"

"Then..." Okamura Ningji asked again: "Why do you think the enemy is so abnormal?"

Shinozuka Yoshio thought for a while, and then he understood: "Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, because our tactics have made the enemy afraid, that's why..."

Neiji Okamura had finished writing at this time, he put away his pen, stood a little farther away to appreciate it for a while, nodded with satisfaction, and then replied: "Isn't this just to prove that we are right? If we change tactics based on this, wouldn't it be What the enemy wants?"

"Yes." Shinozuka Yoshio nodded and said, "Your Excellency is wise!"

After thinking for a while, Shinozuka Yoshio asked again: "But, Lieutenant General, the enemy already has a considerable number of 'injection bombs' and 'infantry artillery', these are sharp weapons against artillery towers..."

"Don't worry, Shinozuka-kun!" Neiji Okamura replied, "We have a helper who can help us block the Eighth Route Army. If the Eighth Route Army can't even provide food and clothing, how much strength will they have to fight back?"

"Helper?" Yoshio Shinozuka was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately understood: "Yes, Your Excellency is wise. Then, we should focus on the blockade!"

Neiji Okamura nodded, flashed the written words in front of Yoshio Shinozuka, and said, "This attack, let's call it this, 'Millions of Wars'!"

"Yes!" Shinozuka Yoshio replied, and respectfully stretched out his hands to accept Neiji Okamura's words.

"Millions of Wars".

This name seems to be a bit of a misnomer.

Because there are only more than [-] devils in North China, and with the addition of more than [-] puppet troops, there are only more than [-], which is still a long way from a million.

But Neiji Okamura chose this name with a different meaning.

There are more than 20 devils, plus [-] from the Jinsui Army, and more than [-] from Chongqing, isn't there a million people?

Therefore, Okamura Ningji's strategic policy at this stage, or the focus, is not how to mop up, how to encircle or blockade.

Of course these have to be done.

But Neiji Okamura thinks it is more important to do his old job, that is, to send spies, traitors and spies to buy and divide the Chinese army, and even teach the army in Chongqing how to better block the Eighth Route Army...

Neiji Okamura believes that with their "joint efforts", the Eighth Route Army will be in trouble and struggling in a short time!
The result was exactly as Okamura Ningji wished.

Before Okamura Ningji did anything, the stubborn army took the initiative to learn the devil's blockade tactics.

The stubborn army defense area is in the south, starting from Zhongtiao Mountain in the west to the Huxi area (the Huxi Military Area is set to the west of Weishan Lake), and the incomplete defense line has a total of more than [-] people.

At this time, more than 50 troops were added to reach [-] troops, and the focus was on the border area between Shanxi and the Eighth Route Army.

Soon, these areas were like devils, building blockhouses in the junction area, pulling up barbed wire, digging isolation ditches, and destroying roads and mountain roads.

If there were people-to-people contacts and exchanges in this area before, they have been completely cut off now.

The Eighth Route Army immediately felt a sharp deterioration of the situation.

The independent regiment returned to Zhaojiayu after the victory.

At this time, the detachment from Dingbian had already returned. Hundreds of horses were carrying salt one by one, and the soldiers and civilians were all beaming.

But I asked... a load of salt can be exchanged for 300 catties of rice when I leave, but I can barely exchange it for 100 catties of rice when I come back.

But this seems to be normal.

Scarcity is the most precious thing, and the villagers either have no rice in their hands, or they dare not sell even if they have some rice, and keep it.

What the fellow villagers said also makes sense: "It's okay if we don't eat salt for a while, but if we don't have rice for a few days, we will starve to death!"

This is actually caused by the tacit understanding formed by the devils and the stubborn army to attack the food and implement a blockade.

The blockade made the base area an almost completely closed area.

The plundering of food makes the food in this closed area extremely scarce and cannot be replenished.

This cannot be compensated by anything else, unless it can sustain the harvest of grain in the fields.

However, the weather is not so beautiful, and it happened that there was hail at this time... The hailstones the size of pebbles hit the ground with a "plop", and the crops in the field were discounted piece by piece.

(End of this chapter)