Anti-Japanese Jagged General

Chapter 79
Finally, staring at the chief of staff, he asked, "What do you mean?"

After thinking about it, the chief of staff decided to tell his true thoughts, after all, it was related to himself and more than 1000 lives around him.

"The situation we are facing now has told us that if we don't understand our opponents to pursue rashly, we will suffer big losses, and even the entire situation may be destroyed. We must resolutely stop this kind of risky action, because we can't afford to gamble!"

"You have to be clear, captain. Once we lose the bet, everyone here may be wiped out by the Eighth Route Army. By then, the entire Laiyuan will have no imperial army troops that can compete with the Eighth Route Army. They can work together to defeat the Eighth Route Army. Take down the entire Laiyuan in one step!"

"We must not let this happen!" Ono said decisively.

But as soon as he said the words, he felt unwilling, and added: "If the operation ends like this, wouldn't the warriors who died in the past few days die in vain?"

"No! They will not die in vain!" the chief of staff explained.

"According to the order, in the next half month, the supplementary troops sent by the commander will be in place one after another, and our wing will also be expanded into a garrison brigade, with a total strength of 500, which is three times the current number. And more!"

"If your Excellency, the captain of the regiment, is willing, the Laiyuan garrison regiment can also be expanded into a garrison brigade. In this way, the strength of the regiment commander will increase to 1, and the situation of insufficient troops like this will never happen again!"

Ono's frowning brows relaxed quite a bit at this time, and then his eyes lit up and he said, "If there are really [-] troops, I won't be afraid even if all the troops from the First Division of the Eighth Route Army come over!"

"Commander, do you agree?" As soon as Ono showed signs of letting go, the chief of staff asked!
Ono nodded affirmatively, "Chief of Staff, your analysis is right. I can't risk the lives of so many warriors with me, let alone risk Laiyuan. Laiyuan City must not be taken back by the Eighth Route Army!"

At this point, Ono Dazuo changed the subject and continued: "However, the investigation and attack of the Eighth Route Army in Laiyuan cannot be relaxed! Our intelligence agency must speed up the intelligence penetration of Laiyuan. I don't care whether they plan to buy the Chinese or send Intelligence team. In five days at most, I must find out the total strength and equipment of the Eighth Route Army in Laiyuan! The more detailed the better, otherwise, the intelligence staff of the headquarters will wait to be court-martialed!"

"As for the attack, from now on, all strongholds will strengthen their defenses. After the reinforcements arrive, first replenish the strength of each stronghold so that they reach full strength. If the Eighth Route Army attacks again, there will be no room for retaliation!"

"The other is the Laiyuan Garrison Regiment. I agree to expand the garrison regiment into a garrison brigade. I will apply to the Commander when I go back. However, the combat effectiveness of the garrison troops these days has really disappointed me. After I go back, The garrison brigade must strengthen training, and you, chief of staff, have even transferred a squadron of imperial troops to join the garrison as deputy officers at all levels to be responsible for training!"

"From now on, I don't want to see the garrison surrender to the enemy in an organized way, or fight cowardly on the battlefield, and collapse without fighting!" After thinking that the arrangements were in place, Ono issued an order to retreat.

Wang Ping, who got the news, couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief, and then took the captured and prisoners, and went straight to Zhangjiawan to meet Cheng Xiao.

The village with only a few families had turned into a huge military camp with the arrival of the Independence Battalion.

At the beginning, these hunters did not agree with the independent battalion to set up the military camp here.One of the most important reasons why they moved their family here from outside the mountains and made a living by hunting was to avoid military disasters.

In their eyes, if the military is stationed near the village, it won't take too long for the devils to find this place, and they will be affected by the war.So, after hearing Cheng Xiao's idea of ​​setting up the independent battalion here, several Orion households subconsciously rejected it.

Fortunately, the independent battalion won many battles after attacking Laiyuan, and they had both money and food in their hands.

Seeing that several hunters rely on hunting to survive, and their family members can't even eat enough, they offered to provide each hunter with a hundred catties of white flour so that they could survive this cold winter.Otherwise, when the snow closes the mountains, more than 30 people in Zhangjiawan will definitely freeze to death and starve to death!

Seeing that the Eighth Route Army did not rob everything they saw like the Central Army and the Jinsui Army that I had encountered before, they returned food to myself so that my family could survive in the cold winter.These hunters were very moved, and finally gave up all the open space and forest at the east end of the village to the independent camp as a resident, and also gave the independent camp a lot of mountain products that could not be sold because of the war!

Seeing that it is getting colder and colder outside, the corpses are about to snow, and the troops still have many wounded due to continuous fighting.Just exposing them to a cold camp like this is certainly not possible.

Just when Cheng Xiao was in trouble, Zhong Yusheng came back.Not only brought a large number of seizures, but also brought back seventy or eighty captives.

As long as there are people, everything is easy to handle.

With the help of dozens of villagers in Zhangjiawan, Cheng Xiao used the prisoners of the puppet army in his hand to build more than a dozen wooden barracks in just two days, ensuring that these people in the barracks would have a place to live temporarily, and would leave the barracks empty. The camp now has the appearance of a military camp.

When Wang Ping led the team back to Zhangjiawan, the main force of the independent battalion had brought a lot of supplies and equipment and had to take a detour, so they hadn't come back yet.

Wang Ping was very satisfied with the empty camp that had begun to take shape in front of him, and he had the idea of ​​using it as a long-term camp for the independent camp.

Even if the Independence Camp expands in the future, there will not be so many people stationed here, this camp can also be used as a secret camp of the Independence Camp!
As soon as the idea was proposed, the trainer Cheng Xiao agreed: "I agree. I have looked at the surrounding terrain for the past two days. It can be said that it can be attacked and defended. It is very suitable for a garrison!"

"If all the open space and woods given to us by the village are used to build a camp, there will be no problem at all accommodating 1000 people!"

"There is also the geographical location here. There are more than 20 villages in the surrounding area of ​​[-] miles, all of which are large in scale. We can take Zhangjiawan as the center, radiate the surrounding villages step by step, and then rely on these villages to establish a base!"

The way Wang Ping looked at Cheng Xiao suddenly changed.I thought he was just an old political worker, but I didn't expect him to have such a vision in the military, he is simply an all-rounder.

At this time, Wang Ping finally understood what Chief of Staff Tang said to him when he sent Cheng Xiao over.

"Letting Cheng Xiao come to the independent camp is because I picked up a treasure. I must develop the independent camp as soon as possible, and I can't lose Cheng Xiao."

As an all-round commander, the Eighth Route Army lacks talents like Cheng Xiao everywhere, and it will be no problem to be a regiment commander or a political commissar of the regiment casually in the future.Being an instructor for yourself now is definitely overkill.

If I can't expand the independent battalion into an independent regiment as soon as possible, I'm really sorry for Cheng Xiao.

Thinking of this, Wang Ping became even more motivated.

Then Cheng Xiao watched and affirmed: "Old Cheng, you are right. When we stabilize here, I will go back to the headquarters and apply to the commander for our independent battalion to stay in Laiyuan. The scope of the partition is directly extended to Laiyuan."

(End of this chapter)