bookbashuk #267 - Fishing tips
#267 - Fishing tips
In contrast to the disastrous defeat of the Ninth War Area, the Sixth War Area's actions were much more impressive.
They achieved successive victories in the Yuzhong region on the south bank of the Yellow River, launching fierce attacks against the Nationalist troops of the First War Area and regaining their confidence.
Most of the First War Area's main forces were lost in this campaign. Except for Luoyang, which was close to the Eighth Route Army's defense zone, and Mengjin, which could be quickly reinforced by the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese didn't dare to touch them. However, they didn't hesitate to aggressively push into other areas south of the Yellow River that the Eighth Route Army couldn't temporarily cover.
After consolidating their position and gains on the south bank of the Yellow River, the main force of the Sixth War Area, the 11th Army, transferred the 4th and 39th Divisions, while the 12th Army transferred the 32nd Division, stationing them around Kaifeng. On one hand, this was to prevent the Eighth Route Army from moving south, and on the other hand, they were preparing to launch a counter-offensive once weapons arrived, aiming to annihilate the Eighth Route Army forces around Jizhou as much as possible.
Completely relieve the siege of Jizhou.
Reopen the Pinghan Railway.
Therefore, for the Japanese, the joys and sorrows on either side of the Yellow River were vastly different. North of the Yellow River, there was widespread misery, with nearly ten garrison divisions and over half of their 200,000 troops lost!
South of the Yellow River, however, they advanced triumphantly, annihilating over 100,000 Nationalist troops and achieving complete victory.
The contrasting results made it impossible for the Japanese Expeditionary Force and the Imperial General Headquarters to determine whether they were succeeding or failing.
However, one conclusion was consistent: North China could not be lost, or at least not completely lost! This was an absolutely unacceptable loss.
Therefore, a second wave of 100,000 new troops was being urgently mobilized to stabilize the situation on the North China battlefield!
For the Japanese, they had finally recognized some realities and no longer viewed North China as a battlefield that could be completely cleared.
The brigade commander couldn't guess the Japanese response, nor did he care about the behind-the-scenes changes. For him, it was enough to respond to each move as it came.
Faced with the staff's new strategy, the brigade commander began a large-scale development of anti-Japanese armed work teams behind enemy lines, starting from Jizhou, deploying as many as eight Class C regiments to compete for control of over a dozen counties.
According to past experience, the development plan now had two lines, one overt and one covert. The overt line consisted of regular anti-Japanese armed forces, such as district squads and county detachments, appearing publicly in front of the people. However, another hidden armed work team was constantly and secretly developing members, not being too public.
This way, even if the Japanese returned and the main force had to retreat first, not all the armed forces would be wiped out in one fell swoop.
The public guerrillas would certainly have traitors leading the way, and it would be much more difficult to survive. However, the secretly developed part, as long as they didn't actively expose themselves, could continue to persist in the struggle and wouldn't be completely wiped out by the Japanese.
Not only was the brigade commander suppressing the Japanese advance in northern Henan, but the division commander also broke out of the mountains and began to actively attack Shijiazhuang, first wiping out most of one of the four Japanese divisions stationed there, and then launching an attack on Shijiazhuang!
For the division commander, he fully understood the staff's strategy. After attacking and weakening three-quarters of Shijiazhuang's defenses, the division commander also began to 'kite' around Shijiazhuang, while taking down all the counties close to the mountains.
For those farther away from the mountains, he also sent out armed work teams to start building base areas at the village level.
The division commander had thrown out the equivalent of more than ten Class B regiments.
In a short period of time, more than a dozen counties had quietly completed independent base area construction, setting up multiple organizations of county detachments, district squads, village self-defense forces, and armed work teams. Combining this with the accumulation of past underground work, the division commander firmly controlled the vast area near Shijiazhuang.
One in the south and one in the north, two new base areas quickly took shape.
Most importantly, the division commander and the brigade commander were both able to hold down the main Japanese forces. Therefore, in villages that the Japanese currently had no ability to reach, the Eighth Route Army was developing its forces much faster than before. After controlling the local transportation routes, the military region had sufficient confidence to provide logistical support to various places, ensuring that all personnel in the local armed forces had ample support in terms of weapons and ammunition.
Every guerrilla fighter had a gun and over 100 rounds of ammunition.
This was completely different from when Ren Zhong had just arrived.
Having the Jin-Hebei base area meant that the production capacity for guns, ammunition, and artillery far exceeded the Nationalist government's national strength!
For the ordinary people in the villages, being able to receive a gun upon arrival was a very practical and direct way to demonstrate strength.
Soon, self-defense militias of ten or so people were developed in each village, organized into non-demobilized platoon-level forces based on joint defense by several villages. The platoon leader was a veteran soldier sent from the old base area.
These were non-demobilized, conducting military training during the agricultural off-season. They were only pulled out to fight guerrilla warfare when something happened.
Several platoon-level teams could form a company-level regular guerrilla force.
In this way, a county could easily organize a dozen companies.
Now, with the Japanese in Shijiazhuang and Jizhou surrounded in the cities, they didn't dare to venture out again. The Japanese in other places didn't dare to send brigade-level reinforcements, and even large-scale division-level clusters were something the Japanese didn't want to use again, lest the situation further deteriorated and they had to transfer troops from other places in a desperate attempt to suppress the Eighth Route Army.
Otherwise, the entire North China region would be in danger of being wiped out.
This loosening and tightening, like 'kiting' a fish, made the Japanese completely understand what was happening.
The teams besieging the Japanese around the big cities were quietly replaced with Class B regiments, allowing the mechanized infantry brigade to be freed up to do other things.
With these highly mobile mechanized infantry brigades, the brigade commander in northern Henan could completely freely control the Japanese strongholds.
The brigade commander was very concerned about the construction of new base areas in the controlled areas, sending out teams with all his might to militarily clear the area, eliminating the local Japanese, puppet troops, and local martial arts heroes who refused to be reorganized.
He ensured that the grassroots level of villages and towns was almost completely controlled, and that no unstable armed forces such as bandits or puppet troops were left in the area. If these armed forces refused to be reorganized, the main force would annihilate them.
According to this strategy, the brigade commander in Jizhou and the division commander near Shijiazhuang were building new base areas at an extremely fast pace!
Faced with the Eighth Route Army's encirclement without attack, the remaining main forces of the Japanese North China Area Army and the Ninth War Area were in a quandary.
A large group of high-ranking Japanese officials wavered back and forth between rescuing and not rescuing. In the end, they discovered that the Eighth Route Army didn't seem to have any intention of directly taking the cities. After thinking it over, they were a little confused about the Eighth Route Army's intentions.
When they couldn't figure out the situation, they chose an ostrich strategy of observation. After observing for several days, the Eighth Route Army indeed had no intention of attacking. Before the new weapons arrived, they resigned themselves to not moving for the time being, choosing to stabilize their opponents as much as possible.
More than half a month later.
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"Li Yunlong, I have an important task for you now. From now on, the Mechanized Infantry Independent Brigade, together with the Mechanized Infantry New First Brigade and the New Second Brigade, must find a way to open up a large passage to the Qilu base area, send a batch of important military equipment to the Qilu base area to improve their combat effectiveness, control more areas in Qilu as soon as possible, and assist the Qilu base area in building a large port to receive a batch of supplies transported from overseas back to Jin Province."
The brigade commander summoned Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, and Kong Jie and said with a serious expression.
Ren Zhong's transaction with General Shi, after nearly a month, had now reached the time for the transaction.
However, this transaction was very important and quite troublesome to deliver. At Ren Zhong's request and with General Shi's coordination, the Allied forces sent a fleet to escort the trade goods, preparing to trade at a northern port.
Under Ren Zhong's influence, the Allied forces launched the Mariana Islands and Leyte Gulf naval battles in advance, breaking the back of the Japanese Combined Fleet and completely reducing it to a watchdog that could no longer compete in the ocean.
This allowed the Allied fleet to sail unimpeded in the East Asian seas, and the remaining Japanese fleet didn't dare to leave port.
Of course, this was also due to the eagerness of the Rogue Eagle to obtain the technology in Ren Zhong's hands.
Ren Zhong didn't know that this was a huge bargaining chip for the Allied forces to gain a strategic advantage in Europe. After all, the Big Bear had finally recovered and was beating Little Mustache to the point where he couldn't hold on.
Seeing that victory was in sight, the Rogue Eagle's attitude towards the rising Big Bear was now different.
It felt somewhat like driving away the wolf from the front door only to let the tiger in through the back.
However, the Rogue Eagle didn't have the courage to compete with the Big Bear's increasingly large steel torrent.
Therefore, they desperately needed new technological means to level, or even widen, the gap!
The Rogue Eagle had spent a lot of effort verifying and researching the two airport attacks planned by Ren Zhong. The Rogue Eagle's high command was fully aware of the great power displayed by the rockets.
Destroying an airport with just a few shots was simply too powerful for attacking a steel torrent.
According to this mode of operation, large-scale killings could be achieved thousands of miles away without bloodshed!
This combat method completely opened the eyes of the Rogue Eagle's high command.
These tactics were commonplace for Ren Zhong. In the main world, the use of missiles was already basic and determined the direction of the war.
Because of this, Ren Zhong had spent huge amounts of manpower and resources developing rocket technology, but the current guidance method meant that the rockets' accuracy was still somewhat unsatisfactory.
Therefore, Ren Zhong hadn't yet regarded rockets as the most important strategic weapon, which made the Rogue Eagle feel that they had to complete the transaction before Ren Zhong realized it.
After all, in their eyes, an aviation production line and a steam turbine were simply not equivalent to a strategic weapon of mass destruction, so they were somewhat afraid that things would drag on and sent a fleet to deliver the goods and complete the transaction.
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