EBE Chapter 665: World Changes
Chapter 665: World Changes
I cannot apologize for this, but I will consider that your two armies held their ground until the last moment of the change of guard before withdrawing from the position.
Finally, the Central Army in Zhongtiao Mountain was able to retain its last bit of face.
Their merits and demerits offset each other, so they were allowed to cross the Yellow River to the Tenth War Zone to recover.
Although the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain was over, Song Wenwan couldn't rest.
In June of that year, the little mustache guys and the old Russians started fighting in Europe.
Other countries are fine, but the people in Japan are the first to start shaking.
As an ally of the little mustache, Wodao felt that he was special.
However, they did not think about going north, but instead continued to prepare to go south to Southeast Asia.
Because the United States, on the other side of the ocean, has cut off Japan's supply channels for oil and mineral resources.
Of course, this is also thanks to the help of the rising star in politics, Congressman Williams.
With Song Wenwan's guidance, Williams, the former reporter, has now entered politics.
Song Wenwan once again took charge of the task of arranging arrangements for the disaster victims in Henan.
Fine grains were continuously taken to the Japanese-controlled areas and exchanged for coarse grains to alleviate the food gap in Gansu and northern Shaanxi.
With the fluctuations in the grain market, Ming Lou, the financial adviser to the Southern puppet government, finally discovered the problem.
This special situation was immediately reported in writing to the Japanese military headquarters in Shanghai.
Okamura in Peiping soon saw Minglou's report.
Okamura was overjoyed, because he knew that along with the disaster victims, he had entered the area controlled by Song Wenwan.
The food supply of the Gannan Guerrilla Division finally began to run short.
In order to ensure food supply for the disaster victims in Henan, they had to exchange the fine grains in their hands for coarse grains.
This is the only way to ensure that the disaster victims who come to them for refuge will not starve to death.
Otherwise, Song Wenwan and the Eighth Route Army’s credibility would be forced to bankruptcy.
Minglou's report was sent back to the headquarters on the Japanese island overnight by Okamura, and was accompanied by a copy of his own report.
He believed that the number of disaster victims who flowed into Shanxi and Shaanxi this year was only three million, and Song Wenwan could no longer support themselves.
What if the number of disaster victims reaches 10 million next year?
By March next year, there will be a small peak in the number of disaster victims.
The influx of disaster victims during the autumn harvest in September next year will be the last straw that breaks the camel's back for Song Wenwan and the Eighth Route Army.
Okamura also made a battle plan and prepared to take action on May 1st next year.
A large-scale sweep was launched against the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in North China, burning, killing and looting everything.
This would definitely make things even worse for Song Wenwan and the Eighth Route Army, who were already unable to obtain food supplies.
Song Wenwan: By next May, we still don’t know who will be the winner.
What the Japanese know is what Song Wenwan wants them to know.
For example, the Japanese have never understood why Song Wenwan’s Gannan forces are so persistent.
In order to win people's hearts, they even sent troops to escort the victims to Shaanxi and Gansu for resettlement.
Song Wenwan: Actually, they were not sent that far. All the disaster victims who came to the northwest were resettled along the newly built roads.
In fact, the Japanese soldiers nowadays are quite stupid. Can't you see that?
Our troops who were escorting the disaster victims left halfway through the journey. They all went back to change their equipment.
All the weapons and equipment of the guerrilla divisions were placed at the Hengshan base.
All previously used semi-automatic weapons will be serviced and boxed.
It would be handed over to the Eighth Route Army in North China and the New Fourth Army in Jiangnan for use in the spring of 1942.
Song Wenwan has already explained everything to the leader, and now is not the time to turn against Peidu.
If all the equipment that everyone is using now were replaced with Type 41 (Type 56), it would be difficult to explain.
As long as everyone's equipment is out of sync, the bigwigs in the capital's attendant room would not dare to fall out.
Besides, the current Garand semi-automatic rifle is already half a body length ahead of the Japanese, and is completely sufficient.
In October, Song Wenwan maintained the balance of military power between China and Japan in Shanxi.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd guerrilla divisions and the artillery marine division were specially transferred.
The 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Artillery (without bringing back any equipment) also returned to Longshui, Gansu for training.
The Fourth and Fifth Guerrilla Divisions, commanding all their own security regiments and village liaison teams, stayed in Shanxi to continue fighting against the Japanese.
The 9th Guerrilla Division (including Fan Zhengting's heavy artillery brigade) and the 3rd Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Artillery stayed behind at Kenanpo.
Their two newly formed troops were now responsible for carrying out the task of consolidating and protecting the Second War Zone Command.
The Gannan First Artillery Division at Kenanpo is composed of the First Heavy Artillery Brigade and the First Light Artillery Brigade.
Now the First Heavy Artillery Brigade has returned to Longnan, and all the heavy artillery they left behind has been handed over to the former Light Artillery Brigade.
Therefore, the 1st Light Artillery Brigade has been upgraded to become the current 3rd Heavy Artillery Brigade.
The Gannan Second Heavy Artillery Brigade is still in Longshui, carrying out the mission of defending Laos.
They hid during the day and came out at night, passing through Shaanxi in batches.
We followed the newly built "highways" back to the Longshui base to change equipment.
As for why they have to hide during the day and come out at night, the reason is also very helpless.
Their four divisions and one brigade returned to Longshui, which had nearly 170,000 troops, equivalent to a strategic group.
If we retreat into Shaanxi like this, Commander Hu of the Tenth War Zone will go crazy!
Even the bigwigs in the attendant room of the temporary capital began to become suspicious.
You people from Gannan, do you want to enter Sichuan and launch a surprise attack on our base in the temporary capital?
All the guerrilla soldiers who retreated to Gannan left their weapons behind.
After these weapons have been maintained, notify Deng Beihou, Xie Jinfang, and Chu Yunfei to send troops to collect the equipment.
Who made Xie Jinfang's 207th Division the apple of Song Wenwan's eye?
M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle, equip all of them first.
Then came Fan Haer's Sichuan Army Division and Chu Yunfei's newly formed First Division, which successively switched to semi-automatic rifles.
The commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone has already seen the new look and strong combat effectiveness that the new division has brought him.
So during this period, he trained two new divisions from the local area.
He took away a lot of the weapons and equipment that were replaced.
The commander of the Second War Zone has already sensed the terrifying combat effectiveness of these five newly formed divisions.
I believe they will soon be able to surpass his old troops from the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army.
Now his old subordinates heard that their old commander intended to reorganize the army.
In other words, he had to expand and reorganize the original Shanxi-Suiyuan Army.
What is expansion?
At the very least, a division must be fully staffed, with a number of 15,000 people.
It is definitely not going to exist that a force with only five or six thousand people dares to be called a division.
What is reorganization?
That is, after the whole division has completed preparation and training, all weapons and equipment will be replenished.
For example, the situation where a force of 10,000 people had only more than 3,000 rifles must be completely changed.
Now, among the division commanders and brigade commanders of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, who wouldn't want to be the first to take over?
The higher your ranking, the higher your status in the eyes of your senior boss.
Everyone knows that if you are at the back of the army, waiting to be reorganized.
I'm afraid that before it's your turn, the soldiers under your command have already been recruited into other troops.
So these division commanders, brigade commanders and so on would run to their old superiors whenever they had nothing to do.
Finally, the old commander was so annoyed that he had to tell the truth at a military meeting.
"You all used to be my close subordinates.
What was important in that era? People traveled thousands of miles to be officials just for money.
It’s different now. Now what matters is putting your head on your belt and fighting the devils to the death!”
The officer below: What do you mean by this, sir?
It's as if the person who was flirting with Yoshio Shinozuka two years ago was not you.
When Suo Wuxing saw that the audience was about to lose interest, he immediately took the lead and said that there should be applause.
The old commander said: “I know there are those among you who love fighting and have the ability to win battles, so stay in the army.
There are also some people who are experts in business.
In my opinion, you should just quit working in the army.
If there is a good candidate for fighting in the family, send him out to gain experience.
Once we drive away the Japanese, we will be able to achieve great things and bring honor to our family.
Finally, they can plan for a position in the military."
The people below looked at each other in bewilderment. What did the old commander mean by this? Was he going to give up his military power over a glass of wine?