Anti-Japanese War: Plunder the devils to create a super army

Wang Lin's words made the chief of staff, the general, the division commander and others present at the scene all look serious.

Everyone understands this in their hearts.

It was not as easy as imagined to annihilate the 9th Brigade.

The final victory was mainly due to the ambush. The defensive battle had been consuming the manpower of the 9th Brigade from the beginning.

The purpose of the 9th Brigade was to attack, and the Eighth Route Army headquarters had received the news in advance and mobilized troops to defend, so they did not collapse at the beginning when facing the Japanese attack.

Could it be that the Japanese forces were greatly depleted, and the morale of the 9th Brigade was also dampened as a result?

But the battle being fought now is not the same.

Attacking Shuo City is equivalent to reversing the positioning of the two. This time they are going to fight an offensive battle rather than a defensive battle. The simple change of nouns brings about a huge difference.

At least the battle was much more difficult than their previous defensive battles.

If an accident occurs during the battle, it may even cause huge losses to their army, which will cause the territory they have already held to weaken.

The basic foundation of northwest Shanxi is likely to be affected by this.

Therefore, we must be fully prepared for this offensive.

Especially now that the Eighth Route Army has occupied some county towns, these county towns provide them with good defense and enable local troops to face the attacks of the Japanese more confidently.

However, this also means that the Eighth Route Army's forces will be dispersed, and they can only choose to keep their forces in those county towns to wait, and will not be able to get rid of them for the time being.

To some extent, it is the same embarrassing situation that the Japanese are in now.

The Japanese army's ability to mobilize troops was affected, and the Eighth Route Army's ability to mobilize troops was also affected because of these counties.

It is no longer possible to mobilize large-scale troops as quickly as before.

These are their current disadvantages.

But it was precisely because of this that Wang Lin was called in to discuss the matter.

Wang Lin can see the combat situation very clearly and find the key points from it. Maybe we can get better advice from him.

Wang Lin also learned a little from the boss about the Japanese troops in Shanxi Province, as well as the territories occupied and the deployment of the national army.

The National Army's forces have always had many conflicts with the Japanese. Basically, wherever the Japanese are, they have an army.

But they don't fight each other much, and this is the biggest problem.

It was as if the National Army and the Japanese had already reached a balance. As long as the other side did not take the initiative to attack, the National Army would not take the initiative to attack either. Generally speaking, there were no special actions, and most of them were defensive battles.

As for the Japanese, they would launch attacks and sweeps from time to time.

The closest places to their Eighth Route Army front-line headquarters are actually Taiyuan and the North China region in the south.

If Wang Lin chooses to target Shuo City, he can avoid encountering the North China Front Army as much as possible.

This is also the reason why Wang Lin supported fighting to the north, in order to prevent encountering the army in North China. It would be best to unilaterally clash with the army in Taiyuan and other northern armies.

Facing less pressure is undoubtedly the best option.

But Wang Lin knew in his heart that he could not choose Shuo City, at least not now.

I don’t know when the Zhongtiao Mountain battle will start, so I have to consider southern Shanxi.

Others didn’t know, but Wang Lin knew very well in his heart how tragic the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain was for the War of Resistance.

Under the bombing of the air force, the Japanese troops outside Zhongtiao Mountain easily tore through the positions of the National Army and launched a full-scale attack from the northeast, west and three directions.

The battle lasted more than a month from beginning to end.

However, the Nationalist army was not well prepared beforehand, and the replacement of generals at the last minute resulted in a lack of unified command for the entire army, and the various troops were unable to mobilize quickly.

Faced with the frenzied attack of the Japanese army, the national army suffered heavy losses. Except for a few who broke through, most of the troops were directly defeated.

Tens of thousands of troops were wiped out by the Japanese army.

However, the Japanese suffered minimal losses.

That battle can be regarded as a disgrace in the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it will have an extremely bad impact on the entire cause of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

For the Eighth Route Army, it also posed a huge threat to the entire base area behind enemy lines.

The Japanese army had a division of troops in the area occupied by Zhongtiao Mountain, but in fact there were two more divisions behind it as supplementary forces.

In order to guard Zhongtiao Mountain, the national army has a large number of troops stationed in Zhongtiao Mountain.

In addition to the Fifth Army, there are also troops from the 14th Army stationed there.

It can be said that Zhongtiao Mountain means the safety of the entire Shanxi Province and whether it can continue to control the entire north.

Therefore, the national army attached great importance to this area and deployed as many as 20 troops.

But even such a large force was directly defeated by the three divisions of the Japanese devils.

The Japanese First Army and the divisions of the front army all participated in this battle.

It can be said that this battle is related to the overall situation. If we attack the north, it would be tantamount to disregarding the overall situation.

Wang Lin naturally would not make such a choice, so he had to persuade the boss and others to focus on the south.

Place it in Zhongtiao Mountain as much as possible.

Even if we cannot destroy the Japanese army, we must prevent the Japanese army from taking Zhongtiao Mountain.

So Wang Lin spoke directly.

"I personally think that although Shuo City in the north is closer to us, the Japanese troops and defense there are stronger."

"Our current forces have been dispersed throughout the county. Any rash action will likely backfire."

"So I think the next move should be to attack southern Shanxi first. Although there is a small Japanese division there, there are also national army troops to contain it, which can help us share most of the pressure."

Wang Lin said this as he took the map and pointed to the location of Zhongtiao Mountain.

There are many flags of the National Army here, as well as many flags of the Japanese devils.

The two are competing with each other, making everyone afraid to act rashly.

Wang Lin then continued speaking.

"If we use the National Army to contain the Japanese troops at this time, we can buy ourselves a lot of time and opportunities to eliminate a lot of Japanese soldiers."

"In this way, we can also regain some territory and consolidate our development in southern Shanxi."