Canteen System Assistance Notes

Discussing matters concerning by-election of individual members.

Among the most important agenda items of the meeting, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China reviewed and passed a resolution to convene a joint meeting of the Senates of North China Provinces and a CPPCC meeting.

After the 1942 campaign to recover Shanxi Province and the trials of drought relief, the shift in orthodoxy has become increasingly apparent across China. The People's Field Army is gearing up to take over the last entrenched position in the transportation sector.

The Japanese troops along the frontier and around the big cities were sent to see Amaterasu - at this time, the liberated areas under the control of the people's government had spanned thousands of miles and covered hundreds of millions of people.

To describe it in a rather classical narrative way, this mission-oriented political party that was born on a small boat on Nanhu Lake has already qualified to "compete for the throne."

"The Northern Anti-Japanese War Working Committee has been officially established... This is to promote the unification of the administration of the Northwest, Border Regions, North China, and Central China provinces, and to prepare for the takeover and reconstruction of local administrative systems."

Liu Helian, who had just flown back from the United States and entered the liberated area from the Soviet Union, turned off the screen of his mobile phone. He took a look at the data from the autopilot, then turned his head and looked down from the cockpit window of the eMule cabin.

The troops were marching on a land that was still scorched and mottled in early spring, creating a thick cloud of dust.

Chapter 772 Anxiety is like the Communist Army on the North China Plain

One day in February 1943, it rained in Peking.

The rain was not heavy, so it was not a big deal to go out with an umbrella. On the contrary, the rain also made the red haze that was common in the city disappear, and prevented the huge amount of leftover garbage from emitting a strong stench. In short, this rain was very good.

Pretty good.

General Okamura Yasuji's brain is in hibernation mode.

He clasped his hands together, rubbing them meaninglessly; his eyes were dull, like a camera out of focus; his mind had already flown out of this small office, out of Tieshizi Hutong, and was wandering in the sky.

The documents had piled up into a small mountain, overflowing from the wicker basket where they were placed and spreading out on one side of the table. The report in front of him was stamped with a red "urgent" stamp, describing the situation on the front line, but it had not yet waited for the commander's approval.

's reply.

Until a sudden "snap" sound interrupted Okamura Neiji's rare daze - he turned his head and saw that the command knife hanging on the wall fell to the ground: the hook hanging on it suddenly broke, making this beautifully bound sword

The command knife hit the ground.

"Your Mightiness!"

The orderly who heard the noise inside the house rushed in dutifully, "What happened? You...

"roll!"

A nameless fire surged in his chest, causing Okamura Neiji to grab the pen on the table and start to smash it. But soon, his qualified political animal brain quickly took over, and his hand stopped in mid-air as if it had been paused.

The rage and anger that erupted from his body also disappeared in an instant.

Okamura slowly put down his pen and placed it on the table. As if nothing had happened, he said gently, "Let's clean up and hang up my sword again."

"Hi."

The orderly immediately bowed and went to work in silence as usual.

Okamura Neiji has been in a bad mood for a long time.

After asking for caution, he received the order to upgrade the North China Army to the "General Army". Although Okamura Ningci still maintained the dignity of the commander and maintained his commander's persona on the surface, he always

I would be so worried that I would hold my head down and try to pull something out of my hairless skull.

However, this situation lasted for several months, and Okamura finally...slowly got used to it.

After all, when a bad mood becomes a daily routine, a good mood becomes another kind of emotional abnormality.

He began to get used to instructing his subordinates in a calm tone, and began to get used to directing his staff's discussions on the situation in North China in a calm tone, or discussing the next strategy with Iimura Jo in a far-sighted attitude.

He began to get used to the Chinese in Peking walking with their backs straight, to the water carriers from Yuquan Mountain looking arrogant at the armed expatriates guarding the customs when they passed through the city gate, and to the "social groups" who were pulling manure shouting and mocking the security forces.

They mocked their "shit as being too watery and incalculable" and only wanted to be taken away for an additional fee.

He also began to get used to the fact that some soldiers often went to Tsinghua Gate to buy breakfast, but they went with their guns and came back with their food.

However, deep down in his heart, Okamura Yasuji knew that his anxiety and uneasiness were accumulating pressure like a dormant volcano, and would inevitably erupt uncontrollably at some point in the future.

But I don’t know when this time will come.

We must find a way out, and we must also ensure that there is a way out.

After the First Army was annihilated in 1942, General Okamura Yasuji and General Iimura Mamoru had conducted numerous simulations with Chief of Staff Ando Nijuzo and Okirodo Sanji (who had taken office in November).

The scenarios include but are not limited to "the Communist Army attacks from Zhangyuan and goes straight to North China", "the Communist Army attacks from the Zhengtai Line and immediately goes north to Baozhou after breaking through our defense line", and "the Communist Army launches an attack from Zhongtiao Mountain and northern Henan, and goes all the way along the Pinghan Line".

In the simulation, Okamura, Iimura, and other staff officers who played the role of the Imperial Army tried their best without any cheating quota, but not once could they prevent the situation in North China from completely collapsing.

The Japanese army tried its best to inflict as much damage as possible on the Communist army, hoping that the Communist commander would make the judgment that "the attack on the province of Nanking is futile" and take the initiative to stop the offensive.

Later in the deduction, the old chief of staff Ando Nijusan fell silent, the new chief of staff Oshiroto Sanji fell into self-doubt, and the talented Lieutenant General Iimura Mamoru first argued loudly, then fell into a long silence, and broke the jar.

He was desperately "self-destructive", saying things like "Why doesn't the headquarters allow us to retreat?" and "Why not just send all the troops out to fight the Communist army to the death!"

However, Okamura Yasuji did not show much dissatisfaction.

After all, as long as a "certain price" is paid, there is a way to allow himself and the most core officers and troops to retreat smoothly along the Shanhaiguan River and Liaoxi Corridor.

The orderly called a worker from the headquarters and ordered him to nail the hook back on the wall and hang the commander's sword back after checking it.

Silence returned to the office.

After this little episode, Commander Okamura Yasuji, who had let his mind wander and relaxed, finally returned to work. He quickly stamped "Not Permitted" on the "Request for Guidance Letter" from the Kwantung Army around Weihai, Shandong Province.

He also instructed that "the Jiaodong Peninsula of Shandong Province and the area around the Jiaoao Fortress have been transferred to your jurisdiction according to the previous headquarters and the Holy Order of Your Majesty. Your army has abundant troops in Manchuria and is far more powerful than ours. Our army still needs to concentrate on defending the area west of the Pinghan Road.

The main force of the production army is conducting a security and mopping-up operation. I hope your troops will remember the might of the Imperial Army and fight actively...

Then, he took out documents from the document basket on the other side and gave collective instructions.

His movements were sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes efficient, as he considered the following: "More than half of this year's recruits are unqualified and have poor physical fitness," "the Communist reconnaissance activities in the surrounding areas are becoming more and more obvious," and "the Communist guerrillas' sabotage operations on transportation lines and sniping operations."

The battle continues to increase, and the headquarters is requested to provide tactical guidance to the "command" and other applications and reports, and the mopping-up troops are facing "tenacious resistance and elusive Communist troops in the Jidong region" and "insufficient food reserves and the possibility of affecting their mobility".

They were encouraged to "give full play to their potential and persist in this sweep of the Jidong area" to ensure the safety of the transportation lines between the North China Army and the Kwantung Army.

Finally, when the sky darkened and the drizzle stopped, Okamura Neiji finally finished reviewing the pile of documents. He adjusted the position of his cushion and leaned back against the chair.

The anxiety that had just been temporarily forgotten due to the busyness emerged from the bottom of his heart again, just like the endless and frequent Communist troops sweeping across the North China Plain. In Okamura Yasuji's mind, they were either arranging troops in battle formations, shouting and killing with a grand battle array.

It comes, making people's throats blocked; or it appears and disappears in the gaps between memories and thoughts, making people unable to control the urge to jump up and get angry, and burn it to ashes with nameless fire.

"Commander, it's time for dinner."

However, at this moment, the loyal orderly knocked on the door and pushed open the half-closed office door with his body. He placed a dinner consisting of tea rice, freshly cut braised meat, pickled vegetables, plum wine, and two mint candies on the table.

He sat on Okamura Neiji's desk, bowed and walked out.

"Forget it, things have come to this point. It's useless to think too much and it will only cause trouble for myself."

Okamura Neiji tried hard to put his anxiety behind him. He straightened up, picked up his chopsticks and began to enjoy his dinner.

Chapter 773 Stage 0: Jidong is staring

A massive avalanche may begin with a tiny disturbance, a devastating typhoon may originate from an ordinary tropical depression, and a crucial battle that will go down in history may also begin with a seemingly ordinary battle.

On the vast North China Plain, this massive, destructive, and historic war did not immediately enter a white-hot state.

During the "prelude" phase of the campaign, all the fighting seems to take place away from the main battlefield and in a fairly "traditional" manner.

For example, Commander Okamura Yasuji chose to launch a new round of "security rectification operations" in the Jidong area.

Jidong, the core of the Jireliao Anti-Japanese Base Area, has always been one of the most difficult bases for the Eighth Route Army to survive.

This place is close to the core area of ​​the Japanese invading army in North China, and can directly threaten the two railways from the interior to the outside of the Great Wall. It can be regarded as a knife stuck in the heart of the Japanese army in North China, or a hell stuffed in Okamura Ningji's bed.

Fire bomb.

Therefore, as a price, the Eighth Route Army in eastern Hebei has been under considerable pressure from mopping-up operations.

In the original time and space, even with the protection of mountainous terrain and the mass base built by the Jidong Uprising, the Jidong base area inside and outside the pass was still continuously encircled and suppressed by the joint forces of the North China Army and the Kwantung Army.

Under the pressure of the army and the forced measures of "merging villages and settlements", the base area lost its mass base outside the Great Wall and suffered setbacks in many anti-encirclement and suppression operations. It was forced to retreat and shrink. It was not until 1945 that the Kwantung Army was transferred south in large numbers that it was able to recover.

During this time and space, the pressure on the Jidong base area even increased.

Because it was at the end of the radiation range of the Eighth Route Army's North China Industrial Base, the equipment and material support that Jidong could obtain during the early years of the Anti-Japanese War was quite limited. And because of the frequent attacks of the Japanese army and the continuous mobile operations of the troops, it was necessary to

The canteen branch in the stable county-controlled area could not be deployed. Even if a few stable areas were found and deployed, it might cause the Jidong troops to be tied up in the ground, seriously affecting the mobility of the troops.

During this difficult period, the soldiers and civilians of the Jidong Anti-Japanese Base Area, under the command of Zhao Baosen and Li Yunchang, fought repeatedly against the Japanese army in anti-mopping-up and anti-encirclement battles with a very tenacious fighting will and a very varied fighting style: they did not

Not only did they thwart the Japanese army's attempt to infiltrate and divide the base area, but they also jumped out to fight on the outside line many times and seized the opportunity to encircle and annihilate a small part of the Japanese army.

In the changed time and space, the Jidong Military Sub-district, with stronger logistics, communications and firepower, successfully prevented the occurrence of tragedies such as the "Panjiayu Massacre" and the "Panjia Daizhuang Massacre" in the original time and space.

And they finally waited for the dawn - in 1940, the 27th Division of the North China Front Army Reserve stationed in Tianjin, Tangshan and other places was transferred to participate in the security rectification and mopping-up missions in many places in North China, and the pressure on the Jidong base was great.

In 1942, with the deployment of the Wulingshan Division and the end of the Shanxi Campaign, the liberated areas were able to transport personnel, equipment, and supplies to the Jidong Base Area through the canteen system and the Pingxi and Pingbei base areas to enhance their combat capabilities.

These comrades who persisted in the struggle behind enemy lines were better armed.

Therefore, when Okamura Yasuji felt that he had sufficient troops and took out the four 80th, 82nd, 85th and 87th divisions that had just arrived on the mainland, what he had to face was the military and civilians of the Jidong base area who were no longer as strong as before.

In February 1943, under the premise that the 14th "Eating Dumplings" Division of the Kwantung Army (actually the Utsunomiya Division) assisted in the defense of Peking, four newly arrived divisions consisting of a small number of veterans and a large number of Type-B and Type-2B soldiers were sent from Tangshan, Luanxian, and Luanping.

They set out from other places and began the massive "public security rectification" cause.

Although the work of improving public security had been done for a long time and had failed for a long time, this time was different from the past - the commander's order was serious and harsh, and there was almost no room for maneuver.

The four divisions launched an attack on the base area centered on Wuling Mountain in the form of "1 division in reserve, 3 divisions in attack", and "1 north, 2 south, marching towards each other". Compared with the failed sweeps in previous years, this sweep was more effective.

The target area was narrow, the density of Japanese troops was high, and the troops were rarely fully staffed. Okamura Yasuji believed that no matter what, there would probably be some results - at least the safety of the railway line could be maintained.

However, many unexpected events occurred since the beginning of the battle.

A battalion of the Japanese Army's 85th Division, which was originally in an absolutely safe area in Tangshan, was attacked by troops from the Jidong base area only one day after its departure.

The Communist Army, which was good at attacking from multiple directions with company-level units, began to use battalion-level units to launch attacks. They coordinated with each other on the communication channel that the Japanese army could not monitor at all. As soon as the 85th Division troops entered the village,

Zhuang Shi launched a fierce attack - a large number of flying 82mm mortars suppressed the double-barreled jettisoned guns used as brigade guns, and then a small number of firepower points that began to counterattack were blown into the sky by the 100mm mortars squatting in the rear.

Afterwards, the baggage train of the brigade at the rear was attacked by the Communist Army, and the escort team was caught off guard and was directly overwhelmed. The rushing Communist Army used Japanese 75mm jet bombs to bomb the baggage train and directly

They dispersed the fleeing civilians from the peninsula, looted the baggage and supplies, and destroyed almost everything they didn't have time to take away.

The remaining troops of the brigade who were holding out in the village ran out of ammunition after just one day of fierce resistance and were completely wiped out by the returning Communist troops.

Elsewhere, a part of the newly formed 80th Division, which launched an attack from Chengde, defeated the Communist Army in the attack. In the continuous pursuit, they drove the Communist Army into a valley before dark. In the excitement of the troops' new victory, the elderly captain

He asked the troops to camp in a depression suitable for defense and rest, and to build a circular position to hold on until the next day to attack. But it was obvious that the group of recruits with poor technical and tactical skills could not execute his orders well.

They piled up their guns like firewood, just as they had done during their training on the peninsula, without even sending out their sentries or covert sentries, and happily began to cook dinner with the captured broken rice and cornmeal;

The Type 31 field modified "regimental gun" that was used to support the entire line of defense had its artillerymen only roughly construct the position and went to get their meals without performing basic calibration of various parameters.

By the time the adjutant reported the incident to the battalion commander, and the battalion commander furiously rushed out of the command post, whipping the soldiers with his scabbard, and driving these happy recruits to build fortifications and complete artillery fire preparations, the Communist army camp that had retreated in panic was

It has grown from one to three, and brought a large number of heavy machine guns and mortars - the wilderness that was originally suitable for holding and resting has now become a pure killing zone; the fires used for cooking and lighting have now become the long-term weapons in the slaughterhouse.

The bright electric lights beeped and witnessed the deaths of the invaders one by one.

More than half of the Japanese troops were sent back to Kudanzaka by the dense rain of bullets without even picking up their guns. Even the seemingly indestructible "Kumukuni Renault FT tank" that gave everyone confidence was destroyed by 100 mortar rounds.

The Maxim machine gun fired from a high position and shot him through the head with a belt of armor-piercing bullets mixed with steel core bullets.

The Japanese army was indeed advancing, but every step was accompanied by bloodshed and "honorable death".

The Japanese army was indeed gaining ground, but for every point taken from the land, it had to pay a price of ten or even twenty points.

The Japanese army was indeed "victorious," and the Communist army in the eastern Hebei region was indeed under tremendous pressure... But what was the significance of such a victory?

The high morale of the newly arrived Japanese soldiers quickly faded, and those who had just arrived or were "forced" to the battlefield quickly fell into disrepair.

Some of them began to become like those old veterans who were in their thirties and had enlisted for the second time. They became disgusted and afraid, and began to hide in the army's post stations and taverns on the base, drinking pot and strong liquor that came from nowhere until they were rotten.

Some began to try to use polluted water, running machines, and misfired guns to make themselves sick or disabled so as to leave the battlefield; some even became exhausted from the continuous march, fighting, and harassment.

After being defeated and dispersed, he was picked up by friendly forces and fell into a state of mental breakdown, looking for an opportunity to "free himself".

Although the Japanese army was completely unable to advance into the Jidong base area under such a strong command and high-density troop deployment, they still managed to temporarily maintain the security of the railway line, greatly reducing the occasional railway raids.

For the four newly established divisions that were huddled beside the railway, eating less and less supplies and struggling to survive, the vast Jidong base area was no longer a patch of rolling hills and rivers, but an abyss that was staring at them all the time - as if

Just standing next to it will strip you of your sanity and crush your spirit.

The war will continue, but the Japanese army is no longer the extremely brutal and vicious invading army with excellent technical and tactical levels at the grassroots level.

Chapter 774: Setting Sail from the Green and Yellow Seashore