"Brig Commander, that's what I said."

After being scolded by the brigade commander, Li Yunlong felt relieved.

To be honest, Lao Li feels uncomfortable if he doesn't get scolded by the brigade commander every day.

While speaking, Xing Zhiguo, who was also the Minister of Logistics, hurried in with a look of dust on his face.

"Brig Commander." He called out to the brigade commander, and Xing Zhiguo handed a report to the brigade commander for signature.

The brigade commander glanced at him and couldn't help but say with a smile: "Why did the production in the past three days suddenly become higher, and he actually loaded 200,000 bullets and 5,000 shells?"

"Let's take a look." Li Yunlong hurried forward.

Xing Zhiguo smiled and said, "Brig Commander, the cadres and workers of the arsenal heard that the Japanese had arrived, and the soldiers on the front line were waiting for ammunition, so they spontaneously worked overtime."

The brigade commander took out a pen and brushed his name from his shirt pocket.

Finally, he told Xing Zhiguo, "Don't enter this batch of ammunition into the warehouse, and send it to the Wild Boar Gow Fortress and the Pig Killing Mouth Fortress. The consumption of these two fortresses in the past two days is quite large."

"Yes." Xing Zhiguo took the report and turned around and left.

Watching Xing Zhiguo leave, Li Yunlong suddenly laughed twice.

"Li Yunlong, why are you so stupid?" The brigade commander couldn't help but curse again, "Have you eaten bee shit again?"

"Brig Commander, I just think that our lives are getting better and better now." Li Yunlong smiled, "I remember when our 386th Brigade first entered Shanxi in the 26th year of the Republic of China, the entire brigade had only more than 4,000 people, only more than 2,000 rifles, only more than a dozen light machine guns, and not even a single heavy machine gun, let alone a cannon."

"There are bullets, and the whole brigade has a total of less than 30,000 bullets."

"On average, less than one hundred bullets per machine gun, and less than ten rifles."

Speaking of this, Li Yunlong grinned again: "But now, our 386th Brigade has developed to two columns, with more than 50,000 regular troops alone, and more than 100,000 local armed forces and militias!"

"We have everything from weapons and equipment. I won't talk about Japanese equipment, but American equipment is also used."

"There is ammunition. In just three days, our arsenal has reloaded 200,000 rounds of bullets and 5,000 rounds of shells. We no longer have to calculate our own ammunition volume as before and fight with scattered wars."

"Yes, Lao Li is right." Kong Jie knocked on the dry tobacco pipe and said with emotion, "I, Kong Jie, have never fought such a prosperous battle in my life. I have retreated for two years. I would never even dream of today."

Ding Wei said: "Don't say two years, I can't even think that I will be today after returning for a year."

The brigade commander seized the opportunity and said, "Now the troops have grown, the weapons and equipment are good, and there is no need to calculate the amount of ammunition as before to fight. If our Northwest Shanxi Column does not achieve some decent results, the head of the headquarters and the people in the base area will not talk about us, and we will not be able to overcome this obstacle in our hearts, right?"

Li Yunlong said proudly: "Brig Commander, just take a look."

Ding Wei said: "This time, the Japanese must be in trouble."

Kong Jie said: "Even if you die, you must let Okamura Nishi lose his skin!"

"Okay, I remember this." The brigade commander nodded happily.

...

Near noon, Okamura Yasuji returned to the headquarters from Nanyuan Airport.

As soon as he entered the war room, Okamura Yasuji said to Arisami, "Arisami, immediately gather all the colleagues in the combat class to discuss important matters."

There are three sacred words: "Grandmaster, it's time for lunch, why not have lunch first?"

"No more eating." Okamura Yanji said in an unquestionable tone, "The plan has not changed quickly. I discovered an important information during this aerial reconnaissance. Our sweep plan must be adjusted."

After the third grade, he didn't dare to say anything more, and immediately gathered all the staff in the combat class.

Facing the surrounding combat staff, Okamura Yanji pointed to the sand table and said, "This time I went to northwest Shanxi for reconnaissance, I discovered a very important information."

"The Eighth Route Army built a fortress in Wild Boar Gully is very unusual."

"They dug anti-tank trenches on the road in the middle of the canyon and arranged anti-ridge cones, but did not arrange even a fire point or build a bunker."

"Their firepower and bunkers are all hidden on both sides of the canyon."

“The hillsides on both sides of the canyon are covered with bunkers, densely packed.”

"At just two hundred meters deep at the front of the canyon, at least two hundred firepower points were found."

"However, the entire canyon in Wild Boar Gully is at least two thousand meters long. According to this fire density, there are at least two thousand bunkers or fire points on both sides of the canyon!"

“So many fire points not only completely lock the canyon,”

"It can also perfectly avoid the coverage of the Imperial Army's heavy artillery fire!"

"Because most of the bunkers or firepower points are built on the back slope of the mountain."

Speaking of this, Okamura Yasuji sighed and said, "This is simply a genius creativity, which will destroy the Imperial Army's advantages in the heavy artillery firepower level!"

"Your Excellency General, isn't this right?"

Ai Mo Jing San immediately questioned: "There are two thousand firepower points in one place in the Wild Boar Gate? Then the three dangerous places in the Pigkou, Yelang Valley and Xijikou will inevitably have the same number of firepower points."

"That means there are at least eight thousand firepower points."

"But the question is, does the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army have so many machine guns?"

Speaking of this, Youmo Jingsan continued: "The 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army won many victories and seized a lot of weapons from the Imperial Army and the Imperial Army. However, their total number of machine guns will never exceed 2,000. So even if all 2,000 machine guns are deployed in four outer fortresses, each fortress can only be divided into 500 machine guns. Where can there be so many 2,000 machine guns?"

More than a dozen combat staff members present also nodded, all of whom believed that the analysis of the third level of the final analysis was justified.

However, Okamura Yanji waved his hand and sighed: "This is exactly the power of these four fortresses!"

"Is this the power of these four fortresses?" Youmo Jingsan said in confusion, "What does your lord mean?"

Okamura Yiji said: "Because I found that the machine gun fire points on the hillsides on both sides of the Wild Boar Gorge canyon are movable. When the Imperial Army advances along the canyon and the hillsides on both sides, the fire points on the hillsides on both sides of the Eighth Route Army's 386th Brigade deployed by the Eighth Route Army can also move backwards, so I seriously suspect that the tunnels were dug underground."

Speaking of this, Okamura Yasuji said again: "No, this is not a doubt, but a certainty. I am sure that the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army has built underground passages in the belly of the mountains on both sides of the canyon. Through these underground passages, they can achieve rapid maneuvering of troops, materials, and weapons and equipment."

"In other words, the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army only needs 200 machine guns to form two thousand firepower points on the hillsides on both sides of the Wild Boar Gorge!"

"Of course, there are only two hundred firepower points at most at the same time."

"This is the case with the Wild Boar Gate Fortress, and the Xijikou and Yelangyu are probably similar."

"So that's it." Atsushi Misa said sternly, "This design is really amazing and is simply impeccable."

"No, there are still solutions." Okamura Yanji waved his hand, "and I also thought of three more ways, but I'm not sure which one is better, so I'll discuss it with you."

"Three methods?" There are three ways to achieve the ultimate essence, "Please tell me your superiors."

Okamura Yasuji said: "The first way is to detour. Since the Eighth Route Army's 386th Route has stuck in the key pass, we will open the road across mountains and build bridges across water. We will build a new road next to this key pass."

"Repair the road?" Youmo Jingsan said in surprise, "It will take a long time."

Okamura Yasuji said: "I don't know the other three passes, but I carefully observed the pass of Wild Boar Gully. I need to rebuild a road of about ten kilometers to bypass Wild Boar Gully."

"Is it ten kilometers?" There were three meditations, "It will take at least two months. Considering that the Eighth Route Army will attack, it will take longer. I think it will take at least three or four months."

Okamura Yasuji said: "The second method is to blast."

"Blasting?" Youmo Jingsan frowned, "Great General, the 1st Division and the 28th Division have been used, and the effect is not very good. Moreover, even if the blasting is successful, the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army is easy to repair. After all, a fire point can be formed by digging a tunnel again and opening it directly to the ground."

"No, what I'm talking about is not this shallow blast."

Okamura Yasuji waved his hand and said, "What I said is to dig tunnels down from the north slope outside the wild boar ditch until it is placed deep in the abdomen of the mountain to blast, and directly blast the entire outermost mountain."

"In this way, as the mountain collapses as a whole, the Eighth Route Army soldiers and firepower points deployed in this mountain will be buried alive and destroyed."

"After blasting the first mountain on the periphery, then blasting the second mountain."

"I counted and there were about a dozen peaks on both sides of the Wild Boar Gully from north to south."

"Even if the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army has firepower points and has moved from the tunnel, when we blasted all dozens of mountains, they will completely lose their hiding place and be forced to return to the surface position."

Speaking of this, he said: "Just return to the surface position, the battle will be easy."

Youmo Jingsan frowned and said, "Your Excellency, this takes only longer."

Okamura Yasuji said: "If neither of these methods works, then there is only one last solution left, which is to invest elite infantry and fight with the Eighth Route Army on both sides of the canyon under the guidance of the chariot troops, advance inch by inch, and destroy the bunkers spreading on both sides of the hillsides one by one."

There are three ways of the ultimate spirit: "But our chariot cannot reach the hillside."

"No, it can still be up." Okamura Yasuji waved his hand, "Just build a simple highway of several hundred meters long to send the Imperial Army's chariots to the mountainside, and then you can cover the infantry and launch an assault."

Youmo Jingsan pondered and said, "The third method must have the largest casualties, but the time required is the shortest. As for the current situation, I think the third method is the most suitable."

The other dozen combat staff members also agreed with each other.

After all, the mobilization of the bandit areas in northwestern Shanxi cannot be delayed for too long.

If it is delayed for six months or even a year, the Japanese army will not be able to bear it.

Okamura Yanji sighed and said, "Although the third method takes a short time, there is still a fatal loophole, which will definitely have a serious impact on our entire sweep plan."

There are three meditations: "Your General is worried that you can't catch the main force of the 386th Brigade?"

"That's it." Okamura Yasuji nodded, "It turns out that our combat plan is that if the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army uses key passes such as Wild Boargou to block, then we will follow the trend and use the forces of the four divisions to attract the main force of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army to four passes such as Wild Boargou, and consume and exhaust them."

"When the main force of the 386th Brigade was almost exhausted and exhausted,"

"Then the remaining four mountain divisions were invested, and quickly broke into northwest Shanxi from the small path, surrounded the side and backs of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army and formed an encirclement, while driving away the people in the bandit area to form a large-scale trampling."

"But now, this method is not possible." After pausing, Okamura Yasuji continued, "Because now the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army only has a small amount of troops, and even only needs to use local arming to easily block the four main divisions of the Imperial Army with four passes such as Wild Boggou. Then when the Imperial Army invests in another four mountain divisions to launch a raid, the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army can use its main forces to intercept it, and both of our intentions will be lost."

"This..." The Mo Jing San and more than a dozen combat staff members were stunned on the spot.

Yes, if this is the case, their entire plan will be invalidated.
To be continued...