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Chapter 1,162: The True Strength of the Eighth Route Army

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    Hearing Li Guoyao¡¯s words, everyone present was stunned. The Eighth Route Army¡¯s development model indeed gave them a familiar feeling!

    Suddenly Ma Desheng cried out: "Thisisn't this our current development model?"

    When everyone thought about it carefully, they suddenly understood!

    Think about how their army developed and grew. At the beginning, they kept gathering broken troops, and then continued to fight the Japanese army. But at that time, the strength of the army was not always growing, especially during the Battle of Wuhan.  Of the more than 30,000 main force, only 3,000 were left.

    The real development of this unit was after entering Shandong. At this time, the national army was completely defeated on the battlefield in Shandong and even evacuated Shandong. The arrival of Li Guoyao's troops filled the gap, and then it continued to develop.

    "The development model of Li Guoyao's department is also to recruit troops from villages and small towns first, and to win a few small victories to attract ordinary people. When the troops are recruited to a certain level, they will be upgraded or divided into troops. It is exactly the same!

    "Chief Commander, are we really learning from the Eighth Route Army?"

    Li Guoyao nodded and said, "I'll be honest with you, this is indeed the case!"

    Then Li Guoyao said again: "There are three ways to expand the Eighth Route Army. The first is to extract battalion and company-formed units from the old army, and use these organic units as seeds to form new units. The second is to extract the organic units from the old army.  Replenish new recruits and fill up the establishment. The third is to extract cadres and military backbones from the old army, reorganize and regularize the guerrilla armed forces in various places."

    "During this process, the Eighth Route Army adopted organizations such as columns, detachments, and brigades. Columns are above the regiment level, and detachments and brigades are sometimes equivalent to regiment-level troops. For example, the Fourth Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, among which  The initial strength was the 2nd Battalion of the 716th Regiment of the 120th Division. The battalion had 4 infantry companies and 1 machine gun company, totaling more than 700 people."

    "The unit advanced into the area north of Yanmen Pass and organized more than 100 battles within half a year, damaging more than 390 Japanese vehicles and killing and wounding more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers. It also developed from a battalion-level unit to 3 infantry battalions and 1 cavalry  The brigade and 8 advancing teams had more than 2,000 troops, equivalent to a regiment. After the detachment carried out the task of advancing to Pingxi, the remaining troops were integrated into a Yanbei independent detachment with more than 1,300 people, and was later awarded the 120th Division independent  The number of the 6th detachment.¡±

    "The Eighth Route Army is like a seeder, leaving behind the seeds of resistance to Japan wherever it goes, making the Japanese army in North China deeply trapped in the sea of ????people's war. However, due to the limited number of regular numbers, the Eighth Route Army except for a few new infantry regiments has three  In addition to numerical designations, most of them exist in the form of new regiments, supplementary regiments, independent regiments, and certain detachments."

    As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Desheng said again: "This is the same as our current model. No wonder the general meeting said that the Eighth Route Army is stronger than us. Think about it, we have so many troops in two years from 3,000 people, and the Eighth Route Army's  ** is much stronger than us."

    "Yes, they have more than 50,000 people, and they also have weapons, equipment and military pay allocated by the Military Commission. Compared with us, their conditions are much better!"

    "If you use yourself to save others, it doesn't seem impossible that the Eighth Route Army can grow to 400,000!"

    "It's just that the Eighth Route Army has expanded to such a large scale, will Chongqing just let them develop like this?"

    "Yes, why didn't Chongqing respond at all?"

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    After signaling everyone to be quiet, Li Guoyao immediately said: "There is no doubt about the strength of the Eighth Route Army. I have seen a telegram in Wuhan from Commander-in-Chief Zhu of the 18th Group Army to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek. This telegram was the Eighth Route Army's request for additional reinforcements.  In order to allocate military expenditures and ammunition, the message mentioned that the Eighth Route Army's existing regular troops, in addition to the original three divisions, were composed of 11 detachments, each with 3 regiments, and the total number of troops had reached 120,000.  "

    "The time at that time happened to be in the middle of the Wuhan Battle. It can be seen that the strength of the Eighth Route Army had reached hundreds of thousands of people. And from Commander-in-Chief Zhu's message, we can see that the Military Command at that time may have mentioned allowing the Eighth Route Army to  The divisions were converted into armies, so General Zhu requested that the promise be fulfilled. The three divisions of the Eighth Route Army were converted into three armies, each army had three divisions, and each division had three regiments."

    "But judging from the current situation, the Military Commission should have failed to fulfill its promise, so the current regular forces of the Eighth Route Army disclosed to the outside world still only include those three divisions and six brigades, and the remaining troops are all unofficial troops that have not been recognized by the Military Commission. Exactly.  Because of this distrust between the two sides, the Eighth Route Army has hidden its true strength. The Nationalist Government still does not know how many troops the Eighth Route Army has, so it is impossible to stop it!"

    "However, as our department, IWe can't naively think that the Eighth Route Army only has that few troops. In this case, you will look down on the Eighth Route Army from the bottom of your heart, and you will suffer a big loss by then!  "

    Hearing this, everyone nodded. If it weren¡¯t for what Li Guoyao said just now, they would not have known that the Eighth Route Army was so powerful!

    "General, the strength of the Eighth Route Army is indeed beyond our expectations, but the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army does not seem to be strong, especially their weapons and equipment. They do not look like regular troops at all. Can we really count on them?" Wang Zhanhai said  .

    Li Guoyao thought for a while and said: "Is the Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness weak? I can't see it! You must know that the predecessor of the Eighth Route Army was the Red Army. This army fought all the way from Ruijin to Yan'an under the encirclement and suppression of hundreds of thousands of troops of the National Government.  Whether it was He Jian from Hunan, Wang Zanxu from Guizhou, or Liu Xiang from Sichuan, they were defeated one after another. Can such an army be said to have poor combat effectiveness?"

    "but"

    Li Guoyao knew what Wang Zhanhai was going to say, and immediately raised his hand to stop him, and continued: "The reason why the Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness is average is actually for deep-seated reasons. First of all, their general combat policy is different from that of ordinary troops.  , they rarely engage in positional warfare, but insist on focusing on guerrilla warfare, so they don¡¯t have any impressive results!¡±

    "Secondly, according to the requirements of Yan'an, the Eighth Route Army in various places must continue to expand its troops. They even assigned tasks to the political organs of each Corps shortly after sending troops to Shanxi in the 26th year of the Republic of China. The regular army was required to expand its troops by 12,000 within two months.  Thousands of people; for irregular armies, it is required to quickly organize guerrilla groups, each with at least 3,000 people. The 115th Division should organize three, the 120th Division should organize three, and the General Army should organize three. Each guerrilla group can use the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army  The name"

    "In fact, the Eighth Route Army exceeded the above-mentioned targets in just two months. However, the rapid growth of the army will inevitably bring about many corresponding problems. The first one to bear the brunt is the lack of weapons. The second big problem is the troops  The third major problem is the shortage of funds. These will eventually affect the combat effectiveness of the army, so the Eighth Route Army gives everyone the impression that it is a loitering force without attacking, and that it is a beggar army!"

    "But in fact, the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army is still very impressive. At least on the battlefield behind enemy lines, no other unit has the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army. Especially they can mobilize the people at any time, which is not something ordinary troops can do. So.  The Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness is not weak, it just depends on how it is used!"

    "Chief, you said that the Eighth Route Army will launch an attack on the Japanese army and will cause Kimura's troops to withdraw. What's going on?" Wang Zhanhai asked in a deep voice.

    Li Guoyao said immediately: "When my wife came here some time ago, she was intercepted by the Japanese army on the way. She was rescued by the combat troops of the Eighth Route Army and was then sent to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, where she met their commander-in-chief, Commander-in-Chief Zhu.  Commander-in-Chief Zhu asked his wife to bring me a handwritten letter. The letter stated that they would launch a large-scale counterattack against the Japanese army in mid-August. The combat scope would involve most areas of Shanxi and Hebei. It was hoped that our department would be able to launch a large-scale counterattack by then.  Cooperate with them to act! Calculate the time, it¡¯s time to act!¡±

    This is half true and half false, but it also makes the matter roughly clear. As for those things that cannot be said, Li Guoyao will naturally not say it. After all, the identity of his little wife is special and must not be leaked. Otherwise, the military commander will not  Will let her go.

    Everyone suddenly realized that this was the case. No wonder the general meeting was so sure that the Eighth Route Army would send troops and the Japanese army would retreat accordingly.

    ¡°If the Eighth Route Army is really as strong as the commander-in-chief said and launches a war nearby, given the emptiness in Shanxi, Hebei and other places, it will definitely be able to catch the Japanese army by surprise.

    Under such circumstances, even if the Japs want to withdraw their troops, it will be impossible. Compared with places such as Hebei and Shanxi, Xiong'er Mountain, a place as big as a rabbit's tail, is really not worth mentioning.

    "Chief Commander, why did the Eighth Route Army launch a counterattack against the Japs at this time? Isn't it good to hide its strength and concentrate on development like this?" Xu Hu asked the question in his heart.

    "Yes, sir, the Eighth Route Army has been here for so many years, how come it suddenly made such a big move?"

    "This is indeed a question, but don't let them let us go!"

    "It is related to the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people in the base area, and we must take precautions"

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