After winning consecutive battles, the county brigade's name became increasingly louder. There were endless people coming to join the county brigade, and the number of the county brigade quickly expanded to more than 170.

Tian Chuan was responsible for the military training of the entire county brigade. Looking at the strong county brigade, he really envied the speed of the county brigade's expansion. He felt that Gao Han was a little conservative about the issue of military expansion. When he decided to see Jiu Ye, he would remind him according to the situation.

Regarding the issue of military expansion, although Gao Han has explained the backbone of Taohua Mountain, everyone still doesn’t understand his approach and always feels that he is too conservative.

In fact, Gao Han did this carefully and was familiar with the history. If the Anti-Japanese War began in 1937, it would take eight years of cruel journey. For most of the time after the war began, the Japanese and puppet troops gained an overwhelming advantage. After the Battle of Xuzhou at the end of this year, most areas of Shandong and Jiangsu will become the rear of the Japanese and puppets. In order to maintain the rule of the rear, the Japanese and puppets will implement a large-scale strengthening of public security movement, and the situation of the struggle will become extremely cruel.

Deep in the Taohua Mountains, the hinterland of the Japanese and puppet-ruled areas, the large troops were extremely difficult to operate, especially in terms of material supply, and it was impossible to maintain the consumption of large-scale troops.

Just like the three northeastern provinces under the Japanese and puppet rule, the once prosperous large-scale anti-Japanese armed forces were brutal suppression by the Japanese and puppet troops and suffered failures one after another. In the end, only a small-scale anti-Japanese armed forces survived.

The Taohuashan guerrillas controlled by Gao Han were a civilian armed force with no political background. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, it was a wise choice to survive in the cracks between the Japanese and puppet forces and maintain a small and strong armed force.

For example, the upcoming Japanese and puppet troops siege on Taohua Mountain and the various supplies in Taohua Caves will maintain the Taohua Mountain guerrillas with only a few dozen people in a year. If the Taohua Mountain guerrillas now have hundreds of people, it will not take long, and there will be no need for the Japanese to attack, and they will all collapse just because of hunger.

(There is another important reason. Shandong is the base of the traditional meaning of the Eighth Route Army of GCD. If Gao Han wants to develop a large-scale armed force here, this book will be directly 404, and this story will be finished. Please accept the concept of Gao Han expanding the army. This article will be cautious and steadily operated and gradually developed and grew.)

If you want to expand your army on a large scale, you must wait until the late stage of the Anti-Japanese War, after the establishment of the World Anti-*** Alliance, and the Japanese and puppet troops will go downhill. This is the best time.

The situation of Jiang Xiaomei's county brigade is different from that of the Gaohan Taohua Mountain guerrillas. They have strong support with powerful political forces such as GCD. In the near future, GCD will establish large-scale anti-Japanese bases in Shandong and establish a military organization with strict organizational systems such as military regions and military sub-districts. Under such a background, the county brigade will be able to advance and retreat freely and have the mutual support of a powerful GCD organization, so it can be maintained and developed.

The combat operations of Jiang Xiaomei's county brigade directly affected the combat plan of the 63rd Japanese Regiment to attack Taohua Mountain.

The Japanese and puppet troops in Yu County were successively attacked. The Japanese military police captain reported to Colonel Tanaka, saying that he would organize troops from the county, including the puppet security army, to crack down on the sabotage of the GCD Jiang Xiaomei County Brigade operating in Yu County, and could not mobilize people to participate in the combat operation of encircling and suppressing Taohua Mountain.

After discussing with Yoshihiko Hamada, Colonel Tanaka and Yoshihiko Hamada, they believed that the public security in Yu County was also very important. The combat troops participating in the encirclement and suppression of Taohua Mountain were strong. Even if the participation of the Yu County Public Security Army was insufficient, the number of people was enough. So they agreed to the request of the captain of the Yu County Military Police Team, and the puppet security army brigade of Yu County no longer participated in the combat operation of encircling and suppressing Taohua Mountain guerrillas.

In this way, Jiang Xiaomei's county brigade played a great role in the Gaohan Taohua Mountain guerrillas.

At the same time, Gao Han and others also took action.

On the same day that Jiang Xiaomei led the county brigade to attack the Japanese highway maintenance station, Gao Han and others came to the vicinity of Pingyue County. In a hilly area, the Pingshou Highway passed through here.

Gao Han used the communication tools of the captured Japanese communication soldiers to eavesdrop on the telephone communications of the Pingyue County Military Police Team. From the content of the telephone communications, Gao Han got a very important news: In order to complete the encirclement and suppression of the Taohuashan guerrillas, the captain of the Pingyue County Japanese Military Police Team requested the 63rd Regiment to add a batch of weapons and ammunition to the Public Security Army Brigade of the County. Colonel Tanaka agreed to his request and reported to the Division Headquarters for approval, and allocated a batch of weapons and ammunition seized in combat with the National Army from the Division Headquarters, and allocated them to the Pingyue County Japanese Military Police Team for specific disposal.

This batch of weapons and ammunition includes two German k31/60mm mortars imitated by Hanyang Arsenal, four Czech light machine guns, and 132 Hanyang rifles, all equipped with two base ammunition. They are escorted by a squad of Japanese troops, and the number of trucks of the trucks is Jun-328. It is expected that the time to arrive in Pingyue County will be 12:00 noon today, so that the Pingyue County Military Police will prepare for reception.

Gao Han got off the telephone pole and told Li Chengwu and others the news. Everyone was very happy to encounter such a good thing.

Gao Han decided to give up entering Pingyue County to harass the Japanese and puppet troops and seize the Japanese weapons and ammunition.

It was 9:40 am. Gao Han opened the Japanese military map and carefully checked the terrain above. Gao Han looked at it for a while and couldn't help but frowned.

There was only one squad of the Japanese army transporting this batch of arms, so it was no problem to seize this batch of weapons and ammunition. The difficulty was that they seized this batch of weapons and ammunition and could not be transported back to Taohua Mountain Village for a while.

They are not familiar with the terrain of this area. The time for vehicles transporting weapons and ammunition to pass by the Japanese army should be around 11:00, leaving them with only more than an hour. In such a short time, it is probably difficult to find a safe place to store weapons and ammunition.

Gao Han was unsure of his mind, so he took the old method to let the team members think about it together.
Chapter completed!