The puppet troops who had just joined the first battalion were unable to integrate into it. After Liu Gen broke up the puppet troops and divided them into each squad and required the soldiers of each squad to unite. The results of each squad will be recorded every day and corresponding rewards and punishments will be given, this situation will be improved to a certain extent.

A week later, the puppet army who had newly joined the first battalion successfully integrated into the first battalion and became a member of the first battalion. Of course, this is also because the soldiers' situations are similar, they all came from poor families, had common language, and could talk together.

What's more, with the reward and punishment system proposed by Liu Gen, every squad in the first battalion is very hard-working and serious, and there are no soldiers who are dragging their backs. This means that the puppet troops newly joined the first battalion will receive the help of the soldiers in the squad, and their communications will increase, so they will naturally be better integrated into the first battalion.

Half a month later, the Japanese summer encirclement and suppression were announced to be defeated. The Japanese troops that encircled and suppressed the Eighth Route Army base area withdrew from the base area and returned to their respective strongholds. In the past month, the units of the 129th Division had fought hundreds of battles with the Japanese, especially the 386th Brigade, which effectively killed and injured the Japanese's living forces under the command of the brigade commander.

The battle between the various units of the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese made it difficult for the Japanese to advance in the base areas. Various combat methods such as guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare, mine warfare made the Japanese unable to defend themselves. Each Japanese player was irritated by the various units of the Eighth Route Army, and in the end they could only declare the failure of this encirclement and suppression.

It is said that the success of the Eighth Route Army's anti-encirclement and suppression in summer made Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the First Army stationed in Shanxi in North China, and the vases in his room were broken a lot. After Yoshio Shinozuka took office, he organized several encirclement and suppression of the Eighth Route Army bases, but each time it was resolved by the Eighth Route Army and brought considerable losses to the Japanese.

This time, the Eighth Route Army's success in counter-encirclement and suppression made the warlike Yoshio Shinozuka extremely disappointed. At the same time, he attached more importance to the continuous growth of the Eighth Route Army base in the rear.

As July began, the Japanese troops shrank, but in order to suppress the development of the Eighth Route Army base, the Japanese army vigorously promoted the policy of cages with railways as pillars, highways as chains, and bunkers as locks. Japan built solid strongholds near towns, stations, bridges and tunnels along the railway, each guarding with dozens to hundreds of people, and sent armored trains to patrol.

Among them, the Zhengtai Railway played an important role in the Japanese's cage policy. The Japanese army used it to isolate the connection between the Taihang Mountain Base where the Eighth Route Army headquarters and the 129th Division's Taihang Mountain Base and the Jin-Cha-Hebei Border Region, and relied on the Zhengtai Railway to attack the anti-Japanese base.

On the front line, the failure of the National Army in the Battle of Zaoyi caused the Japanese army to occupy Yichang and directly threatened Chongqing. In order to shake the will of the National Government, the Japanese aviation forces further escalated the strategic bombing of the rear from May 18. The Japanese army strengthened economic blockade against China in the front, military offensive and political surrendered, which increased the difficulty of the War of Resistance. Not only because of the wavering of some people within the Kuomintang, the crisis of compromise and surrender was unprecedentedly serious.
Chapter completed!