Wang Chengzhu: "Chief of Staff, how many troops are expected to be dispatched by the Japanese army?"

Chief of Staff: "The Japanese army is expected to dispatch 50,000 to 60,000 people, probably around 8 brigades."

Wang Chengzhu: "The Japanese army dispatched 8 brigades. If nothing unexpected happens, they will leave at least 4 brigades for peripheral blockade, and the remaining 4 brigades will be used to carry out drag-net raids on our base areas.

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"Since it is a blockade and sweep, it is impossible for the Japanese troops to concentrate together. Therefore, we can face at most one brigade of Japanese soldiers at the same time."

"And if nothing else happens, the Japs in this brigade will not be gathered together. They will most likely be organized into brigades, or at most, alliances."

"In this way, we only need to eliminate this group of Japanese soldiers before other Japanese troops arrive.

With the strength of our 129th Division, if we concentrate our forces, it is not difficult to destroy a Japanese brigade in a short period of time."

"We can even use these Japanese soldiers as bait to encircle and provide reinforcements."

Regarding Wang Chengzhu's analysis, all the leaders agreed with it.

In the past, the Japanese army would even launch a net-like search in squadrons or even squads.

Because the forces of the Eighth Route Army were too scattered, even when facing the Japanese army at the squadron level, there was no chance of victory.

The chief of staff thought for a moment and said: "Zhuzi, this is only the most ideal situation, but if we cannot defeat the enemy in a short time, once it is delayed until the enemy reinforcements arrive, the situation will be unpredictable."

Wang Chengzhu: "As long as the Japanese army does not invest more than 60,000 troops, there will be no surprises in this combat plan."

With that said, Wang Chengzhu stood up and came to the sand table and said, "Chief of Staff, we can use the sand table to deduce it first."

No one can be convinced by words. The chief of staff is a conservative. He always feels that putting eggs in one basket is still too risky.

But judging from the teacher's intention, he never spoke. It was obvious that he did not object to Li Yunlong and Wang Chengzhu's proposal. If he wanted to persuade them, he could only see the real chapter on the sand table. He immediately stood up and walked to the edge of the sand table.

Immediately, the chief of staff commanded the Japanese army, while Wang Chengzhu commanded the 129th Division, and the two faced off on the sand table.

At the beginning, the chief of staff was full of confidence because the Japanese army had an absolute advantage in terms of military strength and weapons and equipment.

But as the deduction continued, the chief of staff's face gradually became serious, and beads of sweat gradually appeared on his forehead.

Because even if the main force of the 129th Division faces a Japanese division, it can easily penetrate the opponent's blockade.

In fact, it was impossible for the Japanese army to gather a division together.

Seeing that the chief of staff was gradually losing ground, other combat staff members also joined in.

But even if the staff of the 129th Division were fully involved, they were still no match for Wang Chengzhu.

This is still putting it into perspective, after learning that the 129th Division has not divided its troops.

As for the actual battle situation, the Japanese army did not know the situation of the 129th Division, and it was impossible for them to be so fully prepared.

Looking at the results on the sand table, the chief of staff and all the combat staff had expressions of disbelief on their faces.

Because they conducted five consecutive war games, the results were the same. Even if the Japanese army invested more than 60,000 troops in the raid, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army could easily penetrate the Japanese blockade.

The chief of staff pondered for a moment and said: "In this case, our previous anti-mopping plan will have to be scrapped and restarted."

"Tear it down and start over again!" The division commander finally said: "It would be better not to break it into parts, because the cost of breaking it down is too high!"

Everyone fell silent.

Indeed, the cost of breaking things up is too high.

First of all, breaking it into pieces means that each breakout force has little combat effectiveness. When encountering Japanese blocking forces, they will basically escape death.

As a result, the 129th Division will inevitably suffer a large number of casualties.

In addition, there are a large number of non-combatants in the base area, as well as a large amount of materials that were recently seized.

Once broken into parts, these non-combatants will suffer heavy casualties, and it will be difficult to take away supplies.

The price is too high and too heavy.

In the past, there was no choice, but now that there is a chance to choose, the Eighth Route Army is naturally unwilling to follow the old path.

The brigade commander looked at Wang Chengzhu again and asked, "Zhuzhu, are there any margins left in the parameter settings for the war game?"

"Retained." Wang Chengzhu said seriously: "The fault tolerance rate is one brigade. In other words, as long as the Japanese army's participating troops do not have more than one brigade, the result will not change much."

In fact, Wang Chengzhu was quite conservative when he said that the real fault tolerance is at least two brigades.

It is worth mentioning that a Japanese division usually had two brigades, but there were also ad hoc divisions without brigades.

But it does not mean that the two brigades are one division.

Because in addition to the infantry regiment, the division also has a cavalry regiment, an engineer regiment, an artillery regiment, a baggage regiment, an armored vehicle brigade, etc.

The brigade basically only has two infantry regiments.

In other words, the two brigades actually only have half of the division, which is the infantry of the division.

Under normal circumstances, it was impossible for the Japanese army to gather three brigades together, or even one brigade together.

Generally, there is a large group and at most one alliance.

And because of the existence of the Langya Special Forces, the Eighth Route Army could encounter the enemy's weak points in advance and kill them with one blow.

Therefore, even if the Japanese gathered the three brigades together to sweep and encircle the Taihang base area, Wang Chengzhu also surrounded and led the Langya Special Forces to find the weak points, and guided the Second Independent Regiment and even the entire 129th Division to penetrate

The opponent's blockade.

The commander of the 385th Brigade asked again: "Zhuzi, have you considered the Japanese aviation force?"

Wang Chengzhu: "There is no need to consider the Japanese aviation force, because we will not engage in firefights with the Japanese during the day."

"If we break out at night, we can indeed ignore the Japanese aviation." The commander of the 385th Brigade nodded and said, "But if we break out at night, wouldn't the newly formed artillery regiment of our 129th Division become a decoration?"

"In this way, we have lost our local firepower advantage. Can we still break through the Japanese blockade in a short time?"

Wang Chengzhu: "The Langya Special Forces of our Second Independent Regiment will be responsible for coordinate guidance. As long as the artillery regiment is temporarily handed over to my command, I can ensure that the firepower of the group will not be weaker than during the day."

"Besides, the Japanese probably didn't expect that our artillery could fire so accurately at night. This is actually an advantage for us."

The commander of the 385th Brigade had never seen anyone firing night artillery, so he asked again: "How to guide the artillery at night? You know, even the Japanese artillery, their accuracy will be greatly reduced at night."
Chapter completed!