In the eyes of the commander-in-chief, an opponent who knows how to adapt and hides strength is more terrifying than an opponent who only knows how to expand the army and blindly develops military strength.

Zhou Cheng is just like this.

He took the chicken feathers as a command arrow and climbed up the pole. As soon as the war zone agreed to form a local force in its own defense zone, he immediately adapted some of the main forces into local forces, which not only prevented the war zone from finding faults in the organization of the National Salvation Army, but also concealed its strength. I really don’t know how his brain grew.

The more the commander-in-chief thought about it, the heavier the expression on his face.

Staring at the Chief of Staff, he continued to ask: "Since there is no way to check and balance them in terms of organization and limit their development, then we will limit their development from the economy and weapons and ammunition."

"Sending troops to grab food from the Japanese occupied areas can only relieve their temporary danger. If the National Salvation Army wants to support so many troops, it must expand the occupied areas."

"They are all surrounded by Japanese devils. As long as they want to expand out, they must touch the Japanese. The Japanese will definitely not easily give up their occupied areas to the National Salvation Army. They will not only lose face, but also lose a lot of wealth."

"No matter how much the National Salvation Army hides its strength, it will inevitably fight with the Japanese."

"What the war zone needs to do is add a fire at the right time, or push it behind the Japanese and national rescue troops, so that they can fight as soon as possible, the larger the scale, the better."

The chief of staff frowned, and he couldn't think of any other way to make the National Salvation Army fight with the Japanese immediately.

The commander-in-chief saw the embarrassment of his subordinates and snorted a cold order: "In order to force the National Salvation Army to expand the occupied area as soon as possible and grab the territory from the Japanese. Chief of Staff, you will give the National Salvation Army another order: give Shouyang and Yangquan together. As long as they can snatch them from the Japanese, they will be under their jurisdiction!"

"Yangquan is a must-pass place for the Zhengtai Railway. The Japanese will definitely not let the National Salvation Army occupy Yangquan and cut off the Zhengtai Railway. As long as the National Salvation Army dares to attack Yangquan, no matter how many troops the Japanese dispatch will be, they will fight back. At that time, the Japanese and the National Salvation Army will be in a state of unstoppable death."

"Although Shouyang is not that important, half of Shouyang's locations are the Eighth Route Army bases. If the National Salvation Army attacks Shouyang and completely incorporates Shouyang into its own defense zone, it is to grab territory from the Eighth Route Army, which will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the Eighth Route Army!"

"Awesome!" After hearing this, the Chief of Staff gave the commander-in-chief a thumbs up.

"Information shows that the several anti-sweeping campaigns of the National Salvation Army were defeated by the secret support of the Eighth Route Army. Although there has not been a specific evidence of their contact with each other yet, we can guess from the various signs on the battlefield! They must have reached an agreement to stick to the alliance. No matter who is attacked, the other party must send troops to reinforce the situation as soon as possible."

"If you throw Shouyang out now, you will definitely break their offensive and defensive alliances, turn them from friendly forces to opponents, and completely isolate the national rescue army."

"Once this goal is achieved, the National Salvation Army will have no allies!"

"When facing the attack of the Japanese and puppet troops again, they could only fight alone, fight to the end with the Japanese and puppet troops, and were finally consumed by the Japanese on the battlefield!"

"The purpose of killing people with a knife in the war zone is achieved, and it can also use the hand of the national rescue army to consume a large amount of troops garrisons in Shanxi, reduce the combat pressure in the war zone, and kill two birds with one stone. I will give the order now to let the national rescue army counterattack Yangquan and Shouyang as soon as possible and isolate them as soon as possible."

Xue Ya, the communications platoon leader of the Pingding County National Salvation Army, suddenly walked in, holding a telegram in his hand, and couldn't tell whether he was happy or worried.

"Captain, the war zone has orders given us. I don't know if it's good news or bad news!"

Zhou Cheng took the telegram and glanced at it and handed it to Tang Yufeng. Then he showed a mixed expression of joy and sorrow on his face, and then replied: "Good and bad!"

"It must be because the war zone knew that we were recruiting soldiers in enemy-occupied areas and mining areas and preparing to expand the troops on a large scale. I was a little worried and wanted to cause us some trouble?"

Tang Yufeng didn't think so. He immediately frowned into a big Sichuan character, shook his head and replied: "Captain, this is not a little trouble, it is obviously a big trouble."

"They allocate Shouyang and Yangquan to us. On the surface, they are to increase the defense area and allow us to support more troops. In fact, they are digging holes for us, and it is a big hole that can't be climbed out if you jump in."

"Captain, I think the piece of fat thrown to us in the war zone is toxic or extremely poisonous, so we definitely can't eat it!"

Chief of Staff Chen Zhengyu was very happy after reading the telegram.

In his eyes, Yangquan and Shouyang are now in the hands of the Japanese, and there is nothing wrong with the National Salvation Army snatching territory from the Japanese.

Now that the telegram sent from the war zone means that as long as the National Salvation Army can take Yangquan and Shouyang, it will be its own, and the defense area will be expanded by more than twice.

The defense zone is bigger and there are more common people, so there will definitely be more troops to support.

According to the regiment commander's previous operational ideas, two more garrisons will definitely be formed in Shouyang and Yangquan, and the National Salvation Army will have another 4,000 elite troops.

This is a good thing that can’t even be seen from the sky. Why did it come to Deputy Commander Tang’s mouth? The good thing turned into poison? Chen Zhengyu couldn’t understand!

He stared at Tang Yufeng and asked in confusion: "Deputy Commander, according to your opinion, even if the war zone assigned Yangquan and Shouyang to the National Savior Army, we cannot attack!"

"Absolutely, you can't attack!" Tang Yufeng answered very affirmatively.

"Why?" Chen Zhengyu asked straightforwardly without saying nonsense.

"Think about it carefully, what else do Yangquan and Shouyang have besides Japanese?" Tang Yufeng did not directly answer the Chief of Staff's question, but stared at him with a thoughtful look on his face.

"The Eighth Route Army of Shouyang also operates a regiment of Eighth Route Army... There is also an Eighth Route Army of Yangquan. I have dealt with them. I heard that the Eighth Route Army of the Eighth Route Army has grown to three or four thousand people!" Chen Zhengyu thought for a while and answered, and as he spoke, he seemed to understand Tang Yufeng's concerns.

He then added: "I understand that half of the villages and towns in Shouyang and Yangquan have been developed into bases by the Eighth Route Army. Now we are attacking the two places to compete with the Eighth Route Army for territory, and we may get into evil with the Eighth Route Army!"

Tang Yufeng nodded and continued to ask: "In addition to the Eighth Route Army, Yangquan has another thing. We must not touch this thing, otherwise we will be retaliated by the Japanese army even more bloody revenge, and both sides are likely to continue to fight endlessly."

Chen Zhengyu quickly turned his gaze to the map beside him, frowned and stared for almost half a minute before suddenly reacting: "Zhengtai Railway, deputy commander, you are talking about the Zhengtai Railway line that crosses Yangquan."

"If we control Yangquan, the Zhengtai Railway Line must pass through our defense zone. As long as we want, we can cut off this railway line at any time."

"On the battlefield in North China, the Japanese and puppet troops transported food, weapons and ammunition almost entirely by railway lines. If the Zhengtai Railway was cut off by us, the railway connection between Taiyuan and Shijiazhuang would be cut off. The Japanese North China Front Army would definitely not want to see this major artery cut off by us."

Seeing that Chen Zhengyu had already understood his concerns, Tang Yufeng once again said his proposal, hoping to get the support of the Chief of Staff: "So I just said that what the War Zone gave us was not a piece of fat, but poison."

Chen Zhengyu nodded immediately, looked at Zhou Cheng and agreed and said, "Captain, I support the deputy commander's proposal just now."

"The telegram given to us by the war zone is too vicious. Not only do we want to turn against the Eighth Route Army and isolate us, but we also want our National Salvation Army to completely anger the Japanese and fight them endlessly, so that they can reap the benefits of the fisherman."

"Since we already know that this is a big pit dug for us by the war zone, we must not jump in and die in battle."

"Let's just pretend that we have not received this telegram, how should the troops develop or how they develop!"

Zhou Cheng seemed to have not heard the discussion between the two people, and kept frowning, staring at the map to consider the problem.

After the two partners didn't say anything, they spoke: "No, the war zone finally made it easy to be generous. I just gave us the territory of two counties before, and now I have given us two counties. If I don't accept it, it will not only let them down, but also attract more open and secret arrows."

"Platform Commander Xue, please call the war zone immediately: Thank you for your support to the National Salvation Army."

"Because the National Salvation Army suffered heavy casualties in the just-concluded anti-sweeping army and is recovering its strength, and is temporarily unable to attack Shouyang and Yangquan. But we promise to take it down within three months, so please rest assured by the War Zone Command."

"The leader thinks twice..."

Before Zhou Cheng could continue talking, Tang Yufeng rushed to remind him, his face full of worry, as if the leader of the group was making a decision to destroy himself.

Zhou Cheng first shook his head, then pressed his hand, stopping Tang Yufeng from continuing.

Then he stared at Xue Ya and continued to order: "In order to take down Yangquan and Shouyang as soon as possible and complete the tasks assigned to us by the war zone, I hope the war zone can support a batch of medicines!"

After saying that, he waved to Xue Ya directly: "Just send a telegram as I said just now, and send it now!"

After Xue Ya left, Tang Yufeng, who had long been unable to help but asked directly regardless of his image: "Captain, you are crazy!"

"I know that Yangquan and Shouyang are big pits dug for us in the war zone, but I still jump into them. Isn't this self-destruction?"

Seeing that Chen Zhengyu also showed a worried expression, Zhou Cheng knew that he had to give them a reasonable explanation, otherwise he would not even be able to leave the war room today and would be clamored to death by their complaints.

Facing the eyes of the two people, he answered confidently: "I know that it is a trap to draw Yangquan and Shouyang to us in the war zone. I use our eager to expand mentality to dig a big hole for me, but before the matter is over, it is not certain who will kill me!"

"According to normal ideas, the war zone is counting on us."

"But I don't think so. I think if this matter is done well, it may not be certain who will plot against it in the end."

The worry on Tang Yufeng's face did not relieve any of it, and he stared at Zhou Cheng and continued to ask.

"No matter how we operate, we will eventually take down Yangquan and Shouyang. What should we do if the Eighth Route Army that is active in the two places? It is impossible to incorporate them like the previous guerrillas. That is the main force of thousands of people!"

"There is also the Zhengtai Railway. I think no matter how stupid the Japanese are, they will not let it pass through our defense zone. They will definitely gather heavy troops to attack us and drive us out of Yangquan!"

"If these two problems are not solved, we will not be able to attack Yangquan and Shouyang."
Chapter completed!