Meng Youtian always had a question about the iron wall encirclement in history, that is, how did the Japanese army carry out mechanized troops? According to GCD data, how many trenches were dug and how many highways were attacked. From the perspective of propaganda, the movement of turning plains into mountains seemed to have made the enemy's mechanized troops useless.

"...I opened this mountain, I planted this tree. If you want to pass this road, leave a road to buy wealth. Our army drew a border for the Japanese army with the standard of a large Japanese chariot. Our army dug all the roads into roads, three feet deep and five feet wide. We took the edges of the ditches and built them into a border wall of one foot high and five feet wide, as a pedestrian path. Digging a four or five feet auxiliary path every tens of feet. The military and civilians worked together, and the leader led the trench. A total of 50,000 miles of roads in southern Hebei were dug, crisscrossing and as dense as spider webs. It is called the "Magino Line of Defense" in the southern Hebei Plain..."

"...The tunnels and the gutters are winding and crossing, like a continuous Great Wall, connecting various villages and towns, changing the landforms of the plains, like hunting beast nets, and spreading them on the earth. This kind of gutter makes the Japanese army's advantageous equipment useless, while our small troops and guerrillas are active in the gutters, but they can hide, fight and run, and they cleverly engage in gutters, becoming a good battlefield for fighting gutters. The gutters interrupt the enemy's division and blockade of the bases, causing obstacles to the enemy's transportation and rapid force movement. Some villages also dug gutters near strongholds to monitor the enemy's actions..."

"... Under the leadership of the leaders of Cheng zh and Lu zc, the military and civilians in Hebei launched a huge mass movement to break roads, demolish city walls, and transform plain terrain. Whether the leaders or soldiers, they fought day and night, breaking roads and demolishing city walls, and carried out comprehensive damage to all the roads passing through by cars. The masses quietly dug at night, and did not stop in the severe winter. They extended one by one, connecting one by one, digging the avenues that run across the villages into big trenches. The enemy's cars could not walk in the trenches, while the people's big trenches could pass without obstacles. This facilitated the masses' transfer and marching with our army, and also facilitated ambushing and detours against the enemy, causing the enemy's mechanized troops to be useless..."

Looking at these numbers and propaganda, it is the "Magino Line of Defense" and the Great Wall. Doesn't it make people feel illusioned and not make people feel optimistic? Is it impossible for the Japanese to encircle the iron wall to rely entirely on two legs and a small number of cavalry, which seems unrealistic! It is even more impossible to walk while cultivating, then it can be successfully encircled by the year of the monkey and horse month!

It was precisely with such doubt that Meng Youtian led a few militias to patrol east along the main road, looking for the key to the Japanese who could avoid obstacles from the ditches. He also looked for defects as much as possible to make up for it. As long as the enemy could not conduct a sudden attack, he could be arranged calmly with buffer time.

The roads in the east and west of Tumen Village have been completely destroyed, and the roads were dug into large roads according to unified specifications, and several improvements have been made. Now these roads are two meters deep and three meters wide, and cars cannot walk in the roads, while the big trucks of ordinary people can pass through. In order to prevent the enemy from shooting and chasing them in the roads. At the same time, it is convenient for the wrong car to pass through, Meng Youtian designed a small mechanism, which is to build a circular mound every few dozen meters in the roads, and build up and down roads around the mound. Two big trucks from different directions can not only make the wrong car here, but also facilitate the transfer of the masses and marching.

"If we can take time and manpower to dig air-raid shelters and anti-aircraft shelters on both sides of the trench, that would be perfect." Meng Youtian stood in the livestock car and observed for a moment, shook his head with regret, and sat down again.

"Is it so troublesome to use?" Wei Qingshan gently shook the whip and said disrespectfully: "It's almost done to cultivate this. Don't the Japanese have to use their legs to measure their legs for several sweeps? Can't they get on the car?"

Meng Youtian smiled bitterly, stood up again on the marching car, holding a telescope to observe the situation outside the road. In the wild, he could run cars, but he could barely run, and the tanks were OK, but how many Japanese devils could have?

Maybe the Japanese really had a footprint, and used multi-layer scattered troops to advance forward and pull the net to encircle. As for mechanized troops, they were arranged as a mobile corps and were arranged in the rear to pursue and attack the Eighth Route Army that had drilled into the gaps and broke through. This should be what it was like. Meng Youtian came to his own conclusion according to his own ideas.

Well, there will be no May Day sweep, and there will be no April 29th sweep, because Okamura Yasuji took office too late and had not prepared it yet, so it was too late to launch a large-scale attack while the green gauze tent had not yet been formed. Then after this autumn, it will be the time for him to show his power.

Meng Youtian did not only come to his own conclusion, but also found some flaws on the east side of Tumen Village and took measures to remedy them in his mind. Time is already very tight, and this winter will be very cold and cruel, which he could foresee.

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Not afraid of sweeping and eroding is the consensus of armed forces behind enemy lines in the War of Resistance Against Japan. It can be understood that attacks with heavy strength are easy to dodge, while the slowly tightening noose makes people feel suffocated and difficult to get rid of.

Meng Youtian just returned to Tumen Village and met Qin Lianfang, saying that he was visiting Xiaoquan, but his straightforward words revealed his real purpose. "Our district is better, other districts are constantly retreating, and the situation is not optimistic. This is the "Policy for the Anti-Elimination Struggle" issued just now, which is very useful for us. In addition, the Military Sub-district issued instructions on improving and strengthening the guerrilla group to carry out a comprehensive and powerful struggle against the enemy."

Meng Youtian didn't say anything and pretended to be stupid. You just convey the document to Xiaoquan. I just need to listen with my ears. Besides, I don't have a good trick, so where is the strength of both sides?

The Eighth Route Army finally realized the deviation of the previous policy, which was that it emphasized the construction of regular troops and did not pay enough attention to local armed forces. It made mistakes in the local armed forces in terms of organization and laissez-faire. Under the new and harsh situation, it has finally affected the struggle against the enemy. Judging from the current and future situations, guerrilla warfare will continue to increase, because under the heavy pressure of the Japanese army, mobile warfare is no longer possible in the plains and may also be reduced to a small limit in the mountains. Developing a wide range of mass guerrilla warfare has become the main means.

"The village level uses the guerrilla team of militia as the cadre team, and other militia as the detachment; the district level uses the district guerrilla team as the cadre team, and the militia armed in each village as the detachment; the county level uses the ** battalion as the cadre team, and the guerrilla groups at all levels as the detachment. The area is based on the regiment, and the battalion is dispatched to the county, which is the cadre team of the guerrilla group in the county." Qin Lianfang saw Meng Youtian's expressionless face and did not even look at her, so she couldn't help but feel angry and her voice became louder.

Meng Youtian still didn't look at Qin Lianfang. He lowered his head and drew a branch on the ground, like a picture, or like nothing.

"Although the situation is not optimistic, the difficulties are only temporary. We must never learn from the pessimism and disappointment of some people. We must firmly believe in victory, because we are engaged in a just war. No matter how rampant the enemy is, a just war will definitely achieve the final victory no matter what." Qin Lianfang stared at Meng Youtian and continued with a bad voice.

Meng Youtian smiled secretly with his lips, slowly raised his head, stared at Qin Lianfang's face for a while, handed over the branch in his hand, and said seriously: "Deputy District Mayor Qin, please take this branch."

"What are you doing with it?" Qin Lianfang asked in confusion with wide eyes.

"Take it to defeat the Japanese!" Meng Youtian said with a smile: "Didn't you say that a just war will definitely win? No matter what, it means that it's okay to fight!"

Pubo, Xiaotao burst into laughter and almost threw the boiling kettle in his hand on the ground. Xiaoquan glanced at her with concern and started laughing.

"You--" Qin Lianfang gritted her teeth and pointed at Meng Youtian. Finally, she laughed and said angrily: "Do you think the Japanese are made of mud? You can't even beat a rabbit to death with a broken branch."

"Hey, you're right." Meng Youtian smiled and said, "Optimistic and positive. I don't want to use this trick, because I know that you have to have a guy in your hands when fighting the Japanese, and you have to have a way. Everything else is false, and you are coaxing a child like Xiaotao."

"I'm not a child!" Xiao Tao pouted and retorted.

"Okay, you are smart and mature, then what are the best ways to do it?" Qin Lianfang stopped laughing and raised her eyebrows provocatively.

"There is no good idea, there is one bad idea, that is, stand up until the Japanese are weak, and then counterattack." Meng Youtian shook his head and said in a real way: "The war is about strength, and spiritual will and some tricks cannot change this fundamental."

"This cannot be generalized." Qin Lianfang shook his head and said, "Our district guerrillas are playing very well. Isn't it because the strategy is correct and the method is clever? Strong and hard, what is the method?"

"That's why it's a bad idea, there's no way." Meng Youtian pondered. Although the Sanguang Policy was cruel, he had to admit that it was effective. He sighed and said, "I heard that the Japanese used the Sanguang Policy in the recent sweep. Do you have any other ideas besides being indignant?"

"Thoughts?" Xiaoquan was puzzled and shook his head gently.

"In addition to indignation, we should pay more attention to protecting the safety of the people in the future." Qin Lianfang thought for a while and replied.

"Can you protect all the people in the guerrilla area?" Meng Youtian shook his head distressed and helplessly, and said in a low voice: "If you fight, the Japanese will take revenge and revenge the people in the nearby villages. Can we fight a tough battle with the Japanese? Can't fight? Come on guerrillas and go on guerrillas. In addition to harassment, it will cause harassment, which will cause the people to be harmed by many disasters. How can we not complain? Do you really think our ideological work will be more realistic than the cruel burning and killing of the Japanese army?"

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Chapter completed!