Wu Sairen was handed over to Lan Yanzhi and the others to help Li Zetian train the agents. On June 6, he and Chen Ziliang came to Jiangcheng together.

This time Wu Siren came here to receive an invitation from Chen Cixiu, commander of the Ninth War Zone. Chen Cixiu is now responsible for the defense operations on the south bank of the Yangtze River. He has a very heavy responsibility and has to mobilize all the manpower and material resources around him. Like the Tax Police Corps, the powerful ace force, naturally, could not be idle. If Wu Siren had not been at the same level as him, and the Tax Police Corps had been splashed with water by Wu Siren, Chen Cixiu would have taken this army under his command and placed it on the frontline position.

After the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese army did not stop the pace of invasion and mobilized a large number of troops to prepare to attack Jiangcheng. The war was about to break out.

"You all came here to have a meeting, and I believe you have already thought about it. As you think, the content of this meeting is to convene everyone to discuss how to better protect the important town of Jiangcheng."

Chen Cixiu was straight to the point and threw out the theme and purpose from the beginning of the meeting.

"I think that if we want to defend Jiangcheng well, we must not just defend ourselves. Japanese people like to fight in a roundabout way the most. If we want to truly defend the other party, we can only adapt to local conditions, change space and time, concentrate our troops to eat up several of their troops, and force the enemy to retreat on the voluntary basis."

Xue Boling stood up first and said with a strong voice.

The other generals also began to ponder and carefully consider Xue Boling's words. Chen Cixiu, who was standing beside him, saw Wu Siren looking at the map in the conference room freely, and had an idea, and said with a smile: "Brother Moran, Japan and many Western military experts call you the "Oriental God of War". Can you give us some advice to all of us here?"

After the Battle of Jinling, the Japanese began to praise Wu Siren in order to find a way for themselves and to cause trouble for Wu Siren, which also made Wu Siren, the troops he controlled and the troops of other factions of the State Government even more disinterested.

"I dare not take the advice, then I will say a few words, all of which are throwing bricks and jade." Wu Siren walked to the rostrum, held the long wooden stick next to him, pointed to the map and explained: "We must not defend Jiangcheng when fighting in Jiangcheng. We must block the enemy layer by layer, force the enemy to divide the troops, and then concentrate superior forces, choose the enemy along the way, and surround and annihilate. If I were the commander of Japan, I would definitely send an army to attack Yicheng, using this place as a forward base for attacking Jiangcheng, and then use it with

The main force attacked the area north of the Dabie Mountains along the Huai River, and captured Jiangcheng from Wusheng Pass, and attacked along the two banks of the Yangtze River, striving to quickly capture strategic areas such as Madang, Hukou, and Jiujiang. Finally, I also want to emphasize that if I was the commander of the Japanese, if I could not quickly capture Jiangcheng, I would send another army to take directly to Yangcheng and cut off the Guangdong-Hankou Railway. At this time, it would be meaningless to defend Jiangcheng."

Everyone looked at the offensive route of the Japanese army envisioned by Wu Siren. This time they were really conquered by Wu Siren's military talent. Chen Cixiu was even more shocked and sweated. If the Japanese really sent troops to capture Yangcheng, then all the defense deployments of the government would be very passive.

Chen Cixiu said with complicated eyes: "Brother Moran is worthy of being the 'Oriental God of War'. He doesn't dare to think about it. These words are really enlightening. Since this is the case, I will hand over the task of blocking the enemy from Dabie Mountain to your Tax Police Corps. I hope Commander Wu will continue to work hard and continue to create brilliant achievements."

Wu Siren smiled and looked at Chen Cixiu, and said confidently: "No problem, our troops will definitely make the invading Japanese devils bleeding."

After returning to Luoyi, Wu Siren immediately sent Sun Liren to lead troops to take over the defense of Lu'an, the gateway to the Dabie Mountains, and ordered Hu Boyu to lead his troops to continue to strengthen the positions in the Liaocheng area, and never allow Japanese troops to pass through the Dabie Mountains.

Because of "understanding" the subsequent offensive dynamics of the Japanese army, since the start of defending Yuzhou, Wu Siren sent more defenders to key military and strategic roads in the territory, and built a large number of defensive fortifications. The key area of ​​Liaocheng is naturally no exception. The famous Fujinshan Battle in history took place here.

It has been almost four months since Jinling retreated to Yuzhou. After this period of rest, the Tax Police Corps has gradually recovered its vitality. By intercepting a large number of wounded people from other troops, plus recruiting and training young and strong people, the Tax Police Corps' strength has surged to 150,000. If we include the Chu army under the jurisdiction of Wu Siren, the local security regiment and the reserve service, the total force controlled by Wu Siren now has exceeded 300,000.

The surge in the number of troops will inevitably lead to a decline in the strength of individual soldiers. Therefore, taking advantage of the rare rest and rest period of one and a half months to two months, Wu Siren decided to fight instead of training and began to mobilize new soldiers to suppress bandits in the areas around Yuzhou and Dabie Mountains.

During the Republic of China, bandits were rampant, and Yuzhou was one of the most severely affected areas. According to incomplete statistics, there were more than 400,000 bandits in Yuzhou on the eve of the War of Resistance Against Japan, of which 100,000 were in western Henan. These were all full-time bandits. If those "amateur" bandits who usually work in farming and rob and make a living during famine are also included, it would be an astronomical figure.

The bandits in Yuzhou are not only large in number, but perhaps because of their "long history", their "guerrilla tactics" are also quite powerful. At that time, both the warlords, the Central Army of the National Government, and the Red Party army suffered great losses in the bandits in Yuzhou.

Although Wu Siren had never suppressed bandits before, he had the ace of the special forces team and was not worried that he would fail.

Whether it was a head-on battle or a harassment by small troops, Wu Siren was not afraid. In his opinion, these bandits who feared prestige did not dare to fight him head-on, and the two newly established mountain divisions were very in need of practical training, and they happened to attack these bandits.

Because there are too many bandits in Yuzhou, almost every household in the rural villages below is related to bandits. The people are generally ashamed of being a public official to report their stories because of their "religion in the world". In addition, the people are afraid of bandit revenge, so few people usually report and expose them. As a result, the bandit suppression work encountered difficulties at the beginning.

Of course, Wu Siren would not give up easily. He did not believe in evil. On the one hand, he strengthened the local control and disrupted the security groups in various places to avoid "collusion between soldiers and bandits". On the other hand, he spread more than 1,500 special forces members in different areas and acted as guides to clean up each area. At the same time, he promoted the policy of "only punishing the evil, never asking about the threat", "confessing leniently, resisting strictness" to suppress bandits, and finally basically calmed down the bandit crisis in Yuzhou, causing the western Henan area, which once became a nest of thieves, gradually reappearing the peaceful scene.

Despite this, the bandit suppression work in Yuzhou took half a year, and the sporadic bandit chaos did not completely disappear until Wu Siren led his troops to leave after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
Chapter completed!