"Turn active to passive? If you don't go into the mountains to clear the enemy, what do you mean?" Ishihara Kanir, who dared to be a mere Kanto Army staff member, carried Tokyo and launched the September 18th Incident without authorization, was not a fool. Sasaki's thoughts were just a little revealed, and he understood.

Sasaki nodded and said, "Yes, I mean to use the strict blockade to force them out, forcing them to appear on their own initiative. Since these people are good at ambushing, then when we enter the mountain without being able to mobilize a large number of troops, in the case of sparsely populated and high mountains and dense forests, entering the mountain to clear out means dividing troops. This will easily create certain combat opportunities for them."

"If there are fewer people going, it will add to their achievements. If there are more people going, it will not be possible to draw so many troops. The most important thing is that we are at least not aware of their internal situation. Therefore, my suggestion is to use the siege tactic to force them out."

"It's October now, and the weather in North Manchuria is about to begin to winter. The winter in Manchuria, especially in this winter in North Manchuria, is cruel. The cold cold of minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius can destroy everything. These Chinese people are in the deep mountains and forests, without winter clothes and food. How can they survive this cold winter? If there is not enough winter clothes, they will freeze to death in the vast mountains of North Manchuria. This is not the warm South China."

"Even if they obtained some of the food in Weihe County, they continued to fight after leaving Weihe County. In order to maintain the mobility of the troops, they could not carry much of the food. Now the plan to return to the garrison and households has been completed, and all the people in the mountains have moved out, and they have nowhere to replenish their supplies in the mountains."

"Even if some of the food is seized, and there is nowhere to replenish it, how long can these food last for nothing? It won't take long before they will come out of the mountains. Isn't this much better than when we go into the mountains to clear them out?"

"As for the scope of the blockade? Since before I took office, Ishihara had already conducted a net-like search on Wuchang, Acheng, Zhuhe and Weihe, we will focus the blockade on the mountainous areas west of Mudanjiang, south of Binsui Railway, and east of Ant River."

"Because the lives of every imperial soldier are precious, I decided that this encirclement and suppression will still be dominated by the Manchu army, and only two squadrons of infantry and cavalry will be drawn as the supervision and use. My opinion is to draw the Xing'an Army, which has relatively strong combat effectiveness in the Manchu army, and the forces of one regiment of the Jing'an infantry and cavalry will be deployed in Ning'an County and Weihe County as mobile forces."

"In addition, two mixed brigades from the Fourth Military Control Zone of the Manchukuo Army, four military police companies stationed in Harbin, Ning'an Military Corps, Ning'an Forest Police, Binsui Road Guard Police were stationed in Wuchang, and the two regiments of Maoer Mountain blocked all the passes that could lead to the outside world in this mountainous area. It is strictly forbidden to enter the mountain with a grain of grain, one tael of salt, one pound of cotton, and one piece of cloth into the mountain. Some troops from the Fifth Independent Guard Team were drawn to participate in the blockade to closely monitor the operations of the Manchukuo Army."

"In addition, an order was issued to confiscate all the grain and salt from the residential strongholds, except for the three days of quantitative metering, and concentrate them in the large market town with heavy troops. It will be collected by the police at the stronghold every three days and then distributed. I made these people not get enough supplies even if they break through our blockade and capture one or two strongholds."

"It's not just here, but all areas where anti-Manchuria and anti-Japanese elements in the North Manchuria and South Manchuria have to be handled accordingly. Strictly control the amount of grain stored in the hands of local people, and all supplies such as cotton, cloth, kerosene, etc. are supplied according to the heads, and no surplus can be left."

"Even if all the Manchus in the entire North Manchurian Mountains were frozen to death and starved to death, these anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese elements must not be given any supplies."

Ishihara Kanir agreed without thinking about the plan to strictly control food. However, after hesitating for a while, Ishihara Kanir said again: "Your Excellency, I don't know how much food these Chinese bandits have, but on the military lines in Weihe County, in addition to some of the weapons and ammunition allocated by the Kanto Army to the Korean army, there are also three thousand full sets of winter clothes that were prepared to be transported to the border guards."

"It's just that this army was blown up by the bandits when they were about to withdraw. How much of the supplies on the army were transported away? Because these bandits were strictly sealed off when they retreated, it is now impossible to count."

"You should know the warmth of these winter clothes specially developed by the Imperial Army for the Kanto Army. Once these Chinese people transport all these winter clothes away, I don't think it's a problem for them to survive this winter."

"These Chinese people had hired a large number of animal transport carriages in Weihe County. However, after arriving at the Wei'anshan line, these Chinese people paid five times the price of these carriages. After buying the carriages, they sent all the coachmen back."

"The drivers hired by them were driven back too early, so they didn't know where these people were hiding, nor what they were transported on the bus. The only thing they knew was that these people were generous and had a kind attitude, but they were very strict in their management. Moreover, these people can be said to be the best military discipline army they coaches have ever seen."

"Because when loading the car, these Chinese people did not have any fake hands, and they all shipped themselves. The car was covered with tarpaulin and covered tightly. Even when they were resting in the middle, they would never open it."

"So we have no way to know how much supplies these Chinese people have transported, but one thing is certain that the number will never be low. On that army, there were hundreds of light and heavy machine guns and tens of thousands of shells allocated to the Korean army as supplementary equipment. This is not enough to equip two mortar squadrons with a large number of light weapons and ammunition. All of these weapons are produced by the Fengtian Arsenal."

Hearing the crow-like mouth of Ishihara Kanir, another bad news, Sasaki, who had been numb now, was not angry either. He was just a faint, but his tone was extremely firm: "No matter how much supplies these Chinese thugs seized in Weihe Prefecture, can they survive this winter? If General Ueda Kenyoshi still decided to be under my command, I would have this opinion."

"Using the railway as the pillar, the Manchurian national defense highway that has been built as a chain and the bunker as a lock, these Chinese people were trapped, starved to death, and frozen to death in the deep mountains and forests. No matter how much materials they seized, they would not last long."

"The Manchukuo army stationed there, and changing the place was nothing more than moving the other place. However, the blockade was blocked, but the specific location of the so-called secret camp should be continued. As well as the total number of troops and equipment, I need first-hand information."

Seeing that Sasaki Rakichi insisted, Ishihara Kanir did not hold his own opinion, but bowed deeply to Sasaki Rakichi and said, "Since Lieutenant General, I will convey your opinion to General Ueda Kenyoshi."

"Please rest assured, I will convince the general to accept your plan. Also, I will do my best to provide you with the support you requested. I will transfer the troops you designated as soon as possible. I will ask you for the matter here. The Kanto Army really can't afford to lose this person."

Sasaki put down the baton in his hand and waved his hand, saying, "You are polite, Ishihara, you and I are all working for the Imperial Holy War, I don't care, please, don't ask. Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, "Saoki, please put it in your hands. You will need time to deal with these cunning bandits. You must not be too hasty."

Ishihara Kanir and Sasaki, who were rushing back to the Kanto Army Command to report, said goodbye as soon as they finished talking. Looking at Ishihara Kanir's back, Sasaki took the thick stack of information on Ishihara Kanir's epidemic prevention and water supply department brought by Kanto Army Command and patted it gently: "Chinese people? I didn't expect that those Chinese people who put down their weapons would still have such courage."

After roughly looking through the information, Sasaki hit the electric bell on the table, called the adjutant who had been following him for many years in, pointed to the information on the table and said, "Tell the technical department to remake all the photos on the information, enlarge them, and then organize the information."

Seeing the adjutant taking away the information, Sasaki moved a chair and sat in front of the map. After pondering for a long time, he used the red and blue pencil in his hand to draw a big circle in the mountains in the southeast of Ning'an on the map until the north of Dunhua, and even made a big question mark in the circle.

As for Sasaki, who was known as the father of the puppet Manchukuo Army and had caused huge losses to the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, as soon as he arrived in Harbin to replace the commander of the Fifth Independent Guard and the commander-in-chief of the North Manchurian bandit suppression, Yang Zhen, who had basically lost all contact with the outside world, naturally did not know about Sasaki's plan to trap him in the mountains and forests.

In the evening, after the Japanese plane that had been hovering over his head for a short time finally flew away, Yang Zhen immediately ordered the troops to prepare three days of dry food. At the same time, he camouflaged the barracks and warehouses in the secret camp again to ensure that they were not discovered by the Japanese planes.

Yang Zhen, who didn't believe that the Japanese reconnaissance operation would end so quickly, checked it carefully and did not dare to be negligent. This secret battalion is his foundation now, and he has reserved all the supplies that can help the troops survive the cold winter. Once exposed, it means that he will lose the support for resting in the long and cold winter, and the threat to the troops will be fatal.

Yang Zhen, who once conducted winter survival training in Xing'an Mountains to the north, still remembers the coldness of the North Man Mountains. In the greenhouse climate environment he lived in later generations, it is still common here for more than minus 30 degrees Celsius, not to mention that there is basically no pollution now?

Because the security of the secret camp involves the survival of the troops in winter, Yang Zhen attaches great importance to the concealment of the secret camp. Although Japanese and puppet spies may not have such courage and go deep into the forest so far. However, for the Japanese army with modern equipment, reconnaissance methods are not just the spies. Aerial reconnaissance, which consumes little and has a great effect, must be used by the Japanese army. Today is a good example?

Although the taste of dry food is not good. The taste of fried rice is still good, Yang Zhen, according to the method used by the volunteers known to later generations, made fried rice with sorghum rice, can be described as hard to swallow. However, in the case of not being able to make fire, it can basically fill the warriors' stomach.

Although a large amount of grain was seized in Weihe County, only one-third of the rice was included, and the rest were mainly sorghum rice, soybeans and corn, traditional staple foods of Northeastern people. When purchasing supplies, they also mainly include salt, medicine and other necessary supplies for the troops.

The amount of sugar that can be adjusted in fried rice is not very large. In addition, the part I sent to the commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army, the amount of sugar on hand in the army is very small. There is no sugar, only salt is added, sorghum rice ginseng and soybeans. The fried rice taste made from corn is imagined.

Yang Zhen ordered that a small amount of fried rice made of rice and sugar be left to the wounded and sick. Except for Peng Dingjie who was seriously injured due to stomach torture, the rest of the people, like ordinary soldiers, also ate fried rice made of sorghum rice within these three days.

Looking at Yang Zhen and Li Yanping, Guo Bingxun and the people who were talking to each other, they chewed the astringent and hard-to-swallowed sorghum rice fried rice in cold water. Then, they looked at the fried rice fried rice with sugar in the lunch box in their hand, and the milk powder poured out from the only hot pot in the secret camp in the enamel jar. Peng Dingjie really couldn't eat the canned food he opened.

Peng Dingjie, who was really unable to eat, grabbed the same Japanese pork waist lunch box as Yang Zhen and the other ones in his hands, and poured his own fried rice and canned rice into their lunch box.

When Yang Zhen saw Peng Dingjie's actions, he quickly grabbed his lunch box and said, "Old Peng, you have stomach injuries and can't eat coarse grains. You must ensure nutrition. We are not sick or injured. As long as we can fill our stomachs, it doesn't matter what you eat. You should eat it quickly, the milk powder will cool down later."

Yang Zhen didn't want it, Li Yanping and Guo Bingxun couldn't. After they snatched their lunch boxes back, they both advised Peng Dingjie to eat their meals quickly.

Seeing that several people didn't want their own fried rice, Peng Dingjie sighed and said to Yang Zhen: "Commander, have you always emphasized the equality of officers and soldiers? I am the director of the political department and the political cadre of the army. I should take the lead in the army. You and the soldiers eat the fried rice fried rice the same as the soldiers. I only eat the fried rice made of rice and the milk powder alone. How can you let me eat it?"

Speaking of this, Peng Dingjie looked up at Yang Zhen and said, "There were days when you retreated to the secret camp. You have been hiding from me when you were eating, but I know that you are not making delicious food by yourself. You are eating the same food as the soldiers, you are eating sorghum rice and cornmeal, and the rice I made for me and canned food?"

"Old Yang, you have always emphasized that officers and soldiers share the joys and sorrows. Why just make me special? Don't forget that I am a party member, and for the soldiers, I am their leader. The more in times of crisis, we party members and leaders should play a leading role."

Hearing Peng Dingjie's words, Yang Zhen smiled slightly and said, "Old Peng, you are not special. The food of our wounded and sick is the same as yours. Don't forget that although you are not a wounded, you are also a sick person."

"Oh, except for these milk powder, there is no way, our hot pot is only one. It is not enough to ensure that all the wounded and sick people are in need, and now we can guarantee you first. However, the difference is only in one or two days. When the Japanese plane is withdrawn, we can make a fire, and the rest of the wounded and sick people will be the same as you."

Guo Bingxun also persuaded him, "Old Peng, you should treat it separately according to the specific situation and not be emotional. The commander said that, you are a patient, different from us. The diet must be based on your health. We will still have that road ahead, and only after we have good health can we continue to fight the Japanese. As for the commander's equality of officers and soldiers, we will eat enough rice when the Japanese are shot. The rice in the northeast is much better than that in the pass. Haha, we eat rice, not at this time."

After saying that, Guo Bingxun walked to the gate of the headquarters with his lunch box and looked at the Japanese reconnaissance planes that were still hovering in the sky. He turned his head and said to Yang Zhen: "Commander, this Japanese plane has been tossed from yesterday afternoon to today. It seems that the Japanese are not willing to find it out."

"Last night, if you hadn't foreseeed it early, I took advantage of the gap between the Japanese plane's withdrawal and made enough dry food and ordered the troops to ban fires at night. We were really discovered by Japanese night flight planes. No one expected that Japanese people had invested so much money this time and even sent planes to reconnaissance at night."

Yang Zhen rubbed his cheeks that were sore because of chewing sorghum rice and stir-fried rice and said, "This mountain is high and dense forests, and there is no people within a radius of dozens of miles. Before the Japanese found our specific location, he did not dare to enter the mountain. If people don't come in, it would be the same for sending planes."

After saying that, Yang Zhen stood up and walked to Guo Bingxun to look at the Japanese plane hovering on the hill, frowned and said, "We are hiding well, and as long as there is no fire at night, the Japanese can't easily find us. But their planes always circling like this on our heads. First, it will affect the emotional stability of the soldiers. Second, it will affect our training. Third, it will always eat this food, not eating some hot meals, and it will also affect morale."

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen smiled bitterly and said to Guo Bingxun in a low voice: "This thing is okay to eat alone, but eating too much is really heart-burning. And his cheeks can't stand it, and they are almost sore."

Looking at the fried rice in the lunch box in his hand, Yang Zhen secretly admired the volunteers who should be said to be the ones who are later generations. He could not stand it after just two meals. As long as the volunteers who are later generations are fighting, they will eat this food for many years. Not to mention anything else, just this is enough to block the mouths of those ignorant people.

Guo Bingxun was silent for a moment, looked up at the Japanese plane in the sky and said, "Commander, I think the Japanese plane should be retreated for one day of reconnaissance. This forest is so big that the Japanese cannot focus their energy on one point."

"I thought the Japanese sent planes to the scene of not giving up on the reconnaissance planes and light bombers yesterday, but only two of them today. I think they should have been trying to do anything about reconnaissance planes and light bombers."
Chapter completed!