The Japanese army suffered successive defeats in the Shanxi battlefield, and three lieutenant generals were killed in succession, which made the Japanese base camp far away in Japan extremely angry.

The Japanese base camp sent multiple telegrams urging the commander of the North China Front, Okamura Neiji, to launch a large-scale offensive against Shanxi, especially the Eighth Route Base in southeastern Shanxi.

However, Okamura Neiji knew very well that Shanxi Southeast Eighth Road was no longer what it used to be, and it was definitely not possible to launch a large-scale raid to solve the problem.

What's more, even if the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi can be eliminated, there are still many Eighth Route Army base areas such as the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, Jizhong, and Southern Hebei.

In order to respond to the growing growth of the Eighth Route Army, Okamura Neiji began to formulate a "policy to strengthen public security."

It is different from Tada Shun's "cage policy" which formulated and implemented "railways as pillars, highways as chains, and bunkers as locks".

The so-called policy of strengthening public security is to divide North China into security areas, quasi-security areas, and non-security areas.

The security area refers to the area occupied by the Japanese army, the quasi-security area refers to the guerrilla area, and the unsecurity area refers to the Eighth Route Army base area.

The Japanese army mainly cleared the countryside in the security areas, vigorously pursued the policy of enslavement, and strictly implemented colonial rule.

Focusing on targeted public security areas, we mainly encroached on them, implemented repressive and tolerant policies, established a pseudo-regime, and severely cracked down on the Eighth Route Army's guerrilla activities.

The main focus was on raids on unregulated areas, and the three-guang policy was continued to destroy base areas and anti-Japanese forces.

It has to be said that the old devil Okamura Neji is more powerful and much more difficult to deal with than Shun Tada.

It was his "policy of strengthening public security" that brought the major base areas of the Eighth Route Army into the most difficult and difficult period.

At the same time, Okamura Neiji was also dispatching troops and generals, preparing to carry out an unprecedented sweep of the base areas in southeastern Shanxi to avenge him.

The transformation of the 386 Brigade into a mobile column was quickly implemented. Since the 386 Brigade was the designation given by the Nationalist Government, the Mobile Column was still known as the 386 Brigade to the outside world.

However, earth-shaking changes have taken place internally. It has 3 infantry brigades, 1 cavalry brigade, an artillery regiment, and an air force flying battalion.

In addition, the headquarters also specially removed key personnel from each hospital and equipped the mobile column with a column field hospital.

Chen Geng was appointed commander of the mobile column, Li Yunlong was appointed commander of the independent brigade, Cheng Shifa was appointed commander of the new 11th brigade, and Ding Wei was appointed commander of the new 12th brigade.

The original independent regiment was expanded into an independent brigade, with 3 infantry regiments, 1 cavalry battalion and 1 artillery battalion under its jurisdiction.

Li Yunlong is appointed as the brigade commander of the independent brigade, Zhao Gang is appointed as the political commissar of the independent brigade, and Kong Jie is appointed as the deputy brigade commander of the independent brigade.

Because Kong Jie did not participate in the battles at Niangziguan, Yangquan and Taiyuan, he was not promoted to brigade commander this time.

However, everyone knows that Kong Jie's qualifications are there. The next time the mobile column expands a new infantry brigade, Kong Jie will definitely be the commander of the new brigade.

The configuration of Cheng Shifa's new 11th Brigade and Ding Wei's new 12th Brigade are similar to those of independent regiments, with three infantry regiments plus one artillery battalion and one cavalry battalion.

The Jizhong Cavalry Regiment was also expanded into the Jizhong Cavalry Brigade, with a total of more than 1,600 Eighth Route Cavalry.

Although more than 1,000 military horses were captured in the previous battles, Commander Chen took some of them and gave them to two brigades, Ding Wei and Cheng Shifa, to form cavalry battalions.

A lot of good steel was seized in the Taiyuan arsenal. Commander Chen also had this batch of good steel be made into Yunlong knives in the arsenal and equipped for the cavalry of the mobile column.

The mobile column of the Eighth Route Army cavalry equipped with Yunlong Swords will play a great advantage in fighting the Japanese cavalry.

After the grievance campaign and ideological education, the more than 4,000 national army prisoners of war were dispersed into various brigades and regiments, and some of the Ming soldiers were received.

The total strength of the mobile column exceeds 20,000 people, and a large amount of equipment, weapons and ammunition have been seized in previous battles. Each soldier can be assigned a gun and more than 100 rounds of ammunition.

The mobile column can be said to have strong soldiers and horses, and it is capable of fighting the Japanese Class B division head on, but it is incomparable with the Class A division of the Japanese army.

The commanders of the artillery battalion and cavalry battalion of Li Yunlong's independent brigade are still Yao Shangwu and Sun Desheng.

The leaders of the three infantry regiments are Wei Dayong's special operations regiment, Zhang Dabiao's 63rd regiment, and Xing Zhiguo's New Third Regiment.

Wei Dayong's special operations group has three battalion commanders: 1st Battalion Commander Liu Dali, 2nd Battalion Commander Liu Zeshui, 3rd Battalion Commander Shen Quan, and the artillery company commander is still Wang Chengzhu.

The Langya Squadron has absorbed the strongest soldiers from all units in the Taihang and Taiyue Military Regions, and their number has reached 60, although there is still some gap from the 100 people Wei Dayong expected.

However, the war was about to begin, and it was impossible to absorb the elite Eighth Route Army troops from other military regions in a short period of time, so the Langya Squadron was also expanded into the Langya Squadron.

These Wolf Fang members newly selected from various units are all masters among masters. Combat proficiency and marksmanship proficiency are only the most basic. Basically every soldier has his or her own special skills, and many soldiers have passed three levels.

First-class and second-class merit, and his ideological consciousness was absolutely clear. There were more than 500 people who came to the training, and only about 40 people stayed in the end.

After the independent regiment was expanded into an independent brigade, it was sent by the headquarters to garrison in Yushe County.

After becoming the brigade commander, Li Yunlong became more stressed.

It turned out to be an independent regiment that fought many victorious battles and captured a lot of money. Li Yunlong could also serve as a hands-off shopkeeper.

But now there are 3 infantry regiments, 1 cavalry battalion, and 1 artillery battalion with a total of more than 5,000 people who need training, food, and ammunition supplies.

Fortunately, the wealth he had saved in the past was solid and could be maintained for a while, but Li Yunlong was not the kind of person who could live with nothing.

Li Yunlong's brigade headquarters basically stayed with the regiment headquarters of Wei Dayong's special battle group.

A few days after arriving in Yushe County, Wei Dayong, Zhao Gang and Kong Jie were called to the brigade headquarters.

Yushe County, the compound of the traitor Mr. Liu, the conference room of the Independent Brigade and Tourism Department.

Li Yunlong said: "It has been several days since our independent brigade came to Yushe. We have only seen the soldiers consume but have not made any money. We cannot continue like this."

Although it was adapted into an independent brigade, the original method has not changed, that is, each unit is self-sufficient.

At present, the Japanese in Shanxi are in a state of reduced defense. The Japanese and puppet troops are withdrawing northward, and several nearby counties are basically occupied by the Eighth Route Army.

It is difficult to send out troops to disperse and develop, because there are no Japanese to fight, and the enemy's raids are about to begin, so it is not easy to disperse and develop.

"Old Li." Kong Jie's expression changed, "Do you want to do some side business?"

Kong Jie knew Li Yunlong very well. As soon as Li Yunlong raised his butt, he knew that what he was going to do was still wet.

"That's right!" Li Yunlong stared at the map, nodded and said, "We can't take everything for granted. Only when we have a strong family background can we have confidence!"

"But there are no Japanese or puppet troops in the nearby counties." Political Commissar Zhao Gang analyzed, "Where can we get a side job?"

But Wei Dayong said: "Political Commissar, we are guarding the Zhengtai Road, are we afraid that we will not have a side job?"

"You mean..." Zhao Gang asked thoughtfully, "We rob the Japanese train?"
Chapter completed!