After Gangmura Yanji took office, he took advantage of his short-term military prosperity to "sweep", "clear the countryside", "evil" and "public security strengthening movements" in North China repeatedly and alternately in a short period of time. The "total war" of politics, economy, military and culture was also fully launched.

It is no secret that the attack on the anti-Japanese armed forces in North China has been heavy since this period. Large areas of anti-Japanese bases have fallen, and 376 counties in North China have established puppet regimes of the Japanese army. But if you look deeper, this achievement contains a lot of water. The fall of the county does not mean that the Japanese army can effectively control the entire area.

Taking Jizhong as an example, because the enemy is strong and we are weak, the main force of the Eighth Route Army jumped to the outside line, and on the surface all lost its base. However, in order to persist in local struggles and encourage morale, three regiments were ordered to stay in the local area and continue to fight with the Japanese army in the plains. These three regiments really persisted in Jizhong. The Japanese army repeatedly tried to capture and eliminate them, but failed because they could not grasp their whereabouts. But as soon as they relaxed, a car team that was not well prepared would be beaten and turned over. In the eyes of the Japanese army, the erratic enemy became the "ghost troops" on the Hebei plain.

According to the Japanese army's idea, a regiment always has a regiment headquarters, with various departments, direct teams, orders, staff, radio stations, supplies... If you look for this kind of regiment with this kind of frame, you will never find such a regiment. Because the entire regiment of one or two thousand people is scattered in companies and platoons, and even scattered in various village tunnels in base areas and guerrilla areas as units. Only when there is a combat mission, the troops will be concentrated and dispersed after fighting, and the company leader is no exception.

In the cruel environment, the authentic power finally appeared. Although the Japanese army used blockade ditch blocks to divide the base and covered the bunkers and artillery towers, on this spider web, the anti-Japanese armed forces were still hidden in this land like shadows and bravely insisted on fighting.

Of course, this kind of persistence and heroic combat often cost blood. However, having such underground fortifications and still extending and improving areas has indeed become a headache for the Japanese army. In other words, although the Hebei-Central base has fallen on the surface, it has not all become an enemy occupied area. The guerrilla area still exists, and the armed forces behind the enemy still exist, which makes the enemy dare not run around when there are single people, a few or even a dozen people.

This has changed a lot from the historical situation, especially when the enemy was conducting a large-scale sweep of Hebei, another important plain base in the Eighth Route Army, not only was the stubborn resistance of the Hebei Central troops who retreated to this place and the Hebei Southern troops, but the former Hebei Central troops took the opportunity to form several eastward detachments and retrenched in Hebei Central, cooperated with the local left-behind troops, and began to gradually restore this area.

Under the guidance of the policy of "going deep into the enemy's back, carrying out guerrilla warfare, and establishing small and hidden guerrilla bases", the regular Eighth Route Army troops who jumped to the outside line during the sweep began to organize a large number of advancing detachments to return to the old base for restoration. At the same time, the armed forces developed like mushrooms after a rain, and advanced to the enemy-occupied areas to carry out new struggles against the enemy.
Chapter completed!