Double-Cut During the War of Resistance: My Wife Came from 1937

Supply and marketing cooperative.

On a recliner.

Ma Hongwei was lying there scrolling through videos.

Suddenly, he saw a science video.

The above describes the operations against the Japanese army's "Eight-Route Encirclement and Suppression" campaign when the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region was first established.

Ma Hongwei glanced at it a few times before quickly standing up and going to the living room in the backyard.

"Vivi, Vivi!"

Ma Hongwei shouted, "Deputy Division Commander Nie—no, I should say Commander Nie—they're in trouble!"

"Hmm? What's wrong?"

Upon hearing the sound, Xia Weiwei quickly came out of the house.

"Come and take a look at this!"

Ma Hongwei handed over the phone.

The two sat down on the sofa and began to watch.

In November 1937, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region was formally established. Commander Nie led the military and civilians in the base area to carry out extensive guerrilla warfare, disrupting Japanese transportation lines and posing a serious threat to strategic locations such as Beiping, Taiyuan, and Zhangjiakou, which were occupied by the Japanese army.

[Therefore, half a month after the base area was established, Terauchi Hisaichi, commander of the Japanese North China Area Army, dispatched part of four divisions, totaling more than 2 troops, to launch an encirclement and suppression campaign against the Jin-Cha-Ji Anti-Japanese Base Area in eight directions, attempting to completely strangle the newly established base area.]

"That's really dangerous!"

Xia Weiwei said, "As far as I know, the regular troops of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region only number seven or eight thousand. Although the local guerrillas and militia Red Guards also number several thousand, they do not have many guns."

The core of the establishment of the Jin-Cha-Ji Anti-Japanese Base Area consisted of more than 3000 Eighth Route Army soldiers, including the Independent Regiment, Cavalry Battalion, Division Training Team, and a small number of Headquarters Work Teams assigned by Commander Nie from the 115th Division.

The remaining four or five thousand regular troops were all recently recruited personnel.

Some of them were drawn from guerrilla groups and Red Guards, but others were pure peasants who had never even touched a gun.

On the other hand, the Japanese army had the 5th Division, an elite mountain division in North China, also known as the Sakatsugu Division.

In the Battle of Nankou, they defeated the vanguard of the 13th Army of the Central Army under Tang Enbo and the 14th Army Group under Wei Lihuang. In the Battle of Datong, they defeated the Jin-Sui Army. In the Battle of Xinkou, they defeated the 14th Army Group, the Jin-Sui Army, and the Sichuan-Shaanxi reinforcements. Among them, Hao Mengling, the commander of the 9th Army, and Liu Jiaqi, the division commander, were killed on the spot.

Although the Sakatsune Division was only the 21st Brigade with a strength of about 3600 men, its strength should not be underestimated.

In addition, there were more than 3000 men from the 14th Division, more than 3000 men from the 109th Division, 4800 men from the Kwantung Army, and more than 5500 puppet troops.

This campaign to encircle and suppress the Jin-Cha-Ji base area involved more than 14500 real Japanese soldiers and about 5500 puppet troops.

Even if we only count the actual Japanese soldiers, their numbers are twice that of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region.

Ultimately, however, Commander Nie led more than 7,000 men from the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, along with several thousand guerrillas and peasant Red Guards, in more than 50 battles of varying sizes, thwarting the Japanese invaders' efforts to annihilate the base areas.

This is based on authoritative data from the "History of the Eighth Route Army".

The actual number of Japanese casualties was 1087.

Among them, more than 600 Japanese soldiers were killed and more than 480 were wounded, including Colonel Masaaki, the regimental commander.

The puppet troops suffered more than 900 casualties.

The total number of Japanese and puppet troops killed or wounded was nearly 2000.

The regular Eighth Route Army suffered more than 640 casualties.

Among them were more than 40 cadres and more than 600 ordinary soldiers.

In addition, there were hundreds of guerrilla and Red Guard fighters.

After the war, due to casualties and supply difficulties, the Japanese army began a full-scale withdrawal in late December.

The Jin-Cha-Ji Anti-Japanese Base Area was not only preserved, but also pursued the victory and recovered more than 30 county towns. The Border Region Representative Conference was held, and the Administrative Committee of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region was elected.

Xia Weiwei remarked with considerable emotion, "I never expected Commander Nie to actually win against overwhelming odds and hold out!"

Ma Hongwei said, "That's a future marshal, it's normal for him to be able to hold off the Japanese!"

Xia Weiwei said to Ma Hongwei, "Hongwei, let's download all these important videos and information to our phones and then hand them over to Chief of Staff Tang in the Jin-Cha-Ji base area..."

"By the way, do I need to buy a new phone?"

Ma Hongwei said, "You can download it to your phone first, and then use Bluetooth to transfer videos and files."

"However, you don't have internet access over there, so if Commander Nie himself isn't here, there's indeed no way to transmit over long distances."

"I'll just buy a new phone; it only costs a few thousand yuan anyway."

He now has nearly two small goals' worth of cash.

They don't even care about a phone that costs a few thousand yuan.

"Let's place an order then!"

Ma Hongwei said, "Anyway, if you place the order today, it will arrive tomorrow."

……

The next day.

Ma Hongwei arrived at the entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative and retrieved his newly purchased mobile phone.

After some setup, it connected to the network and started caching videos and information.

Xia Weiwei asked, "How's it going? Is it downloaded?"

"Yes, I've downloaded them all."

Ma Hongwei nodded and said, "I have already made backups of the Japanese army's unit numbers, troop strength, generals, and attack routes."

"With this information, Commander Nie can make preparations in advance!"

Xia Weiwei said, "They will definitely achieve even more brilliant results!"

In Xia Weiwei's view, even without this information in the original timeline, Commander Nie was still able to inflict around two thousand casualties on the Japanese and puppet troops.

With this information, advance planning will undoubtedly enable us to eliminate the Japanese and puppet troops to a greater extent.

In addition to information, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region also possesses a greater quantity of heavy weapons, such as light and heavy machine guns and mortars, than in the original timeline.

Moreover, knowing this information in advance allows the three main divisions and the Eighth Route Army headquarters to mobilize troops and provide support to the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region.

……

Soon it was afternoon.

Xia Weiwei is about to embark on another time-travel journey.

Since there was no one else at home this time, Xia Weiwei could travel directly from her house.

She went straight to the air-conditioned room and changed into an Eighth Route Army uniform.

In addition, Ma Hongwei also bought her a set of thermal underwear and a long down jacket from JD.com.

"These thermal underwear are so hot!"

Xia Weiwei said to Ma Hongwei, "By the way, Hongwei, I think you could also buy a batch of thermal underwear for the soldiers!"

"Um!"

Ma Hongwei nodded and said, "I'll contact Boss Xue right away and ask him to get me a batch of fleece-lined and thickened thermal underwear."

He had been so focused on the cotton-padded military coat, snow boots, and cotton-padded military cap that he had completely forgotten about thermal underwear.

I saw a push notification from JD.com while I was buying down jackets, and that's when I bought one.

Many things, if you don't put them in front of you, you sometimes won't even think of them, unless you need them yourself.