"Lehi, what do you think about the situation of the war in Taiyue District?"

The brigade commander was not familiar with the situation of the Anti-Japanese War in the Taiyue area, and he had learned some information from the side of the Decisive Column before, and this time Li Hai came to the brigade headquarters, he naturally wanted to hear the views of this young man.

Don't look at Lehi's age, but many of his views are very unique, and even the head of the headquarters has praised them.

"Brigadier, do you want to listen to the truth?" Lehi asked.

"You kid, naturally listen to the truth!" The brigade commander said with a smile.

"Brigade commander, if you say that, I hope that the brigade commander will agree to the independent regiment advancing to the southern area of Taiyue." Lehi said.

"Southern Taiyue? Why do you have this idea? You know, it's been less than two months since your troops broke out of there.

There are a lot of stubborn troops over there, wouldn't it be self-defeating to go back now? The brigade commander said.

"Brigade Commander, although it is very dangerous, we must go back. When the brigade commander first came, he should also know that there are two counties in the north of Taiyue, Qinyuan and Anze, and counting some of the surrounding counties located in the townships and towns in the Taiyue Mountains, the population of the entire northern Taiyue area is not large.

In the short term, it may not be much.

However, if we look at it in the long run, the population of the base areas is not large, which is not conducive to the development of the troops, and there is also a lack of sufficient strategic space.

When the Japanese army defeated the Kuomintang army in Shanxi, the next step would definitely be our Eighth Route Army. ”

"Why, aren't you optimistic that the Kuomintang army can hold Zhongtiao Mountain and southeast Jin?" The brigade commander said with a smile.

"In the state of friction in the Kuomintang army, it is not easy to block the Japanese attack. If the Japanese army gathered superior forces and attacked on a large scale, it was only a matter of time before the Kuomintang army was defeated. ”

In the historical Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, Lehi didn't bother to talk about it.

Although the fight was also very fierce, who dares to say that those generals are not responsible.

Before the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the nearly 200,000 national troops basically had serious corruption problems from top to bottom, and it was strange not to lose.

"So you're planning to enter the southern region in advance and plan for the rout of the national army later?" The brigade commander said in a deep voice.

"Yes and no." Li Hai said, "Generally speaking, Qinshui, Changzi, Gaoping, Jincheng and other places have a large population, and if we can resume activities in these places, it will be of great help to the subsequent development of our army." ”

"But have you ever thought about it, if your troops go south, Sun Chu will let you go? You made the Jin Suijun suffer heavy losses before, but the Jin Suijun hated you to the core. The brigade commander reminded.

"The brigade commander can rest assured, unless the Jin Sui army is willing to send a large force to encircle and suppress the independent regiment. It's a pity that the strength of the Jin Sui army in the southern region of Taiyue is not strong, and it is the 8th Brigade and Zhao Shiling's department, for them, I will let them know what it means to have no return. Lehi assured.

In the end, of course, the brigade commander agreed to Lehi's proposal.

As soon as he returned to the regimental headquarters, Li Hai decided to send a battalion to Jishi in the south of Anze and Mabi in the north of Qinshui to carry out guerrilla operations.

However, during this period, there was a clash between the Independent Regiment and the Li Jingbu of the 27th Army, and in the end both sides lost a few hundred men each, and then both claimed to have misunderstood.

In fact, both sides knew that this was just a temptation, because the 27th Army not only clashed with the Independent Regiment, but also with the 386th Brigade.

However, the scale was not large, and after seeing that it was not easy to bully, the 27th Army also gave up provocation. Weichang

Considering that Liangma was relatively close to the garrison of the 27th Army, Li Hai moved his regimental headquarters to Yingzhai Village, ten kilometers south of Liangma, and other regimental headquarters were also relocated.

Previously, it was moved to Liangma because it was close to the Decisive Death Column, but now with the arrival of the 386th Brigade and the opening of a base area to the south by the Independent Regiment, it was reasonable for the regimental headquarters as a command organization to move southward, but this conflict gave Lehi a good reason.

"The Fifth Battalion's opening up of base areas in Mabi and other places is just the beginning, and if we want to strengthen our troops, we must not retreat in the mountains, but also go to the plains.

Both Anze and Qinshui are located in mountainous areas, so in the next step, we must continue to disperse and send troops out for development.

Changzi County and Fushan County should be the base areas where we need to carry out the next step. ”

At the headquarters of the Independent Regiment, Li Hai was explaining the next step of development to the whole regiment.

In addition to the cadres of the regimental headquarters, the battalion commanders of the six main battalions below also attended the meeting.

"Commander, is it prudent to focus on the development of Changzi County? That is where the 27th Army is stationed, and if we develop eastward, we will inevitably clash with the 27th Army. Political Commissar Zhang Fengge worried.

"Regiment commander, what the political commissar said has some truth, although the Kuomintang army is deliberately creating friction now, we can't take the initiative to provoke it, we should still be cautious." Chen Shiping also said.

"The commissar is right, we can't take the initiative to provoke friction, but we're not afraid of things either. If it weren't for the fear of causing a bigger conflict, when I clashed with Li Jing's regiment of the 27th Army, I would have wanted to eat his troops directly. Lehi said politely.

"Commander, having said that, it is better not to expand the conflict for the time being." Zhang Fengge suggested.

"Since the political commissar said so, then our next development direction will be based on Qinshui and Fushan.

What I mean is to send a battalion into the territory of Fushan County to carry out guerrilla warfare with companies and platoons as units, and to take the opportunity to develop the contingent and expand the scope of the base area. Lehi believed that with their Eighth Route Army philosophy, it would be easy to develop troops in these areas.

Now it seems that the strength of the troops will be weakened, but at present, the main target of the Japanese army in Shanxi is still the regular Kuomintang army in the Zhongtiao Mountain area and the southeast of Shanxi, and only after the regular army of the Kuomintang is cleaned up will the Japanese army be free to deal with the Eighth Route Army.

In this way, Lehi's independent regiment had almost two years to develop.

In these two years, even if there were sweeps by the Japanese army, the scale would not be very large.

After two years, Lehi believed that his independent regiment would grow to a very frightening size, and at that time, even if it was to deal with the Japanese sweep, it would have a certain strength to fight back.

"First send a battalion to Fushan County to carry out guerrilla warfare, and I am in favor of it." Zhang Fengge nodded and said.

He thought Lehi would be radical, but now it seems that it was not like that.

"Which of your battalions would like to go?" Lehi looked at the commanders of the five battalions except the five battalion commanders.

There is no doubt that those who take the lead will definitely face many problems, and if they cannot solve those problems, it will not be easy to gain a foothold.

Several battalion commanders looked at each other, and soon Zhang Cheng stood up, "Regiment commander, I'll go." ”

"Okay, then you go!" Seeing Zhang Cheng, Li Hai nodded.

At this time, Mao Hong, as the deputy head of the regiment, was called out and quickly walked in with a page of stationery.

"Regiment commander, our comrades in Anze County have sent a message that reinforcements from the Japanese army have arrived in Anze County. The Japanese army may plan to gather more than 1,000 puppet troops to launch a sweep of our regiment's garrison within a month! ”