The chief of staff ordered Deputy Regiment Commander Luo to stand by on the spot, and the reconnaissance company followed behind the Icheon Wing and kept an eye on their every move. Li Hao stared at the map and began to give orders.

"Send a telegram to He Jun, the commander of the first battalion, to clear the fortified walls in advance, and keep an eye on all the Japanese puppet troops who have entered the territory of Hunyuan."

"If the Japanese army really goes to attack Datong, those Jin Sui troops on the edge of the garrison base will definitely bear the brunt and be the first to be attacked by the Japanese puppet army."

"The first battalion must be ready to respond, and all the anti-Japanese officers and men who have withdrawn from Datong to our base area will be concentrated and resettled in the base area and take good care of them."

"When the time comes, if you are willing to return to the Jin Sui Army, let them go back, and if you are unwilling, mobilize them to join our Eighth Route Army."

"Chief of Staff, you immediately contact the political commissar and transfer local troops from the county brigade and district squadron to supplement the main force."

"The second battalion, the third battalion, the independent battalion, and the special service battalion are all replenished to five hundred."

"Because of this anti-sweep, we have lost a lot of heavy equipment, and the arsenal can only be repaired at present, not yet produced, which means that many weapons are gone."

"In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, when heavy weapons are insufficient, we must use good steel on the blade to form a fist, so that we can have strength when we fight out."

"So I decided to reduce the heavy firepower of the main forces."

"The artillery company under the main battalion was compressed into an artillery platoon, equipped with two heavy mortars and two direct-fire guns, and the guard company was compressed into a guard platoon, and the total strength was reduced to five hundred. In this way, each main battalion only needs to replenish more than 200 local troops to form a full strength. ”

"The subordinate fire platoon of the main company was compressed into a fire squad, equipped with a light mortar and a heavy machine gun."

"The subordinate fire squad of the main platoon was compressed into a fire group, armed with two light machine guns."

"As for the grenadiers, because there are fewer and fewer grenades captured on the battlefield, and the limited ammunition can no longer meet the large-scale equipment use of the troops, the grenadiers equipped by the infantry platoon are all canceled and replaced with two guns for each infantry company, which are directly strengthened to the firepower squad and the limited ammunition is concentrated for use.

"After the main force is fully established, the vacancies of the county brigade and district squadron will be filled by the guerrillas."

"As for the shortage of guerrillas, in order not to affect the production of the base areas and to reduce the pressure on the common people in the base areas, the scale of the guerrillas in the villages can no longer be expanded without restrictions as before."

"The base areas should be staffed by the number of people in each village, and 50 ordinary people should be assigned to a part-time guerrilla."

"This time, after the guerrillas were drawn to supplement the local troops, all the village guerrillas carried out in this proportion. If there are more players, the number will be reduced, and if there are fewer players, new recruits will be recruited. ”

Chief of Staff Hong Linfeng was anxious.

In accordance with the regiment commander's request just now, the main forces in the base areas, the local troops, and the guerrillas will almost all have to be reduced by at least one-third.

As a military commander, he hopes that the troops under his command will be larger and larger, and Hong Linfeng is no exception.

And the regiment commander in front of him not only did not expand the army, but reduced the number of personnel, which he couldn't figure out anyway.

Yes, the garrison is indeed under great pressure to expand its troops, and there are many problems, especially heavy weapons, which are seriously insufficient.

But this problem is not impossible to solve.

If it had been put in the past, the regiment commander would have put up the troop shelves first, trained more gunners and machine gunners, and would rather have people and other equipment than people.

Hong Linfeng had too many questions and puzzles in his heart, stared at Li Hao and asked, "Commander, why?" ”

Li Hao has words of suffering.

As a traverser, he knows better than anyone the Hundred Regiment Battle that the Eighth Route Army will fight next, as well as the various dilemmas that need to be faced after the Hundred Regiment War.

The great drought was tightly sealed by the Japanese puppet army......

Taken together, these factors forced the Eighth Route Army to streamline its troops and govern itself on a large scale in the base areas, and to be self-sufficient and have enough food and clothing......

Li Hao's decision just now that the lack of heavy weapons in the garrison regiment was just an excuse, and the real reason was to deal with the Battle of the Hundred Regiments and this predicament in advance.

The concentration of all local troops and guerrilla units would indeed restore the troops to full strength to the pre-war state of more than 6,000 men.

But in this way, the proportion of recruits in the army is too high, and the combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly affected, and finally affect the performance of the garrison regiment in the battle of the hundred regiments.

By the second and third stages of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, if the troops do not do well, they will suffer a big loss in the revenge and sweep of the devils because there are too many recruits, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Downsizing the establishment, supplementing a small number of local troops into the main force, and one veteran leading one new recruit.

Not only will it not affect the overall combat effectiveness of the troops, but it will also allow the local troops to integrate into the main force in a very short period of time and form combat effectiveness.

In this case, the problems caused by the large-scale expansion of the armed forces will no longer exist.

Thinking of the streamlining of the army after the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, Li Hao would not expand the troops on a large scale.

Otherwise, when the time comes, we will go to great lengths to recruit new recruits, because the elite soldiers will retreat and work in vain, and the cadres in the army will not be able to understand it, and those recruits will not understand why they will be dismissed by the army.

Facing Hong Linfeng's gaze at him, he didn't explain, and ordered decisively: "No why, execute the order, and you will know when the time comes." ”

At the headquarters of the Japanese division in Laiyuan City, dozens of staff guards were busy packing documents and preparing for transfer.

Since it has been decided to attack Datong, it is definitely more suitable to be the headquarters of the division than Laiyuan City, so the division commander decided to move the headquarters there on the spot.

"Chief of Staff, hasn't the call back from the Front Command arrived yet?" The division commander looked up and asked.

Although it was decided to go to Datong, Laiyuan and Lingqiu, which the division had taken down at a huge price, could not just give up in vain.

An hour earlier, the division commander had sent a telegram to the front headquarters that the troops had turned to attack Datong, and by the way, he asked the headquarters to send troops to take over Laiyuan.

The division commander believed that even if the commander was dissatisfied with his own decision, he would eventually agree to his own decision.

The countless coal mines in Datong were also urgently needed by the empire, and their role was no less than that of eliminating the garrison itself.

"Sir, the front army headquarters is in an emergency!" The communications staff officer suddenly rushed in and interrupted.

The chief of staff took the telegram and glanced at it, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Division commander, the front army agrees with our proposal." ”

"A mixed brigade of the Imperial Army is on its way, and we can retreat as soon as they arrive."

"In addition, the headquarters asked us to leave a heavy artillery brigade, a chariot squadron, and a cavalry brigade to cooperate with the mixed brigade to defend Laiyuan, Lingqiu, Hunyuan and other county seats."

"After the troops took Datong, together with the mixed brigades, they continued to sweep the garrisons, encroach on their base areas, and finally wipe them out."

"Yo Xi!" The commander of the division was satisfied and ordered: "Just do what the command telegraph says." ”

"The main force made a surprise attack on the same city, and the division headquarters and other mixed brigades rushed over after they were in place."

At the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the deputy chief of staff rushed in with an excited face: "Boss, good news, the garrison regiment has won?" ”

"The little devil has retired?" The deputy commander-in-chief did not show a smile on his face, but a flash of worry.

"Didn't retreat?" The deputy chief of staff shook his head and replied.

The deputy commander-in-chief's wrinkled brows immediately relaxed, as long as the Japanese troops attacking the garrison did not retreat, the next strategic counteroffensive of the Eighth Route Army would not be affected.

But soon showed a puzzled expression: "Since the little devil has not withdrawn, the battle is not over, and the garrison regiment is so confident that it has won." ”

The deputy chief of staff hurriedly replied: "The little devil has been killed by the garrison regiment in the past few days, and after the garrison regiment can't take advantage of it, he directly changed the target of the attack and killed Datong." ”

"In addition, in order to hold the county towns of Laiyuan, Lingqiu and other counties they just occupied, the Japanese army has transferred a mixed brigade from all over North China to deal with the garrison, and now the pressure on our major counteroffensive will be even less."

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