In the war room of the headquarters, the chief had already received an order from the theater of operations to request the Eighth Route Army to withdraw from Datong and hand it over to them to take over the defense.

The order must be carried out, but Datong, which the troops have worked so hard to fight, will be let out like this, and anyone will be unwilling, and the commander-in-chief is no exception.

The chief of staff comforted: "Boss, if you really can't give Datong to them, but the time for receiving the defense must be pushed back." ”

"The siege troops must empty Datong City before handing it over to the Jin Sui army and try to make up for our losses."

"I read the telegram sent by the chief of staff of the front line, as long as we can take away all the weapons, ammunition, materials, food, and captured funds we have captured in the city, we will not only lose no money in this battle, but also make a lot of money."

After saying this, the chief of staff hurriedly turned out a telegram he had just received.

"This is the latest battle report sent by Chief of Staff Zhou, which contains detailed statistics on the capture of our army in Datong City."

"Minus the weapons and ammunition that have already equipped the troops, and the equipment of almost two regiments."

"Artillery, heavy machine guns are counted, at least an artillery regiment and a heavy machine gun battalion can be formed."

"There are two warehouses of all kinds of ammunition, bullets, shells, explosives, everything."

"From the list of stocks and supplies in the arsenals, it can be roughly concluded that the two arsenals have 12,000 shells alone, more than 8 million rounds of ammunition of various kinds, nearly 50,000 grenades, 5,000 kilograms of explosives, ......."

"There are two warehouses of piles of grain, adding up to more than eight million catties."

"I also seized nearly one million catties of scattered grain from the Japanese puppet army's shops, warehouses, and homes in the city."

"The last big head is the capital, and a total of 650,000 pieces of gold bars and gold and silver jewelry worth 300,000 oceans were seized from the hands of the Japanese puppet army."

"With these seizures as a foundation, we have no loss by abandoning Datong City."

Seeing that the boss's face was much calmer, the chief of staff continued to report: "This is not counting the materials we have seized from various coal mines outside the city. ”

"After taking Datong, the siege force was divided into three, one part returned to the base area with Li Hao, one part controlled Datong, transferred the materials we captured in the city, and some killed Datong to attack the large and small coal mines that were still controlled by the Japanese puppet army."

"Although there are not many garrisons in the coal mines, they have a large number of mine guards and private armed forces, and they will definitely capture a large amount of supplies, weapons and ammunition."

The boss sighed and replied, "It's good that there is no loss!" ”

"Our Eighth Route Army has a weak foundation and can't afford to fight a war of attrition, so we must count every battle, otherwise we will definitely get weaker and weaker, and finally wipe out the troops."

"Since we have a profit in this battle, and there is no way to refuse the order of the war zone, let's give Datong City to them."

"But we must have the final say on the timing of the change of guards, and give Chief of Staff Zhou enough time to transfer our capture in Datong."

"You can't let the Jin Sui army take advantage of everything, you must fight for what you should strive for."

The chief of staff thought for a moment and replied: "Don't worry, boss, Jin Suijun is here to take advantage this time, and he definitely doesn't dare to go too far." ”

"If you really dare to take advantage of the situation and sell well, our Eighth Route Army is not a vegetarian."

The boss nodded and ordered: "Then this matter is decided, Datong will be given to the war zone, but the materials, weapons and ammunition captured by our army in Datong must belong to us, and everyone will take what they need!" ”

When it seemed that this important matter was about to be decided, the communications staff officer suddenly walked in with a very serious expression.

"Report chief, the garrison has just sent an encrypted telegram!"

"Li Hao's telegram, could it be that something happened to him?" The chief of staff frowned and muttered to himself.

Quickly took the telegram, took out the code book, and translated it himself.

Five minutes later, he put away the code book and looked at the boss with a wry smile and reported: "Boss, we just decided to give Datong City to the war zone, and this kid Li Hao sent a telegram asking us to Datong." ”

"The telegram said: The garrison regiment of materials captured by our army in Datong does not want a single bullet, but I hope that the headquarters will agree to the garrison regiment to occupy Datong and not leave!"

A wry smile also flashed on the boss's face.

Datong, which the troops have worked so hard to fight, no one wants to give up.

They also wanted to occupy Datong and develop Datong into a base area of the Eighth Route Army.

However, the situation forced it, and in the face of the order of the war zone, it was difficult not to give up.

With a long sigh, he ordered: "Forward the order given to us by the war zone to Li Hao, and tell Comrade Li Hao that we can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and we don't have the strength to control such an important place as Datong now." When there is a chance in the future, our Eighth Route Army will definitely become the real master of Datong, and I will definitely hand over Datong to the garrison to manage at that time. ”

The chief of staff didn't move, but handed the telegram to the commander-in-chief: "Boss, Li Hao mentioned in the telegram that Jin Suijun asked us about Datong. ”

"I also took the initiative to ask for orders to negotiate with the Jin Suijun, no matter how much can be negotiated, those negotiated territories are under the control of the garrison regiment."

The commander-in-chief looked puzzled, but still took the telegram and looked seriously.

After one time, his brows slowly twisted, and then he began to look at it a second time......

After reading it three times in a row, he asked the chief of staff directly: "What do you think of Comrade Li Hao's proposal in the telegram!" ”

"Reasonable, reasonable!" The chief of staff replied.

"A telegram from the war zone came and asked us to be in harmony, which was unreasonable."

"Datong was brought down by our Eighth Route Army with great sacrifices, and if the theater wants to take Datong, it must give us some compensation."

"I think Comrade Li Hao can try it, even if it only talks about one town, it is better than nothing."

"If I'm not mistaken, Comrade Li Hao should have taken a fancy to the minerals buried in Datong."

The commander-in-chief was much more decisive, and made a decision immediately: "No matter what Li Hao fancies." ”

"If he wants to talk to Jin Suijun, let him talk."

"You're right, even if you only talk about one town, it's better than nothing."

"Even if the negotiations fail, we have nothing to lose."

"And from what I know about Comrade Li Hao: he is a person who does not fight and is not sure of fighting. Since he dared to send a telegram asking the headquarters for power and wanted to negotiate, he must have already thought of a perfect plan, so I believe that Comrade Li Hao said in the telegram: As long as he is allowed to talk, he can negotiate one-third of the area of Datong, although I don't know what method he plans to use to negotiate with Jin Suijun. ”

"However, if you really want to negotiate with Jin Suijun, his level is still too low."

"In this way, let Chief of Staff Zhou lead the entire negotiation, and Comrade Li Hao will serve as his deputy."

"Li Hao proposed in the telegram to weaken the contribution of the garrison regiment in the Datong Battle as much as possible, and I completely agree with this."

"They have been in the limelight too much lately, and they can easily become the focus of the Japanese attack."

"When the battle of Datong is completely over, when we announce the results of the battle, we will change the garrison regiment into a support force, and cooperate with the base area in the northwest of Shanxi to capture Datong."

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