"Wait a minute!"

The commander stopped the chief of staff who wanted to leave and continued to order!

"Although our retreat is temporary. When the time comes, we will launch a large-scale counteroffensive and reoccupy these areas! ”

"However, giving up is giving up, even if it's only temporary, that's a failure!"

"Three counties, such a large area, the total population adds up to nearly 200,000! With the ability of the Eighth Route Army, these areas can be developed into their base areas in a month at most, and then it is estimated that the common people will join the Eighth Route Army and fight against the Imperial Army! ”

"So, even if we take the initiative to retreat, we can't let the garrison swallow it so easily!"

"We will take two steps, the first step: order all the maintenance associations and landlords in the three counties who are loyal to the imperial army, and all the landlords will lurk and secretly sabotage the base areas established by the Eighth Route Army!"

"After the imperial army retreated, they killed an Eighth Route Army and sent it to the county seat, and the imperial army rewarded a rifle and fifty rounds of ammunition!"

"Kill more than ten Eighth Route Army, in addition to rewarding ten rifles, the Imperial Army will also reward one machine gun!"

"In this troubled world, having a gun means having strength, you can dominate one side and earn more money, which is more practical than giving money directly!"

"As soon as this order comes out, I guarantee that these maintenance associations and landlord armies who have worked hard for the imperial army, for their own interests, will definitely desperately attack the Eighth Route Army and prevent the Eighth Route Army from establishing a base area!"

The chief of staff stood next to him, and a pair of eyes began to glow at that time!

He is familiar with the maintenance of the maintenance association and the landlord who worked for the imperial army!

According to the policy of the Eighth Route Army, what they did before will definitely be liquidated, and then they will be branded as traitors and traitors!

If you are lucky, you can still save a life, but the family property will definitely be distributed to the people by the Eighth Route Army to support the War of Resistance!

If you are unlucky, you can lose both your money and your money!

In the eyes of these landlords and old wealthy, family property is their life, and in order to keep them, they will definitely work hard!

Now that they have the order of the imperial army and the county garrison to support them, they will definitely work even harder!

Don't look at the fact that each of them only has a few people in their hands, a few guns, and no more than dozens of thugs, but their local strength should not be underestimated!

It is not an exaggeration to describe it as intricate!

Once they resolutely oppose the Eighth Route Army, use their influence to incite the common people to resist the Eighth Route Army!

If the garrison wants to develop this area into a base in a short period of time, it will definitely be very difficult, and it will pay a lot of price!

His face became hotter and hotter, and he added, "Sir, there is one more suggestion for the lowly position!" ”

"In order to show the support of the imperial army for them, allow them to evacuate their families to the county seat and hand them over to the imperial army for protection!"

"Then they will definitely work harder!"

"And there are family members in the hands of the imperial army, and when fighting against the Eighth Route Army, they don't dare to have two hearts!"

A smile quickly flashed across the commander's face, and then he affirmed: "That's a good idea, I agree!" ”

"Now I'm going to talk about the second and most important step!"

"The strength of the garrison regiment is too strong, relying only on those landlords' armaments, although it can cause a lot of trouble for them to establish a base area, and slow down the speed at which they build a base area!"

"But the difference in strength between them is there after all, and it must be very difficult to inflict heavy losses on the garrison regiment and cause a lot of losses to the garrison regiment!"

"So I decided to find a way to launch a local counterattack on the garrison before the imperial army launched a large-scale retaliatory counterattack against the garrison, and retreated as soon as it was issued, so as to teach the garrison a lesson and let them understand that the imperial army is not so easy to mess with!"

The chief of staff asked thoughtfully: "I understand, sir, what do you mean to take advantage of the imperial army's initiative to retreat and the morale of the garrison regiment is at its peak, suddenly counterattack and catch the garrison regiment by surprise!" ”

"Yes and no!" The commander did not answer positively!

After thinking for a while, he continued: "As long as the battlefield meets these two conditions, our counterattack will definitely win!" ”

"Which two?" The chief of staff hurriedly asked!

During this time, the troops were really too poor, not only the morale of ordinary soldiers was low, but many officers would show a touch of worry and fear when mentioning the garrison regiment!

As the chief of staff, he sees it in his eyes and is anxious in his heart!

It is necessary to find a way to break this deadlock as soon as possible, to raise the low morale, and to dispel everyone's fear of the garrison!

Otherwise, the low morale will definitely intensify in the troops, and everyone's fear of the garrison will also increase!

After a long time, even if the time is ripe in the future, the imperial army will begin to counterattack the garrison regiment, and the troops will definitely be afraid in the battle and pay a huge price!

This situation must be broken!

The best and most direct way is to win the battle and take out a few garrison troops!

"The first condition is that the front army reinforces us, and the heavy weapons are in place!"

"The Front has agreed to strengthen one of our separate heavy artillery brigades, a field artillery wing, a large-caliber heavy mortar brigade!"

"Field artillery and heavy artillery are too dependent on roads, and they need cars and horses to transport them in place!"

"But the large-caliber heavy mortar brigade doesn't have to be so troublesome, it can be sent to us by cavalry, and it doesn't rely much on the road!"

"So I decided to immediately contact the front headquarters and send a cavalry brigade to escort the heavy mortar brigade to quickly rush here to reinforce us!"

"Judging from the current situation, Lingqiu is the main target of the garrison regiment!"

"Not only has a large number of infantry been gathered, but also a large number of mountain artillery and mortars have been deployed, and the posture of retaking Lingqiu has been recaptured!"

"So I decided, after the heavy mortar brigade is in place, first draw a squadron, under the cover of the aircraft, march to reinforce Lingqiu, and then cooperate with the Lingqiu garrison to fight the garrison regiment to counterattack and thwart the garrison's conspiracy to take Lingqiu!"

"The remaining two heavy mortar squadrons are divided into three and reinforce three county towns each!"

"Once the opportunity is right, the garrisons of the three counties, with the cooperation of heavy mortars, will take the initiative to attack and kill one or two garrison regiments attacking them, and teach them a lesson!"

The more the chief of staff listened, the more excited he became, and immediately asked: "What chance!" ”

"That's the second condition I'm talking about: the division of the garrison!"

"We take the initiative to retreat, and such a large area as the three counties will definitely fall into the hands of the garrison regiment!"

"There's only one way for them to completely occupy this area: divide their forces!"

"Once they do, the situation on the battlefield will be turned upside down!"

"In particular, the initiative on the battlefield will definitely fall back into our hands!"

"At that time, we can concentrate our superior forces and firepower and attack the garrison regiment after the division of troops!"

"I see!" The chief of staff suddenly realized and shouted!

"I will now lead the staff to formulate a battle plan, issue withdrawal orders to the county towns, and prepare for the next local counterattack!"