Chapter 425: Strategic Intent Military Value

Linhe Township, Hebei Border Region, Western Hebei. The weather was sunny. Midday (5 p.m.).

Lying on the horse's back and his legs clamping the horse's belly, Fang Jiren quickly whipped his horse and galloped all the way back to Linhe Township. When he arrived at the Fang family's mansion and in front of the special column headquarters building, Fang Jiren grabbed the reins, rolled the saddle and dismounted, and raised his hand to throw the reins to the sentry downstairs. Take three steps and two steps up the stairs, through the front yard, and go straight to the main house in the middle courtyard.

"Meng Dakui! Commissar Yang! Chief of staff! Come to the meeting now! Come here! Francis, who was striding as he walked, shouted loudly.

Meng Dakui, Yang Shushan, and Zhou Qiwei, who were studying and discussing work together in the conference room on the landlord's side of the middle courtyard, heard Fang Jiren shouting loudly outside, and didn't know what emergency and big things had happened, so they immediately got up and walked out of the main room at the same time, standing at the door and looking at Fang Jiren who was walking over with a serious face in confusion.

"Huh? I said, Commander, why did you come back so soon? Do you see anyone coming? I didn't leave you for dinner, it wouldn't be a trip for nothing, right? Meng Dakui asked.

"Get in! All go in and close the door. The situation is urgent, and the meeting will be held immediately. Francis beckoned everyone into the room and walked to the conference table and sat down.

After taking a sip of water, Fang Jiren introduced the situation of going to Shuihe Village to meet the regimental commander Yu Genshan and the urgent task sent by the brigade headquarters to the supplementary regiment to issue the headquarters and division headquarters.

"Hey, I thought something was going on. Commander, it's not normal for the superiors of the supplementary regiment to send people to Shuihe Village to give orders, what is there to make a fuss about. Meng Dakui said disapprovingly.

"Deputy Commander Meng, I don't agree with your statement. Since it is a task assigned by the headquarters and the division headquarters, it must be an urgent and important task. Yang Shushan retorted.

"That's right, Commissar Yang is right. If it was before or somewhere else, I would have felt normal. However, at present, it is very different in the western Hebei region, especially in the border area of Hebei. As we all know, after the May Day Sweep, the Japanese puppet army doubled its troops and equipment. However, the supplementary regiment, which had been killed or wounded in many fierce battles and lost more than half of its soldiers, was forced by its superiors to be stationed in Shuihe Village under the difficult and difficult situation of not receiving timely rest and replenishment of food and ammunition. Why is that? Obviously, this is a military deployment with both sides with their own strategic intentions, and they are both waiting for the opportunity. What time are you waiting for? We have no idea. Although we have analyzed that the Japanese army may attack and encircle Shuihe Village, and then capture Yufeng Mountain, open up mines and steel, and make guns and artillery on the spot, and at the same time open another westward fast passage from North China to Shanxi, and then infiltrate and attack the anti-Japanese base in the hinterland of Taihang Mountain, so as to seize the strategic initiative, in order to reverse the military decline of the Japanese army on the Shanxi battlefield, seize coal resources, and also facilitate the launch of an attack on the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area. But this is only our analysis and judgment, and there is no basis to prove it. What tasks did the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the 129th Division give to the supplementary regiment? We don't know anything either. However, one thing is certain now: the western Hebei region, the Hebei border region, and the Yufeng mountain area will become the main battlefields that are fiercely contested by the enemy and us, and are bound to be controlled. Comrades, please quickly think about and analyze these critical issues: What is the task of the headquarters and the division headquarters to issue supplementary regiments? What is the strategic intent and ultimate purpose of this urgent mission? How should our special column cooperate with the supplementary regiment to accomplish this task? After speaking, Fang Jiren picked up the enamel jar and drank a few sips of water.

"Report! Commander, it's time to eat. The correspondent shouted from outside the door.

"Wait a minute!" Fang Jiren got up and walked to the door, opened the door and said, "In an hour, the food for four people will be delivered." No one is allowed to disturb again. ”

"Yes!" The correspondent stood up and saluted, and turned to leave.

"Comrades, don't be bored, talk." Francis walked back to the conference table.

Yang Shushan: "Commander, don't worry. Do you think that's going to work? Excuse me, go to Shuihe Village to find Commander Yu and ask what task the superior has assigned? Wouldn't we be able to know the strategic intent and purpose of the higher-ups? It will also facilitate us to formulate operational plans and mobilize and deploy troops in a targeted and targeted manner to cooperate with the supplementary regiments. Otherwise, we will be like blind people who have no idea where to start. ”

Meng Dakui: "Yes, yes, Political Commissar Yang is not wrong at all. It's something that only you, the Commander, can do, and the sooner the better. ”

Zhou Qiwei: "I agree with Political Commissar Yang's proposal. Commander, the headquarters and division headquarters sent people to give tasks to the supplementary regiment, will it have anything to do with the Japanese army's 'Mount Fuji plan'? ”

"Huh? Will it? Chief of Staff, tell me your thoughts and analysis. ”

"Yes. Commander, the headquarters and division headquarters should have been aware of the increase in the Japanese army and the expansion of the Imperial Allied Army, and they may have also discovered the Japanese army's 'Mount Fuji Plan', coupled with your analysis just now, the task of the supplementary regiment is to prevent and completely smash this sinister conspiracy of the Japanese army with resolute military action. ”

Meng Dakui and Yang Shushan nodded in agreement.

Zhou Qiwei: "Commander, it seems that you must go to Shuihe Village again as soon as possible to find Commander Yu to understand what the task of replenishing the regiment is?" ”

"Okay. After eating, I will immediately go to Shuihe Village again to find the head of the group. After I'm gone, you guys will dig deeper. Fang Jiren wrote two lines of small characters on a piece of paper, rolled it up and handed it to Meng Dakui after writing, and whispered: "Quick, the flying pigeon spreads the book to Shuihe Village." Go and inform the room and start a meal for us right away. ”

Hebei border area in western Hebei. Shuihe Village Ancestral Hall. The Eighth Route Army supplemented the regimental headquarters.

At midday (5 o'clock in the afternoon). At the same time as Fang Jiren left Shuihe Village and returned to Linhe Township. Yu Genshan strode back to the regimental headquarters in a hurry. As soon as he walked into the courtyard gate, Yu Genshan immediately felt a tense atmosphere that was different from the past and heavily guarded. The guards on the inside of the courtyard gate and in all corners of the courtyard were all replaced by soldiers that Yu Genshan had never seen and did not know, and he knew that they were all brought by Staff Officer Ding. The soldiers were all on their backs, carrying 20 shell guns on their right side and four* on their left side, and they were on high alert.

Yu Genshan, accompanied by a correspondent of the brigade headquarters, walked into the conference room. The political commissar, chief of staff, Han Dagang, Wu Staff Officers, and battalion commanders and instructors of each battalion were sitting in the conference room, each holding a small notebook and pencil in their hands, ready to take notes. Ding Tieniu, the combat staff officer of the brigade headquarters, lowered his head and thought about it while walking around anxiously in front of everyone.

Seeing Yu Genshan sit down, Ding Tieniu nodded at Yu Genshan and immediately announced the meeting.

"Comrades, I have come to the supplementary regiment today to give you an arduous and important task formulated by the General Headquarters and the division headquarters, which is a task that has a bearing on the situation of the anti-Japanese war in North China and will also affect the situation of the anti-Japanese war in Central, East, and Northeast China. The strategic significance is great and far-reaching, and it is a preparation for the all-out counteroffensive of the War of Resistance Against Japan. This is the strategic intention and military value of the higher-level orders and deployment of the supplementary regiment to lean on the Yuhe River in the west and garrison Shuihe Village in the western Hebei and Hebei border areas with its back to the Yufeng Mountain after the May Day sweep of the Japanese invaders. It is time for the Supplementary Mission to play an important role. Your specific tasks are: Wait, comrades, put away all the notebooks, don't record them, keep them secret, and keep them firmly in your heads and hearts. The mission was carried out in several phases······"