In this battle, the Eighth Route Army achieved a comprehensive victory and brilliant results.

In just one month, more than 100 strongholds in the central Hebei region were completely destroyed by the Eighth Route Army. More than a dozen county towns were successfully recovered.

The scale of the Jizhong base area quickly returned to the scale before the May Day Sweep.

It has even been further developed.

After hundreds of battles, the Eighth Route Army annihilated nearly 20,000 Japanese puppet troops, and lost more than half of the Japanese puppet army troops in central Hebei.

After this battle, the Japanese puppet army in the central Hebei region was completely frightened, and the surviving devils and traitors were so frightened that they didn't even dare to go out of the stronghold.

can only hide in the stronghold, in the county town, shivering, silently praying that the Eighth Route Army will not fight.

The central Hebei region was shaken, North China was shaken, and the whole country was shaken.

Winning a battle is the most morale-boosting thing.

Especially at such a moment, a great victory greatly boosted the anti-Japanese morale of the whole country.

The reputation of the Eighth Route Army has been greatly enhanced, and the benefits brought by it are also very huge.

After the autumn harvest, many enthusiastic young people in central Hebei enthusiastically signed up to join the army.

Even many people from other places, after hearing about the deeds of the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei, rushed to the central Hebei region to participate in the Eighth Route Army.

The units of the Eighth Route Army of the Jizhong Military Region were soon recruited, a large number of new recruits were recruited, and the scale of the troops was further developed and expanded.

In this battle, the independent regiment played a crucial role, so the largest number of people came to join the army.

Because there are too many people who have signed up for the independent group, Liu Hong and others also have a headache.

Because with the current situation of the independent regiment, it is simply not possible to eat so many recruits.

There is no shortage of weapons and ammunition in the independent regiment.

But most of these people who signed up were new recruits and had no combat experience.

Such a person also needs to go through at least a few months of training before he can go to the battlefield and form combat effectiveness.

If these people are hastily dragged into battle, they will definitely become the best cannon fodder on the battlefield.

In the cruel battlefield, there is no luck, experience is undoubtedly the most important, inexperienced people, on the battlefield, not even a minute can survive.

Therefore, if you forcibly eat so many recruits, not only will it not be able to improve the combat effectiveness of the independent regiment.

It will also become a drag because there are too many recruits, which will affect the overall combat effectiveness of the independent regiment.

So in the face of so many people signing up for the army, Liu Hong also had a headache.

In desperation, in the end, they could only be admitted on the basis of merit, and even so, in just half a month, the independent regiment recruited more than 2,000 recruits.

This is still after the vast majority of people have been eliminated, otherwise there are even more of them.

Liu Hong didn't want to dampen the enthusiasm of these eliminated people, so he introduced them to other units.

It's really not good, you can also let them return to their hometowns and join the local troops, which can be regarded as contributing to the anti-Japanese resistance.

After recruiting this group of recruits, the strength of the independent regiment was also strengthened to a certain extent.

At present, there are still more than 3,000 combat troops, and there are about 2,000 people in the new barracks, which together have more than 5,000 people.

For the next period of time, the independent regiment was busy training new recruits so that these troops could form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

On the other hand, Liu Hong is studying the next battle.

In the headquarters, Liu Hong was lying on the map studying something?

At this time, Wu Feng, Zhang Zhicheng and deputy head Wei Haisheng walked in.

Zhang Zhicheng asked with a smile: "Lao Liu, are you in such a hurry to call us over, is there anything wrong?" ”

Liu Hong said with a smile: "I know that you are very busy first, if you have nothing to do, how dare I call you over." ”

Liu Hong pointed to the map on the table and said with a smile: "You guys take a look at this map first." ”

Zhang Zhicheng lowered his head and glanced at it, frowned and said: "This map is the map of Jinpu Road, and it is broken from Tianjin to Dezhou." Do you want to do something about the Jinpu Railway? ”

"Hey~!" Liu Hong said with a smile: "It's still the political commissar who is smart!" ”

"This Jinpu railway is the main artery of the little devil's north-south transportation, and the little devil also attaches great importance to the railway line, along the railway, not only a large number of strongholds have been built, but also heavily guarded."

"The railway line is the lifeblood of the little devils, and the so-called cage policy of the devils uses the railway as the pillar, the highway as the chain, and the bunker as the lock, and the most important of them is also the railway line."

"Now the enemy in the central Hebei region has been almost wiped out by us, and there are some miscellaneous fish left, all of which are honestly cowering in the county stronghold."

"These enemies will be handed over to other troops to deal with, our independent regiment, as the first main force in the central Hebei region, should also deal with the most powerful enemy."

"Now the little devil, for the time being, is unable to mobilize heavy troops and take the initiative to attack us. In that case, we will take the initiative to attack and focus on the key points. ”

"Let's start with this Tianjin-Pudong railway, cut off the lifeblood of the devil, and knock down his foundation, so that we can get further development space in the base area."

Zhang Zhicheng nodded and said: "This idea is not bad, we also have the ability to carry out key strikes against the enemy along the railway." ”

Wu Feng said: "It's just that it's not a trivial matter!" The consent of the command must be sought. ”

"It's easy to do!" Liu Hong said indifferently: "As long as a few of us unify our opinions, formulate a detailed battle plan, and report it to the commander, the commander will definitely agree." ”

"Also, you are now a celebrity in front of the commander, how can the commander disagree with your plan." Zhang Zhicheng said with a smile.

"You are envious, jealous and hateful, but it's useless, Lao Tzu has the ability, of course the commander values me." Liu Hong said proudly.

"Say you're fat, you're still panting." Zhang Zhicheng said with a wry smile: "Okay, don't talk nonsense, let's get down to business quickly!" What are your specific plans? ”

"Nope!" Liu Hong said very simply.

"What do you mean no?" Zhang Zhicheng said angrily.

Wu Feng and Wei Haisheng couldn't help but show wry expressions.

Liu Hong spread his hands and said, "No, I didn't think about it!" Otherwise, what am I calling you to do here? It's just to discuss the specific plan! Lennon~! I've got the map ready, you say, where should we choose as the entry point? ”

Wu Feng frowned and thought for a while, and then said: "I think we still have the old rules, avoid the real and make the false, and pick the soft persimmon first." ”

"Hmm!" Wei Haisheng said: "Tianjin is undoubtedly the place with the most devil garrisons, so let's try to pick a place far away from Tianjin." Cangzhou to Texas, choose a location in this segment. ”

(End of chapter)