Accepting the inclusion is a big deal, and it can't be finalized because of Xiao Siming's words, Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong have to sum it up!

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Now, the atmosphere in the room was relaxed.

It wasn't until the banquet was put on the table that several captains of the Cao Department, that is, the head of the regiment, came, and Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong beckoned Xiao Siming and his party to the table.

Xiao Siming rushed to Yidu, not to drink. But Cao Zhendong is not the Eighth Route Army, and it is normal for guests to have a banquet! Xiao Siming couldn't help but appreciate it, so he sat down to drink wine and eat meat.

This is also Xiao Siming, who has crossed the soul, in exchange for other generals of our army, he is likely to criticize Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong for being poor and extravagant, and daring to drink and have fun in the face of national disasters!

Xiao Siming can't help it, Cao Zhendong is not a member of the Eighth Route Army now, he has to follow the customs. Otherwise, I am afraid that it will leave the impression that the cadres in the eastern part of Cao Zhen are too strict in the rules and precepts of the Eighth Route Army, which is not conducive to incorporation!

This meal, because Xiao Siming was reluctant to drink more, the atmosphere at the wine table was not warm.

After eating, Xiao Siming signaled Zhao Huanwen and Shi Zhen to discuss with Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong, and asked Cao Zhendong to arrange for Commander Xiao to give a speech to the troops and explain the anti-Japanese policy of the Nationalist Government and our party.

I don't know how Zhao Huanwen and Shi Zhen said it to Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong, anyway, the two of them agreed.

Cao Zhen's eastern strength is now about 2,000 people, that is, the size of a regiment, which are stationed around Yidukou Town.

At this time, Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong were indeed full of the truth of resisting Japan and saving the country, and they really gave an order, gathered the troops in an open space outside Yidukou Town, set up tables and chairs, and asked Xiao Siming to address the troops.

On the afternoon of the turn of spring and summer, on a beautiful day, Xiao Siming, wearing the gray military uniform of the Eighth Route Army, stood in front of the table in the empty field, glanced at the officers and soldiers of the Cao Department sitting on the ground, and began to speak.

This time, Xiao Siming deliberately convinced these officers and soldiers, and talked about strategic issues that these men on the border of Hebei and Shandong had never heard of, but he also spoke in simple terms, easy to understand, and witty and humorous, and comprehensively expounded the truth that the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression must be won!

Cao Zhendong has a high level of education and a wide vision, just like this, he was deeply impressed by Xiao Siming, not to mention other officers and soldiers.

Xiao Siming first talked about China's basic national conditions, from topography to land area, and talked about the differences in population, products, climate, and customs, and then talked about the aggression of foreign powers against China since the Opium War, and the destruction of China's social ecology by the warlords formed after the Xinhai Revolution.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Siming talked about Japan's national conditions, also from the topography, land area, population, products, and industrial development level.

Xiao Siming said: It can be seen from the national conditions of the two countries that China is a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country, and Japan is a powerful country with a relatively high level of industrialization. Judging from the comparison of the existing national strength, Japan's national strength is significantly stronger than China's for the time being. It is precisely because of this that the Japanese are eager to destroy China and turn the splendid country into the land of Japan. However, things in the world are changing, that is, the common people say that 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, small Japan is strong at the moment, but after all, their land area is too small, only equivalent to China's Yunnan Province, and they also lack the necessary steel, oil, rubber and other resources for the war. As long as China insists on resisting the War of Resistance and does not surrender, the balance of forces between the two sides will gradually change as Japan's national strength is consumed, and in the end, it is difficult to say which is stronger or weaker. When we defeat Little Japan, complete national reunification, and achieve Phoenix Nirvana, in the future, Little Japan will no longer be an opponent in our eyes. At that time, China will be strong and Japan will be weak!

Although everyone shouted anti-Japanese, the vast majority of people did not know much about Japan, not even their own motherland. Many officers and soldiers do not even know how big China is and how many provinces it has. Let Xiao Siming talk about this is tantamount to teaching Cao the officers and soldiers a lesson. Many people are sighing in their hearts, it turns out that Little Japan is an island country, and the area is only equivalent to China's Yunnan Province!

Xiao Siming said that the reason why Japan dared to invade China in an all-out way is because in the eyes of the Japanese, China is a country that is divided, divided by warlords, and whose people are struggling to make a living. Therefore, the Japanese thought that as long as they invaded China in an all-out way, China's political regime and army would collapse completely, and they would not be able to form effective resistance, and they would surrender in a short time. This is why the Japanese have the arrogant argument of "destroying China in three months".

Xiao Siming said that long before the September 18 Incident, the Japanese army's spies and spies had already gone deep into various parts of China to check the terrain, draw maps, and hand over forces from all sides. If nothing else, take the map as an example, the military map drawn by the Japanese spies is more detailed and reliable than the map of the Nationalist Government. The Eighth Route Army went north to resist the Japanese and arrived in Shanxi, and the headquarters asked Yan Xishan for a military map of Shanxi, but Yan Xishan did not give it, and he could not come up with any reliable maps. As a result, the Eighth Route Army fought the Pingxingguan ambush, the Qiqian Village ambush, and the Guangyang ambush, and captured the Japanese army's military maps, so that the headquarters and the main divisions could be regarded as having detailed and reliable military maps.

When Xiao Siming spoke, he asked Cao Zhendong to set up a blackboard and use chalk to draw some necessary schematic diagrams of the situation between the enemy and the enemy on the blackboard.

For example, when talking about why the Japanese army was able to quickly occupy Shanxi, Xiao Siming drew a schematic diagram of the enemy and us in the Shanxi battlefield at that time, and even the offensive route of the Japanese army, the assembly place of our army's troops, and the location of the blocking position were also drawn, so that these cadres could understand at a glance that the little devil was cunning and ferocious, and when he captured Taiyuan, although the troops were divided into several roads, he had a complete strategic plan, and the troops were divided and cooperated, and they cooperated well.

For example, why was the Japanese army able to take a shortcut to attack Pingxingguan, and stabbed Yan Xishan's attempt to organize a battle relying on the geographical advantages of Yanmen Pass, Xiao Siming said that the main commander of the Japanese army attacking Shanxi was the commander of the Fifth Division, Itagaki Seishiro, who was not only a China expert, but also a classmate of Commander Yan, a year ago, in the name of going to Taiyuan to visit his old classmates, he did not take a train, did not take a car, did not even ride livestock, walked thousands of miles on foot, and thoroughly checked the terrain of northern Shanxi, and only then did he select the weak link of the Chinese army's defense. Take a shortcut to attack the flat level, and succeed in one fell swoop!

Hearing this, the officers and soldiers of Cao Bu all had round eyes, and they looked like they had suddenly realized.

From China to Japan, from the Shanxi battlefield to the current Xuzhou station, from the frontal battlefield to the guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, Xiao Siming didn't even drink saliva, and stood there talking eloquently.

Until the sun went down and the twilight rose, Xiao Siming was still talking.

Xiao Siming said that the Jilu border area is a large plain with no mountains to cover, which is suitable for the movement of the Japanese army's mechanized troops. It was very difficult and cruel to persist in the War of Resistance in the Jilu Border Region. However, no matter how difficult and cruel it is, we have to insist on doing nothing, just because Jilubian is our hometown and cannot be violated by little devils!

If this is left in the Eighth Route Army, I don't know how many times the slogan will have to be shouted. It is a pity that Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong did not know how to do ideological and political work in the Eighth Route Army, and they did not know that shouting slogans was also a good way to guide and boost morale according to the situation, so they could only sit there and listen quietly, and they did not even have a single cadre standing up and leading the troops to shout slogans.

Zhao Huanwen and Shi Zhen brought by Xiao Siming are all very old cadres, but they are all from the underground party, they have never worked in our army, and they also don't know how to lead the troops to shout slogans. Besides, they are all fresh faces, even if they lead the shouting of slogans, the officers and soldiers of the Cao Department may not respond in groups.

Xiao Siming said that there are no mountains in the Great Plains, and we can build mountains. This mountain is a mountain that grows naturally, but a mountain built in the hearts of the common people. In other words, to persist in the War of Resistance against the Hebei and Shandong Borders, the most important issue is to win the support and support of the people, which is often said to be the will of the people. Because without the support of the people, the troops became blind men and horses, duckweed in the water, and had nothing to rely on. Imagine that when the Japanese army attacked, the common people did not give us a message, did not provide us with military rations, and covered our wounded, on the contrary, they hated us, gave the little devils a message, led the way, and led the little devils to beat us.

When talking about this, Xiao Siming said that in the base areas of Ningjin, Leling, Qingyun, Wudi, Yanshan, and other counties, all units of the Eighth Route Army have helped the villagers elect anti-Japanese village chiefs, militia captains, and directors of women's relief associations. Moreover, all units of the Eighth Route Army took advantage of the gap between operations and training to begin to carry out cantonment reclamation, doing their own work, providing sufficient food and clothing, and reducing the burden on the people in the Hebei and Shandong borders. In the future, the Eighth Route Army will also implement rent and interest reductions in the base areas to further reduce the burden on the common people. Not only that, the Eighth Route Army will formulate and implement policies to protect industry and commerce and develop production, solve the problems of people's living difficulties, and provide material support for persisting in the protracted War of Resistance!

The officers and men of the Cao Department originally thought that the purpose of serving as soldiers to eat grain was to distribute grain and money to the common people, but who would have thought that the Eighth Route Army would still engage in land reclamation, protect industry and commerce, and develop production? In particular, Xiao Siming's talk about solving the problem of solving the difficulties of ordinary people's lives is particularly beautiful in the ears of these men on the border of Hebei and Shandong!

It wasn't until the starry sky was sprinkled on Xiao Siming that this speech came to an end!

After Xiao Siming finished speaking, Cao Zhendong sighed and said, "Commander Xiao, I really obeyed you!" (To be continued.) )