As usual, the news of the Beiyang Army quickly reached Chen Ke through the People's Party's intelligence system, and then forwarded to Chai Qingguo at the front. Chai Qingguo felt so excited that it took him a full hour before the meeting to reluctantly calm down.

Not long ago, he annihilated a brigade of Wu Peifu in Linzhang County, and annihilated a brigade of Wu Peifu's light troops. In the battle with Wu Peifu, he repelled and pursued Wu Peifu's troops. In post-war statistics, more than 40,000 people from various Beiyang units were killed. Although Wu Peifu's troops who came out of the field battle were not able to be encircled and annihilated, such a heavy blow could be regarded as making the Beiyang Army suffer a lot. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not pursue and attack Handan, where Wu Peifu was entrenched, and since the opportunity for the war of annihilation had been lost, there was absolutely no need to dwell on what had happened in the past. Rather than having no intention of attacking under the fortified city, it is better not to approach the enemy at all.

Now knowing that the Beiyang Army claims to use a million troops to annihilate itself, this cannot but make Chai Qingguo extremely excited. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army still maintained the initiative in the battle, fighting as much as it wanted, and leaving whenever it wanted. Whether or not to face the battle is not really a choice, you just need to think about how to face it at the moment.

The comrades who received the news at the military meeting were also extremely excited, but most of the excitement was negative. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's troops in Hebei numbered about 300,000 men, of which the 18th Army, which cut off the connection between Handan and Xingtai, was still an engineering unit, and it was not yet the turn of this unit to carry out large-scale field battles. So 200,000 people facing the attack of a million-strong army is not a good thing to be optimistic about.

The information of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army is very detailed, including the strategy proposed by Wu Peifu of Beiyang to encircle Wei and save Zhao. The comrades present here are all graduates of military academies, and Chai Qingguo's grades in the military academy are quite good, and he said with a smile: "It is very clear that it is better to divide the enemy than to divide the enemy, and the enemy yang is not as good as the enemy's yin." It is better to attack a strong enemy force with concentrated forces than to disperse and weaken the strong enemy forces before attacking. Attacking strong parts of the enemy army is not as effective as attacking weak parts of the enemy. That's what the sixteen-character formula says. ”

Everyone has learned these things, but there are still people who have put forward opinions, and this statement can even represent the troubles of most comrades, "The problem is that the enemy is unpredictable, and they will definitely carry out multiple attacks, but what will be the reaction of each of them after being attacked by us?" There is no way to predict correctly now. ”

Chai Qingguo's answer was extremely clichéd, "The enemy is unpredictable, this is inevitable. Therefore, Chairman Chen repeatedly emphasized that if you hit yours, I will beat mine. Isn't the purpose of so much training for this war? Fight our own battles well and accomplish our campaign and tactical objectives, and the enemy will be doomed. ”

After saying this, Chai Qingguo walked to the front of the map, pointed to the battle situation in Hebei and said: "The Beiyang Army definitely hopes that we can besiege Handan, and we can't do it for a long time." In this way, their million-strong army calmly surrounded us and carried out a war of annihilation. It's their way of playing. Our way of playing is that some troops monitor Handan, and the other troops disperse to attack the Beiyang Army troops, just like Sun Wukong got into the belly of the Bull Demon King. ”

"That is the tactics of fighting on the inside line, in Hebei we are fighting on the outside line, and the Beiyang Army is the inside line." Opponents are still unrelenting.

Chai Qingguo knocked on the blackboard with the map hung, "Then we must take the initiative to turn the inner line of Beiyang into the outer line of Beiyang, and turn our outer line into our inner line." As far as the bear in Beiyang is concerned, we don't even have to work hard to run the Hebei region, as long as we can be more accepted by the local people in Hebei than Beiyang. ”

These words made the eyes of the political commissar and some senior members light up, but there were still commanders who couldn't help but ask: "What should I do then?" ”

"What to do? Of course, it is to completely destroy the grassroots of Beiyang in Hebei. Chai Qingguo replied neatly, "All the county officials, all the councillors, security chiefs, and tax collectors, as long as we can crack down, they will all be arrested for him." For the small forces in Beiyang, annihilation was firmly implemented. Strive to make Beiyang blind and deaf in the local area before sending troops on a large scale. Comrades, the discipline of our troops is far above that of Beiyang, and it is possible to destroy the grassroots organizations in Beiyang at the local level, and the whole of Hebei is an internal battle for us. At least we have to be more inside than Beiyang. That's called that ......, what's that word? After Chai Qingguo said it, he suddenly couldn't remember the special noun.

"Do you mean to say, comparative advantage?" Political Commissar Xiong Mingyang replied.

Chai Qingguo nodded again and again, "Yes!" It's a comparative advantage! People have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away! In such a specific competition, we only need to be able to beat Beiyang at the moment! ”

This is no longer a simple military issue, Chai Qingguo pointed out that one of the essential differences between the People's Party and Beiyang is whether it stands with the people or stands above the people, and the difference between the two can be said to be very different.

Speaking of which, the senior commanders have nothing to say. Even though there were still many difficulties in the war, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army had its own absolute confidence in uniting the masses.

"This will be followed by high-intensity continuous battles, and whichever unit feels that it needs to rest now, it will be raised. I can put these troops in charge of monitoring Handan. However, after a period of recuperation, these troops will certainly replace the troops of the previous large-scale movement warfare on the front line. So everyone be mentally prepared, the further you go, the harder it will be! Chai Qingguo gave his prediction, "Of course, it's one thing whether the million-strong army of Beiyang can be successfully launched." ”

Chai Qingguo's prediction sparked a burst of applause laughter.

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After the goal of the battle was determined to be the elimination of the local grassroots forces in Beiyang, the troops were quickly assigned thick documents. Tens of thousands of pieces of information were quickly sent to the troops, ...... the names and locations of each county, the location of the government offices, the lives of the members of the government organizations, their physical characteristics, their family composition, the situation of the local councilors, and the situation of the security chiefs. The aim of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was to first destroy the small groups of Beiyang Army in various places, and then to arrest them for the time being.

After the goal was clear, the Hebei units of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army were immediately dispatched. Starting from the liberated Linzhang County and the besieged Handan locality, a detailed sweep officially began. Among the many troops, the first to open was the cavalry brigade of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and the brigade commander Pang Zi did not walk at the forefront of the team as usual, but honestly commanded the entire march in the ranks. Although the target was his hometown of Nangong County, Pang Zi did not show his previous impetuous appearance.

It's not that Pang Zi was secretly reprimanded by Chai Qingguo, in the process of studying in the cadre school, all comrades who can't really know each other will face the possibility of "indefinite transformation". The means of transformation is to concentrate labor. The more desperately they show that they have realized their mistakes and are desperately reforming comrades, the less likely they are to pass the audit.

Ideological transformation is quite scary to say, but it is also easy to implement. There is only one core indicator: all comrades who believe that the revolution "has an end" and that "as long as they reach a certain height in life, they can sit in this position and give orders" can ask to withdraw if they cannot stand such labor reform and ideological brainwashing. Otherwise, they will have to undergo constant labor reform.