The big war was imminent, and Han Yunhua knew that it was necessary to hold a pre-war meeting, especially since almost all the officers of the 1st Shandong Advance Brigade were promoted from the line of fire. Although the abilities of these officers are not bad, especially Wang Zhifu and Ju Fei are the elite among the officers. But these people have a weakness, and that is youth. Just like the officer corps of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, most of the officers of the First Brigade of Shandong's advance are also "new recruits" who have been in the army for less than five years, and these people are absolutely no problem as lower-level officers, but if they are now asked to command a brigade, or even a brigade, it is simply nonsense. This is also the biggest reason why Han Yunhua, the dignified commander of the military region, is still tenacious as a bullshit brigade commander, not because Han Yunhua is holding on to power, but because the current form is like this.

"Commander, our biggest enemy now is those little devils, and as for those two devils, they are all a group of local chickens and dogs, and there is no threat at all. So I suggest that this time the main direction of our brigade should be on the devils in Yanggu County or the surrounding cities and counties of Yanggu County, as for those two devils and puppet army, we can catch them, and if we can't catch them, we will leave them to fend for themselves, right? Wang Zhifu, the head of the first regiment, said loudly.

Wang Zhifu is a native of Beiping, participated in the Chinese [***] in Beiping in 33 years, and was transferred to the deputy secretary of the local party committee in Shanxi by the party organization in 35 years because of his outstanding work. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was transferred to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to serve as the secretary of the Wei County Party Committee and the leader of the Wei County Guerrilla Army. Then he was transferred to the Inner Mongolia Military Region to work, at the beginning Han Yunhua arranged him to Xinghe County as the county magistrate, in the more than a year as the magistrate of Xinghe County, Wang Zhifu assisted Han Yunqian to train the five or six hundred remnants of Xinghe County into a real elite of a hundred battles, so he was appreciated by Han Yunhua. This time he went south to Shandong, because most of the senior officers of the Inner Mongolia Military Region were recorded in the files of the little devil Tegaoke, it was easy to expose the purpose of Han Yunhua's operation, so Han Yunhua went south this time, except for Jiang Yunshan and Tong Jiayong, other fierce generals who often led troops to fight abroad were left in the Inner Mongolia Military Region by Han Yunhua. On the contrary, young military and political officials like Wang Zhifu and Ju Fei became the generals on whom Han Yunhua depended, and were transferred to the army to follow him south.

Some time ago, the army was expanded, and Han Yunhua also saw that Wang Zhifu, Jufei and others were relatively strong, so he promoted them to the first batch of middle and senior officers of the Shandong Eighth Route Army.

Ju Fei said with some dissatisfaction: "Old Wang, don't make trouble here. Although our troops have more than 6,000 people, we have no idea how much actual combat strength there is, and I don't know how many people we will be left behind after this great war. Therefore, I believe that in order to preserve our strength and better implement the policies of the Party Central Committee, I believe that in this major war, we should focus the main forces on the rural strongholds where the ruling power of the army and the strength of the army are relatively weak. Although the number of the army in the countryside is not large, and the combat effectiveness is relatively poor. But it is precisely because they are weak and we are strong that we will regard it as the main target of this war, after all, persimmons still have to be pinched softly. ”

"Hehehe!" Han Yunhua also laughed, and then said, "Okay, seeing that what you said makes sense, I'll give you an analysis." But this time we will not only pinch the soft persimmons, but also pick the remaining big fruits. You see, this is the map of Yanggu County, you look at how many counties and cities are around Yanggu County, any county and city has tens of thousands of people, we have just come to Shandong, although we already have five or six thousand troops in our hands, it can be regarded as a strong soldier and a strong horse, and the achievements are remarkable. However, the weakness of our lack of people has not been solved, and it will become more and more intense with our development. Fighting a war is to kill people, and it is not only the eggs of new recruits who die, but also some old fritters and combat backbones in the army. Although in terms of China's current national conditions, the absence of a combat unit with more than 40 percent casualties indicates that this force has completely lost its combat effectiveness. The loss of the backbone of the fighting in the east is of course a huge loss of the combat effectiveness of the troops, but even if more than half of the military cadres are killed, then it cannot be said that the unit is scrapped. If this criterion is used to measure the armies of European countries during the same period, it still makes sense, because in Europe during the same period, most of the [***] units have achieved military modernization and mechanization. Mechanized troops not only refer to the large machinery of the troops, but also mechanize mechanization, which means that the mobility of a unit has been greatly improved, and it can launch a powerful surprise offensive against the enemy in a short period of time. Purely in terms of combat effectiveness, a complete field division of the little devil is not necessarily the firepower of an infantry brigade in a large European country. However, there is also a fatal weakness of mechanized troops, that is, their consumption is particularly large, and perhaps a mechanized infantry regiment needs two regiments of ordinary infantry battalions or even more logistics troops to maintain its consumption, so it has also caused a serious phenomenon. If the combat units fighting in the front have suffered more than 40 percent casualties, we can almost judge and come to the conclusion that the combat units of this army are almost exhausted, and only a large number of logistics personnel remain. Compared with the combat units with strong combat effectiveness, the combat effectiveness and fighting will of the logistics units are much weaker, which is why once the troops have suffered 40 percent casualties, a large number of troops will surrender to the enemy. But our eastern countries are different, the gap between us and the army is still very large, but it has not yet reached the point where we can't catch up, at most they use the Type 92 heavy machine gun, we use the official imitation of the Czech style, or they have enough ammunition and our ammunition is stretched, especially compared to the island country like Shangben, which lacks resources, hand-to-hand combat has almost become an important tactic on the battlefield, so it also leads to our troops will fight a decisive battle with the army even if there is a little chance. Because of this, the death toll in each of our battles is very large, and even if a regiment goes up and wins the battle, there will always be a large number of soldiers who remain on the battlefield forever, so we are short of people. Speaking of this, Han Yunhua got up and calmed down, and continued: "Shandong is a large and densely populated province, far from being comparable to the barren Saibei Plateau. Therefore, whether it is the devil or the national political axe, or we [***] attach great importance to the land of Shandong, so our task in Shandong is extremely arduous, and it is not easy to gain a firm foothold in Shandong and open up the situation. Now we have made certain achievements due to fate, but if we want to be truly recognized by the people of Shandong, we can't just hide and hide all the time, so we will take advantage of this chaotic situation to hang out the golden signboard of the Eighth Route Army as soon as possible, so that all the people of Shandong will know that we [***] The Eighth Route Army has fought back, so that they can identify with us from the bottom of their hearts. Therefore, I think that the main purpose of our war is to uproot the stronghold and absorb the puppet army, and the second is to get in touch with the Huyan family, and it is best to reach a verbal agreement with them. ”

"Commander, what exactly are we going to do?" Wei Peng said.

"We are still very weak now, although we have more than 6,000 people now, but the vast majority of the warriors are brave and reckless, so we are now a big fat man, who looks quite strong, but in fact it will fall apart if we take a few more steps. Coupled with the fact that our weapons and ammunition are limited, only a part of our troops are fully equipped, and more than half of the remaining fighters are unarmed. Therefore, we have to make ourselves really strong, or the old way, to play as a substitute. Although the little devil is not our whetstone, as long as the Huyan family fights with the little devil, then more than a dozen large and small strongholds around Yanggu County will become the turtle in our urn, and if we attack the devil's stronghold at that time, I guarantee that the little devil will not have the energy to take care of us. Now I will assign a combat mission, and in this operation, the whole army will bring all the baggage and ammunition, and the whole army will take the battalion as a unit, and one infantry battalion will take the infantry battalion without weapons to move together, and the target will be the major stronghold checkpoints in Yanggu County and Dong'e, Pingyin, and other counties and cities. This time, each of you will bring a troop, and I will act with the guard team myself. You go down and assign your own strongholds, and each force must take five strongholds in a week, and equip me with all the unarmed infantry battalions. Did you hear it all? Han Yunhua said loudly.

"It's clear!!"

"Let's act!"

Now the garrison commander of Yanggu County, Apeiichiro Shaozuo, and the captain of the 42nd Infantry Brigade who came to support, Yamada Shaozuo, also felt that something was wrong. Especially these days, there is no longer half a person on the street except for beggars begging for food, and most of the shops and restaurants are strangely closed. Even the second-rate little hooligans who used to wander around the streets without anything did not know where to hide, and the scene was very strange.

(To be continued)