At this time, Liu Yimin was considering the issue of whether the 21st Division should be eliminated now.

When Wang Tongsheng sent back the telegram, Liu Yimin was considering whether to concentrate the main force of the whole division, gather and annihilate the main force of the enemy's 21st Division, contain the sweeping troops of the Chinese army, disrupt the enemy's battle plan, force him to return to the line of communication, and create conditions for our army to break through the encirclement in central Hebei.

Liu Yimin really didn't want to do it at this time, because this was not the best time to kill with one blow, and the army had not yet attacked Zhongtiao Mountain in Shanxi, nor had it launched the Battle of Taierzhuang. At this time, the main force of the devil may turn around and besiege the instructor.

However, Liu Yimin knew that the devils had already begun a sweep, and the North China Plain would soon be full of blood, and how many [***] people, how many anti-Japanese soldiers, and how many ordinary people would die tragically under the iron hooves of the enemy. This is something that Liu Yimin absolutely does not want to see. After all, he is from the 21st century, and he has heavy and elite soldiers, and he is unwilling, impossible, and unable to sit back and watch the army wield butcher knives, kill people and set fires.

It should be said that although Liu Yimin estimated that the Shouyi in the temple would carry out a heavy sweep in Jizhong, and had also ordered the staff office to start formulating a combat plan for the enemy to advance and fight with the enemy in Jizhong, Liu Yimin was still extremely surprised in his heart when the incident really happened.

According to the original historical trend, at this time, the North China Front Army was stabilizing the occupied areas in Shanxi and actively sweeping the base areas, and often a large group of troops dared to rampage through the base areas; On the other hand, they are actively preparing to launch the Battle of Xuzhou. As for the central Hebei region, it has not yet attracted the attention of the Yue army at this time, and it will be a few months before the Yue army will launch a three-way siege on the central Ji region. However, it is said that it is a three-way siege, and there are many troop numbers, but it is a brigade here and a brigade there, and it is good to have a complete wing. It was said that the army really carried out a heavy siege of central Hebei, southern Hebei, and western Hebei, which was a May Day sweep. However, during the May Day Sweep, although central and southern Hebei suffered heavy losses, the troops had already risen in combat effectiveness after regularization and war training, not to mention cohesion. Because of this, the main force of the Jizhong Military Region was able to jump out of the enemy's encirclement.

The current situation is different, the Jizhong base area was newly established, the Hebei guerrilla army and the people's self-defense army have not been unified and reorganized, let alone run-in and regularized training, and it is difficult to say whether half of these troops can break through the encirclement and suppression of the devils. Perhaps those troops of our army and the Lianzhuang and [***] miscellaneous local troops will not be able to withstand the pressure of the army, and will turn into a puppet army, turning the heroic Jizhong into a Jizhong controlled by enemy and puppet forces that are full of Han annihilation. The consequences, while brutal, are also predictable.

Liu Yimin had to sigh that there are two faces to everything, and the attack on and occupation of Tianjin was certainly a great victory, but there were also many negative factors, as evidenced by the fact that the army concentrated such a huge force in North China. If it is not handled well, it will affect the normal development of the base areas behind enemy lines.

It just so happened that the 21st Division was alone again, daring to sweep along the west bank of the canal, the old city, and the Wucheng alone.

Of course, it doesn't matter if the 21st Division is fought, what I am afraid of is that the main force of the Yue Army will be transferred back to Shandong, the Pinghan Line, and even Shanxi, and the heavy troops will encircle and suppress the instructors, and then the gains will outweigh the losses. It is not very easy for the Shanxi army to make a callback, and with the main force of the Eighth Route Army, they will think of dragging them for a while. The callback of the Shandong army and the Pinghan line army will be very fast, because there are no large troops in Shandong, and small fights and small troubles will not stop the devils. The same is true for the Pinghan Line [***], not to mention letting them take the initiative to entangle the Yue army, even if Chiang Kai-shek gives a death order to let them block it, it may not be effective.

We had to think of a way to not only eliminate the 21st Division and support the troops in Jizhong, but also to attract the attention of the army to other places.

Liu Yimin thought of several plans, such as reoccupying Tianjin or attacking Beiping after eliminating the main force of the 21st Division. The army poured out of the nest to encircle Jizhong, Beiping and Tianjin must be an empty city, but at this time, the road is full of troops, and high alert, small troops are still possible, and it is impossible for troops to arrive in Tianjin and Beiping without being discovered by the army, and the situation reported by Luo Yan has confirmed this. You must know that the army is not a fool, from another point of view, the cultural literacy of the army is much higher than that of the Chinese [***] team, what we can think of, they may not be unexpected. It is very likely that Terauchi Shouichi is now looking forward to the instructor showing his head to attack a certain point, as long as the instructor shows his head, the army can immediately concentrate heavy troops to encircle and suppress, once the two armies face each other, and then want to retreat calmly, I am afraid it will be really difficult.

After thinking about it, I felt that there was no better way, and I wanted to destroy the devils, and I was afraid of being surrounded by the devil's heavy army group, there was no such good thing in the world.

At this time, Liu Yimin was a little hopeful that the Shandong army would go south to attack Xuzhou as soon as possible, and the Shanxi army would go south to attack Jinnan and Zhongtiao Mountain as soon as possible, because the main forces of these two places should be resolutely defended, and once the two sides exchanged fire, they would have eliminated the 21st Division, and it was estimated that it would be impossible for the army to draw troops back for reinforcement in a short time.

Time, now the key is time, if only we could lead the nose of the 21st Division around the Yunxi area, and turn around for three or five days. It is estimated that at this time, the troops of the army going south along the Jinpu line may be connected with the main force of [***], and the Shanxi army may also be divided and swept away.

However, in this way, the pressure on the sniper brigade will be greater. That's a devil of a division, although the sniper team is strong, but there are more ants that can bite the elephant to death, at the beginning of the guerrilla disturbance is naturally possible, and when the devil ruthlessly solves the sniper team, the net is stretched wide, and the sniper team is dangerous. Liu Yimin will never do it to exchange the sniper brigade for a division and regiment, don't say that it is a sniper trained by himself for three years, that is, they are the old soldiers of the old 18th regiment, and Liu Yimin absolutely does not want them to have any mistakes!

Thinking of this, Liu Yimin no longer hesitated, and was determined to eliminate the 21st Division, and then reinforce Jizhong according to the original battle plan, tear up the Deshi Line and Cangshi Road, first stabilize the situation in Jizhong, and beat the devils back to the Pinghan Line, Jinpu Line and Pingjin area to hold on. After that, the main force turned around and headed south and entered Shandong.

After making up his mind, Liu Yimin immediately sent a report and reported his determination to the chairman and the headquarters.

The chairman replied that the present is the time when the enemy's front is at its peak, and it is best to avoid a head-on confrontation with the enemy. If the main force of the 21st Division is annihilated, the enemy will inevitably be alert and will inevitably judge that this is a teacher who cannot be found. Because under the current circumstances, if you can wipe out a division of the army in one battle, you can only teach instructors when you look at the whole of China. It is very likely that the army will immediately stop sweeping Jizhong, stick to the Deshi Line, Cangshi Road, Jinpu Road, and Pinghan Line with heavy troops, and then mobilize the Shandong side, the Pinghan Line, and even the Shanxi side to besiege the instructor. If the instructor wants to go south to Shandong, I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve, and it may even be wiped out by the enemy in the plain area, and I am afraid that Jizhong, southern Hebei, and Luxi will all have to be lost at that time. You must know that the reason why the army mobilized such a large number of troops to North China this time was to eliminate the instructor. Don't fall for the enemy's tricks on the spur of the moment. Especially now that the army has become vigilant, marching and fighting during the day and camping at night. If our army wants to destroy the 21st Division, the enemy will inevitably hold on to its position and wait for reinforcements. If the enemy cannot be destroyed overnight, the troops will be exposed, and they will inevitably be attacked by the enemy's air power during the day. Judging from the air raids on Xi'an, the strength of the army's air force is still strong, and hundreds of planes are often dispatched to bomb it, and our army lacks air defense weapons, so it is very difficult to deal with it. Therefore, at present, it is necessary to send more small units to disguise the forces of local forces to attack from all directions, attack and harass the Jinpu line and the Pinghan line, force the enemy to disperse his forces, and urge him to return to defense, so that he will not be able to complete the task of sweeping up.

On the issue of reinforcing central Hebei, the chairman held that our army in central Hebei belongs to the initial period, and its cohesion and combat effectiveness cannot be overestimated. He asked the instructor to send a department to adopt the method of sneak attack and tear a hole in the Deshi Line and Cangshi Road, so that the troops in central Hebei could smoothly break through the encirclement and go to southern Hebei for rest and training. After the sweep of the main force of the army is over, the troops in central Hebei have also completed their initial training and can return to central Hebei. The chairman requested that Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan, and Nie reorganize and train the central Hebei troops and guide the work of the central Hebei troops for the time being. Once the central Hebei side contacts Liu Yimin, he should be ordered to quickly break through to southern Hebei. When the troops in central Hebei broke through the encirclement, the army swept into the air, and prepared to defend at different points, the instructor sent a number of small elite troops into central Hebei to carry out guerrilla warfare under the guise of the central Hebei troops, deal a heavy blow to the enemy, and force the enemy to return to defense. However, it should be noted that when fighting, it is necessary to fight as many small battles as possible, that is, to fight more battles, to fight small battles, to annihilate the enemy in small squadrons and squadrons as much as possible, to accumulate small victories into big victories, and not to destroy the devil's brigade and units above the wing level at every turn, so that the enemy can easily judge the accurate location and intention of the instructor. In this way, it can not only ensure that Jizhong is not lost, but also conceal the strategic intentions of the instructor. After the enemy's sweep is over, the troops in Jizhong that have completed their initial training can be ordered to return to Jizhong to persist in the struggle, and the small troops in Jizhong can be reinforced.

As for when is the best time to destroy the 21st Division or other brigades and regiments above the regimental level, it depends on when the army will attack Xuzhou or Jinnan. If the army does not attack, I will teach the main force of the instructor to rest in concealment; As soon as the army attacked, the main force of our army was immediately dispatched. or Jinan, or Shijiazhuang, or Dexian, or Cangxian, the instructor will determine the direction of attack. Of course, if the enemy's 21st Division continues to advance toward the hinterland of our base area, and the conditions are ripe for annihilating the enemy, it can also be considered to destroy it. But it must be done quickly. After the war, troops were sent to fight in Shandong, trying to hide the main position of the instructor.

The temporary loss of the central Hebei region is not terrible, and when the army and the main force of [***] fight to a certain time, it will inevitably send troops to reinforce separately, and then our army can continue to occupy central Hebei.

At the end of the telegram, the chairman pointed out that the current task of the instructor is to establish a consolidated base area in southern Hebei and western Luxi and develop it to Shandong. In addition to leaving a certain amount of the main force to prepare for a war of movement, it is necessary to seize the opportunity of the large-scale sweep of the Yue Kou and send more troops to various parts of Shandong to open up base areas. It is necessary to make the Yue army feel that the Eighth Route Army is active everywhere, and it has to divide troops to defend everywhere, so that the Yue army can really divide its troops and lengthen the battle line.

At the end of the chairman's telegram, the chairman once again solemnly exhorted Liu Yimin that the war of resistance against Japanese aggression is by no means an overnight thing, and that we cannot always focus on the war of movement and annihilation, and that it is necessary to divide the troops to mobilize the masses and increase the strength, and that the battle of the large corps depends on the timing. At present, the more ruthless the instructor fights, the greater the extent of the army's increase in troops to China, and the higher the probability that the army will be able to focus on the Eighth Route Army's concentrated encirclement and suppression. As a high-ranking cadre, he must not only have outstanding military and economic talents, but also outstanding political talents.

Commander-in-Chief Zhu's telegram then arrived. In the telegram, Commander-in-Chief Zhu informed that the army had begun to concentrate its forces to besiege Xinkou, and that it wanted to open up the Tongpu Railway. Comrade Peng Dehuai has rushed to the 115th Division, and our army will adopt the tactics of small units to resist step by step and the main force to wait for the enemy to be in hiding. This time, it was said that the spearhead of the attack was directed at our army, which was really unexpected. It seems that the heroic Eighth Route Army has played its own prestige. As for the issue of eliminating the 21st Division, Mr. Zhu believes that the time is not ripe now, and good steel should be used on the blade, and when the battle situation is in crisis, the main force of the instructor will strike again, and it will play a role in saving the crisis in World War I and breaking the enemy's strategic deployment. Now it is time to allow troops to move into enemy theaters, to lead the battle to enemy-occupied areas, and to force the enemy to return to defense.

After reading the telegram from the two leaders, although Liu Yimin was a little unhappy because he could not immediately eliminate the 21st Division, he also had to admit that the chairman and the boss's idea was correct, and it was also consistent with his original thinking, and he also gave a solution to his worries.

Now is indeed a good time to enter Shandong to create a base area, although the army is gathered and swept around, but such a large Shandong, how can the army occupy it? On the contrary, he could take advantage of the opportunity of the army to drive away the remnants of the Kuomintang in Shandong, quickly march into Shandong, establish political power, and mobilize the masses.

After exchanging views with Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, and Zeng Zhongsheng, Liu Yimin ordered the Special Operations Brigade to cooperate with the Fourth Brigade to take on the task of reinforcing Jizhong, and the Special Operations Brigade returned to the division headquarters to stand by after completing the task of opening up the passage of the Deshi Line and Cangshi Road. After the Fourth Brigade covered the breakthrough of the Jizhong troops, it organized a number of small units to enter the Jizhong to carry out guerrilla warfare, and the main force was placed in concealment between Jixian and Xinhe. In order to strengthen the leadership of the Fourth Brigade, Wang Nanhu, chief of staff of the Third Brigade, was appointed as the political commissar of the Fourth Brigade. The Fourth Brigade was ordered to immediately concentrate on Nangong, and Lei Ming and Wang Nanhu went to the division headquarters to accept the task.

After that, Liu Yimin ordered one battalion to be drawn from the 1st Brigade, the 2nd Brigade, and the 3rd Brigade, one company from each of the Cavalry Brigade, the Artillery Brigade, the Engineer Regiment, the Heavy Machine Gun Regiment, and the Baggage Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion and a Supplementary Battalion from the Guard Regiment to form the First Advance Detachment of the Eastward Advance, with Zhang Haitao, commander of the guard regiment, as commander, and Zhang Zili, political commissar of the 6th Regiment, as the political commissar, to go to the mountainous areas of central and southern Shandong to establish a base area in central and southern Shandong. The head of the guard regiment was succeeded by Li Chengyi.

The 5th, 6th, and 8th Brigades were ordered to quickly mobilize and prepare to enter Shandong to establish a base area. Among them, the 5th Brigade was taught to establish the Lunan Base Area, the 6th Brigade was taught to establish the Southwest Lunan Base Area, and the 8th Brigade was taught to establish the Lubei Base Area. The troops entered Shandong and completed their preparations within three days, and entered Shandong by separate routes and covertly. The first advance detachment is called the first guerrilla detachment of central and southern Shandong, the fifth brigade is called the guerrilla column of southern Lunan, the sixth brigade is called the anti-guerrilla column of southwestern Lu, and the eighth brigade is called the guerrilla column of northern Lubei.

After issuing the order to march into Shandong, Liu Yimin sent a telegram ordering Wang Tongsheng to lead the sniper brigade to immediately break away from contact with the enemy, advance to Dexian County in accordance with the battle plan, and launch sniper guerrilla warfare in Dexian County, ensuring that the enemy could not catch it. ordered the cavalry battalion of the 7th Brigade to camouflage the local cavalry to attack and harass the Pinghan line, and to concentrate the three main regiments of the 7th Brigade to be ready to reinforce the 4th Brigade at any time; The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Brigades were ordered to send cavalry battalions, put on local armed uniforms, and cross the Jinpu line to carry out raids and harassment battles, attracting the 21st Division to return to defense, and ordered Hu Laohu to send the 1st Cavalry Regiment to the Yunxi area of Wucheng County to carry out raids and harassment battles, so that the 21st Division was exhausted. The main forces of the 1st Brigade, the 2nd Brigade, the 3rd Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, and the Artillery Brigade, which had been withdrawn across the canal for concealment and recuperation, were ordered to operate overnight, and to rush to the front line of the military attache village before dawn to be on covert and stand by. If the 21st Division returns to defense, it will be temporarily released; If the devil keeps moving south, advancing to the hinterland of the southern Hebei and Luxi base areas, he will destroy it in the area of Wuguanzhai and Raoyangdian, and at least cripple it.

It was already evening when Lei Ming and Wang Nanhu arrived at the division headquarters, and Liu Yimin told them that this time to meet the breakthrough of the troops in Jizhong, it was necessary to fight a skillful battle, give more play to the role of the special operations brigade, and teach the Fourth Brigade to be mainly responsible for storming and blocking the enemy's reinforcements, and the breakthrough point should be selected between Xinji and Jinxian, where the Deshi line and the Cangshi road are separated by a narrow distance, which is convenient for the troops to move. We must secretly tear open our mouths, so that the enemy cannot be aware that it is our instructor troops who are responding to the troops in Jizhong.

After explaining the task, Liu Yimin asked Lei Ming and Wang Nanhu to join Li Lingfeng, and marched in the direction of Xinji overnight.

After Lei Ming and Wang Nanhu left, Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan led the first battalion of guards and the engineer regiment to Raoyangdian, leaving Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong to stay in Nangong to command. On the way, Liu Yimin received a telegram from Jizhong, and he immediately called back, telling Lu Ben, Lu Zhengying, and Meng Qingshan how to contact the Fourth Brigade, and asking them to organize the main force to break through between Jinxian and Xinji, and inform the commander of the Fourth Brigade of Lei Ming of the breakthrough route, so that the troops could respond. At the same time, Liu Yimin asked the Jizhong troops to leave behind comrades who were very familiar with Jizhong to respond to and cooperate with the small units of the Fourth Brigade to carry out guerrilla warfare.

At this time, Lieutenant General Washizu Songpei has been disturbed by the sniper brigade and is about to go crazy!

(To be continued)