Han Yunhua also deeply agreed with Guo Weidong's words, and Han Yunhua was aware of this thorny problem at the very beginning of the expansion of the troops, and when the troops were small, he could narrow the gap in the quality of personnel by equipping the troops with more automatic firepower. And then train elite soldiers through continuous battles and combat substitute training. But now there are no less than 100,000 troops under his command, and the problem can no longer be solved by equipping the number of automatic firepower. On the one hand, there is not so much automatic firepower, and on the other hand, the Inner Mongolia Military Region is now very short of ammunition, and increasing automatic firepower will undoubtedly put tremendous pressure on the logistics department, which is obviously unrealistic. But now that the war is imminent, Han Yunhua cannot completely solve this kind of problem, let alone attack the active surname of the troops.

Therefore, Han Yunhua smiled and said: "It is not enough to say that it is a soft-footed behemoth, we have grown from 400 people to 110,000 now, and the speed is a bit fast, so the personnel training and weapons and equipment cannot keep up with the rapid expansion of the troops, thus creating such a group of troops with unsatisfactory combat effectiveness." But we still have a lot of elite infantry regiments, thinking that when we had 1,800 people, we dared to encircle and annihilate more than 3,000 people of the Fifth Division, and when we were more than 10,000 people, we dared to fight against the four wings of the devils, and we now have nearly 70,000 elite troops, are we not as good as before? What if the weapons and equipment are poor, no matter how bad they are, can they be worse than the comrades on Taihang Mountain, do you know how many bullets each of them carry each time they fight? Five shots! And what about our fighters? Before each major battle, our soldiers received 120 rounds of ammunition, which was 24 times that of our comrades in the Taihang Mountain area. Speaking of heavy weapons, the 120th Division's more than 30,000 people were only equipped with more than 50 light and heavy machine guns, and the mortars were only a few old and tattered. But they still beat the devil to cry dad and mother, and they tripled in size in five months. And even the worst regiments are much better equipped than those brothers of the 120th Division, who dares to say that they can't beat those little devils. Comrades, I said a long time ago that wars are not fought with weapons and equipment. The quality of weapons and equipment certainly plays an important role in winning or losing a battle, but it is not the decisive factor. The decisive factor in determining the outcome of a war is people, and there are only people who do not know how to use weapons, and there are no weapons that cannot win a war. ”

Then Han Yunhua said: "The army has used such a vicious trick against us this time, we must not sit idly by, friends have come to drink friendly, but jackals have only shotguns." Comrades, I believe that when those victims arrive at the base area, the devils will definitely launch a larger-scale attack on our base area. Therefore, during this period, we must strengthen our vigilance, and at the same time, we must also do a good job of hoarding food and ammunition. Lao Guo: How many weapons and ammunition do we have now, and how long can we fight a vicious battle with devils? ”

Guo Weidong said skillfully: "The ammunition reserves are not bad, after a month and a half of hoarding, our military region's warehouses now have more than 22 million rounds of various bullets and nearly 20,000 shells. However, the field heavy artillery had less than 1,000 shells, which simply could not meet the operational needs of the field heavy artillery regiment. There is also a shortage of 7.7 mm Arisaka (sub) shells used by heavy machine guns, and there is also a certain gap in hand grenades. If we engage in a large-scale battle to the death with the devils, our army will suffer heavy casualties. ”

Han Yunhua said with a smile: "What Lao Guo said is a bit serious, I think we are fully capable now, and it is necessary to fight a big battle with the devil." I don't think we need to worry about the problem of ammunition at all in our military region, and you rarely go to the troops, and you don't know much about the specific situation of the troops below. A few days ago, I went to the headquarters of the 77th Brigade and the 2nd Assault Brigade, which had returned from the front line to recuperate, and I saw that the soldiers of these two brigades had a full cartridge belt in their respective armies. I asked, and each fighter of the 77th Brigade of Reading carried 180 rounds of ammunition, while the 2nd Assault Brigade had less, but each fighter also had 120 rounds. That is to say, the ammunition carried by the soldiers alone is enough for the troops to fight for more than three days, so it is only the headquarters of our military region that is poor now, and all the brigades and regiments below are very rich. ”

Yang Ruihua also smiled and said: "This is not learned from you, the commander of the military region, you look at the situation of several other units of our Eighth Route Army now, that is not a belt of trousers, from weapons and ammunition to food and medicine, which is not tight." It's like our military region, minus and minus each soldier has to consume more than a pound of coarse and fine grain every day, this is a typical Lao Tzu is blessed by his hungry son, and the troops below are all affected by you as a commander, don't you say? ”

Guo Weidong and the others were amused by Yang Ruihua's words, and there was a burst of laughter in the conference room. Han Yunhua thought about it, although the Inner Mongolia Military Region did not hand over anything to the headquarters, but 90% of the captured was equipped by him with troops, especially the in-demand goods such as radio stations and sniper rifles, and none of them were handed over to the headquarters. Not long ago, Han Yunhua heard that the radio station of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was only equipped at the division and brigade level, and all regiments and battalions below the brigade level used telephone or manpower communication to communicate with each other. Radios like the Inner Mongolia Military Region are equipped to the regimental level, and some special departments are even equipped to the company and battalion level, which is the only scorpion in the Eighth Route Army and even in the entire Chinese army.

Han Yunhua also smiled, and then said, "What Lao Yang said also makes sense, but now that the situation is like this, we don't have anything extra to support the headquarters." I was going to transfer the newly formed seven regiments and ten to the command of the headquarters. But now it seems that there is little hope, if we can successfully break the devil's attack this time and our own losses are not large, I will definitely transfer some elite troops to the command of the headquarters, after all, we are also part of the Eighth Route Army. ”

Han Yunhua's proposal was highly endorsed by several other leaders, and although the current situation is critical, if the Inner Mongolia Military Region continues to develop in this way, it will one day arouse the dissatisfaction of others. After all, neither the Party Central Committee nor the Eighth Route Army Headquarters would allow an armed force with a total strength exceeding all the units of the Eighth Route Army to appear, which would seriously conflict with the spirit of the Party Central Committee's leadership gun.

Han Yunhua continued: "Lao Guo, you roughly estimate, if we want to maintain the millions of victims and the existing soldiers and civilians in the base area for four months, how much food is needed, how big is the gap now? ”

Guo Weidong thought about it and took out a pen and paper and calculated for a while, and only after making sure that it was correct did he speak: "I have roughly calculated, if we calculate according to the current food standard of our troops, our troops will need more than 14 million catties of grain in four months, and if we add the 1.4 million people in the base areas, we will consume about 150 million catties of grain in four months. Our stocks and the grain of the people in the base areas can basically be satisfied. However, if you add the millions of victims, the gap is much bigger, and it is estimated that the gap will be about 70 million catties, which is not at all what we can afford now. ”

Han Yunhua sighed and said helplessly: "What can you do if you can't afford it, the devil is determined to bring disaster to the east, but we can't help it." Besides, those victims are also our fathers and fellow villagers, and seeing them displaced, hungry and cold, we can't bear it. Every day, our fighters sing that they are the armed forces of the people and that they are the people's soldiers who fight for the people as masters of their own affairs. Now that the people are in trouble, we are standing idly by, which makes our soldiers think in their hearts. The shortage of 70 million catties is indeed large, but it does not require us to take out so much grain at once, as long as we can get millions of catties every month, the problem can also be solved. Moreover, now the base area is vast and sparsely populated, there is no one in many places for dozens of miles, and many wastelands have not been effectively developed, and have become a paradise for wild wolves and foxes and rabbits. ”

Yang Ruihua and the others were once again stunned by Han Yunhua's arrogance, but after this period of training, they also have a certain degree of immunity, not as out of shape as when they first heard Han Yunhua's whimsical decision, but the subconscious behavior of opening his mouth wide is still inevitable, especially Guo Weidong, an old revolutionary, even drooled out, and his appearance was extremely funny, but now no one cares about Guo Weidong's gaffe.

Han Yunhua then explained: "Comrades, the arrow has to be fired, the devil's bayonet has already hit the door of my Han Yunhua's head, I can't turn around and run away, let alone give up resistance, that will only make us die faster and more completely." We have to resist, we have to hit the enemy hard with the guns in our hands, and let them know that rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry. What's more, opportunities and challenges coexist, we have to meet the challenges if we want to seize the opportunity, although the devil makes us very passive this time, but this is not a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? Think about it, after the number of people in our base areas has increased by tens of millions, will there still be a shortage of soldiers and food and salaries in the future? ”

Indeed, if the Inner Mongolia Military Region can hold on this time, then the Military Region will definitely become the most combat-effective group of the Eighth Route Army in a short period of time, and the food and salary required by the troops can also be raised on the spot in the future, which is indeed a good opportunity for development and growth.