After nearly a week of preparation, the entire Jinyi base area can be said to have made sufficient pre-battle preparations and is waiting for the army to come to their deaths.

At this time, General Terauchi Shouichi, the supreme commander of the Yue Army, who was deep in the North China Headquarters in Beiping, integrated his chief of staff and chatted about the encirclement and suppression operations that were about to be carried out. Unaware that his sweeping plan had been detected by the Reader's intelligence officers, he was waiting for his order to march into the army.

"Your Excellency Chief of Staff, is there any certainty that our plan for attacking this time will be victorious, you must know that after the first two defeats, His Majesty the Emperor is very concerned about this battle..."General Terauchi Shouichi asked as he looked at the chief of staff who was sitting in front of him.

"Your Excellency General, this tactic was proposed by our General Staff after studying the previous battles of the Eighth Route Army's Reading Division. In the original battle, the reason why the excellent Yellow Army of the Great Empire was defeated was because the Reading Division, under the command of its division commander Liu Hua, took advantage of our disadvantage in close combat, so that our heavy weapons could not play their due effect. Destroy ours with a large number of mortars, close combat, annihilation battles, numerical superiority. Therefore, our tactics this time have avoided this shortcoming..."The chief of staff replied cautiously.

"Yo Sai, it's very good, let's talk about your thoughts.," asked General Terauchi Shouichi.

"Hey, Your Excellency General, it's like this, our troops are divided into six roads this time, and each road has a division of the Zhina Security Army. Of course, these security forces will not participate in any attack missions, their task is to build blockhouses and turrets in the places where the imperial army has swept, and use the methods to deal with the Eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountain, and deal with the reading divisions. And leave a certain number of troops to defend the turret. Through the siege of the security army, coupled with the attack of the Yellow Army, the Eighth Route Army Reading Division trapped in the Jinyi area was eliminated in one fell swoop..."The chief of staff replied confidently.

"Yo Xi, you have a good idea. I believe that this time we must destroy the Reader and avenge the Imperial warriors whose jade was shattered in the hands of the Reader...."General Shouichi Terauchi said with a smile.

"Hey, the excellent Imperial Army is invincible, Your Excellency General, we will definitely achieve the final victory this time..."The chief of staff also smiled and patted the ass of the commander-in-chief in front of him.

"Thank you, Chief of Staff, for your good words, this is the result of your joint efforts. Now let's wait for tomorrow's offensive time to come! General Terauchi said, looking at the huge clock on the opposite wall.

"Hi..."

Similarly, not only was there a tense atmosphere at the North China Headquarters of the Army, but even Liu Hua, who was far away in Zhangjiazhuang, Shanxi, felt a trace of nervousness before the war, pacing back and forth at the headquarters and waiting for information from the intelligence department.

"Commander, be in a hurry, sit down and rest for a while, you will come sooner or later..."

"Political commissar, I already feel the nervous anger before the war, I think, the army should be dispatched soon..."Liu Hua did not stop.

Sure enough, just as the hands of the watch in his hand reached eight o'clock in the morning, the North China Headquarters of the Yue Army issued an order to attack. At the same time, after receiving the order, the main force of the Yue Army, which had already been preparing for attack, drove out of the barracks and county towns one after another and advanced along its own attack route......

In less than half an hour, the news of the attack reached the headquarters.

"Chief of Staff, immediately mark the direction of the march of the Sixth Route Army and the distribution of troops of the Army...."Liu Hua handed a few pieces of intelligence to the Chief of Staff next to him.

"Yes—" Soon, the chief of staff marked the direction of the army's attack on the huge map in front of him.

"Commander, political commissar, according to the current situation we have reconnoitred, the army is divided into six routes. Among them, the two armies with the largest number of troops, their ultimate goal is our place, and the other four armies are the Yunzhong Mountain area of the Second Army Division and the Xiazhuang Township of the Third Army Division. It can be said that the target of every offensive of the army is the headquarters of the military region....The deployment of the troops of the army is such that the strength of the army has been strengthened, and each army has two divisions of the public security army. That's it for now...."The chief of staff put down his baton.

"I know, it seems that this time the army wants to directly solve our command organ, and order, all military subdivisions will immediately transfer their headquarters, and the army must not be allowed to touch the location of the command headquarters. We also need to be prepared to move at any time. The arsenal should stop production immediately and bury the equipment...."Liu Hua said with a frown.

"Yes, I'm going to give orders to a few commanders." The chief of staff turned and walked towards the radio room.

"Political commissar, why did you say that the army sent so many security forces this time, is it to let these security forces act as cannon fodder?" Liu Hua looked at the more than 20,000 security forces and asked puzzledly.

"I can't figure out the purpose of the army, it seems that we can only take one step at a time." The commissar shook his head and said.

"Staff Officer Wang, issue operational orders to all military regions, and let them concentrate superior forces in accordance with the predetermined battle plan, and fight guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare, and tunnel warfare with the Yue army... Delay their march...," Liu Hua ordered.

"Yes..." After Counselor Wang finished speaking, he picked up the telegram that Liu Hua had already signed and ran to the telegraph room.

Because the strength of the army was so strong, the villages that the army passed along the way were empty. The militia in the village left a few mines for the army if they were bolder, and the less courageous ones ran away with the people before they saw the devils.

Therefore, the army advanced unimpeded and helpless all the way, and advanced a distance of almost 20 kilometers in one morning. Moreover, the villages that the army encountered along the way were almost destroyed by them.

Originally, I thought that the Yue army would take advantage of such a good attack momentum and continue to attack quickly. However, to everyone's surprise, the Sixth Route Army stopped one after another and began to build artillery towers on the traffic arteries along the way.

"Horse's. Now I finally know the purpose of these security forces, it turns out that they came out to build artillery towers for the army as coolies. The devil's encirclement and suppression plan is really poisonous, I really didn't expect it..."Liu Hua fell into deep thought.

"I also didn't expect that the arrogant Yue army wanted to surround us with artillery towers, which reminded me of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression in the Soviet area, when the Kuomintang army also compressed our base area step by step... I really didn't expect when Yue Jun would learn this method..."

"Political commissar, don't worry, it's the army now, not the Kuomintang at the beginning, and also, it's us who is commanding the battle now, and it's not Wang Ming at the beginning....Besides, our current weapons and equipment are not comparable to the Central Red Army at that time, let's take a look at the next step of the army, and see if they really plan to fight steadily step by step...."After listening to the political commissar's words, Liu Hua immediately retorted.

"Yes, I believe that our reader can still be like the first two encirclements and suppressions, and the devils who fought fell into the water."

In this way, a week passed in a row, and the army advanced less than 100 kilometers in accordance with the tactics of steady and steady fighting, but in the 100 kilometers that the army advanced, a gun tower was built in almost every village, and even on the larger transportation arteries, military stations were also built, and different numbers of security forces were stationed to guard them.

"Commander, political commissar, it's not good, this is the data just counted, according to the current offensive speed of the army, in another week, our base will shrink, we have no room for maneuver, now we must break the blockade of the devil's fortress, otherwise we won't last long." The chief of staff said hurriedly.

It was not until this that Liu Hua knew that the blockade of the fortress of the army was severe, and it was no wonder that the 80,000 troops of the Central Red Army were beaten out of the base area under the blockade of the Kuomintang fortress.

"The chief of staff is right, we must find a way to break the blockade of the devils..."The political commissar next to him saw that Liu Hua did not speak, and he also agreed.

"Chief of Staff, the two armies that attacked the First Army Division are there now, how many troops are left..."Liu Hua asked with a frown.

"Commander, the army that attacked from the direction of Jinzhong City still has about 10,000 troops, the number of the army remains the same, the security army has decreased by nearly 2,000 people, and now it has invaded Zhouzhuang. There were about 9,000 people in the Yue army from the direction of Jingcheng County, including two wings of the Yue Army and one division of the Public Security Army, and they arrived in Liuzhuang...."The chief of staff quickly found the location of the two villages on the map.

"Okay, since the devil asked those security forces to build artillery towers and guard them, let's eliminate all those security forces and see what they do to build artillery towers. The first battalion of the guard regiment with the mortar company of the regiment immediately set off to attack Zhouzhuang, and told Commander Li that no matter what method he used, he must attract a part of the troops stationed in Zhouzhuang. The target, the mountain on the right side of Zhouzhuang. Liu Hua ordered.

"Yes," replied the Chief of Staff.

"Political commissar, we are going to divide the troops again, and the command will be handed over to you and the chief of staff, and now there are only two battalions of the guard regiment left in the entire command headquarters, and there are not many troops, you must pay attention to your own safety, and you must not let the devil spies find out." Liu Hua looked at the political commissar next to him, who was several years old, and said.

"Commander, you can go, with me and the chief of staff in the command headquarters, you can go with confidence!" The political commissar listened to Liu Hua's words and couldn't help but be moved.

"Okay, I'm leaving, Staff Officer Wang, Staff Officer Li, you two follow me to the front line, and the rest of the people follow the political commissar..."

"Yes..."The two replied excitedly when they heard that the commander was going to take them to the front.

Liu Hua is out of the mountain...... It will be more exciting later

(To be continued)