After some twists and turns, Chennault profoundly realized that Xishan Airport is surrounded by three devil airfields, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing, and it is really dangerous to serve as a backup airfield, but Wu Mujun's air defense measures are very strong and strict, and at the same time, Xishan Airport, as an air guerrilla warfare base, is of great significance in containing the air force of the Chinese army. So it was decided to leave behind the two bombers and three fighters for maintenance as "snipers" against the Japanese Air Force.

With the plane, the sky over Wu Mujun was much cleaner. Because the radar of the Wu Mu Army can warn in advance of the invasion of the devil planes, the invasion of a small number of planes is difficult to take advantage of the attack of the US fighter planes, and it is necessary to beware of the retaliation of the Wu Mu army bombers, the Xishan airfield is too close to several large airfields of the devils, once the Wu Mu army launches a surprise attack, the devil airfield does not even have time to make defensive measures, fortunately the Wu Mu army only has a few planes, which cannot constitute a fatal blow to the devil airfield, so the two sides have maintained a tacit understanding of mutual non-aggression in air combat.

Tuesday Dog understands that at this time, the Wu Mu Army has completely occupied the initiative in southern Jiangsu, how to develop in the later stage, Tuesday Dog is very hesitant: now the East China devils are no longer able to take the initiative to attack the Wu Mu Army base area, and the Wu Mu Army takes the initiative to attack will cause the devils to fight back strongly, and the result of the fierce battle will be unpredictable, especially the ** behind the ** can not confirm whether it is friend or foe, which increases the variable of starting a war; However, if you don't start a war against the devils, just stick to the existing base area, the Wu Mu Army will lose the meaning of resisting the army, be ashamed of the country's fathers and elders, and be ashamed of the brothers and sisters in the occupied areas of southern Jiangsu, and such an elite unit of the Wu Mu Army will consume a lot of materials, which will bring huge material pressure to the base area in southern Jiangsu, and if there is no combat capture to replenish it, it will affect the morale of the troops and the replenishment and updating of equipment.

The personnel participating in the staff committee have undergone considerable changes: He Laifu, Ouyang Cheng, Ke Hua, Liu Qinghe, Liu Maoer, Wan Zixiong, Qi Yuankai, Zhu Dun, Wu Zhen, Niu Daojia, Liang Ruxiang and others have been assigned to the first combat sequence; Li Jiakui, Wei Wenyang, Feng Jiuzhong, Duanmu Changyan, Wang Junshan, Jin Manlou, Wu Yuwen, Wu Zishun, Lu Yaohan, Zhang Tielong and others were added. Tuesday Dog looked at these newcomers, counted the old men, and secretly rejoiced in his heart that his old brothers had survived the cruel war!

Zeng Qi presided over the staff meeting, and after raising the topic, he took a teacup and drank it slowly. Now that the senior officers have entered the role of the boss, they are no longer easy to express their position first, and they are used to listening to the following ideas first.

Zhang Tielong is a newcomer to the Wu Mu Army, and he is not as serious as Lu Yaohan, and he is eager to perform meritorious service, so he advocates actively fighting against him, at least to recover the lost territory.

Zhang Tielong's proposition was supported by Li Jinshan, Liu Chenghai, Wang Yilang, Zu Jing, Dai Heng, Wei Wenyang, Hu Zhaoyue and others.

Wang Laodun, who usually does not express his views, stood up, he believed that after years of fighting, the Wu Mu army consumed huge personnel and materials, and the military spirit and civilian strength were exhausted, so the Wu Mu army should take this opportunity to recuperate, and then make plans. This proposal was supported by Wu Zhengtang, Wang Junshan, Li Jiakui and others.

At this time, Lu Yaohan stood up and put forward his views, he thought that the main attack and main defense views are reasonable, but both offense and defense are the right way to war, so there should be offense and defense, and defense and offense, but how to attack and defend, the specific details should be carefully scrutinized.

Many people thought that Lu Yaohan was playing tricks and talking about things on both sides, while Tuesday Dog, Zhao Dahu, Xiang Qingyun, Zeng Qi and others nodded secretly, so Zeng Qi asked Lu Yaohan to be specific.

Lu Yaohan's unhurried statement: The current stalemate with the devil is only a temporary situation, and the endless battle with the devil until the complete expulsion of the Japanese is the ultimate goal of this war, with the current situation, the Wu Mu army does need to recuperate, but the war does not allow the Wu Mu army to have a trace of slackness, so the Wu Mu army should strive to recuperate in the combat state, and may as well maintain the offensive in a small-scale operation in accordance with the tactics of the New Fourth Army, which will not excessively provoke the devil to bring destruction to the Wu Mu army, and can accumulate small victories for big victories, At the same time, it will strive for a chance to recuperate and recuperate for the base areas in southern Jiangsu, and in addition, the rotational battles of various troops can also improve the combat effectiveness of each unit, accumulate energy, and prepare to deal a fatal blow to the devils.

Many people thought that Lu Yaohan was using small-scale operations as an excuse to passively slack off the war, but Zhang Tielong quit and stood up and retorted loudly: "Who said that small-scale operations are passive slackness? Have you seen the tactics of the New Fourth Army? Although there is no big war in the New Fourth Army, the guerrillas are consuming devils every day, even if they only eliminate 100 devils every day, they are 40,000 devils in a year, which is equivalent to 2 B divisions of devils, and our Wumu Army has 1 reading division, 18 infantry battalions, 25 garrison battalions, and 6 guerrilla brigades of about 20 battalion-level troops, regardless of other arms, the infantry alone has at least 2,100 infantry squads, and we have one-fifth of the troops fighting in rotation every day, and each of the 400 combat squads destroys 1 devil every day. It's 400 devils, which is equivalent to 2 squadrons of devils, and 1 month to eliminate a half-reading power of devils into a brigade, how about it? The results are not small, right? ”

Everyone found the direction at once, and suddenly various specific plans emerged one after another, making several Wu Mujun bigwigs unable to put their beaks, while the clerk was so busy that he just buried his head in writing.

After a period of chaos, Zeng Qi coughed softly to quiet the scene, and then announced that they would go back and write down their plans and hand them in within 3 days.

After the leaders dispersed, several super bosses of Wu Mujun got together to continue the discussion of the proposition of the dog on Tuesday, and finally called Lu Yaohan, and took the opportunity to call Wang Yu to make a delicious tooth sacrifice for everyone.

A few days later, a group of middle and high-ranking officers of the Wu Mu Army sat together again, and the dog announced the outline of the development of the base area in southern Jiangsu in the later period:

At present, a large number of materials have been harvested in the base areas in southern Jiangsu, and at the same time, there are no major wars in the base areas for the time being, so the Military Industry Department must pay close attention to research and development, improvement, and production of weapons and equipment, and civilian factories must also pay close attention to production, so as to maximize all production capacity; The Wumu Caravan and the Military Supplies Manager under the Xishan Self-Rescue Association did their best to export all kinds of products from the base area in southern Jiangsu in exchange for more materials and increase the war potential of the base area in southern Jiangsu; The combat units mainly engaged in small-scale operations, and the reading divisions and garrison units dispatched battalion and company-level troops to various guerrilla areas for rotational warfare. The Jiangbei guerrillas are developing in central Anhui, southern Henan, eastern Hubei, and northern Hubei in an effort to connect with the various units of the New Fourth Army and the Fifth Theater, and to establish a material channel between Xishan and the New Fourth Army and the Fifth Theater, and to develop in southern Anhui and the Hunan-Hunan-Hunan border region and connect with the Third, Ninth, and Sixth Theaters, and to establish a material channel.

In order to improve the production efficiency of the military industry, Shu Jintang agreed with Shi Jilun to transfer the factories that have little to do with weapons and equipment or have simple production processes to the management of the Xishan Self-Help Association, and classify all factories and products with Shi Jilun and Tong Hai to carry out more accurate and effective production and sales management.

The Military Industry Department is under the jurisdiction of:

Power department: including power plant, oxygen plant, steam plant, hot air plant, etc

Raw material department: including iron and steel mills, ironworks to produce pig iron, cast iron, open-hearth furnaces to produce a variety of high-quality steel, electric furnace to produce refined high-carbon steel, tool steel, high-speed steel and other special steel; The smelter produces non-ferrous metals such as gold, silver, copper, lead, tin, tungsten, antimony, etc.; Dahua plant, producing hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, sodium hydroxide, calcium carbide, ammonium nitrate; Small chemical plants produce potassium permanganate, potassium chlorate, ether, ethanol, acetic acid and other chemical preparations; The explosives factory produces a variety of explosives such as black powder, smokeless gunpowder, TNT, etc.;

Manufacturing Department: The foundry produces pig iron projectiles, castings, seamless barrels, barrels, and various special gun castings; The machining plant uses a large number of machine tools and heat treatment equipment to carry out deep processing of various metal parts; The artillery factory produces, refits, and repairs all kinds of mortars, anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft guns, automatic guns, infantry guns, mountain artillery, field artillery, howitzers, and cannons; The firearms factory produces, modifies and repairs all kinds of Qiguang submachine guns, Qiguang rifles, Qiguang shotguns, 38 rifles, medium and formal rifles, barge guns, submachine guns, light and heavy machine guns, shotguns, grenade launchers, southern style pistols, Browning pistols, and flying thunder launchers; The bullet factory produces reloaded 6.5mm, 7.7mm, 7.62mm, 7.92mm, and 12.7mm bullets; The artillery shell factory produces 20mm, 37mm, 70mm, 75mm, 105mm artillery grenades and armor-piercing shells, as well as 80mm, 90mm, 120mm, 150mm mortar shells, grenades, anti-armor grenades, and mines; The ammunition factory produces all kinds of fuses, detonators, fuses and special smoke bombs, stun bombs, flare bombs, incendiary bombs, various flying mines, mines, clay pot grenades, clay pot lime grenades, and gun grenades; The vehicle repair shop is responsible for repairing and repairing all kinds of trucks, motorcycles, jeeps, armored vehicles, tanks, and is responsible for disassembling the devil's aircraft and sorting parts; Shipyards produce, refit and repair gunboats, motorboats, and transport ships; The Microelectronics Department produces, assembles and maintains all kinds of radios, walkie-talkies, telephones, electronically controlled mines, mine detectors, radios and radio stations; The machine department produces all kinds of lathes, milling machines, boring machines, planers, drilling machines, punching machines and other large, medium and small machine tools, both power machine tools and manual machine tools...... Moving machine ......

The Department of Migrant Work is under the jurisdiction of:

Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry: stallions for the production of sweaty horses and Hequ horses, war horses, pull horses, pack horses, war dogs dominated by liger dogs, and ploughing cattle; The food factory produces casings, anti-Japanese pills, dried meat, dried fish, salted meat, combat dry food, and oil; Cigarette factories produce both regular and special cigarettes......

Coarse material department: production of bricks, lime, porcelain jars, paper ......

Weaving Department: including spinning mills, weaving mills, printing and dyeing factories, garment factories, the production of hunting uniforms, military uniforms, ropes, fishing nets and other textiles......

Detailing Department: including Suhai Fitting Factory, which produces leather products such as saddles, armed belts, briefcases, map barrels, and bullet magazines; The carpentry factory produces and repairs carts, simple carts, carpentry tools, and crossbows; The manual department produces gas masks, stabbing protectors, sacks, raincoats, rain boots, and military shoes; The printing house is responsible for printing all kinds of textbooks, maps, war reports, leaflets, etc.; The gold factory produced military daggers, machetes, bayonets, sapper shovels, steel shields, death clothes, siege vehicles, and portable vehicles, as well as civilian shovels, pickaxes, plows, hoes, sickles, kitchen knives, butcher knives, and carpentry knives;

Ministry of Medicine: Military Pharmaceutical Factory produces first-aid kits and painkillers; The pharmaceutical factory produces a variety of civilian proprietary Chinese medicines; The green oil factory produces green ointment, penicillium powder and conducts medicinal research on various new molds.

Ministry of Chemical Industry: Mainly produces soap, matches and other supplies.

Shu Jintang and Tong Hai agreed to arrange for the military factory to focus on the production of Qiguang submachine guns and Qiguang rifles installed in large quantities by the Wu Mu Army, modify gun grenade launchers and corresponding ammunition, replace the old equipment in the early stage, and exchange the replaced weapons and equipment with the miscellaneous armies of the New Fourth Army and the Fifth Theater for materials, so that the relatively poor New Fourth Army and the Fifth Theater are more economical, and at the same time there are affordable mortars, grenadiers, clay pot grenades, clay pot mines, gun grenades, and handmade machine tools; The newly produced special steel, machine tools, artillery shells, artillery, Buddha light flying thunder, gas masks, and military equipment were sold to the Military Commission; Mortars, light and heavy machine guns, rapid-fire guns, war horses, gun grenades, cast iron mines, cast iron grenades and other light weapons and ammunition, as well as maps, war horses, horses, pack horses and other materials were directly sold to the troops of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and ninth theaters. The transportation task was undertaken by the baggage detachment of the Wumu Army, and the defense work was transferred by the various combat units, and Shu Jintang and Tong Hai became the hottest figures in the whole Central ** circle.

According to the meaning of the bigwigs, Tong Hai first tried to exchange for raw materials, such as grain, steel, copper, tin, lead, tungsten, antimony, vanadium, oilseeds, coal, cotton, wood, medicinal materials, silk, tung oil, sulfur, saltpeter, ...... Followed by advanced equipment, parts, and consumer goods imported from abroad, and then gold, silver, dollars, pounds, and then other currencies such as fiat currency, Wu Mujun absorbed a large amount of wealth from the occupied areas, the nationalized areas, and the guerrilla areas more rapidly, and laid a solid material foundation for the Wu Mu Army's subsequent War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

In order to take care of the impoverished New Fourth Army, Shu Jintang specially ordered simple and affordable short shotguns, equipped with equally simple and affordable gun grenades, and also sent personnel to guide the New Fourth Army to make their own guns and grenades, plus a large number of affordable old equipment of the Wu Mu Army, so that the New Fourth Army, which was expanding at a high speed in the predicament, continued to grow and greatly improved its combat effectiveness.

The military supplies of the Wumu army were escorted and escorted by special troops, while a large number of salt, medicine (civilian), grain, soap, matches, tools and other materials were transported by the Wumu caravan and sold along the way, not only to the Chinese, but also to Yue himself, but at different prices.

In order to avoid being implicated by the Wumu army, the Wumu caravan will never participate in military operations, and even if it is oppressed by devils, it will be retaliated against and dealt with by the Wumu army's special operations team. However, the devil and the Wumu army have reached a tacit understanding, and the devil easily does not dare to disturb the Wumu caravan, so the Wumu caravan in addition to selling materials, the work of collecting intelligence is also a lot smoother, so Shi Jilun mixed many officers and staff officers into the Wumu caravan, reconnaissance, surveying and mapping, archiving of the terrain along the way, and reported the commanders, numbers, establishments, firepower equipment, and fortification structure layout of the devils and puppet army units in a timely manner, and summarized them into a huge database of the devils, **, and the New Fourth Army in case of emergency.

The devil did open the net to the Wumu caravan, because this was an action that was beneficial to both sides, and for the military supplies transported by the baggage detachment, they began to focus on the attack, sent a large number of ** spies to listen to the news, and then sent troops to loot and attack, although the Wumu army escorted the troops to repeatedly miss the counterattack, but instead sent additional troops to increase their efforts, and set up the Yangtze River blockade line to prevent the Wumu army from transporting military supplies to Jiangbei.

In response to this situation, Zhao Dahu and Xiang Qingyun made a plan, attacked with a true and false transport team, and then combined guerrilla warfare with a heavy force to carry out guerrilla warfare with heavy losses, which produced a lot of results, which greatly exceeded the expected plan to kill and injure devils.

Due to the looting of the military material transportation line of the Wumu Army by the devils, the dog felt very unhappy, so he ordered Zhao Dahu to immediately launch a guerrilla war west of the base area in southern Jiangsu.

Zhao Dahu had long been prepared for this, and south of the Yangtze River, Zhang Tielong's brigade was used to enrich the Suzhou-Anhui guerrilla brigade, relying on the Dangtu and Wuhu guerrilla zones to advance to Fanchang, Nanling, Tongling, Qingyang, and Chizhou, opening up guerrilla base areas along the edge of the third theater defense area and the Yangtze River, and opening up the transportation line on the south bank of the Yangtze River, under the personal command of Wei Wenyang; To the north of the Yangtze River, under the personal command of Li Jiakui, most of the eastward guerrilla brigades and northward guerrilla brigades were transferred to the Jiangwan guerrilla brigades, and the gaps in the strength of the original guerrilla areas were filled by the Jiangsu-Shanghai guerrilla brigades, and the westward guerrilla units advanced around Lai'an, Chuzhou, Quanjiao, Hanshan, Chaohu, Wuwei, Hefei's periphery, Lujiang, Shucheng, Huoshan, Dabie Mountain, and Lu'an, opening up guerrilla zones and gradually enriching them, opening up transportation lines with the Fifth Theater.

Because the Wumu Army has raised its equipment level and its combat capability has also been greatly enhanced, it has quickly opened up scattered guerrilla base areas in the predetermined area, and if the General Headquarters of the Wumu Army allows it, it will be able to quickly annex the local puppet army and merge it into a large guerrilla area.

However, the next problems had to be turned to the New Fourth Army. The Wu Mu Army's combat effectiveness in attacking cities and conquering areas is indeed not weak, but its ability to quickly mobilize the masses and raise supplies in the newly built base areas is obviously insufficient, and in this case, the troops will be slowly squeezed out of the base areas, so on Tuesday, Gou had no choice but to seconded a large number of instructors of the New Fourth Army to Chen Yi on the condition of transporting a batch of weapons, ammunition and medicines to help the Wu Mu Army guerrillas mobilize the masses, raise materials, and tap the potential of the War of Resistance.

Chen Yi couldn't ask for it, not only obtained a batch of supplies, but also obtained strong friendly troops, and was able to spread red seeds to friendly troops, so he dispatched a large number of political cadres to the Wumu Army guerrillas after emergency training.

When the chairman of the committee received the news that the New Fourth Army had sent instructors to the Wumu Army, he could not help but be furious and denounced Tuesday Dog as a political idiot, regardless of intimacy or severity. Gu Zhutong also went to Xishan to persuade Tuesday Dog to take back his life.

On Tuesday, he pretended to be crazy and stupid, and applied to the Military Commission for the personnel he needed, but the Military Commission really couldn't get the talents needed by the Wu Mu Army guerrillas, but they wanted to take the opportunity to blend in with some eyes and ears, and Wu Mu Army was easily pushed back by screening under various conditions. (To be continued.) )