The North China Headquarters of the Devil learned that the ammunition and material convoy he had been escorting to the front line for several months had been ambushed by the Zhina, all the materials had been lost, and the more than 2,000 elite Imperial Army soldiers accompanying him had all been shattered. The entire North China army was shaken, but it did not react much except for a few officers who were asked to commit suicide by disembowelment. In the eyes of others, things seem to pass like this, but in the eyes of the higher-ups, it is a sign that an even bigger storm is coming... Indeed, the loss of so much materiel is nothing, and most importantly, the loss of so many elite soldiers. You must know that the Imperial Army will not lose so many troops in a big frontal battle. In the ambush battle of the Eighth Route Army, it suffered losses again and again, and the Eighth Route Army fought and ran, so that the army with sophisticated weapons had no place at all.

Although the North China Headquarters wanted to send heavy troops to wipe out all those Eighth Route Army, they all knew that now was not the time to startle the snake. In order to achieve a victory in the "Nine-Way Siege" in the coming April, the headquarters of the North China Army had no choice but to endure it.

However, the North China Headquarters did not completely ignore it, and in the process of waiting, a large number of spies were sent to infiltrate the Jindong area. Investigate which Chinese troops have caused a lot of casualties to the Japanese army many times, which unit is it, and where it is stationed... However, the reconnaissance of the situation, so that the North China army once again surprised, from the Yellow Cliff bottom of a series of battles, to Xiangtangpu and other battles, it turned out that the Eighth Route Army called the Reading Brigade was done, after a series of calculations and reconnaissance, the Imperial Army that died in the hands of the Reading Brigade was about to reach two wings. This is the total number of troops lost by the Empire on the entire front line in Shanxi, and it is unexpectedly so many soldiers lost in the hands of an inferiorly equipped Eighth Route Army Reading Brigade...

Receiving the information, the North China headquarters was shocked, and even His Majesty the Emperor was alarmed, and in the face of such a strong force in China, the Emperor gave a death order, and in the siege of the Nine Roads in April, he must resolutely destroy the Reading Brigade in China and avenge the Imperial Army of the Jade Shatter...

Liu Hua didn't know, and neither did the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, but the focus of the army's encirclement and suppression had slowly shifted its target. The focus is on the Reading Brigade, and it is inevitable that the army will destroy its own Reading Brigade this time... At the same time, the number of troops on the devil's expedition has also increased... All of this is going on slowly in the dark...

With the intensification of the running-in training of the six main regiments getting bigger and bigger, the combat effectiveness of each company and battalion is also getting stronger and stronger, plus the militia in each village has learned to use mines, each village has stored important materials and grain in the tunnels, and carried out simple fortification and clearing, and the arsenal has also worked overtime again to produce more than 3,000 mines in half a month, and with Liu Hua's permission, the arsenal used all the gunpowder in the stock, and once again produced hundreds of thunder shells for the troops. And together with the production of dozens of electric detonating devices ... Looking at the base areas that are becoming more and more well prepared, Liu Hua is looking forward to the upcoming anti-encirclement and suppression.

Liu Hua was looking forward to it, and the devil seemed to be unable to bear it, and slowly began to draw troops from the front line, a brigade, a wing... Slowly trying to assemble at the predetermined location, the entire Jindong is like a powder magazine, a powder magazine that will explode as soon as it is introduced.

In the evening, after dinner, Liu Hua still sat in front of the topographic map of Jindong and was familiar with the map. Just as he was falling into deep thought, an exclamation came into his ears, Liu Hua looked out the door, and saw the deputy chief of general staff walking towards the headquarters with a telegram.

"It's finally here," Liu Hua said to himself.

": Commander Liu, the headquarters has called, and the devil is going to send troops, but the situation seems to have changed a little, and there are some mistakes with our expectations." The deputy chief of the general staff walked into the conference room and said eagerly.

After listening to the words of the chief of staff, Liu Hua took the telegram and read it carefully, slowly, Liu Hua's brows tightened, he didn't expect that the army looked up to his reading brigade so much, and actually used tens of thousands of troops to focus on encircling and suppressing his own Jindong base area and eliminating himself.

"Communicator, immediately notify the political commissar, the chief of staff will come to the headquarters for a meeting, quickly!" Liu Hua put down the telegram and said.

At the same time, I also fell into contemplation, tens of thousands of people besieged my base area, and I had a lot less room for maneuver, maybe there was no room for maneuver at all....how should this battle be fought...

Soon, the commissar and the chief of staff hurried in. Liu Hua didn't speak, handed them the telegram on the table, and after reading the telegram, the two of them were just like Liu Hua, frowning and not saying a word

At this time, it was Liu Hua who broke the silence first, "Deputy Chief of General Staff, can you let the 129th Division send part of the troops to contain part of the devil's troops, so that they can't reach the Jindong base area, as long as they can contain the devil for half a month, I have a way to make the devil retreat." Liu Hua looked at the deputy chief of general staff next to him.

"Commander Liu, it can be done by letting the 129 is send troops to contain the devils, but I think with the strength of the 129th Division, it is possible to contain the devils for a week, but for half a month, I think it should be impossible," the deputy chief of general staff thought about it and replied.

"Left Chief of Staff, how long will they be able to hold out if we provide them with enough mines and ammunition?"

"Okay, I'll send a report to the 129th Division and ask about the situation." After speaking, he turned around and left the command headquarters, but it didn't take long for him to return to the command headquarters again, "Commander Liu, Division Commander Liu called back quickly, he said that they could send the troops of the two main regiments to cooperate with the anti-encirclement and suppression operations in Jindong, and hand over the command of the two regiments to you, and now the troops of the two regiments are on the way to Jindong." Chief of Staff Zuo excitedly told Commander Liu Hua, who was frowning in front of him, about the situation of the discussion.

After listening to the words of the chief of staff, Liu Hua finally put his mind at ease, as long as he could delay the attack of the two devils, the remaining devils would be within the scope of his calculations.

"Political commissar, immediately order the logistics office to allocate 500 mines, 5,000 grenades, 200,000 rounds of bullets, and 200 mortar shells, and let the logistics office send a company of troops to escort them, and hand them over to the two regiments of the 129th Division that came to reinforce them, so that they can rest on the spot, and the combat mission will be arranged and executed immediately, and the time left for us by the devil is running out......." Thinking of the reinforcements of the two main regiments, Liu Hua immediately ordered.

"Chief of Staff, immediately issue a combat readiness order to the entire base area, first, the militia in each village is required to assist the villagers in clearing the fortified walls, and all the villagers in the villages where the outer tunnels are not completed will be transferred to the vicinity of Zhangjiazhuang for unified arrangements, and for some villagers who are unwilling to transfer, they will be forcibly transferred; Second, the militia of all villages is required to immediately dispatch a certain number of guard posts and patrols to check all suspicious persons in the base area, and pay special attention to the sabotage of the base area by devil agents. Fourth, the garrison regiment should make good preparations for battle, assist the militia of each village in defending the village, lay mines and fill up wells after the villagers have been completely transferred, and demand that the devils have no food and water after entering the base area.

"Yes, Commander." The chief of staff, who was recording the order, immediately replied.

In this way, an urgent meeting will end in Liu Hua's continuous orders. Liu Hua sat down and began to seriously study the headquarters about the offensive route map and attack time of the Yue Army, the surrounding terrain... Prepare to come up with a holistic battle plan before tomorrow's meeting.

According to the intelligence, the devil has a total of nearly 32,000 troops, all of whom are elite troops on the front line, and the entire encirclement and suppression is divided into nine routes, and they are killed in Zhangjiazhuang, the center of their base, and after the investigation of internal personnel, in order to prevent their troops from being attacked by the communist army, the attack force on each road has at least a wing of more than 3,000 people, and is equipped with certain heavy weapons....

Even if the Eighth Route Army has this strength, with the strength of a wing, it is fully capable of holding out until the arrival of reinforcements, but this just falls into the trap of the Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army is suspiciously and calmly dispatched to surround the Eighth Route Army and carry out a decisive battle to completely destroy the Eighth Route Army that gives it a headache...... In order to be able to complete your battle plan quickly, and at the same time brainstorm. Liu Hua summoned all the personnel of the General Staff, all gathered around the table, and marked out the enemy's troop deployment and marching route one by one. Because Shexian is a total of 150 miles away from Zhangjiazhuang, according to the marching speed of the army, it will take at least two days, and the road is sparsely populated, most of the area is in the deep mountains, plus the devil thinks that this route is in the mountains, and will not meet the main force of the Eighth Route Army, so only send the strength of a wing, looking at the marching route of this wing, Liu Hua drew a big × on the name of this wing. The staff officers next to him, seeing the commander's movements, understood the commander's meaning, it turned out that the commander wanted to use this wing to open the knife, and everyone who understood it immediately formulated a battle plan according to the commander's intentions....

Until midnight, a detailed battle plan was presented in front of Liu Hua. After reading the entire battle plan, Liu Hua nodded with satisfaction.

(To be continued)