ended this battle, but Meng Qingshan failed to get excited. Although this battle completely annihilated a cavalry wing of the Japanese army, plus an independent garrison and an integrated brigade, and captured part of the puppet Manchu army, so that the entire Longjiang Plain was no longer able to block the main force of the anti-Japanese army. This time can allow the Anti-Japanese Federation to develop the base area, strive to build the base area into an iron network, cooperate with the main force to fight, and completely break the imminent attack of the Japanese army.

But at the end of the battle between Xiyangmushan and Shaojiashan, the contents of the two telegrams sent by Zhou Baozhong and Chen Hanzhang at almost the same time let Meng Qingshan know that it was time for him to retreat.

Since this Japanese army was a reinforcement to support Naotayoshi's troops, they did not carry extra weapons and equipment, which relieved a lot of pressure on the troops, and after three hours of marching, they joined Cui Shiquan and others who were resting and escorting supplies in an abandoned cottage, "Shiquan, why are you walking so slowly?" ”

"Commander-in-chief, it's not that I don't want to go, but the weather is really bad, it's just blowing a strong wind, and now it's snowing, I think we can't leave tonight, so we can only deal with it here for a night."

Meng Qingshan looked at the goose feather snow outside, if the old man in the future would be happy to see such a heavy snow, because the old saying Ruixue Zhaofeng year, heavy snow in winter, and so on after the beginning of spring, the crops will grow fast, but for Meng Qingshan, such a heavy snow is good or bad for him, the good thing is that the heavy snow covers the mountain, the Japanese army can not mobilize heavy troops to encircle and suppress them, and buy them some time to rest, the bad thing is that the weather is too bad, although it is more than 20 degrees below zero, although he wears a military uniform made by logistics, but because there is not much cotton. Only a little cotton could be put on each piece of clothing, and in the mountains, the soldiers did not dare to light a fire to keep warm, for fear that the Japanese reconnaissance plane would pass by and see the firelight and discover the location of the Anti-Japanese Union. Heavy troops will be sent to encircle and suppress, for which the soldiers gather together in a squad to rely on each other's body temperature to keep warm. The captured Japanese uniforms were handed over to the soldiers who guarded the prisoners outside.

After quickly reading the telegram sent by Chen Hanzhang, Meng Qingshan handed the telegram to Yang Jingyu and said: "Old Yang, we have already exhausted all the troops that the First Division of Longjiang Province can send under this battle, and now the remaining troops of the First Division are guarding in various important cities and dare not move, our main enemies now are the puppet army and Japanese nationals, and I plan to strive to drive out all the Japanese in the base area this year, so as to prevent problems in the nest when the Japanese army encircles and suppresses." ”

After reading the telegram sent by Chen Hanzhang, Yang Jingyu pondered for a long time and said, "Commander-in-chief, I think we should let the soldiers have a good rest. The troops have not yet recovered from the heavy training. He was engaged in continuous combat, and now he is quite tired. And ammunition is also extremely expensive, especially artillery shells. ”

"To tell the truth, we were able to annihilate four Japanese brigades and one cavalry wing in a row this time, plus the battle for Sunwu County, a total of five brigades before and after, not because the tactical level of our troops and the ability of our commanders really caught up with or surpassed the Japanese army, but because our weapons and equipment were on the same starting line as them, and then we all relied on ambush warfare and guerrilla warfare with the Japanese army. If it's one-on-one, we're going to lose. ”

"The reason why we were able to achieve such a great victory was, first, relying on correct tactics, and secondly, relying on local concentration to surpass the firepower of the Japanese army in front of us several times, or even dozens of times. Relying on superior firepower to destroy the enemy as much as possible, the third is that the Japanese army has become complacent and arrogant in its successive victories. It is precisely with these three favorable conditions that we will be able to achieve the victory in front of us. ”

"We won this battle. But the consumption of ammunition is also extremely staggering. When we set out from the fortress this time, we carried nearly 1,000 rounds of mountain artillery shells. More than a thousand mortar shells and three hundred explosive packs, plus the more than a hundred shells you captured after the ambush at West Poplar Mountain, were almost all gone. ”

"Even a slightly larger number of mortar shells. There are less than five hundred shells left, and there are not many of the rest. Heavy machine gun ammunition is also extremely expensive. Commander-in-chief, in addition to rifle ammunition, we can now say that we have basically run out of ammunition, although we have an arsenal to produce weapons and ammunition, but this time alone is enough for the arsenal to produce two months to replenish back, and now the ammunition stored in our warehouse should be able for us to fight two more such battles, but we will have to face the heavy encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army in a few months, I think we should now reorganize the troops first. ”

Meng Qingshan rubbed his head with his hand after hearing this, he really didn't expect it to be "a cannon sounds, ten thousand taels of gold." "The patronizing fought well, but I didn't expect the ammunition consumption to be so expensive, fortunately, the capture of the fortress was to capture a lot of ammunition, otherwise Meng Qingshan could only hold the cannon without shells and wander around.

"Commander-in-Chief and Deputy Commander Yang both have the right ideas, I think you can connect your ideas, let the soldiers rest and recuperate first, and then let the troops use battalions as units to clear the Japanese expatriates and puppet army strongholds in the base areas, and develop the masses, so that on the one hand, you can exercise the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and on the other hand, you can also develop the masses, killing two birds with one stone."

"Chief of Staff, you said very well, we must pass on the righteous side of our Anti-Japanese Federation when we go back this time, so that the people of the entire three eastern provinces know that our Anti-Japanese Federation is to drive out the Japanese invaders and protect our homeland, and to break the conspiracy of the devils to smear our Anti-Japanese Federation, this point will have to be handed over to the General Political Commissar and the director of the Political Department."

"Buzz, buzz, buzz!"

"What sound? It's not a plane of little devils, let the soldiers put out the fire. After shouting, Meng Qingshan took the lead and ran out to let people put out the fire, and at the same time looked at the sky, at this time the heavy snow had stopped, and through the moonlight, he saw that more than ten planes flew over the heads of Meng Qingshan and others, flying to the northeast.

"Commander-in-chief, it looks like this little devil's plane is not here to chase us."

"I know, it's just that the current weather is not suitable for airplanes to fly at all, why would the little devils send a flying squadron to operate at night, do they want to sneak attack a base somewhere in the Soviet Union like a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor?"

"Commander, what Pearl Harbor?"

"Ahh Lao Yang, you must have heard it wrong, I'm talking about Soviet ports. ”

"Really? Could it be that I didn't sleep well yesterday and am hallucinating? Yang Jingyu touched his head and muttered.

Looking at Yang Jingyu's believing appearance, Meng Qingshan breathed a sigh of relief and almost said that he had leaked his mouth again, the corner of Meng Qingshan's right eye jumped for a while, and at the same time, Meng Qingshan always had a bad feeling on his psychological side, "Which direction did the little devil's plane fly in Lao Yang just now?" ”

"Northeast."

"Northeast, Northeast, I'm doing something bad, Da Niu go and ask the telegraph operator to send a telegram to the remaining personnel of the headquarters immediately, ordering them to quickly evacuate the fortress or hide in the secret passages of the fortress, the Japanese army is about to attack the fortress, tell the commander-in-chief not to worry about the supplies and save their lives."

Seeing Li Daniu hurriedly running towards the radio station, Meng Qingshan could only watch silently as he looked at the direction of the fortress, hoping that his judgment was wrong. (To be continued......)