Meng Qingshan's words made the commander-in-chief fall into deep thought, and he said for a long time: "What you said makes sense. What do you think, comrades? ”

"I think what Comrade Qingshan said is very reasonable, but how can we open up a stable base area?" Cui Shiyuan, chief of staff of the Second Route Army, asked.

"We have now opened up three base areas, one is already familiar to everyone, but the Fourth Army has opened up the Montenegrin base area in Bayan Banner and Montenegro, and the third is the base area opened up by the Tenth Army in Xiaoxinganling, and now they are developing very well, and their ranks have expanded a lot."

"But Comrade Qingshan, although we have opened up a base area, what should we do if the Japanese army encircles and suppresses us? After all, the disparity between our current strength and the Japanese army is too great, and we can barely fight with a small force, if the Japanese army sends a large number of troops to encircle and suppress the base area, isn't it a joke? Feng Zhongyun asked.

"What Comrade Zhongyun said is very reasonable: It is necessary to develop base areas, and if we do not develop base areas, we will not be able to stand on our feet. In order to avoid the Japanese army, we chose to set up bases deep in the mountains and dense forests, and relatively little work among the masses, and did not establish such a large-scale base area as in Guannai and North China to mobilize the masses for joint defense, let alone carry out rent and interest reductions and establish a three-three system democratic regime. In the face of the Japanese puppeteers' efforts to establish "group tribes", we were at a loss for anything due to the lack of sufficiently solid mass base areas, and the obstruction seemed to be relatively negative (of course, this was mainly due to the fact that the strength of the Anti-Japanese Federation itself was too small to effectively prevent the large-scale "return to the tun and merge the villages" action of the Japanese puppets).

It was only after the "group tribes" were established, and the common people in the countryside were basically locked up in these "circles of people" and cut off from us, that our real nightmare began. After the general establishment of the "group tribes", our anti-union fighters hiding in the dense forest could not even make a fire at night when the water was dripping into ice for three or nine days! Because the Japanese bunkers near the fire will find people operating outside the "group tribe", and the army will be established. ”

"This caused us to suffer a lot of losses in the Anti-Japanese Alliance, many generals defected, and our team was not replenished and the formation was reduced, and it would not be long before we were wiped out by the Japanese army or starved to death in a deep mountain and old forest."

"As long as the base areas develop well, we will have sufficient food and soldiers, so that we can send soldiers who are not fit for war and who are wounded and cannot return to the battlefield to the base areas to carry out mass work."

"Comrade Qingshan is right." The commander-in-chief nodded and said. After listening to Meng Qingshan's words, everyone in the room discussed with each other, and finally agreed that what Meng Qingshan said made sense.

"Commander Meng, why do we want to unite, if we unite Meng Qingshan instructed Xiaohuzi to take the newspaper from the table, took out a puppet Manchurian newspaper from a stack of papers, handed it to the commander-in-chief, and said: "Commander-in-chief, look at this puppet Manchurian newspaper." The commander-in-chief took the newspaper handed over by Meng Qingshan and took a closer look, but he had always been calm, but he looked a little discolored, and sighed for a long time: "It turned out that he had betrayed." Now the situation in South Manchurian is dangerous.

This Cheng Bin was promoted by the commander-in-chief of the First Army, and he is his most beloved general. Brave in battle, made no small achievements. Regarding the harm of Cheng Bin's rebellion, Meng Qingshan, who came from later generations, knew much more than the commander-in-chief considered. In July 1938, Cheng Bin led 115 people to defect to the enemy, and the first thing he did after surrendering was to destroy more than 70 supply lifelines of the Anti-Japanese Federation -- the secret camp, the commander-in-chief of the First Route Army, who was known as the Southern Yang and Northern Zhao, and fought the Japanese puppet army in fear, was killed because of the defection of Cheng Bin, who was familiar with the law of his activities.

Cheng Bin followed the commander-in-chief of the First Army from the day he joined the army, and he knew the commander-in-chief of the First Army himself very well, and he could often know the general whereabouts of the commander-in-chief of the First Army by guessing. To what extent does Cheng Bin know about the commander-in-chief of the First Army? As soon as you hear the gunshots, you know who it is. The commander-in-chief passed the newspaper down to Shenshen, and everyone hurriedly looked at it carefully word by word.

"Holy shit! Cheng Bin's kid was brought by Lao Yang, Lao Yang treated him like his own son, this kid actually betrayed him, and his mother's conscience was eaten by a dog. Li Zhaolin scolded.

The commander-in-chief was silent, there have been many heroes but also many traitors in the Anti-Japanese Federation over the years, raised his head and asked, "Comrade Qingshan, do you have any thoughts on this matter?" ”

"Commander-in-chief, I think the reason why these problems arise is because the party members in the army are sparse and too scattered, we can now seize the time to train the anti-Japanese alliance brought by you and Commander Li before the devils find us, they are all time-tested backbones, as long as they are trained, they are the foundation for our future development and growth. The elite of them were selected to lead the small detachments to guerrilla activities in enemy-occupied areas, and at the same time cooperate with the local party organizations, and the remaining personnel were distributed to various units to strengthen the faith and discipline of the fighters.

"Comrade Qingshan, I agree with you, I also set up an academy in the Dedu base, and we used to be together because we were all stragglers, although we both had the mentality of fighting devils, but we didn't know what to fight and how to fight."

After hearing this, the commander-in-chief nodded and said: "It is true that the military quality of the troops should be strengthened, and it is not that I have not thought about training in these years of struggle, but they have all been abandoned due to the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, which has caused us to lose a lot of losses to the Anti-Japanese Federation, I agree with this, Comrade Qingshan, you have finished your thoughts on the formation of the troops in the future!" ”

"Comrades in chief, I think we can adopt the method of advancing the Eighth Route Army in Guannai behind enemy lines. Divide the entire area of our activity into several military subdivisions. Units that have been abolished at the military level will be changed to divisional armed forces and will continue to fight on the spot. Specialized in targeting the puppet Manchurian local armed forces, as well as various police forces, which pose the greatest threat to us. ”

"And the field army specializes in fighting on the outside line to strike at the main force of the Japanese puppet army. In this way, the inner and outer lines can coordinate with each other and coordinate operations. That is, it avoids the current lack of distinction between the internal and external combat units of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and once the main force fights on the external front, it will be empty internally. The number of troops left behind was too small, that is, they could not fight alone with the encircled and suppressed Japanese puppet army, and could only be beaten passively. It is even more difficult to cooperate with the combat units on the outside line. What do you think of the fact that we can also fight against the Japanese puppet local armed forces and defend our guerrilla base areas? ”

"What do you think?" The commander-in-chief asked the generals of the Second Route Army and the Third Route Army beside him.

"I agree."

"I agree." "I don't have a problem either."