Chapter 72: Borrowing Chickens to Lay Eggs

With the meeting with Li Yanping, the number of troops has become more than 7,000 people, if you count the personnel who were sent around by Meng Qingshan before, they are close to more than 9,000 people in total, because of Li Yanping's arrival and the political work he trained, Meng Qingshan has relieved a lot of energy, can concentrate on training the troops, and handed over all political affairs to Li Yanping. Meng Qingshan feels that he has gained a few laps these days, and it is still a good day to have a political commissar!

"Dang, dang."

"Who! Don't know if I have a habit of taking a nap? Meng Qingshan opened the door in a daze and saw the angry Li Yanping.

"Lao Li, who made you angry?"

"Who do you say?"

"It can't be me, right?"

"What do you say?"

"Why did I you off again?"

"Are you telling them something that is harmful to the revolution?"

"No, where do I have it?"

"Who said that a group of people who drank some foreign ink and ate a few slices of black bread in Moscow, the Soviet Union, thought that they had learned the true meaning of Marxism, mastered the experience of the victory of the Soviet revolution, and ran back to be the mentors of the Chinese revolution in high spirits."

"What's wrong with what I'm talking about? If it weren't for the blind command of the Soviet Union, which did not know how to fight and command, and fought for power, would the Red Army have been forced to go on a long march? Can we lose touch with them? And now we are all tossed into what they are, when we are powerful, they come to grab the fruits of victory, and when they can't leave, when we need them, they don't care, just say that the cavalry of the three armies that were detained a few years ago didn't see them negotiate with the Soviet Union, and let the Soviet Union send them to Xinjiang, and now the Soviet Union is still detaining our General Zhao Shangzhi and a few other comrades, am I fucking wrong? As soon as he mentioned this, he was angry when he saw that it was Meng Qingshan.

After hearing Meng Qingshan's words, Li Yanping did not refute it, because he knew that what Meng Qingshan said was true.

Seeing that Li Yanping lowered his head and didn't speak, he hurriedly went up and comforted: "Lao Li, look, I'm too excited, I didn't mean you, don't mind." ”

"It's fine. Commander-in-chief: I just used the radio to contact Commander-in-Chief Zhou, and found that I can't contact them anymore, I don't know what happened to Commander-in-Chief Zhou and them now? ”

"Can't be contacted, it's okay, hi! I thought that we could still get in touch with the Third Route Army so that we could fight with them, after all, they now have less than 500 people left, but their remaining soldiers are veterans of a hundred battles, which is exactly what we lack, most of us are now composed of new soldiers, and there are few veterans, and I sent a lot of veterans out for guerrilla warfare. Now the probability of veterans and recruits is almost 1:15, although you have trained a large number of political workers, but after all, they are trained quickly, and if you want to mature, you have to strengthen your training. ”

"Commander-in-chief, we didn't bother you, did we?"

"No, you came just in time, and I have something to discuss with you."

"What do you have to tell the commander-in-chief, and what do you need to discuss?"

"Commander-in-chief, you see that we have these recruits now, should we rebuild the Fourth Army and the Tenth Army according to Commander-in-Chief Zhou's orders?" Wang Yachen asked.

"Hmmm! I want to consult with you to see how to distribute the soldiers and make future arrangements, and tomorrow I will officially send the soldiers to the various units so that they can quickly familiarize themselves with their respective units.

In the afternoon, Meng Qingshan convened a meeting of cadres at and above the company level of the Second Route Army, and announced that the party committee of the Second Route Army had studied and decided that Zhang Zhongxi, commander of the Fourth Army, Wang Weiyu, political commissar, and Tang Yongming, director of the Political Department, would lead the Fourth Army to carry out activities west of the Nenjiang River, establish a Bayan base area with the Bayan Banner and Montenegro as the center, and gradually control the activities of the Molidawa Banner, Arong Banner, Erkena, and other places. Wang Wennian, commander of the 10 th Army, Wang Guangyu, political commissar, and Cheng Wenjun, director of the Political Department, led the 10 th Army to carry out activities east of the Nenjiang River, opened up a base area in the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, and gradually carried out activities in the Wuyun, Tangyuan, and Luobei areas. Meng Qingshan led the headquarters and logistics personnel of the Second Route Army to establish an anti-Japanese base area in Nenjiang with the Japanese army's Nenjiang warehouse as the center, accumulate strength, threaten the Songnen Plain in the south, and gradually infiltrate Heihe in the north in an effort to open up a communication channel with the Soviet Union.

"All armies are required to conscientiously implement the policy of the anti-Japanese united front, unleash the masses, absorb the forces of all social strata to strengthen the strength of our party, gather and reform the captured puppet army, integrate local anti-Japanese armed forces, resolutely crack down on the enemy, puppet, bandits, and bullies that harm the interests of the state and the people, and establish a democratic regime under the leadership of our party."

"The creation of base areas behind enemy lines is not to passively hide in the mountains, but to use the favorable terrain of the mountains to stop the enemy's attack, build strong fortresses, and train more combat-effective troops. When it is time to pull out the troops for training, they will resolutely fight them, and when it is time to grab the devil's supplies, they will take the initiative to mobilize the enemy's troops, organize small battles, and improve the lives of the troops. When the enemy attacks, we will carry forward our army's flexible and mobile strategy and tactics and, on the basis of preserving our own vital forces, resolutely destroy the enemy who is isolated and rashly advancing, and turn the base areas into the enemy's grave. ”

"At the same time, we must avoid fighting with the main force of the Japanese army, although our weapons and equipment have gone up, but we have not yet had the capital to fight hard with them, and we will fight hard with the small cabinet as soon as our brains are hot, and the family money that Lao Tzu has saved hard will not be lost to me, and each army will take four radio stations with them when they leave, and they must always get in touch with the headquarters."

"Also, don't go head-to-head with the Japanese army, and at the same time unite all forces that can be united, so that the local people can understand, get close to, and be willing to support our party. The directors of the political departments of the various armies should lead their respective political workers to publicize the party's propositions and policies wherever they go, so as to become a seeding machine and a spark so that the local people can understand, get close to, and be willing to provide support to our party. Let the people know that we are a benevolent and righteous division that protects the people, a righteous division that protects national interests, and a mighty division that dares to stand at the forefront of the national war. Inspire them to accept our ideas and inspire others to help us. ”

"To get along with the minority brothers, we are still very weak now, we can only develop quietly, you can rest assured that I will do a good job, the headquarters will support you with weapons and equipment for half a year, but after half a year, you will have to rely on yourself, if you people can't stand up, don't rely on me."

On the morning of the expedition, Meng Qingshan gathered everyone on the playground to kill the traitor Huang Yuechen and several of his hardcore subordinates, in order to fight the Japanese mines or pioneer regiments, Meng Qingshan deliberately expanded Han Hao's artillery battalion into an artillery regiment divided into three battalions, one battalion at the headquarters, one each from the Fourth Army and the Tenth Army, due to sufficient personnel, Meng Qingshan formed a cavalry battalion, and the reconnaissance company was expanded into a reconnaissance battalion and divided into three companies like the artillery battalion, and now there is a battalion of artillery left in the headquarters of the Second Route Army, In addition, all the political workers and military personnel who had been trained were sent to the two armies. There are more than 3,000 people in the reconnaissance company, the guard regiment, the cavalry battalion, the logistics department, the political department, the teaching team, the radio platoon, the propaganda team, and the recruit battalion.

"Commander-in-chief, should we also evacuate this place and move to the mountains?" Wang Yachen asked.

Meng Qingshan turned around and asked Li Yanping, who was reading the documents next to him, and asked, "Old Li, what do you think, can you understand these documents?" ”

"Commander-in-chief, you gave me a full set of passwords and all the information for the Japanese garrison to communicate with their superiors, and I have carefully studied it, as long as I have this code, I can decipher the devil's message." Li Yanping said with a smile.

"Commander-in-chief, why don't you want to leave now?"

"Of course not, this Japanese army warehouse is now located in the transition zone between the Khingan Mountains and the Songnen Plain, with low mountains and hills, and undulating terraces. north of Yile Huli Mountain, and the Daxing'an Mountains area; It is bordered by Xiaoxing'an Mountains in the east and Aihui County, Sunwu County and Wudalianchi City; It is bordered by the Nenjiang River in the west and faces the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region across the river; It is connected to the Songnen Plain in the south, adjacent to Nehe County. Highways, railways, and waterways extend in all directions, and it is the main road to communicate the Heihe estuary, radiating the Great Xing'an Mountains and the eastern part of Inner Mongolia. ”

"But what if the commander-in-chief doesn't leave, what if the Japanese army finds out?"

"Originally, I also thought that we should also move into the mountains after the Fourth Front Army and the Ten Front Army left, but then I wanted to evacuate this place where good fortifications had been built, and once the troops encountered the Japanese troops who were searching in the mountains and forests, according to the situation that the troops could not even fight in the encounter at the moment, there was a great possibility of collapse. If you fight positional warfare head-on, you may be able to hold on. ”

"Aren't the casualties of that unit very large?" Wang Yachen asked.

"Of course, I'm not so stupid, I have prepared two methods, on the one hand, let the political commissar continue to pretend to be a garrison to confuse the Japanese headquarters, let the troops modify the Japanese artillery towers and pillboxes here, modify the location of mines, and bury a large number of mines on the only communication railway line in this mountain, and on the other hand, I have asked Li Youde to go up the mountain to find a suitable retreat for us to be our secret camp, and at the same time let people dig several hidden tunnels here, if we are discovered by the Japanese army, we can rely on this to rely on the existing fortifications and prepare for battle. What do you think about the fact that if the war is unfavorable, we can use the tunnels to turn into the mountains? ”

"Wonderful! In this way, we can borrow chickens to lay eggs, so that the Japanese army will not be able to discover us, and at the same time, we will also give the Fourth Army and the Tenth Army that are fighting outside a rear base for rest and recuperation. ”

"These are nothing, my main concern is that there are too many new recruits in our troops, and it is okay to increase the number of veterans by a few hundred in the first place, but an increase of five or six thousand at once will make our combat effectiveness decline rapidly. And this downward trend is still serious. The army is now expanding like a snowball, from more than 1,000 people in a short period of time to nearly 10,000 at present, and even more than 20,000 in the future. ”

"The commander-in-chief, we can only train the troops while training, and strive to train the elite soldiers before the devils find out."

"Okay, then we must work together to go to the national crisis." After Meng Qingshan finished speaking, he stretched out his right hand and looked at the two.

The two stretched out their right hands at the same time and held them tightly, Wang Yachen held back for a long time and said: "Resist the United Nations, go to the national disaster together, ten years of national hatred, and the sea is difficult to settle." ”