After Liu Hua asked each main force regiment to go to the outlying assembly area of Zhang Jizhuang in the shortest possible time, all the training troops urgently assembled in the Zhangjiazhuang area, and when Liu Hua got up the next day, the strength of several regiments had been assembled on the periphery, and several regiment commanders who arrived in advance were staying together, discussing the reasons for the sudden assembly of troops

"Hello Commander!" The commander was seen walking into the conference room. Several regiment commanders, political commissars, stood up together and said, Liu Hua nodded to everyone and looked at the four regiment commanders in front of him, "Comrades, how is the situation of the troops now, how is the cooperation ability training of the soldiers?" Is it possible to have a big battle? If you take the company as a unit and scatter them, will it affect the combat effectiveness? Liu Hua didn't be polite, and asked several questions in a row.

After listening to the commander's words, the four of them briefed the commander in turn on the situation of the troops. After listening to the introduction of the four people, Liu Hua nodded with satisfaction, full of appreciation for the four regiment leaders in front of him. After listening to the report, Liu Hua also said what everyone was eager to know, that is, he roughly told the four regiment commanders in front of him about the matter of this anti-encirclement and suppression.

After listening to the commander's introduction, all four of them expressed their own opinions, and through these opinions and views, Liu Hua's battle plan was even more perfect.

In this way, in the morning, Liu Hua discussed with several regiment commanders, until the trumpeter blew the horn of eating, and then took a few regiment commanders to walk and talk to the headquarters canteen.

After the meal, all the participants basically arrived, and with the order of the political commissar, everyone walked into the conference room. Dozens of cadres sat in the conference room, six regiment commanders sat in the first row, followed by their own political commissars, battalion commanders....

"Okay, comrades, be quiet, now the meeting begins. First of all, the commander will explain the reasons for this meeting. As the moderator of the meeting, political commissar Guan Xiangying stood up and said. As soon as he finished speaking, the conference room burst into warm applause.

Liu Hua took over, waved his hand, and after the applause stopped, he said, "Comrades, you must be very strange why I ordered the troops to stop training and assemble near Zhangjiazhuang to stand by. Some of you may have guessed that this assembly is because we are going to fight, and it is a big battle, a battle that we have not experienced all over again. Liu Hua took a sip of water and continued.

"Why do you want to fight a big battle, it's not that I want to fight, I know that many troops have suffered serious losses in the last battle, although a large number of garrison regiment recruits have been replenished, and the troops have reached full strength, but the combat effectiveness of the troops has not yet reached the pre-war state, let you go to war now, I am the first to disagree. But this time we can't help it! This time, it was the devil who forced us to fight, so let's ask Chief of Staff Li Qing to introduce the analysis of the enemy situation, and you will know why we are fighting this battle. After speaking, Liu Hua sat down and motioned to the chief of staff to speak.

Chief of Staff Li Qing stood up, straightened out his thoughts and said: "Comrades, since our Eighth Route Army drove to the front line, it has repeatedly launched ambush battles in the rear of the devils, eliminated a large number of living forces of the devils, and interrupted the logistics and transportation lines of the nobles many times. More importantly, we have established a large number of base areas in the rear of the devils, which has seriously affected the pace of the devils' attacks, especially our Reading Brigade, and now the annihilated army has almost two wings, and the devils hate us even more.

So the devils, in order to take revenge on us, destroy us. In April, that is, in the near future, a large number of troops were drawn from the front line to prepare for launching an all-out encirclement and suppression operation against our base area, in an attempt to encircle us in the Zhangjiazhuang area, and to deploy heavy troops in this area to fight a decisive battle with us, in order to wipe out our Reading Brigade in one fell swoop. "In order to achieve the operational goal of this time, the devils mobilized the 108th Division as the main force, gathered the 16th Division, the 20th Division, the 109th Division, and the Sakai Brigade, totaling more than 10 wings (including eight infantry wings, cavalry, artillery, engineers, and baggage 1 or 2 wings), from Shexian and Changzhi on Handan (Dan) Chang (Zhi) Avenue, Tunliu on the Lin(fen) Tun (Liu) Highway, Pingding on Zhengtai Road, Yuci, Taigu, and Hongdong on Tongpu Road, Xingtai on Pinghan Road, as well as Yuanshi, Zanhuang, Xiyang, Qixian, and other places launched a large-scale siege on the southeastern part of Shanxi Province by nine routes, in a vain attempt to use the tactics of "dividing the attack and attacking together" to quickly resolve the battle and annihilate our army in the Zhangjiazhuang area. ”

After listening to the words of the chief of staff, the cadres below became silent, and the more than 30,000 elite troops of the Yue Army are simply an astronomical number for these cadres....

"Comrades, more than 30,000 devils, this is the strength of one and a half divisions of devils, hehe, comrades are frightened by this number from time to time!" Liu Hua saw that no one was talking, and then said, "Comrades, to be honest, I'm also scared, but should we just hide?" No, more than 30,000 devils, if all of them enter our base area, you think about what kind of things so many brutes will do. Ruining the base areas we have worked so hard to establish, ruining our food, and more importantly, here are our brothers, our sisters, and the devils are coming, what should our brothers and sisters do! Comrades, can we let the devils spoil our base? Liu Hua shouted loudly.

Maybe these words really touched the hearts of the cadres below, and everyone blushed after listening to Liu Hua's words, "No, can't..."

"Well, since we can't, we must bravely pick up the guns in our hands to protect the base we have worked so hard to build and protect our relatives." As he spoke, the excited Liu Hua took another sip of water and continued.

"Comrades, the devil has more than 30,000 troops, but in fact we are not facing that many troops. First of all, with the help of the 129th Division, Division Commander Liu sent reinforcements from two regiments to support us, and the troops of these two regiments will be placed along the Tongpu Road, so that the devils who attack us along the Yuci, Taigu, and Hongdong on the Tongpu Road will be completely pinned down by these two main regiments along the Tongpu Railway, and there will be no chance to enter our base area at all, but," Liu Hua's words changed, and then said, "But according to our estimates and Division Commander Liu's assurance, The strength of the two regiments can delay the devils for up to half a month when there is sufficient ammunition. Therefore, we must repel the attacks of the other devils within half a month, so that the remaining two devils will automatically retreat. ”

"But, Commander, even if there are two less ways of devil attack, we still have to face the attack of more than 20,000 devils!" The head of the regiment, Sun Xingbang, stood up and said.

Liu Hua looked at Commander Sun who was full of doubts and nodded, and then said: "Comrades, I don't know if some of you still remember how we repelled the heavy encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang when we were in Chaling!" After speaking, he looked at everyone with a smile.

"Commander, I know, is it a large army that hits the troops to annihilate the enemy, and the rest of the people from all walks of life use flexible guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare to harass the enemy, exhaust the enemy, and make the enemy unable to march normally, waiting for us to completely annihilate the devil's army all the way, and the rest of the devils will naturally retreat because of the strength of the army." The second regiment commander, Gao Yuan, stood up and said.

"Well, that's the principle, but this time we have to hand over the task of harassing the army to the militia, the garrison regiment, and part of the main force, and this time in addition to harassing, we also have to try to kill and injure the enemy, so the task is very heavy. Next, the chief of staff will make specific arrangements for the tasks of this anti-encirclement and suppression operation. ”

Comrade Xiao Ping, Secretary of the Pingding County Party Committee. Li Qing stood up and shouted loudly.

"To"

"Secretary Xiao, your task is to command the militia in each village, mobilize the masses, carry out the clearing of the fortified walls, and arrange the transfer of the masses.

"Yes, guaranteed to complete the mission." Xiao Ping replied neatly.

"Comrade Wang Daoguang, Director of the Logistics Department."

"The task of your logistics department is to let the baggage troops take the company as a unit, carry at least two base ammunition, and replenish the losses of the main force at any time.

"Yes, guaranteed to complete the mission."

The new regiment, your task is to disperse the company as a unit, and attack the devils from Xingtai on the Pinghan Road along the way, as well as the reinforcements from the three directions of Yuanshi and Xiyang, all the guerrillas along the way, and the local militia are all under your command, and the devils are required to block the attack on this road for at least a week, and after the meeting, the new regiment will go to the logistics office to receive 1,000 mines, 10 electric detonation devices, and 20 thunder shells.

"Yes, resolutely complete the task and stop the devil for at least a week." The head of the regiment said resolutely.

The task of the new 2nd Regiment is to block Changzhi and stay in the direction of the enemy forces with the cooperation of the local militia and guerrillas, and the time required is one week, and after the meeting, they will go to the logistics office to receive the same equipment. ”

"The combat direction of the new third regiment is to pacify the two-way devils in the direction, and ask the devils to delay for a week, and go to collect equipment after the meeting."

All the remaining troops, including the artillery, special brigade, and guard company, were all under the unified command of the commander, and a wing marching from the direction of Shexian was encircled and annihilated. "Yes," the rest of the room replied at the same time, standing up together.

Seeing that all the cadres were seated again, Liu Hua stood up. "The three new regiments have been formed, the garrison regiment and other local troops are personally commanded by the political commissar during wartime, and the encirclement and annihilation of the devils are commanded by me and the chief of staff. "Nope." Everyone replied in unison.

"Okay, according to the intelligence, the specific time for the devils to send troops is the sixth, we still have two days to prepare, and all regiments are required to bring all the equipment and ammunition before tomorrow morning, and advance to their own predetermined battlefields, and they must arrive at the formulated position before the devils launch an attack, and the specific battle plan will be arranged by yourself, and the remaining three regiments and various directly subordinate units will also set off tomorrow and secretly transfer to the direction of Shexian County."

(To be continued)