Walking into the headquarters of the Fifth Military Region, the inside of the headquarters is as busy as the weather outside. The staff officers kept running out and running in. As commanders, Li Zhaolin and Feng Zhongyun were standing in front of a huge map of Longjiang Province to discuss. On the other hand, Zhao Jingfu, director of the political department, led the political commissars and logistics personnel of several regiments to count the quantity of materials and classify them in detail.

Because the target of the Japanese attack was the Anti-Japanese Union Headquarters in Sunwu County, the Fifth Military Region on the edge was not affected again, but saw a lot of cheapness, and when Fengwu rushed back to Qiqihar with a large number of troops under the mountain, Li Zhaolin led the Fifth Military Region to occupy Nahe County, and cooperated with the Third Division to ambush the Japanese logistics troops, seizing more than a dozen cars of ammunition. At present, Li Zhaolin, commander of the Fifth Military Region, is discussing with political commissar Feng Zhongyun whether or not to place the headquarters in Nahe County.

When they saw Meng Qingshan enter the headquarters, Li Zhaolin and Feng Zhongyun stopped discussing, and Li Zhaolin said: "Commander-in-chief, I think that after this battle, although the Japanese army is still very strong, we can't have a cat in the mountains, we should go out and have a face-to-face battle with them, so I think that Nahe County, the headquarters of our military region, will enable us to better develop the anti-Japanese movement and work behind enemy lines in the future." ”

"Commander-in-chief, I don't think that the number of troops left by the Japanese army is still nearly 10,000 at the moment, and once the Japanese army sends a large army to attack, it will be impossible to resist it with our current strength, so I think we should still develop well here, and wait for the scale of the troops to grow before going out."

"You all have a point, I also think we can't always be in the mountains, we should go out, but don't be so obvious. I suggest that you can move your headquarters to the area of Chaoyang Mountain in Dedu County, where the terrain is dangerous. The forest is dense, which is conducive to sports attacks. Convenient for roundabout transfers. There are no highways from the original Dedu county town to Chaoyang Mountain, there are no villages around the mountainous areas, there are two small rivers in the west and southwest, the east side is a swamp, the south is a barrier by Kekui Mountain, there is a black blind ditch in the west as a channel, and there are three mountains in the central area, and the peaks are even the peaks, which is an ideal place for guerrilla strategy. Even if the Japanese army sends a large army to encircle and suppress you, it will be difficult to find you. Meng Qingshan said with a smile.

"But Commander-in-Chief, then we'll give up here?" Feng Zhongyun asked.

"Of course, it's not to give up, but the headquarters also wants to change places, and I don't know if Political Commissar Feng agrees?" Meng Qingshan asked with a smile.

"Is the headquarters going to be moved here?"

"Yes, after this Japanese sweep, the base area was destroyed, and the movement track of the headquarters was also captured by the Japanese army, and it would be very dangerous for the headquarters to stay there any longer, so I discussed with the chief of staff and decided to move the headquarters to Morgan for better development. And the main direction of our offensive in the future is here. Meng Qingshan pointed to the map after speaking.

"Zhalantun, Hailar?" Li Zhaolin and Feng Zhongyun said in unison.

"Yes, this is the case, our future strategy is to develop to the west and defend to the south, and the main forces of the Japanese army are now concentrated in Jiamusi, Harbin, Xinjing, and the border area. And now, after we attack Qiqihar City, although the Japanese army still has tens of thousands of troops, for us, we only need to send people to cut off the Qiha route. If they don't have supplies, then their combat effectiveness will not be enough. Morgan is a vast area, located in the transition zone between the Khingan Mountains and the Songnen Plain. The low hills are stacked on top of each other, and the terraces are undulating. north of Yile Huli Mountain, and the Daxing'an Mountains area; It is bordered by Xiaoxinganling in the east and Aihui County, Sunwu County and Dedu City; It is adjacent to the Nenjiang River in the west, and faces each other across the river from the east and west provinces of Xing'an; 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 a transportation artery and commodity distribution center that communicates the Heihe Port, radiates the Great Xing'an Mountains and the eastern part of Inner Mongolia. ”

"I'm obedient, how come I didn't find out that this is a treasure land before." Li Zhaolin said in surprise.

Meng Qingshan thought in his heart, who let me know, this Murgen is really an undeveloped treasure land, you must know that in later generations, Murgen is Nenjiang County, rich in resources, arable land area in Heilongjiang Province ranked second, is the country's famous soybean, wheat bean, potato, sugar beet production base, known as the granary of the north. Forest resources in the province in the ninth place, grassland resources in the province in the second place, mineral resources are very rich, has found copper, gold, molybdenum, iron, tungsten, zinc, nickel and other metal minerals 62 kinds, of which the reserves of copper occupy the first in the province, the third in the country.

"However, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army has laid down heavy troops on the border, not to mention that Hailar City is known as the military capital of the Japanese army, where is it difficult for us to fight!" Feng Zhongyun said with a frown.

"Comrade Zhongyun thought very reasonably, the Japanese army had deployed a large number of heavy troops in Hailar before, but the troops were almost disabled in the First Battle of Normenhan, and from the intelligence collected by our intelligence officers and the information shared by the Jiangbei side, as well as the intelligence collected by the First Army Division, it was learned that the original cavalry group of the Japanese garrison in Hailar City was all transferred to Chahar, Suiyuan and Mengjiang in July 1938, and the Shibuya detachment suffered a great loss in the First Battle of Normenhan, and now it has been withdrawn to the garrison Gongzhuling with the remnants of the Angang Tank Division to rest and recuperate. Their Eighth Border Garrison was annihilated by the Soviets on August 27 last year, Hasebe Daisain was defeated and "self-determined", and Asahi Unit 703 was dispatched to the Normenhan War in May last year. A total of 15,978 officers and men were dispatched, 12,230 were wounded, killed, or "missing," and the average "attrition rate" of the whole division and regiment reached 76 percent. The casualty rate of the 71st Infantry Wing was 94 per cent. Major General Ouchizi, chief of staff of the division, was killed in battle, and the commander of the 71st Infantry Wing, Toru Morita, was killed. His acting wing commander, Toshoji Nakasa, committed suicide, artillery wing commander Ise Takahide Osa, and the commander of the 64th Infantry Wing, Yama Prefecture Takemitsu Osa, committed suicide by disembowelment, and search wing leader Eiichi Nakasa was forced to "self-determination" with a pistol after being captured and repatriated. In addition, the commander of the divisional infantry brigade, Major General Kobayashi, had his leg blown off, and the left arm of Mikio Sakai, the commander of the 72nd Infantry Wing, was broken. The 23rd Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the Normenhan War, and it can be said that the current defenders of Hailar are only remnants of the defeated army. ”

Hearing what Meng Qingshan said, Li Zhaolin and Feng Zhongyun exhaled, this is simply more exciting than a big victory for the Anti-Japanese Union, before they knew from the propaganda of Manchukuo that both Japan and the Soviet Union were defeated in the Battle of Normenhan, and they never thought that such an invincible Japanese Kwantung Army would be beaten so badly by the Soviet big brother, the two of them glanced at each other, and instantly understood their thoughts, Meng Qingshan knew that they must have thought about when the Anti-Japanese Federation would be able to beat the little devil like this like the Soviet Union.

With the temporary end of the entire encirclement and suppression campaign, the newly appointed commander of the Japanese Qiqihar, Lieutenant General Tada Jun, began to restore all the facilities of Qiqihar in accordance with the deployment of the Kwantung Army Headquarters. At the same time, troops were dispatched to defend against the attacks of the Anti-Japanese Union in the areas of Fufu, Yangjiadian, Yi'an, and Mingshui, because the Japanese Kwantung Army had lost more than 10,000 people in the past year, and the strength was greatly damaged, and the Japanese base camp began to continuously mobilize new divisions from the mainland to join the establishment of the Japanese Kwantung Army, and the Japanese Kwantung Army placed the soldiers gathered from Taiwan and Korea on the Hailar front line to supplement the 703 troops.

However, because Qiqihar was looted by the Anti-Japanese Federation, when Tada Jun took over, it was found that there was hardly a single bullet casing found in the entire city. Looking at the empty warehouses, the important facilities that were blown up, the damaged railways, and the nearly 3,000 Japanese expatriates who were crying and screaming that there was only a fig leaf left on their bodies, Tada Jun finally understood at this time that the reason why Yamashita Fengwu vomited blood, and that the garrison of a large number of troops was in Qiqihar, which was like a dead city, and the supply of materials was a very difficult thing. In addition, on the first day of Meng Qingshan's return to Murgen, Yang Jingyu led his troops to sabotage all roads and railways related to Qiqihar according to Meng Qingshan's order. It can be said that with the transportation of combat supplies from one division of Qiqihar, it is enough for many Tian Jun to work for at least a month, not to mention sending troops to harass the Anti-Japanese Federation.

Similarly, after a big battle, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation also needs a lot of time to recover its combat effectiveness. However, what makes everyone feel fortunate is that the nearly 1,000 seriously wounded in the last battle have basically recovered their combat effectiveness and can be used as the backbone of the grassroots to replenish various units at any time. At the same time, a group of cadets from the Northeast Military and Political University have just graduated, and more than 500 squad and platoon commanders have also added a lot of fresh blood to the troops that have suffered heavy losses. (To be continued.) )