After returning to the fortress, Meng Qingshan called the cadres at the regimental level to the conference room, and Chief of Staff Cui Shiquan gave the battle order.

"The command of the campaign was arranged in this way, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Yang led the first battalion, the twelfth regiment, the thirteenth regiment, the nineteenth regiment of the cavalry regiment, and the mountain artillery regiment to ambush the Japanese cavalry units in the area of Shaojiashan. Comrade Meng Qingshan, commander-in-chief, and I led the 21st, 25th, and 26th regiments, artillery regiments, and the remnants of the cavalry regiment to command the encirclement and annihilation of the enemy infantry at Xiyangmu Mountain. Comrade Zhou Baozhong and Comrade Wei Zhengmin, the General Political Commissars, were responsible for staying at the headquarters, collecting intelligence, organizing the militia, and transporting the wounded, prisoners, and all kinds of captured materials to the common people... Is it clear to everyone? The chief of staff then ordered.

"Clear......

"Okay, I'll give you a day, that is, after the meeting, everyone has to pull all the troops to the positions in one day, and dig up the fortifications and positions. Tomorrow afternoon, the commander-in-chief and I will personally inspect it. At six o'clock in the morning of the day after tomorrow, that is, on the morning of the 16th, the attack was launched on time, and Comrade Chen Hanzhang, your plan to attack Sunwu County was suspended first, and your men were to be used as reserves. ”

"Ahh Don't fight? But I mobilized the troops last night, and now the morale of the fighters is very high, why did it cancel it? Chen Hanzhang's eyes widened and he said.

"Commander Chen, due to the change in plan, your battle plan has been canceled for the time being, and you stay in the fortress to wait for orders."

"Yes, resolutely obey orders." Chen Hanzhang shook his head and said.

"Okay, everyone adjourns the meeting, remember what I said before the meeting, the issue of confidentiality. The meeting was adjourned..."That's it. Thus ended the first nominal pre-war preparations for the Anti-Union Command.

After the meeting was adjourned, no one stopped at the headquarters. Hurry up and gather the troops to go to the logistics department to get a white cloak and wooden skateboard, and prepare to set off. Equally. The troops stationed around the headquarters also sounded the horn of assembly, and one after another drove out of the fortress where the headquarters was located, and marched to Xiyangmu Mountain and Shaojia Mountain, which were more than ten miles away, and saw nothing in the sky, and it turned out that Meng Qingshan found a white cloth in a warehouse in the fortress of the devils, and Meng Qingshan pondered that winter was coming soon, and it was difficult for a large number of troops to hide in this white environment, as long as the reconnaissance plane of the little devils passed all the way, it would be better to hide in the mountains. As long as you go out, it is easy to be discovered by the Japanese army.

For this reason, Meng Qingshan deliberately sent the white cloth to the women in the base area to ask them to help sew white cloaks, that is, the white clothes worn by the Soviet Union in later generations, as long as the soldiers wrapped in white cloaks and the snow on the ground had the same look, it was difficult for the Japanese army to find traces of the Anti-Japanese Union.

"Comrade Hanzhang, don't make a fuss, Sunwu County is definitely going to fight, but now that the situation has changed, we can only give up fighting it for the time being, anyway, Sunwu County doesn't have long legs, so when you want to fight, you will naturally be allowed to fight." Looking at the departing troops, Meng Qingshan looked at Chen Hanzhang, a famous general of the first army in front of him, and said.

"Commander-in-Chief. Don't worry, I'm fine, our 14th Regiment will be ready to be dispatched and go to the battlefield at any time. Chen Hanzhang replied.

"Well, this time we are facing nearly 8,000 little devils. And although our troops have a great advantage in numbers, in fact we still have too many recruits and too little time for training. There will definitely be room for you to play when the time comes. Lao Zhou, Lao Wei, as soon as we leave, the burden of the headquarters will all be on you. You've got a lot of work to do! ”

"Old Meng. Lao Yang, don't worry. We will certainly do a good job in the logistical work of the troops, so that the soldiers can fight with peace of mind and have no worries. Zhou Baozhong assured.

"Okay, Lao Wei, your task is to collect information and pass on important information to me at any time. In addition, you have to organize a certain militia to be on standby at the edge of the battlefield at any time, helping the troops transport the wounded, escort prisoners, and clean up the battlefield. If everything goes well, Lao Zhou, you have to secretly organize a group of ordinary people to bring carts and climbing plows to assemble around Sunwu County on the night of the 17th... As for the purpose of the assembly, you should all know it..."Meng Qingshan ordered again.

"Commander-in-chief, rest assured," both replied at the same time.

"Okay, then let's break up now, and we'll see you after the battle is won." Meng Qingshan shook the hands of the two and said.

"Lao Meng, Lao Yang, take care of yourself, we'll see you after the victory." The two replied with a military salute to Meng Qingshan and Yang Jingyu respectively.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the twenty-first regiment, the twenty-fifth regiment, the twenty-sixth regiment, the artillery regiment, and the cavalry battalion have arrived at Xiyangmu Mountain." Several people walked up to Meng Qingshan and saluted and said.

"I won't say too much, and I will seize the time to build field fortifications according to the arrangement of the pre-war meeting. Artillery regiments, cavalry regiments, immediately choose the right terrain for sorties, and artillery positions, and carry out concealment...... In addition, when building a position, remember that when passing the road, the grass that is stepped on must be lifted up in the direction of the wind, and the footprints of our large army must be cleaned, and the stones on the hillside should not be moved, as long as you are careful when burying mines behind the mountain..."Meng Qingshan pointed to the gravel on the hillside and said.

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief, guarantee to complete the mission..."

Immediately afterwards, under the leadership of their respective regiment commanders, the 21st Regiment, the 25th Regiment, the 26th Regiment, the Artillery Regiment, and the Cavalry Battalion went to their respective positions one after another. Under the vigilance of the cavalry regiment, the various units quickly dispersed and began to build positions in their own ambush positions. The fighters walked along the mountain beams, dug trenches, bunkers. At the same time, in order to avoid the Japanese shelling, a bunker was also built on the anticline of the position, because it was already winter at this time, the soil was difficult to dig and could not build fortifications, so the soldiers thought of many tricks, some directly used stones to build obstacles, some directly got a tree and put it in front of them to serve as a cover on the snow cover, and some directly cats into the snow. Only the 26th Regiment was lucky enough to be assigned to a dense forest, and the soldiers could not be found by the Japanese as long as they were lying on the ground, and the 21st Regiment was pitifully divided on the platform, and their position was bare except for snow and stones.

Meng Qingshan, Chief of Staff Cui Shiquan, stood at the headquarters that had taken shape and was being reinforced. Looking at the busy battlefield, I can't help but feel excited. Because on the road that spreads nearly seven kilometers long, the soldiers are standing on the mountain beam next to the highway to step up the construction of fortifications, and as far as the eye can see, the entire battlefield is full of soldiers waving the shovels in their hands, which is very spectacular, of course, Meng Qingshan also frowned Only three kilometers of this seven-kilometer section of the road are soft soil, and the rest of the places are either stones or stones, but when they saw the soldiers hiding themselves in all kinds of ways, even Meng Qingshan found them.

At this time, the weather was about minus ten degrees, although the soldiers were wearing cotton clothes, but it was quite difficult to wait for the Japanese army here for a night, so Meng Qingshan instructed the cooking class to make more ginger soup every two hours, and at the same time bring all the hoarded jerky and bacon to replenish the strength of the soldiers, if it weren't for the lack of chocolate, Meng Qingshan wanted to prepare a few pieces for each soldier, looking at the soldiers' frozen faces that were a little purple, Meng Qingshan was very distressed, although the meat in the base area is not very abundant now, But Meng Qingshan still killed ten pigs that were ready to be eaten for the New Year and made a pot of pork and sauerkraut for the soldiers, and the Korean soldiers pickled the North Korean pickles made the soldiers' food change in the past few days, so that this group of newly joined anti-United Nations fighters After this, what Meng Qingshan didn't expect was that what the soldiers were looking forward to every day was not the New Year but the war. (To be continued......)