Chapter 74: Preparation (4)
Seeing the two of them walking into the conference room with smiles on their faces, Liu Hua knew that the troops must have achieved rich results this month.
"Political Commissar, Director Li, seeing that your smiling mouths can't be closed, what is there to be happy about! Say it and rejoice together. Liu Hua said with a smile.
"Well, Legion Commander, you don't know how much we have achieved this month." The commissar said happily.
"Yes, Commander of the Army, it can be said that the results are abundant, and I finally know why the people of Xiangxi are so poor." Director Li Qing also said with a smile.
"Why? Tell me about it. Liu Hua immediately became interested.
"Legion Commander, no, you still came up with the idea. You don't know, haha, I thought you knew everything? Li Qing immediately seized the opportunity and said.
"What!" Liu Hua stared at the two of them.
"Hehe, it's because there are too many bandits in Xiangxi, and the people's things have been robbed by the bandits, can they not be poor?" Director Li Qing said with a smile.
"You're crazy about me. I'm your boss, you're all right, don't talk about it, tell me about the results of the troops this month. Liu Hua said with a wry smile.
"Commander, I'm in charge of recruiting, I'll talk about it first! After a month of rotational training of various units, we have annihilated a total of 32 enemy bandits, a total of more than 2,000 bandits, including more than 1,700 prisoners, through our efforts there are about 1,450 prisoners willing to join our troops, plus this month's recruitment of each division, the current recruit corps has reached more than 2,300 people, and now under the leadership of He Tie, the basic routine training has been carried out, and it is very effective, and they can be replenished to the main force at any time. Political Commissar Guan Xiangying said with a smile.
"Well, the results are not small, what about Director Li?" Liu Hua looked at Director Li Qing again.
"Commander, don't look at me, my achievements are also very rich, say it to scare you, first of all, let's talk about gold, Xiangxi is rich in gold, this month, we have collected a total of 21 kilograms of gold, more than 50,000 pieces of ocean, grain, that's more, a total of about 300,000 catties of grain, plus the capture and purchase of several major battles of our troops, now the army's food is about to reach 1.5 million catties, so that even if it is not captured in the future, it is enough for our whole army to eat for 4 months. Commander, how is it, the results are not big! After speaking, he glared at Liu Hua dissatisfiedly.
"Hehe, it seems that only my results are the smallest. After a month of training and actual combat training, the combat effectiveness of the troops has been greatly improved, and I dare not say that the combat effectiveness of the current regiment of 1,000 people is stronger than the original 1,500 people, or at least not weaker than the original main force regiment. Liu Hua also said with a smile.
"Well, Legion Commander, it seems that we have achieved a lot this month, why don't the three of us celebrate today!" The commissar immediately reminded.
"I agree," Director Li Qing immediately agreed.
"Since you've all said so, I'm on orders." Liu Hua said with a smile
In this way, soon a month passed, although the combat effectiveness of the troops became stronger and stronger, but Liu Hua did not get happy because of this, because he knew that the time of the Red Second Army in Xiangxi was getting less and less, and Chiang Kai-shek's largest and last encirclement and suppression of the Red Second Army was about to begin, after this heavy encirclement and suppression, and then the Red Fourth Army suffered heavy losses under the leadership of Zhang Guotao, the Red Army could no longer withstand serious losses, in order to strengthen the strength of the Red Army and concentrate its forces, the Central Committee decided to transfer the Red Second Army to northern Shaanxi, the whole army converged, and thus began the Long March of the Red Second Army.
Although the Red Seventh Army was created due to his arrival, the strength of the Red Second Front Army was greatly strengthened, but the general development line did not change, and through the intelligence of the headquarters, Liu Hua knew that there were hundreds of thousands of troops surrounding the base area, and he was ready to launch an encirclement and suppression of the base area at any time.
In order to deal with the enemy's heavy encirclement and suppression, the three corps in the base area are now all ready, and similarly, the seventh corps is also ready to deal with it.
After Liu Hua's order, now every soldier in the army carries 10 days of dry food, and at the same time, the baggage company of each regiment carries 20 days of grain and grass of its own regiment, and the remaining 1 million catties of grain are all loaded on mule horses, ready to be transferred, and all personnel are ready for the arrival of the big battle.