Therefore, Qiao Youhua chose to cooperate with Britain, Germany and even the Soviet Union, on the one hand, in exchange for all kinds of money, technology and materials that he urgently needed.

On the one hand, it is also targeted to strengthen the strength of the main participating countries in the European battlefield in some aspects, so that they can fight more miserably and create time and opportunities for the rise of China.

Pingshan County, inside the headquarters of the Dragon's Tooth Column.

After having a New Year's dinner with his four wives, Qiao Youhua was thinking about which wife to go to sleep with, when suddenly his personal attendant adjutant Li Yansan hurriedly walked in from outside.

When he saw Qiao Youhua, he immediately stood up and saluted: "Commander, the political commissar said that there is something urgent to find you, please hurry up." ”

Qiao Youhua sighed, smiled apologetically at Lin Xian'er, Xu Yu'er, Feng Yu, Liu Ruhan and others, and then under their resentful gaze, he and Li Yansan left quickly and rushed straight to the conference room.

When Qiao Youhua arrived, political commissar Guo Meng was already waiting for him in the conference room, although he was sitting at the conference table, his expression was very anxious, and he seemed to be in a hurry.

Probably hearing the footsteps outside, Guo Meng immediately stood up, just as Qiao Youhua pushed the door in at this time, and Li Yansan stayed outside to guard.

"You're here." Guo Meng was the first to speak.

Qiao Youhua knew that because of his marriage with Lin Xian'er and Feng Yu, Guo Meng was a little unhappy, so he said with a smile: "You Guo Political Commissar summoned you, how dare someone Qiao not come." ”

Qiao Youhua's ridicule, Guo Meng didn't care, and said without a smile: "It's really important to come to you, now is not the time to joke." ”

Qiao Youhua put away his smile and said, "Well, what's the matter, let's talk about it." ”

Guo Meng turned around and returned to the place where he was sitting just now, picked up a copy of Wen Jiàn on the table, handed it to him, and said, "This is an urgent telegram sent to us by the head of our Eighth Route Army Headquarters, you can take a look." ”

Qiao Youhua was shocked, the head of the headquarters had not sent a direct telegram to himself for a long time, and the previous few times, it was basically the heads of the military and political departments of the 18th Group of the Prefecture who regularly sent some commendation messages to encourage the brilliant achievements of the Longya Column in Hebei.

Although he was surprised in his heart, Qiao Youhua stepped forward, stretched out his hand to take the message, and just glanced at it, his brows tightened together.

Guo Meng took the initiative to speak at this time: "You have also seen it, because of our rapid development in Shanxi and Shandong, the Japanese puppet army in these two places, and even some local resistance forces that secretly colluded with the Japanese, have united to suppress and squeeze out the anti-Japanese contingent led by our army in various forms and aspects.

In order to get out of this situation, the head of our headquarters decided to transfer our Longya Column, an elite force of a hundred battles, to the south and cooperate with friendly troops in Shandong and Shanxi to counterattack the Japanese puppet army in various parts of the two provinces.

Expand the scope of our anti-Japanese base areas! ”

After reading the first chapter of the telegram, Qiao Youhua raised his head and asked, "Does the head of the headquarters mean that he wants our troops to go south to support Shandong and Shanxi in two ways?" ”

Guo Meng shook his head lightly and said: "No, the head of the headquarters said in the back, in view of the fact that the Yellow River and Mount Tai are blocked by the Yellow River in the south, and the Jiaodong Peninsula in Shandong and other places are close to the sea, it is more difficult for our army to fight at this stage.

Shanxi was the first anti-Japanese battlefield opened up by our Eighth Route Army, and it was also the province and region with the strongest anti-Japanese strength in our country, so it was decided to transfer the main force of our Longya Column from Jingcheng Pass to Shan, cross Taihang Mountain along the Zhengtai Railway Line, go south through Yangquan, and approach Taiyuan.

The head of our headquarters will mobilize a number of troops that can be deployed to launch a counteroffensive against the Japanese puppet army in various parts of Shanxi in order to support our southward movements.

Our underground party, agents and other personnel lurking in Taiyuan and other places will also do their best to cooperate.

The head of the General Headquarters hopes that on the premise of rationally arranging the remaining troops in the base areas and ensuring the comfort of the base areas, we will mobilize as many powerful combat units as possible to form an attack group to move south into Jinjin to fight!

Go all out to assist our brother troops in Shanxi, exterminate the Japanese puppet enemy army, and recover the land of Sanjin! ”

Qiao Youhua listened as he read the remaining two pages of the text one after another, and finally put the message on the table in front of him.

Guo Meng looked at him and asked, "What do you think about this?" ”

Qiao Youhua said calmly: "To be honest, it's very surprising, I originally wanted to wait for our base to rest for a while and expand our strength, that is, to go north to recover Pingjin, but I didn't expect that at this time, the head of the headquarters would let us go south." ”

Guo Meng said a little worriedly: "Then you mean, don't carry out this order of the head of the headquarters?" ”

Qiao Youhua shook his head and said: "No, since the head of the headquarters has sent us this telegram, it should be that the pros and cons have been carefully discussed with Yan'an, and the overall strategic deployment has been made."

As a matter of fact, judging from the situation in the anti-Japanese base areas of our Eighth Route Army, if we can go south to support, the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong will be connected and become our largest anti-Japanese base in North China.

That is extremely beneficial to the overall situation, so going south to Taiyuan is of great strategic significance, and it is the same as our north going to Pingjin.

If we can recover the land of Sanjin, then our brother troops in Shanxi will also be able to free up their hands in the future and go north to Suiyuan, Chahar and other places to fight, which can play a direct role in our recovery of Pingjin.

After recovering the land of the Three Jin Dynasty, we will also be able to get more soldiers, and our strength will also be on a higher level.

Therefore, Political Commissar Guo, you immediately call back to the head of the headquarters in the name of you and me, saying that we will resolutely carry out the orders of the Yan'an side and the heads of the headquarters.

We will do our best to mobilize as many elite troops as possible and go south to fight in Sanjin as soon as possible! However, we also have a request, that is, to ask the head of the General Headquarters to send us another batch of outstanding military staff officers, and our Longya Column, from the headquarters to the divisions and regimental combat units, are extremely short of excellent staff officers. ”

Guo Meng didn't expect Qiao Youhua to say this, so he nodded happily and happily in surprise: "Yes, I know, I'll go to power generation immediately, staff officer, I believe that the head of the headquarters will definitely fully support us." ”

Qiao Youhua smiled and nodded, "Well, I also believe that the head of the headquarters will agree to this request." ”

After Guo Meng left, Qiao Youhua lit a cigarette and smoked it in front of the battle map, looked at the sphere of influence of his own base area, and began to think about mobilizing those troops to go south into Jin.

Today, although the base area of the Dragon's Tooth Column has been greatly expanded, the strength of the column has also been greatly increased, and after the last expansion, there are more than 60,000 regular troops, plus the captured and absorbed militia units.

The total strength of the army has exceeded 100,000 people, although the northern and southern fronts must be left to defend, but in view of the current weak state of the Japanese army, in a short period of time, at least half a year, the Japanese army should not be able to counterattack.

Therefore, Qiao Youhua was still able to draw a considerable part of his troops to the south.