Early the next morning, Meng Qingshan summoned everyone to the room for a meeting, while publicizing the situation of the reorganization of the team and what should be done for the future development of the second detachment, and asked the leaders of the second detachment: "What do you personally think about the future tasks?" ”

Cheng Wenjun, who had something to say, thought for a while and said: "Chief, I personally feel that our party must assume the leadership responsibility for the cause of resistance against Japan in Northeast China, and must not be satisfied with being strong on the surface, and it is impossible to achieve good results with simple and crude work goals. We must resolutely shift the focus of our work to building an army that is completely under the command of the party, select loyal, courageous, and hard-working young and middle-aged rural people to join the army, train them strictly, and let some people who cannot fight be sent to our rear to engage in agricultural undertakings and support the revolution. ”

"Your proposal is very good, but now that the enemy forces in the entire northeast region are strong, it is not easy to gain a foothold in one place, and whether we can resist the attack of the Japanese army is an important question. I've been thinking about it for a long time, can you talk about your thoughts in detail? ”

"Chief, I used to be very conflicted, and I really felt that I couldn't do both. However, through more than a month of teaching and being taught by the commander-in-chief of the fortress and arriving here to apply what you said to reality, I realized that our Anti-Japanese Liaison Department must be built into a force like the Guannai in order to eliminate the Japanese puppet army, inspire the confidence of the people, and deter the unified orders of all kinds of bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods, and form a combat-effective anti-Japanese armed force led by our party. ”

"Your idea is very good, it shows that you have applied everything I said, which is much better than mine." Meng Qingshan said with a smile.

"Commander, I think we should not only strengthen the building of the party in the army, we should also train a large number of soldiers to defend our base areas, of course, we can't let him be a soldier just like an individual, just like Comrade Wen Jun said to train elite troops from the crowd, and brush down those who are not suitable for combat or are not qualified in physique to assign to other posts, according to my ideas, our fighters are the first in military discipline, the second in bravery, and the third in ability." Chief of Staff Wang Guangyu said.

"I will carefully consider your suggestion, have you considered promoting the anti-Japanese situation in the Northeast? That is, what kind of deployment will be used to open up the anti-Japanese situation in the Northeast? ”

"I know this, Commander, although the Japanese army now has a lot of troops in the three eastern provinces, but because our three eastern provinces are vast and rich, the focus of the Japanese army's defense is on the border or important cities, and the enemy's forces are actually very scattered, and there are many blank areas for domination, and we can develop there. I think that the layout of North Manchuria, South Manchuria, and Jidong is reasonable, with independent development, mutual support, and flexible operations. It will definitely get the support of the villagers, and the team will get bigger and bigger, but because of the group tribe plan carried out by the Japanese army, we did not fight back, resulting in the situation we are in now, so I think we should break the group tribe plan of the Japanese army in the first place. Wang Wennian said.

"This point can be seen from your combat summary in the past few months, you have achieved very great victories, but in this way, our frequent activities will also attract the attention of the Japanese army, so our only goal now is to train the troops, if we do not train the soldiers well, all plans are useless, and now the military and political personnel I brought are scattered and distributed to various units, and the crisis of expanding the subordinate has been solved."

After the discussion, Meng Qingshan locked himself in his room and carefully reviewed the collected enemy files, documents, newspapers, and maps, from which he judged the political, economic, and military situation of the Japanese army, looked for the enemy's weak links, and secured a new direction of development.

"Eh, why is Hegang Coal Mine here, so close to us, does this mean that I should solve it?" Meng Qingshan found the place of Hegang Coal Mine on a map of the Japanese army that he took from the seat. I didn't expect that the location of the Hegang Coal Mine was really indicated on this map, this little devil's map was accurate, originally Meng Qingshan thought that it would take a few months to find the Hegang Coal Mine, but he didn't expect God to send it to him, Meng Qingshan thought secretly.

For a while, Meng Qingshan killed the grain plan on the one hand, and the arsenal plan on the other, in the end, it should be completed first, it stands to reason that the three armies have not moved, the grain first, if there is no food, everything is in vain, but if there is no arsenal, there will be not enough weapons and ammunition to fight the food, and it will not be able to resist the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army.

In this way, after Meng Qingshan thought about it for a night, he finally decided to attack the Hegang Coal Mine first, Meng Qingshan anxiously brought Wang Wennian and others over, explained his combat intentions to them, and ordered the Sixth Regiment, the Seventh Regiment, and the original guard battalion of the Tenth Army to merge to form the guard battalion and artillery battalion of the reinforced regiment, and after a quick rest for three days, except for leaving a certain number of troops to defend the base, all the remaining troops were led by Meng Qingshan himself, and at the same time ordered the Fourth Regiment to move closer to them as a reserve to lay down the Hegang Coal Mine. And the entire mine must be emptied. Of course, the reconnaissance mission in the early stage was still needed, and just after the discussion was completed, the first company of the reconnaissance battalion, which had just rested, set out again for the purpose of reconnoitering all the situations in Hegang and the military and political cadres and radio personnel sent to the Fourth Regiment by the way.

Just after Meng Qingshan gave the order, Zhou Yuewu, the commander of the fourth regiment, led his troops to prepare to ambush the Japanese puppet army that came to encircle and suppress, and had just arrived in Luobei Zhou Yuewu specially sent a reconnaissance platoon to keep an eye on every move in the county town in order to prevent the Japanese army from stationing in Luobei County. Dry rations were made, and all the troops were preparing for the battle in an orderly manner. Finally, on the second day, that is, the trumpeter sounded, and the troops had a full meal, they set out from the base camp of the Fourth Regiment with three days' worth of dry rations.

Every soldier of the Fourth Regiment is full of confidence in the upcoming battle, because after more than a month of fighting, especially the number of the pioneer regiment and gold mines and forest farms that wiped out the Japanese army has not decreased but more than doubled, and the most harvested by the troops is the shell gun, you must know that after having a large number of shell guns, the troops will no longer be afraid of the Japanese stabbing in the process of fighting with the Japanese bayonet, and now each battalion has a most elite platoon all equipped with double guns, a pistol, and a rifle, And this unit is specially in the hands of their respective battalion commanders, and they are ready to deliver a fatal blow to the devils when they are engaged in melee combat with the devils.

Due to the large number of recruits, the basic cadres of the army are not enough, Zhou Yuewu has been a headache, to the headquarters, but the headquarters seems to be more lacking than him, his own training does not have that ability, when Zhou Yuewu returned from the camp of the third battalion, he found that General Zhao Shangzhi, who was famous in the three eastern provinces, came to him and brought more than 100 veterans of the Anti-Japanese Federation, at that time Zhou Yuewu stared at these people like a single man who had been fighting for half his life, and suddenly met a group of beautiful women in his own home, do I want it, or do I want it! Because he was not very familiar with Commander Zhao, he had to ask the political commissar to talk to Commander Zhao, but he did not expect that Commander Zhao was very generous and sent 30 old anti-Japanese fighters to his troops at once, so that the gap in his basic cadres was greatly filled, and the fourth regiment has now expanded to four battalions, with four companies under each battalion, plus the guard company of the regiment headquarters, the reconnaissance company, and some logistics personnel, a total of more than 2,400 people.