However, although he welcomed Zhao Shangzhi's desire to work in the second detachment, Meng Qingshan felt that it was better to ventilate some words in advance: "Comrade Shangzhi, although I am much younger than you and my work experience is far less than yours, I think it is better to say it in advance with some advice." ”

These words are not spoken by a superior to a person who is about to be his subordinate, but by a junior's advice to the big brother. These words can be understood as advice, as persuasion, and of course as commands. ”

"I hope you can control your temper and temperament, and don't get too stiff with your superiors and comrades. When encountering problems, consult with each other more and consider the opinions and ideas of others. For the problems at work, don't go online at every turn, I don't approve of buttoning hats indiscriminately, but many times, some things often have to be considered from several aspects. ”

"Just like not long ago, you were going to send someone to shoot Comrade Qi Zhizhong, you must know that Comrade Qi Zhizhong is also an old comrade, how can you say that you will shoot if you shoot him? If you lose your temper if you don't understand it, and shoot whoever is upset, then you will be the only one left in the entire army, how can you resist the Japanese, do you want to face hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops alone. ”

"I know my temper is not very good, I will correct it, I will not make this mistake, since you said let me be the commander of this base behind enemy lines, I have no opinion. For me, it doesn't matter how high or low the position is, as long as there are devils to fight. ”

The people who followed Zhao Shangzhi back from the Soviet Union were all his descendants, and Meng Qingshan believed that the political commissar of the Third Division, who had been selected from among them, not only could not restrain him, but was very likely to condone him in some respect. That would completely harm him, so he let himself concurrently serve as political commissar, but Meng Qingshan specially sent 50 commanders and fighters who had just been trained by the Northeast Military and Political School to follow Zhao Shangzhi south to develop the base area.

Meng Qingshan asked the three battalions of the new regiment to be trained for less than a month and sent a platoon from each battalion of the guard regiment to form a garrison regiment, and he did not expect anything from the combat effectiveness of this garrison regiment for at least a short time, but only hoped to hold the base area.

The areas under the jurisdiction of Tonghe and Fengshan are newly opened up, and the troops have just been formed. Although three platoons of troops were sent from the garrison regiment when it was formed, this garrison regiment did not have a veteran unit of the Anti-United Nations. Almost all of them from top to bottom are newcomers with clear water.

An unfamiliar environment, unfamiliar troops, and an unfamiliar battle plan made it almost impossible to understand before. Meng Qingshan believes that it will take at least three to five months to smooth out this relationship alone. When the combat strength is formed, the troops that are still skeletons will be fleshed out, at least until next year.

No one could have imagined that this unit, which was almost completely new from top to bottom, would develop so rapidly under the leadership of General Zhao Shangzhi, who was good at guerrilla warfare, that the speed of improvement in combat effectiveness could even be described as a thousand miles a day. By the time of the winter war, the performance of this unit could almost be described as refreshing.

In its performance in battle, almost no one believed that it was only a local unit that had been formed for less than three months, mainly composed of recruits who had completed full training but had little combat experience.

Due to the urgency of the current situation and Zhao Shangzhi, hoping to quickly gain a foothold in Tonghe and Fengshan, he only rested at the headquarters of the second detachment for two days before returning to the base area with his troops south to fight the Japanese army.

After sending Zhao Shangzhi away, Meng Qingshan and the various cadres of the second detachment discussed and studied in the headquarters and implemented the arsenal plan that he had planned for many days.

"Commander, didn't you decide to start the food battle plan first? How did you hit the coal mine first? ”

"The political commissar is not that I am in a hurry, but I can't fight it, do you think the headquarters will succeed in the southern expedition to Qiqihar? If they fail and some of the senior cadres are captured, our position will leak out, and then we will face the encirclement of the Japanese army, and it will be difficult for us to hold out if we don't have enough weapons and ammunition, so I decided that we would attack the coal mines and seize the machinery, and transfer the headquarters to the Luobei area. ”

"Commander of a squadron of Japanese troops placed there, it is almost impossible to transport all the equipment from the coal mine, you must know that if we attack the coal mine, the garrison of Hegang Town will definitely go to support us and bombard us with artillery fire." Chief of Staff Wang Guangyu heard Meng Qingshan's analysis and immediately said negatively.

"It's very simple, so that the devils in Hegang Town can't support the devils in the mining area, even if there is artillery support from the devils in Heli Town, if we interrupt the devils' communications, then how can the devils call for artillery support, and the Liumen cannons there will all become decorations."

"But when we attack the Hegang Coal Mine, we can't just grab it, as long as the gun goes off, the devils in Heli Town will know how they can't go to support." Wang Guangyu asked suspiciously.

"We are attacking the coal mine at the same time as attacking Hegang Town, so that the devils in Heli Town will not be able to take care of the coal mine, but in this case, we will have to divide our troops, you must know that we don't have a lot of troops in our hands now. But we also have an artillery regiment here, and this time we are all dispatched not to break the Japanese coal mine and swear not to return it. ”

Under everyone's discussion, Meng Qingshan perfected his battle plan, and soon the four regiment commanders were called by Meng Qingshan to the headquarters for a meeting. After a brief introduction, the four regiment commanders all knew the purpose of the commander: "Okay, all four of you know the purpose and significance of this battle, so we must fight this battle." Now tell me about the forces in your hands! ”

"Report to the commander-in-chief that our four regiments bring two battalions of troops, a guard company, a heavy fire company, and a mortar company, with a total strength of 1,400 people."

"Report to the commander-in-chief that our five regiments bring not much that is, seven battalions, a guard company, an artillery company, a total number of 4,200 people."

"Report to the commander-in-chief that our six regiments bring four battalions of troops, a guard company, a heavy fire company, an artillery company, a total number of 2,800 people."

"Report to the commander-in-chief that our seventh regiment has been rested and replenished, and now the three battalions under his command are full, with a total number of 1,500 people."

Soon Meng Qingshan knew that the strength in his hands totaled four regiments plus six regiments of the headquarters guard regiment and the artillery regiment, with more than 10,000 troops, and the Japanese army in Hegang Coal Mine plus Heli Town had a large number of troops, and Meng Qingshan's troops had a great advantage in numbers, but not because of the large number of people, they would definitely win, although there were many people, they were all just joined the army, and whether they could shoot or not was a question, and Meng Qingshan suspected that less than one-third of them could really fight.