The next day, October 30, Liu Hua was preparing to carry out his arsenal plan, but a telegram from the headquarters disrupted Liu Hua's plan. Headquarters forwarded a telegram of analysis of the enemy situation in 129 yes.

According to the analysis of the 129th Division and Liu Bocheng, in order to quickly open up the Zhengtai Passage, a brigade of the 136th Wing of the 109th Division of the Yue Army will attack from Jiulong Pass to Xiyang in early November, and at this time the 129th Division has not yet gained a firm foothold in the sunset area.

Looking at the telegram in front of him, Liu Hua shook his head scoundrelly, according to the previous history, his own place should have been the base of the 386 Brigade, and this battle should have been personally commanded by Division Commander Liu, but now his arrival has completely changed the distribution of this base area in eastern Jindong.

Liu Hua took the telegram, so he had to put the long-prepared "Arsenal Plan" next to him and began to study the map. Historically, the 386 Brigade used the tactics of luring the enemy into the depths of a small force, guiding the enemy to the area at the bottom of the Yellow Cliff, and then inflicting a large number of casualties on the army. Liu Hua thought secretly.

"Communicator, teach the chief of staff of the commissar to the war room, and say that there is an emergency military situation." Soon the two of them came to the war room, and Liu Hua handed over the telegram from the headquarters to the two of them, and some began to study their maps. "Commissar, Chief of Staff, what do you think of this battle?" Liu Hua asked, staring at the map.

The first to speak was the commissar. "Brigade commander, Chief of Staff Li, I think we must fight this battle, and we must fight and win."

"Commissar, tell me about it?" Listening to the words of the political commissar, Liu Hua immediately raised his head.

"You see, by fighting this battle, we can not only help the 129th Division, which has an unstable foothold, but at the same time, it will also be of great benefit to us. If you look at the map, the bottom of the Yellow Cliff is in the south of our current base area, less than 50 miles away from the edge of the base area, and there is this place in the map drawn by the reconnaissance battalion last time when the brigade commander asked the brigade commander to draw up, and if we win a battle there, then we will open up the situation in the area south of Zhangjiazhuang, and there will be many villages that will become our base areas. There is another important reason, although we now have several village base areas, but the common people still do not believe much in our statement of fighting devils, and in order to stabilize the hearts of the common people and unite the common people in the current base areas, we must win another victory, and it is a victory that the common people can see. That's all I said. ”

After listening to the words of the political commissar, Liu Hua and the chief of staff looked at each other and smiled, and both agreed.

"Political commissar, chief of staff, this battle must be fought, the three of us are decided, let's see how to fight this battle well, the elite troops of a brigade of the army are not those heavy soldiers we ambushed last time, the battle is not easy to fight!" Liu Hua thought of the casualties of the last battle, and felt a pain in his flesh.

"Well, this is indeed a problem, but the battlefield that Division Commander Liu chose for us is a good place, you see, this is the map of the Yellow Cliff Bottom hand-drawn by the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion, the Yellow Cliff Bottom is mainly a river valley area, and the two ends are the plains of Yima Pingchuan, and there are two villages at both ends, namely Fengju Village south of the Yellow Cliff Bottom, and Degongjiazhuang east of the Yellow Cliff Bottom. The strength of a brigade of the army, plus the heavy weapons and heavy materials carried with them, must stretch for more than two miles, and the section of the river valley at the bottom of the Yellow Cliff is only less than 500 meters long, so the devils in the valley are easy to solve, and I think that after the battle starts, the devils in the valley will definitely desperately break out, and occupy the villages at both ends of the valley with the troops on the periphery, so that they can not only hold on to help, but also break out, so we must eliminate the devils who enter the valley as much as possible. Kill as many devils as possible, so that we can completely annihilate them. "The chief of staff looked at the map and talked everywhere," Liu Hua and the political commissar listened carefully.

"Yes, we can only do what the chief of staff said, this is the best way to completely annihilate the enemy. I want to add that the devils put into the valley are best the artillerymen and heavy machine gunners of the army, and after the battle starts, all the heavy weapons of the devils must be left in the valley, and they must not be allowed to play a role in the subsequent battle. ”

In this way, a detailed ambush plan was released, according to the plan, the first regiment, one battalion and two battalions under the unified command of the regiment commander Sun Xingbang, ambushed in Fengju Village, south of the Yellow Cliff, when the devils broke through to Fengju Village, as much as possible with artillery fire and heavy firepower to kill and injure the devils' vital force, when the devils' vitality was greatly damaged, the whole regiment attacked, and the time of the attack was controlled by themselves. The 12nd and 2nd battalions of the 2nd Regiment were ambushed on the high ground in the area of Gongjiazhuang east of the Yellow Cliff. When the enemy broke through to the Gongjiazhuang generation, it attacked with a momentum and completely defeated the enemy, the three regiments because there was a battalion stationed in various villages, this battle was not concentrated, the three regiments were ambushed in the southeast direction of the river valley, the remaining two battalions of the first two regiments were ambushed in the northwest direction, the ambush position was under the unified command of the chief of staff, the guard battalion and the reconnaissance battalion were the reserve of the whole army, under the unified command of me and the political commissar, and controlled the overall situation, two mountain artillery companies stayed in the base area and did not participate in the ambush battle, and one regiment was attached to a box mortar company, The second regiment was attached to a mortar company, and the ambush positions were also attached to a mortar company,"

Soon, this battle plan was delivered to each commander, and then the entire Reading Brigade began to operate like a war machine, mobilizing troops, transferring command, distributing ammunition, making dry rations, and all units were methodically preparing for the battle. Finally, on the next day, that is, on the 31st, after the troops had a full meal, they set off from the base camp Zhangjiazhuang with three days' worth of dry food.

Along the way, every soldier is full of confidence in the upcoming battle, because after a week of fighting, especially the elimination of the activation of bandits and landlords, the most harvested by the troops is the shell gun, you must know that after a large number of shell guns, the troops will no longer climb the stab of the army in the process of entering the station, and now each regiment 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 regiment commanders, Prepare to deal a fatal blow to the devil when you are in melee combat with the devil.

After nearly a day of concealed marching, the troops finally reached the area at the bottom of the Yellow Cliff on the night of the 31st. Regardless of the fatigue of the long march, the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion immediately put on civilian clothes and went to Fengju Village and Gongjiazhuang to conduct reconnaissance, but the situation was very good, because it was already night, the results of the reconnaissance in the two villages were very good, and no common people found the Reading Brigade that had reached the bottom of the Yellow Cliff.

"Order all regiments to build positions according to the original plan, and require border posts to be sent out in two villages, and before the battle starts, prohibit the common people in the village from entering and leaving at will, especially pay attention to several landlords in the village, according to the intelligence of the underground party, these landlords are suspected of collaborating with the enemy and being annihilated, and we will clean them up after the devil is over?"

The next day, after dawn, the villagers of the two villages on both sides of the Yellow Cliff got up together, and found that there were a lot of soldiers in the village. The troops were provided with a certain amount of dry rations.

Although many people were dissatisfied with not being allowed to go out, they were happy to stay at home when they thought that this army had not looted the village, and because of the dry food distributed by the army in the past two days, only a few landlords shouted to store it, but in a short period of time, it was solved by the soldiers, and even the food at home was not kept, and all of them were confiscated.

Some villagers saw that the troops suppressed the landlords and bullies in the village, and soon the news spread, plus this unit was here to fight devils, and soon some villagers came to talk to the soldiers, and lent the tools at home to the soldiers to dig trenches, and even some ordinary people jumped directly into the ditch to help the soldiers dig.

With the help of the villagers, the position was built very quickly, and in less than half a day, all three positions were completed, Liu Hua took the political commissar, the chief of staff and others to personally inspect the positions, and revised the unqualified positions one by one, and when the troops had lunch, all the positions were qualified, and now they are waiting for the arrival of the army.

After the completion of this ambush battle, the historical 386 Brigade began to send working groups to the countryside to establish local guerrilla units and slowly improve the construction of base areas. Obviously, he does not have any major tasks during this period of time, and he can concentrate on the construction of the base areas, especially if the economic construction of the base areas does not increase the grain reserves in the base areas, and at the same time, he must take advantage of this hollow time to develop his own arsenal and strive to produce ammunition on his own at the beginning of next year.

In February and March of the 38th year, this was to cooperate with the Kuomintang's Yellow River defense line to carry out a series of sabotage battles to paralyze the enemy's communications, and in order to better destroy the enemy's communications, the railway guerrillas had to be established, of course, Liu Hua would change his name.

In April, the Yue army began to besiege the base area, and Liu Hua's troops were also forced to participate in the anti-"Yue Jun Nine-Way Siege" operation

Come to think of it. Liu Hua's heart was excited, because the base area established by the 386th Brigade at the end of the year had already been established by himself now, and the rest was to operate, and it seemed that his future development would be much better than that of General Chen Geng. Just like that, unconsciously, the day has arrived.

(To be continued)