After watching the shooting of the arsenal, after encouraging the personnel of the arsenal, Liu Hua and others left the headquarters and walked towards the brigade headquarters, along the way, everyone was very happy, because the current reading brigade has its own reading power heavy weapons, not only that, after understanding the scale of the current arsenal, but knowing that the arsenal can produce ammunition under the condition of sufficient raw materials, everyone's face can not hide their joy.

Just when everyone had not yet recovered from the joy of the arsenal, a telegram from the headquarters made the headquarters boil again.

"The headquarters is very relieved to learn that your department has established a strong base in Jindong. Today, your ministry has requested an increase in the number of troops, and after discussion at the headquarters, it will report your situation to the central authorities. It has aroused great attention from the central authorities, and according to the order of the central authorities, the establishment of the three main regiments of your department has been approved, and the number of garrison regiments in each local area is not limited. In addition, since your unit has gained a firm foothold in the Jindong Fighting Campaign, the Central Committee ordered the establishment of the Jindong Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Base Area, under the jurisdiction of the three main regiments of the original Reading Brigade and the three main regiments of the new formation, the commander of the base area, Liu Hua, the political commissar Guan Xiangying, and the chief of staff, Li Qing. The rest of the personnel shall be appointed by the party committee of the base area and submitted to the headquarters for approval. Since the establishment of the base area, the Reading Brigade has been separated from the 120th Division, and directly under the command of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, Zhu De, deputy commander-in-chief, Peng Dehuai. ”

After the political commissar Guan read the telegram, the entire command headquarters was silent, what kind of concept is this, he will be directly subordinate to the headquarters in the future, and the current Reading Brigade is about to catch up with the three main divisions of the Eighth Route Army in terms of status.

"Commander Liu, congratulations, we have been promoted again." The political commissar broke the silence and said with a smile.

"Hehe, political commissar, I've been promoted, but the burden on my shoulders is heavier." Liu Hua also smiled, but his heart was extremely excited. Now I'm finally on my own. Liu Hua thought secretly.

After everyone calmed down, Liu Hua picked up the telegram, thought for a while and said: "Comrades, now that we have established a base area, then our burden will be heavier in the future, just now the headquarters has approved us to increase the establishment of three regiments, and now I order that the three regiments are the new first regiment, the new second regiment, and the new third regiment. Now I order: Now that the Pingding Garrison Regiment has been organized, I will ask the garrison regiment to take over the villages where the three main regiments were stationed, and all the personnel of the three main regiments will be reorganized, and this matter will be completed in two days. ”

Liu Hua took a sip of water and continued: "Political commissar, when will the local cadres sent by the headquarters arrive?" ”

"According to the telegram from headquarters, there are still two days to go."

"Okay, order a company of guards to go to pick it up, and after the local cadres arrive, the political commissar will immediately arrange work for them and withdraw all our military cadres, I will be useful."

After the meeting, Liu Hua returned to his room and began to write his own method of base construction according to the construction experience of the base area in later generations, of course, the most effective method of base defense, tunnels and mines, Liu Hua did not forget, thinking of a sweep that the devil would come in a few months, Liu Hua accelerated the speed of writing.

After a busy day and night, the issue of the construction of the base area was finished, and in the draft, Liu Hua focused on the use of tunnel warfare, mine warfare, and sparrow warfare tactics in the base area, and repeatedly emphasized the grain reserves, personnel reserves, and material reserves in the base areas to prepare for the future sweeps.

Two days later, the inaugural meeting of the base area was successfully convened, and in the early stage of the inaugural meeting, the personnel of the unit held a reorganization meeting, that is, this meeting, which laid the foundation for the three main regiments of the Reading Force Brigade and the framework for the three newly organized regiments. The meeting was held very successfully, and because the time was given to everyone in advance, the commanders of the three main regiments did not have any opinions, and the reorganization of the troops proceeded very quickly.

The brigade has a total of six regiments, each regiment has 1,500 people, the regiment has a heavy firepower company under its jurisdiction, and the commanders of the three new regiments are the deputy commanders, deputy political commissars, and deputy battalion commanders of the three main regiments, and the soldiers are the three main regiments, and the remaining personnel are compressed to form the backbone of the three new regiments, and part of the personnel of the new regiments are supplemented

In the afternoon, the training ground next to Zhangjiazhuang was full of colorful flags, many villages sent representatives to attend the meeting, in the middle sat part of the personnel of the six main regiments of the Reading Brigade, neatly and neatly, a phalanx sat in front of the rostrum, in front of the troops were placed captured mountain artillery, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, row after row, very imposing. Village representatives from each village sat on either side of the troops. There was a lot of laughter and laughter everywhere.

Because the Reading Brigade had seized a large number of cotton clothes from the devils, in this winter when other units were short of clothing and food, the soldiers of the Reading Brigade were neatly wearing the cotton clothes that had been re-dyed in the base area, and they were all in good spirits, as if they were being reviewed, and they sat upright. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the meeting was held on time, and Liu Hua slowly walked into the venue with the party, government and military leaders of the base area, and suddenly, the entire venue was drowned in bursts of applause.

At the same time, the political commissar also handed over the position of county magistrate to Comrade Xiao Ping, who had just arrived, because Xiao Ping was the supreme leader who led the team this time, and he had rich experience in the construction of the base area when he was in the original Soviet area, and he had been a member of the provincial party committee, so the arrival of Comrade Xiao Ping turned the personnel of the party committee in the base area from the original three people to the current five. The other person was Comrade Wang Daoguang, director of the logistics department who was sent by the headquarters to the base area to take charge of logistics, and when the two arrived, Liu Hua and others obviously felt that the burden on their shoulders had become lighter.

After the five people were seated, the political commissar stood up and opened, waved his hand, and after the applause stopped, began to announce the process of the meeting

Next is the speech of the commander of the base area, Liu Hua stood up, and the applause that had just stopped rang out again, you know, Liu Hua took the Reading Brigade to gain a foothold here for less than a month, but the team has been completely deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, especially the serious military discipline of the Eighth Route Army, treating people kindly, constantly fighting devils, and every fight must win, the current Eighth Route Army has been deeply in the hearts of the people of Jindong, and the same way, the soldiers below also worship their own brigade commanders, Because most of these soldiers were [***] soldiers captured by Liu Hua during the Long March, and now they have become the Red Army, the Eighth Route Army, constantly fighting devils, and many people have been promoted to platoon commanders and company commanders because of their military exploits, and everyone is extremely grateful to this brigade commander who brought him rebirth, so everyone applauded desperately

After the applause stopped, "Comrades, fellow countrymen, hello everyone, from today. Our Jindong base was established, this is the trust of the Party Central Committee to us, so we can not live up to Liu Hua affectionately spoke for half an hour, in this half an hour, no one spoke, many cadres and soldiers picked up the book and pen to continue to record, just after Liu Hua finished speaking, the whole venue was still quiet, Liu Hua inexplicably looked at the record of the people, until a soldier applauded, only to break the silence of the venue, and a burst of overwhelming applause hit

Then, in accordance with the process, the political commissar respectively rewarded the meritorious personnel of the army in the recent past, and for several soldiers who had made special meritorious service, Liu Huaqingzi put on a big red flower on them, and encouraged them one by one, among them, among the personnel with special meritorious service, there was Comrade Liu Bo, director of the arsenal who had just joined the Eighth Route Army. Liu Hua walked in front of him and quietly saluted a military salute, and brought the big red flower on Liu Bo's chest. "Comrade Liu Bo, in view of the fact that your arsenal has developed a thunderstorm and made great contributions to our Eighth Route Army, after reporting to the headquarters and reporting the production method to the central government, it has aroused great attention from the superiors, and you are specially awarded a special merit and a first-class merit for the entire arsenal.

After listening to Liu Hua's words, Liu Bo looked at the brigade commander in front of him excitedly, he didn't think that he had just joined the army for a few days, and he had taken the arsenal personnel to make a special achievement that others dreamed of, and he couldn't help but shed tears

Liu Hua walked up to the rostrum, looked at the red flowers in front of him, and his eyes were red, because he thought of the martyrs who followed him to the battlefield of resistance, but now they are thousands of miles apart. Liu Hua suddenly made a decision, stood up, and shouted excitedly at the venue.

"Comrades, in order to establish this base area, our brigade has now sacrificed a disadvantage of a few hundred, and now I order, all of them, to carry guns, salute the martyrs who have died, and fire their guns."" Bang" a gunshot broke the atmosphere of the venue, and everyone's faces were full of seriousness.

"Fight imperialism and drive out the devils." The political commissar saw the venue with abnormal emotions and shouted loudly.

Suddenly, loud slogans rang out in the entire venue.

After the meeting, in addition to the return of the troops and representatives to the garrisons, the regimental commanders and some important local cadres in the base areas were left behind to prepare for a meeting prepared by Liu Hua in the evening to discuss the application of mine warfare and tunnel warfare in actual combat and the key construction tasks of the base areas in the future

(To be continued)