At the request of the Political Department of the Military Region, his sub-district has sent five armed engineering teams behind enemy lines to the Qingyuan area south of Baoding for a year, and this is the first time I have heard of this regrouping of sub-divisions!

Moreover, he also heard from Commander Huang's words that this old leader might be leaving the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, and he was going to lead several troops from the Beiyue District to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region and belong to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Jinsui Joint Defense Army.

There are really a lot of news I heard along the way, whether it is the transfer of personnel or the reorganization of the establishment, which makes Yang Bangzi feel that the situation is going to change greatly like never before, and Political Commissar Hong Mei also told Yang Bangzi a lot of policies and international affairs, so that this pure military commander, who instinctively hides away from politics, also has to calm down and ponder the situation.

When we arrived at the meeting place of Fuping Shenxian Mountain, we won't say much about our party's meeting, which lasted for seven days, including the enlarged meeting of cadres of the Northern Bureau, the summary meeting of the joint government of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, the meeting of the Political Department of the Jin-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and the meeting of all walks of life in the border area to celebrate the victory of the anti-sweeping, etc., it will be one after another, and the heads of the Yang sticks are all big!

Sure enough, at the joint cadre meeting of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Northern Bureau, it was announced that Commander Huang and Political Commissar Wang of the Sixth Division would lead troops to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, and at the same time, the content related to Yang Bangzi was that the districts under the jurisdiction of the original Sixth Division and the organs of the military division were merged with the 11th Division, and Yang Bangzi's territory and population under control increased several times at once!

However, don't look at the fact that there are more people and more land, but the burden on your shoulders has increased, because after such a merger, the military region's instructions to Yang Bangzi are to the east to be able to receive and help the troops returning to Jizhong, to the west to be able to cover and cover the central area of Fuping, to the north to jointly launch offensive operations with the first sub-district, Pingbei and other sub-divisions in the spring of 44, and to the south to cooperate with the troops of Shanxi, Hebei, Luyu and Jin-Cha-Ji four sub-districts to oppress and harass the devils in Shijiazhuang and other places.

In other words, when Yang Bangzi became the commander of the 11th Division, he was just a mountain king. The regular establishment is no more than one regiment, with a local government in charge of the three counties, and the population is only 60,000 or 70,000. The territory is only two or three hundred miles long.

Now, after merging with the six districts, the site has expanded several times! From the three counties of Lingmanlai to the sphere of influence of nine counties in a central city such as Linglai, the army is a large divisional establishment of three large regiments and four small regiments, and the population has become more than 600,000!

After Yang Bangzi listened to this order, he sat in the middle of the crowd and was dizzy! It took a long time before he stood up leisurely, and opened his mouth stupidly at Director Shu of the military region for a long time before he squeezed out a sentence: "I, I, it's okay to take some people to fight devils, and get such a big piece of land." I can't fix it! ”

Director Shu and hundreds of cadres at the meeting all burst into laughter! The first time I heard someone say that he couldn't fix it after he was promoted, Mr. Nie also laughed, nodded at the Yang stick standing there at a loss with his hand, and said, "You guy, don't let you fix it." Aren't you pretty good too? The Kuroda team has been beaten away by your bayonet to bayonet, and I have ridden the Toyo horse you sent, what can't be done? ”

Yang Bangzi was embarrassed to say this, took off his hat and scratched his head, and laughed, Hong Mei took advantage of the situation and pulled him and asked him to sit down and not stand and look foreign.

This time, they came with the guards on captured horses. When he arrived at the military region, Yang Bangzi handed over more than 100 Oriental war horses to the military region as trophies, and Mr. Nie fell in love with a high-headed horse with a pure black body, and he rode it for less than two days, and he said that Yang Bangzi was this.

The situation is different, just look at the leaders and cadres who came to the meeting, Yang Bangzi did not come to the meeting at the end of 42. It was Lao Feng and Hong Mei who came, and they came back and said that from Mr. Nie to the party, government, and military cadres in various sub-districts, everyone was in tattered clothes, and few of them brought the loot they could get their hands on when they were in a meeting.

Looking at this meeting a year later, there is flesh on each one's face. The uniforms were also neat, and the commanders of each sub-division brought their best-equipped troops with their own troops, and every military sub-district brought a lot of trophies, even in the most difficult place in Pingxi, and brought eleven devils as trophies.

Of course, Yang Bangzi captured so many war horses of the Kuroda United at once, and it is still the most conspicuous of these trophies, plus the scale of the anti-sweeping battle in a single area in the entire 43 years, we have to count the most thrilling and imposing battle between Yang Bangzi and the Kuroda United, try to discuss which division dares to confront the Japanese army of seven or eight thousand head-on, and can also fight a pursuit battle? Even the first division with the largest number of soldiers is still an old routine of guerrilla warfare?

Therefore, Yang Bangzi's abnormal offensive war happened to be in line with the great man's plan for the War of Resistance against Japan, and the great man believed that the current international situation had changed greatly, and the Japanese army would definitely begin to take a defensive position, and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army should be transferred to offensive operations, so as to expand the area of control and population, and strengthen their own armament.

Based on this, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region's current region-wide meeting put forward several plans to be carried out in '44, including a spring offensive operation, a plan to return to Jizhong, and a joint operation in Pingbei, Pingping, Xichahar, and other places.

Tactically speaking, it is necessary to make the transition from guerrilla warfare to mobile warfare; since the devils are about to start taking a defensive position, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army must be able to take the initiative to attack, otherwise the enemy and us will wait and see each other across the trenches, and it will not become a sit-down war.

And is the actual situation the same as the judgment of the great man? Let's take a look at what the world anti-fascist situation was like from the second half of '43 to the beginning of '44?

In the second half of 1943, the situation in the world anti-fascist war underwent profound changes. After the crushing defeat of the Germans at Stalingrad, they were forced to shrink their fronts, and the Soviets switched to a counteroffensive. Italy's unconditional surrender on 8 September greatly weakened the fascist aggressive forces.

In the Pacific War, Japan failed in the Midway and Kuah Island operations and the island operations in the southeast and Pacific Oceans. The fascist front began to collapse in general terms. In order to cope with this situation, on September 25, the Japanese headquarters and the government held a joint meeting to study the world situation, strategic policies, and foreign policies.

On September 30, the Imperial Council decided to expand the strength of the Navy, the Army, and the number of aircraft in 1944 reached 55,000; strengthening ground forces on the maritime front and on the Burmese side; The strength of the military force against China will remain at the level of 1943, but due to the limitation of national strength, the level of armament against China will be painfully reduced.

After the Imperial Council, the Japanese army suffered another series of defeats in the Pacific War. By the end of the year, the Japanese army was completely on the defensive strategically, and the Allied forces entered the stage of large-scale counteroffensive. At this time, the base camp and the Japanese government had a premonition that their sea communications might be completely cut off. In order to maintain the connection between mainland Japan and Southeast Asia even when sea traffic is cut off. In January 1944, the base camp decided to carry out operations in China to open up the mainland communication lines (Pinghan, Yuehan, Xianggui and other railways). Therefore, the adjustment of the Japanese invasion of China in 1944 revolved around the task of reinforcing the Pacific War and opening up the lines of communication in Chinese mainland. The specific changes are as follows:

In late January, the 32nd and 35th Divisions of the North China Front were transferred to the South Pacific Theater.

In early February, the 1st to 14th Independent Infantry Brigades and the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Field Supplementary Brigades were formed, which were placed in North China and Central China respectively to take over the garrison tasks of the transferred troops. At the same time, the 27th Division of the Kwantung Army was transferred to Central China.

That is to say, since Okamura Ninji came to power, the all-out sweep and encirclement of the Eighth Route Army's forces behind enemy lines and base areas in North China will be transformed from an offensive to a garrison of key points of communication with the plan to open up the mainland communication lines and the rout of the Pacific War.

This shows that our great man in Yan'an has accurately judged the changes in the situation. The decision to let the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army switch from defense to offensive is correct! The local counteroffensive forced the devils to the cities along the transportation lines to prepare for the final strategic counteroffensive, and at this time, the vast number of grassroots commanders and fighters could not see this!

The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region held an enlarged meeting this time to first give a lesson to the party, government, and military leaders of various sub-districts, and those in charge must first reverse their thinking before they can carry out this strategic change at all levels. Yang Bangzi couldn't digest so many ideological and political issues for a while. What he digested most quickly was the spirit of offensive warfare.

After the conference, they held a small meeting for Yang Bangzi alone, and only then did they put forward the specific tasks that Yang Bangzi was required to do, and in the spring offensive operations that began in February 44, in addition to those mentioned at the conference, the attack on the devils on the line of Quyang, Tangxian, and Shunping was the focus.

And in order to complete the above tasks, the biggest problem faced by Yang Bangzi is that he must first get rid of and eliminate this group of devils who walk the horse post, and Yang Bangzi dared to fight when there were not many people under him. What's more, now that so many troops have been added all at once, he no longer wants to squeeze this devil away, he has a great appetite now!

The merger of the six divisions is fast and fast, it's just a cutscene, and it's slow and slow, and it won't be completed in a few months. Therefore, Yang Bangzi decided to use his own troops first to complete the siege of the Qingshui Wing, and he applied to the military region to promote Fan Daring to the chief of staff, and the former chief of staff of the 20th Regiment to be promoted to deputy chief of staff, and the military region had no opinion. There is no problem with the political censorship of these two people, and they are both old eight-way again, and Yang Bangzi can use it himself.

The second action was to immediately send a telegram to Minister Zhou Donggua Zhou in the name of the new commander of the military camp town, asking the repair institute and smelter and other units to work overtime to repair guns, bullets and shells, and ammunition reserves were the most important before the war.

After this order, Yang Bangzi deliberately asked his old superiors, Commander Huang and Political Commissar Wang, to jointly sign it, and after the two of them finished the meeting of the military region, they rushed directly to Taiyue District, where they took the organized troops and went directly to Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, and did not return to the Sixth Division.

For more than two years, it is not long, it is not short, but Yang Bangzi, who was in the Sixth Division, who was lowered all the way from regiment commander to company commander, and was locked up to be a big soldier, has become a prince, and he is still the "king" of the second largest division, the second largest number of troops, and the first most populous in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region! Who would have thought? More than a year ago, he was almost shot because of the rectification problem, but now Yang Bangzi and Mr. Nie are on the phone directly, and they are under the direct jurisdiction of the military region, and there are a total of three or five generals in the entire Jinchaji who have this treatment.

This is not nepotism, nor is it the partiality of Mr. Nie, Commander Huang, and Commander Yang, for more than two years, they have been killed with a team of more than a dozen prisoners all the way to the bloody battle! Counting the battles that Yang Bangzi has fought in the past two years, from the Suzuki Detachment to the 36th Division, from the Special Combat Team to the Special Operations Wing, from the Garrison Brigade to the Mixed Tank Wing, there are more than 1,000 devils alone, and Yang Bangzi has fought more than 10 times.

It is useless to lead troops to fight, it is useless to play tricks and fight, and you have to use military skills to speak, who kills many devils, fights beautifully, and has enough confidence, and when you hold a meeting in a military region, you will stand among the senior cadres of several hundred people, and your waist is hard!