As soon as Qiao Youhua's words came out, more than a thousand soldiers behind him shook their hearts, and their blood boiled and echoed in unison: "Life and death are together, advance and retreat together!" Never throw! If there is a violation, a thousand knives will be cut, and ten thousand arrows will pierce the heart! ”

The old man and thousands of people were speechless, just tears in their eyes and silent stalks.

The old man trembled, stepped forward and helped Qiao Youhua up with his hands that were not satisfied with the wrinkles: "Chief Qiao, please hurry up, you are the great benefactor of our people!" ”

Qiao Youhua stood up and said to the old man: "Uncle, it is our soldier's duty to defend the land against the enemy and defend our hometown, and it is our duty to do so!" ”

After speaking, Qiao Youhua turned around and ordered: "The first battalion will take over the city defense, the reconnaissance company will send scouts to guard the surroundings, and the rest of the units will be disbanded on the spot to rest." ”

"Yes!" More than 1,000 officers and men responded in unison, and the battalions and companies quickly split up.

The old man also turned to the gathered people and said, "Folks, let's all disperse, go back to their respective homes, prepare some food and drink for the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, and treat them." ”

Qiao Youhua hurriedly stopped loudly: "Fellow villagers, you can go back to your own home, as for food, you don't need to prepare, we have our own military rations, and our Eighth Route Army has military discipline, don't take a stitch from the people!" You don't have much to eat, and we have received it! ”

After the people dispersed, Qiao Youhua also accompanied Ma Biao, Wu Ming and others to the county government compound occupied by the former Japanese army with the guard company.

After looking at the compound here, Qiao Youhua said: "In the future, this place will be our regiment headquarters." ”

Chen Bing, deputy company commander of the guard company, waved his hand, and several guard soldiers hurriedly stepped forward to take off the two door numbers that the devil had hung outside the courtyard wall and threw them to the ground.

Own soldiers to find a suitable wooden plaque with the number of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force headquarters.

After entering the compound, Chen Bing and the soldiers of the guard company began to walk into the houses in the courtyard to clean up, Qiao Youhua, Wu Ming, Ma Biao and others sat down at a round stone table in the courtyard.

At this time, Jiang Haidong, the commander of the first battalion, also arranged the defense of each company of the first battalion and walked in from outside.

"All the things for the city defense have been arranged?" Qiao Youhua opened his mouth and asked.

"Well, Liu Yidao, the deputy company commander of the capital, is here, no problem, Liu Jianhua also led the reconnaissance company out of the city, and the surrounding dozens of miles and even the Feiyunling base area in our rear, the slightest wind and grass can't hide from our ears and eyes. At least for a short time, we are safe in Deer Springs. Jiang Haidong walked over and sat down.

Qiao Youhua nodded, took out the cigarettes he was carrying, gave them one to each of them, and lit one himself and smoked it.

Jiang Haidong said: "Head, do we really want to stay in Luquan?" ”

"Then there can be a fake, the soldiers of the three armies have made a solemn oath in front of the people of the city, if we don't keep our promises, what will happen to us? What day will you resist in the future, and what country will you protect? will be poked in the backbone and scolded to death by the people! Ma Biao said.

Jiang Haidong said: "I didn't mean that, I mean, with our current strength, if we want to stick to Luquan and Feiyunling respectively, it is obviously unrealistic."

Once the Japanese army invades on a large scale, we only need to divide our troops to cut off the connection between Feiyunling and Luquan, and we can divide and surround Luquan County, and then we will fall into a state of no return! ”

Ma Biao was silent, and turned his head to look at Qiao Youhua with Wu Ming.

Qiao Youhua took two puffs of his cigarette and said: "Therefore, we must change our previous defensive strategy, from today onwards, we must first recruit new soldiers at full speed, and secondly, establish guerrilla units at all levels such as villages and towns in the entire territory of Luquan County, and mobilize more than 100,000 people in the entire Luquan County."

In a word, all the people are soldiers! In the future, our main battlefield will not be Feiyunling, which needs to become our strong logistics base.

The Japanese attack may mainly come from Shimen, so we need to set up ambushes in the border area between Luquan and Shimen to resist the Japanese invaders and slow down the Japanese attack.

Finally, a decisive battle with the Japanese invaders in Luquan will be held! I calculated that after the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese army would have to go up the river to attack Wuhan, so we still have at least half a year to develop.

If the development is good, within half a year, it will be enough for us to expand the main force by two to three times, and at the same time, with the development of various local guerrillas, the Japanese army will come to encircle and suppress us again, and we will have the strength to fight again.

The key to future development is to fully mobilize the broad masses of the people, rely on the peasants to develop their strength, and realize the goal of combining the army and the people with resistance against Japan.

As long as we have the help of the people, our combat effectiveness will soar, because in many cases, the strength and role that the people can play cannot be predicted by both the enemy and us. ”

After a pause, Qiao Youhua said: "Immediately send someone to inform Zhao Youde, Sun Dahai and Zhou Dasheng to defeat them, stop the attack and harass the Japanese army in Shimen, and continue to implement the original recruitment plan."

The other three battalions returned to the Feiyunling base area and replaced Zheng Yunshan's guards with me, and at the same time tried to set up a telephone line from Feiyunling to Luquan, and the two places were connected, and then the telephone was gradually connected to the defensive positions of the battalions and companies around the county seat.

From now on, the guard company will mobilize the people of the whole city to carry out large-scale renovation of Luquan County, dig tunnels under the city, and make tunnels open to every household in the city, and then build field defense positions outside the city and dig tunnels at the same time, so as to connect with the tunnel network in the city.

There are not enough people, so we mobilize the people of the whole city and even outside the city to help, and I believe that they will be very willing to help us.

The 1st Battalion immediately marched north to Erdaogouzi, seized the stronghold of the Japanese puppet army in Erdaogouzi, and centered on the stronghold of Erdaogouzi Town, developed and expanded, and established a peripheral defense line in the north of Luquan County.

It will mainly be used to prepare for the Japanese army's attack from Shimen in the future, so you can't be sloppy, Haidong, you personally lead the team to execute, I believe you should understand how to do it.

The second battalion entered Magou Town in the east, recovered Magou Town, and also took Magou Town as the center, radiated and developed to the surrounding areas, established a peripheral defense line in the east of the county, and finally connected with the defense area of the first battalion.

The reconnaissance company was mainly responsible for the area west of Luquan, which was close to the mountains, and in general, it was unlikely that the devils would attack from this direction, and it was necessary to guard against a roundabout sneak attack by a small group of Japanese troops.

After Sun Dahai and the other three platoons recruited new recruits returned, they entrusted them with the task of preparing for the west of the county seat, and the reconnaissance company was still in the combat sequence of the troops directly under the regiment. ”

"Yes!" Everyone got up one after another to answer the order, and without waiting for them to leave, Qiao Youhua said to Wu Ming again: "After the third battalion goes back, tell Zheng Yunshan and ask him to take out the batch of weapons that he hoarded last time, and give priority to changing the guard company, and the weapons changed by the guard company will be used to arm the recruits." ”

"Okay!" Wu Ming nodded in response, and asked again, "Do you want Director Liu to move the radio station over?" ”

Qiao Youhua thought for a while and said, "Don't use it for the time being, it's safer to stay in Feiyunling, the time is not ripe yet, just connect to the phone." ”

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