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The newly formed 71st Army successfully withstood the attack of the Japanese army for three days and three nights, but when the reinforcements arrived, there were only more than 30,000 people left in the whole army, and Hu Weidong and Su Yu both knew what the battlefield on the northern front meant, and at once sent almost all the field troops that could be used at hand, and the three main divisions of the 15th Army rushed to the battlefield first, and then Fu Zuoyi's troops also ended the southward support of the bandits in the mountains. Only Hu Lian's Marine Division, which had just been expanded into an integrated division, was left as the only field unit

If we count the 71st Army, which urgently needs to be repaired and replenished, the 15th Group Army has invested more than 200,000 strong troops in the battlefield on the northern front for the first time, and such a large-scale offensive immediately caused a great controversy within the party and the army, after all, everyone knows that the casualties of the offensive attack are very large, especially this battle is not a big city, and the direct benefits are not very large, so it is generally difficult for the red party to understand this. However, Hu Weidong clearly pointed out in the telegram sent to the central government that once the Japanese army consolidated the defense line in southern Lunan, then the devils could divide their forces and march westward, and the west of Weishan Lake is a plain area where there is no danger to defend, and it is impossible for the 100,000 ** troops stationed on the Lanfeng defense line to resist the full attack of at least 230,000 Japanese troops. And if the devil seizes the arsenal in western Henan and the oil field in Nanyang, the consequences will be even more unimaginable. Rather than waiting for the Japanese army to advance westward and then respond passively, it is better to take the initiative to attack, as long as it can capture the Lincheng-Zaozhuang line, it is enough to exert enough pressure on Xuzhou to make the devils dare not divide their troops. As for the problem of heavy consumption in the battle of positions, objectively it does exist, but with the development of industries in the border areas and the expansion of the base areas, when necessary, the 15 th Group Army is no longer completely unable to fight for attrition as it used to be

After receiving this telegram. Several leaders of the Central Committee expressed their own opinions, and most of them had objections to Hu Weidong's operational jihua, but at this time, Taizu once again expressed firm support for Hu Weidong, and he even put forward a more ambitious strategic plan on the basis of Hu Weidong's original plan, "The battle report sent by the 15th Group Army in the past two days is encouraging, if this operation Jihua can also be successful, then the Liliang contrast between China and Japan in the East China battlefield will change greatly. The time has come for a strategic showdown! ”

"A great man is a great man, and I only think of a war zone. But what he saw was the war situation in the whole country. After reading the telegram sent by the central authorities, Hu Weidong couldn't help but sigh in his heart. But at the same time, he was also deeply encouraged, and immediately sent a telegram to the central government promising that "even if the price is paid, the 15th Group Army will definitely capture the line of Weishan Lake-Canal-Canal Town, completely encircle the Japanese army in Xuzhou in the narrow triangle area west of the canal, and clear the way for the main force of the Japanese Central China Army to annihilate the whole annihilation!" Zhang Hao, secretary of the Central Plains Bureau, who remained in Luoyang, also told the central authorities that he would immediately carry out a general mobilization in the western Henan border region, where the construction of the militia system had begun at the earliest

"Isn't that right? With a population of only 18 million, if 600,000 troops are really to be mobilized, will the burden on the base areas be too great? Moreover, these recruits may not have much combat effectiveness, as we were forced to do during the fifth anti-encirclement campaign that year. Everyone knows the result", after listening to the telegram, Mr. Zhu couldn't help frowning.

When the great man heard this, he flicked his cigarette ash and said with a smile, "Indeed, after the ratio of soldiers to civilians in the Central Soviet Region exceeded 1:50, the economy of the base areas could not bear it, and the combat effectiveness of the recruits was also very problematic. But Xiao Hu talked to me about this problem as early as the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, and according to him, most of the great powers could afford a ratio of 1:20 or even 1:10 to soldiers and civilians economically. Because they are highly industrialized and have high labor productivity, they are able to maintain a higher proportion of the population out of work. Moreover, because of the well-established reserve system of the great powers, many civilians have already received a certain degree of military training before enlisting in the army. Therefore, even if the number of officers and men is greatly expanded, the decline in the military quality of officers and men will not be too large. According to the telegram sent by Comrade Yuying, there are now 3 million industrial workers in western Henan (including low-level jobs such as construction and agricultural workers in state farms), and the urban population exceeds 5 million. As for the combat effectiveness of the recruits, there is no need to worry; according to Comrade Yuying's report, the total number of militia in western Henan alone has exceeded 3 million, and there are 400,000 part-time basic militiamen, in addition to no less than 100,000 local garrisons and armed policemen who have completely withdrawn from production."

After talking for a while, the great man became more and more talkative and laughing, "Actually, the main reason for the poor combat effectiveness of the Red Army recruits in the Central Soviet District was that there was no bullet training, and even the regular troops at that time only had an average of a few rounds of ammunition per person, let alone the militia Red Guards? I remember that at that time, the militia training was also a practice posture, and it was already very lucky to be able to fire one or two rounds of live ammunition a year, but according to Yuying, 150 million rounds of ammunition were used in the militia training in the western Henan border region in the first half of this year alone."

"The consumption of bullets is actually more than that of our Eighth Route Army? How did I not know this? Although Mr. Zhu is a broad-minded elder, his face is a little uncertain when he hears this.

"This is mentioned in passing in the letter, and everyone will definitely be able to see it when the Central Plains Border Region reports to the central authorities on this year's work in the spring of next year." Taizu hurriedly explained, and took the opportunity to clarify his concept again, "Compared with the training of the existing regular troops, the construction of the militia is more important, our China has weak industry and backward agriculture, if we can't even give full play to the advantages of having a large number of people, how can we drive away the great powers, including the Japanese invaders, and win national independence and national independence?" ”

Note 1: The huge and efficient investment is on the one hand, and the efforts to popularize education in the past few years are on the other hand, and the method of rapid technical development has achieved miraculous results, but the main reason is that since the Anti-Japanese War, more than one million people rescued from the cities in the occupied areas and the total number of returned overseas Chinese youth has exceeded two or three hundred thousand, almost all of them are concentrated here, and the proportion of educated people in the former is much higher than that of the vast majority of rural areas in China at that time, and almost all of those overseas Chinese young people have a junior high school education or above. In a sense, this is almost equivalent to concentrating the strength of the whole country to build half a province, which is similar to the situation in Taiwan after the founding of New China in history, and it is no wonder that the effect is not obvious

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