At the same time, in order to alleviate the uneasiness of those who are neutral or may be neutral, Hu Weidong decided to keep only the militia armed forces in the counties, but the county brigades composed of the basic militia must be able to deal with the blockhouses used by the national army to blockade the Soviet area, and be strong enough to make the regular army of the national army below the battalion level or the local militia groups dare not come to the country, so as to ensure the safety of the lives and property of the people in the counties. To this end, Hu Weidong seized all available time to train the cadres of the county brigades in anti-pillboxes (not only by demotion, but also in hornet's nests and other shady tactics) and guerrilla tactics (Note 1), and at the same time left them some mines, grenades, and blasting canisters, and taught them how to make stone mines and Molotov cocktails in case of emergency. Then, the cadres of these county brigades went back and taught them to the cadres of the district squads under their jurisdiction, until all the militia had learned it, and at that time, if the enemy dared to come to the Soviet area to do anything wrong, let them see what was called "the vast sea of the people's war"

Under Hu Weidong's combination of soft and hard measures, the democratic self-government governments of various counties formed in accordance with the principle of the "three-three system" were established one after another, and became a reliable rear base for independent divisions. However, Hu Weidong did not dare to sit back and relax, in order to avoid being attacked by the superior forces of the white army, Hu Weidong was determined to strike first, he concentrated all the troops of the independent division to attack Huichang County, and even the militia of Yandu County was also brought, and a large number of non-combatants with the army also bluffed together, and put on a 100,000-strong army to deter the enemy army from going out of the city to fight, and then relied on the expertise of the independent division to attack the county town of Huichang where a miscellaneous division was stationed in one fell swoop. The resistance of the defenders was quite resolute at first, but the independent division concentrated the use of several thousand twenty rounds and a large number of submachine guns, and showed an overwhelming advantage in the street fighting, and captured the county in one fell swoop with only less than 1,000 casualties, killing more than 2,000 enemies, and the rest surrendered

Sun Liren, a special prisoner of war who had been operating with the army, was a little incomprehensible to Hu Weidong's strange style of play, "According to military principles, seeking opportunities to annihilate the enemy in field battles is the right way. But this General Hu did the opposite, he preferred to attack fortifications and street battles, and even used tactics to prevent the enemy from coming out to fight in the field, and the results seemed to be very good, which is really strange."

In fact, Hu Weidong also knows that he is still very bad at commanding large corps operations, and he still has tens of thousands of non-combatants in the team, which seriously affects the vital mobility and concealment ability in sports warfare, making field battles much more difficult, but the current independent division cannot afford to lose again, so he can only make use of his strengths and avoid weaknesses, and chooses the fortifications and street battles that most commanders try to avoid.

It turned out that the current independent division not only possessed a large number of conventional artillery and advanced artillery tactics, but also made rapid progress in artillery under the personal guidance of Hu Weidong, and also established an engineer unit specially responsible for blasting and attacking fortified positions

Under normal circumstances, street battles, which tend to be fought very fiercely, are much easier to fight than field battles for the commanders and fighters of independent divisions, because street battles are actually based on the squad and platoon level as the basic combat units, and the special warfare and small-scale battles that Hu Weidong is good at come in handy, and in addition, street battles are generally dominated by melee and encounter battles, and Hu Weidong, who is equipped with a lot of submachine guns and repeating pistols and likes to use them intensively, is even more like a fish in water, and how can the white army, which with rifles as the main weapon, can resist? Moreover, Hu Weidong will send a special combat team to conduct reconnaissance in advance before each siege, and if there is a chance, he will even directly conduct special operations, and there is often an underground party in the city as an internal response, and the difficulty of street fighting is even lower.

At first, Hu Weidong chose this style of play just out of desperation, but when he used it, he unexpectedly found that this kind of play that did not fit the art of war actually had a lot of benefits. First of all, there are generally more weapons and ammunition in the warehouses than the troops carrying with them, especially since the opponents are still the national army, which almost never destroys weapons and ammunition, so the capture of a siege is generally much greater than that of a field victory.

In addition, after capturing the county town or even the city, the independent division can also get a large amount of money, food and materials, which is even more incomparable in field warfare. Few people know that Hu Weidong's current Dayang has already broken through the 1 million mark, and this is Hu Weidong's abandonment of the previous radical policy of "fighting local tyrants", otherwise there will be more (now the independent division basically only confiscates official property, and there are fewer and fewer powerful landlords who dare to brutalize the revolutionary masses due to the situation, but fortunately, they can buy it with money if they can't grab it, and the independent division arsenal is still developing rapidly.) ）。

In addition, the strong siege ability can better mobilize the enemy, if there is no ability to attack the fortification, then the enemy will definitely not rush to rescue when "besieging the city to help", and the preparation will be more sufficient, if it is not done well, it will be a sandwich meal, and even dare not fight at all and retreat, and in the worst case, there is even the danger of being trapped under the fortified city and being annihilated. If the enemy does not come to the rescue or is slow, then the independent division will simply knock down the city, and it will be earned anyway, and if it is in a hurry to rescue, the preparation must not be too sufficient, and the independent division will naturally have a much greater grasp of besieging the city and sending reinforcements

In addition, there is another advantage of attacking fortified positions, that is, the goal is determined from the very beginning, and the preparations can be done relatively thoroughly; for Hu Weidong, who is still very inexperienced in major wars, the difficulty of command is undoubtedly much smaller than that of field battles with greater variables. Of course, if the enemy's marching route is detected by the telegraph officers of the independent division, on the premise of being sure, Hu Weidong will not be in the middle of making dumplings, in fact, he did this at the beginning, but with the skyrocketing of troops, I am afraid that such opportunities will become less and less in the future, because the scale of the annihilation war is larger and more difficult to achieve, not to mention that Hu Weidong is not good at large corps operations

Note 1: Focusing on mine warfare, especially the advanced tactics of various mine warfare, such as sub-mother mines, chain mines, long vine mines, nail mines, and grenade mines, etc., as for sparrow warfare and drilling ravines, everyone will not be taught, as for tunnel warfare, the groundwater level in the south is high, and there are not many areas that can be applied, and camouflage tactics have high requirements for the quality of the implementers