On the yellow and green sand table, Ren Di's hand fell gently. A red flag was planted on the sand table, and forty-two small red flags north of the Huai River were displayed in the wind on the entire sand table. Fiftieth day after the war, the rustiness of the original warring parties had long since disappeared. The officers of the Red Republican Army roughly understood how to fight the war.

Ren Di also gradually understood that the situation of the war in the past few days had become clear, and Ren Di had misjudged from the beginning. The enemy is not terrible at all, and an army of 30,000 people, if you can't find the main forces of the Red Republican Army, can only stay in the city. Chairman Chiang suppressed bandits back then, and in the face of a small mountainous area, he did not use 200,000 troops and 30,000 imperial troops to fight such a wide battlefield. In this land where eight million people live. It's a drop in the bucket. Maintaining law and order is not enough.

A month after the war, the Third Army made the mistakes it was bound to make, and the negative emotions of the army began to vent on the civilians in the war zone. This mistake is a mistake that almost every occupying army must make, and after Maozi occupied Berlin, German women suffered. The US imperialist army drove to the Middle East, of course, not much better. It was this mistake that allowed Ren Di to be caught, and the militia system and guerrillas that controlled the countryside began to be established on a large scale. A large number of trained soldiers began to organize militias in the countryside with cadres. Jinyiwei in Nandu said that Ren Di now controls between 150,000 and 22,000 troops. In fact, these militiamen with guns in the countryside are counted. The front-line combat units that Ren Di really controls so far are only six regiments, and one regiment should have 1,500 people at full strength.

After each quick war with the Ming army, the soldiers lost in the regiment were quickly filled up from the reserve training group, and the veterans who had experienced the war brought new recruits. As long as the establishment is there, the army can be quickly restored. In the entire northern Anhui, Ren Di gradually began to become an unbeatable Xiaoqiang.

As for the militia organization that has begun to take shape in Huaibei, 40,000 guns have been issued so far. These militia Ren Di did not expect them to fight a tough battle. A soldier who can fight a tough battle, and shoots steadily in the rain of guns and bullets. Able to charge under the cover of our artillery, hold the grenadier in your hand and fire at the enemy in the midst of the explosion of the ground shaking. To make the army like this, the officers are the seeds, and the officers who dare to shout with me are the seeds.

With such seed soldiers, they can quickly bring a group of rookies to form combat effectiveness. The 335,000 unarmed British and French troops that the Führer had let go of at Dunkirk later turned into several times the army that landed in Normandy. The tens of thousands of turtles driven by the principal walked tens of thousands of miles, but in the end, the officers mass-produced by the Whampoa Military Academy could not do it.

This is also the importance of establishment, a force leaves a few seeds, can ensure the rebuilding of the army. When Ren Di arrived in the Huaibei Mountains, there were only a few hundred conscripts as seeds. It is also necessary to take into account the construction of industrial production and the popularization of education. So it swelled to only five thousand troops in a year. Two months of fighting also dared to swell the army to a strength of nine thousand.

However, the non-main battle militias are inflated like balloons. Although the militia could not fight head-on, the troops of the imperial army with less than a few dozen people did not dare to go to the countryside to ask for food. In addition, it can effectively organize the retreat of the people and establish an economic system of grain stamps for the exchange of industrial products and grain. And when the Ming army went out of the city, it always provided support for the Red Republican Army.

In this way, the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides in military operations quietly changed. This is not something that can be changed by one or two advanced weapons, the aircraft has long been put into battle, and the tracked combat vehicles promoted by Hai Song have also been transported to the Huaibei battlefield. As a result, the eight-ton iron lump broke down outside, and was dragged back by the disgruntled Imperial soldiers with ox carts and manpower.

As the imperial army isolated itself from the countryside, the battlefield situation gradually tilted towards the red republican army, just three days before Ren Di planted the flag, the Huaibei Campaign, the sixth large-scale sub-battle broke out, the four thousand imperial army was divided, divided into three parts, one part was blocked, two parts were besieged. Five hours later, when the reinforcements from Huainan City arrived. Two of the besieged regiments of one of the Imperial armies were completely eaten. Twelve hundred Imperial troops were killed or captured. So far, this kind of "piecemeal" battle to destroy one or two thousand people at a time has accumulated a very terrifying number in the eyes of the generals of the Imperial Army, about 9,000 Imperial troops have withdrawn from the battle sequence, and the establishment of four Imperial legions has been canceled. And the military power of the opposite side no longer seems to be decreasing, and it is beginning to grow amazingly.

All the Imperial troops, from generals to soldiers, no longer had the initial confidence. The opposite side seemed to be eating the dishes and eating the Imperial Third Army one bite at a time. Ren Di's staff did indeed plan to do so. These guys are full of spirit. Now from the beginning of the Imperial Army offensive to the Red Republican Army offensive in Huaibei.

After planting the flag, Ren Di returned to the table with the full people and looked at the map, and asked Zhang Youhe, "Can we fight Fuyang?" Zhang Youhe said: "Fuyang is the closest city base to us. Now Sun Ze's army is seriously undernumbered, and according to reliable information, there are only two regiments of the imperial army stationed in Fuyang City. Less than three thousand. ”

Ren Di said: "How many groups can we mobilize? Without a triple army, do you want to play siege? Another officer, Du Ming, said: "It's not three times, it's ten times." After speaking, he handed over a stack of papers, Ren Di flipped through it, and it was recorded that the order for the implementation of the Supreme Mobilization Order in the South China Red Zone was recorded. Just like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a country's men were mobilized in all directions, and they did not hesitate to mobilize at the expense of the productive population. Now Li Ziming has mobilized this order in South China.

Ren Di raised his head, and all the staff and lieutenants also looked at Ren Di with waiting eyes. Ren Di understood, this time these people had already discussed, Ren Di said slowly: "Our local losses are very fragile now? Zhang Youhe said: "Sir, the local people are now very eager to drive away this group of old soldiers from Jiangnan. Everyone can't stand it anymore. Zhang Youhe said with a mocking look on his face: "When Wang Shi first suppressed the bandits, the local people welcomed it in two months. But now they're on our side. In the Fuyang area, the scourge is particularly severe. ”

Ren Di said: "The militia can't fight a siege war. The clerk recorded in the corner interjected, "They're in charge of surrounding." We are fighting this siege, and the enemy will only tremble in the city. "That's right, surrounded by ten times more organized militia, the enemy troops in the city really don't dare to come out and wave. It is impossible to come out and wave a dozen ten.

Ren Di is also thinking that there are only a few big cities in northern Anhui, Fuyang, Suzhou, Huainan and Huaibei will take Fuyang. It means that the north of Huoqiu County will not be harassed. And the terrain between Huoqiu and Shou counties can restrict the transportation of heavy weapons. Not conducive to the movement of large corps, Huoqiu has ready-made iron mines. This is the temptation of a stable industrial base.

Moreover, war materials have been drastically reduced, and half of the thousands of tons of purchased grain have been used up in two months. That is to say, the conditions for large-scale militia warfare are constantly passing. Ren Di continued to flip through the plan, surrounding this city of 100,000 people, and the staff was ready to mobilize a militia force of 30,000 people.

Ren Di interjected: "30,000 militia is not enough. Fifty thousand. Hearing Ren Di speak, the officers present understood that Ren Di agreed. But in the end, Zhou Xiaoxiao, a girl in civil affairs (the head of the Women's Federation), said: "The number of militias can be mobilized enough, but firearms? Ren Di replied: "Firearms and ammunition, you don't have to worry, I will squeeze out a batch." You do a good job of mobilization. ”

Turning to the number of artillery in the plan, it was written that there were eighty long-barreled guns, and Ren Di changed the number to one hundred and twenty with a pen. Since he decided to fight, Ren Di decided to press all his net worth.

Ren Di drew two lines from the north and south on the military map and said: "What should I do to rescue the enemy?" He Wang said: "There will be a reinforcement first." He Wang's pen tip was drawn on several ferry points in Huaishui on the map. If our army appears south of Huaishui, approach Luzhou. The opposite side must be defended, and the city of Anhui Province south of the Huai River is the shield of the southern capital. ”

Ren Di said: "After this battle, the imperial army in the Zhejiang region, between the Guangjiang Red Zone and us, there is no need to be entangled in the choice. We will be a great danger to the Empire. Ren Di opened the big map and pointed to Henan and Shandong, Hubei said: "In the next two years, we may encounter the encirclement and suppression of 200,000 enemies." Are you ready? ”

Now Ren Di can't teach these young people tactically, but in terms of strategy, Ren Di still thinks a little more than them. What is the Dabie Mountains? A sharp knife that is obliquely inserted into the core economic belt of South China. To guard the river must guard Huai, and to guard Huai must guard Jingzhou. From the martial arts work Shendia, Xiangyang, an important strategic node of the Southern Song Dynasty's defense of Mongolia, is described. Open Xiangyang Hubei, a rich land surrounded by mountains, under the impact of the army, and then go down the Yangtze River from Hubei, all the way to Anqing, Shucheng, and Hefei, you can take the land of Jianghuai. The most prosperous cities in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are not in danger.

Xiangyang, then to Hubei, all the way down to the Yangtze River, this is a road that can support the supply line. Whether it is a modern armored regiment or a cavalry corps in the Middle Ages, supply lines are needed. The Dabie Mountains, which divided Anhui and Jing, could not withstand the supply lines of the legions. But it's another matter if a base is established in the mountains. Prior to this, Ren Di's army was a relatively difficult bandit for the Ming Dynasty. If the red area of Dabie Mountain once shows the ability to attack the city. Then the cabinet of the empire will understand that the red zone of Dabie Mountain is not an unpleasant-looking wooden thorn inserted in their chests, but a truly deadly steel knife.

After Ren Di explained the strategic impact of laying down Fuyang. The officers also seemed bewildered by the next flurry of possible strategic implications. Ren Di stood up and said: "Fuyang I want it, this is not the end, but a more difficult beginning." ”