A few days later, the tenth detachment camped at the camp. Ma Qian'an received a systematic summary of the situation reported by the Anti-Japanese United Army Headquarters. The documents were the highest secret level and were only conveyed to the commander and political commissar of the Army. The telegram clearly pointed out the current situation of the armed struggle of the Anti-Japanese United Army and the tasks that the Fourth Route Army would face next.

Telegram: In more than two years, the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces has grown from being on the verge of despair to now with a system of four divisions, reaching a scale of 50,000, and has controlled a large mountainous area, which has attracted the attention of the Japanese army and has repeatedly sent troops to encircle and suppress the enemy. The latest is also the biggest encirclement and suppression, and there is a trend of not giving up until the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces is eliminated. Faced with encirclement and suppression, the vast number of officers and soldiers of our Anti-Japanese Allied Forces fought bravely, repeatedly defeating the enemy. In more than two years, no less than 40,000 Japanese troops and more than 10,000 puppet Manchurian military and police were killed, achieving brilliant results.

However, we should also see that in the battle with the Kwantung Army with well-equipped military qualities, the sacrifices of our officers and soldiers were huge. When we gave the enemy major damage, we also suffered great losses. The small base area, weak economy, and insufficient ammunition assistance are all issues that our Anti-Japanese United Army urgently needs to face. The most important problem is that we cannot occupy economically developed and densely populated areas and cannot produce blood and support and expand the troops on our own. In the long run, we will lose vitality under the long-term siege of the enemy. We have a bloody lesson in this regard, which is something that our officers and soldiers do not want to see.

Regarding this, the Anti-Japanese United Army Headquarters communicated repeatedly with the central government. After comprehensively weighing the conditions, the central government recognized that we had narrowed our scope of activities. The entire army went north to the Sino-Soviet border area and occupied the northern province of Xing'an and relied on the Soviet Union to obtain food and ammunition supplies. In this way, our army eliminated the supply problem, but at the same time it was also carrying a greater danger than before.

First of all, our activity area is reduced and it is more conducive to the enemy finding our traces. If we find our main force, our army will face more fierce attacks. Secondly, because we have lost contact with the masses, the masses outside the base area will not be able to defect to us, which has caused us to lose a source of supplementary troops.

But the difficulties are temporary. We estimate that within half a year, there will be a good turnaround in the situation at most one year. Comrades! Work hard! Fight! With the continuous development of the anti-fascist battlefields around the world, the final victory must belong to the anti-fascist warriors. We will eventually regain our homes, and persistence is victory!

In another telegram, Yang Jingyu briefly explained the next combat operations of several troops. In view of the Japanese army's unremitting efforts, most of the combat readiness passage in the Little Khingan Mountains, which cost more than 100,000 laborers' lives, was completed. The activities of the First and Third Route Army were greatly restricted and suffered considerable losses. For this reason, the Anti-Japanese United Army headquarters will cooperate in the near future, and the main force of the Third Route Army withdrew from the Little Khingan Mountains to head north.

The Second Route Army, the 13th Detachment of the Fourth Route Army, the Jia Yonggen Detachment, and the Artillery Detachment assisted the main force of the 361st Division of the 11th War Zone of Mazhanshan, and jointly consolidated the newly occupied area of ​​Xing'an North Province and made preparations for perseverance.

Ma Qian'an, the Fourth Route Army, led the 10th Detachment and the 12th Detachment to continue guerrilla warfare in Xing'an East Province, attracting the main force of the enemy, and doing a good job in external support.

Ma Qian'an held the telegram in his hand and pondered. He was thinking about the meaning of the telegram. He had known the decision of the second and fourth troops to go north, but the situation was so severe that even the first and third troops were forced to give up the Little Xing'an Mountains and set up their main forces to go north to go north and join the second and fourth troops, but Ma Qian'an did not expect it.

His eyes were fixed on the words "Sacrifice is huge" and "it also has a huge loss", and he refused to change his eyes for a long time. Does this mean that the three Route Army suffered shocking losses in the near future and had to be forced to go north? I guess it is!

The Anti-Japanese Allied Forces gathered from dispersion to a whole, which undoubtedly strengthened its combat effectiveness, but it would undoubtedly attract more fierce attacks. Although it could be replenished by the Soviet Union and not collapsed suddenly due to the exhaustion of food as before, how long can it last under the siege of the enemy? This is a question.

The soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces were not iron-killed King Kongs, nor were they immortal giants. They were brave and tenacious, but they would die if they bite the bullets. Ma Qian'an estimated that after all the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces merged, there would be about 30,000 people, plus the remaining 10,000 people in Ma Zhanshan, all of which were more than 40,000. If there were any battles of intensity like the Battle of Songhu every day, it would be hard to say whether they could last for half a year.

If there is no replenishment of personnel, it is impossible to talk about the final victory at all. Only a reduction and no increase in the army. Even if the last person is destroyed, it can only become a "tragic" army, and cannot become a victorious army that can achieve strategic goals.

Anti-Japanese United Army! I will never let you become an army that makes people sigh and touching. I want you to become a tiger and wolf army and a decisive force to defeat the enemy. I want future generations to be proud of you and proud of you.

I swear! I will use all my passion and wisdom to strengthen you, yes! I swear!

Soldiers! Soldiers! Soldiers! I want soldiers! The current reserve source of soldiers is only the weak laborers who have just been sent away, and the tens of thousands of men, women, young and old who have been transferred by the Anti-Japanese United Army in the former Xing'an Province. There are only more than 10,000 young and middle-aged men who can become soldiers. The addition of two strokes is only more than 20,000. These people cannot become elite soldiers immediately. They must undergo regular training in their health. At the earliest, it will take several months to slowly replenish them. The distance water cannot quench the near thirst, and the number is a little less. It is still far from Ma Qian'an's imagination.

It was late at night, and Ma Qian'an was still thinking. He walked to a campsite and saw two soldiers guarding the fire at night chatting head-to-head, and waves of whispers came into Ma Qian'an's ears.

"I saw my fellow villager, so thin, so I gave him two buns. Oh! It would be great if I could walk to the Russians, because I was afraid I would fall on the road."

"You are okay, and you can still see the living fellow villagers. Those in my village were almost dead half a year ago. If I hadn't saved me by the Anti-Japanese United Army, I would have finished now."

It is in Henan dialect. There are a large number of Henan labor-born soldiers in the Anti-Japanese United Army. Listening to the two of them, they were rescued earlier and have become anti-Japanese United Army soldiers.

Henan? Ma Qian'an couldn't help but tremble, and two words quickly jumped into his mind: Shui Han Huang Tang, three million.

As the words jumped into, a tragic scene appeared before Ma Qian'an's eyes.

Under the pressure of disasters and levies, the scene of starving and starving in the wilderness appeared on the land of Henan. Countless Henan people carried their pitiful families and embarked on the road to survive. The railway line along the Longhai Road was composed of victims, a single group of people, one by one, and a group of endless sight. The victims were walking in the cold climate. No matter where they went, they were hungry and cold.

Or they fall out of exhaustion, and they will never get up again. The wheelbarrow carries all their belongings, pushes them by their father, pulls them by their mother, and the children follow them. The foot-binding elderly women stagger. Walking hard on both sides of the rails, no one pauses. If a child is lying on the body of his father or mother, they will walk by him silently. No one dares to take in the crying child.

The small amount of food brought by the fugitives will soon be eaten up. Then they will eat bark, weeds and dry firewood. Many people are peeling the bark with knives, sickles and kitchen knives. They sell children and daughters, and eat with change of children. Death can be seen everywhere, and people have long been indifferent.

No one cared about them, no government at any level of disaster relief, and no grain was sent to the victims. Only wild dogs, who were full of corpses, looked at the next delicious meal with scarlet eyes.

Three million died!

There is only one way to slightly stop their tragic encounter. Ma Qian'an thought that the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces lacked people, but the victims lost their lives due to hunger.

Recruiting soldiers and going to Longhai Road to recruit is undoubtedly the best of both worlds. If done, not only will the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces solve the problem of military source, but the Henan disaster victims can also kill many fewer people.

But how can these conditions be combined, including food, passages, reasons, Shi Daling, Stilwell, Ma Zhanshan, and Yan'an Central?

There are many favorable conditions, and there are also unfavorable conditions. Ma Qian'an has been thinking about it all night.

Soon, Yang Jingyu received a top-secret telegram from Ma Qian'an.

"Comrade Secretary, I have a few ideas and suggestions on the situation we are currently facing..."
Chapter completed!