837 The Heart of Taihang Base Area—Independent Regiment
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"Report!"
"Come in."
A team headquarters.
Two months ago, Duan Peng, who was sent to Zhongtiao Mountain to support the Fourth Independent Regiment along with the American equipment, returned with the commando members.
At this moment, Duan Peng came to the headquarters and reported his orders to Kong Jie.
Also returning with him was Wang Shoucheng, commander of the first company of the armored corps that originally reinforced Zhongtiao Mountain.
Seeing the return of his two tiger generals, Kong Jie's face was full of smiles.
After opening the curtain and entering the inner room, Duan Peng and Wang Shoucheng put their heels together and respectfully gave Kong Jie a standard military salute.
Then Duan Peng took the lead and said:
"Reporting to the detachment leader, the commando team was ordered to escort American equipment and reinforce the Zhongtiao Mountain operation. The task has been completed. I came here to report the situation to the detachment leader!"
Immediately afterwards, Wang Shoucheng also spoke: "Reporting to the detachment leader, this time the 1st Armored Company was ordered to reinforce the Fourth Independent Regiment and successfully completed the mission. Our 1st Armored Company did not suffer any losses of combat vehicles or personnel during the battle!"
"Okay, okay! In the battle at Zhongtiao Mountain, your armored company and the commando team fought very well."
Kong Jie's smile became brighter and brighter, and then he changed the topic and asked: "Do you know why I issued an order to the Fourth Regiment Headquarters to rush you back to the detachment?"
Looking at Kong Jie's smiling eyes, Duan Peng and Wang Shoucheng shook their heads in confusion.
Kong Jie said: "I won't explain the specific situation to you.
At present, the crisis in Zhongtiao Mountain has been resolved. The Fourth Independent Regiment has completely established a foothold in the Zhongtiao Mountain base area, and there will be no major crisis in the short term.
So I called your two teams back to the base area to strengthen the combat strength of our team."
After saying this, seeing the confusion on the faces of Duan Peng and Wang Shoucheng, Kong Jie smiled and said: "Don't think about it blindly. I tell you this in advance so that you can step up the training of the troops after you go back.
Get ready to fight.
The command headquarters has new combat tasks for you at any time!"
"Yes!"
Although they were unclear about the situation, seeing that Kong Jie had no intention of explaining, Duan Peng and Wang Shoucheng didn't ask too many questions, just answered and turned around to leave.
It wasn't until I walked out of the courtyard of the headquarters that the doubts in my heart completely exploded.
Wang Shoucheng looked puzzled and said: "Duan Peng, I am not bragging. The overall strength and foundation of our team now means that it is not an exaggeration to say that the entire Eighth Route Army is the best.
But the detachment leader was so anxious to call us back to the base area to talk about how to enhance the combat strength of a detachment.
Is it possible...that there will be another large-scale battle?"
Duan Peng shook his head: "You ask me, who should I ask?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Duan Peng, who suddenly thought of something, slapped his forehead and said: "By the way, we can go ask the monk!
Not long ago, the monks who helped in Jizhong and the comrades in the guard have also returned to the detachment."
The two hit it off immediately, and after making up their mind, they immediately went to look for the monk.
Wei Monk, the guard of Kong Jie, the former commander of the independent regiment, later became the commander of the security company of the independent regiment headquarters.
After a detachment was established and developed, Monk is now the well-known guard battalion commander of the detachment headquarters.
Of course, there is another identity - he will serve as Kong Jie's personal bodyguard and temporary guard at any time when Kong Jie is out.
As for when he was usually at the detachment headquarters, the monk was directly kicked out by Kong Jie and went to train the guard camp.
In Kong Jie's words: "You, monk, are not alone in eating. Your whole family is no longer hungry. You are carrying a heavy burden!
The safety of the entire security battalion, which includes more than 300 soldiers, including the entire detachment headquarters, rests on your shoulders.
If it's okay, don't come to me to fight. Haha, I don't want you as a guard who brings tea and water.
It would be good to lead more guard camps to conduct training, even if it means taking time to learn some cultural knowledge."
...Guard Camp Training Ground.
The commander of the guard battalion, the monk, is leading the soldiers in the guard battalion to do physical training while sweating.
The monk held up two large stone locks and exercised with great breath.
That single stone lock probably weighed forty or fifty kilograms, and it seemed as if it had lost weight as it was being manipulated back and forth in the monk's hand.
The guards and soldiers behind them were also training with what looked like the same stone locks. They gritted their teeth one by one and saw the arrival of Duan Peng and Wang Shoucheng, with bitterness on their faces.
There is no other way, the battalion commander is too domineering and acts as a "dictator" in the entire security battalion training. What to say:
These are all the contents of my training in the Shaolin Temple. The same applies to you. You must not be less. Practice them all for me. You are not required to reach my level. You must be at least half as capable as me, right?
This is a hardship for the soldiers in the guard camp.
Being subjected to various types of high-intensity training every day makes me complain incessantly.
But there was no way. Even if we reported it to the detachment leader, in the words of the soldiers, the detachment leader always protected the calf and was partial to the battalion commander!
Knowing that the monk had extremely strict training for the guard camp, Kong Jie said with a smile: "Monk, you want to train the entire guard camp into a monk camp for me!
If you are really capable and train all the soldiers in the entire guard camp to be like you, Monk Wei, I will personally go to the headquarters to ask for your credit!"
Look!
Doesn’t this make the monk more and more energetic!
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"What? Fighting? Recently? Or on a large scale? I have never heard of such a thing!"
After Duan Peng and Wang Shoucheng expressed their intention to come, the monk shook his head and knew nothing about it.
In fact, it was not just Duan Peng and the others who expressed doubts about this.
Even within the detachment headquarters, Chief of Staff Xu Guoan, including Political Commissar Li Wenjie, were very puzzled by Kong Jie's recent focus on simulating future large-scale operations.
The staff room of the detachment headquarters.
Kong Jie is studying the entire situation in northwestern Shanxi presented on the military simulation sand table.
He still speaks plausibly:
"Once it starts, the Japs' attack routes will mainly be in these directions... The transfer of the people will be handled by the militia, and the transportation of materials will ensure the logistics of the forward combat troops, operated by the migrant workers' corps..."
"It is best to divide the battle into three fronts. The first line is the defensive war on the inside, the front is the guerrilla war on the outside, and the third is the surprise attack deep into the Japanese rear area..."
"It starts again!"
Not far away, watching Kong Jie immersed in the sand table, Chief of Staff Xu Guoan turned to the political commissar Li Wenjie and said.
Li Wenjie smiled and nodded: "Yes, I don't know if the group leader is crazy these days. He has been studying around this sand table all day long.
Let's ask, and we won't say anything.
I don’t know what kind of medicine the leader is selling in this gourd.”
While joking, Xu Guoan strode to the side of the sand table and said with a smile: "Old Kong, are you studying again?
Now you can tell us what exactly you have been studying these two days, right?"
Seeing Xu Guoan and Li Wenjie enter the room, Kong Jie stood up straight from the sand table with a smile and said:
"Let's not talk about this for now, Wenjie and Lao Xu, let me ask you, how is the Jizhong Military Region?"
Xu Guoan was startled, not expecting that Kong Jie would suddenly ask such a question.
After thinking for a moment, he still replied: "We will not consider the development of the army for the time being. Compared with our Taihang Taiyue base area, the Jizhong Military Region is quite good in agricultural development in the base area."
Li Wenjie deeply agreed with this, "Yes, especially after your work on tunnel warfare reached Jizhong, commander, the comrades in the Jizhong Military Region quickly applied tunnel warfare tactics to practice.
In addition, Jizhong has a flat terrain and a strong public base.
Although the Jizhong Military Region is the second-level military region of our Eighth Route Army, its scale has grown quite rapidly, and it currently has five military divisions under its jurisdiction.
In recent years, with the rapid expansion, so far, the entire Jizhong Military Region has administered thirty or forty counties, of which nearly half of the counties are under the complete control of the Jizhong Military Region.
There are 7 to 8 million people, the cultivated land area is vast and the farmland is intensive, a large number of people are involved in production, and agriculture is developed.
Especially after the spread of our improved potatoes, it further promoted the rise of agriculture in central Hebei.
The people in the base area live a prosperous life and the army has developed steadily. Among our Eighth Route Army troops, there is even a saying that the entire Jizhong Military Region is called the Ukraine of our Eighth Route Army troops!"
Kong Jie said: "You are absolutely right. Although our team has developed rapidly in recent years, compared with the large-scale agricultural development of the entire Jizhong Military Region, it is still a bit small. The Jizhong Military Region, which has a large population, dense farmland and developed agriculture, has actually played a vital role in the logistics and supply of soldiers to our Eighth Route Army troops since the Battle of Zhengtai.
Function.
In other words, if the Land of Abundance is the heart of our China, the current Jizhong Military Region is the heart of our Eighth Route Army."
Li Wenjie and Xu Guoan did not deny Kong Jie’s comments.
The Jizhong base area does have unique advantages in the development of agriculture, which is something that even the current team cannot match.
"It's just... Lao Kong, you suddenly mentioned the Jizhong Military Region, what do you mean?"
Kong Jie simply asked straight to the point: "Old Xu, you said that as the hidden base of our Eighth Route Army troops, the Jizhong Military Region even plays an important role as a logistics and soldier base.
We can realize the irreplaceable importance of the Central Hebei Military Region to our Eighth Route Army.
Is the little devil just blind and unable to see these situations?"
Only then did Xu Guoan suddenly realize: "Lao Kong, I understand. I said you have been studying the war for the past two days. Are you worried that the Japanese will launch a raid on our Jizhong Military Region?"
Kong Jie said decisively: "I can only say that if I were a little devil, I would definitely insert the sharpest dagger into the heart of the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong Military Region.
Moreover, within the Japanese army, the Jizhong Military Region has long been called the core military station of our Eighth Route Army.
I think the Japanese will definitely attack the Jizhong Military Region, it’s just a matter of time.”
Kong Jie said very solemnly, but Xu Guoan on the side suddenly laughed.
"Old Xu, why are you laughing?" Kong Jie said in shock.
Xu Guoan said with a smile: "Old Kong, I'm laughing at you for not worrying too much! The Jizhong Military Region has a fully developed tunnel foundation, and the elite of each unit together has at least 50,000 to 60,000 people.
Under your planning, all the troops in Central Hebei, with the 28th Regiment as the center, launched a large-scale military training in the entire base area.
The troops have been further refined. It can be said that the current Jizhong Military Region not only has a strong agricultural foundation, but its military strength is also not weak.
The little devil wants to destroy the Jizhong Military Region, the military depot of our Eighth Route Army. It is no longer a matter of a day or two.
It's just that the Japanese have to consider whether they have the strength."
At this point, Xu Guoan changed the topic and said: "In addition, Lao Kong, instead of worrying about the Jizhong Military Region, you should be more worried about our team!"
"Worried about our detachment?" Kong Jie was confused again.
Xu Guoan said happily: "Yes! Haven't you heard of some rumors recently?"
"What rumors?" Kong Jie asked.
Xu Guoan said: "It is said that our first team is the core of the entire Taihang base of our Eighth Route Army!
From this perspective, if the Jizhong Military Region is the heart of our entire Eighth Route Army, then our first team is the heart of the entire Taihang Base Area.
Lao Kong, you are worried that the heart of our Eighth Route Army will be stabbed by the Japs, aren't you worried that the heart of our Taihang Base Area will be attacked by the Japs?"
Kong Jie was dumbfounded!
He really had never heard of this rumor.
When did our team become so famous and become the heart of the entire Taihang base?
"Why, you don't believe it?" Xu Guoan said with a smile: "The last time I went to the headquarters for a meeting, the leaders of each regiment put forward this idea, and even the bosses who were at the meeting didn't deny it.
Everyone has said that when it comes to economic development, one team is the first to rise, and then with one team as the center, it even affects the economic development of other regiments and even the entire Taihang base area.
In terms of military development, one team is located at the gateway of the Taihang base area and has shouldered most of the pressure of the Japanese army's raids.
In addition, whether it is internal visits, exchanges and studies, large-scale training of the entire regiment, equipment development and equipment introduction, they are basically promoted by our team."
Cough cough cough——
Xu Guoan, who paused for a moment and coughed twice, continued: "Also...comrades also said that when it comes to their hatred of our Eighth Route Army, when they see a team, the eyes of the Japanese seem to be spitting fire.
!
Such a team that has a comprehensive military and economic development and can attract the hatred of the little devils to the greatest extent, why isn't it the heart of our Taihang base?"
Kong Jie: "…………"
I was speechless for a moment.
After a few people chatted and laughed for a while, they got down to business.
Kong Jie looked at the military simulation sand table in front of him and said: "Old Xu, Wenjie, we mentioned this topic.
What you said is absolutely correct. The Jizhong Military Region is a thorn in the devil's side, and our team is also a thorn in the devil's side.
In this case, in my opinion, we might as well continue on this topic.
What if the Japanese army uses an unprecedented large-scale force to launch a comprehensive sweep of our Taihang, Taiyue and even Jizhong base areas?
How can our team not only protect ourselves, but also cooperate with the Jizhong, Taihang, Taiyue and other troops to complete this anti-mopping military simulation exercise!"
As soon as these words came out, Xu Guoan and Li Wenjie's eyes sparkled.
"Lao Kong, what do you want to do?"
Kong Jie said with a smile: "First call all the regiment leaders and political commissars to participate in the meeting. What I want to know more now is what they will do!"