The headquarters chosen by Brigadier Wang was located in an inconspicuous square in Ping'an County, surrounded by only a few low courtyards. After entering the house, Gao Hongming did not greet him and said directly: "Commander Wang, just to be polite.
Let’s not talk about it anymore, you might as well introduce the situation to me!”
"OK!"
Brigadier Wang also knew that now was not the time to be polite. He picked up a small stick on the table and walked to the big map hanging on the wall, pointing at a red circle and saying: "This is Ping'an County where we are. Since our troops are relatively small,
They are scattered, so so far there are only three groups in Ping'an County.
They are the New Second Regiment of the 386th Brigade, the 770th Regiment and the 769th Regiment of the 385th Brigade, with a total strength of more than 8,000."
"What about the situation of the Japanese army? Have you figured it out?"
"We have already inquired about the situation of the Japanese army."
Brigadier Wang's expression became serious, "Since we repelled the 6th, 47th and 108th divisions that invaded Liantai County, Okamura Neiji, who was unwilling to fail, mobilized the 9th and 28th divisions.
A brigade of more than 20,000 people came to us from Yangquan County and Jingxing County respectively.
For this reason, I ordered the New Second Regiment, the 770th Regiment and the 769th Regiment to set up defenses in the Xiaohe Ancient Village, Wangjiazhai, and Fenghuang Mountain areas to block the Japanese attack at all costs."
Gao Hongming frowned: "So, we don't even have a reserve team now?"
"Yes."
Elder Wang's face turned red. Although he felt embarrassed, he still nodded.
When any commander goes to military school, the instructor will solemnly tell him that he must keep a reserve team on hand at all times, but now is not the time to save face, it is only right to tell the truth realistically.
Gao Hongming pondered. It seemed that the situation here was worse than he expected.
Of course, he understood what it meant to have no reserve team in hand, which meant that there were no extra troops in Pingan County. Once the war ahead changed, they didn't even have the means to respond. It could be said that the situation was already very dangerous.
A staff officer of the Liantai Militia who followed Gao Hongming couldn't help but asked: "Commander Wang, according to what we have learned, there are still a lot of your troops scattered around Ping'an County. Can you first mobilize one or two regiments to act as troops?"
Reserve team, otherwise once the situation changes, the entire front may be in danger of collapse."
Brigadier Wang smiled bitterly, "You don't know something. After a great battle, all units in our division suffered serious losses. Especially Li Yunlong's independent regiment, which belongs to the 386th Brigade, suffered 30% to 40% casualties.
So just the day before yesterday, the headquarters had ordered the 1st Armored Battalion, the Independent Regiment, the New 1st Regiment and several units to return to Liantai County for repairs. They would not be able to fight again in less than ten and a half days. The only thing they could count on was the Liantai Militia.
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Sir, I wonder if you can send some troops over, even one or two battalions."
Having been in Liantai County for so long, Brigadier Wang also understood some of the situation of the Liantai Militia.
Due to some indescribable reasons, Liantai militia groups are generally organized into battalions.
However, the battalion-level unit of the Liantai Militia is different from the general army and belongs to the strengthened battalion organization.
Although each battalion also has three reinforced companies, it also has artillery companies, reconnaissance platoons, anti-aircraft companies, engineer platoons, anti-tank companies and other establishments, adding up to at least 800 people.
Especially their weapons and equipment made him drool even after looking at them. If he had two more infantry battalions under the Liantai Militia, he wouldn't be so worried.
Gao Hongming asked again: "Commander Wang, are the people recruited today to build the airport still there?"
"It's still there."
"In this case, you tell those people not to leave first, and then recruit at least three thousand people to continue building the runway. At least a five-hundred-meter-long runway will be built before dawn tomorrow. Within three days
The number of runways must be three.
Tomorrow I will order the transport plane of the Aviation Corps to airlift my guard battalion first to ensure the safety of Ping'an County, and then within two days, I will airlift three to four infantry battalions.
But that's not the most important thing, the most important thing is to ensure our ammunition supply, otherwise it will be useless no matter how many troops are brought here."
Brigadier Wang, Political Commissar Geng, Director Su and others were shocked after hearing this. They had been worried about ammunition supplies these days. They did not expect that Gao Hongming would solve the big problem that had been piling up in their minds as soon as Gao Hongming came.
Political Commissar Geng couldn't help but said: "Great, as long as we have sufficient weapons and ammunition, we will be more confident in this mission."
However, Director Su, who is the director of the Political Department, raised another question, "But now there is another problem. When we summoned the people to build the field airport, we did not do it for free. Instead, we promised to give each person five kilograms of coarse grains per day.
What's more, this has almost emptied out most of our army's food reserves. If we recruit more people, we will not have enough food."
Gao Hongming said without hesitation: "Now that I'm here, food is not a problem. Director Su, feel free to call us boldly. When the field airport is ready, we can use transport planes to fly the food over at any time, let alone coarse grains.
It’s not a problem for them to distribute canned meat.”
After hearing this, Brigadier Wang and the three looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Since the troops arrived in Liantai County, they found that the wealth of the Liantai Militia was almost beyond their imagination.
The weapons and equipment of the soldiers were almost completely changed. They also had canned meat to eat every day, and even cigarettes were distributed to each soldier.
They never dreamed of living like this before. Being friends with such a rich man who doesn't take money seriously is really a happy trouble.
The only thing they worried about was that after this battle, it would be too uncomfortable to go back to the old days of counting bullets and fighting.
As the saying goes, there must be brave men under heavy rewards. When Gao Hongming's words reached the ears of the people who were still building the runway, and when they heard that those who worked for the Eighth Route Army and the Liantai Militia would not only get food, but even canned meat, the people
His emotions were instantly aroused to the peak.
The life of ordinary people these days is very difficult. Being able to have enough to eat is already a very happy thing. As for eating meat, most people can only think about it in their dreams.
As for whether the other party will fulfill its promise?
Didn't you hear that the person who spoke was the senior official of Liantai County? This is a famous local rich man in Shanxi, a man who makes nails with spit, will he depend on you for a few kilograms of grain and canned meat?
Encouraged by food and canned meat, the people were enthusiastic and stayed up all night to fight. At dawn, a 500-meter-long earthen runway had been built. Although it looked relatively crude, the airplanes of these days were not originally like
Later generations are so delicate, taking off and landing on such a field airport is their basic skill.