Chapter 136 The Eve of the Anti-Encirclement and Suppression (2)
Chapter 136 The Eve of Counter-Encirclement and Suppression (2)
After Liu Hua issued an order asking all the main regiments to arrive at Zhangjizhuang's outer assembly area as soon as possible, all training troops urgently assembled in the Zhangjiazhuang area. When Liu Hua got up the next day, several troops had already gathered outside.
The strength of the regiment, several regiment commanders who arrived in advance were staying together, discussing the reasons for the sudden gathering of troops. When they saw the commander Liu Hua walking in, several regiment leaders stopped talking and looked at their commander.
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"Hello, Commander!" When he saw the Commander walking into the conference room, several regiment leaders and political commissars stood up and said. Liu Hua nodded to everyone and looked at the four regiment leaders in front of him.
"Comrades, how is the situation in the army now? How is the cooperation ability of the soldiers trained? Is it possible to carry out a large-scale battle? If we spread them out in company units, will it affect the combat effectiveness?" Liu Hua did not say much.
To be polite, I asked several questions in a row.
After listening to the commander's words, the four people introduced the situation of the army to the commander in turn. After listening to the introductions of the four people, Liu Hua nodded with satisfaction and looked at the four regiment commanders in front of him with admiration. After listening to the report
, Liu Hua, what everyone wanted to know urgently, was to briefly tell the four regiment leaders in front of him about the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign.
After listening to the commander's introduction, the four people all expressed their opinions. Through these opinions and opinions, Liu Hua's combat plan became more perfect.
In this way, Liu Hua discussed with several group leaders throughout the morning. It was not until the trumpeter blew the meal bugle that he led the group leaders to the headquarters cafeteria while walking and talking.
After the meal, all the participants were basically present. Following the order of the political commissar, everyone walked into the conference room. Dozens of cadres were sitting upright in the conference room, with six group leaders sitting in the first row, and others in the back.
He is his own political commissar and commander of each battalion...
"Okay, comrades, please be quiet. Let's start the meeting now. First of all, the commander will introduce to everyone the reason for this meeting." As the host of the meeting, political commissar Guan Xiangying stood up and said. Just after finishing speaking, the conference room
There was warm applause.
Liu Hua stood up, waved his hand, and said after the applause stopped.
"Comrades, you must be wondering why I ordered the troops to stop training and gather them all near Zhangjiazhuang. Maybe some people have guessed that this gathering is because we are going to fight, and it is a big war. Let's start again.
A battle that I have never experienced before." Liu Hua drank some water and continued.
"Why we need to fight a big battle is not that I want to fight. I know that many troops suffered serious losses in the last battle. Although a large number of new recruits were added to the garrison regiment, the troops have reached full strength, but the combat effectiveness of the troops has not yet reached the battle level.
I am the first to disagree with the situation before, asking you to go to war now. However, this time it is not up to us! This time it is the Japanese who are forcing us to fight. Let me ask Chief of Staff Li Qing to introduce the analysis of the enemy's situation, and you will know
Why are we fighting this war?" After saying that, Liu Hua sat down and motioned to the chief of staff to speak.
Chief of Staff Li Qing stood up, clarified his thoughts and said: "Comrades, since our Eighth Route Army arrived at the front line, it has repeatedly launched ambushes behind the Japanese, wiping out a large number of the Japanese's effective forces, and interrupting Guizi's logistics transportation lines many times.
. More importantly, we have established a large number of base areas in the rear of the Japanese, which has seriously affected the pace of the Japanese offensive, especially our independent brigade. Now we have annihilated almost two regiments of Japanese troops, and the Japanese hate us even more.
Into the bone.
Therefore, in order to retaliate against us and eliminate us, the Japanese are preparing to mobilize a large number of troops from the front line in April, that is, in the near future, and prepare to launch a comprehensive encirclement and suppression operation against our base area in an attempt to encircle us in the Zhangjiazhuang area, and in this area
, deployed heavy troops to fight us decisively, hoping to wipe out our independent brigade in one fell swoop."
"In order to achieve this combat goal, the Japanese mobilized the 108th Division as the main force and gathered one unit each of the 16th Division, the 20th Division, the 109th Division and the Sakai Brigade, totaling more than ten
Regiments (including eight infantry regiments, one to two regiments each of cavalry, artillery, engineers, and baggage), consisting of Shexian, Changzhi, and Lin(fen)tun (liu) on Changzhi Avenue in Handan
) Tunliu on the highway, Pingding on Zhengtai Road, Yuci, Taigu, Hongdong on Tongpu Road, Xingtai on Pinghan Road, as well as Yuanshi, Zanhuang, Xiyang, Qixian and other places, divided into nine roads to Shanxi
A large-scale siege was launched in the southeast region in an attempt to use the tactic of "split advance and combined attack" to achieve a quick victory and annihilate all our troops in the Zhangjiazhuang area. This is the situation we are facing now in the eastern Shanxi base area."
After listening to the chief of staff's words, the cadres below became silent. The more than 30,000 elite Japanese troops were simply an astronomical number for these cadres...
"Comrades, there are more than 30,000 Japs, which is the strength of one and a half Japanese divisions. Haha, comrades are frightened by this number from time to time!" Liu Hua continued when he saw that no one spoke.
"Comrades, to be honest, I am scared too, but should we just hide? No, there are more than 30,000 Japanese soldiers. If they all enter our base area, think about what these beasts will do.
. Ruining the base area we have worked so hard to establish, and ruining our food... More importantly, we have our brothers and our sisters here. The devils are coming, what will happen to our brothers and sisters! Comrades, we can let the devils ruin our food.
Base area?" Liu Hua shouted loudly.
Maybe these words really touched the hearts of the cadres below. Everyone blushed after hearing Liu Hua's words. "No, no..." After hearing Liu Hua's words, everyone replied loudly.
"Okay, since we can't, we must bravely pick up the guns in our hands to protect the base we have worked so hard to establish and our loved ones." With that, the excited Liu Hua took another sip of water and continued.
"Comrades, the Japanese have more than 30,000 troops, but in fact the troops we face are not that many. First, with the help of the 129th Division, Commander Liu sent two regiments of reinforcements to support us, and these two
I will place the troops of each regiment along the Tongpu Road. In this way, the two groups of Japs attacking us along the Tongpu Road in Yuci, Taigu, and Hongdong will be completely contained along the Tongpu Railway by these two main regiments.
, there is no chance to enter our base area, but," Liu Hua changed the subject and continued.
"However, according to our estimates and Commander Liu's guarantee, the troops of the two regiments can delay the Japs for up to half a month if they have sufficient ammunition. Therefore, we must repel the other several regiments within half a month.
Then the remaining two groups of Japanese will retreat automatically."
"But, Commander, even if there are less attacks by two groups of Japanese soldiers, we still have to face an attack by more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers!" Sun Xingbang, the commander of the first regiment, stood up and said.
Liu Hua looked at the confused Captain Sun and nodded, then said: "Comrades, I wonder if some of you still remember how we fought off the heavy encirclement and suppression by the Kuomintang when we were in Chaling!
"After saying that, he looked at everyone with a smile.
"Commander, I understand, is it to hit the enemy's army and annihilate the enemy's army, and the rest of the army? Use flexible guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare to harass the enemy, tire the enemy, and prevent the enemy from marching normally, waiting for us to completely annihilate the Japanese army.
From now on, the rest of the Japs will naturally retreat due to their strength." Gao Yuan, the commander of the Second Regiment, stood up and said.
"Well, that's the principle, but this time our task of harassing the Japanese army must be handed over to the militia, garrison regiment, and part of the main force. In addition to harassing, we also have to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible this time, so the task is very heavy. The following is by
The chief of staff will specifically arrange the tasks for this counter-encirclement and suppression operation."
Comrade Xiao Ping, Secretary of the Pingding County Party Committee." Li Qing stood up and shouted loudly.
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"Secretary Xiao, your task is to command the militia in each village, mobilize the masses, carry out the task of clearing the country, and arrange the transfer of the people. If the troops are not enough, the garrison will provide support at any time. All the work of clearing the country must be completed within three days."
"Yes, I promise to complete the task." Xiao Ping replied neatly.
"Comrade Wang Daoguang, Director of the Logistics Department."
"The task of your logistics department is to organize the baggage troops into companies, carrying at least two bases of ammunition to supplement the losses of the main battle at any time. Among them, the guard company is left, led by Director Wang, to closely guard the arsenal in the back mountain to prevent
Destruction by Japanese agents."
"Yes, I promise to complete the task."
New Regiment, your task is to spread out in company units and attack the Japs along the way from Xingtai on Pinghan Road, as well as the reinforcements from Yuanshi and Xiyang directions, and all the guerrillas and local militias along the way are handed over to you.
The commander asked the Japanese to hold off the enemy on this road for at least a week. After the meeting, the new regiment went to the logistics office to receive 1,000 landmines, 10 electric detonators, and 20 sky-blasting artillery shells.
"Yes, resolutely complete the mission and hold off the Japanese for at least a week." The leader said resolutely.
The mission of the New Second Regiment is to intercept the enemy forces in Changzhi and camp in the direction of Changzhi with the cooperation of local militia and guerrillas. The required time is one week. After the meeting, they will go to the logistics office to receive the same equipment.
"Yes, resolutely complete the task."
"The operational direction of the New Third Regiment is to quell the two groups of Japs in the same direction. They are required to delay the Japs for a week and collect their equipment after the meeting."
All remaining troops, including artillery, special forces, and guard companies, will be under the unified command of the commander to encircle and annihilate a regiment advancing from the direction of Shexian County. The specific combat tasks will be arranged according to the specific situation when the time comes."
"Yes!" The remaining cadres in the conference room stood up almost at the same time and replied together.
Seeing all the cadres sitting down again, Liu Hua stood up. "Three new regiments were formed. The local troops such as the garrison regiment were personally commanded by the political commissar during the war. The encirclement and annihilation campaign against the Japanese was commanded by me and the chief of staff. Do you have any other opinions?
No."
"No." Everyone replied in unison.
"Okay, according to the intelligence, the specific time for the Japs to dispatch troops is the 6th. We still have two days to prepare. We require each regiment to bring all the equipment and ammunition before tomorrow morning and advance to their scheduled battlefields. They must be in
Arrive at the designated position before the Japanese attack, and you will arrange the specific combat plan yourself. The remaining three regiments and the directly affiliated units will also set off tomorrow and secretly move towards Shexian County."