It is indeed troublesome. If we cannot raise enough food, it means that the New Regiment cannot gain a foothold in the Changbai Mountains, which means that the plan to fight guerrillas in the Changbai Mountains must be adjusted, which means that everything will have to be overthrown.
For a force that has lost its foothold and is on the move, the consequences will be disastrous!
In fact, the first consequence has gradually emerged. Because the troops cannot stay in a certain place for a long time, the lightly wounded soldiers transferred from Fengtian cannot get enough rest. The injuries of many lightly wounded soldiers have worsened and have already been
He became a severely wounded man who was unable to move on his own and had to be carried away by his comrades.
This greatly increased the burden on the troops. The reason why the new regiment decided not to take away the seriously wounded, but only the lightly wounded who could walk on their own, was to reduce the burden on the troops as much as possible and increase the mobility of the troops.
, but now, as new seriously injured people continue to appear, the army's injury burden is increasing rapidly.
Therefore, after coming down from Dahuzhai and catching up with the new regiment, Xu Rui immediately convened a meeting with the main cadres of the entire regiment to discuss the next battle plan.
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At the meeting, Xu Rui first said: "The situation in the Changbai Mountain Area is much more serious than we expected. In order to maintain the large-scale war of aggression against China, the Japanese government continues to brutally raid the three northeastern provinces, and the people in the Changbai Mountain Area are no exception.
Moreover, compared to other places, the people here have to endure the burning, killing, robbery and robbery of bandits, and their life is even more difficult. Therefore, the idea of raising food from the people is simply not feasible, and the people are almost exhausted.
"
Wang Husheng asked: "Old Xu, hasn't the Langya Brigade already gone to rob the bandits of food?"
The other battalion commanders present also expressed hope. There should be food in the bandits' den, right?
Xu Rui chuckled and said: "The Langya Brigade did go and rob it. In fact, I just came back from Dahu Village. You can't imagine how much food the Langya Brigade found in Dahu Village."
"How many?" Shi Changqing asked, "It can't be several million kilograms, right?"
"How many millions?" Xu Rui said, "You think it's too good. The total food for Tiger Village is less than one thousand kilograms!"
"What?" Shi Changqing said dumbfounded, "A bandit den with nearly a hundred people only has less than a thousand kilograms of food? When did the bandits become so poor?"
The other battalion commanders also looked at each other in confusion.
In their consistent impression, the bandits were always very wealthy because they were engaged in robbing families and homes without capital. Most of the food in the village was piled up like mountains. How could they be so poor?
Wang Husheng's expression suddenly changed slightly because he thought of another question.
At that moment, Wang Hu asked Xu Rui anxiously: "Old Xu, what about the other villages?"
Xu Rui sighed, shook his head and said: "Except for the situation in Heixiazi Village, which is slightly better, the other villages are almost the same. However, the food in Heixiazi Village is only seven or eight tons, which is only enough to feed a company of troops for two months. Therefore,
In the Changbai Mountains, not only the common people are extremely poor, but even the bandits' families have no food left."
Wang Husheng said solemnly: "You mean, it is impossible for the troops to stand in the Changbai Mountains?"
Xu Rui shook his head and said: "It's not completely impossible. If we forcibly break the troops into parts and rush into the deep mountains and forests with the squad leader as the leader, we can still survive until the day when the autumn grain comes. The problem is,
After being hungry for so long, the combat effectiveness of the troops will definitely decline seriously!"
After a pause, Xu Rui continued: "What's more, the Japanese will definitely not be idle during this period. They will definitely divide their troops into the mountains and continue to pursue them. In addition to causing continuous casualties to the troops, they will also not be able to rest."
, before the autumn grain comes, the Japs will send large troops into the mountainous areas to grab grain. At this time, it will be difficult for our new regiment to defeat the Japs in the battle for grain. And if we cannot raise enough military rations before winter, our new regiment will
It’s hard to survive the winter in Changbai Mountain!”
Xu Rui's few words immediately described the cruel prospect that their new group was about to face.
The atmosphere at the meeting immediately became a little solemn, and all the battalion commanders frowned.
After a long while, Gao Chucai said quietly: "In other words, the plan we made to fight guerrillas in the Changbai Mountains will definitely not work, because the troops cannot stand in the Changbai Mountains at all, so the plan must be changed."
Wang Husheng sighed and said sadly: "The troops can't stand in the Changbai Mountain area, where else can they go?"
"I don't know where else to go." Gao Chu spread his hands and said, "I definitely can't go back to Fengtian anyway."
Wang Husheng rolled his eyes after hearing this, "Aren't you talking nonsense? If you can return to Fengtian, and if the new regiment still has enough strength to defend Fengtian, is there any need to move?"
Shi Changqing scratched his head and said: "We can't stand in the mountainous areas, and we can't defeat the Japanese in the plains. Doesn't this mean that the three eastern provinces have no place for our new regiment to gain a foothold?"
Gao Chu said quietly: "But now it's too late even if you want to go back to the pass."
"Shut up!" Wang Husheng scolded Gao Chu, "The New Regiment's stay in the three eastern provinces to persist in the war of resistance is not only the decision of the Party Central Committee and the Communist Party, but also the need of the entire war of resistance. Don't talk about these useless nonsense here.
"
After a pause, Wang Husheng continued: "If it doesn't work, we should still persist in guerrilla warfare in the Changbai Mountains. How can our Communist Party troops be intimidated by such difficulties? The Anti-Japanese Alliance can persist in the three northeastern provinces for nearly ten years. Our new army
I don’t believe the regiment can survive even one winter!”
Xu Rui shook his head and said: "Old Wang, I won't consider this!"
Fighting guerrillas under extremely passive conditions is not an option for Xu Rui.
Because just like the Anti-Japanese Alliance in history, although they persisted under extremely difficult conditions, the strength of the army was extremely severely weakened. In fact, they had completely lost the ability to take the initiative to attack. This was definitely not Xu Rui's idea.
What Xu Rui wants is not only to preserve the troops, but also to maintain the ability to take the initiative to attack!
If it cannot pose a threat to the Japs in the three Northeastern provinces, it is of little significance for the New Regiment to stay in the Northeast. It will not be able to contain the Japs' forces, let alone destroy the strategic base of the Three Northeastern Provinces. So from the East
The food, steel and other strategic resources produced by the three provinces can continuously supply the Japanese soldiers on the Chinese battlefield!
Therefore, Xu Rui was unwilling to stay in the mountainous areas to fight guerrillas under extremely passive conditions.
Wang Husheng's heart suddenly moved, and he said: "Old Xu, I remembered it. When you were determining the next battle plan, you seemed to have said that moving to the Changbai Mountains to fight guerrillas was not the only option, but you didn't say anything about backup later.
What are the options? Now you can always talk about the backup options, right?"
Xu Rui nodded and said: "This meeting is held for this reason."
After a pause, Xu Rui continued: "The reason why I didn't mention this backup plan at the time was because the risk of doing so was actually very high. One mistake could wipe out the whole army, so I didn't have much
Consider it, but now we have no other choice but to take the risk!"
Wang Husheng asked: "What is the plan?"
Xu Rui shook his head and asked an irrelevant question: "Do you know about the Maginot Line?"
"Captain, you told us about the Maginot Line." He Shuya said, "But now it seems to have become an international joke."
"The Maginot Line has indeed become an international joke." Xu Rui said, "The French spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build a solid defense fortification on the German-French border, stationed heavy troops, and threatened that it would be absolutely impossible.
It was breached, and as a result, the German army captured the French capital Paris with just a detour. The latest news is that France has announced its surrender."
"These Gauls are really spineless." Shi Changqing said scornfully, "They surrendered after losing Paris."
Wang Husheng was a little anxious and said: "Old Xu, please stop being so pretentious and come up with a backup plan!"
Xu Rui nodded and said: "There is a Maginot Line in Europe. Almost the whole world knows about it, but few people know that there is actually an Oriental Maginot Line in the Northeast!"
Not only Gao Chu, but also Wang Husheng and others were confused.
Because the Japanese Kwantung Army's construction of fortifications in the three northeastern provinces was highly confidential, all laborers were lured from within the Kwantung region in the name of recruiting workers, and not many people in the upper echelons of the Japanese army knew about this matter.
Xu Rui said: "After the September 18th Incident, although the Japanese occupied the three northeastern provinces, because the Soviet Union stationed heavy troops on the Sino-Soviet border, the Japanese were actually very worried that the Soviet Union would send troops to rob them of the three northeastern provinces. After all, not long ago, the entire Heilongjiang was owned by Russia.
Human territory, so the Japanese began to build fortifications on the Sino-Soviet border soon after occupying the three eastern provinces.”
After a pause, Xu Rui continued: "As far as I know, the Japanese began to build national defense fortifications in the 20th year of the Republic of China, and they did not stop building them until they formed the Far East Front Army and launched a blitzkrieg against the Soviet Far East and Western Asia.
So far, a total of 17 large fortresses and nearly 80,000 permanent fortifications have been built!"
Wang Husheng said horrified: "Old Xu, how do you know this?"
Xu Rui said: "The last time I went to Tokyo to assassinate Hirohito, the shadow told me."
Xu Rui is of course lying. In fact, Jun Nakamura doesn’t know anything about the defense fortifications in Northern Manchuria, let alone the detailed maps and data of the defense fortifications in Northern Manchuria. But the problem is, Wang Husheng and the others cannot know this.
No, it is absolutely impossible to go to Tokyo to find Nakamura Shun to verify this matter face to face.
Wang Husheng was concerned about another thing.
At that moment, Wang Husheng asked: "Old Xu, what does this have to do with your backup plan?"
