In the war room of the headquarters, the commander had received an order from the war zone requiring the Eighth Route Army to withdraw from Datong and hand it over to them to take over the defense.
The order must be carried out, but if Datong, which the troops worked so hard to defeat, is given away like this, no one will be willing to accept it, including the commander-in-chief.
The chief of staff comforted him: "Boss, if it doesn't work, give them Datong, but the time to take over the defense must be postponed."
"The siege troops must evacuate Datong City before handing it over to the Jinsui Army to make up for our losses as much as possible."
"I read the telegram sent by the Chief of Staff of Frontline Week. As long as we can take away all the weapons and ammunition, materials, food, and funds seized in the city, we will not only not lose money in this battle, but also have a lot of money."
Make money."
After saying this, the chief of staff quickly pulled out a telegram he had just received.
"This is the latest battle report sent by Chief of Staff Zhou, which contains detailed statistics on the seizures of our army in Datong City."
"Excluding the weapons and ammunition already equipped to the troops, there are still equipment for nearly two regiments."
"Excluding artillery and heavy machine guns, we can at least form an artillery regiment and a heavy machine gun battalion."
"There are two warehouses for various types of ammunition. Bullets, artillery shells, explosives, everything."
"It can be roughly concluded from the inventory list of the arsenal that these two arsenals have 12,000 rounds of artillery shells alone, more than 8 million rounds of various bullets, and nearly 50,000 grenades, 5,000 kilograms
Explosives..."
"There are piles of grain in two warehouses, totaling more than eight million catties."
"Nearly one million kilograms of scattered grain was also seized from Japanese and puppet military shops, warehouses and homes in the city."
"The last big thing is funds. A total of 650,000 yuan and gold bars and gold and silver jewelry worth 300,000 yuan were confiscated from the Japanese and puppet troops."
"With these seizures as a foundation, we won't suffer any loss if we abandon Datong City."
Seeing that the boss's face was much calmer, the chief of staff continued to report: "This does not include the materials we seized from various coal mines outside the city."
"After taking Datong, the siege force was divided into three. One part followed Li Hao to return to the base area, one part controlled Datong and transferred the materials we captured in the city, and the other part fought out of Datong and attacked the areas still controlled by the Japanese and puppet troops.
Big and small coal mines.”
"Although there are not many troops stationed in the coal mine, there are a large number of mine protection teams and private armed forces. If we attack them, we will definitely be able to seize a large amount of materials, weapons and ammunition."
The boss sighed and replied: "As long as there is no loss!"
"Our Eighth Route Army has a weak foundation and cannot afford to fight a war of attrition. Every battle must be fought carefully, otherwise it will definitely become weaker and weaker, and eventually the troops will be wiped out."
"Since we can make a profit from this battle and cannot refuse the orders from the war zone, let's give Datong City to them."
"But we have the final say on the timing of the change of defense, so as to buy enough time for Chief of Staff Zhou to transfer our capture in Datong."
"We cannot let the Jinsui Army take advantage of us. We must fight for what is worth fighting for."
The chief of staff thought for a moment and replied: "Don't worry, boss, the Jinsui Army is here to take advantage this time, and they must not go too far."
"If we really dare to push the envelope, take advantage and still behave, we, the Eighth Route Army, are not vegetarians."
The boss nodded and ordered: "Then this matter is settled. Datong will be given to the war zone, but the materials, weapons and ammunition captured by our army in Datong must belong to us, and everyone can take what they need!"
Just when this important matter seemed to be decided, the communications staff suddenly walked in with a very serious expression.
"Reporting to the chief, the garrison has just sent an encrypted telegram!"
"Li Hao's telegram, did something happen to him?" the chief of staff frowned and said to himself.
He quickly took the telegram, took out his code book, and translated it himself.
Five minutes later, he put away the code book and looked at the boss with a wry smile on his face as he reported: "Boss, we just decided to give Datong City to the war zone, and this guy Li Hao sent a telegram asking us for Datong."
"The telegram said: Our army does not want a bullet for the supplies captured by the garrison in Datong, but we hope that the headquarters will agree that the garrison will occupy Datong and not leave!"
The boss also had a wry smile on his face.
The troops worked hard to defeat Datong, and no one wanted to give up.
They also want to hold on to it and develop Datong into an Eighth Route Army base.
But the situation forced us to face orders from the war zone and it was difficult not to give up.
He sighed deeply and ordered: "Forward the order given to us by the war zone to Li Hao, and tell Comrade Li Hao that he can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. We don't have the strength to control such an important place as Datong now. When we have the opportunity in the future, our Eighth Route Army will definitely become Datong."
The real master, when the time comes, I will definitely hand over Datong to the garrison for management."
The chief of staff did not move, but handed the telegram to the commander-in-chief: "Boss, Li Hao mentioned in the telegram that the Jinsui Army asked us for Datong."
"He also took the initiative to ask for orders to negotiate with the Jinsui Army. No matter how much we can negotiate, the territories negotiated will be under the control of the garrison."
The commander-in-chief looked puzzled, but he still took the telegram and read it carefully.
After reading it once, he slowly frowned, and then started to read it a second time...
After reading it three times in a row, he directly asked the chief of staff: "What do you think of Comrade Li Hao's proposal in the telegram!"
"Well-founded and reasonable!" the chief of staff replied.
"A telegram from the war zone came to us asking for Datong. It is unreasonable in the first place."
"Datong was captured by our Eighth Route Army at great sacrifice. If the war zone wants to take Datong away, it must give us some compensation."
"I think we can let Comrade Li Hao give it a try. Even if we only talk about one town, it's better than nothing."
"If I guessed correctly, Comrade Li Hao should be interested in the minerals buried underground in Datong."
The commander-in-chief must be much more decisive and make a decisive decision: "No matter what Li Hao sees."
"If he wants to talk to Jinsui Army, let him do it."
"What you just said is right. Even if we only talk about one town, it's better than nothing."
"Even if the negotiations fail, we have nothing to lose."
"And based on my understanding of Comrade Li Hao: He is a person who is not sure if he does not fight. Since he dares to send a telegram to ask the headquarters for power and wants to negotiate, he must have thought of a perfect strategy, so I believe that Comrade Li Hao said in the telegram
He said: As long as he is allowed to negotiate, one-third of the area of Datong can be negotiated, although I don't know what method he plans to use to negotiate with the Jinsui Army."
"However, if we really want to negotiate with the Jinsui Army, his level is still too low."
"In this way, let Chief of Staff Zhou lead the entire negotiation, with Comrade Li Hao as his deputy."
"Li Hao proposed in his telegram to minimize the contribution of the garrison in the Great Unification Battle. I completely agree with this point."
"They have been in too much limelight recently and can easily become a key target of the Japanese's attacks."
"When the Battle of Datong is completely over, when we announce the results to the outside world, we will change the garrison regiment into a support force and cooperate with the base area in northwestern Shanxi to capture Datong."
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