At the Hongquan Village Independent Regiment Headquarters, Li Hao also received a telegram forwarded from the military division headquarters!
After reading the telegram, several people at the regiment headquarters looked very unhappy, especially political commissar Wang Hong!
It has been less than two months since the last counter-mopping operation ended, and it has only been a month since the troops were restored to full strength. All cadres are training hard. But it is obviously impossible to restore combat effectiveness to its peak in such a short period of time!
There are also ordinary people in the base area. The houses burned down by the Japanese during the last counter-sweep operation were all restored more than half a month ago. Just as everyone was living a stable life, a new round of Japanese raids came. This simply did not allow the ordinary people to live a quiet life!
What worries Wang Hong the most is the increasingly cold weather. It’s snowing outside and it’s freezing cold. If you stay outside for a long time, you may freeze to death!
The troops were supported by the cotton-padded clothes captured from the Japanese and puppet troops. They had no problem fighting in the cold winter, but the common people could not!
If, like the last counter-mopping up, the people were forced to hide in the mountains and freeze for several days and nights, they would definitely freeze to death!
Just when Wang Hong's frown deepened, Li Hao spoke!
"Comrades, I am not boasting, but in this winter campaign launched by the Japanese and puppet troops, our independent regiment must be their key target!"
"Last time we killed more than 3,000 puppet troops in one go. Almost two months have passed, and the Japanese have made no movement at all. It's as if nothing happened!"
"According to the character of the Japanese who must retaliate in the past, it is definitely impossible to let the matter go unnoticed!"
"Now I understand, it's not that the Japanese don't want to retaliate against us, but they are waiting!"
"Use this winter sweep to kill us in one fell swoop!"
"Think about it, after the big sweep begins, military divisions, military districts, and other Eighth Route Army units around us will definitely be attacked by the Japanese army!"
"When the Japanese army gathers a large number of troops to retaliate against us, our independent regiment will have to fight alone without any support!"
"More importantly, because of the cooperation throughout the winter sweeps, our connection with the military divisions and other base areas will definitely be cut off, and then we will be blocked by the Japanese in Lingqiu. Even if we can't defeat the Japanese sweepers, they won't be able to escape even if they want to!"
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Political Commissar Wang Hong's frown deepened, and he took a deep breath and replied: "Captain, what you said made me realize that the situation facing the Independent Regiment must be worse than I expected!"
"We must prepare in advance!"
"Otherwise, this counter-sweep operation will definitely bring us disaster!"
He hesitated and analyzed: "I think the first thing we have to solve is the problem of clearing the base of the base!"
"It's snowing and it's freezing cold. If we just let the people go into the woods to avoid this military disaster, some people will definitely freeze to death, and the people won't want to!"
Several people’s brows suddenly knitted together!
What the political commissar said is true. The troops still have captured winter uniforms and tents that can be used, and they are all young and strong men. There is no problem at all in hiding in the mountains for a few days!
The common people can't. Although the autumn harvest is bumper, the Eighth Route Army has also lowered the standard for collecting public grains, allowing every household to stockpile a lot of surplus grain!
However, everyone used to be afraid of hunger!
I didn’t dare to sell the remaining grain, so I buried it all in the mountains to save lives in future disaster years!
If there is no food to exchange for money, then there will be no money to buy cotton-padded clothes and quilts!
Therefore, for the time being, the problem of hunger and cold faced by the common people can only be solved. If we want to solve the problem of cold, it will take at least several years of accumulation with the little wealth of the common people!
If there are no good cotton-padded clothes and quilts to keep out the cold, the people will be forcibly taken into the mountains to clear out the wilderness!
The common people have escaped the war disaster, but they cannot escape the cold weather!
It would be better if the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign was shorter, but the people would get sick at most if they lasted longer!
But no one can say for sure. If the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign lasts longer, even if it only lasts four or five days, some of the old, weak, women and children among the common people will definitely freeze to death..."
At this time, Li Hao suddenly said: "Then let's start preparing for the strong wall and the clearing of the wilderness now!"
"The weather is freezing and the people are exposed in the wilderness. Even if there is a fire burning around them, many people will not be able to hold on!"
"In that case, then we will build a warm house for the people in the mountain, so that the people will not be exposed to the cold in the wilderness after entering the mountain!"
"This is impossible!" Wang Hong retorted subconsciously!
“All manpower and material resources were concentrated in the base area, and it took more than a month to build more than a thousand houses!”
"The Japanese army's winter sweeps will be carried out within half a month at the latest, and it may start in five days!"
"It takes a few days to build houses in the mountains that can accommodate tens of thousands of people. There is absolutely no possibility of success!"
Li Hao answered confidently: "Nothing is impossible, everything depends on man-made efforts!"
"It should be colder in the Northeast than here. They can just go into the mountains and build a snow house to survive for several days in the middle of winter. We can definitely do it too!"
"Also, the house I'm talking about is not the kind of house made of adobe outside the mountains!"
"Dig a big hole on the ground using the mountain top, cover it with logs and thatch, and if possible, cover it with a layer of soil, compact it, and leave an opening for entry and exit. I'm sure a family of four or five people can sleep in it.
, it must be warmer than their home outside the mountains!"
"Dig a hole and cover the top with soil! Captain, isn't this a cave dwelling in Yan'an?" Deputy leader Luo Yun shouted with imagination!
"I have lived in a cave dwelling before. It is indeed warm in winter and cool in summer. Especially in winter, living in a cave dwelling is much warmer than living in an ordinary house!"
Li Hao shook his head and replied: "This thing can't be called a cave dwelling. At most, it can be called a tuwozi!"
"Although the name is a bit unsophisticated and very simple, it is definitely no problem to stay inside to avoid the cold in the winter!"
"Also, being simple means that the nest is easy to build!"
"A family of five digs a large pit half a meter to one meter deep and two meters long and wide. The excavated soil is piled around the pit to build a wall, and then logs, branches, thatch, and finally are placed on the mound.
Then cover it with a layer of soil and compact it for warmth, and two people can complete it in five days at most!"
Political Commissar Wang Hong affirmed: "It can definitely be completed, Commander, this plan is feasible!"
“As long as people don’t get frozen when they go into the mountains, they will definitely be willing to go into the mountains to avoid the disaster of war!
"I will contact the base area government now and ask them to organize guerrillas to mobilize the people to dig holes in the mountains!"
Li Hao waved his hand and said, "Don't worry yet!"
"It is true that the earthen nests can keep out the cold, but the location for building the earthen nests must be chosen well. You can't just let the little devils go into the mountains to find them. In this case, it will be useless to let the big guys go into the mountains to clear the fields and avoid the disaster of the soldiers!"
"I have set a requirement here! The place where each village builds a nest must go at least ten kilometers into the mountain, and it must be built on the mountainside leeward of the wind!"
"Even if the Japs discover them and want to go into the mountains to capture them, the ten-kilometer mountain road is enough for the guerrillas and local troops to slow down their attack, buying time for the people to move and for the main force to reinforce!"
"In addition, we can also use these ten kilometers of mountain roads to sneak attack them with guerrilla warfare and mountain warfare, which our troops are good at, and try our best to kill the Japanese and puppet troops entering the mountains, weaken their forces, and kill two birds with one stone!"
"I agree!" Wang Hong's eyes lit up and he agreed!
"I agree too!" Hong Linfeng and Luo Yun added immediately!
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