Hedong, Binh Duong. Inside Ma Heng's headquarters.

The situation with the partisans is really bad." Ma Heng looked at the telegram in his hand and said.

"Sir. There were too many deserters from the partisans. Despite some good examples, their determination to carry out our mission is not very strong, and they are always looking for all kinds of reasons to prevaricate us, which is very bad and the most difficult thing for us to accept, and such things are very difficult for us to accept. The combat staff officer on the side said worriedly.

The guerrilla headquarters submitted the relevant operational reports as usual. But the situation is not in their favor. The situation is simple. It is precisely because it is very difficult for the guerrillas to have a greater combat capability. Therefore, in the face of the southward movement of the Wuhuan people, although the guerrillas made a large mobilization, most of them will not take the initiative to attack, many troops are quickly disengaged, of course, there are also a small number of troops with excellent performance, for example, the engineer platoon, that is, the second platoon has been submitted as a very special case. In this way, their combat effectiveness will become much better, and such a situation will be extremely beneficial to both sides.

However, the strategic posture of the Republican Army was very bad, because the impact of the guerrillas did not meet expectations.

"Although we have certain expectations of this and that, when I actually see such a report, I feel very surprised, and sometimes, I feel that this is an unfavorable situation." Ma Heng said. Although at first they expressed great doubts about the fighting power of the guerrillas, they were still very surprised when they encountered such a situation, after all, they also had to face such a difficult problem many times.

"Sir, we must not give the guerrillas great hopes, otherwise the results will be extremely unfavorable, except that we will open up the main communication routes. The only way we have to do anything other than provide more support is to find a way to move our troops north, and the only way to fill the void is to fill the void quickly. to make up for our shortcomings in other areas, otherwise our situation will be extremely bad. The operational staff officer said. It seems that the only thing the Republican Army can do is to move north quickly, but unfortunately, the state army did not loosen a hole in the defense line, and it takes a lot of time to open it all at once, and, according to the reconnaissance and intelligence information provided by the intelligence department, the road capacity of the state is very unoptimistic. In particular, in terms of weather, the autumn rainy season has arrived, and if an attack is launched at this time, it will inevitably cause them great trouble, after all, the road in Namishu is a dirt road, and although it is a big road in the sense, it is better than anyone else what kind of road it is.

'We have to attack as soon as possible or get them out of here so that we can get things in our favour." Ma Heng said. The impact of mobilizing a large number of wagons is very large, and they need to solve such a problem as soon as possible, otherwise, they will be very troublesome.

"Looks like we're going to have to give the front line a try." Ma Heng nodded and agreed with some of the views of the operational staff officers, because only in this way can such a series of changes in the situation be completed, otherwise, many of them will be in an unfavorable situation.

"As for the guerrillas, I think we should tighten some control over deserters, otherwise they will have a huge negative impact on us, and we must not allow that to happen." Ma Heng said that regardless of whether the guerrillas habitually run away or not, such things happen to them often, and they may have become accustomed to them. But for Ma Heng, it is difficult to accept, because an army must not have such a situation to deal with such a thing, otherwise, it will have a great impact. In such a state, they must not have such things happening.

"We can't let a large number of vehicles in Hedong stop in such a place, which is extremely detrimental to us, we should be aware of this, otherwise, this will have extremely serious consequences for us." Ma Heng said. The biggest reason why Ma Heng emphasized launching an offensive was to solve some problems in Hedong, after all, he could not let the problems in Hedong be in a very unfavorable situation, after all, the impact of a large number of carriages was too great.

Li Jiazhuang, War Department. A new division was split from the operations department, the Republican Police Department. From the outset, his role was to deploy a lean army into a rapid strike force, mainly to deal with the major cases that broke out, and at the same time coordinate the relevant redeployments of the local police force to adjust and solve most of the cases. However, this department has only just been established, and some of them have not yet entered the intended track. However, it will take some time to deal with these things, as long as they are given a certain amount of time, they will definitely handle some of these things well, many people think so.

"This is the case, the guerrillas have issued an order to assemble. But they are not fully engaged in the battle, their tactics are still harassing, but they always instinctively retreat, although there are very few examples, for example, the engineer platoon held its position and launched an attack, but they still have two deserters, and all of them are killed, if we can't encourage and guide such things well, the result can be imagined, it will have a very serious adverse impact on us, we can't let such a situation continue, continue to happen, Because it's still very big for us. Jia Xu said to Shangwu. The problem of the guerrillas is actually really big, and even though this is the right thing for the guerrillas to do, in reality, a lot of things are still actually still not handled very well. Habitual running away is not a good thing.

"At the beginning, the Red Turban Army encountered such a thing, but at the peak of the Red Turban Army, more than 40 regiments were established at one time, and most of these regiments were formed by the rapidly growing militia, not only that, but the smallest of a regiment was only 300 people. Their weapons are also very bad, and they even have farm tools. Shang Wu began to recall some of the practices of the Red Turban Army before.

"But we were able to transform it all at once. And in the face of the elite troops of the imperial court, we did not retreat. And to a greater extent encirclement operations were conducted. Encirclement and reinforcements. Among them, we have rapidly downsized more than 40 infantry regiments, carried out reorganization and reorganized new combat units. We have reorganized and retained some of the units that can fight, so that they can continue to play their due role. Shang Wu said.

"You mean to say that there is going to be a reorganization of the guerrillas?" Jia Xu asked. After all, the martial and guerrilla commanders considered different angles. The Commander will deal with the deserters seriously, as it will cause them more trouble. However, Shang Wu believes that reorganization is inevitable, because only by adopting the method of elimination can the combat effectiveness of the troops be maintained, and an army will inevitably have its own sense of honor, and if there is no such sense of honor, it will lead to the troops having no sense of belonging.

"Yes, we have to do that, because only by doing this can we make our situation extremely favorable, otherwise what we are doing will be meaningless, and it will not be an extremely beneficial thing for us." Shang Wu said.

"Well, well, I agree with this, and agree with your idea, because such an idea is a great help to the improvement of the combat effectiveness of our guerrillas, and such help is very meaningful to us." Jia Xu said.

"In addition to reorganizing the troops, we should also encourage their fighting spirit, and I found that what the guerrillas lack is a fighting spirit, although the fighting spirit also needs to be built on a certain basis of war materials, but if the fighting spirit is too lacking, there will be some situations like guerrillas, and we should put forward some typical combat units to encourage them. In addition to that, we need to do more to encourage them to grow on a larger scale, otherwise it won't be good news for us. Shang Wu said.

"I couldn't agree more, but how can I encourage it?" Jia Xu asked.

"Our troops need the encouragement of their commanders, but the guerrillas lack such good commanders, and there are too few such commanders, and we need to mobilize some people there specifically to agitate." Jia Xu said.

"In addition, I think that the necessary material establishment is also very important, for example, we need to give them a greater degree of development in some favorable points, for example, the previous land bonds, do we also need to do this, issue relevant types of land bonds, after all, the guerrillas have a very low combat effectiveness, which has a lot to do with the fact that most of them are civilians, if this relationship is not handled well, it is really difficult for us to accomplish such things." Jia Xu made it very clear that they needed an inspiring piece of equipment that could best meet their offensive needs.

"That's right, I'm ignoring such an issue, and state land bonds, what do you think? In this way, you can attract more people to participate. Shang Wu said.

"Agree to do so."