"We know how to avoid the enemy, but where are we going to retreat? Do you want to abandon the Jingcheng area? Where is an important source of raw materials for our arsenal! Hu Guoshan still didn't understand why Liao Fan wanted them to retreat, which was tantamount to stopping the production of their arsenal.

"The resources can't run there, and if the people are gone, no amount of resources will be useless! Letting you retreat this time is not to let you escape, what is a retreat, it is a planned retreat, and it also makes the little devil feel that you are running for your life! ”

Liao Fan wanted to use Xue Boling's style of play in Changsha, the terrain on the periphery of Taihang Mountain was very similar to the terrain on the periphery of Changsha, they only needed to defend the last line of defense, then the Japanese army would not be able to enter Taihang Mountain at all, and as long as the new 33rd Army cut off one of the fingers of the Japanese army, the Japanese army would inevitably be afraid, and then they would launch a counterattack to teach the Japanese army a lesson.

"Then where should we start retreating, and where to retreat, we can't run backwards one by one, there must be a last line of defense!" Cun Qi asked Liao Fan.

"I don't know where the last line of defense is, it's up to you, we don't know the specific route of the Japanese army's attack, and of course we can't choose a grave for the Japanese army in advance! So it depends on your Lao Hu, where does your Lao Hu put the last line of defense, where is the last battlefield between us and the Japanese army! ”

There are too many uncertainties on the battlefield, and if you set the little devil, the little devil may not necessarily drill into it, so the final decision depends on Hu Guoshan's command on the battlefield.

"By the way, your armored forces will be deployed first, and the command will be under the command of the command!" Liao Fan suddenly thought of the armored force that Hu Guoshan had formed.

"Brother Fan, Brother Fan, we have something to say, such as deploying part of our division's artillery to other divisions for two days, or sending part of our division's guns to Lao Sun's side, and ......" Hu Guoshan treats his armored troops as if they were treasures, and he has never used them, Liao Fan's words, in case this armored unit does not belong to their division in the future, he really has nowhere to say.

"Look at your stinginess, if your division retreats, the armored forces are a burden, if there is no good cover, it may become a live target for the little devils, and your division is mainly fighting positional warfare this time, you don't want to use these tanks as pillboxes, right?"

The armored force is a good thing, such a good thing is used by Hu Guoshan as a fixed pillbox, and the artillery of the little devil will use them as a target, and finally become a pile of scrap iron, Liao Fan doesn't want to waste such a good thing.

"Brother Fan, let's ......" Hu Guoshan let Liao Fan fool his armored troops away so easily.

"If I don't return it to your teacher, you can come to me with the note, right?"

Of course, Liao Fan did not mean to take the armored troops from Hu Guoshan, he knew very well that only when the troops below were strong, the new 33rd Army could be regarded as powerful in the true sense, and if the powerful troops were firmly in his hands, there would be no troops to fight with the little devils.

"Okay, Brother Fan, let's make a note, and they all have to be a witness for me!" Hu Guoshan also knew that the armored troops he had managed to get with great difficulty could not let himself be buried in the hands of little devils like this, and on the frontal battlefield, they mainly engaged in positional warfare, and rarely encountered the use of armored troops.

Liao Fan wrote a note for Hu Guoshan on the spot, and then asked several of their division commanders to draw a note on the note: "After going back, let the installation troops immediately set off to assemble in Ximiao Town at the foot of the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain!" ”

Liao Fan transferred the armored troops from Hu Guoshan's troops, not to hide them in the snow so that they could preserve their strength, for the new 33rd Army, the armored troops are their only mobile force, and it is also a hole card in Liao Fan's hand, he wants to let the installed troops play a huge role on the battlefield, and give the little devils a look at the critical moment.

"Okay, you go back and prepare for each other, I can't solve the problem of insufficient heavy firepower for you, you build a little more flying thunder cannon yourself, there is still a day or two before the little devil attacks, this thing is easy to do!" Hu Guoshan, your task is the heaviest, that is, to see the right time and be ready to retreat at any time, Ma Wanzhong from today onwards, you will stay at the command headquarters at any time, once the battlefield situation changes, you will have to press me up a lot! ”

Although there is no specific action plan for the Japanese army, Liao Fan knows very well that the Japanese army must launch an attack from the eastern line of Taihang, and the eastern side of the eastern line of Taihang is defended by Hu Guoshan's troops, and naturally the most important task is on Hu Guoshan.

After several division commanders left, Li Weimin stayed in the headquarters.

"Something?" Liao Fan looked at Li Weimin and asked.

"Hmm...... It's about the failure of the last joint operation with the Seventh Army! Li Weimin knew that he had failed, and the cavalry regiment was also formed in their regiment at the beginning, and the final result was also a failure, and then Liao Fan abolished the cavalry regiment.

The two major defeats of the New 33rd Army occurred in Li Weimin's troops, which made Li Weimin unable to raise his head.

"I also understand a little bit about the situation, the army is established, where is there a failure that does not experience, if Lao Ma was in the Jingcheng area at the beginning, if Shen Zhengwen led the mine protection team to go deep behind the enemy, Lao Ma's division may really be explained in the Jingcheng area!"

Liao Fan is not intolerant of the defeat of his subordinates, after all, there are many factors for victory in war, and there are also many factors for defeat, no one can guarantee that his troops will win the battle 100%, after all, his opponent is not a kindergarten child, they are Japanese devils armed to the teeth.

"Brother Fan, there is one more thing to report to you!"

"Say it!"

"Recently, we have found some information at the junction of the Suiyuan area and Chahar, but we are not sure about this situation, our soldiers have been reconnoitring there for more than a month, and have not found any valuable information!"

Li Weimin was also distressed, he sent out the most elite scouts in their division, but for more than a month, they found nothing, and several soldiers were frostbitten in the field.

"What's the situation?"

"The Japanese army seems to have built a permanent fortification or cantonment fortification in the Suiyuan area, and Chief Fu also speculated that the Japanese army may have built this fortification, but our troops have not found valuable information!"

As the number of reconnaissance grew, and the reasons for the failure of the previous joint operation, Li Weimin became more and more sure that the Japanese army had prepared a permanent military fortification in the Suiyuan area.

"This is a new situation!"

Liao Fan frowned when he heard Li Weimin's description, if the Japanese army really built fortifications underground, and then reinforced them with reinforced concrete, even aviation* might not be able to blow up the fortifications built by the Japanese army.

"Can you determine how big this fortification is?"

"I'm not sure, but my preliminary judgment is that at least more than 20,000 people can be hidden, and maybe even more! And there is everything in it, no less than an underground Great Wall! ”

Li Weimin was not alarmist, Liao Fan remembered the permanent fortifications built by the Japanese army in the northeast at the end of the war in order to prevent the Soviets from moving south, in the underground fortifications, power plants, arsenals, headquarters and so on. If the Japanese army really built permanent fortifications in the Suiyuan area, then the problem became serious.

"We don't have the ability to deal with this matter for the time being, and I will pay close attention to the situation in the Suiyuan region after this battle!"

Now that the big war is imminent, Liao Fan can't be distracted by anything, if the Japanese army really has a permanent fortification in the Suiyuan area, they can't solve the problem for a while.

"Brother Fan, I'll go back first!" Li Weimin finished reporting on the situation in Suiyuan.

"Prepare well after going back, although it is very likely that the Japanese army will attack us from the east of Taihang Mountain, but the Great Wall in the north is also the top priority to enter Shanxi, and the defense over there cannot be careless, and it is not impossible for the Japanese army to attack us from the front line of the Great Wall!"

Although Liao Fan pressed his hope on the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, the north of the Great Wall may also be the focus of the Japanese attack, even if it is not the main direction of attack, the Japanese army will inevitably arrange heavy troops there to contain Li Weimin's troops.

Li Weimin nodded vigorously, the two failures had taught him enough lessons, and he couldn't make mistakes at all, otherwise he would use the lives of his subordinates to make up for his mistakes.

There is no atmosphere of the New Year in Taihang Mountain, the troops are urgently mobilized, and even ordinary people have been mobilized to help the new 33rd Army to transport supplies to the front line, and the people know that if there is no new 33rd Army, let the Japanese army attack Taihang Mountain, not to mention this year, it is not even necessary to live the next year, so the local people have a strong contribution.

"What we owe to the people this year, we must pay them back next year and give them a more stable and safe rear!"

Although the common people can eat now, there is still a long way to go from the good days, no one wants to live a poor life, the country is fragmented, and no one has a way to do it, so that future generations will not be slaves of the country.

"From today, the Du Weize Arsenal will all be transferred to underground production to prevent the Japanese army from carrying out air raids on our station, especially the equipment, all of which will be transferred underground! also told Liu Deyun that the school can be on vacation or go underground together! ”

When the arsenal was under construction, Liao Fan had already considered the various situations they would encounter, and at the beginning of the establishment of the arsenal and the school, there were spare air-raid shelters like hospitals, and everything in the air-raid shelters would not be affected.

"Also, your arsenal produces mortar and rocket launcher shells overnight, and the production of these shells must reach the consumption level!"

As soon as the battle starts, the consumption of ammunition is very huge, and if the ammunition supply is not available, I am afraid that the outcome of the war will be known immediately.