Some of these miners are local people, who were captured by the little devils and the puppet army, and some are prisoners of war of the national army and the Eighth Route Army, many of whom were killed in the Jingcheng mining area, but in order to maintain the normal mining work in the Jingcheng mining area, when a group of miners died, a group of miners would be transferred from other places, and the number of miners has been maintained at about 5,000 people.

Liao Fan met the miners, most of whom looked very thin, apparently caused by a long period of heavy work.

"Commander Liao, thank you for rescuing us!" A person who looks like a national army has tattered clothes all over his body, and can only cover some necessary places, after seeing Liao Fan, he hugged Liao Fan and cried vigorously, and kept saying words of thanks in his mouth.

Liao Fan gently stroked his back with his hand, his back was full of bones and hard. Excessive labour and chronic food inadequacy have led to extremely high mortality rates among these people.

"You've worked hard!" Liao Fan said to some people around him, and Liao Fan didn't know what to say at this time

After some inspection, more than 2,000 of the more than 5,000 people were skinny, and it seemed that there were only bones left except skin.

"We've got to keep some of them! Assemble a force to protect and maintain order in the mining area, and we need to send a group of Japanese prisoners of war to the mining area to ensure that the little devils do not bomb the mining area! Liao Fan said to Lu Liming, but he was more like saying to himself at this time.

Lu Liming understood Liao Fan's thoughts, which was nothing more than to let the captured little devils also experience the life experienced by the miners. Treating others the way of others is Liao Fan's consistent style for little devils.

"Brother Fan, why don't we let them rest for two more days before we talk about this matter, and by the way, we will send a notice to the surrounding villages and let their families come to see them first!" After Lu Liming, who was decisive in killing, saw the appearance of these people, he also felt a little unbearable in his heart.

Among the locals, they definitely didn't go home, so let their families claim them first, and bring them back to reunite with their families.

"Let Liu Chundao send a battalion of soldiers over!" Liao Fan thought for a while and said.

"Brethren, our commander has something to say!" Lu Liming shouted at the bustling crowd.

Liao Fan stood in front of the miners, looking at this group of people who were tortured by the little devils and only had their souls left, and his heart was full of emotion, but now it was not the time for him to express his feelings, he needed some of the miners.

"Brothers miners, I am Liao Fan, the commander of the New 33rd Army, after three days and three nights of fierce fighting, we have recaptured most of Jingcheng from the Japanese, I know that there are many locals among you who want to go home and reunite with their families in a hurry, but I Liao Fan has a request, I need some of you to stay and help us resume our work in the mining area!"

Liao Fan stood in front of the miners and told them his detailed plan.

There are a large number of people who hesitate, although Liao Fan gave them a mine protection team, but in this era, they are enlisted in the army, and they still have to go to the front line when necessary, they have just experienced a great disaster in their lives, and they finally survived, and they will inevitably have scruples in their hearts.

But some of the soldiers immediately decided, they had been captured on the battlefield, their homes were thousands of miles away, and there was nowhere to go back, and staying at this time was the best way.

"Brother Fan, our division commander came to ask me to report to you!" A battalion commander under Liu Chundao reported to Liao Fan.

"These miners are handed over to you to deal with, screen out those who are willing to stay, equip them with weapons, and you are responsible for training them and ensuring their logistical supply......" Liao Fan said to the battalion commander.

"Brother Fan, that ...... From what side does the armament come from? The battalion commander asked awkwardly.

"Ask your division commander if you want it, and just say what I said! I also told your division commander to arrange for me to send all the Japanese soldiers they captured in this battle to the mining area to mine, and arrange them wherever they are in danger! ”

Liao Fan only made some simple arrangements for the mining area, and in the end, the overall work in the mining area had to be arranged by Sun Boyong and Du Weize, after all, they were the real experts in logistics.

The Jingcheng region has just been recovered from the hands of the little devils, and there is a lot of work to be done, Liao Fan is not in a hurry to return to his headquarters, anyway, there is Li Lingfei in the headquarters now, which is enough to deal with some problems.

The battle in the Jingcheng area was over, but Chairman Chiang still did not arrange a plan that he was satisfied with, and even General Xue Yue returned to Changsha during this period. As to whether the Fifth Theater was going to launch a counteroffensive, Chairman Chiang finally listened to Chen Cheng's opinion and did not make a risky move.

On the Yan'an side, a large number of people were unhappy, because they had not yet made a decision on whether to support the New 33rd Army, and the battle ended in a flash of lightning, and the speed made many people dumbfounded.

What made Commander-in-Chief Zhu most unhappy was that the meeting lasted for nearly 20 days, and the daylily was not cold for 20 days, but smelly.

"Okay, now we don't help when people want us to help, and now we come forward to ask for help to the New 33rd Army, Liao Fan probably won't be looking at us squarely!"

Commander-in-Chief Zhu was very disappointed, and whether he could help or not was actually the reason for his order. But this boss, the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, is now encountering command problems, just because a storm in Yan'an has swept the entire Eighth Route Army.

"Mr. Zhu, if you say this in front of me and Vice Chairman Zhou, the two of us will be treated as you complaining, don't say it in front of them!" Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng said.

Commander-in-Chief Zhu sat on the stool angrily and ignored Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng.

"Lao Zhou, you should go to the chairman and say a few words, now they have turned the spearhead to our old comrades who fought all the way over on the Long March, and there will be no military commander in the army if this continues!"

An internal political storm is getting worse and worse in Yan'an, causing Mr. Zhu's orders to start to be unsmooth, and once he fights with the little devils, the Eighth Route Army may not know what kind of crisis it will encounter.

Vice Chairman Zhou looked at the two of them in embarrassment and said slowly: "I have already said it, I have no choice!" ”

"Hey!" The two bosses sighed in unison, very incomprehensible to the current situation, their revolutionary cause had just improved, but they did not expect this problem to arise again, it was simply their own people who harmed their own people.

"Now it seems that Political Commissar Liu went to Liao Fan's place is really the most correct decision, if he stays in the army, it's okay to let those people do the whole thing!" Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng also felt very depressed, and now he had to congratulate Division Commander Chen on the decision.

But at the moment, they ignored Liao Fan's request for help, what kind of situation did they push Political Commissar Liu into.

"It's hard for Lao Liu, now Lao Liu probably really has a feeling of being caught in the cracks!" Vice Chairman Zhou also said ashamedly.

"Originally, I wanted to absorb Liao Fan into our Eighth Route Army, but after this incident, there must be a gap between us and the New 33rd Army! I hope that Liao Fan's kid is not a person who holds grudges! ”

If you miss an opportunity, you will continue to miss many opportunities, and this opportunity should have been seized, but because of their internal affairs, this opportunity slipped away.

"I suggest that all our troops in the Jingcheng area be withdrawn, leaving only our intelligence agencies!" Vice Chairman Zhou suggested.

Now that the Jingcheng area has been completely controlled by the new 33rd Army, if their Eighth Route Army arranges troops in the Jingcheng area, they will not help in the first place, and it will be easier to cause misunderstandings between the two sides.

"Old Zhou, I want to give orders, but can I still be the master of the current army?" Commander-in-Chief Zhu said in embarrassment.

Combat orders could not be issued, let alone an ordinary evacuation order, and the communications of the troops below were all controlled by those people, and the orders in his hands could only be issued to the surrounding troops.

"This matter, I went to tell the chairman, it can't go on like this! We are here today! ”

"Lao Peng, you wait first, I'll talk about this matter, you won't quarrel with the chairman when your temper arrives at the chairman!"

However, an incident happened in the Jingcheng area, and the soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade fought an encounter on the way to Jingcheng, and the opponent of this encounter was not a little devil or a puppet army, but a guerrilla force behind the enemy line of the Eighth Route Army.

Because the Jingcheng mining area had become the garrison of the New 33rd Army, and some of the Eighth Route Army's work behind enemy lines had also been disturbed, the guerrilla leaders in the Jingcheng area discussed their future work at night, and they happened to be discovered by the fighters of the special combat team.

The soldiers of the special combat team thought that these people were spies of the Japanese army, so they reported the situation to Huang Changsheng.

Huang Changsheng did not confirm the specific identities of these people, the battle in the Jingcheng area had just ended, and it was normal for there to be scattered little devils lurking, so Huang Changsheng took a squadron of soldiers to surround the courtyard where the Eighth Route Army was meeting.

The two sides hardly had a chance to talk, and the soldiers of the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, after seeing someone approaching, decisively fired their guns to call the police, but when the gunshots rang out, the soldiers of the special combat team did not say a word superfluously, and directly killed the soldiers standing guard of the Eighth Route Army with a shuttle of bullets.

"Shoot or kill!" The soldiers of the special operations team shouted loudly after rushing into the courtyard.

Of course, the captains of the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army could not suffer this loss in front of them, so they obediently put down their guns and told Huang Changsheng that they were the Eighth Route Army, not Japanese spies.

How could the things on the battlefield be able to determine their identities with one or two sentences, so Huang Changsheng decisively escorted them to Jingcheng and waited for the follow-up treatment.

The problem appeared here, Huang Changsheng only locked them up and reported the matter to Liao Fan. But there are a lot of things to deal with in the Jingcheng area, and Liao Fan doesn't know where he will be in the next minute, so how can Huang Changsheng report this matter to him.

After two days of going back and forth, the captains of the Eighth Route Army guerrillas who were captured were forgotten by Huang Changsheng.

It was not a trivial matter that the captains of the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army in the Jingcheng area disappeared overnight, so the deputy captains of the guerrillas hurriedly reported the situation to their superiors.

The same problem as Mr. Zhu's came out, the orders of the troops from top to bottom were not smooth, and it was difficult to convey news from the bottom up.

In the end, the news did not reach Mr. Zhu's hands, but was seen by some other people, and they immediately concluded that it was the ghost of the New 33rd Army.

After all, these guerrillas are all in the Jingcheng area, and the meeting place is also in the Jingcheng area, and the disappearance of these people must be related to the new 33rd Army that has just arrived in Jingcheng. They don't need evidence for these things, because they don't need evidence for their own people, and they just rely on their own judgment to lock up so many people with power.

Now they don't need evidence in this matter, their judgment is everything.

Therefore, a group of people who did not understand military affairs gathered all the guerrillas behind enemy lines in the Jingcheng area, and also gathered some guerrillas from adjacent areas.