Chapter 131: Intelligence by Speculation
Liao Fan was also very tired, and before Huang Changsheng could leave, he also fell asleep against the door frame. Li Weimin came to the command headquarters and saw Liao Fan falling asleep by the door, Liao Fan just blocked most of the space at the door, in order not to disturb Liao Fan's sweet dream, Li Weimin had to be careful not to touch Liao Fan.
After all, Liao Fan didn't have Huang Changsheng's sleeping skills: "I'm asleep again?" β
"Brother Fan, are you awake?" Li Weimin helped Liao Fan up.
"Why didn't you wake me up when you came?"
"Brother Fan, I'm dreaming, I'm embarrassed to disturb." Li Weimin said.
Liao Fan asked curiously, "How do you know I'm dreaming?" β
"Brother Fan, you kept calling Miss Fu's name just now, it sounds like you are married." Li Weimin said cautiously.
"Is there one? No way, I'd never dream like this. Liao Fan looked disbelieving.
Li Weimin looked at Liao Fan, nodded seriously and replied, "Indeed, Brother Fan should be lifting the hijab for Miss Fu, but there is one thing I don't understand, what is a diamond ring?" β
"Well...... I don't know much about this, but I'm not allowed to tell anyone about it, otherwise you know the consequences. Liao Fan shook his fist in front of Li Weimin.
Li Weimin nodded seriously, saying that I would never say it, but he was already happy in his heart, but he couldn't hold back a smile, of course such a good thing has to be shared with everyone.
"By the way, how is your regiment preparing?" Liao Fan asked Li Weimin.
"The ammunition has been distributed, and the brothers are very angry when they hear that they are going to fight with the little devils."
"We must make it clear to the brothers that this battle is really a tough battle with the little devils. By the way, you're on duty tonight, and if there's something you can deal with, I'm going to get some rest. Liao Fan told Li Weimin to let him sort out the affairs of the headquarters.
As a duty officer, of course, you can't sleep at night, you have to stay awake at all times and record what happened that night.
After Political Commissar Liu returned to the garrison of the Eighth Route Army, he reported the whole matter to Division Commander Chen, and Division Commander Chen felt incredible, how did Liao Fan judge that the little devils were going to launch a large-scale attack on them, and they had not received any information about this, and besides, the station of Division Commander Chen was also very hidden, and the little devils could not find the target, so they talked about attacking?
"Lao Chen, when I came back, Liao Fan's troops had already begun to prepare, this is what I saw with my own eyes." Political Commissar Liu said.
"But we can't guess out of thin air, so far our intelligence department has not found any traces of the movement of the little devil, according to Liao Fan, the little devil has mobilized at least two divisions and regiments, and such a large-scale troop movement can't hide from our eyes." Teacher Chen analyzed.
"That's true, but from what I know about him, he seems to have been preparing for this battle a month or two ago, and he said that this matter doesn't seem to be groundless, in case the little devil is really fighting the attention of Taihang Mountain, it will be too late for us to prepare when the little devil arrives at the door." Political Commissar Liu still chose to believe Liao Fan's judgment.
"Otherwise, let's report this matter to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army first, and let Mr. Zhu and them make up their minds." Teacher Chen suggested.
"Okay, hurry up and send a telegram to tell Mr. Zhu about them, and we will also hurry up and send someone to contact the intelligence personnel in the city, so that they can collect this information as soon as possible."
"There is also an order for the forward troops to send an observation post to this place, the closer to the little devil's defensive zone, the better, and the little devil can't be found out." Division Commander Chen pointed to the map and said that he didn't dare to be careless, if the little devil really gathered so many troops, it would not be a small-scale battle, no less than a small battle.
"Okay, and we need to distribute enough ammunition to the forward troops so that they don't sleep and undress, and all of them stay in combat condition." Political Commissar Liu suggested.
The Y An side also quickly received a telegram from Political Commissar Liu, although it was not clear what was happening, several leaders realized the special situation and held an emergency meeting.
"Mr. Peng, do you think this matter is reliable?" Vice Chairman Zhou asked.
"It's hard to say, it's hard to judge the authenticity of this matter based on Liao Fan's guesswork alone."
"I'd rather believe it than believe it, if the little devil will gather so many troops, it can't just target that kid, and it won't just be a rabbit with grass, the little devil really wants to fight us." Commander-in-Chief Zhu said.
"What Mr. Zhu means is very likely that the little devil wants to eradicate all the anti-Japanese forces in Taihang Mountain in one fell swoop, so as to stabilize North China and prepare for them to launch a bigger battle in the future, otherwise their rear will be unstable and they will not be able to move west?" Mr. Peng analyzed.
"According to intelligence, this time the little devil lost his troops in Wuhan, and there were more than 200,000 casualties, is the little devil still capable of attacking the anti-Japanese forces in the Taihang Mountain area with his backhand?" Vice Chairman Zhou did not believe that the little devil would have such a high sustained combat capability, and he had just been withdrawn from Wuhan and went directly into battle without repairing and replenishing the troops, which was a taboo for soldiers.
"I think the commander of the little devils also thought of this, and wanted to use surprise soldiers to attack suddenly before we had any mental preparation, so that they could achieve the goal of a quick battle and eliminate us in one fell swoop."
"The little devil thinks it's quite beautiful, our troops are not paper-mΓ’chΓ©, even if the tiger comes, Lao Tzu can break off two teeth from his mouth, not to mention that the little devil is not a tiger." Commander-in-Chief Peng spoke vigorously.
"So what's next? Lao Chen, they are still waiting for our orders. Vice Chairman Zhou said.
"Of course it's beating, the little devils are sent to the door, if we don't beat them all over the ground to find teeth, they still think we are easy to bully. He ordered Division Commander Chen to believe that he would rather believe it or not, and be ready to fight at any time within half a month, and as for the specific battle plan, let him think for himself, and he didn't need to report it to us. Commander-in-Chief Zhu said.
"Yes, that's it, as long as the little devil enters the mountain, we can't make them comfortable, we have to let them know that we are not easy to mess with." Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng said.
"With Division Commander Chen's troops, although they can deal with the little devils, there is a lot of pressure on logistics and the people, and if they don't get support, Division Commander Chen and they may run out of ammunition and food." Vice Chairman Zhou always thinks about things comprehensively.
"I have already taken into account this aspect, there are our troops in Jinzhong, southwest and northwest Jin, we can give them orders in advance, let them support Division Commander Chen's troops at any time, and as for the common people, let them move to the Hebei region in advance first." Commander-in-Chief Zhu said.
"Once the fight breaks out, what will Liao Fan's troops do? Political Commissar Liu made it very clear in the telegram that this kid was crazy and wanted to have a positional defense battle with the little devil, but Lao Liu persuaded him for a long time, but this kid did not agree. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng said.
"I knew that this kid was not a fuel-efficient lamp, first, he had no air supremacy, and second, he had no advantage in artillery to fight positional defensive warfare, so he was completely taking the lives of the soldiers to fill in." Commander-in-Chief Zhu didn't understand why Liao Fan did this.