Liu Hong smiled and nodded and said, "Wu Feng is right, for the sake of insurance, we can only take one county this time." This time it's just to accumulate experience, and when our strength is strong enough, let alone two county seats, even if it's twenty county seats, we can sweep him away. ”

Zhang Zhicheng nodded and said: "Captain Liu, you must already have a detailed battle plan, so don't hang everyone's appetite, you are the commander-in-chief of this battle, how to fight this battle, you have the final say, you can directly give the order!" ”

Liu Hong smiled and said, "Okay! Since Regiment Commander Zhang has said so, then I will directly issue a combat order. ”

Liu Hong paused, and then ordered with a serious face: "Order the main force of the martial arts team and most of the recruit battalion to accompany all the 11th Regiment to set off early tomorrow morning and go straight to Hejian City, to quickly sweep away the strongholds of the camp villages and Shawa strongholds along the way, and form an encirclement of Hejian City by tomorrow evening at the latest." ”

"Yes!" Everyone responded in unison.

Liu Hong continued: "After the main force surrounds Hejian City, it is necessary to put on a posture of attacking the county seat, so that the little devils in the surrounding strongholds, as well as the little devils in Renqiu County in the north, Xian County in the south, Suning in the west, and even Raoyang in the southwest, Gaoyang in the northeast and other counties may rush to reinforcements. and the little devils in Cangzhou City, a little farther away, are also very likely to support Hejian City. ”

Liu Hong paused and then said: "In order to grasp the initiative on the battlefield, we must also do a good job of intelligence work in advance. Therefore, the reconnaissance team of the martial arts engineering team and the reconnaissance company of the 11th regiment should send excellent scouts to closely monitor the little devils in the above-mentioned county towns. ”

"Yes!"

Liu Hong continued: "After the troops surrounded Hejian, the 11th Regiment was instructed to ambush the enemy who might be reinforced in the north, northeast, and west, and to destroy as much as possible all the enemies who dared to reinforce Hejian. ”

"Yes! Guaranteed completion of the task. Zhang Zhicheng swore and promised.

Then Liu Hong then ordered: "Order the second squadron to be responsible for blocking the south, mainly the enemy who rushed to reinforce from the county seat, be sure to stop this little devil and annihilate it as much as possible." ”

"Yes!" Bai Ling replied loudly.

"Third Squadron!" Liu Hong continued: "Responsible for blocking the enemy who dares to reinforce in the southwest direction, and acting as a reserve. If there are not many enemy reinforcements in the southwest, the 3rd Squadron should be ready to reinforce friendly forces in the remaining directions at any time after defeating the enemy in front of them. ”

"Yes! Guaranteed completion of the task. Zhou Wenxuan hurriedly responded.

Liu Hong then ordered: "Order the new battalion to be responsible for blocking the enemy in the east, southeast, and northeast directions, if only the enemy from the surrounding strongholds in these three directions rushes to reinforce, the new battalion must annihilate it as soon as possible, and if the enemy from Cangzhou rushes to reinforce, the new battalion will also be responsible for blocking along the way to prevent this little devil from rushing to the river." ”

"Yes! Guaranteed completion of the task. Wu Feng and Xu Zecheng hurriedly responded.

"The artillery squadron, except for a part of the artillery squadron responsible for shelling Hejian City and creating pressure on the little devils in Hejian, the rest of the troops are split up to support the various squadrons to strengthen the firepower of the squadrons and the new barracks." Liu Hong then ordered.

"Yes! Guaranteed completion of the task. Liang Yongsheng swore and promised.

Liu Hong said and turned to Secretary Lin and said, "Secretary Lin, there is something that still needs to trouble you." ”

Secretary Lin hurriedly said: "Lao Liu, what you said is out of sight, didn't I say it just now, our local government will fully cooperate with the actions of the main force, if you have any orders, just say it." ”

"Good!" Liu Hong nodded and said: "I would like to ask Secretary Lin to organize the militia and some young and middle-aged people in our base villages as much as possible, and when the time comes, put on the military uniform of the Eighth Route Army, disguise yourself as the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and rush to Hejian City with the main force." These people do not need to participate in the battle, they only need to build fortifications in the city between the rivers, and each army will also send people as much as possible to protect the safety of these people. ”

"Bluff! Good! No problem! Secretary Lin readily agreed: "And we don't need the main force to send troops to protect, we have comrades from the county brigade and the district squad, which is enough to protect our safety." What's more, Hejian City is not as good as before, there are less than 500 little devils in the city now, and when the time comes, we will surround the county town and set up cannons to bombard, even if they borrow the courage of the little devils, they may not dare to go out of the city half a step. ”

Liu Hong nodded with a smile and said, "Secretary Lin is right, with Secretary Lin's guarantee, then I will rest assured." By the way, how many people are in our county brigade and each district team? ”

Secretary Lin said with a smile: "There are more than 600 people in the county brigade now, and there are four or five hundred people in each district team!" The militia of each village was added together, and there were 2,000 people, to say the least. ”

"That's a lot! That's enough, I didn't expect you guys to develop so fast! I'm getting a little red-eyed. Liu Hong said with a smile.

"Haha~!" Secretary Lin said with a smile: "You have given us so many weapons and ammunition, if I can't even pull up a team, then I, a senior official of Union County, will be too incompetent!" And you don't need to be red-eyed, your main force needs to be replenished, and it's no problem to take them all away, our local armed forces are originally the reserve force of the main force! In the last battle, our county brigade and district squad all went to organize the transfer of the people, but they didn't catch it to participate in the battle, and the soldiers complained about me a lot. ”

"Haha~! This time I'll give them a chance to fight, and they'll never complain about you again! Liu Hong said with a smile.

The two were talking, when Zhao Lei stood up with a 'poof' and said with a dissatisfied face: "Captain, why don't you assign tasks to our first squadron?" ”

Liu Hong turned around and glanced at Zhao Lei, and said with a smile: "You don't move with the main force. ”

"What? Should we stay at the base area? No way! We insist on participating in the fighting. Zhao Lei immediately became anxious. This kid was a little impatient to wait, but in the end, Liu Hong said that in the end, the other troops were assigned tasks, and they didn't even mention it in their first squadron, and now Liu Hong actually said that they didn't move with the main force, so Zhao Lei was not in a hurry.

"How?" Liu Hong frowned, and asked with a serious face: "Do you dare to disobey the order?" ”

Zhao Lei immediately wilted, no matter in any army, blatant disobedience to orders is a taboo, the Eighth Route Army is highly disciplined, and blatant disobedience to orders will be severely punished, Zhao Lei does not have the courage to openly disobey orders.

The kid lowered his head and said reluctantly, "How dare I disobey the order!" It's just that I think it's unfair, why do they have tasks, so we have to stay in the base area. ”

(End of chapter)