Two days later, Liu Hong held a military meeting with Wu Feng, Zhao Lei, Bai Ling, Zhou Wenxuan and other major leaders of the martial arts team, as well as Zhang Zhicheng and others who taught the 11th Regiment and Secretary Lin of the local government.

Liu Hong glanced at everyone and said with a smile: "I called everyone to this meeting today, not to celebrate the victory of this anti-sweeping campaign. Because in my opinion, we haven't achieved a complete victory in this battle, we just smashed the devil's attack, we made such a big comeback this time, and only harvested that little spoil, are you satisfied? ”

When they heard this, they shook their heads.

"Not bad! We can't rest on our laurels. Liu Hong continued: "What is our task at this stage? It is necessary to open up our base areas and develop the people's armed forces, because only when we become stronger and stronger can we completely defeat the Japanese aggressors and achieve a great victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan. ”

Liu Hong paused, and then said: "This time, we have smashed the devil's attack on the base area, and there is no main force of the devils in the surrounding area at present, and as for the local garrisons, they are not our opponents at all." So now is a very good time, a good opportunity to grow our base. ”

"We should strike while the iron is hot and seize this opportunity to further expand our base area. Therefore, I decided to take this opportunity to launch an active attack on the little devils in the surrounding area, and at least completely uproot the nearby strongholds, so that the little devils will not dare to invade our base area again, and even dare not go half a step out of the county town and stronghold, so that the surrounding area can become our new base area. ”

After Liu Hong finished speaking, Zhang Zhicheng took the lead in expressing his position: "We have no opinion on this, we teach the 11th Regiment to have no opinion, we will fight this battle as you say!" It's still the old rule, our regiment is all under your command. ”

Liu Hong said with a smile: "I'm relieved to have your words, now we are also strong and strong, and we will win this battle." ”

At this time, Secretary Lin also opened his mouth and said: "We have no opinion on Captain Liu's decision, and I am here to say that we will definitely make every effort to mobilize the masses and cooperate with the main force to ensure the victory of this battle." ”

"Good!" Liu Hong said happily: "With the assistance of Secretary Lin and local comrades, we can also worry about the future." Since this is the case, let's continue to discuss the specific combat deployment. ”

Liu Hong got up as he said and walked to the front of the huge map hanging on the wall, pointed to the map and said: "In the area around our base area, there are still turret strongholds of little devils, some of which we have uprooted before, and they have also been restored by little devils, and many new strongholds have been added, what is the purpose of the little devils?" It is to lock us in the base area and restrict our development, and the main purpose of our battle this time is to completely smash the blockade of the devils and strive for more space for our base area. ”

Liu Hong paused, and then continued: "Of course, uprooting the stronghold is only one aspect, eliminating the little devils and constantly consuming the devils' vital power is also our main goal. Therefore, although the main purpose of this time is to pull out the surrounding strongholds, we cannot just pull out the strongholds. The most important thing is to annihilate the little devils as much as possible, on the other hand, we will kill all the little devils, and these turret strongholds will be self-defeating. ”

When Liu Hong said this, he glanced at everyone's expressions, smiled and said, "I see that everyone is a little impatient, okay!" I won't say more nonsense, let's get to the point. We are now strong and strong, and if we want to fight, we naturally can't make a small fight, and if we want to fight, we will fight a big one. ”

Liu Hong took a pencil and circled two places on the map, then pointed to the map and said: "These two places are the focus of our attack." ”

Everyone hurriedly looked at the map, and when they saw clearly the place that was circled by Liu Hong, many people frowned.

Zhao Lei's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Okay! If you hit the county, you will have to fight the county, and only by hitting the county will you have oil and water. ”

Liu Hong pointed to the two places that were circled by himself, and said with a smile: "Hejian, the two cities of Xian County are the two closest county towns to our base area. As I said earlier, our main task is to annihilate as many imps as possible, and then uproot these surrounding strongholds. Now that the little devil has just experienced a big defeat, he will definitely not dare to come out easily, so we can only use the method of encircling the point to attract the little devil out. ”

"If we just surround the general stronghold, it is estimated that the little devils in other places will not come out to reinforce, because they have long been scared by us, especially this time, more than 5,000 Japanese troops were annihilated by us in one fell swoop, just with this nearby devil garrison, what do they do to argue with us, so they are definitely not willing to come out easily."

"But what if we don't fight these small strongholds, but surround the county seat? Does his little devil dare to turn a blind eye? Shall we take a county seat? Probably not, at this time, the little devils in the surrounding strongholds, as well as the little devils in the nearby counties, will definitely come to support, and we can take this opportunity to eliminate these little devils who rushed to reinforce them. ”

Zhang Zhicheng nodded, and said excitedly: "This is a good idea!" As soon as the little devils in the surrounding strongholds come out, we will take the opportunity to destroy them, and then the remaining strongholds will be self-defeating. This is much easier than our one stronghold at a time. ”

"After talking for a long time, don't hit the county seat! I was happy in vain. Zhao Lei said sullenly.

"Who said that if you don't fight the county seat, the stronghold will be attacked, and the county seat will also be attacked! But this time, our appetite can't be too big, just take a county seat. The road must be walked step by step, and the meal must be eaten one bite at a time. Hejian and Xian County, the two county seats, we can choose one of them and take it completely. Liu Hong said with a serious face.

Zhao Lei smiled and said, "Okay! That's cool! I don't think I have to choose, just take down all the two county seats. ”

Wu Feng said angrily: "What you said is light, you think it will be so easy to take these two counties!" What's more, even if we can win these two counties, it is not so easy to hold these two counties, according to me, let's choose one of them first, which is safer. Moreover, our Eighth Route Army also lacks experience in large-scale offensive battles, and it is not good to attack two county towns rashly in case of any accidents. ”

(End of chapter)