In the evening, in a small conference room next to the headquarters, Liu Hua sent the materials he had sorted out overnight to the cadres below, and explained at the same time. You must know that the cadres below are all old Red Army veterans who have come through the Long March, and many of them have rich experience in anti-encirclement and suppression operations in the original Soviet area

Liu Hua saw the expressions of everyone, knowing that his hard work all night was not in vain, because he brought a new combat mode to everyone, Liu Hua respectively to the Pingding County Party Committee Secretary and the director of the logistics department who participated in the meeting, explained the matters to be paid attention to, and made a decision, in the case of no major battle situation now, the main force in addition to leaving a certain number of mobile troops, the rest of the troops all entered the villages to dig tunnels, in this way, so that each village at least one more company of labor, And special attention should be paid to the tunnel network in Zhangjiazhuang, the center of the base, which is required to be able to prevent poison and water, and even dig a tunnel leading to the Houshan Arsenal in battle

Although many cadres were very unimpressed with Liu Hua's request, under Liu Hua's tough attitude, nearly 1,000 soldiers and cadres of the logistics department picked up hoes and other tools and began the army's military reclamation operations.

As secretary of the county party committee, Xiao Ping, as secretary of the county party committee, must elect all the members of the village committees and district committees of dozens of villages in the base area in the shortest possible time, and make use of the recent influence of the army among the masses to mobilize the masses to dig tunnels and make black powder with the cooperation of the main force, and to establish a militia within two months so that every household in every village in the base area can prevent poison and water and protect the safety of the people's lives and property. In addition, each village was required to establish a militia squad, and the district was required to establish a district squadron and the garrison regiment was pacified as a bridge between the militia and the main force, and all the soldiers of the main force of the supplementary army had to go to the garrison regiment for a certain amount of training

As an important department in the base area at present, the arsenal must use the stones and black powder on Woniu Mountain to produce a large number of iron mines, stone mines, and shells that bombard the sky and thunder in the past two months, and at the same time, the newly formed intelligence network must establish a powerful intelligence network in the entire Jindong before the enemy targets the base area, so that every move of the devils is completely in our hands

The day after the meeting, the whole base area was busy, and the villagers, encouraged by the local cadres, gathered together to exercise their rights for the first time, elected the village committees and village representatives in their own villages, and the main force began to reduce the number of personnel and distribute the personnel of the new regiments, especially the three newly formed regiments, under the leadership of their new regiment commanders and battalion commanders, began to build the shelves of each company and each platoon, distribute new recruits, and receive weapons and ammunition

Due to the abolition of the new corps by the troops, the original recruit corps commander is now promoted to the director of the recruit training department in the Jindong base area, and all the soldiers recruited in the base area must be reviewed, and must go through a short period of training for a month in the recruit training department, and then be issued to the garrison regiment for a certain amount of actual combat, after actual combat training of qualified soldiers, and finally can be assigned to each main regiment, although this has gone through a lot of complicated procedures, but the commander of several main regiments has not complained, Because the fighters who have been trained by the garrison regiment already have the experience of a veteran, such fighters can not only directly engage in brutal battles when they are supplemented to the main regiment, but also do not affect the combat effectiveness of the troops in the slightest.

In this way, a month later, the base area ushered in the first Spring Festival, and on the basis of the sufficient supplies of the Reading Brigade, the entire base area did not grieve because it had just been occupied by the army. Because on the eve of the Spring Festival, Liu Hua took out nearly 100,000 catties of grain and distributed it to the people in the base area, so everyone in the entire base area showed a satisfied smile on their faces.

After a month of hard work, under the leadership of the leading group of the Reading Brigade, the base area has achieved unprecedented results, and under the leadership of Wang Daoguang, director of the Logistics Department, after nearly a month of hard work, all the wasteland in the periphery of Zhangjiazhuang has been reclaimed, reaching a total of 1,350 mu of land.

The six regiments of the main force have all reached full strength after constantly replenishing the garrison regiments, but there is still a big gap in weapons.

Under the leadership of Xiao Ping, secretary of the county party committee, every village and every district has set up committees, and under the leadership of the committees elected by the masses themselves, the enthusiasm of the masses is particularly great, and with the assistance of the main force, the tunnels in each village have increased at a rate of more than 100 meters per day, and after nearly a month of hard work, the tunnels in the villages can basically hide the food and property of the masses, which is enough to cope with the sweep in the early stage of the army. So Liu Hua plans to celebrate the first New Year in the base area.

In addition to leaving a certain amount of mobile troops, all the cadres and soldiers of the whole army were concentrated in the capital Zhangjiazhuang, ready to welcome the arrival of the new year of the Anti-Japanese War.

In the face of the lively atmosphere in the Jindong base area, many other base areas did not have such a good atmosphere, and many base areas were troubled by food, military uniforms, and materials, and in the face of such a situation, Liu Hua took out nearly half of the grain stored in the base area and transported it to the 129th Division troops, so that each unit could have a peaceful Spring Festival, so that Liu Hua's name and the name of the Jindong base area were once again reflected in the minds of the great men, and at the same time, they won a very good reputation among those commanders and generals

During the Spring Festival, the base areas were in a state of peace, but several leaders of the party, government, and military forces in the base areas did not relax like the soldiers, and after eating a reunion dinner, they began to prepare the construction plan and the policy toward the enemy in the base areas for the new year. On February 8, 1938, the Reading Brigade received a telegram from the headquarters, in order to cooperate with the Kuomintang in southern Jin, the Eighth Route Army in western Shanxi was fighting. The Reading Brigade was asked to block the Zhengtai Railway Line of the Yue Army as much as possible, cause disorder in the rear, and break the offensive momentum of the Yue Army

After receiving the telegram, the entire base area was immediately mobilized, all six main regiments were rebuilt, the garrison regiment returned to its station, and the villagers seized the time to dig tunnels on the eve of sowing seeds, and the entire base area was filled with an atmosphere of preparation for war.

After reading the telegram, several people in charge of the military commanders were extremely excited, because the troops had been reorganized for a month, and now they could finally test the combat effectiveness of the troops.

As a local cadre, Xiao Ping is not so good, because as soon as the main force leaves, the progress of tunnel excavation in the entire base area will definitely be reduced a lot, so it will be difficult to complete the requirements of the most basic tunnel network within the two months specified by the commander at the beginning Looking at the expressions of everyone, Liu Hua began to speak.

"Hehe, comrades, you should have seen the call from the headquarters this time, just right, we want to take this opportunity to test the real combat effectiveness of the troops, and in the same way, the battle can also supplement the large number of weapons we lack. So we must launch this battle. Secretary Xiao Ping, I know that after the troops are transferred, the excavation work of the tunnels will be greatly affected, but the main task of the main force is to fight. Therefore, this campaign must be launched, and as for the reduced labor force after the main force is transferred, you can rush back the time by working overtime, digging tunnels in shifts during the day and at night, in short, you must complete the task within the time I have set, and I and the political commissar will personally inspect it when the time comes.

After listening to Liu Hua's words, his originally ugly expression eased a lot, and Xiao Ping quickly stood up. "Yes, Commander, resolutely complete the task, we resolutely do not accept the retreat of the troops." Liu Hua nodded and continued. "Very good, for the masses who participate in overtime, we must give appropriate compensation to the base area, and we can reduce this year's public grain and other measures, in short, we must mobilize the active surname of the masses" Listening to Liu Hua's words, Xiao Ping, who often does local work, couldn't help but look happy and nodded again and again

"Okay, now I ask the chief of staff to assign combat missions." Liu Hua nodded at Li Qing, the chief of staff next to him.

Looking at the regimental commander's political commissar with his ears pricked up below, the chief of staff smiled, picked up a battle plan and stood up.

"Comrades, according to the discussion of the headquarters, the operational plan for this sabotage battle is now arranged, and now it is ordered: a regiment, a new regiment, under the unified command of the commander of the first regiment, Sun Xingbang, the combat goal is to pacify the area along the Zhengtai Railway, and demand the complete destruction of the enemy's railway, as far as possible to transport those rails back to the base area, you must know that those rails are of high quality steel, and the arsenal is waiting?

The 2nd Regiment, 3rd Regiment, New 2nd Regiment, and 3rd Regiment were under the unified command of the commander, and the operational targets were along the highway from Handan to Changzhi

The first company of mountain artillery followed the first regiment to fight, the second company of mountain artillery and three companies, and the thundering company followed the commander to fight, (due to the expansion of the army to the establishment of three regiments, all mortars were equipped to the regimental level, six mortars per regiment, the headquarters artillery battalion was changed to a mountain artillery battalion, under the jurisdiction of a domestic mountain artillery company, two mountain artillery companies, and a thunder company) The special operations brigade directly under the headquarters (the reconnaissance battalion and the sniper company were combined), the cavalry battalion, the first company of the guard, the first and two companies of the logistics department followed the commander's action, and the three or four two companies of logistics followed the action of one regiment. The remaining troops and personnel are under the unified command of the political commissar, who remain in the base area to protect the headquarters

With Li Qing's name one by one, the cadres below stood up one by one. "Are the tasks clear?" Liu Hua stood up and asked?

"All clear?" The crowd replied in unison.

"Good. Tomorrow morning at nine o'clock the troops will begin their departure and the meeting will now adjourn. Liu Hua nodded with satisfaction.

(To be continued)