Although he also wanted to eat the fat in front of him, he told Yang Zhen that Wang Guangyu's idea was right. Now the continuous combat is already quite tired, not counting the recruit company composed of the two attacking group tribes that have not yet been trained, the casualties of the old base brought out of the secret camp of the old Heidingzi Mountain have reached almost one-third, and the troops that have run out of ammunition are no longer able to fight anymore.

Once you can't quickly solve these puppet Manchurian troops in front of you, and are entangled by them, you may not have the power to get out. So although the piece of fat in front of him, which had fallen into chaos, was tempting, Yang Zhen still rejected the request of the two company commanders to attack.

Seeing that the enemy in front of Wang Guangyu was in chaos amid the artillery fire, Yang Zhen did not hesitate at all and led his troops to quickly break away from contact with the enemy under the cover of Ma Qichang's artillery fire. Quickly went north and joined the main force that Guo Bingxun had led in advance.

After joining up with the troops led by Guo Bingxun and Li Yanping, who arrived in advance, he felt that he had mixed up enough of the Japanese troops in Binjiang, and he fought several battles in a row, and Yang Zhen, who should have attracted back the troops deployed by the Japanese army in the Xiajiang area to encircle and suppress the Anti-Japanese Alliance, quietly led the team back to the secret camp of Laoheidazishan in Ning'an.

In order to avoid the eyes of the Japanese army and aerial reconnaissance, Yang Zhen led the team to travel at night, avoiding an area where there were people with human activities, and even avoiding the way they came. Almost all the marching routes were selected in the deep mountains and old forests, and they retreated cautiously. At least for now, Yang Zhen thinks that the secret camp of the old black top must not be exposed.

As for Li Yanping's proposal to take advantage of the fact that the Japanese troops in the Xiajiang area had been greatly mobilized and the encirclement they had built had been loosened, leading the troops to directly withdraw to the Xiajiang area and join up with the Second Front Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, Yang Zhen hesitated for a moment, but decided to put it on hold for the time being.

Yang Zhen decided not to fight the Anti-Japanese Federation for the time being, and Yang Zhen knew that after continuous operations, the troops' physical and personnel consumption was extremely high, and now they could not climb over the Laoye Ridge, which was high in mountains and dense forests. At least not until a break for a while.

Before he was completely sure, Yang Zhen did not want to cross hundreds of miles of deep mountains and old forests for the time being, and forcibly cross the Mudanjiang River to join the main force of the Second Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. If it is said that the Fourth Army has been completely annihilated and the Fifth Army has suffered heavy losses, the remaining troops of the Second Route Army can still be regarded as the main force compared with their own troops.

Under the current situation of the troops, Yang Zhen really did not have much confidence in crossing hundreds of miles of mountain roads and crossing many rivers blocked by the Japanese army, such as the Hailang River and the Mudanjiang River.

The Second Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Union has exposed almost all of its marching routes. Although there is no definite information, Yang Zhen believes that at this time, he has marched eastward from Ning'an, northward to the main area of activity of the Second Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and even southward to all possible roads, including rivers and mountain passes, which have been tightly blocked by the Japanese army.

The Japanese army is not stupid, and it will not think that after making a mess of the world in Binjiang Province, they will still stay in the Binjiang area stupidly, where this kind of room for maneuver is not large, and will not join forces with the main force of the Anti-Japanese Federation.

In addition, during the battle of Tongguò Weihe, the old black dingzi secret camp now has a large number of weapons and ammunition, as well as food, medicine, winter clothes and other materials urgently needed by the troops. With these supplies, the troops can rest in the secret camp for at least two months and make plans. And these materials are simply not able to be transported all at once when they have to cross a large number of blockade lines and walk hundreds of miles deep into the mountains and old forests. The troops, carrying so much supplies, simply could not fight and march at the same time.

In addition, the most fundamental thing is that Yang Zhen decided to take a two-month rest and recuperate, firstly, to solve the weaknesses exposed by the troops in this operation. Second, it is also necessary to carefully ponder the direction of the struggle in the next step. A series of problems exposed by the operation launched by Tongguò in response to the anti-alliance expedition to the west, Yang Zhen has been considering the long-term direction of struggle in the future.

In this operation, Yang Zhen felt that although the tactical initiative has always been in his own hands, the strategic initiative has always been in the hands of the Japanese puppet army. Although he has won successive battles, he has always been passive except at the beginning. After all, the temporary initiative in tactics is not a long-term solution, and in the final analysis, gaining the strategic initiative is the foundation for the survival of oneself and this force.

The future development direction of his own troops, what to do next, Yang Zhen felt that it was time to discuss. Yang Zhen didn't want to be like the Anti-Japanese Alliance, so he first took the initiative to attack, and then was surrounded and suppressed by the Japanese puppet army. Or the Japanese puppet army encircled and suppressed itself with heavy troops, and after jumping out of the outer line, the Japanese puppet army that was pursued up again and again encircled and suppressed, and tried to break the deadlock several times on the outside line, but instead of solving the problem, it was a strange circle of heavy losses.

Yang Zhen, who had made up his mind, convened a meeting that he, Guo Bingxun, Li Yanping, Peng Dingjie, and Wang Guangyu attended on the third day after withdrawing to the secret camp of Lao Heidingzi, which was later called the meeting of the five giants that decided the direction of the Northeast.

Regarding the main military and political leaders of the four units in front of him, Yang Zhen bluntly talked about his thoughts. This meeting has a bearing on the future of the troops, and he has nothing to taboo about. The people in front of him, Guo Bingxun and Peng Dingjie, are comrades-in-arms in life and death who stand out with themselves. And Li Yanping and Wang Guangyu are the high-level leaders of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and they are not so superficial. It's better to talk about some things first than to be passive afterwards.

Hearing Yang Zhen talk about the future development direction of the troops, after several people glanced at each other, Li Yanping, who was still the political commissar, said first: "Old Yang, I have been thinking about what you said in the past few days. In the struggle ahead, what is the most advantageous direction for us to develop? I think it comes down to the fact that we have to continue to develop and grow ourselves. Only when we strengthen ourselves can we fight the devil to the end. ”

"Our top priority right now is to expand our ranks and strengthen our troops. Improving weaponry, strengthening the training of military and political cadres, and enhancing the combat capability of the troops -- this is what we should do most in the first place. ”

"Commissar, what you said is very reasonable, this is indeed one of the necessary conditions for our survival. However, this North Manchurian region is vast and sparsely populated, and a few densely populated and abundant places are under the strict control of the Japanese puppet army, and our activities have been confined to the deep mountains and old forests for most of the time. How do we develop and strengthen ourselves in this situation? ”

"Where did all the weapons, soldiers, and supplies needed for the development of the army come from? Most of this requires the support of the people. How can we gain the support of the people? Commissar, have you thought about it? For Li Yanping's answer, Yang Zhen smiled.

Li Yanping said: "How to develop? I think it's better to follow the old method of the Anti-Japanese Federation and contact the anti-Japanese armed forces that can be contacted. Tong guò constantly fights with the devils, and constantly captures supplies to replenish himself. In addition, we must believe in the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the people. I think as long as we win more battles, I don't think any difficulty will be difficult. ”

Regarding Li Yanping's words, Yang Zhen shook his head and said: "Political commissar, I have also won a lot of battles before the Anti-Japanese Federation, but why has it not been able to develop, and even always fallen into passivity?" The troops always scattered and gathered, gathered and scattered. There are also a lot of mountain and forest teams that have been recruited, but how many of them have defected when the shape is severe? ”

"What we want is an iron-clad force, not the kind of paper army that can't move, doesn't listen to commands, and even turns back at critical times. If we want to develop and grow, we can only continue to fight and win battles through guò. But how do we do it? ”

Yang Zhen pondered for a moment and continued: "My thinking on the development of the army is very simple. Until we fully open up the situation, we are now focusing on the labor force of the military expansion. The northern part of Manchuria, which is vast and sparsely populated, is also a place under the strict control of the Japanese puppet army, and it is very difficult for us to expand our troops without affecting local agricultural production before we can achieve absolute superiority. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen smiled a little self-deprecatingly: "It's not just devils who want to eat, we are the same." So when it comes to expanding the number of soldiers, my idea is that at least for the time being, it will still be dominated by labor. We have seen the miserable situation of laborers in the Wudaolingzi Iron Mine, and the number of laborers in the entire Northeast region is very huge. I think these workers will be a steady source of soldiers for us. ”

"The mountain and forest teams that resolutely resist Japan can be absorbed, but they must obey our orders and accept our leadership. The most important thing is that they must accept the political workers we have sent. ”

"The shape of the Tohoku is different from that of Kannai, so we can't blindly apply the Kannai approach. However, there is one thing that is the same inside and outside the Guan, and that is that we all need to establish a solid base. So that the troops should have at least a place to rest and recuperate. ”

"When I was in the concentration camp before, I had discussed with Lao Peng the fighting and development of the Anti-Japanese Federation from its establishment to today. Regarding Lao Peng's description, I only have one feeling, that is, the strength of the Anti-United Nations is relatively too scattered. ”

"With just such a small number of men, compared with the Guannai, the strength that can't even be reached by a single integrated division has actually established several armies and more than a dozen divisions. Political commissar, to say something you don't want to hear, your Fourth Army is the main force of the Second Route Army. However, the total strength of your entire army is not as large as that of a regiment of the 18th Group Army in Guannai, and even a reinforced battalion is barely enough. ”

"In a situation where the enemy is strong and we are weak, dispersed guerrilla attacks are indeed a relatively effective tactic. However, according to the different conditions of the troops, it is a bit too much to set up separate establishments, and there is no distinction between the upper and lower priorities. Dispersal guerrilla attacks are an effective tactic only when the troops can be dispersed and retracted, and all units can strictly obey the orders of their superiors. ”

"You have made such a large establishment, and the relatively strict and insufficient combat personnel of the grassroots units, as well as the backward means of communication, and even the fact that you can only rely on a single and very unreliable traffic officer, has caused the independence of the various armies to be too great. The cooperation between them has never been able to form a tacit understanding, and the second is to interfere with each other's command when necessary. ”

"The strength of the various armies of the Anti-Japanese Alliance is too scattered, and although it cannot be said that there is no coordination between them, it is not much, and it has always caused it impossible to form a powerful fist to beat people. And the strength of each army itself is insufficient, no matter which unit can only fight a small fight, it is simply unable to bring a mortal threat to the Japanese puppet army. ”

"This looks like a lot of momentum, and it also relieves the pressure of supplies. However, because the strength of the troops was scattered, it was easy to be broken by the Japanese puppet army that occupied an absolute advantage. Moreover, it is also easy to cause too many levels of command and bring inconvenience to operations. ”

"And I think that in addition to keeping a strong field army, we also have to form some local forces. Concentrate a group of elites and organize them into a field army specifically responsible for field operations, which will be responsible for the combat mission of the main force of the Japanese puppet army on the outside line. The local forces are responsible for cracking down on the puppet Manchurian police, puppet self-defense regiments and other puppet Manchurian local armed forces in the area under their jurisdiction. Field armies and local troops, with internal and external fronts, cooperate with each other and fight in concert, and it is often much better than that side fighting alone. ”

"We must not only build an operational system in which field troops and local troops are coordinated, but also vigorously strengthen the building of local political power. We must not only build our own local power, but also destroy the local power established by the Japanese puppet army. ”

"In these battles, I have a feeling that compared with the regular Japanese army field troops, the more threatening thing for us is the puppet regime that is the eyes and ears of the Japanese puppet army. They are familiar with the local situation and have a keen ear and eye. Without the cooperation of the puppet regimes and puppet police in these places, no matter how many Japanese puppet troops the devils dispatch, our clean-up operation would be a blind man's elephant. ”

"As for the devil's plan to return to the tun and merge households, no matter how big the price we pay, we must destroy it. If we are compared to fish, then the common people are water. Let the devil let the water run out, how can we fish live? Commissar, you should feel this. Since the Japanese puppets began to implement the merger of households last year, what is the situation of the Anti-Japanese Federation? I don't need to say more, right? ”

"And for those puppet Manchurian grassroots officials and puppet Manchu military and police who are determined to be traitors, we will kill them with one word. These people who kill are terrified, these people who kill are terrified of us, and these people who kill are terrified when we are mentioned. For the terrorist methods of the Japanese puppet army, we must return an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. ”

"Of course, we don't want to kill all the puppet Manchurian officials and policemen. What can be fought for, we still have to fight for. It's not just devils who need information, and so do we. ”

"These people are sensitive to their ears and eyes, and if the Japanese army has any big moves against us, they will not be able to carry it out without them. So these people have to fight for as much as they can, and they can get us information that is hard for us to get. ”

"As for those hardcore traitors who would rather hold their granite heads to see Lord Yama, they must not show mercy. There are also those puppet Manchurian local armed forces of the puppet self-defense group, which we must eliminate. These people, like the traitors, are familiar with the local situation, and they are even more dangerous to us than the regular Japanese puppet army. ”

"We must not only deal with devils and traitors by adopting such methods, but also deal with those so-called Japanese pioneer groups that come uninvited and openly rob and plunder, and we must not be merciful. Didn't the devil only leave three days' worth of food for the common people when he returned to the tun and merged his households? Okay, then I'll go to your pioneer group to ask for food and supplies. ”

"In order to occupy the Northeast for a long time, the devil will do anything to deal with us, why do we still follow the rules and pay attention to benevolence, righteousness and morality to them? When the devil killed my Chinese children, he never had a soft heart. If the dog wants to bite, hiding is not the way, the best solution is to beat it hard, so that it will run with its tail between its legs when it sees you in the future, and dare not look at you. ”