Gao Zhi seized the opportunity to encourage, "At the beginning, the 15th Army in the Central Plains Border Region had nothing, and there was nowhere to buy weapons and ammunition if it wanted to, but later there were not only anti-aircraft guns, but even aircraft and tanks, where did this come from?" Aren't they all sent by devils? If the 15th Army can do it, can't we do it against the United Nations? ”

The comrades' hearts were on fire when they said this, but Gao Yuan did not tell them that the 15 th Army was able to develop to today's scale to a great extent in exchange for tremendous sacrifices, and if we count from the time when the troops were raised in Jiangxi, the main force alone has sacrificed no less than 200,000 people in more than three years, which is equivalent to more than one death. The conditions of the Anti-Japanese Federation are even more difficult, and the sacrifices that need to be paid will only be greater, but Gao Yuan believes that the men who can persist in resisting Japan in such a difficult environment will not be a bad breed, and even if they sacrifice a lot, they will never be able to scare them!

In any case, the acquisition of these weapons and ammunition has indeed greatly enhanced the strength of the Anti-United Nations, and Gao Yuan, based on his many years of experience in warfare, estimates that if the forces of the Anti-United Nations are concentrated now, the Japanese army will be able to encircle and annihilate a disgruntled special division with a strength of 15,000 troops at the cost of not damaging its vitality (Note 1).

With the continuous increase in the production of self-made offensive equipment such as "unconscionable artillery", it is no longer wishful thinking to recover those county towns and even some small and medium-sized cities within the base area. Since Gao Yuan came to the northeast, the successive victories of the Anti-Japanese Federation have made some of the Anti-Japanese Federation members somewhat complacent, so when Gao Yuan proposed to seize the favorable opportunity to launch a "summer offensive," many senior cadres said that it was time to increase the proportion of movement warfare. But this idea was immediately rejected by Takahara, "No, we only have 50,000 or 60,000 people now, and the Kwantung Army of the devils has more than 100,000 people even if reinforcements from Japan do not arrive, not to mention that they still have the advantage of heavy weapons such as aircraft, artillery, and tanks, and the larger the scale of the battle, the more disadvantageous it will be for us." On the contrary, when dealing with devils below the size of the brigade. They are inferior to us in any of their weapons (the strongest firepower of the Devil Infantry Brigade is the Type 92 infantry gun, compared to the Soviet-made 82mm mortar, the firing range is superior, and the number of equipment under the same force is larger. Moreover, the people's army has always been good at concentrating superior forces, and it will only start fighting if it has a superiority of strength of at least 3:1. ), which is much easier to eliminate. Our casualties will also be much smaller. Although the results of a single battle may be smaller, it is completely possible to 'accumulate small victories into big victories', and on the whole, it will give the devil a bigger blow! If we only want to be happy for a while, and let a large number of commanders and fighters sacrifice needlessly, it will inevitably seriously affect the medium and long-term development of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and it will be very irresponsible for the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese War! Isn't the lesson of the previous two years big enough? ”

When the leading cadres of the old Anti-Japanese Federation heard this, they immediately lowered their heads in shame, and did not dare to question Gao Yuan's decision again. And Gao Yuan didn't hold on to his pigtails, and soon said in a soothing tone, "We will have a decisive battle with the devil one day." Before I came to the Northeast, the leaders of the Central Committee gave me a thousand instructions, saying that although the environment in the Northeast is extremely difficult and treacherous, the conditions are also extremely superior. As long as we actively mobilize the masses and pull up hundreds of thousands, or even millions of anti-Japanese troops, it is entirely possible, and at that time, our strength will be strong enough, and then we will fight a decisive battle with the devils, not just like the current troops, and we will insist on concentrating on fighting a big battle, resulting in not enough personnel to develop the base areas. Is the result much better in the medium to long term? ”

Due to the growing prestige of the plateau, within a few days, the participants decided that "until they had 200,000 troops and no less than 100,000 guns, the Anti-Japanese Union would not take the initiative to attack the strongholds garrisoned by more than 500 Japanese troops (Note 2), nor would it take the initiative to engage in field battles with Japanese troops above the size of the wing." A unified opinion was reached, but the idea that Gao Yuan gave priority to the development of the guerrilla areas of the old Anti-Japanese Federation, and did not advocate rushing to the west to open up direct contact with the base areas in the Guannai, made many people raise objections, and even a few radical guys accused Gao Yuan of not wanting to accept the leadership of the central government and to build an independent kingdom. But Gao Yuan, who had long realized his mistake at the beginning, would not make the same mistake again, and although he was very unhappy, he still patiently explained. …,

As a matter of fact, as long as Jinzhou is still in the hands of the Japanese, it is impossible for the base areas in the northeast and north China to be connected, and the roundabout route of the eastern Mongolian steppe can be taken, but because of the sparsely populated population, the transportation is not developed enough, and the road is still far away, it is possible to march through occasionally, but it is simply impossible to rely on it to closely connect the two base areas. And more importantly, the line from Jinzhou to eastern Hebei is the most densely distributed area of the Japanese army invading China, even if the Anti-Japanese Union and the Eighth Route Army in eastern Hebei join forces, it is not enough to confront it head-on, but it is likely to be encircled and suppressed by the Japanese heavy army group because the size of the troops is too large and it is difficult to hide during the march

On the contrary, if the Anti-Japanese Federation stays in the northeast to fight guerrillas, the devils will have to have at least ten times the number of troops to restrain it, but the Kwantung Army will not have such abundant troops at present or even in the future, so the Anti-Japanese Federation can continue to grow and develop. At the same time, although it is regrettable that we cannot directly contact the comrades in the Guannai, the distant echo of thousands of miles away makes the devils even more unguardable.

Note 1: According to the grade of the Japanese army itself, the special divisions and regiments are second only to the most elite permanent divisions in terms of the quality of their soldiers and armaments, but in fact, because the soldiers of the special divisions and regiments are generally married and often cannot die as bravely as young people, their will to fight is not as good as those vigilance divisions, newly established divisions, and even supplementary divisions that are considered to be third-line troops. In addition, the special divisions were well equipped, and because of the lack of fighting spirit, the proportion of weapons destroyed after defeat was relatively low, so the capture of defeating them was obviously much higher than that of other troops. Since Hu Weidong summed up this law at the beginning, it has long become the consensus of all units under the Red Party, and it is naturally impossible for Gao Yuan, an old subordinate, not to know it

Note 2: If this number is exceeded, the Japanese army coming to the aid may be an infantry wing, they have mountain artillery that completely suppresses the firepower of the Anti-United Nations in the firing range, and can directly call the Kwantung Army Flying Group for air support, although as long as the strength advantage is large enough, the same can be won, but the casualties will definitely increase a lot, and the Anti-United Nations, which is still taking development as its main task, does not have this spare strength for the time being. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )