The chief of staff also laughed and said: "Well done, I will admit defeat in this round, hahaha!"
Li Yunlong and Kong Jie were already impatient. After receiving Xu Dalong's order, they immediately fought out from the two wings of the Japanese 109th Division.
Facing the sudden appearance of a large group of Eighth Route Army troops, the commander of the Japanese 109th Division realized the danger and hurriedly ordered the troops to retreat.
By this time it was already too late. The rapid reaction detachment led by Sun Desheng and Wang Chengzhu had already cut off the Japanese army's retreat.
The Japanese army tried to break out, but was beaten back by the Eighth Route Army. They had to build fortifications on the spot and request reinforcements.
After receiving the telegram from the 109th Division asking for reinforcements, the troops of the Japanese 112th Division and the 113th Division accelerated their march and came for reinforcements. As a result, they encountered the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th troops of the Taiyue Military Region. The military division troops resisted tenaciously.
All units of the Eighth Route Army responsible for blocking the attack have replenished a large number of weapons and ammunition, and the intensity of firepower completely exceeded the imagination of the Japanese army. This reinforcement operation of the Japanese army was very hasty and carried insufficient baggage and ammunition. It was impossible to break through the Eighth Route Army's blockade in a short period of time.
Seeing that the time was ripe to encircle and annihilate the Japanese 109th Division, Xu Dalong issued an order for a comprehensive general attack.
The Eighth Route Army captured a large number of Japanese artillery and had sufficient artillery shells, so it conducted intensive shelling towards the Japanese 109th Division. The artillerymen were satisfied.
The Japanese 109th Division was surrounded in a narrow plain area. Under a burst of artillery fire, it suffered heavy casualties and could not organize an effective blocking attack.
Under the cover of a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, Wang Chengzhu and Cui Zhenyue's rapid reaction detachment quickly broke through the Japanese defensive positions. Kong Jie's two regiments followed the rapid reaction detachment and also broke into the enemy's defensive positions.
Not to be outdone, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei soon led their troops to break through the temporary defensive positions formed by the Japanese army.
They fought and charged fiercely, and the Japanese army was divided into several parts. They were forced to fight independently, and the situation became even more unfavorable.
In the headquarters, Xu Dalong saw that the overall situation had been decided, and came to Commander Siren and the Chief of Staff, helped them refill their tea, and then sat aside to watch the battle. The three of them talked and laughed happily.
Less than two hours after the launch of the general offensive, good news came. The Japanese 109th Division was completely annihilated, killing the Japanese division commander and capturing more than 700 Japanese soldiers below the chief of staff.
Hearing that so many prisoners had been captured, Commander Sir said with emotion: "The Japanese army is going downhill more and more. At the beginning of the war, it was so difficult to capture a Japanese prisoner, but now they can capture so many at once. I think The little devil is like the sunset, and the rabbit’s tail won’t grow long.”
This battle dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army in Shanxi. The Japanese army was forced to shrink to the central and southeastern areas of Shanxi. The pressure on the Taihang Mountain base area was greatly reduced.
After the battle, the participating departments in the Taiyue Military Region returned to their respective bases fully loaded with captured supplies.
Shortly after Xu Dalong returned to the Mawushan base area, Wang Xinmin came over.
He said happily: "Captain, Xiaoyan gave birth to a big fat boy for me. He will be one month old tomorrow, and I want to invite you to drink full moon wine.
If it hadn't been for your help, it would have been difficult for us as husband and wife to be reunited, and it would have been difficult for us to have the opportunity to join the Eighth Route Army and embark on the bright road. Thank you so much. "
Wang Xinmin's words reminded Xu Dalong of the difficult years when the Mawushan base area was first established, and he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
He said happily: "It's great. I will definitely drink this full moon wine. Have you invited Sir Ling and Zhao Zhengwei?"
Wang Xinmin said: "I'm here to invite you first. I don't have that much respect with Member Sling and Commissioner Zheng. Please come forward and invite me."
Xu Dalong smiled and said: "Look what you said, the dignified president and deputy director of the field hospital will definitely have this reputation in our base area. Let me hire Commander Sling, Commissioner Zheng, and Chief of Staff for you. Everyone will be in good condition. Take this opportunity to have some fun together.”
"Thank you, captain. Xiaoyan and I are so proud. I'll go back and prepare for tomorrow's banquet." After saying that, he happily said goodbye and left.
Xu Dalong had deep feelings for Su Xiaoyan and Wang Xinmin. He really took this matter seriously. After finishing the work at hand, he personally informed Li Yunlong, Zhang Dabiao and others.
He came to Zhao Gang's office and told Zhao Gang about the matter.
Xu Dalong considered that there were too many people attending Wang Xinmin's son's full moon banquet, and the couple would spend a lot of money preparing the banquet.
He told Zhao Gang to ask Zhao Gang to allocate a special amount of funds to organize this banquet.
Xu Dalong said: "Commissioner Zhao Zheng, this is not specialization. Su Xiaoyan and his wife are one of the founders of our Mawushan base. Their new born son is a symbol of the development and growth of our base. It is definitely something worth celebrating. .”
Zhao Gang has always respected Xu Dalong's opinions very much, and of course he agreed with such a trivial matter.
Zhao Gang said enthusiastically: "Captain, don't worry. I will send someone over soon to help Dean Su and his wife prepare a banquet. Besides, we just won a big victory and seized so many supplies. It's just the right time to take advantage of the opportunity." Let’s take this opportunity to celebrate.”
Zhao Gang said: "Captain, the main leading cadres of our Mawushan Military Division, including the middle-level cadres, are basically married. You and Director Lin have already discussed the matter. When will the wedding be held for you?"
Xu Dalong said: "Let this go for a while until we drive away the little devil."
Zhao Gang knew that he was trying to shirk and understood what he was thinking. Lin Xueying and Chu Yun'er both had a deep love for Xu Dalong, and Xu Dalong also had a deep relationship with them both. Although Xu Dalong has decided to choose Lin Xueying, he still does not want to irritate Chu Yun'er, so he will postpone the marriage as much as possible.
Regarding Xu Dalong's personal choice, Zhao Gang couldn't say much, so he changed the topic.
He said: "The female soldiers recruited by our Mawushan Military Division have solved the personal problems of the military division cadres. The Taiyue Military Region headquarters and various military divisions do not have the conditions to place so many female soldiers, and many people are looking for them from us. The number of female soldiers is already insufficient. Do you think we should recruit another group of female soldiers?"
Xu Dalong smiled and said: "Isn't this difficult to handle? Now our Mawushan Military Division Base Area is so large and there are many young and outstanding women. You can just arrange this matter."
Speaking of this, Xu Dalong suddenly remembered.
He said: "The higher authorities, the Taiyue Military Region, Commander Kong and Commander Ding asked our field hospital for medical staff to strengthen the construction of their field hospital, and we also provided support. But there are too many talents in this area. If it is not enough, if this continues, the pressure on our hospitals will be too great.
I am thinking about setting up a medical college in our Mawushan base area to train medical staff. In addition to training for our military division, it can also help brother troops to train medical staff. This will eliminate the need to draw personnel from our field hospitals. "
Zhao Gang said happily: "It's true that heroes think alike. I've thought about this too. We have many senior medical talents in the Mawushan Military Division, and there is absolutely no problem in organizing the teaching staff of the vocational college.
Now that we have strong financial resources, it is time to establish a medical college. It's just that there may be a big gap in this teaching equipment, and you still need to solve it. "
Xu Dalong said: "This is easy. Assign the task of collecting medical equipment to each unit and ask them to pay attention to collecting it during the war. I will also assign it to Monk Wei's special operations brigade to specifically collect medical equipment."
Zhao Gang said: "Well, I will start preparing to build a medical college now. How big do you think it will be?"
Xu Dalong thought for a while and said: "At present, our medical resources can basically meet the needs of the Mawushan Military Division. The gap in medical staff in various departments of the Eighth Route Army is really too big. I think we should simply increase the scale. The first phase The size of the organization is set at 800 people. Don’t be afraid of spending money, I will be responsible for solving the money problem.”
Zhao Gang smiled and said, "That's what I've been waiting for. Then I'll open my mouth and spend money. I plan to make everything brand new starting from the time when the school was founded."
Xu Dalong smiled and said: "No problem. We will meet with the regiment commander and chief of staff tomorrow morning and the matter will be officially settled. Then we can write a formal report to the Taiyue Military Region Headquarters and let other troops select personnel. Our base area receives training.”
Zhao Gang said: "I have an idea. When the Taiyue Military Region and the troops from each military subdivision send people, they must bring some of their own funds. This will not only reduce the financial pressure on our base area, but also allow each military subdivision to bring their own funds. We should pay attention and we will not randomly send people here to waste our teaching resources."
Xu Dalong smiled and said: "You are so thoughtful. This method is the best. I completely agree."
Soon after, the Mawushan Military Region formally submitted a report on the establishment of a medical college to the Taiyue Military Region.
Taiyue Military Region Headquarters.
After receiving the report submitted by the Mawushan Military Division, Commander Si said with emotion: "Xu Dalong, Zhao Gang and the others are in front of all military divisions in their work. This is a great idea. Our medical resources are really lacking. Now, with this junior college, this extremely difficult problem will be greatly improved.”
The chief of staff smiled and said: "Establishing a medical college is not a simple matter. It requires a lot of funds and a large number of teaching talents. Only Xu Dalong and his Ma Wushan base have this strength."
Commander Si Ling nodded and said: "This matter is settled." After that, he signed the report submitted by the Mawushan Military Division, and then said: "Chief of Staff, you go through the relevant procedures and then notify Various military divisions and our logistics agencies select outstanding trainees to go to the Mawushan Military Division for training."
The chief of staff nodded and said, "I'll do it right away."
Zhang Wanhe was overjoyed when he heard the good news and raised his hands to express support. This time he did not take advantage of it in vain. He selected 160 outstanding young soldiers with junior high school education or above from the logistics department to study in the Mawushan base area. He also specially approved a part of the funds from the logistics department as the tuition for these students. Sent over.
Soon, the Medical College was officially established, with Wang Xinmin as the principal. In order to show the importance he attached to this junior college, Zhao Gang personally served as the Zheng Committee Member of the junior college.
On this day, Xu Dalong received a telegram from Chu Yun'er, saying that the construction of the gold mine had been completed and put into production. After the first batch of gold produced was distributed, Mawushan Military Division's share was 216 large yellow croakers. She asked Xu Dalong what to do with this batch of large yellow croakers.
From a safety perspective, this batch of large yellow croaker can be deposited directly into a local bank. However, after the local bank collected this batch of large yellow croakers, the money order issued was calculated in legal currency. The legal currency is depreciating rapidly now, and it is very disadvantageous to deposit gold.
Xu Dalong decided to send people to the gold mine to escort the gold back.
He called Monk Wei and asked him to send a reinforced team to Sichuan to escort the gold.
He told Monk Wei that after selecting the personnel, he would ask the team leader to come to him.
The person who accepted the task of escorting the gold was a captain of Zhu Guangzhao's No. 3 Squadron. After receiving the order, he came to Xu Dalong's office.
Xu Dalong handed him an envelope, which was sealed with fire paint. He told the squad leader that he must hand this letter into Chu Yun'er's hands.
The squad leader admired Xu Dalong very much and accepted this task. He felt very honored and vowed to complete the task resolutely.
The special operations team members traveled to Sichuan in vehicles. Now that the transportation of all the troops in the Ninth War Zone has been opened, the special operations team members arrived at the gold mine in Guanglong County smoothly. The squad leader handed Xu Dalong's letter into Chu Yun'er's hands.
Chu Yun'er arranged for the special forces members to rest first, and then eagerly opened Xu Dalong's letter.
What Xu Dalong confessed in the letter was that all the property Ma Hansan gave him was given to Chu Yun'er. After reading it, she felt grateful and sad at the same time. She was very touched that Xu Dalong left her so much property. However, the content of the letter did not show any further intimacy, which made her feel that her hope of becoming a partner with Xu Dalong was getting slimmer.
Still, she was done arranging it. After asking the special forces team members to bring back the batch of gold, they went to Chengdu. In addition to taking out the Qianlong imperial sword, they replaced the rest of the gold, silver and jewelry with rice gold and deposited it again in Huaqi Bank. . In addition to this money, Chu Yun'er kept part of the share she received from the gold mine for her own living, and most of it was converted into rice gold and deposited in Citibank.
(End of chapter)
