The Guofu also used various relationships including the military boss, Wang Jiangjun, and the Ninth War Zone Chief to do Xu Dalong's work.
Xu Dalong said that he was just a small guerrilla leader and had no decision-making power. He had to seek the opinions of Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang on this matter.
Li Yunlong had never had a good impression of Guo Jun, so he refused without saying a word.
The Guo government once again put pressure on the underground party and demanded that Li Yunlong be punished. In order to calm the anger of Guofu, the superiors of the underground party issued a notice and gave Li Yunlong a major demerit.
Of course, this was for outsiders to see. Although it was announced in the bulletin, it was not recorded in Li Yunlong's files. Li Yunlong was punished, but he didn't care. I have to say that at many critical moments, tough guys like Li Yunlong are still needed.
In this matter, Chu Yunfei also received a lot of pressure. The Guofu government put pressure on the Jinsui Army, and the Jinsui Army put pressure on Chu Yunfei, hoping to get the 107mm rocket launcher from him so that they could go back and conduct research.
Chu Yunfei felt tremendous pressure, but he had promised Xu Dalong that these rocket launcher vehicles must stay in the 358th Division, so he came to ask Xu Dalong for advice on how to resist the pressure from his superiors.
Xu Dalong told him to report to his superiors, saying that the operation and technical maintenance of rocket launchers require extremely professional people, and these are all handled by people sent by the underground party. In order to prevent leaks, the rocket launcher was equipped with a self-explosion device under the barrel when it left the factory. If Chu Yunfei violates the agreement and transfers the rocket launchers privately, those rocket launchers will be destroyed by themselves.
Seeing this situation, Chu Yunfei's Shangfeng had no choice but to give up.
After passing this incident, it really reminded Xu Dalong. He required that all troops with rocket launchers must have dedicated personnel responsible for destroying the rocket launchers when necessary and must not fall into the hands of the enemy.
Lin Xueying was very happy during these days. Xu Dalong really stayed in the Mawushan Military Division, and the two lived a peaceful life.
For soldiers, a beautiful and peaceful life is always short-lived. On this day, the Commander-in-Chief sent another telegram, asking Xu Dalong to report to the Commander-in-Chief of the Military Region.
Xu Dalong took a transport plane to the Taihang Mountain base that day, and Li Changshui personally drove to the airport to greet Xu Dalong.
Xu Dalong knew the organizational discipline and did not ask him about this mission. On the way, Xu Dalong just chatted with Li Changshui, but Li Changshui told Xu Dalong directly.
As the war progressed, the anti-Japanese situation in Shanxi gradually improved. The purpose of Commander Sling asking him to come this time was to find a direction and open up a new base.
Now, the only ones standing between the Taihang Mountain base area and the Mawu Mountain base area are the Japanese garrison division 32 in Yucheng and Huang Xiejun's 4th division.
Commander Si Ling planned to have the Mawushan Military Division send troops to destroy or drive away the two Japanese and puppet troops and capture Lingao City and Yu City.
In this way, the Taihang Mountain Base Area and the Mawu Mountain Base Area can be connected together. Since Xu Dalong is very familiar with both teams of the Japanese and puppet troops, he was asked to come here specifically to seek his opinions.
Xu Dalong had different opinions and said: "I have some thoughts on this matter. Let's do this. I won't tell you now. I will know when I report to Commander Sling later."
Li Changshui also had the same opinion. He just told Xu Dalong the content of his meeting with the leader so that he could prepare in advance.
Li Changshui said: "Brother Dalong, I heard that you went to Chongqing this time and got a batch of agent equipment from there. Can you give me some of it?"
Xu Dalong smiled and said: "No problem. There is still some inventory in the equipment warehouse of the military division. You can ask Li Qiulin to take people there. Just ask Zhao Zhengwei directly."
Li Qiulin said: "In addition to special agent equipment, can you give me some funds?"
Xu Dalong was still very happy and said: "This is no problem. You can just go to Commissioner Zhao Zheng directly."
Li Changshui was very happy and said, "It's great to have a brother like you."
After arriving at the Commander's Headquarters of the Military Region, Commander Sir's secretary took Xu Dalong and Li Changshui directly to the commander's office and said that the commander was dealing with a matter and would be back soon. He personally made tea for the two of them and waited with them here.
Before the establishment of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Military Region, the commander-in-chief did not have a full-time secretary. After the establishment of the military region, due to the busy work of Commander Sir, he was assigned a full-time secretary.
The secretary's surname is Zhang. He is in his mid-twenties, educated, elegant, smart and capable. He is also good at talking and makes people feel very approachable.
The secretary is now relatively familiar with Xu Dalong. He likes pistols, and his superiors allotted him a bastard box captured by the Japanese army. He has long wanted a Browning pistol.
While Commander Sling was away, he had a very speculative conversation with Xu Dalong. He said, "Captain Xu, I heard that you have a lot of good guns there. Can you help me get a Browning pistol?"
Xu Dalong has always been a good man. Without saying a word, he took off the gun from his waist and handed it to Secretary Zhang.
Secretary Zhang thanked him repeatedly and kept playing with the Browning pistol in his hand as if he couldn't put it down. It wasn't until he heard footsteps coming from outside that he quickly put the gun away.
He could tell from the footsteps that Commander Sling and the Chief of Staff were coming, so he quickly stood up and opened the door.
Sure enough, the visitors were none other than Commander Siren and the Chief of Staff. Secretary Zhang welcomed them in, nodded to Xu Dalong, closed the door and left.
Commander Si Ling exchanged a few words with Xu Dalong and said, "Li Changshui has already told you about the purpose of your coming here, right? How do you plan it?"
Xu Dalong said: "Commander Sir, it is indeed necessary to eliminate or drive away the Japanese and puppet troops in Lingao City and Yucheng, and to open up the connection between the Mawu Mountain Base Area and the Taihang Mountain Base Area. However, I have some personal opinions on this. "
Officer Sling nodded and said, "I asked you to come here to listen to your opinion. If you have anything to say, just say it."
Xu Dalong said: "The anti-Japanese situation in Shanxi has developed rapidly. The Eighth Route Army has made significant progress. Let's not talk about other places. Just talking about northwest Shanxi, Datong and Yangquan are now in the hands of the Eighth Route Army. The Yanbei area, Yangquan area and Ma The Wushan base area has been integrated into one. It can be said that most of the area in northwestern Shanxi is controlled by the Eighth Route Army. There are other base areas in the Taihang Mountain base area, Luliang base area, and the territory controlled by the Eighth Route Army is close to a quarter of Shanxi.
This has already aroused dissatisfaction between the Zhongyang Army and the Jinsui Army, and I am afraid that they will become more passive in fighting the Japanese army in the future. Yucheng and Lingaocheng are located on important transportation routes, and the Pingsui Line and the Zhengtai Line both pass through this area. If the Eighth Route Army captures this area again, it will directly cut off the connection between Beiping and Taiyuan.
In order to restore local traffic, the Japanese army will definitely counterattack wildly. The defenders of the Eighth Route Army will be under great pressure and will pay a huge price. Compared with opening up the connection between the Taihang Mountain base area and the Mawu Mountain base area, it is a bit more gain than loss. Now in this area is the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army. They have been frightened by the troops of the Mawushan Military Division. They have never taken the initiative to provoke the Eighth Route Army, and they even have business contacts with each other.
For example, the 4th Division of Huang Xiejun, not to mention, from a certain perspective, has become a friendly force of the Mawushan Military Division. Through these, the Japanese and puppet troops can help the Eighth Route Army solve many problems, which will help smash the enemy's blockade against the Japanese base areas.
Therefore, in my personal opinion, there is no need to attack these two Japanese and puppet armies and maintain the status quo, which is more beneficial to the Mawushan Military Division. "
The chief of staff said: "What you said makes sense. In fact, Commander Si Ling and I thought the same way. It's just that the superiors asked us to quickly expand the base area and drive the Japanese and puppet troops out of Shanxi first. The subjective wishes of the superiors were good, but for The specific situation in each region is not well understood enough.
We called you here today just to listen to your opinions. We all agree that you will draft a detailed description of the situation and report it to the Military Region Command Headquarters. We will then forward it to our superiors so that it will be more convincing. "
Xu Dalong said: "Okay, I will write it right away."
Commander Siren nodded and called Secretary Zhang, asking him to arrange an office for Xu Dalong to draft the report.
Xu Dalong was very familiar with the entire anti-Japanese war situation in Shanxi, as well as the situation of the Zhongyang Army, the Shanxi-Sui Army, and the Japanese and puppet troops. The report he drafted was informative and effortless.
He quickly drafted the report and sent it to his secretary, who then forwarded it to Commander Sir and the Chief of Staff.
After reading it, they felt it was well written and persuasive. Ask Secretary Zhang to inform Xu Dalong to go to the canteen of the military region agency, add a few dishes, buy a bottle of wine, and entertain Xu Dalong.
After the meal, Xu Dalong said goodbye to the commander and chief of staff, and was accompanied by Li Changshui to the Taihang Mountain Airport, preparing to return to the Mawu Mountain Military Division.
As soon as they arrived at the airport, the personnel on duty at the airport received a call from the Military Region Command Headquarters, asking Xu Dalong and Li Changshui to return to the Military Region Command Headquarters immediately.
Xu Dalong and Li Changshui knew that something unusual must have happened, so they immediately drove back to the Military Region Sling Headquarters.
When he saw Xu Dalong, Commander Sir handed him a telegram.
Xu Dalong took it and read the contents of the telegram. The telegram was sent by the Peiping underground party to his superiors, who in turn forwarded it to the Military Region Command Department.
The thing is, Datong, Shanxi Province is rich in coal resources. The Japanese army robbed a large amount of coal resources from Datong, Shanxi Province every year and shipped them to the island countries. Now Datong has been occupied by the Daqingshan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column, the coal mines in Shanxi and Yangquan are already under the control of the Eighth Route Army, and the railways to Yangquan and Peiping have also been cut off.
It can be said that the Japanese army has basically cut off the energy supply from Shanxi. This is another heavy blow to the domestic economy of the island country that relies heavily on foreign resources.
The North China Front Army was reprimanded by the Japanese base camp and asked them to launch an offensive campaign in the direction of Shanxi, retake Datong, and open up the railway transportation line through Yangquan.
In order to achieve this goal, the Japanese base camp sent two newly formed domestic divisions, the 145th and 146th Divisions, to North China.
The North China Front planned to transfer them to Shanxi to strengthen the First Army. According to intelligence, the two divisions of the Japanese army plan to travel to Taiyuan via road and rail transportation, passing through Yucheng and Lingaocheng.
The superiors asked the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Military Region to take the lead and launch an attack on the Lingao City and Yucheng lines to cut off the connection between Beiping and Taiyuan.
Now Yucheng and Lingaocheng had to fight, which completely disrupted Xu Dalong's plan.
Faced with this situation, Commander Sir and the Chief of Staff still sought Xu Dalong's opinion.
Officer Sling said: "You understand the situation, do you have any other ideas?"
Xu Dalong thought about it seriously and said: "Commander Si Ling, Chief of Staff, I still stick to my original opinion. However, if we launch an offensive campaign towards Yucheng and Lingao City now, we will inevitably encounter Japanese troops from the direction of Taiyuan and Beiping." The main force of the attack, the Mawushan Military Division is facing great pressure. It also faces the Japanese 32nd Division and the 4th Division of the Huang Xie Army. This will be a battle of extremely large scale.
Even if our army were lucky enough to capture Yucheng and Lingao City before the Japanese reinforcements arrived, they would inevitably be besieged by the main force of the Japanese army.
In order to open up the connection between Peiping and Taiyuan, the Japanese army will launch continuous offensives. The Mawushan Military Division will be plunged into a continuous and bitter battle, which will inevitably cause heavy losses, and it can even be said that there will never be peace.
This kind of attrition battle with the Japanese army is really not worth the gain. In fact, it is nothing remarkable for the Japanese army to increase its troops in Shanxi's First Army. Although one or two divisions have a lot of troops, they are really nothing in the vast area of Shanxi. They want to attack Datong and Yangquan, and the front is very long. The strength of the Mawushan Military Division, coupled with the Daqingshan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column, is enough to deal with them. Instead of fighting positional battles with the Japanese in Yucheng and Lingaocheng, it would be better to let them enter Shanxi and fight guerrilla warfare with them in the vast area of northwestern Shanxi, gradually wearing them down.
This is very beneficial for the Eighth Route Army to preserve its strength, consume the enemy's vitality, and ultimately eliminate the enemy. "
Hearing this, Officer Sling and the Chief of Staff looked at each other, and the Chief of Staff nodded and said, "Go on."
Xu Dalong said: "The Japanese army has increased the strength of two divisions. It seems to have strengthened the First Army in Shanxi, but it has also increased their logistical pressure. Now the road to Suiyuan has been cut off, and the road to Peiping has been cut off. We can also send troops to raid and destroy the roads in this direction. It can be said that it is also difficult for the Japanese army to obtain supplies from the direction of Hebei.
The Japanese troops stationed in Shanxi have basically been cut off from foreign aid. It is even more difficult for them to rely only on the First Army's occupied areas in Shanxi to provide logistical support. Due to the lack of logistical support, although the Japanese army increased its strength, the strength of the Japanese army stationed in Shanxi not only did not increase significantly, but from a certain perspective, it actually weakened.
In order to increase the pressure on the Japanese army's logistics support, after the two Japanese army divisions enter Taiyuan, I want to organize another Taigu battle to capture the Japanese army's No. 1 military station. Not to mention eating big fish and meat, the Japanese army probably had to drink porridge every day. We also want them to have a taste of eating steamed buns with pickled vegetables. "
Hearing this, Commander Sir, the Chief of Staff and Li Changshui all laughed. (End of chapter)
