Said it was early spring.
The cold wind was still biting across the wasteland, raising waves of dust that covered the sky and the sun.
The midday sun casts a grayish-blue color over the yellow-brown field.
Amid the sounds of crying, the two corpses hanging on the big trees outside the village were lowered by a group of soldiers in gray clothes and black faces.
Those were two democratic government workers who were killed by puppet troops. As of midnight last night, no villager dared to collect their bodies.
The villagers hid in their houses, not one of them dared to show up, nervously looking at the familiar Eighth Route Army.
Because it is said that the puppet army launched a search last night. They have no idea where these Eight Route Route Army soldiers came from, let alone where they come from!
For a piece of millet weighing twenty kilograms, some people began to feel excited. How much millet should be replaced?
As for the two people hanging on the tree...
Commander Lu left the sunny hillside in the south, put on his military cap again, looked up at the cold village, his brows gradually furrowed.
After a while, he finally said to the three generals next to him with some self-deprecation: "Now the common people don't want to pay attention to us. We have come all the way from the mountains to deliver food, and we all talk about our views on the current situation. .”
Wu Yan looked around: "Now that the food has been delivered, I think... we are in the core area of the enemy's sweep, and we may be reported by traitors at any time. How about we... Or should we retreat to the mountains first and make a long-term plan?"
Captain Lu did not express his position. It was obvious that he was worried about losing a good reputation despite delivering food.
Gao Yidao glanced at Wu Yan in the middle, then stared at Hu Yi on Wu Yan's right.
Hu Yi didn't seem to see Gao Yidao's eyes at all, and stood there in a daze.
The action of recruiting the security army was proposed by Gao Yidao. Seeing that Hu Yi didn't say anything, he had to curl his lips: "I think with our current strength, we can completely defeat the security army that came out to sweep up Xinglong Town!"
After Gao Yidao finished speaking, the three of them turned to look at Hu Yi.
Hu Yi was a little embarrassed: "Our Ninth Company will come out this time. There are only six people in total. I think... it's up to you to make the decision."
Gao Yidao on the far left curled his lips: "I'm asking you to express your opinion, but I'm not asking your Ninth Company to participate in the operation. Don't tell me you don't even have an opinion, right?"
Captain Lu looked at Hu Yi with a rare serious look on his face: "I know you are worried about your ninth company's base. You can't go back in broad daylight. Besides, we all know that you have fought many big battles. You Now he is still a staff member of the Independent Regiment, so don’t hide it from your mother-in-law!"
Captain Lu had never spoken harsh words to him in such a tone, and Hu Yi was a little dazed.
After a long while, Hu Yicai finally made a suggestion: "How about... look at the map first?"
Captain Lu immediately turned to Xiaodou and ordered: "Hurry up and get my map!"
Hu Yi looked at Gao Yidao: "Can you mark out the enemy's general troop layout?"
Gao Yidao rolled his eyes at Hu Yi, pulled out his treasured map and unfolded it. The strength of the puppet army was clearly visible! Then he took out half of the pencil and carefully scratched it with a bayonet, and from memory he began to mark on the large map of the regiment leader that Xiaodou unfolded.
Wu Yan pointed to the short lines Gao Yidao had just drawn: "What do these three short lines mean?"
Gao Yidao didn't raise his head: "It means a battalion of security forces has opened up!"
"Where are these two short lines?"
"A platoon..."
"Then this short line...uh...should be a class, right? What about this small square?"
"blockhouse."
"Then...this line is so long, it should be a blockade ditch, right? This black lump...uh...should be Xinglong Town, right?"
“Can you stop fighting poverty?”
"I haven't seen Xinglong Town until now!"
"This... Heituo Tuo is."
"Then why don't you write the words Xinglong Town?"
"I don't want to write, what's wrong with you?" Gao Yidao was on the verge of an explosion: "Isn't it on your map?"
"I just took note of the troop deployment. Your map is more comprehensive than mine." Wu Yan was not angry either. He was holding a pencil and marking on the simple map he drew.
There was no way, the maps in his hand were almost all detailed maps of the area at the foot of the mountain, and he really didn't have a detailed map of the enemy's troop deployment in the area a knife above the plain.
Gao Yidao quickly finished the drawing: "Now the puppet troops are almost spread out in a net-like sweep. They do not advance rashly or pursue, but carry out parallel combing. A small group of puppet troops are responsible for reconnaissance and exploration in front, and the traitors identify and arrest suspicious elements. ..."
Wu Yan also finished drawing on his map and nodded subconsciously in agreement.
Captain Lu glanced at Gao Yidao's note: "Bullshit tactics, if they are pulled into a net, they really work. How did you get here last night?"
Wu Yan quickly added: "Although the enemy has spread out to carry out mopping up operations, their troops have been dispersed in this way, giving us the opportunity to defeat them individually!"
Gao Yidao curled his lips: "Destroy them one by one? The enemy's target is a small group of guerrillas on the plains. Do you think all the guerrillas on the plains can compete with us? Dare you break into the puppet army's mopping up lines?"
"When a small group of guerrillas sees such a large-scale enemy mopping up, there is really nothing they can do but run away!" Wu Yan nodded and was not angry, and turned to look at Hu Yi: "Hey, Captain Hu, tell me what you think! "
"The base area of the Ninth Company is different. Unlike the Second Company, which can ignore the people, most of the base areas are ordinary people who have organized themselves. The difficulties they face are much greater."
"Let me tell you your opinion. Why are you dragging me to Erlian?"
"The enemy's goal this time is to clear out the occupied areas. The main targets are the guerrillas, our underground personnel and even the weak local Eighth Route Army troops."
"What's the meaning?"
Hu Yi judged based on various information from the conversation with Minister Zhang: "Have you noticed that they did not regard our Eighth Route Army as a key target for raids at all!"
Gao Yidao was a little confused: "Then he is still a fool!"
Hu Yi ignored Gao Yidao, knowing that this guy likes to find faults: "The enemy's purpose is, first, to make us lose the basis for survival in the occupied area, and second, to paralyze us, in order to achieve their strategic goal of forcing our friendly forces to surrender! "
"Friendly forces surrender?" Gao Yidao and Wu Yan said in unison.
"You see, the enemy has invested so many troops in a mopping up operation. We killed so many of their secret sentries last night, but they did not entangle or even pursue us. At this time, most of the puppet troops were heading south. Advance, so their real target should be our friendly forces!"
Commander Lu finally became interested and nodded: "The Chinese army has nearly 600,000 soldiers in the south, and their next target should be us!"
"Ah, Commander, you already knew this?" Gao Yidao looked at Commander Lu in confusion.
Commander Lu did not tell anyone about this except the political commissar, and he felt uncomfortable in his heart. Since Hu Yi brought it up, it was not a leak: "I shouldn't have told you originally, this is a strategic matter. The division commander judged that our friendly forces might attack Surrendering to the enemy is just a judgment based on various intelligences. No one can say for sure. If it doesn't happen, people will think that we are making random guesses about friendly forces, so be careful not to let it out."
"Then... the one in Chongqing isn't in a hurry? Our friendly forces seem to have no movement until now!" Wu Yan was stunned, and turned to look at Hu Yi: "You went to communicate with friendly forces, didn't you hear something? Rumor?
Hu Yi rolled his eyes at Wu Yan: "Can we talk about this on stage?"
Commander Lu glared at Hu Yi with a dark face: "Don't go too far. Let's not talk nonsense about things that haven't happened yet. Besides, we can't afford to interfere. Staff Hu, please first tell us how to deal with the raids by the puppet troops in front of us." matter."
When Captain Lu ordered him to be called a staff officer, Hu Yi was confused.
The term "staff officer" first appeared in the Jiedushi in the late Tang Dynasty, and was a term given to staff members.
It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that the military structure was reformed and the new army was established, and this position was added. It was mainly responsible for military training and planning, and was divided into first, second and third level staff officers.
The main responsibilities of the national military staff are to collect and master relevant intelligence and data, provide analysis and judgment and make suggestions for use when military commanders make decisions.
In addition, they must prepare agency documents and combat documents, convey orders and instructions from the commander down, check the implementation, coordinate and solve relevant problems, and participate in combat duty.
To put it simply, a staff officer without a commander is a military advisor, that is to say... there is no rank...
