Two days later, Liu Yu's troops began to move after counting all the supplies and loading the trucks, and then cleaning up the traces of the garrison.
There was no way, the field brigade of the two little devils was too close to Yangcun. If they wanted to fight, they could just come.
The straight-line distance of ten kilometers is about 20 kilometers in actual distance, but for the Japanese field troops, this distance can definitely be reached in two or three hours. If the Japanese march lightly, they can definitely reach Yangcun within two hours.
Although Liu Yu deployed many warning posts on the outside, it would definitely be too late to move when the Japanese came to attack.
Supplies and equipment are easy to pick up and go, but the traces of stationing and training cannot be cleared away in a short time. If the little devils see it, they will definitely take it out on the people of Yangcun.
Before leaving, Yang Rui, the head of Yang Village, took Liu Yu's hand and tried his best to keep him, but Liu Yu was so smart that he didn't listen to him at all.
I remember that when I first came to Yangcun, I was often looked down upon by the village chief. If the county team hadn't been too aggressive during training and looked very irritating, the old man would have been kicked out of Yangcun long ago.
When Wu Hongbo borrowed grain from the people of Yang Village, the old man obstructed it and prevented the villagers of Yang Village from lending grain to the Eighth Route Army. Fortunately, the people of Yang Village were not all from the Yang clan, and some people still supported the Eighth Route Army. , otherwise Liu Yu and the others would probably be hungry.
It was only after the bandits were beaten that the village chief's attitude towards the county brigade changed, but he did not have the same feeling as the soldiers and civilians. Especially after the bandits came back, they sent three hundred oceans to the county brigade. He was talking about the labor force, but the look in his eyes made it look like the village elder had hired a county brigade as bodyguards.
Including the time when he sent food to the county brigade, this old guy used other people's things as favors. All the food he sent was the food stored by other families in his Yang clan. His own family did not produce a single grain.
You must know that most of the surplus grain of the people in Yang Village is lent to the county brigade. Maybe this old guy thinks that the rare goods are valuable, and is waiting for them to lend money at usury when they are short of food.
Liu Yu has never been used to this kind of landlord wealth. He accepts the ocean and grain as he should. Why not accept the gifts? Then he turned around and used the food sent by Yang Rui to repay all the debts he had borrowed from other villagers.
However, Liu Yu was still very grateful to the people of Yang Village. It really helped the county brigade a lot.
Therefore, Liu Yu left a platoon in each of Yangcun and Fenghuang Mountain, stationed at these two places as forward observation posts to monitor the movements of the Japanese. Secondly, if the Japs come, the soldiers in this platoon can still protect the common people.
In addition, Liu Yu personally spent a day teaching the villagers how to set up security posts, and asked them to teach the people in other surrounding villages, telling them that the day they find the Japanese are coming, they should immediately take their families and hide in the mountains. Go, or go to Longfenggou to find the Eighth Route Army.
The guard post is actually very simple. Just find a few hills and squat a few people, cut down a few trees in advance and knock them down when the Japanese are coming. When the people behind see the trees in front of them falling down, they will know that there is danger and will naturally signal them. Pass it on. From the first point where the Japanese were discovered to when the news was received in the village, it would not take more than 3 minutes. Even if someone deserted in the middle, it would be enough time for the villagers to respond.
This was how the county brigade's security posts were set up before. It was a very practical method.
As for digging tunnels and teaching the people to fight in tunnels, time is still too short. Let’s talk about it later.
No weapons or anything else were left for the common people, because that would more easily arouse the bestiality of the devils. For the untrained people, it was still the best strategy when encountering the devils.
The county brigade, oh, now it should be called the independent column, is temporarily forming a camp. There was a lot of movement when they left, hundreds of cars.
These carts were all collected by Yang Xing'er in Jingjing County at that time. They included mule carts, horse-drawn carriages, donkey carts, and ox carts.
After spending a day, we finally arrived at Longfenggou at six o'clock in the evening.
This is a mountain col, not a basin like Yangcun. The village is also a small village, incomparable to a large village like Yangcun with more than 100 households.
The main reason why I chose this place is that it is located in Xiyang County.
Xiyang is even more barren than Jingxing these days, with 94% of its area covered by mountains. There are no railways or inter-provincial highways passing through it, except for the Ping-Liao Highway (Pingding to Liao County). It is poor and not a strategic location. The Japanese are not willing to deploy heavy troops here. There is only one gendarmerie squadron responsible for the defense of the county, and an additional force is responsible for the strongholds along the Pingliao Highway. The total strength does not exceed two squadrons.
Liu Yu naturally didn't take this seriously, but he didn't touch them directly. Instead, he reserved it for the new recruits to practice after the training of the two regiments of the independent column was completed.
After arriving at Longfenggou, we set up camp on the spot.
There is definitely no room for more than 600 people like them in the village.
Fortunately, although the tents seized from the Japanese were not many, they were enough. A few more people could squeeze in and keep out the cold.
. . . . . .
At night, the tent where Liu Yu was.
This was used as a temporary headquarters.
Liu Yu, Song Renqiong, Wu Hongbo, Xu Liqing and other senior military division officials held a meeting under a kerosene lamp.
Song Renqiong held an enamel teacup, warmed his hands, and said slowly and unhurriedly: "From the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese War, the current strength and resources of the Japanese army have been used to the limit, and there is no longer any possibility to launch a large-scale battle like the Wuhan Battle. capabilities, so the overall situation between the enemy and us has entered a stage of strategic stalemate. From a local perspective, although the armed forces led by our party have developed greatly in the past two years, they are still unable to cooperate with them due to the lack of weapons and equipment. The enemy is confronting them head-on. And because the Japanese army has been unable to attack on the frontal battlefield, the armed forces behind enemy lines may face long-term and uninterrupted raids by the Japanese army, which is not optimistic!"
"I completely agree with what the political commissar said." Liu Yu nodded and said, "Today is the first day of the twelfth lunar month, and the Chinese New Year will be in one month. We will work hard this month and try to get the two groups together before the Chinese New Year. All the main soldiers are ready, and then everyone celebrates the New Year in a lively manner. Once the new year is over, we will start training according to the drill."
"The rough creation of the partition is still a blank piece of paper. What we can do on this piece of paper depends on whether we can form a strong army before the Japanese raids come! Comrades, we have a lot of work to do next!"
Everyone smiled and nodded. Xu Liqing considered it for a moment and said, "The work can be carried out in many ways. On the one hand, several groups of cadres can be sent to recruit troops in various places; on the other hand, Comrade Zhitao can take the lead in setting up a short-term officer training class, as far as possible." The veterans from the original 771 regiment, as well as those with higher academic qualifications among the new recruits, will also be trained into cadres."
As he said that, he glanced at Wang Zhitao.
Wang Zhitao nodded: "No problem, I'm good at this."
When he just came back from the Soviet Union, he worked as a teacher in Yan'an. He was always clamoring to go to the front line. It was only after the great comrade talked to him in person that he taught honestly for two years.
Many of his students are now teachers at the Anti-Japanese University. It can be said that he is already a patriarch-level figure among Eighth Route Army cadres.
Xu Liqing continued: "Recruitment of new soldiers is one method. Our party's guerrillas and militiamen in the surrounding areas can also join forces with us. In addition, we can also absorb the independent anti-Japanese armed forces in the surrounding areas. For example, the bandits, although their discipline is a bit poor, But they are all young adults, so they are a good source of soldiers."
After hearing what he said, Liu Yu suddenly remembered something and looked at Wu Hongbo: "Old Wu, do you have any news about those classmates who asked you to contact you last time?"
Wu Hongbo rolled his eyes: "How can it be so fast? My letters were only sent out five days ago, and they probably haven't reached anyone yet. If they really want to come, it won't be until after the new year at least. Wait. Just keep it."
Liu Yu smiled awkwardly. He had not thought of it for a moment. These days are not like later generations. It takes at least half a month for a letter to come back and forth. If the distance is far, it may take a month or two.
The reason why Liu Yu was so interested in Wu Hongbo's classmates was not to let them serve as soldiers, but to build a base.
These days, when he had nothing to do, he would enter the system to take a look. Looking at the various basic industrial equipment in the system, he was drooling and depressed at the same time.
Because he knew that even if he could redeem those things, no one would do it.
Now those people under him are all talented people in military and political fields. If they are asked to lead troops to fight, every one of them will scream. But if they were allowed to operate a machine tool, it would probably be broken within a few days.
In Liu Yu's view, since there is a system in place, if China cannot be built into a superpower, then it will be a shame to the gang of bald donkeys who were scolded by him before the time travel, as well as the big guys who are suspected of helping him time travel.
"You should pay more attention to this matter. Next, I plan to focus on building industry and commerce in the base area. It won't work without a large number of talents. You not only have to ask your college classmates, but also high school and junior high schools, whether they get along well or not. Okay, call them all! Even classmates of classmates, if you can, just fool them. In short, the more the better!"
"Develop industry and commerce?" After listening to Liu Yu's words, Song Renqiong was a little confused, "The idea is good, and I support it in principle! But the question is where did you get the industrial equipment? In addition, even if your factory can be built, there are still devils in the sky. As for airplanes, if they come and poop on you, your factory will be ashes."
Liu Yu said: "Some people are still afraid that they don't have equipment? As long as people can come, I have to get them the equipment even if I go to cheat and rob them! As for the Japanese bombing, there are mountains everywhere around here. Let's hollow out the mountains and build them." Isn’t it enough to have a factory? We must have our own industrial foundation. Why can a mere little devil bully our Greater China? Isn’t it because our technology and industry are backward? I won’t go into detail, but right now, we can’t just Relying on seizures to fight a war has too many limitations! Our Eighth Route Army now has at least 200,000 people, right? But it can't even launch a major battle, and the people in Chongqing say it's just wandering instead of attacking. How can you do this? Tolerate?"
As soon as these words came out, other people looked at each other, and felt a stronger sense of identification with Liu Yu.
There are many cadres in our party who are capable of fighting, and many are better than Liu Yu, but few can have his insight.
