Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

After the jokes, the meeting got down to business and everyone became serious.

"According to the order from our superiors, after the autumn harvest, military regions and sub-districts at all levels need to proactively attack enemy-occupied areas within their bases. The first phase of the campaign is to eliminate the spies in the base area and to occupy the strongholds, bunkers, and artillery towers around the county town. In this battle, we need to seek out the enemy's weak points, proactively lure the enemy out, ambush them halfway, and eliminate the enemy's manpower!"

"The second phase of the operation will be to completely destroy the railway and road networks near the enemy-occupied areas, strengthen propaganda and propaganda in the newly acquired villages in the enemy-occupied areas, establish fortress villages around the local county town, establish offensive fortresses, completely cut off the enemy's communication, and make it impossible for the enemy to take care of both ends!"

"The third phase of operations will focus on besieging, liberating, and besieging county towns! The requirements for this phase of operations are that small county towns and county towns of strategic significance must be firmly occupied! For large cities, we will conduct a trial attack. If we cannot take them down, we will focus on besieging them, supplemented by political propaganda to undermine the enemy's confidence, divide the puppet troops, and win over the puppet troops."

"In the fourth phase of operations, we will consolidate the achievements of the first three phases and deploy defensive measures in strategic locations in the occupied areas and the original occupied areas. We will build strong bunkers to guard against enemy counterattacks and large-scale attacks! The fortifications we build need to be strong and comprehensive, and we need to guard against attacks from multiple directions!"

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"The above are the strategic guidelines given by the headquarters. Specifically for our Ninth Division, the orders given by the headquarters are different because in our early battles, the enemy had penetrated deep into our base bunkers, artillery towers, and even the county town. So we can skip the first and second phases and enter the third phase of the battle."

"Why the third phase? Because we are guarding most of the Zhengtai Line. If we destroy the railway first, it will be disadvantageous for the subsequent battles! So we will go straight to the third phase. Moreover, the entire Taihang District and Beiyue District are watching our Ninth District, waiting for us to take action first!"

"I'm sure everyone is very clear about the location of our Ninth Division. Therefore, the headquarters has given us only four targets, namely Shouyang, Yangquan, Pingshan, and Jingxing! Okay, let Commander Zhao lead everyone to discuss the next matter and formulate our battle deployment! Everyone welcome..."

After Zhu Xingyu finished speaking, he was the first to applaud, and everyone followed suit. Then they looked at Zhao Danian with burning eyes, waiting for Zhao Danian to speak.

"Ahem, as the military manual says, knowing yourself and the enemy will ensure victory in a hundred battles! So before discussing the specific battle deployment, we need to first understand our own military strength." Zhao Danian glanced at the cadres around him and said, "At present, our main force on display consists of four detachments and three local regiments! So, four detachment leaders, tell me, how many troops do you have?"

...No one expected that Zhao Danian would say such a thing at this time, so the four detachment leaders Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Kong Jie, and Xing Weiguo looked at each other, wondering who would speak first.

"Ha, let's go first, Old Li!" Li Yunlong was the smartest and spoke first: "Our independent detachment now has an artillery regiment, which includes a mountain artillery company with four mountain artillery pieces, a heavy mortar company with nine heavy mortars, an 9 mortar company with nine 82 mortars, a transport company and a guard company! Then there are three infantry regiments. I don't have much education, so I'm in charge of the 9st, 82nd and 9800rd regiments." Li Yunlong said here, glanced at Zhao Gang beside him and said: "Ahem, our independent detachment also has a reconnaissance company, a special operations team, a guard company, a medical team, a transport battalion, etc., with a total strength of people."

"Old Li, you're going too far. You've made a detachment almost like a division?" Ding Wei looked at Li Yunlong with a little contempt, and then said, "Our division's detachment now has an artillery battalion, only two 120-meter heavy mortar companies, three infantry regiments, a special operations team, a guard company, a reconnaissance company, a transport battalion... a total of 7200 people."

"Old Ding, you are not ashamed to say that to Old Li? You have quite a lot of troops, right?" Kong Jie looked at Ding Wei and Li Yunlong with contempt, and then said, "Our Division 6300 Detachment is a new unit. Now we only have three small infantry regiments, plus the guard company, reconnaissance company, transport company, etc. of the detachment, with a total strength of only people."

"I just despise the fact that you have so many troops but are still hiding your strength!" Xing Weiguo looked at Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Kong Jie with contempt, and then said, "The situation of our Beishan Detachment is special. We currently only have one 120mm heavy mortar artillery battalion, two artillery companies equipped with 9 120mm heavy mortars, a 150-man guard company and a 100-man transport team."

"Then there are the three main infantry regiments. The first and second regiments each have an artillery company equipped with eight 8mm mortars, and the guard regiment has an artillery company equipped with nine heavy mortars. The rest of their equipment is similar to everyone else's, with each infantry company having four 82mm mortars. In addition, there are the teams directly under the detachment, which are also similar!"

"Because of the special situation, our guard regiment needs to stay. Therefore, the total strength of our Beishan Detachment is 7800 people, and the actual strength that can be deployed for combat is about 5000!"

"You really don't know until you count it, and you'll be shocked when you do! With this calculation, we have a lot of troops! 9800 plus 7200 plus 6300, plus Old Xing's 5000-plus, that's 28300 people, with 11 infantry regiments, a comprehensive artillery regiment, two heavy mortar battalions... Not bad, not bad, if you include the divisional artillery regiment, that's 13 regimental-level units that can take part in the war!" Xing Weiguo concluded.

"Wrong, wrong, it's not just 13 regiment-level units, there are also us..." At this time, Guo Zhongmin quickly stood up and spoke, otherwise he would have no chance.

"Yes, although our local regiment is called a local regiment, we also have an artillery company, an infantry company with four 4mm mortars, and a force of 60. This force is not weak, it is definitely a main force regiment!" Guo Liandong quickly came out to help, this is related to whether there will be a battle next. If they become turtles at this time, and there will be no battle to fight later, it is estimated that the entire local 2450nd regiment of the division will explode.

"That's right, that's right. We are just called a local regiment, not a real local regiment. Our strength is not weaker than the main regiment, and at least 60% of us are veterans who have fought in wars, and the new recruits have also been trained for a year. Where else in the entire army can we find such a local regiment? What's more, the militia in our base have been well trained and are led by experienced veterans. We can leave the base and fight at any time!" said Chen Changsheng.

After the three local regiment leaders finished speaking, they quickly winked at their old comrade Lu Xiaoran who had joined the guerrillas together, asking him to help quickly... (End of this chapter)