At the end of March 1939, the Japanese army in North China swept up our Jinnan and southern Hebei base areas, which lasted for nearly two months, and finally ended with the crushing defeat of the Japanese army.The Japanese army, which suffered heavy losses, was forced to withdraw from our base area, and everything returned to the state of the battlefield.For this reason, the commander of the Japanese North China Dispatch Army, Sugiyama Moto, was once again reprimanded by the Japanese base camp.At the same time, Li Guotao took advantage of the precious time of these two months to gradually gain a firm foothold in the Pingnan area, and the anti-Japanese armed forces in the Pingnan area have been greatly developed.Li Guotao led his troops to take the initiative to completely eliminate the Japanese puppet forces in the southern area of Baxian County, so that the Pingnan base area and the Jizhong base area were connected, and the Pingnan area became a part of the Jizhong base area completely.In mid-April, under the orders of Sugiyama Moto, the Japanese army in North China dispatched a reorganized wing to attack the Pingnan area on a large scale, in an attempt to completely annihilate the anti-Japanese forces in the Pingnan area and completely drive the forces of the Eighth Route Army out of the Pingnan area.In the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Shahekou, Li Guotao pointed to the map hanging on the wall and said with a serious face: "This time, the Japanese army mobilized the strength of an integrated wing, led by wing commander Tamura Isashi, and the troops attacked our Pingnan area in three ways.According to the information obtained so far, Tamura Yuto led a brigade and the troops directly under the wing to take a train from Beiping, get off at Gaobeidian Station, and then rush to Xincheng County, where the Japanese army has already arrived in Xincheng County. ”Li Guotao paused for a moment, and then said: "In addition, the Watanabe Brigade of the Tamura Wing, which took the road south from Beiping, has now arrived in Gu'an County.In addition, the Fujimura Brigade of the Tamura United, which departed from Langfang, has now arrived in Yongqing County.In other words, these three Japanese armies formed a three-sided encirclement of our army from the east, west, and north directions.According to my estimate, early tomorrow morning, these three Japanese troops will launch an all-out attack on our base areas, and the situation is very critical. ”"If it's just a large group of troops, we can deal with it, but now that the little devil has come to a whole wing, with our current strength, we can't handle it at all" Zhao Zhu said with a worried look on his face."
The enemy is strong and I am weak, this battle is not easy to fight," Tian Chen said with a frown and a sigh.Li Guotao took out a cigarette, lit it and took a puff, returned to his place and sat down, and said with a serious face: "This is the general situation, I think everyone is aware of the seriousness of the problem."
The little devil is menacing, and his intention is also quite obvious, that is, to encircle and annihilate our army in one fell swoop and completely annihilate all the anti-Japanese armed forces in our Pingnan area.The success or failure of this battle has a direct bearing on the safety of our Pingnan base area, and once our army is defeated, all our efforts in the past few months will come to naught, so we absolutely cannot be defeated this time, because we cannot afford to lose at all, so I hope that all units can work together to completely smash the enemy's sweep. ”Zhao Zhu frowned and said: "Brigade commander, at present, we only have the main force of a regiment, even if we add the county brigades and militia of each county, our strength is far inferior to that of the little devils.Now the Japanese army is attacking me in three ways, you see how this battle should be fought" Li Guotao nodded and said: "You are right, the strength of the Japanese army far exceeds our army, if we fight hard, we will definitely lose, how to fight this battle, we really need to discuss it well, I am so anxious to call everyone over, just to let everyone come up with ideas, how to crush the enemy's sweep." ”Tian Chen frowned and said with a serious face: "The Japanese soldiers are coming in three ways, if we can block two of them, and then concentrate our superior forces and destroy one of them first, then this battle will be easy to fight." ”Once one of the Japanese troops is besieged, the other two Japanese troops will inevitably rush to support with all their might, and the besieged Japanese army will only need to hold on to help, and it will only take half a day at the slowest time, and the Japanese troops on the other two roads will be able to rush to support.At that time, it will not be us who will besiege the little devils, but the little devils who will besiege us. ”Zhao Zhu couldn't help but sigh deeply when he said this.Li Guotao nodded and said: "What Zhao Zhu said has some truth, I have also considered it before, with the county brigades and troops in each county to contain the two little devils, our new seventh regiment will concentrate the main force to encircle and annihilate one of them."
With the current combat effectiveness of our new Seventh Regiment, it is no problem at all to annihilate a brigade of little devils, but it is almost impossible to solve the battle in half a day.Because the terrain of the entire Pingnan area is flat and open, there is almost nowhere for the large army to hide in this area, and it is almost impossible to ambush a large number of little devils.If we grit our teeth and fight hard, even if we are lucky enough to be able to eliminate this little devil in half a day.At that time, our army will also suffer heavy losses, and at this time, the little devils from the other two roads have also arrived, and we don't even have time to retreat, and it is likely that we will fall into the encirclement of the little devils, or be chased by the little devils and beaten all the way behind the buttocks, but in either case, we will be defeated. ”After Li Guotao said this, everyone was silent, and there was a depressing atmosphere in the entire venue, as if a boulder was pressing on everyone's hearts, making them breathless.After a while, Chang De, who had never spoken, suddenly spoke: "Since you can't force yourself, you can only use guerrilla tactics as before."
Drag the little devils first, fight guerrilla with them, and then slowly look for fighters. ”Li Guotao nodded and said, "What the political commissar said is very right, and this is the only way we can do it at present."
Now that there are no fighters, then we will find a way to create them ourselves.It's not the first time that everyone has fought with the little devil, and the little devil is just like that, it's not a big deal at all.As long as we can use our tactics, there is no problem in defeating them. ”"Since it's a guerrilla war, then Shahekou can't stay?"
Zhao Zhu frowned and said with a look of regret.Li Guotao nodded helplessly and said: "The little devil already knows that the main force of our army is in the mouth of the Shahekou, and he will inevitably attack the mouth of the Shahe River first. ”"Then where are we retreating, retreating south," Zhao Zhu then asked.aa2705221: