When Li Guotao slept until the afternoon, he was suddenly woken up, Kou Erbao still looked listless, obviously didn't sleep enough, and said with an aggrieved face: "Commander, the chief of staff just sent someone to inform him, saying that the situation has changed, and there are important matters to discuss with you." ”Li Guotao slept for a few hours, although he didn't sleep enough, but his spirit was much better, he answered, quickly got dressed, strode out, walked out when he walked to the door, couldn't help but stop, and said with a smile: "If you haven't slept enough, just go back and sleep a little longer, don't follow me." ”Kou Erbao hurriedly shook his head and said, "That's not good, I'm your guard, I have to follow you wherever you go." ”Looking at Kou Erbao's serious expression, Li Guotao couldn't help but smile and shook his head and said, "Okay, but if you're really sleepy and tired, you don't have to hold on." ”As he spoke, he turned around and walked in the direction of the headquarters, and Kou Erbao followed."
You called me here in such a hurry, what happened," Li Guotao asked loudly as soon as he entered the door.Ma Zhenguo hurriedly got up and said with a smile: "You sit down first, let's talk slowly, you must be hungry too, I have already asked someone to prepare a meal, and I will send it over later, let's drink saliva first" As he spoke, he pushed the pot of hot water that had just been poured in front of Li Guotao.Li Guotao sat down with a big grin, and asked with a serious face: "What happened" Ma Zhenguo shook his head with a wry smile, and suddenly said excitedly: "Now there are two news, one good news and one bad news, which one do you want to hear first" "Who did I say you learned this from" Li Guotao said impatiently."
Is there anyone else besides you" Ma Zhenguo said seriously, seeing that Li Guotao was already a little impatient, he hurriedly said: "Okay, I'll tell you the good news first, at noon today, the main force of the 35th Army has successfully recovered Baotou, and the main force of the Japanese cavalry group has basically been annihilated, and only a small number of devils still occupy some county towns in Suixi, but the overall situation has been decided, and these little devils have already been unable to escape."
Lieutenant General Kojima Yoshizo of the Japanese cavalry group and Major General Ichihara Kazuse, commander of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, were both killed" Li Guotao was not surprised by this, after all, the main force of the 35th Army had been fighting for so long, and the Japanese army had never received any support, so it was time to take Baotou.Li Guotao nodded and said: "What about the bad news" Ma Zhenguo shook his head helplessly and said: "The bad news is that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army sent a telegram to reward our department for its brilliant achievements.At the same time, we were ordered to stop the march to Guisui, and not only us, but even the eighth column was ordered to rush to Ulanqab to assemble.In other words, the headquarters will not let us participate in the battle to recover Sui. ”Li Guotao nodded, then sighed lightly and said, "I should have thought of this a long time ago, this is definitely not what the headquarters meant, but the Eighth War Zone does not want us to attack Guisui." ”"Why," Ma Zhenguo asked with a puzzled expression.Li Guotao shook his head with a smile and said, "This is what is clearly laid out, you still don't understand."
This Guisui is not only the provincial capital of Suiyuan, but also the nest of the 35th Army, if we recover Guisui, who will return to Suiyuan at that time, the 35th Army doesn't want us to get involved in Guisui, and even doesn't want us to get involved in Suiyuan, but there is no way, the strength of the Japanese army is not something that they can deal with independently in the Eighth Theater, so they will ask us to help.But now it is different, Guisui has become an isolated city, and the 35th Army is confident that it will be able to recover Guisui, so naturally there is no need for us.Moreover, the main force of the 26th Division that we annihilated has regained Fengzhen and Ulanqab one after another, and the limelight has already overshadowed the Eighth War Zone. ”Ma Zhenguo said with a dissatisfied face.Li Guotao said with a smile: "The leaders of the headquarters are much smarter than us, they are considering the overall situation, although they are very happy to occupy Guisui, but there will inevitably be a lot of trouble in the future, and it will also affect our relationship with the 35th Army and even the entire Eighth War Zone."
And although Guisui is now a lonely city, it has become our bag, but there are thousands of little devils and thousands of puppet troops in Guisui City, and Guisui is the provincial capital, and the fortifications in the city are much more complete than Baotou, so it is much more difficult to capture Guisui than to capture Baotou, even if our army can capture Baotou, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses.For us, the reconquest of Sui will only produce some political influence at best, but it will not be of any real benefit.I think that the leaders of the headquarters must have been considering many aspects, so they gave the credit for the recovery of Sui to the Eighth War Zone. ”Ma Zhenguo sighed deeply and said, "I also understand what you said, but I always feel a little aggrieved in my heart." ”Li Guotao said with a smile: "Everything must be based on the overall situation, and for China now, there is nothing more important than unity."
Now that the Japanese invaded and the mountains and rivers were broken, if we Chinese did not unite, we could only destroy the country and destroy the species" "What is the use of us thinking about unity, the problem is that they don't want to unite with us" Ma Zhenguo said with some anger.Li Guotao said with a serious face: "Then we will strive for them to unite with us, if we can't win it, we can still find a way to force them to unite with us, just like a few years ago."
For this reason, our Eighth Route Army can make some concessions and do our best to maintain the stability of the united front, so that we can finally achieve a great victory in the War of Resistance against Japan.I believe that as soon as the order is given, some fighters may not understand, you have to do more ideological work for these fighters, and you must not let the soldiers all carry emotions. ”"I understand" Ma Zhenguo nodded and said: "I'll go and convey the order, let the main force all withdraw to Fengzhen, as for Ulanqab, I think I'll hand it over to the Eighth Column to receive" "No problem, just do as you say" Li Guotao nodded and said.Looking at the back of Ma Zhenguo's departure, Li Guotao couldn't help sighing, and said secretly in his heart: Didn't the headquarters say that it was going to send us a political commissar, why haven't we arrived yet, we can't let Lao Tzu serve as a political commissar all the time, Lao Tzu is not the material for a political commissar aa2705221: