Because of Li Yunlong's "grain buying" plan, Shen Quan transported a batch of grain from Luliang Mountain in time to solve the urgent need.

However, this is only a temporary solution. After Zhao Gang's statistics, he came to a result: "If the number of people does not increase, each person will have three or two meters per day, which will be enough for more than a month!"

The conference room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

There is only enough food for a month, and the number of people is not increasing.

But now, people are still being driven up from the mountains in a steady stream. Many people are not even from Yuncheng, but are driven over by the Japanese from other villages. Many of them still have stab wounds on their bodies.

The Japanese deliberately used bayonets to scratch them, in order to cause more trouble to the Eighth Route Army... Not only were the injured unable to work, they also needed care, and they even had to consume medicine.

Food is still a trivial matter, and as time goes by, the issue of ammunition will slowly surface.

When the Eighth Route Army fought in the Luliang Mountains before, there was also a problem of insufficient ammunition. But at that time, the Eighth Route Army was more engaged in guerrilla warfare. The advantage of guerrilla warfare was that when they ran out of ammunition, they hid in the mountains and played hide-and-seek with the Japanese. The ammunition they had accumulated for a period of time suddenly came out. Give it to the devil.

But now the Eighth Route Army is fighting regular battles and guarding a line of defense on Zhongtiao Mountain. Without a stable supply of ammunition, it will definitely not work.

Then Zhao Gang raised a new question: "There are also our steel plants, copper smelting plants and copper-iron mines... Most of them are outside the defense line and connected by roads. They are extremely vulnerable to Japanese attacks. Should we defend or defend?" Do not keep?"

The conference room was silent again.

Because copper and iron ore need to be transported, and the transportation is heavy, roads have been built even in remote mountains and remote areas, which makes it easier for the Japanese to attack.

After a while, Zhang Dabiao responded: "Shou, of course we have to keep it! How else can we make a bullet rifle?"

"The question is how to guard?" Zhao Gang asked again.

"Don't we also have tanks?" Zhang Dabiao replied: "We beat the Japanese to a pulp time and time again. When the Japanese tanks come, let's use tanks to defend them!"

"That's nice to say!" Li Yunlong glared and replied: "We only have about fifty tanks in total, and our mines and factories combined have more than forty. How can one tank guard a point? Do you think you can defend it like this? ?”

Zhang Dabiao immediately lost his voice.

Wang Xuexin said nothing.

In fact, what Li Yunlong said is not a big problem. If possible, tanks can maneuver for defense, such as traveling between several major mining plants for reinforcements.

The problem is that the ammunition consumption of such a fight is staggering. It won’t take long for the ammunition reserve to be exhausted. What will happen then?

So these are not long-term solutions.

Wang Xuexin thought for a while and then said: "Captain, we have been discussing it for a long time. We are talking about defense. Why don't we consider attacking?"

Wang Xuexin was so speechless that everyone in the conference room immediately focused their attention on him.

"Fifth Battalion Commander!" Guan Dashan shook his head and said: "The Japanese have assembled three divisions in the Yuncheng area. The reason why only one division is attacking is because the troops cannot be deployed. They plan to use these troops to directly attack If we cross the Yellow River, we only have over 30,000 troops at best. It’s hard to defend Zhongtiao Mountain, why should we attack?”

Although Guan Dashan didn't get to the point, the cadres could understand it.

What he was talking about was actually the characteristics of the Eighth Route Army's operations... The Eighth Route Army is good at fighting in mountainous areas with complex terrain. If it wants to counterattack, it must go down to the plains to fight the Japanese. This is to use one's own shortcomings to attack the other's strengths, which is like seeking death.

Not much difference.

However, Li Yunlong did not believe that Wang Xuexin would make such a suggestion that went against common sense, so he asked: "Xiao Dongbei, please explain clearly, what is the counterattack method? If we counterattack again, where should we attack?"

Wang Xuexin replied without thinking: "If we want to counterattack, of course we have to attack Yuncheng!"

"Yuncheng?"

"Going to Yuncheng again?"

…

There was an uproar in the conference room. No one expected that Wang Xuexin would actually plan to attack Yuncheng.

Zhao Gang asked curiously: "Tell me, why are you attacking Yuncheng again?"

Wang Xuexin replied: "Because all problems, such as food problems, ammunition problems, as well as factories, mines, etc., their safety can be attributed to one problem, and that is Yuncheng! As long as Yuncheng is captured, the Japanese will not dare to penetrate deep into our country no matter what."

The army's hinterland, because their logistics and supply lines are under attack from Yuncheng, and what's more serious is...their troops that penetrate deep into the hinterland of our army may be surrounded by our army at any time!"

Zhao Gang looked at the map and nodded in agreement.

This is also the reason why Yuncheng has always been a battleground for military strategists.

"So!" Zhao Gang said: "You mean to turn all problems into one problem? This indeed makes complex problems simpler, but..."

Li Yunlong objected loudly: "What's the use of saying this! The point is, is Yuncheng so easy to attack? The bunkers and gun towers are like spreading beans outside the city. Last time we still took the trick and used a train to crash into it. This time

Can the devil let us bump into each other again?"

The cadres nodded in agreement.

The last time we defeated Yuncheng was not long ago. Many people felt lucky after defeating it. Thanks to Xiao Dongbei's idea of ​​hitting it with a train, otherwise they would not have been able to defeat it even after months of fighting.

Zhang Dabiao sighed and said: "Fifth Battalion Commander, let's not think about this good thing. The Japanese have experienced what they did last time in Luck City. This time, all the holes and doors will be sealed."

dead!"

Sun Ming hesitated for a moment and then asked: "Commander of the Fifth Battalion, do you want to send people to sneak into the city? This method may not work! The people in Yuncheng have almost escaped..."

"No! Not sneaking into the city!" Wang Xuexin replied: "I plan to attack by force!"

Li Yunlong couldn't help but replied: "Xiao Dongbei, I usually think you are quite shrewd. What happened today?"

"Commander!" Wang Xuexin replied: "First of all, if even our comrades don't think of attacking Yuncheng, the Japanese certainly can't think of it. Is that considered a surprise?"

Zhao Gang nodded and said: "Forget it! But Commander of the Fifth Battalion, you can't use surprise to transport the city! It is a city, and there are bunkers outside the city..."

"There are no bunkers in the south!" Wang Xuexin replied.

"There is no bunker in the south." Zhao Gang said, "But that's because there is a large salt lake. What's the difference between that and the bunker? Can we still swim across it?"

Wang Xuexin nodded and said, "Yes, why not?"

"Nonsense!" Zhao Gang said: "Is there anyone who fights like this? If we fight like this, many troops will have to lie in the salt lake and never come back..."
Chapter completed!