The brigade commander can't leave now.

The Japanese from eight divisions are about to come to the door, why does the brigade commander dare to leave?

The brigade commander immediately took Li Yunlong and Wang Ye back to the headquarters, and sent guards to gather Ding Wei, Kong Jie, Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo and other deputy brigade-level cadres.

The war is imminent, so of course an emergency combat meeting will be held.

As the saying goes, three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang. The decisions need to be concentrated, but it is still necessary to explore more ideas and discuss more before making a decision.

When I heard that the Japanese army was going to mobilize eight divisions to sweep the raid, Kong Jie and the others' reactions were exactly the same as Li Yunlong, and they were all extremely shocked and extremely unbelievable.

"Damn it, this old Japanese devil, Okamura, took the wrong medicine."

"Fuck, eight divisions? The old Japanese are so big."

"Is this old Japanese crazy? Isn't this a cannon hitting mosquitoes?"

"Lao Guan, what are you talking nonsense about? Who is the cannon and who is the mosquito?"

"I'm just giving an example, it's not that our Northwest Shanxi Column is a mosquito."

Seeing that several people were about to go off topic as they were talking, the brigade commander could only knock on the table and said, "Don't go too far when talking about the serious matters. The main topic of this meeting is how to deal with it?"

Li Yunlong said: "Brig Commander, there is nothing to say about this. If the soldiers come to block the generals, the water comes to flood the soil. No matter how many Japanese soldiers come to, we will fight as well as how we fight."

Kong Jie also said: "That's right, how should I fight or how should I fight?"

"Damn it." The brigade commander said angrily, "I'm asking now what to fight. I don't know what to fight. Where did it come from? How can I fight?"

Li Yunlong said: "Brig Commander, how should I fight?"

Kong Jie also said: "Yes, it's the one we used to fight the Guard Division and the 69th Division."

Li Yunlong continued: "Brig Commander, we can severely damage the Guards Division and wipe out the 69th Division, which means that our previous tactics are effective, so we only need to follow the previous tactics and rely on favorable terrain, especially the authentic network, to fight the attrition war with the Japanese. In the end, the Japanese will definitely not be able to hold on."

Xing Zhiguo, Guan Dashan, and Li Xiaoxian nodded one after another.

Only Zhao Gang, Ding Wei and Wang Ye were silent.

The brigade commander asked Zhao Gang, "Zhao Gang, do you have anything to say?"

Zhao Gang hurriedly said: "Brig Commander, I lack military experience, so I won't express my opinions."

The brigade commander nodded and asked Ding Wei again: "Ding Wei, what about your opinion? Or should you deal with the Japanese based on the previous tactics based on favorable terrain and the tunnel?"

Ding Wei shook his head and said, "Brig Commander, I have different opinions."

"Old Ding, why are you scared?" Li Yunlong said anxiously, "We can't admit defeat at this time."

"Old Li, this is not a question of whether to be cowardly or not." Ding Wei said seriously. "From the defeat of the Hebei Central Military Region, we can basically conclude that tunnel warfare is not omnipotent."

"Before I was transferred to the New First Regiment, I worked in the third division of the Hebei Military Region."

"I am very familiar with the tunnels in the Hebei Central Military Region. Before I left, the total length of the tunnel network in the Hebei Central Military Region had exceeded 6,000 kilometers. By the beginning of this year, its length must have exceeded 10,000 kilometers."

"The authentic network of our northwestern Shanxi Military Region is nothing special compared to the central Hebei Military Region."

"The Japanese army can destroy the authentic network of the Hebei-Central Military Region, and we can also crack us."

After a pause, Ding Wei said again: "So, I think the Japanese cannot be driven away by relying on tunnel battles alone."

Li Yunlong said anxiously: "Old Ding, in addition to authenticity, aren't we also have four fortresses on the periphery? Our defense system is more complete than the Hebei Central Military Region and the terrain is also more favorable. Therefore, if the Hebei Central Military Region is not good, it does not mean that our Northwest Military Region in Jinxi is not good. I think our Northwest Military Region in Jinxi is fully capable of achieving victory in anti-sweeping."

"It's not all." Ding Wei shook his head, "The Japanese army mobilized only two divisions, two brigades and some puppet troops in the sweeping of the Hebei Central Military Region. However, this time, the sweeping of our northwestern Shanxi Military Region mobilized a total of eight divisions, including elite divisions such as the 1st Division, the 27th Division and the 28th Division!"

"Elite? Bastard elite." Li Yunlong said, "I'm fighting elite."

Ding Wei said: "Old Li, I know that your Independent Regiment had fought well before and annihilated many elite Japanese troops, but this time there was a huge gap between the enemy and us, so we should be careful."

Li Yunlong wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by the brigade commander.

"Okay, stop arguing." The brigade commander stopped Li Yunlong and asked Wang Ye again, "Xiao Wang, tell me?"

Wang Ye was silent for a few seconds, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Brig Commander, let's organize the villagers to transfer first."

"Organize the transfer of fellow villagers?" Even the brigade commander didn't understand and frowned and asked, "What does this mean?"

Li Yunlong also said with a confused look on his face: "Xiao Wang, the Japanese have not even arrived yet, so why are they in a hurry to organize the villagers to transfer? Didn't we dig up the tunnel? Even if the Japanese really came, the villagers would just drill into the tunnel. What can the Japanese do if they could take them? There are thousands of villages in our entire northwestern base in Shanxi, and the Japanese can still surround them one by one? If this is the case, wouldn't it be a repeat of the mistakes of the Guard Division? Then we can't ask for it."

"Captain, this time it's different." Wang Ye said, "I have a premonition that the Japanese will take ruthless action this time."

"Get a ruthless move?" the brigade commander looked shaking and asked, "Xiao Wang, what do you mean?"

Wang Ye said solemnly: "The Brigade Commander, there were already signs when he was sweeping the Hebei Central Military Region. For the people outside the Hebei Central Military Region, the Japanese only drove them to the big villages in a concentrated manner. However, for the people in the core area of ​​the Hebei Central Military Region, the Japanese adopted a cruel three-light policy. Wherever they pass, there will be no chickens and dogs left!"

After pausing, Wang Ye said again: "So I'm worried that when the Japanese swept our Northwest Military Region, they will increase their investments on the basis of the Hebei Central Military Region and implement the three-light policy as soon as they enter the base!"

Kong Jie said: "But the villagers have authentic protection, what are they afraid of?"

"Captain Kong, the tunnel is useless." Wang Ye shook his head and said, "If the Japanese are willing to pay for it, they just need to dig a shaft dozens of meters deep in the center of each village, and then bury a large amount of explosives to detonate, which is enough to shake the tunnel within a radius of hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters. Then all the villagers hiding in the tunnel will be buried alive!"

"Xiao Wang is right." The brigade commander said in a deep voice, "In the later period, in the Hebei Central Military Region, the Japanese did this, and many people and militia in the villages were affected."

Li Yunlong said: "How much explosives do you need?"

Wang Ye said: "Okamura Yanji even transferred eight divisions and troops over, but he still cared about this explosive?"

Li Yunlong was silent because he was right. Eight divisions and groups were transferred to attack them. It seemed that hundreds of tons or even thousands of tons of explosives were nothing.

After a pause, Wang Ye said again: "Even if only half of the village is destroyed, it will be a great loss for our northwest Shanxi base. We would rather do more preparations before the war, and even pay some price for it. It is better than letting the elders and villagers fill their lives after the war begins."

"Agree." Ding Wei said, "If all the villagers are transferred, we don't have to worry about this and that, and we can let go of the Japanese. If the base area is really unable to be maintained, we can also break through directly without having to cause a large number of casualties to cover the transfer of the people."

"Well, what's right." The brigade commander immediately said to Zhao Gang, "Zhao Gang, this task will be handed over to your political department, and the people will be mobilized to move to Hetao immediately. We must explain it clearly to the villagers. For the requirements put forward by the villagers, such as bringing food and livestock with them, we must meet them as much as possible."

"Yes." Zhao Gang agreed and immediately stood up and left.

Li Yunlong laughed and said, "It's good that the people have left, just as Lao Ding said just now, we can let go of the Japanese, haha."

"Captain, you're thinking too much." Wang Ye shook his head and said, "There are more than one million people in our northwest Shanxi base area. We also have to bring food and even domestic animals. How long does it take to transfer all of them across the river? Especially the people in Fuliang Mountains, it takes ten days and half a month to go to the bank of the Yellow River with their families."

He paused and said, "Considering the ferrying ability of the only ferries, and the Japanese aviation troops will definitely come to make trouble by then, so there is a high probability that they will not be able to cross the river during the day and can only ferry at night. So it will take at least two months to transport more than one million people, food and livestock across the river!"

"What, two months?" Li Yunlong and others were stunned.

Wang Ye said in a deep voice: "Two months will only be more, not less."

The brigade commander said sternly: "That is to say, we have to keep the base for at least two months?"

"Yes, we have to stay for at least two months." Wang Ye nodded, then smiled and said, "However, if you think about it the other way around, this is a good thing, because it means that the arsenal can reload two more bullets, we can add more than three million bullets and more than one hundred thousand shells, and kill a lot of more Japanese."

The brigade commander nodded and said in a deep voice: "Then the combat target can basically be determined."

After pausing, the brigade commander said again: "The goal is to stay in northwest Shanxi for at least two months, and to protect the people from moving to Hetao while trying their best to kill the Japanese's vitality!"

Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Kong Jie nodded one after another.

At this time, Cheng Yue hurried in with a telegram.

After receiving the telegram, the brigade commander smiled and said, "The requirements of the headquarters coincide with our opinions. The head of the headquarters also asked us to stick to the base area for a period of time, protect the people from moving to Hetao and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and kill the Japanese army with large numbers of vital forces, and contribute to the national war of resistance!"

Ding Wei snatched the cigarette butts hard and said in a deep voice: "I won't say how much contribution I can make, but at least we must destroy the eight divisions participating in the sweeping of our northwestern Shanxi base!"

Wang Ye shook his head and said, "Captain Ding, I have different opinions on this."

Although Li Yunlong and Ding Wei and others have been promoted to commanders of the detachment, former battalion-level cadres like Wang Ye, Guan Dashan and Li Xiaoxian still habitually called Li Yunlong and the regiment commanders, just as Wei Dayong, Duan Peng, and Wei Xilai also habitually called Wang Ye as captains, because this is more intimate.

"Is that true?" Ding Wei smiled, "Then tell me."

Wang Ye said: "The Chairman said that it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt one finger than to hurt one finger. So in my opinion, use a small amount of troops to restrain the main force of the Japanese army, and then concentrate the main force of the column to fight an annihilation war, and strive to annihilate the one or two divisions of the Japanese army. If we are lucky, let us annihilate three or four divisions of the Japanese army in a row, then this sweep will collapse."

"What, annihilate three to four divisions?" Kong Jie was amused, "You really dare to think about it."

"As humans, you have to have some dreams." Wang Ye smiled, "If you don't even dare to think about it, where will the motivation to fight?"

"Xiao Wang is right, you should have dreams when you are a human being." The brigade commander now really likes Wang Ye, and immediately expressed his support. "As a field force, you should have an ambitious combat goal! I think, the annihilation of three to four Japanese divisions is the highest combat goal!"

This time it was not only Kong Jie, but even Ding Wei felt that the brigade commander was too indulging in Wang Ye.

Li Yunlong felt even more uncomfortable. Brigade Commander, your treasuredest one before was Lao Li, but now you have changed, and your treasuredest one has become Xiao Wang, the doggy-good one.

But Wang Yezhen did not let down the brigade commander's trust.

"Old Ma, Lao Chen." Wang Ye turned his head and shouted, "Get the map we have drawn."

Ma Yuan and Chen Mingli's promise sounded outside the conference room, and then the two of them walked in with a roll of maps and spread them on the long conference table.

This is a complete picture of northwest Shanxi.

I saw that a lot of marks were already made on the map.

"Brig Commander, and all the leaders." Ma Yuan pointed to the map and said, "This is the overall terrain of northwest Shanxi that our combat department had spent seven days and nights. Every small earth bunker, every gully, and every cliff on the map has been surveyed on the spot by the members of the Wolf Warrior Team, and it is correct! Those who had originally had mistakes have also been corrected."

The brigade commander said: "Xiaoma, let the Logistics Department publish and distribute it as soon as possible."

Xing Zhiguo smiled and said, "Brig Commander, the printing factory is already printing."

Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Kong Jie and others have long been around the map.

"Good." Kong Jie said, "With this thing, fighting is much easier."

"Yes." Li Yunlong said deeply, "A accurate map can save commanders how much trouble it can and how many detours it can reduce the troops."

Ding Wei said: "The most important thing is that with this map, we no longer have to send scouts to reconnaissance terrain before the war begins. As long as we approach the map, we can choose where to ambush the enemy. Even if the artillery firepower and heavy machine gun firepower should be placed, we can make decisions directly through the map."
To be continued...