Breaking through the Pinghan railway line, the troops continued to advance in the Taihang Mountains, and never encountered decent resistance along the way.

Liu Hong with the independent regiment, accompanied by the main force of Commander Lu, came to the Taihang area, in accordance with the order, Liu Hong with the independent regiment, temporarily rested in the Lingqiu area.

In the headquarters, Liu Hong, Zhang Zhicheng, Wu Feng and Wei Haisheng and others gathered together and sat around a table, while kneading melon seeds, while chatting about the current situation.

Liu Hong asked, "I said the big political commissar, the headquarters order has not come down, what is our mission this time?"

Zhang Zhicheng shook his head and said, "No, let alone us, even if it is Commander Lu's side, I don't know the specific task."

"It's not clear now that it's going to be too big to say how big."Wei Haisheng said with a frown.

"Nonsense" Liu Hong turned a white eye and said, "This time the light from our Middle District has drawn nearly 20,000 people, I heard from Taiyue, Jinnan, Jinxi Luyu also drawn a large number of elite troops north, this time our Eighth Route Army concentrated hundreds of thousands of elite troops, plus Jincha, Jinxi two military district troops, enough to hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses."

“So many people don’t play much to see the show.”

Wu Feng smiled and said, "Chief, aren't you smart, but you said to see, how will we fight this time?"

“Why are you so smart to ask us?”

Liu Hong said with a sneer, "Well, when did some of you guys start wearing a pair of pants?"

“We call it a united front, united against the enemy.”

"His grandmother dripped, how did the old man become the enemy?"Liu Hong could not help turning a white eye.

Zhang Zhicheng smiled and said, "Okay, don't joke, tell me what you think."

Liu Hong frowned for a moment, a serious face said: "In advance statement, this is just my guess, who knows what the heads of headquarters think, guess wrong, you can not look for me at the time."

"When did you become such a mother-in-law, and have a word to say."Zhang Zhicheng said with a smile.

"Then the old man will analyze it for you, and by the way, give you a few lessons, and learn something."Liu Hong said with a smile.

"Hey, this guy, I've really taken myself as a character, and I've taken classes."

“What, you don’t want to hear.”

“If you want to hear no ink, talk about it.”

"If you want to listen to your modesty, I said that you are satisfied, look at the face of comrades-in-arms, Laozi confiscated your tuition fees, you steal the fun," Liu Hong said with a smile.

"Okay, don't be torturing with you, now is starting class, all prick up the old man's ears and listen carefully, it's time to take notes."

"Well, first of all, the current situation, everyone must have been clear, the little Japanese has begun to go downhill."In the domestic battlefield, our team has achieved no small results, hardly hit the arrogance of the Japanese, and greatly consumed the living strength of the Japanese."

“In the Pacific battlefield, the Allies have gradually reversed their disadvantage and began to launch a counter-offensive against the little devil, and the little Japanese will be defeated, and according to this development trend, the little Japanese will certainly not last long.”

"In view of the current international situation, and the domestic situation.The Headquarters decided to launch a partial counter-offensive against the enemy, and naturally need not say much, that is, to eliminate as many small Japanese as possible and expand the scope of our base areas, in order to achieve the ultimate goal of defeating the little devils.”

“This time we have mobilized so many troops to gather in the areas of Jinsui and Jincha-Hei to launch a large-scale counter-offensive against the little devils and recover the lost ground.”

“My goal, I think, is to completely eliminate the small Japanese here and recover this area from the area of Suiyuan and Chahar.”

"Well," Zhang Zhicheng nodded, "Old Liu analysis is very correct, just such a large-scale battle."And this time it is our attack, this large-scale offensive, we lack experience, this battle is probably not good to fight."

"Although it is said that the little Japanese are now going downhill, but the small Japanese sent troops in North China together, there are more than 200,000 troops, in addition to these Japanese, there are hundreds of thousands of pseudo army troops, from the strength point of view, we do not occupy the advantage, take the initiative to launch such a large-scale attack, I am afraid some difficulties," Wei Haisheng said.

"Although the enemy's strength is quite large, but it is necessary to defend the entire north of China, and the maneuvering forces that can be drawn out are actually limited, and as for those pseudo-armies, the low combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning."

"And once this battle is fought, it will certainly not only be our Eighth Route Army to participate in the war, but also the Central Army of Jinsui Army will certainly be involved, and the scale of the battle will certainly increase."

"In terms of the overall strength comparison, we do not have a disadvantage, so we really fight, we are not afraid of his little Japanese, who wins and who wins, then it depends on the ability."

Liu Hong explained with a smile.

"Well, old Liu is right, we are now strong soldiers, there is really nothing to be afraid of."

"However, I think that our counter-offensive this time should be mainly based on accumulated experience, perhaps the scale will not be too large."

"Haha," Liu Hong said with a smile, "once the battle starts, the scale is not ours to decide, nor is it the small Japanese to decide."

"Even the headquarters chiefs can not be completely controlled, the whole body is involved, as long as the fight, the small Japanese everywhere will be mobilized, so that the scale of the battle will be larger and larger."No one can control it then.”

“This time, it seems, there will be a bad fight.”

"Well," Liu Hong nodded, couldn't care to eat, took a map, and spread out from the table.

Liu Hong pointed to the map and said, "In our current position, once the battle starts, we can attack the enemy in Jinbei to the west, or to the north, to attack the enemy in the Chahar region."

"I tell you this, it is to let you have a piece of the heart, some of the preparatory work to do, in advance, do not temporarily hold the foot."

"The commander rest assured that our independent regiment is in a state of readiness at any time," Wu Feng said confidently.

Liu Hong nodded with satisfaction and said, "That's fine, but we can't wait now, send someone to explore the situation around you, and find out the enemy situation in the north and west."

Wu Feng nodded and said, "I have sent someone to investigate the situation."

"How big is the scope of the investigation," Liu Hong casually asked.

End of this chapter

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