Chapter 36 6. The senior generals of the Eighth Route Army plan a winning strategy

Commander-in-Chief Zhu De and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai held a military meeting of senior generals of the East Route Army troops in Xiaodongling, Qin County in time, formulated a combat policy to smash the enemy's siege, and instructed all troops to resolutely implement the "basic guerrilla warfare, but do not relax the policy of mobile warfare under favorable conditions".Before the Japanese army entered our "line of changing interests", we used internal operations to concentrate our forces and defeat them one by one.When the Japanese army entered our "line of transformation of interests and interests", they switched from the gap between the enemy to the outer line of operations, attacked the enemy's flanks, and also sought to concentrate their forces and defeat them one by one.

In order to create conditions for the action of the main force, the Eighth Route Army headquarters also decided to actively carry out guerrilla warfare with a certain force and local guerrillas, and mobilize the masses extensively to clear the fields and exhaust the exhausted enemies.In order to smash the "nine-way siege" of the Japanese army, the military and civilians in the base area made a lot of preparations. Mobilization and swearing-in meetings are indispensable; slogans such as "resolute and brave" and "capture more prisoners" are painted on the walls of the streets and alleys; the activities of accusing the Japanese army of brutal crimes and arousing the enthusiasm of the soldiers and civilians for the War of Resistance will bring all staff members schedule is packed.

Later, in actual combat, it was discovered that several tasks were quite effective.For example, mobilize the masses to transport and bury all the grain before the devils come to the villages and towns, drive away the livestock, mules and horses, remove the pots and pans, pull out the grinders, bury the wells, and implement a thorough "empty house clearing the field" to make the enemy When it came, there was nothing to eat or drink, and it was useless.In the anti-"nine-road siege", it was precisely because of the "empty houses and clearing the fields" that groups of Japanese troops who rushed to the base area had to return in vain after marching for seventy or eighty miles, thus becoming 129 The target of the division's annihilation.

The policy of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters is: use part of the force to restrain the other routes of the Japanese army, and concentrate the main force to defeat one route. Liu Bocheng and Xu Xiangqian quickly concretized the policy of the headquarters. The idea was: to preemptively attack the enemy, intercept the enemy separately, destroy the Japanese military assets, and especially pay close attention to destroying the Pinghan, Zhengtai, Tongpu and Baijin highways of the enemy's transportation lines, so as to Postpone the siege, and at the same time intensify the guerrilla attack outside the enemy's encirclement, preparing to deal a greater blow to the enemy.

The specific anti-siege deployment is: the main force (3 regiments) of the 129th Division and the 689th Regiment of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division quickly moved to the area north of Shexian County outside the enemy's encirclement after the enemy's siege was initiated, and waited in concealment. When the enemy's main force went deep into Wu Township and Liao County to attack our army in vain, and when they were weakened and exhausted, actively create and seize favorable opportunities to seize the enemy's way and wipe them out in motion; , the main force of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division, the desperate 1st column, and the Kuomintang Army and other departments that cooperated with our army to restrain and exhaust the enemy and create conditions for the main force to wipe out the enemy.

In order to clamp down on the enemies on Pinghan Road and the northern section of Tongpu Road, and to support the anti-siege operations in southeast Shanxi, the Eighth Route Army headquarters also decided to take active actions between Xinkou and Taiyuan on the northern section of Tongpu Road with a brigade of the 120th Division, and Prepare to move to the Zhengtai Road area when necessary; use a part of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to actively move to the Pinghan Road north of Shijiazhuang to contain the enemy in Pingjin; use the 129th Division 386 Brigade Supplementary Regiment and the Shanxi-Henan Border Guerrilla Detachment to attack Bai (Gui) ) Action between Gaoping and Jincheng in the southern section of Jin (City) Road to clamp down on the enemies of Changzhi.

Judging from the deployment of the headquarters, the protagonist of this anti-siege operation will be played by the 129th Division led by Commander Liu Bocheng and Political Commissar Deng Xiaoping.In order to fight this battle well and sing the anti-enemy "9-way siege" scene, on April 6, the 129th Division held a meeting of military and political cadres above the regiment level in Xijing to discuss the specific combat plan for the anti-siege. At the meeting, after Master Liu Bocheng briefly introduced the situation to everyone, everyone had a heated discussion on how to smash the enemy's 9-way siege.In the end, it was decided to concentrate the main force to fight the enemy all the way between She (county) and Wu (an), first strike the enemy, destroy the enemy's siege deployment, and then look for opportunities to deal a greater blow to the enemy.

After the meeting, Deng Xiaoping's political commissar and Chen Xilian went to Liao County to command the various ministries in the north, mobilize the masses to empty houses and clear the fields, and arrange rear work according to the division of labor determined by the military and political meeting.Commander Liu Bocheng and Deputy Commander Xu Qianqian led the main force of the division to advance eastward to implement the military-related combat plan. After some intense pre-war preparations, by the beginning of April, all units of our Eighth Route Army had entered the designated combat areas, and the masses had also completed the work of "clearing empty homes and clearing the fields". In the base area with a radius of tens of thousands of square kilometers, our anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians laid a net. .This also indicates that once the Japanese invaders enter our base areas, they will surely fall into the vast ocean of our people's war and suffer catastrophe.