The commander frowned and stared at the sand table without saying a word.

It took five minutes to ask Wang Ping: "Don't care about anything else for now, just tell me how long can you defend Linfen City!"

"Of course, I didn't let you defend Linfen City and fight with the Japanese who came over. How to fight specifically, you are the leader of the New First Route, you have the final say!"

Wang Ping stared at the sand table and hesitated for a minute and said affirmatively: "Ten days, up to ten days..."

"There are more than 100 kilometers from the northwestern front of Shanxi to Linfen City. The best way is to slow them down with guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare on the road. If you attack now, I will be confident that I will hold them back for ten days!"

"Enough!" The commander's eyes quickly shot out two rays of light.

"I have an idea. All the mountain artillery and infantry artillery seized in this battle are left in our Taiyue Military Region. I plan to draw out the original mountain artillery company of the direct brigade to form a mountain artillery battalion. Infantry artillery, as well as the remaining light and heavy machine guns and mortars after the direct brigade are supplemented, all of which will be left for you. You can draw elite troops from the new first regiment to carry out this mission, and delay these 30,000 Japanese and puppet troops for ten days!"

"I will go back to the military region in a while. Now, after the other three military regions add a large amount of ammunition, the combat effectiveness of the troops will definitely be greatly improved. I plan to use these ten days to fight at least two annihilation battles of the Japanese in other military regions, eliminate at least two infantry brigades, and open two breakthroughs in other aspects of the military region!"

"After the main force of the Japanese take over Linfen, if they want to continue this encirclement and suppression battle, they must draw troops to fill these two gaps. In this way, the pressure faced by the new regiment will be much less!"

"If the Japanese army plans to end this encirclement and concentrate their forces against your new regiment, I will ask the three military sub-districts to gather the forces of at least one main regiment, take the initiative to attack, kill the Japanese behind, threaten them behind, and relieve the pressure on the new regiment!"

Wang Ping's eyes lit up and replied: "This is a good method!"

"Linfen is so big, and 30,000 Japanese and puppet troops were killed at once. No matter how many troops we have, we cannot resist them head-on. But it is different to solve this problem from the outside. Nearly ten regiments of the three military sub-districts, plus the direct brigade, can at least force the commander of the Japanese division to divide the troops of two regiments!"

"Commander, I agree to fight like this!"

The commander nodded and affirmed: "Then it's settled. I'll go back to the military district later. It's time for so long to come out!"

Then he changed his subject and continued to ask: "However, even so, your new regiment will still face more than 20,000 Japanese troops, including a heavy mountain artillery corps, a field artillery corps, and a chariot brigade... The strength is still very different. Maybe it is possible to be driven out of Linfen by the Japanese!"

The smile that had just appeared on Wang Ping's face disappeared suddenly.

He had a calm face, stared at the sand table without saying a word.

I worked hard for so long and took a remnant soldier and finally fought in this situation, the army also developed into a main force that the entire Eighth Route Army Company headquarters knew.

If the next battle is directly defeated as a prototype, Wang Ping will definitely not be willing to accept it.

However, the opponent's strength is too strong. Even if the commander shares one-third of the Japanese army's strength, they are still giants and cannot be shaken in front of the weak New Regiment!

Five minutes passed, and Wang Ping's eyes had not yet moved away from the sand table in front of him.

Ten minutes later, there was no movement.

The commander couldn't help asking: "Don't worry about the fight, the Japanese have not yet come here, and they don't know the combat style of this division. If you think about it now, you may be overthrown after the battle begins!"

"Wang Ping, tell me first, what difficulties do your new regiment have in the face of 20,000 to 30,000 elite Japanese troops? First solve the difficulties, and then find a way to fight this battle well. At least, you must protect the current base of the new regiment!"

There was finally a movement on Wang Ping's heavy face: "Commander, aren't equipment and ammunition problems? Because the troops have suffered a lot of losses, our new regiment is now with few people and more guns."

"There are also many heavy weapons. There are five mountain artillery companies in the mountain artillery battalion, twenty mountain artillery companies, and two infantry cannons in each main battalion. Plus the infantry cannons and mortars left by the commander, several main battalions can already establish infantry artillery companies and mortar companies!"

"As for ammunition, I don't hide it. The various ammunitions currently reserved by the New First Regiment are enough to fight several large-scale battles, which is not a problem!"

The commander nodded and asked, "Then will there be no problem with the new regiment?"

"Yes..." Wang Ping answered immediately.

"The troops, the new first regiment has serious shortage of strength..."

"In the battle just ended, the main force of the new regiment plus local troops directly lost more than 3,000 people. Although there were nearly 1,000 wounded people in it, these wounded people basically couldn't return to the army within a month!"

"The gap in the troops is too big. Many main forces have only one platoon in one of the main forces, and even half of them have it, and they are almost destroyed!"

"I'll solve this problem for you!" The commander suddenly made a decision, decisive, not like a joke!

Wang Ping shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Commander, these are two or three thousand people, not a few hundred people. How do you solve it?"

"Now the military region is fighting everywhere, every battalion and even every company are fighting. Where can we draw troops to reinforce our new regiment!"

The commander did not get angry because of Wang Ping's rebuttal, but answered confidently: "I said that if you help you solve it, there will be a way to solve it for you!"

After saying that, the commander shouted to the guard at the door of the war room: "Immediately notify the Chief of Staff of the Direct Brigade to come here to report!"

Chief of Staff Wang rushed into the war room. Before he could speak, the commander asked: "How many people are left in the direct brigade now, and how many prisoners are there in his hands!"

Unconscious of something wrong, the Chief of Staff replied with a smile on his face: "Commander, in this battle, the direct brigade directly lost nearly 2,000 people, but at least 500 people, the minor and serious wounded people can return to the army!"

"However, we still captured more than 1,800 prisoners on the battlefield, and we will definitely mobilize more than 1,000 people to join our Eighth Route Army. In this way, the direct brigade will suffer almost no losses!"

After a big battle, not only did two or three thousand Japanese soldiers be killed, but a large amount of equipment was seized. The mountain artillery company was expanded into a mountain artillery battalion, heavy machine gun platoon, and mortar company, all of which reached a full squad. More importantly, after replenishing the captives, the troops suffered almost no losses, and their combat effectiveness was only strong and not weak.

For the Chief of Staff, this is definitely something to be happy and proud of.

However, the commander's next words instantly made his good mood disappear!
Chapter completed!