It can be seen that several brigade commanders were only a little surprised by the changes in the first brigade, but they were still within the acceptance range.

It can be imagined that the gains of the other brigade commanders were at least the same as, or even exceeded, those of the First Brigade. Otherwise, they would not have been so calm.

In fact, this is indeed the case. When the following brigade commanders reported the results of their respective brigades, the worst results were the same as those of the first brigade.

The total strength reached tens of thousands, and a new artillery regiment and armored battalion were formed.

Speaking of which, the tanks of this armored battalion were all provided by Su Yu. During the following period, the arsenal in Houshan produced a total of nearly 180 T-34 tanks for the People's Army.

This number is almost equivalent to a three-battalion armored regiment. You must know that the armored regiment is divided into a two-battalion system and a three-battalion system.

The total number of tanks of the two-battalion armored regiment is nearly 150, while the number of tanks of the three-battalion armored regiment is just over 200.

At present, the number of T-34 tanks of the People's Army is barely close to that of a three-battalion armored regiment. In addition, the People's Army also has more than 40 Cougar armored vehicles.

Su Yu knew very well that eggs could not be put in the same basket, so he evenly distributed these tanks and armored vehicles among the six brigade commanders.

This has led to the current situation. Each brigade has almost two armored companies, with a total of thirty T-34 tanks and seven Cougar armored vehicles.

Just to allow these brigades to better attack the Japs' strongholds, all the tanks were allocated.

After listening to the general introductions of the six brigade commanders, Su Yu had an idea in his mind that the total strength of these six brigades totaled more than 60,000 people.

There is also a security group here, with about 4,000 people in total.

The current total strength of the People's Army has reached 65,000, which is a full 20,000 more than the previous 45,000.

This made Su Yu very satisfied. Originally, he thought that the total strength of the People's Army this time could only reach 60,000 at most.

Unexpectedly, several brigade commanders also gave him a surprise, and more than 5,000 people appeared out of thin air. It seemed that it did require a certain amount of pressure.

There is motivation only when there is pressure. If the pressure is sufficient, the development speed of the following brigades is still very impressive.

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After understanding the general situation of the six brigades, Su Yu went directly to the topic.

"Okay, now let's move on to the next topic, which is about the day after tomorrow, when our People's Army launches a general offensive against the Japs in the entire northwest of Shanxi."

"I believe you all heard about me going to the Eighth Route Army defense area some time ago. Yes, it's what you thought."

"I went to the Eighth Route Army to discuss cooperation with them. Although our People's Army alone can definitely defeat the little devils in northwestern Shanxi."

"But if these little devils want to escape, it will be difficult to completely annihilate the entire first army of the little devils relying solely on our military strength."

"So under such circumstances, I reached cooperation with the Eighth Route Army. When the battle starts the day after tomorrow, the little devil's attention will definitely be on our People's Army."

"At that time, the Eighth Route Army will sneak into the rear of the Japs, lay an ambush on the only way for the Japs to retreat, and cut off the Japs' retreat."

"Then cooperate with us to achieve the goal of annihilating the entire northern Shanxi Japs in one fell swoop. This is the general content of my cooperation with the Eighth Route Army."

"Now I will assign the combat tasks for the day after tomorrow. I think that the day after tomorrow, your six brigades will launch attacks on the six important strongholds of the Japs at the same time."

"These six strongholds are Fu'an, Shuiquan, Luyang, etc. There are six strongholds in total. When the time comes, you will attack at the same time."

"Try to seize these six strongholds in the shortest possible time, and then march towards the general headquarters of the Little Japanese First Army."

"I hope that, preferably within one day, your six brigades can reach the vicinity of the general headquarters of the Little Japanese First Army at the same time."

Having said this, Su Yu paused and walked to the map hanging on the wall of the meeting to continue.

"Before this, the independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army will launch an attack on Ping'an County of the Little Devils because of the importance of Ping'an County."

"Yoshio Shinozuka will definitely send reinforcements from the strongholds of Fu'an, Shuiquan and Luyang to reinforce Ping'an County."

"When the time comes, whichever of you will be responsible for attacking these strongholds will set up an ambush on the way and try to eat up the reinforcements coming for reinforcements in one go."

"In this way, when you go to attack Fu'an, Shuiquan and Luyang later, it will be much easier and the pressure will be less. Do you understand?"

"Understood!"

Several brigade commanders said in unison, just kidding, Su Yu has made it so clear, if they still don't understand, then they should stop being this brigade commander.

Just go ahead and become the head soldiers, or if the cooking team is short of someone to carry the big pot, they can go there too.
Chapter completed!