In Jiyuan City, at the detachment headquarters preparing to advance.

After Li Yunlong received the order, he quickly summoned the cadres for a meeting.

At present, in the northern Henan region, various groups are mainly gathered in the Huaiqing City and Jiyuan City areas.

Among them, the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment are stationed in the areas inside and outside the two towns.

The New Third Regiment is mainly stationed in the southern area, close to the Yellow River for defense.

The artillery regiment selects appropriate commanding heights to build artillery positions and is responsible for supporting various ministries.

The armored vehicle battalion and guard battalion troops serve as reserve forces.

Chu Yunfei's 7th Guerrilla Corps is currently stationed in the Wangwushan and Jiuligou areas.

Recently, Chu Yunfei's troops have been actively reorganizing and reorganizing, and their strength is also constantly increasing.

Yan Laoxi obviously attaches great importance to Chu Yunfei, and it is said that he wants to expand his army.

Chu Yunfei's current military rank has been promoted from the previous colonel to major general.

Of course, this is just a job title, but it also shows that Yan Laoxi attaches great importance to him.

The two armies are still able to get along peacefully. After all, among other things, there are tens of thousands of Japanese and puppet troops in the northern Henan region.

They all knew at this time that if they had conflicts with each other, the happiest people would be the Japanese and puppet troops.

"The division and headquarters messages forwarded by the commander, our combat mission this time is not small."

"The Japs in northern Henan were very arrogant and launched several large-scale raids in succession."

"They have dealt a heavy blow to our local armed forces. The most important thing is that they have caused great harm to the people."

"Headquarters and division headquarters want us to take the initiative and look for opportunities to teach these devils a lesson."

"At the same time, try to attract Japanese and puppet troops from Henan Province and Shandong Province south of the Yellow River, so as to coordinate the operations of the brothers' troops in Shandong Province."

After the cadres came over, this time Li Yunlong came to the map and explained the situation in detail.

The headquarters and division headquarters are facing the overall situation. They sent this message based on multiple considerations.

Currently, the 12th Army is responsible for the combat forces in Henan and Shandong Provinces.

They have three divisions, three independent mixed brigades, and one cavalry brigade.

Its main force is gathered in the Lu Province area, and part of it is deployed here in Henan Province.

At the same time, they were assigned to fight the Second Route Army, the Third Route Army, and the Fourth Route Army of the puppet army.

These three puppet armies are all regular troops with certain combat capabilities.

Up to now, the Japanese and puppet troops have been carrying out large-scale raids in Shandong Province in an attempt to completely annihilate the brother troops operating in Shandong Province.

There are quite a lot of these Japanese and puppet troops, and the Japanese and puppet troops stationed in Henan Province have no restraints.

They can enter Lu Province at any time to assist in operations, so they send out a lot of troops for each raid.

The most important point is just to deal with these Japanese and puppet troops.

Here in Lu Province, there are a large number of stubborn troops.

These stubborn troops are all regular troops. They do not fight the Japanese and puppet troops, but only attack the brothers' troops in Shandong Province.

Under such circumstances, one can imagine the pressure on the brothers' troops in Shandong Province.

The headquarters and division headquarters organized preparations for the advancing detachment, hoping that Li Yunlong could open up connections with his brother troops.

Even though they are separated by the Yellow River, it is of great benefit for them to cooperate with each other in fighting.

The message sent by the headquarters and division headquarters this time is to hope that the advancing detachment from northern Henan can support the operations of the brothers' troops in Shandong Province.

Li Yunlong was naturally positive about this. He wished he could lead his troops to directly launch an all-out attack and eat up all the Japanese and puppet troops in northern Henan.

"Lu Ming, please tell me about our specific combat operations this time."

After introducing the general situation, Li Yunlong said to Lu Ming.

As the chief of staff of the detachment, Lu Ming is responsible for everything from formulating combat plans to deploying combat missions.

Of course, this is mainly because Li Yunlong has absolute trust in Lu Ming, otherwise Lu Ming would not be able to control so many things.

You must know that in the TV series, when Zhao Gang first arrived, Li Yunlong did not even let Zhao Gang know about the combat arrangements.

In the entire independent group, Li Yunlong is the one who speaks his mind, and whatever he says is what he says.

But now that Lu Ming is here, Li Yunlong's problems have been greatly improved.

In the words of Commander Chen, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and Lu Ming are the best partners.

With Zhao Gang and Lu Ming restraining themselves, Li Yunlong didn't get into trouble much.

Otherwise, based on Li Yunlong's character, it would be absolutely impossible for him to become a detachment leader.

"This time we attack, mainly to attack the third army of the puppet army."

"What you have in front of you is a briefing on the situation of the Third Puppet Army. This was specially brought by Staff Officer Wei Bao. You can check it carefully."

"In addition, we must also use this combat opportunity to establish local armed forces and establish guerrilla zones in the areas occupied by the Japs."

"Of course, if the situation allows, we will take the opportunity to expand the results and directly defeat the Japanese troops."

Lu Ming stood in front of the map and began to explain in detail.

Near the cadres, there are relevant introductions.

At present, all the cadres of the advancing detachment are literate, so Lu Ming specially prepared relevant information for them to check.

After hearing what Lu Ming said, the cadres opened the files to check.

The third puppet army was formed from some bandits and prisoners of war.

Their army commander Liu Qixiong was a direct descendant of Wang Puppet and was highly regarded, so their combat effectiveness was not very good, but their weapons and equipment were good.

We have everything from medium and formal rifles, light and heavy machine guns, grenade mortars and other weapons.

The battle plan for advancing the detachment this time was jointly drawn up by Lu Ming and others.

They planned to attack in two groups, attack all the way along the Taihang Mountains, advance to the Yunmeng Mountain area, and then enter Hecheng to fight.

Along the way, they marched along the north bank of the Yellow River, directly making large-scale detours and entering relevant areas for combat.

At this time, the Japanese and puppet troops had assembled a large number of troops in the northern Henan area, and they had an advantage in strength.

Of course, the area they control is much larger than that controlled by the Northern Henan Advance Detachment and the Seventh Guerrilla Corps.

Their current deployment is that the most elite First Puppet Army, with 12,000 troops, is deployed in Shanyang City.

The 11,000-man troops of the Second Puppet Army were deployed in the north and south areas behind Shanyang City to maintain contact with Xinxiang City.

The Japanese 219th Regiment and two field artillery brigades were stationed in Xinxiang City for defense.

The 10,000-strong troops of the puppet Third Army are currently on a mopping-up mission.

The Fourth Cavalry Brigade was stationed in Anyang City and other areas.

Of course, the temporary 19th Division directly under the puppet army was stationed in the Yunmeng Mountain and Guling Mountain areas to the west of Hecheng.

The puppet troops are mainly responsible for defense tasks. They have built a large number of fortifications.

The Japanese army also knew the strength of these Japanese soldiers, so they rarely let them carry out offensive operations.

As for the raids, we are dealing with ordinary people, so these puppet troops will naturally have no problem.

The Japanese army arranged for these puppet troops to carry out defense. They allocated a large amount of cement and steel bars to build semi-permanent fortifications.

The construction of these fortifications was supervised by the Japs, and there were many Japs spies and military policemen to supervise the battle teams.

During the battle, many bunkers would be locked, preventing the puppet troops from evacuating.

At the same time, the Japanese military police and other personnel will supervise the battle and will not hesitate to shoot when they find the evacuating puppet troops.

According to the little devil's idea, they plan to use these puppet troops to consume a large amount of money.

Even if it cannot consume combat power, it can at least consume ammunition.

In this way, the pressure will naturally be reduced when the little devils carry out subsequent operations.

Therefore, when the Japs are in Shanyang City, the defenses in Xinxiang City are relatively tight.

The plan for advancing the detachment is to bypass here.

Lu Ming conveyed orders and deployed combat missions.

Cadres who received combat missions kept records, and they asked some questions from time to time.

Lu Ming explained these issues clearly.

That is to say, at the same time that the Henan Northern Advance Detachment held a combat meeting, a messenger quickly ran in to report.

Chu Yunfei of the Seventh Guerrilla Corps came to the city with Chief of Staff Fang Ligong. They planned to ask for a meeting with Li Yunlong.

After hearing the report, Li Yunlong had a puzzled expression on his face.

He thought for a moment and asked Zhao Gang to stay here to continue discussing with the cadres.
To be continued...