Predator Reborn

Chapter 238 The End of the Counter-Encirclement and Suppression (3)

Liu Hua quickly walked into the ruined house, took off his military coat, and covered the young child who was shivering with cold.

"Fellow, the house is in such a state of ruin, why are you still living in it? Is the family short of food?" Liu Hua asked quickly.

"Ah! It's comrade of the Eighth Route Army! Comrade of the Eighth Route Army, there is no shortage of food at home. It's just that the house at home was burned down by those damn devils. The old man only has an old couple and two grandchildren left in his family. He has no ability to repair the house.

Ah!" Seeing the Eighth Route Army in front of him covering his grandson with his military coat, the old man quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Liu Hua and others.

"Old man, hurry up, get up quickly, I can't bear your gift. Hurry up, get up..." Finally, with the joint efforts of several guards around him, he finally helped the old man in front of him up.

"Old man, sit down. Aren't there militiamen and leaders in the village? Didn't they help you repair your house..." Liu Hua asked again.

"This Eighth Route Army comrade has dozens of militiamen in the village, but he is currently performing tasks to help the Eighth Route Army transport wounded people and supplies... Several leaders in the village have also come to care about us, and the quilts we are wearing were sent by the village chief.

However, there are too many destroyed houses in the village, and several leaders in the village are too busy!" the old man cried.

"Xiao Wang, go to the village and find the village chief immediately! Hurry..." After listening to the old man in front of him, Liu Hua suddenly felt the seriousness of the matter, turned around and ordered the guard behind him.

"Xiao Zhang, immediately notify the security company to enter the village and help the villagers repair their houses... Be sure to complete the repairs on most of the houses before dark..." Liu Hua turned around and ordered.

"Yes...Commander..." they both answered at the same time and ran in different directions.

After a while, his personal guard Xiao Wang came to him with a man in military uniform.

"Commander, this is Village Chief Zhou from Zhouzhuang. Village Chief Zhou, this is Commander Liu from our base area." Xiao Wang quickly introduced the village chief to Liu Hua.

"Report to the commander, Zhou Degui, the head of Zhoucun Village, is here to report." Upon hearing that the young man in front of him was the highest officer of the entire base area, Village Chief Zhou quickly put his feet together and said loudly.

"Well, Village Chief Zhou, just after the Japanese raids, the weather suddenly turned cold. How many households like this are there in the village?" Liu Hua didn't be polite and got right to the point.

"Commander..." When Liu Hua asked about the current situation in the village, Village Chief Zhou shook his head.

"If you have anything to say, just say it directly. Don't hesitate." Liu Hua interrupted.

"Yes, Commander..." Zhou Degui regained his military temperament.

"Commander, at least 80% of the houses in the village are like this, and there are only a few houses. Since the houses are made of earth and stone, the damage is not particularly serious. They can be moved in with a little repair. But... Commander, you also know,

Most of the houses in the village are civil structures... so..."

"The militiamen are in the village. Why don't you let the militiamen repair these houses immediately... What if people freeze to death in such cold weather?" Liu Hua criticized loudly without the slightest courtesy.

"Commander, it's not that we don't repair, it's just that the militiamen in the village haven't returned yet. Before the Japanese came, the militiamen in the village gathered to help the troops transport ammunition and wounded people. Until now, the militiamen have returned

Didn't go home." Village Chief Zhou shook his head and said.

"Xiao Wang, what's going on?" After listening to the village chief's words, Liu Hua's face was filled with anger, and he turned around and began to question the personal guard behind him.

"Commander, I don't know. I heard that militiamen from each village are near the headquarters to help the troops carry supplies and wounded people..." Xiao Wang answered hesitantly.

"Nonsense! It's just nonsense... What are the troops used for? The Japanese have retreated and the people are like this. Why don't you let the militiamen return to the village... It's just nonsense..." Liu Hua cursed loudly... At this moment, the guard

The company commander appeared in front of Liu Hua with his troops.

"Report to the commander, the guard company has been ordered to enter the village, please give instructions..."

"Comrades, I know that after a month of hard work, you have worked very hard, and I am also very tired. However, today I saw something that I really don't want to see. Look, right behind me, I have been

, the folks who support us don’t even have houses? In such a cold weather, without houses, I won’t tell you, everyone should know what the consequences will be. Comrades, these are the folks who have been frugal in food and clothing to feed us, the soldiers.

Ah!" After Liu Hua finished speaking, he lowered his head and stopped talking.

"The whole guard company is here. Concentrate the weapons and work as a squad to help the fellow villagers repair their houses. Start taking action immediately." The commander of the guard company immediately took Liu Hua's words and ordered loudly.

Soon, the whole Zhouzhuang became lively. The soldiers shouted slogans, took off their cotton-padded clothes, and helped the common people repair their houses, shirtless in the cold wind. Even Liu Hua himself also brought guards to help the common people repair their houses.

.The whole process lasted until dark.

After dark, with the joint efforts of everyone, more than 60% of the houses in the entire village were repaired. After the coordination of the village cadres, all the people moved into the houses. Only then did Liu Hua breathe a sigh of relief.

.But, suddenly, an idea flashed in front of Liu Hua's eyes, Zhouzhuang is like this, what about other villages?

"Guard company, follow me back to the headquarters immediately..." Liu Hua ordered loudly. Regardless of the villagers' attempts to stay, he rushed into the cold wind again and took the lead in running towards the headquarters of the first division.

Just as he ran to the entrance of the headquarters, Liu Hua bumped into Sun Xingbang who was in a hurry.

"Commander, you are finally back. If you don't come back, the political commissar and I will send troops to find you." Sun Xingbang said excitedly when he saw it was Liu Hua.

"Well, don't talk nonsense, gather all the troops immediately...wait for my order, where is the telegraph room, I want to send a report..." Liu Hua said hurriedly.

"Ah! Over here..." After hearing Liu Hua's words, Sun Xingbang said in surprise, but he quickly ordered the correspondent to notify the various troops to assemble.

When he came to the telegraph room, Liu Hua didn't rest.

"Quickly, send a report to the headquarters, the second and third military divisions respectively: order the commanders of each military division to, in addition to leaving the necessary troops to guard the base areas, request each military division to immediately allow the concentrated militiamen in each village to return to their own villages.

, at the same time, we must send powerful troops to various villages that were severely damaged by the Japanese army to help the people restore their homes. Ensure that every common person in the base area has a house and clothing. It is required that during this winter, every base area cannot

There is a situation where fellow villagers freeze to death and starve to death...Commander, Liu Hua..." Liu Hua directly dictated the telegram and signed.

"Send the report immediately..." Liu Hua ordered. Immediately, the entire radio station sounded the ticking sound of reporting. Sun Xingbang, who had been following Liu Hua, immediately understood why his commander was so anxious. Before Liu Hua could wait,

Hua ordered, and immediately turned around and returned to his command position.

In this way, Liu Hua unintentionally solved one of the most important problems in the post-war period of the base area. Half a month later, Liu Hua learned that the reconstruction work in each village was basically completed, and that there was no large amount of frostbite in the entire base area.

After the death incident, I took the quick response brigade back to the headquarters.

Of course, when they saw their partners Guan Xiangying and Li Qing, who had been separated for more than a month, the three of them exchanged pleasantries for a while. Of course, they were more worried about their comrades.

After the greetings, Liu Hua learned about the post-war reconstruction work in various places, as well as the results and losses of each military division during the entire counter-encirclement and suppression campaign for more than two months. When he saw the statistics, the entire base area suffered 8,000 casualties during the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign.

, couldn’t help but feel sad for a while.

Shortly after Liu Hua returned to his base, the Eighth Route Army headquarters and the Central Committee as far away as Yan'an also learned of the great results achieved by the Independent Division and sent congratulatory messages one after another.

However, Liu Hua was not very happy because of these congratulatory messages. Because after a few days of more detailed understanding, Liu Hua clearly knew that in this base area, except for the cavalry regiment and the guard regiment, which had not reached the point of breaking their muscles and bones, other troops in the base area were not injured.

More than half of the troops were lost and were in urgent need of personnel replacement.

Liu Hua, who understood the situation, convened a meeting of cadres at the battalion level and above of the rapid response brigade to arrange for the recent troop members and resumption of training. Of course, these soldiers had to mention the thousands of security forces captured twice by the rapid response brigade.

Soldier.

Through understanding, Liu Hua knew that those security forces were not without combat effectiveness, but that they did not really want to work for the devils. They were all former soldiers of the Northeast Army and had very good military qualities. However, after the fall of Northeast China, my own commander

He became a traitor under the leadership of Liu Hua. This was also an unexpected gain for Liu Hua in this counter-encirclement and suppression campaign. He got thousands of well-trained Northeastern Army soldiers.

After the First Battalion of the Guard Regiment escorted these prisoners back to the base area, the political cadres in the base area began to do ideological work. After two weeks of hard work, more than 80% of the soldiers were willing to stay and join the Eighth Route Army. In addition, in the hospital of the Logistics Department

With thousands of wounded soldiers of all kinds, Liu Hua found that he now had more troops than before the war.

"Comrades, the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign is over. As for whether this campaign was successful, I don't know, but I think everyone should know it in their hearts. When our rapid response brigade went out, there were 6,000 people, but in the end, only a few returned to the base intact.

We have lost more than half of our 3,000-strong force. Let me just say one thing: Those comrades who died on the battlefield are all good people. They are all heroes of our independent division and our Eighth Route Army. After unanimous opinions of the party committee in the base area, we decided

Choose a piece of land in the back mountain, that is, Woniu Mountain, to bury these fallen comrades, build a monument, and engrave the names of all these comrades on it, so that our comrades and our descendants will remember them."

"Bah bang bang..." As soon as Liu Hua finished speaking, warm applause broke out in the conference room, and many cadres shed tears.