Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 161 The Crisis of Yang Village

If Ren Zhong did not feel much about the previous breakthroughs, then the breakthrough in electronics made him somewhat excited.

The successful laboratory preparation of ferrite permanent magnets, transistors, capacitors and resistors, which are basic components, ignited Ren Zhong's hope to break away from the dependence on the main world in electronics.

For a long time, whether it is the radio stations in the world of Liangjian or the basic circuits of machine tools, the electronic components needed have been supplied by Ren Zhong, which has greatly limited the production capacity of these products.

After all, there are too many stalls now, and it’s impossible to list all the things that need to be sold!

As the big guys are put into production in the later stage, not to mention tanks and airplanes, as long as any new controlled equipment is to be put into production, these electronic components are indispensable.

Miniaturized motors cannot do without permanent magnets. The Electronic Engineering Research Center completed the laboratory preparation in more than half a year. This put self-sufficiency of electronic components on the agenda, and the Red Star Electronics Factory of the Liming Institute came into being!

Although it is only a framework now, the twelve cave factories are still under planning. Some of the corresponding equipment are waiting to be designed and manufactured by ourselves, while some are waiting for Ren Zhong to bring in the goods.

By May, everything was developing as Ren Zhong expected.

Except for one thing.

The situation on Li Yunlong's side is not good.

By May of 41, no one had expected that the Japanese army, regardless of the Eighth Route Army that had caused them heavy losses, suddenly concentrated 5 troops in just a few days to launch a fierce attack on the Zhongtiao Mountain defense line in southern Shanxi!

小鬼子兵分数路，向晋南中条山一带防守的果脯7个军（80、3、17、43、15、98、9）共16个师约18万人发动全面攻击，以“穿透突破”战术，利用果脯军队各部防区之间的空隙穿插突进，仅用约21个半小时就攻占了中条山东部垣曲的果脯黄河渡口，在35个小时完成外侧总包围圈，40个小时完成内侧包围圈。

This time the Japs acted resolutely and attacked fiercely. After careful planning and good cooperation among all units, they completed the pre-war plan to seize key points in less than 48 hours!
On the other hand, the generals in Guosu were not in harmony. General Junru, who was on good terms with the Eighth Route Army, was constrained in many ways, and the situation on the battlefield took a sharp turn for the worse!

Guo Fu and General Junru, who had just returned to the First War Zone, had to ask for urgent help. The Eighth Route Army Headquarters responded quickly and dispatched its main force to carry out a full-scale attack, intending to cut off the enemy's logistics transportation routes such as Tongpu Road, Zhengtai Road, and Pinghan Road.

However, this time the Japanese had already taken precautions. There were brigade-level field troops patrolling along the way. Not only were the troops dispatched facing strong enemies, the Japanese also secretly dispatched the 9th Mixed Brigade and the 4th Mixed Brigade. After reinforcing with an artillery battalion, with the cooperation of the Second Division of the puppet army in Shanxi, they attacked the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army Base in Daxiawan!

Among them, the 9th Mixed Brigade, which had just completed its recovery, mainly attacked the Yangcun line defended by the Independent Regiment!
At this moment, the main forces of the Independent Regiment, the First and Second Battalions, had just been deployed to the outer line to launch a raid on the Zhengtai Road.

Only three battalions were left to defend.

"Political Commissar Zhao, Anping Observation Post reports that the Japanese suddenly sent out a large group of troops and rushed towards our base. According to preliminary observations, the Japanese have at least one battalion, equipped with at least two artillery squadrons, and a puppet army following them."

Headquarters of Yangcun Independent Regiment.

Zhao Gang, who was in charge of Yang Village, didn't expect that not long after Li Yunlong and his men set out, something unexpected happened in Anping. He stared at the map, frowning.

"Captain Wang, do you think this group of Japanese devils are from the Anping County Military Police Battalion or from outside? Why hasn't our insider sent us any information?" Zhao Gang said to the third battalion commander Wang Huaibao on the side.

"Political Commissar, I don't think it's the Anping Military Police Battalion. They don't have so many artillery pieces." Wang Huaibao looked at the map and said after thinking for a while, "And the timing of this group of devils coming is very coincidental, just after our main force was dispatched. I'm afraid it was deliberately planned by the devils. I don't think we can take it lightly."

"I also guess that the Japanese are probably not just targeting Yangcun. This time, the Japanese suddenly launched an attack in southern Shanxi. It is impossible that they did not consider the impact on our army. According to the latest intelligence, our main regiments have basically encountered strong resistance from the Japanese when they went out to attack. Almost every large stronghold has more than one battalion of Japanese equipped with a considerable number of artillery to confront our army.

Even though we attacked a small stronghold, we encountered rapid reinforcements from the Japanese this time. Even though the artillery tower was destroyed, our army was unable to successfully take over the road section near the stronghold. Something was clearly wrong. "

"Yes, political commissar, it seems that the Japanese are well prepared this time. Not only did they attack our friendly forces in southern Shanxi, but they also took our reaction into account." Wang Huaibao looked at the activity areas marked by Zhao Gang on the map where I attacked various main regiments, and found that the main forces of the Japanese were there!

This has never happened before.

"Calling number two, calling number two!" A voice suddenly came from the intercom, "Number two received, go ahead!" Zhao Gang pressed the talk button on the intercom, and suddenly he had a bad feeling in his heart.

"Number Two, an insider risked his life to pass on the news that the Japanese 36th Brigade entered Anping last night. The Japanese th Brigade's th Independent Infantry Battalion, Yoshino Battalion, is now setting off. The rest of the Japanese in the th Brigade are already reorganizing and preparing to go out."

After a pause at the observation post, a voice suddenly came out, "I saw the second wave of Japanese troops moving out! The news has been confirmed that the Japanese 9th Brigade is moving out in batches!"

"Received, Eagle 1, please be safe and keep watching!" Zhao Gang responded after hearing this, his face turned extremely ugly! The current situation is really too bad.

Wang Huaibao was also stunned. He didn't expect that his guess would be confirmed in the blink of an eye.

"Captain Wang, immediately order all villages on the front to evacuate urgently. The militias should assemble into small teams and go up the mountain to conduct a guerrilla war. Don't fight the Japanese head-on! In addition, Captain Wang will lead the four mortar squads of the third battalion to the mountain to conduct guerrilla warfare and wait for an opportunity to see if they can defeat the Japanese artillery squad."

If the Japanese sent a battalion, Zhao Gang would still have the confidence to fight them head-on, but if they sent a brigade, Zhao Gang would no longer charge in blindly.

After all, the Third Battalion and the nearby militia guerrillas have a total of only more than 600 troops. The militia guerrillas now have thirty to fifty people, and each person is equipped with at least one rifle. A team also has at least one 1 semi-automatic gun, two grenade launchers and a basic number of grenade launcher grenades. Each person has at least 56 bullets and four grenades.

Thanks to Yangcun, the strength of a nearby militia guerrilla unit is not much different from that of an ordinary infantry platoon of the regular army in terms of weapons and equipment. What is much different is the battlefield experience.

But precisely because of this, the militia guerrillas were obviously not capable of fighting positional warfare, so Zhao Gang decisively gave up the plan to let the guerrillas fight positional warfare and went directly up the mountain to fight a sparrow war!
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