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Chapter 166 Li Yunlong and Chu Yunfei's First Collaboration

On Zhongtiao Mountain.

When a new day came, the Japanese attacking forces suddenly realized something was wrong.

On the original position, the opponent's counterattacks became less and less frequent. There was no longer the tenacious counterattacks of the past when they fought for every inch of land.

When they attacked the position, they found that most of the opponents were gone!
Just when they were somewhat confused, they heard the frantic calls from the baggage train behind them and discovered that the enemy had actually taken advantage of the darkness to sneak up behind them, causing the main attacking force of the Japanese devils, who were somewhat careless, to suffer a lot. A lot of baggage was burned or even stolen!
It was as if the preserved fruit troops had changed their fighting style overnight, causing the Japanese division and brigade commanders to suddenly lose their composure. They stopped to guard their current positions and ensure the safety of their own baggage, temporarily losing their direction of attack.

In the Second War Zone, after receiving more than a dozen strict orders in succession, Yan Laoxi had to issue an order to attack publicly, but secretly ordered his direct subordinates to slow down their actions.

But no one expected that Chu Yunfei of the 358th Regiment received the attack order and immediately led his 358th Regiment out of the base. His goal was to smash the Tongpu Line just like Li Yunlong's independent regiment!
With the powerful attack of the 358th Regiment, the safety of Li Yunlong's flank was immediately guaranteed. Although he had no contact with Chu Yunfei, when the 358th Regiment came out, Li Yunlong still withdrew the cavalry company and gave it to the 358th Regiment. He began to use the traditional method of concentrating troops to surround and attack the reinforcements, and successively wiped out the reinforcements of two squadrons of the Japanese devils!
For a moment, the Japanese devils nearby no longer had any arrogance.

Chu Yunfei directly launched an attack on a county town on the Tongpu Line. The artillery battalion of the 358th Regiment took the lead and beat a squadron of Japanese soldiers and a puppet army battalion at the Japanese station, making them cry for their parents!

Facing the attacking Japanese gendarmerie battalion, the 358st Battalion of the th Regiment put on the posture of the First Main Battalion of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and withstood the impact of the Japanese gendarmerie battalion, creating conditions for Chu Yunfei to encircle and annihilate the Japanese gendarmerie battalion in front of the Japanese station. After destroying the entire station, they joined forces and drove the attacking Japanese gendarmerie battalion directly back to the county town!

From then on, the Japanese had no more soldiers on the Tongpu Line, which was more than ten kilometers long from the county seat to Li Yunlong's troops. Li Yunlong immediately mobilized the civilian workers to take the opportunity to start tearing up the rails.

Chu Yunfei had been frustrated for so long, and this time he found an opportunity, facing the county town of the little devils, and ordered the artillery to launch a tentative attack! After firing two rounds of artillery, Chu Yunfei ordered the artillery battalion to retreat first.

He stared at his watch and said to the cavalry communicator, "Immediately tell Commander Li of the Independent Regiment that our army will temporarily retreat in 20 minutes to avoid the possible air raid by the Japanese."

Chu Yunfei was very clear about the Japanese's counterattack tactics. After the county's gendarmerie reported to higher authorities, the Japanese air force from Taiyuan might arrive here and bomb in about three hours.

He had no anti-aircraft weapons. If the troops stayed in this flat valley, they would be bombed passively and sacrificed in vain. There was still about an hour left. If he retreated after 1 minutes, he could retreat back to the mountains!

On the other hand, Li Yunlong was also timing his move and had asked the civilians who were digging up the railroad tracks to carry them away first. Although they did not necessarily have to be carried back to the base, they would definitely be dropped in a place where it would be difficult for the Japanese to find them.

Otherwise today's work would have been in vain.

So, when the cavalry messenger of the 358th Regiment found Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong took out a bottle of Japanese sake that he had just seized and said, "Tell Commander Chu that this battle was a great pleasure. I, Li Yunlong, will be waiting for him tomorrow to see who kills more Japanese! The loser gets to drink!"

War Zone 3. Commander Wei looked at the latest battle situation today with a frown on his face. The situation in the west was very bad. Although the various units had now jumped out to start mobile warfare, they had not achieved much. Even if it was 1 to and they surrounded the Japanese, the troops could not quickly kill them. Instead, they would be called for air support or surrounded by the surrounding Japanese!

This caused casualties in mobile warfare to increase dramatically, and the subordinate armies and divisions began to complain about the serious shortage of ammunition. In addition, there was a huge gap in firepower, and they could not gain an advantage by outnumbering the enemy. What's more, the Japanese were very mobile, and they would be surrounded if they were not careful.

Entire regiments of attacking units on the front line were surrounded and eaten by the Japanese, resulting in heavy casualties!

The war in the West was extremely bad.

In the northeast, although all the units had moved in place and encircled the Japanese 33rd Division, they were still unable to break through the Japanese defense line even if they charged at the risk of their lives, facing the Japanese who had retreated to at least the regiment as their defensive unit.

The strategic intention of encircling and annihilating the 33rd Division now risks turning into a trap set by the Japanese!

The blocking battle on the southern front is now being fought very hard. Not only does Guosu's position have to face attacks from the Japanese heavy artillery, but there are also bombardments from the sky!
The position was shaky. After losing it during the day, they could only organize suicide squads at night to take it back when the Japanese artillery and army bombers could not take out at night!

"The best strategy has no chance!" Commander Wei stood in front of the map, looked at it for a long time, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Then let's follow the central strategy of alternating cover and breaking out separately. The western route will break out to the second war zone, and the northeastern route will break out into Taihang! The southern route will begin to retreat back to the south bank of the Yellow River!" Shao Guangming looked at the map and saw the latest intertwined situation between the enemy and us, but he was at a loss as to what to do. It's not that he didn't try hard, but his strength was limited. Many tactical intentions could not be implemented at all.

"I think this is the only way. Staff, give orders!" Commander Wei stared at the map and issued the latest combat orders one after another. He spoke very slowly, sometimes even had to assign specific divisions and brigades, because he knew that if the order was not issued properly, the whole system might collapse. So although it was a retreat, the order issued was to attack a certain place separately!
It’s just that there weren’t really any Japanese devils in those places, so these combat orders were essentially to allow all units to evacuate in an orderly manner!

If we just give the order to retreat, I'm afraid many troops will rush to escape!
As Commander Wei who is well aware of the characteristics of the preserved fruit troops, he is naturally very clear about these tricks.

The points he chose were all key points for alternating retreat to Taihang.

In this way, although some individual divisions and brigades will inevitably collapse, the main force can generally be preserved as much as possible.

Under the current situation, this is already the best result among the second tactics deduced by Ren Zhong!
If the four armies in the northeast can retain most of their strength, the two armies in the west can retreat half of their strength, and the two armies (divisions) in the south and the general reserve can retreat two-thirds, then even though the battle is lost, the vitality is still there!

This is the limit of what Commander Wei can do.

The third update, slightly changed history
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