Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 177 Hiding Soldiers Among the People
When the time came to New Year's Day of 42, the Chinese people found that not only were there no surprises, but the external situation was getting worse and worse. The Japanese who had taken over Hong Kong Island were marching southward with great momentum.

Two days after the Japanese bombs were heard at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese troops that had been planning to march south landed on Luzon Island. Although General Mac had been warned that the Japanese were coming, his colonial army was still the same as it was in history. They could not defeat the ferocious Japanese at this time, and the colonies fell one after another. After New Year's Day, Manila was taken.

Malaysia, Borneo in the Dutch Indies, Timor Island in the Portuguese Indies, Sumatra. The Japanese armies pushed forward in several directions, tearing off the last bit of face of John Bull in Asia.

The Border Region General Staff had originally been somewhat hesitant about the large-scale sweep in Central Hebei, but now, seeing that the progress of the Japanese invaders' southward advance was almost the same as predicted by Ren Zhong, the attitude towards the situation suddenly became very serious.

According to Ren Zhong's suggestion, the headquarters issued a secret combat order, temporarily abandoning the main force of the base in the Ji Zhong Plain. The main force of the military region jumped out of the base to the west and north, entered the mountainous area and launched mobile warfare together with other brother units.

In central Hebei, only a communications company disguised as a headquarters was retained, which replaced the military district organization with daily radio transmission frequency to confuse the Japanese.

The basic regiment and guerrilla brigade were dispersed into squads and platoons. According to the development model of the armed work teams in enemy-occupied areas, they hid their soldiers among the people and began to dig tunnels, prepare mines and carry out other preparatory work in large numbers.

In Anping City, Li Yunlong still failed to convince Chu Yunfei to bombard the county town. Yan Laoxi was forced by his superiors to fight for his life in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, and suffered heavy losses. The 4-man army lost another 358 or . He was heartbroken and could not breathe. He valued the th Regiment, which still had a complete structure and more than troops, more and more. He wanted to send telegrams every day to inquire about the situation. Under such circumstances, Chu Yunfei had almost no chance to send troops without authorization.

Even if it was a dragon, Chu Yunfei was tied up tightly and could only guard the mountain village and watch the clouds rise and fall.

Lao Li actually also has such a situation. Without the brigade commander's order, the independent regiment can only counterattack passively, and the main force cannot move rashly.

However, Li Yunlong was not as honest as Chu Yunfei. Although the main force of the independent regiment did not move, there was no prohibition on platoon and company-level training. So Li Yunlong, Kong Jie, Wang Huaibao and others would take small groups of people and fly thunder cannons and RPGs out for training from time to time, and take down several strongholds around the county town. Wang Huaibao then led his men to infiltrate the villages and towns near the strongholds to carry out armed work. In a few months, the villages and towns around Anping were turned into new bases. The Japanese now only have a county town left, but dare not move. Now the Japanese army cannot stay in the mountainous area for long. The mountainous area is barren, and the local supplies are extremely scarce. The logistics of thousands of people cannot be supported at all. Staying for more than a month is the limit.

Li Yunlong was well aware of the opponent's weaknesses, so when the main force of the Japanese arrived, he led the main force of the independent regiment to wander around the mountains to wear them down, while small guerrillas attacked the Japanese logistics supplies piecemeal. From July to September 41, he wiped out an entire Japanese brigade. Only then did he become active in training and attacking strongholds around Anping.

Perfect way to create time difference with the Japanese.

After regaining control of the area around Yangcun, Li Yunlong began to gather manpower and vigorously restored some processing capacity in Yangcun and the headquarters arsenal.

However, this time there is no headquarters nearby, and only the independent regiment is left to support the vast area. This has become an open secret, as the Japanese are very familiar with the terrain. Li Yunlong knows that he cannot stop the Japanese army's sweep, so he controls the entire production scale to make it easier to escape when he can't hold on.

Machine guns and Type 56 semi-automatic ammunition require large machine tools, which are not easy to move. Li Yunlong did not consider it again and simply used the resources here to carry out large-scale production of ammunition, propellants, explosives, bullets, grenades, mines and other products with relatively low technical difficulty.

Therefore, the production in Yangcun is far less than that in its peak period, and even one-third of it has not recovered. After all, in terms of personnel, most of the skilled workers have been dispersed and secretly entered Heyuan for development.

There, it was farther from the Japanese's transportation line, the mountainous area was more rugged and difficult to travel, and there was not much exposed, so the Japanese did not focus on Heyuan. When they arrived in Anping, they basically stopped moving forward.

In addition, Ren Zhong's main factories are hidden deep in the caves in the mountains, and there are several kilometers of rivers in and out to hide them from the public. In addition, the surrounding villages have also developed into strong fortress villages, so the secret of Heyuan's arsenal is strictly protected.

If it weren't for the fact that Yangcun has mountains, water and mines, Li Yunlong would really be reluctant to give up. Otherwise, Old Li would not have turned back and insisted on fighting back.

In the original time and space, after experiencing the Japanese raid, Li Yunlong moved the independent regiment to Zhaojiayu for reconstruction. However, after Ren Zhong intervened in this time and space, the Japanese won the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain but not completely. Tens of thousands of regular troops went north to Luliang Mountain, Taiyue Mountain and Taihang Mountain. Although the situation was extremely difficult, they did not disperse after all. The Japanese had to divide their troops into two divisions and three brigades to watch the surrounding areas.

Of the six divisions and three brigades that entered Jin, except for the flying group which can come and go freely, the rest are in a difficult situation.

If they withdraw part of the main force, naturally no one can stop them. However, doing so will inevitably leave a large gap, and the tens of thousands of Guojian soldiers may rush out and return to the Zhongtiao Mountain area. In this way, they can more easily get supplies from Guojian on the other side of the river.

Now we are blocked in three heavy mountains, so at least large-scale supply of preserved fruits is impossible.

This made Yoshio Shinozuka of the North China Command and the First Army Command of Shanxi Province very upset.

After all, the campaign to the south has already begun, and the vast newly occupied land in the south is in urgent need of reinforcements, but the rear is unstable. If two divisions are withdrawn to the south, the situation in North China will become unstable.

Therefore, the Japanese high-level officials in North China considered again and again and had to prepare to hold out for another half a year, implement the planned Operation No. 3, clear the central part of Hebei, and then transfer troops south.

Just like that, the history that was gently disrupted by Ren Zhong's little hand, after causing some ripples, returned to its original track and continued to move forward.

However, in this world of Bright Sword, traces of Ren Zhong's past are still left behind.

After the border area re-studied the secret recipe for rocket propellant technology and achieved stable mass production, it began to spread the technology to several stable large-scale military industrial bases. The base in Heyuan was Ren Zhong's direct line, so naturally it was the first to obtain the top-secret formula and production process information transmitted from the border area.

Using the data from the Heyuan Arsenal Base, they immediately started working on replicating the 107mm firearm. By New Year's Day of 42, Li Yunlong already had a complete 107mm firearm and 24 rockets in his hands!

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