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Chapter 83 Li Yunlong's Endeavor
Heyuan.

Li Yunlong and two teams have destroyed two artillery towers and eliminated all the Japanese strongholds within more than 20 kilometers near the key village pointed out by Ren Zhong!

Heyuan Gendarmerie Battalion Headquarters.

"Waste! Waste!" Ichiro Hirata slapped the gendarmerie squad leader Kazuki Takeda and the puppet army plainclothes captain Cao Wuxin violently, left and right, and cursed loudly.

But after slapping him more than a dozen times, his hands began to swell and ache, and his body felt weak. He even started to pant after so many slaps.

He stopped slapping and rubbed his red palms. He stared at his two intelligence subordinates with a look of disappointment and continued to scold:
"You two bastards, you useless bastards, where on earth did these hidden Eighth Route Army soldiers come from? What weapons did they use to take down our artillery tower? It's been more than a week, and you two useless bastards haven't gotten any intelligence at all. What use do I have for you?"

"Hi!" Takeda Kazuki had no choice but to respond stiffly.

Cao Wuxin nodded his head repeatedly, but he was not used to just taking the beating like Takeda. His mind raced, and he whispered to Hirata Ichiro, "Taijun, Taijun, it's not that we didn't work hard, it's that the enemy is too cunning. After they destroyed our artillery tower, they quickly disappeared without a trace and didn't stay in the area. Even the cleaning of the battlefield was done by those Tubalu. No one has ever seen this group of enemies."

"Taijun, I suspect this is an enemy from outside. We are near Heyuan County. The 358th Regiment of the Shanxi Suiyuan Army does not have the ability to do this, nor does it have the motivation. According to the tacit understanding reached between the two sides, as long as we do not move, they will stay where they are. The headquarter of the Shanxi Suiyuan Army has also issued a clear order that the 358th Regiment is not allowed to fight on its own without the order from the headquarters."

Cao Wuxin's brain was still intact, so his analysis was quite reasonable and basically touched upon some of the truth.

"Cao! I don't want your analysis, I just want you to capture this damn enemy and crush them! After losing strongholds one after another, the Quanyang Brigade Command has issued a warning. If we don't have a clear explanation within a month, the Brigade Command will fire us! Do you two pieces of trash understand that we have no way out!" Ichiro Hirata's rage was justified.

This matter was extremely strange. Suddenly, a group of enemies appeared, so powerful that they could attack a stronghold in less than an hour, and they would run away after attacking!

This incident is simply appalling in Heyuan’s public security incidents.

You have to know that it is not easy to build a stronghold. A squad of Japanese soldiers and a company of puppet troops have to be stationed there to control the Chinese people in one or two surrounding townships. So far, Heyuan County has only built seven strongholds, but two of them were lost in just a few days.

The key point is that we don’t even know who did it.

From the very limited information obtained, it was clear that the enemy was the Eighth Route Army. However, there had been only a small number of guerrillas active in the Heyuan area before, and there were no fully-organized Eighth Route Army units. How come the Eighth Route Army suddenly set their sights on Quanyang, which was almost the most remote place in the area?

Ichiro Hirata felt a little flustered when he thought of this.

You should know that among all the county towns in Quanyang, his Heyuan County is the weakest.

The county gendarmerie battalion in other key security areas has at least two complete infantry squadrons (normally there are three squadrons, and the additional infantry squadron is dispersed among the strongholds), as well as an artillery squadron and a gendarmerie squadron for maintaining county security, plus a puppet army corps. However, we only have one infantry squadron on our side, and the puppet army only has one puppet battalion left, so our strength is much worse.

If we encounter an enemy who can easily take down a stronghold, does it mean that the county town is also in great danger? It is not surprising that Hirata Ichiro thought so, because from the subsequent analysis and investigation of the stronghold attack, the enemy undoubtedly had a heavy artillery to attack the artillery towers, and basically the artillery towers of the two strongholds were collapsed.

This kind of heavy artillery is a huge threat even to the county’s city defense.

Ichiro Hirata is not only worried about the strongholds being eliminated one by one, but he is even more worried that the county town will be attacked by the enemy one day.

Compared with the Type 92 infantry gun in his hand, the power of this heavy artillery is completely not on the same level. Ichiro Hirata has no confidence at all to fight against this kind of heavy artillery!

However, even if he shot Takeda Kazuki and Cao Wuxin, the two useless people, it would be of no avail. Li Yunlong led two small teams and came and went like the wind. Not only the enemy, but even the people in the stronghold village did not see them.

The group led by Li Yunlong adopted the approach of using fighting to promote training, so they had no connection with the local guerrillas and maintained an independent style of communication. It was not their limit to attack two artillery towers in a week, but it was time-consuming to summarize the attack on each one and then guide the attack on the next artillery tower.

However, it was worth it. Under the guidance of Wang Chengzhu, the members of the Flying Thunder Cannon team made rapid progress, from measuring the distance with the thumb to setting the azimuth of the Flying Thunder Cannon, as well as civil excavation, adjusting the Flying Thunder Cannon and a series of tactical actions. The whole team went through two actual combat drills, each with greater progress than the last. During the second attack on the artillery tower, the Flying Thunder Cannon hit the roof of the tower with one shot!

Most of the Japanese squad was neatly buried under the ruins of the artillery tower, allowing Zhang Dabiao's armed work team, which was to clean up the battlefield next, to pick up a complete base of weapons and ammunition.

At the same time, most of the grassroots soldiers of the remaining puppet army were incorporated.

All of a sudden, a district squadron was set up in that place.

Li Yunlong communicated with Zhang Dabiao and others through a walkie-talkie. Although Li Yunlong was not present at the scene, he knew everything very well.

Two artillery towers were taken down and a stronghold was destroyed, in which all the Japanese and puppet troops were killed or wounded. The armed work team went in to search for weapons and found dozens of intact guns and two Type 2 rifles, with which they planned to develop a village-level guerrilla force.

Another Japanese stronghold was completely destroyed, and the remaining dozens of puppet soldiers surrendered all at once. After the armed work team simply identified and executed the most heinous puppet soldiers, they gathered the rest and formed two platoons with five or six backbone members of the armed work team as squad leaders. Zhang Dabiao basically decided to form a district squadron based on this and the previous village.

Their model of developing armed work teams and bases behind enemy lines was naturally suggested and proposed by Ren Zhong. In the original historical time and space, this model of armed work teams behind enemy lines was not proposed until 42, at least by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area based on the dangerous situation.

At that time, the situation of the War of Resistance was extremely tense. The May 1st mopping-up operation commanded by the Japanese devils in Gangcun "blocked" and "encroached" on the border area. In order to better fight the enemy and develop our armed forces, the base area sent hundreds of armed work teams directly into the enemy's rear to carry out armed struggle and develop new bases.

Ren Zhong simply tried out this development strategy in the independent regiment first.

From now on, the new base in Heyuan has had a great start!

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