Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Chapter 269 Chapter 268, Development and Secondment
Although the cicada monkey is small, it has high nutritional value and is a rare good thing! The key is that it tastes good and is the best snack to go with wine...

Well, Li Yuexuan is not Li Yunlong. Even if he had a cicada monkey, he would not eat it as a snack because he doesn’t like drinking much.

Taiyuan, the First Army's garrison, Meijin Mijiro sat in his office with a ceiling fan, enjoying the rare quiet. As the commander-in-chief of this nine-way siege plan, he rarely had free time.

"The northern section of the Baijin Line has been opened, but the section from Changzhi to the south is strictly guarded by the Chinese army, so it will be difficult to take it down in a short period of time! Moreover, the resistance of the Eighth Route Army is stronger than last year. They no longer just fight guerrilla warfare and ambushes, but dare to take the initiative to attack our main force!"

"The train that was delivering supplies to the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade was blown up. The supplies were gone, and the escorting soldiers were gone too. The three armies that went to reinforce were either annihilated or repelled. They also took the initiative to attack the Sakata Regiment... When did the Chinese army become so powerful?"

"Where is the intelligence officer? Is there still no news about the Sakata Regiment? Why is there only news about the 2nd Battalion until now? Where is his main force?" Thinking of the Sakata Regiment, Umezu shouted to the outside.

"Report to the Commander..." At this time, the intelligence officer walked up to Umezu with a very simple newspaper, seeming to be afraid to speak.

"Baga... just tell me what you want to say!" Umezu slammed the table and glared at the intelligence officer.

"Here, I just received a newspaper from the Eighth Route Army Propaganda Department, which tells the news about the Sakata Regiment! The Eighth Route Army Headquarters reported: In mid-July, our army mobilized the main force to annihilate the Japanese Third Regiment and the main force of Sakata Nobutsu's Regiment in the hinterland of Taihang Mountain, killing the regiment commander Sakata Nobutsu, the captains of the first and third battalions of the Sakata Regiment, and the officers below... In this battle, we killed about 2500 enemies!"

"Damn it, this is impossible, absolutely impossible!" Before the intelligence officer finished reading, Umezu slammed the table and stood up: "Sakata Regiment is our field infantry regiment. Half of them are veterans. They are well-equipped and well-supplied. The baggage is also enough for three days of independent combat and there are additional infantry artillery! How could such a team be annihilated?"

Umezu's words echoed in the office, making the Japanese officers and soldiers tremble with fear. If the commander gets angry, the people around him will be in trouble...

"Commander, I don't believe it either, but this newspaper from the Eighth Route Army has detailed evidence! Look..." The intelligence officer put a not-so-big newspaper, or leaflet, on Umezu's desk. The newspaper was not big, and the whole newspaper told one story - annihilate the Japanese Sakata Regiment, and the Third Regiment can be eliminated!

Mei Jin felt his head throbbing as he read the contents on the rough paper. When he saw the three photos on the newspaper, his head was buzzing even more.

Unlike the rough paper and the hastily typed printed words, the layout of these three photos was very carefully carved. It was obvious that they were carefully carved by a master engraver, and the printing was also extremely careful, for fear that others would not be able to see it. Of course, what made Mei Jin's head buzz was not the quality of the photos, but the content of the photos.

Well, just the first photo made Umezu's blood pressure soar! Because this photo was exactly the photo of the Sakata Regiment's flag! Three Type 38 rifles were placed together, and the flag with a complete flagpole and tassel was placed on the gun rack, with a wall in the background.

The second photo was a portrait of a person lying on the ground. It was Colonel Nobutetsu Sakata, who was lying on the ground. As for the background, it was the ground of Liangjia Village, which was made of bluestone.

The third photo is a group shot of some officers of the annihilated Sakata Regiment. A dozen officers lined up together, falling together on the street full of flies. Of course, the background of this photo seems to have been processed, and only part of the street ground can be seen, and the rest cannot be seen.

There are pictures and the truth. Mei Jin doesn't believe that the Eighth Route Army can create such a picture for no reason! The key is that the Eighth Route Army doesn't know what their own regiment flag and regiment leader look like?

So, this is true! So...

"Bagayaru..." Slap, slap, slap... Meijin shook off his hands and slapped the intelligence officer in the face.

"You idiots! My regiment was wiped out, and you can't even find where they were wiped out? They are all pigs, trash, maggots..." The few swear words filled the office, causing the Japanese to hide their heads even lower, for fear of being targeted by the commander.

"Okay, you guys can leave now. I'll think about the next strategic deployment!" Mei Jin waved his hand, and the Japanese in the office hurried out of the room as if they had been pardoned.

"What should we do next?" Mei Jin thought about the troops he had, and then thought about the location where the Sakata regiment was probably destroyed, and found a serious problem - he didn't have many troops to deploy! That's right, because when Li Yunlong attacked the station before, he mobilized three battalions, and then suffered heavy losses, and now there was no reserve force to mobilize.

It's not that he couldn't mobilize the troops he had, but mobilizing a small number of troops would be basically useless, and would only serve as a hindrance to the Eighth Route Army! After all, the Eighth Route Army, which could destroy the main force of the Sakata Regiment, would need to mobilize at least a reorganized regiment to deal with it!
Once so many troops were mobilized from the surrounding areas, the already tight defensive forces would become even weaker! At this time, along the Pinghan Line, the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army were constantly harassing their own garrisons, destroying roads and railways, and attacking transport teams, forcing him to withdraw troops to ensure logistics.

Therefore, he had to either give up the safety of logistics and railway lines and concentrate his forces to destroy the main force of the Eighth Route Army here; or he could only let the Sakata Regiment die in vain! The key point is that the Eighth Route Army is alive. It has been a few days. Wouldn’t the Eighth Route Army stay where they are and wait for him to fight? They have already moved away during this period of time. Where can he find them?
Even if they went to find the main force of the Eighth Route Army, wouldn't the Eighth Route Army set up another trap? The imperial soldiers who had left the city, the stronghold, and the transportation line were not as familiar with the terrain as the Eighth Route Army in the mountains! Mei Jin had already realized this during the siege of Mount Wutai!

Moreover, there was another factor he had to consider! Although the 5 troops before the war could be mobilized, up to now, these 5 troops had been dispersed to various battlefields and stationed in counties such as Changzhi and Qinxian. It was necessary to disperse the troops to complete the control of the railway line. Just to maintain the railway line, at least one division of troops would be required!

These newly occupied railway troops cannot be transferred! Because they are still fighting with the Eighth Route Army, wouldn't withdrawing them give the Eighth Route Army a chance to counterattack?

"Why are the Eighth Route Army so tenacious? Can't they learn from the Central Army and the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, be defeated in one battle, and then flee to other places?" When he found that he really couldn't mobilize troops, Mei Jin couldn't help but sigh... The Eighth Route Army didn't know about Mei Jin's situation. However, the newspaper that was widely distributed in the enemy-occupied areas and the Kuomintang-controlled areas played a great response!
The power of propaganda is very strong, and everyone knows this! But now most of the newspapers are controlled by Guo Fu, and the Eighth Route Army is very poor. Therefore, under the suggestion of Minister Zhang, the headquarters simply published a leaflet-like newspaper to tell the people that the devils are not scary, and we, the Eighth Route Army, are taking action!

"Damn it..." A bald guy also saw the newspaper that the intelligence department sent to the camp overnight, and cursed in his standard curse tone after reading it. At this moment, the Japanese maintained a relatively mild strategy with him, and he also prepared a lot of forces to be mobilized to Xi'an, but put various miscellaneous troops on the front line of the anti-Japanese war.

So, at this moment, he was thinking whether to find a chance to wipe out the red group! If things continue like this, it will become a serious problem! As for the anti-Japanese war? Just write it in the diary. Darling has deposited the money for buying the plane into the bank. What's the big deal?

Unlike this bald man, other civilians were delighted after hearing the news!
The front line lost the battle, and the front line lost the battle again. Taxes were levied, and taxes were levied again. The conscripts were conscripted, and conscripts were conscripted again... Amidst all the bad news, there was finally a good news. The people were happy! Even though this joy was very far away from them, they knew that there was still a group of people fighting the war, winning the battle, and destroying the Japanese devils...

“What’s the point of studying for us students? Even though those people have blocked the traffic and prevented us from going to the front line of the War of Resistance, are we just giving up? No, classmates, we must go to northern Shaanxi, to the place where the real resistance against Japan is taking place…” The ambitious students once again embarked on the path that their seniors had taken and headed towards northern Shaanxi.

While the outside world is in turmoil, Liangjia Village is also bustling with activity!

After three days of recruiting, the guerrillas recruited another 300 soldiers. At this time, they had completed the enlistment and were assigned to training platoons and were ready for training.

While recruiting new soldiers, the chief of staff Zhu Xingyu, along with several staff members he borrowed from Xiao Fengyun, and under the protection of the guards platoon, took the original women of Liangjia Village and went deep into the surrounding villages to set up women's rescue associations, militias, village cadres, and production groups for mutual assistance.

That's right, originally the guerrillas were few in number and had to perform defensive tasks, so they didn't intervene too much in the surrounding villages. Now, there are enough people and time, and it's time to build these.

Developing mass work has always been our forte. After all, we all come from the masses, and the military and the people are one family!

Li Yuexuan thought that he was not capable of such a job, and no one asked him to do such a thing. So, Li Yuexuan became an instructor again.

Xiao Fengyun was also busy! Since we were going to set up a militia, we had to give them weapons! We had seized a lot of weapons from the puppet army, so it was no problem to distribute them to the militia, but we had to equip them with grenades! So, the production of the trigger fuze continued, the young and old men continued to cast shells, and the sisters-in-law stopped making military shoes. We continued to assemble the grenades...

In the original workshop, although there are no skilled workers from the headquarters, don't we have two senior fitters? Give them a few soldiers to continue to operate the machine and continue to rub the semi-automatic by hand! There is also an engine, which is easy to turn. We also have the transmission belt. Remove the pulley from the car, remove the bearing from the car... Well, continue to study.

Thus, in a tacit understanding, these guerrilla cadres each had their own responsibilities.

Zhao Danian was responsible for commanding the overall situation, Zhu Xingyu was responsible for mass work, Xing Weiguo was responsible for training, Xiao Fengyun was in charge of production, and Li Yuexuan revised the training of the grenade launchers, replacing the knowledge of the Type 89 grenade launcher with the knowledge of the Dinglong grenade launcher, so that the guerrillas could be fully equipped with the Dinglong grenade launcher.

In short, everyone was busy with their own work, and the guerrilla work was progressing rapidly.

The guerrillas were training here, and the first company was also training here! They did not recruit soldiers from the same place as the guerrillas, but went west and south, recruiting soldiers from other villages, conscripting local young people into the army.

While they were busy with production, training and development, Li Yunlong led the New 1st Regiment to be responsible for the protection of the surrounding area. He also armed the independent regiment that had regrouped and arrived.

That’s right, after escaping from the 2nd Battalion of the Sakata Regiment for a few days, Lao Kong from the Independent Regiment finally regrouped and returned to Liangjia Village.

Of course, from now on, the Sakata Regiment will disappear from the Japanese organization. It depends on how the Japanese arrange the surviving 2nd Battalion! Maybe, by adding some new recruits and changing the number, a new regiment can be formed? Or maybe, it will be directly downgraded and transferred to an independent mixed brigade.

A few days passed quickly like this. Li Yuexuan had finished training his own grenade throwers, and there was no sign of any revenge from the Japanese, so everyone felt relieved.

So, in the fields that were destroyed by the Japanese invaders, the people were busy again. It was still July, and we could still get some harvests by planting some corn! We could also get some harvests by planting beans and sweet potatoes. In short, people can't be idle, and the land can't rest! As long as we plant seeds, we will eventually get harvests.

Li Yuexuan thought that such days would continue until the Japanese's nine-way siege ended, and then everyone would continue to develop, but the phone rang.

Then, Li Yuexuan received a new task - to help at the Huangyadong Arsenal.

That's right, Li Yuexuan was seconded to the arsenal that the Eighth Route Army was building in Huangyadong to help the arsenal for a period of time until the arsenal can resume normal production.

(End of this chapter)