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Chapter 394 Chapter 393, What is this?

There were no fierce battles, no charges to the death, no hand-to-hand combat, and no artillery battles with shells cutting through the night sky... Although tonight is a sleepless night, this sleepless night is so peaceful, it does not seem to be in wartime!

Of course, the above only reflected the feeling of the independent regiment and the guerrillas. The other fronts were much more lively. After all, not everyone had an elite team like the special operations team to clear out targets along the way. Therefore, other places were often close combats with guns and bullets flying back and forth and grenades flying back and forth.

For example, in Niangzi Pass, Yuci, and other locations, the Eighth Route Army units participating in the attack launched fierce night attacks on the Japanese devils. In a short period of time, they captured a large number of strongholds, blew up countless railway bridges, and took away some supplies stockpiled at the stations.

In this day and age, only the Eighth Route Army could organize a raid of this scale within a radius of hundreds of kilometers, with all units cooperating in an orderly manner and even with many troops participating voluntarily!

In just a few hours, the North China Front Army received numerous telegrams and phone calls reporting the attacks. The Zhengtai Line, from Niangziguan in the east to Yucidong in the west, was attacked and damaged. At the same time, the Tongpu Railway in the north of Taiyuan, the area around Yushe Liaoxian County deep into the Eighth Route Army base, and the Pinghan Railway in the east were all attacked to varying degrees.

Such intensive attacks and such severe blows made it impossible for the Japanese in the entire North China to make a specific judgment on where the focus of the Eighth Route Army's attack was.

"Okay, comrades, fellow villagers, quickly take these rails back and send them back to our base overnight. There will be people to pick them up in Zhaojiayu in the south!" At Yanhui Station, Political Commissar Zhao personally directed the people.

Zhaojiayu is located in the mountains south of Yanhui Station, about a few miles away. A few kilometers southeast of Zhaojiayu is Baijing Town. Therefore, Baijing Town and Qiaotou Village to the west of Baijing Town became important locations for defending against the Japanese counterattack.

Do you know why Captain Guo and his men couldn't participate in the raid here? They had to guard the bridgehead, Yin Jiulang Village, and the two passages leading to Liangjia Village. At the same time, they had to take control of Baijing Town to ensure that the rails could smoothly pass through the distance of more than 20 miles and reach Liangjia Village.

When Political Commissar Zhao personally gave the order to direct the people to evacuate, Li Yunlong also returned to Yanhui Station from the eastern railway line. Looking at the people lined up in a long line, looking at the rails carried by the people on wooden poles, and looking at the food looted from the stronghold being carefully carried by the people, Li Yunlong smiled with satisfaction.

"The Japs are just like that. Come on, follow me to the western mountain and defend it. The Japs won't be able to attack us!" Li Yunlong nodded to Political Commissar Zhao and led his men to the western hill.

The location of the hill on the west is very important, because the bottom of the hill is the narrowest section of the Taohe River Valley, and it is also the location of a big bend. From Yanhui's side, the river valley is east-west, but after passing the hill on the west, it turns north-south after several jagged bends... Does this terrain look familiar? Yes, it is similar to the terrain on the west side of Heshanggou.

Of course, the ditch here is deeper and wider, and there is a railway passing through it, as well as Taohe River. There is also a Longzhuang Village at the foot of the mountain and a Tuoliu Station to the south. It is an expanded version of the entire Heshanggou terrain.

Therefore, as long as we hold this nameless hill, the area from here to the east all the way to Niangzi Pass will be a safe area, and the people can safely climb up the railway and carry the tracks back.

The moon was already high in the sky, and Li Yunlong and his men did not need to light torches to illuminate the battlefield. They successfully reached the positions of the First Battalion and the Second Company of the Guerrillas. In the moonlight, figures holding guns looked at the Tao River hundreds of meters below the mountain, at the vaguely visible railway line, and waited for the battle that might happen.

"Captain, the commander is here..." Someone shouted in the dark night, but was quickly stopped. Li Yunlong quietly went to the hill closest to the turbulence station and met Li Yuexuan and others.

"Little...Peregrine, what are you tinkering with?" In the moonlight, Li Yunlong saw Li Yuexuan busying himself in front of something that looked like a cannon. The key point was that the top of the cannon was not empty, but was topped with a huge iron can. For a moment, he couldn't tell what it was used for.

"Haha, Captain Li, you're here at the right time. It took me a lot of effort to move it up the mountain. We are so tired!" Li Yuexuan stood up and greeted Li Yunlong.

"Is this a cannon? It doesn't look like a cannon, but it does look a bit interesting. It does look like a cannon, but it doesn't look like that. What on earth is this thing..." Li Yunlong was obviously more interested in this strange thing in front of him than in Li Yuexuan, and he kept circling around it.

"Captain, don't think about it. When the opportunity comes, I will demonstrate it to you and you will understand it! Come and see this..." Li Yuexuan grabbed Li Yunlong and asked him to follow her with a smile.

"Hehe, boy, I haven't seen you for such a long time, and you have come up with a lot of good things! But little...that Peregrine, you can't always tinker with these worthless things. Look at this semi-automatic and this carbine rifle. These are the good stuff. Don't you want to tinker with some more for our army?" Li Yunlong muttered softly as he followed Li Yuexuan.

Li Yunlong's voice was very low, and only he and Li Yuexuan could hear it, but the soldiers around him could see their commander being pulled away and seemed very happy.

"Battalion commander, who is this Comrade Peregrine? He can pull a tangle with our regiment commander, and our regiment commander is not angry? If it were someone else, he would have kicked his butt with his big feet..." An old soldier of the independent regiment asked Xing Weiguo in a low voice at a heavy machine gun position on a small hill.

"What's his background? That's a big one! Let me put it this way, the number of Japanese killed by our regiment last year is not as much as his achievement alone. What's his background?" Xing Weiguo was very proud.

"Scary... Such a powerful person? Is he still a human being? Battalion commander, can you tell me more about him? Is there such a powerful person in our team?" The soldiers around whispered.

"Tell me about it? Okay, the battle hasn't started yet, so I'll just pick out what I can tell you! Last year, we went to the Baijin Railway to attack the Japanese stronghold..."

"Peregrine, isn't this a mortar? Seeing this reminds me of my Zhuzi. Ding Wei, that black-hearted guy, wouldn't even give me five Type 5 light machine guns in exchange for one!" At this time, Li Yunlong came to the artillery platoon's position and saw the loaded long-barreled grenade.

(End of this chapter)