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Chapter 420 Chapter 419, Accumulate strength and rebuild your home

The Eighth Route Army issued an order at the end of July to stockpile and distribute combat supplies. After nearly a month of preparation, it mobilized dozens of regiments to participate in the war and finally won the first phase of the Hundred Regiments Campaign!
Because of Yangquan's containment, the Japanese's original sneak attack plan against the 129th Division headquarters was aborted, and the Juanyugou battle did not take place. On the other hand, because the Japanese were eager to capture Yangquan, they could only mobilize troops from both ends of the Zhengtai Line and the counties to the north and south, which unconsciously became a tactic of adding fuel to the fire.

At this time, the role of a guy who was the captain of the team was revealed! Because of Li Yuexuan's various tricks, the arsenal of the Eighth Route Army went online in advance, providing a large number of weapons and ammunition for this war! Apart from anything else, a large number of grenades, although bulky but easy-to-use shotguns, can greatly hit the enemy's vitality!

If we add to that the more than 9000 Type cavalry rifles that have been produced and the thousands of semi-automatic weapons, the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army will be greatly enhanced!
Therefore, after the statistical data of the first phase of the battle were summarized, the heads of the headquarters as well as the division commanders, brigade commanders, and regiment commanders who participated in the battle were all stunned!

"We captured a county town, eliminated more than 500 strongholds and checkpoints of all sizes, blew up more than 400 bridges, demolished and destroyed hundreds of kilometers of railways and roads, annihilated and killed more than 5000 Japanese soldiers, more than 200 puppet soldiers, captured more than 4000 puppet soldiers, rescued more than 8000 laborers and more than 1000 women, and seized supplies..."

"Well, for now, the matter of supplies can only be described as huge! After all, the food pulled out from Yangquan alone is calculated in hundreds of tons, at least 800 to 1000 tons! After all, that is the food reserve of a brigade of the devils for the next six months, and we have seized all of it! In addition, there are the grain stores opened by the Japanese devils and the warehouses of the military farms that were seized as reported in the newspaper."

"With this large amount of captured food, our 5000-man army will have no problem eating for half a year!"

"In addition to food, there are also medical equipment, surgical equipment, experimental equipment, various pills, potions, surgical gowns, etc. for the Japanese field hospital. Our field hospital will be fully stocked in no time!"

"The best news is the seizure of equipment and the collection of materials! These past few days, I have contacted the person in charge of the Liangjia Village Arsenal. Based on the analysis of the seized equipment, I have given them two months to arrange production. The production capacity can be increased threefold! This increase refers to the production capacity of firearms, grenade launchers, and grenades. Other products can also be increased simultaneously..."

"In short, after the first phase of the battle, our Eighth Route Army has been greatly strengthened! Although casualties are inevitable in battle, our casualties are much smaller than those of the Japanese, so we have gained a lot!"

"And our next task is to digest and absorb the captured materials while the Japanese haven't reacted yet, continue to strengthen our team, and prepare for the second phase of the battle!" In the headquarters conference room, the deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army excitedly recounted the gains of this battle.

"Well, our first step went smoothly! Now that the devils have reacted, we will temporarily retreat and recuperate before the battle! During this time, we should also strengthen the local armed forces in each base area! In this war, the people actively participated, and the young and strong became the main force in destroying railways and roads and transporting rails and sleepers."

"Based on the performance of the people, we can see that the people have been organized and have basic organizational strength! What we need to do is to continue to rely on the masses, arm the masses, let the masses stand with us forever, and let the Japanese invaders fall into the vast ocean of people's war!"

The summary meeting at headquarters lasted a whole day. No specific content was issued, but the overall meaning was to accumulate strength and continue to work hard!
In Yinjiulang Village, the original ruins have been cleared out, and the people who returned from other villages are busy with various tools in their hands. "Old clan uncle, the foundation has been cleared, the mortar has been prepared, and the bricks have been moved to the location. When do we start?" Someone asked the elderly clan leader Yin Xingbang at the original location of the village ancestral hall.

"Today is a good time to rebuild the ancestral hall! Come, offer sacrifices and bring out the tablets of our ancestors. Let them enjoy the incense and offerings from their descendants first, and then we'll start work right away!" Yin Xingbang didn't care about the rules of the older generation and just followed the rules he made.

Then, the ancestral tablets were placed out one by one, but the first ones to enjoy the incense were the men from Yin Jiulang Village who joined the Eighth Route Army and died on the battlefield!
Using the secretly brought back Japanese skull as blood food, these men should be smiling when they enjoy the incense in the afterlife, right?
After the simple memorial ceremony was completed, the old patriarch personally placed a city gate brick on the mortar, indicating that the construction of the ancestral hall had begun. Then he contentedly leaned on his crutches and, supported by his children and grandchildren, patrolled the village.

"These bricks are all top-quality blue bricks. In the past, we poor people couldn't afford them. We could only use adobe to build houses! Now, each family can get some. At a height of three feet and three centimeters from the ground, all blue bricks are used as walls! Remember, you must consult the comrades of the Eighth Route Army about where to leave the firing holes and how to repair the partition walls. You must find out everything clearly!"

"The soil in our village is shallow, so we can't use the underground tunnel method, but we must have a secret passage to get out of the village! Once the Japanese surround the village, we will run to Weijia Village, and then take the underground tunnel to Jigongling..."

Under the command of the old patriarch, Yinjiulang Village finally reappeared in the world, allowing people who had been away from home for a long time to have their own home again.

Things like Yin Jiulang Village are not isolated cases! After confirming the power of the Eighth Route Army and knowing that they can live in peace, some villages destroyed by the devils were rebuilt.

Of course, when these newly renovated villages were first renovated, the first thing the people thought of was how to strengthen the village's defense! So, the troops that had just completed the attack became construction instructors, directing the villagers to renovate the village according to the best defense system, so that they could give the strongest blow when the Japanese came!

Liangjia Village, east of the village, in the woods, the guerrilla cadres gathered here and were also carrying out construction guidance work!

Because there are so many newly added equipment, the village may not be able to accommodate them all, so we can only build some new factories outside the village!
These factories must be coordinated and synchronized with the village's defense system! Therefore, the woods east of the village became the best choice!

(End of this chapter)