Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Chapter 542 Chapter 541, Action
It was already February of 1942, and today was the Little New Year, so the soldiers were very eager to defeat the Japanese and then go home to celebrate the New Year.

Of course, these are just the thoughts of ordinary soldiers. Many guerrilla cadres think that we should quickly bring back the train axles and equip the team with a few more mortars.

However, Li Yuexuan's ideas were somewhat different from theirs! Knowing the historical trend of the Anti-Japanese War, he knew that this year would not be an easy year! After the old devil Okamura Ningji took office, he formulated the Three Alls Policy and launched continuous raids, intending to use China as their food base and arsenal for the Pacific War.

Don't doubt this. For example, where did the troops of the 20th Division and Shigeto's detachment come from in the puppet Manchukuo and Taiwan that they control now? Just think about it and you will understand!
Therefore, although the Japanese were fighting in the Pacific War, Southeast Asia, and Australia, their military strength in China, especially in North China, did not decrease at all, and always maintained a number of hundreds of thousands. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the Pacific War and cooperate with the Navy's battle, the Japanese Army needed to turn North China into their security zone so that they could plunder food and other supplies from here.

How to turn North China into a safe zone? That is to sweep, sweep, and sweep continuously, and then combine it with the cage policy, first turn the base into a no-man's land, and then move people from other places to grow food...

Of course, this was just Okamura Neiji's wishful thinking. Our Eighth Route Army didn't care about him! So although the Japanese raids were brutal and many bases were compressed, the enthusiasm for the war of resistance did not decrease at all, and the resistance continued.

So, there was the May Day mop-up, and there were also spring and summer mops targeting the Taihang area...and of course, the most tragic thing this year was the Great Famine!

Li Yuexuan had no way to intervene in the Great Famine, and even the Eighth Route Army could not intervene. After all, that was the territory controlled by Tom Cruise, and no one else was allowed to interfere.

But what about other things? Li Yuexuan thought that with the rapid development in recent years, the Eighth Route Army would definitely not be as difficult as in the original history! For example, Li Yunlong's independent regiment, they have no shortage of ammunition, right? A sharpshooter like Xizi is even equipped with a sniper rifle, how strong can their combat effectiveness be?

Moreover, the independent regiment has a large number of assault rifles, semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, shotgun cannons, light and heavy machine guns... In short, this is much stronger than the equipment of the new regiment mentioned by Ding Wei in the TV series! Therefore, Li Yuexuan is looking forward to how the independent regiment will give the devils a hard blow when breaking through the devil's blockade, instead of being chased!
What is the key point? The tactics of tunnel warfare and mine warfare proposed by Li Yuexuan a few years ago have been widely deployed in the base area at this time! Whether it is mine warfare or tunnel warfare, this is a military teaching film. Li Yuexuan has watched it since he was a child. It is the lessons and experience gained by the ancestors with blood!
What about now? Our ancestors didn't have to shed blood. Even years earlier, there were theoretical books to support the actual Liangjiacun tunnel system as a reference. So how many tunnels were there in all the bases in Jizhong, Jinan, Jidong, Jiaodong, Lunan, Pingxi, Beiyue, Taiyue, Taiyuenan...? How many militiamen were carrying mines and digging pits to bomb the devils? There was no way to count this!
Li Yuexuan never thought that his command and tactical adaptability were very good. He just stood on the shoulders of his predecessors and mastered the theoretical system summarized by their experience and lessons. Now, he has returned these theoretical systems to his predecessors, and they will continue to develop them... Maybe there will be better tactics?
Moreover, so many arsenals have been built and have been producing for more than two years. We are not as short of weapons and ammunition as in the original world. This is very important!
Just as Li Yuexuan was thinking about the future and looking forward to the end of this year, when we would also attack the artillery tower and let the devils exchange their lives for food, the soldiers of the third team had already appeared on the mountain south of the railway along the mountain road. Of course, the special forces were already waiting for them here and had mastered the operation rules of the devils' trains.

"Captain, a train will pass by here at 9 am. The river here is winding, and the railway track just turns to the south, so this is the most suitable location!" 3 kilometers east of Yanhui Station, Tianchuan reported the results of their investigation to Chen Changsheng and also gave the most suitable ambush location.

"The Yanhui Station in the west was attacked by Lao Guo and his men from the 2nd Regiment of the 14st Division. Who is coming from the east?" Chen Changsheng asked. "The th Regiment is our old friend. Commander Kong is waiting at Hulupo. If we start fighting here, the Japanese at Xiapanshi Station will be bombarded!" Tian Chuan laughed.

"So, when we get here, we just need to bury explosives on the railway, blow up the train, and then steal the train!" Chen Changsheng knew that things were very simple, but it was a bit too simple.

"Captain, you are wrong. The burying of explosives is also done by comrades from the engineering company! The engineering company has just been established, and this is the time for it to make achievements!" said Tianchuan.

"...Okay, you guys take action!...I feel like I, as the squad leader, am completely redundant..." Chen Changsheng said the second half of the sentence to himself in his heart. This was his true feeling.

After they finished talking, the newly formed engineering company of the Beishan guerrillas stepped out of the team and, under the command of Jiang Daquan, began to approach the barbed wire fence beside the Japanese railway.

Jiang Daquan was also an old guerrilla fighter. All his comrades, except those in the special operations team, were either company commanders or deputy company commanders, and they had also grown up. Jiang Daquan had been with Li Yuexuan for a long time and had many skills, so he naturally became the company commander of the engineering company.

The engineering company is not an engineering corps or a construction team. The engineering company has to deal with landmines and directional mines, so it is also combat-capable! Moreover, if used well, the combat effectiveness is not low.

Snap, snap... The soldiers carefully made a hole in the wire mesh, but they didn't make it too big, but just a small hole that could accommodate two people. After the hole was made, more than a dozen soldiers crawled through the wire mesh, walked on the river ice from the dry river, and came to the bend of the railway.

With their pickaxes and shovels, the soldiers dug underground, finally finding a pit that could hold 5 kg of explosives. Then, they put about 3 kg of explosives in it, and a special bomb was placed on top of the explosives, and the soldiers buried it.

(End of this chapter)