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Chapter 561 Chapter 560, everyone is so active.

Rumble... The truck started to move along the valley towards Baijing Town and returned to the base. The group that had originally marched to the Guguan Great Wall on foot returned as a small team riding in a truck, which was also a good upgrade. Of course, their record this time was also good. In total, they eliminated 29 Japanese soldiers and 12 puppet troops, and blew up two bunkers that were in the way.

Captured? Enough food for the Japanese in the stronghold for half a month! There were grains, pork, and some bullets to replenish the stronghold, about 5000 rounds.

On the road east of Baijing Town, roughly north of Liangjia Village, Wang Quan and his men slowed down as they drove back, and some soldiers even stood in the truck bed with half of their bodies exposed, fearing that they would be misunderstood by the sentinels. Fortunately, the sentinels had binoculars and could easily identify them as their own people.

Rumble... A platoon of cavalry came over and circled the truck. Wang Quan and his men decisively got off the truck, handed the truck to the cavalry, and then returned to Guguan. Before leaving, they did not forget to take away 200 rounds of ammunition as a supplement for the previous battle.

Not long after, the four trucks were driven back to Liangjia Village and parked in the wild fields west of the village. In the middle of winter, there was nothing in the sweet potato fields, so it was no problem to park the trucks temporarily.

"It's only been less than a day, right? We've already achieved more than 40 victories? That's pretty good!" Seeing the newly captured supplies and trucks, and listening to the battle reports relayed by the cavalrymen, Lu Xiaoran exclaimed with emotion.

Just as he was sighing, three sniper teams also arrived on the road from Dongyetou to the Jiulongguan stronghold in Zanhuang. They were from the 9th Company of the 9rd Squadron. The th Company Commander Zhu Dantong personally led the mortar squad to follow them. It seemed that they were worried about the actions of the soldiers, or perhaps the company commanders wanted to kill the enemy with their own hands. In short, the company commanders were very involved in this operation.

Unlike Bai Dabao, who only had three small teams, the 9th Company's action was to have an additional team of more than 3 people in addition to the three small teams. Yes, it was a team of more than 200 people, but they were not the regular army of the 200th Brigade, nor the basic regiment of the first division, but the militia of Dongyetou and Kong's side.

"Comrade militia, we are just going to fire a few shots and kill some Japanese soldiers and then retreat. Why are you following us?" Zhu Dantong had a smile on half of his face and various scars on the other half, which was quite intimidating.

"9th Company, the kids in our village are serving in the army, right? We have been looking forward to you coming out to fight the Japanese for a long time, why don't you follow and see?" said an old man.

"Yes, yes. You can ask us about the situation of the Japanese convoy. We are familiar with this. Is it okay for us to lead the way for you? We have brought our own dry food. We won't eat yours."

"That's right. We have long been annoyed with the Japanese convoys! The Japanese convoys of your ancestors were transporting things to Jiulongguan. They never slowed down when passing through. They killed several people in our village!"

"Don't think we don't know that the Dongyetou stronghold was taken down by you. Now it's Jiulongguan's turn. We have to see it with our own eyes!"

The militiamen were talking to each other, and the scene was a bit chaotic. Zhu Dantong didn't know what to say. Why were the militiamen so smart? And they followed so actively, wasn't this just causing trouble?
As the team went further and further, some militiamen brought their own weapons and food and joined the team, which expanded the entire team to more than 300 people.

"This won't do. It was originally a secret operation, but with this commotion it becomes a blatant attack." When Zhu Dantong was worrying, the sound of horse hooves was heard. It turned out to be the communications soldier of the 385th Brigade.

"Captain of the 9th Company, our brigade commander has heard about your situation! Our brigade commander said that since the militiamen are actively involved, we might as well make it bigger and provide cover for comrades in other directions! Don't worry, Captain Kong of the 14th Regiment is coming with his troops, and our brigade's heavy troops will also come!" The signalman explained the situation. "No, this way..." Zhu Dantong really didn't know what to say, because this matter was no longer under his control. The key point is, is it really okay to fight like this?

"Captain of the 9th Company, let's talk here..." The signalman pulled Zhu Dantong aside and whispered, "Our brigade commander said that after the New Year, we will most likely have to send troops to southern Hebei, and it will be perfect to go through Jiulong Pass! If we take Jiulong Pass now and control it in our hands, we will have the strategic initiative! By the way, last night, the 769th Regiment crossed the mountain and went to Zanhuang."

"The 769th Regiment is going there? Are they planning to set an ambush?" Zhu Dantong understood the strategic intention of Brigade Commander Chen.

"That's right. After you go over, we'll still follow your pace in the early stages. That is, put pressure on the Japanese and scare them so that they have to call for help! We'll take care of the rest!"

"Well, okay!" What could Zhu Dantong say? She could only passively accept it.

Jingxing County, as an important resource-producing area, a satellite county of Shimen City, and a county with the Zhengtai Line passing through it, naturally has a lot of garrisons! The 110th Division deployed a battalion of troops here, and also assigned a battalion of the Imperial Army to assist in the defense.

Of course, this was the force in the past, there aren't that many now! Didn't the Japs send troops to attack the headquarters? They transferred half of the troops here, causing the defense capability here to drop by half.

Therefore, after receiving two telegrams for help from the Guguan Great Wall stronghold, Captain Matsui, who was in charge of the city defense, was at a loss! You said you wouldn't send troops? Guguan Great Wall was in danger, and it was very likely to be taken by the Eighth Route Army! Send troops? On the one hand, he was worried that he would be ambushed by the Eighth Route Army halfway, and on the other hand, he was worried that if he was sent out, what would happen if the Eighth Route Army attacked the county town? He also knew about luring the tiger away from the mountain!

Fortunately, the final development of the matter did not go in a bad direction, because 10 minutes after receiving the telegram for help, the Guguan Great Wall stronghold sent another telegram saying that the Eighth Route Army had been repelled. Although the stronghold lost a lot of troops, it still reported this important stronghold. This telegram made Matsui breathe a sigh of relief.

However, it seems a little too early to send it all at once...

Ding-ling-ling... At one o'clock in the afternoon, the phone at the city defense headquarters rang. The operator picked up the phone and heard an anxious voice: "Moses Moses, we are in the mining area. We are being attacked by the Eighth Route Army. Our duty room was blown up by a bomb. 39 people in the mining protection team were killed. The Eighth Route Army is attacking. Please...ah..."

"Moses, are you okay?" The operator heard the gunshot and quickly put down the phone to report. As soon as he put down the phone, the ringing sounded again.

"Moses, we are at Beiguan Station. We were bombed by mortars. More than 20 people from the route-finding team were killed. The Eighth Route Army also opened fire on us..."

"Moses, we are from Nan Zhang, we have been…"

(End of this chapter)