Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Kong Jie was not a top student who graduated from a military academy, but with many years of experience in fighting, he could still analyze some situations! After all, it was impossible for a military cadre who grew up in an environment of being surrounded and encircled to survive hundreds of battles to survive to this day without knowing how to fight!
In fact, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army had several opportunities to reverse the situation, at least it could be better than the current situation! For example, during the Tianzhen battle, Li Fuying, the leader of the Thirteen Guardians, fought bravely, but was secretly ordered by Yan Laoxi to retreat and was finally killed unjustly, which is really a pity! But what is the truth behind it? It is that Yan Laoxi embezzled most of the money given by the bald man to build national defense fortifications and made money.

Without the money to repair the fortifications, you can imagine how strong Li Fuying's national defense fortifications were! Although Li Fuying tried hard to maintain the situation, he was wrongly killed!
With the previous experience of Li Fuying, would the remaining twelve guards still dare to risk their lives and obey? Therefore, during the defense of Yuanping, the 19th Army in Gang County, north of Yuanping, saw that they were defeated and took the initiative to withdraw, leaving the main force of the devil to be dealt with by the 196th Brigade of Yuanpin.

The result was that all the officers and soldiers of the 196th Brigade, led by Brigadier General Jiang Yuzhen, fought bloody battles for 10 days and nights, giving the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army the final dignity. In fact, Brigadier General Jiang was helpless, after all, he was from Shandong, not the direct lineage in the eyes of Yan Laoxi, and there was always a gap.

Then the funny thing is the third chance! The second time was the Battle of Xinkou, and the third time was after the Japanese occupied Taiyuan, and launched an attack on Han Xin's headquarters guarded by the Central Army in February 38. More than 2 Japanese troops were mobilized, and Commander Wei fought bloody battles for 10 days and nights.

At this time, the defense of Taiyuan was actually empty, and the Jinsui Army in Luliang Mountain could have attacked to recapture Taiyuan and cut off the enemy's retreat. Unfortunately, the secret telegram was leaked by the spy around Yan Laoxi, and the enemy was also on guard. And this spy was also a fellow villager of Yan Laoxi, both from Wutai...

Well, when talking about the key points of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, we have to mention a place called Ma'an Fortress. The national defense fortifications there were not cut corners at all, but were delayed in vain by incompetent generals.

After Kong Jie commented on the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army in Guangyang, the team continued to move forward, and then followed the dilapidated road to Songta Town in the west.

Songta Town is very close to Mafang given by the headquarters, just over 30 miles north of Mafang. In fact, in 37, the headquarters was stationed near Mafang, and then the Japanese launched a six-way siege here, but were eventually beaten back! In that battle, we invented the sparrow war, and eventually popularized it throughout the army.

Zhao Danian went out to establish the guerrillas at this point! At that time, many companies were sent out, led by some cadres to establish bases, and later developed into the current situation. For example, the head of the division teaching regiment was ordered to serve as the leader of the advance detachment of the 1th Division in January, and led more than 129 company and platoon cadres from Heshun, Shanxi to the Taihang Mountains to develop revolutionary armed forces and open up anti-Japanese bases, and quickly opened up the anti-Japanese situation in western Hebei.

Of course, Zhao Danian and his team were very small at the beginning, and their main purpose was to leave a force in the Pingdong area and then slowly develop it, just in time to provide support for the team going to Jixi. The result is that the original guerrilla team has become the current Beishan Detachment.

Life is like a game of chess, unpredictable! When Kong Jie and his party arrived at Songta Town, it was almost evening, and it was not a good idea to go south to Mafang in the dark.

That night, Kong Jie studied the map and made a bold decision - Songta is good, Kong Jie will defend it! "Defending Songta Town? Isn't that a bad idea?" The one who questioned was the deputy head of the regiment, Xing Weiguo. Yes, it was the deputy head of our guerrilla team, Xing, who was now with Kong Jie. It was a pity that Kong Jie was unable to return to Liangjia Village when he passed by it, and could only chat with the old guerrillas in Weijia Village.

Therefore, the reason why the quick reaction company was lent to the new second regiment for a period of time was not taken into consideration. Kong Jie's reputation was not as big as Xing Weiguo's in Li Yuexuan's group!
"Political Commissar, what do you think? We set up the regiment headquarters in Songta Town, which will just form a corner with the local regiment in Mafang in the south, and can also control the road from Yuci to Xiyang." Kong Jie did not look at Xing Weiguo first, but looked at his own Political Commissar Zhang.

"You all know the situation of our regiment. What we need urgently now is rest, not fighting! But then again, it doesn't matter where we rest. From what we have seen along the way, the conditions in Mafang in the south are not much better! We fought a battle with the Japanese to rush to harvest in the autumn, and we still have some food in reserve. If we save it, it can last until the end of the year! I agree with the regiment commander's opinion and we will garrison in Songta Town."

"Since you two agree, I will keep my opinion." Xing Weiguo sighed and said, "Actually, what I want to say is that we can go a distance to the north and establish a garrison for the regiment in the mountains to the north, and then send a company of troops to Songta. In this way, we can respond to the sudden attack of the devils at any time, and also approach Shouyang to expand the base."

"Hmm..." The political commissar pondered for a moment, looked at the railway line on the map again, and then said, "This is not impossible. We can build the regiment headquarters from the north. We can attack the railway line to the north and west. It's a good place! But it's close to the railway line, so it's easier for the enemy to attack us!"

"No, let's do it according to Lao Xing's method! Li Yunlong dares to put the regiment headquarters next to the railway. I, Kong Jie, am not afraid of him!" Kong Jie got into a fool's mood.

"Captain, their independent regiment is in Zhaojiayugou, and the Beishan Detachment is more than 20 miles behind them. They have a backer! We are different..." Xing Weiguo said.

"Then let's go north! Along the way, we've learned some things. The Japanese occasionally pass through Songta Town and Nianshang Town to deliver some supplies to Xiyang. We stay in the north and attack the Japanese traffic line on the Songta line, directly cutting off a passage to the west from Ping'an and Xiyang counties! If we attack the Japanese traffic line and they want to retaliate, we can use a small force to lead them to the south."

"Then, we will go south from the north and block the Japanese troops pursuing and retaliating in the mountains north of Mafang, and we can defeat them again!" Kong Jie stated his intention.

"Since the regiment commander has a mature idea, let's pretend to go south and then secretly go north! There are not many people in Songta Town now, but we have to be on guard against the Japanese spies here!" Political Commissar Zhang thought about it and made a safer decision. (End of this chapter)