Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Back then, when the Beishan Detachment was still a guerrilla force, it helped fight against mopping-up operations in the Beiyue District. The New 1st Regiment also went to help, and that's how Li Yuexuan joined.

Now, after receiving the order from the headquarters, the main force regiment that had just fought a border battle and jumped to the vicinity of Yun County was ordered by the leaders of Beiyue District to go to Yun County as a forward station to see the situation.

Well, Yun County is more than 60 miles away from Yangquan, and there are also some passages leading to the north, so the Japanese did not miss the opportunity to station a squadron in this county to ensure their own safety.

A squadron of devils, with more than 500 puppet troops, was enough to control a county town, and even set up some strongholds and artillery towers around it. Because the independent regiment had not yet extended its tentacles here, and the Beiyue District could move southwards along the road to the giant city in the east, this county town was not hit.

However, the troops in Beiyue District are thinking of gathering here at this time, and it is hard to say what will happen next.

In Peking, after replying to Nakajima Tokutaro's telegram, Okamura sat in a chair, pressing his temples with both hands to offset the headache caused by the surge in blood pressure.

"The Eighth Route Army mobilized five divisions to fight this battle?" Thinking of the data given by Nakajima in the telegram, Gangcun did not believe that the Eighth Route Army would mobilize five divisions. So far, the Eighth Route Army's apparent organization is still three divisions, which everyone knows. However, Gangcun, who has studied the Eighth Route Army for a long time, knows better that the so-called three divisions of the Eighth Route Army were indeed three divisions at the beginning, and even insufficient in strength.

But now, any division that is deployed must have the strength of an army group! Well, it has to be a reinforced army group!

Gangcun also controlled the Japanese intelligence system, and he was also a leader, so he knew something about the organization of the Eighth Route Army. However, after reading the numbers that the Eighth Route Army named themselves, Gangcun also had a headache. He couldn't tell who was who without thinking.

"So, the five divisions that Nakajima mentioned can only have more than 5 troops, and those who participated in the operation are probably just some regiment-level units, right? Ha, if the bald guy is used well, he might be able to save us a lot of manpower! After all, the bald guy's predecessor encircled and suppressed the Eighth Route Army five times, and there have been constant frictions in the past few years!"

"Sometimes I wonder, if we withdraw from China, leaving the Baldies and the Eighth Route Army behind, will they start a fight? Then we can come back to clean up the mess and reap the benefits?" Gangcun muttered to himself, and then he had an idea. He called the officer of the intelligence system and said, "You, spread the news that the Eighth Route Army now has 40 troops and is very powerful. I'm afraid they will soon be able to unify North China! Well, don't spread it, just give it to those people in the Central Army."

"General, will this work?" asked the intelligence officer in confusion.

"So what if it's useful? So what if it's useless? Hu Zongnan has stationed hundreds of thousands of troops in the Xi'an area, and the few 150mm heavy artillery of the Central Army has been allocated to him. Why? Do you really think he is preventing us from crossing the Yellow River? Wrong, he is heading for northern Shaanxi! So, to borrow an old Chinese saying - whether there is a jujube or not, try it twice!"

"Ha Yi...I'm afraid that the officers of the Central Army will be scared!" said the intelligence officer.

"No, they will only be scared by us, but not by the Eighth Route Army! Just send it out like this, don't let everyone know. After all, if the news spreads, it will have a greater negative impact on us, such as the loss of Yangquan City! You also need to urge the reinforcements from all directions to speed up their march and strive to retake Yangquan within 5 days! Also, fly the bombers over and blow up the city directly!"

'Ha Yi... "The intelligence officer retreated. "I know that the Eighth Route Army is under attack! But where did the Eighth Route Army's armored vehicles and tanks come from? Could it be aid provided by the Russians? Impossible, the Russians don't have that much financial resources, nor do they have that much energy to support the Eighth Route Army! And even if they really provide support, they will provide it to the bald guy!"

"It's also fortunate that the aid from the past two years was given to the bald man. Otherwise, depending on the combat effectiveness, command and strategic capabilities of the Eighth Route Army, we really can't say what the current war situation will be like."

"So, where did the Eighth Route Army's armored forces come from? Could it be that they were really captured from our vehicles?" Gangcun continued to rub his temples.

Just when Gangcun was having a headache, Li Yunlong and his team had received news that Nakajima Tokutaro had led dozens of devils out of the city. Soon, this news was sent to the headquarters along with the battle report, and then everyone continued to search for the remnants of the puppet army, the detective team, the puppet police, the chairman of the maintenance association and other traitors in the city.

At the same time, they were searching and checking the Japanese warehouses in the city. Yangquan was very rich. After all, it was the base of a brigade, and it had a rich reserve of supplies! Apart from other things, the military uniforms, food, ammunition, and weapons reserves were all prepared for a brigade.

Especially food and ammunition, which are the needs and reserves of a brigade for at least half a year! Ammunition is easy to deal with, but no matter whether the food is looted by the devils, bought from somewhere else, or produced domestically, as long as it is for the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade, it must be at least well-stocked in Yangquan, and then delivered to various garrisons through the transportation network of railways and roads.

How should I put it? Yangquan is more than 100 kilometers away from Taiyuan. If the grain and other things coming from the railway line are stored in Yangquan, it will save at least more than 100 kilometers of transportation costs. The Japanese will calculate this account.

Now, the devils were wiped out, driven away, and abandoned the city, and these stored materials were also preserved! So, the next thing is to transport the things!
In the south of the city, on the south side of Taohe River, near the train station, huge warehouses were built one after another, which contained the timber, ore and other materials that the Japanese had looted. The real food was stored in some warehouses near the east gate of the city. The Japanese had learned to be smart, and they knew that the train station was not safe, so they placed the key material of food inside the city.

The Japanese ammunition depot was also found in the military camp at the east gate.

After the location of the food and ammunition was determined, a telegram was sent and a convoy immediately drove over from Ping'an County, intending to take the food away first. The independent regiment also found the cars left behind by the devils in the city, and the cars that had previously pulled the mountain artillery out of the city were also retained, gathering a full capacity of 30 trucks.

Therefore, these vehicles were driven to the ammunition depot by the soldiers who could drive, and the ammunition was transported back to the base first.

The transportation here was hurried, but on the railway auxiliary road from Yangquan to the west, Zheng Changfeng, leading all the soldiers of the main first regiment and the soldiers of the artillery battalion, were also speeding up their march.

That's right, they are going to support the New Second Regiment. The telegram has been sent, and Lao Kong expressed his warm welcome. (End of this chapter)