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Chapter 735 Chapter 734, the main force's blocking
After dealing with some urgent matters, Li Yuexuan called Political Commissar Zhao and Li Yunlong to his side and handed over the work to them.

"Haha, Peregrine, you'd better go back quickly. It's not easy for us to have a great talent like you here! If you suffer any loss, we, Old Li, will be scolded to death by our comrades in the army!" Li Yunlong said in a joking tone.

"Okay, Old Li, you can't spit out any ivory from your broken mouth! Well, Comrade Peregrine, our commander is a rough guy, please don't be offended!" Political Commissar Zhao quickly tried to smooth things over.

"Political Commissar Zhao, you are worrying too much. When I first joined the Eighth Route Army, I followed the New First Regiment to fight. In a sense, Captain Li is also an old captain. I was just joking! Well, it's getting late. The convoy from Ping'an County just arrived. I'll leave first. The most important thing is left to you two! We are destined to not be able to hold Yangquan, so, empty it!"

After Li Yuexuan and Political Commissar Zhao and Li Yunlong had their encounter, they left the temporary command post and met Guo Zhongmin.

"Old Guo, I know you are sad, but..." Li Yuexuan was not one who could persuade others, so she didn't say anything else.

"Nothing, it's just that Xiao Niu is gone, I feel a little sad! When I was the company commander, Xiao Niu was my orderly, he always followed me to fight, and he performed very well! I didn't expect that now that he is the company commander, he would be gone in the bombing!" Guo Zhongmin's tone was full of sadness. He still remembered that Xiao Niu asked him for a box gun, but...

"I'm going back. You have to be on guard here. The Japanese have been operating here for several years. It is inevitable that there will be some people whose brains are controlled by the Japanese. So be careful, cautious, and guard against the bad people among the people! You know, some people, their braids have only been cut off for a few years, and they are still kneeling. They always hope to have a master, and don't know how to be the masters of their own house!" Li Yuexuan reminded.

"I understand. For example, that Yoshiko Kawashima, her name spread to our side, and we thought she was a Japanese woman, but it turned out she was a Manchu remnant!" Li Yunlong also walked out and added a sentence.

"Oh, I forgot to mention that the main force has gone to the west to help Lao Kong. If you are free, go and help him! I will leave the quick reaction company behind, and I will also leave its vehicles behind next time. It will be perfect for the quick reaction company to carry out some tasks! Let's go..."

After Li Yuexuan finished speaking, he took the special forces and special service squad soldiers, boarded three trucks, and followed the convoy in front and behind, acting as escorts for the convoy.

What? The vehicles carrying the Eighth Route Army's supplies still need to be escorted? The battle has just ended. What if there are diehard traitors hiding somewhere else, planning to sabotage? The supplies that were captured with great difficulty cannot be lost again!

However, this situation could not last long. At this moment, troops were moving northward from Ping'an County. Along the way, two squads of people would be left behind to set up checkpoints every 500 meters.

On the one hand, these checkpoints protect the transport teams along the way, and on the other hand, they also maintain the highway to ensure smooth traffic. Well, this used to be the job of the devils, but now the Eighth Route Army does it!
As Li Yuexuan's troops rumbled southward, the comrades of the main force regiment had just completed a battle in a town west of Yangquan. Well, it was a small battle, which was to destroy the Japanese stronghold in the town along the railway, and wiped out 6 Japanese and 32 puppet troops.

"The number of Japanese soldiers has really decreased. Originally, this stronghold was about the size of a small team, but now even with the puppet troops, there are not that many people!" Zou Ming said as he looked at the mess on the ground in the stronghold.

Ding-ling-ling... The telephone in the base rang, and the accompanying telephone soldier picked up the phone. The voice on the other end of the receiver was actually a familiar comrade. "Hello? Who's on the other end... Haha, I knew you had to answer the phone. Okay, the situation is urgent, quickly tell the commander that more than 100 devils are coming from Shouyang, with more than 500 puppet troops!"

"These scouts have really figured out the enemy's telephone lines!" The soldier who answered the call put down the phone and quickly told Zheng Changfeng the situation.

"Only so few people? That's not right. Isn't Lao Kong chasing a group of devils? Where did these devils and puppet troops come from? Did the devils clear Shouyang?" Zheng Changfeng was confused and continued quickly: "Signalman, send a telegram to the New Second Regiment and tell them about this! If possible, let them go to Shouyang to take a look!"

"Yes!" The signalman hurried to send a telegram to make contact.

"Hey, what's going on? The Japs have been beaten into a mess, and we are a little confused! Forget it, no matter what, if we see the Japs and puppet troops, we will just fight them! All company commanders come to the meeting, let's get started! Now, the Japs are... I order the first company to hide in the mountains on the north side of the town... The sixth company, the artillery battalion, continue to wait behind..."

There were only a hundred or so devils with more than 500 puppet troops. Zheng Changfeng had no intention of using artillery, but he wanted to end the battle as soon as possible, so he arranged his own artillery company. As for the artillery battalion, it had to wait until the critical moment to play an important role. So, outside this small town, in this river valley that spanned only more than 400 meters from north to south, Lao Zheng arranged a pocket formation.

The pocket formation was set up, and the Japanese puppet army soon arrived!

From a distance, Lieutenant Yagi, who led the Japanese team, noticed that something was wrong, but he did not say anything and continued to lead his team forward.

Lieutenant Yagi, yes, he is the younger brother of Captain Yagi who was killed in the south of Yangquan, but he has German paternal blood. Of course, the devils don't care about this, and the relationship between the two brothers is still very close. So when this younger brother knew that the situation in Yangquan City was urgent, he wanted to come to reinforce.

Later, he received a report on the battle situation from Gangcun. As a result, without waiting for reinforcements from Taiyuan or receiving any other orders, he led the remaining defenders of Shouyang eastward, incorporated the strongholds along the way into the team, and headed eastward to reinforce Yangquan.

Yagi was very confident in his own fighting capacity, so he did not believe the accuracy of the information conveyed by his superiors, or he was unwilling to believe it because he was worried about his brother's safety.

So, just after Zheng Changfeng set up the pocket formation, he saw the Japanese and puppet troops rushing into the pocket formation and heading towards the town at the foot of the mountain.

"Oh my god, are these Japs so reckless? Why were the Japs' troops so powerful at the beginning of the War of Resistance, but now there are only idiots left?" Zheng Changfeng sighed with disdain, but waved his hand downwards, issuing the order to fight.

(End of this chapter)