Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

A fake position, a typical fake position, is designed to confuse the enemy's sight and deceive their artillery shells. Of course, the enemy is still on the way, and everyone continues to move things out...

Time passed slowly. In Yuci, the Japanese soldiers who had retreated from the east earlier had regrouped, but were unable to set out immediately.

The Japanese actually wanted to send reinforcements immediately, but this takes time, especially since the First Army really did not have many spare troops to mobilize, and could only adjust them bit by bit, which took time.

Five hours had passed since Gangcun issued the order to mobilize troops. Whether it was the First Army or other locations, the Japanese were mobilized little by little, but they still failed to form a large scale.

The First Army now has the 36th, 37th, and 69th Divisions, as well as the 3rd and 4th Independent Mixed Brigades. The current situation is that the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade has been hit across the board, and there is a reorganized battalion in the Beiyue area preparing for battle. It is impossible to send troops, so it is very difficult to keep the city stable.

The 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade was stationed in Gang County, guarding the base in northwestern Shanxi, and also dispatched troops to participate in the mopping-up of the Beiyue area.

The remaining 36th Division was stationed in Lu'an, guarding the traffic lines in the direction of Jincheng, Changzhi, and Yuci; the 37th Division was stationed in Yuncheng, deterring Zhongtiao Mountain and the Xi'an area; the 69th Division was stationed in the line from Linfen to Taiyuan, guarding against the Taiyue area on one hand, and dealing with the Jinsui Army in Luliang Mountain on the other...

Therefore, the First Army must carefully withdraw troops, ensure the number of devils, consider the combat effectiveness of the puppet army, and consider the emergency situation. It must not leave the city defense empty after the withdrawal of troops. In short, this requires extreme caution! If the Shanxi Suiyuan Army suddenly came out at this time, the devils really couldn't deal with it for a while.

Therefore, Gangcun did not pin his hopes on the First Army to recapture Yangquan. The only troops he could mobilize and had already formed were the 1.2 troops prepared to sweep the Beiyue area!

If these troops want to evacuate from Beiyue District and reach Yangquan, it will take at least two days! One day to withdraw from the base they have already entered, one day to reach the vicinity of Yangquan along the railway and highway, and then half a day to prepare before launching an attack!

Of course, this is the most ideal situation! As for whether they can be successfully withdrawn from the mountainous area, that is hard to say! After receiving the latest battle report and knowing that Xing Weiguo and his men had taken Shouyang, the headquarters sent a telegram to Beiyue District to tell them about the situation.

Therefore, a regiment in the Beiyue District that was moving towards Yun County received a new order, asking them to turn eastward and head straight towards Pingshan to search for the retreating Japanese and maintain fire with them.

Similarly, troops in other directions also received orders to do everything they could to delay the Japanese evacuation...

The order was issued and the troops took action. These teams, which were not far from the Japanese, immediately began to maintain a low-intensity battle with the Japanese using the effective sixteen-character strategy of "retreat when the enemy advances".

If there is a battle, it will not be so easy for the devils to withdraw! The devils can withdraw a large force and then rush to attack Yangquan, but they cannot guarantee whether the small force left behind can withstand the attack of the Eighth Route Army! Why don't you turn back and find an opportunity to fight the Eighth Route Army? The Eighth Route Army ran away... You can't catch up, you can't find them... So, a wonderful scene appeared! In Yangquan, there are more and more convoys of the Eighth Route Army, and the personnel transporting supplies have also transitioned from the main force to the militia, to activists and ordinary people. Of course, there must be a truck convoy, which is the fastest!
On the other hand, in Jingxing, the second battalion commander of the independent regiment led his men to set up the positions, but they were able to repel the attack of more than 300 Japanese puppet troops, and then the Japanese puppet troops were defeated and dared not to continue the attack!
Over at Jiulong Pass, the Japanese had clearly dispatched more than 200 Japanese soldiers from Zanhuang and Yuanshi, and had taken more than 500 puppet troops into the mountains. They did not dare to continue fighting forward, as if they were waiting for something!
As for Lao Xing... well, the fake positions have been built, the artillery positions have been set up, the minefields have been buried, and Lao Kong and Lao Zheng have also built their own positions on the mountain... where are those damn Japanese?
"Pah... huh..." On the top of Shouyang City, Xing Weiguo held a Sakura cigarette between his fingers. He smoked one third of it in one puff and then exhaled a long stream of smoke.

"Captain, we've worked so hard, why aren't these Japanese coming?" The commander of the 5th Company squatted beside Xing Weiguo, looking longingly at the railway line in the south, his eyes turning green.

"How should I know? I thought this would be an emergency battle, but the granary that the Japanese placed in Shouyang is now full of starving rats! All the oil drums in the oil depot are gone! The wood stored by the Japanese can be used to build a base and hire carpenters to make furniture in a few days! And the salt in that small warehouse of the Japanese can feed our base for five years!" Xing Weiguo's face was full of helplessness, and he glanced at the mountain in the east.

On the mountain in the east, Zheng Changfeng was also smoking, looking at the setting sun in the west, not knowing what to say.

"Captain, the last time I looked, the sun was still a pole high above the city gate tower, but now it has set on the tower!" A soldier whispered nearby.

A battle started in Ping'an County lasted from early morning to noon, and now it is afternoon, but the result is that the battle around Ping'an County is over, it is quiet, and there is nothing to do!
In the south, in Xiyang County, on the side of the New 1st Regiment, Ding Wei also climbed to the top of the city wall of Xiyang County.

"Yes, we fought this battle and ran back and forth. We first attacked the reinforcements of Xiyang, then the reinforcements of Heshun, and then we went back and captured Xiyang again! So, are the Japanese so weak?"

No one answered Ding Wei's words, because except for Ding Wei's guards and the soldiers of the guard company on duty, everyone else was busy moving things back to the base.

Although it was calm now, everyone knew that the Japanese would not accept defeat and a counterattack was inevitable! So, everyone was waiting for the moment when the Japanese would arrive...

Unlike the Beishan Detachment which fought several battles a day and is now very quiet, there are more and more sporadic battles taking place in more places farther away.

For example, the 386th Brigade also received a report from the headquarters. So, the brigade commander waved his hand and ordered the 772nd and 16th Regiments to stop encircling the Japanese and march northwest to blow up the Japanese railway line. If there are any Japanese chasing them, they will have a big fight with them!
For example, on the Ji Zhong Plain, many troops who received the news immediately moved from underground to above ground and took the initiative to harass the surrounding strongholds!

Somewhere in Shandong, outside a city called Haiyang, militia captain Zhao Hu, also quietly came here with militiamen from several villages.

"Comrades, let's take action when it gets dark! We won't do anything else but bury mines on the roads and ridges outside Haiyang City and see how the Japanese come out!" (End of this chapter)