Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

"Yes, of course! Just because they don't like it doesn't mean we don't. The Type 92 infantry gun is a bit heavy, but it's a good weapon for destroying bunkers and blow up artillery towers!" Commander Li said in Guodao Town.

"What I am more concerned about are the artillery shells brought by the Japanese. There are really a lot of them. There are more than 400 shells here, and this is the result of ten days of fighting!" said Political Commissar Gu.

"It's true that we fought for ten days. The Japanese had a transport team behind them delivering shells and supplies. Otherwise, if we hadn't defended our positions and cleared the countryside, how could the Japanese have lasted for ten days? In fact, if the Second Battalion hadn't arrived, our main force would have jumped to the outer lines to cut off the Japanese's logistics line and turned the tide of the battle! But, haha, that's not necessary now. Two of the three Japanese routes have been eliminated, and we can eat the rest ourselves!"

"Well, we have to eat it ourselves. We can't ask the Second Brigade to help us anymore! Otherwise, if people tell others, we will both be embarrassed! So, let the comrades from the Hongzhao Detachment go over and get the food! Be polite to them and take the initiative to help the Second Brigade with their work. Don't just go there and take the food away. That's so tactless..."

While the two were talking, the signalman came in again and said, "Commander, Political Commissar, the 38th Regiment sent a telegram: Our troops have reoccupied Congzi Valley and eliminated 50 Japanese baggage soldiers and 160 puppet soldiers who were stranded in Congzi Valley. There are 34 wounded Japanese soldiers who are resisting stubbornly and shooting themselves, and no one survived!"

"Okay, call the 38th Regiment back: Got it, leave a battalion to defend the Congzi Valley line, and the main force will immediately return to Guodao Town. Tell them that the Japanese and puppet troops in the direction of Nanguan Town have been completely wiped out, and the next step is to eliminate the Japanese troops in the direction of Huo County. So be sure to bring equipment and supplies. The division has decided to mobilize the main forces of three regiments to annihilate the devils coming out of Huo County!" Commander Li said immediately.

The signal soldiers came and went, and the soldiers of Zhao Hong's detachment also left Guodao Town. The remaining things were to clean up the battlefield and deal with the devils in the south. At this time, the 25th Regiment of the First Division also received a report of the situation. It was no longer a company-based resistance, but gathering troops to intercept the devils coming out of Huo County.

Guo Liandong has no control over the affairs of Division 1. He is just here to help, and the situation is very good now.

In the blink of an eye, it was already noon. The battlefield had been cleaned up, and the captured weapons, ammunition, and various supplies were placed in a long line on the streets of Guodao Town. Some nearby villagers were also told that they didn't need to hide anymore and could go home in the next few days. As a result, the villagers didn't rush home, but watched the excitement on the street. After all, so many Japanese equipment were placed together, which was something they had never seen before...

This time, we attacked the Japanese on two fronts and seized 4 Type 760 infantry guns, more than 16 rounds of shells, 30 Type 60 heavy machine guns, more than 2000 Type 70 light machine guns, more than Czech light machine guns, more than rifles of various types, more than Type grenade launchers, and a number of ammunition...

Of course, it would take time to count the exact number, and the Second Battalion also made it clear that they didn’t want anything else but some ammunition, so no one told Guo Liandong how much they had captured.

Anyway, since Li Yuexuan joined the guerrillas, the guerrillas have never been short of equipment, so Guo Liandong did not ask how much they had captured. Anyway, to calculate the military merits, they only needed to report to the headquarters! As for the ammunition consumed before, except for the 60 mortar shells, there was nowhere to get them. The comrades in the first division enthusiastically took out the grenade launchers they used and distributed them to the second battalion.

In addition to these, the First Division also enthusiastically prepared meals for the Second Brigade and boiled hot water for the comrades to drink. They couldn't let the heroes suffer any loss! When some people who returned home learned that these spoils were captured by the Second Brigade, they also found eggs hidden from somewhere and quickly cooked them and sent them to the comrades of the Second Brigade.

Anyway, while the First Division was secretly mobilizing troops to encircle and annihilate the devils in the direction of Huo County, a picture of the close relationship between the army and the people was unfolding in Guodao Town. At one o'clock in the afternoon, Guo Liandong was called to the headquarters for a meeting, and then Political Commissar Gu conveyed the current situation to him, telling him not to worry about the devils in the south and to rest for a few days.

Guo Liandong certainly didn't want to rest. We came out to fight the Japanese. Resting? It would be better to go back to the base! Besides, there are 10 tons of brass in Taiyue District that need to be taken away. We have to do this well. That is the raw material of our arsenal, used to make bullets!

"Huang Tong, Huang Tong is still on the south side of the Linfen-Tunliu Highway, that is the Second Division, which is where your old unit, the 386th Brigade, is located. So, let the comrades from the Zhaohong Detachment be your guides, and you go to the Second Division? It is facing attacks from the 62nd Division in the east and the 37th Division in the southwest. Perhaps if you go there, you can fight!" said Political Commissar Gu.

"Is that so? Let's not waste any more time here and set off for Division Two now!" Guo Liandong said immediately, eager to fight.

"Okay, I'll send a telegram to the 386th Brigade to tell them, you guys wait..."

Telegraphs are not as fast as telephones, but now everything is moving, and long-distance calls are difficult to connect. Fortunately, there are many radio stations in the military sub-districts, so it is convenient to communicate.

At the temporary station of the 386th Brigade, the comrades of the 386th Brigade were also very happy after receiving the telegram. Well, this was not the first telegram from the First Division that they received today, but the third one. The first two were telegrams reporting the results of two battles. Now, knowing that the Second Battalion was coming over here, the comrades of the 386th Brigade said that they were welcome to come and they could stay if they came!

So, Guo Liandong led the Second Battalion and Captain Bai and his men, left Guodao Town in the afternoon and headed towards the base of the Second Division.

At this time, the battle line of the Second Division was still blocking the attack of the Japanese. In fact, the attack of the Japanese was not as fierce as that of the First Division, because the main force of the attack was the 62nd Division, which was reorganized from the 62th Independent Mixed Brigade... Therefore, this 4th Independent Mixed Brigade had a very close relationship with the Eighth Route Army, especially with the comrades of the Beishan Detachment, and that was even more of a close relationship!
Just as the Second Battalion was heading south and the 386th Brigade was waiting for them to come over, another order came to the 386th Brigade - to mobilize the 16th Regiment to return to the rear area in northern Shaanxi.

That's right, the 16th Regiment was mobilized, one of the three main regiments of the 386th Brigade. The 772nd Regiment was the senior one, the 20th Regiment was formed later, and the 16th Regiment was in the middle. As for why they went to northern Shaanxi, it was to increase the troops there to deal with the covetousness of Hu Zongnan's hundreds of thousands of troops.

The fact that the headquarters had to withdraw a main force regiment during the counter-mopping-up operation shows that the situation in northern Shaanxi is really not optimistic.

So, those who talk about the frontal battlefield, Shaanxi is the rear area, hundreds of thousands of central troops are stationed in Xi'an, I don't know if they are fighting against the Japanese, or they heard from the crosstalk actors that the Japanese are going to fight back to their hometown in Xianyang? (End of this chapter)