Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

The distance from the 772nd Regiment to Mabi is not very close, more than 70 kilometers, more than 150 miles. But there is an advantage, that is, with such a long distance, everyone can reach it by just going south along the Qin River. The advantage of guarding the river is that some supplies can be transported by rafts in the river. However, this requires good rowing skills, after all, the river is a bit curved.

In fact, the 10 tons of brass were transported by wooden boats. However, when the Japanese invaders came, the transport team did not dare to continue transporting it to the north. They could only unload the brass and bury it somewhere deep in the south of Anze.

Anze is a county town between Tunliu and Linfen roads, with Qinyuan to the north. It has not been occupied by the Japanese now, because this should have been the target of the Japanese in the north.

Because of the strong participation of the Second Battalion, the Japanese mopping-up plan could have been declared a failure, but the two annihilation battles were fought so quickly that the Japanese had no time to send a telegram back to the headquarters. The advantage of this is that some Japanese died, but the Japanese military headquarters did not know and was still advancing according to the previous battle plan. And this short period of information gap is our fighter plane!
Taking advantage of the information asymmetry between the three divisions of the Japanese devils and between the divisions and the front army headquarters, the Eighth Route Army had the opportunity to concentrate its forces to eliminate the effective forces of the Japanese devils and puppet troops!
As the saying goes, advance and retreat in big steps, lure the enemy deep into our territory, concentrate our forces, defeat them one by one, and annihilate the enemy in mobile warfare! Now the 386th Brigade is fighting a mobile warfare, and this is exactly the way the 386th Brigade is best at fighting!
The water surface of the Qin River is turbulent in some places, gentle in some places, rugged and winding in some places, and there are rocky beaches with strange rocks on both sides of some places... Of course, due to the traffic blockage for many years, there is now a smooth road on both sides of the Qin River to facilitate transportation and trade between the north and the south.

Walking along the Qin River, listening to the sound of water and feeling the mountain breeze, the comrades walked lightly, feeling as if there was wind under their feet! In particular, after putting some food supplies on the wooden boats in the river to help transport them, the soldiers were able to walk with light loads! Therefore, it took everyone one day to reach Mabi, a small town by the Qin River, on a mountain road of more than 70 kilometers.

When Guo Liandong and his team entered the town, they found that quite a few people had gathered there. They were all soldiers wearing gray military uniforms, which were very different from the camouflage uniforms that Guo Liandong and his team were wearing. Of course, the gray military caps on their heads represented that they were all from the Eighth Route Army, but they were in different units.

At this time, no one talked about the good or bad of camouflage uniforms, because according to the learning materials, everyone knew that this kind of camouflage uniforms with multiple irregular color blocks, which are similar in color to rocks, leaves, and branches, can be used to camouflage people in the mountains and forests. Therefore, comrades also envy wearing such military uniforms!

Of course, even without such uniforms, comrades can still fight, and our camouflage skills are not bad! And when it comes to camouflage, lurking, and destroying the enemy at close range, the 386th Brigade dares to say that it is the best in the world, and others really dare not say one, two, three! For nothing else, just for the Shentouling ambush, the soldiers camouflaged in the trenches on the side of the road, and the devils didn't see it, which is enough to say something!

So... that... this Second Battalion is from the Beishan Detachment, and the first soldiers of the Beishan Detachment were from the 772nd Regiment... The 772nd Regiment is from the 386th Brigade... That's okay, we're one family!

The team waiting at Ma Bi was naturally the 772nd Regiment scattered across the battlefield! Without the pressure from the north, it became easier to concentrate the forces.

Moreover, in Mabi, Guo Liandong also met the old brigade commander, Political Commissar Wang, who is now the political commissar of Taiyue District.

Since we have concentrated our forces to fight the devils, it is reasonable for Political Commissar Wang to come and command in person, right? The devils in Yuncheng are fighting the Third Division, and the devils facing the Second Division are the 62nd Division. Now the main force of the Second Division in Jizhong has defeated the devils of the 62nd Division one by one, and everyone can concentrate their forces to deal with the devils in the direction of Yuncheng. What is the most important thing before the battle? That is to hold a meeting to assign respective tasks to the three main regiments, plus the artillery battalion of the 386th Brigade and the direct teams! Yesterday's meeting of the 772nd Regiment was to decide where to fight the devils, and to report to the brigade headquarters to deploy and mobilize troops so that the team can assemble.

Today's meeting discussed what the teams that had gathered here should be responsible for! Now the main forces of the three main regiments of the 386th Brigade are here, and there is also a second battalion that needs to be arranged!

That’s right, of the three main regiments, the 16th regiment is fighting the last battle here before they leave. It is also a farewell battle. It is a very meaningful thing, isn’t it?
The meeting discussed who would block the reinforcements of the other Japanese troops, who would lead the team, who would cut off the Japanese troops' backs, etc. No matter what the other teams had to do, Guo Liandong personally asked for a task to block the Japanese troops' heads! That's right, he had to lead the team to block the Japanese troops' attacks and buy time for other teams to annihilate the Japanese troops.

For such a task, the Second Battalion is really the most suitable. After all, the firepower is here. Who else can we use if not them? In fact, what should the comrades of the 772nd Regiment and the 20th Regiment worry about? They have to run quickly. If they run slowly, the Japanese puppet army will be wiped out by the Second Battalion!
After the meeting, everyone went their separate ways. Those who needed to block the enemy marched at night, those who were responsible for pinching the waist also left, and those who were responsible for hitting the tail also left. Only the Second Battalion did not move and rested on the spot.

That's right, at night, the soldiers of the Second Battalion rested at Ma Bi. But it should be mentioned that halfway through, the team of the Third Division's First Battalion stayed on the mountain on the south side of Anze to take care of the hidden brass so that it would not be discovered. The benefit of doing so was that the entire Second Battalion returned to its original combat state.

Of course, we can't say that it was the initial state. At least after cleaning up the battlefield in the north, the spirit of all the new recruits in the artillery platoon changed! These new recruits who have experienced life and death and witnessed the cruelty of the battlefield can no longer be called new recruits from now on. Well, they are still new recruits, but they are no longer new recruits...

At dawn, the soldiers of Ma Bi ate the marching rations they brought, drank warm water, and filled their kettles with warm water before setting off! They said they were going to destroy the Japanese puppet troops on Ma Bi's side, but the real battlefield was in the mountains east of Ma Bi.

After leaving the town and crossing the wooden bridge over the Qin River, the comrades of the Second Brigade accelerated and went on a 5-kilometer armed cross-country run, which happened to be a morning exercise.

After running 5 kilometers along the Shicao River and then walking another 6 kilometers, the team stopped outside an unnamed village. This village was not the main position of the blocking, but the mountain ridge to the south was. (End of this chapter)