Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

The devils don't have many troops left? Li Yuexuan still agreed with Xiao Fengyun's words!

Let's talk about the headquarters first. After Sun Dongling and his men surrendered to the Japanese devils, they became evil and took the puppet army to do evil everywhere and actively attacked our base. So, in July and August 43, Taihang District launched the Weinan Campaign and the Linnan Campaign, annihilating more than 7 enemies, establishing democratic regimes and armed forces in three counties, and liberating more than 8 people.

According to the original trajectory, in September last year, the Japanese would mobilize more than 9 troops to carry out a comprehensive sweep of our base in North China. The Japanese would mobilize more than 20 troops to encircle and suppress the Beiyue area, mobilize several battalions to sweep northwest Shanxi, mobilize more than 4 troops to sweep the Taiyue area, and mobilize more than 2 troops to sweep the Hebei, Shandong and Henan bases.

But what was the actual situation last year? The Japanese went to northwestern Shanxi, but were taught a lesson by the troops there, resulting in the loss of more than 2,000 troops.

In the Jiluyu base area, because the Eighth Route Army's equipment and manpower advantages were already obvious, the results were much higher than the historical trajectory! Of course, the Beiyue District, which was closest to the Beishan base area, was indeed attacked, but the troops besieging the Beiyue District were only more than 30,000 people, and the troops were obviously not enough!
Well, it is true that 20 troops were mobilized, but only about 10 actually participated in the attack. After all, the Japanese couldn't abandon the city and all of them came out to fight...

That is, when the Japanese attacked the Beiyue District, Li Yuexuan was thinking about how to help and give the Beishan Detachment more opportunities to fight.

As a result, the headquarters only ordered the transfer of the arsenal's inventory to support the troops in Beiyue District, and the production capacity for the following months was also allocated to Beiyue District. And then there was nothing else... Li Yuexuan was very anxious at the time. The Japanese were not far to the north, so he had to find an excuse to fight them. As a result, Li Yunlong led half of the independent regiment to go up, but didn't give them any chance at all!

Of course, when the Second Battalion later went south, it gave the Beishan Detachment a sense of participation!

As for how the anti-mopping-up battle in Beiyue District went? Li Yuexuan has the original historical data: in three months, the Eighth Route Army militia fought more than 5300 times, captured 204 bunkers, killed, wounded and captured more than 9400 Japanese and puppet troops, seized 1 mountain artillery, 17 light and heavy machine guns, 7 grenade launchers, more than 800 rifles, destroyed 18 Japanese trains, 3 tanks, 244 cars, destroyed 13 railway bridges, more than 950 kilometers of roads, 5 kilometers of railways, and shot down 1 plane. The Eighth Route Army suffered more than 2400 casualties.

Let's look at the current data: In two months, the Eighth Route Army's military and civilians fought more than 4200 battles, captured 322 bunkers, killed, wounded, and captured more than 18700 Japanese and puppet troops, seized 6 mountain cannons, 24 light and heavy machine guns, 17 grenade launchers, more than 1100 carbine rifles, destroyed 27 trains, 14 tanks, 264 cars, shot down one plane, and damaged 10 kilometers of railways... The rest is about the same, after all, there are only a few railway bridges, and the same is true for roads, but the casualties on their own were much less, only more than 1000 people.

In comparison, this means that we eliminated several thousand more Japanese puppet troops, destroyed more tanks, fought more than a thousand fewer battles, and suffered 1000 fewer casualties. But this is not how we calculate it. We suffered fewer casualties, but the Japanese puppet troops suffered more. Isn't this the difference?

The Japanese came with more than 18 troops, right? Beiyue District directly mobilized more than main forces and militiamen, which was a crushing posture in terms of troops! The problem is that it is like this, or after clearing the fields, let the Japanese into the base, and then use various tactics to fight the Japanese! What kind of sparrow warfare, mine warfare, tunnel warfare, guerrilla warfare... is to disperse the Japanese troops!

In this way, the autumn grain harvest and planting in the base area were not delayed! While fighting in the front, we harvested crops in the back, and then let the Japanese in and hide. After the Japanese passed or were eliminated, the people came out and took the time to plant the newly found wheat and other crops, and then continued to fight! Of course, there is one thing that needs to be said, that is, the number of mortars in Beiyue District has increased by 380 82 mortars, 72 120 heavy mortars, and more than mortar shells, with the support of Liangjia Village Arsenal in recent years, including the last supply. The grenade launcher has reached the level that every guerrilla can be equipped with one.

In addition, the Beiyue District had an additional 2100 semi-automatic rifles, 600 assault rifles, 600 light machine guns, 3000 Type 1200 rifles, 90 submachine guns, and a total of rounds of various bullets.

And these extra mortars and shells, as well as those grenade launchers and homemade shotguns, plus so many guns and bullets, are enough to reduce more than 1000 battles and to kill nearly devils and puppet troops. And tanks, this is the key point! Since Li Yuexuan invented the rocket launcher and equipped it, this is one of the few times he can give full play to it!

Then, those soldiers in Beiyue District carrying rocket launchers, after hearing that the Japanese had tanks, searched all over the mountains for the Japanese troops, intending to attack the Japanese tanks!

Well, according to the comrades of the transport team in Beiyue District, we wish we could fight for a while longer, so that we can kill more Japanese puppet troops! But our artillery is not good enough. When we see Japanese puppet troops gathering together, we just bomb them. Many Type 38 rifles were blown into pieces. Not a single Japanese soldier was left intact. It was hard for the militia comrades who cleaned up the battlefield...

Well, this is showing off, and everyone knows it but doesn't say anything, just let them show off over there! Of course, the comrades in the transport team are also hard-working enough. A round trip of more than 400 miles, they have to deliver the things seized from the Beiyue District, such as rails, train axles, car engines, headlights, batteries... and some parts removed from broken tanks.

When they go back, they have to bring back a batch of bullets and shells, and also help the veterans of the detachment to bring letters and things for their families back to their families. Of course, when they come, they also bring back letters from their families, and sometimes they have to help write them, or directly pass on a message to someone.

For example, a comrade who was already a platoon leader, the comrade who brought the message said: Comrade Zhang Heping, your grandfather asked me to bring you a message: Goudan, we have received the things you sent, work hard in the team, at the end of this month, Ernizi will get married to Tiezhuzi from the next village...

Well, it was also thanks to the good memory of the comrades, who were locals, that they delivered messages in dialect and were able to imitate the tone exactly...

Well, to sum up, the purpose of the Japanese launching this sweep is to withdraw a large number of troops from North China and deploy them to the Pacific battlefield. So the Japanese took advantage of the fact that they still had people on hand to quickly stabilize the so-called stability in the rear! In other words, now, the Japanese have already withdrawn troops from China. (End of this chapter)