Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

The Beishan Detachment did not directly participate in the battle in Beiyue District, but the soldiers and civilians in Beiyue District remembered the support they gave! On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Beiyue District transport team came again, with more than 200 carts piled with all kinds of supplies, including frozen mutton, half-cut pork, and slaughtered chickens, ducks, and geese that were also frozen.

There is also rice, millet, wheat, and corn grown in Beiyue District... as well as cotton-padded jackets and trousers made from military coats captured from the Japanese... In short, there are really a lot of things!

Beiyue District sent supplies, and Taiyue District even sent a lot of "New Year's goods" from hundreds of miles away, and they were all "hard goods". How hard are they? There are 5 tons of brass, 10 tons of pig iron powder, 50 train axles, 100 square catalpa wood boards, 5000 kilograms of walnuts... Well, except for catalpa and walnuts, the others are pretty hard!

Of course, the comrades in Taiyue District did not return empty-handed. They took away 200 mortars and 1000 rounds of 60 mortar shells. It was a huge profit!

Beiyue District sent "New Year's goods" to Taiyue District, and several surrounding military sub-districts also sent various New Year's goods before the New Year. Of course, because of the close distance, they can receive weapons and ammunition from Liangjia Village at any time, so the New Year's goods sent by these military sub-districts are really New Year's goods, unlike the Taiyue District which only sends hard goods.

Of course, there were also three regiment commanders, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Kong Jie, who also came to the detachment to gather before the New Year, and then went home.

It is worth mentioning that Sister Xiuqin is already pregnant, and our Old Li is smiling so hard that his teeth are showing...

Amid the crackling sounds of firecrackers, hot dumplings were served on the table, half a pound of sweet potato stew was poured into the wine bowl, and pots of pork stewed with vermicelli were placed in front of us... After a burst of feasting, the New Year's Eve of the Beishan Detachment passed just like that.

The next day, everyone ran when they should, cleaned their guns when they should, and they could not fall behind in physical training and military skills training. It was the Chinese New Year, and other than the Chinese New Year, nothing else seemed to have changed.

Of course, for the new recruits who joined the army last year, after this New Year, they will have one year of military service, and they can apply for one home visit leave this year!

Of course, the new recruits’ home leave is mostly during the summer harvest and autumn harvest, and the new recruits go home to work...

In the blink of an eye, it was February of 44. Since the Spring Festival this year was in January, the weather was a little warmer in February. Of course, thawing was impossible!

The weather did not thaw, but the situation of the War of Resistance, at least in North China, was no longer as frozen as before!

Because of the defeat in the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese had to withdraw troops, and the number of Japanese troops in North China has now decreased sharply. For example, the First Army, which is closest to the Beishan base, currently only has the 37th, 62nd, and 69th divisions and the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, with a total of only about 4 Japanese troops.

The key point is that the 62nd Division has been secretly transferred during this period and is going to the south to participate in new battles!
In Shandong, the Japanese directly withdrew two infantry divisions and a cavalry brigade, leaving only the 59th Division and the 5th and 7th Independent Mixed Brigades, with a total strength of only 2.5 people.

In North China, the remaining Japanese troops are the divisions and brigades directly under the front army, and there is also a special security team. In short, after last year's battle consumption and continuous withdrawal, the number of Japanese troops in North China has been greatly reduced! In order to make up for the shortage of troops, the puppet army organization has become stronger and stronger. In Shandong alone, the number of puppet troops has reached 20. The key is that the puppet army is not very useful, and the Japanese are also smart. They directly shrink the defense line and put the troops in the main towns and transportation lines.

The situation the Eighth Route Army is facing now is much better than at the beginning of the war of resistance! First of all, there are fewer and weaker Japanese soldiers, and more puppet troops; secondly, there are more soldiers, better equipment, improved combat effectiveness, a solid mass base, and countless militias...

Therefore, the headquarters saw this point clearly and ordered several military regions and sub-districts to change their strategies from active defense to active offense and launch offensive operations!

Offensive warfare, this is what everyone desires, especially a well-equipped and well-manpowered unit like the Beishan Detachment, which is even more eager for it!

By the way, let me tell you an interesting thing. In September 43, Italy announced its unconditional surrender. The Japanese suffered successive defeats in the battles on Guadalcanal, Midway Island, and the Southeast Pacific, so they held a royal conference and finally decided to expand the air force and increase ground forces on the ocean front and in Burma.

Now comes the interesting part. The Japs want to maintain the current status of their troops in China, but their national strength is limited, so they have to reluctantly reduce the level of armaments and equipment of their troops in China to the lowest level!
As for the military forces in China, the Japanese in North China are obviously inferior to those in Central China. Their equipment is not good enough, they cannot use the new equipment, and the old equipment is almost unusable!
Last year, the Japanese felt that the sea transportation lines might be cut off. In order to maintain the connection between the mainland and Southeast Asia and destroy the Eagle Sauce's air force bases in China when the sea transportation lines were cut off, they decided to open up land transportation lines in mainland China, that is, to open up the Pinghan Line, Yuehan Line, Hunan-Guangxi Railway and other railways.

The Japanese wanted to open up the transportation lines, so they naturally mobilized all the troops they could, so the Japanese in North China moved to Central China, and the Kwantung Army and the Mongolian Army moved south...

In other words, the enemy troops that Beishan Base was facing now were from nowhere. The 62nd Division had gone south anyway, and the enemy troops that were added later were from nowhere! By the way, at this time, Hu Zongnan was still in Xi'an, still thinking about attacking northwards...

"The meeting has started, the meeting has started..." On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, in the meeting room of Liangjia Village, Zhu Xingyu's expression was excited, and he asked everyone to sit down quickly.

"Ahem, everyone already knows the main content of this meeting, but let me reiterate it. The headquarters has ordered all military divisions to take the initiative to attack! Our 9th Division is newly established and is the youngest of all military divisions, but we can't let those big brothers see everything, right?"

"So, comrades, how do we fight? Or, who are we going to fight?" Zhu Xingyu said and looked at everyone.

"Hehe, according to what Old Li said, we should take Yangquan directly, then go west to take Jinzhong, and then liberate Taiyuan, connect our base areas into one, and liberate the entire SX province!" said Li Yunlong.

"My dear brother, you want my book to disappear, right?" A certain author secretly complained... (End of this chapter)