Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

The special forces are out fighting, and the Beishan detachment has nothing to do except training.

In fact, not only the Beishan Detachment, but the entire Ninth Division can only attack in the northwest and northeast directions, and there are no targets to attack. The northwest is Taiyuan, which is not a good place to attack now. After all, it is too important to give the Japanese the impression that the rear is stable.

As for the northeast, Pingshan and Jingxing were already mostly under control, which completely connected the Ninth District to the Beiyue District and the Jizhong Base Area. In other words, except for the railway lines and the counties along the lines occupied by the devils, the devils had lost control of Jizhong and Jixi.

As for why not completely paralyze the railway lines between these bases? After all, it is more practical to obtain some supplies from the railway lines from time to time than to paralyze the entire railway.

Of course, the main thing is not to provoke the devils too much, otherwise it will be bad to pull the devils to retreat north! As for the devils transporting the looted materials by rail, it depends on the needs of the Ninth District! Just at the end of July, the Ninth District got a piece of news that the devils collected 7 tons of salt from the salt lake area in Yuncheng and planned to transport it out!
This news was released by comrades through secret channels and was also confirmed at Taiyuan Railway Station.

The amount of materials looted by the Japanese from China was too much, so these 100 tons of salt were not so conspicuous. However, for the base area where materials were still scarce, 100 tons of salt was very important! After all, people can't live without salt, and large livestock also need salt intake, all of which are inseparable from experiments.

Although we can get some salt from northern Shaanxi now, it is not easy to transport it over the long distance and high mountains. On the contrary, the salt carried on the Japanese trains can be delivered directly to our doorsteps.

In the command room of the 9th District Headquarters, Li Yunlong, Li Yuexuan, Ding Wei, Kong Jie, Xing Weiguo, Guo Liandong and other cadres gathered together for a rare meeting.

"You all know the news, right? So, who will come this time?" In front of his desk, Zhao Danian looked at a group of detachment and regiment cadres and asked this question.

"Let me tell you first, our independent detachment is guarding both sides of the railway. Our independent detachment is most convenient for doing this!" Li Yunlong said.

"Old Li, your independent regiment has just been ordered by the headquarters to be reorganized into the Ninth District Independent Detachment, and your three regiments haven't figured it out yet, right? Do you still have time to take care of this matter now? So, let my new regiment take over." Ding Wei spoke up and looked at Li Yunlong with envy and expectation.

"Lao Ding, although your development in Mafang is good, you are too far away from the railway line. It is better for us, the New Second Regiment, which is right next to the railway and can fight at any time! Besides, isn't it enough for your New First Regiment to guard the Baijin Line? Our New Second Regiment also needs to develop!" Kong Jie said.

"Old Kong, do you feel guilty for saying this? Don't think I don't know that the base of your New Second Regiment has reached Pingtou Town! Just last month, you incorporated the puppet troops in Pingtou Town, right? Now there is only Xizhoushan between you and Taiyuan, right? Pingtou, Dongzhao, Changning... Your New Second Regiment is less than 10 kilometers away from Jinzhong, and you still say that it is developing slowly?" Ding Wei said.

"Okay, stop arguing between you two regiments. The independent regiment has been upgraded, and your new first regiment won't be far away! Although the new second regiment is still a little short of it, it should be there by the middle of next year! So, there is no need for you to do anything big now, so as not to provoke the Japanese to attack you, which would be bad!" Zhu Xingyu said.

"No, the Japanese can come if they want. Are we afraid of them? If they come, my New Second Regiment will take care of them!" Kong Jie said confidently. "Now, it is hard to say whether Taiyuan City can gather a regiment of excited troops. How can you deal with a regiment? The key is that the Central Army is retreating too badly. What if the Japanese think that they can easily clean up North China and transfer those hundreds of thousands of Japanese back? Now, play it safe! Let's just play a small train and do some experiments!" Xing Weiguo said.

"Hey, there are not many opportunities to get so much salt at once! Recently, comrades from Taiyue District came to collect equipment and told us that comrades from Taiyue District have infiltrated the salt lake and have been attacking the Japanese teams collecting salt from time to time, making the Japanese exhausted." Zhao Danian said.

"It's hard to say. After all, we are too close, and the Japanese are watching closely. Without deploying heavy troops, it's hard to say whether we can achieve results at the salt lake! Well, now let's talk about how we can intercept this train and then send these 100 tons of salt back to the base! Now we have no shortage of troops or transportation capacity, it just depends on who will carry out the mission!" Zhu Xingyu said.

"My opinion on this matter is to let the comrades from the three local regiments come, and then transfer the independent detachment and the special operations team of the new second regiment to carry out this task together." Zhao Danian said.

"Well, I have no objection!" Xing Weiguo agreed with this opinion, then tilted his head and looked at Li Yuexuan who was silent and said: "Peregrine, what do you think?"

"What can I say? I'm here just to be stimulated. Can you let me fight?" Li Yuexuan's tone contained three parts of resentment and five parts of anger.

"Haha... We are all embarrassed by what Peregrine said!" Zhao Danian said with an awkward smile: "Everyone knows Peregrine's combat ability very well, but for the sake of our military development, he has trapped himself in the arsenal for so many years. Apart from shooting a few shots at the shooting range, he has no chance to fight again!"

"Speaking of which, there shouldn't be any danger in attacking the Japanese train this time, right? Otherwise, how about letting Peregrine Falcon join in the fun?" Zhu Xingyu said after looking at everyone.

"Hmm..." Several cadres pondered together... After a while, Zhao Danian said, "Okay, let the special forces follow him and find him a place where he can fight, so that he can have fun!"

"Really?" Li Yuexuan's tone was filled with disbelief, and then he asked: "It's a deal, my security regiment will be directly responsible for this operation, and the three local regiments will provide me with cover and protection of the flanks. It's time for my security regiment to participate in actual combat and gain experience! You don't have any objections, right? If you don't have any objections, I'll take that as your agreement!"

"Hehe, for this matter, I will be personally in charge of the overall command. Your security regiment will be the main force, but how about you follow the special forces and conduct local command in a safe location?" Xing Weiguo asked.

"That's fine too. It's not a difficult battle anyway, so it doesn't matter who's in charge! Oh, and let my deputy commander follow you and learn some commanding skills!" (End of this chapter)