Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

The number of the 22nd Regiment was originally larger than that of the Japanese puppet army! The Eighth Route Army had mostly semi-automatic, submachine guns, light machine guns and heavy machine guns. Those with bolt-action rifles were embarrassed to compete with their comrades for the main attack position. However, these soldiers who were unwilling to give up used the grenades on their waists as weapons to kill the enemy. At the moment the battle started, they threw the grenades out of the yard and flew to the road.

Boom boom boom... The heavy machine guns opened fire. The 27 heavy machine guns hidden in Xihan Village opened fire at the same time. At a certain angle, the bullets fired by these 27 heavy machine guns formed a dense bullet net. Wherever the bullet net passed, the Japanese and the puppet troops were killed on the spot! The heavy machine gun bullets were powerful. At this time, there were about 300 Japanese and puppet troops in the 500-meter gap area.

In other words, the nearest Japanese scout was only 200 meters away from the heavy machine gun position... At this moment, the Japanese scouts and the vanguards behind them were all shot into sieves and minced meat. The puppet soldiers following the Japanese also fell to the ground under the ravages of dense bullets.

Looking behind them, within the range of Donghan Village, submachine guns were firing, semi-automatic bursts were firing, grenades were bombing, light machine guns were sweeping... All of a sudden, all kinds of attacks came one after another. With such intensive attacks and such rapid shooting, many Japanese puppet soldiers died before they could react! Some of those who reacted quickly only managed to hold the guns on their backs and lost their lives.

The battle went on very quickly, and before anyone even noticed anything, it was already over...

"This is the effect brought by good weapons..." After the battle, Captain Zuo sighed with emotion.

"It's not just the weapons that are better, we also have more people! At least, compared to the May 22st mopping-up operation, our regiment has more than a thousand more soldiers!" said Liang, the political commissar of the nd Regiment.

"Let the comrades clean up the battlefield. First, make sure there are no wounded soldiers among the Japanese puppet army, and then clean them up one by one. We can't let the wounded Japanese soldiers shoot us! Well, let's finish them off one by one first..."

The Japanese puppet soldiers fell to the ground, and a lot of broken meat, bone fragments, and hairy skin and flesh were scattered on the road. Flies were already flying towards this side, buzzing and disturbing people's minds. And amid the buzzing of flies, the sound of "puffing" was heard again and again. The comrades who were responsible for finishing off the enemies on the battlefield soon stabbed them twice from beginning to end.

After completing this, the soldiers stabbed their blood-stained red bayonets into the mud on the side of the road several times, then pulled up the Japanese's uniforms, wiped the bayonets clean, and then folded them back into the muzzles.

At this time, the new recruits come to life...

The Japanese in Shenze were eliminated, but Captain Zuo and his men could not rest because this place was only 5 kilometers away from Wuji County in the west. At such a short distance, the sound of the grenade explosion in the wilderness would have reached there long ago. If there were still Japanese troops stationed in Wuji County at this time, they would most likely come out to check the situation.

Therefore, Commander Zuo immediately arranged a battalion to guard the west to prevent the Japanese from launching a surprise attack. With a battalion on guard, we can calmly clean up the battlefield!
However, before the westward-moving team had gone two miles, the regiment’s radio station received a telegram from a brother unit, the 17th Regiment.

"Captain, good news! The 17th Regiment sent a telegram saying that they have just set up an ambush in the west of Wuji County and wiped out the enemy's puppet troops heading west of Wuji County, totaling more than 900 people!"

"Hahaha..." Listening to the signalman's report, Captain Zuo laughed: "Can I say that great minds think alike? Go, call the 17th Regiment back and tell them that we have wiped out more than 1100 Japanese and puppet troops in Shenze in the south of Donghan Village. After we clean up the battlefield, we will march eastward and occupy Shenze County. With Shenze County as the center, we will re-plan the base in Shenze and establish a new government organization." "After you send a reply to the 17th Regiment, send a telegram to the military sub-district to report the results of the battle here..."

It must be said that the policy of the Japanese to abandon the county town actually had some effect. At least the Eighth Route Army needed to take over the city they abandoned first and fully control it before giving it to the local government. This back and forth would always take a few days. Of course, this was also a good thing for the Eighth Route Army, at least they didn't have to sacrifice the lives of their comrades in the siege!

That is...it would be perfect if we could destroy all those Japanese troops coming back to support us!

Things don't always go perfectly! For example, in Gaocheng and other places across the Hutuo River, the Japanese reinforcements returned to Shimen in advance, leaving only the empty county town to the Eighth Route Army. Some quick-moving Japanese soldiers set fire to the city before leaving, with the aim of engulfing the city in flames and causing chaos for the people.

Fortunately, the Chinese people are not like those in Los Angeles. The people here know how to save themselves and work together. So not long after the Japanese left, the people quickly put out the fire in the city. Of course, this is also because the Japanese set the fire in a hurry, otherwise it would be really difficult to put out the fire if the city was burned down...

The Japanese troops coming back to support were not from one place, only two were completely annihilated, and some other routes were blocked but successfully passed through, and some did not encounter an ambush and returned directly. And these news were gradually transmitted to the headquarters of the Jizhong and Beiyue military sub-districts through the radio.

After some analysis, Beiyue District and Jizhong District also re-determined the strength of the Japanese troops and found out their strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, a new plan was formulated under the coordinated adjustment of the two military regions, and then the troops under their jurisdiction were arranged to implement it. The new combat plan was mainly to fully control the Jizhong Plain and "marginalize" and "isolate" the Japanese troops.

The so-called marginalization means to drive all the Japanese to the edge of the Jizhong area. If they cannot be driven away, they will completely isolate those cities and then gradually erode them. The order of erosion is to extend from the central area of ​​Jizhong area to the outside, and finally isolate and control the Japanese in several cities on the Pinghan Line and Jinpu Line.

In addition to these, new combat objectives were also updated in southern Hebei and northern Henan. After the update, plans to occupy small counties and important towns were added to the previous strategies and tactics.

In short, after today's battles, the Eighth Route Army felt the weakness of the devils and had the idea of ​​liberating the entire North China region. Of course, it can only be an idea, because the Beijing-Tianjin area is not easy to fight, Taiyuan is not easy to fight, and Jinan is not easy to fight... Of course, in addition to these key areas, it would be good for the rest of the places to become our bases!

With so many new cities collecting taxes, developing industry and commerce, and the surrounding rural areas developing agriculture, the Eighth Route Army will have enough food to start with in the summer of next year, and will be able to quickly expand its military size. And then... well, perhaps before the two boys are born, the Japanese will no longer be able to stand in North China.

At that time, with the strength of North China, we will go north to the three provinces in the northeast, occupy the heavy industrial base, and then... um. (End of this chapter)