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"See, this is the Japanese committing suicide by seppuku! You said he would commit seppuku, so let him do it, but you have to find someone to chop off his head! Just chop it off? And it has to be connected with a layer of skin... The Japanese are just a small country with a small population. Everything they do is petty, not manly at all! However, anyone who can commit suicide by seppuku can be considered a man!" Li Yunlong said in the artillery tower, looking at Mitsui's body.

"This is definitely a good Japanese! If all the Japanese committed suicide by seppuku like him, I would rather erect a monument for them! Captain, Huolu Town has been taken, can the evacuated people go home?" Zhang Dabiao stood beside Li Yunlong and asked carefully.

"The people of Huolu Town? Let them go home! Let the local comrades do a good job of comforting them. Those whose houses were bombed will be repaired after the fighting is over!" said Li Yunlong.

"Well, captain, what shall we do next? Go to the city store?" Zhang Dabiao asked.

"Fight? I don't have that confidence yet!" Li Yunlong looked at Zhang Dabiao's expression, laughed and said, "I am a bit reckless, but I am not really stupid! All right, send a telegram to our headquarters!"

Li Yunlong was a very smart man, so he understood that the next thing must be under the unified command of the headquarters to be completed with certainty. Therefore, he did not rush ahead, and everything was based on the mobilization of the headquarters. He waited like this for several hours, and the Japanese puppet troops were buried in pits, and the evacuated people returned home one after another, and the sun was even about to set.

At the headquarters, as the day came to an end, the battle situations in various places were summarized, and the leaders also had the latest situation analysis. Then, the arrangements at the end of the previous chapter were given to each military sub-district.

On the independent detachment's side, the headquarters also issued an order - approach the stone gate and test its strength!
But when the order was given to Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong and his men also encountered a lot of "trouble". That's right, the people who were driven away from Shimen by the devils came to find them...

The Japanese in Shimen still had a battalion of troops, and the puppet army still had more than 7000 troops, which was the basic force to stabilize this hub city. After receiving the order from Naosaburo Okabe, the Japanese guarding the city marked out an area in the city and drove people out from house to house. The young and strong men were left behind, the beautiful women were left behind and taken to the military camp, and the remaining old men, women and children were driven out of the city and not allowed to approach.

In order to drive away the people, the devils killed many people. The whole city was wailing and screaming! Of course, there were not many real natives among these people. Many of them were latecomers.

Don’t ask why there are not many indigenous people left. When the Japanese invaders come and the butcher’s knife is at hand, how many can survive?

When Huolu Town was under siege, the Japanese took the captured young men and dug deeper around the defensive fortifications outside the city wall. Some young men were driven to plant stakes and hang barbed wire in the outer areas to add another layer of defense.

What about the people who were driven away? Those who had relatives nearby went to seek refuge with their relatives in the countryside. Those who had no relatives here could only wander outside, looking for a place to stay. In the end, these people found the Eighth Route Army and begged them to take them in.

"Damn Japanese devils, this trick is really mean!" Looking at the huge crowd of about 40,000 to 50,000 people, Li Yunlong sighed.

"Captain, what should we do? Should we fight or not?" Second Regiment Commander Shen Quan also had a headache. Looking at the crowd, he couldn't help but ask. "Fight? How to fight? Their relatives are working for the devils. If we fight now, can the people do it? It will only make life difficult for those women who were captured by the devils and puppet troops..." Li Yunlong didn't say anything more, but everyone understood what would happen to those captured women. Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao had seen many miserable situations of women who had been harmed by the devils! Sometimes, attacking the strongholds could also save some people...

"We have to let our Political Commissar Zhao handle this matter! Shen Quan, take your regiment and place these people in the empty houses in Huolu Town. Let them squeeze together so that they can barely find a place to shelter from the wind! Also, ask the logistics department to prepare some food and quickly cook some millet porridge for the villagers so that the people can have a bite of hot food first... Damn it, I'm not done with the Japanese for this matter!"

Rumble... Amid the roar of the car, Zhao Gang, with a group of staff squeezed in the back of the car, arrived at Huolu Town before the field became completely dark.

"Old Li, what's going on? Why did you call me here in a hurry? What happened?" Political Commissar Zhao greeted Li Yunlong as he got out of the car.

"What else can it be? Look... now, only you, Old Zhao, can solve this problem. When it comes to mass work, you, Old Zhao, are an expert!" Li Yunlong said flatteringly.

"Okay, give me the guard company, and don't worry about the rest! Tomorrow morning, you go and try to attack Shimen! By the way, you have to arrange at least one regiment to go to Zhending County in the north to cut off the communication between Zhending and Shimen! And you have to find a way to defeat Lingshou County, which is across the river from Pingshan!" said Political Commissar Zhao.

"Lingshou County is a small place, there are not many Japanese and puppet troops here, one regiment is enough! Let's put it this way, let's find out the situation in Shimen first, report the situation to the headquarters, and the rest depends on how the headquarters arranges it! To be honest, Lao Zhao, I, Lao Li, am good at fierce attacks and charges, but to dispatch so many troops... I, Lao Li, am not smart enough..." Li Yunlong was a little scared.

A few hours passed quickly, and the headquarters also made corresponding measures for the new situation! Because the devils drove the people away from not just one place, but almost all the cities occupied by the devils had such a situation. So in the face of this matter, the arrangement given by the headquarters was to appease the people, arrange for the people to stay and eat first, and then give them something to do.

Isn't it autumn now? Well, those who can move should go to repair canals and terraces, and work to earn a living! Those young people who are unwilling to be driven away by the devils can be recruited into the militia after their identities are verified...

However, this delayed the attack, especially in those counties with fewer troops, as the people's affairs took up a large amount of manpower and material resources.

Of course, this does not include the 9th Division, because the 9th Division has already taken down the county town, and there are no civilians to drag down! Therefore, the 9th Division received the latest mission: the th Division Artillery Regiment, the Beishan Detachment Artillery Battalion, the Main Force st Regiment, and the Main Force nd Regiment, all moved eastward overnight to reinforce the Shimen direction!
So, the first railway line that the Eighth Route Army just had was put into operation in less than a day! That's right, Zhao Danian and his men took a fancy to the trains at Yangquan Railway Station. They recruited the driver Lao Ma and others to Yangquan, arranged coal miners for them, and then the soldiers got on the trains. The trains started and drove all the way to Shimen in a hurry.

You know what, the train is fast! Running back and forth... By dawn the next day, the Eighth Route Army troops in the Shimen direction had increased by another 7000 people! (End of this chapter)