Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

"Hey, why should we do this earlier? Why do we need to do all these tricks?" The commander of the 2nd Regiment slapped his thigh and got excited! So, the soldiers of the 2nd Regiment, who had been frustrated for a long time, detonated, the east gate was blown away, the mortar shells whizzed on the wall of the winter city, and the underground infantry rushed into the city...

Two hours later, Zhao County was declared captured, 99 Japanese troops were annihilated, 3 were captured, 188 puppet troops were captured, and the rest were all eliminated. Of course, the most important thing was that the gun factory was completely taken down, and from then on, the 6th District of Jizhong also had its own gun-making ability.

Of course, the Eighth Route Army at that time looked down on the junk made by the gun factory, so before they had time to completely digest and absorb the supplies from the county, the report from the 6th Division was telegraphed to the headquarters.

The request of District 6 is very simple. They hope that the headquarters can send technical personnel and key engineers to assist in leading District 6 to use this gun factory to produce semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns.

"Wow, you have a big appetite. You even don't even care about bolt-action rifles..." At the headquarters arsenal, Minister Zhang was reading Xinxin's report and expressed his feelings.

"Comrades, we all want to win the battle so badly! To win the battle, we need good weapons, so that we can win the battle better. This time, the 6th Division seized the ammunition depot in Zhao County and obtained more than rounds of bullets, and the medicine bags were also increased, so we made this request!" said a middle-aged man next to Minister Zhang.

"Haha, this is a good thing. Comrades need good weapons, but they can't seize them from the devils, so they want to produce them themselves. Isn't this self-reliance? Well, we have to trouble the Liangjia Village Arsenal for this matter. It's close and is the main production area for semi-automatic and submachine guns. Oh, and let Division 6 prepare some carpenters, bricklayers, and blacksmiths, and let them learn from us and make their own bullets!"

"That's possible! For bullets and shells, if we can have another production plant, then we can have another one! We just received a report from Taihang District 9. They claimed that some equipment in the Jingxing mining area could be taken to the arsenal for military production, and asked if they could be taken away? Didn't Liangjia Village get a complete set of blueprints for the bullet production machine of the Maoxiong family? They want to copy a set!"

"This is a good thing! If we can really imitate it successfully, we will all make money if a squad produces 1 rounds of bullets! After all, if the imitation is successful, other machines can be copied! The headquarters has agreed to this matter without affecting the underground operations! What restricts us is always the problem of insufficient ammunition and firepower! If one day, our Eighth Route Army no longer worries about ammunition, we can defeat the whole world!"

Listening to Minister Zhang's bold words, the middle-aged man also smiled. The Eighth Route Army has no shortage of excellent commanders, the best political and ideological work, the best soldiers, and even the best guns. The only thing that is limited is ammunition! If the ammunition problem is solved, then with the current size of the base, it will not be a problem to increase the number of troops to twice the current level.

Increase troops one year, fight one year, and continue to expand and hone after successful training... China has a large land area and a large number of personnel, so there are enough troops to expand the army!

This is the potential of war! Whether it is strategic depth, resource reserves, technical reserves, or troop reserves, they are all potential of war. The potential of the little devils is already stretched to its limit, but the potential of the Eighth Route Army is getting bigger and bigger! And the most crucial point is that the Eighth Route Army can maximize this potential, because we have the Anti-Japanese United Front, which can gather the strength of many families...

Just when the middle-aged man was daydreaming and relaxing, the signalman sent some telegrams again: "Chief of Staff, these are the battle reports from Beiyue District. They have recovered Laiyuan, Lingqiu and Wutai counties." "Three county towns have been captured? Very good..." The chief of staff thought for a while and said: "Tell them that the battle report has been received. While continuing to move forward according to the established goals, we must also do a good job of mass work in the rear, strive to capture a city, control a city, and let the people become our solid backing! As long as the people support us, even if we fight a tug-of-war with the enemy, we have the people as our backing!"

"Yes..." The signalman's voice stretched out, but he went to send a telegram.

At this time, Minister Zhang also walked to the front of the map and personally drew the latest situation map on the map. Looking at the blue areas above, Minister Zhang also looked at them with expectation. The places Minister Zhang looked at were all the areas currently controlled by the devils, and the areas around these controlled areas were all our bases!
In other words, under the current situation, the base areas of the entire North China can actually be geographically connected in some regions, and many places can even become a large base area. For example, Taihang, the 9th district is completely connected with the 1st and 2nd districts, and then together with the Beiyue district in the north, it surrounds Taiyuan and several county towns in the north.

Now, the Japanese can still communicate with Datong in the north through railways and highways, but with the gradual attack of 31 infantry regiments, 7 artillery regiments, and more than 8 main forces in the Beiyue District, Taiyuan will definitely be separated from Datong and eventually become an isolated city. In fact, there is a very good node here that can completely separate Taiyuan from these counties in the north.

You said Xinkou? Wrong. Although Xinkou is a defense line, it is not a very good defense line, because there is a hill further south past Xinzhou, which is right between Taiyuan and Xinzhou. Here, with the help of Baizi Mountain, Baozi Mountain, Guanmao Mountain, Fengpo Mountain and other hills, the connection between Taiyuan and the north can be cut off.

These hills are nestled together, leaving only two openings on the east and west sides, which is definitely an excellent defensive terrain. I just don't know why Xinkou was used as the defense line instead of here. Perhaps, because the distance here is too far or too close, Yan Laoxi doesn't want the battle line to be too close to Taiyuan City. After all, if it is too close, once it can't be stopped, there will be no time to escape...

But the key point is that there is a Yangqu between Taiyuan and this mountain top, which is also scary.

As time went on and the battle went on, the Beiyue District did not put all its forces in the north and on the battlefield. Instead, it separated three infantry regiments and marched south to attack the plains.

That’s right. Beiyue District, which belongs to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area, plans to work with its brother unit Jizhong District to wipe out the counties in and around Jizhong District.

A few days later, the battle reports came in one after another. All the counties around Shimen City were liberated, and most of the areas around Baoding were also liberated. Only four large cities, Shimen, Xing, Handan, and Baoding, remained on the Pinghan Line north of Zhanghe. Oh, we also have to add Beiping and several nearby counties, which we can't fight for the time being...

The counties far from the railway line were also liberated or besieged. The whole of North China was fighting vigorously and the situation was very good. (End of this chapter)