Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

The situation was very good and the fighting continued. The counties sandwiched between the Pinghan Line and the Jinpu Line were liberated one by one during this period, making the area between the two railway lines a complete base.

The Japanese still had tens of thousands of troops in North China, but these tens of thousands of Japanese were scattered in so many cities and such a large area, which was really not enough! As the counties were liberated one by one, the Japanese guarding the counties were eliminated or surrendered, which made the Japanese troops even more insufficient.

And because these cities were liberated after being divided, the Japanese had no way to dispatch troops to central Hebei, which created a very interesting situation. Those county towns, including the Japanese puppet troops in the county towns, were like flags on a chessboard, and they lost their function after being pulled out. The remaining county towns were still fighting alone and were still surrounded...

"Second War Zone Headquarters, our Eighth Route Army Taiyue Military Region has completed the physical division of the middle section of the Tongpu Railway and has occupied Lingshi... four counties. At this time, the Japanese 114th Division has been divided into two by us, and only part of the 69th Division stationed in Yuncheng is in Yuncheng, and the rest has crossed the Yellow River. Therefore, I hope that the Shanxi Suiyuan Army can go east out of Luliang Mountain and join our Eighth Route Army to attack the Japanese army, liberate the county, and rescue the people!"

When the Taiyue Military Region in Jizhong was constantly liberating county towns in the plains, a clear-text telegram from the Taiyue Military Region was sent to the Second War Zone Headquarters. It was so long that it was sent to Yan Laoxi, and by the way, it was also sent to the Japanese and all the units that could receive this telegram. This included but was not limited to the Shancheng Camp, the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Military Bureau of Investigation, various Japanese military units, and various news agencies.

In short, when the Central Army collapsed completely and the Japanese invaders marched straight in and occupied a large area of ​​our territory, the Taiyue District sent a clear telegram and publicly announced that it was discussing strategic cooperation with the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army!

"Damn it... This is a naked provocation, a slap in our face! You are all senior officers from Huangpu, the Eighth Route Army is conquering cities, and you are collapsing thousands of miles away! You said you don't have military pay, I gave you military pay; you said you don't have equipment and can't beat the Japanese, I found American equipment for you! But what about your explanation to me?"

"We are all human beings, including some of your classmates who share the same bunk beds or even desks with you. If the Eighth Route Army can do it, why can't you do it? You are all useless and good-for-nothings..." This is the accent of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

"Fuck your ancestors! What are you doing? Leaking information or provoking the Japanese army, or provoking our Shanxi-Suiyuan Army together? Such a blatant telegram, what can our Shanxi-Suiyuan Army do? We have to keep our troops in place, watch the fire from the other side of the river, sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. Forget about the fisherman gaining from the quarrel between the snipe and the clams. We can only fight with the Eighth Route Army! If we lose the hearts of the people, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army will no longer be the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army!" With a Wutai accent.

"Is this the general? I think this telegram from Taiyue District is a good one... If the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army doesn't want to fight, then force it to fight! If it doesn't fight, it will lose the support of the people! Now, the Central Army has been defeated across the board, and we have lost a lot of territory. Hu Zongnan is still eyeing Xi'an with his troops, does this mean he wants to start a civil war? We are not afraid. Our trained armored forces and field troops are ready to fight at any time!"

"So, send a telegram to the headquarters and ask them to send a clear-coded telegram to all the counties we have liberated recently, so that the people in the Kuomintang-controlled areas and enemy-occupied areas will also know that our Eighth Route Army is fighting, recovering lost territory, and liberating the people! Our Eighth Route Army is the real one that can defeat the Japanese invaders and establish a new China!" Southern Hunan accent. "Yes, let's do it! I suggest that we prepare the battlefield south of the Zhang River. If the devils go north, we will engage in a large-scale mobile warfare with them!" Sichuan accent.

"The Russians are launching a full-scale counterattack and are also capable of launching a counterattack against the Japanese troops in the Northeast! However, judging from past experience, sending troops is not a good thing. We need to take this into consideration. Sometimes, taking a small advantage will lead to a big loss!"

A telegram has caused so much discussion. Then the headquarters released the recently liberated counties to tell the people of the country that the Japanese devils are not that powerful because we are fighting here. As soon as this telegram came out, it is said that a bald man cursed again, and the Eagle Sauce family also planned to have a good exchange with the Eighth Route Army.

Let's go back to Taiyue District... Taiyue District originally had 4 military sub-districts, which was the size of 12 infantry regiments. After the development last year and this year, Taiyue District has 22 infantry regiments, 5 artillery regiments, and 5 military sub-districts, achieving the size of one artillery regiment in each military sub-district. Moreover, Taiyue District is not limited to the Taiyue area, but also develops towards northern and western Henan...

In the past year, Taiyue District has completely abandoned the policy of streamlining the military and government and has adopted a mode of rapid military expansion!
The confidence of the rapid-fire mode, of course, is the help given by the headquarters arsenal and Liangjia Village Arsenal! Apart from anything else, to equip 22 infantry regiments with 60 mortars, 594 60 mortars are needed, which occupies two months of production capacity of Liangjia Village Arsenal. Fortunately, Taiyue District can produce mortar shells by itself, so after equipping these mortars, there will be no shortage of shells.

As the war progressed, Taiyue District was facing attacks from three directions. Similar to last year, the Japanese mobilized puppet troops from Yuncheng, Lu'an and Pingyao to attack Taiyue District, intending to force the troops in Taiyue District to return to the base! However, compared with last year, Taiyue District was not afraid of the Japanese at all after the surge of troops, and even hoped that the Japanese would send more talents!
The central point of the war was in the three counties of Lingshi, Huozhou and Hongdong, which were just occupied by Taiyue Division 114 and Division . The devils fighting against the two divisions were the th Division.

The 114th Division is a newly formed division. After the original 114th Division number was cancelled, this division was newly formed this year. It was formed with an independent infantry brigade as the backbone and has a strength of 13045 troops.

This is the worst type C division, with poor personnel, poor equipment, and nothing else. What is the current situation? The 1st Division of Taiyue has 1 infantry regiment and 114 artillery regiment, which are firmly guarding the Lingshi line in the north, facing the attack of the 83rd Brigade of the 83th Division. The brigade headquarters of the 4rd Brigade is in Pingyao, and it has only infantry battalions.

The Second Division on the southern front also mobilized 3 infantry regiments and 1 artillery regiment to defend the Hongdong line to block the attack of the 114th Brigade of the 84th Division. The brigade headquarters of the 84th Brigade was in Xinxiang, and it also had only 4 infantry battalions. You read that right, each of them had 4 infantry battalions, no artillery battalions, and no mountain artillery belonging to the regiment... (End of this chapter)