Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

From the end of October to mid-November, the Eighth Route Army was still active around various bases, constantly attacking cities and seizing territories!
In Shandong Province, with the continuous actions of various bases, the Japanese defense force was continuously compressed, and the Japanese were trapped in several large cities such as Lu A, Lu B, and Lu N, while the surrounding small counties were liberated. For example, the Zhangqiu area, which was later affiliated to Lu A and now to Lu J, was also liberated as the plaster flag of the old Zhangqiu city was dropped.

To the east of the old Zhangqiu City, at the foot of Changbai Mountain in Zhangqiu, the place that was once the hometown of Zou Zi, Fang Xuanling and Du Fuwei, the blacksmiths who had been secretly repairing and producing guns for the Eighth Route Army finally moved from underground to above ground, openly working as blacksmiths for the Eighth Route Army and helping to produce some weapons.

It is said that at most times in Zhangqiu, there were more than 2400 blacksmiths making weapons for the military industry department of the Eighth Route Army. According to the collected data, the blacksmiths in Zhangqiu were skilled in craftsmanship, hardworking, and their work locations were dispersed enough... Dispersion is not a bad thing. When the Japanese blockade was the most stringent, these dispersed blacksmiths secretly made various parts and then handed them over to the military industry department for assembly.

The Eighth Route Army would not treat the blacksmiths unfairly! If the blacksmiths made a qualified rifle, they would be rewarded with 60 kilograms of pure rice (rice, millet, yellow rice, etc. without impurities), and a qualified light machine gun could be exchanged for 300 kilograms of pure rice, which was a very good wage in the blacksmith business!

Victory was in sight in Shandong Province, and the battle in the central Hebei Plain was also coming to an end. All the counties that could be captured in the entire area had been captured, and those that could not be captured had been surrounded.

By now, the troops besieging Shimen were no longer all from the Ninth Division, but from the Taihang First Division and the Jin-Cha-Ji Seventh Division. The Beishan Detachment withdrew, as did the three local regiments, leaving only Lao Li's independent regiment still in Shimen.

Of course, Lao Li was not idle during these days. He led his team to attack the north bank of the Hutuo River, Zhending County, which was across the river from Shimen City, and completely isolated Shimen City! Of course, whether it was Lao Li or other comrades, they all knew that Shimen City was not easy to attack, and could not be attacked, at least not now, so they were all waiting, waiting for the devils to come back for help, waiting for the situation to change.

On November 11, the Eighth Route Army's southern detachment crossed the Yellow River to the east and headed south, with the goal of establishing a new anti-Japanese battlefield behind the Japanese and opening up the Hunan-Guangdong base. But the Japanese didn't know about this! At this time, the Taiyue District was still confronting the Japanese in several counties in the middle section of the Tongpu Railway, constantly consuming the Japanese's troops, and the Japanese didn't care about the situation on the other side of the Yellow River in the west.

During this period, under the pressure of public opinion, the Jinsui Army in Luliang Mountain had to take the initiative to attack the devils, but the force was not strong and there was no determination to fight. The good thing was that the Jinsui Army successfully mobilized some devils to confront them, reducing the defense pressure in the Taiyue area. Some soldiers of the Jinsui Army who understood the righteousness of the matter also saw that the Jinsui Army really did not want to fight against the Japanese, so they deserted.

Therefore, during this period, whether in Hongdong County or Huozhou, there were continuous soldiers from the Shanxi Suiyuan Army coming to surrender with weapons, and as soon as they arrived, they said that they were there to join the fight against the Japanese invaders.

This situation had long been anticipated by many cadres in the Taiyue District, so when these soldiers came, there were special officers responsible for receiving and examining them, and then following up with their ideological education and cultural studies.

The Eighth Route Army now has hundreds of thousands of people, and the Taiyue District also has 6 main forces, but everyone still likes to accept the soldiers from the Jinsui Army who defected! This is the Jinsui Army, the famous Jinsui Army. Although it has not won many battles, it is also the foundation of the old warlords, and it is very attentive to the training of soldiers!
As long as these Jinsui troops who defected here were not spies planted by the devils, or people sent by Yan Laoxi to cause trouble, then they would be trained veterans! After a few more battles, cultural learning and ideological education, they would definitely be a group of good soldiers! In just over ten days, the number of new recruits received exceeded 2000!
This is the Shanxi Suiyuan Army of more than 2000 people. When Yan Laoxi found out, he was so angry that he cursed his mother, but this matter cannot be blamed on the Eighth Route Army. They are all from Shanxi, and they just want to fight the devils. What's wrong?

After a few days of learning and contact, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army who defected to the Eighth Route Army also realized how unreliable the propaganda they heard from the war zone headquarters about the Eighth Route Army was!
Who said the Eighth Route Army was poor? They could only eat two meals a day in the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, and they didn't know how to get enough food. But in the Eighth Route Army, they had three meals a day, they were full, and they could eat meat every few days. Some of these meats were fat pork slices, some were fish caught from the Fen River, and some were just some pheasants. Anyway, they ate whatever they had, without any particularity.

And those who say that the Eighth Route Army is just wandering around and not fighting, that the Eighth Route Army can only wander around in the mountains and dare not fight the devils head-on, I will fuck their ancestors! Now the Eighth Route Army has taken the initiative to attack and has already captured 5 county towns in western Shanxi, and is still defending the county towns and fighting a war of attrition with the devils. Is this called a glorious guerrilla war?
Some people also said that the Eighth Route Army was poorly equipped, and some deserters brought submachine guns with them, thinking that the Eighth Route Army would be extremely rare, right? As a result, the Eighth Route Army officers just curled their lips when they saw them, and then said that these things were not easy to use, and the bullets were hard to replace, and they were not as good as our Type 81 submachine guns!

Some soldiers who were not convinced talked about the fierce firepower. As a result, the Eighth Route Army commander directly pulled them to the city wall and fired submachine guns at the Japanese soldiers attacking the city outside to show them what fierce firepower means! The key is that the submachine guns in their hands have a large caliber, but a long range, and are far less light and accurate than the submachine guns in the hands of the Eighth Route Army commanders!

200 meters, 200 meters away, the Thompsons in their hands had long lost their bullets, but the Eighth Route Army officers pulled them to the shooting range, and they fired short bursts with their submachine guns, and they actually hit the target with a single short burst! This is not a submachine gun, even rifles are not so accurate! Then, the Eighth Route Army officers took out semi-automatic and assault rifles, and fired directly at the chest target at 300 meters, and they hit the target.

The above are just guns. These soldiers of the Shanxi Suiyuan Army were also dragged to watch an artillery battle! Or in other words, a one-sided battle of bombing the Japanese puppet army with mortars of various calibers...

In short, these Shanxi-Suiyuan Army soldiers who defected here were really given a lot of help during these days - they were enlightened!
On November 11, the Japanese began to retreat northward from the battlefield in the south! The Japanese had completed the battle to open up the mainland transportation line, but found that their backs were cut off by the Eighth Route Army, and they had to return to support! On this day, the traitor Wang Jingwei, who was recuperating in Japan, died of his illness. This made people sigh that he really died well, and he died of illness and could not be used for land reclamation!
The Japanese are heading north, and all bases have received the news, asking everyone to be careful of the Japanese tanks! (End of this chapter)