I am an artillery soldier

Chapter 468 Retaliatory Raid

Throughout the night, Liu Gen and others were on their way, and the devil's revenge was crazy.

Judging from the battle between the Eighth Route Army troops on the front line and the devils, the devils moved very quickly, and their marching speed was not greatly affected.In order to be able to reach the Chenjiayu area in the shortest possible time, when responding to the blocking of the Eighth Route Army troops, the devils will decisively allocate part of the troops to deal with it, and the rest of the troops will continue to advance rapidly.

In this regard, the troops of the Eighth Route Army have no good solution. The devils chose to divide their troops because the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army troops is limited. Even if they divide their troops, the remaining troops can persist for enough time.These devils who stayed behind to deal with the blocking of the Eighth Route Army troops, if they really stayed in place and did not have enough heavy firepower, it would be difficult to pose too much threat to them.

Fortunately, there are enough Eighth Route Army troops on the front line, which can delay the devils for enough time. Otherwise, with the marching speed of the devils, I am afraid that they would have reached the Chenjiayu area long ago.At that time, it would be impossible for Liu Gen and others to complete the transfer easily. It is not a big deal for the Devil's agents to fail in many battles, but the destruction of the field observation group will force the Devil to retaliate against the Eighth Route Army troops.

When the news that the battlefield observation group was completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army reached the headquarters of the North China Front Army, the commander Neiji Okamura immediately issued an order to the First Army stationed in Shanxi, ordering them to launch retaliation against the Eighth Route Army base area, and to fight for the killed battlefield. The observation group takes revenge!
Yoshio Iwamatsu, the commander of the First Army, paid special attention to this. He knew that he needed to give an explanation to the headquarters of the North China Front Army. Only in this way could the shame of the First Army be washed away.The field observation group had problems after they came to the First Army. They were killed by the Eighth Route Army, which undoubtedly showed that the protection of the field observation group by the First Army was not strong enough.

Otherwise, with the strength of the First Army, how could it be impossible to protect the militant observation group?

Things happened to the First Army, how could Yoshio Iwamatsu, the commander of the First Army, continue to relax?In Taiyuan, Shanxi, in the headquarters of the Devil's First Army, Yoshio Iwamatsu's orders continued to be issued from here, and the devil troops in Shanxi took actions one after another. They drew out a certain amount of troops and launched a sweep against the Japanese base area again.

In the early morning, after Liu Gen and others found a hidden place to rest, they learned the information of the devil's revenge from the telegram sent by the division headquarters. The division headquarters ordered the independent regiment under the leadership of Li Yunlong to prepare for the devil's raid.At the same time, Liu Gen was ordered to return to the division headquarters in the shortest possible time, and the devil's mopping up began again. At such a juncture, it would be the safest for Liu Gen to stay in the division headquarters.

After seeing the news that he was ordered to return to the division headquarters, Liu Gen was not too surprised. He had expected such a thing to happen a long time ago. With the degree of Liu Gen's attention, at this time, he really couldn't continue to stay in the independent school. group.The independent regiment's combat effectiveness is good, but the independent regiment also has its own things to do, and naturally it can't do much to protect Liu Gen.

It is different when going back to the division headquarters. Since the 129th division division headquarters and the Eighth Route Army headquarters are together, the defense force there is very sufficient. Moreover, the division headquarters also has enough experience in dealing with the devil's mopping up, so there will be no security problems easily. .But compared to returning to the division headquarters, Liu Gen is still more willing to stay in the independent regiment. With Li Yunlong's character, staying in the independent regiment will definitely not be short of battles!

"Genzi, you boy, go back to the division headquarters early, so that the division commander and bosses can relax." Li Yunlong put down the telegram in his hand, and said seriously to Liu Gen.

Li Yunlong had experienced raids by devils many times, so he naturally had his own experience in dealing with raids by devils, but even so, this time he didn't have the slightest idea of ​​keeping Liu Gen in the independent group.Li Yunlong knew Liu Gen's ability. He knew that letting Liu Gen stay in the independent group would completely limit Liu Gen's performance. With Liu Gen's ability, he needed a bigger stage.

The battlefield observation group that successfully killed the devils this time is good, and there is a devils major general among them, but the battlefield observation group that chose to kill the devils made the devils' raid on the base area this time extremely cruel.Li Yunlong could have predicted it. How could the devil give up if he killed the devil's field observation group under the devil's nose?

Thinking of facing the devil's crazy revenge this time, Li Yunlong felt a little headache. If Liu Gen was left in the independent regiment, he didn't have enough confidence to protect Liu Gen's safety.It was precisely because of this that Li Yunlong did not hesitate to let Liu Gen return to the division headquarters. Talents like Liu Gen cannot easily die on the battlefield.

Maybe Liu Gen will die on the battlefield one day, but it will definitely be after Li Yunlong and others have all died before he will be able to die on the battlefield.Inside the Eighth Route Army, anyone who had seen Liu Gen clearly knew one thing, that Liu Gen could not have any problems and needed adequate protection.

"Head, are you driving me away? This doesn't look like your style." Liu Gen looked at Li Yunlong and couldn't help but said.

Li Yunlong laughed, and a trace of reluctance quickly flashed in his eyes. "Damn it! You're so gutsy now! How dare you even tease me?"

"Okay, I still have a lot of things to do in my independent regiment. It will be very busy during this time, so I won't keep you kid. I will let the monk take a few comrades to send you back to the division headquarters. Don't refuse, yes The teachers and bosses all attach great importance to your safety, and there cannot be any problems."

"Genzi, you kid don't want me to be punished, do you?"

Liu Gen was a little helpless, Li Yunlong had said everything he could say, what else could he say about it?In the end, Liu Gen could only nod with a wry smile, expressing that he understood and had no intention of refusing.

"Then I'll say goodbye to the political commissar," Liu Gen said.

Li Yunlong nodded. Naturally, he didn't have any objections. Seeing Liu Gen looking for Zhao Gang, he felt somewhat uncomfortable. Damn, it was so hard to meet Liu Gen, and now we have to separate again.But there is no way, who made them all soldiers?Soldiers should obey orders as their bounden duty, and Li Yunlong also knows this.

After bidding farewell to Zhao Gang, Liu Gen, the monk and others left the independent regiment directly, and hurried towards the shifted position of the division headquarters.

At noon, after Chu Yunfei woke up, he realized that Liu Gen had disappeared. After asking Li Yunlong, he realized that Liu Gen had already rushed back to the division headquarters.At this time, Chu Yunfei really realized that the Eighth Route Army attached great importance to Liu Gen. Without asking the specific reason, Chu Yunfei could also understand why Liu Gen needed to return to the division headquarters.

The devils are about to launch a revenge action against the Eighth Route Army, which means that all frontline troops may exchange fire with the devils. The independent regiment's combat effectiveness is very strong, but it is still not enough to ensure Liu Gen's safety.

Knowing that the devil's revenge was about to start, Chu Yunfei no longer had the idea of ​​staying in the independent regiment. At such a juncture, he needed to return to the 358th regiment.No one knew what the devil was going to do, Chu Yunfei also wanted to go back to the 358th regiment to see if he had a chance to fight.

As for whether the 358 regiment's attack on the devils would attract the attention of the devils, Chu Yunfei didn't care about this. As a soldier, if he gave up attacking the devils because he was worried about getting the attention of the enemy, then there was no need to be a soldier.

After bidding farewell to Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang, Chu Yunfei and others left the independent regiment directly. They needed to join other officers of the Jinsui Army in the exchange regiment before returning to their respective units.Chu Yunfei believed that other people in the exchange group should not have the idea of ​​continuing to communicate with the Eighth Route Army at this moment.

The devils launched a raid on the Eighth Route Army's base area. No one knew whether the Eighth Route Army could successfully defend it. It's good that there were no problems, but if there was a problem, their exchange group would be in a lot of danger.

When Chu Yunfei and the others returned to the exchange group, they found that the officers in the exchange group all looked stern. After seeing Chu Yunfei and others returning to the team, they immediately chose to leave.If it weren't for waiting for Chu Yunfei and others, the officers in these exchange groups would have chosen to leave long ago.

Compared with staying in the Eighth Route Army, these officers of the Jinsui Army still prefer to stay in their own troops. Even in terms of combat effectiveness, their troops may not be comparable to the Eighth Route Army, but they still want to leave.

The Eighth Route Army naturally did not obstruct the departure of the Shanxi-Sui Army exchange group. After sending a company of soldiers to protect them from the base area, the Eighth Route Army turned its attention to the menacing devil troops.

Under the order of Yoshio Iwamatsu, all units of the Devil's First Army mobilized a certain amount of troops and launched a retaliatory encirclement and suppression campaign against the Eighth Route Army's base areas.From the marching speed of these devil troops, it can be seen that the devils are coming fiercely. This time the devil troops are crazy.

Taking this situation into consideration, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters ordered all units of the Eighth Route Army to focus on blocking the devils with small units and not to entangle the devils too much.Among them, the main energy of the Eighth Route Army should be on the transfer of the masses in the base areas. The devils are very murderous. If the masses are not transferred, the masses will be exposed to the devil's butcher's knife.

It is precisely with this in mind that the bosses will order all the troops to pay attention to the safety of the people in the base areas, pay attention to the protection of the people, and minimize the losses of the people as much as possible.

After receiving the order from the headquarters, all units of the Eighth Route Army moved quickly. They moved the people in the base area as quickly as possible. Except for some old people who were unwilling to transfer, most of the people in the base area were transferred.

On the second day after the mass transfer work began, the troops assembled by the Devils First Army launched a retaliatory sweep against the Japanese base areas. This time the Devils mainly focused on sabotage. I chose destruction, unscrupulous destruction.

Villages were burned, farmland was trampled, wells were thrown into corpses, and every village the devil troops passed through was turned into scorched earth.

After the bosses learned about the crazy destruction of the devil's troops in the base area, they were extremely angry. They constantly mobilized the troops of various troops to launch a counterattack against the devil's weak sweeping force, and at the same time ordered all the troops to pull out the devil's weak defensive stronghold.

On weekdays, the strongholds defended by the devils have sufficient troops, and the devils also know the methods of the Eighth Route Army, so they keep easily leaving the strongholds too far.But this time Yoshio Iwamatsu mobilized troops to resist the retaliatory sweep of the Japanese base areas, and mobilized a lot of troops from various units of the First Army, resulting in insufficient troops for the devils to defend the strongholds.

Under the flexible command of the bosses, the strongholds of the devils in the anti-Japanese base areas were continuously removed, forcing the devils to give up the sweep of the anti-Japanese base areas and deploy troops to defend the strongholds.

It's just that even though the units of the Eighth Route Army have achieved good results under the command of the bosses, the devils' retaliatory raids on the anti-Japanese base areas still caused considerable damage to the base areas, especially the farmland trampled by the devils. The food production will definitely have a considerable impact.

In March, the anti-Japanese base areas regained calm after the last mopping-up troops of the devils withdrew. It was just that the people in the base areas were traumatized, but it was unknown when they would be able to recover. Light can relieve the hatred of the people in the base area!
At the Huangyadong Arsenal, Liu Gen was directing the workers of the Arsenal to move the lathes. The bosses decided to separate the Huangyadong Arsenal to ensure that the production of the Arsenal would not be greatly affected.

In order to ensure the safety of the arsenal to the greatest extent, the Huangyadong arsenal will be divided into three parts. Considering that the location of Huangyadong has been discovered by devils, the production part of the Huangyadong arsenal is not too important to avoid The devil troops went to Huangyadong arsenal to sweep again.

Among them, the artillery department of the arsenal also needs to evacuate Huangyadong and go to a more secluded area for production. That is to say, Liu Gen may not have much chance to return to Huangyadong in the future.

Looking at the busy military factory workers, Liu Gen felt a little depressed, and it would be difficult to add Director Xu and the others in the future.

After returning to the headquarters, Liu Gen also learned from the headquarters bosses over the air that he would be able to participate in more battles in the future, and as Liu Gen participated in more battles, he would spend much less time in the rear.

Liu Gen didn't know when he would leave, plus Director Xu and the others. The only thing he could do was to tell Director Xu and others what he knew about the technology, and then use it as a technical reserve for the arsenal.

Of course, if the arsenal needs it, Liu Gen will definitely return to the arsenal to solve some problems, but unless there are some problems that need to be solved by Liu Gen, ordinary problems can be solved on the phone.

After bidding farewell to Director Xu, Chief Engineer Qi and others, Liu Gen did not stay any longer, and left Huangya Cave with the Artillery Department under the escort of soldiers.

(End of this chapter)