When the sky just began to darken, Xie Qin and Wei Xin returned, and the two gave a brief report on the situation of the battle.

"The commander destroyed more than 800 enemies in this counterattack, and more than 400 people fled to Huyue Ridge and are still resisting stubbornly, 20 soldiers of our army were killed and 32 soldiers were injured."

Seeing that Lin Junxiong didn't speak, Wei Xin immediately added Xie Qin's words: "This Japanese puppet army is already running out of ammunition, we plan to trap them first without fighting, and wait until other nearby reinforcements rush over to wipe them out in one fell swoop." ”

"You have done a good job, I just have some casualties among the troops, the Japanese Kwantung Army claims to have millions of people, and we currently only have a few thousand people, the Japanese can afford to consume, but our soldiers can't afford to sacrifice, Xie Qin, Wei Xin, you must remember that you must avoid greed in future actions and minimize the casualties of the troops, they are the hope of the future."

"Commander, are we going to wait or eat the remnants of the Japanese puppet army in one go?"

"Let's wait for a while, and then launch a war of annihilation when the sharpness of this Japanese puppet army has been worn out, and their reinforcements are about to arrive."

"There is a place in the area of Tiger Leaping Ridge that is very suitable for ambushes, should we set up an ambush here and give a severe blow to the Japanese puppet army that comes to reinforce it?" Wei Xin asked what Lin Junxiong meant.

Lin Junxiong said with a smile: "You and Lao Xie discuss it, let's use all the shells brought by the Guandaoling Arsenal, the guns are gone, the Japanese are making them for us, and the soldiers are gone, and our foundation will be weakened." Lao Xie, in the future, the two brothers Zhengnan and Zhengbei will be the two deputy captains of the Third Column, and their troops will also be enriched into the Third Column, you have to treat them like your own people. Go, I await your good news. ”

Xie Qin's face was full of excitement, nodded at the two brothers Bian Zhengnan and Bian Zhengbei, and then was about to turn around and leave, Lin Junxiong saw that the two brothers were a little unable to sit still, and said with a smile: "Go, due south, due north, this is the first battle after your three columns are strong, go and fight side by side with the soldiers!" ”

After a few people left, Lin Junxiong said to Zheng Ming: "Call the newspaper operator to come over, I haven't been in contact with Lao Liao for a long time, the 'Pseudo Four Provinces Journey' operation is coming to an end, see if there are any instructions from the Party Central Committee?" ”

Seeing that Qian Chang looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, Lin Junxiong said with a smile: "Old Qian, the current Party Central Committee is Comrade Mao Zedong as the leadership core, believe me, the previous mistakes of the Party Central Committee in the Northeast will not happen again." In fact, it is not to blame that the instructions of the Party Central Committee were wrong in the early years, but that some people were biased in the process of carrying them out. ”

Perhaps thinking of the fact that the incident caused many anti-Japanese fighters to die and dealt a great blow to the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, Qian Changchang came back to his senses, saw the firmness in Lin Junxiong's eyes, and believed that he had the ability to control the overall situation, so he smiled bitterly and said: "I hope, the commander still has to be cautious." ”

When Lin Junxiong learned that Liao Chengxian asked Lin Junxiong to explain the details of the battle of Guandaoling at the request of the Party Central Committee, Lin Junxiong smiled and asked the telegraph operator to call back, which had been sent out more than ten days ago and would arrive soon. As for the next step, the Party Central Committee only gave eight words: steady and steady, step by step.

In the end, Liao Chengxian also conveyed the proposal of the Party Central Committee to form an alliance with the Second Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, support each other, and work together. Lin Junxiong looked at the contact address sent by Liao Chengxian, and felt a little warm in his heart, he was finally going to contact the party's Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance forces other than Yang Jingyu, and the five base areas he had arranged would also be embedded in the party's anti-Japanese force map in the northeast, and the entire anti-Japanese system would be improved.

In the Tiger Leap Ridge, Xie Qin led the soldiers of the three columns to attack the Japanese puppet army that came to reinforce the Japanese puppet army, and more than 100 shells brought out from the Guandao Ridge were shot into the Japanese puppet army, and the grenadiers were damaged a lot, and it was difficult for the Japanese puppet army to organize a counterattack after heavy casualties, and immediately withdrew to the outside of the Tiger Leaping Ridge.

As early as when the reinforced Japanese puppet army was about to enter the Tiger Leaping Ridge, Xie Qin and Wei Xin annihilated the remnants of the Japanese puppet army in the Tiger Leaping Ridge, and then the third column rushed to the ambush site, and the fourth column went around the periphery to cut off the rear route of the reinforcement of the Japanese army.

Nearly 2,000 Japanese puppet troops reinforced from Helong County lost half of them in the shelling, and the Japanese commander thought that he had encountered the main force of the revolutionary army, thinking of the tragedy of the rumored battle of Guandaoling, coupled with the fierce shelling just now, he was afraid that the revolutionary army with 5,000 people in the rumors would be wiped out, and he did not care to find out how many people there were in the pursuing force, and desperately ordered the troops to withdraw to Helong County.

When he was about to escape from Tiger Leaping Ridge, the Japanese commander did not have time to rejoice, and encountered a fierce resistance in front, and after organizing a failed charge, his heart continued to sink, and he could not raise the heart of resistance at all, and ordered the troops to move high on both sides.

After the convergence of the third and fourth columns, they quickly dispersed after a fierce pursuit, and the Japanese commander waited for a day and a night, and when the scouts repeatedly confirmed that there was no one within a radius of five miles, he carefully fled to Helong County with the remaining less than 300 people.

Upon arriving in Horyu County, Twilight immediately reconnoitred the key locations and divided them into three groups to hide near the arsenal, supply depots, and pseudo-county offices to wait for an opportunity to attack. When all the Japanese puppet troops in Helong County were marching to the nearby Changbai Mountains, Du Sheng and three assault detachments launched a surprise attack on the arsenal, supply depots, and puppet county offices that night, and after eliminating the remaining small detachment of the Japanese army stationed and nearly 100 puppet soldiers, they rushed to the next target, Antu County, overnight.

After finding devastating blows in several important places in Helong County, the Japanese puppet army that had just entered the mountains had to send a squadron back to help, and when they rushed back to Helong County, they found nothing but devastation.

After the Japanese puppet army in Helong County suffered a crushing defeat, it caused panic among the Japanese troops stationed in Yanji County, the capital of Puppet Island Province, and sent a division of Japanese troops and several puppet regiments to Helong County to encircle and suppress. Due to the revolutionary army's habitual tactics of harassment and ambush, the Japanese puppet army that went to encircle and suppress was cautious along the way, and by the time they arrived at Helong County, they had already lost the trace of the revolutionary army, and after searching for several days in the nearby area and the Changbai Mountains to find nothing, they suddenly withdrew to Helong County. Before they had time to rest, they received an order from the headquarters, Antu County was attacked by the revolutionary army, and quickly went to encircle and suppress, and when they arrived in Antu County, they still could not find any trace of the revolutionary army, and searched until the boundary of the puppet Jilin Province before returning helplessly.

The attack in Antu County is still the masterpiece of Dusheng with two assault detachments, and the strategy of night attack and rapid evacuation is still used, although the effect of the attack cannot be compared with the devastating blow of Helong County, but it is also a cold sweat for the Antu County garrison, they are just searching in the county, and they dare not march outside the county full of unknowns under the vast night.

Lin Junxiong and the Fourth Column did not participate, and in the Third Column they left the Changbai Mountains in the area of Changdeling in the east of Helong County, and advanced to Songjiang Town in the southwest of Jilin City.

After meeting up with Dusheng and his party in Songjiang Town, Lin Junxiong unfolded the latest map he got from Chunmu Dongzi and said to Wei Xin: "Old Wei, you need to have a general understanding of the places we pass through next, so as to facilitate the development of the base area in the future, I just give you a preliminary intention, and you still need to decide for yourself." ”

"Commander, wasn't the original plan to establish a base area in the lower reaches of the Songhua River in the Changshan area?" Wei Xin asked with some doubts.

"Lao Wei, you see that this area is located in the west of Songjiang Town, east of the Songhua River, and is a dense area of nearby mountains, with three larger peaks: Gunner Ridge, Qingbei Ridge, and Dongmiao Ridge. From this area across the Songhua River to the west, in the north of Changshan this area is even more mountains clustered, there are more than 10 mountains of the South Temple Ridge, the North Temple Ridge, the Ant River Ridge and so on, you have to go deep into the local people to investigate and understand the two areas I mentioned in detail, and finally determine the establishment of the base of the three verticals, my suggestion is to establish two or three secret camps, regardless of priority, to facilitate the activities of the troops, even if destroyed by the enemy, it will not be a big blow to the troops, after all, it is only more than 100 kilometers away from the puppet Jilin Province, And most of the area is still plain. ”

"Commander, all the columns are scattered, what should we do over there in Lotus Mountain?"

"There is a guard team from Zeng Lingshan in Lianhua Mountain, and it is estimated that this time I will be able to attract many people to join the revolutionary army, which is enough for self-protection." After Lin Junxiong finished speaking, he smiled mysteriously: "Didn't you find that you haven't seen Xiang Hu since you arrived at Luoxiao Mountain?" ”

"Xiang Hu? Could it be that the commander still has a back-up move? Wei Xin looked at Lin Junxiong suspiciously.

"Hehe, Jiangxi Dayu County is the tungsten capital of China, where Xiang Hu has some friends who were caught working in the mining area, he took the initiative to ask Ying to go back and gather some people to come over, and it should arrive at Lotus Mountain at the end of the month." Besides, didn't you find that Huinan County, Panshi County and your Changshan area are triangulated? We can support each other in case of emergency. ”

"Then I'm relieved, it seems that the commander thinks more far-reaching than us, and it seems that the Lianhuashan base area must develop better than the base area of our columns under the leadership of the commander. By the way, Commander, are you really going to Jilin to meet the person in charge of the Second Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance? But be careful. Wei Xin looked at Lin Junxiong with some concern.

Lin Junxiong said firmly: "Don't worry, since it was arranged by the Party Central Committee, the chairman must have thought it through, believe me, it's okay, as party members, no matter what kind of situation we encounter, obeying the orders of the Party Central Committee must always be put first." ”

"I understand what you mean, there will be no more doubts like that in the future, I will establish a base in the vicinity of Changshan as soon as possible, and I will definitely try not to disappoint you."

"Old Wei, I am one hundred and twenty rest assured, believe me, the final victory of this war belongs to the Chinese people."

The "Journey of the Puppet Four Provinces" plan took the puppet Tonghua Province as the main battlefield, the Fengtian Province and the Puppet Island Province as the indirect battlefield, and the puppet Jilin Province as the starting and ending point, which lasted two months and traveled nearly 2,000 kilometers, and the revolutionary army annihilated nearly 20,000 Japanese puppet troops with less than 100 casualties, and achieved a brilliant victory. At the same time, the plan also achieved three other goals: the reputation of the revolutionary army began to spread rapidly throughout the three eastern provinces, countless enslaved people in the northeast woke up and began to revolt, and each column opened a base in the predetermined location.

Thinking of the future, Lin Junxiong is full of ambition, although winter is coming, but it also means that the pace of spring is also approaching.