…… The independent regiment was hit hard after the battle of the wild wolf valley, and after the recruitment of new recruits, the first battalion was re-replenished, and the sound of training spread throughout the four fields every day, and the entire independent regiment showed a vigorous and upward atmosphere, but who would have expected that in such a seemingly harmonious atmosphere, there was an unprecedented crisis that was coming.

After the Battle of Wild Wolf Valley, the threat of the small Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army was once again raised by the Japanese army in North China.

For this reason, Okamura Ninji repeatedly urged the commander of the First Army of Jindi, Yoshio Shinozuka, to step up the plan for a sweep at the end of winter, and Yoshio Shinozuka, who had long hated the independent regiment, was naturally ordered, and the No. A battle plan was officially opened, more than two months earlier than the scheduled time.

So when the Eighth Route Army in Jinzhong was worried about how to survive this winter of lack of food and clothing, the Japanese troops in Jindi rarely dispatched together in silence.

This time, the Japanese army swept up with unprecedented intensity, and several divisions and regiments of the First Army and the Ninth Army stationed in Jin were all dispatched, and more than 100,000 troops were invested.

The sweeping plan was carried out in accordance with Yoshio Shinozuka's A battle plan.

Wherever the army passed, it carried out a three-light policy on all villages, and carried out acts of aggression with extremely cruel and despicable means.

At the same time, the Japanese army used radio direction finding technology to measure the location of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and the Yamamoto special forces that were going to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army set off quietly, avoiding contact with regular Japanese troops and civilians along the way, and aiming straight to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Mountain base area.

As the object that Yoshio Shinozuka wanted to kill the most, the independent regiment received special care, and the more than 3,000 people of the fourth brigade of the Japanese army all set off in the direction of the independent regiment, and with more than 3,000 fully armed Japanese troops to deal with an independent regiment of only more than 1,000 people, Shinozuka Yoshio really looked up to Li Yunlong.

There is also a reason why Yoshio Shinozuka sent the Fourth Brigade to encircle and suppress the Independent Regiment, this Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Army is actually an old opponent of the Independent Regiment, when the commander of the Independent Regiment was still Kong Jie, the Fourth Brigade fought with the Independent Regiment, and the Independent Regiment suffered heavy losses, and even the political commissar died in that battle.

Later, Li Yunlong led the new regiment to kill Sakata, the wing commander of the Fourth Brigade and Brigade, and after turning around and becoming the commander of the independent regiment, he took out the Yamazaki Brigade by the way.

The brigade commander of the Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Army was naturally furious after the loss of two tiger generals at once, and after Yoshio Shinozuka designated the No. A battle plan, the brigade commander recommended himself.

Yoshio Shinozuka naturally admires people who share the same hatred and hatred as him, and with the brigade commander who hates Li Yunlong so much to exterminate the Independent Regiment, he naturally can't ask for it.

This time, the Japanese army's sweep plan was extremely thorough, in order to prevent the news from leaking, they even carried out a brutal sweep of the nearby villages in advance, so after the Japanese army's sweep was carried out for several days, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army still did not receive any news, but the nearby villages were all destroyed, and many innocent people were persecuted.

…… Just a week before the start of the Japanese army's sweep, Han Feng's heart was full of worries, during this time, the wind controlled by the Japanese army was very tight, and even Gou Huozhe, who was in Ping'an County, had no time to deliver any news.

After the Japanese army's sweep began, the news of the sweep was told to the puppet army.

Han Feng knew that the Japanese army would carry out a brutal sweep, but he didn't know the specific date, and he couldn't tell Li Yunlong directly, and finally got the news that after all the puppet troops in Wanjia Town followed the Japanese army to carry out the sweep, Wang Chengzhu, who had long been mixed in the puppet army in Wanjia Town, secretly slipped away from the puppet army and ran back to the news delivered by the independent regiment.

Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang were extremely shocked when they got the news, and after Zhao Gang confirmed that the news was true, he immediately passed the news to the headquarters, and the headquarters immediately sent people to reconnoitre, only to find that the Japanese army's sweeping team was about to drill into the hinterland of the base area.

But even if you know the news of the Japanese army's sweep, what can you do? The Japanese army dispatched an unprecedentedly large number of men and horses this time, and after the formation of the sweeping encirclement, there was no dead end at all, and if you want to survive, you can only break through the encirclement.

After the outbreak of battlefields in the entire Jin region, Han Feng couldn't care about the others, and more than 3,000 people of the Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Army were approaching the independent regiment step by step.

Considering the seriousness of the crisis, Li Yunlong finally decided to divide the independent regiment into pieces and disperse to break out of the encirclement in order to reduce the pressure of the Japanese encirclement.

Before breaking through, everyone agreed to put the time of the breakthrough in the second half of the night, when the Japanese soldiers were at their lowest, the way to break through was very simple, the nine-part team broke through from nine directions at the same time, so as to reduce the target and achieve the effect of easy concealment.

…… The battle came in a hurry, no one had time to prepare anything, when the dense Japanese army swept over, the Eighth Route Army units with backward equipment and insufficient military literacy showed the "clumsiness" of combat effectiveness, and the tragic anti-sweeping war was connected in the entire Jin region, which together constituted a scene of singing and crying history of the Chinese War of Resistance.

In the afternoon of the same day, more than 3,000 people of the Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Army besieged Zhaojiayu Tuantuan in Zhaojiayu, where the Independent Regiment was stationed, with sudden steps.

The commander of the Japanese brigade was naturally not a fool, and he certainly could expect that the independent regiment would most likely break through at night.

In response, he intensified his patrols that night, and the soldiers of the entire Fourth Brigade were even more aware of the sleepless night.

That night, after Han Feng sent Xu Jingyou out to investigate, Xu Jingyou returned and said that the Japanese soldiers stared at the boss one by one, and they had no intention of resting at all, even if the soldiers broke through in the second half of the night, they were afraid that they would be detected by the Japanese army at the first time.

Behind Zhaojiayu, where the independent regiment is stationed, is a high slope, where there are very few devils, if there are not many people, Han Feng can completely break out with the rope climbing.

But now he wants to break through with a company of more than 120 soldiers, and the only way is to kill from the front.

In the second half of the night, Li Yunlong agreed on the time for the nine companies to break out at the same time, and there was less than half a point, Han Feng gathered all the teams of his first company, and he said to the soldiers of the first company: "Are you afraid of death?" ”

"Don't be afraid—"

More than 120 people answered in unison.

Han Feng nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, then I'll tell you now, I'm going to take you out in advance......"