On the evening of September 5, the independent regiment withdrew from the Yushe area, and news came from the brigade headquarters that a large number of devils were attacking this area. In order to avoid the sharp edge of the devils, the brigade commander ordered the independent regiment, the new regiment and the 772nd regiment to withdraw from the Yushe area.

After withdrawing from the Yushe area, the independent regiment moved closer to the location where the brigade headquarters was located to ensure the safety of the brigade headquarters. Under the command of the division headquarters, the units of the 129th Division continued to attack the devils on the Zhengtai Railway Line, and at the same time sent small units to block the enemy's reinforcements.

It's just that with the passage of time, more and more reinforcements from the devils arrived, in order to ensure the safety of the Zhengtai Railway, the North China Command of the Devils sent a large number of troops to reinforcements, however, when the reinforcements of the devils arrived, the western section of the Zhengtai Railway was seriously damaged by the 129th Division, and it could not be easily opened to traffic in a short time.

In addition, the bridges, highways, tunnels, etc., which were destroyed by the troops of the 129th Division, made the devil's traffic scattered and scattered, making it difficult for the devil to move an inch.

On the way back to lead the Independent Regiment, the soldiers of the Independent Regiment had ugly faces, and they could see that in order to retaliate against the attack of the Eighth Route Army, the devils carried out an ember annihilation war against the existence in the base area, that is, the three-light policy, killing all, burning all, and robbing all of them.

Looking at the dead villagers in the village, the eyes of the soldiers of the Independent Regiment were filled with angry flames, and the devils were simply a group of inhumane beasts. After Li Yunlong ordered the soldiers of the Independent Regiment to bury the corpses of the villagers, he ordered the battalions and companies of the Independent Regiment to disperse to look for traces of the devils.

In the case of the soldiers of the Independent Regiment, once they find the traces of the devil, they will definitely pounce directly and tear the devil apart. Let the soldiers go out, this is a bit in conflict with the order of the independent regiment to return to the brigade headquarters, and if you want to return to the brigade headquarters safely, the independent regiment naturally needs to keep a low profile.

This time, in the face of Li Yunlong's decision, Zhao Gang did not have the slightest idea of wanting to stop it. On the contrary, if Li Yunlong and others hadn't stopped him, Zhao Gang might have gone directly to find the traces of the devils in person and killed a few more devils with his own hands.

In the face of the dead villagers, the only thing the soldiers of the Independent Regiment could do was to avenge them with some devils, and some of the devils who were found by the soldiers of the Independent Regiment suffered from them. These discovered little devils are all small troops of devils, and in the face of the soldiers who are under anger, the devils are simply unable to resist.

Not long after the independent regiment took action against the surrounding little devils, other units of the Eighth Route Army also found the same situation in the base area, the devils who had no humanity did a lot of such things in the base area, and many villagers' villages were burned down by them, and the villages were covered with the corpses of the villagers.

Except for some villagers who did not return to the village outside, and the villagers who successfully hid after the devils entered the village, none of the other villagers who stayed in the village could escape the butcher's knife of the devils. After learning of this situation, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army resolutely mobilized a large number of troops, and ordered all the forces of the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army to strengthen unity, and focused their main attention on attacking the Japanese army, taking the campaign in North China as a precedent to organize one or even several planned large-scale ground offensive operations in Shandong and Central China!

On 16 September, the Independent Regiment received an order from the brigade headquarters, ordering the Independent Regiment to find a way to expand the results of the battle, and the basic policy of the operation was to continue to disrupt the average daily traffic and destroy the strongholds of devils deep in the base areas.

After receiving the order of the brigade headquarters, the fighters of the independent regiment, who were already full of desire to fight, became even more ambitious. Under the discussion of Li Yunlong and others, the independent regiment decided to move from the Zhengtai Railway to the devil's highway.

After Li Yunlong made a decision, he immediately ordered the soldiers of the Independent Regiment to go to the highway from Yangquan to Yushe via Pingding, Heshun, and Liaoxian, which was the deepest road for the devils to break into the Taihang base area. The devil has always tried to extend this highway to the southwest and connect it with the Baijin Railway through Wuxiang, so as to achieve the purpose of dividing the Taihang base area and flexibly mobilizing the troops of the Zhengtai and Baijin lines.

On this highway, the devils have arranged quite a lot of strongholds, just along the 45-kilometer road between Yushe and Liao County, there are 8 strongholds such as Yushe, Yanbi, Wangjing, Guantou, Pashang, Xiaolingdi, Shijiao, and Liaoxian. In less than six kilometers, the devils have a stronghold, not to mention other little devil troops operating in the perimeter.

The combat effectiveness of the independent regiment was not weak, but after more than ten days of fighting, the casualties of the fighters still had a certain impact on the independent regiment. In order to ensure the flexibility of the independent regiment, Li Yunlong decided to leave the seriously wounded in the independent regiment behind, and leave a platoon of fighters for protection.

Originally, Li Yunlong wanted to keep Zhang Dabiao behind, but Zhang Dabiao always resolutely disagreed, and it was also because Zhang Dabiao's injury would not affect him to follow the troops, so in the end Li Yunlong agreed to let him follow the troops.

After leaving the seriously wounded, the size of the separate regiment was reduced to only seven hundred people, the first battalion suffered the greatest casualties, and only about a hundred fighters remained in combat effectiveness. As for the second and third battalions, they each lost more than 100 people, and the guard company and cavalry company directly under the regiment also suffered more or less casualties.

Only the soldiers of the artillery company suffered the least casualties, except for one soldier who was carrying a mortar and was so fast that he broke his foot.

And after this period of fighting, the ammunition of the independent regiment has become a little tight, and after fighting with all its might, I am afraid that it will not be able to hold out for three battles. There were still a lot of shells in the artillery company, and after killing the devil's infantry brigade, the artillery company had no chance to shoot.

By the time the independent regiment arrived at the vicinity of the road built by the devils with the soldiers, a day had passed, and on this day, the soldiers had once again killed two squads of the devils and a team of puppet troops. The devil's squad had an extremely tenacious will to fight in the face of encirclement, but in the face of the independent regiment, it still couldn't resist for too long.

As for the puppet army, after seeing so many soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in the Independent Regiment, after firing two shots, they decisively put down their weapons and chose to surrender. The ammunition seized from the devils and the puppet army made Li Yunlong breathe a sigh of relief.

"Zhang Dabiao, you take the soldiers to investigate, find out all the devil strongholds around Liao County, and focus on showing Lao Tzu whether the devils have ammunition depots in this area." As soon as he successfully arrived, Li Yunlong ordered directly to Zhang Dabiao.

Zhang Dabiao shook his head, "Regiment Commander, you also know that even if the devil has an ammunition depot in this area, it should be arranged in the county seat." ”

"With the current strength of our independent regiment, it is somewhat unrealistic to attack the county seat of the devil. The devil has arranged so many strongholds in this area, once we move the devil's county, it will be a matter of moving the whole body! ”

Li Yunlong's eyes widened, he looked at Zhang Dabiao, and scolded with a smile: "Damn, don't think that you will become a scholar after following the political commissar for two days, and you will also drag the text to Lao Tzu?" ”

"Don't worry, I, Li Yunlong, am not so stupid, what you Zhang Dabiao can see, can't Lao Tzu see?"

After Zhang Dabiao looked at Li Yunlong carefully, he really put his mind at ease, it seems that Li Yunlong is not going to do anything to the devil's county. Zhang Dabiao knew Li Yunlong very well, and he knew that although Li Yunlong didn't say anything when he saw those dead villagers, there was a fire in his Li Yunlong's heart!

This fire is pressed in Li Yunlong's heart, and when it breaks out, it will definitely be able to teach the devil a cruel lesson!

The only thing Zhang Dabiao can do now is to hope that Li Yunlong, the head of the regiment, still maintains enough sanity, he is the commander of the independent regiment, and he can't let the soldiers of the independent regiment die easily because of his order! Even if the soldiers are sacrificed, they will die on the way to kill the devil! You need to get the warriors to kill enough!

"First battalion commander, you go on a mission first." Zhao Gang walked over and spoke.

Seeing Zhao Gang coming, Zhang Dabiao breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that he could stop Li Yunlong in the independent regiment, and he also knew that Zhao Gang was the political commissar. Kong Jie, the deputy commander of the regiment, is Li Yunlong's old comrade-in-arms, and his temper is similar to Li Yunlong's.

Zhao Gang is different, as a political commissar, Zhao Gang needs to consider more things. And with Zhao Gang's character, no matter what Li Yunlong says, Zhao Gang will be serious about it, unless it is really determined to be feasible, otherwise he will definitely choose to stop Li Yunlong.

"Political Commissar Zhao, look at the regiment commander, the lives of the soldiers of our regiment are in the hands of the regiment commander." Before leaving, Zhang Dabiao couldn't help but explain to Zhao Gang.