After the arrival of the support troops, the independent regiment was replaced as soon as possible, and the defensive battle of Cross Ridge caused a lot of casualties in the entire independent regiment.

According to Li Yunlong's words, the support troops came in time, otherwise if he continued to fight with the devils, he would have to take the fighters of the independent regiment to really fight the devils. After this battle, it took two or three months for the independent regiment to recover, and the casualties of some of its veterans were the most painful for Li Yunlong. In any army, veterans are extremely important presences, and in battle, it is precisely because of the presence of enough veterans that the troops can have strong enough combat effectiveness.

The fact that the independent regiment can have such strong combat effectiveness has a certain relationship with Li Yunlong's command, and it is also related to the fact that there are enough veterans in the independent regiment. It takes a certain amount of time for recruits to be trained, and recruits can only truly have combat effectiveness if they have seen blood, and recruits who have not seen blood will never have enough combat effectiveness.

Thinking of the next thing that the independent regiment needs to restore its combat effectiveness, Li Yunlong has a headache, at this time, he is a little lucky, he is very glad that he has Zhao Gang, the political commissar, and with Zhao Gang here, he can be much easier. Among them, the matter of recruiting soldiers can be handed over to Zhao Gang to do, and Li Yunlong believes that with Zhao Gang's eloquence, he will definitely be able to make the independent regiment get enough troops to replenish it.

In order to restore the combat effectiveness of the Independent Regiment as soon as possible, Li Yunlong, after consulting the division headquarters, prepared to leave the Cross Ridge with the Independent Regiment and return to its original station I for development. Considering the casualties of the independent regiment, the division headquarters naturally agreed to Li Yunlong's request, the combat effectiveness of the independent regiment is not weak, and the division headquarters will not let the independent regiment have problems easily.

The defensive battle of Cross Ridge this time was a special situation, and if it had been placed at any other time, the division headquarters would certainly not have asked the independent regiment to hold its position.

Before the independent regiment left, Li Yunlong and others also came to see Liu Gen, because Liu Gen was not a member of the independent regiment, he naturally could not leave with the independent regiment. What's more, Liu Gen led the team to Cross Ridge, and he really had his own important tasks, so what would happen if he left with the independent regiment? For this reason, Liu Gen could only continue to stay in Cross Ridge and wait for the arrival of the division commander and the headquarters boss.

Liu Gen knew that he couldn't wait long here, and judging from the news he got, the division commander and the boss arrived at Cross Ridge, which should be a day or two.

After talking with Li Yunlong and others, Li Yunlong and others left, before leaving, Li Yunlong naturally did not forget to take the monk away, the monk successfully woke up from the coma, his mental state improved, and he wanted to come; Li Yunlong's degree of treasure to the monk will definitely make the doctor treat the monk wholeheartedly, and the monk's departure will not affect his treatment. As for the other fighter, he didn't wake up in a coma for a long time, and he didn't know if he would be able to hold on.

Liu Gen very much hoped that this warrior could persevere, he knew that this warrior was not very old, only twenty years old, and he could fight together to the end, so he naturally didn't want this warrior to have problems. It's just that I don't know why, even if the doctor is wholeheartedly treating this warrior, this warrior still hasn't woken up yet, and if he can't wake up again, this warrior will probably be in some danger.

It is precisely because of this that after the independent regiment left, Liu Gen would look at the soldier who was still in a coma from time to time, hoping to see the soldier wake up as soon as possible.

The unit that took over the defense of the independent regiment was the 772 regiment of the 386 brigade, and Liu Gen was no stranger to the 772 regiment, and the commander of the 772 regiment Cheng and Li Yunlong were old enemies. It's just that unlike Li Yunlong, Regiment Commander Cheng is more steady, and he will not easily have any combat action without the order of his superiors.

After receiving orders from the brigade headquarters and division headquarters, he rushed to the independent regiment with the 772nd Regiment as quickly as possible and took over the defense of Cross Ridge.

In terms of defense, Commander Cheng has his own set, and the 772nd Regiment led by him may not be able to make such a conspicuous record as the Independent Regiment, but under his leadership, the 772nd Regiment has never suffered any big losses, perhaps this is the difference in the commander's personal command style. After Commander Cheng had completed the defense of Cross Ridge and reached the bottom of the foolproof, he came to visit Liu Gen.

Once when attacking Liao County, Liu Gen and Commander Cheng still had some intersections, and when Commander Cheng wanted to get Liu Gen to his 772nd Regiment, the two of them were no strangers to each other. It's just that due to the frequent battles and Liu Gen's long time around the division headquarters, the two have met relatively rarely, but it is not that they have never met, and sometimes Commander Cheng goes to the division headquarters for a meeting, and he can still see Liu Gen.

After visiting Liu Gen and other wounded, Regiment Commander Cheng was a little emotional, when he first met Liu Gen, Liu Gen was still the company commander of the artillery company of the Independent Regiment, and at Liu Gen's age, being able to become the company commander of the artillery company was enough to show his ability. Since he met Liu Gen, Commander Cheng knew that Liu Gen would not be limited to the company commander of the artillery company of the Independent Regiment, but even so, he still felt that it would take a long time for Liu Gen to be promoted.

But who knew that in just two years, Liu Gen had reached such a point, even if some of these things were kept secret, so that Commander Cheng could not know more, but like Liu Gen, how could it be simple to stay in the division headquarters for a long time and be able to see the division commander and the boss at any time? However, after talking with Liu Gen, Head Cheng found that Liu Gen had not changed much, and his mind was still very pure, which made him like it very much.

If it weren't for the fact that Commander Cheng knew that his 772nd Regiment would not be able to attract Liu Gen, then he would definitely invite Liu Gen to the 772nd Regiment again, in the 386th Brigade, and even the entire 129th Division, many troops are very envious of the Independent Regiment, who let the Independent Regiment have an artillery company with such strong combat effectiveness? Many troops hope to let Liu Gen go to their troops and help them build an artillery company with strong enough combat effectiveness, for the current Eighth Route Army, each regiment has an artillery company, and it can still be raised by gritting teeth.

But unfortunately, even if the 129th established an artillery school to train artillery talents, if it was assigned to the units of the 129th Division, there would still be a lot of shortages, not to mention; The cadets trained in the artillery school were also of great interest to other units of the Eighth Route Army.

He didn't spend too much time with Liu Gen and the others, and just took over the defense of Cross Ridge, Commander Cheng had a lot to do, and he didn't want any problems in the defense of the 772nd Regiment in the future. Commander Cheng was very cautious, and in order to successfully defend the Cross Ridge, he ordered the soldiers of the 772nd Regiment to lay out a lot of minefields and dig out a lot of traps. At the same time, in order to strengthen the lethality of the devils, Commander Cheng also asked the soldiers to draw traces on the bullets before the arrival of the devil troops, so as to enhance the lethality of the bullets.

The soldiers of the 772nd Regiment are also equipped with a lot of 38 rifles, but as for the rifles produced by the Huangyadong Arsenal itself, they have not been allocated much. In a long battle with the devil, the fighters all found that the devil's 38 rifle was good and had strong penetration, but due to its strong penetrating power, the bullet could not remain in the enemy's body, which meant that unless the enemy's lethal parts were ordered, the enemy would not easily lose its combat effectiveness.

It is precisely because of this that the soldiers thought of a way to draw a few traces on the bullet to enhance the lethality of the bullet, I have to say, this method is very good, which greatly enhances the lethality of the 38 rifle after firing the bullet, which makes the devil a headache.

Liu Gen's injury is far from healing, but it does not affect him to get up and move, he can see the layout of the 772nd regiment on the cross ridge clearly, I have to say that Commander Cheng is still very capable in defense. During this period, some devil troops tried to attack Cross Ridge, but before the devils rushed up, they encountered a minefield arranged by the 772nd regiment.

The devils who cleared the mines were not terrible, and they even said that they were giving the sharpshooters of the 772nd Regiment a chance to shoot, and under the shooting of the sharpshooters of the 772nd Regiment, the devil sappers who cleared the mines suffered a lot of casualties. Seeing this, the devil's troops naturally took the initiative to fire and suppressed the defensive position of the 772nd Regiment with powerful firepower, so that the 772nd Regiment could not deal with the demining engineers of the devils.

In the face of the devil's firepower, the 772 regiment was also very prepared, the sharpshooters took the initiative to change their position, looking for other suitable angles to continue to kill the devil's demining engineers, as for the other fighters were hiding in the position, not taking the initiative to show their heads, to avoid being hit by the devils. As for the devils who want to take advantage of the opportunity to suppress the fire, the soldiers of the 772 regiment will not have any worries, on the way to attack, they have laid a lot of mines, and when the devils charge, they will detonate the mines, so that they can be noticed.

Taking advantage of the suppression of firepower, the devil's troops tried to attack, although they changed the direction of the attack, they still stepped on the mine, and the soldiers of the 772nd regiment noticed it, and decisively launched a counterattack, easily repelling the devil's attack.

Under the defense of the 772nd Regiment, the Cross Ridge seemed to have turned into a round ball that could not be scored, and even if the devil wanted to break his head, there was no way to successfully rush to the Cross Ridge. As for calling for support from the aviation troops, the battle on the cross ridge has not received enough attention from the devils, and the battle between the front-line devils and the national army in Zhejiang and Jiangxi is underway, in order to win this battle, the devil's aviation unit was transferred to support.

The Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi was a military operation launched by the devils in order to destroy Zhejiang's advance airfield group and prevent the "shuttle bombing" of Chinese and American fighters from having a direct impact on the Japanese mainland, and was aimed at "realizing the strategic objectives of "confiscating and destroying railway facilities and equipment and other military, political, and economic facilities and materials for cultivating combat strength," looting materials, and plundering young and middle-aged people.

On the cross ridge, the defense of the 772nd Regiment was impregnable, and the devil troops did not have heavy fire support, so it was difficult to break through the defensive positions of the 772nd Regiment.

With the passage of time, after getting more and more news that the troops of the Eighth Route Army had returned to the base area, the devil troops had to choose to retreat, and from the marching routes of the units of the Eighth Route Army, it can be seen that the units of the Eighth Route Army have formed a huge encirclement. And once the devil troops in this encirclement do not withdraw in time, they will inevitably be attacked by all units of the Eighth Route Army.

Even if the devils have enough confidence in their own combat effectiveness, they don't dare to easily try what will happen if they are attacked by the various units of the Eighth Route Army in turn, they don't want to be left in the base area, so they naturally have to choose to retreat. The speed of the devil's retreat was very fast, except for some of the devils who did not retreat in time, the other devil troops completed the retreat before the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army.

I have to say that the devil troops still have some ability, at least in the execution of orders.

On 13 June, the division commander and the commanders of the headquarters arrived safely at Cross Ridge. As soon as they arrived, they went directly to the location of the grave of the deputy chief of the General Staff. When the bosses saw the grave of the deputy chief of the general staff, their eyes were full of tears, and they were extremely familiar with the deputy chief of the general staff, and their feelings were also very good.

At the time of the retreat, the deputy chief of the general staff asked to stay and take charge of the retreat of the headquarters organs, and the bosses were very relieved, they were very aware of the ability of the deputy chief of the general staff, and they also believed that with the protection of the soldiers, the deputy chief of the general staff would not easily encounter any danger. But who would have thought that the deputy chief of the General Staff would be in danger of his life in this transfer?

The deputy chief of the General Staff has experienced a lot of dangers, but they have all managed to survive, and no one expected that there would be problems with this transfer.

The bosses looked at this humble tomb in silence, the soldiers around them had long been in tears, tears wet their clothes, and the soldiers who followed the bosses were very aware of the sacrifice of the deputy chief of staff, and the sacrifice of the deputy chief of staff was a major loss for the Eighth Route Army. After a while, the bosses vigorously wiped away the tears from their eyes, the deputy chief of the general staff died, but tomorrow it will continue, and the battle will continue.

If the devils are not driven back to their hometown, then the battle will not end!

"Where's Liu Gen?" After his emotions eased, the division commander asked.

Liu Gen walked out from behind, his eyes were a little red, even if he had already known the news of the sacrifice of the deputy chief of staff and had been defending for so long, his eyes still couldn't help but turn red at this moment.

The division commander looked at Liu Gen who came to his side, he could see Liu Gen's red eyes and pale face, and he could see that Liu Gen was wrapped in a lot of bandages. On the way to Cross Ridge, the division commander knew about the casualties of Liu Gen and others, and only Liu Gen and three people were left in the entire team, and this sacrifice was too great.

"Roots, how's it going? Will you be able to continue the fight next? The division commander asked very seriously.

Suddenly, Liu Gen was stunned, he looked at the division commander with some doubts, he didn't quite understand what the division commander meant, but he still nodded vigorously and said, "Yes!" ”