The atmosphere under the old tree was a little cold for a while, and Yue Siliang and Di Hanming both fell into thought.

"In the construction of base areas, the results have been very little during this period of time, and progress has been slow. This is my responsibility. ”

After a long time, Di Hanming said with self-reproach. Yue Siliang waved his hand, got up and pressed it on Di Hanming's shoulder.

"Don't rush to blame yourself, we're talking about it now. We have no experience in establishing a base behind enemy lines. You can't do what you did at the beginning. Because we are behind enemy lines, our base areas may face the threat of the enemy at any time.

This is in Liudian, if the enemy appears, we can still let the fellow go up the mountain to hide. But what if it's somewhere else? If it's on the plains, the villagers don't even have a place to hide!

Today, in order to vent their anger, the Japanese army burned Liudian. This is a matter of great merit for us to reflect on. Although the houses were burned out, this was their shelter for the villagers. What are we opening up our base for? It is to bring hope to the villagers, not to bring disaster to them! Work behind enemy lines, not the slightest sloppy! ”

Di Hanming nodded thoughtfully. Suddenly, he smiled and said heartily.

"Captain, it seems that we have regained our original feelings."

Yue Siliang flicked the cigarette ash and said with the same smile.

"That's what you say."

In the most difficult and eventful years at the beginning, Yue Siliang and Di Hanming, two inexperienced young people, struggled together through such mutual criticism and correction. At this time, it was as if they were back on the Long March.

"We all survived such a difficult day at the beginning, and now it is also difficult for us! All we have to do is change our mindset and our strategy. ”

"Yes, it has never been our character to move trees to death, people to move to life, and to stick to the rules. Working behind enemy lines, we have to come up with new countermeasures.

The task left to us by the chief is to cooperate with the frontal battlefield in the direction of Xinkou and Taiyuan, so all our work at this stage must revolve around military operations. Commander, how are you going to fight the next battle? ”

Di Hanming's thinking became clearer and clearer, and he grasped the key to the problem at once.

"Since we are cooperating with the frontal battlefield, what we have to do is not a small fight. Three words, go out! We have to go out of Liudian and take the initiative to fight the enemy.

And it can't be to fight with the enemy in Lingqiu County, there are now more than a thousand enemies in the county. One is that it's not easy to fight, what's the point of fighting back and forth with them? Even if all the enemies are destroyed, it will only be more than 1,000 people. The division commander put me in this position, naturally he would not let me do that kind of honest thing like other main regiments.

Since we want to fight guerrillas, we simply fight thoroughly, keep an eye on several key roads in Lingqiu County, and focus on attacking the logistics troops of the devils and robbing them of their supplies. ”

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On October 9, 1937, another week had passed since the last time the Xicun Brigade sent troops to Liudian. Traditionally, this day is the cold dew of the 24 solar terms. According to the old custom, people wore cotton clothes at this time.

The Japanese troops in Lingqiu County began to get busy. The cold dew has arrived, and the soldiers also need to change into winter clothes. All of a sudden, the logistical pressure increased. In the past few days, more and more logistics baggage troops have passed through Lingqiu, and they even have to pass through several times a day.

And the work of the Nishimura Brigade in the middle is to escort the logistics troops into the Lingqiu Realm, and at the same time, they are also responsible for maintaining the road.

As the old saying goes, soldiers and horses go first before grain and grass are moved. This was still the case in a pre-modern feudal society, and logistics were even more important for an army that had been modernized and was very complete. This is also why the staff officers of the Nishimura Brigade had to advise Nishimura not to put too much energy on the 424th Regiment, after all, there was not much time for the Japanese army to delay.

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"Captain, there was a call from the rear just now. There will be three more logistics units passing us today, and the Wing Commander needs us to do a good job of escorting us. ”

Listening to the cadre's report, Nishimura still closed his eyes and pondered.

"I see, you go down first."

"Hello!"

With the departure of the cadres, the staff officers who had been staying by Nishimura's side and did not speak spoke.

"Captain, what's wrong with you? Are you still worried about those Eighth Route Army? ”

To be honest, in the heart of the staff officer, he always felt that Nishimura was making a bit of a fuss. Their main task is to protect the roads in Lingqiu, not to play hide and seek with a group of peasants. And for now, he felt that those people simply didn't have the guts to get out of their hiding place. So as long as the task in front of you is completed, there will be time to deal with those people in the future.

The corners of Nishimura's mouth moved, and he pulled his beard up and down. Nishimura's beard was rare compared to other Japanese soldiers, neither a handful of hygienic mustaches, nor the big beards that many more traditional Japanese people have. It's a simple mustache.

"Nishio-kun, do you think I'm worried? I'm angry. The Wing Captain has stationed us in Lingqiu, which is his trust in us, but while we are on an important mission, there is such a threat lurking around us. I can't ignore them! ”

Listening to Nishimura's words, Nishio's face showed a subtle expression.

"Captain, do you mean that you have agreed that those people are our opponents?"

Nishimura seemed very sincere at this time, and put his hands in fists on the table.

"I'll admit that I underestimated them at first, and I didn't expect them to give up on confrontation with us altogether. It can be seen from this that the commander of the other side is a very cunning person. If that man puts his cunning on the logistical route that attacks us, we will be very distressed. ”

Nishimura's view is noncommittal.

"The logistical routes under our tight control are safe, and their cunning is of no use there. Now that Lingqiu is under our control, they simply can't replicate a sneak attack on Pingxingguan.

Our intelligence agents had already presented the other party's information to me, and the total number of troops they left in Lingqiu was only a thousand. Such a thinly numbered army, without such a strong logistics as ours, will end up trapped to death. They can't make the climate. ”

When Nishio said this, his expression was very confident. Nishio was a graduate of the Orthodox Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, and in his opinion, the army of an agrarian country could not compete with the army of an industrial country. Regular armies such as China's Central Army and the Jin Sui Army barely had a trace of the armies of industrial countries, but they were also vulnerable in front of the Japanese army.

"Nishio-kun, do you know the predecessor of the Eighth Route Army?"

It was at this time that Nishimura suddenly said this.

"I don't know much, I only know that their predecessor was a revolutionary army that originally operated in southern China. What's wrong, Your Excellency? Any questions? ”

"I see, it's no wonder that you've been training in the army since you graduated. This army was once active in southern China and was committed to fighting against Chiang. We all know that China's Chiang was a strongman. But even if he spent more than ten years strangled, it still did not hinder the growth of this army.

They have never had any particularly impressive records in the frontal battlefield, and they have failed in several head-on confrontations with Chiang. That's why I was confident before. But it is undeniable that their will is extremely strong, and even not inferior to our soldiers.

Such a team, once allowed to disappear in front of you, will become extremely resilient and mysterious. Moreover, their ideas spread at such a rapid speed that even if they become weak at one moment, they may grow stronger the next.

Put such an enemy in the shadows...... I do have some concerns. ”

"Hehe......"

Nishio was a little funny and scraped his two handfuls of Ren Dan Hu with his little finger, squinting his eyes and said.

"Captain, when I was in school, I heard a teacher tell me a Chinese allusion called 'Grass and trees are soldiers'. It is about an ancient Chinese commander who suffered a crushing defeat when he led his troops to battle. He was originally proud, but he was also frightened by this failure. On the way to his defeated retreat, he looked at the trees and flowers on the mountain and felt that the enemy was hiding there.

Captain, are you a little like this ancient Chinese commander now? ”

"What do you mean?!"

Nishimura stood up abruptly, his eyes wide and glaring at Nishio.

"Captain! ……”

Just when he was about to have a seizure, a communication soldier ran in quickly, and then saw such a scene in front of him, he was so frightened that he swallowed back the words in his mouth, and looked at the two people in front of him cautiously.

"What's the matter, tell me."

Nishimura suppressed the anger in his heart and turned his head to look at the communications soldier.

"Captain, I sent a telegram from below...... Our baggage team...... Attacked! ”

The second round has already begun.

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