The political commissar's evaluation, Li Ziyuan just smiled faintly and didn't say anything. The veteran chief did not know what China would face in just six months. On the one hand, it has a large number of American weapons and equipment, and has received most of the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army invading China on the battlefield in Kannai, and it has the support of its own ordnance system that has grown a lot after eight years.

On the one hand, it is still dominated by millet plus rifles. Captured heavy weapons continue to lack an effective source of ammunition. Despite years of painstaking management, the military industry has made some progress. However, due to congenital deficiencies, whether in terms of quantity or quality, it is still far from meeting the needs.

The three-year war of liberation was achieved more by strategy and tactics. The price to be paid for this is, at least beyond the imagination of people today. And a few years later, on that narrow peninsula outside the northeastern border. This army, which is still covered in dirt and scum, will fight against the truly strongest and richest army in the world.

Compared with that army, the Japanese army can be said to be a group of people called Hanako. The firepower of a division of that army is almost as good as that of an army that has never been better equipped since its formation, and the firepower of several armies with the strongest firepower is almost the highest in a few years. There is also the world's most powerful air force and navy, as well as a large number of tanks to cooperate with the operation.

And that army is now in the Pacific, and the ammunition consumption of a battle is the sum of the entire eight-year war of resistance in China. A few years later, in the war that established the dignity of the Chinese, the price paid by the Chinese army was unimaginable. Under such a gap, narrowing the gap in the quality of commanders and fighters as much as possible may be the only way to reduce casualties.

Li Ziyuan did this to prepare for half a year later, or even to prepare for a few years later. It's just that this kind of practice of starting the layout in advance within the scope of what he can do, he has no way to tell anyone. Even if it is mentioned by his closest comrades-in-arms and his wife, he can only be buried deep in his heart.

After the first round of militia, Li Ziyuan began to organize the militias of various counties to participate in the actual battle in batches. The main target of the attack was the last remaining stronghold of the Japanese puppet army along the Baijin Railway, which was now completely paralyzed. And all the remaining tracks of the Baijin Railway were rushed back.

This time he took the initiative to attack, Li Ziyuan did not use his old troops who were selected to participate in rotational training militia training and exchanges because of the backbone and company and platoon cadres, and are now recuperating. Instead, three separate battalions of local troops were mobilized, as well as militias from several districts. The 1st Regiment and the Lubei Detachment served as cover, as well as the tasks of the reserve.

This kind of large-scale sortie operation, especially the one-point operation with the militia and local troops as the mainstay, was of course asked Li Ziyuan to consult the military region. The commander and political commissar of the military region personally led the deputy commanders in charge of the local armed forces and militia in each sub-district to watch the battle in the Ludong area. It can be said that the commander attaches great importance to this point pulling operation.

On the tenth day of the second lunar month, Li Ziyuan personally came to the front line to command. The militia was organized to carry out large-scale sabotage operations on the more than 100-kilometer section of the Baijin Railway in Ludong and the last 16 remaining strongholds of the Japanese puppet army along the way. The militias participating in the war in each county attacked separately with their respective companies and platoons as formations.

Li Ziyuan personally commanded the militia of Hubei and Ludong counties, and with the cooperation of the Ludong Independent Battalion, the largest stronghold of the Japanese puppet army along the Baijin Railway in the Ludong Military Division. It is also located at the junction of Ludong, Hubei and Changzhi counties, and Cao Baji's stronghold carried out siege operations.

The commander of the military region took the observation group and arrived at Cao Baji's stronghold with Li Ziyuan. Because this stronghold is located at the junction of three counties, it is the core stronghold of the Japanese puppet army within a radius of nearly seventy or eighty square kilometers in the surrounding area. The strategic location is extremely important, and controlling it is equivalent to completely connecting the base areas of the three counties.

At the same time, this Cao Baji stronghold is also the last reliable source of food for the Japanese puppet army in Ludong. Although it was not possible to provide the entire garrison of the 14th Brigade of the Japanese Independent Infantry in the southeast of Jinjin. But it can at least meet the food needs of the Japanese army in the department, nearly one-fifth.

It is also a famous winter wheat producing area in the Ludong region. After losing control of the grain-producing areas in the western part of Hubei, the 14th Independent Infantry Brigade attached great importance to the control of Cao Baji and the surrounding areas. Therefore, the Japanese puppet army here is equipped with more troops, even more than the two counties of Hubei and Ludong.

The Japanese army had two full infantry squads plus a heavy machine gun squad, as well as two baggage squads, and a cavalry squad. The puppet army reorganized the puppet security team of more than 200 people with half a battalion of the remnants of the puppet security army stationed in Ludong, equipped with five light machine guns. In addition, there is a pseudo-armed police force of more than thirty people.

This force is absolutely unique for the Japanese army in the entire Ludong at the moment. This time, Li Ziyuan concentrated more than 1,500 militiamen from the three counties, plus more than 800 independent battalions from the two counties, all of which were used to attack this Cao Baji stronghold. Although it cannot be said that it is a knife used to kill pigs, it has also deployed superior forces as much as possible.

At 3 o'clock in the morning of the 10th day of February, when the sky was still dark, under the leadership of the militia cadres who had been sent to various counties for rotational training, the militia participating in the battle secretly arrived in the outlying areas of Cao Baji. The Ludong and Hubei independent battalions, which cooperated with the operation, also cut off the communication line between Cao Baji and the outside world.

In the early morning, when the first rays of sunlight shone on Cao Baji's stronghold, the Japanese puppet army was on the high cannon tower. Li Ziyuan, who was holding the binocular, slashed down with his left hand. As his gesture fell, dense gunfire rang out around Cao Baji. The militia participating in the battle in the counties were covered by light and heavy machine-gun fire drawn from the main forces behind them.

Carrying ladders, or carrying * bags, or carrying clusters * , they first pounced on the various fortifications of the Japanese puppet army on the periphery. At least since the start, the performance has been decent. And behind them, the main regiment was ready for battle as a general reserve, so that it could rush forward at any time to meet them.

The Japanese puppet army in Cao Baji's stronghold saw a group of Balu in civilian clothes rushing towards him. Not to mention the Japanese army, even the puppet army is so angry in their hearts. Aren't you here to mix people with the cold? You are out of the mountain, we are indeed afraid now. But you sent out a group of militiamen, what is this called?

Aren't you openly looking down on people? Just such a group of militiamen who don't even have military uniforms on their bodies and have different things in their hands, if they are afraid, can they still be worthy of the guys in their hands? They have guns in their hands, but we don't have burning sticks in our hands, in terms of performance and ammunition, they are much better than this group of militiamen.

Today, if you don't let these militiamen and the like have a long memory, they really don't know the three eyes of Ma Wangye. After the puppet army that had made up its mind reacted, they immediately dispelled the idea that they were already ready to give up resistance when they thought that the old Eighth Road was attacking the city. Relying on the fortification group inside the stronghold, he shot desperately outward. Machine gun bullets, also in full swing.

It's just that this group of puppet soldiers who feel that they are being despised is something that they didn't expect. The group of militiamen in front of them was not as bad as they had in their impression, not only daring to fight and attack the position, but also playing tactics in a decent way. And even to a certain extent, not much worse than them. Compared to the militias that used to be, they changed almost overnight.

When several pillboxes on the periphery were sent to the sky, these puppet troops, together with the Japanese troops in the core fortifications, were almost all dumbfounded. Their first thought, it can be said that they all thought that they had fallen for the cunning trick of the Ludong region again. The group of militiamen in front of him must have been disguised by Lao Balu.

If you don't talk about how tactical actions are clear-eyed, let alone the militia, even the dirt road is not necessarily so standard. Does that guy think he's a fool? This is the old Eighth Road, especially the Ludong Second Regiment that has beaten itself into a bare pole several times.

These released puppet army prisoners, as well as the puppet army that was pieced together from the remnants of the original puppet army, saw that the situation was not good, and knew that they could only die if they continued to fight. Without saying a word, he disarmed and surrendered cleanly. The eight roads on the opposite side are not cannons, but they have * bags. In addition to the turret where the Japanese army was stationed, these fortifications had the power to resist the *bag.

The puppet army surrendered, and the remaining Japanese troops retreated into the core of Cao Baji's stronghold, as well as the two reinforced concrete fortifications on both sides of the turret. These Japanese soldiers, who became shrunken turtles, relied on tall turrets and strong fortifications to shoot desperately, trying to rely on their turtle shells to wait for help.

At this time, the Japanese puppet army dispatched from the three counties of Changzhi, Ludong, and Hubei was rushing towards Cao Baji's stronghold. It's just that the Japanese puppet army that is rushing over, the reinforcement speed is quite slow. The 14th Independent Infantry Brigade received a report from Cao Baji's stronghold that it had encountered a large number of Tubalu attacks. Li Ziyuan's department, which they had fought so painfully, did not appear on the battlefield.

Before finding out the whereabouts of Li Ziyuan's department, the reinforcements of the Japanese army on the three routes were trembling. First of all, the Japanese puppet army dispatched by Changzhi rushed to Hubei first, and only after joining up with the Japanese puppet army in Hubei did they reinforce here. The Japanese puppet army in Ludong waited until the garrison from the north arrived.

This is still Cao Baji's stronghold, and the strategic location is too important for the current 14th Independent Infantry Brigade. As for the other strongholds that were attacked, the Japanese army gave only one order, to break through to the surrounding county seats. The 14th Brigade of Independent Infantry at the moment really can't take care of them.

At this time, the Japanese army in Cao Baji's stronghold, who did not know the true situation of the reinforcements, could only rely on limited forces to fight alone after the puppet army stopped resisting. However, these Japanese troops also tried to use their own fortifications and ammunition superiority to desperately resist and try to win the arrival of reinforcements.

But Li Ziyuan, who was on the other side, obviously didn't plan to give them this time. After tearing apart Cao Baji's outlying strongholds and the surrender of the puppet army, Li Ziyuan did not stop there. Instead, they urged the militia in front to speed up the attack. For all the Japanese troops who dared to resist, they were wiped out cleanly and completely.

For this battle, Li Ziyuan made sufficient preparations. Alone, more than 100 kilograms were prepared. In addition, before the war, he personally took the militia armed cadres of several counties to Cao Baji's stronghold to personally observe the terrain. At the same time, 11 light machine guns and 5 heavy machine guns were transferred from their old units to cooperate in the battle.

At the same time, Li Ziyuan tried every means to mobilize a batch of ammunition. Each of these militiamen was given twenty rounds of ammunition. And promised that after the war, all the captured puppet army rifles would be distributed to the militia. At the end of the fight by the militia in that county, the seized weapons were distributed to them first. If there is a surplus of ammunition that has been allocated, it will not be recovered.