"Regiment commander, the latest battle report from Touguan Town: The devils did not fight to the death with us, but dispersed the squadron to break through, and even the devils in the stronghold had no intention of defending it, so they abandoned the stronghold and began to break through!" Chief of Staff Zhong Chenggong walked to Wang Ping's side and reported.

Wang Ping didn't show much surprise on his face: "The devil's reaction speed is very fast!" ”

"After knowing that I was fooled, I immediately chose to break through and minimize the casualties~ It seems that our idea of annihilating the 4,000-day puppet army in Guanzhen is about to fail!"

"Send a telegram to several combat battalions at the front and tell them not to go deep into pursuit. Rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry, not to mention the little devils armed to the teeth! ”

"The dark night can provide us with cover, and that can also provide cover for the Japanese army, don't be bitten by the little devil and cause unnecessary losses!"

After dawn, the battle ended.

Two planes of the Japanese air force rushed to the battlefield with a roar, and when they saw the battlefield empty and strewn with corpses, they flew away after only two circles.

A new regiment of soldiers hidden in the nearby woods immediately rushed out and seized the time to clean up the battlefield.

"Regiment commander, we found more than 1,600 corpses of devils and more than 100 corpses of puppet soldiers on the battlefield, and more than 400 puppet soldiers were captured...... More than 4,000 days of puppet army, almost half of the run~" Zhong Chenggong, the chief of staff who found Wang Ping again, reported with a disappointed face.

Wang Ping shook his head and comforted: "Don't be dissatisfied! ”

"There are only a few puppet troops in the entire Linfen, and we killed 2,000 people in one battle, which is already a big victory, what do you want? Kill them all in one battle? ”

"Devils are not fools, and now it is becoming more and more clear about how we fight. Therefore, it must be very difficult for us to kill one of their infantry wings at every turn, as we did before! ”

"You summarize the results of the battle and report it to the military region!"

"In addition, copy last night's battle report to all the battalion commanders of the new regiment......"

The headquarters of the Taiyue Military Region, when he saw the good news sent by the new regiment, the worried expression on Commander Chen's face disappeared suddenly.

"Or is this Wang Ping capable...... How long did it take to command the troops to kill more than 2,000 puppet troops! ”

"With this victory, I am sure that the low morale of the new group will definitely be improved~ Or Wang Ping has a way!"

The chief of staff next to him also agreed, but as a battle report was sent by his subordinates, the smile on his face disappeared all of a sudden!

"Commander, with Wang Ping in charge of the Fourth Division, the situation seems to have been reversed. But the situation in several other military divisions is not so good! ”

"Looking for you, Okamura Ningji, the new commander of the North China Front, took office, and the devils changed their original combat methods, and through the encroachment and three-light policy, they compressed our base area little by little!"

"Up to now, our base area has shrunk by nearly two percent, and the soldiers and civilians in the base area have also suffered more than 50,000 casualties, most of which are ordinary people who support our Eighth Route Army!"

"The devils are too ruthless, as long as the people who support us, they either kill people or burn houses, and they don't give us a way to live at all!"

"Also, the devils use the method of encroachment step by step to occupy our base area little by little, occupy a place and control a place, and then build pillboxes and turrets!"

"This trick is indeed very vicious!" Commander Chen frowned and analyzed.

"In the past, when they swept our base areas, they were all soldiers who attacked the hinterland of our base areas in several ways, and we could use their lone troops to penetrate deep and use guerrilla warfare and movement warfare to break them individually, so as to crush their heavy army sweep."

"But this sweeping method of the devils directly renders our guerrilla warfare and movement warfare useless!"

"And the three-light policy implemented by the devils has really scared many people in the base area, and they dare not continue to support us as before!"

After hesitating for a few seconds, he ordered: "Send a telegram back to several military divisions, and find a way to create fighters by yourself if you don't have fighters." In the face of the Japanese puppet army's step-by-step encroaching sweeping method, passive defense will only make the situation you face more passive! ”

"Also, don't they have a lot of action teams in their hands to learn from the formation of the new regiment? Let them send these squads to the rear of the Japanese army to develop troops and attack turrets and pillboxes! ”

"The front-line Japanese puppet army is huddled, and we can't clean them up. Then we'll go to their rear and pick them up. If your rear is in chaos, then if you want to continue to encircle and suppress us with peace of mind, it is obviously impossible! ”

"Also, to inform the new regiment of these situations, they will not only have to face the devils in Linfen City, but also the devils in the surrounding areas, and the pressure is the greatest among our several military divisions. Although the new regiment is also the strongest in several military divisions, the way the devils sweep has changed after all, and we have to guard against it! ”

At the headquarters of the Japanese division in Linfen City, Lieutenant General Ito was in a very bad mood, but he was also very happy.

Originally, he thought that the 4,000 people he had arranged in Touguan Town would be wiped out because Wang Ping saw through his plan, and even if he was not completely annihilated, he would suffer heavy losses. Fortunately for him, more than 4,000 people ran back to more than 2,000 people.

"General, the data you asked me to count has been counted~ Now our entire division still has more than 15,600 soldiers who can fight, and more than 5,000 people in the Imperial Army. The Imperial Army had nine infantry brigades fully manned, and four regiments of the Imperial Allied Army fully manned...... In addition, we have an independent cavalry brigade, a field artillery brigade, a mountain artillery brigade, a disabled engineer wing, and a baggage regiment! ”

"The remaining three infantry brigades were all disabled, and only one shelf remained, with a total strength of less than a thousand people!"

Lieutenant General Ito stared at the map and ordered: "Draw people from the baggage wing, the engineer wing, and the guard brigade, and make up the three disabled infantry brigades to form three mixed brigades." Each mixed brigade has a mountain artillery squadron or a field artillery squadron, three infantry squadrons, a mortar squadron, and a cavalry squadron! ”

"Hi...... Give the lowly post two days to complete the formation of three mixed brigades! The chief of staff replied immediately.

Lieutenant General Ito ordered: "These four strongholds have been seen! Order the garrison to give up immediately~"

"Why?" The chief of staff couldn't help but ask.

In the eyes of the Chief of Staff, these four strongholds have the same effect as the Touguan Town stronghold that has been lost. Serve as a bridgehead for the imperial army to encircle and attack the base of the Eighth Route Army.

If these bridgeheads are abandoned, then the imperial army will definitely increase a lot of difficulties if it wants to launch a new round of sweeps against the base areas of the Eighth Route Army in the future. Not to mention anything else, the transportation of logistics supplies alone wastes a lot of troops and time!

Lieutenant General Ito was not embarrassed, and replied without hesitation: "I'm worried that these four strongholds will be taken by the Eighth Route Army, just like Touguan Town!" ”

The chief of staff's first thought was that the division commander was too worried.

The reason why the stronghold of Touguan Town was lost was because of the convergence of various reasons.

And the problems faced by the strongholds in Touguan Town, none of these four strongholds.

Just as he was about to say something, Lieutenant General Ito continued: "Wang Ping is too cunning, to be honest, when facing this person, I have no chance of winning at all!" ”

"Not only must we remove all the garrisons of these four strongholds, but all the villages and towns on this line, we must build all the strongholds and turrets!"

"The smaller village garrison has one combat detachment of the Imperial Army, one platoon of the Imperial Allied Army, and one infantry squad of the Imperial Army and one company of the Imperial Allied Army of the larger village garrison. The larger town garrisoned an infantry squadron of the Imperial Army and a battalion of the Imperial Army! ”

"At the same time, each of these points is garrisoned with an infantry brigade, and once a stronghold on the front line is attacked, this infantry brigade can immediately rush to the battlefield for reinforcements!"

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