"Sir, a telegram from Willis" Luo Ying, who had a newly shaved head, climbed over from behind with a steel helmet and sweaty face, and the people who were basking in the noon sun were sleepy, if it weren't for the snakes, insects, rats and ants in the mountains and forests, Luo Ying would have hated to drag his back lightly. "Willis and Zhang Yi got into a fight, Willis said that Zhang Yi was a scout squadron, and they were blind with the captured mortars, and they wanted Zhang Yi to hand over the mortars to him to use, Zhang Yi didn't do it, and the two sides were pinched" Luo Ying roughly said the content of the telegram with a small mouth, and Zhao Zhizhi, who listened to it, laughed.

One is the commander of the infantry regiment with 4,000 troops, and the other is the squadron leader with more than 30 elite scouts. "Call them back immediately, the plane that dropped the supplies has departed, and the heavy weapons will arrive later, do your best to defend Liupan Ridge, and if necessary, you can take the initiative to contact the local Eighth Route Army guerrillas to help" Zhao Zhi said When he asked the guerrillas for help, his eyes swept around the staff officers sitting around him intentionally or unintentionally, and when he saw that everyone was concentrating on checking the map, he smiled and signaled Luo Ying to leave.

Far away in Laiyuan territory for mortars in the mortar trouble Willis and Zhang Yi, they didn't know that Zhao Zhi, who was moved out by them to uphold justice, was not in Zhangwu County at present, just the night before Willis left Laiyuan with his 4,000 Jewish soldiers, Zhao Zhi took another 4,000 infantry regiment and 200 mercenaries and quietly left Zhangwu County, but he didn't follow to deal with Willis, his goal was far more dangerous than Willis to capture Laiyuan.

The young staff officers sent by Chiang Kai-shek to Zhangwu County were not useless, and they also brought with them a large number of maps and materials of Shanxi drawn by the Nationalist army, and Zhao Zhi, after carefully reading these things, fiddled with an even bolder plan of action, he was to take a force to attack another line of transportation of the Japanese army for a long distance. Zhao Zhi's original Spark plan in Chongqing has basically reached the time when it is ripe, and after the 5,000 elites of the national army that were diverted out at the beginning were reduced to zero, although their combat effectiveness was not as strong as that of gathering together, their mobility ability was greatly increased, and the principle of fleeing if they could not fight was implemented to the extreme.

At the same time as Yu Dazhi sent troops to Yangquan, Zhao Zhi secretly ordered his radio to contact the tinder who were active in North China, if he wanted to push out the Japanese puppet army entrenched in Shanxi, he must first cut off their material transportation line, first Yu Dazhi led people to nail the Yangquan line like nails to plot Wulunbao, and then Willis went out of Laiyuan to contain the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Luliang and Taiyuan, including the Japanese puppet army that instigated the green forest heroes in Jin, Lu and Shaanxi to outflank and return to the Japanese puppet army in Luliang. All of this Zhao Zhi did was to cover his truest intention - to attack the Zhengtai Line for a long time.

In order to cooperate with Zhao Zhi's operational intentions, the Tinder who received Zhao Zhi's telegram suddenly changed the combat habits of sneak attack warfare and guerrilla warfare in the past, and turned to fight against the Japanese puppet army. The destruction of the Tinder is not as simple as picking up a few railroad tracks and grabbing a few wagons like the guerrillas, the instructors who teach them in the Geyue Mountain training camp are all the elite of the mercenaries, and they are all experts in sabotage, especially Eugene, they are all good at playing explosives, and the apprentices taught by these guys can be bad.

At the beginning, the tinder also picked up the railroad tracks, and they did it for hundreds of meters, but they picked it at night, and the Japanese army drove armored vehicles to repair the road during the day, and the two sides went back and forth for a while, and no one took advantage. Later, the tinder simply used explosives, and the Japanese soldiers who protected the road were dumbfounded, and the tinder blew up not only the rails, but also the roadbed under the tracks, and it was a section of bombing after a section, and then a section was blown up, and the troops who came to repair the roadbed and railroad tracks were often attacked by the tinder, so that the railway line entering Shanxi was basically paralyzed, especially the Zhengtai Railway.

The interruption of the Zhengtai Railway caused a shortage of ammunition for the Japanese army in Shanxi, and when the news came, the Japanese headquarters in North China was shocked, and the Japanese army base camp was also shocked. The North China commander of the devil had to slow down the pace of the offensive of the Japanese army in Shanxi in the second war zone because of the desperate shortage of ammunition on the front line, but within a few days, a telegram of condemnation from the Japanese army base camp was placed on the table of the North China General Headquarters. It turned out that the slowdown of the Japanese army in North China affected the form of the entire Chinese battlefield, so the Japanese army base camp sent a strong telegram of condemnation.

Faced with the questioning of the base camp, the North China commander had no choice but to order the soldiers on the front line, who were short of guns and ammunition, to launch a new round of attacks again. As for the lack of ammunition and materials, before the Zhengtai Railway was repaired, it could only be transported and supplied by heavy troops by road, by car, mule and horse. To transport supplies to the Shanxi front, the devils had to pass through the highway from Handan to Changzhi, and most of this highway was deep in the Taihang Mountains. In other words, the entire highway was full of ambush positions, which gave Zhao Zhi, who had always had the idea of fighting the Japanese army's material transportation line, an opportunity.

It was for this reason that Zhao Zhi quietly left Zhangwu County with a Jewish infantry regiment and 200 mercenaries after Willis and them left Laiyuan. The purpose of Zhao Zhi's trip was very clear, that is, the more than 100-mile-long mountain forest between Changzhi in Shanxi Province and Handan in Hebei Province, where Zhao Zhi wanted to fight with the Japanese army's transport team. In order to find the most suitable route for the attack, Zhao Zhi took those staff officers to stay in the headquarters for two days, and almost all the routes were thought of by them, and Zhao Zhi even wanted to send a transport plane to parachute directly once and for all.

From the initial discussion to the controversy, from the argument to the big quarrel, and then to the final uncontested quarrel, Zhao Zhi taught the young and arrogant staff officers a lesson, in addition to eating and a short rest in the two days, Zhao Zhi threw himself down on the map of Shanxi in the command headquarters, and Zhao Zhi, who thought of all the emergencies, worked out a lot of countermeasures, even if he himself was injured and lost his command ability, as long as there was an officer who was familiar with the plan of action, this rush operation would not be interrupted.

From Zhangwu County straight out of Yuncheng, and then rubbed the edge of Wenxi County straight to the Qinshui between Linfen and Jincheng, reaching Qinshui is not the end, Zhao Zhi and they have to cross the Japanese blockade line in Jincheng to reach Lingchuan, and then stick to the side of Lingchuan all the way to the north, until they reach Licheng County, Zhao Zhi They can be regarded as completing the first step of the long-distance attack. Zhao Zhi's long-distance attack plan is not bold, judging from the itinerary of the entire operation, Zhao Zhi and they have almost crossed the entire Shanxi, and they will pass through countless blockades of the Japanese puppet army, and even have an exchange of fire with the Japanese puppet army, resulting in casualties.

But Zhao Zhi had to do this, starting from arranging for Yu Dazhi to go to Yangquan from Taiyuan, Zhao Zhi dispatched troops for this purpose, completely cutting off the Japanese puppet army in Shanxi from continuing to get weapons and ammunition supplies from North China. Relying on the strength of Zhao Zhi and the Lei Ting family alone is not enough to complete such a big plan, but what other tinder troops are active in North China, as well as the guerrillas and anti-Japanese organizations at all levels in the enemy-occupied areas of the Chinese Communist Party, not to mention completely cutting off the Japanese army's ammunition supply, as long as Zhao Zhi and the others can withstand three months and not let the Japanese army's ammunition supply enter Shanxi, the situation of being pressed by the Japanese army in the second war zone will be greatly reversed.

The Nationalist Government's Second War Zone is the largest anti-Japanese armed force in Shanxi, relying on the Second War Zone stationed in Zhongtiao Mountain up and down hundreds of thousands of people, once the Japanese puppet army that is pressing on them has the problem of insufficient weapons and ammunition, the Japanese puppet army's offensive will change, if the Second World War Zone seizes the fighter plane to carry out a big counteroffensive, then the fate of the Japanese army in Shanxi is absolutely very miserable. Especially now that the various squads sent out by Zhao Zhi are busy planning and building airports, as long as Thunder has more than five airports in Shanxi, Mason's highly respected jumping tactics will have an unparalleled effect.

"Okay, let's rest well, notify the troops to go on the road, we have to bypass Lingchuan before dark" Seeing that everyone was almost rested, Zhao Zhi ordered to continue on the road. In order to walk through the mountains and forests to bypass the blockade of the Japanese puppet army, Zhao Zhi and they gave up almost all their heavy weapons, just to prevent the situation that may occur on the halfway, Zhao Zhi and they brought 20 Bazooka and more than a dozen American mortars, from Zhao Zhi below, each person's backpack added a mortar shell or Bazooka rocket, plus everyone's weapons and ammunition, food, drinking water, medicine and the like, so that Zhao Zhi and their weight each reached 20 kilograms.

The mountain road is not so easy to walk, not to mention the hot and humid, and there are mosquito bites from time to time, if you can't find a water source, everyone has to rely on the little water in their own kettle. It's easy to say that the march is full of light during the day, but I'm afraid that the march in the middle of the night will be rushed, and it's good to say that I encounter potholes on the mountain road, and I'm afraid that someone will doze off and roll down the hillside when they are marching. It is fortunate that there have been no casualties here to get to Lingchuan, so Zhao Zhi and their marching speed is not very fast, and they will stop from time to time to rest for a while.

"Concealment, there is a situation" The scout who came out gave a concealed signal, and the team on the rugged mountain road instantly dodged into the grass and woods, and lay in wait for a while, and the alert was lifted, confirming that it was a false alarm. Several staff officers were still humming and chirping a little dissatisfied with the scout's false alarm, and it was stopped after Zhao Zhi glared at him, emergencies on the way are common, you can be careful but not take it lightly, this is the order that Zhao Zhi personally gave to the scout team when the troops set off.