Thunder's troops took Ding'an County by surprise, and then defeated the Ghost Brigade from Wuxiang outside Ding'an City, and a few days later, Thunder opened the battle to annihilate the Wugang Wing with two consecutive days and one night, and a Japanese wing with mountain artillery, heavy machine guns and a large number of soldiers was completely annihilated in the mountains between Ding'an and Wuxiang. The news of the thunderous attack on Jindong was not only received by the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army in Shanxi, but also by the Nationalist Government in Chongqing.

occupied Ding'an County and Wuxiang, according to Zhao Zhi's meaning, that is, to evacuate this place of right and wrong immediately before the Japanese army came to their senses, and when the enemy's reinforcements came, all they saw were corpses all over the ground, so that the goal was achieved. After all, the existence of Thunder is only for a large number of living forces that kill and injure the Japanese army, and as for grabbing territory, that is not something that Thunder should worry about.

Unexpectedly, Chiang Kai-shek meant that since the county seat had been recovered, it was necessary to set up a government agency and erect a big flag in Ding'an County, so as to prove that the national government was also a war of resistance and achievements. Zhao Zhi didn't want to do this, although the Japanese puppet army in Ding'an County had already been swept away, with the continuation of the capture of Wuxiang, it was not difficult to erect the flag of the national government in Ding'an City, the difficult thing was that Zhao Zhi would tie their hands and feet because of this, and lose the thunder's mobile combat ability.

After some discussion, for some reason, Chiang Kai-shek agreed to temporarily hand over these territories to the control of the Eighth Route Army, so under the help of the propaganda of the Nationalist Government and the inspiration of the Eighth Route Army, all kinds of local armed forces that were scattered nearby, including county brigades, district squads, and all kinds of guerrillas, local militias, and people with a gun, or a grenade or a red tassel gun flocked to Ding'an County after hearing the news. The small county town of Ding'an attracted more than 1,000 people who were scattered, and Zhao Zhi couldn't help but sigh: This anti-Japanese situation is really good, not a small good, but a great good.

Ding'an and Wuxiang have anti-Japanese forces, and Niu Dashan naturally wants to stay and command these anti-Japanese forces, fortunately, after defeating the Ghost Brigade and the Wugang United, Zhao Zhi has a large number of Japanese-style equipment and weapons and ammunition in his hands, but it is not difficult to arm a thousand people, and it is Zhao Zhi's happiest thing to get rid of Niu Dashan. "This cow mountain, I think I can endure it, don't you! The good situation was made like this by him. What do you think his messy local troops can do? Can you really fight a positional battle with the Japanese army? Once a large army of the Japanese army rushes to aid Ding'an, I'll see how this guy ends! ”

The situation is indeed as Zhao Zhi said, not as optimistic as it seems, although Thunder's troops have cleared the Japanese puppet army strongholds around Ding'an, but Ding'an is still too close to Jinzhong. All Zhao Zhi could do was to converge Hanks' troops in Pingyao to meet the Japanese puppet army coming from the direction of Lüliang, if Zhao Zhi's side could not defeat the Lüliang Japanese puppet army in the predetermined time, then Niu Dashan, who stayed in Ding'an, would face the Japanese puppet army troops from Jinzhong alone, and the guerrillas under his command who were accustomed to using broadswords and spears decided that they could not withstand the attack of the Japanese puppet army.

Now there are many troops gathered in Ding'an County, but when it comes to combat effectiveness, I am afraid that it is not as good as a squadron of devils. These local armed forces gathered by Niu Dashan only had full of enthusiasm and high will to fight, although Zhao Zhi supported them with a large amount of weapons and ammunition that had been captured. But in Zhao Zhi's eyes, the human factor is the most important, without reasonable reorganization, and lack of training, unable to master the use of weapons. These constraints determined that this Ding'an Independent Regiment was far from being able to support a large-intensity battle.

Before rushing to Pingyao, Zhao Zhi sent telegrams to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army one by one of the problems he had thought of, hoping that the senior commanders of the Eighth Route Army would not lose thousands of lives in vain because of the gains and losses of one city and one place. Zhao Zhi did not underestimate the combat power of the Eighth Route Army, but he also could not underestimate the combat power of the Japanese army, those anti-Japanese armed forces summoned by Niu Dashan were mixed, and it was difficult for Zhao Zhishi to affirm their combat effectiveness, and the only possibility that could persuade Niu Dashan to temporarily give up Ding'an County and retreat to the suburbs could only be an order from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

"Zhao Zhi wants us to order Niu Dashan to withdraw from Ding'an City with his newly formed independent regiment" Peng Dehuai was a little puzzled by the intention of Zhao Zhi to send this telegram, this Zhao Zhi did things one by one, and only sent a telegram the day before yesterday saying that he wanted to exchange 75 mountain guns for 81 mortars, why did he make a fuss today to ask Niu Dashan's independent regiment to withdraw from Ding'an City, isn't there any news that the Eighth Route Army troops don't know?

The formation of the Ding'an Independent Regiment was actually not Niu Dashan's intention, after the total annihilation of the Wugang Wing, Niu Dashan only truthfully passed back the details of the two battles, and it was the staff officers of the Eighth Route Army who made the judgment based on this. The location of Ding'an City is not very significant, but it is only more than 200 miles away from the Jindong base area, and there are many kinds of Jindong anti-Japanese armed forces under the command of the Eighth Route Army.

It is based on this reason that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army made the decision to form the Ding'an Independent Regiment, and transferred a group of political workers from the Jindong base area to Ding'an. In response to the call, those who came to Ding'an were originally local anti-Japanese armed forces active in the eastern Jindong region, and Niu Dashan's head was probably in the name of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, so Niu Dashan, the company commander, became the commander and political commissar of this reorganized Ding'an County Independent Regiment of the Jindong Military Region.

As for Zhao Zhi, Thunder can fight, but in the final analysis, Thunder is only an armed force of a private nature, and most of Zhao Zhi's subordinates are big-nosed foreigners, of course, they can't command the troops of the Eighth Route Army. Maybe Niu Dashan is a little inauthentic, after getting the captured 38 rifles and ammunition from Zhao Zhi, he stretched out his hand to the captured grenadiers, mortars, heavy machine guns and other heavy firepower weapons, his reason is also sufficient, the Ding'an Independent Regiment is now a regiment with more than 1,000 soldiers, and it can't always rely on those light machine guns, and some heavy weapons are generally reasonable.

When Zhao Zhi's Jewish troops were about to leave Pingyao to replenish the guns and ammunition according to the order, they found that the guns and ammunition captured by the continuous fierce fighting also made Niu Dashan return all the seizures to the public in the name of returning all the seizures to the public, all as the seized materials of the newly established anti-Japanese government of Ding'an County, and the grumpy Tang Lei ran to the scene only to find that all the heavy weapons in the spoils had become the equipment for the anti-Japanese armed forces in Ding'an County, and the heavy machine guns and mortars that were originally scheduled to be brought to Pingyao by the Jewish troops were all given to Niu Dashan.

Niu Dashan did things so unauthentically, it really made Zhao Zhi a little unhappy, and he defeated the Japanese army in continuous fierce battles, and it was always the thunder that was at the forefront, Niu Dashan's Eighth Route Army company just swept the tail on the cross slope and fell into the credit of killing the commander of the Japanese army in Wuxiang. When facing the Wugang United, Niu Dashan and his company only played the role of waving flags and shouting and beating side drums, and when it was time to share the spoils, this old boy didn't eat at all, and he was not happy to eat and take.

Tang Lei and they have been instigating Zhao Zhi to find Niu Dashan's theory, but now the military situation is urgent, the Hanks regiment that went out of Pingyao has been in place, Zhao Zhi and their movements here in Ding'an and Wuxiang are so big, the Japanese puppet army on the front line of Jinzhong and Luliang will never be good at resting, and the Japanese army will definitely immediately deploy troops to rush here in the next step. After Zhao Zhi persuaded Niu Dashan to give up Ding'an to no avail, he simply took his troops away from Wuxiang and went straight to Pingyao, and Niu Dashan in the province was angry and injured his body.

Zhao Zhi left Wuxiang without saying hello to Niu Dashan, in Niu Dashan's opinion, it was purely Zhao Zhi who was angry with him, and the withdrawal of the Thunder Force was just Zhao Zhi's reaction to his independent regiment's sealing of those weapons and ammunition. Niu Dashan also knew that what he did this time was a little inauthentic, but the current situation is complicated, for the sake of the country and the people, Niu Dashan is willing to be the person who is looked down upon by Zhao Zhi. Thunder's super combat effectiveness was seen by Niu Dashan with his own eyes, but he did not agree with Zhao Zhi's persuasion of those arguments that he would give up the county seat of Ding'an, the county town was sealed with enough weapons, equipment, ammunition and materials for him to arm more than 5,000 people, and he was confident that he would hold Ding'an instead of abandoning the city and fleeing.

"What does this Zhao Zhi want to do?" After reading the telegram just sent by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, Niu Dashan's expression changed greatly, and his originally very proud mood also became very bad. On the same day, the order to form a Ding'an Independent Regiment to hold Ding'an City was issued by the General Headquarters, but just two days later, the tone of the General Headquarters changed, and it ordered itself to lead the Independent Regiment to withdraw from the county town and immediately rush to the Jindong base area for training. In this telegram from the headquarters, Sister Monkey told Niu Dashan that the main promoter of his independent regiment's return to the army base this time was Zhao Zhi, who had left Wuxiang.

"Didn't you just ask him for some weapons and ammunition? Is this Zhao Zhi so hostile to our independent regiment? Niu Dashan snapped the telegram on his handle, forgetting that the weapons and ammunition he had sealed were almost all the trophies of the two battles. And not a little. "No, I want to send a telegram to the headquarters, the number of independent regiments has now exceeded 1,500 people, and the weapons and ammunition reserves are enough for us to equip as many as 4,000 people.