-- Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Yuci

After the Battle of Xinkou, the Eighth Route Army immediately reconvened the scattered main forces of the Eighth Route Army, and Liu Bocheng, Lin Sanhu, He Long and others entered the headquarters with the generals, and everyone laughed constantly.

"It's still your 115th Division that fights well, but I heard that you have captured more than 100 machine guns alone." He Long smoked his pipe and smiled at Lin Sanhu.

Lin Sanhu shook his head slightly and didn't speak, but the upturned corners of his mouth could see his pride.

"Your 120th Division is also doing well, Yanmen Pass has won a great victory, and you have gained a lot, right? I saw that the convoy you brought had 92 infantry guns. Nie Rongzhen saw that Lin Sanhu was reluctant to speak, so he took over the conversation.

"It's so lively, are you all here?" Mr. Zhu and Mr. Zhou Guansheng took Mr. Peng, Zuo Quan, Liu Dake, Jiang Cheng and others into the room.

Everyone stood up and saluted, and after everyone sat down, Mr. Zhu said, "Everyone has worked hard during this time, Mr. Peng will talk about our achievements and losses during this time." ”

Mr. Peng stood up and said, "In the more than 40 days since the first battle of Pingxingguan of the Eighth Route Army, our army has engaged the Japanese army dozens of times, and according to the data of the Third Division, our army has lost 1,139 people, wounded 2,134 people, annihilated about 4,300 Japanese troops, and 2,400 puppet troops. The weapons seized included 5,700 rifles, 263 light machine guns, 83 heavy machine guns, 92 infantry guns, 5 mountain guns, and countless ammunition. ”

Everyone applauded, such a good record exceeded everyone's expectations, you know, in history, all the machine guns of the three main divisions add up to so much.

Mr. Peng continued: "Now let me talk about the enemy situation. Saying that, Mr. Peng pointed to the map with a baton and said, "Before the Battle of Xinkou, the Japanese army had three brigades and nine puppet Mongolian divisions in the direction of Xinkou, and after three reinforcements, there were five brigades and nine puppet Mongolian divisions, but because the Japanese army in North China was too empty, we got intelligence. The Japanese army has already summoned the Ninth Brigade and the First Mixed Brigade back to North China and Suiyuan, and I have to say that the head of the devil's command has a grudge against this Ninth Brigade, and it has been more than a month, and he has run away. ”

After saying the joke, Mr. Peng continued to introduce, "That is to say, now we have three brigades in the north that have fought for two months and a total number of about 10,000 puppet cavalry, although these three brigades are constantly replenishing, but the total number will not exceed 35,000 people, and on the other side is the 20th Division of the Japanese Army and the 31st Brigade of the 109th Division, which are also three brigades. The number of troops is around 40,000. At the same time, there is also the 108th Brigade near Niangzi Pass, which can be reinforced at any time. And we, just our three divisions and the Shanxi New Army, Comrade Liu Dake, how many people are there in the Shanxi New Army now? ”

Liu Dake stood up and replied, "In the past two months, our Shanxi New Army has developed rapidly, and now it has five regiments, 6,000 guns, and more than 10,000 people. ”

Mr. Peng nodded and said, "Then there are more than 40,000 people." In addition, we now have new weapons, but everyone is fighting, and the personnel who use them are the personnel of the headquarters. After the meeting, everyone brought back to the various units, which is a good thing. Our operational objective was to hold the Japanese troops and buy time for the transport troops, with the goal of gaining at least five days. It is better to have ten days. ”

After Mr. Peng finished speaking, Liu Bocheng stood up and asked, "Are we going to fight a positional battle with the devil?" Although our current strength has increased rapidly, I am afraid it is not appropriate to fight the devil now. ”

Mr. Zhu opened his eyes and said, "It's not hard to be tough." Our goal is just to gain time, the most important thing in transportation is also people, workers and progressive forces, as for machinery and materials, it can be moved, if it can't be done, give up, let me talk about how to fight"

After listening to my Mr. Zhu's thoughts, everyone fell into deep thought, Lin Sanhu glanced at Liu Bocheng and He Long, and said, "Our 115th Division wants to attack the main attack in the north. ”

Seeing that Lin Sanhu had grabbed the task, Liu Bocheng wanted to stand up, but was grabbed by He Long and said, "The east, the east belongs to us, Lao Liu, you fought so well in Qidan Village, this time it will be handed over to the brothers." ”

Liu Bocheng smiled bitterly and said, "Then I can only go to the north to help, I said that you two don't bring this, how can I explain to the below." ”

Mr. Peng saw that everyone was in high spirits, clapped his hands and shouted, "Are they all devils, we can explain how we want to explain, our retreat route does not take the south, we are all transport convoys, we go to the west." ”

Liu Dake was familiar with the geography of Shanxi, and hesitated, "The west is a big mountain, and the road is not easy to walk." ”

Mr. Zhu agreed and said, "It's just that it's not good to go, we are all old Red Army, and the Long March has come over, are you still afraid of a few hills?" And once we retreat to the mountains, I really don't believe that the devil dares to chase after us. Although the road to the south is wide and easy to walk, the devils have planes, tanks and a large number of cavalry, and once they are targeted, it will be difficult for us to retreat. ”

Liu Bocheng has always been fond of guerrilla warfare, and said with a smile: "If he dares to come, we will give him a ruthless one." ”

Mr. Peng took a sip of tea and said, "That's good, if you don't have a problem, let's go down and prepare, and go and take the new equipment with you first." ”

Liu Dake stood up and asked, "Boss, what about our Shanxi New Army?" And what about the combat missions of our new army? ”

Mr. Zhu stood up and crossed the railway line and said, "There are three most important tasks of the new army, one is to escort the retreat of the transport team, the other is to evacuate the masses in conjunction with the Sacrifice Alliance, and the other is to pick up all the railways for me!" It is necessary to mobilize the masses and do it in three days. ”

Liu Dake said anxiously: "What about the combat mission? Our new army can also fight. ”

Mr. Peng looked at Mr. Zhu and said, "Who said that there is no combat mission, the situation in Taiyuan City, the new army is more familiar, and after the field battle is over, the Eighth Route Army will be more tired, and the new army will take on the task of breaking off." ”

Liu Dake said with satisfaction: "Guarantee the completion of the organizational task." ”

After everyone left, Mr. Zhu said to Jiang Cheng, "Xiao Jiang, you go to Gujiao first, it's already November, and when you enter the mountains, the temperature and food are very important, our troops plus the people, the relocated workers and their families, I'm afraid it will be more than seventy or eighty thousand people, and there are horses to eat, this amount will not be small, although we have made preparations more than a month ago, and sent people to secretly widen the road, but after all, there are more than 100 miles of road." The common people may have to walk for four or five days before they can arrive, and I am really afraid that something will happen, so you go to Gujiao, bring more food, water, and medical supplies from your time, and then I will order people to set up points in more than a dozen villages along the way to distribute them, and we can't let the people who are willing to go to Yan'an with us sacrifice on the way to migrate. ”

Jiang Cheng knew in his heart that Mr. Zhu really had this need, and secondly, he was afraid that he would have an accident in the war zone, so he nodded and agreed, and went up the Fen River to Gujiao County.

There is a lot of coal in Gujiao. It is the county city with the highest urbanization rate in Shanxi Province in later generations, but it is still an ordinary county town at this time, after all, the Republic of China where steel and electricity are not developed, and the transportation is inconvenient, and the ancient friendship in the mountains is not as prosperous as in later generations.

At this time, Gujiao already had an advance unit of a company of the Eighth Route Army, and opened up a base here, Jiang Cheng, under the leadership of the guards, soon arrived at the warehouse prepared for him, and the guards said, "Report to the head of 203." This was originally a granary, and it was the largest warehouse that could be found in Gujiao. Do you think it's okay? ”

Jiang Cheng looked at it and nodded, "Okay, you have to guard the outside." ”

The guard nodded and said, "We've all studied the rules of secrecy many times before we came. ”

Jiang Cheng set the new time and space point here after the upgrade, and then waited for the guards to leave and traveled back to the modern era.

Jiang Chengyi returned to modern times. Due to the reduction in transportation some time ago, the warehouse was actually full of goods, and Jiang Cheng only needed to wait for the time to pass and think of water. Jiang Cheng asked Lin Fei to buy a large amount of drinking water directly, and when the time came, he brought these compressed biscuits, ham sausages, drinking water, and medicines to Gujiao. The transport team, which had been preparing for a long time, immediately carried these things to those villages, and at this time Jiang Cheng knew that the Japanese army was about to enter the city.

-- Taiyuan Yan Xishan is worthy of being a businessman, very creditable, said that he would leave as soon as he finished moving, and the day after the battle meeting, he took people to Jiaocheng (and Gujiao are two places, this is in the south of Taiyuan. On the fourth day, we arrived at Xi County, which is 350 kilometers away from Taiyuan.

In fact, there are not many people in Taiyuan, at the beginning of the war, Yan Xishan continued to publicize that he wanted to live and die with Taiyuan, and to turn Taiyuan into the grave of the Japanese army.

There is a large factory in the northeast of Taiyuan, which is the essence of the whole Shanxi, the Taiyuan Arsenal in Shanxi.

Nowadays, it is extremely busy, countless workers and people are carrying machinery and materials, and a large cart is lined up outside, and every time it is full, it immediately leaves and heads south.

"How about it, Wang Gong, how long will it take to finish moving?" Liu Dake looked anxiously at the hot scene.

Called is an old worker who is almost 50 years old, it is said that he is the oldest backbone of the arsenal qualification, he said while commanding, "I can't finish moving, the accumulation of these decades is not these big cars can be pulled, Chairman Yan pulled a month but pulled the most advanced more than 1,000 machines, although he mainly pulls materials, but it can also be seen that there are so many of these materials, as far as I know, there are tens of thousands of machinery in Taiyuan City, and there are more than 4,000 of the better machinery in the registration we do. I think it's good to be able to pull two or three thousand sets of machinery at most. ”

Liu Dake thought of what Mr. Zhu said about the first personnel, so he said, "If you can't pull it all, you can pull as much as you can, but you must be evacuated at the specified time." ”

That Wang Gong nodded and said, "Don't worry, chief, just leave after loading, it's all a baby, and it's unwilling to leave the devil." ”

Wang Gong is unwilling, then Liu Da is even more unwilling, but now the most lacking is livestock, a cart requires two horses, these thousands of rubber-tyred carts and other vehicles collected to replace rubber-wheeled animals alone cost three or four thousand, and the 129th Division just set off with less than five hundred horses, these two or three thousand and they are doing their best.

The scene of such a transport is not only the arsenal, the factories and schools all over Taiyuan are under the command of the Red Party, moving all the most valuable materials, and the first battle of the transport team is already crowded, countless families of workers who have left for the first time have already embarked on the journey, everyone carries things that can be carried, sturdy men push wheelbarrows, the elderly and food and valuables are placed on the wheelbarrows, children are either held in the hands of women, or follow along, soldiers are under martial law and command in high places, and occasionally a car breaks down, which immediately causes congestion on the road. At this time, they can only ruthlessly abandon the car to the side, clear the road, because they are all mountain dirt roads, many places are still difficult to walk, the soldiers also have to help push the cart, repair the road, although they are psychologically prepared when they leave Taiyuan, but look at their belongings to be thrown away, where are the people who have suffered all their lives willing to do it, crying. The scolding, persuasion, and the anxious atmosphere that filled the air above the team, although in the end they were all persuaded by their families and soldiers to wipe their tears while going on the road, but the time and distance were often delayed, and the movement in a day was less than 20 miles. Such a speed made Mr. Zhu and others in the headquarters never expect it.

"How can it be so slow? This kind of speed will delay the big thing. Mr. Peng said anxiously.

"Calm down, my Mr. Peng, those are ordinary people. It's not the iron army in your hands, and this speed is still because most of them are workers, otherwise maybe it will be even slower. Zuo Quan persuaded, and said, "In the past, Liu Xuande crossed the river with the people. There are more than 100,000 people, thousands of taels of baggage, and more than 10 miles a day, which is about the same as us. Our road is more difficult than his, and now we can travel 20 miles, which can be said to be well organized. ”

Mr. Peng patted the table and said, "We are Geming's team. Can this be compared? How long has Ruth come to this hundred miles? ”

Mr. Zhu asked, "How are the Japanese troops on both sides now?" ”

Zuo Quan said, "Wei Lihuang's troops in the north have retreated to Yangqu County, our troops are setting up a battlefield, the devils in the east are attacking in the direction of our Yuci in two ways, and the Shanxi New Army and the 120th Division have arrived at the intended battlefield." ”

Mr. Zhu looked at the map and said, "Next, it's up to the soldiers." ”

- Shouyang

Shouyang is the only way to Yuci, there are railways and highways leading to Yuci, at this time, countless people are working frantically on the railways and highways.

"Hard! Hah! Hard! Hah! The horn of labor was screaming, and the railroad that Yan Xishan had painstakingly laid was dug up by the 120th Division and the Shanxi New Army at this time.

"Well, how many railways have been picked up now?" He Long asked, holding his beloved pipe.

Bo Shucun accompanied He Long all the way and said, "The railway can't be moved without a section, we dig a section every few hundred meters, and now we have dug more than 30 kilometers, which is all thanks to the people, under the initiation of the Sacrifice Alliance, the nearby villagers have brought guys to help, without them we can't complete the task." ”

He Long took a puff of cigarette and turned around and asked, "What about the highway?" ”

Chief of Staff Zhou Shidi said, "We have buried all the mines distributed to us, and dug trenches everywhere, the devil wants to go all the way from the highway to Yuci, that is a dream, how is this mine made, such a small one, can it really kill people?" ”

He Long said with a smile, "Mr. Zhu said that if you blow up, you must blow up, and besides, this is provided by 203, it must be true." ”

Guan Xiangying next to him hurriedly patted him and said, "Mr. He, you forgot about organizational discipline again." ”

He Long touched his head and said, "Come on, let's wait for the devil to come to the door." ”

- Qinglong Town

This is a town to the south of Yangqu County, and not far south is the Taiyuan Arsenal, at this time Lin Sanhu is here looking at the terrain and thinking about something.

"Division commander, Wei Lihuang sent a telegram saying that they couldn't stand it, and they were ready to retreat tonight." A staff officer said with a telegram.

Lin Sanhu nodded to indicate that he understood, looked at the town again and said, "Force the rest of the people in the town to leave, the devil will not be able to fight hard at that time, and he will definitely use the people to take the lead, we must be ready." In addition, send a telegram to Commander Liu and ask them to wait for our signal. ”

If you want to say that Itagaki Seishiro's mood is now, that is, he is complacent, leading half of the division (the Ninth Brigade basically did not participate in the battle) to sweep Shanxi, and even break through the dozens of divisions, such a record must be called the god of war, thinking about it, Itagaki Seishiro feels that the whole person has some fluttering immortals.

"Report, report from the front, the Shina army has fled, and General Honda Masasai has called, requesting to continue the offensive." A communications soldier came in and reported.

"Did you run away again? Wei Lihuang has become a lost dog, and told General Honda Masasai that Wei Lihuang is one of the most warlike generals in China, and he must be completely annihilated and resolutely and bravely pursued. Seishiro Itagaki immediately issued an order.

The 2nd Mixed Infantry Brigade of the Kwantung Army is composed of troops from the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division of the Kwantung Army, with two infantry wings and several specially dispatched special forces, with a total strength of 8,000 people, but after more than a month of continuous operations, there are only more than 5,000 people at this time, mainly because the Kwantung Army has a special establishment, which is not as convenient as the Fifth Division, and has been fighting on the front line.

Honda Masasai looked at his majestic troops, took the command knife and shouted, "Forward, the target is Qinglong Town!" (To be continued......)