Watching the Jewish sappers under his command load the last shell buried deep in the ground with explosives and connect the wires, Zhao Zhi made a secret gesture, "Da Da" The Japanese puppet army prisoners who were unkempt and covered in mud were gathered together to smoke were shot and fell to the ground, the gunfire stopped, and the submachine gunners who shot the prisoners retreated, holding rifles equipped with bayonets and stepped forward to mend the Japanese puppet prisoners who were shot. A large pit had already been dug outside the county seat, and the captives who had been confirmed to be dead were thrown into the pit, and after half an hour, all traces were cleaned up, and no one who knew the inside story would have thought that there were more than 200 corpses buried here.

Thunder's rule is never to leave prisoners, not that Zhao Zhi and Thunder's soldiers are murderous people, this kind of hard rule is out of consideration for Thunder's tactical tactics. Thunder is best at using strong firepower to fight ambushes and long-distance attacks, and when this tactic is used, the number of troops sent by Thunder will not be very large, collecting trophies and taking care of their wounded need to be completed by sending soldiers, and guarding posts and scouts must be arranged, in that case, it is difficult for the expatriate troops to draw out manpower to take care of the prisoners, and Thunder's tactics are to dip and go, and bringing prisoners will only slow down their movement speed, so Thunder will have this hard rule of not leaving prisoners.

"Sir, they have news" Luo Ying, who was riding a pony, came over from a distance, and it had been four days since they set off to block the Japanese puppet army coming from the direction of Wuxiang, and Zhao Zhi had been worried about them. "The motor said that they have entered the ground of Ding'an, and there are more than 2,000 Japanese puppet troops from Wuxiang, 8 heavy machine guns, and 12 mortars" Luo Ying still held a piece of paper in his hand, which recorded the most detailed data, including the number of enemies killed by the motor.

On the first day of fighting with the Japanese puppet army in Wuxiang, the motor they could only be injured and not killed according to Zhao Zhi's order, but with the beginning of the madness of the ghost and the near country, the motor they were quite stressed and had to let go of their hands and feet to kill and shoot the Japanese army, traps, tricks, long-distance sniping, planting explosives, and shelling, and the motor used all their means, so that the distance originally planned to be completed in three days was delayed into 5 days, and in these 5 days, the motor group paid the price of three injuries. More than 500 Japanese puppet soldiers in Wuxiang were wounded and killed.

"Let's act according to the plan" Zhao Zhi looked at what Luo Ying brought, and just gave a faint order, Xiao Ziyun, who had been standing behind Zhao Zhi, and several of their staff officers left in response, and began to convey Zhao Zhi's orders according to the plan that had been planned long ago. After learning the news of the large-scale attack of the Japanese puppet army in Wuxiang, the Eighth Route Army base area also happily sent a battalion to participate in the battle, and there was only one regiment stationed in the Eighth Route Army base area.

In the end, it was Guan Xiang who overrode the public opinion and sent a battalion from the main regiment to Ding'an, not that Guan Xiang was sincere in dealing with Zhao Zhi, he made this decision because of the influence of Zuo Quan. Before Zuo Quan left the base area and returned to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, he and Guan Xiangying chatted in the hut for half a night, and the content of the two was Zhao Zhi and Lei Ting. Thunder's camp was very tightly guarded, Zuo Quan sent people over several times but did not see Zhao Zhi, and Guan Xiangying thought that Zhao Zhi was arrogant, Zuo Quan was very keen to judge that Zhao Zhi was probably no longer in that camp.

"Lao Guan, Zhao Zhi can't look at him with common sense, you carefully calculate, since Zhao Zhi first entered Shanxi, they thundered and killed the number of Japanese soldiers. I have calculated that the number of Japanese puppet soldiers shot and killed after Thunder entered Shanxi has exceeded 6,000, and this number is only what we know, and there are still things we don't know. Think about it, at the beginning, Thunder had that kind of combat effectiveness with only a thousand people in Shanxi, and now Thunder is a behemoth with more than 100,000 troops, once they are launched, can you imagine what will happen? ”

It is based on Zuo Quan's words that Guan Xiangying decided to send troops to Ding'an to support him, the strength of a battalion may not be of much use, maybe Zhao Zhi will not send this battalion to fight at all, but as long as Zhao Zhi accepts this battalion of the Eighth Route Army, Guan Xiangying's olive branch will be taken over by Zhao Zhi. Whether he can get benefits from Zhao Zhi, Guan Xiangying doesn't care at all, what he cares about is Zhao Zhi's attitude, his attitude towards the Eighth Route Army and ***.

Zhao Zhi did not refuse the battalion sent by the Eighth Route Army, but there were things he was worried about, Ding'an was a small county town, and it was not a rich enemy in the first place, and after it was occupied by the Japanese army, it tossed the people here enough. Zhao Zhi's attack on Ding'an City was just an accidental idea, he went to the food in Ding'an City, and his 4,000-strong troops could not always fill their stomachs with canned and compressed biscuits, and the wounded also needed nutritional supplements. But after entering the city, Zhao Zhi found that there was no food in the city, and after rummaging through the Japanese barracks, Zhao Zhi only swept out the rations for 4,000 people to eat for a week.

Food is a big problem, the county plus the food obtained from the Wang family's compound, the full count is only enough for Zhao Zhi and them for 10 days, that is to say, within 10 days, Zhao Zhi needs to find a solution to the food problem, now it's good, the Eighth Route Army sent hundreds of mouths to himself, and Zhao Zhi, who was already suffering from the food shortage, had an even more headache. Zhao Zhi himself didn't want to stay in Ding'an City for a long time, the geographical location here was not very good, and the food was not enough to eat, if it weren't for Zhao Zhi seizing a large number of weapons and ammunition in Xiangtangpu and the county town, he might not even have the idea of staying here to meet the Japanese army.

Yamada Jinxiong is not a very good commander, but that person will definitely be a good logistics officer, there are a large number of weapons and ammunition stored in the barracks of the Japanese army in Ding'an City, after Zhao Zhi's men finished counting, they found dozens of shells for 92 rifles, mortars and grenadiers There are a lot of ammunition, it is with these things that Zhao Zhi has the idea of meeting the Japanese army in Ding'an. "Captain Tian, the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Wuxiang will appear today, please call the battalion commander Niu of the Eighth Route Army to come over, and I will tell you about the specific plan to block the Japanese army" Zhao Zhi didn't have time to worry about idle things, Xiao Ziyun, as a staff officer, took on the task of solving the confusion of Tian Jiucheng and Niu Dashan, the battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army.

Niu Dashan is the battalion commander of the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and he is also an old revolutionary who has survived life and death. Xiao Ziyun is Zhao Zhi's staff officer in the thunder, but in Niu Dashan's eyes, he is just a little hairy child who has no experience in the world. "Battalion Commander Niu, do you have any questions about our arrangement?" Niu Dashan's abnormality was noticed by Xiao Ziyun, and for the sake of Mr.'s entire battle plan, Xiao Ziyun patiently asked Niu Dashan.

"The problem is not a problem" Niu Dashan spoke in a Shaanxi accent, stretched out his little radish and pointed at the map spread out by Xiao Ziyun, "We are here to help you fight the little devils, according to your arrangement, we want our battalion and the guerrillas to withdraw to this place called Cross Slope, but this cross slope is 10 miles away from the county seat, I just don't know how to fight the little devils if we are placed on this cross slope?" ”

Listening to Niu Dashan's complaining words, Xiao Ziyun was not angry, but just pouted and smiled, "Battalion Commander Niu, according to the reconnaissance of our scout troops, the number of Japanese puppet troops from Wuxiang is more than 2,000 people, and they are also equipped with a large number of heavy machine guns, mortars, and grenadiers, and your Eighth Route Army's troops only have a small number of light machine guns and grenadiers, and your Eighth Route Army does not have an advantage in the comparison of firepower between the two sides" As he spoke, Xiao Ziyun's finger fell on the position of the cross slope.

"Although it is 10 miles away from the county seat, after the Japanese puppet army from Wuxiang came to attack us head-on, they can only take the cross slope if they want to retreat, and then detour from the cross slope to Majialing. The arrangement for you to go to the cross slope is not to let you get out of the battlefield, but to let you block the retreat of the scattered Japanese puppet army at the cross slope, only in this way can we completely annihilate the Japanese puppet army troops from Wuxiang in Ding'an."

"Break up the Japanese army? Your thunderous tone is not small, didn't you say that the number of Japanese puppet soldiers from Wuxiang exceeded 2,000? I think there are only a thousand people in your city, and you are defending the city with these people, and it is not so easy to defeat the Japanese puppet army from Wuxiang, right? Niu Dashan, who has always been the main striker in the Eighth Route Army, still thinks that he can change the layout of the thunder, and wants to take his battalion to meet the enemy head-on.

"Battalion Commander Niu, I think you are mistaken, the troops we left in the city are indeed only a thousand people, but we also arranged more than 2,000 troops outside the city, according to our arrangement, it is completely feasible to defeat this group of Japanese puppet troops in Ding'an" The provocation in Niu Dashan's words was selectively ignored by Xiao Ziyun, the Eighth Route Army is only a guest army in Ding'an, and the thunder represented by Xiao Ziyun is the main family, according to Zhao Zhi's original words, the Eighth Route Army is like a wheat guest who carries a sickle to work short-term during the wheat harvest season, and losing his temper with a subordinate can only be self-surrendering, Xiao Ziyun's arrogance in his bones did not allow him to fight back against Niu Dashan's provocation.

Xiao Ziyun's words were all said about this, and Tian Jiucheng, who had been watching from the sidelines, couldn't say anything, so he had to secretly step on Niu Dashan a few feet, which could be regarded as recognizing the arrangement of Thunder. Fortunately, in order to strengthen the firepower of the infantry battalion of the Eighth Route Army, Thunder also gave Niu Dashan 2 captured heavy machine guns and 3 light machine guns temporarily.