The 11th Sub-district was not harmed much in the spring sweep of the devils, and Shuibao Township in the north and Yinfang Town in the northeast suffered losses, but the main grain-producing areas in the base area and the places where the common people lived, the devils did not come in, and this year's summer grain harvest is in sight.

After receiving the order from the military region asking the 11th Division to assist in the counter-sweeping operation of the Taiyue District, Yang Bangzi moved the regiment headquarters to Duyu, and sent the 2nd Battalion to Daliushugou in the south of Gushan Town, which is the closest to the northern part of Taiyue District.

After a few victories in a row, the people in the base area are also emotionally high, the common people are the simplest, they can block the devils outside the mountain and prevent them from coming in to kill people and set fire to grab food, the Eighth Road is good, Commander Yang is a hero, once this emotion becomes a habitual mindset, the military-civilian relationship between supporting the army and joining the army and so on will be much easier to handle.

With the cooperation of the sub-district and the Lingman Administration, the personnel gap of the 20th Regiment was quickly recruited by 1,000 recruits to supplement the recruits.

For example, the four companies of the second battalion were all people from more than 10 villages under the jurisdiction of Shuibao Township, more than 150 recruits, and more than 20 veterans with more than one year of military age as squad and platoon leaders.

The reason for this is very simple, they all come from one place, either close to each other or bring their hometown, and they still guard their hometown. Fight. One of them was injured or died. The others have to play with their lives to avenge him, but the family is in front of the country, these local soldiers all understand this, don't look at it as a recruit, none of them are coming for food!

They are all simple mountain people, such people who have been dealing with the mountains for generations, and often only have the simplest wishes for life and survival. If you can eat enough, have a house, and have clothes to wear.

When the little devil heads back into the mountains, you want to say that the people in the mountains use some patriotism, nationality, or something to resist, that's bragging! The impression these ordinary people have of the country is probably only the tax police in the county who come and go every once in a while.

Their first impression of the little devil is basically the same as the rout of the warlords they have seen before or the bandits of the divided side, they are basically the same, with guns.

But as time went by, the devils' acts of burning, killing, and plundering increased day by day, and all the people heard all day long was that the devils burned down the village again, ruined anyone's daughter-in-law, and beheaded anyone's second son. and they took away their cattle and ate them.

The increase in the number of such scourges is the real reason why the mountain people rose up against the Japanese devils! You can find a relative within a hundred and ten miles. Killing anyone's second boy is tantamount to forming a grudge with dozens of mountain people, this hatred is engraved on the bones and flows in the blood!

It's all nonsense to talk about what class or doctrine to talk about with the people in the mountains! Yang Stick said at the beginning that the little devil came, he treated the Chinese like pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, robbed all your property, spoiled your woman, burned the house you relied on to survive, this is enough, the mountain people are already more difficult than the people in the plains, the little devils will take all these away, no need to say anything, fight!

Yang Stick moved this heart, and he also engaged in a naming activity within the regiment, such as the company of Shuibao Township, which is called Shuibao Township, your company fights bravely, produces combat heroes, and the whole township has a glorious face, if the bear is soft and soft, a township can't raise its head without a light on its face!

In this way, not to mention these soldiers, those local cadres and village family heads all came to the army, telling the recruits to fight hard, kill more devils, and let our township and our village be praised at the meeting, and the daughter-in-law of the recruit also said, if you don't kill a few devils in the army and have made meritorious contributions and received awards, go home and don't go to the kang!

Look, as soon as this propaganda and agitation came up, the soldiers were all full of energy! This model Lao Feng and Gao Political Commissar both look fresh! It is very different from the propaganda methods of the previous Red Army era! Don't look simple, it's absolutely practical!

Gao Yufeng, who is in the training section, also thinks that this kind of local company is not easy to manage, and it is not easy for cadres who go outside to be inserted and managed, but Yang Bangzi doesn't see it that way, and said to Gao Section Chief that this group of people all listen to him Yang Bangzi, and most of the company platoon commanders and instructors sent are also in the Yiman Lailing area, and they will definitely be able to merge together.

In mid-June, when Yang Bangzi was still busy with these things, the order of the military region arrived again, and the exact intelligence showed that the devils were going to attack the Beiyue and Taiyue districts around June 25, and ordered Yang Bangzi to go out to the area between Lingqiu and Fanzhi with at least two main battalions to block the communication line of the devils.

The affairs of the base area were handed over to the old blind man and Lao Feng, and this time Yang Bangzi brought the high political commissar and the teaching brigade with him, because the current batch of students of the teaching brigade is about to reach the time when they need to practice in the next company, and this kind of task of assisting the Taiyue District in counter-sweeping is the most suitable for training cadet soldiers and newly recruited soldiers.

Picking and choosing, Yang Stick decided to leave the first battalion and the special training camp behind, and only took the second and third battalions plus the cavalry company and artillery company to help, and now he is not the Yang stick in Niangzi Shencun who blocked the Suzuki detachment with iron mines and district squads, you look at the big guys carried by the cavalry company and the artillery company, it is not false to say that Yang Stick is a shotgun for artillery!

Counting the infantry guns captured before, there is no problem for Yang Bangzi to build an artillery battalion by himself, the problem is that there are no cannons, artillery shells are rare, pointing to Zhou Donggua's military camp town repair office to make shells, and a few shells can not be made in a month, so Yang Bangzi handed over most of the captured Type 92 infantry guns to the military region, and he left two.

Two infantry guns were left, which is enough in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and it is said that the most capable troops are in the first division, and now the whole military region knows that there is a roaring army under Yang Bangzi of the 11th Division of Ludao, and they all use horse-drawn artillery!

In fact, it was Yang Bangzi who deliberately asked the cavalry company to exert his strength to help pull the infantry cannon for the artillery company, which made the people look so energetic!

The battalion headquarters of the second battalion was stationed in Daliushu Village, one company was in Gushan, and the other company was in Xiaodian Village.

Since the last battle of Daying and Gushan, the Japanese army has not sent troops above the squadron level again for a long time to restore the strongholds on this highway line, but has sent heavy troops to escort car teams or large convoys to transport supplies between Lingqiu and Fanzhi.

To see from the map, from Lingqiu to Fanzhi and then to Dai County, Yangmingbao this line, it is just a gentle valley between two large mountains, this valley of hundreds of miles separates the Hengshan Mountain Range and the Wutai Mountain Range, the northeast corner of the valley is Lingqiu County, and the southwest corner is Dai County.

The highway line was built in this valley, from Lingqiu west to Wangzhuangbao Town, then turned to Daying Town in the southwest district, and followed the Hutuo River through Jinshanpu and Jiyizhuang to Fanzhi County.

There is also an auxiliary road from Lingqiu to Gushan through Pingxingguan and then to Daying, this road is basically abandoned by the devils now, because the guerrilla area close to the Eighth Road is mostly hilly and ravine, which is not safe.

It can be said that the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region sent Yang Bangzi here to let him break the blockade of this highway line by the devils, so that the two regions of Beiyue and Taiyue will not be strategically separated.

However, Okamura Ningji has a very good eye, and has long ordered the First Army stationed in Taiyuan to be sure to take a good look at this highway route from Lingqiu to Daixian before the start of the sweep! (To be continued......)