There were more than 1,000 troops in the independent regiment when it was divided, and all of them were scattered in an area of several hundred miles and were in a state of independent operation.

Its task was to assist in the establishment of the anti-Japanese regime at the grassroots level and to develop and strengthen the ranks.

Each company or even each platoon has become an independent unit, and if you have that ability, you can expand a company into a regiment.

But you still have to call a company, as for equipment, ammunition, clothing, provisions, sorry, there is nothing on it, you yourself go and take it from the enemy.

Well done, you eat meat every day, celebrate the New Year every day, do not do well, and even want to drink soup.

Li Yunlong himself is not very clear about the number of independent regiments now, and when the whole regiment was withdrawn, there were more than 1,000 people, and now, according to the most conservative estimates, it will have to be expanded to include two cadres and more than one person.

Li Yunlong dispatched all the correspondents and ordered all battalions, companies, and platoons to quickly return to the building and have important combat tasks.

Xing Zhiguo, deputy head of the regiment, asked: "Regiment commander, what are the troops doing when they are assembled?"

Li Yunlong said impatiently: "What else can you do?"

"Hit the county seat. ”

Xing Zhiguo was taken aback: "This is a big deal, should I ask my superiors for instructions?"

"It's too late, the division headquarters is hundreds of kilometers away from us, and when we come back, the cucumbers and vegetables are cold. ”

"Commander, this is too hasty. How many troops do we have in our hands? Are there enough ammunition? Do we have any heavy weapons for attacking fortifications? What should we do with the devil's reinforcements? We don't know the bottom of our hearts, and no matter what happens, we must at least ask the main forces of several neighboring counties to cooperate. ”

"Meet, the battle plan is already there, we don't have the right to transfer the main forces of friendly neighbors, it's okay to notify it, just say that our independent regiment is going to the county seat to eat meat and drink wine, whoever wants to look at it will do it together, if there is something I eat, he will eat, if you don't dare to come, forget it, let's not be afraid to hold on, we will cover it ourselves." Lao Tzu can put as many meters as the pot is, and an independent regiment plus several county brigades, district squadrons, and militia are about the same. Li Yunlong said lightly.

Xing Zhiguo was so anxious that he even sweated out: "Regiment commander, you have to think twice, if we fight, the entire northwest of Shanxi will be in chaos, and the Japanese troops in Fu'an, Shuiquan, Luyang and other counties will be reinforced, the pressure is too great, can we withstand one regiment?"

"What are you afraid of? I am the military commander, I am responsible, even if the superiors want to track me down in the future, I will be shot, you will carry out the order. ”

Two days later, the Independence Regiment was assembled. Even Li Yunlong himself was surprised, it had only been more than two years, and the independent regiment had already developed more than five cadres, and the company commander when he divided the troops two years ago was still quite aggrieved to bear the name of the company commander, and the number of troops under his command was six or seven hundred.

Li Yunlong was so happy that his eyes were gone, and he beat a large group of battalion and company-level cadres on the chest, and said in his mouth:

"Good boy, these fucking days have made a fortune. ”

In the past few years, the various units of the independent regiment have not fought major battles, but small battles have been fought almost every day, and an artillery tower was pulled out in the east and a transport team was ambushed in the west.

The 38 big cover, the 92-type heavy machine gun, the crooked light machine gun, and even a few mountain guns were captured, plus the original mortars, and they were stunned to put together an artillery company.

Li Yunlong has never lived a prosperous life since the day he led the troops, and he was poor and afraid, and he never dreamed that his troops could have such powerful firepower.

He was so happy that he didn't know which leg to take first.

What made him even happier was that the local armed forces in the guerrilla zone of the Independent Regiment, the county brigades, district squads, and the militia of various villages rushed to come as soon as they heard that the Independent Regiment was going to attack the county seat, and there were tens of thousands of people in the group.

This is an opportunity given to Li Yunlong by God, in his previous military career, at best, he had only commanded the strength of one regiment, but now it is different, he can command tens of thousands of people to fight, this is already another level, this is called a large corps operation.

Just as Xing Zhiguo, the deputy head of the regiment, estimated in advance, the entire northwest of Shanxi Province was going to be chaotic.

Everything in the world is full of contingencies. A small Japanese army attacked a small mountain village and captured a rural woman, but this woman was Li Yunlong's wife, and Li Yunlong, who was usually not very peaceful, did not plan to settle down at this time.

It's a bit like an old story about being angry and turning red, and this kind of thing has happened many times in history, and this story is very vulgar.

When the independent regiment wanted to attack the county seat, the local armed forces in the base areas and guerrilla areas it opened up could not sit idly by, so they went on to do it vigorously.

As soon as the Japanese defenders in the county town were attacked, the defenders from all over the country had to come to reinforce them, and several surrounding guerrilla areas had the main force of the Eighth Route Army, the local troops of the Kuomintang Army, and the county brigades, district squads, militias, and other local armed forces.

Although there was no order for coordinated operations between the Eighth Route Army and the Kuomintang Army, the communication capability within the Eighth Route Army was very poor, and the liaison between the main forces and local units was also very poor, and the various units in the surrounding guerrilla areas did not know that there was a Li Yunlong here who was going to attack the county seat.

But as long as the Japanese army comes out of the stronghold in front of him, he can't be allowed to walk happily, can he not take advantage of it?

As a result, all the departments of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi, all the departments of the Kuomintang Army, and the anti-Japanese forces in various regions, including the bandit mountain kings who gathered in the mountains and forests, were all involved, and the northwest of Shanxi was really in chaos.

The Taiyuan defenders sent a wing by train to the northwest of Shanxi for reinforcements, and after walking dozens of kilometers, the train stopped.

When the commander got out of the car, he saw that more than ten kilometers of railroad tracks were gone.

After receiving the reinforcement order, the Japanese troops in Fu'an stepped on the mines one after another and sent sappers to detect the mines, but they were instantly knocked down by the sudden machine-gun fire.

The Japanese commander ordered the attack to advance, and the troops fought while walking, harassing all the way, and walked out less than a few dozen kilometers, and more than half of them had been killed or wounded.

The Japanese reinforcements stationed in Luyang walked in the middle of the ambush, first attacked by a battalion of the Kuomintang army, exchanged fire for an hour, and both sides suffered casualties.

Mine warfare and sparrow warfare are fought in turns, and there are all kinds of weapons on the earth eight roads, such as earth cannons, big poles, bird guns, arquebuses, and firecrackers in iron buckets in the Guangxu year.

The lethality of the earth cannon at close range was not small, and dozens of catties of gunpowder wrapped in a large number of iron sand crushed plowshares erupted in a fan with a bang, and the living targets within thirty or forty meters were either killed or injured.

The wounded of the Japanese were increasing, and the commander ordered a small squad to escort the wounded back to the stronghold.

Whoever wanted to return to the stronghold was attacked by a group of bandits on the way, and all the soldiers of a squad died.

The bandits, who did not treat their prisoners favorably or pursued a humanitarian policy, first robbed the military supplies, stripped the wounded of their clothes, and then slaughtered the wounded one by one, and threw dozens of naked corpses on the road.

At this time, Li Tian, facing Xiuqin, who wanted to go back to find Li Yunlong, stopped people.

"You still live here with peace of mind, if you go back now, it will only make Li Yunlong not know how to end, when the war is over, I will personally send you back." ”

Subsequently, Li Tian also took action.