Pinghan Railway Hebei Middle Section.

An armored train stopped on the tracks like that.

This directly led to the interruption of transportation on the Pinghan Railway.

Who has this privilege in North China? Only the commander of the North China Front, Okamura Ninji.

At this time, Okamura Ninji is looking at the villages on both sides of the railway through the high-powered telescope on the train, which is a 60-power telescope that can clearly see more than ten kilometers away.

You can even see the expressions on the faces of the farmers in the fields.

At Okamura's side was the deputy chief of staff of the North China Front.

Seizo also looked through a high-powered telescope to observe the villages on both sides.

"There's the end of it." Okamura Ninji said while observing, "Do you think Miyano-kun's blockhouse encirclement tactics can play a role in central Hebei and even in the southern Hebei bandit area?" ”

"Yes." There is a way to do it without thinking.

"In the central Hebei bandit area and the southern Hebei bandit area, it will definitely be able to play a role."

After a pause, he said: "On the contrary, in the Fuliang Mountain bandit area, it may not be able to play a role." ”

"Oh?" Okamura Ninji straightened up from behind the telescope and looked at Arisei Sando with a little surprise, "You're not optimistic about Miyano-kun's D battle plan?" ”

"Yes." There are three ways of the end essence, "I'm not optimistic." ”

Okamura Ninji frowned slightly and asked, "Why aren't you optimistic?" ”

"The reason is simple." Seizo said, "Miyano-kun is too greedy. ”

"Too greedy?" Okamura Ninji said, "You mean, Miyano-kun's stall is too big?" ”

"Yes, the stall is too big." Yusue Seizan nodded and said, "Until now, the strength of the Second Guards Division has not been fully replenished, and the establishment of 20,000 people is actually only 16,000. ”

"But Miyano-kun still allocated 10,000 troops for the blockade."

"Blockade is blockade, and the forces are scattered to 2,000 pillboxes."

"On average, there are only five imperial soldiers in each bunker, which is too thin."

"Even with the assistance of the Imperial Army, it is still vulnerable to attack."

"If it's just a sporadic attack, it's nothing, if you're afraid of an organized large-scale attack, then the 2nd Guards Division will be in big trouble!"

Okamura Ninji's face fell.

Looking at the eyes of the last Seizan there was a hint of reproach.

Yousue Jingsan hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, General, you blame me, I just thought of this. ”

Okamura Ninji's face looked a little better, and he asked again, "So, do you have a way to improve?" ”

"Yes." Yusue Seizan nodded and said, "It's to upgrade the bunker ring trench tactic to the grid bunker ring trench tactic, so that there will be no flaws anymore." ”

"Grid bunker entrenchment tactics?"

Okamura Ninji said: "There is Sue-kun, you can talk about it specifically." ”

"Hello." "As the name suggests, the grid bunker envelope tactic only adds three more words, but the entire bandit area is divided into several grids. ”

"Let's still take the Fuliang Mountain bandit area as an example."

"If the tactic of bunkering and entrenchment is implemented in the entire Fuliang Mountain bandit area, then the garrison force on each blockade ditch and each deep trench around the village will be extremely empty, and it will be easy to be attacked."

"But if you divide the entire Fuliang Mountain Bandit District into nine grids."

"Then ignore the other eight squares and block one of them."

"Then the garrison of the blockade ditch and the deep trench around the village can be strengthened to nine times!"

"Wait." Okamura Ninji interrupted, "If you only block one of the grids regardless of the other eight grids, how can you guarantee that you can catch the Eighth Route Army?" ”

"Your Excellency, there is no need to guarantee."

There are three ways to go: "Because our target is only the people of the bandit area!" The Eighth Route Army can be transferred in time, but the people of China in this grid cannot be transferred, they will only stay in their own villages, and then the imperial army can concentrate its absolute superiority to break into the tunnel and kill them all! ”

"Wait until all the people in the bandit area are completely gone,"

"The Eighth Route Army in the bandit area has become a tree without roots."

"Yo Si." Okamura Ninji nodded happily and said, "This is good!" ”

"Of course, in order to divide and disintegrate the people in the bandit area, it is necessary to add the Huairou policy in the specific implementation process." Yousue Seizan smiled slightly, and said, "This is also highly respected by His Excellency the General." ”

"Yo Si." Okamura Ninji said happily, "Of course Huairou is necessary. ”

At this moment, Okamura Ninji's mood is undoubtedly quite good.

But soon, Okamura's mood fell from the clouds to the bottom.

Because the signal corpsmen sent him a telegram, a telegram from the 2nd Guards Division.

After reading the telegram, Okamura Ninji was not well, and he was trembling with anger.

"Your Excellency, General." Seizo asked, "Whose telegram is this?" What's wrong? ”

"There's the end of the king, so you are right." Okamura Ninji sighed lightly, handed the telegram to Seizo Arise, and said, "Last night, the bunkers of more than 100 villages in the Fuliang Mountain bandit area were destroyed, and more than 3,000 imperial soldiers and more than 5,000 imperial troops were annihilated by the Eighth Route Army, this is an organized and premeditated large-scale operation!" ”

"My worst fears have happened." There is a sigh.

Okamura Ningji said again: "Even the observation group was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, and the collective jade was shattered!" ”

"Nani? Something happened to the observation group? Seizo had a look of surprise on his face.

After a pause, he immediately said: "Your Excellency, General, since the battle situation has deteriorated to this extent, there is no need to continue the sweep against the Fuliang Mountain bandit area, and order the war to be stopped." ”

"There's no hurry." Okamura Ninji said with a wave of his hand.

"I'd like to give Miyano one last chance."

"Your Excellency, General." There are three ways of the end essence, "Chicken ribs!" ”

Okamura Ninji said: "There is Sue-kun, didn't you mention the grid bunker ring trench tactic just now?" In any case, a grid still has to be flattened, and we have paid such a big price, we can't have nothing to gain at all. ”

"Haiyi, Your Excellency the General." Yusue Seizan didn't say anything more.

……

Almost at the same time, somewhere near Zhaojiayu.

Li Yunlong took Zhuang Yan and Niu Dazhuang and hid in a bud valley to observe the blockade ditch.

Two kilometers away from them is the devil's fifth blockade ditch, with the help of military binoculars, you can clearly see that the devil's puppet army is withdrawing from the blockade ditch along the blockade, and before leaving, the pillbox was blown up.

However, the devil puppet army did not completely evacuate, but concentrated in a stronghold a little farther away.

Originally, the interval between the pillboxes along the blockade ditch was 500 meters, but now after shrinking to each stronghold, the distance between the strongholds has reached 5 kilometers or even more.

"Damn, why did the devil shrink suddenly?"

Li Yunlong frowned and said, "It's difficult now." ”

At least ten puppet armies of devils in the bunkers shrank into a single stronghold.

Then there is at least one squad of devils in this stronghold, plus a company of puppet troops.

Moreover, the fortifications of the strongholds are not comparable to the simple pillboxes along the blockade ditch, each stronghold not only has turrets and light and dark bunkers, but even has barbed wire on the perimeter.

There are also fortifications that have been built in advance.

The difficulty of storming bunkers and strongholds can be said to be worlds apart.

Even if the independent regiment had enough troops, a storming of the stronghold would have cost heavy casualties.

The problem is that the capital of the independent regiment is too small, and Li Yunlong is unwilling to do this kind of loss-making business.

"Commander, what do you think this is?" Zhuang Yan handed a handful of lantern fruits to Li Yunlong as if offering a treasure, and said with a smile, "Lantern fruits, ripe, but sweet." ”

"Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat."

Li Yunlong was in a bad mood, so he habitually began to scold, but this time it was Zhuang Yan who was unlucky.

Niu Dazhuang next to him immediately grinned, and said in his heart, knowing that the head of the regiment was still dangling in front of him in a bad mood, didn't you mean to scold?

As a result, Li Yunlong looked like he had a rearview eye.

He turned his head and scolded Niu Dazhuang: "And you, what are you stupid about?" ”

Niu Dazhuang's face fell, and his heart said that I am already so far away from you, why do you still scold me?

Zhuang Yan and Niu Dazhuang didn't dare to reply, and Li Yunlong scolded a few words and felt bored, so he stopped scolding.

Sighing, Li Yunlong said: "It seems that there is no other way, but to ask Lao Ding and Lao Kong for help, who let our own artillery stay in the fortress." ”

……

Wohu Mountain Base, Yuanao Town.

Recently, the cadres and fighters of the new 1st and 2nd regiments have been busy like dogs.

Busy with what? In a rush to harvest the autumn grain, the canal was opened at the beginning of this year, and the water of the Yellow River was introduced into the Jiugong Mountain and the Wohu Mountain area, resulting in a large-scale harvest of summer and autumn grain this year.

Especially the autumn grain, in the words of the local old farmers, has never encountered such a good year after living for a lifetime.

How good is the grain harvest? The average yield per mu of coarse grains such as sweet potatoes and buds is as high as 500 catties, and almost every household has received more than 3,000 catties of coarse grains!

There are also 300 catties of fine grains such as millet and spring wheat.

According to statistics, there are about 120,000 people in 30,000 households in the Wohu Mountain base area, and a total of more than 70 million catties of autumn grain have been collected, and the per capita income of autumn grain is close to 600 catties!

The base area of Jiugong Mountain is larger, the population is larger, and the autumn grain is directly hundreds of millions of catties.

The autumn grain harvest in the two major base areas and the public grain paid to the anti-Japanese democratic government are also huge figures.

According to the tiered tax rate set by the anti-Japanese democratic government, households receiving more than 1,500 catties of grain are paid 5 percent of the grain.

In other words, the new second regiment collected 4 million catties of public grain alone.

What is the probability of four million catties, according to the quota of two catties a day of the Eighth Route Army, it can feed 10,000 people for more than half a year, anyway, it is impossible for the new second regiment to eat it all.

So now, in addition to paying attention to the battle situation on the side of Fuliang Mountain, Kong Jie is most concerned about the collection and storage of public grain.

Seeing Guan Dashan rushing in, Kong Jie asked: "Lao Guan, have all the public grain in all districts and townships been collected?" ”

"Commander, don't worry." Guan Dashan patted his chest and said, "Nearly four million catties of public grain have been collected, and the fathers and villagers should not be too active in paying the public grain." ”

Kong Jie said: "Then you have to hide the grain." ”

"Of course." Guan Dashan said, "It is stored in the deepest part of the tunnel of the Crouching Tiger Mountain Fortress. ”

"That's good." Kong Jie lit a pot of cigarettes for himself and said with emotion, "Hey, since our Eighth Route Army came to Shanxi, we have been hungry and full, but we don't have to be hungry this year." ”

"You don't have to go hungry." Guan Dashan said excitedly.

"You can also raise a lot of pigs, and you will be able to eat pork next year."

"That's not good, feeding the pigs with grain will be thundered by the sky." Kong Jie scolded, "How many brother troops are still hungry, let's just say let's go to the northwest, the Fuliang Mountain base area has been swept by devils, this year's autumn grain must be in arrears, and there will definitely be a large-scale famine next, we have to take out the excess grain to help the Fuliang Mountain base area." ”

"Huh?" Guan Dashan said, "Regiment Commander, are you going to give food to the Independent Regiment for nothing?" ”

"Or else? What else do you want. Kong Jie said, "The situation of the independent regiment this year will definitely be very bad, at this time we can help, we must help, a little food is nothing." ”

Guan Dashan said: "Commander, this is not a little food. ”

"A few million catties of grain are nothing." Kong Jie said with a glare.

As soon as the words fell, a familiar voice suddenly sounded outside the door: "Lao Kong, your boy's tone is rising?" Millions of catties of grain are not in sight. ”

With the sound of talking, a familiar figure walked into the headquarters of the new second regiment.

"Lao Cao?!" Kong Jie's face showed a look of astonishment, "Why are you here?" ”

Those who dared to come in were Cao Sanlian, the commander of the 386th Brigade Artillery Regiment, and an old comrade-in-arms of the Fourth Front Army.

Cao Sanlian gave Kong Jie a strong bear hug, and said: "It's not just me who came this time, I also brought three 92 infantry artillery companies!" ”

"Three ninety-two infantry artillery companies?"

Kong Jie's face showed a look of ecstasy.

Why couldn't the New 1st Regiment and the 2nd New Regiment cross the Tongpu Road, and could only watch as the 2nd Guards Division launched a large-scale sweep of the Fuliangshan Base Area? It's because they lack artillery!

If there are artillery, the Tongpu road blockade is a sieve for them!

At that moment, Kong Jie rushed out of the regiment headquarters, looked up, and sure enough, he saw a group of mules and horses coming.

Roughly counted, there were at least more than 100 mules and horses, 12 92 infantry guns, and then artillery shells, and Cao Sanlian also brought 1,000 shells!

Kong Jie said excitedly: "Lao Cao, the brigade commander asked you to come?" ”

"Nonsense." Cao Sanlian said angrily, "Without the brigade commander's order, can I come to your northwest of Jin?" ”

After a pause, he said: "The brigade commander is actually worried about the independent regiment, although the independent regiment has never complained in the telegram, but the brigade commander knows the virtue of Li Yunlong, and it will be too late when he complains, so I asked me to bring three 92 infantry artillery companies to support you." ”

"Lao Cao, you came just too timely."

Kong Jie said: "I have already made an appointment with Lao Ding, and I am about to storm Tongpu Road, and now with your artillery support, there will be no problem." ”

"Lao Ding?" Cao Sanlian said, "When will he come over?" ”

"It should be these two days." As soon as Kong Jie's voice fell, Ding Wei's voice sounded outside.

"Old Kong? Old Kong, you come out. Dingkong shouted, "What's going on outside?" Where did so many mules and horses come from? And what on horseback? Why do I look like a 92 infantry gun? ”

"Lao Ding, your dog's eyes are still so sharp, so far away for you to see."

Cao Sanlian took the lead in welcoming out the door, and Ding Wei was also overjoyed when he saw it: "Old Cao, it's really you?!" ”

At that moment, the two hugged each other again, Cao Sanlian told the reason, and Ding Wei was also very excited: "It's okay now, a few of our old comrades-in-arms can do a big job again!" ”

Kong Jie said: "Lao Ding, since you have also arrived, then hurry up and report to Lao Li." ”

"Debriefing?" Cao Sanlian was stunned and said, "Report to Li Yunlong?" What's going on with the two of you? ”

Kong Jie didn't feel embarrassed, and said: "Lao Cao, that's the case, there was an agreement between us, whoever the devil swept the base area, the other two regiments had to listen to whose full command. ”

Ding Wei said: "Isn't this devil sweeping Fuliang Mountain now?" ”

Kong Jie said: "So the two of us have to listen to Li Yunlong's full command." ”

"I see." Cao Sanlian smiled, "Otherwise, you all can listen to my command, and let our old Cao pass the addiction of the brigade commander, what's the matter?" ”

"Just you?" Kong Jie said, "Can you have this life?" ”

"Damn, Lao Kong, don't look down on people on your dog days."

Cao Sanlian said angrily, "Sooner or later, one day, Lao Tzu will have to be the commander-in-chief of the artillery group army, and when the time comes, Lao Tzu will only provide artillery support to Lao Ding and Lao Li, and you will be angry to death." ”

Ding Wei and Kong Jie laughed when they heard this, and they only listened to it as a joke.

While speaking, a telegraph soldier hurriedly walked over and saluted Kong Jie and reported: "Regiment commander, the independent regiment is in a hurry." ”

"Yes, when Cao Cao Cao arrived, it must be Li Yunlong's order to arrive." Kong Jie took the telegram and said, "It's been almost two months, and this kid is finally willing to give up his old face and ask us for help." ”

But after reading the telegram, Kong Jie's brows furrowed suddenly.

"Lao Kong, what's wrong?" Ding Wei said in a deep voice, "Is there any problem?" ”

Kong Jie said: "Lao Li didn't let us send the main force, only asked us to send all the infantry guns and mortars over, saying that he borrowed them from the two of us temporarily, and he must return them when he runs out." ”

"Borrowed guns?" Ding Wei said, "Why did Lao Li suddenly remember to borrow a gun? ”

"Could it be that Lao Li plans to counterattack?" Kong Jie said, "But that's not right, the main force of the Independent Regiment is in the Fuliang Mountain Fortress, and now the entire fortress is surrounded by the Second Guards Division, even if we send the artillery to the Fuliang Mountain base area, we can't enter the Fuliang Mountain Fortress, what use can it be?" Deliver food to the devil? ”

Ding Wei said: "Lao Kong, you ask him, what is the use of borrowing guns?" ”

After a pause, he added, "If he doesn't make it clear, he won't borrow it." ”

Kong Jie immediately instructed the telegraph soldier: "Reply to him like this." ”

The reply from the independent group came over quickly, and after reading the reply, Kong Jie was stupid, how could this be?

Seeing Kong Jie like this, Ding Wei snatched the telegram with his hand, and after reading it, he was also stunned, damn, Lao Tzu took care of the independent regiment for two months in vain, but the independent regiment had no.

Not only is there no, but the situation is very good.

This sweep of the 2nd Guards Division became a joke.

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