At the same time, in the mouth of the pig.

Li Yunlong stretched out his hand to stop the stretcher.

Zhang Dabiao, who was lying on the stretcher, struggled to sit up.

"Oh, don't move." Li Yunlong hurriedly stopped, "Da Biao, what can you do?" ”

Zhang Dabiao smiled bitterly at Li Yunlong and said, "Commander, I have disgraced the three detachments. ”

"Nonsense, what shame are you disgraced?" Li Yunlong scolded, "You have given Lao Tzu a big face this time." ”

Speaking of this, Li Yunlong said again: "When you go to the field hospital to recuperate, when you are healed from your injuries, and you have fought the battle, I estimate that this counter-sweep will not be over for a while and a half." ”

Zhang Dabiao said with a smile: "Commander, there are sweet potatoes to burn." ”

"Yes, yes." Li Yunlong smiled, "Lao Tzu remembers." ”

While speaking, Li Yunlong put his poncho on Zhang Dabiao's body, and told the two militiamen carrying the stretcher to be careful on the road and not to fall.

Seeing Zhang Dabiao being carried away, Li Yunlong looked up at the night sky above his head again.

I saw thicker and thicker rain falling from the sky, and it became denser and denser.

"Oh my God." Li Yunlong said with a dark face, "It's raining at this time. ”

Ge Erdan also said: "Yes, it rarely rains in the northwest of Jin at this time in previous years. ”

While he was talking, Ding Wei came over wearing a hat, and his face didn't look very good.

"Lao Ding, what's wrong with you?" Li Yunlong smiled and quipped, "Who owes you five hundred oceans?" ”

Ding Wei asked a little depressedly: "Lao Li, how many casualties did your three detachments suffer in this battle of killing pigs?" ”

"You speak first." Li Yunlong was so cunning that he kicked the ball back to Ding Wei and asked rhetorically, "How many casualties did your team have this time?" ”

"Don't mention it, the casualties are big this time."

Ding Wei said with some distress: "The three regiments have reduced their strength by more than 2,000 combined!" ”

"Our three detachments are about the same." Li Yunlong sighed and said, "The entire detachment counts the lightly wounded, and there are less than 4,000 fighters left. ”

"This can make Lao Kong pick up a big bargain."

Ding Wei said depressedly: "Now there are two strong soldiers." ”

In the Battle of Killing Pigs, the first and third detachments suffered heavy casualties, and the total number of people lost more than 5,000 people, of which nearly 3,000 were killed or seriously wounded.

However, the second detachment suffered almost no casualties.

"Who's to say it's not." Li Yunlong also said depressedly, "In the future, I can only watch Lao Kong kill the Quartet." ”

As the two were talking, Xing Zhiguo, who was also the logistics minister of the column, hurriedly came over, and asked from afar: "Lao Li, Lao Ding, has the battlefield been cleaned?" ”

Li Yunlong said: "I've already finished cleaning, just waiting for you to come." ”

"Finished cleaning?" Xing Zhiguo was overjoyed and said, "What about the weapons, ammunition and war materials you have seized?" ”

"It's all at the foot of the mountain and on the side of the road." Li Yunlong said, "The captured weapons and equipment are not old or young, but there are almost no intact ones, and even the 38 covers have been smashed. ”

"It is estimated that it can only be moved back to the arsenal and dismantled as parts."

Ding Wei continued: "The captured war materials are even more scarce. ”

Li Yunlong said: "The devils of the 28th Division are indeed fierce, and they destroyed all the materials before they died. ”

"Damn it, these little devils are really not things." Xing Zhiguo was immediately so angry that he scolded, "So, didn't our column make a loss-making deal in the Battle of Killing Pigs?" ”

"Then it depends on how you count it." Li Yunlong said.

Ding Wei also said: "Just looking at the seizure, it must be a loss." ”

Li Yunlong said: "But if we completely annihilate a veteran division of the Japanese army and kill more than 15,000 devil elites, then our column will earn it, and it will be earned by blood." ”

"My goodness." Xing Zhiguo was speechless.

"More than 15,000 devils were killed?"

"Well, all killed." Li Yunlong and Ding Wei nodded vigorously at the same time.

"There are devils who want to disarm and surrender, but can we make them surrender? No, you can't! The devils who have been to Nanjing have to die, and none of them can stay! ”

While the three of them were talking, the rain became heavier.

Li Yunlong wiped the rain from his face, and said to Xing Zhiguo: "Old Xing, I asked Shen Quan to stay to protect you, but you are a little sloppy." ”

"Got it." Xing Zhiguo nodded in response.

"As soon as my side is finished, let Shen Quan return to the team as soon as possible."

Li Yunlong and Ding Wei gathered troops to chase the brigade commander.

The brigade commander had already arrived in Yunqi Town at this time.

……

The brigade commander had even finished inspecting the positions outside Yunqi Town.

"Xiao Wang, your groundhog tactics are very interesting."

The brigade commander became interested in this tactic invented by Wang Ye.

This tactic is the same as tunnel warfare, although it uses tunnels, but the combat methods are very different.

Tunnel warfare takes advantage of the hidden nature of tunnels, so all exits must be hidden as much as possible, at least not so that the Japanese army can easily find out.

The groundhog tactic uses the underground traffic attribute of the tunnel, that is, the use of the tunnel to achieve the intention of quickly transferring personnel and firepower, and because the tunnel is hidden underground, the whole transfer process is very safe, and there is no need to worry about being killed by the direct fire and curved fire of the Japanese army on the way.

After a pause, the brigade commander said again: "With this groundhog tactic of yours, supplemented by the tunnels in our base area, you can make it difficult for the devil's sweeping troops to move an inch." ”

Wang Ye shook his head and said: "Brigade commander, this groundhog tactic actually has weaknesses, and it is barely useful against a mountain division that is only equipped with 75 mountain artillery, but if it encounters a heavy division like the 1st Division, it is useless, and the heavy artillery group of the 1st Division only needs a wave of artillery bombardment to collapse our tunnels." ”

"Oh yes." The brigade commander nodded abruptly and said, "The tunnels here are a little shallow. ”

After a pause, the brigade commander said again: "But this is easy to do, let's dig the tunnel deeper." ”

"You can't dig deep into the tunnels." Wang Ye shook his head and said, "The tunnel is deep, and after the transfer of personnel and firepower, it will take a long time to return to the ground, and the combat efficiency will be low." ”

"Yes." The brigade commander said with some regret, "There really isn't a strategy that has the best of both worlds." ”

Wang Ye continued: "Another weakness of the marmot tactics has also been discovered by the Japanese army, and even the Japanese army has already thought of a way to crack it, if it weren't for the fact that the 28th Division was completely annihilated by our column, the two mountain divisions on this side of Yunqi Town were worried that they would repeat the mistakes of the past and retreated, which would definitely have us fallen into a bitter battle." ”

"Another weakness?" The brigade commander asked, "What are the weaknesses?" ”

"Dirtwork." Wang Ye said, "The Japanese army can easily advance to us in the way of earthwork, and supplemented by the strong firepower advantage of the Japanese army, we can't stop it at all." ”

"It really is." The brigade commander said with some disappointment.

"In this case, the groundhog tactic can only be rushed."

Wang Ye nodded and said, "If it's just an emergency, it's still quite effective." ”

While the two were talking, Li Xia hurried over with a stack of telegrams.

"Commander." Li Xia stood up and said, "This is the casualty statistics sent by various detachments and divisions. ”

Before leaving the pig-killing mouth, the brigade commander instructed Li Yunlong and Ding Wei to pay close attention to the statistics of the casualties of the troops, and at the same time issued an order to each military sub-district to let each military sub-district also count the casualties.

How many casualties have the troops already had? How many fighters are left?

This will directly determine what tactics the Northwest Column will adopt next.

At this time, the casualty figures of the various detachments and military divisions were finally reported.

After reading the telegrams of the various detachments and military divisions, the brigade commander's face immediately fell.

Wang Ye immediately received the telegram from the brigade commander, and saw that the first detachment, the third detachment, and the guard regiment commanded by Kong Jie had lost more than 6,000 troops in total, and more than 3,000 were seriously wounded and killed.

This accounted for almost one-third of the fighters of the Northwest Column of Jin.

This casualty figure is still very huge, and it is bound to seriously affect the next anti-sweeping operations.

Not to mention anything else, if you want to organize a battle like the Battle of Killing Pigs, it is absolutely impossible to seize the opportunity to annihilate a division of the Japanese army, and you don't have this strength.

Originally, the attrition of the main forces was too serious and could be replenished from local troops.

But the problem now is that the attrition of the local troops is also very serious, and the 1st Division has struck the 1st Division in the Wild Boar Gully Fortress, with 3,000 people in the two regiments, and more than half of the casualties have been killed and wounded so far!

The 2nd Division was fine at the Pig's Mouth Fortress, with only about 500 people reduced.

Although the three divisions participated in the battle a little later, they fought against the Japanese army at the same time in the three battlefields of Yelangyu, Yunqi Town, and Tiandagang, especially the Tiandagang battlefield was the most cruel.

All in all, the three military subdivisions together have lost more than 4,000 personnel.

That is to say, the regular army and local armed forces have lost more than 10,000 people!

This is absolutely a nerve-wracking blow for the entire Northwest Shanxi Column and the Northwest Shanxi Base Area.

"It seems that the situation is more serious than we expected." The brigade commander breathed a sigh of relief, and asked Wang Yedao again, "Xiao Wang, how are the people transferred?" When will the river crossing be completed? ”

Wang Ye did not answer immediately, but walked out of the ancestral hall and came to the bottom of the sky.

The brigade commander also came out and found that the rain was heavier, it was still drizzling just now, and it would have become a heavy rain.

"Brigadier Commander, this rain is evil." Wang Ye said, "At this time in previous years, it was sunny in the northwest of Shanxi, but this year, it actually rained heavily. ”

The brigade commander's expression froze slightly, and he said, "Xiao Wang, are you worried about the rising water of the Yellow River?" ”

Wang Ye nodded, and said: "If this rain only falls in the northwest of Shanxi, then there is no problem, but if the entire Hetao and even the upper reaches of the Yellow River are affected, then the trouble will be big, and the Yellow River will definitely be flooded at that time, and the entire river crossing work will be forced to stop." ”

The brigade commander was anxious when he heard this, and said to Li Xia: "Li Xia, immediately send a telegram to the headquarters, and ask the headquarters to find a way to investigate whether there is heavy rain in the Hetao area and the upper reaches of the Yellow River?" ”

"Report our attrition numbers as well."

"Yes." Li Xia agreed and left in a hurry.

……

Liao County, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

At seven o'clock in the morning, it was already bright in the usual daylight.

But today it was still dark because of the rain.

The division commander stretched out his hand to pick up the rain dripping from the eaves, and said, "This rain is really evil, it doesn't seem to have stopped since two o'clock last night, right?" And it's getting bigger and bigger. ”

"That should be a good thing for us, right?"

The deputy chief of the General Staff said: "The heavy rain will definitely have an impact on the Japanese offensive. ”

"I don't think so." The division commander shook his head and said, "If the water level of the Yellow River rises due to heavy rain for several days, it will inevitably affect the transfer of the people in the base area in the northwest of Shanxi. ”

"Yes, really." The deputy chief of the general staff said, "I'll send a telegram to ask." ”

At that moment, the deputy chief of the general staff hurriedly returned to the telecommunications section and sent telegrams to the Yan'an and Jinsui Military Regions, asking if it had also rained heavily last night in northern Shaanxi, Hexi, and Hetao.

The reply came quickly, and the situation was worse than expected.

"Boss, division commander." "It has been raining heavily in Hexi for three days, and it has been raining in Hetao for almost two days, and the water level of the Yellow River near Wuyuan has risen significantly," said the deputy chief of the general staff. ”

"Oops." The division commander said in a deep voice, "Now the common people will definitely not be able to cross the river." ”

As he spoke, a telegraph soldier came in with another telegram and handed it to the deputy chief of the general staff.

After reading it, the deputy chief of general staff said: "Boss, the Northwest Column of Shanxi Province is also aware of this problem, and specially sent a telegram asking us to investigate the weather conditions in the Hetao and the upper reaches of the Yellow River. ”

After a pause, he said, "In addition, the attrition situation was also reported." ”

Hearing the word downsizing, the eyes of the boss and the division commander immediately looked over.

The boss asked urgently: "How much is the attrition?" How many fighters were left in the Northwest Column of Jin? ”

The deputy chief of general staff said: "The regular army has lost more than 6,000 troops, the local armed forces have lost more than 4,000 personnel, and the entire Shanxi Northwest Military Region has lost more than 10,000 people. ”

The boss and the division commander sighed at the same time when they heard this.

After a pause, the boss said: "There has never been a good thing in this world that only takes advantage of the advantages and does not suffer losses, although the Northwest Column of Jin Province ate a division of the Japanese army, but in order to eat this elite division, it also paid a heavy price, which is bound to have a serious impact on the next battle." ”

The division commander said: "The most worrying thing is this heavy rain. ”

After a pause, the division commander said worriedly: "If this rain does not stop, the people in the northwest of Shanxi will not be able to cross the river for a day, and the local armed forces of the northwest column and the military region of the northwest of Shanxi will not be able to evacuate for a day." ”

"yes." The boss was equally worried, "There has to be a bad fight." ”

The deputy chief of the general staff also sighed: "Heaven is not beautiful!" ”

……

In Beiping, No. 11 Iron Lion Hutong.

There are several operational staff officers from the staff department with Sue Seizan who have just finished the war game deduction.

Hearing that the battle hall was quiet, Okamura Ninji, who was close his eyes and recuperate, immediately opened his eyes and cast an inquiring glance at Seizo Arisue.

Yusue Jingsan sighed lightly and said, "Your Excellency, the results of the deduction are out. ”

"How?" Okamura Ninji asked, "How long will it take to break through the defense line of Tiandagang and Yunqi Town?" ”

Yousue Jingsan hesitated for three seconds, and finally said head-on: "It will take at least half a month, and it will take half a month to break through the defense line!" ”

"What? Half a month? ”

Okamura Ninji was furious when he heard this: "Half a month later, the 1st Division has already broken through the Wild Boar Gully Fortress!" ”

"Yes." There was a bitter expression on the end of the essence of the three said, "At least judging from the results of the war games, the time for the two clusters in the north and south to break through the defense line of Tiandagang and Yunqi Town is about the same as the time for the 1st Division to break through the defense line of Wild Boar Gully. ”

Okamura Ninji said with a dark face: "This means that our sheep herding strategy has gone bankrupt?" ”

"Yes, it must be admitted that the sheep herding strategy is bankrupt." There is a little helplessness in the end of the essence.

After a pause, there was a sue Jingsan and said: "With the current situation, it is impossible to use the people of the China in the northwest bandit area of Jin to drag and coerce the main force of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army. ”

"And once the people are gone, the 386th Brigade's tactical options will be greatly increased."

"At that time, if the battle situation is unfavorable, the 386th Brigade will most likely break through into pieces and break out separately, just like the breakthrough they did from the Taihang bandit area two years ago."

Hearing this, Sanji Ojo couldn't help but say, "Why don't you close the iron wall?" Our troops on the outskirts of the bandit area in the northwest of Shanxi Province are fully eight divisions and regiments, and we still can't surround them? ”

Yusue Seizan said: "Of course, the iron wall can be encircled, but it may not be able to be encircled. ”

Okamura Ninji waved his hand and said: "There is a late monarch, it is not that it may not be able to be surrounded, but it must not be encircled, two years ago, the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army did not have a strong penetration capability, and the imperial army still could not surround them, and now the 386th Brigade has such a strong penetration capability, how can the imperial army still surround them?" ”

While the three old devils were talking, a communications staff officer walked in.

Seizan received the telegram from the hands of the communications staff officer, and after reading the telegram, he reported: "Your Excellency, because of a heavy rainstorm in the northwest of Shanxi in the early hours of this morning, the roads were muddy, so the 110th Division could not reach the pig-killing mouth according to the plan, at least until tomorrow morning. ”

"Since it's because of the heavy rain, then don't blame them."

Okamura Ninji waved his hand and said, then his eyes lit up and he said urgently: "There is a last gentleman, there is a heavy rainstorm in the northwest of Jin?" ”

"The telegram from the 110th Division said that there had been a heavy rainstorm." Seizo Yusue glanced down at the telegram again, and then reacted immediately, and said excitedly, "Your Excellency the general said that the torrential rain caused the river to rise?" ”

"Maybe, what if?" Okamura Ninji said, "Immediately let the special high school find out the weather in the northwest of Jin. ”

This is actually very easy to check, because the Japanese army has garrisons in various parts of Jin Province and Sui Province, and there are also a large number of Japanese spies lurking in Hetao and Hexi, so the results of the investigation were quickly summarized in Beiping.

Seeing the information, Youmo Jing was overjoyed for three moments, and said: "Your Excellency, the Hetao area and the upper reaches of the Yellow River have been raining heavily for several days, and the water level of the Yellow River near Wuyuan is rising sharply. ”

"Great." Okamura Ninji was also overjoyed when he heard this.

"This is really God Helping the Empire, God Helping the Imperial Army."

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