After the receipt of the goods is completed.

That night, Li Yunlong led a new group to pull out.

The 3rd Column of Taihang and the other three attack groups also set off under the leadership of Ding Wei, Cheng Shifa and Kong Jie.

Li Yunlong asked Wang Dehou to draw the marching routes of the three attack organs on the map with arrows.

It is then reported to Headquarters so that it can keep abreast of the movements of the troops.

At the same time, the 1st Column of Taihang, under the leadership of Brigade Commander Chen, rushed towards the 2nd Guards Division of the Zhengtai Railway.

Today's Chen Geng still holds the title of brigade commander, but he has long been the person in charge of the Taiyue Military Region, and he has already been treated at the division level.

Although Li Yunlong is already a brigade-level treatment, whether it is qualifications or position, he is still a big part of the brigade commander.

The 2nd Column of Taihang was led by the division commander and rushed towards the 37th Division.

The 37th Division of the Japanese Army was the closest to the base area, only a distance of more than 30 kilometers, and at most in one night, the 2nd Column of Taihang would exchange fire with the 37th Division.

At the same time, the troops of the Eighth Route Army in Jinnan were ordered to respond

The boss and the chief of staff are guarding their homes in the base area while coordinating the overall situation.

Li Yunlong commanded at most one column, while the boss and chief of staff commanded a corps.

At present, the main force of the Eighth Route Army is pouring out, but no Japanese troops can threaten the base area, so there is no need to worry about being stolen.

On the contrary, if the three columns fought better outside, the safer the people and headquarters in the base area would be.

The division commander's Taihang 2nd Column and the 1st Column led by the brigade commander marched swaggeringly and did not implement battlefield information blocking.

However, the 3rd Column led by Li Yunlong carried out a battlefield information blocking operation.

Before the main force of the large army set off, the Sword Squadron was already one step ahead.

Battlefield interdiction refers to the temporary "shielding" of the target battlefield by air power or long-range strike forces, blocking the connection between the battlefield and the surrounding combat area, blocking external support, and placing the target area in a relatively isolated environment.

In this way, it will provide better battlefield conditions and help its own side achieve its operational objectives in the region.

Before the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the little devils sent a lot of scouts and spies to infiltrate the base area, and many of them were discovered by the militia and the main force and then captured or killed.

There are also some devil spies who come in and retreat, and these spies do not dare to go deep into the base area, and they must be squatting outside the base area at this time.

Battlefield interdiction is widely used in modern warfare.

However, this combat operation of the Sword Squadron should be called a battlefield information blockade.

Through special operations, the surgical removal of enemy scouts is carried out, cutting off enemy scouts from the command headquarters.

In the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the Baijin Railway was seriously damaged, but later the devils rebuilt the Baijin Railway, and now it has been repaired to Wuxiang.

After the devils fled from the county seats, the rebuilding of the railroad was also abandoned.

Base on the edge of the ground, near the Baijin Railway, behind a huge rock.

"Captain." After the two sturdy figures touched the rock, the leader of them was Duan Peng, the leader of the first squad of the battle.

"Duan Peng, how's the situation?"

Lu Yingjun asked with a slightly surprised expression, he asked Duan Peng to go to scouting, but he didn't expect to come back so soon.

Duan Peng said: "This is Captain Liu of the guerrillas. ”

Through the bright moonlight, Lu Yingjun could see clearly the person behind Duan Peng, with dark skin, a strong body, and resolute and sharp eyes.

The two sides saluted each other, and then exchanged two pleasantries.

As early as two days ago, the various ministries issued an order, ordering the guerrillas operating around the base area to quietly search for the devil's spies.

The border with the base area was not occupied by the Japanese army, but a guerrilla zone, which the Japanese army called a quasi-security zone.

In the guerrilla zone, the guerrillas and county brigades of the Eighth Route Army were active, and there were quite a few Japanese troops.

It's just that after the devils stationed in the county town fled, there are only some devil spies left in the current guerrilla area.

After all, this is China, and everyone living in this land may be an intelligence officer of the Eighth Route Army.

Mobilizing the forces of the militia and the masses is more efficient than the sword squadron to investigate and find the spies of the devil one by one, I don't know how many times more efficient.

Duan Peng reported: "Captain, I have found the nest of the devil scout, it was Captain Liu who discovered it, in a cave 2 kilometers away, the devil has set up sentries on the main roads and paths near here, I have already lurked outside the cave to reconnoitre, there are more than 20 people in total, carrying a radio. ”

"There are about 10 devils in the cave now, and the remaining 10 or so are squatting on the nearby main road right now."

Lu Yingjun squinted his eyes, the little devil is working in two shifts, so as to ensure that there are people watching the road north from the base area 24 hours a day.

Duan Peng continued: "In addition to the cave, the location where the devils are hiding on the big road and the small road has also been found, and our team members are staring at it. ”

"Good job, lead the way!"

Lu Yingjun raised his hand and pressed forward, and the dozens of special forces members who were squatting on the ground behind him immediately got up and quietly marched forward with their submachine guns.

It didn't take long for Lu Yingjun to take 2 combat teams to the cave where the devil was hiding.

The other 3 squads are going to deal with those squatting devils.

After Duan Peng used a short knife to solve the secret sentry of one devil who was in charge of guarding, more than 20 team members came to the entrance of the cave.

There was a snoring sound in the cave, and the devils were sleeping inside.

The vigilant devils also planted a few mines at the entrance of the cave, and the devils planted the mines themselves, and the devils would definitely not step on them, and if other troops came to attack the devils, they would suffer a big loss if they were caught off guard.

However, this time it was the most elite unit of the Eighth Route Army that targeted this group of devil scouts, and there was no one.

More than a dozen grenades were thrown into the cave, and several submachine guns fired at them.

The battle happened suddenly, and it ended quickly.

After only a dozen seconds, the cave fell silent.

A dozen Japanese scouts who had just been resting in the cave were all killed.

Gunshots and explosions rang out here, and when they heard the gunshots and explosions here, the devils who were guarding the main road and the small road immediately realized that they were exposed.

The sword team members also moved at the same time, and in a very short period of time, they completely wiped out the devil scouts in the vicinity.

After clearing out the devil scouts, after informing the command headquarters in the high-power walkie-talkie, Lu Yingjun led the sword squadron to continue to move forward and clear the obstacles for the large army.

An hour later, a large force of the new regiment arrived, and the fighters passed safely and unexposed, carrying ammunition boxes and light and heavy weapons.

The two bodies were carried in front of Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and others by the soldiers of the guard company.

The two corpses were dressed in the clothes of ordinary people, and they were the devil scouts who were killed by the Sword Squadron.

Xing Zhiguo stepped forward to check the corpse of the devil, and sighed with emotion: "These two devils were shot in the head and killed with one shot, the sword squadron did a really beautiful job!" ”

"Of course."

"The Sword Squadron does this kind of work, that is, Zhang Fei eats bean sprouts, a piece of cake."

Li Yunlong laughed.

At this time, the large army went north along the Baijin Highway, and the advantage of taking the main road was to save time and effort, and it was convenient for the artillery troops to march.

Because the 1st and 2nd columns were field battles, and the 3rd column went to attack the city, the head of the headquarters transferred the howitzer regiment to Li Yunlong.

Of the 12 howitzers handed over to the headquarters by Li Yunlong last time, only 4 were added to the howitzer regiment, and the other 8 were given to the divisional artillery regiment and the artillery regiment of the 385 brigade.

Each column had almost two artillery regiments, that is, an artillery brigade, armed with mountain artillery and howitzers of 75 mm or more.

And Li Yunlong's column has the strongest artillery firepower.

Li Yunlong's artillery battalion has 48 guns, including 10 105 howitzers and 38 75 mountain guns.

And the howitzer regiment is even more powerful, with 40 105 howitzers of all colors.

The artillery wing of a three-unit division of the Japanese army was equipped with no more than 30 75-mm mountain artillery.

During these two months, the personnel of the arsenal worked overtime, 200 infantry guns and 350 mortars were produced.

Shells are abundant.

In this battle, compared with one Japanese division, each column was also crushed in all aspects in terms of artillery firepower.

"That's right, Commander-in-Chief."

Xing Zhiguo pointed to the Baijin Railway in the distance and said: "The devils have all run away, this is a good opportunity to tear down the rails, let the local militia and people organize the people, and transport these rails back to the arsenal." ”

"Can't be dismantled!"

Li Yunlong said: "At least it can't be demolished now, and when Taiyuan is laid, we will have to rely on the railway to transport the seized materials back to the base area, so many materials, we can't move them in ten days and a half months by manpower alone." ”

"The commander-in-chief is right." Zhao Gang said, "Not only can we not demolish it, but we must send local troops to protect the railway." ”

"Don't worry, the headquarters has already given the order."

Then, Li Yunlong turned his head and shouted: "Keep up with the one behind, speed up!" ”

Hearing the voice of their own regiment commander, the soldiers all rushed away with their guns on their backs, full of energy.

Shortly after the new regiment passed, the howitzer regiment directly under the headquarters and the various attack groups passed one after another.

After a night of rapid marching, the 3rd Column of Taihang marched 50 kilometers north, and before dawn, all units had found shelter in the forest.

Rest during the day and march at night.

The 2nd Column of Taihang led by the division commander had arrived in the vicinity of Xiangyuan and Licheng after a night of rapid marching.

The vanguard had already exchanged fire with the 37th Division.

And the 1st Column of Taihang led by the brigade commander has also been exposed, in fact, there is no concealment, and the target is the Zhengtai Railway.

Face-up.

The 1st and 2nd columns of Taihang are equivalent to open-card play, and the purpose is to cover Li Yunlong's 3rd column.

Because the Japanese army did not know that the Eighth Route Army had expanded its main force of more than 40,000 people.

This data was also top secret in the Eighth Route Army, and only a very small and absolutely reliable senior officer knew about it.

When Yoshio Shinozuka learned that there were 30,000 main forces of the Eighth Route in the direction of Xiangyuan and Licheng, and 30,000 main forces of the Eighth Route attacking the Zhengtai Railway, plus the militia troops and the troops stationed in the base area.

So many main forces of the Eighth Route have exceeded Yoshio Shinozuka's expectations, and it is difficult to guess that there is still a strong force in the Eighth Route that is heading north to prepare to attack Taiyuan.