More than forty minutes later, the transport team of the 772nd Regiment arrived at the brigade headquarters. Because of the trucks and sidecars, many soldiers who had already gone to bed couldn't help but come to watch.

Although they had seen devils' trucks before, it was the first time that they had such a close encounter, and even the soldiers standing guard couldn't help but look sideways.

The three commanders of the 386th Brigade had been waiting in the command post for a long time, and after seeing Cheng Blind walk in, the thin chief of staff walked over directly and gave the other party a hug.

"You kid is getting more and more powerful now, you learned the fastest at the beginning, and you are worthy of the soldier I taught."

Compared with the chief of staff, who is less than 1.7 meters, Cheng Shifa can be regarded as a burly person. But he was a head shorter in momentum, and after being praised, he waved his hand a little embarrassedly and said:

"I don't dare to compare with you, and this credit is not mine alone, without the heroic struggle of the soldiers in the regiment, there would not be this harvest."

Cheng Blind continued to walk forward, stopped at a distance of two meters, and gave a military salute to the brigade commander and political commissar.

"Brigadier Commander, I congratulate you on your fortune."

The brigade commander who heard this sentence had a strange expression, he used to say this to his subordinates, but now they said it to themselves.

And there used to be a guy like Li Yunlong who could tease, but now even that big guy has started to read.

Without the "intrigues" in the past, the brigade commander was actually a little depressed at this time. He touched his chin and asked himself in his heart, could it be that life was too smooth?

Seeing that his partner was in a daze, the political commissar spoke first, he squinted his eyes and looked at the blind man Cheng opposite and said:

"The regiment did a very good job in this combat operation, and I have already reported this matter to the headquarters just now, and the deputy general staff has praised you on the phone."

"I wonder if your 772nd Regiment will follow in the footsteps of the 771st Regiment, and when the time comes, it will become an independent brigade of the 129th Division."

"By the way, are the remains of the soldiers and the Li Banzhu buried?"

Although Cheng Shifa has the ridiculous nickname of being blind, it does not mean that he has bad eyes.

Simply because he was malnourished when he first joined the army, he had night blindness during that time. On one night march, most of the people saw the preserved plane, but only a few soldiers did not.

Because of night blindness, many fighters died in that air raid. At that time, when Li Yunlong knew about this, he said excitedly, you blind man is really fateful, so this nickname has been passed down to the present.

After hearing the words of the political commissar, Cheng Shifa nodded, and the burial was arranged by him personally. And he preferred to stay in the 386th Brigade, he thought that he was not ready to manage 10,000 people younger.

The brigade commander received the detailed battle report and the list of seizures handed over by the blind man, and he nodded with satisfaction while looking at it, the fact that the whole devil's motorized unit was annihilated was still a good battle achievement for the current Eighth Route Army.

The brigade commander raised his head and said to the blind man:

"In this capture, we will take one Type 92 infantry gun and one person, and you will take all the grenadiers and heavy machine guns with you, and you will definitely be able to use them after a while."

"Stay at the brigade headquarters with the 38 big cover, light machine gun, and 60 force, and when you leave, go to the arsenal to pick up an 82-mm mortar, and you can take two boxes of shells."

"You don't need the vehicle, I'll leave you a sidecar motorcycle, I'll be responsible for the fuel when it arrives, and you'll come to me if you don't have it."

This distribution is very reasonable, the 772nd Regiment has the fastest speed of changing clothes, and by mid-August, it will definitely be a full set of magic weapons regiment.

The devil's infantry weapons need to be gradually phased out for the use of basic regiments or local armed forces, and if these weapons of different calibers are mixed, it will purely add chaos to the logistics department.

Trucks and motorcycles, although the rear can provide fuel for them to use, but after all, the transportation process is very troublesome. As for the Citroen that Li Yunlong abducted, it has been lying in the nest for a long time.

As for the grain confiscated, if it is the grain of the landlord, it must be distributed to the surrounding people. After all, the Eighth Route Army "stores grain for the people", and the military rations are kept by the people in a decentralized manner, and the grain is transferred in a centralized manner when the army is needed to ensure the supply of military rations.

But in this kind of village where all the traitors are full, there is no such thing as appeasing the people, and the grain is naturally directly confiscated.

In addition to the supply of the logistics department, the 772nd Regiment itself is also farming, so all these grain brigade headquarters stayed.

After distributing all the seizures, Cheng Blind left the brigade headquarters with the transport team. It's early in the morning, and everyone needs to rest.

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In the days that followed, the various units temporarily suspended all military activities and seized the time to gather resources to prepare for the big battle.

Since 39 years, the devils have implemented a cage policy with railways as pillars, highways as chains, and pillboxes as locks.

The Zhengtai Railway is one of the important pillars of Xiaori's implementation of this policy, and they plan to cut off the communication between the headquarters and the subordinate troops, and use the railway as a basis to attack all base areas.

After careful consideration, the headquarters hatched a military operation to attack Zhengtailu.

On 22 July, the General Headquarters issued a "Campaign Preparatory Order" to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the 129th Division, and the 120th Division, and simultaneously transmitted the battle plan to the rear.

In the order, the headquarters made a judgment based on changes in the domestic and foreign situation, requiring that the total number of troops directly participating in the Zhengtai Line operation should be no less than 22 regiments.

Among them, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region needs to send 10 regiments, the 129th Division sends 8 regiments, and the 120th Division sends 4 to 6 regiments. The headquarters artillery regiment and the engineering department will also participate in the battle.

In the intense preparations, the time came to August 8th. After more than ten days of deployment. The General Headquarters issued the "Campaign Action Order" to determine the campaign deployment and operational area.

At the same time, the three major groups were required to focus on investigation and investigation of the enemy situation, terrain, fortifications and residents along the northern section of Zhengda Road and Tongpu Road.

On this basis, once all units have completed their specific operational arrangements, they can organize the participating units to conduct short-term training in tackling tough problems and breaking roads.

At the same time, the logistics department also received an order from the headquarters to suspend all non-military production and make every effort to produce all kinds of weapons, especially MAS-36 and FM-24/29 and supporting bullets.

There is good news that the batch of pigs that Li Yunlong personally cut at the beginning of this year can already be put into the pot. The level of food in this operation has been upgraded by leaps and bounds.

Almost all of these pigs survived, and in the last six months they grew to 200 kilograms very ferociously, and only a few died due to improper breeding.

Their slaughter rate is around 72%-80%, which means that before the start of the battle, the logistics department can provide 640,000 catties of meat to the soldiers on the front line.

After the meat is distributed to the participating troops, it is simply processed by the cooks, and only needs to be made with Chinese cabbage and potatoes, so that the soldiers can consume it for a while.

And this is only the first batch, and there will be a second batch of pigs in two months.

Huanghe, who had replaced a large number of chickens and pigs with four months' production capacity of civilian factories to improve the food of the troops, has clearly begun to bear fruit.

The dietary conditions of the soldiers are getting better day by day, malnutrition has been eliminated in the troops, and even many comrades are now gradually catching up with the devils.

The next chapter is being written, a little later, but there will definitely be before dawn

(End of chapter)