In the North China transportation line, the Zhengtai Railway occupies a very important position. This line starts from Shimen City in the east and reaches Taiyuan in the west. It not only crosses the Taihang Mountain, but also connects the Pinghan and Tongpu railways.

Because it connects two provinces with large resources, and the area through which it passes is very rich in strategic materials such as coal and iron, it has become one of the important strategic transportation routes.

In order to improve the efficiency of plundering resources, the devils also rebuilt and built some sections of the road.

Once the Zhengtai Road is destroyed, it will be extremely difficult for the First Army in Shanxi to replenish supplies and plunder strategic materials.

In order to ensure that this lifeline can be kept healthy, a lot of arrangements have been made for the little day. In addition to the railway patrol, a large number of turrets and pillboxes were built in the surrounding area.

And there are also heavy troops stationed at the stations along the line, which are heavily guarded.

However, even such a dangerous railway is only a little more than 70 kilometers away from Liujia Village, where the New Second Regiment is now stationed.

Even because of the cage policy, the devils have been steadily advancing to expand their occupation area based on the railway. As a result, the situation around the new 2nd Regiment has been very bad recently, and now the nearest squadron is not even thirty kilometers away.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Yunlong knew very well that he could not mess around on the eve of the war, and the headquarters had also issued a clear order for all units to stop all non-essential military activities.

Otherwise, with his character of not suffering, he would have been unable to resist taking a battalion of soldiers to meet these new devils for a while.

After receiving detailed instructions for the campaign, Grand Master Li could not help but be a little shocked by the determination and generosity of the headquarters.

Not only did multiple forces attack at the same time, but it also had the slogan "leave not a single railroad track, not a single sleeper, not a single bridge".

In order not to delay the plan of the headquarters, after completing the reconnaissance and investigation tasks, the new 2nd regiment immediately began intensive training.

The focus of the fighters was mainly on attacking the fortifications and breaking the road, after all, the regiment was established for no more than two months. For recruits, this type of combat has not been exposed before.

Just as the fighters were training urgently, a brigade communications officer on horseback came from a distance. As he approached the entrance of the village, the comrade reported to his home.

It is worth mentioning that he did not dismount at the entrance of the village like the previous correspondents. Instead, under the condition of ensuring safety, they ran all the way to the command room of the new second regiment.

Li Yunlong, who heard the movement, walked out of the regiment headquarters command room, and the correspondent dismounted just in front of him and handed Li Yunlong a document bag.

Before the confused Grand Master Li could ask his own question, the correspondent turned over and immediately said to him: "Chief Li! This is the confidential document that the brigade commander asked me to hand over to you! I still have business to do, so I won't talk to you more, take care! ”

After he returned to the command room, Zhao Gang on the side immediately came over, his face full of curiosity.

"What a thing, so exciting. The comrade just now didn't even drink a sip of water, so urgent. ”

Although he hadn't opened the package yet, Lao Li, who had rich command experience, had already had his own guess, and he said to his partner while opening the bag:

"The operation is about to begin, and I think it's a new map from headquarters. For such a big operation, if we use the map made by our group, it will be more or less unstable. ”

"Based on my understanding of the vice president, he will definitely send someone to do this when he is making preliminary deployments."

This time, Li Yunlong's experience is still very powerful, and his guess is not wrong at all.

In order to improve operational efficiency, the deputy general instructed the surveying and mapping office of the headquarters to produce a new map during the task formulation stage.

The comrades put a lot of effort into this, and on the basis of the information obtained by the enemy's Ministry of Works, they first drew a sketch of the enemy's situation by hand.

Subsequently, on the basis of the sketch map, the information provided by the intelligence department of the military region was repeatedly verified. They even had to risk their lives to go to individual areas for field trips.

After half a month of hard work, they completed the task perfectly and provided the three maps to the headquarters.

In order to enable all units of the military region to effectively grasp the enemy's situation, the mapping room printed the two maps in color through the printing house of the logistics department, and marked the distribution of devils in obvious red.

After opening the document bag, Li Yunlong took out a brown paper bag, which contained the "Map of Military Equipment of the Surrounding Enemy Army," the "Map of the Enemy's Situation," and a contour map.

The printing unit indicated on the left side of the map is "General Staff Headquarters, General Land Survey Bureau, General Headquarters of the National Revolutionary Army, General Staff Office Cartographic Office"

Grand Master Li sighed when he saw such a delicate military map, and was even a little reluctant to touch it with his hands.

The "Map of the Military Equipment of the Surrounding Enemy Forces" marked the airfields, automobile factories, repair shops, tank depots, hospitals, power plants, coal mines, and iron mines of the First Army stationed in Shanxi.

"Enemy Intelligence Map" is an annotation of the distribution of the devil's troops, from large wings to small detachments. Of course, the puppet army did not fall behind, and even some cities marked the number of expatriates.

The contour map has been updated on the basis of the original, eliminating the situation of seeing mountains as rivers.

Zhao Gang on the side looked at Li Yunlong, who was about to flow out, and he shook his head a little helplessly.

"These maps are great, but you're not going to be so useless, are you? I've told you a lot of times, and I have time to learn how to draw a map with me. ”

Cartography has always been a technical task, and the geographical knowledge of the maker is very demanding.

Originally, this work was to be handed over to the staff officers of the regiment headquarters, but now the chief of staff of the new second regiment is still Zhang Dabiao. The appearance of the five big and three thick looks like people who can make maps.

At present, the division headquarters is not rich enough to give each regiment a staff officer with drawing ability. And the Eighth Route Army is not like the devil or the preserved fruit army, you can take a picture.

Before Zhao Gang came, the maps of the new second regiment were all from the brigade headquarters.

Although Grand Master Li is a genius who reads pictures, he can understand any picture without any foundation, but his hands-on ability is a little poor.

It's as if the brain and hands are not a person's, and every time he will make a mess of the picture, but he can still understand it.

was complained by Zhao Gang many times, but Li Yunlong retorted every time:

"The staff officer of the division headquarters is also at this level, regardless of whether he is a white cat or a black cat, he is a good cat if he can catch mice. I can understand that it's my ability to learn to draw! By all means next time! ”

Opposite his partner's ridicule, Grand Master Li waved his hand disappreciatively, and he pointed to several locations on the map with his finger and said:

"This mission is really not easy, and it is on par with the most difficult operations I have ever participated in."

Zhao Gang nodded, he was a little uncertain in his heart, after all, it was the first time that more than 20 regiments participated in the mission. So the two called the three battalion commanders and had a heated discussion in the conference room.

Towards 12 noon, everyone came out of the command room and went to the cooking class for lunch. Before going out, Li Yunlong looked back at the map and said with some emotion:

"The map sent by our headquarters is not inferior to the devil's military map! This time we are so strong, we must smash the blockade of the devils! ”

Today, I'm still writing

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