July 3rd.

Outside the Japanese military camp in Lixian County.

"Haha..."

Looking at the brand-new devil team flag in his hand, Li Yunlong's smile gradually became rampant.

120 heavy mortars are in hand!

According to the contract, the first four days of each month are the time for Brother Lu to deliver weapons and ammunition to the independent regiment.

Other words!

This month, Brother Lu had to provide him with twelve 120-mm heavy mortars, as well as 1,000 rounds of artillery shells each, for a total of 12,000 120-mm mortar shells.

Other words

In July, the Independent Regiment, the 386th Brigade, and the Eighth Route Army will be able to have heavy artillery!

Although there are only 12 artillery guns and 12,000 shells per month, as long as there is no large-scale artillery battle with the devils, let alone the independent regiment, even the 386th Brigade, or even the whole division, is enough.

"Withdraw."

"Go back to Yang Village!"

Li Yunlong, who was in a happy mood, now just wanted to lead the team back to Yang Village, and then quickly get the 120 mortars in his hands, and the rest could be put aside.

The group retreated to the rear with swift movements.

···

"The devil has retreated."

Front.

Encountering a full-speed shelling of twenty 82 mortars, the command of the Xitian Wing and the artillery brigade of the Xitian Wing suffered heavy casualties, not only losing three 41 mountain guns, but even the Nishida field was shattered.

The command headquarters was heavily damaged, the wing commander was shattered, the artillery brigade was heavily damaged, and the two brigades attacking without command and artillery support, as well as the cavalry squadron, also retreated when they saw that the situation was not good.

During the retreat of the devils, the first and second battalions no longer concealed it, and the long-range 82 mortars opened fire in full force, sending off the devils, causing a lot of trouble to the little devils.

"Retreat."

"Go back to Yang Village!"

After receiving the telegram from the regiment commander, Zhang Dabiao also led the team to retreat.

Until four o'clock in the evening.

The battle in Pear County is over.

···

This battle,

Although the intensity of fire on both sides is very high,

The devil's five 41-type mountain guns did not stop throughout the whole process, and the two brigades always bit the tails of the first and second battalions, and the independent regiment also successively put in more than a dozen battalion 82 mortars to bombard.

But because the battlefield is wide and vast,

The actual casualties on both sides were not large.

According to post-war statistics, the independent regiment suffered more than 210 casualties, of which more than 80 were sacrificed, most of whom fell under the artillery of the devils, and the suppressive power of the artillery brigade on the battlefield should not be underestimated.

More than 430 devils suffered casualties, of which more than 200 were killed, and more than 70 percent of the casualties came from the artillery units of the independent regiment.

Artillery is the soul of the army, this sentence is not just talk.

Although Nishidano died, the wing headquarters of the Nishida Wing is still there, and the Devil Army, as an army with a strict organizational structure, naturally has a pre-filing of the death of the commander.

He was succeeded by the Deputy Wing Captain.

But the wing flag was captured, and the problem was too big and too serious, so the deputy wing commander was injured and deliberately pretended to faint, and the rest of the officers did not dare to report.

This also leads.

The news that the wing flag was captured by the enemy was only known to Yoshio Shinozuka after several days.

···

"Wing Flag!"

The battle in Lixian, Xinhua News Agency photo Lao Xia has been with the artillery battalion.

After getting Li Yunlong's approval, he took a lot of photos of the artillery battalion of the independent regiment, as well as the scenes of the troops fighting with the devils, and even used a lot of flashing lights.

Flashes from the 40s were consumables that were easily worn.

It's a pity that due to the technical limitations of the shooting equipment during this period, the quality of the photos is not good, but the developed photos can clearly show the fighting style of the independent regiment.

The next morning, Lao Xia, who rushed back to Yang Village with the artillery battalion overnight, saw the second wing flag, and his eyes lit up.

The devil flatly denied the first wing flag, resulting in few people believing it in the world, even in China, and because of the boss behind Grand Master Li, it was impossible for the army to publicly display the devil's flag to the national government.

Now there's a second copy,

He wanted to see how the devil still denied it.

"Commander, you are holding the flag of the Devil Wing. I'm going to take a picture of you. ”

"And then it was published in the newspaper."

Lao Xia's tone was excited.

"Haha."

has the opportunity to become famous, and Li Yunlong is naturally full of interest.

With the click of the mechanical shutter,

Grand Master Li held the ghost head knife, stepped on the flag of the devil team, and his triumphant appearance was engraved in the photo again, and beside Li Yunlong, it was the monk and Zhang Dabiao, as well as Zhao Gang.

Subsequently, Lao Xia took a few close-ups of the Devil's Wing flag, focusing on the signature of the Devil's Locust, as well as those flagpoles, flags and other key positions that can distinguish authenticity.

"I'll go back to Xinhua News Agency first."

After filming, Lao Xia couldn't wait to walk to Xinhua News Agency.

Grand Master Li couldn't wait to contact Lu Renjia and apply for 120 mortars.

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It's also the 4th of July.

The first artillery regiment of the headquarters, and Yu Jindou, the platoon commander of the second company of the third battalion, also came to the southern Hebei base area.

Yu Jindou was originally the squad leader of the headquarters artillery regiment.

In June, after the headquarters artillery regiment brought back 60 82 mortars from the independent regiment, the scale of the artillery regiment was further expanded, and it was organized into two artillery regiments, and Yu Jindou, who performed brilliantly in the battle, was promoted to platoon commander.

This time, according to the order of the headquarters, the three battalions of the 1st Artillery Regiment went to reinforce the base area in southern Hebei.

"This..."

Yu Jindou looked at the southern Hebei base in front of him and was shocked.

Yu Jindou knew a long time ago that the devil's cage tactics had caused a lot of great difficulties to the base area.

But the headquarters is located in the Taihang Mountains.

The Taihang Mountains are high and steep, not to mention the railway, there are not even many roads, and most of them are intermittent, only some rugged mountain roads are connected.

The natural cage tactics are also severely limited, and it is difficult to deploy them, so although the Taihang base has also begun to run out of materials recently, it is not far behind.

In addition, since May, the huge amount of materials from the Taiyue base area has almost fundamentally alleviated the problem of insufficient materials in the Taihang base area.

Yu Jindou didn't feel it deeply.

The southern Hebei base is located in the plain.

The terrain here is flat, there are few mountains and dense forests, the roads are vertical and horizontal, and there are several trunk roads, and important county towns and villages are distributed along the roads or rivers.

There is also the Pinghan line passing through.

The devil can then concentrate his forces, use the railroad as a pillar and the highway as a chain, and truly unfold the cage tactic and exert the true power of this tactic.

So the situation here is much, much worse than in the mountains.

At this time, when he came to the base area in southern Hebei, he looked at the highways, barbed wire, and the devil armored vehicles and patrolling devils on the highway in the distance, and along the way, Yu Jindou's eyes were shocked.

The road in front of me leads to almost every village, built higher than the surrounding area, from time to time there are devil cars, armed patrols pass by, and even at a glance, you can see several strongholds, and at each stronghold you can see devils with guns on guard.

"According to the peak, we have as many as 40 counties in the scope of activities, including 8 million people, and there are more than a dozen counties directly occupied. But now..."

Speaking of this, the comrades from the southern Hebei base area who led the way sighed:

"It's only about half."

"Moreover, the transportation between the various base areas is completely divided by devils, and the circulation of materials is seriously restricted."

"There are only five remote counties in the core base area and lack roads."

"If it weren't for the lack of devil troops, we wouldn't be able to keep these five counties."

The person who came was the reinforcement of the headquarters, and this comrade from the southern Hebei base area knew everything:

"None of this is a problem."

"The biggest problem is that with the blockade of the devils, especially after the devils poured a large amount of counterfeit money into the southern Hebei base last month, our mass base has also begun to have problems."

The comrades in the southern Hebei base area frowned deeply.

"We're here to solve this problem."

The commander of the third battalion of the 1st Artillery Regiment who came to reinforce said confidently:

"This time, we not only brought 500,000 oceans, but also eighteen 82 mortars and 3,600 shells."

···

That night.

Yu Jindou's third artillery battalion was arranged to rest in a county seat.

The group of people from the base bank who came with them immediately went to work and started economic work on the basis of 500,000 silver dollars.

During the meeting, the comrades of the base bank spoke in a bold tone:

"Our aim is to remove ninety percent of the miscellaneous coins and counterfeit coins on the ground within two months, and restore the value of the southern Hebei currency to the level at the beginning of May."

As the economic person in charge of the base area in southern Hebei sent by the headquarters to the southern Hebei base, this comrade knows very well that the headquarters used only two million of the three million oceans last month, with a surplus of one million, and when July arrives, the new three million oceans are put into storage.

This month's total budget is 4 million.

The order given to him by the headquarters this time was to take the southern Hebei base area as a pilot project to fight the devils fiercely in the economic field, so as to accumulate experience for the unified issuance of border currencies in various base areas in the future.

The budget given to him is four and a half million oceans!

Now the ocean!

This is also where he dares to pull up the depreciated southern Hebei currency.

"This..."

The comrade of the local base bank said, and at the same time handed some materials to the people from the headquarters:

"I'm afraid it's not easy."

"In May and June, the devils not only put a large amount of counterfeit currency into our base area, causing the depreciation of the southern Hebei currency by about three times, but also a large number of counterfeit currency, and now a large number of businessmen have refused to use our southern Hebei currency."

"If it is to be cleared out and the value of the southern Hebei currency is restored to the level of May, it is estimated that six million oceans will be needed, which is still a smooth situation."

"Moreover, most of these oceans, I'm afraid most of them will fall into the hands of devils."

"Six million oceans!"

Looking at the information in his hand, the person in charge of the economy from the headquarters also frowned.

At the beginning of taking over this mission, when he held a meeting at the headquarters, he knew that he would suffer a lot of losses this time, and he was also mentally prepared that it didn't matter if he paid some tuition.

But he did not expect that the emergency situation in the southern Hebei base area would be so serious.

The budget of 4.5 million oceans cannot fill this hole.

"Our side has a relatively developed economy and a large demand for money."

The person in charge of the economy of the southern Hebei base area smiled bitterly.

It is a good thing that the economy is developed, and it can quickly expand the troops and expand the base areas, but it is also a bad thing, and it is easy to suffer losses in terms of currency, and it is openly robbed by the devils using economic means.

"I'll report back to headquarters."

Someone from the headquarters said.

Six million in two months,

With the current financial situation of Headquarters, it can be taken out.

But he also knew that the headquarters only had a budget of six million oceans a month.

At this point,

A piece of bad news also came:

"According to the report, twelve of the fifty batches of logs transported were found by devils."

"The log was seized by the devil!"

The face of an officer in the headquarters of the southern Hebei base area changed.

The southern Hebei base has the Pinghan line passing through, and the train can go directly to the north assessment, so the 50,000 silver dollars transported by the headquarters to the north are transported by the southern Hebei base area.

After discussion, it was decided to disguise 50,000 silver dollars and hide them in the logs obtained from Li Yunlong, and then transport them to the Bei Ping and hand them over to the underground comrades of the North Ping to buy materials and materials.

Divided into fifty batches, each batch of a thousand oceans.

But unexpectedly, twelve batches were discovered by devils.

Loss of 12,000 oceans!

"The little devil raised by the son of a bitch!"

In the headquarters, the officer scolded fiercely, but there was nothing to be done.

The devils were severely blocked in Beiping, and the secret services such as the devil's special high-tech department, whose nose was smarter than a dog, frantically searched, and the troops simply did not have the ability to transport silver dollars to Beiping on a large scale.

It can only be transported secretly by the railroad controlled by the devils.

Although at the beginning, the 50,000 silver dollars were divided into fifty batches and transported in batches, and they were ready to be discovered by the devils, but when things really happened, it was still difficult for people to accept.

This is the ocean that the headquarters has worked hard to earn.

Moreover, this batch of oceans was directly captured by the devils, which is equivalent to directly enhancing the strength of the devils.

It is equal to the enemy.

It is even more difficult for everyone to accept.

"Find out why you were discovered by the devil and avoid making similar mistakes next time."

"And."

The person in charge of the southern Hebei base said:

"Think about a way to see if we can open up the underground transportation channel to Beiping, and we will have a lot of materials to be transported to Beiping in the future."

(End of chapter)