At 4:30 pm the next day, the last batch of military equipment from the arsenal was transported out of Taiyuan in ten vehicles.
In order to confuse the little Japanese, ten more cars loaded with raw materials for weapons and ammunition drove out of Taiyuan an hour later.
"Report to the leader, we have dismantled all the equipment that can be dismantled in the arsenal. The remaining equipment is too heavy and we cannot transport it back!" Li Shaohua reported to Kong Jie.
"Thank you for your hard work, everyone!" Kong Jie said gratefully. He looked at his watch and started to give orders: "I'll give you three hours to prepare..."
"Bring your family to the arsenal to assemble in three hours...I will deploy a company of troops to protect everyone from Taiyuan and return to the base!"
"I will give you two hundred mules and horses to help transport supplies and the old, weak, women and children in the team!"
"Make sure no one is left behind on the march!"
As soon as Li Shaohua left, Ding Wei and Kong Jie rushed over: "Old Kong..."
"We have emptied all the weapons and ammunition in the arsenal of the arsenal... and used the mules and horses you bought to transport them all!" Li Yunlong felt as if he had eaten honey, with a smile on his face. When he saw Kong Jie, his face Promise.
"To put it bluntly, even if the New Second Regiment is wiped out in the subsequent breakout, I can use the weapons and ammunition I brought back to build a reinforced regiment of two to three thousand people!"
Ding Wei answered: "What Lao Li said is right... With this batch of weapons and ammunition, we will be much more confident in fighting the Japanese during the breakout than before!"
After saying that, he turned his attention to Kong Jie: "When will we start to break out?"
"The little Japanese reinforcements are almost in place!"
"Now I can't help but want to attack and let the Japanese have a taste of being bombed!"
Kong Jie immediately ordered: "The last batch of equipment from the arsenal has been transported away, and the engineer platoon is placing explosives among the equipment that cannot be moved..."
"As soon as the workers and their families who were willing to join our Eighth Route Army withdrew, the engineering platoon immediately blew up the arsenal. We then evacuated Taiyuan and returned to the base!"
"I just received good news: when the two returning troops of the Little Japs passed through the defense area of the 358th Regiment of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, they were blocked by the 358th Regiment. Both brigades lost more than 200 Little Japs!"
"I have met Chu Yunfei, the leader of the 358th Regiment, a few times. He is a tough guy!"
"Although the results are not great, it still relieves us a lot of pressure!"
Li Yunlong answered: "I want to thank him properly!"
"You don't know that after I broke through from the Japanese pocket formation, I originally wanted to pass through the Jinsui Army defense area and go straight into the mountains!"
"In the end, after all my good words, the Jinsui Army refused to let the New Second Regiment enter their defense zone!"
"If the two sides were not cooperating now and Lao Zhao tried his best to stop him, I would have wanted to kill him in one go!"
"While leaving, I heard some gossip from a company commander of the Jinsui Army!"
"The Jinsui Army has received an order from the war zone. All troops must sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and tigers. Wait until we and the Japanese are inextricably killed and both sides are injured before standing up to clean up the mess and reap the benefits!"
"Chu Yunfei dared to disobey the order in the war zone not to allow them to participate in the war, and blocked the Japs without permission. For this reason alone, he is a man worthy of admiration!"
Kong Jie nodded: "I've heard about this too!"
"When the troops return to the base, I will definitely thank him!"
As he spoke, he spread a map in front of the three of them and pointed to the points on it to introduce: "After repeated confirmation, the Japanese army has prepared four blockade lines on our way to break out, and each blockade line has a reinforced brigade stationed."
"The remaining two infantry brigades are lurking around the first blockade, responsible for chasing and intercepting us!:
"Tonight we will first seize the first blockade of the Japanese army and annihilate the two brigades that are chasing us..."
"The independent regiment mainly attacks the first blockade...you conduct an ambush..."
"Use all the heavy weapons in your hand, fight quickly, end the battle at the minimum cost, go straight to the third and fourth blockades, and stay in hiding!"
"According to the predetermined plan, as soon as the arsenal workers who are willing to follow us withdraw, the main force of the independent regiment will immediately withdraw from Taiyuan..."
"We marched for three and a half hours and launched an attack on the first Japanese blockade line at one o'clock in the morning, attracting reinforcements from the two brigades that were chasing us and intercepting us..."
"You choose to ambush the battlefield and eat them!"
"Captain, there is a situation..." Huang Yu suddenly rushed into the war room, followed by the cavalry company commander Zhang Dashan and the new second regiment cavalry company commander Sun Desheng...
The three group leaders focused their attention on Huang Yu at the same time, waiting for his next words.
Huang Yu didn't let them wait for too long. He took a breath and began to report: "This afternoon, the Japs from three strongholds and two counties took the initiative to attack..."
"I initially thought they wanted to get back at us and fix the phone lines..."
"After the assault company cooperated with the cavalry to wipe out a group of Japs, we realized that they were playing tricks on us!"
"In the name of sending troops to retaliate against us, we sent radio stations to intelligence agents operating outside the stronghold."
"I quickly arranged for the cavalry to keep an eye on the Japanese attacking troops and destroy the radio stations they brought out!"
"Five attacking troops brought out five radios. We captured two and destroyed two...the last radio was lost and fell into the hands of Japanese intelligence agents!"
"I guess Yoshio Shinozuka will know some information about us soon!"
"It is recommended that the troops take action immediately and end the ambush before Yoshio Shinozuka knows about the New 1st and 2nd Regiments!"
"As long as we destroy the three returning troops, even if the New First and Second Regiments are exposed, Shinozuka Yoshio will be unable to save his life!"
"It's too late to mobilize troops from the front line, so we can only dispatch aircraft from nearby provinces to attack us!"
"The distance is too far, the aircraft's range is limited, and the threat it poses to us is very limited!"
"As long as everyone avoids the daytime and tries to move around at night, everything will be fine!"
Li Yunlong's brows that were relaxed just now suddenly furrowed into a big "Sichuan" sign, and he said with a sullen face: "I've heard of this old devil Yoshio Shinozuka!"
"Not only is he cunning, he is also extremely cautious in fighting..."
"If he knew that there were two more regiments of the Eighth Route Army in Taiyuan, he would definitely gather the scattered return troops together and operate in two brigades, without giving us a chance to defeat them individually!"
"Then our plan to encircle the point and provide reinforcements failed before it even started!"
"Xiao Huang's suggestion is very good!"
"The attack is ahead of schedule. Before Yoshio Shinozuka discovers the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment, kill their three brigades first..."
"Even if all the remaining three brigades of Japs gather together, our three regiments can still fight them and fight their way out!"
Seeing that Kong Jie frowned and didn't answer, Li Yunlong became anxious: "Kong Er, what are you thinking about? If you hesitate any longer, the duck will fly away!"
Ding Wei considers the problem more comprehensively and calmly than Li Yunlong.
Seeing that Kong Jie kept staring at the inner city of Taiyuan, he immediately reminded Li Yunlong: "Don't worry, Old Li... This battle is not as simple as you think!"
"The plan can be advanced, but workers in the city who have not had time to move can't leave early!"
"These people plus their family members number more than 2,000, and they will definitely not be able to evacuate Taiyuan within a few hours!"
"What if we start a fight over there and Yoshio Shinozuka realizes that the main force has evacuated Taiyuan, and suddenly sends troops out of the inner city to raid the workers who haven't had time to evacuate!"
"If Yoshio Shinozuka is more ruthless and sends troops to hunt us down..."
"There must be some troops who are under attack from both sides. If we are not careful, it could bring us disaster!"
Kong Jie was noncommittal: "Old Ding is right!"
"There are more than 2,000 little devils and armed foreigners in the inner city, and there are several armored vehicles!"
"If we don't stabilize them, we will definitely not be able to attack the Japanese blockade with all our strength!"
Li Yunlong stopped calling...
Not to mention the more than 2,000 Japs, Yoshio Shinozuka only needed to send 500 elite troops to hunt down the New Second Regiment. Li Yunlong would have suffered if he suddenly appeared behind the troops when the New Second Regiment was ambushing the returning troops.
Maybe the ambush battle will turn into a chaotic battle, and in the end the wife will lose and the troops will be lost.
"There are still too few troops!" Kong Jie said with a long sigh!
"If we have two more battalions, we can keep an eye on the remaining Japs in the inner city of Taiyuan, and we can do our best to break out!"
"Captain, as long as you strengthen the assault company with a mortar company and a heavy machine gun company, I am confident that Yoshio Shinozuka will be trapped in the inner city of Taiyuan, and I will not dare to raid the retreating workers and their families behind!"
"The remaining two armored vehicles of the armored platoon will also stay!"
"The devils already know that we are equipped with armored vehicles, and the blocking force must have strengthened a large number of anti-tank weapons!"
"Let the armored vehicles cover the infantry to attack the Japanese blockade. It is tantamount to dying in vain. It has no meaning. It is better to leave my little Japanese to raid the inner city of Taiyuan!"
"The presence of armored vehicles can also scare the little devils in the city!"
"They must think that armored vehicles are the treasure of the independent regiment. As long as the armored vehicles stay in the outer city of Taiyuan, the main force of the independent regiment will still be in the outer city!"
Kong Jie was not as optimistic as Huang Yu, so he thought for a moment and replied: "Yoshio Shinozuka is not a fool..."
"Even if we leave the armored vehicles behind, we can only deceive them for a while!"
"If Yoshio Shinozuka assembles a heavy force to attack the workers, even if all of them are exhausted, they won't be able to stop the attack!"
Huang Yu explained confidently: "You can't fool the Japanese for long with just two armored vehicles, so I asked you to strengthen the assault company with a mortar company and a heavy machine gun company!"
"When Yoshio Shinozuka sent troops to attack, the armored vehicles and the heavy machine gun company faced each other head-on, the mortar company attacked head-on, and the assault company outflanked on both sides. It would definitely create the posture of two main battalions!"
"No matter how courageous Shinozuka Yoshio is, he will not dare to let the attacking troops be surrounded by us in the outer city, so we can only retreat!"
"Once he retreats, he will definitely not dare to launch a second counterattack rashly!"
"By the time he realizes that he has been deceived, thousands of workers and their families will have already evacuated Taiyuan!"
"I lead the assault company to the rear. If the little Japs leave the good Taiyuan City undefended and dare to chase us, I don't mind leading my troops to kill them with a single shot!"
Kong Jie suddenly answered: "The battle between the three regiments was over by then!"
"If Yoshio Shinozuka still dares to send troops to attack, the main force of the regiment will not be idle."
"Make sure we eat as many people as they kill!"
