At the Baipogou Independent Regiment Headquarters, Li Wensheng walked in with a happy face: "Captain, good news..."
"Our tactics of gathering troops are useful to the Japanese..."
"As of now, four small Japanese action teams have exposed their targets during the march, and we have killed them all..."
"According to the current rhythm of the battle, we can definitely kill two or three more little Japs before dark!"
The serious expression on Kong Jie's face did not lighten up because of this good news. He stared at the map and analyzed: "There are more than ten Japanese and puppet army action teams that have infiltrated into our base area. Even if we kill three more before dark, it will still be nothing." There are three action teams hiding in a corner of the base."
"We are in the light and the enemy is in the dark. The remaining Japanese and puppet troops can still pose a huge threat to us!"
"Inform all the main forces, local troops, and guerrillas in the defense area to be on guard and not give the enemy another chance to sneak attack and severely damage us!"
After Li Wensheng finished recording the order, Kong Jie continued: "Where is Xiao Huang?"
"They march very fast!" Li Wensheng replied.
"I pretended to be Japanese and took a car and traveled nearly 200 kilometers in one night..."
While talking, he looked at the map, pointed to a point on the map and said: "We are resting here now, and we plan to wait until dark before moving forward!"
"If everything goes well on the march, we will arrive in Taiyuan tomorrow night!"
Kong Jie sighed and said, "I hope everything goes well!"
"Otherwise we will definitely face endless sneak attacks and assassinations from the little devils in the future, and we will be in big trouble!"
Some Japanese soldiers believed deeply in the Eighth Route Army uniforms they were wearing. They felt that wearing this uniform would enable them to move freely through the Independence Regiment base areas without any suspicion.
But some Japanese do not think that the Eighth Route Army uniforms are omnipotent.
As soon as last night's sneak attack was over, the action team was pulled into the mountains and hid, preparing to take action after dark!
In a forest three kilometers away from the headquarters of the Fourth Company of the Second Battalion, more than thirty Japanese and puppet troops are hiding here, preparing to attack...
After a while, two black figures entered the sight of the leader of the Japanese squadron: "Captain..."
"The Fourth Company Headquarters is very heavily guarded... Not only have they doubled the number of light and dark sentries, they have also brought back several infantry platoons that were out on missions. There is at least one company in the village!"
Upon hearing this, the squadron leader knew that the sneak attack plan here could not proceed. Although he was very reluctant, he still gritted his teeth and ordered: "No fighting here, otherwise all of us will die here!"
"It's only around nine o'clock now. Let's set out immediately to rush to the next attack target. Maybe we can still fight before dark..."
Another Japanese action team more than eighty miles away also found out the bad news that the independent regiment had strengthened its vigilance.
Their next target was far away, and they would definitely not be able to reach it while it was dark. The leading lieutenant gave a cruel order: "If we cannot defeat the main force, we will attack their local troops and guerrillas... They are all teams that resist the imperial army. Kill them." It’s okay if it’s light…”
"There is a village ten kilometers northeast. We go there to kill people, create chaos, and destabilize the Independence Regiment base!"
After receiving the order from the regiment headquarters to strengthen the alert, no member of the Chenzhuang guerrillas was lazy, and they were on duty around the village in two shifts to prevent the Japanese and puppet troops from sneaking into the village.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, the team members on duty also became confused because they were too tired.
But he still vaguely felt someone approaching him.
He quickly poked his head out from behind the earthen wall and saw about thirty "Eighth Route Army" soldiers forming a fighting formation and heading towards the village.
Taking another look at their strength, I realized that these people were disguised as little devils. I quickly pulled the bolt of the gun, hoping to give an early warning to my comrades and people in the village through the sound of gunfire...
"Bang bang..."
Two gunshots rang out outside the village. The team member on duty was shot in the heart and fell to the ground without moving!
"Where to shoot..." The guerrillas living in the ancestral hall at the entrance of the village grabbed their weapons and rushed towards the entrance of the village. Their reaction speed was not much slower than that of the main force.
But the Japs reacted faster.
"Da da da……"
The familiar sound of machine gun fire soon sounded at the entrance to the village. The first few team members were shot and instantly beaten into pieces...
"The enemy has machine guns... retreat quickly..." the guerrilla leader was shocked and shouted anxiously.
He lay down on the ground and raised the only pistol the guerrillas had to fight back and cover the retreat of the guerrillas.
But the range of the pistol was limited, and no matter how hard he fired, he failed to hit a single Japs. Instead, he was targeted by a light machine gun that the Japs had set up at the entrance to the village.
Bullets flew towards him like nothing, and two bullets burrowed right into his shoulders and head, causing no movement on the spot.
At three o'clock in the morning, another little devil action team finally arrived at the second operation target tonight.
I thought I could show off my skills and kill some Eighth Route Army officers, but it turned out that the Eighth Route Army here was even more vigilant than the first target.
The Japanese squadron leader was so angry that he wanted to curse.
He really wanted to lead the Eighth Route Army to fight, but he held back at the last moment.
He sighed deeply and ordered: "Since there is no way to capture the target through a direct sneak attack, let's change our approach..."
"The troops will disperse immediately and find out which village has the largest number of Eighth Route Army troops and which village contains the Eighth Route Army's grain depot!"
"Choose a particularly valuable attack target, and guide the aviation forces to launch an attack from the sky after dawn to completely destroy it!"
At ten o'clock the next morning, Li Wensheng approached Kong Jie with a serious look on his face: "Captain... something happened in the base!"
"After our careful deployment, although six small Japanese action teams were killed yesterday, there are still four action teams hidden in the base area!"
"If you operate after dark, if you can't take advantage of the main force, you will shift your attack targets to local troops, guerrillas, and ordinary people in the base area..."
"Last night, a total of six villages were attacked by Japanese action teams. Not only did 73 guerrillas die, but these Japanese and puppet troops also extended their butcher's knives to ordinary people!"
"A total of 814 villagers in six villages died tragically at their hands. Three of them were massacred by them, even children as young as one or two years old and elderly people in their 70s and 80s were not spared..."
"It's so tragic. After the reinforcements entered the village, the ground was covered with the remains of villagers, and there was no place to even put a foot down!"
"There are also many women who were humiliated before being killed..."
"Bang..." Kong Jie couldn't listen any more. He punched the table in front of him and cursed through gritted teeth: "These are all evil-doing beasts... No, these people are worse than beasts!"
"Chief of Staff, the Japanese and puppet troops who participated in the massacre last night must not have gone far... The cavalry battalion will kill them immediately and search for them in platoon units!"
"The nearest main forces, local troops, and guerrillas, all move for me, find them at all costs, kill them, and avenge the villagers who died tragically at their hands!"
"Immediately forward Xiao Huang about the Japanese massacre of the people in the base area..."
"We were too kind to the little Japs in the past. After the special forces sneaked into Taiyuan, they had to retaliate in kind, making Yoshio Shinozuka feel the heartbreaking pain... We dare not extend the butcher's knife to ordinary people again!"
Li Wensheng immediately accepted the order: "I will make arrangements now..."
"With so many troops, we can find those beasts even if we are looking for a needle in a haystack!"
At one o'clock at noon, three Little Japanese planes suddenly flew into the base area of the Independence Regiment.
The news reached Baipogou immediately, but no matter how Kong Jie analyzed it, he could not figure out where the three planes were going.
"Captain, do you think these three planes are related to the Japs Action Team lurking in our base area?" Li Wensheng analyzed.
"We searched for these little devils with great fanfare. In order to break out of the encirclement, they continued to wreak havoc in our base area and deliberately sent planes to harass us..."
Kong Jie thought for a moment and turned around and said: "It is indeed possible!"
"But there is another situation!"
"The reason why the Japanese army rarely sends out planes to bomb us is because the troops are very dispersed and their locations are often moved!"
"If there are no ground troops to act as eyes for them, the chance of successfully bombing us is very low!"
"Now there are many little devil action teams hidden in our base... If they find our important targets and guide aircraft to launch attacks from the sky, they will definitely cause us huge losses!"
"Contact all available troops immediately..."
"Expand the security range of the station and the grain depot, arrest suspicious targets first, and then release them after confirming that there are no problems!"
"The troops are all planned and organized, and they are gathered together in company units, but they cannot be too concentrated to prevent them from being taken over by planes!"
"Contact the troops participating in the action team to encircle and suppress the Japanese and puppet troops...the troops must be dispersed during the operation and must not be gathered together as a company, otherwise they will become living targets for Japanese planes!"
After all the orders were given, Kong Jie breathed a sigh of relief.
At the headquarters of the Fifth Battalion of the Independent Regiment, Tan Lin began to arrange for the dispersal of the troops as soon as he received the order from the regiment headquarters.
Not only are 200,000 kilograms of food stored here, but all the troops directly under the fifth battalion and the guard company are stationed here. More than 300 people are scattered around the battalion headquarters. If they are bombed by planes, they will definitely suffer heavy losses. Just order.
"Instructor...the guard company will be organized into platoons and immediately move to the east, west, and south of the village to establish guard positions!"
"The reconnaissance platoon goes to the north to establish a security position!"
"If you find a suspicious target, arrest it first and then investigate!"
"The artillery battery is based on squads and has established concealed artillery positions fifty meters behind the reconnaissance platoon and three guard platoons..."
"The baggage company protects the warehouse, and the other troops stand still!"
"Weng buzz..."
As soon as the troops started taking action, the roar of planes reached everyone's ears, and three black spots appeared on the edge of the sky at the same time, getting bigger and bigger, heading straight for the headquarters of the fifth battalion.
"Smoke bomb..." A exclamation reached Tan Lin's ears at the same time.
Looking in the direction of the guard's finger, a large amount of red smoke suddenly rose from the bushes more than 300 meters away.
"Battal Commander, there are also smoke bombs in the north..." another guard called.
"There are also smoke bombs in the south..."
"We are surrounded by smoke bombs... The bombing target of the Japanese planes is us..." The instructor was the first to react.
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