As for some larger strongholds, Wang Leihu arranged a special cold-gun and cold-gun team, and with the help of the cover of the gradually entering night sky, the entire Japanese stronghold was besieged.
If any Japanese or puppet soldier dares to leave his stronghold even half a step, he is guaranteed to see his own brain at any time.
Since the Independence Regiment implemented a cold-blooded campaign in the guerrilla zones.
The Japanese and puppet troops were on tenterhooks when they were beaten. They usually hid in gun towers and strongholds and lived in panic all day long.
The independent group took the opportunity to expand the scope of their guerrilla attacks.
So far, to make a rough statistics, around Yangquan, Ping'an County, Shouyang and other counties, except for some towns and counties occupied by the Japanese.
As long as you leave the city, the vast countryside and vast mountainous areas are almost all guerrilla areas for independent groups.
There was even a Japanese captain who was attacked by a cold artillery attack from a distance of more than one kilometer in the city gate area and was killed on the spot.
Especially at dusk and after the sky falls, the vast dark countryside and mountainous areas become the home ground of the Eighth Route Army.
Although many elite troops of the Japanese army are also very good at night fighting, they are far less familiar with the vast rural and mountainous terrain than the Eighth Route Army.
In addition, most of the people stationed in counties and towns are the Japanese security forces.
They are not the absolute elite of some Class A divisions.
In this way, the Independent Regiment took the lead, and various units of the Eighth Route Army followed suit, targeting the guerrilla zones outside the counties and towns in the Japanese-occupied areas for a long time.
This put considerable pressure on the Japanese and puppet troops defending the city.
So much so that around the Taihang Base Area, a saying spread among the Japanese and puppet troops in the occupied areas:
"Don't go out after dark, be careful!"
...covered by the gradually darkening sky.
The Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold were attacked and did not dare to leave the stronghold rashly.
The grain robbing campaign continued like this.
After the Japanese combat team was destroyed, the area around the freight train, which was completely controlled by the soldiers, quickly swarmed in with local troops and militia troops responsible for transportation, as well as some civilians who came to help, as if they had conducted a drill in advance. generally.
Everyone is in a hurry and orderly, fast and efficient.
After the doors of more than a dozen train cars were all opened, sacks of grain piled inside were revealed.
Wang Leihu, who led the team here, opened a sack at random and took a look inside. Oh my goodness, it was all full-grained wheat or some beaten rice noodles.
"Divide into teams as many as there are carriages. Move them all for me. Don't leave a grain of food behind for the little devil!"
After the order was issued, the transportation forces cooperating with all parties quickly divided the corresponding transportation teams.
Tonight, the area around Yangquan will be the home ground of the Independent Regiment. Under the approaching night, the Japanese and puppet soldiers in the strongholds along the roads and railways are like frightened bastards, all with their heads retracted into their turtle shells.
In cooperation with a car transport team for this grain-saving transportation, fifteen military vehicles rushed to the site of the grain robbery amidst the roar of their engines.
Then with the assistance of the transportation team, the car was quickly loaded.
Band after band of food was put into the trunk of the car by the soldiers.
In order to efficiently and quickly transport all the grain hauled by more than a dozen Japanese freight trains.
The soldiers even set up a manpower transportation line, with either a dozen or dozens of soldiers setting up a manpower transportation line.
Then the front personnel quickly take out the grain from the train carriage, and quickly load it into cars, motorcycles, mule carriages, pallet trucks, wheelbarrows, etc. through human transfer.
If you look down from a high altitude, it looks like a group of ants working together as a team to transport food efficiently at night.
With efficient cooperation and tacit understanding, the power of strength in numbers is perfectly interpreted here.
The Japanese train had fourteen carriages loaded with food.
The ghost country is short of resources, and the transportation railway lines currently used even use the first-class railway system of the Qing Dynasty.
Although the train's carrying capacity is not particularly large, each carriage can pull about thirty tons of grain, and the fourteen carriages can pull a total of three to four hundred tons of grain.
The food was successfully seized on this trip, which was much faster than the independent group's time-consuming and laborious purchase of food from various places.
No wonder everyone loves to make war fortune!
At this time, the Japanese army headquarters in Yangquan and the Japanese officers completely exploded.
Due to the recent serious disasters, the Japanese and puppet troops in the Yangquan area have even faced the embarrassing situation of running out of food. These Japanese and puppet army officers are desperately counting on this batch of food reinforced by their superiors to survive.
Who would have thought that the news suddenly came that the train transporting grain was broken by the Eighth Route Army on the way.
These damn Eighth Route Army actually had the idea of robbing food.
The Yangquan Japanese Army Command immediately issued an order to mobilize forces from all parties around the ambushed railway line to quickly reinforce...
"Sir, a communication came from stronghold No. 3. His troops were besieged by Eighth Route Army troops. The situation on the Eighth Route Army is unclear. His troops were unable to break out of the stronghold and were forced to defend."
"Reporting to the commander, a communication came from the western stronghold. The Eighth Route Army set up an ambush along the way. The reinforcements were ambushed midway. They suffered heavy casualties and were forced to retreat to the stronghold."
"Reporting to the commander, strongholds No. 15 and No. 21 were attacked by eight-pronged heavy artillery and have been completely lost."
"Sir..."
"Sir..."
"Sir, the communication signal of train 315 has been completely interrupted, and multiple attempts to contact us have failed."
"Sir, the trains transporting food simultaneously on the east and west lines of our county were also ambushed by the Eighth Route Army in the middle of the road. The train department is asking our headquarters for emergency help. The situation is very critical."
One after another bad news comes one after another.
These damn Tubal Roads have such a big appetite that they want to eat three transportation lines at once.
"idiot--"
The Japanese commander burst into incompetent rage in anger.
On the one hand, he ordered to continue to reinforce the railway line regardless of the cost, and must seize this batch of military rations.
Forced by the crisis of the situation, Yi Yi had to report Yangquan's current predicament to the headquarters and requested special reinforcements.
Taiyuan City, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi.
When the Japanese commander Yoshio Shinozuka learned that the Eighth Route Army had launched a plan to rob grain, it was basically dark.
Chief of Staff Beichuan looked anxious: "General, we have taken every precaution, but we didn't expect these Eight Route Army soldiers to dare to go so rampant."
"How dare they send out their main force and come directly to our army's food transportation line."
"According to intelligence from the front, they not only ambushed our army's transport trains, but were even attacking some large and small strongholds along the roads and railway lines."
"What are they going to do? Are they going to launch a full-scale war with the Japanese Empire?"
Yoshio Shinozuka did not respond immediately, but immediately conveyed combat instructions to the flying squadron that was in a state of readiness for combat.
Although the Japanese army has limited air power and is extremely short of night fighters and pilots, Yoshio Shinozuka can't care so much at this moment:
On the phone, he ordered: "How to carry out night bombing and operations, your flight team will figure out a way for you to lock down the area where the Eighth Route Army ambushed the train, and cooperate with the influx of reinforcements from the surrounding areas."
"We must stop the Eighth Route Army's food-stealing operation!"
"Hi!"
After hanging up the phone, Yoshio Shinozuka analyzed the battle map for a moment and said in a deep voice:
"Mr. Beichuan, this Kong Jie is really cunning. He took advantage of the disaster victims in the areas occupied by our army to suddenly attack our army's transportation routes, catching our army off guard."
"At this moment, he puts such a difficult problem in front of us again."
"Should we save the stronghold or the food?"
"The equipment level of this independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army is progressing rapidly. This time they plundered the military supplies transported by our army and at the same time ordered attacks on various strongholds in the guerrilla area."
"This is a deliberate attempt to create chaos and make our troops care about their head and tail."
"If we reinforce the train with all our strength, the advancing stronghold will be destroyed. If we reinforce the stronghold with all our strength, the food transported will not be guaranteed. If we pay attention to both ends, we will inevitably focus on one and lose the other... This guy who is particularly good at creating chaos is really annoying. .”
Kitagawa, who tried his best to solve the problem for Shinozuka, thought for a moment, then suddenly had an idea and said:
"General, whether it is a reinforcement stronghold or a reinforcement train, in the final analysis, it is our army's passive defense."
"Treat the symptoms but not the root cause. If you want to save both ends, the most effective way is to get rid of the Eighth Route Army, the instigator."
"General, the most troublesome thing about our army's past sweeps against the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang and Taiyue areas was that it was unable to locate the Eighth Route Army in the vast mountainous area and besiege its main force."
"Now is a good opportunity!"
Yoshio Shinozuka, who was awakened by Kitagawa's words, suddenly said:
"You mean, why not play a big game and use this transport train and stronghold as bait to trap and kill the main force of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop?"
Beichuan smiled and said: "The general has a broad vision and the best view of the overall situation."
"How can a temporary gain or loss be as important as the overall victory or defeat?"
“Even if the equipment of this independent regiment is sophisticated, they cannot take down a large number of our army’s strongholds in a moment.
In addition, the total amount of grain transported by our army's three transportation lines this time is not small. The Eighth Route lacks mechanized troops. How can they transport all the thousands of tons of grain in a short period of time? "
"I don't believe that in the current disaster year, the Eighth Route Army is willing to burn that food."
"Then use strongholds and food as bait, as long as we can hold off the Eighth Route Army for even two hours."
"Our army can quickly pass through railways and highways, encircle the army towards the Yangquan area, and destroy the main force of the Eighth Route Army that was lured over in one fell swoop. I think it will not be difficult."
"Thinking about it this way, General, this may not be a problem right now. Instead, it may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our army to destroy the main force of a detachment of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop!"
"吆西!"
Yoshio Shinozuka, who was also moved, nodded heavily. He felt ashamed of the blind defense he subconsciously made in his heart.
I don't know since when, facing this small Eighth Route Army unit, I actually lost the vigor that a warrior of the Japanese Empire should have.
"Send my military order and immediately convey combat instructions to the headquarters of each division..."
Yoshio Shinozuka spoke decisively, his eyes flashing coldly.
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