The slower-moving parts of the secret service camp set off first under the leadership of Zhou Xianpei.
Yang Yuanshan and guard Zhang Xiaohe galloped back on their horses, and soon came to the independent regiment and found Li Yunlong.
"Yang Yuanshan, why are you here? Is there something going on?"
Li Yunlong was panting as he walked with a box of hand grenades made in the border area on his shoulders.
This thing was what he had shamelessly asked for from Zhang Wanhe, the Minister of Logistics, before the Battle of Lijiapo.
For this, he also paid the price of a Zuoguan sword.
As a result, it was not used in the Battle of Lijiapo, and later in the Battle of Hehekou!
Li Yunlong was reluctant to give these things to the local troops like a miser, so he could only let the soldiers carry them.
For him, although the hand grenades made in the border area are not easy to use, they are also precious ammunition. How can they be wasted casually?
I think back then, in Hubei, Henan and Anhui, not to mention these twenty boxes of grenades, even a grenade or even a bullet was still a good thing!
"Captain, we encountered a company of Japanese soldiers in front..."
Yang Yuanshan told Li Yunlong what happened just now.
Li Yunlong also frowned when he heard this.
His sense of smell on the battlefield was so keen that he immediately sensed something unusual and said:
"You bastard little devils, I guess it was after we helped Lao Kong out of the siege two days ago that group of little devils who fled exposed our whereabouts.
So now the little devils are throwing out these worthless baits like the second devils to catch us. "
"Yes, our battalion instructor Zhou Xianpei and I also judged this way, so I just asked our battalion's logistics troops to change their route eastward and make a circle to northwest Shanxi."
"good!
Your kid's response is good, moving east and west, so that the little devil can't figure out our final destination, so as not to plunge into the little devil's pocket array. "
Li Yunlong nodded in appreciation.
"But Captain, hiding like this is not an option.
With our current strength, should we simply give the little devil a hard blow? "
Yang Yuanshan encouraged.
These days were mainly about marching, and he was really a little tired of it.
The most important thing is that he is hungry for meat!
Without beating up the little devils, it was obviously impossible to have meat to eat. After all, the little remaining dried meat, canned food, etc. brought by the team of more than a thousand people in the secret service camp had already been reimbursed in a few days.
Of course, Li Yunlong was not an honest person. Hearing Yang Yuanshan's instigation, he immediately became interested:
"What do you want to do, kid?"
Yang Yuanshan immediately took out a folded map from his pocket, unfolded it, pointed to several place names and said to Li Yunlong:
"Captain, I want to attack Fuwan Town!
With our strength, it should take less than half an hour to capture Fuwan Town. After cleaning the battlefield in one hour, we will retreat to Flood Village and go straight to Wild Wolf Valley. The little devils will never catch our tail! "
"Good guy, this is interesting!
Fuwan Town is to the southeast of our location, Hongshui Village is to the southwest, and Wild Wolf Valley is to the northwest. If you go around in a circle, not to mention the little devils, even we ourselves will be dizzy! "
Li Yunlong clicked his tongue and praised.
"How about it? Captain, can we have a vote?"
Yang Yuanshan looked forward to it.
"Fuwan Town is less than twenty miles away from Yang County. The Yang County Japs are out of the city to provide support. The vanguard is expected to arrive in an hour. What if you can't take Fuwan Town in half an hour?
In a county like Yang County, the Japs would at least send a brigade of troops to garrison, or even a regiment.
And once we are entangled by the Japs from Yang County, and the 37th Division of the Japs from Shuiquan comes around, we will be unable to fly and become a piece of meat on the chopping board of the Japs!
It doesn't matter if our independent regiment is completely destroyed. When the overall situation in northwest Shanxi collapses, you and I will become the sinners of our Eighth Route Army! "
Li Yunlong's expression was very solemn.
"Captain, you can find wealth in danger. It is precisely because Fuwan Town is less than twenty miles away from Yang County, so I guess that the little devils will not deploy too many troops for defense. At most, one squadron, plus one battalion of the Locust Alliance Army. .
Now that the Locust Alliance Army has been mobilized into the mountains, Fuwan Town may only have one squadron and more than a hundred little Japs.
As for the little Japanese reinforcements in Yang County, the worst we can do is arrange two battalions to block them. The blockade lasts for 1 to 2 hours, which is enough for us to capture Fuwan Town.
Commander, even if there is a regiment of little devils in Yang County, they will definitely not dare to attack with the whole army this late at night. Aren't they afraid that we will attack east and west and plot their Yang County?
So there is a high probability that a large group will be sent to entangle us first. You don’t think that our two battalions can’t stop a large group of little devils for two hours, right? "
Yang Yuanshan continued to encourage.
It was an easy choice for Li Yunlong whether to continue marching and be blocked by the Japs, or to take the initiative to cause trouble and disrupt the Japs' deployment.
After all, he is not a peaceful person!
So he only thought for less than 3 seconds before gritting his teeth and saying:
"Okay! I'm done with this!"
But let’s make an agreement first, you won’t be able to take the spoils from Fuwan Town for yourself! "
"Okay, I'll just order some food and bullets, and I'll give all the other spoils to the regiment. Is that okay?"
Of course Yang Yuanshan didn't care about weapons and equipment and waved his hand indifferently.
Even the bullet in his mouth was prepared to be taken out of his system's warehouse and pretended to be captured when the time came.
Whatever is captured on the battlefield should be left to the independent regiment.
He couldn't bear to see many soldiers of Wang Huaibao's third battalion still putting wooden blocks in their bullet bags to pretend they had enough ammunition.
We are all comrades in the same regiment. Our own secret service battalion is extremely rich, but the third battalion is so pitiful. It’s not good!
Too little attention to unity!
Hearing Yang Yuanshan's inhumane words, Li Yunlong suddenly smiled and reached out to pat Yang Yuanshan's shoulder.
“Good boy, feel free!
I will call Zhang Dabiao and the others over now. "
Then he called Huzi and asked him to call someone.
…
After a while, Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo, Zhang Dabiao, Shen Quan and Wang Huaibaoquan arrived.
As soon as he saw Zhao Gang, Li Yunlong frowned and scolded Hu Zi:
"Huzi, I asked you to call some battalion commanders over, why did you call the political commissar here too?
Don't you know that the political commissar has to keep an eye on the telegraph machine and has a heavy responsibility?
If you delay the work of the political commissar, you go to the cooking class to carry the big pot! "
He was worried that Zhao Gang would block his and Yang Yuanshan's plan.
Huzi looked so bitter that he almost cried:
"Captain, I wasn't the one who called you. It was the political commissar who followed me when he saw that I was calling him Battalion Commander Zhang."
Zhao Gang couldn't stand it any longer and quickly patted Hu Zi on the shoulder and asked Li Yunlong:
"Li Yunlong, what are you doing? Do you still want to hide it from me?"
"Hey, Commissar Zhao, what can I do?
Isn’t this because we helped Kong Jie, and now the little devil is sending countless second devils to fish for us all over the mountains and plains?
The spy battalion had just eliminated a company of Japanese Japs and exposed their whereabouts.
I discussed with Yang Yuanshan that if we acted according to the Japs' expectations, the Japs might set up pocket formations in front waiting for us, so we simply did the opposite and beat the Japs first to disrupt their flow. Let’s talk about deployment. "
Li Yunlong had an expression on his face that said, "I really have no choice."
Zhang Dabiao and others suddenly became excited when they heard that Li Yunlong said they were going to fight.
Since setting off from Yangcun, they have been marching every day, and they have long found it boring.
A fight?
Zhao Gang's first reaction was to disagree.
But he still restrained his objections a little, thought about it calmly, and immediately had to admit that Li Yunlong and Yang Yuanshan's considerations were reasonable.
If the enemy's deployment cannot be disrupted and the independent regiment continues to move forward, it may be faced with an encirclement and suppression by the Japanese in a day or two.
After all, they are now getting closer to Shuiquan, a big city where the Japs are heavily stationed.
Thinking of this, he immediately asked:
"Commander, where are you going to fight?"
"Fuwan Town!"
"What?"
Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo, Zhang Dabiao and others all changed their colors.
However, Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo were worried, while Zhang Dabiao and other battalion commanders were excited.
"Old Li, the distance between Fuwan Town and Yang County is less than 20 miles. As long as we fight, the little devil's reinforcements will come soon!"
During this period, Zhao Gang read maps whenever he had time, and had long imprinted in his mind the counties, towns, roads, and villages along the way. Now when he heard Li Yunlong say "Fuwan Town", he knew the general outline of this place. location, and immediately raised his questions.
"Old Zhao, it is precisely because it is close to the county seat that we have the opportunity to win easily!"
Li Yunlong was categorical.
Zhao Gang wanted to continue to object, but at this time he saw telegraph operator Zhang Tao running over to report:
"Political Commissar Zhao, encrypted telegram from superiors!"
As soon as they heard the encrypted telegram, everyone present knew that something big must have happened, and everyone looked grim.
Zhao Gang immediately took the telegraph newspaper, took out the code book in his arms, translated it, and finally said to everyone:
"The superiors have sent a report, ordering us to attack the traffic and strongholds of the Japs at all costs within the next month. The main target is Zhengtai Road, but other targets can also be considered as appropriate.
Final campaign goal - no upper limit! "
Upon hearing Zhao Gang's words, Yang Yuanshan, a time traveler, still didn't understand that the war that lasted for several months and shocked all parties had finally begun!
Li Yunlong was so excited that he patted Zhang Dabiao on the shoulder, almost causing him to sit down on the ground:
"Great! Now we are on the same page as our superiors!
Old Zhao, please immediately report our preparations to attack Fuwan Town to your superiors! "
(End of chapter)
