my bright sword career

Chapter 453 Pulling the Loot

In a small stone house in a remote mountain village, an antenna entwined with tree branches is erected high. In the simple house, three radio stations are working nervously, with the sound of tick-tock knocking one after another.

The deputy commander sat on a straw stool, and in front of him was a table made of templates. He frowned as he looked at the one hundred thousand to one map in front of him.

The five-month mopping up of the iron wall launched by the Japanese army did not come to an end with the sacrifice of the left deputy chief of staff. Instead, it became more crazy as time went by. Especially this month, the Japanese army organized more than [-] The Japanese and puppet troops, with the cooperation of hundreds of Japanese aircraft, dispatched hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles. Under the personal command of the commander of the North China Garrison Neiji Okamura, they launched an unprecedented and brutal raid on the Central Hebei region.

The Jizhong Military Region has been in emergency several times, and the deputy commander-in-chief has not been able to sleep at night these days.

You should know that the Jizhong Military Region is a secondary military region of the Eighth Route Army, with 5 military divisions under it. At its peak in October 1938, it had 10 million people in 44 counties (22 of which were fully controlled) and 800 troops.Because of its wealth, the Eighth Route Army called it China's Ukraine, and the Japanese army called it the Eighth Route Military Station.

Because the Jizhong Military Region is so important, it has become a place where the Japanese army wants to go and quickly. Once the Jizhong Military Region falls, the blow to the Eighth Route Army will be huge.

Just when the deputy commander-in-chief was burning with anxiety, a voice sounded from the side: "Chief, this is a telegram just sent by the 386th Brigade Independent Regiment."

A staff officer hurried over and handed him a telegram.

"A telegram from the Independence Regiment?"

The deputy commander-in-chief frowned. According to the army's rules and regulations, it is a taboo for the army to skip reports.

After all, so far the Eighth Route Army has more than [-] troops and nearly [-] regiments. If each regiment reports to the headquarters without authorization, the deputy commander-in-chief will be too busy even if he has superpowers.

The deputy commander also knew that Li Yunlong would not fail to understand this truth, so he took the telegram with some doubts, and his eyes widened immediately.

"Li Yunlong inadvertently rescued a pilot of the Liantai militia flight corps. After Gao Hongming picked up the pilot, he airdropped [-] tons of ammunition and two tons of medicine to the independent regiment?"

Rao is the deputy commander in chief who has been in the army for decades, and this is the first time he has seen such a bold handwriting.

1942 was the most difficult year on the anti-Japanese battlefield. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the Japanese combined fleet almost swept across the entire Pacific Ocean. Even the Americans had to take refuge temporarily. This is why Okamura Ningji dared to mobilize from the front line The reason why more than 20 troops launched a big raid.

And this big raid also caused unprecedented losses to the base of the Eighth Route Army. By the end of May 1942, the Japanese and puppet troops had occupied all the counties and large market towns and villages in the central Hebei base area; they had established more than 5 strongholds and excavated more than 1700 kilometers. Block the ditch and divide the Jizhong base area into more than 4000 blocks.

Bases in eastern Hebei and northwestern Shanxi also suffered losses to varying degrees. Not only that, but due to the large-scale raids by the Japanese army, the Eighth Route Army was not only short of ammunition, but also almost exhausted of medicines. This almost worried the deputy commander.

Now Li Yunlong's independent regiment has such great good news, which also makes the deputy commander-in-chief overjoyed.

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He called the staff officer without hesitation, "Call Li Yunlong immediately, and allow him to leave one ton of weapons and ammunition and one hundred kilograms of medicines, and I will transport the rest to the headquarters."

"Yes!" The staff officer quickly took the order and left.

The deputy commander-in-chief was also relieved when he was happy. With this batch of weapons, ammunition and medicines, the Eighth Route Army, which was short of doctors and medicines, could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but he couldn't help but think of the sacrificed left deputy chief of staff, and his eyes were a little bit Red up.

"Old man, did you see that Gao Hongming sent us another batch of weapons and ammunition, we can finally breathe a sigh of relief."

After the pressure eased a bit, the deputy commander couldn't help being a little surprised, "That's not right... the Liantai militia is now facing the siege of the 108th and [-]th divisions of the Japanese army. How can he have spare energy to support Li Yunlong? This is unreasonable."

Just when the deputy commander-in-chief couldn't think of a miracle, the new deputy chief of staff, Mr. Teng, walked over quickly.

"Boss, good news."

Deputy Chief of Staff Teng said happily: "We just received the news that the Xinyi Regiment, which was sent by the 386th Brigade to assist in the defense of Liantai County, and the Liantai Militia Group attacked the Japanese Sixth Division and the 108th Division in Liantai County a week ago. After annihilating 1.1 enemies, the Japanese 108th Division and [-]th Division had to retreat [-] kilometers to rebuild fortifications, and only then did they stabilize their positions."

"Is it true that 1.1 enemies were annihilated?" The deputy commander-in-chief couldn't help being taken aback, "You are not mistaken, you must know that what they are facing is one of the most elite divisions in the permanent divisions of the Japanese army." , Don’t talk about the Sixth Division, even the 108th is not a good stubble, what ability does the Xinyi Regiment have to beat them?”

No wonder the deputy commander was surprised. He asked himself that although the life of the Eighth Route Army is very difficult now, and they have to break up into pieces to play guerrilla warfare with the devils, they are nothing compared to the Liantai militia.

No matter how bad the Eighth Route Army was, it could break out into fragments and disperse to fight against the Japanese army. It could even go to the mountains to fight against the Japanese army. But Gao Hongming’s foundation was in Liantai County. If Liantai County disappeared, the Liantai militia would also disappear. Even in the face of the two divisions of the Japanese army, Gao Hongming could only choose to defend to the death.

Deputy Chief of Staff Teng showed both surprise and admiration on his face: "Gao Hongming first ordered four artillery battalions with a total of more than [-] heavy artillery pieces to bombard the Japanese positions for an hour, and then sent the Xinyi regiment and the Liantai militia three A total of more than [-] infantrymen from a reinforced battalion launched a strong attack on the Japanese army.

In less than an hour, they broke through the two lines of defense of the Japanese army. When attacking the third line of defense of the Japanese army, the Japanese army deployed a reserve team to launch a counterattack against them. A total of more than 200 tons of bombs were dropped, including incendiary bombs and heavy aerial bombs.

This bombing alone caused the Japanese army to lose thousands of people. Even the elite Japanese army could not resist the attack from the sky, so they had to retreat hastily.

The Xinyi regiment reported that they seized more than 5000 70-type rifles, more than [-] rounds of bullets, and countless ammunition including mortars and grenades just by cleaning the battlefield in this battle.

Ding Wei, the head of the Xinyi Regiment, said that their soldiers couldn't even carry them due to too many seizures. In the end, the Xinyi Regiment sent dozens of trucks to help them pull the spoils. "

my bright sword career

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