When we arrived at the hiding place, it was already dawn.

Most of the troops who had been busy all night were asleep, and Li Hao didn't feel sleepy at all, lying on the ground to study the map.

As the minutes passed, the brows furrowed deeper and deeper. Finally, he dropped the pencil and said helplessly.

"The option of transporting these supplies and ammunition by car will not work."

"It's so far away from the base that even a car would have to walk for days by road, and most of the roads are in the area occupied by the little devils. If it's just a night journey, we can still use the method of surprise attack to break through, and quickly pass through the enemy-occupied area before the devils have time to react. ”

"It's so far away from the base area, the car can't even go a third of it in one night, and once it is targeted by the Japanese, it will be surrounded by heavy troops of the Japanese puppet army, and the situation will be even worse."

Hong Linfeng was anxious: "Then what should I do?" We only have three days, and if we can't get them all back to the base area, we will definitely be exposed if we continue to hide here. ”

"Go here first!" Li Hao thought about it for a long time and made a decision.

Pointing to the Linfen County on the map, he analyzed.

"This is Commander Chen's base, Commander Chen is famous for fighting devils, and the little devils are worried about him. The combat effectiveness of his troops is also very strong, as long as we enter his base area, it will be safe. ”

Hong Linfeng has cooperated with Commander Chen, and he has also been to Linfen in person, so he knows Commander Chen better than Li Hao.

He immediately replied: "Commander Chen is indeed very powerful, the closest from here, the safest to go there, and the shortest distance and the fastest speed." ”

Li Hao continued to add: "There is another benefit to going to Commander Chen. ”

"Anti-aircraft machine gun bullets, heavy mortar bullets, except for our own use, most of the rest can be left there, and let the base areas directly send people to Commander Chen to collect them. If possible, half of the equipment can be left behind and let Commander Chen build a branch factory for the production of penicillin. ”

"We only need to carry heavy artillery shells, half of the equipment of the pharmaceutical factory, and a small part of anti-aircraft machine gun bullets and heavy mortar shells back to the base area."

"The weight is reduced by more than two-thirds all of a sudden, and it will definitely be much easier to return to the base area."

"I'll send a telegram to my superiors now, asking Commander Chen to send troops to assist us in transferring to his base area."

At ten o'clock in the morning, the troops who had searched all the way finally found Li Hao's contact point.

"Sir, we found a box in the ravine ahead, it must have been rolled down during the handling process, and it was not found." A company commander hurriedly ran over and reported.

"Let's go, go over and have a look......" The leader of the group immediately ordered.

The box was hidden in a ravine, surrounded by weeds, almost a meter deep, and surrounded by a large number of bushes. If you don't search carefully, you really can't find it.

The two subordinates worked together to lift the box up.

The head of the regiment only glanced at the appearance, and a pair of eyes began to glow.

As a soldier, the most common box is the ammunition box. The box in front of him was all too familiar to him, and he was sure that it was an ammunition box for shells.

"Open the ......," the regimental commander commanded, suppressing his inner excitement.

The bayonet was inserted into the gap in the lid, and with a sharp force, the lid was pried open.

Lifting the thatch covering it, six cannons popped out into the regimental commander's field of vision.

"Sir, it's a large-caliber mortar shell." The subordinate reported with shock.

"This must be the contraband that the upper peak wants us to find!" The head of the regiment shouted, and then he couldn't hold back his laughter.

"Large-caliber mortar shells, it is useless for ordinary troops to ask for them, so these shells must have been prepared by the pharmaceutical factory for the Eighth Route Army."

"According to intelligence, a large number of heavy mortars have appeared in the Eighth Route Army recently, and it must be related to this pharmaceutical factory."

"I'm still stunned about what to do, and immediately expand the search area."

"These shells certainly don't appear here for no reason."

It didn't take long for a battalion commander under his command to rush over: "Tuanzao, we also found a box two hundred meters away, which contained instruments and equipment!" ”

"Sir, we found a broken box three hundred meters in the forest, as well as some traces left by the other party's retreat, I don't know what the contents of the box are, it should be the raw material that Shangfeng said." Another subordinate rushed over to report.

"This is where the other party stole beams and changed pillars and materials for stones." Three boxes were found in a row, and the regiment commander had reason to believe that he had found the answering point, and judged with great certainty.

"They exchanged a lot of supplies and ammunition here last night, and they must be hiding in the mountains in front of us."

"There are a lot of things, they will definitely not be able to go fast, we will definitely be able to catch up with us now."

The more the regiment commander spoke, the more excited he became, as if the target he was looking for was already something he had explored, he stared at the subordinates who had just come over and asked.

"In which direction is the box you found?"

"Northeast!" The company commander replied immediately.

"That's the direction to Yan'an, and what we're looking for must be in that direction." The head of the regiment thought for a moment and made a decision.

"You lead the way, and we'll pursue in that direction."

"They have brought so many supplies, they will definitely leave some clues, as long as we are fast, we will definitely be able to intercept them and retrieve those supplies."

In the Taiyue base area, Commander Chen was worried in the headquarters.

In the first and second stages of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the troops achieved great results, and every unit participating in the battle made considerable gains.

But Heaven is fair, and it is impossible to let the Eighth Route Army take advantage forever.

By the third stage of the campaign, the offensive turned into a defensive.

In the face of the retaliatory counterattack of the Japanese, the combat pressure of all units was very great, especially the logistical pressure.

In the first two phases, the troops were constantly on the offensive, consuming a lot of ammunition, especially heavy mortar shells.

originally thought that the little devil would definitely have to rest first after suffering huge losses, and then fight back after recovering his strength.

The Eighth Route Army could also take the opportunity to digest the results of the battle, restore its strength, and then use its strongest combat strength to meet the Japanese counterattack.

Unexpectedly, the little devil did not play his cards according to common sense, and directly launched a retaliatory counterattack, not giving the Eighth Route Army a chance to breathe at all.

Under such circumstances, although the participating units of the Eighth Route Army were very tired and lacked ammunition, they could only go up and start the third phase of the Hundred Regiments Battle, counter-sweep, and keep the fruits of victory.

"Report to the commander, the results of the participating units in the first two stages have been counted, and all the weapons and ammunition captured have been counted." The Deputy Chief of Staff walked in and reported.

"Tell me how many weapons and ammunition you have?" Commander Chen asked with a serious face, but there was obviously a hint of anxiety in his words.

The deputy chief of staff did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied: "There are 5,836 infantry machine guns, 41 heavy machine guns, 39 mortars, mountain artillery, infantry guns, and field artillery that can be put into use immediately, a total of eight." ”

"Because we have knocked down two arsenals, the ammunition captured is relatively optimistic, with a total of more than 120 rounds of ammunition for rifle machine guns, 150,000 rounds of ammunition for heavy machine guns, and more than 1,200 shells."

The serious expression on Commander Chen's face did not soothe because of this good news.

One and two million rounds of ammunition, which sounds like a lot, but the subordinates forgot the number of troops in the entire base area.

The main force alone has nearly 20,000 men, and minus the light machine guns, each soldier has an average of less than 50 rounds, which cannot last long.