The devil couldn't have imagined that an infantry squad of the Eighth Route Army would be equipped with two mortars.

When he realized the danger and wanted to transfer, the second round of two shells had already fallen from the sky.

"Boom ......"

A shell smashed right next to the heavy, and the moment the fire flew, the two gunners and the two riflemen were blown over together, and they fell to the ground on their backs and did not move.

Each ambush in the blockade ditch has fifteen people, five devils, and ten puppet soldiers.

The loss of four devils and the only light machine gun at once is equivalent to the loss of more than half of their firepower and combat effectiveness in an instant.

What's more, without the devil to supervise the war, the remaining ten puppet soldiers seem to have changed into a different person, and directly retract their heads back into the blockade ditch.

The infantry squad, which was pinned down near the road, seized the opportunity to rush onto the road.

"Boom ......"

Two thunderous explosions rang out on the road, and then the firefighting stopped.

The Eighth Route Army marched away with eight prisoners, leaving behind seven corpses of Japanese puppet soldiers and two large pits made by explosives bags.

Five minutes later, six cars loaded with soldiers arrived at the point of fire.

Seeing the corpses and the big pit, the devil squadron leader's face was full of anger, and he had the idea of killing people to vent his anger, and his eyes were red and red.

But the Eighth Route Army had already run away without a trace, and there was no goal if they wanted to vent, so they could only forcibly suppress the anger, and ordered with a calm face: "What are you still doing in a daze?" ”

"Get out of the car immediately to repair the road, without a car, we can't get to the battlefield for an hour on two legs."

Ten minutes later, the stopped convoy moved on.

But there were several large potholes lying across the road waiting for them ahead.

It took nearly an hour for the reinforcements from Guanshan Town to arrive at the battlefield, but the baggage team had been completely wiped out......

At the regimental headquarters of the garrison, several staff officers went in and out between the telecommunications room and the war room, and several radio stations in the telecommunications room had almost no time to shut down for maintenance, taking turns receiving and receiving telegrams.

Hong Linfeng and his two deputies stayed next to the map, summarizing the telegrams that the regiment headquarters had received continuously.

After the counter-sweep entered the confrontation stage, the garrison regiment did not fight another big battle, but small battles continued.

Intercept a baggage team today, a patrol team tomorrow, and two maintenance meetings on the day after tomorrow, or destroy a section of the blockade ditch and blockade wall......

These battle reports were all collected here through several separate battalion headquarters.

The three main battalions were also not idle, and one was responsible for a stronghold.

Shoot cold guns, shoot cold guns, raid patrols...... Exhaust all kinds of methods to consume the Japanese puppet army in the base area.

"Commander, this is the battle report that has just been put together." Hong Linfeng took the data that had been counted and reported happily.

"In the past two months, the main force, independent battalions, local troops, and guerrillas have cooperated with each other to launch a devil-killing competition, killing a total of 569 little devils, capturing and eliminating 968 puppet soldiers, and capturing 36 light and heavy machine guns and more than 890 rifles, with remarkable results."

"In addition, by striking at the baggage units of the Japanese puppet army, we have intercepted more than 280,000 catties of military rations from the Japanese puppet army."

"Now several independent battalions are not only self-sufficient, often opening meat for the soldiers, but also supporting the regimental headquarters with nearly 100,000 catties of food."

"Also, several independent battalions have not been weakened by fighting devils, and they have all developed a lot in battle."

"In particular, Huang Sheng's company, which had only 100 people before the division of troops, has now expanded to 300 people, not only set up an artillery platoon, a heavy machine gun platoon, a recruit platoon, and a guard platoon, but also formed two main platoons on the basis of the three main platoons, almost one battalion of local troops."

Wang Hong said: "Regiment Commander, with the cooperation of the main force, many hardcore traitors in the maintenance meeting have been killed by them, and then more and more maintenance will be controlled by us, or we will install our own people." ”

"The Japanese are now mud bodhisattvas crossing the river, and it is difficult to protect themselves."

"Because I don't dare to leave the stronghold casually, I can only watch those who maintain the club in Cao Ying's heart in Han."

"If we continue to develop like this, in another two months, we will be able to secretly control more than sixty percent of the maintenance associations in the blockade area, and ensure that all maintenance associations have our own people, and their every move will not escape our eyes."

Li Hao was very happy, but it didn't last long before he regained his seriousness.

"The current good situation is further proof that our anti-sweep plan is correct."

"Chief of Staff, you immediately send a telegram to the independent battalions, and the troops continue to act as planned."

"Without an order from the regimental headquarters, no one can act rashly and counterattack in advance."

"Tell everyone, hold on for another three months, and after three months, I promise to regain all the lost bases."

Hong Linfeng's suspicion of the regiment commander's battle plan has developed from the initial skepticism to the current unconditional support, and he answered immediately.

"The regiment commander can rest assured, several independent battalions are taking advantage every day, and they will definitely not give up the good situation to fight the little devils."

"I'll send them a telegram in a moment, and give them another reminder."

Li Hao thought for a while and added!

"One more thing, before the big counteroffensive, everyone has another very important task: to protect food!"

"In two months, the base will have an autumn harvest."

"Through our efforts, nearly 40% of the land in the base area can get a good harvest."

"If all these grains are harvested and returned to the warehouse, the villagers will be able to survive the winter, and after the beginning of spring, the base will help them solve part of the rations, and then dig some wild vegetables to eat, and it will be no problem to survive until next year's autumn harvest."

"Similarly, the Japanese puppet army stationed in the base area must also take a fancy to these grains."

"Under our blows, most of the food they sent in from the rear fell into our hands."

"If it continues like this, even if the little devil has a complete logistics system and sufficient reserves, he will not be able to hold it in the end."

"So they will definitely fight in the blockade area to feed the war and arm to grab food."

"When the time comes, all units will not only have to protect these grains, but also take the opportunity to kill some more Japanese puppet troops to reduce the pressure of our next counteroffensive."

"When all the grain is returned to the warehouse, we will start a major counteroffensive."

The Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, the casualties of the various units were not summarized here.

In the words of the front-line commander, the loss of a few imperial troops in a full-fledged infantry squad is nothing at all, and it does not affect the combat effectiveness of the troops, so these sporadic losses are concealed by the front-line commander.

Food is not good, there is a drought in the occupied areas, the common people have no food in their hands, and even if the troops want to collect grain on the spot, there is no food to collect.

So they can only report to the military department and ask for support.

But they also used up too much food.

The troops, which were less than 10,000 men, had used up the rations and other supplies that the 20,000-strong army could not eat up in two months.

There was a severe drought in North China, and the military headquarters did not hoard much materials and rations.

At this rate of attrition, sooner or later the military headquarters will be overwhelmed by the troops in the garrison regiment.

As a result, the autumn grain that had not yet been harvested in the occupied areas was taken by the army commander.

Seeing that the autumn harvest was getting closer and closer, the army commander decisively ordered.

"Chief of Staff, send a telegram to the sweeping units in the occupied territories. After the autumn harvest begins, half of the grain harvested in the occupied areas must be collected as a grain tax. Make up for the military rations and supplies we lost during this time.

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