Seeing Li Ping sneering, the political commissar came over and asked, "Commander, what do you think?" ”

Li Ping smiled and poured a glass of water for the political commissar, and said: "Sugiyama Yuan thinks very well, he has to have an advantage at both ends, but I want to make him displease at both ends." ”

The political commissar's eyes widened when he heard this, he knew Li Ping well, and such a confident appearance proved that he had a way to deal with Sugiyama Yuan.

The political commissar's heart was beating faster and stared at Li Ping, who did not hide it and told all his judgments.

After Li Ping finished speaking, the political commissar was full of smiles, so he saw that their 77th Division had a way to complete the deployment of Yan'an.

Li Ping lit a cigarette and said, "Send a telegram to the chief of staff, let him prepare, and be ready to go out at any time." ”

"Order Chen Zhong to command the troops to lurk and dispatch, close to the target Zaozhuang area, and supply the devil's supplies."

"Order the front-line troops in the base area, no longer entangled with the devils, and quickly retreat to the defense line we have prepared."

Li Ping gave three orders, and the Eighth Route Army immediately began to act, and when the devil blocked the Eighth Route Army around Juye, Sugiyama Yuan was excited when he received the telegram.

"Telegraph to the 102nd and 103rd divisions, let them rest for the night and go to Zaozhuang tomorrow."

"Order the Yamamoto Division, the 101st Division to take over the defensive line, and be sure to block Li Ping's troops."

Sugiyama Yuan went down to rest after speaking, he put his mind at ease, on the other side, the front line Yamamoto looked at the position of the Eighth Route Army, and ordered the troops to attack tentatively, when he saw that the fire was vertical and horizontal, and the artillery was temporarily helpless, it was a gasp.

"Baga, the Eighth Route Army actually built a permanent position defense area here." , Yamamoto was dumbfounded, how did the Eighth Route Army do it.

Not only Yamamoto was tempted, but the devils in the other directions were also tempting, and they came to the same conclusion as Yamamoto, if they wanted to take the position of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side, unless there was only a small part of the Eighth Route Army left, otherwise they would be difficult to break.

Li Ping stayed at the command headquarters of the position and looked at the intelligence coming from the front-line troops, and he knew that this was a temptation of devils.

"Division commander, according to estimates, we can hold out here for at least ten days, and if the devils want to break through our position, they will have to pay a big price."

Li Ping nodded, I don't know how many people helped the Eighth Route Army build this position day and night, which can be described as a permanent fortress.

"Send a telegram to Huzi, the goal of his special combat team in this part is only one, to destroy the railway from Xuzhou and Anhui to Hubei, and the time will start at eight o'clock tomorrow morning."

Li Ping sat down and ordered, and now he was going to start carrying out Yan'an's orders and pestering all the troops of Sugiyama Yuan.

The Eighth Route Army was very calm tonight, only the devils began to deploy troops to arrange the defense line after receiving the order, and the defense area of the 102nd and 103rd divisions must be taken over, so that they can retreat tomorrow.

When the reconnaissance team reported the situation to Li Ping, Li Ping looked at the defense line and showed a murderous aura.

"Order the front-line troops of the 101st Division, close to the Yamamoto Division, to attack immediately and disrupt the rhythm of the devils."

Li Ping will not let go of such a good opportunity, if he wants two divisions to surround such a large area, don't even think about it, a move by the devil means that a loophole appears.

The sudden counteroffensive of the Eighth Route Army caught the defense areas of the two divisions by surprise, and they had already drawn troops to take over the defensive lines in other directions, but now as soon as the Eighth Route Army attacked, the emptiness of the defensive line was exposed.

"The order to take over the troops to move on, as planned."

"The defensive line troops blocked the attack of the Eighth Route Army and waited to complete the takeover."

Yamamoto is now having a headache, and the defense line built by the Eighth Route Army is already large, and it is completely built according to the strength of blocking more than four divisions.

Now two more divisions have taken over the encirclement, how to encircle such a large area.

Yamamoto also wanted to continue to compress the defense line of the Eighth Route Army until the two divisions could block the Eighth Route Army in a certain area, but the position built by the Eighth Route Army was too ruthless, and it was completely a situation of fighting to the death.

Li Ping doesn't care about Yamamoto's headache, now he has quieted down after the Eighth Route Army attacked, according to the intelligence, Sugiyama Yuan wants to transfer two divisions to Hubei, so he can really block the two divisions, how to limit the two divisions that have been transferred from the past?

Sabotaging the railroad is only the most basic strategy, but if the devil is bent on going south, he can go by road, so it is a waste of time.

"Division commander, I think it's better to let the chief of staff and Chen Zhong drag the devil's retreating troops halfway, but we can only hold two divisions here."

At the suggestion of the political commissar, Li Ping nodded and said, "Now I have a general idea. ”

"I ordered the tigers to sabotage the railway, so that the devils can't easily transport reinforcements by train."

"If the devil advances by road, we only need to drag the devil in Shandong for five days to complete the goal, after all, it will take time to reach Hubei all the way, and by then Chief Li has already completed the battle."

"So the key is five days, the chief of staff's troops can't choose to rebel, he must attack the direction of Jinan as planned, and now the devils are almost all dragged to the front line, this opportunity can't be missed."

"There is also the part of Chen Zhong, my idea is that he first threatened the devil materials in Zaozhuang, and then returned halfway to fight guerrillas and drag the devil, and then Sugiyama Yuan was helpless."

After Li Ping finished speaking, the political commissar nodded suddenly, two divisions can be dragged here, Chen Zhong can hold two divisions, and the attack of the chief of staff can make Sugiyama Yuan afraid, and when the time comes, he will definitely drop his troops and return to Jinan, and he must make Sugiyama Yuan feel that Shandong is in danger, and if he sends troops to Hubei, he may fall at any time, so that his goal will be achieved.

"Division commander, Brigade Commander Chen Zhong telegraphed, he is going to raid Zaozhuang tonight and take down the devil's supplies."

The signal corps handed the telegram to Li Ping, and after reading it, Li Ping handed the telegram to the political commissar and said: "Call back to Brigade Commander Chen, the situation on the front line will be judged by himself and then decided, but tomorrow afternoon he must return to the front line of Jining and hold back the troops retreating from the devils." ”

After the signal corps recorded and left, Li Ping shifted his attention to the Zaozhuang area, this place should be very well defended, this is a strategic point.

But Chen Zhong's telegram made Li Ping feel wrong, Chen Zhong was his old subordinate, he knew him, he didn't do things he wasn't sure of, since he was sure to take Zaozhuang, there must be something he didn't know.

"Let Zaozhuang and its underground party comrades in Xuzhou investigate the situation and see what is abnormal?"

Li Ping was puzzled, and the political commissar blurted out when he heard this: "Division, is there something wrong?" ”

Li Ping shook his head and waited quietly with the political commissar, and an hour later, the signal corps ran in: "The division commander, the political commissar, and the underground party comrades telegraphed that the Japanese airfield in Xuzhou was suddenly closed, and a large number of planes landed in formation, and the devils in Zaozhuang were transferred to the Xuzhou area of Jiangsu Province to assist in defense. ”

"What?"