Since the good news came from Liu Chundao's troops, Liao Fan's command headquarters has not received any information that the operation is going well, and the offensive on the northern front of the Jingcheng mining area has been frustrated, and Li Weimin sent a signal soldier to tell him that Li Weimin's troops are repairing the upper three levels of defense, and Ma Wanzhong's troops have been frustrated in the attack on Xia'an, and they are blocked by the Japanese army in Xia'an, and they cannot move.

Now the whole battle plan, the only surprise for Liao Fan is the breakthrough of Liu Chundao's department in the Jingcheng mining area, he was the least optimistic about Liu Chundao, but it has become the key to this battle, they not only took the Jingcheng mining area, but also freed the soldiers of the special operations brigade and became a living force on the battlefield.

Ma Wanzhong mobilized all the heavy weapons of their division, and at dawn, more than 100 artillery pieces began to roar angrily at the Japanese troops in Xia'an, and the people in Xia'an only felt that the ground was shaking, and they hid in their homes and did not dare to go out of the house for half a step.

The commander of the front line of Ma Wanzhong's division gave the final order to attack, and the troops poured into Xia'an from all directions. This is already the eighth charge, and the little devils have been beaten to the brink of collapse by the Chinese army.

The shelling before the eighth charge had already blown up all the fortifications of the little devils, and even the trenches dug by the little devils were half filled.

This charge went smoothly for all the troops, there were no more Japanese troops in the stronghold, the sun finally rose, and one of Ma Wanzhong's regiments was stationed in Xia'an. After the Japanese army learned that Xia'an was lost, the little devils began to withdraw to the Touquan stronghold, which was the last stronghold of Luquan, if the Touquan was lost, then Luquan would be exposed to Ma Wanzhong's attack.

Ma Wanzhong gathered his brigade commander, after three days of fighting, they were already very tired, the casualties of the various units were not small, they no longer recommended to continue the attack, if this battle continued like this, even if they could take Yangquan, they would not be able to hold the Jingcheng mining area.

"Division commander, we can't fight anymore, if we continue to fight, our old Ben will also follow Zhejiang!" One of the regimental commanders suggested.

Ma Wanzhong looked at the officers under him, and they all bowed their heads in silence.

"Arrange the defense of Xia'an Town first!" Ma Wanzhong did not give the order to continue the attack.

For what happened on the front line, Liao Fan already understood that according to the original plan, Li Weimin had driven the little devil to Xingtang, and the preliminary plan had been completed, and after Ma Wanzhong's troops captured Xia'an, although the troops still had the strength to fight, the little devil's reinforcements had fully arrived at the front line, and if they continued to fight, even if they were victorious, the final result would be unacceptable.

At this time, Liao Fan was also in the command headquarters, because he wanted Ma Wanzhong to lead the troops to continue to attack the east to take Luquan.

The location of Luquan is very important, it is the only way to Shijiazhuang on the Zhengtai line, if it is attacked, the little devil will definitely defend it.

And now that the Jingcheng mining area has been captured by them, Luquan doesn't seem to be that important.

"Inform Liu Chun's Dao Department and the Special Operations Brigade to stop the attack, defend in place, and eliminate the remnants of the enemy in the area we have controlled!" Liao Fan decisively ordered.

"Commander Cun, you take the troops to support Liu Chundao, in case the little devil counterattacks the Jingcheng mining area! Lu Liming, let's go to Shang'an! ”

Liao Fan rode to Shang'an Town with his guard class.

At this time, Liu Chundao and the Special Operations Brigade had already turned the Jingcheng area upside down, and when a large number of puppet troops heard that the troops of the New 33rd Army were coming, they surrendered without a fight, and the surrender of the puppet army made the defense of the Japanese army very passive, and the defense line was full of loopholes.

Huang Changsheng finally led the troops out to move their muscles and bones, where could they make the little devils feel comfortable, they suddenly appeared behind the Japanese army's defense line, and Liu Chun's knife department, which cooperated with the attack, beat the little devil's defense line to a pulp.

It only took one day, with the cooperation of Huang Changsheng and Liu Chundao, the Jingcheng area east of the Jingcheng mining area was captured by them, and the Japanese troops in Sunzhuang Township and Weizhou Township began to retreat after receiving orders from their superiors, and decided to give up the Jingcheng area and preserve their strength first.

In the end, Huang Changsheng and the others also knew that without the cooperation of the two wings, they blindly attacked forward, and they were easy to be surrounded by the Japanese army, so after sweeping away some entrenched Japanese puppet troops around Sunzhuang Township and Weizhou Town, they stopped attacking.

Cunqi rushed to support with the guard regiment and joined the two of them, so that the Japanese would not find a breakthrough from their direction.

Liao Fan rushed to the headquarters of Xia An Ma Wanzhong.

Just half an hour ago, Ma Wanzhong had already arranged for the signal corps to go to the military headquarters, wanting to tell Liao Fan that he wanted to stop the attack on Luquan, but the signal corps missed it on the way with Liao Fan.

"Brother Fan, why did you come so quickly?" Ma Wanzhong was a little shocked when he saw Liao Fan appear at the door of the headquarters.

"Without further ado, how are you doing here?" Liao Fan asked.

"Brother Fan, we just captured Xia'an this morning, and the troops are repairing, and when the troops are repaired, they are ready to launch an attack on Touquan!"

Ma Wanzhong saw Liao Fan and didn't have the courage to say that he wanted the troops to stop attacking Luquan.

"How many Japanese troops are there in Touquan and Luquan now?" Liao Fan asked.

"According to the situation detected by the scouts, there are more than 3,000 Japanese puppet troops in the Touquan stronghold, of which 2,000 are on the periphery of Touquan and 1,000 are inside!"

"What about Luquan?"

"Luquan was in this morning, a reinforcement from a Japanese brigade arrived, it should be around five thousand to six thousand at this time, this is only the number of Japanese troops, as for the number of puppet troops, we are not sure yet!" Ma Wanzhong reported truthfully.

"What about the casualties of your division?"

"Just counted, more than 3,000 were wounded, and more than 2,000 were killed!"

Hearing this number, Liao Fan began to silently calculate in his heart, although they now have a slight advantage in terms of strength, but Liao Fan understands that if there is no one, it will not be called the army.

"Brother Fan, do you have any new plans?"

Ma Wanzhong asked tentatively, he wanted to know if Liao Fan still had to stick to the starting battle plan in his heart, if Liao Fan really insisted on it, he, the division commander, would also go to the front line with a gun to fight hard.

"Stop all offensive plans, defend on the spot, give you five days, you understand clearly that Shang'an Town will go to the upper three levels through Weizhou Town and Sunzhuang Township, and in the future, in addition to defending the Zhengtai line that we have occupied, you will also have to defend Shang'an to the upper three levels!"

The line that Liao Fan just drew for Ma Wanzhong is an important defensive area east of the Jingcheng Mining Area, and the focus of the little devil's defense in the Jingcheng Mining Area was originally on the Mianhe River, so there were not many fortifications arranged in the stronghold east of the Jingcheng Mining Area, and now they need to rearrange new defenses on this line.

With the end of Ma Wanzhong's attack at Xia'an, a stalemate was formed between the New 33rd Army and the Japanese in the Jingcheng area, with the two sides occasionally launching exploratory attacks, but there were no large-scale engagements.

For three consecutive days, the only large-scale engagement between the two sides was an encounter with a Japanese squadron while the guard regiment was patrolling around Shiyang Village. Due to the imperfection of the command system of the guard regiment, the two battalions sent by Cunqi were stunned as a squadron that did not eat the little devils.

The little devil protruded from the encirclement of the two battalions, which made Cun Qi seem to have suffered a great humiliation, even more shameful than his capture in the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain.

Although Liao Fan did not hold Cun Qi responsible, he used to be a division commander, and now he can't take a regiment commander well, how can he let himself go......

So the guard regiment began the most rigorous training, and on the front line against the Japanese army, the guard regiment could be seen getting up early every day for drills.

Today, the three division commanders gathered in Jingcheng City, where Ma Wanzhong's headquarters had been placed.

"Due to the change in the situation on the battlefield, except for the Zhengtai line, we have already achieved the expected results in the other two directions, Luquan has already stationed thousands of Japanese troops, and it is not good for us to continue fighting, so I plan to stop our offensive plan and defend in place, do you guys have any opinions? Let's talk about it! Liao Fan said.

The three division commanders shook their heads, they were already division commanders, not the original battalion commanders and company commanders, they knew that they should consider the overall situation, and they had no opinion on Liao Fan's decision.

"In that case, let's talk about our next course of action!"

It is very easy to defeat these places, and it is the most important thing to defend and not let the little devils re-occupy them, and what Liao Fan arranged next is the defense plan of the Jingcheng area.

"Li Weimin left a regiment of troops to assist Ma Wanzhong's division in the defense of the upper three levels, a month later Ma Wanzhong took over the defense, Liu Chundao's three regiments gave up the defense line, and withdrew to Jiazhuang Town in the Jingcheng mining area for repair, and also began to retreat after a month, but the three regiments could not all be withdrawn, and a regiment had to be withdrawn every half a month!"

Liao Fan began to arrange the defense of the Jingcheng area.

Now Liao Fan is not sure whether the Japanese army will launch a counterattack after they withdraw, so Liao Fan wants to hide some of his troops, if the little devil really launches a counterattack, Liu Chundao's division will come in handy.

Also left in the Jingcheng area were the 2,000 soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade, whose garrison was arranged in Jingcheng, and in addition to assisting Ma Wanzhong in his defense, they also had to reconnoiter the movements of the little devils at any time.

With the character of the Japanese army, after they lost more than 10,000 troops, it was impossible to just count it like this, so Liao Fan concluded that the little devil would definitely find a way to recapture the Jingcheng area.

After Liao Fan arranged everything, he explained to the three of them.

"Liu Chundao, I asked you to be stationed in Jiazhuang Town, not just for you to be stationed, you have to understand what I mean?" Liao Fan reminded Liu Chundao.

Liu Chundao hadn't reacted to what Liao Fan meant at this time.

"Brother Fan, do you mean that the little devils will attack us?" Li Weimin judged, "But we only have one regiment of troops left......"

"If you leave all the troops of your division behind, will the little devils still attack?" Liao Fan said with a smile.

The three of them suddenly understood Liao Fan's arrangement, which was to show the enemy weakness and deliberately create a situation where the little devil was empty in the Jingcheng area.

"The specific battle plan, the three of you will discuss, and the guard regiment of the commander of the regiment, I plan to let them withdraw to the west of the Mianhe River......"

After understanding what Liao Fan meant, several people immediately lifted their spirits, if the little devil was really fooled, this would be enough to consume a large amount of the Japanese army's vital force, once the plan was successful, only Ma Wanzhong's division would be left to defend in the Jingcheng area.

"Brother Fan, let's discuss something!" Ma Wanzhong said with a smile.

"You want to leave the artillery brigade behind?" Liao Fan guessed what Ma Wanzhong meant, "The artillery brigade also withdrew to Gaojiazhuang west of the Mianhe River, but you Ma Wanzhong don't hide anymore, capture so many strongholds of the little devils, the three of you have taken advantage of a lot!" ”

Liao Fan finished arranging the affairs of the troops, and also arranged the Jingcheng mining area, since the Jingcheng mining area has been captured, Liao Fan must of course run the mining work in the Jingcheng mining area as soon as possible, otherwise he will sacrifice so many soldiers to capture a place that he does not have, which is not the style of the New 33rd Army.

The best way to restore normal work in the Jingcheng mining area is the more than 5,000 miners.