Regarding Chairman Chiang's thoughts, in fact, many people here don't understand why he wants to compete with Liao Fan for a while, and hasn't Liao Fan already admitted that the New 33rd Army is subordinate to the National Revolutionary Army?

Although Chen Cheng knew Chairman Chiang's thoughts, he did not want Chairman Chiang to be angry, and this protracted war could not be ended in a day or two. And launching a counteroffensive may not be victorious, if it fails, they will break the current situation, maybe the little devils can take the opportunity to attack them, and the final result is to lift a stone and shoot themselves in the foot.

And Liao Fan's attack on the Jingcheng mining area was a last resort, and the place controlled by the New 33rd Army was so large that it could finish all the places in two or three days. For the sake of future development, Liao Fan must do this!

Although Ma Wanzhong was the main force of this attack, they were not responsible for directly attacking the Jingcheng mining area, but the Japanese army on the Zhengtai Railway in the south of the mining area, and Li Weimin's part was responsible for attacking the Japanese army in the north of the Jingcheng mining area.

And it was Liu Chundao who directly confronted the Japanese army in the Jingcheng mining area.

In addition to Hu Guoshan, the other three division commanders all sent a large number of reconnaissance personnel to the Jingcheng area, and their specific reconnaissance targets were how many firepower points the little devils had arranged on the defense line, and according to these firepower points, they arranged their own limited forces.

As for Hu Guoshan, the question he considered in Heshun County was whether to fight Pingding County or Xiyang County. Xiyang County is located between Heshun County and Pingding County, if you can raid Pingding County and capture Pingding County in a short time, then Xiyang County will become the king of the urn, and they can be trapped without fighting.

But there is also a great risk in attacking Pingding County, not to mention the pressure from Yangquan, once they can't attack for a long time, the Japanese puppet army in Xiyang County will be lazy to cut off their logistics supply line, so that the troops attacking Pingding County will be suppressed by the Japanese army from Yangquan and Xiyang County, if the Japanese army in Pingding County will cooperate with the attack, then the final result will definitely be a fiasco.

"Lao Zhao! Do you think it's better for us to fight Pingding County, or to fight Xiyang County? Hu Guoshan asked Zhao Caizhu's opinion.

Obviously, after the county seat of Pingding is conquered, their interests will develop rapidly, and they do not have to worry about the problem of defending the city, as long as they can defend the county seat of Pingding, it would be good if a battalion of troops was put in the county seat of Xiyang to guard the city gate. Whether the Japanese army went south or north, it had to pass through the defense area of Hu Guoshan's division, so it was a matter of killing two birds with one stone to pacify the county seat.

"Division commander, don't think about which county to hit first, Brother Fan asked you to send a regiment of troops back to Taihang Mountain to fortify the military headquarters," Zhao Caizhu reported the situation reported by the signal corps to Hu Guoshan, "Brother Fan, now you have to ask us for troops!" ”

"Doesn't Brother Fan have a lot of troops in his hands? Why did you suddenly ask for troops with us? Hu Guoshan asked puzzled.

"Brother Fan, I took out the troops and strengthened them to Commander Ma and Commander Li, and formed a guard regiment with the remaining part of the troops, and when the time comes, I will set off with Brother Fan, although there are thousands of people in the remaining troops, but there is no unified command, it is just a plate of scattered sand, it is estimated that after this battle, Brother Fan will strengthen these troops to these two divisions!" Zhao Caizhu briefly analyzed the situation of this operation.

"Send it, send it back!" Hu Guoshan thought for a while and said, his guard battalion is a strengthened guard battalion, with more than 1,500 people, and it is enough to deal with the little devils.

"Let's give Brother Fan a discount, will Brother Fan settle accounts with us in the future!"

According to Liao Fan's temper, knowing that Hu Guoshan discounted him in this regard, Liao Fan would also discount him in all aspects in the future.

"Okay, then transfer the strength of a battalion from the combat unit to the commander of the guard battalion, this time there are two thousand troops, no less than the strength of a regiment!" Hu Guoshan thought of Liao Fan's appearance of playing Laipi, and decided to draw out another battalion of troops.

2,000 people were transferred, and he still needed 5,000 troops to defend Heshun County, and the remaining attacking troops were about 8,000 people. Hu Guoshan carefully pulled the limited forces in his hands.

"After the last battle in Jindong, the Japanese army no longer has the ability to defend in Jindong! Whether it's playing Xiyang County or Pingding County, there is not much difference! Zhao Caizhu looked at Hu Guoshan's sad face and said slowly.

Hu Guoshan looked at Zhao Caizhu extremely seriously: "Then why didn't Brother Fan let us take the opportunity to capture these two county seats?" ”

Zhao Caizhu shook his head: "I don't know what Brother Fan thinks, but according to my thoughts, we only had 10,000 people at that time, if we divided our troops to garrison the two county towns, if the Japanese army that had just captured Zhongtiao Mountain moved eastward, they could completely break through each of our three county towns, and we could only retreat to Taihang Mountain in the end." ”

In fact, Zhao Caizhu knows the real reason, his master is good at attacking, he doesn't like defense, if the little devil comes, he will definitely take the troops to fight the little devil, and the strength that has finally developed at that time, if such a battle is lost, Liao Fan will jump up in anger and beat Hu Guoshan violently. Only Hu Guoshan himself did not know about this side of the matter.

"Oh!" Hu Guoshan nodded inexplicably.

"Division commander, in fact, it is not difficult to attack these two counties this time, the problem I need to consider is how to defend!" Zhao Caizhu pointed out the crux of this problem, the three counties connected to the north and south in the east of Jin are no longer defended by many Japanese troops, and there are still many Japanese troops in the northeast of Jin, and they are fully capable of fighting with them in the field.

However, for Hu Guoshan and Zhao Caizhu's ideas, there is no problem militarily, but Liao Fan's thoughts are different, that is, the situation after they captured Heshun County, the economic malaise, in Liao Fan's view, military and political success is not a real success, their own economic failure is a real failure, economic development is related to the interests of the people, if they capture a county, economic development can not be developed, the people will not have enough to eat, it is better to let the little devils occupy it, at least the people will not be hungry.

However, in Hu Guoshan's view, if you want to strengthen the New 33rd Army, you have to grab land from the little devils, and only with the territory can you recruit troops and have money to build troops.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with the ideas of both men, it's just that they don't have good management and economic talents. Therefore, the economy was sluggish after the capture of a county seat.

Since entering the stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army has continued to draw troops from the rear, and has squeezed the rear forces to the limit, and the situation in Shanxi at this time is more complicated, as they capture Zhongtiao Mountain, the Japanese army in Shanxi has found a way out, but they also have to send troops to garrison Zhongtiao Mountain, so that the Japanese army in the entire Shanxi is more and more overstretched.

In the west of Jin, in the northwest of Shanxi, and in the southwest of Shanxi, there were also Jingsui Army and the Eighth Route Army in their activities, which also contained a large number of the main forces of the Japanese army, so Shanxi has become a place of four wars. Although the Japanese army captured Taihang Mountain with very few casualties and opened the road to Luoyang and Tongguan, this was not necessarily a good thing for the Japanese army in Shanxi as a whole.

Since Major General Miyamoto fled back to Yangquan with a driver, he has never had the face to return to Taiyuan, and he has been in fear in Yangquan all day, he wants to cut his belly to thank the emperor, and finally he took a knife and made two gestures on his stomach, and then gave up this idea.

In this era, it is very simple for a person to die, he doesn't have to do anything, and it is also very simple to want to live, and it is enough to find a reason to convince himself like Miyamoto.

But what Miyamoto was most entangled with was what kind of face he had to go back to Taiyuan, and in the end, the commander of the little devil gave him an order to let him go back to Taiyuan.

Since he was able to survive, it shows that Miyamoto's psychology is also strong enough, although he blames himself, but this is all shown to his peers, he lost thousands of people in Jindong, of course he can't be full of smiles all day long. Since it is for his peers, of course he has to do enough of the scene, from Yangquan to Taiyuan, he always thinks about how to make his peers sympathize with him, instead of holding him responsible.

Obviously, what Miyamoto did had a certain effect, the commander of the little devil only revoked his post of chief of staff, and did not hold him accountable, he managed to survive, as long as he can survive, he will sooner or later sit in the position of chief of staff again, and then exterminate all the Chinese troops in Taihang Mountain, and wash away all his shame.

Just when Miyamoto returned to Taiyuan, the commander of the little devil took the initiative to let all the Japanese troops in Xiyang County withdraw in order to save the troops of Jindong, but in order to confuse the Chinese army, that is, Hu Guoshan's troops, the commander of the little devil arranged two regiments of puppet troops in Xiyang County, and the puppet army of one regiment put on the Japanese military uniform.

After five days of reconnaissance and deployment, Hu Guoshan decided to attack the Japanese army in eastern Jindong first. Because after they made a move against the Japanese army in Jindong, they could completely confuse the little devils and make the Japanese army in the Jingcheng area of Hebei think that the army in Taihang Mountain had no intention of attacking Jingcheng.

So Hu Guoshan used his only armored car for the first time, which was much more comfortable than riding a horse, and now their division has the only armored car in the whole army, and the only automobile team in the whole army, although there are only a dozen cars, but the howitzer that pulls him is enough.

In order not to expose the purpose of this operation, Hu Guoshan used 3,000 troops to attack various strongholds around Xiyang County, and the remaining 5,000 people were still waiting for orders in Heshun County.

The "Japanese army" in the strongholds around Heshun County, under the attack of the Chinese army, did not have the slightest ability to resist, and many strongholds were surrendered without a fight, and when they saw the Chinese soldiers attacking, they hung a white flag above the turret without firing a shot.

Of course, there are also stubborn "Japanese troops" who resist to the end, after several shouts to no avail, Hu Guoshan directly moved out his cannon, bombed the stronghold into debris, and then under the cover of the only armored car, a platoon of soldiers attacked the stronghold, at this time the Japanese army wanted to surrender, Hu Guoshan did not give them a chance, it was a word "kill"!

In just half a day, all the Japanese puppet troops in the strongholds outside the city surrendered or were exterminated, and more than 3,000 people surrounded the county town of Xiyang, and the puppet army in the city sent a telegram to the Japanese asking for support. However, the result of these puppet troops is to hold on to the reinforcements and fight until they are a soldier, and they are sending troops to Heshun County.

When it was dark, the 5,000 troops in Heshun County began to set off, their goal was to pacify the county seat, obviously in order not to attract the attention of the Japanese army, Hu Guoshan asked the main force attacking the county town of Pingding to set off after dark, and strive to launch an attack before dawn.