As the first drop of rain disappeared on the scorching rocks of Taihang Mountain, the originally sultry weather gradually became cooler. Liao Fan stretched out his hand to catch the rain dripping from the eaves of the headquarters, and the raindrops gradually turned into lines, and the scenery in the distance began to blur.

The people who remained in the headquarters began to cheer, it was the first heavy rain since the beginning of summer, and this heavy rain came just in time, so they began to cheer.

There are happy, there must be unhappy, Gangcun Ningci, who is far away in the Wuhan headquarters, never thought that the rain in Shanxi would come in such a timely manner, and Gangcun Ningci couldn't read the weather forecast, especially since the advance force he sent had already begun to set off.

When he learned from the phone call from Yangquan that it was raining heavily in the Jindong area, his heart was suddenly overwhelmed by a heavy rain. However, he did not give the order for the troops to withdraw, and the Japanese puppet army of 100,000 people still set off from Wuhan by train as originally planned.

"Quick! Organize the people to continue to go out of the city to destroy the road section! ”

It was raining heavily, and it was God who gave the opportunity to the Third Regiment, and it was obvious that the Japanese planes could not take off in this weather. And the heavy rain has had a significant effect on destroying roads, which they have already destroyed and turned into paddy fields after half an hour.

Hu Guoshan stood on the city tower, letting the rain drench his whole body, from the beginning of the implementation of the battle plan given to them by Liao Fan, they knew that they were waiting for the rain, the road was destroyed, and then it was drenched in heavy rain, and it was difficult for both feet to walk, not to mention the wheels of the little devil's car.

The rain kept falling, and the little devil obviously lost his desire to attack, and Ma Wanzhong in Pingding County was just laughing constantly, and the irritability in his heart was swept away, leaving only excitement. In the past few days of fighting, although the first regiment did not suffer any injuries, it also paid the price of nearly 2,000 casualties.

However, after this rain, it is difficult for the little devil to attack in a short time, and the muddy road will only allow the little devil to die.

Everything seemed to have stopped because of this rain, and in this rain there was no bloodshed, no killing, only joy or displeasure.

The rain only fell in Jindong, the sky in Wuhan and Henan was still very clear, even in these two places it rained heavily, the railway line was still intact and would not be affected by the rain, and the little devils could still rely on the railway to transport troops north, but their trouble was in Shanxi.

Even with God's help, Liao Fan did not relax his vigilance, after all, God could help them for a while, according to intelligence, Gangcun Ningci had already gathered 300,000 troops, and the 100,000 army was about to board the car and go north, while the remaining 200,000 troops were still on standby.

Huang Changsheng braved the rain and returned to the command headquarters and told Liao Fan that he had sent the soldiers of the special combat team to contact, and after the special combat team was assembled, he would start to carry out the mission south.

The soldiers of the special service squad who contacted the reconnaissance battalion also returned to the headquarters and reported the situation to Liao Fan, and all intelligence sources pointed out that Gangcun Ningci's troops were coming to Taihang Mountain.

"Since God helps, we must help with the work at hand!" Liao Fan said to himself, "Chu Pengtian, arrange for the soldiers to tell Ma Wanzhong, Hu Guoshan and Zhao Caizhu, and let them start to evacuate the people to Taihang Mountain in an orderly manner. ”

The rain continued to fall, but the orders were given one by one, and the soldiers braved the rain to carry orders to the troops.

"Brother Fan, what is the mission of our second regiment?"

Li Weimin has been silent after arriving at the headquarters, although this heavy rain will temporarily delay the attack of the little devils, but the 100,000 Japanese troops entering Shanxi, of course, it is impossible to return in vain, and in the end, the independent 33rd Division still has to face the 100,000 troops of Gangcun Ningci.

"Let's talk about the combat situation of your second regiment in the past few days!" Of course, Liao Fan guessed Li Weimin's thoughts, but the rain had not stopped, and the Second Regiment had just returned to its station, and the soldiers still needed time to rest.

The combat report sent back by the Second Regiment from the front has written things down very clearly, and Liao Fan certainly knows that some things cannot be written down on paper, and it is easy to leave a handle on people, and now the command headquarters is full of trustworthy people, so Liao Fan told Li Weimin about the combat situation of the Second Regiment.

In front of Liao Fan, Li Weimin didn't intend to hide anything, as long as Liao Fan wanted to check him, he could find out, after all, the supreme commander of the 33rd Independent Division was Liao Fan.

"As for why when the puppet army was operating in the city, I didn't order the second regiment to attack the city immediately." Li Weimin explained to Liao Fan.

When they were in Yuxian, they agreed with some parts of the city to take Yuxian together, but the action of the second regiment was deliberately delayed by Li Weimin. The reason why Li Weimin did this was to be responsible for the soldiers of the Second Regiment, he didn't want the soldiers of the Second Regiment to suffer too many casualties in this battle, and he would rather die than the puppet army of Toucheng and ruin Li Weimin's reputation. After all, the veteran soldiers of the 2nd Regiment are loyal to the 33rd Independent Division and have rich combat experience, and it is precisely because of these veteran soldiers that the 2nd Regiment has been able to become strong step by step.

On the contrary, those puppet soldiers betrayed their country and army first in order to survive, and also in order to survive, when the second regiment of soldiers came to the city, they rebelled against the little devils again. Li Weimin was not sure if these puppet troops would stick a knife in their back when their second regiment was in danger, so he simply followed the hands of the Japanese army and sacrificed most of the puppet army, and the remaining puppet army did not have any ability to rebel even if it was incorporated into the army.

Hearing Li Weimin's explanation, Liao Fan nodded silently, although the 33rd Independent Division continued to accept the puppet army that came over from Chengcheng, but psychologically speaking, Liao Fan still liked the veterans who came with him, those veterans are not only experienced in combat, but also willing to share weal and woe with them, life and death, these qualities are not as good as the soldiers recruited in Taihang Mountain, not to mention those puppet soldiers who came over.

However, as there were more and more battles, there were fewer and fewer veterans who followed Liao Fan to Taihang Mountain, and these veterans gradually became officers of the 33rd Independent Division, and there was a shortage of non-commissioned officers at the most basic level in the troops.

"In comparison, Ma Wanzhong and Hu Guoshan don't have as many as you think." Liao Fan said with a smile.

Since the last war, the three regiment commanders each have their own station, although Li Weimin was stationed in the area of Feihuling at the beginning, and had relatively little contact with the Japanese puppet army, Li Weimin still sought steady development. And Ma Wanzhong is different from Hu Guoshan, they frantically absorbed the soldiers who defected from the puppet army, so the troops of the first and third regiments quickly developed into about 7,000 people, of which nearly half of them were defected by the puppet army, so that a lot of hidden dangers were buried, like hidden agents.

The rain continued to light up late at night, and the destroyed road had been completely turned into paddy fields, no different from the fields on the side of the road, and the soft soil could not stand anyone. The common people and most of the soldiers of the 3rd Regiment had withdrawn to the formation, and only a small part of the troops were still monitoring the Japanese army's every move on the periphery.

After the troops and the common people returned to the city, Hu Guoshan immediately ordered the evacuation of the common people first, although Gangcun Ningci adhered to the principle of controlling China with China, but for the common people who helped the 33rd Independent Division, the little devil would definitely not let them go.

At the beginning of the battle, Liao Fan gave an order to Sun Boyong of the logistics department, asking him to be ready to receive the people, at least the people should have a place to eat and live after entering the mountains.

A rain changed everything, the muddy roads and the wilderness made the little devils lose the desire to attack, and even if they had the strongest bushido spirit, they could not fight on the slippery ground. However, more and more Japanese troops arrived in Yangquan, and even reinforcements from the Suiyuan area arrived in Yangquan.

Although none of Ma Wanzhong's regiments had yet to fight again, the soldiers also felt more and more pressure, because the soldiers could hear from the sound of the cannons that the little devil's artillery had become much denser again.

"Regiment Commander, the matter over there of the third regiment is done." A battalion commander of a regiment ran into the headquarters and told Ma Wanzhong that he was wet all over his body.

Ma Wanzhong took down an order and read it again, this was Liao Fan's order to retreat at any time and prepare to retreat, he kept this order at the bottom, and now he can retreat.

"After ordering the third and sixth battalions, the forward troops immediately withdrew to the city, and all the troops began to retreat to the south, and then made a detour to the stone gate."

Now that the matter is done, then retreat, and tonight is the best time to retreat, and the little devils will definitely not think that they will retreat at this time.

However, when the third regiment began to evacuate, two soldiers took advantage of the inattention and broke away from the team, because during the retreat, no one noticed that the two soldiers had disappeared, and it was only half an hour later that their company commander knew about it, and when the company commander found Hu Guoshan, it had been a full forty minutes.

Of course, Hu Guoshan knew that something was wrong, these two soldiers were definitely not as simple as deserters, and they became deserters after winning the battle, which was simply unheard of. The moment he got the news, Hu Guoshan understood that these two people were spies planted in the army by the little devils.

"What are you doing to eat, there are no two soldiers who have not reported until now, from today onwards, don't be your company commander, go to be a squad leader!" Hu Guoshan was furious, the disappearance of these two people was not a trivial matter.

After the rain, the sky was clear, and stars appeared, very bright and large, and the sky was very low.

"After these two spies leave, they will definitely tell the little devil the news." Zhao Caizhu and his troops had already joined Hu Guoshan, and after getting the news, he was also shocked, but he was much calmer than Hu Guoshan.

"Of course I know that they must be telling the little devils, and it would be strange if they told Chairman Jiang about our whereabouts!" Hu Guoshan's temper is a little bit good, he often gets angry at others, and after following Hu Guoshan for so long, Zhao Caizhu has long been used to it.

"Commander, I mean we should be careful and inform Captain Ma of this as soon as possible."