The Japanese army suffered a big loss in Datong, and the little devil commander also reflected on the reason for the defeat in this battle, why the New 33rd Army was able to stabilize the defense line despite losing Liao Fan, and launched a counterattack in a planned way, and the most important thing is that the New 33rd Army actually deployed troops on their retreat line in advance.

Coupled with the letter that was sent, it made the little devils feel as if this battle was a trap from the beginning, deliberately luring them to the bait. However, after thinking about it carefully, the commander of the little devil didn't feel like it, because the New 33rd Army was indeed losing at the beginning of Datong, and from all indications, it seemed that the New 33rd Army must have encountered some problems at the beginning of the battle.

Question after wave of questions plagued the little devil commander, leaving him scratching his head, as if he was quite sure what was going on, but it was hidden in a dark corner that he couldn't see, and with the slightest light, he could find the crux of the problem.

Why did it become like this, and shouldn't it be like this, was it wrong in the first place? The little devil commander kept pulling the problem, he wanted to find a breakthrough in the problem, but he was like getting lost in the night.

"Send a telegram to Taiyuan, we need all the information in Taihang Mountain, and tell the intelligence department to install agents in Taihang Mountain, we need to know everything about the new 33rd Army!" The Japanese commanders knew that they would deal with the New 33rd Army more and more frequently in the future, and what they learned about the New 33rd Army was all rumors from other people's mouths, and the others knew nothing about the New 33rd Army.

If they only rely on rumors to understand the enemy, no matter how many battles they fight, they will not be able to win; as the saying goes, only by knowing the enemy and knowing oneself can they survive a hundred battles, and if they want to completely defeat the New 33 rd Army, they must understand everything about the New 33 Third Army, including the preferences and relationships between officers at all levels of the New 33 Third Army, and only in this way can they find a way to take advantage of the New 33 rd Army.

In the headquarters of the Japanese army, a special intelligence department was set up for the new 33rd Army, and their task was to study the combat methods and style of the new 33rd Army.

In Taihang Mountain, Liao Fan was already able to walk with the help of others, but he did not leave the area around the ward, and at most he sat at the door of the ward and enjoyed the sunshine.

Today, when Liao Fan just returned to the ward after enjoying his leisure time, Yan Xuelin also happened to come to Liao Fan's ward.

"Is there any progress on what you're staring at?" Liao Fan asked Yan Xuelin.

"There is no progress, usually he just walks around his own residence, and he doesn't make friends with anyone, but he has to send a telegram every night, and we can't listen to the content of their telegrams!" Yan Xuelin reported truthfully, after returning from the front line of the Great Wall, Yan Xuelin came to report the situation to Liao Fan every day.

Liao Fan shook his head, Wang Haoran was more cautious than he imagined, it was really difficult to find something wrong with him, and it was not good for him to attack Wang Haoran without any evidence.

"If he has a problem, sooner or later he will show his feet, let the soldiers keep an eye on him, don't startle the snake, let him do whatever he wants!"

Liao Fan's intuition told him that there must be something wrong with Wang Haoran, and it must be someone from Chongqing who killed him, not a little devil, if he wants to investigate who did it to him, his only breakthrough now is Wang Haoran.

After Wang Haoran received Chongqing's order, he did not immediately investigate the matter about Liao Fan, because he now also had a little doubt that Liao Fan was really not dead, and what he had learned before was all a lie.

With a little suspicion, Wang Haoran immediately became uneasy in his heart, if Liao Fan really did not die in the attack, and if he was still alive, there must be a pair of eyes staring at him tightly in Taihang Mountain now, so that he did not dare to take the slightest action, otherwise it would not only expose what Chongqing had done, but it was really possible for him to disappear without a trace in this mountain.

For the sake of his own safety, Wang Haoran decided to ground himself, as long as there was nothing to do, he decided to stay at his residence. Even the old officers of the Nationalist Army who served in the New 33rd Army, whom he had contacted earlier, came to look for him, but he closed his door and did not see him.

However, what Wang Haoran did became the meaning of no silver three hundred taels here, he usually didn't have such a house at all, and now he is closed, and the soldiers of the special operations brigade staring at him are even more suspicious that Wang Haoran must know something, but there is no order, they don't dare to attack Wang Haoran, otherwise with the means of their special operations brigade, Wang Haoran will have to recruit even a few years old if he doesn't wet the bed.

With the end of the battle, the New 33rd Army once again had a good time to rest and recuperate, especially the area controlled by the New 33rd Army is getting larger and larger, which means that the source of troops has also become larger, and as the prestige of the New 33rd Army is getting higher and higher, local young people are also enthusiastically signing up to join the army.

Although the area controlled by the New 33rd Army was full of vigorous and vigorous energy, there was an undercurrent surging underneath, and the personnel of various forces began to mix with the defense area of the New 33rd Army, disguised as all kinds of people, merchants, peasants, and even beggars, and everything they did was to find out the intelligence of the New 33rd Army.

Of course, the New 33rd Army also took precautions, and in order to prevent Japanese spies from blending into the army, they had to strictly verify the identities of the recruited soldiers, and even required them to use dialects to distinguish whether they were disguised as spies.

The strictest inventory is Hu Guoshan's troops, their division already has enough troops, in the recruitment of troops, Hu Guoshan is not in a hurry, and the important thing is that Hu Guoshan's division has received an order to prepare to attack Taiyuan, and everything their division does next is to attack Taiyuan for quasi-training, if spies are mixed in the troops, it is likely that their plans will be exposed.

Hu Guoshan did restorative training on crutches in the command headquarters, and now Zhao Caizhu has also moved into Yangquan, and the three county towns in eastern Jin were originally handed over to a regiment for defense, even if Hu Guoshan put a company of troops in each county town, the little devils did not dare to attack, at most they did some harassment, otherwise in the case of empty troops in their rear, Hu Guoshan could take the troops to Taiyuan directly.

"Brother Fan, how much time did you give us to prepare?" Zhao Caizhu also knew about their plan to attack Taiyuan at the first time, but they only had this one order, no time to attack, and no support materials.

Hu Guoshan shook his head: "I don't know, it is estimated that it will not be Taiyuan, the autumn harvest will be more than two months away, and we will definitely launch an attack before the autumn harvest, and we will not have much time!" ”

Although Hu Guoshan lost some troops in this battle, it was not to the point of breaking its muscles and bones, and it was completely able to restore the original combat effectiveness of all units in a short period of time.

Zhao Caizhu nodded, since the Japanese army adopted the strategy of feeding the war with war, their food supplies basically all relied on local collection, naturally, autumn is an important season for the armies on the land of China, after all, no food means that the soldiers will be hungry, and the troops will have no combat effectiveness. Therefore, whether it is the regular army or the local guerrillas, they will fight with the little devils during the autumn harvest.

In addition to the tightening of the coal top, the Japanese army in Shanxi was most concerned about the food problem, and being able to grab the grain could not only satisfy their own troops, but also compress the enemy's rations.

However, this year's situation is obviously unfavorable to the little devils in Shanxi, in order to be able to hold Taiyuan, the Japanese army has reduced the strength of other counties and strongholds as much as possible, and withdrew its troops to Taiyuan as much as possible to defend, so that the Japanese army's control over various places is getting weaker and weaker, and it is precisely because of this that the local guerrillas are becoming more and more active, and the Japanese army is no longer able to control the localities.

Some places in Shanxi are becoming more and more chaotic, sometimes a county town can change three or four forces a day, often this one has run away from that, has not yet gained a firm foothold, this one has been beaten away from another, many places have no government management, and the local people's industries have been seriously damaged.

The people could not live in peace, let alone work happily, so naturally there were displaced people. Two days ago, the first wave of displaced people appeared, and they began to flock to Hu Guoshan's defense area.

"How can there be displaced people?"

After Hu Guoshan learned of the situation, he couldn't have imagined that if there was no fight now, how could the common people flee from their homes?

"Division commander, they stopped about a mile from our position, and I'm afraid that there will be Japanese troops mixed among them!" Reporting to Hu Guoshan was a battalion commander on the position, who was guarding the important checkpoint into Yangquan, and once the checkpoint was attacked, they became passive.

"Lao Zhao, what do you think of this matter?" Hu Guoshan couldn't figure out whether these homeless people were real or fake.

"I don't know, if we want to find out the situation, it looks like we'll have to send someone to investigate!" Zhao Caizhu couldn't tell what the situation was, after all, these homeless people appeared too suddenly, if it wasn't for the little devils, then there must have been a situation that they didn't understand.

"Then let's arrange a reconnaissance battalion to take a look, and we also need the situation of the little devils, just let them go to reconnoiter the enemy!"

"Division commander, what about those ordinary people in front of our position?"

"In this way, I will arrange a battalion of troops to assist you, first put them all into our defense area, and after verifying their identities, if they are really ordinary people, we will place them in batches in the locality, after so many years of fighting, there are no people in many villages, and there is still not much problem in arranging these people!"

Hu Guoshan's original intention was good, and it was indeed for the good of the people, but he ignored a practical problem, that is, the number of displaced people was far from being like this.