In Liao Fan's headquarters in the Taihang Mountain garrison, telegrams came frequently, from the defense line of the Great Wall, and three days ago, Li Weimin had already moved the headquarters from Datong to the headquarters on the front line.

Just three days earlier, Li Weimin had engaged in a joint operation with Fu Yisheng's Seventh Army, preparing to crush the Japanese army in the Suiyuan area in one fell swoop. But something went wrong.

At first, Fu Yisheng and Li Weimin thought that this was a very simple task, but in the end, when they were about to completely surround a brigade of the Japanese army, suddenly Japanese reinforcements arrived, and the Japanese army they were about to encircle was not just a brigade at all.

Li Weimin's first reaction was that the Japanese army had increased its troops, but his intelligence system did not receive any news of the Japanese army's increase.

Just when Li Weimin was discussing a temporary retreat with Fu Yisheng, something went wrong, and one of Fu Yisheng's regiments and one of Li Weimin's regiments were surrounded by a division of the Japanese army. The Japanese army suddenly had two more divisions in the Suiyuan area, but they did not have any news.

After two days of desperate rescue, the two regiments finally managed to break through, but the two regiments also lost their combat effectiveness, and even half of the troops were not saved, and half of the soldiers who survived were wounded and sick.

No one thought that things would turn out like this, they also carried out a careful reconnaissance of the Japanese army on the eve of the attack, and the Japanese army did not have much strength left in the Suiyuan area, but there were two more divisions overnight, how did the Japanese army do it.

Liao Fan, who learned of the situation, of course would not pretend to be confused, he ordered Li Weimin to completely figure out the matter, and this matter definitely did not appear by chance. Liao Fan began to feel uneasy, he remembered Cun Qi's intuition some time ago, although intuition is something that cannot be seen or touched, but sometimes it is very accurate.

Liao Fan didn't dare to be careless, while he ordered Li Weimin to investigate this matter thoroughly, he also ordered Hu Guoshan to be on guard, the Japanese army may have gathered troops to attack them.

It can be seen from the small-scale battle that the Japanese army's individual combat effectiveness is still good, but their staff officers are not up to standard in planning, and the commander's decision-making ability is not coordinated, but Liao Fan still does not dare to despise such an opponent, once he makes a mistake, it will inevitably cause a chain reaction, compared to the big Central Army, they can abandon most of China and hide in the southwest border, a corner of peace, but the new 33rd Army can not retreat, because except for Taihang Mountain, they have nowhere to go, The world is really so big, there is really no place for Liao Fan and the New 33rd Army.

"Where the hell is that old devil going to start with Okamura Ninji?"

At the front of the New 33rd Army and the Japanese army, the Japanese army has been attacking frequently recently, and they don't care about the cost of casualties at all, Liao Fan knows very well that this is the Japanese army testing their defensive weaknesses and planning for their next attack.

Liao Fan's strategy is to respond to all changes with the same, no matter how harassed the little devils, no matter how big the flaws leaked by the enemy, he warned the troops on the front line to hold out, and those who dare to disobey military orders will be engaged in military law.

Of course, Gangcun Ningji will not be idle, he is looking for a way to break the enemy. He and Liao Fan are also old rivals, Okamura Ningji had the idea of fighting Taihang Mountain when he was in Wuhan, but Okamura Ningji commanded the two-front battle, and the final result can be imagined.

This time, Okamura Ninji was authorized by the base camp, and he only needed to concentrate on dealing with Taihang Mountain, for which he gathered more than half of his troops in North China, and also asked the Kwantung Army for support.

The skirmishes launched in the past few days did not allow him to find a good way, and they won less and lost more in many battles with the New 33rd Army, after all, the New 33rd Army was on the defensive, had strong fortifications, and could also be supported by artillery fire, and the natural casualties of the side they went out to attack were much more important.

But for the Japanese army, which had a large army system behind them, these casualties were nothing at all, and most of the wounded could still return to the front line. Of course, Hu Guoshan's side will not show weakness in front of the little devils, no, he has just changed the defense, his morale is high, and he has defeated the little devils several times, and the soldiers are eager to have a larger-scale battle with the little devils.

Seeing that morale was still high, Hu Guoshan was very happy. After all, the morale of the troops is very important, especially for those recruits, they have never seen little devils before, I heard that little devils are very scary, and now they see little devils is just like this.

"Lao Hu, I heard that Lao Li suffered a big loss at the hands of the little devil?" Zhao Caizhu said.

"I know what you mean, recently I wanted to hold a meeting of low-level officers, gather all the company commanders and platoon commanders together, and then give them a wake-up call and take a good class!"

Hu Guoshan understood what Zhao Caizhu meant, it is a good thing for the morale of the troops to be high, but it is also easy to breed the feeling of pride and affection for the enemy, which is a big taboo for the troops, high morale can hit the enemy, and pride and light the enemy will destroy themselves.

"What about those regimental commanders and battalion commanders? My strength has expanded a lot this time, and several battalion commanders have been directly promoted from the position of platoon commander! Zhao Caizhu reminded Hu Guoshan.

The lack of officers is still a big problem facing the new 33rd Army, although schools have been established to train officers in the Taihang Mountain garrison and Taiyuan, but in the short term it is simply not enough to meet the needs of the new 33rd Army, so the short man is taller, so several platoon commanders were directly promoted by Hu Guoshan to become battalion commanders, of course, this has a precedent in the new 33rd Army, but this time is not the same as before.

In the past, most of the troops were veterans and had rich combat experience, but now some of the units below are all recruits, and those platoon commanders have been promoted to battalion commanders without even a year's combat experience, which is not a good thing for the troops.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Hu Guoshan looked at Zhao Caizhu and was happy.

"Gotta ...... I know what I'm going to do! Zhao Caizhu was helpless, the two of them had been cooperating for so long, and both sides knew what shit they were pouting on.

"I, as a division commander, am very busy, of course you, the deputy division commander, can't be idle, I'll hand over all these veteran oils to you!" Hu Guoshan knew that it was not easy to hold a meeting with these officers, especially at present, Hu Guoshan's family had a big business, and it would inevitably take some time to manage everything.

For the failure of the joint operation between Li Weimin and Fu Yisheng, no matter what the reason, the new 33rd Army must be cautious, a mistake may be the sacrifice of hundreds or thousands of lives, in this war, everyone wants to survive and see the victory of the war, so every commander must learn any lesson and take responsibility for his soldiers.

The casualties of most of the regiment were not an easy thing for Li Weimin, although the casualties were simply insignificant compared to the previous battles, but they were victorious casualties in the past, and now they were casualties in defeat.

Li Weimin looked at his crippled regiment, and his heart was very painful, the commander and deputy commander of this regiment were all killed, and the largest officer was only a battalion commander, and his whole body was scarred. The Japanese army used nearly a division of troops to encircle and annihilate them, and it was already a miracle that they were able to come out of the encirclement alive.

"From today onwards, this regiment will be under your control, I will not cancel the establishment of this regiment, but I will not provide you with a single soldier, whether this regiment can get up again in your hands, it depends on you, the commander, before the snow!"

Li Weimin handed over the disabled regiment to the commander of his guard battalion, and he could not cancel the establishment of this regiment just because the regiment had lost a battle, but eight out of ten officers in this regiment were killed, and he had to find a capable officer to pull the regiment back up again, and then restore its combat effectiveness.

"No one is a victorious general, what I need is perseverance, we can get up if we fail, this is the national spirit of our Chinese nation for thousands of years!"

Li Weimin shouted loudly to the soldiers who came back alive that he needed to build up the confidence of the soldiers, and the source of confidence of a unit was the soldiers who composed it one after another.

In winter, the snowflakes drifted away, covering the inside and outside of the Great Wall, and the world turned white, covering the wounds and filth left by the war, but the life of the people continued in misery, and the displaced people who begged for food ran from inside the pass to outside the pass, and from outside the pass to the pass, but even so they were still hungry and unclothed, and the road ahead was vast, and they would freeze to death and starve to death at any time.

Li Weizhan looked at the vast snowy region in the north on the beacon tower of the Great Wall, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart, this year they may not have a chance to recover that lost land, pity the people of that land, I am afraid that they will have to endure the bullying of the little devil in the New Year.

Fu Yisheng, who also failed, was more open than Li Weimin, in fact, he was not open, but used to this, he retreated all the way from the Chahar area to Baotou, and then Baotou was captured by the enemy, defeated all the way, and also left the corpses all the way, and when the snow melted, you could see the white bones on the grassland.

If it weren't for Li Weimin's regiment in the encirclement of the Japanese army, perhaps one of his regiments would not have been able to hold out for half a day, and Fu Yisheng was very happy that it could now withdraw.

"Brother Li, the war is like this, where is the only advantage and not loss, we have fought with the little devil for so long, there are fewer victories and more defeats, five soldiers for a little devil, in this battle we used two people for one, we have taken a big advantage!"

Chinese soldiers are undertrained, poorly equipped, and have difficulty in supplying, this series of problems, playing like this, has made Fu Yisheng very content, it's just that he hasn't recovered the lost territory, and when the weather warms up next year, they can do it again!