Ye Kong was not the only one who disguised himself as a national army and entered the Hebei Theater, Zhang Jinquan, who was also a sniper instructor, also led three sniper squads under his command into the theater for actual combat training, and Zhao Zhi who quietly infiltrated the theater with five combat staff officers. The Spark plan has reached the most critical time, as the formulator, Zhao Zhi must come to the war zone in person, after the dissuasion failed, Zhang Jinquan and Ye Kong, who came from Burma, had to accompany them, and the actual combat training was only a reason for them.

The Grass Mountain was one of the many hills around Chengde, and Zhao Zhi, the boss and supreme commander of the Thunder, was on the Mountain at this time, waiting for the two Spark troops active in the area to come and meet him. At the beginning of the formulation of the Spark Plan, it was just a one-shot deal made by Zhao Zhi in order to cater to Chiang Kai-shek, but he did not expect that in just two years, the Spark Plan would go so smoothly, and there seemed to be Spark troops in various parts of Hebei, although they could not compare with the achievements of those national army troops in the main battlefield, it was not easy to develop more than 10,000 reserve troops in the enemy-occupied area.

Guerrilla warfare has always been the specialty of the Eighth Route Army of the Communist Party of China, and as early as when they were still in the Red Army and were pursued by the Central Army, guerrilla tactics have become their main tactics. However, the small units of the Nationalist Army that are now active behind the enemy line have also learned this tactic, and it seems that they have expanded more than the guerrillas behind the enemy lines of the Eighth Route Army, and several anti-Japanese armed forces that were originally active around Chengde had promised to be absorbed by the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, but in the end they all defected to the Nationalist Army.

The guerrillas of the national army are well equipped, have enough bullets and ammunition, and are also distributed with American-style weapons and equipment, and some are paid military salaries. The guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army had to grab everything from the Japanese puppet army, and there were also a lot of requests from the political commissar of Wen Crepe. Those civilian anti-Japanese armed forces who were accustomed to fighting wild battles could stand this, and since the guerrillas of the Nationalist Army appeared here in Chengde, the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army have successively appeared to run there with guns.

Therefore, when Zhao Zhi also invited the Eighth Route Army to mobilize their guerrillas in Hebei to participate in joint operations, Peng Dehuai, who was accustomed to fighting the autumn wind here with Zhao Zhi, waved his pen and all the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army under the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region must unconditionally obey Zhao Zhi's command, but their weapons and equipment need Zhao Zhi to find a way to solve them. The guerrillas in the Chengde area of the Eighth Route Army, who had also received the order to assemble, were also rushing to Xicao Mountain, but they also had the purpose of asking the leader of the Nationalist army why the guerrillas of the Nationalist Army kept robbing their people.

"You are the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army?" Looking at the group of "refugees" who were brought into the cordon, Zhao Zhi had an indescribable feeling that the Eighth Route Army was already bitter enough, but he didn't expect that their guerrillas who were active behind enemy lines could also suffer like this. This guerrilla force, which claims to be subordinate to the Jinchaji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, looks like there are more than 60 people, but they only have more than 30 rifles, and the only two fast and slow machine shell guns are pinned to the waists of the captain and instructor.

Thunder's regular troops, namely the Jewish Legion and the mercenary troops, were already equipped with all-American equipment, whether it was captured bolt-action rifles or those originally deployed by the government, all of which were equipped with Burmese mercenary troops. In front of Garland and American carbines, all bolt-action rifles can only be passively beaten, but the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army in front of them cannot even be equipped with bolt-action rifles, no wonder the Spark troops will expand so quickly in Hebei, and the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army will not be competitive at all.

"You're the head of these national armies?" Luo Xiao, who had a fast and slow machine pinned to his waist, looked at Zhao Zhi dressed as a colonel with some disdain, in the eyes of the Eighth Route Army, especially those old Red Army, the Kuomintang was a white dog. Not calling him a white dog in front of Zhao Zhi is already giving Zhao Zhi face, now is the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to resist Japan, as a guerrilla leader, Luo Xiao should pay attention to the image of the Eighth Route Army, but even so, Luo Xiao's eyes still can't hide his disgust for Zhao Zhi.

Undisguised hostility towards Luo Xiao, Zhao Zhi could only reply with a smile, "If there are no officers here with a higher rank than me, I think I am their commander." Zhao Zhi had contact with the Eighth Route Army and helped the Eighth Route Army a lot, but his relationship with Chiang Kai-shek and his wife was irreversible, and there was always friction between the National Army and the Eighth Route Army, so Zhao Zhi has also been deliberately avoiding participating in the secret struggle between the two sides. But to say that Zhao Zhi was hostile to the Eighth Route Army, it was absolutely impossible, so Zhao Zhi was very interested in the interesting eyes of the guerrilla leader of the Eighth Route Army.

"Since you are their leader, then I have come to you to find the right person." Luo Xiao ignored Zhao Zhi's joking answer, but just took out a roster from his arms and handed it to Zhao Zhi. "Your guerrillas are recruiting troops around here, and more than 20 of my guerrillas have run to your side with weapons, hoping that you will return the people." Luo Xiao's expression was unusually serious when he said this, Zhao Zhi did not doubt the authenticity of this statement, but he did not reach out to take the roster.

After Lei Ting took down the Japanese transport team in Xiangtangpu, he only transported half of the weapons and ammunition back to Kunming, and the remaining half spent a lot of time and manpower to transport them to Hebei as soon as possible. At the beginning of the implementation of the Spark plan, the foundation was laid by this batch of captured Japanese-style equipment, and after the recovery of Shanxi, Zhao Zhi ordered the fighter troops to use the night to continuously airdrop supplies to the Spark troops.

From light and heavy machine guns to mortar grenadiers, from bullets and explosives to grenades, most of the 5,000 Garand rifles purchased by the Nationalist Government from the Kunming Arsenal were airdropped into Hebei. On one side, he was carrying a big knife and spear, and on the other side, he couldn't use up a lot of weapons and ammunition, so Zhao Zhi would also choose to go to the guerrillas of the national army, at least it was much safer to kill the enemy with a firearm than a big knife and spear. So after Luo Xiao said what he meant and took out the roster, Zhao Zhi's first reaction was whether the guerrilla leader sent by the Eighth Route Army had a problem with his brain, and where would there be a reason to return the soldiers who had already been in the bag.

"I'm afraid I can't be the master of this, I'm just here to command them to fight, and the specific establishment is not my responsibility." Zhao Zhi had nothing to do and planned to tease this reckless guerrilla leader, but the instructor standing beside him saw Zhao Zhi's intentions and directly stretched out his hand to pull Luo Xiao aside. Zhao Zhi didn't care about the matter between the Eighth Route Army and the National Army, so Luo Ying opened the map and prepared to formulate a coordinated battle plan, in the overall plan to cut through Shandong, the Spark Force was only a role to assist in the battle, but Zhao Zhi did not think that assisting in the battle could not be brilliant.

"Report to the chief instructor, the first phase of the training is two companies and one platoon of Ma Hai to report to you." Luo Xiao and his instructor children were chattering on the side to discuss countermeasures, and the culprit they were looking for had already been sent to the door by themselves. Ma Hai, a student of the first phase of the Geyue Mountain Training Camp, was a platoon commander of the 524th Regiment of the 88th Division of the National Army before entering the training camp, but he is now the guerrilla leader of the National Army who commands more than 800 guerrillas under his command.

There are only 5,000 students in the first phase of Geyue Mountain training, all of whom were sent by Zhao Zhi to the Hebei Japanese War Zone to make a fire, this Ma Hai was the one who was very optimistic about Yan Wudao and Yu Dazhi, Zhao Zhi still has some impressions, but the latter is highly respectful of Zhao Zhi. "Okay, this is still an enemy-occupied area, don't be so fancy, tell me about your situation." Zhao Zhi smiled and threw Ma Hai a pack of cigarettes, and motioned for Ma Hai to go and say hello to Luo Xiao and them first.

There are only a few anti-Japanese armed forces around Chengde, and Ma Hai and Luo Xiao naturally know each other, but Luo Xiao's eyes are very unkind when he looks at Ma Hai, and Ma Hai, who knows the reason, can only accompany him with a smiling face. Ma Hai didn't know why Zhao Zhi allowed the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army to stay in Xicaoshan, but Zhao Zhi was his chief instructor and the commander of this big operation, and he couldn't ask questions about public or private.

"You two are the two largest anti-Japanese forces in this area, I don't have much time, the other guerrillas didn't arrive on time, let's not wait for them, let me tell you the intention of letting you assemble here." Zhao Zhi motioned to everyone to look at the map that had been opened, "The Japanese army is trying to cut their occupied area with the highway network, so that it is convenient for them to control and manage, but we can't make them comfortable, this time I am ready to fully bloom in Hebei to destroy their highway network as much as possible, so that the Japanese puppet army in Hebei will become pure infantry walking on two legs, and we will fight a running movement war with them." ”

Luo Xiao was reluctant to listen to Zhao Zhi's blind work, but when he heard Zhao Zhi talk about sports warfare, Luo Xiao couldn't help but listen, sports warfare is the watchful skill of the Eighth Route Army, and he wants to see what skills this white dog officer has. "The time of the operation is set for 10 days, these 10 are not for you to rest, but for you to do intelligence gathering, aside from those big cities, you must use these 10 days to thoroughly understand the surrounding Japanese puppet army strongholds, and formulate a retreat route after the battle, you must fight and retreat quickly, and do not give the Japanese puppet army a chance to pursue and breathe."

"I thought this white dog had some great skills, and he wasn't moving the guerrilla warfare of our Eighth Route Army. Isn't it that the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs me, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase, this white dog is also embarrassed to get an axe in front of his old eight roads. Luo Xiao couldn't help muttering to himself in his heart. However, when he heard that during these 10 days, the guerrillas of the national army would be responsible for equipping them with weapons and equipment, Luo Xiao was still happy.