In December, the weather in Jindi was cold, and the snow was covered all over the mountains, and even on the road from Yangquan, which was responsible for the supply and transportation of devils, to Shou County, a thick layer of snow had accumulated.

In this cold and freezing weather, the devil mechanic naturally had no rest, and took care of those old tractor crawlers of more than ten years all night.

It stands to reason that with the importance of the heavy artillery brigade, especially the 240 heavy artillery, which is the largest caliber heavy artillery in the army, a strategic-level weapon, there should have been troops to respond at this time.

But now that the front line is in great pursuit, the five wings have gone deep into the mountains, cleared the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, destroyed the fields and houses, etc., and the devil's troops are already seriously insufficient, and with so many troops squeezed out, the rear is naturally empty.

At this time, even Yangquan only had a non-full brigade stationed, and there were no troops at all to respond to the heavy artillery brigade, so in the end, 500 devils of the heavy artillery brigade camped in this ice and snow.

It was just after twelve o'clock in the morning.

"Up."

The commander of the second company glanced up at the sky and led the soldiers towards the devil heavy artillery brigade on the road.

There was no moon tonight, but the clouds were not thick, and occasionally faint starlight could be seen peeping through the clouds.

Along the way, the soldiers of the second company walked extremely smoothly, even if there was no firelight, even if the faint starlight had almost no illumination effect, even if the road was full of ice and snow.

At the beginning, a few fighters fell a few times because of the cold shivering of their bodies, but after exercising, they all got back.

This is an area of more than ten kilometers near Shou County, and as a soldier of the independent regiment, it is natural that he is familiar with it, and he will not go wrong with his eyes closed.

Soon, they came to the vicinity of the devil's camp.

In this weather, coupled with the attack of the large troops on the front line, the devils naturally thought that it was extremely safe, and they were all in the tents, even the sentinels of the guards were in the stove tents.

"Move fast."

Before the attack, the commander of the second company repeatedly admonished:

"The devil's heavy artillery is divided into three sections, which are transported by three tractors, and we have three platoons, one platoon is responsible for one. After succeeding. Retreat quickly, as for the devil mechanic soldiers, they will be killed if they have a chance, and if they don't have a chance, forget it. ”

"The fire platoon pays attention to the artillery support."

"Yes."

The platoon commanders replied.

"Have all the explosives been distributed?"

The second company commander asked Xiang Xiang, the deputy company commander, who was also the second platoon commander.

"It's assigned."

The deputy company commander nodded, and the corners of his eyes twitched at the same time.

He was also worried that his side might not be able to cause devastating damage to the devil's heavy artillery, after all, where is the weight of the devil's heavy artillery, the barrel is thick and terrible, and they only have a big tumor on their side, which can blow up the devil's heavy artillery, but they don't have enough ability to completely destroy it.

Unexpectedly, his company commander turned his head and dug out a full 60 kilograms of buried yellow explosives from a place underground.

"This guy, he collected more than 60 kilograms of explosives in a month in the defensive battle, and he will keep an eye on the devil's heavy artillery before the war."

The deputy company commander didn't know how to describe his mood at this time.

In the six months since he came to the Independent Regiment, what he has felt most deeply is the subjective initiative of the regiment.

From the regiment commander to every ordinary soldier, he rarely talks about it, but what he wants to do, he does it immediately without hesitation, even if he encounters difficulties, even if it seems impossible for ordinary people to accomplish things, he also actively uses his brains to find ways to complete it, and is very patient.

A lot fail, but there are always some success stories.

For example, the second shelling of Taiyuan Airport before, such as the reverse raid of the Devil Heavy Artillery Brigade by the first battalion and the second company this time, as the deputy company commander, also knew the specific details of the operation after the second shelling of Taiyuan Airport.

In the night, the second company quietly approached the devil heavy artillery brigade.

Suddenly, a fierce burst of gunfire rang out, accompanied by mortar explosions, grenade explosions... Although the captain of the devil brigade arranged a large number of guard posts, he never expected to be attacked, and he was completely out of order for a while.

About five or six minutes later, three violent explosions rose from the devil's convoy, so powerful that it was comparable to a super-large caliber heavy artillery, and the devil's tractor was almost blown to pieces.

When the second company was preparing to blow up the cannon, he found a lot of excess propellant packets, and he immediately made a decision and asked the soldiers to add explosives to the packets and ignite them together. Although the propellant pack is not as powerful as explosives, it is not small, and the weight is full, which more than doubles the power of the explosion.

This time, the power of the explosion directly destroyed the heavy artillery, and even the barrel was bent.

After successfully killing the devil's heavy artillery, the second company quickly slipped away according to the original plan, and with the help of its familiarity with the terrain, quickly got rid of the devil's pursuit and ran into the mountains without a trace.

The night was dark, and the devils did not dare to pursue deeply, so they could only return to the road, look at the bombed heavy artillery, and cry without tears.

After a long time, he reacted and sent a telegram to Yoshio Shinozuka, who was supervising the battle on the front line.

It was already two o'clock when the staff officers of the Yoshio Shinozuka headquarters received the telegram.

This night, it was the first time in the 30 days since the attack on Shou County that Yoshio Shinozuka had a good night's sleep, and after being woken up by the staff officer in the middle of the night, he was so angry that he didn't care about 3721 on the spot, and directly slapped the staff officer several times, and the front teeth of the staff officer fell out, and the corners of his mouth bleed.

But the next news directly avenged the staff officer.

Hearing that the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade was attacked and the heavy artillery was completely blown up, Yoshio Shinozuka vomited a mouthful of blood at that time.

The 240 heavy artillery is a strategic heavy artillery, which is only equipped in the heavy artillery brigade, and this cannon was transferred by him with a lot of effort, this kind of weapon is the lifeblood of others.

Now that it's destroyed, he's in big trouble.

After that, Yoshio Shinozuka fainted directly.

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At the same time.

Somewhere nameless peak.

The system panel will automatically pop up, and subtitles will appear;

"Destroy a Meiji 45-year 240mm howitzer."

"Reward: Bosford L24 Mountain Cannon 6 (Revised), Bottom Platoon Extended Range Shells·····

"In view of the fact that this is the result of independent action and gives full play to the subjective initiative, the reward price has been doubled."

"Increase Rewards: The first generation of the Great Mule has a full set of techniques, the second generation has some techniques, and the livestock farm ·····"

"The Battle of Shou County Begins to Settle ······"

Looking at the panel that jumped out of the system, Chen Fan was very satisfied at first, the system was very powerful, and Grand Master Li would replenish as much as he lost, especially the grain, the quantity was a big deal, but when he saw the end, he couldn't help twitching the corners of his eyes, and finally held back a sentence:

"Why don't you give me some points."

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Yoshio Shinozuka quickly woke up under the treatment of the military doctor, and he also learned the specific situation, and for a while, his heart was full of regret for not being at the beginning.

The destruction of the heavy artillery brigade was mainly due to his command error.

After breaking through Shou County, he was in a hurry to attack, eager to eliminate Li Yunlong, forgetting to arrange a blockade line and forgetting to deploy enough troops to protect the heavy artillery brigade, which led to the tragedy.

After learning from the pain, Yoshio Shinozuka gritted his teeth and once again urged the forward troops to launch a dragnet search in an attempt to find and eliminate Li Yunlong.

Under the urging of more than a dozen telegrams from Yoshio Shinozuka a day, the five wings of the little devils searched like crazy, every village, every hill was searched, the devils burned and looted all the way, and a large number of ordinary people were forced to retreat and transfer under the leadership of the militia.

A large number of ordinary people who were driven out by the devils forced the independent regiment to fight the devils many times and cover the retreat of the common people.

A few days later...

"Stupid."

Inside the Devil's Headquarters, Yamamoto looked at the latest front-line telegram and snorted coldly.

Before the heavy artillery brigade was attacked, the heavy artillery was blown up, and Yoshio Shinozuka was so angry that he vomited blood, and since then, there have been physical problems, and the military doctor warned not to be greatly stimulated, these days, Yamamoto is responsible for filtering the bad news of excessive stimulation.

For now, though, this one is good news.

"General."

"Frontline Reports."

Yamamoto Kazuki's tone was still cold and hard, but obviously happy:

"In recent days, during the sweep period, various units have exchanged fire with Li Yunlong's troops many times, eliminating many qi troops, and at present, their main forces have been driven out of the plains and fled to the northwest of Shanxi."

"Huh?"

Yoshio Shinozuka was a little puzzled for a while.

A company-level unit of about 100 people is hiding in the mountains, but it is not so easy to find, not to mention that Li Yunlong, the independent topographic regiment here, is still very familiar with it, why did he drive the other party out of the mountains in only three or four days?

And even wiped out quite a few of its troops?

Shou County was blocked for a month, and in the face of this short period of time and the results of the battle, Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't believe it for a while.

"General, Li Yunlong made a serious mistake, even a fatal one."

Yamamoto's tone was thick with mockery:

"Its troops are very hidden, and the various wings have repeatedly pulled the net to search but have not been able to reach the gap, but during the sweep, according to the order of General Gangcun, the troops carried out a purge policy of only taking the village."

"In order to cover these transfers of the common people, Li Yunlong's troops often fought head-on with the imperial army, and although they rescued many old deformations, their troops themselves suffered great losses."

"I didn't expect Li Yunlong to be so stupid."

Hearing the news, Yoshio Shinozuka's originally pale face turned flushed visibly to the naked eye.

"It's stupid to trade good soldiers for civilian survival."

Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't help but sneer and sneer many times, and his tone became more and more neutral.

If he were Li Yunlong, he would have given civilians improvised weapons, such as grenades or explosives, and then ordered civilians to stop the imperial army with their lives to buy time for the troops to retreat.

"The general is right."

"Li Yunlong made a very wrong, even stupid decision."

Yamamoto echoed:

"And."

"The villages of the Republic of China are all small-scale peasant economies, self-sufficient in food, this time, we have destroyed their farmland, destroyed their production, it is foreseeable that they will be seriously short of food next year, and when the time comes, these people who have been left will become a burden again."

"There are all kinds of harms and no benefits."

"Order the troops to pursue quickly, and notify the blockade troops in the plains to strengthen the vigilance."

Yoshio Shinozuka felt that his body was completely well.

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Just when Yamamoto and Yoshio Shinozuka were happy, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang had already led their troops to a village in the plains.

"There is a village called Xinzhuang in front, let's repair it here, stay here for a day, and then break through at night."

After a brief discussion, Zhao and Li pointed to the map and made a decision.

After several days of fighting, especially the battles that covered the retreat of the common people many times, at this time Li Yunlong and his troops who had previously acted not only suffered relatively large losses, but also had a Dalian team of 180 people at the time of departure, only 120 people were left at this time, and there were several seriously wounded, and the soldiers were seriously tired, and the speed of the march had dropped greatly, so they had to find a place to repair.

Otherwise, sooner or later, you will be caught up by the devils.

After making a decision, the accompanying company quickly prepared, the soldiers dug improvised bunkers, and the cooking squad prepared meals.

Fortunately, Xinzhuang is a plain village, and the houses are mostly brick and stone buildings, and they have experienced previous battles, many houses are damaged, and there are ready-made materials to build bunkers and fortifications.

After just over an hour, the bunkers were erected, and the soldiers drank the hot paste and tortillas prepared by the cooking class, regained their strength, and waited for the devils to catch up. On the bunker, the monk was still touching his two desert eagles, while Wang Xikui continued to count his bullet belts.

During this period, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang were discussing the things of the past few days:

"We haven't done enough to prepare for the retreat of the common people."

Li Yunlong spoke first, and his tone was a little wry.

Because of Brother Chen's relationship, a large number of disaster victims came in his base area, and when there was food, they were all resettled in the base villages, and such a large population obviously exceeded the organizational capacity of the grassroots political power that had just been formed in the villages, and there were many mistakes.

And, there's another reason...

It has been a long time since the devils have come in the base area of the independent regiment, especially the new people, who have not experienced the sweep in the base area of the devils, which has led to the lack of preparedness for the devils in the villages, the retreat and transfer are not timely, and in the face of several wings of devils who suddenly rushed in, there was a big problem for a while.

This time, the devil also made a dead hand, burning, killing and looting, if it weren't for the desperate cover of the soldiers of the independent regiment, I am afraid that there would be a lot of bloody cases.

"Indeed."

Zhao Gang nodded, his voice full of guilt:

"This is a gross dereliction of duty on my part. ”

In charge of the transfer of the common people in the base area is Political Commissar Zhao.

"I can blame you here, so many people suddenly came in the base area, we still have to fight the devils, and you have to take care of the work of the soldiers in the regiment, there is time to investigate village by village."

Li Yunlong's rare seriousness is a long topic to discuss.

"I wonder how our losses will be this time?"

Zhao Gang said.

In order to cover the common people, each company fought head-on with the devils many times, and the losses were not small, such as their company, which sacrificed nearly one-fifth of the soldiers.

"No matter how big the losses are, it is necessary to cover the retreat of the common people."

Li Yunlong's tone was firm:

"The common people are the roots of our Eighth Route Army."