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"For the Japanese army, this is just a routine operation." Fang Ligong said, "After Neiji Okamura took office, he did respect the Chinese in the so-called model areas, but he did not respect the Chinese people in the guerrilla areas and the bases of the Eighth Route Army. If it gets worse, it really won't even let the baby in the swaddle go."
"These beasts." Chu Yunfei's face collapsed.
Fang Ligong said again: "But if the Japanese army wants to achieve their combat intentions, I'm afraid there will be a fierce battle."
"Of course." Chu Yunfei said with deep conviction, "Li Yunlong is not a good guy, and Wang Ye is even more resourceful, so the independent group will never stand still, and there will definitely be a good show in the future!"
Such a result was what Chu Yunfei and the Jin Sui Army wanted to see most.
Let the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army fight to the detriment of both sides.
Then the only brigade of the Jinsui Army can benefit from it.
……
Taiyue Military Region, brigade headquarters.
The chief of staff said: "Brigade Commander, all the regiments under the military region have launched a new round of offensives, but the Japanese army's defense force is much larger than we expected, so they did not achieve much results."
"I already know about this," said the brigade commander.
After a pause, the brigade commander said again: "The devil played a trick on us. The No. 40 First Division has been transferred to the northwest of Shanxi in name, but it has not, but left three brigades in the southeast of Shanxi. "
"It's no wonder." The chief of staff said bitterly, "The little devil is really cunning."
The brigade commander asked again: "How is the situation in the Fuliangshan base area? Is there any latest progress?"
Just as the chief of staff was about to say no, a communications staff officer hurried in and reported, "Brigade Commander, the Independent Regiment has an urgent call."
"Tell Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here." The chief of staff took the telegram and said while reading it, "Brigade Commander, the devils have already advanced outside the Fuliangshan Fortress."
The brigade commander asked anxiously, "Did the devil attack immediately?"
The Independence Regiment has already reported the revised combat plan to the brigade headquarters, so the brigade commander knows the plan of the Independence Regiment. What he is most worried about is that the Japanese army will launch a strong attack immediately after advancing to the periphery of the Fuliangshan Fortress. There will be trouble, because the Fuliangshan Fortress now only has one guard company plus the Wolf Squadron.
"No." The chief of staff said, "A confrontation has already formed."
After saying this, the chief of staff laughed and said, "Last night, the Wolf Warrior Squadron even launched a night attack, killing at least half of the devils in the squadron. Now the devils have become more cautious."
"Okay, as expected of Xiao Wang." The brigade commander was overjoyed when he heard this.
"This move replaces defense with offense, it's beautifully played!"
……
Beiping, Iron Lion Alley NO.11.
Neiji Okamura has also been paying attention to the battle situation in Northwest Shanxi.
After finishing the official duties at hand, Neiji Okamura called Deputy Chief of Staff Yusue Seizo to his office.
"Youmo-kun, how is the progress in Northwest Shanxi?" Ningji Okamura said, "Have you advanced to the fortress of Fuliang Mountain?"
Youmo Jing paused and said: "Your Excellency is really good at predicting things. The three mobile brigades of the Second Guards Division have just advanced to the periphery of the Fuliangshan Fortress."
Neiji Okamura smiled and asked again: "Is there a map?"
"There is a map, Your Majesty, wait a moment." Arisue Seizo returned to his office and brought over the map of the situation between the enemy and us in Northwest Shanxi that he took time to draw.
It looks very intuitive from the map.
Six concentric blockade ditches from the inside to the outside divide the entire Fuliang bandit area into a circle center, five rings, which have been separated from each other, and there are nearly two hundred rings around the village and deep moats to generalize the bandit area. The villages were all surrounded, and now nearly [-] villages in the bandit area had been completely reduced to isolated islands, and Fuliangshan Fortress was the largest isolated island.
Arisue Seizo pointed at the map and said, "At most three days, the sixth blockade ditch will be formed, and the independent group will be completely trapped in the Fuliang Mountain Fortress."
Okamura Ningji was a little surprised, and said, "So, the tunnel network in the Fuliang bandit area has already been cracked by Miyano-kun's bunker and trench tactics?"
"It's basically like this." Arisue Seizo nodded and said, "The only thing left is the final decisive battle."
"A decisive battle has never been a problem for the imperial army." Okamura Ningji waved his hands and said again, "What we are afraid of is that the Eighth Route Army will not fight a decisive battle with the imperial army. As long as the Eighth Route Army is willing to fight a decisive battle, there is nothing to fear even if it is a fortress battle."
"Yes." Arisue Seizo said with a smile, "So the independent group is doomed."
"It seems that this bunker-encircling trench strategy is effective and worth promoting." Neiji Okamura said, "You should immediately organize the staff officers of the divisions and brigades directly under the front army to go to the Fuliang bandit area to observe and study, and then put this as soon as possible. This experience has been extended to the bandit areas in central Hebei and the bandit areas in southern Hebei."
"Hai." You Mojing paused three times.
"Next year." Okamura Ningji said again, "I plan to spend a year to completely wipe out the so-called bases of the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei and southern Hebei, so that the security situation in Hebei will be completely improved."
Chapter 373 Autumn Harvest
Zhaojiayu.
Under the night, a few black shadows tiptoed to the top of the front mountain.
Standing on the top of the front mountain and looking down, you can clearly see the deep trench surrounding Zhaojiayu Village and the five blockhouses distributed on the deep trench around the village.
Because outside the bunker, dozens of bonfires were lit along the moat.
This is a bonfire specially lit by the devils and puppet troops for nighttime lighting in order to prevent the militia from Zhaojiayu Village from infiltrating.
Because of the lighting of the fire, no matter how the militiamen dared to cross the trenches to infiltrate, the devils and puppet troops would have the advantage of attacking secretly. The militiamen in Zhaojiayu didn't know where the secret posts of the devils and puppet troops were hiding, so they had to suffer a lot.
But the devils didn't know that the folks in Zhaojiayu had dug several deeper tunnels several days ago, bypassing the deep moat around the village from the bottom, and reconnecting the tunnels outside the village.
Regarding this, there is still a big error from Wang Ye's previous estimate.
Wang Ye originally thought that it would be easy to bypass the six-meter-deep ring trench.
But the actual operation is not easy, because if you want to bypass the ten-meter-wide and six-meter-deep trench from the bottom, you have to choose a point in the village, dig down at least ten meters, and then dig forward at least 20 meters. meters, and then dig up. If the direction is not deviated, it will be able to get through with the original tunnel outside the village in two or three days.
But if the direction is wrong, there is no way to guarantee this time.
Zhaojiayu's luck was extremely bad, and it took nearly a month to dig through.
But then again, Zhao Jiayu is not the worst luck.
The few villages with the worst luck have not yet opened up the inner and outer tunnels.
In fact, the main thing is that I dare not dig directly up to the ground, for fear of being discovered by devils.
Otherwise, a tunnel leading to the outside of the village has been dug directly for so long.
But fortunately, the inner and outer tunnels of Zhaojiayu have been dug through, and Li Yunlong, Zhuang Yan, and Uncle Li came out of one of the tunnels.
While Uncle Li was inspecting the crops, Li Yunlong raised his binoculars to observe the bunkers outside the village.
After more than a month of confrontation, Li Yunlong has basically figured out the details of the devils and puppet troops outside the village.
There are a total of five bunkers, one main bunker, there are about seven devils in the main bunker, more than 20 puppet soldiers, and a light machine gun imitating the Czech Republic, and the remaining four bunkers are auxiliary bunkers, each of which has only three Devils, plus five puppet troops, without machine guns, if there is no deep trench around the village ten meters wide and six meters deep, this little devil and puppet army is just delivering food.
But now that the tunnels inside and outside the village have been re-opened, the deep moat around the village does not exist.
So now, when Li Yunlong looks at these five blockhouses again, it looks like a piece of fat around his mouth, it depends on when Li Yunlong put his mouth down.
"Xiaozhuang, come here."
Li Yunlong beckoned, Zhuang Yan hurried over.
Li Yunlong said with a smile: "I'll test you, if you start now, how should you fight this battle?"
Zhuang Yan scratched his head and said, "Attack the main fort first, because the main fort has the largest number of devils and puppet troops, and it also has a light machine gun, which poses the greatest threat to our militia!"
"Not bad, there is progress."
Li Yunlong nodded and said: "Then how should we attack the main castle?"
Zhuang Yan continued to scratch his head and said, "First use part of the force to make the illusion of crossing the trench and attacking from the front to attract the attention of the devils and puppet troops, and then the main force will quietly leave the village through the tunnel."
"While the devil is not paying attention, attack from behind."
"That's it? No more?" Li Yunlong asked.
"It's gone." Zhuang Yan said with some embarrassment.
"Thanks to Lao Tzu's presence." Li Yunlong said, "Otherwise, the militia team in Zhaojiayu would have to be ruined by you kid. Even if you don't think about it, the Zhaojiayu militia team would have less than NO. There are no more than 30 people in a class, not enough for the devil's machine gun."
"When you say raid from the back, do you raid from the back?"
"Our nearest tunnel entrance is 500 meters away from the main castle."
"If you take the entire militia team in, you won't be able to rush through."
Zhuang Yan scratched his head and said, "Commander, how should we fight this battle?"
Li Yunlong said: "You have to find a way to shorten this assault distance."
"Dig a tunnel?" Zhuang Yan's eyes lit up, "Dig the tunnel directly under the bunker?"
"That's right." Li Yunlong said with a chuckle, "From tomorrow onwards, you will lead people to dig a side road to the bottom of the main castle at the east end of the village. Remember, don't make too much noise."
"I know." Zhuang Yan nodded repeatedly, "I won't let the devil find out."
While the two were talking, Uncle Li came over in a hurry: "Head, I'm familiar."
"Is it ripe?" Li Yunlong said, "Is the sweet potato, corn, etc. ripe?"
"It's ripe, it's all ripe." Uncle Li said, "It's ready to harvest."
"Okay." Li Yunlong said decisively, "Xiaozhuang, immediately send messengers to notify the nearby villages, and then ask each village to notify the villages farther away, and agree to unify the autumn harvest at night on September [-]!"
"Yes!" Zhuang Yan agreed, turned around and left in a hurry.
Li Yunlong also took Uncle Li back to the village.
……
It was already the third night when the news reached Gujiayu Village.
Because Gujiayu is at the outermost periphery, and there are four blockade ditches between it and Zhaojiayu, it will take time to deliver the information, mainly because it takes a little extra time to open up a few tunnels on both sides of the blockade ditch.
"Unify the autumn harvest at night on the [-]th? That's tonight." Gu Zidi muttered, and immediately shouted, "Xiaobei, quickly call Mrs. Gu and Old Gu Village Chief over for a meeting."
Soon, both Lao Gu and Mrs. Gu came to the underground shelter.
Gu Zidi said: "I just received a notice from the regiment headquarters, and the autumn harvest will start tonight."
Laogu Village took a puff of dry smoke and said: "I was just talking to Lao Geda about this, it should be harvested in autumn."
Gu Zidi said again: "Uncle Gu, sister-in-law Gu, go back immediately and organize the villagers, bring all the tools and go out of the village from the tunnel to grab food. Remember, you can only do it in the dark."
"Harvest the food that is far away first, and the nearby ones last."
"Don't make too much noise, so as not to be discovered by the ghosts and puppet soldiers."
Speaking of this meal, he said again: "Xiaobei, you take ten militiamen to stay in the village and shoot coldly. You fire a shot every ten or ten minutes to attract the attention of the devils and puppet soldiers."
Gu Xiaobei asked, "Brother Guzi, what about you?"
Gu Zidi said, "I took the rest of the brothers out of the village to cover the villagers' grain harvest."
The folks in Gujiayu were quickly organized. At this time, the mobilization ability and execution ability of the grassroots organizations of our party showed unparalleled advantages. There were more than 200 people in Gujiayu Village, and even the children were mobilized. Surprisingly, most of the autumn grain can be harvested in just two nights.
After all, there is not much food.
Although the planting area is quite large, it cannot support the low yield per mu.
In northwestern Shanxi where there is no chemical fertilizer or water conservancy, one hundred catties per mu is considered high yield, but one thousand catties per mu?That simply does not exist, only such stories exist in the world of mythology.
……
There are nearly [-] villages in the Fuliangshan base area. Except for a few villages that have not been notified and there is no movement, the other villages have started to harvest autumn grain in full swing.
And the Fuliang Mountain Fortress was not idle.
But it is impossible to go out and engage in night raids.
Because after suffering a big loss the night before yesterday, the vigilance of the devils has increased a lot.
Moreover, the sixth blockade ditch surrounding the entire Fuliangshan Fortress has basically been closed. The specification of this blockade ditch is based on the standard of a deep trench around a village: ten meters wide and six meters deep.
Several tunnels leading to the outside world of the fortress have been dug.
And there is no way to detour from deeper in Fuliang Mountain.
Because there is a rock formation from six meters down, if you want to dig a tunnel out of the rock formation, the turning time may have to be measured in years.
Therefore, if the Wolf Warriors Squadron still wants to carry out a night attack, they can only cross the blockade ditch.
Although the blockhouse surrounding the blockade ditch has not been repaired yet, the barbed wire fence has been pulled up in advance, and the hidden whistle hidden in an unknown place is enough to prevent infiltration.
Even the Wolf Warrior Squadron needs to take great risks when infiltrating. If one is not careful, it is easy to be attacked by machine gun fire and cause heavy casualties.
But this can't help the soldier king of the Wolf Warriors.
Even if they don't leave the fortress, they can also inflict heavy damage on the Japanese army with their sniper rifles.