Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 250
Licheng, Li Jiazuo.

Soldiers from the Xinyi Regiment, the 28th Regiment, and the Fourth Regiment were scattered here. Except for a small number of soldiers who remained in charge of guarding, the rest of the soldiers had fallen asleep after a night of fighting.

A telegram broke the tranquility here.

Wang Yigong was resting against a tree at this time, while political commissar Gao Zhiheng was jotting down something in his notebook.

The telegraph operator of the Fourth Regiment hurried over, Gao Zhiheng signaled softly, and Wang Yigong woke up immediately.

"The head of the regiment, the political commissar, and the headquarters sent a telegram!" The telegrapher reported.

Wang Yigong took the telegram, glanced at it, his eyes widened, and then handed it to Gao Zhiheng.

"Hit Handan?" Gao Zhiheng exclaimed.

"What are you making all the fuss about? The detachment leader is always bold and willing to make strange moves. We don't know the situation around Handan, but if the headquarters dares to order the attack on Handan, it is absolutely sure!" Wang Yigong was very confident in Zhou Weihan.

"I'm just too surprised! Even if Handan is defeated, it won't be able to hold it. Our Eighth Route Army's offensive center has always avoided the heavy defense of the Japanese army!" Gao Zhiheng said.

"Forget it, why do you think so much? I'll go to Comrade Xinyi Regiment, the 28th Regiment, let the soldiers sleep for a while, and set off before dark!" Wang Yigong said.

After finishing speaking, Wang Yigong hurried to Li Jiazuo Village.

A small village in the mountains can't hold three regiments. The new regiment is inside the village, and the other two regiments are outside the village.

Ding Wei squeezed into a room with Li Yunlong, while Wang Yigong didn't join in the fun.

In the adobe room, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei were sitting opposite each other, with sleepy eyes, as if they were not awake.

As soon as Wang Yigong finished speaking, Li Yunlong jumped up from the kang in shock: "What, hit Handan?"

Ding Wei also had no sleepiness at all, and he couldn't believe it: "Although Handan is not as good as Taiyuan, it is also an important town on the Pinghan line. Why did Zhou Weihan come up with the idea of ​​attacking Handan?"

"What's so strange about this? If I were Zhou Weihan, I would be able to command six regiments and more than a dozen cannons. I dare to attack Taiyuan and capture Yoshio Shinozuka alive!" .

"Come on, it's just you. If you really want you to command an army of tens of thousands of people, you will have to go against the sky!" Ding Wei dissatisfied.

Seeing the two of them spitting stars, Wang Yigong hurriedly interrupted: "Both of you, there is still business to do!"

"Yes, yes, it's all your fault, Old Ding, I'm just bragging, I have to hold on to it, and I've missed the point!" Li Yunlong hastily beat back.

After the two stopped, Wang Yigong continued: "The headquarters ordered that the main force of the Xinyi Regiment and the 28th Regiment each leave a battalion, and cooperate with the county brigade and militia to continue activities in Licheng and Lucheng! The rest arrived in Wu'an tonight. Tamura area!"

"It's daytime now, and the little devil's plane is dangling above his head from time to time! Our three regiments, besides the two battalions, still have nearly [-] people. How can we hide it from the little devil's eyes?" Ding Wei frowned tightly. Head, shook his head and said.

"What's the matter? It's afternoon. Let's have a meal, pack up, and set off after dark. We'll arrive at Wu'an along the Han-Chang Highway!" Li Yunlong said carelessly.

What Li Yunlong said is really a solution. The little devils in the strongholds along the Hanchang Highway have all evacuated, and the little devils' planes will not come out at night.

"The weapons and equipment of the county brigade and the militia are still a bit lacking. Some of the captured weapons and ammunition will be distributed, which is more like the main force! Let's take some of the puppet troops away to help the soldiers reduce the logistical pressure!" Ding Wei suggested.

As soon as he thought that he was going to hit Handan, Li Yunlong, a small fortune, didn't pay attention to it, so he readily agreed.

After the three of them discussed, the Xinyi Regiment and the 28th Regiment each left the Fourth Battalion, and then dispersed to make arrangements.

After nine o'clock that night, the three regiments arrived near Tiancun, where the headquarters was located, after a three-hour rapid march.

The first and second regiments of the independent detachment continued to stay near Yaojiamiao, south of Handan, and Jing Dagang and Xu Dali rushed to Tiancun in person.

After the troops arrived, Li Yunlong asked Luo Benzhong to arrange the deployment, and hurriedly called Ding Wei and Wang Yigong to the headquarters.

"Haha, Lao Zhou, I heard that you are going to fight Handan, so we came with our troops non-stop!" Li Yunlong's voice came in before he entered the house.

Inside the room, Zhou Weihan said with a smile: "I said Li Yunlong can't sit still, as long as there is a battle, this guy can run faster than anyone else."

Li Yunlong and others entered the room, Zhou Weihan motioned them to sit down.

"Did you report the case to the headquarters? This is not a small matter, and it may affect the current situation!" Ding Wei said first.

"Don't worry about this, the boss indicated that we can let go, and the brothers around will respond positively!" Xing Zhiguo explained.

"Haha, even the headquarters agreed. This is the first time our Eighth Route Army has attacked an important city of the Japanese army!" Li Yunlong said.

"We have the main force of the six regiments in this fight against Handan, and the New Ninth Brigade in the north of Handan will send a reinforcement force to stop the Japanese army at Xingtai. The nearby 120th Division will contain part of the Japanese troops! The situation is very beneficial to us!"

Zhou Weihan said optimistically, and then looked at He Wensheng, the chief of the enemy engineering department.

He Wensheng understood, stood up and said: "Everyone, you should have seen it on the way here. Some of the surviving strongholds of the Japanese army have moved closer to the nearby counties during the day. The vicinity of Handan City was not within our attack range at the beginning. , there are many surviving strongholds around it, and intelligence personnel reported that more than [-] Japanese troops retreated into Handan City one after another during the day!"

"Handan City is a long and narrow structure that is long from north to south and narrow from east to west. There are four city gates. A moat runs from northeast to southwest and half surrounds the city. There is a ring of roads around the city outside. The northeast side leads to Yongping, the east It faces Feixiang, the south leads to Ci County, and the west leads to Wu'an. There is a large Japanese stronghold at the intersection of these four roads and the ring road. Before the war, a detachment of Japanese troops and puppet troops were stationed. One company, these five strongholds are currently not abandoned by the Japanese army."

"There is a station on the southwest side of the city, and there is currently a small Japanese army stationed there, and a puppet army guard with more than [-] people!"

"There is a brigade and regiment headquarters in the city, a communications team, a medical team, a weapon service team, and a field hospital. Before the war, there were two Type 37 light tanks and four Type 600 road and rail dual-purpose armored vehicles, which have remained in the city without dispatch. , There is also an anti-tank squadron with [-]mm anti-tank guns, and the Japanese combat troops in the city currently have about [-] people! The puppet army guard team has about [-] people!" He Wensheng shared all the information he knew.

"So, last night was the emptiest time in Handan City, where there was only one anti-tank squadron of Japanese soldiers and a few tanks and armored vehicles stationed?" Ding Wei said in disbelief.

"That's right. Last night, Japanese troops were dispatched successively to reinforce the attacked strongholds in southern Hebei. Both the mountain artillery squadron and the infantry artillery squadron were taken away, but most of them were annihilated by our brothers in the Southern Hebei Military Region!"

"Fight, what else is there to say, this time we must give our new regiment a chance to play the main attack!" Li Yunlong shouted loudly.

(End of this chapter)