Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 418 The Decline of the Japanese Army Please Subscribe

Zhou Weihan didn't know what Fan Hanjie's reaction was. The Eighth Route Army never violated the property of the common people, but it was merciless towards the property of the Japanese and puppet troops and the puppet government personnel.

For example, in the factories of the Japanese army in the city, there were Japanese and Chinese technicians among them. Zhou Weihan took away all the technicians and their families for the industrial development of the base area without the slightest sympathy.

A group of cavalry rode their horses and galloped towards the territory of Pingshun.

That night, Zhou Weihan led his troops to Pingshun County.

The Japanese army in Pingshun County suffered the same situation as the Japanese army in Lin County. Before the Japanese army in Pingshun suffered heavy losses under the attack of the Fourth Regiment, they could only defend themselves in the county. Telegram.

As a result, on the way from Pingshun to Changzhi, Zhou Weiguo led three guard companies to cooperate with Pingshun local armed forces to wipe out them.

Outside Pingshun City, since the Japanese army abandoned the city, all strongholds and fortifications outside the city were intact.

The soldiers of the Second Regiment who came earlier had already dispersed in various important places in Pingshun, repairing the Japanese strongholds and taking over the city defense works at the same time.

"Detachment Captain!" Xu Dali had received the news a long time ago and rushed out of the city to meet him.

"Chief of Staff, are they here?" Zhou Weihan asked.

"It's here before dark, and the chief of staff is arranging for the first and fourth regiments to station and get in touch with the scattered regiments!" Xu Dali said.

As soon as Zhou Weihan entered the city, the city was pitch-black, only the center of the city was lit with bonfires and lights, and from time to time, he could meet a patrol team composed of soldiers from the second regiment.

The Japanese originally enforced a curfew in the city, and ordinary people turned off the lights early in the morning, so there were no people on the street. After Zhou Weiguo led a company of guards to occupy Pingshun County, he first searched the city for various forces lurking, but In order not to cause riots, the curfew policy is still enforced.

Zhou Weihan entered the former headquarters of the Japanese Army, and now the Second Regiment Headquarters, both Xing Zhiguo and Zhou Weiguo are there.

"Okay, go get busy, you don't need to be here!" Zhou Weihan waved his hand and said.

After hearing this, Xu Dali was embarrassed, thinking this is the regiment headquarters of my second regiment, where do you want me to go?
Xu Dali is an honest person. Usually, when the Second Regiment has any problems, he can solve them by himself. He seldom reaches out to the military area. He just muttered twice, hummed, and then turned his head and left.

Zhou Weihan didn't notice this, instead he joked to the busy Xing Zhiguo and Zhou Weiguo: "Yo, you two are still busy!"

"Oh, old Zhou, look at the headquarters where there is only one idle person, hurry up and give us both some saliva!" Xing Zhiguo said angrily.

Zhou Weihan didn't allow Zhou Weihan to make a move, the monk at the side, the guard, was really discerning, and hurriedly scooped up three mugs of water from the bucket in the corner for the three of them.

"How is the flight team? Did it land safely at the airport?" Zhou Weihan asked with concern.

These ten planes are the treasures of the entire Eighth Route Army. Now that they have won the trust of the Central Military Commission and the head of the Eighth Route Army headquarters, they are temporarily handed over to the Tainan Military Region. How can Zhou Weihan not care.

"We received a telegram on the mountain during the march. Comrade Yunshan said that the plane has landed safely at Nanting Airport. Please rest assured that the military security company is temporarily in charge of security work!" Xing Zhiguo said.

"I can rest assured that!"

Nanting Airport was built by Zhou Weihan before the pilots were in place.

In order to ensure the safety of the airport, the members of the Tainan Military Region team unanimously decided to choose the location of the airport in the mountains near Yanwang Mountain.

Zhou Weihan personally led people to conduct site surveys, and finally chose a small plain in the mountains.

There is a Nanting Village with dozens of families in the local area. In order to build the airport, the entire Nanting Village was relocated out.

Then, more than [-] soldiers were recruited from various regiments, and it took half a month to complete the construction.

During the construction process, a lot of explosives were used to blow up mountains and rocks. Soldiers used pack horses to pull rollers back and forth to tamp the foundation, and then smashed the stones to pave a runway about one kilometer long and fifty meters wide.

"What's going on with the Xinyi Regiment, the 22nd Regiment, and Ding Wei's 28th Regiment?" Zhou Weihan asked again.

"Isn't this busy? They are all screening and integrating information!" Xing Zhiguo pointed to the dozen or so people in the staff office who were gathered together.

"The sources of intelligence are very mixed. Some reported from the enemy engineering department, some from the Changzhi prefectural government comrades, and some from the headquarters and the Taiyue Military Region!"

Zhou Weihan nodded after hearing this. Screening, integrating information, uploading and distributing it is an important task of the staff office, which involved most of the energy.

With such a large territory in the Tainan Military Region, the movements of the various forces involved are extremely complicated. As the chief military officer, Zhou Weihan will only hand over some important and clear information to him immediately.

"After many confirmations, the Japanese army who fought against the Xinyi Regiment and the 22nd Regiment was actually a group of more than a thousand people with luggage and wounded troops. It was composed of the [-]th Division and the [-]th Division. The large Japanese army has reached the junction of Wuxiang and Xiangyuan." Xing Zhiguohui reported.

"Huh? What did Li Yunlong do? Usually, the cowhide blows loudly, but this time it was fooled by the little devil!" Zhou Weihan said with a frown.

Liu Tianming's 22nd Regiment was seconded from the No. [-] Desperate Column to defend the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and it was assigned by the headquarters to the command of the Tainan Military Region. Naturally, Zhou Weihan couldn't say anything.

"Hey, after all, Li Yunlong fought fiercely with the main force of the Japanese army for two days. The Xinyi regiment suffered a lot of casualties before. It is normal to have concerns when pursuing. After seeing through the Japanese army's falsehood, I have sent a telegram to order the Xinyi regiment and the 22nd regiment to quickly eliminate them. The Japanese army in front of us!" Xing Zhiguo hurriedly helped Li Yunlong smooth things over.

"And the 386th Independent Japanese Mixed Brigade, which besieged the 358th Brigade in the mountainous area of ​​Qin County, suddenly broke away from the battle as early as yesterday afternoon, removed the Japanese troops from various blockades, and went all the way south, towards Tunliu and the eldest son. Go, it seems to look for the bad luck of the independent regiment that occupied Tunliu, the eldest son, and the [-]th regiment of the Jinsui Army!"

"The situation of the Japanese Independent [-]th Brigade, which besieged the Three Deadly Columns in the Qinyuan Mountains, is in the same situation. They withdrew to Linfen where they were stationed at noon today. The Three Deadly Columns are chasing them!" Xing Zhiguo reported the collected information one by one.

"Young devil is impatient. The more anxious it is, the more it means that the national army's battle on Zhongtiao Mountain has reached the little devil's pain!" Zhou Weihan couldn't help laughing at this time, his face was tense.

"Yes, judging from the current situation, the various departments of the Japanese army involved in the mopping up have received a unified order to reinforce the Zhongtiao Mountain area at all costs. The side battlefield is too far away, and we can't catch up!" said Zhou Weiguo on the side.

Zhou Weiguo, the head of the staff department, was specially arranged by Zhou Weihan for the Battle of Changzhi. He had the opportunity to command the troops to fight.

Zhou Weihan secretly calculated the situation of the various ministries in the Tainan Military Region. Ding Wei's 28th Regiment cleared out the remnants of the Japanese army in Lucheng, consolidated the base area, and deployed defense lines.

Under the command of Zhao Gang, the Shexian County Cadre Group and the Headquarters Guard Group surrounded the security of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters in Yetao Town, Shexian County.

Li Daben's garrison group returned to Wuyi and Wu'an after the retreat of Si Neiyong's 104th brigade, and the main force of the independent detachment had just withdrawn to Pingshun.

Zhou Weihan couldn't help cursing inwardly, the three armies of the national army were right in front of him, otherwise when the independent detachment was still in Changzhi, the headquarters would have ordered the independent detachment to join the battle.

But things are so absurd. On the one hand, the Eighth Route Army is desperately preventing the Japanese army from returning to aid, and on the other hand, it has to worry about the three armies of the National Army in Tainan pressing into the base area.

"Where is the main force of the 386 brigade commanded by the brigade commander?" Zhou Weihan asked again.

"Yesterday afternoon, as soon as the 358th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army withdrew, the brigade commander guessed that the Japanese army had gone to find trouble with the Independent Regiment and the 386th Regiment. At that time, the 772th Brigade was divided into two parts. Responsible for chasing the Japanese army!"

"The 17th Regiment and 18th Regiment were led by Political Commissar Wang to solve the dilemma of the third column led by Chief of Staff Zhou who was surrounded by the Japanese army in Qinyuan!" Xing Zhiguo said.

"Right now, all the Japanese troops surrounding the 17th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army who surrounded the 18rd Desperate Column have all run away. We can't go after the [-]th and [-]th regiments together!"

Zhou Weihan immediately thought that the 17th and 18th regiments operating near the Lintun Highway were the only mobile forces.

"Immediately ask the brigade commander where are the 17th and 18th regiments?"

(End of this chapter)