The regiment commander pretended to be angry and punched the brick wall in front of him, gritted his teeth and scolded: "The national rescue army bullied people too much. He dared to use artillery to bomb us. The soldiers could not bear it. I passed my order and the artillery immediately fired a volley at the pre-set positions outside the city for a minute, and also taught them a lesson, so that they could know that the Independent Regiment was not the target of their weakness and bullying."

The two battalion commanders could not help it anymore, and became excited when they heard the counterattack order.

"Captain, you are right. If someone doesn't offend me, I won't offend anyone. The artillery shells from the National Salvation Army hit us. If you don't fight back, it would be too frustrating! I'll arrange for artillery fighters to counterattack now and let them taste the power of our independent regiment."

The regiment commander nodded in agreement and added: "Break back immediately, but remember that we only fight for one minute and then evacuate the battle. We must not further expand the scale of the battle, otherwise both sides will definitely suffer losses and the Japanese will eventually get away with nothing."

"Boom..." The shells of the Independent Regiment's counterattack quickly hit the outside of the city, and the fireballs that soared into the air were like huge fireworks, looking very dazzling.

Except for Zhou Cheng and Chen Zhengyu, the rest of the National Salvation Army were shocked by the counterattack artillery fire of the Independent Regiment.

Everyone felt that the National Salvation Army had fought with the Independent Group, and the two sides had completely turned against each other...

Careful people will find that although the National Salvation Army and the Independence Corps are firing fires at each other, it sounds like the sound of the cannons rumbling and very lively, all the shells fired by both sides hit the open space and did not hurt a single person.

"The first battalion started attacking, entered Yangquan County, and taught an independent regiment a lesson!" Zhou Cheng pretended to be very angry.

At the same moment, the artillery counterattack of the Independent Regiment also stopped, but the regiment commander issued an order that made everyone inexplicably: "The entire army retreat, give up Yangquan County, and take it with them to retreat to the base!"

"Is this giving up Yangquan County?" Although the two battalion commanders had long expected this moment, they still couldn't accept the retreat order after it was truly spoken from Zhou Cheng's mouth.

The regiment commander asked angrily: "If you don't retreat, do you really want to fight a battle face to face with the National Salvation Army here?"

"The artillery counterattack just now has shown our attitude to the National Salvation Army. If we continue to fight, we will only make the Japanese laugh. I don't want to do such stupid things as the relatives hurt their enemies... I'm passing my order, the troops will retreat immediately, and don't be stuck by the National Salvation Army's attacking troops."

"Yes, regiment commander..." The two battalion commanders were very unwilling to accept the order.

"Dongdongdongdongdong...dadada..." The attacking troops were very stances, with heavy machine guns and light machine guns constantly spraying bullets at the city wall, with very strong firepower.

The attacking troops spread out in a scattered line, and slowly approached the city wall with guns...

The whole attack was like an exercise, and it looked orderly...

Ten minutes later, the first soldier of the National Savior climbed up to the city...

Five minutes later, the flag representing the National Salvation Army was inserted at the gate of Yangquan City...

Five minutes later, the first battalion of communication soldiers rushed to Zhou Cheng with excitement on their faces: "Report to the regiment commander, we have successfully taken the city head. The troops have entered Yangquan County, but there are no independent troops on the city head!"

Zhou Cheng had known about this result before, but he still deliberately showed a different expression and ordered: "The independent group must have run away when it sees something is wrong."

"Go back and tell you battalion commander that the troops will continue to advance and take down Yangquan County within an hour!"

"In order to prevent the Independent Regiment from ambushing us in the city, the troops must make steady progress and advance slowly. No one or any troops can advance alone!"

The "offensive" was smoother than expected. In less than half an hour, Zhou Chengru received good news that the troops had taken down Yangquan County.

While bringing "good news", He Feng also brought another news: "Captain, we just received the news that the Independent Regiment had all evacuated Yangquan County 20 minutes ago, and each soldier carried a lot of supplies!"

"I took the opportunity to go to the arsenal and took a look at the grain warehouse. The clean mice inside were unwilling to enter. All the food, weapons and ammunition stored in the county were transferred by the independent regiment and nothing was left for us!"

"Bang..." Zhou Cheng slapped the table made of bullet boxes and cursed, "very angry" and said, "The Independence Corps bullies too much. What our national rescue army wants is the food, weapons, ammunition, oceans, medicines reserved by the Japanese and puppet troops in the county town... it is not an empty county town."

"Yangquan Guard Brigade took over the county town, and other troops followed me to pursue the independent regiment that had just retreated. We must rob all the seized ones they took away..."

On the road northwest of Yangquan, more than 800 soldiers of the Independent Regiment were panting and rushing forward. Because there were too many things on their bodies, they had only left the city for five kilometers and were exhausted!

A squad leader in charge of the palace suddenly caught up with the regiment commander, with a very anxious expression. He gasped and reported: "Captain, the National Rescue Army has caught up with us, just two kilometers behind us! We must speed up, otherwise we will definitely be blocked outside the base area and cannot go back."

The first battalion commander became anxious after hearing this. He was carrying a box of fifty or sixty kilograms of bullets on his shoulders. With his own equipment, he had a total weight of more than seventy kilograms. It would be nice to be able to keep up with the team. If he continued to accelerate, he would definitely not be able to do so.

I quickly reminded: "Captain, the things we carry are too heavy, so it would be good to maintain this speed. The possibility of running faster is almost zero!"

"Drop half of the seized, throw it away now..." The leader immediately made a decision.

The seized carried by the troops were all Japanese equipment that they promised to give to the National Salvation Army.

The original idea was to leave them in the county town and wait for the National Rescue Army to accept them.

But this batch of equipment is too much, so it is too risky to stay in the county town, and it will be dangerous if exposed.

After discussing, the two regiment leaders decided to let the independent regiment evacuate the county town with those weapons and ammunition, and the National Rescue Army chased after him...

In order to avoid being caught up, the Independent Group had to give up some seizures on the way to retreat...

In this way, this batch of Japanese equipment will naturally fall into the hands of the National Salvation Army, and will also make the Japanese and World War II further believe in the news that the National Salvation Army fought with the Eighth Route Army.

Both sides began to seize the seizure, and no one believed that they had not had a quarrel.

Half an hour later, the squad leader of the palace behind the palace appeared in front of the regiment commander again: "Captain, the National Rescue Army is catching up again... They have no weights, the troops are moving forward lightly, and the marching speed is very fast. Although we have lost half of the weights, the marching speed is still much slower than the National Rescue Army."

The regiment commander gritted his teeth with regret. He was heartbroken and was very unwilling to give up the order: "Order the troops to give up all the remaining seizures, and everyone advanced lightly and marched quickly to withdraw to the base."

"We will take advantage of this battle today first. When we have the chance, we will take back sooner or later."

The Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army in Taiyuan hurriedly ran to the commander, and he was very happy as if he had eaten honey.

"Sir, the intelligence department's analysis and your judgment are correct. The National Salvation Army really did not dare to attack the Yangquan Independent Regiment because of concerns about our aviation army. Last night our plane was not in Yangquan, and the National Salvation Army and the Independent Regiment started fighting, and both sides also used a lot of artillery."

"After an hour of fierce fighting, the Eighth Route Army voluntarily evacuated Yangquan County and took away the last batch of supplies left in Yangquan City, making Yangquan completely an empty city."

"The National Salvation Army is likely to be so anxious to attack Yangquan for the sake of medicine and the ocean. We definitely don't want all those treasures to be taken away by the Independent Corps."

"After learning that the Independent Regiment had stolen all the supplies, weapons and ammunition that we had stored in Yangquan County, the National Salvation Army left only a small part of its troops stationed in Yangquan, and the main force directly broke out of the county town and pursued the retreating Independent Regiment."

"After several hours of crazy pursuit, although the Independent Regiment successfully returned to their base, all the supplies carried by the troops were discarded and seized by the National Salvation Army that followed."

"At present, the National Salvation Army has reached the edge of the Independent Regiment's base, confronting each other on the defensive positions built before the Independent Regiment, and no one can let anyone do it!"

The commander was also happy after listening to it.

Looking forward to the stars and the moon, we finally hope that the National Salvation Army will fight with the Independent Corps.

Both sides even used artillery and robbed each other of supplies. It would be impossible to go back to the past.

Moreover, the National Salvation Army has not received the medicine they want so far. Shouyang and Yangquan still have a large number of towns controlled by the independent regiment. The two sides have already done this and will definitely continue to fight for the territory and medicines. Then the relationship between the National Salvation Army and the Eighth Route Army will be even more unreconciled.

The more the commander thought about it, the more excited he became, and decided to make another shot.

Although it was counterproductive to send planes to attack the National Salvation Army and the Independent Corps during the day and almost had a counterproductive effect, he believed that his next arrangement would definitely not fail again. Maybe it would relieve the current dilemma of the Shanxi garrison and increase the morale of the Shanxi garrison's increasingly declining forces.

Seeing the Chief of Staff, he began to give an order: "Chief of Staff, I don't care what method you use. Before dawn the next day, I must assemble the Imperial Army of four infantry brigades and the Imperial Army of four regiments, and secretly move to the bases of the Eighth Route Army Shouyang Independent Regiment and Yangquan Independent Regiment on standby!"

"I want to help the National Salvation Army take over the bases of the Shouyang Independent Regiment and the Yangquan Independent Regiment, and kill the Yangquan Independent Regiment and the Shouyang Independent Regiment."

The Chief of Staff was confused, and after a while, a worried expression appeared on his face: "Sir, will it be too fast to send troops to attack the Yangquan Independent Regiment and the Shouyang Independent Regiment?"

"Although they have turned against each other now, it is not ruled out that after the Eighth Route Army is attacked by us, the two sides will unite to deal with their common enemies."

"If we don't advance at that time, we will not let the relationship between the National Salvation Army and the Eighth Route Army continue to deteriorate. We will also help them ease their relationship and play a counterproductive role."

The commander shook his head and asked, "Do you think the National Salvation Army and the Independent Corps have any possibility of easing their relationship?"

The Chief of Staff thought for a while and replied: "Although the possibility is very small, this possibility cannot be ruled out!"

The commander shook his head and replied with no concern: "Then let's find a way to eliminate this possibility first, so that the National Salvation Army and the Eighth Route Army have no possibility of easing the relationship. Then we may attack the Independent Regiment unscrupulously and eliminate these two strong enemies."

"The enemy's enemy is a friend. Although we cannot be friends with the National Salvation Army, we can cooperate a little in some battles, first eliminate our common enemy, and then decide the outcome!"

"My idea is to take the initiative to contact the National Salvation Army. We will help them take down two independent regiments, but not occupy the bases of the two independent regiments. We do not want the equipment and supplies of the two independent regiments. We will take the lives of thousands of people from the National Salvation Army, especially the lives of all officers above the Independent Regiment. As long as they are eliminated and the main force of the Independent Regiment is killed, we will not care about the remaining stragglers of the Independent Regiment. If they are willing, they will be assembled as they want."

"As far as I know, the total strength of the two independent regiments is more than 4,000. Not only are they equipped with a large amount of weapons and ammunition, but they also reserve countless grains in their base areas. We give all these equipment and grains to the National Savior Army as rewards. I believe the National Savior Army will definitely be jealous. Especially the food reserved by the two independent regiments, the National Savior Army has always faced the problem of food shortage and must really want to take it for itself."

The chief of staff was silent. If he was the commander of the National Salvation Army, facing the price offered by the commander, he would definitely agree to the commander's request for cooperation. The two sides cooperated secretly and swallowed up two independent regiments in one bite.

But the good mood lasted only a few seconds, and the Chief of Staff thought of another question.

Looking at the commander, he reminded with concern: "Sir, if the National Salvation Army agrees to cooperate with us to eat two independent regiments secretly, they can get at least 3,000 equipment and rations for more than 4,000 people for more than half a year. Maybe they can also recruit more than 1,000 Eighth Route Army. The strength of the National Salvation Army will definitely expand rapidly in a short period of time, and it will be even more difficult for us to kill them."

The commander smiled: "Chief of Staff, you only know one thing but not the other."

"On the surface, the National Salvation Army obtained a large amount of weapons, ammunition and food, but after this cooperation ended, the National Salvation Army's retreat was also cut off by itself."

"At that time, we will reveal a little about the National Rescue Army's cooperation with us to eliminate the Independence Corps. Not only will the World War II treat the National Rescue Army as its opponent, but the Eighth Route Army will also treat them as its opponents."

"In the future, when we attack the National Salvation Army, they will become a completely lonely army without any foreign aid."

"In addition, after the National Salvation Army cut off its retreat, maybe we don't have to send troops. The National Salvation Army will finish the game. Maybe they will ask us to become a member of us!"

The concern on the Chief of Staff's face was slowly replaced by shock, and it was not until this moment that he understood the commander's bold idea.

It turns out that his real purpose is not to eliminate the National Rescue Army, but to pull the National Rescue Army into the darkness and force them to retreat without any retreat. The military headquarters will find a way to recruit them. Not only can they solve the major problems of the Shanxi garrison garrison, but they can also create an extra strong army to help the Shanxi garrison manage Shanxi, killing two birds with one stone.

In addition to being shocked, he showed an expression of admiration on his face again, and he said with emotion: "Sir, if you can really recruit the National Rescue Army and let them use it for me, with the strength of the National Rescue Army, you can definitely become a great help to the Shanxi garrison."

"Weizhi fully agrees with your proposal. If it succeeds, the benefits it will bring to the Shanxi garrison will be too great."
Chapter completed!