Ten days passed in a flash, and the war zone sent compensation promised to the national rescue army as promised.

In order to show sincerity, the Japanese also sent all the compensation they promised to the National Rescue Army to the National Rescue Army Defense Zone.

At this moment, Zhou Cheng finally knew why the war zone had to cut off the Zhengtai Railway for more than half a month.

The day after the railway was interrupted, the two main divisions of the war zone began to launch a tentative attack on the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line.

This test takes three days.

Because the Zhengtai railway line was interrupted, ammunition supply could not be delivered to the front line in time through the railway. It took too long to transport it by road, and it also had to face sneak attacks from the Eighth Route Army and guerrillas at any time, so it was difficult to send ammunition to the front line immediately.

In addition, at the beginning of the battle, the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line did not realize that this was a conspiracy in the war zone. They did not save ammunition during the battle, so in less than three days, the ammunition reserved on the front line was exhausted, and they had to demolish the east wall to repair the west wall and second the ammunition from friendly and neighboring troops.

As a result, the friendly troops did not have much ammunition in their hands. The war zone took the opportunity to transfer several main divisions to join the battle. In order to suppress the weakened artillery of the Japanese army, two artillery regiments were specially transferred to provide firepower support to the infantry.

This fight lasted one day or two nights.

Under the attack of the theater wheel battle, the blocking positions arranged by the Japanese and puppet troops on the front were finally extinguished by three breakthroughs.

The Jinsui army, which broke through the defense line, took the opportunity to enter the Japanese and puppet troops occupied the area, and the situation was unstoppable, and in less than five days it captured five county towns in a row.

Originally, they could continue to capture several county towns, but the ammunition supplies transported by road were sent to the Japanese and puppet troops at the last moment, and the offensive of the Jinsui army was suddenly blocked by the Japanese and puppet troops.

Fortunately for the war zone, the ammunition supply to transport to the front line was very limited, which could only allow the Japanese and puppet troops to block the war zone offensive and could not counterattack.

In this way, the war zone has the opportunity to digest the results and completely control several county towns.

So, the war zone once again focused its attention on the national rescue army.

One day, the interrupted Zhengtai Railway will be reopened to traffic.

If the National Salvation Army fails to complete the task smoothly and destroys the railway again, the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line will be able to obtain a steady stream of ammunition supplies through the railway line, and they will have the strength to counterattack immediately.

The troops that captured several counties in the war zone had not yet gained a foothold in the local area, and the defense line had not been built yet. If the Japanese and puppet troops took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, they would undoubtedly lose and could only give up the county town they had just taken back.

If the National Salvation Army continues to destroy the Zhengtai Railway and interrupt the railway for more than five days, the war zone offensive troops will have at least five days of preparation time. The war zone can also use this time to send them enough ammunition supplies to help them protect the results they have already eaten!

At the Yangquan Command of the National Salvation Army, the communications platoon leader Xue Ya walked into the war room with a panic look on his face. When he saw Zhou Chengru anxiously reported: "The regiment commander, the war zone is urgently powered. Let us send troops to break the Zhengtai Railway again. We must cut off the Zhengtai Railway for more than five days."

"It also said that the longer we interrupt the Zhengtai Railway, the more confident the war zone will be to stop the counterattack of the Japanese and puppet troops and defend the several counties they just captured."

"The telegram also said that the compensation promised to give us by the war zone has been sent all the money. I hope our national rescue army can live up to its trust! Complete this task smoothly!"

"Captain, the war zone is in a hurry. It is rare to be generous. I will give us all the compensation at one time before we complete the task!" Tang Yufeng thought about the analysis.

Zhou Cheng nodded: "If it were other times, I would definitely take the opportunity to ask more about the war zone for some benefits, and then break the Zhengtai Railway."

"Even if this time, it's not easy for them to fight the Japanese. We finally recovered so many lost land from the Japanese and puppet troops. We should help them defend several counties, both in terms of emotion and reason."

"What do you think?"

Chen Zhengyu immediately agreed: "Although we are not in the fight against the war zone, our goal is the same as theirs in fighting the Japanese and puppet troops. Even if there is no compensation, we will help the war zone and do our best to support them after we know that the war zone will fight against the Japanese and puppet troops. "

Tang Yufeng nodded, "I agree to help this too!"

After hearing this, Zhou Cheng made a decision: "Then we will send troops here to break the Zhengtai Railway, and find a way to blow up a few sections before the Zhengtai Railway is reopened to traffic to ensure that the Zhengtai Railway is interrupted for more than five days."

"Chief of Staff, are the attacking troops ready?"

Chen Zhengyu replied excitedly: "I have arranged a total of three reinforcement companies, all led by the battalion commander, and divided into three groups to attack three targets at the same time. The reconnaissance company and the reconnaissance team cooperated with their operations and could definitely win the target within half an hour, and then use the explosives carried by the army to destroy the railway!"

"According to the plan, I also prepared a set of Jinsui Army uniforms for them, and I wore them during the operation."

Zhou Cheng thought for a while and added: "Only half of the soldiers were arranged to wear Jinsui Army uniforms, while the other half of the soldiers were worn in ordinary people's clothes and the Imperial Army uniforms!"

Chen Zhengyu was very confused: "Why, aren't we going to pretend to be the Jinsui army to attack the Zhengtai Railway, and make the Japanese army mistakenly believe that the war zone is the culprit for breaking the Zhengtai Railway?"

"If the troops were allowed to wear common people's clothes and puppet military uniforms, the Japanese and puppet troops would definitely not be able to see their identities, so we would not be able to frame them?"

Zhou Cheng shook his head: "Chief of Staff, you are wrong. Only by dressing up as I just proposed will the Japanese and puppet troops believe that the troops that broke the railway were war zones."

"The decisive battle between the war zone and the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line has reached the most critical moment. The Zhengtai Railway has become the key point of this battle invisibly. When the Japanese army restores the Zhengtai Railway, the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line can restore morale and combat effectiveness and regain the initiative in combat. When the Zhengtai Railway continues to be interrupted, the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line will be unable to restore morale due to shortage of ammunition, and the initiative in combat will continue to be in the hands of the war zone. Therefore, the Japanese and puppet troops will fight their lives to restore the Zhengtai Railway to open traffic, and the war zone is so anxious that we will send troops to break the Zhengtai Railway again, and even the funds and materials that promised to compensate us were sent over in advance at one time."

"Since that's the case, in the eyes of the Japanese, the war zone will definitely try every means to destroy the Zhengtai Railway and prevent him from opening to traffic."

"As long as some of us put on the Jinsui Army uniforms and pretended to be the Jinsui Army to break the Zhengtai Railway, the Japanese would treat them as an operation team sent by the war zone."

"As for those soldiers wearing ordinary people's clothes and puppet military uniforms, the Japanese will naturally treat them as intelligence personnel to the operation team, so that the entire operation process will be reasonable."

"If all the troops involved in the operation were wearing Jinsui Army uniforms and were not supported by local intelligence personnel and guided by them, the Japanese would suspect their identity!"

Chen Zhengyu's eyes lit up and replied: "I understand. I will make arrangements later, and strive to cross the blockade line tonight, rush to the target of the operation and lurk near the operation, and act tomorrow night to cut off the Zhengtai Railway again."

Although the National Salvation Army has promised not to destroy the Zhengtai Railway, the National Salvation Army is not its own person after all.

If this cooperation is just the National Salvation Army fooling the military headquarters, it would be awful.

With the idea of ​​being prepared for any incidents, the Japanese army temporarily restored the six strongholds captured by the National Savior Army to their original appearance, and also drew heavy troops from the surrounding strongholds to defend these strongholds to ensure that the railway will no longer be attacked by the National Savior Army.

After the railway was restored and opened to traffic, it turned out that the National Salvation Army did not have the idea of ​​fighting the Zhengtai Railway, and the military headquarters then withdrew most of the troops from the six strongholds.

In order to restore the Zhengtai Railway as soon as possible, the Japanese army not only arranged heavy troops along the railway, but also captured a large number of young and strong people from the occupied areas.

All soldiers who could build railways in the railway garrison were transferred to the scene to help.

This led to more than ten strongholds on the Yangquan section of the Zhengtai Railway going west of the railway of more than 10 kilometers to the west, and fell into a crisis of insufficient troops.

The Dongshan Town stronghold is a medium-sized stronghold along the railway line. Under normal circumstances, nearly a hundred Japanese soldiers and two companies of puppet troops stationed.

In order to build the railway as soon as possible, more than 30 soldiers who had worked as railway workers in the stronghold were transferred from here by their superiors.

Some of these soldiers were machine gunners, some were grenade turret soldiers, and some were riflemen.

As soon as they left, the pressure on the garrison at the stronghold increased sharply.

Because there were serious shortages of heavy machine gunners, one of the two heavy machine guns became a decoration, and one of the three grenade cans was temporarily piled in the warehouse because no one could operate them.

The rifleman lost one combat unit, resulting in the remaining two combat units having to work half the extra time every day. After a few days, everyone was physically and mentally exhausted.

In order to reduce the burden, they had to use the untrusted puppet troops.

If the daytime patrol mission can be handed over to the puppet army, they will be handed over to them. The real Japanese get up after dark.

Because the Japanese knew that the Eighth Route Army and the Jinsui Army did not dare to attack during the day, they chose the most dangerous night duty. In case of danger, they could join the battle as soon as possible.

The Japanese had a good idea, but these actions could not escape the eyes of the reconnaissance team.

In order to quickly fight and seize the stronghold and provide the troops with enough time to destroy the railway, the reconnaissance team decided to attack when the stronghold defense was the weakest.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, a train that had just delivered materials to the front slowly entered the view of the stronghold's guard post.

Because every afternoon, trains will send materials to the Yangquan section of the Zhengtai Railway to Taiyuan after delivering materials, the puppet troops standing on the roof of the artillery tower have long been used to it.

Facing the train slowly approaching the stronghold, they had no reaction.

Those who should rest continue to rest, and those who should be alert continue to be alert.

Not only that, the puppet troops who had been busy for a day were all very tired, waiting for the Japanese to come and change shifts, and their vigilance was very poor.

But today's train was very strange. It did not whistle past the railway next to the stronghold, but stopped slowly and finally stopped on the railway closest to the stronghold.

This incident finally attracted the attention of the puppet army, but they still did not have any warning.
Chapter completed!