The intention of the regiment headquarters is not to let them reinforce, but to inform them of the enemy's situation. The straightforward point is, brother, I can't stand it anymore, the wind is tight, retreat!

This probably means that once the troops directly under the regiment headquarters and the first battalion cannot withstand the situation, they will wait for an opportunity to evacuate.

Once they evacuate, they will open a gap, and the enemy is likely to support them from the direction of Qingling on the northern line. The two battalions will be trapped in a situation where they are attacked from both sides.

This is the worst-case scenario estimated by the regiment headquarters, but it is also the most likely scenario. The Qingling Japs are heavily stationed, at least they look like a brigade.

Coupled with the number of puppet troops, this force is not something that the regiment headquarters and the first battalion can resist. Now that wars are raging, it is impossible for the Japanese to send all the additional troops in their direction.

Even if they send out only one squadron of troops, their new regiment will not be able to fight hard. It's not that they can't defeat it, but it's unnecessary. Both sides will lose. It's just necessary. The Eighth Route Army generally doesn't make this choice.

Without the cooperation of the neighboring troops, it would still be very difficult to defeat the enemy's troops of one squadron or more. Even if they win in the end, it will be a tragic victory.

Once a unit suffers too many casualties, especially a unit like the Eighth Route Army with difficult conditions and scarce resources, it will be very difficult to recover.

Now the main forces of the Eighth Route Army are gathered in the Zhengtai front line area. There are not many combat troops on the southern front. They are mainly to involve and break the secondary road and railway blockades.

Therefore, the only troops operating in the surrounding area are the New First Regiment, and even the New Second Regiment is not close to them.

The mechanization of the Japanese is very low, and they do not have high requirements for road conditions. As long as it is not rainy, they can still march even on dirt roads. This is also the difficulty along the highway that they destroyed.

Needless to say, the importance of the road they are attacking now is important. It connects southern Shanxi, northern Henan, southern Hebei and other places. It is an important hub, so the Japanese still attach great importance to this area. There is always a regiment.

Troops are stationed in counties and towns along this highway.

Qingling County, one of the important garrison locations for Japanese troops, could not ignore their destruction of this road. Moreover, they had sufficient troops and immediately sent troops to support them.

Zhang Yunfei did not feel nervous about the emergency warning from the regiment headquarters. The battle here was basically over and they could retreat calmly.

Of course, the Fangjiashan artillery tower has not been captured yet, but that is no longer important. They have completed the encirclement and reinforcements, so there is no need to attack that place at a huge cost of casualties.

Now he is considering whether to support the regiment headquarters and the first battalion, although there is no such requirement in the order.

But there is no shortage of fighter opportunities there. Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared, and today's fighters are also keen on fighting against the Japanese.

Since the beginning of the year, the Japanese have carried out a large-scale mopping up plan, and the Eighth Route Army has had to retreat proactively. Even their independent brigade has had to leave their place of birth and fight elsewhere.

The entire Qingling area is now about to become a Japanese-controlled area. There are no large-scale Eighth Route Army troops operating in the area, so the Japanese have to mobilize troops from these rear areas in order to strengthen the front-line mopping up troops.

Counties like Pingchuan basically do not have any mobile troops. Under such circumstances, the Japanese still left a large force in the Qingling area. One can imagine the importance of this place to the Japanese.

This attack on this important transportation line connecting the north and the south prevented the Japanese's northward transportation line from flowing smoothly.

The impact on the Japanese troops who are currently being attacked by the Eighth Route Army is still huge.

Even though the situation was unclear, the Japs in Qingling still sent troops to support the attacked strongholds along the highway, and even assigned the only 92 infantry gun in the brigade to the supporting troops.

The Japanese took this rescue mission very seriously. As soon as they came into contact with the new regiment's blocking troops, they launched a fierce attack and tried many times to divide their forces and outflank the first battalion and the regiment's troops.

Zhang Yunfei and others were engaged in fierce fighting in the areas around Xijiakou and Fangjiashan. The regiment headquarters and the various units of the first battalion also fell into hard fighting.

Now that they have ended the battle and even completely repelled the Japanese and puppet reinforcements, the situation at the regiment headquarters is not optimistic.

This time the Eighth Route Army's attacks were sudden, and the Japanese's counterattack was equally ferocious, which was foreseeable.

Zhang Yunfei knew that they had reached a critical moment. If he had not defeated the reinforcements of the Japanese and puppet troops, their entire new regiment would have become sandwich biscuits, which would be really uncomfortable.

After receiving the notification from the regiment headquarters, Zhang Yunfei hesitated for a moment and decided to take his third battalion northward. The subsequent battle would be left to the 92nd battalion of Qida. After all, this was his mission in the first place.

Qi Dajiu didn't want to do anything about it. Zhang Ergou saw that he was going to reap benefits again. This guy had no profit and couldn't afford to go early. The regimental headquarters' intention was already very clear.

Just let them take the situation lightly, and as soon as the situation goes wrong, they will retreat in a hurry.

But what did this guy do? He eagerly approached me eagerly. This was not his Zhang Ergou style.

Qi Dajiu has known Zhang Ergou for more than a day or two. It is no exaggeration to say that he knows Zhang Ergou better than his mother-in-law. Of course, Zhang Ergou does not have a mother-in-law yet. This is just a metaphor.

Anyway, based on his understanding of Zhang Ergou, this guy is very clever. He must have thought of some good idea, otherwise he wouldn't be so proactive in going north.

Look at this battle here, it was so exciting. If he had fought this battle completely on his own, clinging to the Fangjiashan gun tower and chewing on it, he would probably have broken a few teeth, and he might also have been flanked by Japanese reinforcements.

Already.

With the addition of Li Ergou, he quickly got the job done.

It's a bastard not to take advantage of it. This is not what Qi Dajiu is like, so he immediately split the second battalion in his hands into two, leaving half of the manpower to organize manpower to demolish the Xijiakou gun towers and build a road

Roadbed is destroyed.

Although the effect of these things is not great, if the blockhouses are demolished, they will be rebuilt soon, and if the roads are dug, they will be repaired soon.

But it's good to cause some trouble for the Japanese, even if it makes them feel disgusted.

Besides, the soldiers are very enthusiastic when doing this kind of behavior to create trouble for the little devils, and it also helps to improve morale.

Zhang Yunfei was speechless as Qi Dajiu followed him for nothing.

He didn't want to get any benefits this time, ah, he was already led into a ditch by this guy, when did he get any benefits?

This time he really just went to see the situation at the regiment headquarters. If nothing could be done, he would retreat as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!