Licheng.

The Eighth Route Army's battle to capture Licheng attracted the attention of all parties. Later, it was announced that a military parade would be held on the Army Day in Licheng, and the noise became louder and louder.

The attention of both Chinese and Japanese commanders was drawn to Licheng.

In the Zhejiang-Jiangxi region, after the Japanese army won the early victory in the Zhejiang-Jiangxi battle, they pursued the victory and continued to expand their results. They took the opportunity to plunder a large amount of materials, equipment, food, etc. to enrich their military supplies.

They also kidnapped a large number of young and middle-aged people to achieve the purpose of supporting war with war.

Because Chiang Kai-shek was waiting for the combat attitude of various European countries and waiting for the so-called allies to free up their hands before helping deal with the Japanese army, they adopted the wrong strategy of avoiding the decisive battle in Quzhou, resulting in heavy casualties and losses.

At present, it is because of the commotion created by the Eighth Route Army surrounding Licheng that it has attracted the attention of all parties.

Jiang Jun paid less attention.

This actually made the Chairman lament that the Eighth Route Army was so powerful that it dared to take the initiative to attack and capture Licheng, and at the same time secretly rejoiced.

Regarding the undercurrent confrontation between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army in Licheng, Chiang Kai-shek took a wait-and-see attitude, and even wanted to sit back and watch the fight between tigers and tigers.

The Jinsui Army is curious. As an old neighbor of the Eighth Route Army, especially in the past few years, after the Eighth Route Army has grown, it has defeated the Japanese army time and time again.

This time around the battle in Licheng, Chief Yan from the World War II District Chief's Department was thinking about it, and he believed very firmly: "The Eighth Route Army must be brewing some kind of trap, waiting to deceive other little devils!"

What Lao Yan likes most is to join in the fun and seek business opportunities that are beneficial to him.

As long as we can make money, no matter whether you are the Japanese Army, the Eighth Route Army, or the Central Army, what we are developing is this three-acre land of the Three Jin Dynasties, and we will be done with being our own local emperor.

So Commander Yan conveyed the news to the former enemy headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

A lot of words were said, but the underlying meaning was just one: You Eighth Route Army deceived the little devils, so that I can also be blind!

After receiving the news, the deputy commander-in-chief extended a generous invitation, inviting Commander Yan to enter the hidden air defense command post inside Licheng to experience the battle surrounding Licheng for himself.

Commander Yan is so cautious, so naturally he won’t be happy about it. If the little devil overthrows the entire city of Li, and he is in trouble again, who will he reason with?

Finally, Chief Yan agreed, accompanied by the deputy chief of staff, that the two of them would observe the situation at the hidden air-raid shelter command post outside Licheng.

Also join in the fun.

When he arrived at the command post, Commander Yan also brought many officers from the Shanxi-Sui Army.

Among them are Yang Chongshan, the commander of the 57th Regiment, who has been in the limelight recently, and the commander of the 71st Regiment of the Shanxi-Sui Army, who put forward the principle of "as long as there is money to be made, I don't care who he is, my troops also need to eat."

Wu Changsheng has been working closely with a team in business these years.

Then there is the chairman's direct descendant, Chief Yan's disciple, Chu Yunfei, the commander of the 358th Regiment who has always been popular and made the officers of the Shanxi-Sui Army jealous.

Yang Chongshan held his head high and followed Commander Yan closely, walking at the front of the team of officers behind him. This old boy was so proud now that even Chu Yunfei's limelight was overshadowed by him.

Fang Ligong, the chief of staff of the 358th Regiment, was aggrieved by this. He once mocked in the regiment headquarters: "Regiment leader, we know very well what kind of thing Yang Chongshan is. Now this pheasant with feathers has turned into a phoenix, but he looks so bad."

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Chu Yunfei was much more calm, and said with a smile: "Brother who has done meritorious service, disaster comes from the mouth, so you still have to pay attention to some words.

In any case, Yang Chongshan can quickly develop his 57th regiment and win many battles with the Japanese army. This is much better than many officers who are just sitting on the corpse."

"It's just a bunch of rabble!"

Especially for the fact that the 57th Regiment chose to be stationed near the Iron Triangle of the Eighth Route Army, Fang was most ridiculed.

"It's like a sheep being kept in a sheepfold by Balu. As long as Balu wants to, he can kill it and drink it at any time!"

Chu Yunfei smiled and did not continue on this topic.

There are many officers in the Jinsui Army who are greedy for money and afraid of death. He knows very well who these people are. In the past few years, these officers even engaged in business dealings with the Japanese in private while fighting the Japanese army head-on, enriching their own pockets.
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Things have improved a lot in recent years. I no longer have contact with the Japanese, but instead do business with the Eighth Route Army.

It's a good thing in comparison.

At least the Eighth Route Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army are still nominally friendly forces.

They are all anti-Japanese armed forces.

In Chu Yunfei's view, it is much better to support the Eighth Route Army than to support the Japanese army and the enemy.

The Eighth Route Army took supplies and arms to fight the Japanese.

As for the situation where the 57th Regiment is stationed near the Iron Triangle of the Eighth Route Army, Chu Yunfei secretly planned a response plan: "The 57th Regiment must keep a close eye on it. If there is an emergency, our 358th Regiment must go there with reinforcements as soon as possible.

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He added: "But that's not the case at the moment. The Japanese are still the common enemy between us and the Eighth Route Army. We should remain on the line of friendly forces for some time.

This is just a matter of planning ahead and making preparations in advance."

It can be said that reinforcements came over quickly.

In fact, Chu Yunfei also knew very well that if Kong Jie and Li Yunlong really wanted to attack the 57th Regiment, even if he, Chu Yunfei, mobilized all the troops of the 358th Regiment for reinforcements, nothing might be changed.<

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I don’t know when it started.

Perhaps due to the changes in time, Chu Yunfei's understanding of the team led by Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei is also constantly changing.

As Fang Ligong lamented: "In the battle of Cangyunling, a Bantian regiment still needed multiple regiments of the Eighth Route Army to fight together to barely cope.

At this point, Kong Jie and Li Yunlong also tried their best to divert trouble to the east. With the help of the artillery of our 358th Regiment, they defeated the Bantian Regiment in one fell swoop.

But in the blink of an eye, it has only been less than three years, regiment, look at how the Iron Triangle of the Eighth Route Army has grown."

"Leave aside, when the Japanese launched the May Day raids this time, the Sixth Field Division, with the assistance of some security forces and the Japanese 12th Army, devoted almost all of their main force to the raids on the Iron Triangle base areas.

The result was beyond all of our expectations. Not only did the Japanese army fail to penetrate the Iron Triangle base area, but they were almost completely annihilated in the base area by the elite Iron Triangle troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Oh my god!

That was an almost full elite field division of the Japanese army!

God knows how Kong Jie and Li Yunlong commanded this battle. Why did this arrogant and rampant Japanese army turn into mud in the hands of the Eighth Route Army?"

During the battle of Cangyunling.

Kong Jie's independent regiment, Li Yunlong's new regiment, including Commander Xu's 771 regiment, who were fighting together, the three regiments together had only three to four thousand troops, barely equal to the Bantian regiment.

But Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment was already strong at that time. There were more than 5,000 elite soldiers in the whole regiment, and there was also a mountain artillery battalion. The firepower configuration was very sophisticated, even better than that of the Japanese army.

Time flies, and now the Japanese army’s May Day raids have ended in disastrous defeat.

Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment is basically the same as before, with more than 5,000 troops and a mountain artillery battalion. In addition, they fought several victorious battles with the Japanese army and captured some equipment.

In contrast, the Iron Triangle of the Eighth Route Army.

The new regiment, which had only more than 1,000 troops at the beginning, can now easily pull out 6,000 to 7,000 troops.

Even the newly formed Second Regiment, led by Li Yunlong later, can now easily crush the 358th Regiment in terms of strength.

The independent regiment led by Kong Jie has now grown into the first independent anti-Japanese detachment in northwestern Shanxi, not to mention.

Once upon a time, during the Battle of Cangyunling, Chu Yunfei did not even pay attention to the so-called independent regiments of the Eighth Route Army, the New Regiment, and the 771st Regiment.

At that time, he regarded his imaginary enemy as the Japanese Sakata Regiment in Cangyun Ridge.

Later, as the Independent Regiment, New First Regiment, and New Second Regiment grew, Chu Yunfei gradually transformed the imaginary enemy into the three regiments of the Iron Triangle of the Eighth Route Army.

As for now...

As Fang Ligong, a straightforward man, said: "Regiment, the Iron Triangle of the Eighth Route Army is getting stronger day by day, and sooner or later it will become a serious problem for the party and state. If a conflict breaks out in the future, I am afraid that with the strength of our 358 regiments, we may not be able to handle it!"<

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Chu Yunfei was silent. Even he, no matter how brave he was as a soldier, had to admit that the current 358th Regiment was probably no longer as good as the Northwestern Shanxi Iron Triangle, or even any party within the Iron Triangle.

When Chief Yan rushed to Licheng to watch the battle, Chu Yunfei applied to come with him, just to take a good look at how far this iron triangle team has developed.

When choosing a place to watch the battle, Chief Yan politely declined the deputy commander's invitation to enter the internal headquarters of Licheng to watch the battle up close out of caution, and finally chose to watch the battle at the air raid shelter headquarters outside the city.

Chu Yunfei was naturally not afraid of death and directly chose to enter the command post built by the Eighth Route Army in Licheng to watch the battle.

When Yang Chongshan, who held his head high, heard this, he said, "Hey, you, Chu Yunfei, are not afraid of death, and I, surnamed Yang, certainly can't be afraid either," so he also chose to enter the interior of Li City to watch the battle.

Lao Yang saw this thoroughly.

Captain Kong has entered the command post inside Licheng. Can he harm himself?

He is stable!

This time the Japanese will most likely suffer a big loss again.

In order to cope with the battle around Licheng, the Eighth Route Army arranged multiple headquarters for coordinated operations in advance.

Among them, Kong Jie is in charge of the Licheng Air Defense Frontline Headquarters. In accordance with the orders of the former enemy's general headquarters, he is fully responsible for the air combat around Licheng.

Li Yunlong is in charge of the long-range anti-aircraft artillery group headquarters. Once he receives orders from Kong Jie, he will immediately mobilize his troops and use the air defense system built in advance to launch operations against the Japanese aviation units.

Ding Wei sits in the command center of the electrical exploration force to ensure that the plan is concealed and foolproof.

All other commanders at all levels are stationed in the regional command centers to cooperate with the unified orders from Kong Jie, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei.

Kong Jie took the initiative to apply for command this time, partly because he is most familiar with the aviation force built by a team and can command it easily.
To be continued...