"Inform the engineers to immediately go to the front of the team to build the road..." The brigade commander was willing to make the final decision quickly.
"If we don't have enough troops, we can dispatch an infantry brigade to help... Until the threat of the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery is removed, no one can ask me to divide our troops..."
The chief of staff was very unwilling.
Because the longer the reinforcements are delayed on the road, the lower the chance of wiping out the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong on the Gu'an battlefield, and everyone's trip may be in vain.
But the brigade leader's analysis was sound and well-founded.
It is impossible for him to put himself in danger in order to destroy the Eighth Route Army. It would be too much of a loss.
I could only suppress my urge to march urgently to reinforce Gu'an County, take a deep breath, and answer as calmly as possible: "The general is wise, and I am humble enough to arrange engineers and infantry to build roads ahead..."
"Strive to repair the road as quickly as possible and continue to reinforce Gu'an County."
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In Gu'an City, which had been reduced to rubble by heavy artillery, the busy figures of the Eighth Route Army could be seen everywhere.
The soldiers are seizing every moment to clean up the weapons, ammunition and supplies buried in the rubble.
"Heavy artillery... there are several large-caliber heavy artillery buried here, dig them out quickly..." a company commander shouted from a distance.
On the facade of a bombed-out house, several thick gun barrels protruded from the ruins. It was obvious from the caliber alone that these artillery pieces were heavy artillery.
If it is dug out intact, the Eighth Route Army in the center will have another heavy artillery battery.
Dozens of soldiers came after hearing the news. Some soldiers used shovels to dig out the ruins, and some soldiers directly dug up the ruins with their hands. After a while, the heavy artillery master was exposed in front of everyone...
Li Yunlong and Huang Yu walked into the smoke-filled Gu'an County at the same time.
The roadside was littered with the corpses of little Japs who had been killed in bombings.
Because the Yizhong Eighth Route Army's purpose in capturing Gu'an County was to seize weapons, ammunition and supplies, not to occupy them, and time was limited, there was no one to clean up these corpses.
It was planned that after the troops evacuated Gu'an County, the Kwantung Army would clean up these corpses themselves.
"Chief... Captain... we are rich..." Wei Dayong ran out of nowhere and went straight to Huang Yu and Li Yunlong. His mouth was so happy that he could hardly close his mouth, and he reported excitedly.
"So far, we have captured 18 large-caliber heavy artillery pieces that are intact... There are still many heavy artillery pieces buried in the ruins, and the soldiers are cleaning them up..."
"By the way... there are also 8 armored tanks buried in the ruins... After cleaning up, only two tanks were smashed, and the remaining six tanks are all intact and can be used by the equipment troops..."
"Because the Kwantung Army was temporarily stationed in Gu'an County, the baggage and ammunition carried by the troops were scattered among various units. The weapons, ammunition and materials transported by the baggage regiment directly under the division were not very many, resulting in loot everywhere in the city, and most of the loot was
Buried in the bombed ruins, it was very difficult for the soldiers to clean them up..."
"I estimate it will take at least three hours to clean up."
Huang Yu glanced at his hands and replied: "It's two o'clock in the morning, and there are at least five hours before the Little Japanese plane arrives at the battlefield at dawn..."
"There are woods outside Gu'an City. We can hide troops everywhere. As long as we evacuate the county seat before six o'clock in the morning, it is enough."
"Let the soldiers clean up carefully and try not to leave a bullet for the little devil."
Li Yunlong had no objection to Huang Yu's order and nodded immediately: "Just do as Deputy Chief of Staff Huang said, we will evacuate Gu'an County before six in the morning..."
After saying that, he ordered to Huang Yu: "Xiao Huang..."
"Let's go to the Kwantung Army division headquarters and have a look. The little devil left in a hurry. Maybe there are a lot of good things left there..."
"By the way, let's think about what we should do next..."
"Although the Gu'an battle severely damaged a main division of the Kwantung Army and captured a large amount of weapons, ammunition and supplies, it also offended the Kwantung Army to death."
"The Kwantung Army is different from the North China Front Army..."
"The North China Front Army has limited troops, and it is facing the Eighth Route Army operating throughout North China. It has even fewer troops to deal with us. If you offend us, you will be offended. It's no big deal."
"The Kwantung Army has hundreds of thousands of troops, and they are all elite Japanese troops. They are well-equipped and powerful in combat. They have almost no opponents in the Northeast."
"As long as they are determined to retaliate against the Eighth Route Army in our wing, they can dispatch 100,000 elite Kwantung Army troops south to attack our base areas at any time and wipe us out in one fell swoop."
"By then the North China Front has held back the other Eighth Route Army, and the Kwantung Army's elite troops will go south to specifically attack the Yizhong base area. We will probably not even have any reinforcements, and will have to face the attack of 100,000 elite Kwantung Army troops alone."
Huang Yu looked at the huge combat map on the table and replied: "Deputy Commander..."
"We only have a few counter-mopping strategies..."
"Either resist continuously, put the enemy into the base area, and use guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare to gradually consume their troops."
"Either we jump out of the little Japanese encirclement and go straight to their lair, so that the Japanese troops who are encircling us will be attacked from both sides and have to give up the attack..."
"Or go head-to-head with the enemy's mopping up troops and keep them out of the base area..."
"The last way is to take the initiative and take advantage of the fact that the Japanese army is not ready for mopping up. We can pre-emptively kill one of the mopping up troops and disrupt the Japanese army's original mopping up plan."
"I think we still need to choose the most suitable one from these methods."
"It's like the Gu'an battle we are launching."
"Discovered fighter planes, took the initiative to attack, and severely damaged a main division of the Kwantung Army in one battle."
"As long as the Kwantung Army active in the Northeast no longer sends troops southward, it will only rely on the remaining two reinforced divisions that have entered North China. Even if they wait for the supplies of ammunition, they will send troops to attack our base area together with the existing equipment and combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army.
, I will definitely be able to deal with them with ease."
"Not to mention annihilating them all, holding the base and repelling the tens of thousands of Kwantung Army will definitely be no problem."
Li Yunlong's suddenly frowned brows did not relax. He shook his head and replied: "If the Kwantung Army no longer sends troops south, I really don't worry about the remaining two divisions..."
"The problem now is that the Kwantung Army has lost so much face in our hands. Given the Japanese army's vengeful character, it would be strange not to send out heavy troops to retaliate against us."
"Perhaps that old devil Okamura Neji will add fuel to the fire and deliberately add fuel to the fire. I wish the Kwantung Army would send a few more main divisions south to attack the Eighth Route Army in our wing, so that the North China Front Army can win on the battlefield.
, easily eliminate the serious threat to the North China Front without spending a single soldier."
"In this way, the Kwantung Army we face is not two elite divisions, but five or six elite divisions. The pressure will definitely increase exponentially."
