The fifth company commander nodded and replied: "Commander, the battalion commander and I are also a little confused! We were shocked when we heard that the Japanese and puppet troops suddenly moved towards Xiaonan Village and Xiaobei Village."<
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"During these days, everyone is robbing cash and supplies from the areas occupied by the Japanese. The little Japanese are so busy that their troops are not enough and have been shrinking."
"The Japanese and puppet troops in front of us actually left Yangquan undefended and took the initiative to deal with the surrounding villages. It is indeed a bit strange."
Kong Jie was silent, thinking for a moment, and his face changed slightly:
"No, this is a sign that the Japs will launch a counterattack."
"Captain, what do you mean?"
Kong Jie said: "If you think about it, during this period, from the time when the bandits started robbing banks and shops in the areas occupied by the Japanese, later on, the Central Military Army, the Jinsui Army, and our Eighth Route Army also joined the camp and participated in the armed capture of the Japanese."
During the operation of cash and supplies in the occupied areas."
"The Japanese were caught off guard and did not react for a moment. In desperation, they could only shrink their troops back to the county town and focus on ensuring public security in the county town."
"However, with the behavior of the little Japs, this situation will definitely not last long. As long as the Japs gain a firm foothold and come to their senses, they will soon launch a fierce counterattack."
"The Japs have been suffering setbacks this time, from our large-scale raids not long ago, to the destruction of the Yamazaki Brigade, to the current robbery trend."
"A counterattack under prolonged pressure will be extremely violent."
"We have to respond early, and we can't be careless because of the current robbery trend and suffer big losses again."
Thinking of this, Kong Jie didn't dare to stay any longer and quickly took the monk back to his residence.
After returning to the station, Kong Jie immediately found several battalion commanders.
Under Kong Jie's arrangement, Li Wenjie, the instructor recently responsible for the intelligence work in the regiment, also came.
When everyone met, Kong Jie got straight to the point. Using the sand table map around the camp that the regiment headquarters had produced a few days ago, he said directly: "During this period, our independent regiment followed the trend of robbing the Japanese-occupied areas. The troops moved forward one after another, expanding the area.
Few guerrilla areas.
We also captured a lot of some remote villages and towns around Yangquan."
"But everything must be reversed if it goes to the extreme, and going too far is not enough."
"How fiercely we fight now will be how fierce the Japanese counterattack will be."
"Xiaonan Village and Xiaobei Village are at the forefront of our attack, and the Japanese and puppet troops have shown signs of sweeping away the villages."
"This is not good news. It means that the counterattack of the Japanese and puppet troops should be coming soon."
"Order the First and Second Battalions to immediately withdraw from the occupied villages and towns east of Yangquan and transfer the people back."
"We can lay some landmines, bullet mines and the like in the remaining villages and towns. Even if we take the initiative to retreat, we will not make it easier for the Japanese and puppet troops."
"Yes!" Shen Quan and Wang Leihu responded.
"The third and fourth battalions immediately led their troops to withdraw from the west, and the fifth battalion withdrew from the south."
"Yes!"
After everyone accepted the order, the fourth battalion commander Lei Dasheng couldn't help but said: "Captain, our fourth battalion has not captured many villages these days, so we have made some progress. We are preparing to capture an important transportation town of the Japanese! At this time Isn’t it a pity to withdraw?”
Kong Jie said: "It's no pity. It's good to make money, but it can be seen that only by accepting the good things can we develop steadily."
"If you bring the team in because of a little bit of grease, then the gain will outweigh the loss."
"Yes!" Lei Dasheng responded.
The cadres of the Independent Regiment have always believed in Kong Jie's judgment.
Li Wenjie, the instructor of the Fourth Battalion, reminded: "Captain, Xiaonan Village and Xiaobei Village are the front lines of our counterattack this time, so we have noticed the counterattack of the Japanese and puppet troops in advance."
"Captain, you judged the situation immediately. Our independent regiment stopped in time, but other troops may not be able to do it. Should we report the news to our superiors in time?"
Kong Jie nodded, looked at the sand table again, and asked: "What's the situation with our other troops?"
Li Wenjie said: "This time, the bandits, the Jinsui Army, the Central Army, and the National Army were involved in a large-scale robbery. Seeing that there is money to be made, our other troops did not miss it."
"After our independent regiment took action, the surrounding teams also immediately took action. Following us were the new regiment led by Commander Ding Wei, and then the new second regiment led by Commander Li Yunlong."
"What's going on with the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment now?"
Li Wenjie said: "The New Regiment led by Commander Ding mainly attacks in the direction of Zhangzhuang and Tanxian County. In addition, the New Regiment is not only attacking remote villages and towns around the enemy-occupied areas and counties, but also plundering the Japanese and puppet army's material depots and arsenals everywhere. , still suppressing bandits."
"I heard that a few days ago, Captain Ding led a company to block the area outside Zhangzhuang. As a result, they blocked three groups of bandits that day."
"In this way, the bandits took risks and worked hard to rob the materials in Zhangzhuang, but all were robbed by Captain Ding."
Kong Jie: "..."
"Ding Wei, this kid, is taking advantage of the situation and taking advantage of others. He really deserves it."
"Where is Li Yunlong? What's going on with his New Second Regiment?" Kong Jie became a little curious.
At this point, Li Wenjie sighed in admiration and said: "Captain Li and Commander Ding took almost the same route, but Commander Li was more thorough and even sent a team to guard and go up the mountain to encircle and suppress the bandits. ’s lair.”
"In addition, among the teams around us, Captain Li's New Second Regiment was the most violent and violent in robbing the Japs-occupied areas. The New Second Regiment almost reached the gate of Ping'an County."
"In addition, when the team of the New Second Regiment attacked, they captured the most thoroughly."
"For example, in some remote towns, after the bandits entered, they robbed the banks and shops of the Japanese and puppet troops and then ran away."
"As for Commander Li, he is like a land scraper. As long as he conquers a village or town, he would like to have all the floor tiles in the town taken away. In the town, the Japanese gendarmerie and the puppet garrison are almost stripped of their roofs.
They were torn apart by the soldiers of the New Second Regiment."
"Besides, after breaking into the occupied area, other teams can just beat up the local maintenance association."
"Commander Li, on the other hand, robbed all the traitors and businessmen who colluded with the Japanese in the occupied area, extorted, blackmailed, kidnapped, and used whatever means he thought of. He even robbed the residences of some puppet soldiers and traitors.
Copied."
"To use Captain Li's original words, apart from the common people, I would snatch anything I saw. It is said that not even a button on the traitor's body would be spared."
Kong Jie: "………………"
"He, Lao Li, didn't take back the traitor's wife, right?"
"That's not true." Li Wenjie said.
Kong Jie couldn't help laughing for a moment and laughed. His two old comrades were really more "excessive" than the other.
The little devils and puppet soldiers living around them were in trouble.
After a second thought, Kong Jie touched his nose again with some uncertainty.
Lao Li is so crazy about plundering materials from the areas occupied by the Japanese.
Could it be that there is no oil and water around the New Second Regiment's station and they are driven crazy by poverty?
Thinking of this, Kong Jie said: "Wenjie, please make a trip to the brigade headquarters and explain clearly to the brigade commander and political commissar the situation of the Japanese and puppet troops' preparations for counterattack."
"There are too many teams from our Eighth Route Army participating in the robbery this time. It would be too late for us to notify them ourselves, and we would not be persuasive enough."
"Yes!" Li Wenjie responded.
When Li Wenjie rushed to the regiment headquarters, Kong Jie asked the monk to lead his horse Dabai, preparing to rush to the new second regiment.
"Monk, come with me. Let's go to the New Second Group."
"Hey!" the monk replied.
Chen Quan said in confusion: "Captain, after Wenjie passes the news to the brigade headquarters, the brigade commander will definitely give an order to the New Second Regiment. You go to the New Second Regiment. This is?"
Kong Jile said: "Don't you know the temper of that boy Li Yunlong? How can you stop when you see the benefits?
I'm afraid that the brigade commander's order will come down, whether this guy should grab it or not, there won't be any delay at all.
I have to go there in person and explain the stakes clearly to Lao Li, otherwise if something goes wrong with the New Second Regiment, it will be too late to regret it."