Xu Dalong received a telegram from Li Kun and specially prepared a batch of supplies for him and asked him to send someone to pick them up.
Xu Dalong always asked Monk Wei to carry out the task of transporting supplies. He called Monk Wei and asked him to take the special operations squadron to the World War II District Chief's Headquarters.
That morning, Gao Youtian and the leaders of the county brigade went to report to Xu Dalong, saying that when the people in the base area went out, many people were intercepted by the Japanese and puppet troops, their goods were robbed, and many people were arrested.
Some people were even shot by the enemy.
The people in the base area also reported an important situation, that is, the counties surrounding the base area have generally issued good citizen certificates. From now on, it will be very difficult for the people in the base area to go out even if they are not intercepted by the Japanese and puppet troops.
Obviously, this is a new blockade method adopted by the Japanese and puppet troops, which is no less effective than building strongholds around the base area.
It is normal for the enemy and us to compete with each other and use tricks on each other, and Xu Dalong expected all this.
Xu Dalong asked County Magistrate Gao to build some small factories and handicraft workshops in Mawu Mountain that are involved in people's daily lives, so as to reduce the number of times people go out to purchase as much as possible.
County Magistrate Gao will find solutions for technology and personnel issues, while the guerrillas will be responsible for solving funding issues.
Xu Dalong asked the county brigade to organize the district squadron as a unit to deal with the small groups of Japanese and puppet troops who blocked the road and robbed the people.
Xu Dalong called Wang Jinke and asked him to imitate a large number of good citizen certificates issued by the Japanese puppets to help people travel.
He called Sun Desheng and asked him to send out cavalry in detachments to work with the county brigade around the base area to attack the Japanese and puppet troops who intercepted the people.
These measures can play a certain role, but the most fundamental thing is to drive away these large groups of Japanese and puppet troops around the base area.
Xu Dalong studied launching large-scale offensive operations around the base area. There were only so many Japs. As long as they could kill one or two Japanese infantry brigades, they would not be able to hold on anymore and the blockade of the base area would be completely broken.
Xu Dalong asked Zheng Xirong to strengthen intelligence work and provide intelligence on the Japanese and puppet troops in various counties in the surrounding base areas.
After careful study, he formulated a set of combat plans and began to implement them as soon as Monk Wei and others returned to the base.
Soon after, Monk Wei came back with his special force. The supplies purchased this time included two military radios, 300 rounds of mortar shells, 100,000 rounds of various bullets, landmines and high explosives.
Monk Wei also sent two letters, one from Li Kun, which mentioned Chu Yunfei's plan to return to Xinhe County.
Xu Dalong is very interested in this matter. If Chu Yunfei's 358th Brigade can be stationed here, the life of the Mawushan guerrillas will be easier in the future.
In fact, Xu Dalong has considered asking his superiors to send powerful troops to the Mawushan base area, such as Li Yunlong's independent regiment. But this is not feasible at present.
The main reason is that Chu Yunfei's troops are backed by the World War II District Chief's Department and can obtain a large amount of supplies and ammunition. The independent regiment has to rely on itself for everything. With the current scale of the Mawushan base, it cannot feed so many people.
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Another letter was written by Chu Yun'er, asking Xu Dalong to send her a telegram back in time.
Xu Dalong did receive several telegrams from Chu Yun'er. Lin Xueying copied those telegrams and gave them to him.
During that period of intense fighting, he had no translator at all.
Chu Yun'er is smart, beautiful, and cheerful, and Xu Dalong has a good impression of her. However, because the two parties are in different factions, and because of Chu Yunfei's relationship, Xu Dalong does not want to get too close to her.
Therefore, Xu Dalong decided that he would not read the telegrams sent by Chu Yun'er, so there was no need to reply to her telegrams.
A series of measures taken by Xu Dalong have achieved certain results, and to a certain extent, solved the problem of people traveling.
However, these measures cannot fundamentally solve the blockade of the base areas by the Japanese and puppet troops. Only by conducting large-scale operations and annihilating a large number of Japanese and puppet troops can the problem be completely solved.
After discussion, Xu Dalong and others decided to launch a large-scale offensive operation before the autumn harvest.
He held a combat meeting attended by cadres above the squadron commander, deployed the entire campaign plan, and immediately began action.
Xinhe County.
Every day in Xinhe County, a group of Japanese and puppet troops would leave the city. They would be divided into small groups and move on the roads between the counties to intercept people entering and leaving the base area.
Recently, they have been attacked by the guerrilla cavalry and the county brigade. Many people were killed and injured. They are afraid. No matter who is sent out of the city, everyone knows in their hearts that they are afraid of encountering the guerrillas this time.
The game of fate is over.
However, Chiba Xunichi was determined to implement the blockade plan to the end. Therefore, he required the Japanese and puppet troops in the counties around the base area to send people out of the city every day to carry out the blockade mission.
This morning, an infantry squad of the Japanese army and a company of the puppet army left the south gate of the county. They lined up at the gate, and the Japanese squad leader was responsible for assigning today's tasks.
Suddenly, a bullet flew from nowhere and hit the Japanese squad leader in the head, killing him on the spot.
Before they could react, machine guns, rifles, and even mortars came over.
The Japanese and puppet troops lost more than twenty people on the spot, and the rest fled into the city in panic.
The Japanese and puppet troops guarding the city gate tower saw some Eighth Route Army troops appearing in the crop fields in the distance and hurriedly reported to the Japanese captain.
The Japanese army captain immediately organized troops to leave the city to attack the Eighth Route Army.
When the large Japanese troops left the county town, they were attacked by mortars.
By the time they ran to the crop fields, the Eighth Route Army had already withdrawn.
Soon after, gunshots were also heard from the north gate of the county town, and two Japanese soldiers and a puppet soldier standing guard at the gate were killed.
The Japanese and puppet troops once again gathered a large group of troops to leave the city, but they were hit by two more mortar shells, killing and wounding five soldiers, but still found nothing.
After the large group of Japanese and puppet troops withdrew into the city, the guerrillas reappeared. They fired cold shots at the city wall, causing the Japanese and puppet troops to suffer miserably.
Such scenes happened simultaneously in several counties around the Mawu Mountain base area.
The guerrilla tactics of the guerrillas prevented a small group of Japanese and puppet troops from going out, effectively curbing the threat that the Japanese and puppet troops posed to ordinary people's travels.
Xu Dalong sent small groups of troops to various counties every day to harass the Japanese and puppet troops, in order to completely anger them and make them come out of the city to retaliate, so as to find fighter opportunities and attack the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops.
Xinhe County.
This morning, a Japanese soldier carefully stuck his head out on the city tower and looked around. He didn't see anything unusual, so he straightened up and stood guard on the city wall openly.
Suddenly, a gunshot was heard in the distance, and the bullet hit the Japs in the head, killing him on the spot.
Xu Dalong's shot was fired in the grass 300m away. The Japanese and puppet troops could not see him on the tower.
Xu Dalong fired this shot just to anger the Japanese and puppet troops. After firing, he asked Wang Youliang's second infantry squadron to advance towards the county town, stopped about 200 meters away, and began to set up mortars towards the county town.
The tower was bombarded.
After receiving the report of the Japanese attack, an officer of the Japanese army went up to the tower to observe secretly.
After he discovered the appearance of the guerrillas, he reported it to the Japanese captain in the city.
When the Japanese captain heard that enemy infantry appeared outside the city, his spirits immediately rose. Those guerrilla cavalry were really annoying. Even if you saw them provoking outside, there was nothing you could do because you couldn't catch them at all.
, the Japanese's two short legs cannot outrun the enemy's war horses.
Now the guerrillas are so arrogant that they dare to send infantry here. This is purely seeking death.
The Japanese captain did not believe that the enemy's infantry could still escape in this plain area. He immediately ordered to assemble his troops and prepare to go out to fight to surround and annihilate this group of guerrilla infantry who did not know whether to live or die.
The commander of the Huang Xie Army stationed in Xinhe County was a little worried when he looked at the crop fields in the distance. There were a lot of corns as tall as a person growing there. If a large group of enemy troops were ambushed there, it would be troublesome.
Seeing that the Japanese captain was about to leave the city, he hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, Captain, will we be ambushed by the enemy when we go out of the city? I suggest that we observe and observe."
The captain of the Japanese army had been holding back his anger for many days. After finally seizing such a fighter opportunity, he was not willing to let it go. He said angrily: "See for yourself, those enemies are surrounded by open areas. How can they lay an ambush? Immediately
Gather the troops and set out with me."
The commander of the puppet army looked at the guerrillas outside. Indeed, it was at least three miles away from the cornfield over there. If a large group of Japanese and puppet troops rushed out of the city, it would really be possible to eliminate the enemy in front.
Although he still felt uneasy, he did not dare to disobey the Japanese captain's order, so he also went down to the tower to mobilize troops.
Not long after, the gate of the county town opened, and a large group of Japanese and puppet troops rushed out.
When Wang Youliang and others saw the Japanese and puppet troops rushing out, they fired two cannons at the enemy's marching group, then loaded the mortars onto the packhorses they were leading, and ran away.
The shelling just now killed several more Japanese soldiers, which completely angered them.
When the Japanese and puppet troops saw the guerrillas fleeing, they chased them with all their might.
At this time, the guerrilla cavalry appeared, and their number was very small, only a dozen or so.
They fired coldly at the front of the marching group of the Japanese and puppet troops from a distance. Several Japanese and puppet troops were killed, and the marching speed had to be slowed down.
When the Japanese army captain saw that the guerrillas in front were about to escape, he quickly ordered the troops to speed up their march. At the same time, he ordered a Japanese squadron captain to lead his troops to stop the guerrilla cavalry.
Wang Youliang and others ran unhurriedly in front, always keeping a distance of about 300 meters from the enemy's marching group. They also turned around and fired a few shots from time to time. Although they did not cause any casualties, they further angered the Japanese and puppet troops.
They chased him like crazy.
Wang Youliang and others ran through a potato field, which was more than a mile away from the corn field. There was no way to hide any large troops in the low potato field, so the Japanese and puppet troops pursued them without hesitation.
When they approached the potato field, suddenly, a lot of heads appeared like magic just behind the potato field, and then a large number of light and heavy machine gun muzzles appeared, and they headed towards the marching brigade of the Japanese and puppet troops.
Fired violently.
At the same time, many mortar shells flew from the cornfield and fell into the enemy group.
The Japanese and puppet troops were beaten to the ground and suffered extremely heavy casualties.
"There is an ambush, retreat quickly."
When the puppet army leader saw that he had been ambushed by the enemy, he shouted and took the lead in running towards the city.
The Japanese soldiers were extremely tenacious. Although they suffered a sudden attack, they were only confused for a moment, and then they lay on the ground and fought back against the guerrillas.
The puppet soldiers fled into the city in one breath without encountering any obstruction.
Shortly after they entered the city, guerrilla cavalry appeared and surrounded the Japanese troops remaining outside.
Xu Dalong specially arranged to let the puppet troops enter the city. He had already expected such a result. If the Japanese and puppet troops were added together, there would be too many people. By letting the puppet troops go, he could concentrate his forces to attack those who left the city.
Japanese army.
After the puppet troops entered the city, the guerrillas sent a detachment to block the city gate with one heavy machine gun and six light machine guns to prevent the Japanese and puppet troops in the city from leaving the city again, and then launched an attack on the Japanese troops outside the city.
The puppet army commander's guess was correct. In addition to the guerrillas in the potato fields, a large group of guerrillas rushed out of the cornfield and surrounded the Japanese troops outside.
The Japanese troops leaving the city consisted of more than two infantry squadrons with more than 600 people. In the attack just now, more than 200 people were lost.
The guerrillas were mobilized in full force this time, with a strength of more than 1,200 people. They did not rush to launch an attack, but simply surrounded the Japanese army from all sides.
There was no danger for the Japanese troops to defend, so they could only lie on the ground and shoot to prevent the guerrillas from approaching.
The captain of the Japanese army had a good idea. There were about 200 people in his infantry brigade in the city, fifty or sixty people in the gendarmerie, and a full regiment of puppet troops. Although the puppet troops escaped, he
I believe the Japanese troops in the city will force them to break out again.
He commanded the soldiers to resist desperately, planning to wait until the Japanese troops in the city rushed out for reinforcements, then merge with them and rush back to the city.
After the guerrillas formed an encirclement, the members of the demolition squadron quickly dug a hole in the ground, and a cart pulling a torpedo cannon came from behind.
After the Japanese army commander left the city, the highest commander of the Japanese army in the city was a squadron commander.
When he saw the leader of the puppet army running back with his men, he became furious, pulled out his command knife, and threatened the commander of the puppet army and his men to rush out again.
The commander of the puppet army had no choice but to open the city gate and command the puppet army to rush out.