Chapter 1093 The mud bodhisattva crosses the river, and it is difficult for him to protect himself
The Japanese would never have imagined that an infantry squad of the Eighth Route Army would be equipped with two mortars.
When he realized the danger and wanted to move, the second round of two shells had already fallen from the sky.
"Boom boom..."
A cannonball hit right next to the machine gunner. The moment the fire splashed, the two machine gunners and the two riflemen were blown over together. They fell to the ground on their backs and lost all movement.
Each ambush in Blockade Trench consisted of fifteen men, five Japanese, and ten puppet troops.
Losing four Japs and their only light machine gun at once meant that they lost more than half of their firepower and combat effectiveness in an instant.
More importantly, without the Japanese to supervise the battle, the remaining ten puppet troops seemed to have changed their minds and simply retracted their heads into the blockade ditch.
The infantry squad, which was pinned down near the highway, seized the opportunity and rushed onto the highway.
"Boom boom..."
Two thunderous explosions sounded on the road, and then the exchange of fire stopped.
The Eighth Route Army marched away with eight prisoners, leaving behind seven corpses of Japanese and puppet soldiers and a large hole made by two explosive bags.
Five minutes later, six vehicles full of soldiers arrived at the exchange point.
Seeing the corpses and the big pit, the Japanese squadron leader's face was full of anger. He had thoughts of killing to vent his anger, and his eyes were red.
But the Eighth Route Army had already disappeared without a trace, and there was no purpose for venting. They could only suppress the anger and ordered with a stern face: "Why are you still standing there?"
"Get off the car immediately to build roads. Without cars, we can't reach the battlefield in an hour on our own two legs."
Ten minutes later, the stopped motorcade continued to move forward.
But there were still several big potholes waiting for them across the road ahead.
After stopping and going, it took nearly an hour for the reinforcements from Guanshan Town to arrive at the battlefield, but the entire supply team had been wiped out...
At the headquarters of the garrison regiment, several staff officers went in and out between the telecommunications room and the war room. Several radio stations in the telecommunications room had almost no time to shut down for maintenance and took turns sending and receiving telegrams.
Hong Linfeng and two deputies stayed beside the map, summarizing the continuous telegrams received by the regiment headquarters.
After the counter-mopping operation entered the confrontation stage, the garrison did not fight another major battle, but small battles continued.
Stop a baggage team today, attack a patrol team tomorrow, hold two maintenance meetings the day after tomorrow, or destroy a section of blockade ditch and blockade wall...
These battle reports are all compiled here through several independent battalion headquarters.
The three main battalions are not idle, one main battalion is responsible for one stronghold.
Use cold shots, cold shots, surprise patrols... and use all kinds of methods to consume the Japanese and puppet troops in the base area.
"Captain, this is the battle report that has just been compiled." Hong Linfeng reported happily with the statistics that had been compiled.
"In the past two months, the main force, independent battalions, local troops, and guerrillas have cooperated with each other to launch a competition to kill Japanese soldiers. A total of 569 Japanese soldiers were killed, 968 puppet troops were captured and eliminated, and 36 light and heavy machine guns and 89 rifles were seized.
There are more than ten, and the results are remarkable."
"In addition, by attacking the Japanese and puppet troops' supply units, we have intercepted more than 280,000 kilograms of military rations from the Japanese and puppet troops."
"Now several independent battalions are not only self-sufficient, they often provide meat and vegetables to the soldiers, and also support the regiment headquarters with nearly 100,000 kilograms of food."
"Also, the strength of several independent battalions has not been weakened by fighting the Japanese. They have made considerable progress in the battle."
"Especially Huang Sheng's company, which only had 100 people before the division, has now expanded to 300 people. Not only has it established an artillery platoon, a heavy machine gun platoon, a recruit platoon, and a guard platoon, it has also formed three more platoons based on the three main platoons.
We have two main platoons, almost a battalion of local troops."
Wang Hong said: "Captain, with the cooperation of the main force, many die-hard traitors in the maintenance committee were killed by them, and then more and more maintenance committees were taken by us to take control of them, or to install our own people."
"The Japanese are now like clay Buddhas crossing the river and cannot protect themselves."
"Because I didn't dare to leave the stronghold casually, I could only watch helplessly as the maintenance members were in Cao's camp but their hearts were in Han."
"If this continues, in another two months, we will be able to secretly control at least more than 60% of the maintenance committees in the blockade area, ensuring that all maintenance committees have our own people, and their every move cannot escape our eyes."
Li Hao was very happy, but it didn't last long before he regained his seriousness.
"The current good situation further proves that our anti-mopping plan is correct."
"Chief of Staff, you immediately send a telegram to the independent battalions, and the troops will continue to act as planned."
"Without orders from regiment headquarters, no one can act rashly and counterattack in advance."
"I'm telling you, if you persist for three more months, after three months, I promise to regain all the lost bases."
Hong Linfeng's initial doubts about the regiment leader's combat plan have developed into unconditional support now, and he immediately responded.
"Captain, don't worry, several independent battalions are taking advantage every day, and they will definitely not give up the good situation to fight against the little devils."
"I will send them a telegram later and give them another reminder."
Li Hao thought for a moment and added!
"One more thing, before the big counterattack, everyone still has a very important task: protecting food!"
"In two months, the autumn harvest will be carried out in the base area."
"Through our efforts, nearly 40% of the land in the base area can achieve a good harvest."
"If all these grains are harvested and returned to the warehouse, the villagers will be able to survive the winter. After spring, the base will help them provide some food rations, and then dig some wild vegetables to eat. It will definitely last until next autumn's harvest."
"Similarly, the Japanese and puppet troops stationed in the base area must also be interested in these grains."
"Under our attack, most of the food they sent in from the rear fell into our hands."
"If this continues, even if the little devil has a complete logistics system and sufficient reserves, he will eventually be unable to sustain it."
"So they will definitely feed war with war in the blockade area and use armed forces to grab food."
"When the time comes, all troops must not only protect the food, but also take the opportunity to kill more Japanese and puppet troops to reduce the pressure on our subsequent counterattack."
"When all the food is returned to the warehouse, we will start a major counterattack."
Taiyuan Japanese Army Headquarters, the casualties of various units are not summarized here.
In the words of the frontline commander, for a fully-equipped infantry squad, the loss of a few imperial troops was nothing at all, and it did not affect the combat effectiveness of the unit, so these sporadic losses were concealed by the frontline commander.
Food is not available, the occupied areas are dry, and the people have no food in their hands. Even if the troops want to collect food on the spot, there is no food to collect.
So they could only report to the military headquarters and ask for support.
But they also used too much food.
An army of less than 10,000 people had to use up rations and other supplies that even an army of 20,000 people could not finish in two months.
There is a severe drought in North China, and the military department does not have much stockpiles of supplies and military rations.
At this rate of consumption, sooner or later the military headquarters will be overwhelmed by the troops in the garrison.
Therefore, the army commander took a fancy to the unharvested autumn grain in the occupied areas.
Seeing that the autumn harvest was getting closer, the army commander gave a decisive order.
"Chief of Staff, send a telegram to the mopping up troops in the occupied areas. After the autumn harvest begins, half of the grain harvested in the occupied areas must be collected as grain tax to make up for the military grain and materials we have lost during this period.