I fought guerrilla warfare in the Yimeng Mountains during the Anti-Japanese War

After circling for nearly an hour, the bomber finally dropped the bomb. It was too risky to carry this thing back for landing, especially in a large-scale deployment. If one or two of them had problems, the others would be homeless.

They did not dare to bomb the area where China and Japan were fighting, so they could only target the rear areas of the National Army. Except for a few bombers that found their targets, the rest of the bombs were all dropped on the southern side of the positions, roads, villages, towns, and small towns. If the Ninth War Zone had not mobilized the masses to evacuate, it would have been a serious disaster. Even so, many people would have faced the tragedy of being homeless.

This was an extremely chaotic battle. There was no main attack, no main attacking force. All the troops used divisions as attacking units, with special operations teams as spearheads, to penetrate, divide and encircle the Japanese army. The orders from above were very simple: stick to the Japanese army, annihilate the Japanese army's manpower, and fight wherever you can. The east bank of Dongting Lake, the south bank of Xinqiang River, Tongcheng, Wuning, southeast of Fengxin, and both sides of Jinjiang River were all in chaos.

It was impossible to command. The National Army had made deployments in advance, and each battle sequence knew how to fight. The Japanese army was very passive. The 11th Army Headquarters and the headquarters of each division completely lost control of their subordinate troops.

From morning to afternoon, the Japanese sent out four reconnaissance planes to look for gaps. The bombers would take off as soon as there was an opportunity, but there was no chance until nightfall.

The battle did not end with the falling of night. The division and encirclement continued. Perhaps in three or two days, or perhaps in a week or so, this chaotic battlefield would eventually end. Both sides would return to their original positions to lick their wounds, but it was unknown who would be superior and who would be inferior.

Chen Feng brought Liu Caiyun back to Mengshan smoothly. It was almost noon when they returned. Li Ergou still fulfilled his duties. Although he did not send anyone to escort them, he still notified the garrison troops in the defense zones along the way, including the captain of the Yimeng guerrillas and the director of the Yimeng guerrilla field hospital. If something really happened, Li Ergou would have no way to explain.

Shen Honglie had been waiting on Mount Meng for a long time. Menglianggu had recently received more than 8,000 puppet troops who had defected. It was a complicated matter, but Old Shen handed all the matters over to several subordinates. He came to thank Chen Feng for his support. He understood that the Yimeng guerrillas looked down on these puppet troops, but he really didn't despise them. With 8,000 troops with sufficient firepower, plus the original 5,000-plus troops, the New Fourth Division had taken a step forward in the development of the Yimeng guerrillas in two years.

"Brother Shen, I went to the garrison below to get some information. Sorry to have kept you waiting for a long time."

Shen Honglie understood why the communication team responsible for entertaining him when he came was not in a good mood. It was not against him! They were dissatisfied with the cold gun! No wonder they brought others but not them.

"Brother, don't be polite with me. The food is ready, let's start! If you don't come back, I will have to enjoy it by myself."

Liu Caiyun said hello and left. He was not very fond of these occasions. Li Yunyan led the kitchen staff to fiddle with the dishes and looked at Chen Feng with a resentful face.

"Captain, we've received five telegrams from the Ninth War Zone, the Fifth War Zone, and Chongqing. Since you're not here, no one dares to decide on a reply. Do you want to read it now? Or should we wait until after dinner?"

"Please take some time to give it to me and let me take a look first!"

Li Yunyan saluted and went out, and brought back a stack of telegrams in a few minutes.

"Brother Shen, please sit down first and let me take a look."

Shen Honglie knew what was going on over there. He didn't hesitate to open the bottle of white wine and poured it for the two of them. When he looked up and saw Li Yunyan's rolling eyes, Old Shen smiled and waited for Chen Feng to finish reading the telegram.

"Yunyan, call the three parties back. Their strategies and tactics are very good. I want to express my admiration. I don't have any suggestions. You must stick to the Japanese army at dawn tomorrow. It would be best if you can intertwine with them. As long as you can avoid the bombing of the bombers, the balance of this battle will be reversed."

After sending Li Yunyan away, the two men picked up their glasses and began to discuss the situation on the Jinpu Line. The battle on the Jinpu Line was mostly a gamble and relied mostly on luck. If they failed, they would become a laughing stock. Now that they have succeeded, it all depends on strategic planning and personal charm.

"Brother, you are really bold in doing this! Everyone knows that you are ruthless to the puppet army, but you do the opposite. I couldn't think of it, the puppet army couldn't think of it, and the Japanese army couldn't think of it. I guess Bin Shanyuan is still confused now."

"Brother Shen, let's not talk about the Jinpu Line for now. How many people did you receive in total yesterday morning?"

"A little over 8,000, what's wrong, do you want a part of it?"

"That's not necessary. How do you plan to use these eight thousand people?"

"I plan to reorganize and train them for a month, remove some ruffians and bad apples, and then integrate them directly into the current team. Of course, all the rules must be made clear. Even if we drive them away, we must make them convinced and give them some money before they leave. We can't let them go back and say that our Yimeng guerrillas and the New Fourth Division are not righteous." Shen Honglie said as he picked up a bite of food.

"If we break into the current team, its combat effectiveness will definitely decline after reorganization, and there will be some problems with the team's running-in and adaptation in a short period of time." Chen Feng analyzed.

"Well, I have also thought about this issue, but we are currently short of troops. There is no problem in guarding Menglianggu and Yishui. Once we expand eastward and northeastward, we will have to continue to expand the scale. This is the only way for the time being. I will let Zizhong and the others continue to train strictly, with generous rewards, according to the special warfare standards. Not everyone can perform special warfare, but we can definitely improve our combat effectiveness in a short period of time."

Chen Feng raised his glass to Shen Honglie:

"Brother Shen, it's still about actual combat training! You know the commander of our guard regiment, he has always advocated actual combat training. I used to feel sorry for these recruits, always feeling that they had not learned enough skills and didn't want to send them out. Now it seems that I was superficial! And too cautious."

Chen Feng picked up some vegetables with chopsticks, stuffed them into his mouth and continued:

"With the guidance of veterans, new recruits will generally not encounter any major problems when doing missions such as breaking up raids, sneak attacks and ambushes. In an ambush, as long as the new recruits shoot and kill the Japanese, or even just injure them, their psychology will undergo obvious changes, which can even exceed the results of shouting slogans in the training camp for a month."

"Brother, I understand the truth, but the Japanese are a bit despicable now! I don't know why, the garrisons in many places have retreated to those county towns, and the Japanese in those strongholds and bunkers have all run away. The people below have reported for more than a month that if we don't go to the city to attack, there will be no more Japanese to fight."

The two men drank wine and discussed the future and next development direction of the 8,000 puppet troops. Chen Feng said that they didn't need to consider anything now, just train the troops well and wait for the end of the Changsha defense battle to see the results.