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

The food was delivered from the kitchen. Seven or eight people were carrying plates and bowls. It looked very sumptuous.

"Let's go! Go home to eat, drink a little more tonight, and leave tomorrow morning."

The room was still a little hot, so Li Yunyan and Song Zihan placed the table directly in the yard. After the electricity was turned on in Dawa, the yard was very bright.

"Yunyan, go and see if your sister Caiyun is here?"

Just as Li Yunyan was about to go out, Song Zihan shouted directly to the next room.

"Sister Caiyun, are you back?"

"Now that you're back, what to do?"

"The captain is calling you to come for dinner."

"Wait, wash your face."

Liu Caiyun came over with her face wiped with a towel. She had performed an operation in the afternoon and didn't know Lin Chuan was coming.

"Tuan Lin, when did you come?"

"I just arrived and I just happened to have dinner."

On October 10, the Lunan Detachment took over the defense zone of the Guard Regiment. Except for the Zhongxing Mining Area, the entire southwestern Shandong belonged to them. The defense zone was large and the pressure was also great. They had to face the Japanese troops in Xuzhou City alone. Fortunately, the Japanese troops in Xuzhou City only knew how to defend themselves and had no intention of invading outward.

On the night of October 10, the Guards Regiment set out from Fengxian County and captured three county towns in one night. All the sequences of the Japanese troops in northern Anhui and eastern Henan were disrupted, and the garrisons in nearby cities were on high alert. The Yimeng guerrillas really came out to fight, and judging by their route, they were heading towards the Dabie Mountains in Hubei. Are they so arrogant?

On the morning of the 9th, the Japanese army assembled two regiments of troops in Bozhou and headed straight for Buyang along the railway line, preparing to block the guard regiment's southward advance in Lixin County.

When the Guard Regiment received the news, the Special Operations Battalion and the First Battalion quickly attacked and captured Lixin County before the Japanese army arrived. They also built fortifications outside the city and waited for the arrival of the two Japanese regiments.

There was no conspiracy or trickery. They were operating in the heart of the enemy and nothing could be kept secret. The Japanese army came out from Buyang and were ready to engage in a head-on confrontation.

Southwest of Lixin County, two battalions of the Guard Regiment set up a defense line at Chenmiaotai, which is close to the Xihe River. At 11 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army arrived at the west of the river. They originally planned to build artillery positions across the river, but they did not expect to suffer a devastating blow as soon as they stopped.

Both battalions were super-reinforced battalions. One-fifth of their nearly two thousand troops were artillery. The one hundred and twenty-four heavy mortars had a range of three thousand meters. They began shelling before the Japanese army had even deployed their formations or built their positions.

More than a thousand artillery shells hit the Japanese camp, focusing on the Japanese Bamenshan artillery and dozens of mortars. Before the Japanese could recover, the special operations battalion and the first battalion of the guard regiment crossed the Xifei River. This operation confused the Japanese army. You don’t plan to defend the river? What’s the meaning of waiting for us on the other side of the river?

There was no time to think or calculate, the enemy had already rushed up. The machine guns were set up hastily, but were hit by the enemy snipers before they could fire a few shots. Anti-aircraft machine guns and large-caliber heavy machine guns covered the charge of more than 500 AK-47s and more than 500 submachine guns. By the time the submachine guns followed the AK-47s into the firing range, it was too late.

Seeing the Yimeng guerrilla fighters rushing up with strange weapons and spewing flames, most of the Japanese soldiers were afraid and doubtful. The Japanese soldiers were using new weapons again! They looked so powerful!

When the special operations battalion cruised to the rear of the Japanese army at high speed, the outcome of the two regiments was obvious. It was a completely unequal battle, which could be regarded as a dimensionality reduction attack.

The Japanese army's defense in the Central Plains was weak, and the county town was guarded by at most a squadron. No matter how many puppet troops there were, they were useless. Now they knew that Captain Lengqiang only killed the main culprits, and there would be rewards for their merits. After the Japanese army was betrayed by the puppet troops in several counties, they no longer dared to count on the puppet troops. They would defeat them wherever they sent troops. In just five days, the guard regiment reached Jinzhai County, which was close to the Dabie Mountains.

The extreme tug of war began. The Japanese army was unwilling to be cut off from the heart of the Central Plains by the Guards Regiment, so they sent troops from the cities along the way to encircle and suppress the Japanese army. The Guards Regiment took a field route, did not defend the county town, and did not directly engage in large-scale Japanese troops. It made full use of the mobility of light firepower, and consumed the Japanese army at night and in the wild through tactics such as split raids and key sieges.

It seemed that just for a passage, the Japanese troops who entered the passage would suffer a devastating blow. If they did not enter the passage, even the fighter guard regiment would be unwilling to deal with it.

Another week passed, and the Japanese army realized that they were trying to occupy territory! The purpose of the guard regiment was to open up a corridor connecting seven or eight small counties.

On October 10, the Japanese army basically accepted this reality. Facing the main guard regiment with 20 soldiers, it would be difficult to cause harm to them in a field battle unless two or more divisions were assembled. The reduction of troops was just a tactical tactic.

The Guards Regiment contacted the remnants of the Gui Army in Dabie Mountains. The Fifth War Zone sent a telegram asking about Chen Feng's strategic thinking. The reply he got was to open up a channel for penicillin. This was a bit ridiculous. The escort of penicillin had never failed, so what kind of channel was being opened?

The National Army General Staff urgently studied the intention of the cold gun, and finally could only come up with an answer to divide the Japanese-occupied areas.

The top leaders of the Nationalist Army began to get excited. With naval guns guarding, it would be difficult to recapture the outskirts of Wuhan. But what about Henan and Anhui north of the Dabie Mountains? Although most of them were plains and the Nationalist Army still lacked heavy firepower, this did not affect the Nationalist Army's enthusiasm to recover the lost territory. On the third day after the Guard Regiment arrogantly stabilized the fixed corridor, the main force of the Fifth War Zone set out from the Nanyang Basin, heading towards the northwest.

On October 10, two days after the Frost Descent, the north had entered deep autumn. The pear leaves in front of Chen Feng's house began to turn yellow. The afternoon sun was still a little scorching, and the recliner could only be adjusted according to the angle of the sun.

"Captain, my uncle called again, personally, asking why we opened up the corridor. Please don't fool him."

Li Yunyan was very helpless. Her uncle kept asking her if she could tell him about this.

"Call back and tell them that the Japanese army will not give up the Country of Ten Thousand Towers and will definitely send more troops within half a month. The current expeditionary force cannot be stopped. If necessary, our unit will pass through the southwest and enter the Country of Ten Thousand Towers to fight. There is no pressure to fight abroad. Just say that! Commander Li will understand."

Li Yunyan was a little entangled. It was fine to say this, but wasn't she afraid that her uncle would report it to his superiors? As if he could see what Li Yunyan was thinking, Chen Feng lit a cigarette and took a puff of it comfortably.

"There's no need to hide it. It's better to see the attitude over there. The Japanese army is in decline. I guess many people are afraid that we will become independent and powerful. Maybe some people will be happy to hear this."

In the Fifth War Zone, Li Zongren was relieved after receiving the telegram from his niece. Little Zhuge had guessed right and he could give an answer to his superiors. It was a cold shot. Perhaps he had not planned to manage Shandong from the beginning, otherwise he would not have thrown a city like Qingdao to Shen Honglie.