Three days later, more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers finally arrived at the headquarters of the New Regiment and the First Battalion.

"The division commander, the entire garrison was empty, with no bullet or a grain left!" The captain of the vanguard troops who entered the camp in advance reported with a calm face.

The troops worked hard to fight over, and were harassed by the Eighth Route Army guerrillas along the way. Not to mention the losses of hundreds of imperial troops, almost everyone in the remaining troops was wearing a pair of dark circles and was very tired. They finally reached the target, but they were killed in the air and did not even find a single Eighth Route Army. They would feel uncomfortable if they were not feeling well.

Lieutenant General Ito had guessed this result a long time ago and his face looked much better.

He replied calmly: "The Eighth Route Army is not a fool~ So many of us come here to kill. If we don't run away, would we be waiting here to die!"

"We will rest here tonight, take a day off tomorrow, and start a formal operation the day after tomorrow. With this place as the center, the troops are divided into three and swept across the entire Eighth Route Army base. If the Eighth Route Army wants to run, they will let them shoot. When they run to a place where there is no way out, they will have to fight to the decisive battle with us even if they don't want to fight us!"

In Xiangfen County, dozens of kilometers away, the new first regiment front command headquarters, Chief of Staff Zhong Chenggong rushed in excitedly and solemnly.

"Captain, the Japanese have divided their troops, and the real encirclement has begun!" Seeing Wang Pingzhong succeeded, he hurriedly reported. "Like the intelligence we received a few days ago, the Japanese have divided their troops in units of corps. Each infantry corps is a sweeping force, and the middle sweeping force has the most troops. In addition to an infantry corps of nearly 4,000 people, there are also division guards, more than 2,000 cavalry units, a field artillery brigade, a heavy mountain artillery brigade, and a chariot brigade, with a total strength of nearly 9,000 people. They are directly attacking the Xiangfen County where we are!"

"The other two Japanese devils have only one infantry corps, one field artillery brigade, and one heavy mountain artillery brigade, with a total force of more than 5,000!"

"Even so, these two Japanese devils are also a huge monster to us. Our New First Regiment and any Japanese encirclement and suppression troops collided head-on, and there is no possibility of winning!"

"In addition, these three Japanese attacked each other and formed a semicircle distribution, swept across our base from south to north, intending to force us to the north of Linfen little by little, and then force us to fight to gather and traitor him. Or force us out of the base directly. Of course, this possibility is very low..."

After staring at the map for five minutes, Wang Ping frowned and asked, "Does they have left behind troops in the defense zone of the first battalion~"

"Yes, the entire infantry brigade's strength~" Zhong Chenggong affirmed.

"We have transferred so many troops along the way, and the Japanese must know that even if they have swept the places, there will be our left-behind troops and local guerrillas. Therefore, an infantry brigade was specially drawn to deal with our left-behind troops, and at the same time, to ensure their logistics line!"

"Where is the first camp? Where is Xiong Changhe now?" Wang Ping continued to ask, staring at the map.

"Here..." Zhong Chenggong pointed to a point in the Third Battalion Defense Zone on the map and answered.

"Although the Japanese only divided into three groups, twenty meters apart from each other, each group of troops was divided into three groups, each group of only five or six kilometers apart, cooperating with each other and supporting each other. Every village must enter and town must stop, just like a comb, combing our base area."

"The first battalion and the newly formed first battalion are nearly 2,000 people, and they are equipped with many heavy weapons. It is impossible to escape the Japanese encirclement and suppression troops. However, they do not have the strength to fight against the Japanese encirclement and suppression troops, so they can only be driven to the Third Battalion defense zone!"

Wang Ping's eyes quickly shot out two rays of light, and then ordered: "Contact Xiong Changhe immediately. I don't care what method he uses, whether it's division of troops or attacking directly. Tonight, break through the Japanese encirclement, jump to the Japanese back and attack their left-behind troops, and destroy their logistics line!"

"The entire Japanese encirclement plan is too thorough. They must be distracted and messed up. Only in this way can we have a chance!"

"Also, I ordered all the garrison troops and guerrillas in the military sub-district to organize the people to strengthen the walls and clear the fields. While using guerrilla warfare to attack the Japanese, I will completely destroy the road that the Japanese must take!"

"The three Japanese sweeping troops were carrying heavy artillery, so they could only walk on the highway. If we destroy the highway, we could force them to divide their troops, and at least slow down their encirclement and suppress us!"

"Order, the third battalion, the fourth battalion, and the second battalion, leaving behind the newly-organized main battalion to cooperate with local guerrillas, garrison troops and the Japanese encirclement and suppression troops to fight guerrillas, all other troops will be transferred to the regiment headquarters. Since the Japanese do not divide their troops, I will fight a big battle~"

"Order, artillery battalion, armored battalion, cavalry battalion, air defense battalion, all end the training and prepare for combat!"

The first battalion station, the joy of winning a battle by the river a few days ago has been completely covered by the aggrievance and helplessness of the past few days.

The Japanese were too cautious. Xiong Changhe attacked with high spirits, high morale and full of confidence for several days.

However, the final result was without exception and all returned in vain.

Especially last night, the sneak attack on the Japanese failed. Half of the infantry company was blown up by the counterattack artillery fire from the Japanese, and the wife was compensated and the soldiers were lost...

As the Japanese rushed over and drove themselves out of the defense zone, everyone in the battalion was filled with anger and had no place to vent.

"The battalion commander... the regiment commander is an emergency telegram, which is a combat order for us!" Suddenly, the communications squad leader rushed in and reported in a hurry.

Xiong Changhe snatched the telegram.

After reading the telegram, not only did he not have any excited expressions on his face, but he looked helpless.

"The leader has posed a big problem for me!" Xiong Changhe said helplessly after handing the telegram to the instructor.

After reading the telegram, Liang Cheng frowned directly.

But he still answered firmly: "No matter how difficult it is, it must be implemented. This is the order of the regiment headquarters. It must be related to the overall situation of the regiment headquarters' entire anti-encirclement and suppression operation. It must not affect the overall situation because of the difficulties of our first battalion!"

Jiang Chao, the commander of the newly-edition first battalion, also looked very bad, and replied with a embarrassed look: "The Japanese blockade is too strict. We have so many people and heavy weapons. It is even more difficult to pass through their blockade line than climbing to the sky!"

"This is the intelligence sent back by the reconnaissance platoon. The situation is similar to what we thought during the day. The Japanese were stationed on all the high grounds on the Xiong Village line with infantry brigades, about five kilometers apart. They condescendingly with firepower to block all the roads that can pass through their blockade. For some places with dangerous terrain, they also specially dispatched infantry squads to guard where they rely on heavy machine guns and mortars. As long as we go, no matter where we go, we can't escape their eyes!"

"Is it possible to hit it?" Liang Cheng frowned and asked back.

Jiang Chao shook his head and replied: "It's very difficult. The best breakthrough point is those places where only a small number of Japanese infantry defenders. Taking down these Japanese soldiers is not a problem... But the Japanese reinforcements are a big problem!"

"Not to mention anything else, the artillery shells fired by the Japanese from a distance can cause us a lot of damage, not to mention that they can kill them in ten minutes and then counter-encircle our reinforcements!"

"I'm sure that the Japanese nowadays are not only not worried about us attacking them, but instead hope that we will attack them. In this way, they can fight us to fight us and kill us!"

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