Meanwhile, in Fuliang Mountain.

"Lao Ding, Lao Kong, are you here? Come and sit down."

Li Yunlong carried the teapot and enthusiastically poured a bowl of hot tea for Ding Wei and Kong Jie each.

Ding Wei picked up the tea bowl and drank it, frowned and said, "Why is it tea? What about wine? It's hard for old comrades to come here, and they don't take out wine to entertain you. Is it reasonable?"

"Don't mention it quickly." Li Yunlong said angrily.

"I haven't tasted the wine for three months."

"Political Commissar Zhao is so strict?" Ding Wei said, "Is it really not allowed to drink?"

Li Yunlong waved his hand and said, "This has nothing to do with Lao Zhao, I don't drink it myself."

"Hey? Li Da Nao, you are really crazy?" Kong Jie smiled, "You used to be drunk and you didn't like it. Political Commissar Zhao didn't let you drink, and you were still anxious about him..."

Li Yunlong said: "Isn't this what Xiao Wang said? We will have to live a hard life in the next two years, so we have to stock up on cigarettes and alcohol as much as possible. These are hard currency and will never go out of date. When there are difficulties in the future, we can take them out and exchange them for some food or even weapons and ammunition with the Japanese and puppet troops."

Ding Wei said: "That's the reason, but it's not bad for one or two pounds of bars."

Li Yunlong said: "If you can save one sip, just one sip. Anyway, you won't lose a piece of meat if you drink less."

Ding Wei said helplessly: "Then you can make a few good dishes to eat, isn't that a problem?"

"Of course there is no problem with this." Li Yunlong smiled and turned his head and shouted, "Where is Xiuqin? Put more bacon in two good dishes. Lao Ding and Lao Kong finally came here."

After saying that, he ordered Ge Erdan and said, "Erdan, go and call the Chief of Staff here."

Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo were neither there, but Wang Ye happened to be in the regiment headquarters and had to call him to accompany him.

After a while, Wang Ye came over, greeted Ding Wei and Kong Jie, and then sat down. Li Yunlong added another pair of bowls and chopsticks.

"Captain Ding, Captain Kong, you should have gained a lot in the past two months before and after the New Year, right?" Wang Ye asked, "I heard that the Japanese strongholds along the Tongpu Road have been almost all drawn by you."

During the blockade operations before the New Year, the division of labor between the three regiments was very clear.

The New First Regiment, the New Second Regiment was responsible for removing the strongholds along Tongpu Road, and the Independent Regiment was responsible for ambushing Anhua, and there were reinforcements from Ping'an County. This was both surrounded and attacked and reinforcements, and both ends took over.

Later, even Chu Yunfei's troops and Liang Gang's troops added in, and the noise was even greater. In half a winter and the whole spring, all kinds of people fought dozens of battles with the Japanese, and there were more than a dozen strongholds to be pulled out. There were three or four thousand Japanese puppet troops who were annihilated, and there were also a lot of weapons and ammunition seized.

However, the Eighth Route Army's own casualties were minimal.

Because this is a sparrow battle, if you can fight, you will fight, if you can't fight, you will run away.

The Japanese puppet troops were powerless to take revenge because they did not dare to go deep into the base area.

At this time, the defeat of the Second Guards Division in the Fuliangshan base began to show its power. With the bloody example of the Second Guards Division, the Japanese no longer dared to enter the base to sweep easily, which greatly reserved the war potential of the base and preserved the vitality of the Eighth Route Army.

Li Yunlong also asked with a smile: "Hurry and honestly, how many benefits have you gained in this ticket?"

"Actually not much." Ding Wei curled his lips, "Compared with the vote your Independent Group did at Fuliangshan Fortress, we can only be considered a piecemeal."

Kong Jie said: "Yes, a total of only one and a half battalions of weapons and equipment were seized."

Ding Wei said: "This is thanks to Chu Yunfei and Liang Gang's help, otherwise the two largest strongholds would not be able to take over. Maybe we would have to lose money on this ticket."

"Old Ding, let you talk."

Li Yunlong said with a dark face: "We will lose money for this vote."

"Old Li, is it really a loss?" Kong Jie said, "No, right? How smart you are."

"Old Kong, I'm really a loss." Li Yunlong said with a dark face, "You can occasionally attack the Japanese in the stronghold, but we are all puppet troops fighting aid. The puppet troops of the 7th Puppet Division are really different now. Damn, if this was put before, as long as our guns fired, these puppet troops would not be obedient to kneel on the ground with their heads in their hands?"

Wang Ye said: "But now these puppet troops are all resisting to the end."

Ding Wei said: "I have also discovered this, and the puppet troops in the stronghold are also very tenacious."

Kong Jie said: "Old Li and Lao Ding, I haven't noticed it yet if you don't say it. I remembered it when you say it. One of my battalion commanders told me that when they attacked the Dingjia Village stronghold, there were only less than one hundred puppet troops in total, and none of them were puppet troops, but their battalion fought for one night but failed to take it down."

Li Yunlong said with a dark face: "So, we have eliminated a lot of puppet troops and seized a lot of weapons and equipment, but the amount of ammunition seized is very small, which is far from enough to consume our ammunition."

Ding Wei said: "Old Li, don't think so, at least the troops have been trained."

"Yes, I can only comfort myself like this." Li Yunlong said, "Otherwise, I must be angry to death."

Ding Wei turned his eyes to Wang Ye and said, "Xiao Wang, so, Pan Ren, the commander of the pseudo-7th Division, poses a great threat to us. Should we find an opportunity to kill this dog traitor?"

"If you have the chance, you will definitely kill this traitor." Wang Ye nodded and said.

"However, it would be too worthy to plan a beheading operation specifically for this dog traitor."

"Isn't it worth it?" Kong Jie said, "Xiao Wang, your evaluation surprised me a little. No matter what, Pan Ren, a dog traitor, has built the pseudo-7th Division into a combat-capable force. But with this, he is qualified to be the beheading target of your Wolf Warrior Squadron, right?"

At this time, Ding Wei said: "The changes in the pseudo-Seventh Division actually have nothing to do with Pan Ren."

"Old Ding, what did you say?" Kong Jie said in surprise. "The pseudo-Seventh Division was after Pan Ren was appointed as the division commander, and his combat effectiveness was significantly improved. How can this be said to have nothing to do with him?"

"Old Confucius, it really has nothing to do with Pan Ren." Ding Wei waved his hand and said, "The main reason is that the Japanese's control strategy has changed. There have always been two different strategies for how to control the puppet army. One is to raise dogs, and the other is to raise wolves. In the past, I was in the Hebei Central Military Region, where the Japanese controlled the puppet army with a strategy for raising wolves."

"The Japanese in our Taihang Military Region have always adopted the strategy of raising dogs."

"But now, the Japanese in Taihang Military Region have also begun to raise wolves, at least this is the case with the Japanese in northwestern Shanxi."

" Raise wolves and dogs?" Kong Jie nodded, "You said that, the puppet army in the past was a group of pugs. Not only did the Japanese, they wagged their tails when they saw our Eighth Route Army, but now the puppet army has become a group of wolves. Not only do they bite the people, but also bit the Jinsui Army, the Central Army, and we Eighth Route Army dare to bite them."

Wang Ye said: "As sooner or later, the Japanese dare to bite them."

Kong Jie said: "It's better to bite the Japanese. Just let them bite the dog and have a mouthful of hair."

Wang Ye said: "So it's really not worth it to design a beheading operation specifically for Pan Ren. If you really want to behead, at least you have to choose high-value targets like Yoshio Iwamatsu and Okamura Nagato."

"That's right." Kong Jie said with a smile, "It's really not worth it when you say this."

Ding Wei asked again: "So, do we still have to continue this blockade war?"

Li Yunlong said without hesitation: "Of course, I have to make money back."

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Wang Ye waved his hand and said, "Captain, let's take a break."

Hearing this, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Kong Jie became alert immediately, because they knew Wang Ye's character very well and never aimlessly. Wang Ye must have discovered it again.

Li Yunlong asked: "Xiao Wang, have you discovered anything?"

Kong Jie also asked with bright eyes: "Xiao Wang, do we have any big battle to fight?"

Only Ding Wei looked at Wang Ye and fell into deep thought. Obviously, Ding Wei had already made some judgment in his heart.

Wang Ye said: "Captain, Captain Kong, if nothing unexpected happens, the devils in North China will definitely launch a large-scale sweep in the first half of this year, and our devils in Shanxi are probably no exception."

"It's very possible," Ding Wei said, "The Japanese made great money in Southeast Asia, and their domestic financial situation improved, and they had the capital to launch offensive operations on the Chinese battlefield."

Wang Ye said: "And, the main goal this time is our Eighth Route Army."

In fact, the Japanese army did launch a crazy sweeping operation against the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army on the battlefield behind enemy lines in the first half of 1942. There were as many as eight times that used more than 10,000 people, and countless sweeping operations with more than 1,000 people were used. In 1942 and 1943, it was also the craziest two years of Japanese security war.

The largest of these is the May Day rush of the Hebei Central Military Region.

During the May Day sweep, the Japanese army alone dispatched 50,000 people, and the puppet army was even more.

The Japanese army in Shanxi will also launch a spring sweep in the southeastern base area of ​​Shanxi from March to May, and the Deputy Chief of Staff unfortunately died during this anti-sweeping.

Judging from the time, this Spring Festival sweep is about to begin.

Wang Ye said at the moment: "So, let's take a break for a while."

"I agree." Ding Wei said, "After a while, there will definitely be a big battle next."

"That's good." Li Yunlong grinned and said, "During this period, it was either a sparrow war or a mine war, or a tunnel war, each time it was only a few hundred people. My regiment commander was about to have a bird out of his life. If I didn't find a big battle to fight and loosen my muscles and bones, I would almost be unable to walk."

Kong Jie smiled and said, "Old Li, your face seems to be bigger than before."

It happened that Yang Xiuqin came in with a large bacon of bacon and smiled and said, "Xiuqin, what did you give Lao Li?"

Kong Jie's question was actually nothing wrong, but Yang Xiuqin didn't know what they were talking about just now. She thought that a few old comrades were talking about some topics between men, and her face turned red after a while.

Because Xiuqin has often given Li Yunlong extra meals at night recently.

Li Yunlong laughed and said, "What does Xiuqin give me food? Can I tell you Kong Erlangzi?"

Xiuqin's face turned redder now, and she pinched Li Yunlong's arm hard, but Li Yunlong didn't care at all. This was just a tickling for him.

Li Yunlong said again: "Let's talk about it when you will get married, haha."

Kong Jie is in a bad mood now. Why are you so proud? Isn’t it just a few days before our old Kong? I will marry a wife, a stronger than your family Xiuqin.

...

Tokyo Prime Minister's Residence.

Although he has not been the prime minister for a long time, Hideki Tojo's prestige has reached its peak.

The reason for this is also very simple, because the Japanese Navy and Army have won major victories one after another.

First, the Navy Combined Fleet successfully bet on the national destiny, and severely damaged the Navy's Pacific Fleet in one fell swoop, completely controlling the entire Western Pacific and Southeast Asian waters.

Immediately afterwards, the army swept across Southeast Asia and expanded thousands of miles of territory.

Not to count the sea area, the land area of ​​the invasion in the past three months alone reached more than four million square kilometers.

What is this concept? This is equivalent to the fact that the Japanese army invaded ten Japans in less than three months!

So recently, Hideki Tojo's presence has even surpassed Emperor Hirohito. The people in Tokyo and Japan are discussing the wisdom and wisdom of Tojo's decisions.
To be continued...