On the plateau at the junction of Fu County and Luochuan, a team of more than 200 people was walking through.
"The team stopped advancing, rested on the spot, and asked some captains to come over!" Zhou Weihan looked at the mountain ridge in front of him, but frowned.
The terrain of northern Shaanxi is very different from that of Hebei, Shandong, Henan, and Tainan. The two mountain ridges are obviously not far apart, but the mountain road in the middle winds around them, and it may not take long to walk to the opposite mountain ridge.
Zhou Weihan has been working at the Anti-Japanese University for nearly two months. The students are very enthusiastic about learning. Even the students in the ordinary class often stand at the door of the classroom to listen to the lectures.
During this period, No. 1, the boss and others came to the site many times to listen to the lectures. Seeing that the results were so good, they simply asked Zhou Weihan to transfer to the playground of Kangda University to teach.
Since then, Zhou Weihan often stood on the big millstone in the playground to teach students.
It was a wonderful time, but the reactionary armed forces of the national army that blocked the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area frequently engaged in frictions. Among them, the three divisions of Suide, Guanzhong, and Longdong had the most intense struggles, and Yanzhou had to take countermeasures.
As early as the end of May, high-level officials considered the military command issues in northwestern Shanxi and Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia and decided to establish the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Shanxi-Suiyuan Joint Defense Force ** Headquarters in Yanzhou to unify the combat operations and army building work in the two regions.
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Directly under the jurisdiction of the Joint Defense Department: the 120th Division, the Remaining Regiment, the Northwestern Shanxi New Army, the 359th Brigade, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Security Forces, the Artillery Regiment, etc.
Fu County, now known as Fuxian County, belongs to the Yanzhong District in terms of administrative division. However, the main forces of the Yanzhi Military Division are concentrated in Yanzhou and Yanchang. The garrison tasks of Fu County have always been handled by the troops of the Guanzhong Garrison District.
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Fu County is located at the northernmost end of the Guanzhong Garrison Area, bordering Ganquan to the north, Luochuan to the east, and guarding the southern gate of Yanzhou. It is a place where the reactionary armed forces of the national army have always wanted to get involved.
"I'm afraid it won't be easy if we go further. The national army has been adding troops to Luochuan. The terrain here is too complicated, Zhu Baosong!"
"arrive!"
"Take a few local comrades to go ahead!" Zhou Weihan said.
"Ah?" Zhu Baosong grinned. He never thought that he would have to go personally to explore the road.
Zhu Baosong was the student who asked Zhou Weihan for cigarettes at the beginning. He came from the Jidong Army Division and was the deputy commander of the army. When he arrived in Yanzhou, he took up the job of the reconnaissance squad leader.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Go quickly!"
"yes!"
The local struggle between the enemy and ourselves became more and more intense. This time the Eighth Route Army took the initiative to expand its base areas.
The main force of the Yansu Military Division is to attack Yichuan, and the troops of the Guanzhong Garrison District are divided into two groups, with their swords pointed directly at Luochuan and Yijun.
Among them, Li Daben's Fifth Guard Regiment quickly went into battle after undergoing preliminary training, and led two battalions of the Security Regiment to advance toward Luochuan using Fuxian County as a springboard.
In addition, Longdong and Suide have also achieved good results. Due to the outward expansion of the base areas, the grassroots political power of local governments must be established immediately.
In view of this situation, representatives of the Shaanxi-Gansu Red Army, currently the top leaders of the Northwest Bureau, and members of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Security Command, took the initiative to apply to their superiors to allocate some military cadres to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the local armed forces.
The top management immediately issued an order, and the Anti-Japanese University members were divided into four and marched to Guanzhong, Longdong, Sanbian, and Suide respectively to support the construction of local political power and assist in the formation of local armed forces.
Zhou Weihan led a team to Luochuan alone. He had fifteen students in the crash course and more than two hundred students in the regular class. It was known to the outside world as the Seventh Brigade of the Anti-Japanese Army and had five squadrons under its jurisdiction.
Weapons were distributed to all students, including one civilian 2-4 heavy machine gun, three light machine guns, six 50mm cannons, and a total of four walkie-talkies, one large and three small, that Zhou Weihan personally obtained from the reconnaissance company.
After Zhu Baosong set off, he used a walkie-talkie to communicate every once in a while.
The walkie-talkie buzzed, and after a student majoring in telecommunications debugged it, Zhu Baosong's voice came out: "Teacher Zhou, the situation is a bit unfavorable. A small group of enemy troops has penetrated into the rear of our front-line troops.
It will probably appear on the opposite mountain ridge after a while!
Zhou Weihan was shocked after hearing this. When did the national army learn to fight guerrillas?
"how many people?"
"There are about a hundred people, which is at best the strength of a company, but each of these people has a helmet on their head. Judging from their dress and the weapons and equipment they use, they are similar to the comrades of the reconnaissance company!"
"American equipment?"
"Yes, it's American equipment!"
"Send two comrades to continue forward and contact the response force of the Fifth Guard Regiment. You lead the rest of the group and follow this group. Remember not to follow too closely!"
"yes!"
After the short phone call ended, a group of people started talking about it.
"Teacher Zhou, what are these elite troops from the national army doing when they infiltrate our base area?"
"It's hard to say the specific goal, but what is certain is that there must be important tasks!" Zhou Weihan said.
"Damn it, he's not here for us!" Dong Dachuan scratched the stubbly beard on his chin and made a guess.
Zhou Weihan was stunned when he heard this, thinking that the timing was so coincidental, Dong Dachuan might have guessed it right, but the trip of the anti-university student brigade was a secret, so how did the national army know about it?
"Xu Licheng, use the radio to report the situation immediately. The enemies entering the base area are likely to be more than just this small force!"
"Teacher Zhou, shall our fifth brigade withdraw?" Xu Licheng, the squad leader of the accelerated class, asked.
"Don't withdraw yet!"
"But..." Xu Licheng hesitated.
"Oh, my squad leader Xu, why haven't you forgotten your job as a political commissar when you arrived at the Anti-Japanese University? This is the place, we people can just find a place to hide, and the enemy will find out!" Dong Dachuan said.
In addition to these ten students in the crash course, the students in the ordinary class are either young intellectuals or the backbone of the army. It would be heartbreaking to die if any one of them died.
After sending Xu Licheng away, Zhou Weihan led several squadron leaders to the edge of the mountain ridge.
"Teacher Zhou, this Loess Plateau is really a good place for an ambush. Otherwise, how could the bandits not be wiped out? With such a good terrain advantage, let's do something together?" Xu Licheng suggested.
"Yes, Teacher Zhou, didn't you tell me in class that the right time, the right place and the right people, this battle must be fought, and those who can enter the Anti-Japanese University are all backbones, and their combat effectiveness is indispensable!"
Several squadron leaders are all militants like Li Yunlong. After coming to Yanzhou, all of them have long been depressed.
Zhou Weihan didn't say anything, he just looked at the nearby terrain with a telescope. The straight-line distance between the two mountain ridges was only four or five kilometers away, but if he really walked, he wouldn't be able to get there in two or three hours.
"It's really a good place for an ambush!" Zhou Weihan also felt a little moved in his heart.
While several people were talking, a group of figures suddenly appeared on the ridge opposite, and started walking towards the ditch along the mountain road connecting the ridge.
Zhou Weihan took a look with his binoculars and saw, "Hey guys, this is a small group of elite troops from the national army. Most of them are equipped with Garand rifles, supplemented by Czech light machine guns and mortars."
The scolding of the national army officers came from the empty valley. Zhou Weihan followed the sound and saw that he was an acquaintance.
"Damn it, the ones dispatched are actually direct descendants of the First Army. They really look up to us!"