As soon as Li Yan returned to Xishan County with the reinforcement team, he received a telegram from the Xishan East Base Area. Immediately afterwards, there was also movement in the Xishan Nanqiao Base Area. Li Yan decrypted the two telegrams and put them on the table to compare them.
As I watched, I found that the two telegrams were talking about two things. The former was to praise the fact that Li Yan's troops in Xishan County and Qin Yan's troops in Nanqiao, Xishan worked together to annihilate the seven Japanese regiments, while the latter was obviously not so good.
, because Li Yan only saw six words on it: Emergency in the Southwest. Upon seeing this, Li Yan hurriedly called back to Xishan Nanqiao, but for some reason, Li Yan was suddenly unable to contact Qin from Xishan Nanqiao at this juncture.
The inkstone team is here.
At this time, Li Yan had no intention of checking whether the Xishan South Bridge was due to malfunction or something else. Instead, he stood up and walked back and forth in the temporary command room of Xishan County.
Then he sat back in front of the transmitter and sent a telegram to the Xishandong Base Area, wanting to ask about the specific situation in the southwest of Xishan. After nearly twenty minutes, Jiang Zhen from the Xishandong Base Area responded, Li Yan
I picked up the telegram and took a look at it, but I didn't see any clues. The whole telegram only said one short sentence, and the meaning of this sentence was to ask Li Yan to quickly return to the West Shandong base area and strengthen the regiment troops to continue stationed there.
Stay in Xishan County.
When Li Yan saw this, he didn't think much about it. He quickly ran out of the temporary combat conference room and came to Liu Guangyao. He thrust the three-point telegram into Liu Guangyao's hands, conveyed what had just happened to Liu Guangyao, and ordered Liu Guangyao to
First, he continued to garrison Xishan County with his reinforced regiment. After arranging all this, Li Yan took Jiang Zhen's two regiments back to the Xishandong base area. At this time, Jiang Zhen was already standing at the gate of the base area waiting.
Li Yan saw that the person not far from him was Li Yan. Jiang Zhen rushed forward, grabbed Li Yan's sleeve and walked back. At the same time, he ordered the two regiments behind him to lead the team back to West Shandong.
base area.
After dragging Li Yan to the combat conference room, Jiang Zhen spread out the map of Xishan on the table and poked his finger directly at an Eighth Route Army base area in the southwest of Xishan. However, this base area has obviously deviated from the original base area.
There are many locations, and the base area itself cannot move freely. In this case, there is only one situation left here, that is, the troops in the southwest of Xishan have already left the base area, and are now being hindered by some means and cannot counterattack.
It is impossible to retreat to the base area to implement defense.
But under normal circumstances, this situation is impossible. When Li Yan saw this, he immediately concluded that the Eighth Route Army troops in the southwest of Xishan must have been suddenly attacked by some Japanese forces. They were reckless because of the misjudgment of the commander of the Xishan Southwest Base.
They sent troops to attack, but they were surrounded by Japanese troops when they were halfway through the march. In the end, it ended up like this, and there should be a lot of Japanese soldiers. When Li Yan thought of this, he immediately understood Jiang Zhen's intention. He guessed that now
Jiang Zhen probably wanted to send his reinforced regiment to the vicinity of the southwest base area of Xishan to meet the incoming Japanese troops or cover the safe retreat of the Eighth Route Army troops in the southwest of Xishan, because the distance between Xishan County where he is located and the southwest of Xishan is the shortest.
Therefore, we can reach the southwest end of Xishan Mountain before other troops.
What Jiang Zhen was thinking happened to coincide with Li Yan's thoughts, but he did not tell Li Yan his decision immediately. Instead, he thought about it for a while until he confirmed that only Li Yan's troops could relieve the siege in the southwest of Xishan.
Only then did Jiang Zhen touch Li Yan and tell him his thoughts completely.
Jiang Zhen meant to ask Li Yan to take the reinforcement regiment first, go through the woods on the west side of Xishan County to the southwest end of Xishan, and wait for orders. At the same time, he would seize the opportunity to send an evacuation signal to the troops in the southwest of Xishan. When the troops in the southwest of Xishan evacuated,
Use intensive firepower to cover their safe withdrawal to the base area, and then cooperate with the Eighth Route Army troops in the southwest base area of Xishan to counterattack. As long as these Japanese troops are forced back to a place twenty miles away, the battle will be over.
"Next, we will send a large force to garrison the southwest base area of Xishan, and prepare to transfer the original Eighth Route Army unit to the woods farther west of Xishan County. Although the environment is not very good, this force can and
The original Xishan Southwest Base Area troops and your reinforcement regiment in Xishan County are in close contact with each other so that reinforcements can be dispatched in time during emergencies. According to my original intention, I do not agree with you leading troops out of Xishan County to directly engage in firefights with the Japanese. However, in recent days, sudden changes have occurred.
The situation is only getting worse, and I can no longer stick to the old rules. I still have to put the overall situation first in everything."
Li Yan nodded: "Captain Jiang, I understand what you mean, but I don't know how many people there are in this gang of Japanese. And if I take my reinforced group out, then Xishan County will become an empty city.
Although this is a special period, we cannot violate the original strategic plan..." Before Li Yan could finish speaking, Jiang Zhen moved his hand away and stretched out his finger to the door of the combat conference room.
refer to:
"You don't have to worry about things over there in Xishan County. I will personally take most of my troops to temporarily station in Xishan County. On the one hand, I can provide some appropriate cover for the return of your reinforced regiment, and on the other hand, I can prevent Xishan County from
There is no one to defend the situation. As for the departure time, I think if the Japanese soldiers in the south of Xishan County have been completely eliminated and will not pose a threat to your place in a short time, I hope we can return to Xishan County now. We are here
After Xishan County, we will act separately. In addition, you may have to take charge of this battle yourself, because we have not received any information about the Japanese troop configuration and specific number of troops from the Xishan Southwest Front, so this time
fighting...."
"I know, I will be careful." Seeing that Li Yan understood what he meant, Jiang Zhen took the lead in opening the door of the combat conference room and came to the open space, brought the soldiers of the three regiments with him, and followed Li Yan back to
In Xishan County, the remaining regiment was left in the Xishandong base area just in case.
As soon as Jiang Zhen arrived at Xishan County, he commanded the three regiments behind him and built some simple fortifications around Xishan County. Li Yan went around Xishan County and inspected it. If there were no loopholes, he would strengthen the regiment.
The team gathered together, left the county along the west gate of Xishan, and slowly groped towards the woods in the west of Xishan. When the troops were halfway through, Li Yan turned to the south and marched quickly. After a while, Li Yan, who was walking at the front, suddenly discovered
The shadow of a large army, except that this army is not the Eighth Route Army, but Japanese soldiers with green helmets on their heads.
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