"Weng buzz..."

Amid the huge roar, three Japanese aircraft whizzed past the mining area along the treetops. This was the fourth wave of aircraft sent by the Japanese Hebei garrison today, and they flew back and forth several times.

The National Salvation Army hiding in the forest was particularly nervous. The mine cave not far away was the front enemy command center. The regiment commander and chief of staff were staying inside. If it was exposed, the Japanese plane would definitely rush here like crazy...

Zhou Xuanlai wanted to have a good sleep, but the Japanese planes flying around were so annoying that he couldn't sleep at all. He got up after being confused for more than an hour.

Chen Zhengyu suddenly walked towards him with a serious expression, and he could not tell at all the joy of the troops after winning the battle.

Zhou Cheng realized something was wrong when he saw his expression. Before he could ask, he heard him report: "Captain, the Japanese plane is so annoying. He searched for us against the treetops, and two companies have been found by them."

"Our troops began to move as soon as they were exposed. The reaction speed was fast enough, but the power of the aviation bomb was too great, and the two companies still lost more than 100 people!"

"It's less than half a day since then, and the Japanese planes can search over our heads for most of the day. According to their current search strength, there must be many troops found by them. There are too many troops hiding in this mining area, and there are only so many places where people can hide in the mining area. The Japanese planes can even hit a mouse by hitting a blind cat and killing a mouse!"

In Zhou Cheng's eyes, every soldier of the National Salvation Army is a treasure.

If you die, you will die on the battlefield where the Japanese killers are killed. It is best to pull a Japanese to take care of him before he dies.

The more than one hundred soldiers mentioned by the Chief of Staff died in the bombing of the Japanese, and they didn't even see any Japanese. It was not an ordinary injustice, and Zhou Cheng would definitely not accept it.

If you send more than a hundred soldiers to the battlefield, you will definitely be fine if you fight over more than a hundred Japanese.

He frowned and looked at the Chief of Staff very firmly: "From now until dark, no troops will be bombed by planes."

"You immediately send someone to contact all the troops that the command center can contact and tell those battalion commanders that although we cannot expose our target, we cannot blindly avoid it."

"Everyone says that offense is the best defense, and I think this move can be used even if lurking."

"Didn't the Japanese planes desperately look for us? The troops exposed a few fake targets and asked them to bomb them, attracting all the attention of the plane, and then consuming the aviation bombs carried by the plane, returning to the airport to replenish ammunition continuously, reducing the time for searching us in the air!"

"If conditions permit, the air defense battalion can cooperate to launch one or two aircraft, so that the Japanese planes dare not search for us at low altitude, and the chances of the troops being exposed will definitely be lower!"

Chen Zhengyu laughed after hearing this: "I just said that this problem can be solved as soon as you reach the regiment commander, as expected. I will contact the air defense battalion now, ask the guard battalion to cooperate, fight an ambush nearby for Japanese planes, and kill their arrogance!"

In less than two hours, a sound of air defense machine gun strafing came from the valley five kilometers away from the command center.

About fifteen seconds later, a thunderous explosion reached the command center. A soldier hurried into the mine with a very excited expression. He ran and shouted: "Captain, Chief of Staff, and the Air Defense Battalion set off a Japanese aircraft..."

Zhou Cheng had expected this result, and smiled and his face calmed down: "The air defense battalion has done a good job. With this victory as a foundation, other aircraft over the mining area will definitely not dare to fly ultra-low altitude anymore!"

"But the Japanese have a strong revenge mentality and will definitely find ways to kill the air defense camp!"

"I inform them to scatter and retreat immediately, the farther away from the battlefield, the better!"

After resolving the Japanese aerial threat, the "Weng Oun..." from above his head was obviously much less, so Zhou Cheng decided to take a rest.

Before he could close his eyes, Deng Jinghua's hurried figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Regiment Commander, Captain Huang of Shouyang Garrison Team urgently sent: The Japanese and puppet troops in Taiyuan City are preparing to launch a counterattack on our army, and the momentum is very strong. The infantry alone sent two regiments, including a mountain artillery brigade, a cavalry brigade, a chariot squadron, and the puppet troops of the two regiments cooperate in combat!"

Zhou Cheng smiled bitterly at Chen Zhengyu: "It seems that I can't sleep today!"

"Just just solved the air threat above our heads, something happened again in Taiyuan. The Japanese don't want us to live in peace!"

Chen Zhengyu's expression was very serious. After reading the telegram, he analyzed: "Captain, I think this counterattack should not be underestimated!"

"The telegram said that the Japanese and puppet troops carried a large amount of ammunition supplies. If they only wanted to counterattack our siege troops, there was no need to carry so much supplies, and there was no need to dispatch so many troops?"

Zhou Cheng blurted out: "It goes without saying that they most probably want to take advantage of the situation and directly enter the defense zone, and give us a tiger to heart!"

"I am so familiar with the commander of the Japanese First Army. Although I have never seen each other, the two sides have fought no less than ten times, so they are considered old opponents!"

"From my understanding of him, I know that the main force of the National Salvation Army is in Jingxing, and the defense zone is empty, so I will definitely take advantage of the opportunity to enter the defense zone and take down our rear."

"The defense zone is very important. If there is no defense zone as support, the National Salvation Army will have a rootless duckweed and cannot last long."

Chen Zhengyu became more and more frightened as he heard it. At some point, the serious expression on his face had turned into a deep worry.

Zhou Cheng changed the subject after seeing this: "But the Japanese First Army has too much appetite and far underestimated the strength of our left-behind troops."

"Although our main forces have all arrived in Jingxing, the three garrisons and six independent battalions in the left-behind defense zone are not a problem. As long as we arrange them properly, it will be no problem to severely damage the Japanese and puppet troops' counterattack forces!"

Speaking of this, a very bold strategic idea has emerged in Zhou Cheng's mind, but it requires Chen Zhengyu's cooperation.

Immediately asked: "Chief of Staff, what do you think of the battle we attacked Shimen tonight?"

"There will be no doubt about victory!" Chen Zhengyu blurted out.

Zhou Cheng continued to ask: "If you were asked to command this siege, what would you plan to fight?"

Chen Zhengyu was puzzled for a moment. The two of them were clearly discussing the Japanese attack on the defense zone in Taiyuan, but they had not yet made any clues about why the regiment commander suddenly shifted the topic to the battle to attack Shimen.

But I still answered this question very seriously, thinking and analyzing: "There are only more than 3,000 troops left in Shimen. If the reserve team is reduced, each city wall will be divided into up to 500 people."

"Our army has absolute artillery advantage. We can first use artillery shells to consume a large amount of Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall and force the Japanese to send all the reserves to the city wall!"

"After there is no reserve team in the city, we will dispatch the armored battalion to cooperate in the attack, break through the city defense in one fell swoop and enter the stone gate."

"The reconnaissance company and reconnaissance team that sneaked into the stone gate in advance took the opportunity to seize all the warehouses in the city and protect them until the armored battalion and siege troops took over all the warehouses!"

"As long as there are siege troops entering the Shimen, the Japanese and puppet troops defending other city walls are not worth worrying, and it is easy to be wiped out by us on the top of the city!"

Chen Zhengyu said that this style of play was similar to the first time the National Salvation Army attacked Jinzhong, and it was also the best way to play in Zhou Cheng's mind.

He immediately made a decision in his mind and ordered on the spot: "Since Lao Chen, you are confident, then the battle to attack Shimen will be left to you to command."

"I only have one principle: to conquer the Shimen with the minimum cost while protecting the weapons, ammunition and all supplies in the city, and to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army to empty the Shimen!"

"Where are you, regiment commander?" Chen Zhengyu didn't even think that the regiment commander would let him command such a large-scale battle. He was shocked and asked puzzledly.

"Return to the defense zone and command the left-behind troops to severely damage the Japanese and puppet troops attacking our defense zone!" Zhou Cheng first expressed his thoughts, and then explained: "With the continuous consumption of us and the Eighth Route Army, the strength of the Japanese First Army has long been wiped out by us."

"In order to protect Taiyuan, the First Army almost drained the mobile troops from all over Shanxi."

"The Japanese and puppet troops who attacked us this time came from these mobile units."

"If we can severely damage this Japanese and puppet army, then the Japanese devils in Shanxi will not have mobile troops and will only be passively beaten. We and the Eighth Route Army will take the opportunity to launch a counterattack, which will definitely further severely damage the Japanese army and recover lost territory."

"For our National Salvation Army, it is secondary to how much lost land is recovered."

"The most important thing is to eliminate the mobile troops that are not many of the Japanese garrisons in Shanxi."

"Without a mobile force, they will not be able to assemble troops to encircle and suppress us. The troops can also have a long rest period and then take the opportunity to grow and grow..."

Chen Zhengyu understood the truth that Zhou Cheng said.

The Japanese garrisons in Shanxi are fixed. Many people were killed in Jinzhong in one battle. If the National Salvation Army could kill thousands of them, the mobile troops would be wiped out.

Before the supplementary troops sent from Japan were in place, they could not draw out one soldier or another to deal with the national rescue army.

With time, the National Salvation Army can not only vigorously develop defense zones and increase the war potential of defense zones. It can also train troops, allowing the National Salvation Army to have stronger combat effectiveness... There are many benefits!

But Chen Zhengyu did not immediately support the proposal. He looked at Zhou Cheng with a worried look on his face and reminded: "Captain, will it be too risky to open the stall like this and launch two big battles at the same time?"

Zhou Cheng responded confidently to Chen Zhengyu's worried look: "It seems that Old Chen, you also look down on the combat effectiveness of our left-behind troops!"

Chen Zhengyu quickly shook his head: "It's not that he looks down on him, it's that the strength of the enemy and us is too great!"

"The total strength of the Japanese and puppet troops attacked us was more than 10,000, well-equipped, sufficient ammunition, and a large number of artillery, cavalry and chariots to help."

"There are only three garrisons left-behind troops that have the strength to fight against the Japanese, but their artillery fire is far less powerful than the Japanese."

"The cavalry and chariot troops are all in the mining area and cannot provide any support to the left-behind troops. If they really meet the Japanese cavalry brigade and chariot squadron, they don't even have the strength to fight back. How can they fight?"

"As for the six independent battalions left behind in the base area, there seem to be five or six thousand people, but most of the soldiers here have never been on the battlefield, so they must not go to the battlefield rashly."

"The troops you can really use are only three garrisons, four or five thousand, and less than half of the Japanese and puppet troops. How can I rest assured?"

"If an accident occurs and the Japanese and puppet troops are not stopped, the losses will be huge!"

"I suggest to draw the cavalry battalion, air defense battalion, mobile battalion, artillery battalion, and guard battalion to return to the defense zone together!"

If the Japanese army in Taiyuan only dispatched a small number of cavalry and chariot troops to cooperate in combat, Zhou Cheng still had a way to kill them with tricks.

But the Japanese army dispatched a whole squadron of chariots and a cavalry brigade. No matter how many strategies were, they could not be defeated by a group of infantry without heavy weapons.

If there were cavalry and artillery going back to the defense zone with you, this battle would definitely be much easier.

Zhou Cheng agreed with the proposal after a little analysis and asked immediately: "How many war horses can be vacated when one man and one horse are guaranteed?"

Chen Zhengyu blurted out: "The cavalry troops' war horses are going to the battlefield, and the losses are only a little less than those of the cavalry, and they can draw 150 war horses out."

"The war horses equipped by the mobile battalion are only responsible for maneuvering, with almost no losses, and can draw 400 war horses out."

Zhou Cheng had a specific idea when he heard this and immediately ordered: "Send two hundred war horses to the air defense battalion, draw two anti-aircraft machine gun companies and go back to the defense zone with me. All the troops and equipment use war horses to move across the Zhengtai Railway tonight."

"Another two hundred war horses were divided into two to send to the artillery battalion, and two large-caliber mortar companies rode horses to return to the defense zone."

"The other horses are all concentrated in the guard battalion, and a guard company will be drawn to go back to the defense zone with me!"

"There are about 5,000 troops left in the mining area to attack Shimen!"

"But with my understanding of the commander of the First Japanese Army, he will definitely not let us return to the defense zone easily."

"As expected, many Japanese and puppet troops have begun to reinforce the Zhengtai Railway and block the passage to our rescue defense zone. We must compete with the Japanese to cross the railway before they built the Zhengtai Railway by them."

"Contact Deputy Commander Tang immediately and ask him to mobilize all forces in the defense zone to immediately break the Zhengtai Railway, destroy the highways along the Zhengtai Railway, and prevent the Japanese and puppet army reinforcements from moving quickly through the railway and cars."

"As long as the Japanese and puppet troops did not block the Zhengtai Railway before 12 o'clock tonight, we can cross the Zhengtai Railway and return to the defense zone!"

"Send another telegram to Huang Hu: the troops immediately gave up Jinzhong County and used mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare to slow down the marching speed of the Japanese and puppet troops, but they could not fight too hard, making the Japanese feel that the people who stayed in the defense zone were all local troops, with poor combat effectiveness and developed the idea of ​​underestimating the enemy!"

At the headquarters of the National Salvation Army of Pingding County, Tang Yufeng and Zheng Yunshan were also worried about the more than 10,000 Japanese and puppet troops who broke out of Taiyuan City.

As soon as the two analyzed, they knew that the Japanese army had a great plan for counterattack this time, and were racking their brains to analyze the way to break the deadlock.

The main force of the regiment was still attacking Shimen in Hebei, and the distance could not relieve the near thirst. Moreover, the two of them did not want the regiment commander to be distracted by this matter, which affected them attacking Shimen. Therefore, the defense area could rely on three garrisons and five or six thousand independent battalions that were almost new recruits.

"Old Tang, the Japanese and puppet troops are coming in full force, and they will definitely not be able to block them out of the defense zone like before the anti-sweeping!" Zheng Yunshan pointed to the map and expressed his thoughts.

"In order to reduce the losses of the base area, I suggest that the defense zone immediately strengthen the walls and clear the field, clear all Shouyang and Yangquan, which are most likely to be attacked, and transfer the people to the hinterland of the defense zone. At the same time, order the Shouyang Garrison and Yangquan Garrison to slow down the attack speed of the Japanese and puppet troops, and buy time for us to firmly clear the field!"

"After the Japanese and puppet troops enter the defense zone, we will follow them Zhou Xuan!"

Zheng Yunshan's proposal was the most commonly used style of play in the Eighth Route Army in anti-sweeping, and it was also the most classic style of playing against the strong with the weak. Tang Yufeng also had this intention and immediately prepared to agree.
Chapter completed!