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#166 - Li Yunlong and Chu Yunfei's first collaboration

On Zhongtiao Mountain.

As a new day dawned, each attacking unit of the Japanese devils suddenly noticed something was wrong.

On the original positions, the enemy's counterattacks became increasingly sparse, completely lacking the fierce resistance for every inch of ground that had been characteristic of previous days.

When they attacked and entered the positions, they discovered that most of the enemy were gone!

Just as they were feeling puzzled, frantic calls came from their rear supply units, revealing that the enemy had taken advantage of the darkness to sneak around to their rear, catching the somewhat careless main Japanese attacking force off guard, causing them to suffer some losses, with many supplies being attacked, burned, and even stolen!

The Guofu troops, who seemed to have changed their fighting style overnight, caused the Japanese division and brigade commanders to lose their composure, each stopping to carefully defend their current positions and ensure the safety of their supplies, temporarily losing their direction of attack.

In the Second War Zone, after receiving more than a dozen strict orders in succession, Yan Xishan had no choice but to issue a public order to attack, while secretly instructing his direct line of troops to move slowly.

But no one expected that Chu Yunfei of the 358th Regiment, upon receiving the order to attack, would immediately lead his 358th Regiment out of their garrison, his goal being to smash the Tongpu Railway Line just like Li Yunlong's Independent Regiment!

With the strong attack of the 358th Regiment, the safety of Li Yunlong's flank was immediately guaranteed. Although he had no contact with Chu Yunfei, when the 358th Regiment came out to attack, Li Yunlong tacitly withdrew his cavalry company to give the 358th Regiment the position, while he began to concentrate his forces to encircle and strike at reinforcements, a traditional tactic, successively wiping out two squadrons of Japanese reinforcements!

For a time, the Japanese devils in the vicinity no longer had their arrogant arrogance.

Chu Yunfei directly launched an attack on a county town on the Tongpu Railway Line held by the Japanese devils. The 358th Regiment's artillery battalion took the lead, beating a squadron of Japanese devils and a puppet army battalion at the Japanese devils' railway station until they cried for their fathers and mothers!

Facing the attacking Japanese military police squadron, the 1st Battalion of the 358th Regiment displayed the posture of the Jin Sui Army's first main battalion, resisting the impact of the Japanese military police squadron, creating conditions for Chu Yunfei to encircle and annihilate the Japanese devils in front of the railway station. After destroying the entire railway station, they joined forces and directly drove the attacking Japanese military police squadron back to the county town!

From then on, there were no more Japanese soldiers on the Tongpu Railway Line for more than ten kilometers from the county town to Li Yunlong's troops. Li Yunlong immediately mobilized the laborers to take the opportunity to dismantle the rails.

Chu Yunfei had been stifled for so long, and this time he found an opportunity, standing up against the Japanese devils' county town, and ordered the artillery to conduct a tentative attack! After firing two rounds of artillery, Chu Yunfei ordered the artillery battalion to retreat first.

He stared at his watch and said to the cavalry messenger, "Immediately tell Regiment Commander Li of the Independent Regiment that our army will temporarily retreat in 20 minutes to avoid a possible Japanese air raid."

So, when the cavalry messenger of the 358th Regiment found Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong took out a bottle of Japanese sake that he had just seized, "Tell Regiment Commander Chu that this battle was fought happily. I, Li Yunlong, will wait for him tomorrow to see who kills more Japanese devils! The loser will treat to a drink!"

First War Zone.

Commander Wei looked at today's latest battle situation with a frown. The situation in the west was very bad. Although the various units were now jumping out to start mobile warfare, the results achieved were not many. Even if they were fighting 3 against 1, surrounding the Japanese devils, the troops could not quickly wipe out the Japanese devils. Instead, they would be called in for air support or be counter-encircled by the surrounding Japanese devils!

This caused the casualties of mobile warfare to increase sharply. The subordinate army and division levels began to complain that ammunition was seriously insufficient. In addition, there was already a huge gap in firepower. Even fighting more with less could not take advantage, not to mention that the Japanese devils had strong mobility, and if they were not careful, they would be opened up in the center and counter-encircled.

The entire regiment-sized attack units were surrounded and eaten by the Japanese devils, and the troops suffered heavy casualties!

The war in the west was extremely bad.

In the northeast, although the various units moved into place and contained the Japanese 33rd Division, facing the Japanese devils who were shrinking back into units of at least a regiment to defend, the various units could not break through the Japanese devils' defenses even if they charged to death.

The strategic intention of encircling and annihilating the 33rd Division now had the risk of evolving into being fished by the Japanese devils!

The blocking battle on the southern line was also very difficult. The Guofu's positions not only had to endure the Japanese devils' heavy artillery attacks, but also the bombing from the sky!

The position was crumbling. After losing the position during the day, they could only organize a death squad at night to take it back while the Japanese devils' artillery and land-based bombers could not be dispatched!

"There is no chance for the best policy!" Commander Wei stood in front of the map, watched for a long time, and had to sigh.

"Then let's follow the middle policy of alternating cover and breaking through separately. The west road breaks through to the Second War Zone, the northeast road breaks through into Taihang! The south road begins to retreat back to the south bank of the Yellow River!" Shao Guangming looked at the latest intertwined situation of the enemy and us on the map and could do nothing. It was not that they were not working hard, but their strength was limited, and many tactical intentions could not be implemented now.

"I think this is the only way. Staff officer, order!. " Commander Wei stared at the map and issued the latest combat orders one after another. He spoke very slowly, sometimes even having to designate specific divisions and brigades, because he knew that if this order was issued, the whole situation might collapse, so although it was said to be a retreat, the orders issued were to attack a certain place separately!

It's just that there were originally no Japanese devils in those places, so these combat orders were essentially to allow the various units to withdraw in an orderly manner!

If he just ordered a retreat, I am afraid that many troops would rush to run away!

As Commander Wei, who knew the characteristics of the Guofu troops well, naturally knew these tricks.

The points he chose were the key points for alternating retreat to Taihang.

In this way, although individual divisions and brigades would inevitably collapse, the main force could still be preserved as much as possible.

In the current situation, this was already the best result in the second tactic that Ren Chong had deduced!

The 4 armies on the northeast side can roughly retain most of them, the 2 armies in the west can retreat back half of them, and the 2 armies (divisions) and the general reserve team on the south side can retreat two-thirds of them, then although this battle is lost, the vitality is still there!

This was the limit that Commander Wei could do.

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