"No, I have to hurry up and take a look."

The brigade commander lay on the camp bed wrapped in a fur coat and said, "I will definitely not have to sleep in the next few days. I have to take a look at it now. Chief of Staff, wait for four o'clock before waking me up."

The chief of staff smiled and said, "Brig Commander, it's almost three o'clock, it's only an hour, so why are you sleeping?"

"That won't work, I have to take a sniff for a while." The brigade commander shook his head, "Don't say one hour or ten minutes, otherwise you won't want to sleep again in the next three days."

After saying that, the brigade commander fell on the marching bed and wrapped his fur coat tighter. It was really cold that day, and it was still cold when the brazier was burning in the war room.

But the brigade commander's wish was finally disappointed.

Just half a minute after lying down, a horse neighed outside.

"Brigit commander, horse neighing!" shouted the chief of staff, "A cavalry correspondent is here!"

"Damn it, so fast? Are you deliberately not letting me sleep?" The brigade commander turned over and sat up.

Then a correspondent hurriedly ran in and reported, "Report, the new group has taken the Liuzhuang stronghold!"

"Okay, beautiful job!" The brigade commander shouted and said to the chief of staff, "Chief of staff, hurry up and mark it on the map!"

"Yes!" The Chief of Staff responded, found the location of Liuzhuang on the map, and drew a big red cross with a red pencil.

The brigade commander walked over and looked at the map and said, "Ding Wei gave us a good start to the 386th Brigade. I dare say that in the 129th Division and even the entire Eighth Route Army, this is the first stronghold to be captured!"

The Chief of Staff said sincerely: "This kid Ding Wei can do it."

"That's it." said the brigade commander, "If Li Yunlong is a powerful general, then Ding Wei is a general!"

"Indeed." The Chief of Staff nodded, "Li Yunlong is a fierce fight, but he lacks a view of the overall situation. Ding Wei has a strong view of the overall situation and looks at problems more thoroughly than Li Yunlong."

While talking, the neighing sound of horses came from outside.

The Brigade Commander said: "Chief of Staff, what regiment is from this time?"

The Chief of Staff said without hesitation: "It is mostly from the independent regiment."

As soon as he finished speaking, another cavalry correspondent ran in hurriedly.

"Report that the Independent Group has taken over Caojiaji, Xiaowangzhuang and Changdian stronghold."

After saying that, the correspondent turned around and left, without even taking a sip of water, he went back.

"Okay!" said the Chief of Staff excitedly, "Although Li Yunlong gave Ding Wei the first place, he had to come three of them at the same time, and his actions were to come faster than the other regiments."

"This is also Li Yunlong's usual style. He is a madman when fighting!"

The brigade commander said: "I seriously suspect that this kid did not fight as required by the headquarters. He must have divided the troops into four groups and launched attacks on four targets at the same time, so he moved so quickly."

According to the unified deployment of the headquarters, even small strongholds cannot be careless. The most appropriate way is to use one force to restrain the other small strongholds, then concentrate the main force of the regiment to attack one of the strongholds, and then turn to the next stronghold after breaking through one stronghold until it captures all.

The advantage of doing this is that you can concentrate superior firepower.

Ensure the formation of crushing the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold.

But the Independent Team obviously won't adopt this strategy.

This is almost the lice on the monk's head, obviously.

"Brig Commander, no doubt, it must be like this."

The chief of staff smiled and said, "Li Yunlong has never had a main attacker or deputy attacker in wars, and he has always been like this."

While speaking, the Chief of Staff found three strongholds including Cao Jiaji from the map, and then drew a cross with a red pencil.

Looking at the four eye-catching red crosses, the Chief of Staff asked: "Brig Commander, do you think the 4th Brigade will send troops to reinforce?"

"I agree with Xiao Wang's judgment on this." The brigade commander said in a deep voice, "The 4th Brigade will most likely be nestled in Yangquan and Shouyang, at least not coming out before dawn, because he dares not! Besides, so many peripheral strongholds were attacked at the same time, can he save them?"

The chief of staff laughed and said, "Then we will wait for us to clear out more than 100 strongholds on the periphery one by one, and then become blind and deaf, hahahaha."

The brigade commander also smiled and said, "This is what Xiao Wang said about the information on the battlefield."

The Chief of Staff said again: "Then next, except for the attack group on the south side of Zhengtai Road and the attack group on the north side of Zhengtai Road, the two attack groups can achieve rapid and hidden maneuvers within the two attack groups. Then the initiative on the battlefield on the Zhengtai Road will completely fall into the hands of our army, and the 4th Brigade may have to be blind."

The brigade commander just smiled but didn't say anything when he heard this.

But he thought to himself, Xiao Wang is really good.

Being a wolf warrior team leader is really a waste of time.

...

"Yaoe yawn!"

Wang Ye sneezes two loudly.

Fortunately, this is on a high mountain near Longwang Ao.

Otherwise, just these two sneezes will expose the target.

The sky gradually brightened, and looking forward from the heights where you were hiding, you can clearly see the range of several kilometers on the north and south sides of Zhengtai Road.

With the help of a telescope, you can see at least three battlefields.

This means that three strongholds are being attacked.

Wang Ye's attention fell on a stronghold on the south side of Zhengtai Road.

Judging from the map, this should be the Mazhuang stronghold outside the Yanzigou stronghold.

Because several other strongholds have been successively captured, only the Japanese and puppet troops in the Mazhuang stronghold still resisted stubbornly, and the Eighth Route Army encountered difficulties in attacking.

Wei Dayong asked: "Which unit is this? It's really useless!"

Wang Ye said: "It should be a battalion of the New 8th Brigade."

"New 8th Brigade? No wonder." Wei Dayong suddenly realized.

As you can see from the number, the New 8th Brigade is a newly formed brigade that has just been formed.

According to the tradition of the Eighth Route Army, the several regiments under the New 8th Brigade have only one old regiment at most, and there may even be only one old battalion. The rest are all new battalions upgraded by local armed forces.

Such troops not only have poor equipment, but also have low training levels.

It is a bit difficult to have such a force take on the offensive task.

The sky became brighter and brighter, and finally the sun even showed its small face.

However, the attacks on the Mazhuang stronghold by the anti-aircraft troops have never made much progress.

"There is no time." Wei Dayong sighed and said, "I guess I can't get it."

"That may not be necessary, there is a last chance." Wang Ye still held up a military telescope and continued to observe the Mazhuang stronghold a few kilometers away in front of him.

Wei Dayong asked, "What opportunity?"

Wang Ye said: "Anyway, Hide Maeda must have issued an order to retreat. If I were the commander of the opposite army, I would decisively give up the attack and transfer the troops to both sides of the retreat route of the Japanese puppet army to set up ambush. When the Japanese puppet army enters the ambush circle and then launches a charge, they can use their strength to kill one blow."

After a pause, Wang Ye said again: "Maybe you are already doing this."

"Is there any?" Wei Dayong said, "But why didn't I see it?"

Wang Ye said: "Don't you think the troops involved in the attack are a little small?"

Wei Dayong looked at it and said, "It seems that it is true, at most there is only one company of troops."

While speaking, the Eighth Route Army attacking the Mazhuang stronghold really withdrew its troops, and the retreat was very fast, and it disappeared from Wang Ye's vision in a blink of an eye.

"Yes, that's right."

A smile broke out from the corner of Wang Ye's mouth.

Then not long after, about a team of Japanese soldiers from a detachment led about a platoon of puppet troops to retreat from the Mazhuang stronghold. The dozens of puppet troops were carrying large bags of small boxes on their backs, probably for food and ammunition. The Japanese were reluctant to throw them away, so they wanted to take them back to the Yanzigou stronghold.

It is only about five kilometers from Mazhuang stronghold to Yanzigou stronghold.

However, there are large areas of corn in the middle, and the corn has grown to half a person tall and lush.

The Japanese puppet army walked to the edge of this cornfield and was obviously hesitant, as if they were afraid of being ambushed.

But at this moment, gunshots suddenly came from the direction of the Mazhuang stronghold behind him, and the Eighth Route Army that had just disappeared suddenly came out of nowhere.

The Japanese puppet army rushed into the cornfield.

Seeing this, Wang Ye’s smile became stronger.

Although the combat effectiveness of the newly-organized battalion on the opposite side is poor, the battalion commander is an idea.

Sure enough, as soon as the seventy or eighty Japanese puppet troops reached the middle of the cornfield, hundreds of Eighth Route Army suddenly broke out of the lush corn, and then spears were stumbled around.

Less than five minutes before and after, all the Japanese puppet troops who entered the ambush circle were stabbed to death.

The Japanese puppet army at the Yanzigou stronghold was too late to rescue them. Of course, then again, the Japanese puppet army at the Yanzigou stronghold could not rescue them, because Maeda Hide had issued a strict order last night that he should not act rashly.

Therefore, the Japanese puppet army in the Yanzigou stronghold could only watch the Japanese puppet army in the Mazhuang stronghold being completely wiped out, and then the Eighth Route Army left with large bags and small boxes after cleaning the battlefield.

In the end, I was so angry that I fired a few shuttles with a heavy machine gun.

But the distance is so far, heavy machine guns are purely a waste of bullets.

It was not until this time that Wang Ye put down the telescope and said with a smile: "If I guess correctly, the first phase of the war has ended successfully, and the result should be good."

"Each brigade and regiment should have basically completed the combat mission."
To be continued...