As soon as the chief of staff was about to leave, political commissar Huang Yuanqiang rushed in with a frown.

"Captain, there is a situation!"

"The reconnaissance company staring at the Japanese devils just sent a telegram. Early this morning, the Japanese cavalry set out and used cavalry squads as units to attack the surrounding villages!"

Wang Ping’s information doesn’t matter, answered: “Didn’t the people around him evacuated? If they are willing to kill them, they will kill them. Nothing?”

Huang Yuanqiang shook his head and replied: "But the key to the problem is that the Japanese cavalry attacked were not to catch people, they went to burn the houses. In just a few hours, all the villages and towns within a radius of 20 kilometers around their base were burned completely by them, and they basically set fire when they saw the house!"

"The Japanese are forcing us to take action!" Wang Ping immediately reacted, and his face became solemn.

Huang Yuanqiang asked anxiously: "We must find a way to solve this problem. According to the Japanese's current speed of burning houses, hundreds of thousands of people in the entire base will be homeless in less than a few days. At that time, even if the Xinyituan family's assets are sent out, it will not be able to calm the people's dissatisfaction with us!"

"More importantly, if there is no house and the people don't even have a place to live, they may be frozen to death, and then our Eighth Route Army will have great responsibility!"

Wang Ping's face became more and more serious, staring at Huang Yuanqiang and asked, "You just said that only the Japanese cavalry troops went out to burn the house, and they were operated in straits?"

"That's right, maybe it's because I rushed all night last night, and more than 300 Japanese cavalrymen were divided into ten routes. They only went out for less than four hours. After burning the house, they retreated and never came out again!"

"The military camp is still the same as a few days ago, and the plane escorted in the sky has never stopped..."

Wang Ping immediately made a decision: "Since the Japanese want to use this method to force our new group out, then we will go out and take the trick!"

"Isn't that fooled the Japanese?" Huang Yuanqiang asked with disbelief.

"There are Japanese planes in the sky, and the troops rushed out rashly. Wouldn't they use them as live targets?"

"The Japanese also want to be killed by shooting!" Wang Ping answered confidently.

Then he explained to Huang Yuanqiang: "Political Commissar, I plan to keep Yan Song and the troops in the hands of the army. You will command the unit, use guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare to hold the Japanese in the base area!"

"I will take other troops and directly attack Linfen City!"

"Yan Song and the Eng-English Army are all old troops, and veterans account for most of them, so they can completely disperse their combat!"

"Concentrate the four light machine guns and four submachine guns of each infantry company, plus pistols and several rifles, form an operation team, ambush the village where the Japanese cavalry team is about to kill, and kill them!"

"Because there are very few people in every operation team, even if the Japanese devils see them, they will treat them as guerrillas and ignore them!"

"Also, even if their cavalry team is attacked, the planes in the sky want to reinforce, and they will not be able to reinforce because the scale of the battle is too small!"

"After all, the ammunition that the Japanese plane can carry is very limited every time, and it is impossible to drop bombs when you see a few Eighth Route Army. If that's true, no matter how thick the Japanese's family is, it will not withstand consumption!"

Seeing the political commissar nodding thoughtfully, Wang Ping continued: "After fighting the cavalry, the Japanese will definitely restrain themselves a lot. However, our sneak attack still cannot be stopped!"

"The Japanese now use guerrilla warfare to attack us. But they forgot that our Eighth Route Army is the originator of guerrilla warfare, and they learned at most a superficial level!"

"From now on, left-behind troops can no longer be so passive."

"At night, because they didn't know where the next target of the Japanese was, they could only divide their troops and cast nets everywhere. In the end, only a small number of troops could participate in the battle. But it was different during the day, so they stopped at their base to rest!"

"We have been worried about the Japanese plane before. In my opinion, the Japanese plane is not as terrible as we imagined!"

"As long as our troops are scattered enough and don't stay at one point for a long time, no matter how powerful the aircraft is, it will not do anything to us!"

"We can split the artillery, without a mortar as an artillery team, just hide around the Japanese station and shell their station!"

"Ordinary infantry can also be dispersed, directly attacking them in infantry squads..."

Xiangyan Village outside Linfen City has officially become the command center of Hong Ruijun.

Early in the morning, the three company commanders arrived here. Seeing the smiles on their faces, Hong Ruijun knew that they came for the spoils of the regiment headquarters without guessing.

Just as he was about to issue an order to divide the light and heavy weapons, the arrival of a telegram directly interrupted his plan.

"Comrades, the regiment headquarters ordered that more than 2,000 Japanese and puppet troops came to Linfen City, intending to take revenge on us and eliminate us in the bud. The regiment commander asked us to hold these Japanese and puppet troops at all costs. If possible, kill them directly!" Hong Ruijun raised the telegram in his hand and said with a wry smile.

"So fast!" No one expected that the Japanese's revenge would come so quickly and violently, and the smiles that covered everyone's faces disappeared in an instant.

The first company commander frowned and reminded: "Battery Commander, this battle is not easy to fight... Although my first company added 100 puppet army prisoners and more than 300 guerrillas yesterday, there were too few veterans. There were less than 80 of them, and it was OK to deal with the puppet army. It would be difficult to deal with the real Japanese main force, and it would be difficult to fight a single infantry squadron head-on!"

The second company commander followed and said, "I'm in trouble. There are more than 500 people before the war, but now there are less than 400 people left. Although the combat power is pretty good, there are not many ammunitions. In addition, there are too few light and heavy machine guns, and there are not a single heavy machine gun!"

Soon, Hong Ruijun understood his family's background.

Although the three battalions have more than 1,500 people in total, there are too many problems. The most important problem is that the troops have just been formed and have not been trained yet.

Half a month, as long as I give myself half a month to train the troops, more than two thousand Japanese and puppet troops came over, Hong Ruijun was definitely not so worried.

Just as he frowned and thought about the solution, a very unfamiliar voice suddenly sounded at the door!

"Captain Hong, you can't forget me when you fight the Japanese!" Zhou Liang, who was the commander of the Imperial Army, came uninvited two days ago, and said with a smile on his face.

Then he saluted Hong Ruijun and reported: "Captain Hong, I request to lead the troops to participate in the battle!"

"I have nearly 500 people here, all of which are provided by the Japanese, and I trained them with weapons and ammunition. Even if the combat effectiveness is not as good as the main force, it is not much worse! As long as I strengthen some mortars and heavy machine guns, and resist the Japanese, a strengthening squadron, there is no problem at all!"

"It's just right!" Hong Ruijun's frown suddenly unfolded!

"Captain Zhou, as soon as you come, the big problem in my mind will be solved... You must participate in this battle, and you must also play the main attack!"
Chapter completed!