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Chapter 707: The storm is coming

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    Xiong'er Mountain in southwest Shandong!

    It is said that the day after the Battle of Xiong'er Mountain, Li Guoyao held a battle summary meeting at Wawa Mountain!

    At the meeting, Li Guoyao first reported the results of this battle. According to statistics, the Shandong Guerrilla Corps annihilated more than 8,400 Japanese and puppet troops in this battle. In addition, they caused at least 2,000 minor and serious casualties to the Japs, and 10,000 soldiers who invaded the Xiong'er Mountain base area.  Of the more than 2,000 Japanese troops, only the more than 2,000 people under Shinozuka Kunigoro's command were withdrawn intact.

    In this battle, the Shandong Guerrilla Corps also captured more than 4,000 long and short guns, more than 100 light and heavy machine guns, more than 30 various artillery pieces, and more than 400 horses and a small amount of ammunition.

    The Shandong Guerrilla Corps also suffered many casualties. In this battle, 825 people were directly killed, more than 1,108 were seriously injured, and 1,721 were slightly injured. The total casualties were more than 3,700, accounting for almost 40% of the soldiers of the Shandong Guerrilla Corps.

    Fortunately, the absolute losses were not large, and most of the lightly and seriously injured people could recover and return to work after treatment.

    However, because the Japs directly hit the hinterland of Xiong'er Mountain this time, they caused huge losses to the newly established Xiong'er Mountain base area. First, more than 80 villages suffered a devastating blow from the Japanese army, and many villages were killed by the Japs.  The fire burned to the ground.

    After the Japs evacuated, the people returned home and found that all they had left was ruins. This had a huge blow to the people's anti-Japanese enthusiasm and also affected the reputation of the army.

    Li Guoyao immediately sent a propaganda team to go deep into villages and towns to publicize the achievements of this battle. At the same time, he ordered the troops to carry out vigilance with a small number of troops, and the rest of the troops, in squadron units, went deep into the disaster-stricken villages in the base area to help the people build houses and resume production.

    In addition, more than 50 injured war horses captured by the troops were distributed to various villages to help them with spring plowing!

    Because these war horses were injured, it would be difficult for them to fight on the battlefield again even after they recovered, but it was possible to use them to cultivate the land. Li Guoyao's doing so was considered waste utilization, otherwise these war horses would only end up as food.

    Li Guoyao knew the importance of propaganda. The troops led by Yan'an were able to spread to every corner of North and Central China in just a few years. A large part of the reason was that they were good at propaganda.

    In view of this, after the troops arrived in Shandong, Li Guoyao established the propaganda department of the Shandong Guerrilla Corps.

    Although there are not many people in this propaganda department, only fifty or sixty at full strength, all of them are elites drawn from the army. The team members are not only literate, but also have special skills. Most of them are students from Jinling Women's College.

    With the visits and publicity of the propaganda department, the people in the entire Xiong'er Mountain area soon knew the process and final results of the Japanese army's encirclement and suppression of Xiong'er Mountain.

    "After learning that the famous General Li was fighting guerrillas in Xiong'er Mountain, the attitude of the people in the mountainous area towards the Shandong Guerrilla Corps changed dramatically.

    In addition, the army almost completely wiped out the invading enemies, which strengthened the people's confidence in resisting Japan. In just a few days, the Shandong Guerrilla Corps' forces spread throughout 6 towns, 3 townships and 148 villages in the Xiong'er Mountain Area.

    Although the population of the entire mountainous area is not very large, less than 50,000 people in total, the area controlled is not small. From Zaozhuang to Lanling to Shanting in the northwest, there are troops of the Shandong Guerrilla Corps active.

    Of course, as the name of the Shandong Guerrilla Corps and Li Guoyao spread in the Xiong'er Mountain Area, a large number of young and middle-aged people who had hatred for the Japs actively joined the army. For a time, the number of soldiers under Li Guoyao increased rapidly.

    After several successive battles, the number of soldiers under Li Guoyao had dropped to about 8,000. However, with the addition of these new soldiers, and the thousands of miners rescued from outside Zaozhuang, they also joined the army, and soon the Shandong guerrillas  The total strength of the regiment exceeded 13,000 men.

    Although it is not comparable to the 61st Army at its peak, with more than 10,000 troops, it can be regarded as having the power to protect itself.

    But it is not an easy task to feed more than 13,000 troops in this barren mountainous area. Although the Shandong Guerrilla Corps has successively captured Zaozhuang and Weishan and other places, and also seized a lot of strategic materials such as grain.

    However, after all, there are not many local troops stationed there, and it is impossible for the little devils to hoard too much food in these places, so Huang Shang soon warned Li Guoyao that the troops did not have much food and could only hold on for two months at most.  .

    In view of this, Li Guoyao immediately ordered the troops to take the initiative. In addition to leaving two new recruit brigades to train at Xiong'er Mountain and to guard against the Japanese troops, the remaining six main infantry brigades were dispersed.

    This battle is not clearAnyway, the targets are Zaozhuang, Weishan, Yixian, Xuecheng, Peixian, Fengxian, Caoxian and Lanling. The Japanese and puppet troops as well as bandit gangsters, evil gentry and local tyrants, traitor maintenance associations, etc. are all here.  It was the target of Li Guoyao's attack.

    The main goal of this operation is not only to seize food and attack the enemy, but more importantly, to complete the strategic layout of southwest Shandong.

    At present, the troops are still too concentrated. Except for some troops left on Weishan Island, the remaining troops are in the Xiong'er Mountain area.

    "But with the extremely barren land and tens of thousands of people in the Xiong'er Mountain Area, it is simply impossible to feed an army of more than 10,000 people. After all, it takes five ordinary people to feed one soldier, which is obviously impossible.

    Therefore, if the army wants to develop, it must disperse its activities. Only in this way can the army have enough money and food to survive!

    After research and decision by the guerrilla headquarters, the headquarters and the two recruit brigades plus half of the technical troops will continue to stay in the Xiong'er Mountain area. The first column and the first column will go to Shanting Weishan to develop on the front line, the second column will go to Tengxian to develop, and the third column will cross Weishan.  The lake goes to Yutai, and the development in the area is surprising.

    The Second Column and Four Brigades went to Lanling, the Fifth Brigade went to Yixian to develop, and the Sixth Brigade took Taierzhuang as the center to penetrate into Xuzhou and other places.

    In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of these main forces, Li Guoyao assigned nearly 2,600 technical troops from the cavalry brigade, artillery brigade, engineering brigade, and fire support brigade as well as a large amount of heavy equipment to these six brigade.

    Following Li Guoyao's order, nearly nine thousand main troops of the Shandong Guerrilla Corps marched like tigers down the mountain towards various counties in southwestern Shandong. A huge guerrilla storm broke out in southwestern Shandong.

    The first to exchange fire with the Japanese army was the First Column and the First Brigade. This unit entered the outskirts of Shanting County under the personal command of Zhang Tengjiao, and then the troops entered the battle.

    After a week of bloody battles, they not only repelled the counterattack of the Shinozuka Regiment, but also destroyed four small and medium-sized Japanese strongholds, destroyed a large number of railways, highways, bridges, wires, etc., and destroyed the road from Shanting to Zaozhuang.  The road was not open to traffic until half a month later.

    Then several other troops launched attacks on the Japanese and puppet troops. They blew up the iron ore and gold mines controlled by the Japanese, dug up roads, blew up bridges, and intercepted trains. They caused serious damage to the Japanese garrison in southwest Shandong and Japanese-owned enterprises.  blow.

    The Second Column and the First Brigade even instigated an uprising by a regiment of the Japanese Lanling Puppet Army. Although the regiment only had 300 troops, the uprising did not cause much damage to the Japanese army. They only lost two small gun towers and three people died.  More than a dozen Japanese soldiers.

    But the impact of this uprising was not small. It greatly shocked the Japanese army in Shandong and caused the Japanese army's trust in the puppet army to drop again. The relationship between the two parties also dropped to the extreme.

    In view of this, the Japanese 12th Army Headquarters immediately urged the Zaozhuang garrison to find out the details of Li Guoyao's troops as soon as possible, formulate a counterattack plan, and wipe out this hateful Chinese army.

    For a time, the situation in the entire southwest of Shandong was turbulent, layer upon layer, and it felt like a storm was about to come!

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