Datong, the command center of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army, the commander of the Japanese division, Moon Kishikawa Saburo looked at the telegram sent by the communications soldier in his hand, his face was solemn and serious. The chief of staff next to him was filled with anxiety, worried that the division commander's anger would be sent to him.

Saburo Fukishikigawa handed the telegram in his hand to the Chief of Staff next to him. The Chief of Staff was shocked when he saw the content of the telegram clearly. More than an hour ago, the Ozawa Brigade sent a telegram for help. In less than two hours, more than 1,100 elite soldiers of the Imperial Army were collectively broken. The Chief of Staff suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness.

Seeing the powerless expression of the Chief of Staff, Saburo Fukishikigawa said: "It's better to order the reinforcements to return. The reinforcements have become meaningless now."

"His division commander, part of the machinery and equipment of the Taiyuan Arsenal stored in Xin'an County is probably going to fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army." The Chief of Staff reminded carefully.

"We are afraid that we can't take back these machines and equipment, but fortunately this is just a part of the equipment." After pausing, Saburo Fujikishikawa continued: "You should report the situation to Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi."

"Hi" the Chief of Staff stood attentively and lowered his head.

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In Xin'an County, the former Japanese command center was busy, and the soldiers were sorting out the mess of Japanese command center. An hour ago, the Eighth Route Army eliminated the remaining enemies. After more than an hour of fierce fighting, more than 1,100 Japanese devils in the Ozawa Brigade were wiped out, and none of them were arrested.

Just as Zhang Yunfei was commanding the soldiers, the political commissar Fang Zheng ran over excitedly, holding a list in his hand and said, "Captain, we counted out the seized materials. In this battle, we seized more than 1,000 Type 38 rifles, more than 30 crooked machine guns, more than 20 Type 92 heavy machine guns, 6 60mm slap guns, 4 Type 92 infantry guns, and a large amount of ammunition, grain, and covers. In addition, there are more than 10,000 oceans."

After listening to the report of the political commissar, Zhang Yunfei nodded with satisfaction and said, "Although we seized a large amount of supplies in this battle, the most important thing is that we have restored Xin'an County and rescued hundreds of thousands of people around us, so as to prevent them from being trampled by the Japanese."

After hearing Zhang Yunfei's words, the political commissar Fang Zheng said with admiration: "Our group is really beautiful in this battle. No, I want to report to the brigade department. No, I have to report to the headquarters for such a big victory."

Seeing the political commissar Fang Zheng walking out in a hurry, Zhang Yunfei smiled knowingly. He could fully understand the political commissar's excitement. Last year's Pingxingguan victory only killed more than 1,000 enemies. Today he wiped out a Japanese standard brigade, and he was not fighting an ambush, but head-on field battle.

After restoring Xin'an County, Zhang Yunfei prepared to establish an anti-Japanese base with Xin'an County as the center and develop and strengthen his own strength.

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At the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the deputy commander-in-chief looked at the telegram handed to him by the Deputy Chief of Staff excitedly. After carefully reading the content of the telegram, the deputy commander-in-chief also slapped his thighs with joy and said, "Okay, okay, okay, you're really doing a beautiful job."

After saying three times in a row, the Deputy Chief of Staff said: "Boss, I'm going to say that Zhang Yunfei is a general."

"Well, it's indeed a tiger general. With such a small casualty, I captured the county town guarded by the Japanese infantry brigade. From the bottom of my heart, I thought this kid was doing a pretty job." The deputy commander-in-chief sighed.

To be honest, I was very angry when I heard Zhang Yunfei attacking Xin'an County without authorization. At that time, I was angry mainly because I was afraid that the troops would suffer too much casualties. It was not easy to build a unit under such difficult conditions, especially Zhang Yunfei's troops had many old Red Army soldiers, which were precious wealth and resources of the entire army. If Zhang Yunfei was really exhausted, he would definitely punish Zhang Yunfei well.

But now, Zhang Yunfei can be said to have made great contributions, and it is a bit unreasonable to punish him. Finally, the deputy commander-in-chief and the deputy chief of staff discussed and agreed to the counterattack of Zhang Yunfei's merits and demerits and no longer commended him.

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In the next few days, Zhang Yunfei moved the regiment command center to Xin'an County, which will be the command and military center of the 719th Regiment for a long time.

Although Xin'an County is not very superior in military geographical location, it is backed by the Taihang Mountains. To the east are the vast Taihang Mountains, to the west are plains and hills, and surrounded by vast rural areas. It has developed well and can establish a large area of ​​bases.

The vast surrounding rural areas will be the natural barrier of Xin'an County. As long as the masses are fully mobilized, each village will establish militia forces. These militias are farmers during busy farming, and they are soldiers during slack farming. They can conduct a series of military training. The 719th Regiment can issue them the most basic weapons, such as rifles, pistols, grenades, etc., and they will also have a certain resistance when encountering small groups of Japanese raids.

These militia armed forces are all local villagers and are very familiar with the terrain of their village. If they really encounter small groups of Japanese soldiers, they can rely on powerful terrain to fight guerrilla warfare with Japanese soldiers. If they encounter a large number of Japanese soldiers, they can help divert the masses and notify regular troops.

There are estimated to be hundreds of villages within a radius of hundreds of miles of Xin'an County. If each village really has a militia team of more than ten to dozens of people, this will be an armed force that cannot be ignored.

Zhang Yunfei specially selected 300 experienced veteran soldiers from the army, formed 100 working groups, entered various nearby villages, mobilized, mobilized the masses, helped train militias, resisted the Japanese, and defended the country.

At the same time, we also carried out propaganda work on recruiting soldiers, but Zhang Yunfei had conditions to restrict recruitment this time, only recruiting brothers or those who had broken up and had deep hatred with the Japanese.

In the past few months since the Japanese invaded Shanxi, they have burned, killed and looted everywhere. Many ordinary people have lost their relatives, and some even have their families destroyed. The work of the working group has been carried out smoothly, and militia organizations have begun to be established in various villages.

After seeing off the working group, Zhang Yunfei did two more major things.

The first major event was to mobilize and organize the masses to build a large military camp in the western suburbs of Xin'an County. According to Zhang Yunfei's design, the entire military camp can accommodate 5,000 people after completion.

The second major event was to choose a relatively flat valley in the depths of Taihang Mountains dozens of miles east of Xin'an County. The local people called Huanglong Gorge. Zhang Yunfei planned to build an industrial zone here. This valley was also finalized after several days of investigation.

This valley is relatively narrow and long, with a length of dozens of miles, and it runs east and west. It is surrounded by mountains and ridges on both sides. At the bottom is a flat open land, and there is a small river in the middle.

Huanglong Gorge has a dangerous terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as you build a solid bunker at the entrances of both ends of the canyon, it will be a pass and ten thousand people will not open, and the safety of the entire industrial area will be well guaranteed.

In order to keep it secret, Zhang Yunfei sent more than a thousand Eighth Route Army soldiers here and began to secretly build an industrial base. According to Zhang Yunfei's plan, the first thing to build was the arsenal. The entire arsenal was ready to be built in the belly of the mountain, and a large mountain on one side was dug into several large caves. The equipment of the Taiyuan Arsenal seized last time was planned to be placed there.

The equipment of the Taiyuan Arsenal has been cleaned and arrived in Huanglong Gorge. This batch of equipment mainly includes a set of small thermal power generator sets, gunpowder production lines, bullet and shell production lines, gun production lines, small-caliber artillery production lines, and some common equipment such as lathes, drilling machines, milling machines. Zhang Yunfei's dream of the heavy artillery production line did not have, but it may have been transported back to Shenyang, Northeast China by the Japanese.

These days, Zhang Yunfei has been very busy and feels more tired than fighting. He has to do a lot of things himself. From the deputy commander and political commissar to the platoon leaders of each company, he is a good player in asking them to lead troops to fight, but it is really difficult for them to do construction and management.

Fortunately, Zhang Yunfei studied in the mechanical department in his undergraduate degree in college and could basically draw various engineering drawings. So in the past few days, Zhang Yunfei has planned and drawn industrial zones at night, and guided the soldiers to build industrial zones during the day.

Now, Zhang Yunfei realized the importance of talents. The construction of industrial zones requires professional talents. After the construction of industrial zones is completed, talents are needed even more. In the future, weapons production and R&D involve professional things, and it is not something that can be done by simply recruiting a few mud-legged farmers.

Fortunately, at the beginning of the construction of the industrial zone, Zhang Yunfei sent the special forces team to Taiyuan to find the engineers and technical workers of the Taiyuan Arsenal in the past. Zhang Yunfei asked the special forces members to discover these engineers and technical workers, and to find ways to convince them to come to the Xin'an County base. After all, it was also an anti-Japanese war for the Eighth Route Army and also to contribute to the anti-Japanese war.


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