Chapter 215

"Chief of Staff Zuo, what's wrong with the fortifications in the arsenal in the current arsenal?! Let's talk about the current progress of the defense construction of Huangya Cave." Commander Peng said to Chief Zuo.

"Okay! Staff Guo, take the area of ​​Huangya Cave." Chief of Staff Zuo shouted to a staff officer who was sorting out documents in the room next door.

"Yes!" Staff Guo responded in a daze, walked into the inner room guarded by the guards, took out two keys at the same time as the management guards, opened a thick safe, and then opened a drawer with the other key. He carefully pulled out a sealed map from it, and returned to the room where Commander Peng and Chief of Staff Zuo were aware of.

After spreading the map on the table, General Guo said: "Report to Commander Peng, Chief of Staff Zuo. At the beginning of this year, the 120th Division's secret service regiment sent people to assist the construction of fortifications in the arsenal, which had been completed one after another before the Yan'an military competition."

As if you know it, Staff Guo glanced outside the office and continued to point to the map and said: "The exact location of Huangya Cave is here. In a large natural cave on a cliff at the west end of Chiyugou 45 miles west of Licheng, the other part of the cave is connected to a hidden valley. It is the main production area of ​​Huangya Cave Arsenal. There are only two paths to exit the valley. One is connected to Wangjiayu. The terrain is dangerous and close, and it is not suitable for large numbers of people to pass. It is usually used as an emergency passage and is rarely used. At present, Wangjiayu is still in the battle between the enemy and us, but this route is still under the control of our army. The other is a kilometer-long valley, which is the main exit of the arsenal. That is, the Japanese army is mainly directed at the direction. Judging from the attack situation of multiple main forces of the Japanese army, it is expected that the enemy will use half of its troops to continuously sweep the base area to attract our main force. At the same time, multiple units of the Japanese 36th Division will take turns to attack the Huangya Cave area."

Following the narrow and long terrain of Huangya Cave indicated on the map, he used his hands to indicate the distribution of enemy troops like stings. Staff Guo continued: "This main road is not that easy to walk on. The lowest width in the valley is only 20 meters. The secret service regiment has a line of south entrance with double peaks on both sides of the natural waterfall. It has built a suspension bridge and a fortress-style defensive position, and a circular defensive position was built in front of the main arsenal. If the ammunition supply of the arsenal is coordinated, it will be enough to support the 129th Division and the 115th Division to clear the peripheral enemy troops and return to aid in time."

After many days of battle and the analysis of the Eighth Route Army General Staff, the Japanese army's combat intentions were already very obvious. Okamura Yasuji used a chain chess, and many large troops repeatedly swept the base area and made a mess, and at the same time it diverted the Eighth Route Army's attention. On the other hand, the most elite troops penetrated directly into Huangya Cave. Once the battle started, although the natural terrain of Huangya Cave was extremely conducive to defense, when the Japanese elite troops attacked Huangya Cave, other troops quickly moved closer to Huangya Cave, and several troops merged into one to form an absolute superior force. They repeatedly attacked the already tired Huangya Cave guard forces and completed the main task of destroying the Eighth Route Army arsenal. This was the real intention of Okamura Yasuji, the commander of the North China side of the Japanese army.

"Well! It seems that Okamura's multi-faceted flowering strategy has caused some trouble for our army, but the terrain of the arsenal is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It's really a loss to find this Feng Shui treasure land at the beginning." Commander Peng looked left and right at the Eighth Route Army's highest confidential map and said with satisfaction, "This battle is about will and time. Although the Japanese army has the advantage of its military strength, we will use our strategies to counter-encircle the enemy's elite forces and close the door and fight the dog, using Huang Ya's use of Huang Ya's elite forces to attack the enemy.

The advantage of the cave is to hold the enemy's elite troops and defeat the enemy attacking Huangyadong. When you look back, you have the strength to counterattack other Japanese troops! This is a dangerous move to lure the enemy into depth. The two teams responsible for closing the door of the 129th Division are not light. I hope they can resist other Japanese reinforcements. The enemy who attacked Huangyadong will be eliminated. Then cooperate with the secret service regiment to attack the enemy coming to reinforce. We must inform and do a good job in mobilizing before the war."

"A regiment's troops are here. I think it would not be so easy to take down the arsenal without ten times the strength. If it weren't for the purpose of destroying more of the Japanese and puppet troops and allowing the military and civilians in the base to spend the winter as safely as possible, I wouldn't have been willing to use such heavy bait. Lao Zuo, how is the preparations of the arsenal?! Don't steal chickens and lose rice instead." Okamura Yanji had his Zhang Liang plan, and Commander Peng also had his ladder through the wall. Commander Peng saw that the deployment was basically in place, and everything was waiting for the war to enter the pre-conceived process. He was very determined and he also relaxed the title of Chief of Staff a lot.

"The arsenal has been prepared for a long time. In addition to the heavy installation being dismantled and hiding, the production of bullets and grenades has not been stopped. It can still be supplied to various troops. Moreover, rifles can still rely on stock parts to continue assemble, basically maintaining inventory for one to two days. Even if the enemy comes to the door, they will attack the front and continue to maintain basic production." At the beginning of the third strengthening campaign by Japanese commander-in-chief Okamura Yasuji, the left chief of staff, formulated a series of wartime emergency measures to minimize the impact of the arsenal from the war.

Okamura Yaji tried every means to plot against the Huang Yadong Arsenal of the Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army was also plotting against him. He was perfectly commanding his own troops and also commanding the enemy's troops. This is the art of commanding war, which depends on who can use the ground more exquisitely and harder to see through.

"Weizi, what's wrong?! I'm sick?" The Leilong squad leader saw Li Wei's face pale and returned to the Second Battalion from the temporary headquarters of the Third Regiment.

"Damn it, I've got someone to copy my nest!" Li Wei waved his hand. The news just obtained from the regiment headquarters, the main force of the Japanese army pointed at Li Wei's old foundation, Huang Yadong Arsenal. This was the family foundation that Li Wei personally pulled up. I don't know how much effort it took to make the Japanese target, and it was a big battle. God knows how much things can be left after the war.

Thinking of the hard work at the time, various equipment that had begun to show a modern atmosphere, the ammunition assembly line that had been exhausted, as well as the hand-crafted mother and child machine tools, a precision machine tool imported from the Netherlands for a lot of money, a professional technical team brought back by Northwest Associated University, a talented manipulator, returning students and other talents, and a modern prototype gun designed by Li Wei himself. As he saw that he was about to rush toward the four modernizations of high-end and sophisticated Japan came to life and death, Li Wei's heart twitched. He himself had no confidence that he could rebuild a Huangyadong Arsenal from scratch.

"You are just saying it clearly, why did you let someone scatter your nest?! Who bullies you? Let's say it, let's get someone back to your face!" Lei Long thought that Li Wei suffered a loss elsewhere, but with Li Wei's style, either nothing happens, and it will be a big deal.

Seeing Lei Long so proactive, Li Wei couldn't help but smile and said, "Come on, we are not enough for people to eat?! More than 5,000 Japanese soldiers went to find fault with our arsenal!" It was probably not enough for the second battalion to be fired.

"What, the arsenal?!" Lei Long's face turned green. He was one of the few people who knew Li Wei's foundation. The arsenal means the lifeline of the Eighth Route Army! If someone cheated his lifeline, the anti-Japanese forces of the Eighth Route Army would at least be defeated back to the scene before the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi.

"No! I have to discuss with Battalion Commander Wu Er. Wei Zi, don't worry. Commander-in-Chief Zhu and Commander Peng will definitely protect the arsenal." Lei Long, like Li Wei, immediately became anxious. The safety of the arsenal is the same for every soldier.

"God bless, Buddha bless, God bless..." Li Wei looked at the sky with a rare expression and prayed extremely devoutly. The history of the War of Resistance is difficult to count, and he did not fully understand the fate of Huang Yadong. After all, it was an accident to come to this era.

At the same time, Li Wei’s private shares in the arsenal were also praying for him, which were the pension money accumulated by the silver dollars saved by Northwest Great and the gold bars that Zhao Lei had privately stuffed.

While Lei Long found Battalion Commander Wu Er, the orders from the Third Regiment's headquarters were issued simultaneously, and the battalions of the Third Regiment were assembled and gathered to the destination.

Considering the ambitions of the National Government to the Communist Party’s armed forces, when they made concessions for the national anti-Japanese united front and accepted the Kuomintang government’s incorporation into the Eighth Route Army, the Communist Party Central Committee was more careful. Most of the Red Army teams with elite combat effectiveness were not within the standard system of the Eighth Route Army. They mostly used inconspicuous numbers such as independent regiments, decisive columns, and guard regiments to conceal the truth and cover up the truth. What gave the Kuomintang authorities was that the regular troops of the Eighth Route Army were mediocre and did not have much harm. Therefore, they were called the Eighth Route Army. However, when encountering real battles, they quietly joined the informal main combat old Red Army troops.

Captain Naoyuki Kame, the captain of the 222nd Regiment of the 36th Division, put down his telescope and continued to order the troops to advance. A safe area had been cleared with poison gas bombs in front of him. More than a dozen harassed Chinese militias were dispelled by poison gas. The soldiers of the 222nd Regiment had not even had a good meal or had a good sleep in the past few days, but each soldier was very excited. They were not far from Huangya Cave. The Third and Fourth Brigades on the left and right wings protected the 222nd Regiment, and to completely destroy the Eighth Route Army's arsenal and spread out a battlefield that could not be harassed and rushed to the death with confidence. This was a strategy adopted to counter the guerrilla warfare that the base was best at.
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