Huang Haohai was in a dilemma, and Jinshan Masahiko was also in a dilemma at this time.

Masahiko Jinshan always believed that the Fifth Company he was chasing was the main force of the Eighth Route Army. He believed that the Eighth Route Army was forced to have no choice but to flee out of the mountainous area. The pursuer was quite happy.

But the more they chased, the more uncomfortable they became, and by the time they realized that the number of the Eighth Route Army they were chasing was wrong, it was already too late. It was like losing the watermelon and picking up the sesame seeds.

At this time, if we give up on the eight-legged group in front, we will probably lose even the sesame seeds, so we have no choice but to pursue it. However, it is not easy to catch up with a small group of eight-legged troops who are lightly armed and simple. They are half exhausted and cannot catch up.

Yes, this is very embarrassing.

What is even more depressing is that the Japanese and puppet troops in the south have been mobilized. They can only hold on to their strongholds, and there are no troops at all to cooperate with him to block this eight routes.

Therefore, it was also difficult for him to pick up this sesame seed. Now Masahiko Kanayama could only pursue it head-on. There was no other way. However, this Eighth Route Army fled into Qingyuan and was supported by the local Eighth Route Army. Masahiko Kanayama's attempt to annihilate the Fifth Company was completely ruined.

During this mopping-up operation, Masahiko Kanayama spent all his time wandering around in the mountains and made almost no achievements. What's more, his main task was to go north to participate in the front's autumn and winter offensive. He was lucky, but now he came back. This is a bit nonsense.

When it was reported in the mountains that the puppet troops were defeated and hundreds of imperial troops were shattered, the upper-level Japs could no longer tolerate his incompetence and were immediately dismissed from their posts and investigated.

However, this Japanese army changed its commander and no longer took care of the fifth company that had escaped. They marched directly eastward in Qingyuan, then transferred to the Ping-Han Line and headed north, forming part of the mopping up force in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region.

The Japanese went up to the peak and ordered the Japanese and puppet troops in Jianyang and Xincheng to strengthen the blockade of the mountainous area. Since they could not completely wipe out the Eighth Route Army, they would completely trap them in the mountainous area.

Although Zhang Yunfei was a little surprised when he received the intelligence that the Japanese and puppet troops would no longer invade, he didn't think much about it. The Japanese and puppet troops carried out sweeps from time to time, and there were many stoppages in sweeps, so it was not surprising.

When Huang Haohai received the order from his superiors, he almost cried with joy. It was too difficult for him. If he went to fight the Eighth Route Army, he would probably never come back. But if he delayed going, he would probably anger Taijun. That was no joke.

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It is really possible that the Taijun was disarmed. Although the Taijun does not have many soldiers now, dogs are dogs. Even if they are stronger, they will not dare to really resist their masters.

You can't fall out with Taijun, and you can't just stand up to him. It's really difficult for him. The Eighth Route Army in front of you is obviously not a soft persimmon.

If this goes on and he fights against the Eighth Route Army, his troops will really be wiped out. These days, without his troops, he is nothing.

But now he only has dozens of Taijuns here, but he doesn't have the courage to fall out with the Taijun. A middle- and upper-class traitor like him more or less has a grudge against the Eighth Route Army, at least it is impossible for him to defect to the Eighth Route Army.

As for the Central Army, if he can survive there, there is no need to defect to the Japanese. After all, even if he wants to surrender to them, he still needs to find someone.

Now that Shangfeng has a new order, he finally doesn't have to be in trouble here. Most of the responsibility for this battle has been shouldered by Jinshan Taijun, but Taijun was too lazy to take care of their failure.

The Japanese didn't care much about the life and death of the puppet troops, so Huang Haohai and other puppet troops did not receive any reprimand and happily retreated after receiving the order.

Although the Japanese and puppet troops retreated, Zhang Yunfei's New Ninth Regiment was still in a state of disgrace. Each unit suffered some casualties, especially Tiedan's first company, which was already disabled, not counting the logistics personnel of the regiment, as well as the fourth company and other units outside.

The fifth company currently has less than 500 combat personnel, so the reduction in personnel is still relatively heavy.

Fortunately, Li Ergou tricked hundreds of puppet troops, otherwise their manpower would have been even tighter.

Although the Japanese and puppet troops have retreated now, they have not relaxed the blockade of the main roads out of the mountains. The coming winter will not be easy for them.

Moreover, Zhang Yunfei had to consider the development of the New Ninth Regiment. The Fifth Company took advantage of the enemy's lack of troops and ran to the Qingyuan area. Now that the enemy has returned to the defense and strengthened the blockade, it will be difficult for them to come back.

Now that both the Fourth Company and the Fifth Company have gone to the Qingyuan area, they are a bit far away from their regiment headquarters, and their contact with each other is not very close.

Maybe he is going to lose these two companies. After all, his New Ninth Regiment cannot control such a large area. With the consistent style of the Eighth Route Army, the superiors will probably require these two companies as the backbone to form a new army.

So sooner or later they will be separated from the New Ninth Regiment.

Of course, this is not something to be considered at the moment. Even if they are not divided, in fact they are beyond their reach. They are also carrying out guerrilla warfare independently, and they can no longer be commanded in a unified manner.

This is the harm of the Japanese prison policy. Now each base area is gradually encroached by the Japanese and puppet troops and divided into small pieces that cannot be connected.

Many units of the Eighth Route Army, like his New Ninth Regiment, had to be divided into small groups to operate in narrow base areas.

No matter how difficult life is, life must go on. Zhang Yunfei gathered the political commissar and others, and the headquarters of the New Ninth Regiment moved to the Changyu area.

The reason why the regiment headquarters chose such an area was not because Zhang Yunfei wanted to play the trick of the emperor guarding the country.

It's because the group of people in the regiment are under too much pressure living in the mountains, and it's very inconvenient to supply all kinds of daily necessities and transportation.

Therefore, we can only choose Changyu, a shallow mountainous area with relatively convenient transportation, as the base. Of course, another point is to better control Xincheng, the place where the New Ninth Regiment was founded.

Now that the fifth company originally stationed here has escaped, it can only be defended by Li Ergou's sixth company. Now the sixth company has joined hundreds of puppet troops, with a strength of more than 250 people.

Although there were more people, joining so many puppet troops also made them very unreliable, requiring the regiment headquarters to sit in and help them control the situation.

Li Ergou was able to deceive, and he deceived the puppet army. Except for Tiedan, who picked a dozen people, Zhang Yunfei threw the others to Li Ergou, letting him continue to deceive.

Although these puppet troops have a certain military foundation, they are used to being free and loose. Mixing them into other troops will only seriously reduce the combat effectiveness of the troops.

The situation in the base area is still grim now, and the troops are in a state of combat readiness at any time. Zhang Yunfei would rather they recruit new soldiers and slowly strengthen them, rather than add these puppet troops to them and ruin the morale of the entire army.

As for the First Company, they are in urgent need of reinforcements, and many of these puppet troops are Xiangyuan people, which is very beneficial for the First Company to develop towards Xiangyuan.

However, Zhang Yunfei also controlled the number of replenishments and only asked Tiedan to pick more than ten people. Now the soldiers of Yilian are almost the same as Tiedan. They are all killing embryos. It is still easy to suppress these more than ten puppet troops. This ratio will not affect the atmosphere of Yilian.
Chapter completed!