This time, Li Guotao led the Eighth Route Army to successfully capture the county seat of Dingzhou and Dingzhou Station, and seized a large amount of military supplies.In order to carry these materials and retreat as soon as possible, Li Guotao even used the puppet soldiers who had just been captured, and let them act as porters to assist the Eighth Route Army in carrying the captured materials together.Cai Tianyi's Imperial Allied Army was independently mixed into the Second Brigade, with a total of more than 3,000 people, and in the previous battle, only three or four hundred people were killed, and the remaining nearly 3,000 people were all taken prisoner by the Eighth Route Army.With the addition of nearly 10,000 troops of the Eighth Route Army, there were more than 12,000 people in total, and although there were many materials captured, there were many people and great strength, and with the concerted efforts of everyone, all the booty was successfully moved out of Dingzhou County and the station before dawn, and transported back to the base area by several routes.At dawn, Li Guotao returned to Dingzhou Station with the last group of troops retreating from Dingzhou County.When Changde heard that Li Guotao was back, he hurriedly greeted him, and when he saw Li Guotao, he frowned and said: "We have destroyed the railway near Dingzhou Station, and some important facilities in the station have also been planted with explosives, and when we retreat, we can blow up all these facilities at any time."
It's just that the time was a bit rushed, most of the soldiers were busy carrying the booty, and we only destroyed a few kilometers of nearby railroads. ”Li Guotao nodded and said: "It doesn't matter, anyway, our main purpose this time is for weapons and equipment, and now the purpose has been achieved, as for the railway, you can destroy as much as you can, right, where are the little devil's reinforcements." ”Chang De frowned and said with a serious face: "According to the latest information we have obtained, the Japanese army in the direction of Shimen has sent more than 1,000 people, including two squadrons only ten miles away from the station, but this little devil is very cautious, did not rush directly to Dingzhou Station, but stopped, just sent people to monitor the movement of our army, should be waiting for the arrival of the follow-up troops."
As for the direction of Baoding in the north, the Japanese army also sent reinforcements, the specific strength is unknown, and it is about an hour away from Dingzhou Station. ”Li Guotao nodded and said: "In this way, we still have an hour, which is enough to notify all troops immediately, immediately retreat back to the base area, and if the little devils dare to chase after them, they will take the opportunity to destroy them." ”"Yes" Chang De responded respectfully, turned around and went to convey the order.To Li Guotao's surprise, the little devil seemed to have become more cautious, after the retreat of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army only reoccupied the Dingzhou station and the county seat, and did not continue the pursuit.In fact, it is no wonder that the devil reinforcements from the north and south add up to only more than 2,000 people.Although the Japanese army later mobilized more than 3,000 puppet troops to rush to support, these puppet troops were demoralized and moved slowly, and they were never able to reach the predetermined position at the specified time.The Japanese army did not dare to pursue rashly because of the lack of troops, which made the Eighth Route Army retreat to the base area proudly and safely.Although the Japanese army had sent planes to bomb, the various units of the Eighth Route Army were scattered and transferred, and the number of troops was small, the targets were small, and they also had a certain amount of precautions in advance, so the bombing by the devil's planes failed to cause too much damage to our army.After returning safely to the base area, Li Guotao distributed most of the captured trophies to the Fourth Independent Brigade according to the previous plan, which significantly improved the strength of the Fourth Independent Brigade.Two days later, Commander Lu suddenly came to Anguo, as soon as he saw Li Guotao, Commander Lu said with a smile: "I knew that you kid, you don't want to be idle for a day, you even carried me to mobilize the army to fight Dingzhou, your kid's courage is getting bigger and bigger" "Hehe" Li Guotao said with a smile: "No matter how bold I am, I can still be bigger than the commander." ”"You don't give me a sloppy eye, fortunately there is not much loss of the troops this time, otherwise I will definitely not spare you."
Commander Lu said with a straight face."
Commander, drink saliva to dissipate your anger," Li Guotao put a glass of water in front of Commander Lu with a smile on his face, and said with a smile: "Didn't you say before, Commander, let me reorganize the troops of our four divisions to further improve the combat effectiveness of the troops."
As you know, our soldiers are all good, and the biggest shortcoming of our Eighth Route Army is that its equipment is poor, so the best way to improve its combat effectiveness is to improve the equipment of the troops.Not long ago, Cai Tianyi's puppet army of a brigade was stationed in Dingzhou, and this is the equipment of a brigade that was sent on its own initiative, do you say we don't want it" Commander Lu glanced at Li Guotao, took a sip of water from his cup, and then waved his hand and said: "Okay, let's not mention this matter first."
I'm here for business. ”As soon as he heard this, Li Guotao immediately became serious, and hurriedly asked, "I don't know what Commander Lu said, do you have an important task to be entrusted to us?"
”"There is indeed an important mission, but it is not a combat mission."
Commander Lu said with a smile."
What kind of mission is that?"
Changde was inevitably a little disappointed when he heard that it was not a combat mission.Commander Lu did not directly answer Changde's words, but stood up directly, took out a piece of paper from his pocket, and spread it with a solemn face.Li Guotao, Chang De and the others, knowing that this was an important order, all of them fought straight, looked at Commander Lu with a serious face, and couldn't help but show a trace of excitement on their faces.Commander Lu cleared his throat and read solemnly: "Order: The independent Fourth Brigade and the two independent Seventh Brigade units of the Jizhong Military Region of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region are reorganized into the Seventh Column of the Eighteenth Group Army, and Li Guotao is hereby appointed as the commander of the Seventh Column and temporarily acting as the political commissar.This order was ordered by Zhu Zhu, commander-in-chief of the 18th Group Army.September 20, 28th year of the Republic of China. ”After Commander Lu finished reading, he solemnly handed the order in his hand to Li Guotao, but Li Guotao was a little stunned, at this time Chang De took the order over, and said excitedly: "This is an order signed by the commander-in-chief himself" Li Yongfu next to him also leaned over excitedly.Only then did Li Guotao react, looked at Commander Lu and asked, "This is the end" "Yes, this is the end, what else do you want" Commander Lu asked with a puzzled expression."
This order was sent by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, but it only said that our two brigades should be reorganized into the seventh column, but it did not say what our specific tasks were, I think the headquarters could not reorganize us into the seventh column for no reason," Li Guotao asked with a frown.aa2705221: