The firepower on the opposite side suddenly increased, and the shells had already posed a threat to the artillery positions, especially the two detour squads had no news, which made the enemy, who had been in an offensive posture, understand something, and began to gather the position, form a defensive position, and generate a power to Matsushima for instructions.

Songdao was still shocked by being able to solve the left-wing troops in such a short time, although there were only more than 300 imperial troops on the left-wing troops. He had to make a new evaluation and weigh the enemy's firepower and enemy's troops.

"When we first swept Yongcheng, a regular regiment of the Third Army participated in the battle, but the intelligence was not understood by us, so it was defeated by the enemy." Miyamoto's old story was re-reported, as if it was a reminder, "Previously, the intelligence showed that a regiment of the northern Anhui troops of the 21st Army went to aid. The enemy could also be deployed from eastern Henan, and the total force should be stronger than our army."

Songdo narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, and said, "Working at night, the enemy's troops and movements are difficult to reconnaise, and the terrain is not good. It is better to shrink for the time being, maintain contact with the enemy, and wait for dawn to launch an offensive."

"It will be dawn soon." Miyamoto agreed, but he was not without any worries, thinking: The enemy would have expected this, right? But before there was no better way, he shut his mouth.

As expected, just as Miyamoto thought, artillery fire increased and troops increased. After forcing the enemy to retreat to defend, the third column began to break off contact and retreated in batches in the dark night.

Eat one, pick up one, and watch one.

Yang Tianfeng knew that such a tactic was not unwilling to use it. However, the lakes and slush in this area were a lot of slush, which hindered the Japanese's large-scale development and also affected the Third Column. If you continue to force the attack, it would not only be difficult to eat these nearly two thousand enemies, but also may be subject to the backlash of the enemy with the cooperation of the plane.

You can't be too greedy. Although there is a possibility of eliminating the remaining enemies, Yang Tianfeng does not want to take risks. If he fails to annihilate the enemy, he breaks his teeth, or wins at a cost of great losses, this is not what he hopes. Once the troops suffer major losses, especially the war damage from the backbone forces, the Third Column will not be able to recover its vitality for a long time.

Yang Tianfeng's current method of expanding the army is to make small losses and big supplements. As the backbone, middle and lower-level officers and veterans can quickly train the supplementary recruits.

Fight firmly and fiercely, striving to achieve the strongest level in terms of military strength and firepower; retreat decisively and quickly, hiding under the nine grounds.

When it was dawn, the Japanese reconnaissance plane came and repeatedly reconnaissed, but could no longer find the established Chinese army.

"Those who are good at guard hide under the nine earths, and those who are good at attacking move above the nine heavens, so they can protect themselves and win completely." Songdao threw the reconnaissance information aside in dejectedly, "But I know that the enemy is not far from us, and they are still peeking like hungry wolves, looking for opportunities to attack us."

Yang Tianfeng! I know you are nearby, I just know. Miyamoto looked at the field without any figures, as if he hoped that Yang Tianfeng would suddenly appear.

Songdao led the remaining troops to no longer divide their troops, but continued to retreat along a traditional way, such as a front, central army, and rear guard.

Along the way of retreating, the enemy was undoubtedly attacked by landmines, cold guns and cold artillery, especially at night, the Third Column sent a small group of troops to harass and attack.

When we retreated to Xiaoxian and counted the troops, the once mighty sweep army was left with only more than 1,500 tired soldiers, and more than half of them were lost.

Except for the 1,800 people who were completely wiped out, the remaining combat losses increased sporadically every day, and finally turned into a surprisingly large number.

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While the enemy retreated, Yang Tianfeng also wanted to fight another annihilation battle, but the enemy gathered all the way, retreating cautiously and preventing tightly, which made him feel that there was no good opportunity.

The Japanese learned to be smart, which was Yang Tianfeng's first impression. Learning about war in war is not the patent of China's × army.

The anti-sweeping is the end of victory, but this is only temporary. Both sides are on the surface, but just like the rest time of a boxing match, the two opponents are staring at each other, replenishing their physical strength, and trying to knock down their opponents in the next round.

To repair houses, build houses, resettle people, and help spring plow and plant spring, the Third Column has drawn many troops to sweat and work hard to rebuild the home.

The Chinese people are simple and the most patient. The Japanese storm was smashed and the personnel were basically not damaged, which was the greatest comfort. Moreover, the army also sent people to help rebuild, which was an unimaginable change.

In addition, the military discipline of the Third Column has always been valued by Yang Tianfeng, so a special military police team has been established for this reason. These military policemen with red armbands are loyal to their duties and basically eliminate the behavior of disturbing and harming the people.

What touched the people the most was the suffering inspiration group. Some people who had suffered in the occupied areas told stories from villages and villages, telling the cruelty and violence of the Japanese devils, and telling the suffering lives of the people in the occupied areas under the oppression of the devils. All kinds of miserable stories, separation of wives and children, and the destruction of family members in plain and unpretentious language. Often, as they were told, they were scenes of tears on stage and crying and crying.

Then came the propaganda and encouragement of the art troupe, which made every common people understand that anti-Japanese war is everyone's business. Only by fighting the Japanese devils can you have a good life. If no one cares about it and no one works, the tragedy will sooner or later fall on you.

The publicity and encouragement combined with personal benefits have raised the support and support of the Third Column to a new level, and have also enabled the measures recommended by Yang Tianfeng to be fully implemented by the Commissioner's Office, and the village and town cadres sent to work very smoothly.

Persuading landlords and gentry to reduce rent and taxes, donate money and materials, and help each other with difficulties; properly raise the livelihood of refugees, establish refugee relief associations, and set up refugee factories; exempt from evacuation of land taxes in affected areas; promote rural cooperative loans, correct rural economy, and engage in financial circulation; reorganize people's military forces, and everyone attacks, return to farmers without any trouble; eliminate corruption; prevent enemy special forces; eliminate bandits...

As long as the righteousness of the War of Resistance and the banner of the national war of resistance, even if someone criticized it, with the support of Yang Tianfeng's force, the Commissioner's Office would implement it decisively.
Chapter completed!