Amid the sound of horse hooves, more than 300 cavalrymen divided into three groups to kill towards the stronghold.

Tao Yongsheng held the saber in one hand and the reins of the war horse in the other, and rushed to the front of the team!

After more than a hundred heavy mortar shells, the Japanese stronghold was blown up and filled with smoke.

Although there are still many Japanese and puppet troops living in the defensive positions around the stronghold, many of them were blinded by the bombing and showed a look of at a loss when facing the cavalry battalion that suddenly rushed towards them!

"kill……"

Tao Yongsheng rushed into the Japanese and puppet army positions first, and immediately waved it down with force, and a Japanese man holding a bayonet in front of him was about to stab the war horse immediately fell to the ground. A sharp sabre cut out a hole that was more than two feet long on his chest. Blood gushed out, and the military uniform was dyed red in an instant.

After killing a Japanese devil, Tao Yongsheng didn't stop here for a long time. He held the reins of the war horse and continued to move forward, crossed the trench under his feet, and rushed towards the gap in the courtyard wall not far away...

The cavalry's assault speed was very fast. If any warriors rushed a little slower, all the Japanese were killed by the cavalry in front. When the battle ended, his saber could not even touch a drop of blood...

After the hardest bone is knocked off, the next march will be much smoother.

At six o'clock in the morning, Zhou Cheng returned to the defense zone safely. He was too tired and found a place to start sleeping.

I slept until six o'clock in the afternoon and woke up. When I opened my eyes, I saw Tang Yufeng discussing something with a few staff officers. The smile on my face showed that they were discussing a good thing!

"Old Tang, why are you so happy?" Zhou Cheng walked over and asked.

"Captain, you are awake! We are discussing the gains of ambushing the Japanese Cavalry Regiment!"

"During the day, I talked to Tao Yongsheng and several cavalry company commanders. Although they suffered a lot of losses in this attack, the overall combat effectiveness of the cavalry troops was not weakened due to the reduction of troops, but increased a lot."

"Tao Yongsheng even promised me that when encountering Japanese cavalry again in the future, the two soldiers of the Cavalry Battalion could completely crush one Japanese cavalry!"

"Although the cavalry battalion before was also very powerful, the opponents were all Japanese infantry, and they were not comparable and could not train the cavalry's assault ability. If we really encountered Japanese field cavalry, we might not dare to hedge against Japanese with three times the strength advantage."

"Now I dare, and I dare to fight the Japanese head-on with just twice the advantage of military strength."

"I think this is our biggest gain in the ambush."

"When the cavalry troops are fully reorganized and the losses on the battlefield are filled, their overall combat effectiveness will be further improved. When the Japanese encircle us in the future, as long as they dare to dispatch cavalry, the cavalry battalion will definitely make them come and go!"

Zhou Cheng agreed with Tang Yufeng's analysis very much: "The cavalry unit has made great progress, and I felt it on the way back!"

"We captured seven artillery towers and strongholds along the way. Except for one stronghold, the Heavy Mortar Company helped, the other artillery towers and strongholds were all taken down by the cavalry units themselves, and the losses were very small!"

Tang Yufeng immediately responded: "I heard from the Chief of Staff, and we have just discussed the gains of the Cavalry Battalion along the way!"

"I didn't expect that seven or eight strongholds would bring us such great gains!"

Zhou Cheng didn't understand: "What's the point of discussing this!"

"Of course, except for one stronghold, there are only one or two hundred Japanese and puppet troops in the remaining artillery towers and strongholds. There are definitely not many materials reserved in it, so how can you get a big gain?"

"When I marched, the strongholds and artillery towers I saw were taken down in advance by the cavalry battalion. Because I was in a hurry to rush, I didn't go in at that time. All the tasks of cleaning the battlefield were given to the Chief of Staff, and I basically didn't ask about it. Could it be that there were treasures hidden in these harvests?"

Tang Yufeng quickly explained: "There is no baby, but the amount of various materials seized is very large and there are many types."

Seeing that Zhou Cheng still had a disbelief expression, Tang Yufeng immediately explained.

"Captain, don't underestimate these strongholds and artillery towers. When you attack, they sent half of the garrison troops to reinforce the Hamano corps, so the real garrisons of those strongholds are more than twice as many as you see."

"In addition, the Eighth Route Army's attack was not over yet, and these strongholds and artillery towers may be besieged at any time, and the Eighth Route Army lacks the ability to attack. In order to be able to defend and wait for assistance, the Japanese army reserved at least one month of ammunition and medicine for each stronghold."

"You did kill less than 2,000 Japanese and puppet troops along the way, but the real garrisons at these strongholds exceeded 5,000. All their ammunition supplies for the next month have been seized by us. Do you think there are too many?"

"What makes me happiest is the grain. There are 80,000 to 90,000 kilograms of rice in North China. In addition to other grains, the Chief of Staff brought back 300,000 kilograms, and more than one million bullets of various types, more than three thousand shells..."

"So many?" Zhou Cheng was shocked by the numbers that Tang Yufeng said and couldn't help but exclaim.

Tang Yufeng continued to explain: "There is indeed not much food and ammunition reserved in a single stronghold, but it accumulates a lot. The total amount of seizures of seven or eight strongholds becomes very considerable, which is more ammunition and materials reserved by many counties!"

Zhou Cheng slowly figured it out, and felt that he had discovered a huge fighter plane, striding to the map, found the march route last night, and then fell into deep thought.

After a while, it was analyzed to Tang Yufeng: "Old Tang, our national rescue army is equipped with a large number of artillery, and the combat troops under its jurisdiction have a considerable offensive ability. It is difficult for ordinary strongholds to block our attack."

"In order to prevent the troops from being defeated by us and to prevent us from increasing our strength through seizure, the Japanese not only concentrated all their limited troops to attack county towns and large strongholds, but also had very limited weapons and ammunition reserves for them."

“So we have very little harvest from attacking the surrounding strongholds.”

"The Eighth Route Army bases are different. Their attack ability is poor. In order to encircle and blockade the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese and puppet troops built a large number of artillery towers and strongholds there."

"Since there are no artillery towers or strongholds around us, the troops are still idle anyway, so why not send troops to the Eighth Route Army base to attack the Japanese and puppet army base there."

"There are three benefits to doing this: it can not only reduce the pressure of the Eighth Route Army's anti-sweeping raid, but also kill and destroy the Japanese and puppet troops with large amounts of live power, seize a large amount of materials, weapons and ammunition, and also slow down the speed of the Japanese and puppet troops' anti-breaking attack war, allowing them to fight longer, and giving us more preparation time!"

"No, it should be four benefits. We can achieve the goal of training in this way!"

Tang Yufeng was very moved, but soon thought of a fact that the national rescue army had to face.

Looking at Zhou Cheng, he asked: "Captain, we are taking such a big risk. We are rushing more than 100 kilometers long to attack one or two strongholds. The price will be too high. I am very worried that the loss of the troops to fight like this is greater than the final result, and the loss will be not worth the money in the end. The harvested materials and ammunition cannot even be replenished!"

"Although our National Salvation Army has some wealth, it will soon usher in an unprecedented sweep!"

"I think we can save as much as we can. Apart from the wars we have to fight, otherwise we can avoid our wealth and wealth!"

Zhou Cheng didn't think so and denied it on the spot: "Lao Tang, you are wrong. I think we can make sure to make a profit in this matter."

"On the way back to the defense zone, if we only seized a large amount of supplies and ammunition at one or two strongholds, it might be an accident. Conquering seven or eight strongholds and artillery towers in succession has seized a large amount of supplies, which shows that it is common for the Japanese army to reserve ammunition supplies at the stronghold at least one month in the Eighth Route Army base."

"As long as we can capture a medium-sized stronghold with more than 300 Japanese and puppet troops in their base, we can seize at least 20,000 kilograms of grain and 50,000 bullets. Maybe we can harvest hundreds of shells and one or two artillery pieces."

"As for the price we paid, I think it can be described as the four words "very small."

"If we don't fight this war, the soldiers should eat or eat, and the soldiers should train live ammunition."

"In this battle, the soldiers didn't eat much, and the ammunition was not consumed much more than usual."

"The only extra casualties are casualties, but as long as we consume more ammunition on the battlefield, we will definitely be able to minimize casualties!"

"That's how we count it, we will definitely gain much more from capturing a medium-sized stronghold than the price we paid."

"There is another thing that Lao Tang, you didn't consider: our National Salvation Army can already produce bullets and small-caliber mortar shells, and the ammunition used by the troops in this operation can be produced by themselves, so we can ignore the losses in this regard. Even if it is not captured, the arsenal can make up for everyone as soon as possible."

"The grain is different. Every year, except for the autumn harvest, we can harvest some food from the field. The soldiers who are reserved in our National Salvation Army will eat one less. We seize 200,000 kilograms of grain in one battle, and 200,000 kilograms of grain in ten battles, which is enough for a garrison to eat for two months!"

When Tang Yufeng thought that it was really the case, he frowned and continued to analyze whether there were other loopholes in this operation.

Zhou Cheng did not stop and continued to analyze other benefits this action might bring to the National Salvation Army: "In addition to seizure, we can take the initiative to kill a large number of Japanese and puppet troops, breaking the balance between the Japanese and puppet troops and the Eighth Route Army in the Eighth Route Army base, and then affecting the anti-breaking operation of the Japanese and puppet troops, making them unable to end the battle in a short time and were dragged by the Eighth Route Army on major traffic routes and along the railways..."

"I just analyzed it in my mind. Under normal circumstances, the Japanese and puppet troops will be able to free up their troops from the railway line in more than half a month and gather heavy troops to deal with us!"

"The Japanese hate us to the core and will definitely use the fastest speed to gather troops and supplies to launch an attack on us earlier."

"Half a month is definitely enough, which means that the Japanese troops in Shanxi will come to attack us in another month."

"At that time, many places in the defense zone had just begun to harvest autumn. If the Japanese were just rushing to attack us, there would definitely be a lot of food in the defense zone being ruined by them, and then our losses would be great!"

"Old Tang, you should see that the rainfall this year has decreased significantly compared with previous years, and the harvest of the people in the defense zone will definitely not be as good as in previous years. If we had not organized the people to reclaim wasteland in advance and plant miscellaneous grains on a large scale, the total grain output in the defense zone this year will definitely be reduced."

"If part of the food is ruined by the Japanese because of war, the defense zone will receive less food!"

"If the drought in front of you continues and cannot be alleviated next year, the food collected by the defense zone will become less and less next year, and maybe even the food for the villagers will not be kept."

"The food we collect this year becomes very important. It not only affects the food rations of the military and civilians in the defense zone for the next year, but also whether you will go hungry next year!"

"So there must be no accidents in the autumn harvest this year, and we must try our best to get more grain and continue to increase our grain reserves. Our defense zone has another county town, and it is likely that another garrison will be expanded in the near future, so our food consumption will definitely be more!"

"Now, long-distance raids at the Japanese and puppet army strongholds in the Eighth Route Army base can not only consume a large amount of Japanese and puppet army forces, but also drag them onto the railway line, and cannot attack us immediately, and buy time for our autumn harvest, but also seize a large amount of food from the Japanese and puppet army!"

Tang Yufeng was moved by Zhou Cheng.

As the steward of the National Salvation Army, he cares more about the grain output in the defense zone than anyone else.

The sudden decrease in rainfall in the defense zone and the reduction in grain production really scared him. He had not had a stable sleep for a long time because of this.

Fortunately, the leader prepared for the future. In the early summer, a large number of water conservancy projects and reservoirs were built in the defense zone without taking any consumption, which greatly reduced the water shortage pressure in the defense zone. Otherwise, the grain output in the defense zone would have to be reduced by 30%.

The autumn harvest is approaching, and Tang Yufeng is particularly worried that the drought will continue, and he is also worried that the defense zone will cause another problem, which will affect the autumn harvest, which will reduce the grain output a lot.

If the National Salvation Army does not take the initiative to attack, the Japanese and puppet troops will be allowed to free up troops from the railway line to deal with the National Salvation Army. According to the regiment commander's analysis just now, the autumn harvest in the defense area will most likely be affected.

Tang Yufeng could not accept this influence alone.

In addition, the National Salvation Army can also send a lot of food back to the defense zone. Tang Yufeng, who is worried about food, will certainly not refuse such a good thing as killing three birds with one stone.

He looked at Zhou Cheng's eyes and asked, "Captain, what are you going to fight?"

Zhou Cheng replied while looking at the map: "The three main battalions are one unit, the cavalry battalion is one unit, and the four garrisons are one combat unit. Each unit dispatches a reinforcement battalion's troops at a time, hikes out at night, and raids a long distance into the Eighth Route Army base, and with the cooperation of the Eighth Route Army, attacking large and medium-sized strongholds!"

"After the battle, all the captured Japanese equipment, food, heavy weapons, and captured puppet troops were brought back to the defense zone. The remaining equipment and other supplies were given to the local Eighth Route Army troops!"

"A attack force will be active outside for five days. Once the time comes, no matter whether there is any harvest or not, it will be returned to the defense zone and replace it with another mobile unit to continue on."

"If there are really troops who have not achieved results, don't be discouraged. We will treat these five days as a long-distance raid training, and there is still a chance to continue."
Chapter completed!