, North China, South Hebei Military Region, Xiaodongzhuang battlefield.

Li Yunlong quietly poked his head out, held up a telescope, and observed the movements of the Japanese invaders in the distance.

There is only a bare field in the distance.

All the green was destroyed by shells. Looking around, it was charred.

All the soil around him was burnt black. It was the result of the Japanese invaders' bombardment of 105 mm heavy artillery. Repeated bombings have long turned into floating soil.

In order to prevent the heavy artillery damage from the Japanese invaders, the soldiers dug the trench very deep. In some places, they need to place small stools inside, otherwise they are not high enough and cannot shoot outside.

If it is the Japanese invaders who jump in, they are not afraid. Even if they stand on a stool, they can't see outside.

A true trap!

Unfortunately, no Japanese arrived.

"The Japanese are not attacking now." Zhang Dabiao shouted anxiously, "I will shoot us."

"Their casualties are not small." Chief of Staff Wang Xinhou said, "They want to attack but they are not strong enough!"

"But it's boring to be bullied like this!" Zhang Dabiao shouted in disappointment, "Brig Commander, why don't we fight back at night?"

"No!" Li Yunlong shook his head, "You are stupid! Let's attack the Japanese. Are we the ones who are casualties? No! Just guard the defense line honestly for me and strictly prohibit attacking!"

"Brig Commander, we have been guarding for half a month. It's boring! Otherwise, let's form a small team..."

"Zhang Dabiao, are you a brigade commander or I am a brigade commander!"

"Of course you are the brigade commander..."

"Speak louder!"

"Report! The brigade commander of the 129th Division's New First Brigade is Li Yunlong!"

"Did you hear my order?"

"Report! Heard! Defend the defense line and attack is strictly prohibited!"

“It’s almost the same.”

Li Yunlong said angrily.

In fact, he was also unhappy.

The battle was in a stalemate. There was no gunshot for a long time.

There are only irregular shellings.

The Japanese invaders only knew how to fire artillery. No soldiers rushed up at all.

The same is true for the New First Brigade.

From time to time, there was a round of bombings between the Japanese and Japanese invaders, and no soldiers followed.

Either use a 122mm howitzer.

Either use a 155mm howitzer.

Or use the 107 rocket launcher. Just bombard it.

Except for the soldiers responsible for the alert, everyone else is learning culture or simply training in the rear.

In fact, bombardment has no effect.

The function of bombardment is to remind the Japanese invaders, don’t think that only you have heavy artillery, our Eighth Route Army also has it.

The Japanese invaders had 150mm heavy artillery before, and their power was quite high. But they disappeared later. It was speculated that it might have been withdrawn. It might have been saved. It might have been to save shells and do not want to waste it.

In short, the current situation is that the two sides confront each other and no one attacks.

Whoever attacks will suffer casualties.

Li Yunlong observed the new regiment for a while and then arrived at the 47th regiment again.

"brigadier!"

"Old Xing, how is your situation?"

"Sit down every day."

"Don't be impatient."

Xing Zhiguo brought Li Yunlong to the observation center.

If you raise your telescope and see it, you can't see any traces of the activities of the Japanese invaders.

It seemed as if all the Japanese invaders had disappeared. However, if the Eighth Route Army launched a counterattack, Japanese invaders would emerge immediately from the opposite wilderness.

I had organized several small-scale counterattacks before, but they were all pushed back by the Japanese invaders.

It must be admitted that the Japanese invaders have strong combat effectiveness.

If the New First Brigade launches an attack, the casualties will be very large.

Unless the Japanese invaders take the initiative to retreat.

The problem is that the Japanese invaders cannot retreat easily.

After observing for a while, there was no new situation, so I returned to the brigade department.

Political Commissar Zhao Gang is reading a book.

I don’t know where the ancient thread-bound books were obtained.

The current situation is indeed relatively calm. The headquarters has no special instructions. They are relatively leisurely.

Li Yunlong sat down and began to look at the map.

This is a habit he has developed slowly. The troops have expanded and it is impossible to cover everything.

Most of the information needs to be obtained from the map.

As a brigade commander, my horizons have also expanded a lot.

"Old Li, take a break." Zhao Gang said, "The headquarters is also studying how to break the deadlock. But I can't find a place to start for the time being."

"The main reason is that the number of Japanese invaders is too large." Wang Xinhou said helplessly, "Look at Anyang and around Xinxiang, the Japanese invaders gathered the sixth and ninth two standing divisions. There are also several special divisions such as 33, 34, 35, etc. Needless to say, the Zhengtai Line. At least five divisions. There are so many Japanese invaders gathered together, and we want to fight mobile, but we have no chance at all."

"Yes! Other troops have tried to attack and mobilize the Japanese invaders, but they have not succeeded." Zhao Gang nodded, "We must find a way to transfer several Japanese invaders on other battlefields so that we can find the flaws of the Japanese invaders."

"Shandong launched a large offensive. It tried to force the Japanese invaders in North China to mobilize several divisions to reinforce the Shandong battlefield. However, the 12th Japanese invaders would rather shrink their troops and defend several large strongholds than mobilize troops from North China. The old Japanese devil, Okamura, held the troops in his hand tightly, and refused to transfer any division, which was indeed a bit troublesome."

"Damn it, I'm really not used to such a bully. By the way, is there any movement in the south of the Yellow River?"

"No. The Japanese invaders had no intention of crossing the river and heading north."

"pity……"

Li Yunlong said to himself.

Everyone understood what he meant.

Once, Li Yunlong imagined that he would move south and send troops to the south bank of the Yellow River to harass him and mobilize the Japanese invaders.

It’s a pity that it was not successful. The 105th Japanese division on the south bank of the Yellow River also acted as a defender and was not confused by the Eighth Route Army. In the end, Li Yunlong had to cancel the combat plan.

"Come on, Lao Li, play chess." Zhao Gang said.

"No, no, no, no, no, no," Li Yunlong stood up, "I'd better go to other troops to have a look."

"Okay, you go by yourself! We're playing chess!"

"You guys can get it yourself! Don't wait for me to have lunch!"

"Okay! Be careful!"

"Go away!"

Li Yunlong left with the guards.

Zhao Gang and Wang Xinhou set up the chessboard and focused on playing chess.

This period of rare leisure time. They often kill hard to distinguish. Zhao Gang's chess skills were originally good, but Wang Xinhou was more clever.

As a result, the two soon fell into a stalemate again.

It's like the current situation. Neither enemy nor us can escape.

"Report!"

"Call from the headquarters!"

Suddenly a staff officer arrived.

Both of them were excited and hurriedly stopped playing chess.

Call from the headquarters?

Are there any important instructions?

Hurry up and took it.

But I found it was just an ordinary telegram.
To be continued...