Chapter 125 Three Maps From Headquarters, Full Map Hanging

Among the transportation lines in North China, the Zhengtai Railway occupies a very important position. This line starts from Shimen City in the east and ends at Taiyuan in the west. It not only crosses the Taihang Mountains, but also serves as a link between the Pinghan and Tongpu railways.

Because it connects two resource-rich provinces, and the strategic materials such as coal and iron are very rich in the areas it passes through, it has become one of the important strategic transportation lines.

In order to improve the efficiency of plundering resources, the devils also rebuilt and built some sections of the road.

Once the Zhengtai Road is destroyed, the supply replenishment of the First Army in Shanxi and the transportation of plundered strategic materials will be extremely difficult.

In order to ensure that this lifeline can remain healthy, Xiao Ri made a lot of arrangements. In addition to the railway patrol team, a large number of artillery towers and bunkers were built around it.

And there are also heavy troops stationed at the stations along the line, and they are heavily guarded.

However, even such a dangerous railway is only more than 70 kilometers away from Liujia Village, the current station of the New Second Regiment.

Even because of the cage policy, the devils have been steadily expanding their occupied areas with the railway as the base. As a result, the situation around the New Second Regiment has been very bad recently. Now the nearest squadron is less than 30 kilometers away.

If Li Yunlong had not known that he could not mess around on the eve of the war, and the headquarters had also issued a clear order for all units to stop all unnecessary military activities.

Otherwise, with his character of not being at a disadvantage, he would have been unable to resist taking a battalion of soldiers to meet these new devils.

After receiving detailed campaign instructions, Li Da, the commander of the regiment, could not help but feel a little shocked by the determination and generosity of the headquarters.

Not only did multiple forces launch attacks at the same time, but there was also a slogan of "leaving no rails, no sleepers, and no bridges".

In order not to delay the headquarters' plan, after completing the reconnaissance and investigation tasks, the New Second Regiment immediately began intensive training.

The soldiers' focus was mainly on attacking and breaking roads. After all, the regiment was established for no more than two months. For the recruits, this type of combat had never been encountered before.

Just as the soldiers were training intensively, a brigade messenger on horseback came from a distance. When approaching the village entrance, this comrade introduced himself.

It is worth mentioning that he did not dismount at the village entrance like the previous messengers. Instead, he ran all the way to the command room of the New Second Regiment while ensuring safety.

Li Yunlong, who heard the noise, walked out of the regiment command room. The messenger just dismounted in front of him and handed Li Yunlong a document package.

The confused Captain Li had no time to ask his own questions, and the messenger turned back to his horse and said to him: "Captain Li! This is the confidential document that the brigade commander asked me to give you! I have official business to attend to, so I won't talk to you any more, take care!"

When he returned to the command room, Zhao Gang, who was standing next to him, immediately came over with curiosity on his face.

"What is this? Why are you mobilizing so many troops? The comrade just now didn't even drink a sip of water. Why are you so anxious?"

Although the file package has not been opened yet, the experienced old Li has already made his own guess. He said to his partner while opening the package:

"The operation is about to start. I think this is most likely a new map drawn by the headquarters. For such a large operation, if we use the map made by our regiment, it will be more or less unstable."

"Based on my understanding of the deputy general, he must have sent someone to do this when he was making preliminary deployments."

This time, Li Yunlong's experience is still very powerful, and his guess is not wrong at all.

In order to improve combat efficiency, the deputy general ordered the surveying and mapping room of the headquarters to produce a new map during the task formulation stage.

The comrades have put a lot of effort in this. Based on the intelligence obtained by the enemy work department, they first hand-painted a sketch of the enemy's distribution.

Then, based on the sketch, they repeatedly verified the information provided by the military intelligence department. They even had to risk their lives and personally go to individual areas for field investigations.

After half a month of hard work, they completed the task perfectly and provided these three maps to the headquarters.

In order to enable all troops in the military region to effectively grasp the enemy situation, the mapping room printed the two maps in color through the printing factory of the logistics department, and marked the distribution of the devils with obvious red.

After opening the file package, Li Yunlong took out a brown paper bag from it, which contained the "Map of the Surrounding Enemy Military Equipment", "Enemy Situation Map" and a contour map.

The printing unit marked on the left side of the map is "The Mapping Room of the General Staff of the General Headquarters of the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, the General Land Survey Bureau of the General Staff Headquarters"

When Li Da saw such a delicate military map, he sighed and was even reluctant to touch it with his hands.

The "Map of the Surrounding Enemy Military Equipment" marked the airport, car factory, repair shop, tank warehouse, hospital, power plant, coal mine, and iron mine of the First Army stationed in Shanxi.

The "Enemy Situation Map" annotated the distribution of the devil's forces, from large regiments to small squadrons. Of course, the puppet army was not left behind, and even some cities marked the number of overseas Chinese.

The contour map was updated on the original basis to prevent the situation of mistaking mountains for rivers.

Zhao Gang, who was standing by, looked at Li Yunlong, who was almost drooling, and shook his head helplessly.

"These maps are indeed excellent, but you can't be so useless, right? I have told you many times before, learn how to draw maps from me when you have time."

Map making has always been a technical job, and it requires a high level of geographical knowledge from the creator.

Originally, this job was to be done by the staff of the regiment, but now the chief of staff of the New Second Regiment is still Zhang Dabiao. He looks big and strong, and he doesn't look like a person who can make maps.

At present, the division headquarters is not rich enough to equip each regiment with a staff with map-making ability. And the Eighth Route Army is not like the devils or the preserved fruit troops, which can take a picture.

Before Zhao Gang came, the maps of the New Second Regiment were all from the brigade.

Although Li Da, the head of the regiment, is a genius in reading maps and can understand any map without any foundation, his hands-on ability is a little poor.

It's as if the brain and the hands are not the same person. Every time he draws a mess of the map, he can still understand it.

Zhao Gang complained many times, but Li Yunlong always retorted:

"The staff of the division headquarters is just at this level. It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white. As long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat. I can understand it. It's my ability. I learn to draw! I will do it next time!"

At the teasing of his partner, Li Da waved his hand indifferently. He pointed at several places on the map with his fingers and said:

"This mission is really not easy. It is comparable to the most difficult operation I have participated in."

Zhao Gang nodded. He was a little unsure. After all, it was the first time to experience a mission with more than 20 regiments. So the two called three battalion commanders and had a fierce discussion in the conference room.

At about 12 noon, everyone came out of the command room and went to the kitchen to have lunch. Before leaving, Li Yunlong looked back at the map and said with some emotion:

"The map sent by our headquarters is not inferior to the Japanese military map! This time we are so much stronger, we must break the Japanese blockade!"

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