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Chapter 638: Battle at Zaozhuang!

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    Zaozhuang. West Hengshan.

    After Li Guoyao led his people to leave Weishan Island, they headed eastward until they reached Xihengshan Mountain, located southwest of Zaozhuang.

    Regarding Zaozhuang, many people must be not very familiar with this "rustic" place name, but they should have heard of the more upscale place name Lanling.

    Yes, Zaozhuang was called Lanling in ancient times. These two place names are actually the same place, but they are called differently.

    Zaozhuang is located in the south of Shandong Province, adjacent to Jining City to the north, Linyi City to the east, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province to the south, and the east bank of Weishan Lake to the west. Its geographical location is very important. Xuzhou is in the middle from Beijing and Tianjin to Nanjing, Shanghai and Hangzhou.  is an important town, and Zaozhuang can be called the northern gateway of Xuzhou.

    Zaozhuang urban area had not yet appeared during the Warring States Period, but there was Lanling County to the east of Zaozhuang urban area.  There are orchids growing in the highlands near Lanling, so it is called Lanling.  Since then, many dynasties have established Lanling County. Although the county seat is not fixed, it is not far from the current Lanling County.

    Lanling may be famous because of three things: Xiao Daocheng and Xiao Yan in the Southern Dynasties established the Qi Dynasty and Liang Dynasty successively, and their county commanders were Lanling; Gao Changgong, the son of Gao Cheng, Emperor Shizong of the Northern Qi Dynasty, was granted the title of King of Lanling; Li Bai, a Tang Dynasty man, wrote a poem: "Lanling"  Fine wine and tulips, a jade bowl filled with amber light.¡±

    However, Li Guoyao did not know very clearly how Lanling changed from a tall and elegant place to a rustic Zaozhuang, but this did not prevent him from attaching great importance to Zaozhuang.

    Zaozhuang has a comprehensive transportation network. More importantly, it is rich in mineral resources. There are 12 types of minerals with identified resource reserves, including more than 100 million tons of coal. In addition, there are iron ore, copper ore, bauxite, etc.  .

    Therefore, after the Japanese army captured Zaozhuang, they quickly established a puppet regime to assist them in plundering resources.

    At present, the entire Zaozhuang can be said to be the most important resource base of the Japanese army in Shandong. Preliminary investigation by the intelligence department found that there are more than 200 various factories and mining enterprises in the suburbs of Zaozhuang alone.

    More than half of these companies are controlled by the Japanese, the remaining part is controlled by pro-Japanese traitors, and only a small part is controlled by neutral wealthy businessmen.

    And this time Li Guoyao¡¯s target is these factories and mines, not only because these factories and mines have money, but more importantly because there are people Li Guoyao needs in these companies.

    Fighting a war is not just about two mouths touching each other. It requires a lot of manpower and material resources, the most important of which are people.

    ¡°At present, the total number of soldiers in Li Guoyao¡¯s Shandong Guerrilla Corps is only about 6,000. Excluding non-combatants such as the logistics department and field hospitals, there are only more than 4,500 people who can actually be used for combat.

    It sounds like a lot, but if you calculate it according to the establishment of a regular army, it is only two regiments!

    Compared to the more than 100,000 Japanese and puppet troops in Shandong, what can the two regiments do?

    If it were a face-to-face fight, it wouldn¡¯t be enough for the other party to squeeze between their teeth!

    Therefore, Li Guoyao's first purpose after arriving in Shandong was to recruit people first. One of his purposes for spreading out the troops was to make a name for himself as a guerrilla corps so that he could recruit new soldiers. But that was a relatively long-term plan after all. At the moment,  The only companies that can quickly replenish the army are coal mines, iron mines and other enterprises controlled by the little devils.

    Because Li Guoyao knew that a large part of the workers in these factories and mines controlled by the Japs were not voluntary industrial workers. A large part of them were deceived and abducted by the Japanese through various means, and some were simply captured from the battlefield by the Japs.  prisoners of the national army.

    ¡°These people have been tortured and humiliated in the little devil¡¯s factories and mines, and they hate the little devil to the core. Once they are rescued, they will become very good soldiers.

    But the little devil also knows the importance of Zaozhuang, so a full reinforcement brigade is stationed here. Coupled with the puppet troops and police in the city, there are at least more than 2,000 enemy troops in Zaozhuang inside and outside.

    If Li Guoyao used all his troops, it would not be difficult to capture Zaozhuang, but Zaozhuang is a place of four battles. To the north is Jining and Teng County, to the east is the important town of Linyi, and to the south is Xuzhou.  It's like poking a hornet's nest here, so there's no need to do that.

    Therefore, Li Guoyao only planned to attack mainly with small groups of troops, trying not to alarm the top brass of the Japs, and not to provoke the use of large troops!

    In a dense forest in Xiheng Mountain, Li Guoyao and others sat on the ground with their backs against the mountain col, with a simple military map spread out in the middle.

    Zhang Shaolin pointed to several points on the map and said: "Commander, we have investigated clearly. There are 42 large and small mines from Zaozhuang to Yixian, including 9 large coal mines and one medium-sized iron mine. These are all Japanese  Controlled, the rest is?More than a dozen small mines are run by traitor lackeys, and only a few small mines in the east are run by the Chinese.  "

    "How is the defense strength of the mining area?"

    "It's very lax. There are only four small Japanese strongholds outside the city. Each stronghold is stationed with more than a dozen Japanese soldiers and fifty or sixty puppet troops. At night, all these dogs have nested in the stronghold."

    "Well, do those factories and mining enterprises have escort teams?" Li Guoyao asked again.

    "Yes, but not many. There are seventy, eighty or hundreds of people in the larger factories and mines, and there are even only a dozen or so people serving as escorts in the smaller ones. Moreover, these people are not regular troops, and their weapons and equipment are also very ordinary. Most of them are small soldiers.  The junk that the Japanese eliminated poses a limited threat to us!" Zhang Shaolin replied.

    "What's the situation in Zaozhuang City?"

    "The city of Zaozhuang is still peaceful. After all, the Japs have occupied this place for more than half a year and have completely taken control of the situation!"

    Li Guoyao said calmly: "That won't work. We can't expose our target, we can only fish in troubled waters!"

    "Commander, how can you fish in troubled waters?" Cavalry Captain Chen Jianzhong asked hurriedly.

    Li Guoyao smiled and said: "The prerequisite for fishing in troubled waters is to muddy the water, which means to break the seemingly peaceful situation in Zaozhuang. We can unplug these stubborn strongholds outside the city one by one, and then destroy them."  Rescue the miners in various factories and mining enterprises!"

    "Commander, what are you going to do?" Zhang Shaolin asked in a deep voice.

    "Monk, how many die-hard traitors are there in Zaozhuang City?" Li Guoyao asked again.

    ¡°There are no statistics on this, but there are quite a few, such as Ma Mingchu, director of the pseudo-Zaozhuang Office, Li Jianshan, chief of police, Niu Peng, commander of the seventh brigade of the pseudo-Shandong Security Army, etc.!¡± Zhang Shaolin replied.

    ¡°Then start with these traitors!¡±

    Then Li Guoyao continued: "Monk, starting tomorrow, you and Zhou Cheng will each bring a special operations team into the city. The purpose is to assassinate these Japanese traitors. Don't worry about the big traitors. Anyone who works for the Japanese devils will be killed. I want to  You mobilize all the Japanese soldiers in the city within three days!"

    "yes!"

    "Three days later, the main force will start taking action. The target is the mining area between Zaozhuang and Yixian. The first battle will be to attack the two coal mines controlled by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The specific actions will be taken by the cavalry brigade and the special forces. You will plan the operation in these two days.  Plan, I ask you not only to take down the two Japanese companies, but also to successfully bring all the miners in the coal mine back to Weishan Island safely." Li Guoyao said.

    "Yes! Guaranteed to complete the task!"

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