~.-~   (...Every war is accompanied by a wave of refugees. In the past, we always dealt with these refugees passively; but this time we learned our lesson, we relieved this pressure and let others take on it, but we won the hearts of the people; in fact, this battle was finalized at the beginning, Shanxi is ours... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

** is fighting, the Eighth Route Army is fighting, and the Chinese team is getting on the ranks with the Japanese...

"Mr. Jun, give me some food... Adults can hold on, what should the child do?" An old man raised his grandson who was so hungry that he cried desperately. His actions immediately attracted the approval of many people, and the surging masses began to rush towards the soldiers...

Because this is an emergency retreat of the troops, all the main roads on the three main battlefields were occupied by the army, and all the people who wanted to escape were controlled and not allowed to act without permission; millions of refugees in the three provinces were diverted or trapped by towns along the way!

"Political Commissar, what should I do? The people don't listen to our persuasion..." An Eighth Route Army soldier panted to the command center to report the situation: "The Central Army blocked all towns with machine guns and guardrails, but they just blocked the gates in one direction. Now the people have left the city through other gates and have taken small roads to detour..."

The political commissar was also busy and sweating profusely. They had never encountered such a situation before. In the past, when the Japanese came, they would organize some people to evacuate, but they just hid in the mountains for a day and a half, and a large-scale refugee rush came like this. In the past, only the Central Army would deal with it!

The situation is urgent. If this continues, I am afraid that the people will riot! Zhou Enlai was busy packing his luggage in Chongqing. He was going to Xi'an with Cao Xiaomin and others that evening, but now there is a sudden big problem: the people who detoured the road blocked all the paths!

If released, the surging refugee wave will fill the roads. The Eighth Route Army, which is responsible for guarding each other, will face the situation of being cut off. Once the troops fight, they cannot take care of each other at all! This is very dangerous. Once the puppet troops are mixed in and suddenly launch an attack in some areas, the whole situation will collapse!

But if the people are not allowed, the situation will be even more uncontrollable when the people gather more and more! Zhou Enlai is as anxious as the defenders on the main roads on the front line. Only then did he realize that fighting with Cao Xiaomin or being an allied army is the same as the same danger! He doesn't believe it is not premeditated!

Looking at the map, both the commanders of the Eighth Route Army on the front line and Zhou Enlai in Chongqing found that the worst situation is actually forming: the people who were blocked from various towns and turned away from other city gates have actually divided many Eighth Route Army troops. At this time, once the front line cannot hold on. All the troops cannot even escape! If there is any mistake, the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the three provinces will be lost in one day! But if you want to try your best to protect some of the Eighth Route Army's own transportation roads, you can only control the situation and prevent the people from gathering and cutting them off; but in this way, the people's hearts will be lost!

"Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da!" The sound of machine guns scared the people who were trying to pass: they didn't expect that the troops that were more kind to the people in the past would actually fire a gun into the sky! The army was like a big enemy and pointed the black gun at the people. Can we still bet that they wouldn't shoot? I don't know who took the lead, suddenly the people on the roads all started to cry, and the war zones of the three provinces all turned into tears...

They couldn't walk anymore, and the people were fleeing along the road on hungry. When they were blocked in the town, they used their last strength to take a detour, but the guns of the soldiers told them that the road was blocked! They were depressed in despair, and they could no longer walk. They could only sit and wait for death...

Refugees in the war are miserable, and anyone with a gun can control their destiny, whether it is the enemy or the army of their own country. Now, millions of people in the three major war zones have been pushed to the edge of life and death...

That's the people of Shanxi! Yan Xishan's face was ashen without any blood. He and Zhou Enlai asked the adjutant about Cao Xiaomin's whereabouts. How could Cao Xiaomin be away at this time?

Cao Xiaomin came, and the star on his shoulders shone brightly, looking like a Vajra that would not fall; what did he get from his sacredness and stability as Mount Tai? When Zhou Enlai saw Cao Xiaomin arrive, he quickly suppressed the anger in his heart, and he met him without any expression on his face...

"General Cao. What should I do if the refugee tide continues like this? If this continues, I will starve to death today. If it takes only three days, I will starve thousands of miles!" Before Zhou Enlai, Yan Xishan Yingjing rushed over, and he almost grabbed Cao Xiaomin's chest and questioned!

"The Air Force has already released dry food on a large scale to refugees..." Cao Xiaomin said calmly: "We have encountered such a wave of refugees in various war zones before. Many times we can only watch the refugees die in groups but there is no way. At that time, when we retreated, we had to compete with the people, and there were many destructive elements on the road. But now our situation is much better, and we have an air force that can help the people..."

It's much better!? Yan Xishan took a deep breath: This has been much better!? Then what is the worst!?

This is worse! Zhou Enlai's heart sank. A scene suddenly appeared in his mind: the Eighth Route Army soldiers were using guns to stop groups of refugees passing by. The refugees all over the mountains and fields could only unfold their teams in the wilderness, and howling sounds were everywhere... But at this time, an airplane painted with the blue sky and white sun emblem appeared in the sky, throwing bags of light cakes from the plane... After that, how high the prestige and support rate of the Central Army in these three war zones! Can these places be inserted?

At first, when the ** plane came to the people in the morning light, the panicked people thought it was a Japanese fighter plane. The crowd began to flee in all directions, and some people directly crashed into the Eighth Route Army's defense line.

We have no precedent for shooting at the people!... All the Eighth Route Army soldiers guarding the defense line did not fire, although many of their barricades were washed away... The planes began to drop bombs down! The refugees below even exploded the camps. Finally, the various lines of defense that the Eighth Route Army had worked hard to stabilize the situation completely fell into refugees... No, that was not a bomb! It was food! The refugees in despair slowly changed from panic to looting, and the situation was completely out of control!

"Long live the Chinese Air Force! Long live **!" Someone is taking the lead in shouting slogans... Maybe it's because they have been suppressed for too long. Those who are snatching food are like chanting Buddha's name - as long as they chant Buddha's name, the Buddha will bless you! They began to shout "Long live ***" slogans as others loudly, as if that would ensure that they could grab a piece of light cake...

"You must never shoot at the people!" Zhou Enlai's instructions had been issued, but he didn't know what the implementation was going on below. The poor communication situation of the Eighth Route Army units made him anxious: Even if the troops were dispersed and they were all shot, they could not shoot! That is the foundation for the survival of the Eighth Route Army!

This time it was not the worst. Zhou Enlai kept beating his heart: If the puppet troops occupying various mountain passes take the initiative at this time, it would be an uncontrollable situation! Although the combat effectiveness of the puppet troops is much worse than that of the Japanese, there are still many Manchu and Puppet troops among them, which is good in combat, especially a group of cavalry units of the puppet army. If the Manchu and Purple Cavalry suddenly came out of the mountain pass at this time...

"It seems that the Imperial Army must be able to attack with all their strength!" The result of the staff's deduction came out. Seishiro Itagaki, who was already seriously insomnia, looked at the plan numbly and nodded: What a perfect plan, Okamura Yasuiji's last move before leaving, designed such a plan that was against the enemy. According to his vision, this should be to round up the ** teams among the three provinces... Who would have thought that the Central Army, the Jinsui Army and the Eighth Route Army did not flee each other in the retreat, and the broken rear troops did not collapse at once, but resisted layer by layer!? In front of the Japanese army was an Eighth Route Army that had never seen before, in front of them was the most tenacious Jinsui Army, and in front of them was an unexpectedly powerful Chinese Air Force!

That's all! Itagaki Seishiro was exhausted. He knew that letting the puppet army take the initiative to attack was not a steady move; but what else could he do? The big counterattack that he thought would be unstoppable was difficult, and the main force of the Japanese army was held back. Then take the risk, the purpose of the combat of the ** team among the three provinces would not change!

The purpose of this battle is to defeat the Eastern Front battlefield and wipe out the central battlefield. The Japanese army completely recovered the Jinzhong plains that threatened Jinzhong! The 26th Army in Henan was also marching urgently to the battlefield. Li Tianhao was unsheathed for half a year. When he learned that Xing Long's Fourth Mechanized Infantry Division would be assigned to the 26th Army, he was so excited that he was about to explode: this time he entered Shanxi, he would have to be named Li in Shanxi within three years!

However, it was a small army that was put into the battlefield faster than the Twenty-Sixth Army, an elite group of less than two thousand people: the Ghost Force!

Like the 26th Army, the ghost troops were only investing in the battlefield in eastern Henan. Cao Xiaomin seemed to have no concerns about the southwest Shanxi and northern Shanxi in the central Shanxi and northern Shanxi in the northern Shanxi... No one expected that Cao Xiaomin had formulated a battle plan to win a great victory and defeat the terrifying plan of annihilation along the way!

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