Chapter 139 5. Inventory

In these two battles, a total of more than 12,600 Japanese and puppet troops were wiped out, 5,118 guns, 118 light machine guns, 20 mortars, 1 mountain artillery, and 1 enemy plane were shot down.The Eighth Route Army suffered more than 1,100 casualties.The puppet troops of Pang Bingxun and Sun Dianying suffered annihilating blows and were forced to retreat to strongholds near the railway. The Battle of Weinan and Linnan was a large-scale offensive campaign launched by the Eighth Route Army against the enemy in 1943.Due to the correct judgment of the enemy's situation, the careful deployment of troops, the full use of the internal contradictions of the Japanese and puppet troops, the successful use of tactics such as surprise attack, strong attack, bold interspersion, and division and encirclement, we carried forward our army's heroic, tenacious and continuous fighting style, so Achieved a major victory in annihilating more than 12,600 Japanese and puppet troops, opened up vast areas in southern Wei and northern Henan, and expanded the liberated areas. Lin County, Tangyin, Qi County, Ji County, Xinxiang, Hui County, Huojia It was designated as the 7th military division of Taihang, with Pi Ding as the commander and Gao Yang as the political commissar; Hualingchuan, Jincheng, Bo'ai, Xiuwu, and Qinyang were the 8th military division of Taihang, with Huang Xinfa as the commander and Liu Yi as the commander. political commissar.The Hebei-Shandong-Henan Fourth Prefectural Committee, under which Zhao Ziyang served as secretary, expanded to the vast areas north of the Yellow River and east of the Weihe River, clearing the way for the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Eighth Route Army to march into the Central Plains.