On September 24, 1942, the highway from Yangquan to Yushe via Pingding, Heshun and Liao counties was the Japanese army breaking into Taihang

One of the deepest roads in the base. The Japanese army attempted to extend the road to the southwest and connect it with the Baijin Railway through Wuxiang, so as to achieve the purpose of dividing the Dahang area and flexibly mobilizing the troops of the Zhengtai and Baijin lines. Among them, the Yuliao section is 45 kilometers long, and there are 8 strongholds along the line, including Yushe, Yanbi, Wangjing, Guantou, Pushang, Xiaolingdi, Shijiao, and Liaoxian, which are independently mixed into the 13th Battalion of the 4th Brigade by the Japanese army.

On September 25, 1942, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army issued the basic order of the Yuliao Campaign, deciding to destroy the enemy from Yushe to Xiaolingdi by means of a surprise attack, regain the stronghold and destroy the road, and take advantage of the situation to advance to Liao County to recover Liao County.

On the night of September 23, the offensive operation began. On the 24th, the left wing team conquered Yanbi and Wangjing, and the right wing team conquered the top and the bottom of the small ridge. By the 25th, Yushe Gucheng was also conquered, and the enemy who only had the Guantou stronghold on the line from Xiaolingdi to Yushe was still resisting. At the same time, the Pingliao detachment was active and captured the town of Hanwang north of Liao County; The Qinbei detachment actively broke the road and frequently attacked, so that the Japanese troops on Wuxiang and Baijin Road were pinned. On the 26th, the 129th Division ordered the right flank to continue to besiege the enemy at Guantou with one division, and the main force and the left flank moved eastward to take advantage of the victory to recover Liao County and eliminate the enemy who might come to the aid of Liao. At dawn on the 27th, the right flank attacked the stone box west of Liao County and occupied it that night. On the 28th, the left flank team entered the vicinity of the stables and prepared to attack Liao County that night. At this time, the Japanese troops in Heshun and Wuxiang respectively reinforced Liaoxian and Guantou. The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army ordered to stop the attack on Liaoxian, to clamp down on the enemy going south with Heshun, and to transfer the main force to the Hongyatou and Guandiyuan areas, preparing to annihilate the enemy from the east of Wuxiang. The 129th Division transferred its forces as ordered, and at the same time stormed Guantou, and captured it at 24 o'clock on the 29th

At about 9 o'clock on the 30th of 1942, the left flank rushed to the mountainous area south of Hongyatou, and the right flank had not yet reached the pre-ambush area. More than 600 Japanese troops in Wuxiang were crossing the ambush area, and their vanguard encountered the right flank. The left flank quickly launched an attack on the rear and flank of the Japanese at the same time, and the Japanese occupied the high ground under the cover of 8 aircraft. The battle lasted two days and one night, with heavy casualties on both sides.

On the evening of October 1, 1942, more than 500 Japanese troops from the west of Liaoxian County broke through the right flank blockade and approached the vicinity of the command post of the left flank, and the left flank was ordered to withdraw from the battle. On the same day, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, in view of the rendezvous of the Japanese troops in Liaoxian and Wuxiang, and the arrival of more than 1,000 Japanese troops in the south of Yangquan had arrived in Hanwang Town, north of Liaoxian County, and that the 129th Division was quite tired and suffered heavy casualties.

On September 12, 1942, the 120th Division issued an action plan for the northern section of the Tongpu Railway, determined to start attacking the Ningwu and Xinxian sections of the Tongpu Railway (focusing on Ningwu and Daniudian) from September 20.

On September 14, 1942, the 358th Brigade set out from the area west of Lou Fan, north Vietnam, Jingle and Lanxian roads, and arrived at Majiagou on the 16th. The brigade attacked the Touma battalion with the 3rd detachment (under the jurisdiction of the 7th and 8th regiments and the special service battalion).

At 24 o'clock on September 18, 1940, the 3rd detachment launched an attack on the Touma battalion with a special service battalion, and the 7th and 8th regiments were reinforced. The battle lasted until the morning of the next day, when more than 40 Japanese troops from Ninghua Fort reinforced the Touma battalion, and marched to Shanzhai Village to be surrounded and annihilated by reinforcements. On the 20th, about 200 Japanese troops from Yangquanling went to Liyan Village in an attempt to counterattack. The 716th Regiment of the brigade launched an attack on the enemy in Liyan Village at 2 p.m. on the same day, and at dawn the next day, the enemy fled back to Yangpen Ridge for fear of being annihilated.

The 1st Brigade crossed the Fen River eastward on the night of September 16. On the 18th, it was learned that more than 400 Japanese troops in Yangquanling attacked the Yanbei detachment and returned to Shangzhuang after attacking the air, determined to encircle and annihilate the enemy. Then he launched an attack on the enemy at 13 o'clock on the 18th, and the fierce battle lasted until the early morning of the 19th. In this battle, the 1st Brigade suffered 105 casualties and about 200 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded. After the units broke through the obstructing enemy, they immediately engaged in the sabotage operation against the Tongpu railway.

On the evening of September 22, 1942, the 4th Regiment of the 358th Brigade (attached to the division's engineering company) and the division's special service regiment went out to Duanjialing and Xuangang to sabotage several sections of the Tongpu Railway. At the same time, the 2nd Regiment attacked Qicun, and the 715th Regiment attacked Xinkou and Loubanzhai. On the night of the 23rd, the 2nd Regiment destroyed the railway south of Xinkou, and the 715th Regiment destroyed the railway north of Xinkou. On the night of the 25th, the 715th Regiment again sabotaged the Daniudian and Xuangang sections of the railway. The 2nd Brigade also sabotaged several sections of the railway between Shuoxian and Ningwu. After six days of sabotage operations, the 120th Division once again interrupted the communication of the Tongpu Railway.

In order to prevent the situation from continuing to deteriorate and stabilize the occupied areas as soon as possible, the Japanese army mobilized heavy troops and carried out retaliatory "sweeps" against various anti-Japanese base areas in North China from 6 October, in an attempt to take advantage of the fact that the Eighth Route Army had no time to rest and recuperate in continuous battles to attack the main force of the Eighth Route Army and destroy the anti-Japanese base areas.

In order to strike at the main force of the 129th Division and destroy the anti-Japanese base areas, the Japanese 1st Army successively "swept" Taihang and Taiyue districts in the southeast of Shanxi Province from October 6 to December 5. The 129th Division did not have time to rest and replenish, that is, it was engaged in anti-"mopping-up" operations. On October 6, more than 800 enemies in western Hebei began to "sweep" the Yangyi area. On the 11th, the Japanese army independently mixed the 4th Brigade from Liaoxian and Wuxiang, and the 36th Division from Lucheng and Xiangyuan, with a total of more than 3,000 people. The 385th and 386th Brigades of the Eighth Route Army, the 1st Column and other units of the decisive battle, blocked the invading enemy on the inner line, and the new 10th Brigade fought on the outer line. On the morning of the 15th, two regiments of the New 10th Brigade ambushed the enemy's automobile transport convoy at Gongjiagou on the Heliao Highway, destroying more than 40 enemy vehicles and annihilating more than 100 Japanese troops escorting the vehicles. On the 17th, the enemy of the "sweep" retreated.

On October 20, 1942, nearly 10,000 people from the 36th Division of the Japanese Army and the 4th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade set out from Wu'an, Liaoxian, Wuxiang, Lucheng and other places to "sweep" the eastern and western areas of the Qingzhang River, focusing on the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the 129th Division, the Matian, Zuohuijian areas, Shexian and remote cities where the party and government organs of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Border Region are located. After the Japanese troops entered the joint attack area, they carried out "clearing" and burning for several days. On the 26th, the Japanese army began to retreat, and on the way to retreat, a divisional "sweep" was carried out. The base areas were severely damaged and devastated.

On October 29, 1942, more than 500 people from the 36th Division of the enemy who "swept away" Huangyandong, and more than 400 people from the baggage were marched to Guanjiayuan east of Panlong through Zuohui, preparing to return to Wuxiang. At 13 o'clock on the same day, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army ordered the 129th Division to concentrate its main forces to annihilate the enemy. On the night of the same day, the 129th Division, with the main forces of the 385th and 386th Brigades, the new 10th Brigade and the 1st Column of the Decisive Death, surrounded the enemy at Guanjiayuan, and planned to launch a general attack at 4 o'clock the next day. In addition to the emergency construction of fortifications, the besieged enemy took advantage of the night to secretly attack and occupy the Fengkengding Heights southwest of Guanjiayuan, and used two commanding heights as horns for each other, stubbornly resisting. The 129th Division launched an attack on the enemy at Guanjiayuan as originally planned, and divided its troops to capture Fengyuanding. The troops of the 129th Division quickly broke through the enemy's defenses, compressed them in a small area, and engaged in white-knuckle fighting, which lasted until dawn on the 31st, when most of the enemy was annihilated, and only more than 60 people remained to defend their positions. In the afternoon, more than 1,500 enemies in the Yellow Smoke Cave rushed to the aid with the support of more than 10 aircraft. The 129th Division withdrew from the battle. The remnants of the enemy responded with more than 280 corpses and fled to the flood. At this point, most of the Japanese troops had been withdrawn from the central area of the base area. [4] [36-37]

At the beginning of November 1940, the Japanese army in Licheng, south of Taihang, invaded Nan and Beiweiquan in the north, and then attacked Xijing, and the Japanese army in Xiangyuan attacked Panlong through Xiying, attempting to attack Dongtian and the area around the brick wall where the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was located. The 386th Brigade was ordered to rush to the north and south lines of Damo Village, east of Panlong, to block the invading enemy and cover the transfer of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

At 9 o'clock on November 3, 1942, as soon as the troops were ready to deploy in the vicinity of Damo Village, they started a fierce battle with the incoming enemy. The Japanese army launched a series of attacks and captured part of the positions in Damo Village. The 386th Brigade stubbornly held out until 4 a.m. on the 4th, and only withdrew from the battle after the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was successfully transferred. The Japanese army's combined attack attempt failed, and on the 5th, they retreated to the Baijin line.

In the northern part of Taihang District, more than 2,500 people from Heshun went to Yushe on November 3 through Hanwang Town and Changcheng Town, strengthening the Japanese army in Yu, Liao, and Wu areas. Since then, the lecture hall, Lingshang, Songjiazhuang, Guojiao, and Dayou areas south of the Yuliao Highway have been repeatedly "swept up". Under the attack and harassment of the military and civilians in the base area, by the 13th, the Japanese army retreated to the stronghold one after another. The 40-day anti-"sweep" in Taihang District has ended.

Beginning on November 17 in the Taiyue area, the Japanese army set out from Qinxian and Nanguan Town with the 37th Division, set out from Pingyao, Jiexiu and Huoxian with the 16th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, and set out from Hongdong with one battalion of the 41st Division, with a total of more than 7,000 people. In order to avoid the enemy's advance, the Taiyue Military Region formed two detachments, Qindong and Qinxi, which were transferred to the area on both sides of the Qinhe River outside the Japanese army's joint attack circle to strike at the Japanese army's scattered troops. After the Japanese army arrived in the area of the joint attack on the 23rd, under the harassment of local armed forces, it carried out scattered "clearance." Qinyuan County was the most devastated, with more than 5,000 people killed, accounting for 1/10 of the county's population, nearly 10,000 livestock were killed, more than 7,000 were robbed, and 3~40,000 houses were destroyed.

The troops of the Dayue Military Region seized the opportunity of the Japanese army's "clearing and suppression" in all directions and scattering their forces to actively attack the Japanese army. On the 23rd, the 42nd Regiment of the Qinxi Detachment annihilated more than 100 Japanese troops at Guantan. On the 27th, the 42nd and 59th regiments each killed and wounded more than 160 Japanese soldiers in the area of Huhanping and Mabei. The 17th and 57th regiments of the Qindong detachment successively dealt serious blows to the enemy in Guangwa, Chenjiagou, Longfo Temple, Wuyuan Town, Nanwei Village, Nanli and other places, among which the 17th Regiment fought at Longfo Temple, that is, more than 100 Japanese troops were annihilated. The 212th Brigade also inflicted heavy losses on the enemy in the Jiaokou area. The Japanese were forced to withdraw from the Taiyue district on December 5.

The anti-"sweeping" operations in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region began in the Pingxi area, where the Japanese army first attacked, and began one after another. The Pingxi Anti-"Sweep" Pingxi Anti-Japanese Base Area directly threatened the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front and Beiping, the center of the puppet regime in North China, as well as the Pinghan and Pingsui lines, the main communication lines in North China, and was the first target of the Japanese army's "sweep" on the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border.

On October 13, 1942, more than 10,000 Japanese puppet troops attacked Sanpo, the central area of the Pingxi base area, in 10 routes. The Japanese army adopted the tactics of fighting steadily and steadily, relying on the gradual advance of the stronghold, and advanced 5~10 kilometers a day. [4]

The Pingxi Military Sub-district used the timely maneuver of the main force and extensive guerrilla warfare to deal with the enemy's "sweeps." After more than a week of fighting, he constantly harassed the enemy's attacks, making him quite tired. Although the Japanese army penetrated deep into the base areas, it did not find out the movements of the main forces of the military division. By 21 November, when the enemy's encirclement was further reduced, the main force of the Pingxi Army Division jumped out of the encirclement from the Sanpo area, moved to the southwest, and after an encounter with the enemy in Pengtou, moved to the line of Yegu and Datai east of Bancheng.

After the Japanese army entered the Sanpo area, they burned and killed on a large scale, and a large amount of grain was looted. From the 23rd, the Japanese began to retreat in separate ways. By the end of October, the main force withdrew from Pingxi, but still left more than 2,000 troops to build strongholds and roads in the Pingxi anti-Japanese base area, adding 14 strongholds in Changping and Wanping alone, and controlling Dongzhaitang, Dujiazhuang and other villages. The anti-Japanese base areas in Pingxi began to retreat and decrease.

On October 19, 1940, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army instructed that the enemy attacking Pingxi and Taihang districts might turn to attack the Beiyue area, that the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region should immediately prepare for the operation of smashing the enemy's "sweeping", that the party, government, military, and people should earnestly cooperate and carry out in-depth combat mobilization, and that the main forces should assemble in appropriate positions and be prepared to resolutely destroy the enemy attacking from one or two routes. Jing instructed the 129th and 120th Divisions to actively cooperate in the operation.

On November 9, 1942, more than 14,000 people from the 110th Division and other units of the Japanese Army and the puppet army first focused on "sweeping" the areas belonging to the 1st Army Division. The Japanese puppet armies on the lines of Yixian, Dalonghua, Wang'anzhen, Laiyuan, and Jianling moved from north to south, and the Japanese puppet armies of Baoding and Mancheng moved from east to west, in an attempt to suppress the troops of the army division in a narrow area and fight a decisive battle.

On November 10, 1942, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region issued an operational policy and deployment against the "sweeping." On the 12th, in response to the large-scale burning and destruction of the Japanese army, it was instructed that the main force could still disperse one part (no more than one-third of the force) to resolutely attack the enemy's burning and killing attempts without hindering the principle of mobility.

On November 9, 1942, more than 6,000 enemies dispatched from Laiyuan, Yixian and Baoding successively attacked Guantou, Yinfang, Loess Ridge and Shenbei. On the 12th, the enemy attacked the air, that is, after burning and killing the local area, they retreated by separate routes. At this time, the 1st Army Division assembled the 1st and 25th regiments and took the opportunity to volley. The enemy had more than 800 people all the way, and on the 14th, he was intercepted in the retreat from Wujiazhuang to Yuangang, and one was killed or wounded, and the enemy broke out of the encirclement under the cover of the aircraft, retreated to the pipehead, and was intercepted by the 20th regiment on the way, suffered heavy casualties, and fled back to Mancheng.

On November 13, 1942, more than 2,700 Japanese puppet troops were dispatched to Wanxian, Tangxian and other places to attack the area under the 3rd Army Division. On November 14, about 2,600 Japanese puppet troops from Dingxiang, Dongye, and Wutai marched towards Fuping and its southwest by two routes. The Japanese army responded on the east and west fronts and jointly attacked Taiyu north of Fuping. The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Command, the command organs of the 3rd and 5th Army Divisions, and the 2nd, 3rd, and 6th Regiments moved to the outer line before the enemy's encirclement was about to be formed. On the 16th, the Japanese army attacked the Taiyu and Zhangjiayu areas. The guerrilla troops who could not be transferred out fought hard, and Commander Wang Pu and Deputy Director of the Political Department Hao Yuming were killed, and the troops suffered more than 100 casualties.

On November 18, 1942, the enemy of Taiyu was attacked from Wang Kuaijin to occupy Hanping City. On the 21st, the enemy from the big camp through Shentangbao and Wuwangkou, and the enemy from Wutai through Taihuai, Shizui, Longquan Pass, and Xiaguan will also merge in Fuping City. After the Japanese army occupied Fuping, it continued to attack the area to which the 3rd Army subdivision belonged from the outward area of Fuping and from the surrounding strongholds inward, repeatedly "sweeping" and brutally burning and destroying the area.

On the night of November 21, 1942, the 2nd Regiment sent more than 30 people to attack the party city and attacked the Japanese dormitory with their hands. On the 26th, four plainclothes officers of the 1st Army Division infiltrated Baoding and attacked the theater where the Japanese army was holding a meeting with their hands, causing panic among the Japanese troops. The enemy who invaded the base area retreated separately on the 25th.

The front-line command post of our army when conquering the enemy stronghold of the East King Kuaizhen in Fuping County.

The front-line command post of our army when conquering the enemy stronghold of the East King Kuaizhen in Fuping County.

By December 3, 1942, most of the Japanese army withdrew from Beiyue District, but more than 1,000 people were stationed on the line of Fuping, Wangkuai, Dangcheng and Quyang, and continued to build roads in an attempt to stay for a long time. In order to force the enemy back to go deep into Fuping, uproot the enemy's occupied points, and thoroughly smash the Japanese puppet "sweep", on December 9, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region organized the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th regiments to carry out the Fu (Ping) Wang (Fast) Campaign.

At 21 o'clock on December 14, 1942, the 6th Regiment launched a fierce attack on the enemy in Dongzhuang, and the 1st Battalion conquered 3 Beishan fortresses in Dongzhuang and rushed into the village, and the Japanese counterattacked to recapture the fortress, killing and wounding more than 170 Japanese soldiers. The 4th Regiment launched an attack on the enemy in Fuping, and the 2nd Regiment and the guerrilla army once attacked Dangcheng and Lingshan. On the 21st, more than 130 of Wang Kuai's enemies escorted more than 100 packers of military supplies, and they were completely annihilated at Wang Linkou.

On December 26, 1942, in an ambush in the Xuancun area of Pinghan Road, 14 Japanese trains and cars were blown up, and 3 heavy artillery pieces were destroyed. On the 27th, more than 1,200 enemies who attacked from the north of Fuping Dongzhuang were attacked in Luoyu and Tumen, killing and wounding more than 140 people. The remaining Japanese troops were forced to retreat from Fuping, Dongzhuang, and Wangkuai from New Year's Day in 1941. By January 4, the 55-day anti-"sweep" was basically over, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region had killed and wounded more than 2,000 Japanese puppet soldiers and 1,382 casualties.

From October 25 to early November 1942, about 4,000 people from the 16th Brigade and other units of the Japanese army were independently mixed to "sweep" the 8th Army Division and the 3rd Army Division in the northwest of Shanxi Province in the Miyu and Loufan areas, and were attacked by local soldiers and civilians. In mid-December, the Japanese army transferred the 37th Division stationed in southern Shanxi and the 41st Division stationed in the southeast of Shanxi, and cooperated with the independent mixed 3rd, 9th, 16th brigade and 26th division stationed in the northwest of Shanxi, totaling more than 20,000 people, to prepare for an all-round "sweep" of northwest Shanxi.

The 120th Division anticipated that the Japanese army would retaliate and actively prepared for a counter-"sweep". On 30 October, the division was ordered to set up the Northwest Shanxi Military Region, and on 7 November, the inaugural meeting of the military region was held in Lijiawan, Xingxian County. The Shanxi Northwest Military Region has jurisdiction over six military subdivisions directly under the Shanxi Military Region and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th, and Yanbei military subdivisions.

Since December 14, 1942, the Japanese army has begun to carry out a comprehensive "sweep" of the northwest area of Shanxi Province. More than 5,000 enemy troops were dispatched from the strongholds of Taifen and Fenli Highway to invade the Miyu Town area of the 8th Army Division in the north; More than 4,000 enemies were dispatched from Lishi and Liulin to invade the Linxian area; More than 6,000 enemy troops dispatched from Lanxian, Qilan and other strongholds on the 19th to attack Xingxian and the area south of Baode. By December 23, the Japanese army had occupied all the county seats, most of the market towns, and the Yellow River crossing in the northwest of Shanxi Province, except for Baode and Hequ counties, and began to implement the "three lights" policy in a planned manner

Japanese soldiers and traitors disguised themselves as the Eighth Route Army and booby-trapped the masses; Dispatch key detachments to attack and repeatedly "sweep" to find and annihilate the party, government, and military leading organs; Focus on destroying the rear organs and facilities of the Eighth Route Army. According to incomplete statistics, more than 5,000 people were brutally killed in this "sweep," 150,000 catties of grain were looted and burned in Xingxian County alone, more than 5,000 livestock were looted and killed in the 4th Army Division alone, and more than 19,000 houses and caves were burned down.

In the early stage of the anti-"sweeping" campaign, the troops of the Northwest Shanxi Military Region mainly used part of their forces to cooperate with local units and guerrilla units to carry out extensive guerrilla warfare, harass and pinned down the attacking enemy, attacked the enemy's transportation, and covered the mass transfer. The main force avoided the enemy's edge, turned to the outer line, and looked for an opportunity to attack the Japanese army. The divisional troops of the 4th Army successively attacked Fangshan, Yukou, Xinyi and other strongholds, and repeatedly attacked Linxian and Anye villages. The division's subordinate teaching regiment and other units attacked Dongguan in Xingxian County, and ambushed the enemy's "clearing" troops south of Xingxian County. The 358th Brigade and the Workers' and Guards' Brigade respectively carried out several attacks and interceptions on the enemy who "swept away" Miyu Town. The 1st Brigade and the 4th Column of the Decisive Death continued to attack enemy strongholds north of Dawu, destroying roads and cutting off enemy communications.

In order to smash the Japanese army's attempt, on December 27, the Shanxi Northwest Military Region instructed all sub-districts to mobilize all forces to break the Japanese army's plan to build roads and points; The 358th Brigade was ordered to be responsible for attacking the enemy who was building roads from Lanxian to Dashetou and Puming to Chijianling, the 1st Brigade was responsible for breaking the road from Dawu to Linxian, and the 4th Column was responsible for breaking the road from Dawu to Fangshan. Accordingly, the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Independent Brigade organized more than 2,000 people to attack the Dawu and Sanjiao roads twice, so that the enemy in Linxian had to make a detour to Fangshan to contact Lishi; The Lishi guerrillas led the masses to break the Lishi and Jundu roads twice, destroying the highway for more than 30 miles; The 2nd and 35th regiments each successively attacked Xinyi, Shangbaishuang, Zhangjiashan and other strongholds on the Fenyang-Liulin highway. The regiments that held out on the inner line were assigned cadres to form plainclothes work groups and work together with local work groups to sabotage the "maintenance meetings" around the enemy's newly built strongholds. The 1st Division of the 715th Regiment and the Linxian guerrillas attacked the county seat of Linxian and captured the representatives of the Nanguan "Maintenance Association". The 4th Regiment of the 2nd Column went deep into Pingchuan, Jinzhong, lured the enemy of Wenshui in Xiaqu Town, and annihilated more than 100 Japanese puppet troops; The Workers' and Guards' Brigade carried out a series of smashing battles on the Taifen Highway.

The 714th Regiment of the 2nd Independent Brigade, the 36th Regiment of the Temporary 1st Division and the Yanbei Detachment each attacked strongholds such as Shenchi and Yangfangkou, and attacked Yijing Town three times; The 714th Regiment routed the Japanese puppet army that attempted to ambush the regiment at Jiejialing, southwest of Liminbao in Shuo County, and annihilated one of them.

The 716th Regiment of the 358th Brigade was ordered to set out from the west of Lou Fan and rush to the vicinity of the mouth of the Xingxian Boundary River, and cooperate with the 7th Regiment to strike at the enemy who was "sweeping" and attacking the enemy who was stationed, so that the enemy dared to disturb him.

From October 2, 1942, the Japanese puppet army began to retreat by different routes, and by January 24, all of them returned to their original positions. The winter counter-"sweep" of the Northwest Shanxi Military Region lasted 40 days, destroying more than 2,500 enemies, destroying 125 kilometers of highways and 23 bridges, and recovering all the towns and cities occupied by the enemy in the campaign.