Jin Sanshan disappeared into the night with his troops, after two days of marching, they have entered the boundary of Changzhi, the place where Changzhi borders Jinzhong is an important communication line for the little devils, and the railway through Shexian County, Hebei Province enters Shanxi from the junction of Changzhi and Jinzhong, so the Japanese army has a very tight defense of the railway line here.

After the little devils occupied Shanxi, they plundered Shanxi's mineral resources day and night by rail, and transported them to where they needed them through this railway line. Recently, in order to transport troops and war materials to Shanxi, the Japanese army requisitioned most of the trains on this railway line.

On the eve of the war, for safety, the little devil reduced the number of trains at night, and all trains stopped running in the second half of the night, and only in the first half of the night there were still trains passing.

Jin Sanshan appeared at the junction of Jinzhong and Changzhi with his troops, and their operation today was to ambush a train, but Jin Sanshan didn't know whether the train was transporting war materials or little devils.

"Battalion commander, do I want to go up with two soldiers and plant the explosives now?"

Jin Sanshan looked at his watch, the time was just eleven o'clock: "Wait a little longer, the little devil has railway patrol soldiers, and our early action may cause them to take precautions!" ”

Time passed minute by minute, and the scouts sent by Jin Sanshan had not yet returned, although there were no Japanese defense troops on this section of the railway line, but the Japanese army's patrol troops would inspect every half hour, and Jin Sanshan had to act carefully for the safety of the troops.

"Battalion commander, we're back!" A thin soldier ran to Jin Sanshan's side, and before setting out, he took two soldiers all the way south to reconnoitre.

"What's the matter?" Jin Sanshan asked anxiously.

"A train is coming from the south."

"Are you sure?"

"Sure, we saw the lights on the train, but there was a railway armored car behind the train! It seems to be an escort for this train! The emaciated soldier reported what he had detected to Jin Sanshan.

"Company commander, arrange a squad of fighters to plant the explosives!" Jin Sanshan ordered.

The company commander arranged a gesture to one of the squad leaders beside him, and the squad leader led the soldiers to move towards the railway line.

"Battalion commander, what about the little devil's railway armored car?" A company commander asked.

"After the explosives are detonated, everyone immediately retreats, and there is no risk tonight!"

Jin Sanshan listened to the reconnaissance and knew that they might be in trouble tonight, but this did not prevent them from blowing up a train at all, and as soon as the explosion sounded, they needed to retreat immediately and not be exposed to the fire of the little devils.

Ten minutes later, a train came from a distance, and the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion who were illuminated by the lights on the train could not open their eyes to Ben. In order to detonate the explosives within the specified time, the first squad leader was only seventy or eighty meters away from the explosives point where they were planted.

The train was getting closer and closer, and a huge roar reached the ears of every soldier in a reconnaissance battalion, and the fighters in charge of detonating the explosives were breathing more and more rapidly, and the distance of seventy or eighty meters was far enough from the explosion point, but their trouble came from the armored vehicles of the little devils in the rear.

The train finally drove over where the explosives were planted, and the squad leader personally pressed the detonator.

"Boom"

With a loud bang, the train was blown in two, and under the impact of the huge explosion, the train immediately derailed and overturned. The squad leader immediately retreated with the fighters after seeing the success of the operation, and the little devil armored car that followed closely behind was completely attracted by the explosion, and the squad leader did not see them at all in the dark.

"Withdraw! Tomorrow two fighters will be arranged to find out the situation, and the night after tomorrow we will continue to operate! Jin Sanshan turned off the safety of the gun, and then ordered the troops to start retreating.

The attack on the train was not a big deal in the first place, and the commander of the little devil only thought that it was done by the guerrillas behind enemy lines, and did not suspect the head of the 33rd Independent Division, and the train was only a cart of supplies, and due to the limited power of explosives, only three carriages of materials were seriously damaged.

The little devils repaired the railroad overnight, and then the matter was only recorded, and the big war was imminent, and they did not have time to investigate this little matter. Jin Sanshan disappeared into the wilderness again with his troops, and no one knew where they had gone except themselves.

After Zhi Zhengming left, the station of the 33rd Independent Division became quiet, and the quiet tonight was different from the past, many soldiers stuck to their posts, and the soldiers who had rested early also lay on the beds tossing and turning.

At this time, the soldiers of the third regiment quietly infiltrated an unknown small ravine under the leadership of Hu Guoshan, and the station of the third regiment had already been emptied, leaving only a few thousand straw men standing guard for the soldiers.

The ravine hidden by the three regiments is not very wide, it can be said to be very narrow, but in such a narrow ravine, more than 6,000 warriors are hidden. In order to be able to be concealed enough, Hu Guoshan sent countless scouts around, waiting for tomorrow's arrival.

I don't know when, the insects chirped, and the white dew began to gather on the blades of grass, bending the leaf tips. The white dew dripped in the crevices of the mountain rocks and then disappeared like that, and the eastern sky began to glow white, and a new day began.

The soldiers rubbed their sore eyes and began to get busy, today is a special day, the morning exercise prepared by the cooking class is very rich, but the soldiers do not have much appetite, after a simple meal, the soldiers sit in the underground fortifications to check the guns and ammunition on their bodies, and then there is a word of chat.

After breakfast, the company commanders of the 1st and 4th regiments began to inspect the positions, and as the company commanders of the 33rd Independent Division, they were the commanders of the forward positions, and they had to take this responsibility.

The breakfast of the three regiments hidden in the ravine is very simple, as for the cold steamed buns and boiled water, but no one complains, it is quite good to be able to fill the stomach now, and once the war starts, whether it can be eaten or whether it has life to eat is really uncertain.

On the contrary, the little devils had a good rest last night, they already knew that they would fight in the morning, but the little devils thought that no matter how they fought, they would win, so they didn't care about the upcoming battle at all, they should eat and sleep, except for the attack on the railway line in the first half of the night yesterday, everyone was safe and sound, and they slept until dawn.

At half past five in the morning, the Japanese army blew the assembly post, and the Japanese camp began to become noisy.

The sun has just risen from the eastern sky, it is still sunny today, the birds in the mountains and forests are still chirping happily, and the coolness of the early morning is the busiest time in the mountains, if there is no fighting, the people should be busy in the fields at this time.

Today, however, the fields are empty, even in the villages, where there is no morning smoke or barking of dogs, and the common people have already taken their families into the mountains after being notified.

The last time the Japanese army attacked Taihang Mountain, it had already figured out where the 33rd Independent Division was located, and before the war, Gangcun Ningci sent a large number of scouts and spies to Taihang Mountain, so the goal of this operation was very clear, that is, the Third Route Army went straight to the division headquarters of the 33rd Independent Division. The Japanese army in Shanxi entered the mountain from the direction of Beitaifeng, swept all the way south, and finally joined the army at the headquarters of the 33rd Independent Division.

Gangcun Ningci was singing a little song in the headquarters, and the haze of some time ago was swept away, and with all the troops taking action, Gangcun Ningci was now in a very comfortable mood. News has just come from the forward positions that the troops are still thirty kilometers away from the mouth of the old river, and if nothing else, the outcome of this battle will soon be known. There is also Shanxi, now that the army in Shanxi has begun to move, it will be easy to take Taihang Mountain, and everything will come according to his plan.

"The people of China are nothing more than that, when we occupy Chongqing, the whole of China will be ours, and when we occupy China, the world will be our Japanese Empire."

Gangcun Ningji showed a confident smile, and a group of staff officers under his command also praised Gangcun Ningji's great achievements.

"When we take the old estuary, let's go to Li Zongren's headquarters together, and then take a photo to commemorate this historic moment!"

When Li Zongren led his troops to the battle of Xuzhou, he killed more than 10,000 people of the Segu detachment, which made the entire Japanese base camp very shocked, they wanted to destroy China in three months, from the Songhu battlefield to Hubei, they have lost a large number of troops, and almost two years have passed, and now as long as the entire territory of Hubei is taken and the main force of the fifth theater is eliminated, then Chongqing will be exposed to the nose of the Japanese army, and the plan to occupy China will be realized.

The continuous defeat of the forward position did not make Li Zongren impetuous, on the contrary, he became more and more calm at this time, in terms of weapons and equipment, the national army is far from the little devil, if it is not lost, it will be abnormal, if the fifth theater has the equipment of the little devil, Li Zongren promised to let the little devil not even know his mother.

However, Li Zongren knew very well that they had no advantage in weapons, and could only rely on their own wisdom to win this battle, and under their lure, the Japanese troops had begun to go deeper and deeper, and what Li Zongren was waiting for now was an opportunity, as long as he seized this opportunity, he still had a chance to turn defeat into victory in this battle.

At noon, the Taihang Mountain was even hotter than the previous few days, and the Japanese troops in the middle had just passed through the garrison of the Third Regiment and found that the Third Regiment had been emptied, so they decided to continue marching eastward without the slightest stop. However, the hot weather had already caused the Japanese to drink all the water in the marching kettle.

Sweating profusely and with a dry mouth, the Japanese had to send small units to look for water sources and solve the water problems of the soldiers.

At this time, the troops assembled in Shanxi had reached the mountain pass of Beitai Peak, and the 30,000 troops stopped outside the Beitai Peak mountain pass.