Ye Shuai's calm and wise analysis convinced the commander and the two bosses, and soon the commander approved Zhang Cheng's battle plan, and also issued an order to the commanders of the main divisions of the Eighth Route Army to carry out a large-scale attack in the near future, asking them to cooperate with the instructor's big operation, as for what the big operation was, for the sake of secrecy, the commander did not disclose it. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

With the gradual expansion of the Japanese army's territory in Jin Province, in order to maintain the victories that had been achieved, the North China Front chose a steady defense strategy, and the forces began to disperse, and the Japanese troops were sent to garrison all parts of North China, and the forces originally gathered in Taiyuan City were constantly diluted.

In addition, after the victory of the Battle of Songhu, the Kuomintang Chang Kaishen government still refused to surrender, and in order to exert stronger pressure on Chang Kaishen, the Japanese army transferred a part of its troops from the North China Front to the south to support, intending to attack Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China government.

The 14th Division was transferred to the south to participate in the battle of besieging the main force of the Kuomintang, the main force of the 108th Division went to Datong to garrison, the 109th Division was scattered and garrisoned, Chahar sent the corps and the puppet Mongolian army back to Suiyuan, and the 20th Division went south to pursue Wei Lihuang's 14th Group Army.

At this time, in addition to the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division, which suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Xinkou and urgently needed to rest, there were only 118 Brigade of the 109th Division, with a strength of about 20,000.

Originally, the Fifth Division also had a Ninth Brigade with extremely strong combat effectiveness, but the Ninth Brigade, under the leadership of the brigade commander Noboru Kunisaki, and two other brigades of the other divisions formed the Kunisaki Detachment, and it went to the south as early as September to support the operation.

It can be said that the current defense of Taiyuan City is extremely short, but even in this situation, no one from the Japanese army in Taiyuan City, including the traitors who have just defected to the Japanese army, is worried about the defense of Taiyuan, they simply do not believe that in front of the unprecedentedly powerful imperial army, there are still people who dare to touch the tiger whiskers of the imperial army.

However, the Eighth Route Army did not believe in this evil, and after Zhangcheng's plan to attack Taiyuan was approved, with the order of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, the entire Jin Province suddenly boiled.

The Eighth Route Army, which was divided into units of the 115th, 120th, and 129th Divisions, formed small units one after another to go out of the base areas at night and engage in sabotage warfare behind enemy lines.

In some localities, hundreds or even thousands of militiamen and masses were dispatched overnight to completely destroy more than 10 miles of railways and highways, cut electric wires, and saw down electric poles, thus paralyzing the enemy's communications and communications links.

In particular, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, under the personal command of division commander Liu Shuai, formed a left-wing smashing team, a right-wing smashing team, a central column and a peace detachment with 10 regiments, 3 independent battalions, and 4 engineer companies to attack the Yangquan-Yuci section of the Zhengtai Railway.

Among them, the 16th Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the Left Wing Team, the 25th and 38th Regiments of the 1st Column of the Decisive Death Team, broke through the section from Shouyang to Yuci; The 28th and 30th regiments of the new 10th Brigade of the right flank broke through the section from Shouyang to Yangquan;

The 769th and 14th regiments of the 385th Brigade of the Central Column and the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade are located in the area of Tianhuachi and Weichi Village west of Binh Dinh; Blocking the Japanese army reinforcing the Zhengtai Railway;

The Pinghe Detachment, the 387th Regiment of the 29th Brigade and the 13th Regiment of the 385th Brigade broke through the Pingliao and Yuliao roads and pinned down a large number of Japanese troops. After several days of fierce fighting, the 129th Division successively conquered Lujiazhuang, Monkzu, Mashou, Sangzhang, Tieluogou, Shanghu, Yanzigou, and Potou on the Zhengtai Railway; Wolf Yu, Zhang Jing and other strongholds.

The 16th Regiment of the Left Wing attacked Lujiazhuang and 4 Lianke bunkers, annihilated more than 80 Japanese soldiers and surrendered more than 50 guns. The 30th Regiment of the Right Wing attacked Sangzhang and Tielugou, and annihilated more than 130 defenders.

The 14th Regiment of the Central Column held on to Shiyuan Mountain for 6 days and nights, repelled the continuous onslaught of more than 600 Japanese troops under the cover of aircraft, and annihilated more than 400 of them. After 10 days of fighting, the Eighth Route Army uprooted many strongholds on the Zhengtai Railway, seriously damaged the tracks, bridges, and tunnels in this section, and paralyzed the Zhengtai Railway.

After the Japanese army was hit hard, they dispatched one after another, with more than 10,000 troops to encircle the 129th Division, but the 129th Division was broken into pieces and played hide and seek with the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army was able to extinguish fires everywhere, exhausted, but gained little.

At the same time, more than 10,000 people of Ding Wei's Second Brigade were lurking in a valley near Xinkou.

In the battle of Xinkou, in order to ambush the devils into the second brigade, the instructor once dug a tunnel in Henan Village, after the war, the instructor did not give up this tunnel, but dug the tunnel to a valley five miles away from Henan Village, the valley is surrounded by mountains, which is extremely conducive to Tibetan soldiers.

Ding Wei's troops had been hiding here for several days, and although Japanese reconnaissance planes flew over the valley from time to time, the devil's scouts never expected that a large force of 10,000 people was hiding in the valley under their noses.

It was late autumn, and the temperature in the north was getting colder and colder, and Li Moran, chief of staff of the Second Brigade, watched another Japanese plane flying over the valley, and said angrily: "I really want to call Fang Zizi over to fight, these planes are buzzing all day long, and they are annoying to death!" ”

Ding Wei beside him laughed out loud, he had been with Zhang Cheng for a long time, and he already knew that "jerking off" had another special meaning, and now he suddenly heard the chief of staff mention "jerking off", and couldn't help laughing.

Li Moran said inexplicably: "Brigade commander, did I say something wrong?" ”

Ding Wei waved his hand again and again: "No... Flutter... No, I just remembered some interesting things from the past, and I couldn't hold back my laughter for a while, it has nothing to do with you. ”

Li Moran did not doubt him, accepted Ding Wei's explanation, and then asked: "Brigade commander, when will we go to fight the Japanese army in Xinzhou?" Now that the weather is getting colder, if it snows, the battle will not be won't be fought. ”

The political commissar of the second brigade on the other side came over and said: "Chief of staff, don't worry, this battle will definitely be fought, but what we have formulated is a plan to lure the snake out, if we don't attract the devil's troops to attack forcibly, the casualties will definitely be very large." ”

Ding Wei also said: "Although our instructor has eliminated several Japanese troops, we have to admit that the individual ability of the Japanese army is indeed above us, and we must fight more skillful battles and less tough battles to avoid heavy casualties." ”

Li Moran was a little impatient, he said impatiently: "But the little devil has been shrinking in the city like a quail for this time and can't come out, do we have to wait all the time, see how lively the 129th Division is, and turn the Zhengtai Road upside down." ”

Ding Wei patiently persuaded him: "You should be patient, the devil can't be fought in a day, and there will always be a time when our second brigade will show its talents." ”