Chapter 1086 Niangzi Pass

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By this time, Commander-in-Chief Zhu had already returned to Xi'an to assist the chairman in directing an all-out military struggle. The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army actually became the forward headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and Mr. Peng stepped down from the post of commander of the Shaanxi Joint Defense and returned to the front line to preside over the work of the headquarters.

Since Tada Jun implemented the cage policy, the Japanese First Army relied on the Tongpu Railway, Zhengtai Road, and the highway to establish a blockade line in Shanxi, dividing the base area of the Eighth Route Army into several pieces so that they could not be identical. After Liu Yimin led the main force of Shandong to capture Shimen by surprise, he destroyed part of Zhengtai Road and Pinghan Road, paralyzing these two railways. However, because Shimen was an important hub for the Japanese army in North China, the Japanese heavy army groups swarmed in, and our army had to avoid the enemy's edge and move covertly. After the Japanese army reoccupied Shimen, the 11th Division was stationed on Pinghan Road, and the 5th Brigade was stationed at Shimen with the independent Huncheng. These two units were the elite divisions of the Japanese army, relying on the Pinghan Road and cooperating with the First Army to frantically sweep dàng to retaliate, so that Zhengtai Road and Pinghan Road were soon reopened to traffic.

Originally, at this time, the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi was much more powerful than in history. It's a pity that because Chiang Kai-shek brazenly attacked Shaanxi and captured northern Sichuan and Longnan, hundreds of thousands of troops did not fight devils, but stared at the 800-mile Qinchuan with fierce eyes, and the main force of the Eighth Route Army's Red Fifth Army's reorganized and expanded garrison division and the Red Ninth Army's reorganized and expanded security division stationed in Shaanxi suffered great losses, and the main force of the Eighth Route Army's Shanxi that returned to Shaanxi had to stay in Shaanxi to undertake Shaanxi's defense and cover the Shaanxi troops to rest and replenish, and they could not all return to the Shanxi battlefield for the time being. The artillery regiments of the independent divisions were all left in Shaanxi, and after the artillery regiments and air defense regiments directly under the headquarters were transported back, they were also directly equipped with troops and put into training. There is no way, Chiang Kai-shek is a firm person, as long as he has the opportunity, he may fight a civil war again, and he has to guard against it!

In this way, the strength of the Eighth Route Army on the Shanxi battlefield was also more than in history.

After the defeat in the Battle of Guinan and the Battle of Zaoyi, pessimism and disappointment grew within the Kuomintang regime in the rear, and Wang Jingwei's puppet government vigorously carried out activities to surrender to the people.

The Shaanxi anti-Japanese base area was surrounded by heavy Kuomintang troops, and the Jin Sui Army and the Jicha Theater troops on the Shanxi battlefield had an ambiguous attitude, and the Japanese army once again launched a sweep against the northwest of Jin Province after the death of Abe Guixiu, and the Eighth Route Army was in an extremely unfavorable Japanese puppet stubborn attack.

In order to break the blockade of the Japanese army on the Shanxi base area, vigorously support the anti-sweep operation of our army in Shandong, and stop the spread of pessimistic surrender sentiment within the Kuomintang, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army decided to carry out a sabotage operation against the Japanese army's call for a line.

On the night of July 15, our army in Shandong captured Jinan by surprise, and a week later, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army issued a campaign preparation order to break the Japanese army's call through the line.

On the evening of July 22, our army in Shandong completely annihilated the 29th Division of the Japanese Army in Mengyin, and when the good news came, Zhu, Peng, and Zuo immediately issued a battle preparation order, ordering the 11th Division, the 129th Division, and the Independent Division to mobilize and prepare to launch the Zhengtai Road Campaign with the main goal of attacking Zhengtai Road.

On August 8, Zhu, Peng, and Zuo issued an order for campaign operations, stipulating that the 115th Division and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region would attack the Shijiazhuang-Yangquan section of the Zhengtai Railway, the Beiping-Shimen section of the Pinghan Road, and the Beining Railway. The independent division attacked the Yangquan-Yuci section of the Zhengtai Railway and the southern section of Pingyao of the Tongpu Railway; The 120th Division broke the Tongpu Railway north of Xinkou, and the 129th Division broke the Pinghan Road. All units were asked to break through the line and recover some of the strongholds occupied by the Japanese army one after another.

This battle plan has similarities and differences with the battle plan at the beginning of the Hundred Regiments War in history. The common point is that they all regard the attack on the Pinghan Road as the main combat objective, but the difference is that the scale of this battle plan is much larger, and the troops mobilized are also much larger.

This is all thanks to Liu Yimin's crossing, the Eighth Route Army has grown in advance, won more battles, and the commander's mind has been broadened. Coupled with the brilliant victories of our army in Shandong one after another, these big brother troops from division commanders, political commissars to cadres and soldiers are all screaming. Who wouldn't want to make Japanese-style weapons, eat canned beef rouge, and wear Japanese-style leather shoes? Who doesn't want to get the devil out of China as soon as possible?

On August 20, with the order of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi was launched on all fronts.

In fact, such a big move of the Eighth Route Army could not escape the eyes of the intelligence officers and Han Jiān of the Japanese First Army in any case. It's just that Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the First Army of the Japanese Army, made a mistake in judgment and believed that the large-scale transfer of the Eighth Route Army was to fight the Kuomintang troops, and it should be in retaliation for the friction between the Jinsui Army and the Jicha Theater troops some time ago. Therefore, the Japanese army did not take measures in time.

Hit the snake and hit the seven inches. Zhengtai Road connects Shanxi and Hebei, and through the just-completed Deshi Road, it is also connected to Shandong. As long as the Eighth Route Army cuts off Zhengtai Road, it will close all the units of the First Army of the Japanese Army in Shanxi, and the devils will inevitably fall into a state of madness. Zhengtai Road is the key point of the Japanese army's call and contact.

The 115th Division and the Independent Division of the Eighth Route Army sent elite troops to Zhengtai Road.

Niangzi Pass is the throat of Jin and Hebei, during the Battle of Taiyuan, there was a Ji battle here, and finally ended with the Japanese army capturing Niangzi Pass, and the north and south roads surrounded Taiyuan. When Liu Yimin went north to fight against Japan and regain Taiyuan in the first battle, he used special warfare tactics to attack Niangzi Pass, and the devil cried and called his mother.

On August 20, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the Fifth Regiment of the Right Column of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region pounced on Niangzi Pass under the command of regiment commander Chen Zulin and political commissar Xiao Feng.

After the Japanese army reoccupied Niangzi Pass, on the basis of the original fortifications, four large pillboxes were added, which constituted a strict fork firepower.

The Japanese troops stationed at Niangzi Pass were the Ikeda Onishi Squadron of the Zhengtai Road Garrison, a fortification on the hill, and the main force was to defend Niangzi Pass Station. There are still some puppet troops stationed in the village of Niangziguan.

Although the Japanese puppet army does not have many troops, it relies on the dangerous defense of Niangzi Guantian, and if it is attacked, even if it is attacked by a regiment, it may not be able to attack.

The Eighth Route Army was a force that worked miracles. After Chen Zulin and Xiao Feng accepted the mission, they spread the news three days ago that the Eighth Route Army was coming to attack Niangzi Pass. Captain Ikeda was suspicious, and when he didn't see any movement, he wanted to patrol and reconnoitre, find out whether there was any Eighth Route Army activity in the surrounding area, and report it to his superiors.

For three days, Lieutenant Ikeda, with most of his forces, patrolled the surrounding area. On a hot day, and there are mountain roads, even if the devil patrols on a motorcycle, he is tired to death.

On the evening of the 0th, when Lieutenant Ikeda was leading the devils on patrol, Chen Zulin and Xiao Feng commanded two companies of the second battalion to enter Niangziguan Village unconsciously. The puppet army in the village was defenseless at all, so they surrendered in a daze.

At this time, Ikeda had just returned from a patrol with the main force of the Devil Squadron, jumped off his motorcycle, and gathered his troops to give a lecture. Just as he was about to give the order to disband, a crisp cry of Czech light machine guns sounded, and a shuttle of bullets rushed towards the devil team, and three devils were shot and fell to the ground.

Ikeda was shocked and immediately ordered his troops to seize the fortifications and return fire.

At the same time, a part of the fifth regiment launched an attack on the fortifications of the devil's fortress at the head of Niangzi Pass Mountain, one front from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the pass, and all the way from the back of the pass to attack in a roundabout way.

The main force of the devil's garrison squadron was blocked at the station, and the four pillboxes of the devils were closed, and the troops were empty, and there was only one team.

The fighters, under the cover of fire, set up ladders and climbed upwards, wanting to rush up.

The Japanese troops were attacked suddenly, desperately returning fire, all the machine guns and rifles were fired, and grenades were thrown down the hill. The ladder prepared by our army was also damaged by grenades. The warriors hurriedly hit the ladder, untied their gaiters, connected them to long ropes, and threw them into the hands and trees that were closed, and climbed them.

The blood of the martyrs flowed down the cliff of Niangziguan one by one.

Just when the frontal feint was thwarted, the troops who had made a detour from the back of the pass approached the Japanese pillbox. In an instant, the grenade flew towards the Japanese fortifications that were desperately firing at the bottom of the front mountain, and the Eighth Route Army killed them from behind!

The demomen held the blasters captured from the devils, pounced on the Japanese pillbox, stuffed the blaster through the gun hole, and with a loud bang, the devil's bunker was quiet.

As soon as the captain of the devil saw the Eighth Route Army coming up from behind, he was anxious and hurriedly organized a counterattack. But at this time, it was too late to counterattack, and the Eighth Route Army, which pounced up, began to shoot after throwing grenades, suppressing the counterattack of the Japanese army, and covering the demomen to blast the remaining three pillboxes.

The Japanese army held the top of the pass with limited troops, limited by the terrain, the Eighth Route Army did not come up with many troops, ji battle to the end, the two sides launched a tragic white-knuckle battle on the top of the pass, when the chest of the devil captain chā into the bayonet of the Eighth Route Army, the red flag has been chā on the top of the Niangzi Pass Mountain!

Just when the second battalion of the fifth regiment was fighting with the Japanese army at Niangziguan Station, the engineers of the Eighth Route Army, under the cover of the main force, went on the railway bridge east of Niangziguan, harvested more than 1,000 catties of telephone lines, and installed a bomb on the railway bridge.

Zhengtailu is paralyzed!

The Niangzi Seki Shantou position was lost, the railway bridge was destroyed, and Lieutenant Ikeda was completely panicked, and he kept ordering the radio to report to the Zhengtai Road Garrison Headquarters and ask for urgent tactical guidance!

The Eighth Route Army captured Niangzi Pass and destroyed the Niangzi Pass Railway Bridge, and the commander of the First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka, who received the report, panicked, and the commander of the North China Front Army in Beiping, Tada Jun, also panicked!

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