As soon as the battle began, Gao Yuan did not let the troops launch a group charge against the Japanese position, but first used more than 20 captured mortars, two mountain guns, and one field gun to bombard the devil's position for half an hour. If it weren't for the long distance to the northwest of Jinjin and the lack of enough artillery, the plateau would definitely give the Japanese army a larger-scale artillery bombardment. Because Gao Yuan knew that the commander and Master He were watching him from a short distance to direct the battle, if the troops suffered too many casualties, he would be criticized by Han Yunhua even if he had a stronghold.

Gao Yuan, who had followed Han Yunhua for more than half a year, had a clear temper with this young commander, and he knew that in Han Yunhua's eyes, the most important thing was not the weapons and equipment, but the lives of the ordinary soldiers under their hands. As long as you can destroy the enemy and the casualties of your own troops are not too large, it doesn't matter how much you use machine guns and artillery shells.

The half-hour-long artillery bombardment shattered the positions on the periphery of the Sanchabao stronghold, and less than 100 infantry squadrons hiding in the positions survived, and the artillery squad of the devil was taken care of by the artillery of the plateau at the beginning of the battle, and all the mortars were lost without firing a single shot. As soon as the artillery stopped, the hundreds of remnants of the devil's position quickly jumped out of the trench and hid in the turret before the first battalion of the guard regiment attacked.

Gao Yuan took advantage of the victory to pursue and surrounded the devil's turret.

In the telescope, Master He said while observing the changes in the battle situation: "Xiao Huazi, what a big deal! Listening to the sound, I'm afraid there are more than 20 artillery pieces, how many shells do you have to use for such a long time of shelling? ”

Han Yunhua said: "Since we sent troops to the northwest of Jin, we have attacked three county towns and destroyed seventeen devil strongholds, including Qingshuihe County, which the devils focus on defending. By the time we were divided into Sancha Fort, we captured a total of 94 60mm mortars, 56 82mm mortars, 12 75mm mountain guns, and 12 field guns. The attack on Sancha Fort was carried out by the 1st Battalion of the Guard Regiment, which was equipped with a total of 25 60mm mortars, 2 75mm mountain guns, and 1 75mm field gun, and the half-hour shelling consumed more than 900 shells. ”

Master He said with some sadness: "You kid This is a serious waste, just these more than 200 devils you have wasted so many shells, you are really a loser." ”

Han Yunhua said with a smile: "It's worth it to replace the casualties of an infantry company with nine hundred shells." Now the most valuable thing is not the broken copper and iron, but the lives of soldiers. As the saying goes, money is dead, people are alive, and if there are people, will they worry about not being able to catch cannons and shells? ”

As he spoke, the plateau launched an attack on the devil's turret, because the devil's turret design is very reasonable, the threat of general artillery to the turret is limited, but the dozens of shooting holes around the turret can crush the troops attacking the turret.

At the beginning of the battle, Yiying fell into a bitter battle, a total of 12 Type 92 heavy machine guns were installed on the entire turret, and there were as many as 30 Taisho 11-year light machine guns, and the entire turret was like a war beast spraying steel flames. In just 15 minutes, more than 50 lightly and seriously wounded were carried off the battlefield, and more than 20 people died on the spot, and in less than a quarter of an hour, half a company was lost in the first battalion, which really frightened Han Yunhua and others who were watching the battle.

Fortunately, with the cooperation of artillery units and snipers, the devils guarding the stronghold did not dare to shoot with their heads out, otherwise the casualties would have increased.

In the space of an hour, the plateau organized four charges, but all of them were brought down by the dense fire of the devils, and the troops suffered extremely heavy casualties, and three of the four infantry companies suffered more than half of the casualties. In the face of this kind of steel hedgehog with long thorns, Han Yunhua and Master He had nothing to do.

Just as Han Yunhua was hesitating whether to let the first battalion suspend the attack, the battle situation changed again, Gao Yuan found the wreckage of three tanks from somewhere, and he asked the soldiers of the demolition team to hide under the steel shell of the broken tank and move forward slowly.

The devils in the turret were also anxious when they saw this situation, and they didn't care about the mortars and snipers outside the turret, and they stood on the top of the turret one by one with machine guns and vigorously poured bullets into the shells of the three broken tanks, and the Japanese-made melon-type grenades were also thrown off the turret as if they didn't want money, and the devils in the turret even organized a counter-charge.

Under such a fierce blow, the two blasting groups on the south and east sides of the turret did not move anymore when they were only more than ten meters away from the turret, and only the blasting group on the north side was still slowly advancing.

Of course, the plateau did not let the little devils have good fruits to eat, as long as the devils who dared to show their heads could be killed by snipers for a minute at most, and the squad that rushed out of the turret was all left on the position by the plateau, and none of them returned alive.

More than a dozen explosive bags were buried under the devil's turret by the soldiers of the demolition group, and after the lead was installed, the soldiers of the demolition group detonated the explosive bag after only retreating five or six meters away from the broken tank shell, and the violent explosion blew the devil's turret into ruins, and at the same time, the huge air wave also blew away the broken tank shell covering the heads of the soldiers of the demolition group, and the five soldiers of the demolition group under the tank were also blown everywhere, and their lives and deaths were unknown.

The 77th Independent Brigade dispatched an infantry battalion of about 650 people and a large number of artillery, and the devil who defended the turret had a reinforced squadron of infantry, a squad of heavy machine gunners, and a squad of artillery, with a total strength of about 350 people. After two and a half hours of hard fighting, the 77th Independent Brigade successfully destroyed the stronghold of Sanchabao, which was heavily guarded by devils, annihilated 347 devils guarding the stronghold, and captured a lot of weapons and equipment. The first battalion of the guard regiment of the 77th Independent Brigade suffered a total of 188 casualties, 374 light and serious wounded, and only 76 soldiers were intact, the casualty rate reached 90%, and the ratio of casualties between the enemy and us was 1:2, and the casualty ratio of the 77th Independent Brigade to the Japanese army exceeded that of the Japanese army for the first time.

In the early morning of March 17, Yang Hao and other four troops attacking Tianjiayao, Yijing Town, Shankou, and Phoenix Mountain came one after another, but without exception, the casualties were extremely heavy, all four battalion commanders of the guard regiment were seriously injured, 7 of the 16 company commanders were killed, and the rest were all slightly injured.

After careful statistics, the number of casualties of the 77th Independent Brigade Guard Regiment was 678, 324 were seriously wounded, and 967 were lightly wounded, and now the Guard Regiment has a total of 1,668 fighters with light wounded and combat-ready soldiers, less than two-thirds of the heyday.

The 77th Independent Brigade uprooted all the strongholds on the outskirts of Wuzhai in just one night, which was far beyond Master He's expectations. Master He originally thought that Han Yunhua, the newly formed guard regiment, would be able to completely uproot those fortress-like strongholds in five days at the shortest, and as for the casualties of the troops, Master He would see it more clearly than Han Yunhua in the long run.

After watching the battle of the first battalion attacking the stronghold of Sancha Fort, Master He secretly compared it in his heart, the first battalion of the 77th Independent Brigade took Sancha Fort at the cost of 90% of the casualties, but it was only the casualties of a reinforced battalion, and there were only five or six hundred people killed. If the troops of the 120th Division were to attack the Sanchabao stronghold, even the 717th Regiment, which had the highest quality of personnel and the best weapons and equipment, would not necessarily be able to defeat even if it threw down two battalions in this small stronghold.

In Master He's view, the 77th Independent Brigade Guard Regiment defeated the infantry, five machine gun squads, and five machine gun squads of the four reinforced squadrons of the devil with an absolute loss of less than 700 people. If you only look at the absolute losses, a total of 1,178 complete devil corpses were found during the cleaning of the battlefield, plus those devils who were blown to pieces, then the death ratio of the guard regiment and the Japanese army is an astonishing 1:2, which is an extremely amazing record in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.

Now that the 77th Independent Brigade has set up a stage, there is no reason why the 120th Division should not sing the trick well. Under the order of Master He, more than 24,000 troops of the 120th Division launched a full-front assault on the Japanese army.

At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon of March 17, the city of Wuzhai was broken, and a complete brigade defending the city escaped with less than 300 people, and the remnants of the devils fled into Ningwu County in embarrassment.

On the morning of 21 March, with the cooperation of the 1st Independent 77th Brigade Fire Support Battalion and the Temporary Artillery Regiment, the 359th Brigade of the 120th Division fought continuously, and successively captured the two county towns of Ningwu and Shenchi in one day and one night.

However, Li Shouxin's department was not so lucky, and Li Shouxin's more than 3,000 cavalry cooperating with the Japanese army to attack the northwest of Shanxi Province had always been only responsible for relatively idle tasks such as peripheral cover and chasing the enemy, so this part of the puppet army has not suffered too much loss.

After receiving the order to retreat from Major General Kuroda Shigetoku, this cavalry division under Li Shouxin's headquarters hurriedly fled from the Octagonal Fort garrison and fled in the direction of Shuoxian. Han Yunhua, who had long coveted Li Shouxin's cavalry division, immediately ordered the eastward detachment, which had been waiting for a long time at the border of the Great Wall of Zhao, to encircle and annihilate this puppet cavalry division.

This puppet cavalry division, which had just been formed by the Kuomintang prisoners and a small number of Japanese advisers, was really cowardly, and it only lasted more than an hour under the siege of two cavalry regiments of the eastward advance detachment before surrendering, and did not even wait for reinforcements from Shuoxian, which was close at hand.

At this point, the one-and-a-half-month campaign to recover the seven cities in the northwest of Jin ended with the victory of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the independent 77th Brigade that cooperated with the attack. The Eighth Route Army dispatched more than 30,000 troops to successfully recover the seven cities occupied by the Japanese army, including Biguan, Hequ, Baode, Ningwu, Shenchi, Lanxian, and Wuzhai, killing and wounding more than 8,000 Japanese puppet troops, and seizing a lot of weapons and ammunition...... ("Snow Shame" has been uploaded for half a month, thanks to everyone's support in this half month, thank you here!) Now "Snow Shame" is the first place on the list of new military books, and it can be said that without everyone's support, Aotian and "Snow Shame" would not have gone so far! On the fourth day of the upload of "Snow Shame", Sister Ye asked Aotian to sign a contract, and the upload had more than 10,000 clicks in one week, and it was classified and strongly promoted in two weeks. Starting this week, "Snow Shame" is fortunate to be featured in the selection of new books in the military category, and I also ask everyone to continue to support Aotian and "Snow Shame". )

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