November 20, 1940. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info North China.

The Japanese army finally counterattacked.

It cannot but be admitted that the Japanese army's movements were still very fast.

On the northern line of Hebei, when the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway was not repaired, the Japanese army attacked the eastern Hebei and northern Hebei base areas while building the road, and more than 10,000 Japanese troops and puppet troops attacked the Pingxi base area. In Jizhong, more than 10,000 Japanese puppet troops attacked Lu Zhengcao's Jizhong Military Region.

In the direction of Shanxi, the Japanese army went all the way out of Datong, attacked the northwest of Shanxi, all the way out of the south of Jin, attacked the Shanxi base area to the north, several people and horses out of Taiyuan, all the way to attack Jinchaji, all the way to the southeast of Jin, and two ways along the railway.

All the way, the Japanese army attacked the base area in eastern Hebei.

After the failure of the Great Rebellion in Eastern Hebei in 1938, the Party Committee of Jichare District returned to Pingxi from eastern Hebei in history. Due to the appearance of the trail, it was suggested that an advance team of Rehe be sent to build a base area in Rehe, and those who failed in the uprising entered Rehe and preserved their strength.

This time, in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the troops in the eastern Hebei region also participated in the battle and also achieved certain results. Because of the advance preparations, the people's troops were very tightly hidden, and when the large army of the devil puppet army came, it was empty, and the small troops suffered losses when they came down, and after the sweep began, they immediately entered a state of procrastination.

However, many people were still damaged, many were killed and wounded, many houses were burned, and some villages were almost razed to the ground.

In order to protect the people from losses, the troops had no choice but to attack. After several battles, the losses of the troops were not small, more than 2,000 people. Because of the concentration of military strength, the Japanese army suffered little losses, only more than 1,000 people, most of whom were puppet troops.

After the Japanese troops were pushed back, they immediately began the construction of the blockade ditch gun tower. The Japanese army began to arrest people and husbands everywhere, build railways, build roads, and jump on the eastern Hebei Plain.

Pingxi Base Area. The Japanese army dispatched more than 10,000 people, and the Japanese puppet army in eastern Hebei was dispatched at the same time.

At the beginning of January 1939, Nie Rongzhen, commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, presided over a meeting to discuss the decision of the Party Central Committee and the ** on the establishment of the Jirecha Advance Army. Present at the meeting were He Long, Xiao Ke, Peng Zhen, Guan Xiangying, and Ma Huizhi. Xiao Ke, deputy commander of the 120th Division, was in charge of the Pingxi base area.

After the meeting, Xiao Ke, Ma Huizhi, and Cheng Shicai led a group of cadres to cross the Bauhinia Pass, enter Pingxi, enter Wanping County, and arrive at the upper and lower Qingshui villages of Zhaitang River in mid-January.

On the way to the army, Xiao Kefu said: "Crossing the Juma River in the north, Baihua Mountain is in sight, establishing an advance army, and penetrating into the heart of the enemy." Looking at Ji Recha, the future is immeasurable, the military and the people work together, better than Zhuge Liang, although the War of Resistance is protracted, laugh at my strength. ”

In July 1940, the 71 Sweep resulted in huge losses in the newly expanded Pingxi Base Area. In several battles, enemy planes even dropped bombs and hit the courtyard where Xiao Ke lived, and the World Journal in Beiping even reported that "Xiao Ke was killed."

At the end of 1940, in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, Xiao Ke's troops annihilated more than 1,000 enemies, and the base area was basically restored, and the Pingxi base area was connected with the base area of the Jinzhou Column. **Lead the team to infiltrate and disappear.

Now, the Japanese army is attacking again, Xiao Ke has made great efforts to transfer the people near the railway and highway into the mountains, and fought a few battles in the opposite direction of covering the people. However, the troops in the Pingxi base area became smaller and smaller, and after fighting for a while, the Japanese army picked up the cage policy again.

At the beginning of December 1940, the two Japanese forces attacking Pingxi and Jidong pulled out their hands and moved south to attack the headquarters of Lu Zhengcao in the Jizhong base area.

The people in the Lü Zhengcao base area fell into great difficulties.

Because Xiao Lu fought side by side with Lu Zhengcao on the way back from the defense of Nanjing, Xiao Lu suggested that he dig tunnels in the base area, hide materials, Tibetan people and soldiers, and after more than two years, great results have been achieved. Almost every house has an authentic one. On the surface, the house is still dilapidated, but everything is underground.

This year, the corn output in Jizhong increased greatly, the fine varieties spread rapidly in the base areas, and the grain harvest was buried in the burrows.

The people along the railway still suffered losses because of the many traitors, and Lu Zhengcao led the troops to fight several times and rescued tens of thousands of people.

There are no mountains in the Great Plain of Jizhong, so the rescued people have to move to the distant plains, and those who can join relatives and friends try to join relatives and friends, and those who do not have relatives and friends have to be arranged by the government to go to the nearby villages to hide in cellars.

The troops were even more difficult, after the people covered up, the troops fought several battles, there was no green gauze tent to cover in winter, their whereabouts were exposed, and the guerrilla warfare was not smooth, and in the end, they had to break through the siege overnight and enter the Taihang Mountain. This time, they lost thousands of troops, giving a big blow to the devil puppet army, the devil lost hundreds of people, and the puppet army lost thousands of people.

The situation in Shanxi is also not very optimistic.

The Japanese army was flanked from the north and south, and the reinforcements of the Japanese army in southern Jin and northern Henan made the Eighth Route Army feel pressure. The Japanese army from Datong was violent, and a situation of attacking from the north and south had already taken shape. The civilian population and the militia suffered heavy losses, and in some villages all the people were killed.

At this time, the order for the second phase of the Hundred Regiments Battle was issued.

The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army did not adopt the proposal of stopping the battle of the 100 regiments on the small road, but adopted some of his suggestions, such as strengthening the tunnel work of the people in the base areas, speeding up the transfer of the people along the railway, and clearing the wilderness.

The second phase of the campaign was advocated by President Peng. There are two reasons for this: first, to counter offense with offense, and second, to protect the base areas from losses.

Before he made a decision, He Long, Guan Xiangying, Nie Rongzhen, Liu Bocheng, and Deng Lao solicited opinions, and reported to Mao Gong, Zhu Zong, Wang Jiaxiang, etc. The report asked whether it was possible to completely destroy some sections of Zhengtai Road and Tongpu Road, so that the three major base areas of Northwest Shanxi, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, and Taihang Mountain could be united.

Apparently this estimate is optimistic. General Peng's reason was that with the strong reinforcement of the Jinzhou column and the new force of the Soviet equipment brigade full of strength, victory could be achieved.

Soon after, the central authorities approved it, but demanded that the results of the first phase be expanded by focusing on guerrilla warfare and movement warfare.

On December 20, 1940, Zhu, Peng, and Zuo jointly issued an operational order for the second phase of the Hundred Regiments War. This order requires: 1. to continue to disrupt enemy communications; 2. Kefu went deep into certain strongholds in my basic base areas.

That night, the second phase of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments began.

This time, the number of Japanese reinforcements was less than one division, and the puppet army increased by tens of thousands, which was different from the reinforcements of the Japanese army in history, which added two divisions and regiments.

In addition, this time the Eighth Route Army had enough food, and the autumn harvest was not affected, which also increased the combat power of the Eighth Route Army.

The battle began, and troops everywhere resumed fighting.

This time, the campaign avoided attacking fortified positions, taking advantage of the advantages of his familiar terrain, dragging the Japanese army through the mountains, and sporadically annihilating the enemy in the mountains, and in ten days, hundreds of battles were fought, annihilating the Japanese army to 2,000 and annihilating tens of thousands of puppet troops.

The main force of the Eighth Route Army relied on almost every battle to support the ammunition captured in the previous battle.