- The next day

Tada Jun and a group of officers rode fast horses to the front of Xiaoyi City, Tada Jun stood on a small hill and looked at Xiaoyi City with binoculars, and his brows couldn't help but tighten more and more. In front of him was a defensive position composed of barbed wire, fortresses, trenches, and antlers, and a huge blue sky and white sun flag was erected around the position, and he couldn't see clearly in many places, and he didn't know what it was, but only on the forward position, he could occasionally see steel helmets and machine gun muzzles to let him know that this position was not easy to deal with.

The most infuriating thing is that in the open space of the forward position, the Eighth Route Army used a lot of wooden boards with the words "Beware of Mines" written on them, and graffiti of the imperial army that was bombed into the sky was painted next to them, which simply made Tada Jun feel angry.

Tada Jun said to Ushijima next to him, "Ushijima General, you come to command, this is your battle." ”

Ushijima nodded gratefully and said, "Thank you, Your Excellency, Commander, for your trust." Order the mortar to move to position after eight rapid fires, and the Imperial Allied Army will attack! ”

The 20th Division is a first-class division, and one division has 80 infantry guns, 12 field guns, 36 mountain guns, and 36 mortars. However, in order to pursue the Eighth Route Army this time, the 20th Division only carried mortars and infantry guns, and all field artillery, mountain artillery, and independent field heavy artillery directly under the Third Army did not bring a single one.

But Ushijima was not worried, 80 infantry guns with a range of up to 2,800 meters and 36 mortars with a range of more than 3,000 meters were enough to give him the confidence to suppress a group of lost dogs on the opposite side. But just in case, Ushijima still decided to test one or two first, after all, looking at the other side. It's also a tight fight.

Cai Xiongfei was the deputy division commander of the former Jin Sui Army, and last year he felt that China's general trend had gone because he saw that the Japanese army had won the Battle of Wuhan. On the one hand, he saw that the territory of his own existence on the ground in Shanxi was constantly eroded by the Red Party, so he surrendered to the enemy in the northwest of Shanxi and became the Imperial Association Army in one go.

He was originally a major general, he was immediately valued by the Japanese army and elected as the commander of the Fifth Route Army of the Imperial Allied Army. On the contrary, I feel that the Eighth Route Army is so powerful now, and it is a wise choice to take the early surrender, otherwise who knows when I will be disarmed by the Eighth Route Army. Everybody knows. This Eighth Route Army is a member of the Red Party, and the Red Party wants to help the poor to communist, and they will have to rob all of their family property at that time.

But when he heard that he was going to lead 8,000 puppet troops to the front, he couldn't help but feel a trace of remorse in his heart. But he still shouted, "Everyone, listen to me." The time has come for the imperial army to test us, the earth and eight roads are surrounded in this small place, they are bound to lose, the imperial army can blow them up with planes, kill one earth eight roads, reward five pieces of ocean, double the officers, if they catch their division commander. Commander, I will promote you to be the commander of the division. Captains. ”

"Sir, you yourself are a military commander, how can you promote us to be a military commander." A bold puppet army shouted.

"Nonsense, I arrested Zhu Daizhen, don't I want to be promoted? When the time comes, won't you be able to be a military commander? Well, all ready, the first division is the vanguard, go to battle!! Cai Xiongfei said, as if he saw that his horse had to be ridden and the high-ranking officials had to sit, and he couldn't help but be a little excited.

Guarding the city of filial piety is Yang Zhicheng, Yang Zhicheng looked at the puppet army slowly approaching the front position of the defensive position on the head of the city, and couldn't help but snort coldly, when he saw that these troops were also playing the blue sky and white sun flag, but there was an extra pig's tail on it, he couldn't help gritting his teeth and scolding, "Damn, it's a dog traitor, and the devil is also good enough, seeing us waiting for us like this, we actually sent the traitor army to be the vanguard." The order went down, and only half of the firepower was used to fight me, and none of the bunkers were allowed to move. These traitors and scum are not worthy of our full strength. ”

Most of these puppet troops were the original Jin Sui army plus a small number of newly trained puppet troops later, and they did not have the consciousness of fighting to the death at all, and they were trembling when they walked, and when they were about 800 meters away from the forward position, they heard the Japanese army behind them start to shoot, which was the meaning of ordering the troops to charge.

Under the command of the puppet army officer, the puppet army began to bend over and rush forward with a gun, and seeing that the puppet army was charging, the Japanese artillery unit also began to open artillery to cover.

Dozens of rounds of mortar shells hit the position, causing bursts of explosions, and many barbed wire and antlers were blown off and damaged, but to Ushijima's surprise, there was no sign of counterattack on the opposite side, as if it was a dead land.

700 meters, 600 meters, the heavy machine guns of the puppet army have begun to arrange their positions, at this time, the puppet army who rushed to the front suddenly felt that their bodies were light, and then they heard a burst of explosions, and a small anti-infantry mine like a fist jumped into the air, and countless steel balls flew around, tearing apart all the flesh they encountered.

"Ahh The screams suddenly rang out, these steel balls often only crippled the enemy, but not killed, looking at the comrades lying in a pool of blood rolling in front of them, the puppet army behind them stopped in unison. From the air, you can see that the puppet army that stepped on the mine is the line, and the puppet army behind quickly gathered.

At this time, the puppet army was about 500 meters away from the forward position, not to mention that such a distance was extremely close to the Mark Core with a range of up to 2,000 meters, and even a Czech light machine gun could easily hit. Seeing such an opportunity, where are the light and heavy machine guns in each fortress still pressed, the chain of up to 250 rounds provides enough fire support for the Mark core machine gun, and the Czech-style precision shooting is even more to hit the puppet army, the originally silent position instantly spit out dozens of tongues of fire, sweeping on the puppet army who was still at a loss, some clever puppet soldiers hurriedly lay down, and some puppet soldiers who have no combat experience as long as they are swept by the fire whip, it is one big hole after another, The originally scattered lines of blood were quickly smeared.

Seeing such a tragic situation, the puppet army behind couldn't hold on any longer, and fled backwards one after another, and before they could run one or two hundred meters, another shuttle of bullets hit and knocked the retreating puppet army to the ground.

When I looked up, I didn't know when, the Japanese army's Type 92 machine gun had been erected. The muzzle of the gun was stunned and was facing the retreating puppet army, and Cai Xiongfei immediately understood. Waving a pistol, he shouted, "Don't mess around, that's what Tubalu does, they don't have many bullets." This is to scare everyone, everyone will rush forward for me, and the first one to kill the eight-way position will reward the ocean with a thousand. ”

A thousand oceans, this is enough to go back and be a rich man, and when they heard such a reward, everyone's eyes turned red. Gritting his teeth, bending over, he rushed forward frantically. The machine guns of the puppet army also rattled. The Japanese saw that the Eighth Route Army had not used artillery until now, and they did not believe in evil and opened fire again, this time adding 40 infantry guns, and a round of more than 70 shells fell on the forward positions. Time. The entire position was filled with explosions, and some impenetrable fortifications were blown apart.

At this time, two groups of planes flew in the distance, but they were two bomber squadrons of the Japanese army, a total of 72 planes, only to see a group of planes along the direction of the puppet army's attack and began to bomb, there was actually some intention to use bombs to blow up a road. These are the latest Type 97 bombers that can carry a ton of explosives. The Japanese carried ten hundred-kilogram explosives, which were enough to blow up the concrete fortifications built by the Eighth Route Army.

The other team flew over the battlefield in the heat of battle. I want to fly to the mountains in the rear, and I don't know what to blow up.

Seeing that there was an air force to help, Cai Xiongfei also shouted excitedly, and thousands of puppet soldiers roared and rushed towards the Eighth Route Army on the ground that had just been blown up.

"Order the air defense forces to strike back!" Yang Zhicheng watched the fortifications that his subordinates had built with great difficulty being bombed, his eyes were red, and he didn't care about Mr. Peng's ban, he had to use anti-aircraft artillery, he knew that it was most effective to use anti-aircraft artillery to deal with big guys like bombers. ”

"Commander, wait, it's only the first day, and the boss said that no weapons above the second level are allowed on the first day." The staff officer next to him hurriedly persuaded.

"Hey!!" Yang Zhicheng knocked the wall and continued to watch the battle.

The air raid lasted for half an hour, and after the air raid ended, the puppet army hurriedly wanted to charge forward, because of the bombing in front, many mines were blown up, and the puppet army was even more unscrupulous, even if some people were still blown up by mines, they also felt that he was unlucky, but he was not afraid in his heart.

"Haha, it's really nothing more than that!" Ushijima couldn't help but shout happily when he saw that the puppet army was about to rush up.

Before Ushijima's words fell, he saw that the forward position that he thought had been blown up to the ground suddenly erupted with extremely fierce firepower, and countless rifles and machine guns were fired together, and the Eighth Route Army, which had already learned the fortification skills of later generations, built a lot of tunnel fortifications in the forward position, these tunnel fortifications seemed to be only a trench not deep outside, but there was a hole in the inside, and there was a protective airtight door in the corner of the trench, and behind the door was a shelter room that could hide dozens of people, This shelter is dug down at an inclined angle, and when it goes inside, it is often a layer of soil up to several meters thick, and the Japanese army's 100 kg bombs only blew up the exposed and outer fortifications and bunkers, but the really important shelter is as stable as Mount Tai, and when the plane leaves, the scouts outside hurriedly call the soldiers inside to return to their combat posts, just in time to rush to the puppet army charge, first a shower of grenade rain, and then countless bullets weave a bullet net, the puppet army to the ground. Many fighters shouted while fighting: "Chinese do not fight Chinese, disarm and do not kill!" I lost my weapon and crawled over!! ”

Not to mention, many of the frightened puppet soldiers did not dare to go back to face the Japanese army's supervision team, and they really honestly dropped their weapons and climbed into the trenches of the Eighth Route Army

Seeing that the people of one of their divisions were reimbursed in front of the position of the Eighth Route Army in just one or two hours, and their own troops did not even really board the position. Cai Xiongfei hurriedly snorted and cried to Niu Dao with tears: "Taijun, the eight roads are too powerful, we really can't beat them." ”

Ushijima kicked Cai Xiongfei to the ground and shouted, "Yaga, it's obvious that you people are colluding with each other, greedy for life and afraid of death, and you still say that you can't beat it, you give me a good look at how our Imperial Japanese Army fights!" ”

Saying that Ushijima ordered a brigade of Japanese troops to move forward, due to the bombardment in front and the charge of the puppet army, many mines were destroyed, this brigade was very confident that it first came to a distance of seven or eight hundred meters, and then lined up and began to advance.

Sometimes. Some Japanese soldiers stepped on a mine and exploded, but they saw that none of these Japanese soldiers hesitated to stop, but kept speeding up. Having paid dozens of casualties, the Japanese army came to a place about three or four hundred meters away from the position.

At this time, the Japanese artillery began to exert its might, all the artillery fired in unison, and a round of more than 100 shells smashed into the position of the Eighth Route Army over and over again, and the dense explosion sound made people feel breathless. The position of the Eighth Route Army died down for a while, and most of the soldiers hurriedly hid in the tunnel, only to see that the Japanese soldiers completely ignored the explosion just two hundred meters ago. Forge ahead. From time to time, artillery shells flew over the heads of the Japanese troops, and the strong wind carried by the bullets made a loud whistling sound overhead. If the faint-hearted are afraid that they will hear this voice, they will fall down.

Yang Zhiqiang was shocked when he saw it, he had never fought a large-scale positional battle with a devil, he didn't expect that the devil's infantry and artillery coordination could actually achieve this point, and the distance of less than one hundred and fifty meters had almost reached the extreme of infantry and artillery coordination.

Sure enough, the Japanese artillery fire began to extend backwards. The Japanese army was also less than 100 meters away from our position. Fortunately, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were accustomed to throwing a grenade first, dragging the grenade in their hands, and when they saw that the Japanese army was close at hand, they hurriedly threw out a grenade, and then took the things around them to the Japanese army, regardless of whether he was a machete or a stone, whether he was a bayonet or a sapper shovel. The short distance of a few meters gave the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army no time to choose tactics and weapons, and the entire position was suddenly slaughtered. The fighters and the Japanese scuffled together. From time to time, the Japanese light machine guns in the back hit the lone soldiers of our army, and the machine guns behind us also swept away the empty Japanese soldiers around us from time to time.

Cai Xiongfei looked at the position he couldn't hit for half a day, and the Japanese army had already started a white-knuckle battle with only one charge, and he couldn't help but worship the Japanese army even more.

"Order the artillery unit to counteract the Japanese artillery, for such a long time, they should also calculate their artillery positions." Yang Zhicheng shouted.

The artillery position hidden behind the position was constantly adjusting its position at this time, and a large number of people from professional classes had already calculated the position of the Japanese artillery in the past ten minutes, but the Japanese army was also very cunning, they divided the artillery into six brigades, and our artillery units could only choose one to attack.

Finally, the captain of the artillery team, who waited for the order to be issued, hurriedly ordered the cannon to be fired. As many as 50 mortars made a "bang" sound in unison.

Fifty shells with the light of fire flew over the forward positions in front, over the starting positions of the Japanese troops, and came to their target, the Japanese artillery positions surrounded by a group of sandbags, here a group of twenty infantry guns.

Ushijima watched in amazement as one of his artillery groups was being made love by groups of shells, the explosion of fire and the screams that could be heard made him feel sore in his teeth.

"Quick, counter the artillery units of the Eighth Route Army!!" Ushijima shouted loudly.

But what Ushijima could not see was that in front of the artillery unit of the Eighth Route Army, there was a man-made slope four or five meters thick and eight or nine meters high, and the artillery unit of the Eighth Route Army was on this anti-slope position, and this slope was piled up by the soil when trenches and fortifications were dug around. The artillery shells flying by the Japanese were often blocked by this bunker, and the artillery losses of the Eighth Route Army were very small.

At this time, the fighting on the position had reached a stage, and the Eighth Route Army relied on half of the large number of people and half of the terrain, and after more than ten minutes of hand-to-hand combat, it finally pressed the Japanese back before the second group of Japanese troops rushed up.

By the time the Japanese army withdrew to its position, the sun had already come to the center, and before you knew it, a morning had passed in this battle, and the Japanese army had nothing to gain except for nearly a thousand puppet troops and hundreds of Japanese troops left on the position.

Tada Jun sighed and said, "The trapped beast is still fighting, although the Eighth Route Army is very lacking in individual tactics, but their defensive position, I have to say that it is very orderly. ”

Ushijima snorted, "Your Excellency Commander, we don't have mountain artillery and field artillery, and when our mountain artillery and field artillery come up, and then cooperate with planes and combat vehicles, I don't believe that we can't take it here." ”

Tada Jun laughed and said, "That's not good, most of our chariots have been concentrated in Wenshui by me, and it's our killer weapon there." However, the chariot is inconvenient to move, and the resources required are too many, and it will take a few days, and our mountain artillery and field artillery are still in Taiyuan, Datong, Linyi and other places, and when they are transported, I am afraid that half a month will pass. Not to mention what will become of the positions of the Eighth Route Army at that time, I am afraid that they will all run away through the path on the mountain. Although we bombed their back roads this time. I can't guarantee that they can run away when something happens, the Eighth Route Army, they are all the same existence as rats. ”

At this time, Takeda Takeo came over and said, "Report to Your Excellency Commander." Wenshui's telegram that Fujita Shigeru Daisa had arrived at the designated location and was heading towards Yudaohe Town. ”

Ushijima couldn't help but ask curiously, "Your Excellency, how powerful is this strange soldier?" ”

Tada Jun touched his beard and said, "This strange soldier is composed of a cavalry wing, an infantry wing and a chariot wing, and it is a terrifying combat force with more than seventy chariots, and I have specially equipped them with an aviation combat team. When the time comes, they will attack all the way from Lijiazhuang to Sanquan Town, cutting the position of the Eighth Route Army into two sections, how can the Eighth Route Army, which only has machine guns and mortars, be the opponent of our tank troops. ”

Ushijima couldn't help but nod again and again, and said, "This move is indeed high." Then we will try our best to attack with the Eighth Route Army, firstly, it is best to break through, and secondly, we can also attract the attention of the Eighth Route Army. ”

Tada Jun nodded and said, "That's right, that's it." Now you understand why I'm asking you to keep attacking. Let the Imperial Association Army fill it in, and if it dies, it will be recruited again, and it will not matter. ”

Ushijima was no longer in a hurry, and quickly nodded and said, "Hi! ”

-- Three days later

The positions of Xiaoyi and Fenyang have been bombed into a mess, and from time to time planes fly over and drop a few bombs, and the soldiers hiding in the tunnels are also accustomed to attacks of such intensity, as long as the Japanese rush up. It was a meal of grenades and machine guns, and most of them were puppet soldiers in the first two days. But since yesterday, the Japanese army finally couldn't help but go into battle, in just three days, the Japanese puppet army has paid the price of more than 7,000 casualties, and the reward is just a small forward position, especially the hateful Eighth Route Army in the retreat of the magical tunnel also bombed, so that the Japanese army had to only fight in the shallow trenches and the Eighth Route Army.

Tada Jun looked at the map and said to Takeda Takeo behind him, "It's finally ready over there, and everything will wait for dawn tomorrow." ”

Takeda Takeo said firmly: "Under the command of His Excellency the Commander, our army will definitely be victorious. ”

Tada Jun nodded proudly, but what he didn't see was that when Takeda Yixiong lowered his head, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he didn't know what he was laughing at.

-- Pingxingguan

Lin Sanhu looked at Pingxingguan not far away with a sigh in a military uniform, his first battle of resistance against Japan started here, but he didn't expect to return here, but things are not people, and the opponent has changed from the fourth division to the current 108th division.

Lin Sanhu patted the dew on his shoulder and asked, "Is the investigation clear?" The number of devils everywhere. ”

The new chief of staff, Wang Bingzhang, nodded and said, "The intelligence of the three places has returned, there are 400 Japanese troops in Pingxingguan, 170 puppet soldiers, and the number of people in the other two counties is much less, all of them are a squadron of Japanese soldiers equipped with a company of puppet troops, it seems that the devil really didn't expect us to come here." ”

Lin Sanhu said with a smile, "I'm afraid the little devil has always thought that we are all besieged under Luliang Mountain, looking at the telegram sent by the headquarters, the Japanese army has concentrated 100,000 troops to besiege Luliang Mountain, so calculate, the entire Shanxi except for the Jinnan side, there are less than 10,000 Japanese troops, how about Taiyuan and other big cities, there are thousands each, and the checkpoints in other counties add up to only six or seven thousand, and the devil's strength has reached the extreme." In this way, Pingxingguan was attacked by the 343rd Brigade, the other two county towns were attacked by the 344th Brigade, the independent regiment was on guard on the periphery, and the new 1st to 5th regiments were responsible for sweeping other strongholds except for the county town and Pingxingguan, and the time was set at 3 o'clock at midnight. ”

Wang Bingzhang pointed to the map and said, "When we arrived, it was the people of the eastward column led by Xiao Hua, with a total of four regiments and nearly 10,000 people, if we cooperate with the guerrillas in Hebei, we should be able to hold out until we come back." ”

Lin Sanhu laughed and said, "Oh? It's Xiao Hua, and his eastward column has twenty or thirty thousand people. ”

Wang Bingzhang nodded and said, "Isn't it, he fought well in Hebei, and the reputation of Commander Doll has resounded all over Hebei, and Master Lin had a fight back then." ”

Lin Sanhu became a battalion commander at the age of 21, a division commander at the age of 22, and a military commander at the age of 23, and Xiao Hua was not bad, he was the political commissar of the Junior International Division at the age of 18, and at the age of 21, he became the deputy director of the Political Training Office of the 115th Division, the three main forces, and at the age of 22, he led the troops out of Shanxi to develop in Hebei, and at the age of 23, he already had more than 20,000 anti-Japanese armed forces under his command at this time.

Lin Sanhu didn't want to discuss which of the two was better, after all, in his eyes, the only military figure stronger than himself was Mr. Zhu, and even Mr. Peng felt that he was not worse than him, and asking him to compare with Xiao Hua, who was a younger generation, would only make him feel that his status was lower.

Lin Sanhu said, "Don't have too many casualties in this battle, what will be followed is a tough battle, let the special team find a way to blow up the city gate, and if you are flat, use the recoilless cannon to blast it open for me." I hope that my troops will have high morale and a complete strength to deal with the three divisions under Luliang Mountain. ”

Wang Bingzhang nodded and said, "Yes, I will give orders." ”

Pingxingguan is very calm at this time, from time to time passers-by enter and exit Pingxingguan, and the Japanese puppet army guarding here grabs something from time to time and touches a girl, without a trace of nervousness. After all, even when the Eighth Route Army attacked some time ago, the Eighth Route Army did not attack Pingxingguan, not to mention that now the Eighth Route Army is besieged in Luliang Mountain.

Night is gradually falling, the moon at the end of January is just a crescent, the faint moonlight and starlight can not illuminate anything, the highway at this time is not as full of street lights as in later generations, the soldiers of the 115th Division are about four or five hundred meters away from the Pingxing Pass when they lie on the ground, although the searchlights on the Pingxing Pass keep sweeping around under the pass, but the Eighth Route Army wearing camouflage uniforms and hundreds of meters apart is just a ball of bells and whistles in their eyes, they can't see it clearly, and the time slowly passes little by little. (To be continued.) )

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