Yang Bangzi just didn't call the first division, and the first division was going to do it! When the Jin-Cha-Ji conference was held, the military region attached the most importance to the first sub-district of the people when it turned into the counteroffensive stage in '44, because the territory actually controlled by the sub-district was relatively large and scattered, and the military region hoped that the first sub-district would connect the scattered base areas that had been divided by devils, and breaking the blockade of the Yilai Highway was the most important thing!

Originally, the 1st Sub-district planned to concentrate the troops of the 6 regiments to carry out a sabotage battle on the Yilai Highway after the winter training, and to attack the highway garrison points of the devils such as Zijing Pass, so that the two major base areas in the north and south of the 1st Sub-division would be connected first, and then the division would move north to strike at the garrison areas of the devils in Pingxi and Pingbei.

The offensive operation planned to start in the spring, because the operation of the 11th Division has undergone subtle changes, this change has become a fleeting fighter, and if this fighter is abandoned, it will take a lot of effort to confront the devils in the spring, and if this fighter is seized, it is very likely that the goal of the sabotage war will be twice the result with half the effort.

Commander Yang of the 1st Division has been closely following the battle progress of the 11th Division, don't look at others who are not in the 11th Division, Yang Bangzi's tricks, he knows it all, when he learned that the devil of the horse post attacked the east and south lines of the horse post, he realized that the devil was going to break through, this little devil has always been a loud attacker, he wants to go from the west, but he is trying to hit the east, it seems to be doing a lot of work!

After receiving Yang Bangzi's call, this sneaky operation was in full swing, and the first division immediately ended the winter training ahead of schedule, and the four main regiments completed their deployment from the outskirts of Yixian County to Zijing Pass, and the four small regiments and the local armed forces that had been transferred long ago were scattered on both sides of the Yilai Highway and entered the predetermined attack position.

Even Yang Bangzi didn't expect the first division to move so fast. The Shimizu team only left the next day. The resistance battle in Hongshi Lengzi Township began. One partition actually started!

The first division is to let the troops attacking various points of the Yilai Highway first conceal and enter the position, and the troops in the west of Yixian County are the first to start moving, making it look like they are going to storm the county seat of Yixian, the devil is quite panicked, because he is dispatching troops to the south to support the operation in South China and other places, and he has to send supplies to the troops of the Qingshui Wing to the west, and the county seat of Yixian is quite empty, and there is only one squadron of devils and hundreds of imperial troops in the entire county. Several strongholds outside the city were also basically garrisoned by the Imperial Association army and plainclothes teams.

The last time the Eighth Road took the initiative to attack the county seat of Yixian County was the 40-year Battle of the Hundred Regiments, when the first division carried out a general attack along the Yilai Highway, and also sent a multi-regiment of troops to attack Yixian, fought fiercely for three days and nights, and took more than half of the county, but the devil transferred troops from Baoding and other places to reinforce, and the first division was forced to withdraw from the county seat of Yixian.

It has been more than three years since the last battle of Yixian, which fell short, and in the past three years, the first division has been anti-sweeping and anti-clearing in its own territory, especially from the second half of '41 to the autumn of '42. The first division, as the eight-way target that the old devils of Gangcun Ningci want to focus on, has been fighting hard with the devils for a whole year! The territory and troops have also shrunk greatly!

Now Feng Shui takes turns! It's the devil's turn to shrink the front and be tired of defense. At this time, the garrison between Baoding and Beiping was the 63rd Division belonging to the second-line division, which was formed by the Japanese Army in May 1943, including the ** mixed 15th brigade and ** part of the mixed 6th brigade, with reference to the Japanese mainland formed in North China (the Japanese record is that it was formed in Utsunomiya on May 1, Showa 18, codenamed "array" troops). The 63rd Division is the lowest-ranking D division in the division: it has jurisdiction over only 3 infantry wings, and the other branches of the army only have a brigade or squadron establishment, with a total number of about 11,000 people.

After the 63rd Division was formed, it was assigned to the North China Front Army and was responsible for the garrison in the area from Beijing to Baoding. In May 1944 (Showa 19), he participated in the Jinghan operation in the mainland opening operation. In June 1945 (Showa 20), the 63rd Division was transferred to Manchuria and attached to the 44th Army, stationed in Tongliao. In August of the same year, he retreated to Mukden with the offensive of the Soviet army, and ushered in the final battle in charge of the defense of the eastern part of Mukden. The fate of this division was very bitter, and in Siberia it was taken by the Soviet army as the lowest laborer, building railways, roads, and logging, and only a few of them returned to Japan alive.

The 63rd Division had only more than 1,000 defenders in Yixian and other places, and they were scattered in dozens of strongholds, and the balance of power was tilted to the side of the Eighth Road.

At the end of the anti-sweep of the 1st Division in the autumn of 1943, Chief of Staff Huang of the 1st Division led the organs of the 1st Division, the 1st Regiment, the 20th Regiment, the 1st District Team, and the 2nd District Team to the west of Yi County, close to the areas of Ganhejing, Pocang, and Qiaojiahe in Laiyuan County. At the end of the year, Yang Chengwu recovered from illness and returned to work, and the First Division Headquarters led by Chief of Staff Huang, as well as the greatly reduced Front Drama Club, naturally entered Xiaolan Village. Until the autumn of 1944, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region established four second-level military regions, Yang Chengwu was transferred from the first division and became the commander of the Jizhong Military Region, and the headquarters of the first division never left Xiaolan Village.

In 1943, Chief of Staff Xu, the chief of staff of the 1st Division, led the 3rd Regiment, the 25th Regiment, and the 3rd District Team to operate in Zhouzhuang and Dule in the southeast of Yi County, as well as in the area west of Zhaozhuang and Shijing in Mancheng County. This area should not be underestimated, this is the core area of the only remaining anti-Japanese base area of the sub-district at that time, "Yimanding Xu United County".

The two sets of teams in the first division are actually very close to the garrison area of the devils, which is meant to be a little bit of a fact! The two main regiments and a district team together are five or six thousand people, and they are used to attack the surrounding areas of Yi County at once, which really makes the devils very panicked, and it has only been half a day since the war started, and the strongholds around the county town have been in an emergency, but the garrison headquarters in the county town cannot send out a single soldier! There is only one squadron of devils in the county seat, what are you going to do to guard the county seat?

can only report to Da Longhua and other places, the situation in Laishui County on the eastern front is similar, and there are only one hundred and ten devil garrison troops, and no one can be sent! The division headquarters in Baoding received an urgent call. Instead, more than 500 troops were sent. How can you get to Yi County so quickly from Baoding?

Fight until the afternoon. In addition to the stronghold of Xiling Town in the west of Yixian County, which has not yet been captured, more than a dozen strongholds and garrisons around the county have been taken by the Eighth Road! On the gate tower of the county seat, you can see the dust brought up by the Eighth Route in the southwest hilly area!

Da Longhua's devil stronghold is a big stronghold, there are more than 500 people, this is a car base, all the standing troops are a lot, knowing that the county town has been attacked, the division headquarters also called to help, so they sent more than 260 people to Xiling Town in more than 10 cars. Xiang first relieved the siege of Xiling Town, and then joined the garrison forces here to rescue the county seat.

As a result, before this car team reached Longquan Village, it fell into the ambush circle of the old third regiment that had been ambushed here for a long time! In less than twenty minutes, more than 260 devils and eleven cars were wiped out! At the same time as the ambush in Longquan Village, the troops besieging Xiling Town also launched an attack at the same time, and the remaining more than 60 devils in the garrison still wanted to flee to the county seat, and they were annihilated by the old third regiment that had beaten the devils in Longquan Village and went north!

When the ambush battle in Longquan Village began, the two battalions of the 25th Regiment and the 2nd District Team also began to attack the devils in the Da Longhua stronghold, and with the help of the inner line sent into the stronghold in advance, they captured more than half of the stronghold without much effort, and more than 100 devils broke through the west of the town and prepared to flee to the Bauhinia Pass along the road. was enclosed in the narrow ravine of Hejiagou.

The 25th regiment can eat this group of devils in one bite, but this group of devils was originally deliberately released and then surrounded by them. It's used as bait, it's impossible for the devils in Bauhinia Pass to sit idly by, they are all troops belonging to a brigade!

Sure enough, this group of devils was surrounded in a ravine fifteen or sixteen miles away from Bauhinia Pass, the devils of Bauhinia Pass couldn't sit still, more than 300 devils came out of the stronghold and went south along the road to respond, the two devils have not yet connected to the head, secretly went out to the old group at the western foot of Yunmeng Mountain, suddenly appeared in the mountains on the east side of Bauhinia Pass, attacked all the way, and completely annihilated the defenders of Bauhinia Pass in less than half of the night!

And the devils in Hejiagou were also surrounded by the 25th Regiment and the 2nd District Team, and the fierce battle lasted until the early morning of the next day, and the whole army was annihilated!

In this way, from the county seat of Yixian County to Bauhinia Pass, from the county seat to the eastern foot of Langya Mountain, the devils lost the strongholds of Dule, Songshan, Jie'an, and Linquan in the southwest of Yixian County within two days, and the northwest of Langya Mountain: Zhuliang Village, Xibaiyang, Nanbaoquan, Shanghuanghao, Bauhinia Guanxi Shilipu Village, Shangchenyi, Liujing, Shangzhuang (asbestos mine) and other strongholds and garrisons were also lost in the subsequent battle!

Unexpectedly, these strongholds and locations that the devil has painstakingly managed and repeatedly fought for for several years have been uprooted one by one by the concentrated troops of the first division and the reinforcements along the vine and melon! The area between Laiyuan County and Yi County is all under the control of the Eighth Road, and the county seat of Yi County is now struggling to support, and the Eighth Road has come to the city, and the same is true for Laiyuan!

Laiyuan can't be lost! The junction of the garrison area of the 63rd Division and the 47th Division, if it is lost here, it is equivalent to the cutting off of the communication line between Hebei and Shanxi! At the critical moment, the 63rd Division didn't care about it, and without waiting for the instructions of the army, it directly ordered the East Road rescue force, which was composed of troops drawn from various garrison bases, to immediately retreat to Laiyuan County, and recapture Bauhinia Pass and other places!

The devils on the east road have been in Liugou Village, and are advancing towards Juyan Mountain, there are still less than thirty miles from here to Shuibao Township, Fan Daring is to let the Linglai guerrilla brigade attack in this direction to disturb the progress of the sluggish devils, he put the guard company in Juyan Mountain, and the good steel is used on the blade! The terrain here in Juyan Mountain is dangerous, and it is not a big problem to resist the rescue team composed of this garrison force with the combat effectiveness of the guard company!

Hearing that the devils had withdrawn their troops, Fan Daring breathed a sigh of relief, and then heard that the first division of Bauhinia Pass, Dalonghua and other places in the east had taken down more than a dozen devil strongholds in one go, won such a large piece of territory, and annihilated nearly a brigade of devils.

However, he didn't immediately transfer the guard company back to Hongshi Lengzi's side, at present, he and the devil, the southbound rescue team composed of the infantry team of the 47th Division, are not working hard, this is also a garrison division of the troops, the combat effectiveness is like that, Fan Daring took the special training battalion to fight with the devils, and he felt that these devils are far worse than the gang that walks the horses, whether it is combat effectiveness or the overall combat style and quality!

The guy who walked the horse post was stubborn! For example, the battle of the grinding stone, the hole built by the devils under the mountain, there are only one or two devil soldiers in a hole, and they are all fighting to the death, and the special training camp can only be fried with grenades in one hole at a time, and some of the little devils' legs are blown off and they lie on the machine gun to catch fire!

Look at the devil of the red stone lengzi, there are a lot of people, standing on the top of the mountain and looking into the distance, the valley is also full of black pressure and traffic, there are thousands of people! But as soon as the guns rang out, and then looked at the grinding strength of the devil infantry, you knew that this army was a donkey dung egg with a light surface! It's useless! (To be continued......)