The Japanese army on the northern front was mainly an independent mixed unit of the Fourth Brigade, and the whole brigade was under the jurisdiction of: the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th Independent Infantry Brigades, as well as the artillery team, engineer team, and baggage team directly under the command of Major General Tsuda Mitake, and with the cooperation of the Imperial Cooperative Army of a brigade, secretly went south from Hunyuan County to the vicinity of Shangzhai Township.

After the joint encirclement and suppression operation began, the unit quickly divided its troops and seized Shentangbao, Xiaguan, Nanmazhuang and other places, and controlled the mountainous area and many key passes about 20 kilometers wide from east to west between the two highways from Shenfu to Datai, forming a blockade from the northwest to the hinterland of the Eighth Road and Six Divisions.

In addition to the temporary fortifications built along the mountain, heavy troops were also deployed in the area of Chai Phi Ling and Jiema Shi, which were bordered by the 110 th Division's regimental defense area, and the brigade headquarters was located in Nanmazhuang Village, not far from Pichai Ling, and the artillery and engineer units to which the brigade and regiment belonged were also attached to this area.

And this is the direction of the breakthrough chosen by Yang Bangzi, does he not know that the devil is heavily guarded here?

Know! Since this kid had formed the assault team and replenished and reloaded his weapons and ammunition, he had the local cadres act as guides to lead the team to the predetermined assembly area to the north.

Walking north along the Harrier River, flanked by steep peaks and winding rivers from the endless mountains to the south, the warriors went upstream, and when they were still a few miles from the devil's blockade, he ordered everyone to rest on the spot.

He took two guides and the second vulture dragon to survey the terrain, but the fifth son was still weak in his legs and feet, so he didn't let him follow. After saying hello to the troops who were on a blocking mission on the northern front, this guy got into the ravine and went for several hours. When you turn back. It's all on the treetops.

I haven't done anything else in the past few hours. Drilling ravines and climbing cliffs, he almost walked the line from Chai Split Ridge to Datai Village, and also touched the outside of the blockade line of the devils, and took a photo with the local cadres and ordinary people in the Lingman Prefecture.

The biggest gains from this trip are two, I chose the route to break through, and got in touch with the receiving troops and fellow villagers outside.

At noon, after the ciphertext telegram of the military region was sent to the Third Regiment, Liu Dabutt sent people to quickly notify the logistics department of the division and the Lingman Prefecture.

The logistics department can't help much, it's good to be able to keep yourself. The task burden given to the Lingman Special Zone is not light.

It is also necessary to prepare to accept the transferred masses, and to organize local armed forces and villagers to attack and harass the devils. After Hong Mei and Lao Feng received the task, they didn't have enough time for the meeting, and immediately arranged for all the militia and villagers in the Lingman Prefecture near Nanmazhuang to move, besiege the devil's stronghold, and cut off the devil's traffic.

It's too late to make a specific deployment, just say a word, do it yourself, as long as you can kill and injure the devil, and don't let the devil run back and forth!

In fact, there is no need to tell this sentence. These fellow villagers in our base area are looking at the honest villagers. If you want to fight with the devil, all of them are the same as if they were born to learn the art of war!

Especially the villagers whose homes were occupied by devils, it was really the old and young masters who went into battle, and women and children also participated in the war! The devils stationed on the hill were not counted from time to time when they were hit by an earth cannon, and they had nothing to eat and drink, and the people who had been given to them on time were secretly calculated several times, and they did not come up to the mountain, and the garrison sent people down to fetch them themselves, either stepping on a mine or falling into a trap.

The people on the mountain are all overwhelmed, and the villages below the mountain are no better! In the morning, I drank the cool well water, and at noon it became a rancid smell, and I drank the diarrhea and diarrhea, and I dug the well, and there were several dead dogs and dead pigs, and I don't know when they were thrown in.

If you want to sleep at night, there will be a gunshot in the west, a few earthen cannons in the east, and the light will run back and forth all night! Sent people out to clean up, walked for most of the night and couldn't see a single figure, and was killed and injured by mines or something! I can't live this day! Many middle- and lower-level devil officers complained to the brigade headquarters, saying that this base area of the Eighth Route is really not a place for people to stay! Bah! It's not a place for ghosts!

So when Lao Feng and the others issued the order to launch a mass attack and besiege the devils, many places had already consciously and spontaneously fought with the devils for several days!

Hong Mei and Lao Feng led the troops of the Independent Brigade to stay in Chuankou Town, plus the militia and key armed forces transferred from several other villages and towns, and rushed to Damao Mountain near Nanmazhuang Township in the evening of the same day, which overlooked the upper reaches of the Tongtian River, and the road to the north meandered east along the foot of the mountain.

Listening to the comrades who stayed here, Yang Bangzi touched it in the afternoon, and said that he was going to break through the siege next night, Lao Feng and they were all very excited, but they didn't expect this kid to disappear these days, it turned out that he had gone into the encirclement of devils!

Across the Tongtian River, on the opposite side of the mountain beam is another wing of the 110th Division of the devil, the 139th Wing, the wing leader is Maki Lin Taifu Dazuo, the defense line is divided into two parts, the east line is separated from the Tianhe River to the Taiyu line, and our old third regiment and local armed forces confront, to protect the security of the entire Japanese army's eastern front.

The western line is along the line from Datai to Jiemashi, and is mainly based on the construction of strong fortifications, and the road garrison posture is purely defensive. It looks like it echoes left and right, and it is connected up and down, but Yang Bangzi didn't think much of it after an afternoon of surveying.

First of all, the three units of the Japanese army were deployed in this area, and the main forces were all retreating at key points in villages and towns, and only a small number of troops defended the mountain roads and passes between the mountains and mountains in the field, and the communication between them was easily cut off.

The intersection of Taihang Mountain and Langya Mountain here, forming a large number of deep valleys and gorges, a team to defend a crossing, the Japanese army thought it was foolproof, in fact, the locals turned around the two ravines, and the devil's self-styled iron bucket defense was actually a broken sieve encirclement, full of gaps and loopholes!

In order for tens of thousands of fellow villagers to smoothly pass through the devil's blockade in the shortest possible time, Yang Bangzi said his thoughts after an afternoon of reconnaissance and exploration of the terrain.

The choice of the valley between Chai Split Ridge and Jiema Stone as the breakthrough channel, which is also the junction of the enemy's 4th Brigade and the 110th Division's defense area, the 4th Brigade in the north and the 110th Division in the south of Jiemashi will inevitably cause confusion in judgment to the devils, so that the devils will not be able to coordinate the operation in a short period of time to attack the north and south.

At the same time, our outer line troops feinted to attack Taiyu and other places, and also contained the devils south of Datai who did not dare to rush north to reinforce, as long as they could block the devils who went south from Nanmazhuang to reinforce them, the valley between Chai Piling and Jiemashi was nearly 5 miles wide, and tens of thousands of people could smoothly break out of the encirclement.

This deployment looks simple, the difficulty is not small, first of all, at the beginning of the attack, three places must be used at the same time, Chai Split Ridge, Jiema Stone and Damao Mountain, as long as one of the three places cannot be taken, it will not be able to control the passage of transfer and breakthrough, and if it is not good, it will have to be intercepted by the devil.

The second difficulty is whether Chai Split Ridge and Jiema Stone are guarded? According to Yang Bangzi's judgment, more than 10,000 people who help the old and the young will be transferred, and it will take at least a whole day to pass through this passage that is almost ten miles long, that is to say, if you start at two o'clock in the night and start to transfer at three o'clock, it will not be until the second half of the next day to complete the withdrawal. During this period, the two positions must not be lost!

The third difficulty is that after the villagers withdraw, the troops who are responsible for the cover task cannot go out with them, and they have to attract the devils into the encirclement, and they have to make the devils believe that the organs of the military region want to break through from here, but they fail to break through and retreat. This is the hardest part!

At this time, there were still four hours to go before the scheduled time for the breakout, and most of the villagers who had moved north after dark had already reached the valley of the Harrier River. Yang Bangzi didn't know that in the north, east and south of Nanmazhuang, the five or six thousand local armed forces and masses organized by the Lingman Prefecture had already begun to besiege and harass the devils with great momentum.

In the southeast of Xiangshang, the old third regiment, under the command of Liu Da Ass, was also divided into three routes, and with the cooperation of the local guerrillas, they lurked under the devil's defense line, waiting for the scheduled time to launch an attack!

When the break continues, there will be trouble! Yang Bangzi squatted there and smoked a bag of cigarettes, no matter what others said, he directly made a combat deployment! Lao Wuzi led a company of assault troops, under the leadership of local cadres, quietly touched the firewood splitting ridge, ambushed near the devil's position, and immediately launched an attack as soon as it arrived at two o'clock in the middle of the night.

The second vulture led another company and Yang Bangzi together, disguised as devils and puppet soldiers, and fought to take the Jiema Stone devil's stronghold without firing a single shot, and then divided his troops to seize the pass of Damao Mountain, where there was the armed cooperation of the Lingman Prefecture.

There is also the devil garrison point in the western section of Chai Split Ridge, which will be handed over to the troops of the military region to block the devils here to cooperate and complete, so that they can intercept the devils who come from the west to reinforce them.

Several comrades who attended the military meeting felt that this deployment was a bit too risky, and this was a major matter to cover the transfer of the masses.

Yang Bangzi disagreed, he just had a point of view, we didn't find out the situation, and the devil was the same! When they reacted, Lao Tzu completed the layout, and the devil was slow to prepare, and the fellows were all transferred, and they may not be able to attack it!

With that, the big guys had nothing to say, and went separately to do pre-war mobilization and preparations.

After the time was right, Yang Bangzi first watched the old five sons limp and lead the team down the river into the ravine, and then he took the company and fire support platoon of the second bald dragon to march to the southeast by taking advantage of the night.

The sky is clear, the moon is in the sky, under the bright moonlight, the swarthy mountains stand quietly in the breeze, in such a beautiful night, in this quiet land, tens of thousands of people are waiting for the coming collision of blood and fire, waiting to play the bloody battle music with guns! (To be continued......)