As the youngest and most promising general in the Red Army before, although the commander of the 115th Division was not jealous of Hu Weidong, a rising star, he was not yet 30 years old at the time, but he still inevitably gave birth to a strong sense of competition, although the main task assigned by the central government to the 115th Division at the Lanzhou Conference was to harass the logistics supply of the Japanese army to support the frontal war between Shanxi and Hebei, but he still wanted to fight a large-scale beautiful battle to prove himself. The leaders of the rest of the divisions of the Eighth Route Army also had a similar mentality, but the first to find fighters was the 115th Division, which was close to the water

In order to catch the big fish, the 115th Division of the westward Japanese army was mainly to help the local people transfer and clear the wilderness before and after the westward expansion of the Japanese army, until the battle of Xinkou began in mid-September, and the main force of the westward Japanese army was pinned down by the 300,000 of Xinkou, and finally he could let go of his hands and feet, and immediately led the 115th Division special service group to the area of Pingxingguan, which had been reconnoitred for a long time, waiting for the opportunity to ambush the devil's baggage troops. At the same time that a convoy full of supplies drove into the ambush circle, a convoy at the other end of the valley unloading supplies and carrying hundreds of wounded soldiers back also came in, making the number of Japanese troops exceed 2,000 at once (among them were hundreds of unarmed Korean civilians, but the Eighth Route Army did not know). Feeling that he was not sure that he could eat these two troops in a short period of time with the strength of only one regiment, he decided to implement the second set of plans in Jihua to encircle and send reinforcements.

Soon, a Japanese brigade from each end of the valley came to the rescue, but instead fell into the encirclement of the large forces of the 115th Division on the periphery. You must know that the 115th Division may be the Eighth Route Army, or even the division with the largest number of troops in the whole Shijie, the number of people reported at the time of reorganization is as high as 45,000, and the actual strength is more than 80,000, even if only part of it is dispatched this time, there must be more than 30,000 people. In addition, because of the fact that they were close to the water, they received the most assistance from the 15th Army. Although the weaponry and ammunition reserves are not as good as those of the devils, they are at least the first-class level in China, and the various advanced tactics transmitted from the 15th Army have made the 115th Division even more powerful. It didn't take long for the two transport teams of the devil and the two infantry brigades of the first wave to come to the aid were all wiped out, and at this time the second wave of reinforcements from the devil also came. It was no longer a brigade of more than 1,000 people, but an infantry wing at the beginning and one at the end, and at the same time, the Japanese fleet also continued to patronize here, not only increasing in frequency but also in scale.

It had been learned in advance from the intelligence that the devil had invested five full divisions for the battle of Xinkou, at least two of which were not far from the battlefield, and at most two or three days away. In this battle, the 115th Division killed and wounded about 5,000 Japanese soldiers. More than 3,000 people were killed, more than 100 vehicles were destroyed, and a large amount of military supplies were seized, but to some regrets, due to terrain constraints. The car could only be blown up but could not be taken away, and the ferocity and tenacity of the Japanese army also prevented the 115th Division from capturing a single prisoner

Because Hu Weidong had reminded at the Lanzhou Conference that the 115th Division did not have many commanders and fighters needlessly killed and injured due to the suicide attacks of devils as in history, only a few people suffered losses in the early stage of the battle (it was precisely because of this that the commanders and fighters of the 115th Division gave up the idea of capturing prisoners), but because the scale of the battle was much larger than the historical "Pingxingguan Victory" of the same name. Therefore, the casualties of the 115th Division were greater than in history, reaching more than 3,000 people, of which more than 500 were killed, and thanks to the small lethality of the Type 38 rifle used by the devils, I am afraid that there would be two or three hundred more deaths.

Under the circumstance that his side occupies the first hand and the favorable terrain, and the strength and firepower of the Japanese army are several times that of the Japanese army (Note 1), the casualties of the 115th Division are not much smaller than those of the Japanese army, which makes him deeply realize the strength of the Japanese army, and since then he has studied and comprehended the spirit of the Lanzhou Conference more and more seriously, and at the same time, he also realized that since the establishment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region, the strength of the 115th Division has increased many times, but due to the surge in the proportion of new recruits, and most of them are mainly farmers in the base areas who have not even touched the guns before, the military quality of the troops has declined very much. Thinking of this, I secretly made up my mind that I must pay close attention to the training work, so that the 115th Division can grow into a real elite division as soon as possible...,

Although Mr. Lin, who loves nursing soldiers, is not very satisfied, but no matter from which point of view, this is a definite victory, even Taizu, who advocates the guerrilla war behind enemy lines as the center, is very happy to learn about it, considering that this is the first great victory after the start of the all-out war of resistance, in order to boost the confidence of the whole nation in the war of resistance and cooperate with the propaganda work, Taizu waved his pen and changed the number of enemies destroyed in the report to the Military Commission from 5,000 to 10,000 The number of people suddenly became 30,000, and for a time the sea was boiling, and the Eighth Route Army almost overnight became a heroic unit with an influence not inferior to that of the 15th Army, but the Japanese army, out of the tradition of habitually boasting about victory and defeat, claimed that the casualties were only 1,000, of which 272 were killed

During the war years, the two sides were in a life-and-death relationship, as long as they were not fools or traitors, they would not do anything to increase the morale of the enemy and destroy their prestige, even some people who like to be more serious did not dare to speak because they were afraid of being accused of being "traitors", so both sides were stubborn, and no one could convince anyone, until the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression later, someone finally because the statistical gap between the two sides was too big, and they carried out a detailed investigation and analysis, and finally analyzed the truth of the war

In any case, the "Pingxingguan Victory" can be said to be a good start for the squadron after the start of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the 120th Division, 129th Division and other units of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which were already deep in the battlefield, were deeply inspired to follow its example and launched attacks again and again on the weak rear of the Japanese army, among which the two battles of Yanmen Pass were the largest, with a total of more than 5,000 enemies annihilated, and the most unexpected of them was that everyone thought that the 15th Army, which was thousands of miles away, actually intervened in the Battle of Xinkou. And it is not a small help to Xinkou

Note 1: The Japanese army did not really become strong until the firepower of the division and regiment, and the 115th used the main force in this battle, and the equipment was better than average, if it were not for the terrain restrictions that made the heavy artillery regiment of the 115th Division unable to participate in the battle, the 115th Division would have gained an overwhelming firepower advantage in this battle. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )