"No problem." Gu Xiaobei grinned, "Be on call at any time." ”

"Look at your happy face." Sun Bin rolled his eyes and said, "It's like picking up a gold ingot." ”

Gu Xiaobei smiled, and was about to choke back when the roar of an aircraft engine suddenly sounded in the air overhead.

Looking up quickly, he saw that a plane with a plaster pattern under the wing had emerged from the clouds and swooped down towards Qingyun Town.

"There are enemy planes, hide quickly!"

Sun Bin hurriedly signaled for the gathered crowd to evacuate.

The young people who came to enlist and the onlookers immediately scattered and fled.

It's not too chaotic, because the devil planes often come to harass them, and the villagers are used to it.

"Commander, this way!" Gu Xiaobei kicked open a large urn on the side of the street, and a tunnel opening was immediately revealed underneath.

Sun Bin pounced on a fish, and then shrank into the tunnel, Gu Xiaobei followed closely and also drilled into the tunnel, almost at the moment when the two of them just drilled into the tunnel, two smoke and dust belts were pulled through the tunnel, just a millimeter, the two were almost beaten into a sieve by the devil's airborne heavy machine gun.

The devil plane comes fast and goes fast.

Seeing that the people of the town were hiding in houses or tunnels, they flapped their wings and flew away.

Because for a target like Qingyun Town, diving and strafing is already the limit, and it is really not cost-effective to drop aerial bombs for bombing, and if you want to bomb it, you have to bomb the county seat.

A quarter of an hour later, Sun Bin emerged from the tunnel.

looked at the wolf recruiting office, and scolded angrily.

Devil reconnaissance plane: This is a toad that does not bite people, and it is disgusting.

……

Beiping, No. 11 Iron Lion Hutong.

Seizo Arisue is holding a folder and is reporting the latest progress to Okamura Ninji.

"The 1st Division has been reorganized, and the combat materials for the battle of a division and regiment originally prepared for the Battle of Wuyuan have also been transferred from the headquarters of the Mongolian Army to the 1st Division."

"The 1st Division is ready to attack."

"The 28th Division has been ordered to move north from Taiyuan."

"The 71st Division and the 72nd Division have been stationed in Shuiquan and Yangquan respectively."

"The logistics department is transporting combat materials in the direction of Shuiquan and Yangquan, and by tomorrow morning at the latest, the combat materials for the two divisions and regiments will be in place."

"At that time, the 71st Division and the 72nd Division will be able to move forward."

After a pause, Arisue Seizan said: "The railway department is also organizing transportation capacity, striving to transport the combat materials of the next four divisions and regiments to Taiyuan, Datong, Yangquan and Shuiquan within five days. ”

"Yo Si." Okamura Ninji said happily, "The telegram ordered the 1st Division to go south immediately. ”

After a pause, he said: "Inform the 27th Division, the 73rd Division, the 74th Division, and the 75th Division to continue to rest and recuperate, and only need to rush to Taiyuan and Datong within five days." ”

"Hello." There are three pauses in the last essence, and they turn around and want to leave.

At this moment, a communications staff officer hurriedly came in and reported: "Your Excellency, you have just received an aerial reconnaissance report, and the people of China in the northwest bandit area of Shanxi are evacuating. ”

Seizo asked, "Is it a small part, or is it all?" ”

The communications officer replied: "The market towns and villages that the aerial scouts see are evacuating, so this should be a large-scale evacuation operation, not just a partial evacuation." ”

"Got it." Seizo Yusue waved his hand and motioned for the communications staff officer to retreat.

With a sneer, Seizan said to Okamura Ningji again: "You really expected your Excellency, the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army is really going to carry out a comprehensive evacuation, and they are really not too troublesome." ”

"That's what makes the Communist Party so powerful." Okamura Ninji said awe-inspiringly.

"Compared with the Kuomintang, which only treats the common people as cattle and sheep graves, the Communist Party really treats the common people as relatives, and would rather sacrifice its own army in times of crisis than protect the common people, and it is precisely because of this that the common people will truly support the Communist Party, so their army will fight more and more, and they will not be able to suppress it."

After a pause, Okamura Ninji said again: "It is precisely because of this that we must not have the slightest mercy on the people of the bandit area, but must wipe them all out. ”

"What Your Excellency the General said is extremely true." There was a terrifying murderous intent in the eyes of the three eyes of the end of the spirit, and he said in a deep voice, "So this time in the sweep of the bandit area in the northwest of Jin, the imperial army not only wants to annihilate the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, but also kills all the more than one million people in the bandit area, only in this way can the roots of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Jin be dug up." ”

Okamura Ningji said fiercely: "Yes, it is not a matter of hesitation to turn the northwest of Jin into a white land." ”

"Your Excellency, General, in this case, the 27th, 73rd, 74th, and 75th Divisions may not be able to continue to rest, and must immediately enter into battle and launch simultaneous attacks along the east bank of the Yellow River from the north and south towards the Jiugong Mountains and the Wohu Mountains. ”

After a pause, he said: "Because only in this way can we control the ferry on the east bank of the Yellow River, and cut off the way for the people in the bandit areas in the northwest of Jin to cross the river and escape, otherwise, if these people are allowed to flee into the Hetao, as long as the imperial army withdraws, they will return to the northwest of Jin, and the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army will make a comeback." ”

Okamura Ninji shook his head and said, "However, the Jiugong Mountains and the Wohu Mountains on the east bank of the Yellow River are steep and complex, and if the imperial army advances north and south along the east bank of the Yellow River, it will be difficult for the strength of the four divisions to deploy. ”

While speaking, Okamura Ninji had already walked to the huge sand table.

Yousue Jingsan followed and walked over, and his eyes fell on the Yellow River in the shape of "several".

The upper part to the right of the word "several" is the bandit area in the northwest of the Eighth Route Army.

Immediately on the east bank of the Yellow River are the Jiugong Mountains and the Wohu Mountains, which are not as steep as the Taihang Mountains in eastern Shanxi, but not much worse.

Even if it is a mountain combat division, marching in such terrain, it can only walk into a long snake formation, and the marching line is dragged out for less than dozens of miles, so that not only is it easy to be attacked, but what is more troublesome is that the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army only needs to find a few dangerous places, and it can block the Japanese brigade with a small number of troops!

Yusue Jingsan also saw the danger in it, frowned and said, "But the question is, apart from doing this, what other way can intercept the people of China?" ”

"No, there are still solutions." Okamura Ninji said.

"Oh?" There are three ways to go, "I don't know what Your Excellency General can do." ”

Okamura Ninji replied, "There is a sue-kun, do you know what happened in the third and final stage of the Battle of Songhu?" ”

"Of course." "Although I was a military attache in Italy at that time, I paid attention to major battles such as the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Taiyuan. ”

"In the third stage of the Battle of Songhu,"

"When the Tenth Army landed at Jinshanwei,"

"The hundreds of thousands of elite Chinese troops in the western Hunan battlefield collapsed overnight."

"More than 300,000 panicked soldiers were like frightened sheep, rushing to Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and other narrow highways, resulting in a trampling."

"The five elite divisions of the imperial army fought hard in the Songhu area for three months, but they only caused more than 100,000 casualties to the Chinese army on the battlefield, but in the last three days of the battle, more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers died in the trampling of their own people.

Speaking of this, Yusue Jingsan suddenly reacted and said suddenly: "Your Excellency is saying that the people of China will be driven to the banks of the Yellow River, and the strong military pressure will cause a panic effect, so that the people of China will change from an orderly evacuation to a scramble to flee, and finally form a stampede effect, thereby causing a large number of casualties?" ”

"That's right." Okamura said, "The results of the Battle of Songhu have proven that this is the most efficient way to kill people, more efficient than the soldiers of the Imperial Army fighting with swords and guns on the battlefield." ”

After a pause, he added, "And there is another benefit to doing this." ”

"I understand this." Yousue Jingsan hurriedly said, "If it is to drive away the people of the Zhina in the bandit area in the northwest of Shanxi, the four mountain divisions that will be put into battle in the future can be deployed from the eastern part of the bandit area, compared to Jiugong Mountain and Wohu Mountain in the west of the bandit area, the terrain of Fuliang Mountain in the east is more gentle, which is conducive to the deployment and operation of large troops." ”

"That's right." Okamura said, "Let's start in the east. ”

"Hello." After a pause, a communications staff officer was summoned and ordered, "Order, the 27th, 73rd, 74th, and 75th Divisions to Shuiquan and Yangquan respectively within two days, and on the morning of the third day, they will start from the northeast and southeast of the northwestern bandit area of Shanxi and then advance in parallel." ”

"Hello!" The communications staff officer paused.

……

The advance of the 1st Division was fast.

Starting from Datong in the morning, it had already advanced to the vicinity of the wild boar ditch by noon.

The reason why the 1st Division advanced so fast was mainly because it was equipped with a large number of trucks, and the Isuzu 6×694 trucks alone were equipped with more than 1,000 trucks.

With the addition of other vehicles, there are 2,000 smaller ones!

So the devils of the 1st Division do not have to march on foot.

The 1st Division is also the only infantry division in the Japanese army that has truly achieved mechanization, and the other divisions are said to be mechanized, but in fact, they can only be regarded as motorized and mules and horses at most.

Since entering the territory of Yingxian County, he has been subjected to various attacks along the way.

However, they were all defused by the search wing of the 1st Division, and the Japanese suffered almost no casualties.

The Search Wing is a unique formation in Little Japan, and in addition to the headquarters of the Wing, it also has a horse squadron, a vehicle squadron, and a tank squadron.

The entire wing consisted of about four hundred people.

There were more than 120 horses, 12 Type 95 tanks, in addition to seven trucks.

Such a force, used against the militia of the Eighth Route Army, of course, was a piece of cake, not only to use the militia to dig up the road, but also to bury mines on the road, but it was quickly repaired or eliminated by the infantry of the search wing.

Having said that, Yingxian was not the focus of the Eighth Route Army's defense, so it didn't pay much attention.

So it was almost noon, and the 1st Search Wing had already advanced outside the boar ditch.

Yoshio Imada forcefully lifted the turret cover of the Type 95 light tank he was driving, and when he looked forward, he was stupid, what was the situation?

Anti-tank cones? And anti-tank trenches?

Tubalu actually knows how to build anti-tank fortifications?

And as far as the eye can see, there are all anti-tank cones and anti-tank trenches.

And it was quite regular, first a row of anti-tank cones, then an anti-tank trench, then a row of anti-tank cones, then another anti-tank trench, with more than a dozen front and rear feet.

In order to repair these fortifications, the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army should have spent a lot of manpower and material resources.

With the roar of the engine, the next eleven Type 95 light tanks followed one by one, and lined up in the open area outside the Wild Boar Gully Pass, and the muzzles of their guns were pointed at the mountain pass.

Deputy Wing Commander Takayoshi Fujiwara poked his head out of the turret of a Type 95 light tank.

"Captain!" Fujiwara Takayoshi was a little stunned and said, "In front is the anti-tank fortification repaired by the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army?" ”

"What do you say?" Yoshio Imada didn't have the slightest affection for this aristocratic deputy, because in his opinion, a gentleman like Fujiwara Takayoshi shouldn't have been gilded in the army.

The army is the armed force used by the empire to expand its territory.

It should not be a gilded rank for the children of nobility.

With a light snort, Yoshio Imada said again: "If it wasn't the anti-tank fortifications built by the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, could it still be built by the Imperial Army?" ”

Fujiwara Takayoshi frowned, and said: "But it's a little strange, the anti-tank cone built by the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army seems to be not cement, but a whole stone?" ”

"What's so strange about that?" Yoshio Imada said disdainfully, "If you can't get cement on the dirt road, you can only use stones to build anti-tank cones, but the anti-tank cone made of stone is only more troublesome than the cement one." ”

Fujiwara Takayoshi had already sensed Imada Yoshio's hostility, so he immediately said no more, just raised his binoculars and carefully observed the loess slopes on both sides of the canyon.

In the field of vision, there are two of the most typical loess mountains.

It's like two huge monsters, crouching on both sides of the Tongpu Highway (railway).

There is hardly any green vegetation visible on the surface of the mountain, it is all loess with fruit dew and ravines.

What puzzled Fujiwara Takayoshi was that there were no fortifications of the Eighth Route Army on the hillside, not to mention fortifications such as pillboxes, and even trench fortifications.

Could it be that the Eighth Route Army did not build fortifications on the slopes on both sides of the canyon?

The 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army should not think that with only a dozen heavy anti-tank cones and anti-tank trenches, it can withstand the steel torrent of their 1st Division, right? It's naïve.

At that moment, Fujiwara Takayoshi said: "Wing Commander, why don't you first lead the horse squadron by me, dismount and seize the commanding heights on both sides of the canyon on foot, and after making sure that there is no danger, then the car squadron will tow away the anti-tank cone blocking the middle of the road, and then fill in the anti-tank trench to clear the obstacles for the main force of the division and regiment to advance?" ”

"Forget it." Imada Yoshio waved his hand and said, "The dirt mountain here looks not high or steep, but it is very difficult to climb up, and if you accidentally step on a loose clod, you will fall down directly, and your nose and face will be swollen. ”

Fujiwara Takayoshi was silent.

Because since entering Yingxian, there have often been problems on the road, either the road has been dug up, or a dense wooden sign suddenly appears, and then it says that there are mines here.

At the beginning, when encountering such a situation, their search wing would strictly follow the combat procedure, first send infantry to seize the commanding heights on both sides of the road, and after there was really no danger, then the sappers would fill in the trenches or clear mines, but in the process of dispatching infantry to seize the commanding heights on both sides of the road, there were many slip and fall accidents.

Because the northwest of Shanxi belongs to the terrain of the Loess Plateau, the weathering is also extremely serious.

The clods of soil on the surface of the mountain look solid, but they crumble when you step on them.

Because of this, the infantry of the search wing suffered a lot, and several even broke their legs.

After a pause, Yoshio Imada said abruptly: "Besides, the terrain here is unobstructed, Fujiwara-kun shouldn't be worried that there will be ambushes on such a bare hillside, right?" ”

Although Fujiwara Takayoshi was not convinced, he did not continue to argue.

Yoshio Imada immediately ordered the horse squadron to dismount, and the car squadron to get off the car and enter the wild boar ditch to clear the obstacles.

Soon, more than 200 devil infantry entered the canyon with rifles, but they saw that on both sides of the canyon were bare and unobstructed dirt slopes, on which there were neither pillboxes nor trench fortifications.

After making sure that there was no danger, more than 200 devils began to work.

Some of the devils began to fill in the anti-tank trenches, while the other part of the devils found hemp ropes, tied one end of the anti-tank cone, and the other end was tied to the towing hook of the truck, and the truck dragged the anti-tank cone away.

These devils of the search wing have obviously been trained in wreckering, and their actions are very efficient.

In less than half an hour, the outermost anti-tank trench of the boar ditch had been filled, and dozens of anti-tank cones arranged in front of the anti-tank trench had been dragged to both sides of the road.

The first line of anti-tank fortifications was quickly cleared.

From the beginning to the end, the search wing was not subjected to any attacks.

Seeing this, the corners of Yoshio Imada smiled smugly.

"Fujiwara-kun, how's it going?" Yoshio Imada smiled, "I just said that there was no ambush of the Eighth Route Army, right?" ”

"Wing Captain Mingjian." Fujiwara Takayoshi is actually very low-key, in the face of Imada Yoshio's criticism and provocation, he chose to forbear, and said with a pause, "But for the sake of safety, it is best to transfer the chariot squadron into the canyon to protect the wrecker operation of the chariot squadron and the horse squadron." ”

"You don't need to talk about this."

Yoshio Imada snorted coldly, turned around and instructed the adjutant: "Order, the chariot squadron immediately enters the canyon to protect the wrecker clearance operations of the chariot squadron and the horse squadron." ”

"Hello." The adjutant paused.

The order was issued, and the 12 Type 95 light tanks of the tank squadron drove into the wild boar ditch in a row, and after entering the canyon, they immediately divided into two teams, spread out left and right, and protected the two flanks of the road.

At this time, even if there were really ambushes of the Eighth Route Army on both sides of the road, the devil infantry who were operating in the canyon could quickly retreat to the side of the tank and use the tank to ensure their own safety.

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