Zhangjiazhuang direction.

The Ishii Wing is suffering a similar fate as the independent mixed 4th Brigade.

Initially, Ishii Haraichi also placed his hopes on the independent 4th Mixed Brigade in Nishimura, hoping that the troops in the Nishimura direction could be reinforced.

As a result, it was learned that even the Fourth Brigade of Nishimura was besieged by the troops of the Independent Regiment relying on various nodes, and Ishii Haraichi was completely stunned.

What does this mean?

This is enough to show that not long ago, his Ishii Wing dealt with the Independent Regiment and returned with a heavy defeat on the two roads of Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.

I didn't even get into the village.

As a result, not to mention that it hurts the independence of the family.

Judging from the strength and combat effectiveness displayed by the Independent Regiment at this moment, the last battle with the Ishii Wing, the Independent Regiment was probably injured.

This time, the Ishii Wing, together with the independent 4th Mixed Brigade, barely managed to attack Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.

The powerful defensive means launched by the follow-up independent regiment in Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang made Ishii Haraichi fall into a deep shock.

It's still an ordinary village, more like a slaughterhouse full of traps.

Ishii Haraichi tried to imagine what it would be like if the independent regiment had placed the battle in the village when he led the wing to fight in Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang not long ago.

It's just chilling.

At this moment, Ishii Haraichi no longer had the luxury of expecting to be able to destroy any independent regiment, but only hoped that he could hold on to the danger and wait for the reinforcements to arrive and break through smoothly.

……

A large stronghold in the rear of the Japanese army.

Yamaguchi temporarily stationed his own artillery units in the stronghold.

This artillery unit consisted of an artillery squadron of the 4th Mixed Brigade Regiment, as well as the remaining artillery units of the Ishii Wing.

There were six 75-mm mountain guns, eight 37-mm rapid-fire guns, and 12 Type 92 infantry guns.

Yamaguchi placed his artillery unit in this large stronghold because it was inconvenient to transfer artillery in the mountainous area, which would delay the mobility of the entire army, and in addition, the existence of these artillery pieces would become the focus of the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack, and it would be difficult to ensure safety.

Therefore, Yamaguchi placed the artillery in the rear and had a large stronghold to hold it, which could not only ensure safety, but also allow the rear artillery to be reinforced at any time once the front-line combat troops encountered the troops of the Eighth Route Army.

From the big base to Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, there is a convenient road transportation channel.

Transport trucks carried these guns and quickly arrived at the shelling position.

In this way, Yamaguchi believed that his troops could rely on artillery, and could attack and retreat.

But what Yamaguchi never expected was that the Eighth Route Army did not emphasize martial arts and did not fight from the front, but went directly to the back and blocked the retreat node of his Fourth Brigade.

At this moment, the artillery units of the mountain pass were directly isolated from the perimeter of the encirclement of the independent regiment.

The mountain pass was now in dire need of artillery to destroy the concrete fortifications built by the Independent Regiment, and on the other hand, it was worried that its artillery unit would be ambushed by the troops of the Eighth Route Army on the way out of the main stronghold.

After all, the information that the main force of the independent regiment had already broken through the encirclement and was fighting in a roundabout way in the rear had already reached the Japanese army headquarters.

In the communication, Yamaguchi repeatedly admonished: "We must beware of ambushes by the Eighth Route Army along the way, and we must not let artillery fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army." ”

……

……

3 p.m.

A Japanese unit departed from the main stronghold, followed by five trucks.

After a short walk, the road with an open view gradually narrowed on both sides, and a road between the two mountains could be seen in the distance.

If this is before the big sweep, the devil will not hesitate to drive directly through the mezzanine.

Because there are strongholds located every less than a kilometer along this highway, the strongholds where they are located, while the Japanese puppet army blocks the road, it will ensure that there is no existence of the Eighth Route Army in the surrounding area, so as to ensure the safety of road transportation.

But all of this, only five days after the start of this sweep of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area, was destroyed indecently.

The Japanese army independently mixed into the fourth brigade and group, and the Ishii Wing directly advanced in the direction of Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, but he did not expect that on the side of the independent regiment, Kong Jie arranged the main force of three battalions, lurked in the mountains in advance, and directly detoured back to the rear of the Japanese army.

Taking advantage of the Japanese army's battle with Zhangjiazhuang and the Independent Regiment in Xicun, the Independent Regiment made a detour to the troops in the rear, and on the one hand raided Yangquan and other county seats, villages and towns in the rear, and on the other hand, it united with local troops to continuously uproot the Japanese strongholds in the rear.

Many small and medium-sized strongholds in the entire Xicun and the surrounding area of Zhangjiazhuang have been uprooted.

Especially in the past two days, Huang Baiyang has led a sniper platoon to continue to ambush in this area, focusing on those devils and puppet soldiers who dare to go out of their strongholds.

Those small and medium-sized Japanese strongholds that were not strong in the first place, and the Japanese puppet troops hiding in the strongholds were panicked all day long.

He didn't dare to take half a step out of the stronghold easily, for fear of being shot by the sharpshooters of the Eighth Route Army who might be lurking outside at any time and anywhere.

So much so that in the area of Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, the relatively stable rear strongholds, that is, some large strongholds.

And the devils who left from this large stronghold in front of them were actually wary of being ambushed by the Eighth Route Army along the way.

"Command the troops, halt the march."

The marching team was still five or six hundred meters away from the sandwich road, and the Japanese squadron leader Mitsui Toshio gave the order.

The adjutant said: "Your Excellency Squadron Leader, Your Excellency the Brigade Commander is in urgent need of artillery support, are we here?" ”

Mitsui looked at the steep terrain and steep mountain in the distance, and said with a frown: "If the Eighth Route is ambushed along the way, this place is an excellent place, and it is not too late to explore it clearly, and if you go further, you will enter the range of the artillery fire that may be hidden by the Eighth Route Army at any time." ”

"Hey!" The adjutant responded, but he hesitated a little, turned his head to look at the five trucks behind him, and said in a slightly lowered voice: "Your Excellency Squadron Leader, we know what is in the truck, and our role in front of us is to lure out the ambushes that the Eighth Road may set up along the way, do we need to investigate so carefully?" ”

Mitsui said: "Just imagine, if we pull artillery on the bottom truck, but don't investigate carefully along the way, wouldn't it attract the suspicion of the Eighth Route Army in the dark? ”

"Besides, even if it is a temptation, if we can take the initiative to find out the Eighth Route Army, wouldn't we be able to avoid some casualties?"

The adjutant hurriedly replied: "Hey! ”

After making up his mind, Mitsui sent two more teams to search the left and right of the mewra, and to make sure that it was safe before marching.

At this time, in the mountains on both sides of the road, there was indeed a team lurking here, but the number of this team was very small, only a squad of soldiers from the guard company of the independent regiment, plus more than 20 fighters from the district team, a total of more than 30 people.

The devil appeared a few hundred meters away from the road, and the scout soldiers lurking in the mountains noticed the arrival of the Japanese army.

"Platoon commander, the devil is here!" The scout soldiers who rushed back reported to Sun Qingshan, the commander of the third platoon of the guard company.

Sun Qingshan nodded and shouted, "Comrades, prepare to fight." ”

It didn't take long for the Japanese marching troops to approach the mecca and slowly stopped.

"Hey, platoon commander, why did this little devil stop?"

Sun Qingshan looked through the telescope for a moment, saw the devil at the foot of the sandwich mountain, stopped the troops, and sent a reconnaissance team to explore the mountains on both sides, and said:

"What the regiment commander said is really good, the location of this mezzanine is too obvious, ambush here, the devils will definitely be on guard, and most of the little devils are afraid of being ambushed at the moment, so they sent a team up the mountain to investigate in advance."

Zhao Ming, the leader of the district guerrilla squad, asked, "Platoon Commander Sun, how are we going to fight now?" ”

Sun Qingshan thought for a while and said: "The head of the regiment guessed that the little devil would not be fooled here in the middle of the road, let's play a harassing role this time, by the way, to explore the reality of this devil, the big head of the ambush is behind!" ”

"In this way, there are few of us, and it is impossible to eat this devil."

"Do you see the devil scout troops coming up from the left and right? There are only about 20 people in total, let's eat this reconnaissance force of the devils, and then retreat immediately. ”

"Good!"

…… It didn't take long for the battle to begin.

The devil's reconnaissance force was just some lightly armed infantry, plus they were ambushed by Sun Qingshan and his party lurking on the way.

How can more than 20 devils be enough for Sun Qingshan and his party to fight?

After the two devils led by Sun Qingshan and his party stumbled over the treacherous thunder laid by Sun Qingshan and his party, the battle started directly, and the battle ended in less than a minute.

Mitsui Shio at the foot of the mountain didn't even come back to his senses, only heard a burst of gunfire in the mountains and forests, and soon returned to calm.

The devil's adjutant's face changed, "Your Excellency Squadron Leader, there is indeed an ambush of the Eighth Route Army here, and the reconnaissance team is afraid that it is already more than lucky." ”

Mitsui frowned and said:

"The situation is not right, the Eighth Route Army does not seem to have set up a main ambush on both sides of the road, otherwise it will not be easily exposed."

"Then where did these dirt roads place the main ambush point?"

"Our first task is to detect the ambush set up by the Eighth Route Army on the way, to ensure the safety of the advance route, we can't manage so much, immediately lead the troops, under the cover of artillery fire, to advance to the mountains and forests on both sides, occupy the commanding heights, and destroy this Eighth Route Army."

"Hey!"

Under the command of Mitsui Toshio, the devils quickly launched an attack on the mountains and forests on both sides of the road, as usual, and after bombarding them with grenadiers, the infantry quickly advanced.

As a result, it was naturally a no-brainer, except for some unlucky devils on the way who accidentally tripped over some tricks left by Sun Qingshan's evacuation, the little devils didn't see half of the enemy.

After successfully killing the more than 20 scouts of the devil, Sun Qingshan had already evacuated with his team.

In the mountain forest on the right side of the road, only a veteran named Jiang Huaimin of the guard company was left to continue to investigate, Jiang Huaimin was lurking extremely secretively, and his excellent camouflage made his whole person almost integrated with the surrounding environment, and he was in a corner of the mountaintop area, lurking quietly.

Japanese troops soon occupied the commanding heights on both sides of the mezzanine.

Mitsui Takeo, the leader of the devil squadron who confirmed that the sneak attack had retreated, cursed a few words, leaving a squad of devils to continue to act as a guard on the high ground on both sides of the sandwich road, and then continued to advance with the rest of the troops.

Jiang Huaimin was a little suspicious of this, this little devil had already occupied the high ground on both sides of the road, and the five trucks had also followed the troops through the road, so what did they do with the troops on guard?

With doubts, Jiang Huaimin continued to lurk deadly, staring at the mezzanine area, the devil's every move.

After nearly twenty minutes, a new change finally appeared, and the roar of a truck engine was heard in the distance, attracting Jiang Huaimin's attention.

Jiang Huaimin secretly raised his binoculars to observe, and another group of devils appeared from the distant horizon and rushed in the direction of the road, followed by the truck troops.

There were seven or eight trucks coming over this time, and Jiang Huaimin observed some detailed conditions from the telescope, and the wheels of those trucks seemed to be much more dented than the previous five trucks.

It's clear that these trucks definitely have heavy guys in their cabins.

After contacting each other, veteran Jiang Huaimin thought of a bad possibility:

The five trucks in the lead were not equipped with artillery at all, and they were devils as bait for temptation, right?

"It's not good, this dog's little devil is really cunning, it is estimated that the troops transporting artillery are divided into two parts, the front part is the decoy used for testing, and the back is the truck pulling the artillery."

"Once the company commander is fooled, the firepower of the ambush is exposed in advance, and it is also the bait of the devil, and the artillery in the rear is not damaged at all, and once they catch up again, they can completely bombard the ambush troops."

"No, I need to tell the company commander the news immediately."

Thinking of this, Jiang Huaimin didn't dare to hesitate, quietly retreated, and quickly rushed towards the final ambush site of Wei Dayong and his party with the help of the cover of the woods.

……

…… The guard company led by the monk, as well as local comrades, finally prepared to destroy the ambush site of the devil's artillery unit in one fell swoop, on a mountain road that stretched for several kilometers.

This long mountain road is flanked on both sides by hillsides.

Unlike the previous mezzanine, it stands so lonely that it feels like an ambush at a glance.

This mountain road stretches for several kilometers, and even if the devil guesses that there will be an ambush by the Eighth Route Army on the way, it is impossible to predict exactly where it is.

As for this ambush of the Japanese artillery unit, the monk's arrangement was clear and clear.

Sun Qingshan's entourage, which was arranged on both sides of the road, was just a test at the beginning to explore the reality of the devil.

Sun Qingshan, who returned with the team, reported the situation to Monk Wei: "Company commander, the devils in the big stronghold are dispatched, five trucks are following, and there are about one squadron of troops to escort them along the way. ”

"In addition, I asked Jiang Huaimin to continue to stay near the sandwich road to investigate, and beware of what happens to the devil in the future."

The monk nodded, and after gathering several platoon commanders and several captains of local comrades, he drew a sketch on the spot:

"Look, we've set up a total of three ambush sites this time."

"Here, one kilometer away from the entrance of the mountain road, is our rolling thunder team, this rolling thunder is a good thing, the latest new weapon developed by the repair institute."

"The spherical rolling thunder is filled with a considerable amount of gunpowder, ignite the fuse, calculate the distance, roll down the hillside, and almost reach the mountain road area, it will completely explode."

"The trees at this node are sparse, and some obstacles such as branches along the way have been cleared by us in advance, and the rolling thunder can easily roll up the mountain road."

"After all the fifty rolling thunders are used, don't fight with the devils, and immediately retreat to the next ambush site."

"About a kilometer further back, here we have planted a remotely detonated explosive package on the road in advance, and after the devil's truck team drove over, we saw the opportunity to blow up the devil's first and last truck."

"Then the ambush deployment was all launched, with hand-fired grenades thrown at close range, medium-range gun grenades supplemented by firepower, and the first to knock out the important firepower points of the devils, followed by 50 small cannons, with the fire blockade of light and heavy machine guns."

"Be sure to annihilate all the Japanese troops under the mountain road."

"After this second ambush is over, if the devils can break through and continue to advance in the direction of Xicun, our third preparation site is close to a minefield outside Xicun, where the Japanese army will be finally blocked."

"When I set off, I promised the regiment commander that I would never let half of the devil's artillery reach the Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang areas, comrades, this battle is up to you."

"Yes—" the cadres replied in unison.

The monk raised his hand and looked at his watch, it was almost half past four.

The scout came to report: "Report to the company commander, the Japanese army is less than two kilometers away from our first ambush site. ”

The monk said: "Got it, continue to investigate." ”

"Yes!"

"Signal soldiers, notify the Rolling Mine Group and prepare for battle."

"Yes!"

The location where the monk is at this moment is the second ambush site, that is, the location where the remote explosive bag is buried, which is the main ambush point of the Japanese artillery unit in this ambush.

The guard company, as well as the local comrades who cooperated with this ambush operation, all the main forces ambushed here......

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