The execution of the Eighth Route Army, especially the execution of elite Eighth Route Army units like the Independent Regiment, is quite terrifying.

And Kong Jie's game of chess that lured the king into the urn and destroyed it in one fell swoop.

It is the enforcement power of the fighters to enforce the prohibitions.

The several companies sent out by Shen Quan's 2nd Independent Regiment, as well as the local troops and militia comrades who had moved south as the vanguard this time, received Kong Jie's orders very clearly:

Try to attract the attention of the Japanese puppet army with as much fanfare as possible, and attract the Japanese puppet army to the cliff area south of Taihang.

This is the usual tactical play of the independent regiment:

Use one part as a bait to lure the enemy into the depths, attract all the Japanese puppet army troops to the hinterland, and then use the other part to quickly intersperse and detour back to the back of the Japanese puppet army, and destroy the enemy from both sides.

The local comrades and militia comrades did not have any doubts about the final victory of the war.

The countless battles that took place in the base areas of the Independent Regiment showed that as long as we obeyed the arrangements and commands of Regiment Commander Kong, there was no battle that could not be won.

They knew very well that the contingent that was currently heading south was in addition to the elite of the 2nd Independent Regiment of several companies.

The others are not the elite of the independent regiment, and with their local troops and militia units, they can attract the main force of the devil's puppet army.

Once the elite combat units of the Independent Regiment successfully detoured back to the back of the Japanese puppet army, the battle was basically stable.

As for the follow-up deployment and arrangements of Regiment Commander Kong, these local comrades and militia comrades are not clear.

They just meticulously carried out Kong Jie's orders.

Even if the ass is followed by five or six thousand Japanese puppet troops.

In the direction of the south, there was also an interception of more than 2,000 troops of the 47th Division of the Japanese Army.

It seems that he is about to be made dumplings by the Japanese puppet army.

The southbound contingent did not flinch or fear.

According to Kong Jie's deployment, the combat task of the local comrades and militia comrades this time is to make as much noise as possible and attract more Japanese puppet troops to go deep into the hinterland, rather than fighting.

Therefore, on the way south, the commander tried his best to arrange a large number of alert troops and deploy them in all directions of the main force south.

To ensure that these guards are like the first eyes to reach out, quickly avoiding them after sensing the approach of the Japanese puppet army.

From a bird's-eye view, the entire southbound procession looks like an octopus with tentacles, but if it touches the surrounding obstacles, it will immediately retreat in the direction that is not blocked.

It was in such stumbling that it seemed to be intercepted by the Japanese troops approaching from the southwest and north, and the entire southbound team gradually moved closer to the southbound cliff of Taihang.

The vanguard of the devils quickly transmitted the situation of the Eighth Route Army to the headquarters in the south.

The devil officers of the command laughed, they were convinced that the Eighth Route Army was no match for the edge of the Japanese Empire, and was forced to retreat in the direction of the cliff where there was no way to retreat.

All this was expected by them.

From the very beginning, the Devil Command planned to flank from the southwest and north, trapping this group of southbound Eighth Route Army in the cliff area south of Taihang.

As far as the devils know, it is a Jedi with no way out, and once it reaches the end, it is a cliff that towers so high that it is almost vertically erected, and the troops cannot pass through it at all.

The Devil's Command originally thought that under the attack of the Imperial Japanese forces from the southwest and north, this group of southbound Eighth Route Army might quickly choose to retreat from the north and northwest, or break through from the southeast.

The result was unexpected.

This group of Tu Balu was so stupid that they continued to go south.

Then it was blocked by two brigades of the 47th Division that went north.

The Eighth Road to the south had to be forced to retreat, and was besieged by the Japanese puppet army in the southwest, and was forced to retreat to the cliff area south of Taihang.

All this seemed to the Japanese officers to come naturally.

There's nothing wrong with that.

Therefore, the Devil Command ordered the division of troops into two routes, completely cutting off the retreat of this group of eight roads from the southwest and north, and continued to advance rapidly.

On the one hand, the plan to continue the army, besiege the cliffs of the Eighth Route Army in the south of Taihang, and annihilate it in one fell swoop, was passed back to the headquarters of the First Army.

Inside the headquarters.

This time, in order to deal with Kong Jie's first detachment, the Japanese army used a lot of battles.

Commander Yoshio Shinozuka and Chief of Staff of the First Army, Ayumi Kitagawa, have also been closely following the trend of this battle.

When the news came back, although everything seemed reasonable, the results went unexpectedly.

Chief of Staff Kitagawa Ayumi was still a little hesitant.

His suspicions were straightforward:

"General, according to our previous combat experience with this independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army, the team of this independent regiment is very cunning, and Kong Jie, who commands the operation, is a master of using troops."

"The team he commanded has an obvious characteristic, they generally like to face the enemy in rapid movement, or interspersed with detours, or secretly sneak attack, harass, ambush, or take advantage of the geographical advantages of the mountainous area to fight along the way."

"There are very few cases of direct confrontation with our Great Japanese Empire."

"I've summed this up, and I've come to the conclusion that Kong Jie seems to have always adhered to a little principle in his fight, and he tried to get the ultimate victory at the lowest cost."

"So the head-to-head confrontation where casualties are inevitable, and the style of play such as positional warfare, he rarely uses."

"Right now, his southbound troops have been discovered by our troops, and the southbound road and southwesterly flank have been cut off."

"In such a situation, the correct command should be to quickly withdraw the troops, or break through from the southeast, in order to avoid the offensive of our army from the north and southwest."

"But how did this southbound Eighth Route Army retreat towards the cliff Jedi in the south of Taihang like a headless fly?"

"Could it be that the Eighth Road made a stupid mistake and killed itself?"

An operational staff officer said: "Sir, according to the news from the front, these Eighth Routes also tried to advance to the southeast, but they were repelled by our army!" ”

"As for why there was no pullback...... The intention of the Eighth Route to attempt to go south to reinforce Nakajo Mountain seems to be very firm! ”

Yoshio Shinozuka was silent, seeing the eyes of the staff officers converge on him, and he knew that it was the commander's most difficult time to make a decision.

At this moment, the decision and choice he made in the end were too important, and even related to the victory or defeat of this battle.

At this time, military commanders are eager to become gods and directly look down on the situation on the entire battlefield with their big eyes.

Unfortunately, that's just an extravagant hope.

Yoshio Shinozuka is accustomed to quickly weighing the situation of this battle, as well as the gains and losses.

At present, from the perspective of the situation, the imperial forces clearly have the upper hand, and successfully surrounded the southbound troops of the Eighth Route Army in the cliff area south of Taihang.

There were more than 6,000 Imperial troops and Imperial Allied Army advancing in the southwest, and more than 2,000 people in the 47th Division advancing in the north, totaling more than 8,000 troops.

And these units of the Eighth Route Army that went south were based on the reconnaissance of the vanguard units and reconnaissance planes of the Japanese army.

The strength of the army is about three thousand.

According to Yoshio Shinozuka's speculation.

Kong Jie sent troops south to reinforce Zhongtiao Mountain, but he couldn't send all the elites of his old independent regiment, right?

Moreover, even if these more than 3,000 troops were all the elite of the old independent regiment, once they were trapped and died in the cliff area south of Taihang and lost their mobility, they would never be the opponent of the more than 8,000 imperial troops.

Not to mention that Yoshio Shinozuka still has the back hand to arrange, and the two brigades that are rapidly advancing in the direction of Taiyuan City are rushing to help.

Due to the unique topography of the area where the two sides were fighting, the Eighth Route Army in the direction of Taihang had to make a detour to a considerable circle if it wanted to reinforce it.

Yoshio Shinozuka also took into account the reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army.

He always believed that even if the reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army were reinforced, the more than 8,000 imperial troops that he advanced from the southwest and north at the same time would be able to eat the more than 3,000 main forces of the Independent Regiment in one bite before the reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army arrived.

After this bite was eaten, most of the main force of the independent regiment was lost.

Thinking about this, Yoshio Shinozuka even couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart.

Starting with the fall of Sakata United.

Repeated sweeps of the Independence Regiment failed miserably.

And not long ago, Ai broke Yamamoto Yu to martyrdom!

Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, is such a big role as a small commander of the Eighth Route Army.

In the more than a year since he fought with the independent group, Yoshio Shinozuka has hardly taken any advantage.

At the moment, he can finally hit Kong Jie hard.

This is something Yoshio Shinozuka has dreamed about.

Thinking about it like this, Yoshio Shinozuka no longer hesitated and decided to give it a go.

The opportunity to inflict a heavy blow on the enemy Independence Regiment is at hand.

If he gave up like this, not only would it damage the majesty of the Japanese Empire, but Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't swallow this breath.

Yoshio Shinozuka, who made up his mind, ordered the divisions to continue to advance and encircle and annihilate the main force of the independent regiment.

At the same time, the flight team was also informed that once the troops of the Eighth Route Army gathered in the same area on a large scale, they would provide air fire reinforcements at any time.

…… Time quickly advanced by more than half an hour.

The Japanese army successfully achieved its operational intent and successfully besieged the southbound Eighth Route Army troops in the cliff area south of Taihang.

It was a towering mountain cliff, and at the bottom of the cliff, some undulating slopes, earth ditches, rocks, etc., could be used as the last defensive fortifications of the Eighth Route Army.

There is already a dead end behind it, and you can only fight against the water.

The two sides exchanged fire in the area, and the Japanese army was the first to come with a vanguard force of more than 2,000 people.

The captain of the devil brigade commanding on the opposite side was commanding the battle on the one hand, and he was also frightened on the other hand, and said secretly in his heart:

It is worthy of being the elite main force of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

This completely subverted his previous perception of the Eighth Route Army's troops with backward equipment and scarce ammunition.

The other party relied on the natural bunker under the cliff as a fortification, and under the strong firepower, the imperial troops could not break through at all for a while.

The cliff is a Jedi, although it cuts off the retreat of these Eighth Route Army troops in front of them.

But it can also avoid the Japanese army from making a detour to the back to surprise attack.

The two sides engaged in fierce positional battles at the bottom of the cliffs.

Soon.

The Devil Command, which was commanding the army in the rear, received news that a unit of the Eighth Route Army had appeared, which was making a detour from the base area of the Independent Regiment to the southeast, in an attempt to make a detour back to the back of the Imperial troops.

The headquarters of the 1st Army of the Japanese Army.

Beichuan, the chief of staff of the devil who had been a little hesitant, suddenly brightened:

"General, the eight-way map is exhausted, no wonder the army that went south first chose to retreat to the cliff area southwest of Taihang."

"It seems that Kong Jie wants to use the troops going south as bait to lure our army deeper, and then use the troops to intersperse the back of our army in a roundabout way, attacking from both sides."

Yoshio Shinozuka smiled: "Yes, such an intention is very obvious, and this is also the favorite way of the Eighth Route Army." ”

"It's just that, General, Kong Jie's intention is obvious, but what does he mean by this? Could it be that he still wants to use the troops that have returned to the back of our army to unite the southbound troops to attack from both sides, and wipe out all of our more than 8,000 imperial troops? His appetite is not small. Kitagawa was puzzled by this.

Yoshio Shinozuka also shook his head, "Kong Jie's use of soldiers is difficult to figure out. ”

After thinking for a moment, Yoshio Shinozuka showed confidence and said decisively:

"In the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are just paper tigers!"

"No matter what Kong Jie has in mind, and how big his appetite is, how can it be so easy to try to attack our army from behind?"

"The vanguard of our army besieged the southbound troops of the Eighth Route Army, and even if they clashed with the roundabout troops of the Eighth Route Army from the back, they would only need to hold on for two hours. The two brigades and regiments of our army that were drawn from Taiyuan City can also go around the back of the roundabout troops of the Eighth Route Army, which is equivalent to our army's multi-layer encirclement and attack on the Eighth Route Army. ”

"I want to see what kind of waves this Kong Jie can make in such a situation."

"Pass on my order, the Southwest Advance Force will send a detour to block the Eighth Road, and its main force will continue to advance to the southwest, and join up with the 47th Division in the north, so that I can fight to eat the southbound Eighth Route Army troops in the direction of the cliff south of Taihang before the reinforcements of the Eighth Route arrive."

"Hey!"

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