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"Withdraw!"

"When the one-hour safe time has passed, immediately notify the troops of all sides and retreat to their respective base areas."

The command of the detachment, looking at the watch in his hand, Kong Jie gave the order without hesitation.

Chief of Staff Xu Guoan also felt a little pity.

"Lao Kong, the little devil's reinforcements are too fast this time, if the devils don't come over and give us two more hours, we can not only take away all the grain intercepted, but also pick up the train wagons for him. In addition, the devil's advance strongholds, turrets, and some remote villages and towns can all be taken by us. ”

"The coming day is long, and there is no hurry." Kong Jie said with a smile.

"Inform the troops of all parties that after retreating, along the highway and railway lines, give me a large number of mines, even if we withdraw, we can't let the little devils have a good time."

"This is distributed to the troops of each regiment, and the latest batch of killing kings produced by the Repair Institute is time to let the little devils in the northwest of Jin also taste it."

"Yes!"

At this time, it is viewed from the sky above the entire Yangquan area.

This operation was initiated by the first anti-Japanese detachment of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi, mainly in the operation of looting grain, supplemented by the uprooting of Japanese strongholds and artillery towers.

In addition to the Fourth Independent Regiment that opened up an anti-Japanese revolutionary base in Zhongtiao Mountain.

The entire independent regiment was almost fully participatory.

The main forces of the three regiments, with almost 6,000 troops invested.

Some are responsible for sending reinforcements, and some are uprooting strongholds, and at first glance, the entire Yangquan seems to be a mess.

However, each team either uses the company as the combat unit or the battalion as the combat unit, and the division of labor is orderly, and the tacit cooperation is to divide the entire battlefield into pieces of local battlefields, thus evolving into local force superiority operations.

In addition to the main combat forces, almost 4,000 people were committed to the militia and local forces.

The number of people in the various migrant workers' regiments, represented by the First Migrant Workers' Regiment led by Xie Baoqing, including the people in various villages, who actively participated in the transportation operation, was even larger, exceeding 10,000.

This is a large-scale group, but it fully reflects the close cooperation and efficient collaboration between the team.

It's like looking at the dense ants in the anthill, you think they are disorganized, but in fact all the ants have a division of labor.

In the hour from dusk to dark.

In close cooperation with the main forces, militia forces, local forces, the Workers' League and various groups of the people.

The soldiers and civilians of the Eighth Route Army showed amazing group strength.

In just one hour, the three routes of the Japanese army to Yangquan transported a total of more than 1,000 tons of military rations and more than 1 million catties of grain.

The soldiers and civilians used military trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, and more primitive means of transportation, such as board cars, mule and horse carts, and even manpower, to carry more than one million catties of grain.

With the cooperation of local troops and militia units, the main combat units even uprooted in one fell swoop 56 advance bases that the Japanese army had gradually built into the Taihang base area.

Killed more than 600 old devils who had been stationed in the stronghold for a long time.

These old devils are stationed in the stronghold on weekdays, and from time to time they explore the terrain around the stronghold, and draw military maps for sweeping.

They often served as the guides of the Japanese invaders in the sweeps set off by the Japanese army, and their crimes were too numerous to mention.

In addition, the battle successfully blew up 13 Japanese military bridges and destroyed dozens of Japanese railway lines.

In one night, the entire area around Yangquan can be said to have been turned upside down by the independent group.

Far away at the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army in Taiyuan City, Yoshio Shinozuka, an old devil who was closely watching the battle situation, gritted his teeth and gave up some bait in order to capture the ultimate goal.

He constantly urged the troops from all sides to speed up the pace of encirclement.

In about an hour and a half, the former batch of automobile troops and tank units of the devils surrounded the vicinity of Yangquan left and right, completely blocking the main pass leaving the Yangquan area.

In about two hours, the Japanese follow-up reinforcements gradually arrived.

By the time it was two and a half hours, the main forces of the two major brigades and regiments, which had not hesitated to expend manpower and material resources, had also arrived at the predetermined encirclement position and formed a large net as a whole, completely encircling the entire combat area.

In the end, it took less time than Yoshio Shinozuka had predicted.

All this made this old devil's face full of smiles of victory.

The next step is to close the encirclement, as if the fishermen have cast a large fishing net, waiting for the final result of the big net.

Yoshio Shinozuka, who was afraid that the Eighth Route would run away in the encirclement, did not hesitate to issue an order to attack at night, and ordered to attack some large and medium-sized strongholds that had not been broken by the independent regiment at the same time.

In the dim darkness of the night.

The cold earth gradually became lively, and from time to time there were gunshots and cannons, and some explosions were heard continuously.

The devils who went out to the stronghold and the Japanese troops who were advancing in the encirclement were caught off guard by a lot of mines soon after.

These mines are planted in a very cunning manner.

Some are on the edge of the road, and some are even placed in the middle of the bridge.

Then, as the Japanese troops advanced, they were confronted with a nightmare killing weapon, a directional anti-infantry mine affectionately known as the King of Slaughter by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.

In the dark night, a large number of iron balls, steel nails, and fragments were shot out rapidly with a considerable range of fan-shaped strike area.

A sweep is a large area, either dead or disabled.

In this way, the devil puppet army did not even see half of the Eighth Road, and the vanguard troops suffered heavy casualties in the process of constantly encountering mine traps.

When the news was fed back, the devil officers of the command team were full of horror.

The area surrounded by masses looked like a bottomless abyss in the dark night, and like a steel frame full of butcher knives, as if there were not enough lives to fill it.

The little devils no longer dare to take advantage of the darkness to advance indiscriminately.

They found a large number of military flashlights, some simply lit torches, and some had sappers continue to explore and advance with mine detectors, for fear that they would make a mistake and step into the trap of the Eighth Road again.

In this way, the little devils who have been busy and worried will trigger some traps from time to time and stay up until dawn the next day.

When the soldiers and people who retreated urgently at night and jumped out of the encirclement of the devils in time regained their strength and refreshed themselves after a night's sleep.

On the other side, the little devils who stayed up all night found out in a hurry after dawn.

The entire encirclement had long since disappeared from the Eighth Route, and they had been wrestling with various mine traps left behind after the Eighth Route had evacuated all night.

The newly developed King of Killing by the Independent Regiment was presented to the little devils in Shanxi for the first time.

Looking at the curved steel plate with a curve, only two palm-sized curves, the little devils called it a devil's weapon made by Balu.

…… The Japanese army was stationed in the headquarters of the First Army in Shanxi.

I learned that I had planned a lot of battles before and after, and I spent such a big battle, and mobilized my troops overnight to encircle them, but in the end, it was a bamboo basket to draw water, and the eight roads in the entire encirclement were completely missing.

Yoshio Shinozuka was silent for a long time, and his heart was full of depression with a punch in the air.

It's like casting a fishing net and expecting a large net of fish, only to find out that there isn't even a fart in the net.

Kitagawa, the chief of staff of the devil, thinks that this matter is really incredible:

"According to the intelligence analysis of all parties, the troops mobilized by the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army this time are definitely not less than 10,000 people."

"In such a short period of time, not to mention their timely evacuation, they actually transported all the millions of catties of grain of our army, blew up dozens of our army's forward strongholds, and carried out a considerable degree of sabotage on various transportation lines."

In the end, there is a bitter sigh:

"General, is this Eight Roads my natural nemesis of the Great Japanese Empire?"

"They don't have trains, they don't have a lot of transport vehicles, they don't have convenient transportation channels, they just rely on manpower, how do they do all this?"

No one told Kitagawa the answer, and even Yoshio Shinozuka was puzzled by this puzzle.

They will never understand what it means to unite Chinese power......

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