Han Feng and Wang Shoucheng were very particular about choosing Shanfengkou as the breakthrough point.

The Japanese army surrounded the main force of the Fourth Regiment, and the various garrison points selected basically relied on the steep terrain to defend condescendingly.

And with the help of sophisticated equipment and abundant firepower.

If the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army of the Fourth Regiment tried to break through the position from the front, they would definitely pay a heavy price for casualties.

It was like a slaughterhouse set up by the Japanese in various defensive positions.

Little by little, the vital forces of the four regiments were exhausted.

However, this mountain outlet is slightly different.

The terrain on which it is backed by a slower slope than other places where the Japanese army is stationed is suitable for tank units to carry out operations.

Although there were quite a few Japanese troops stationed at Shanfengkou, there were more than 500 people, and it was an elite mixed brigade.

On weekdays, with the sophisticated equipment of the Japanese army, and if they held on to the danger, more than 500 Japanese troops could even block the attack of several regiments of the Eighth Route Army and hold out until reinforcements arrived.

However, the lack of troops has become the biggest drawback of the Japanese army stationed at the mountain pass at this moment.

It could have been possible to hold the ground and go on the defensive, so to speak.

And once the Shanfengkou position garrisoned by the Japanese army was broken through by the Eighth Route Army, the devil's firepower advantage no longer existed.

The two sides have a short handover, and the superiority of troops is particularly important at this moment.

The biggest mistake made by the Japanese army was that they never expected that there would be armored troops in the hands of the Eighth Route Army in Zhongtiao Mountain.

In other words, the Japanese army never imagined that Kong Jie led a team to attack the county towns and towns in the enemy-occupied area with great fanfare, in order to secretly cover an armored corps company to go south to reinforce Zhongtiao Mountain.

As the most suitable killing weapon on the battlefield to break through the trench position.

Wang Shoucheng led the tank company's tanks, armored vehicles and modified combat vehicles to launch a fierce surprise attack on the Japanese army's Shanfengkou position from the back.

The Japanese army, who was caught off guard, did not have much power to parry at all.

In less than three minutes, the Type 89 tank under the personal command of Wang Shoucheng took the lead in breaking through the Japanese position.

The rest of the armored vehicles and tanks followed, and under absolute defense, lightly shed the fire of howitzers and heavy machine guns.

The prestige of the battlefield meat grinder, the tank, is truly worthy of its name.

The Japanese army, which was attacked from both sides, did not care about the tail, and the main force of the 4th Regiment also took the opportunity to break through the front fortifications of the Japanese army.

In desperation, the devil Shaozuo conveyed the last communication to the Japanese command, in which he stated:

"The sudden appearance of the armored corps completely broke the entire deployment of our army.

The mountain wind pass will definitely not be able to hold on, and the main force of the Eighth Route will also take the opportunity to break out of the encirclement, and this sweep has come to naught...... I am also a regret of the Japanese Empire.

There is no way back for our department, and we will fight to the death to serve the emperor! ”

After the communication message was transmitted, the devil Shaozuo pulled out the command knife on his waist and raised it above his head, but he did not defend the counterattack and gave the order to attack.

As an aggressor, this old devil is a failure.

But as a military man, he was undoubtedly successful.

It's a pity that all this hysteria, in front of the main forces of the four regiments and a detachment of armored infantry units, was in vain after all.

The two sides fought fiercely for more than 20 minutes.

The entire Japanese army was mixed into a brigade, and more than 500 Japanese troops were completely annihilated on the Shanfengkou position.

Because Wang Huaibao used a move to attack the east and west, he only attacked the northern pass more than an hour ago.

The attention of the Japanese army was drawn to the past.

At this moment, with the help of armored troops, they laid down the mountain wind with lightning speed.

Reinforcements from all sides of the Japanese army simply did not have time to react.

In the hurry of the Japanese troops in the north-south direction of Shanfengkou, reinforcements were sent in the direction of Shanfengkou.

Along the way, they were blocked by the soldiers of the fourth battalion.

When Wang Huaibao and Han Feng officially met at Shanfengkou.

Han Feng immediately reported the current specific situation to Wang Huaihug:

"Regiment commander, the mountain wind pass has been taken, the main force of our regiment can take the opportunity to break through, in the north and south directions, I have sent a reinforced company to block the Japanese reinforcements along the way."

"Buy time for the transfer of the main forces of the regiment."

Wang Huaibao nodded, "It's hard work, this battle is beautiful." ”

"Thanks to the armored troops that our detachment has reinforced." Han Feng said.

Wang Huaibao and Wang Shoucheng naturally knew each other for a long time, and after the two sides met, Wang Huaibao said: "Shoucheng, don't say thank you, the war is urgent now, and the Japanese army's air reinforcements may arrive at any time." ”

"I'm not worried about anything else, but the targets of the tanks and armored vehicles of our armored forces are too big and very easy to expose, in case they are bombed by the devil's plane, I can't explain to our old regiment commander when I turn around."

"You hurry up and immediately transfer all the armored vehicles to conceal themselves and beware of the Japanese air raid."

"Yes, please rest assured that the fourth regiment commander will not go wrong!" Wang Shoucheng responded.

Then, Wang Shoucheng quickly mobilized and led the soldiers of the armored corps company to quickly drive all the tanks, armored vehicles and modified cars into the ravine, and hid themselves with the help of the mountains and forests.

At this time, looking at the detachment's tanks and armored vehicles quickly entering the mountains and forests, it was as if there was no trace of them quietly.

Even after looking through the binoculars for a long time, I didn't find any clues.

Wang Huaibao couldn't help but be amazed: "Grandma, the comrades of this armored corps company are really amazing in their camouflage of armored vehicles and tanks!" ”

After sighing, Wang Huaibao did not delay here, and immediately issued an order to evacuate.

The soldiers who quickly cleaned the battlefield immediately chose to evacuate according to the designated evacuation route.

After receiving the news, the soldiers of the four battalions, who were blocking the Japanese reinforcements in the north and south, also relied on the cover of the mountains and forests to retreat in an orderly manner.

Soon after, the Japanese flying unit arrived, confirming Wang's speculation.

It's a pity that the devil's fighters and bombers are late after all.

Thanks to the rapid battle at Shanfengkou, when the devil's flight unit arrived, the main forces of the four regiments had already been evacuated.

The devil pilot only saw a few small units of the Eighth Route Army that appeared faintly in the mountains and forests.

After a bombardment, little was achieved.

The devil's reconnaissance plane continued to hover overhead.

The Japanese flying team received an order from the command to find the armored unit of the Eighth Route Army that appeared in the Shanfengkou area and destroy it in one fell swoop.

After all, there is nothing more effective against tanks than the bombing of aircraft.

As a result, the three reconnaissance planes of the devils circled back and forth over the entire mountain wind pass for more than 10 minutes, but after all, they found nothing, and they did not find the shadow of the armored troops at all.

The armored unit that suddenly appeared at the Shanfengkou and caused the Japanese army to be stationed at the Shanfengkou position to be lost in an instant, as if it had evaporated from the world.

The soldiers of the first company of the armored corps made absolute camouflage of tanks and armored vehicles, and the tanks and armored vehicles covered with branches, green leaves and camouflage nets, after submerging into the mountains and forests, almost blended into the entire environment.

Plus the scout's constant vigilance.

As soon as Japanese planes approached, all tanks and armored vehicles remained motionless.

In this case.

Even if it is tens of meters away, it may not be noticeable with the human eye.

Not to mention the devil pilots who are flying fast at an altitude of several hundred meters and doing rough reconnaissance to the ground.

After another 20 minutes, reinforcements from all sides of the Japanese army finally arrived at the mountain wind pass.

However, the battle was already over.

The whole mountain is winded, and the position is full of corpses of Japanese soldiers.

While the devil officer who saw the rush roared angrily, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

In the midst of complete encirclement, he was able to break through and destroy more than 500 warriors of the Great Japanese Empire in one fell swoop.

The combat effectiveness of these Eighth Route Army was so fierce that the Japanese army really caught the attention of the Japanese army.

What made the Japanese commanders even more helpless was that with the breakthrough of the mountain wind pass, the big pocket that originally surrounded the main force of the Eighth Route Army. It's like a big hole has been broken through the mouth of the mountain.

The main force of the Eighth Route Army, which was originally encircled, was afraid that it would have broken through from the mountain wind pass long ago.

There may also be troops of the Eighth Route Army in the encirclement.

However, I am afraid that there are only a few guerrilla forces left, and there is no way to continue the encirclement with all the people.

So far.

Although they were reluctant to admit it, the Japanese army had to admit that the sweep against the troops of the Eighth Route Army in Zhongtiao Mountain ended in failure.

In this battle, the Japanese army wasted a lot of manpower, material resources, and time.

There was also a heavy cost in casualties.

The elite Uchida Brigade, the Kwantung Army Brigade of the Japanese Army, was completely wiped out in this sweep.

During the blocking of the Eighth Route Army along the way, the seemingly small casualties in various places were counted, which also caused a lot of trauma to the Japanese army.

Even the armored forces used by the Japanese army, all the tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed by the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

The sweep set off by the Japanese army this time can be described as a fiasco!

In this way, the Japanese army launched a sweep against the Eighth Route Army in Zhongtiao Mountain, at about two o'clock in the afternoon of the fifth day.

The rear command of the devils issued an order for all to make a strategic turn.

The sweeping forces of the Japanese army retreated like a tidal wave.

The anti-sweeping operation in Zhongtiao Mountain was led by many heroic generals of the Eighth Route Army such as Wang Huaibao, Han Feng, and Wang Shoucheng.

It was a pretty impressive victory.

The news spread rapidly, and the whole of North China, China and Japan were shaken.

More than 200,000 central troops defended Zhongtiao Mountain, which was completely destroyed in less than a month.

In the face of the overwhelming sweeps set off by the Japanese army in Zhongtiao Mountain, the troops of the Eighth Route Army held on.

It was also the guerrilla forces of the Eighth Route Army that originated from Zhongtiao Mountain.

Only then did the tens of thousands of puppet troops completely contain the Zhongtiao Mountain area.

The Japanese army was worried that once it continued to cross the Yellow River and advance to Xi'an and Luoyang, the Eighth Route Army would take the opportunity to make a surprise attack, causing a fire in the backyard of the Japanese army, and even directly cutting off the Japanese army's transportation line through the Yellow River.

He could only reluctantly postpone the plan to continue southward.

For this.

Even the Nationalist Military Government had to admit in its daily newspaper that the guerrilla forces in Zhongtiao Mountain had played a tremendous positive role in the entire war situation in North China.

But the bald chairman changed his words and then said:

"The Zhongtiao Mountain guerrilla force is composed of the guerrilla units of the Eighth Route Army and the guerrilla units of the National Army remaining in Zhongtiao Mountain, and is subordinate to the battle sequence of the National Army."

"The success of the anti-sweeping operation in Zhongtiao Mountain is undoubtedly a great victory for our national army troops in the course of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression!"

Finally, the chairman of the committee also very generously issued a telegram commendation.

"That's good, it's so good, it's just quack!"

After returning to the station, the regimental headquarters of the four regiments.

Wang Huaibao, the head of the regiment holding the latest daily newspaper issued by the national army, said with a smile on his face after reading the report.

The hot-tempered battalion commander on the side couldn't help but scold: "Our chairman is really cheeky, he is not active in the war, and he is the first to take credit!" ”

"Since the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, we have not seen the military government of the country give us a child's salary or a grain of food."

There is no mistake

"At this time, we have won the battle, but Chairman He's remembered that our Eighth Route Army is also subordinate to the battle sequence of the National Army."

Han Feng said: "I don't care who the credit for this victory goes." ”

"I'm just wondering if I can make some real benefits, even if it's two machine guns, it's more than this empty reward."

Then a wicked smile hung on the corner of his mouth:

"Regiment commander, since the national military government has recognized that we are the battle sequence of the national army, and even classified our anti-sweeping operations and guerrilla operations in Zhongtiao Mountain into the victory of the national army, then we will push the boat down the river and ask the chairman for military salaries and materials on behalf of the national army.

Isn't that a very reasonable thing to do? ”

Wang Huaibao, who quickly came back to his senses, said with a smile: "That's the truth, it's not bad, Fourth Battalion Commander, then I'll leave this matter to you." ”

"Huh!" Han Feng responded with a smile.

Soon after.

The Propaganda Department of the Fourth Regiment released the news.

And through reporters such as Elder, plus the help of the newspaper, the published newspaper was delivered to all areas.

The occupied area of the devil can be seen, the territory of the Jin Sui army can be seen, and the national control area can also be seen.

The content of the report is also very simple:

Wang Huaibao, on behalf of all the officers and men of the Fourth Independent Regiment of the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, thanked the chairman for his commendation.

Then Wang Huaibao said in the report:

"Although the anti-sweeping operation in Zhongtiao Mountain was victorious, it broke the encirclement of the Japanese army.

However, the casualties of our 4th Independent Regiment were also not small, especially the consumption of ammunition was very large, and the supplies were almost expensive. ”

Then the conversation changed, and the sycophants snapped: "The chairman of the committee has always been well aware of the righteousness and loves the soldiers like sons, and at present, our anti-Japanese guerrilla troops in Zhongtiao Mountain are almost running out of ammunition and food, and if we want to continue to maintain the Zhongtiao Mountain base area and fight the Japanese invaders to the end, we must have the support of materials and ammunition."

Therefore, I hope that the chairman of the committee can help and not disappoint the three armed forces! ”

Later, it was said that the news reached Chongqing.

Even the newspaper issued by the Fourth Regiment was placed on Chairman Chiang's desk.

There was a hearty laugh in the office, and then the Jiangsu and Zhejiang accents couldn't be heard to be angry or happy: "This commander of the Eighth Route Army is a slippery head, and he has a good set of donkeys under the slope." ”

"Chairman ......"

"It's okay, pass on the news for me, I agreed to the request of the Eighth Route Army fighting in Zhongtiao Mountain, and the promised materials and equipment will be sent over in a way."

"Yes!"

……

Command of the Fourth Regiment.

The news came......

"What? Agreed??? ”

For a while, Wang Huaibao, who felt that the sun came out of the west, looked surprised.

Originally, I wanted to try it, but I didn't expect the chairman to really send supplies and equipment, but now it was unexpected.

But then, the Central Army troops on the south bank of the Yellow River came with news:

Materials and equipment can be sent, but the Fourth Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army in Zhongtiao Mountain must be reorganized into the Zhongtiao Mountain guerrilla force of the National Army.

and received the unified command of the General Headquarters of the Zhongtiao Mountain Guerrilla Forces of the National Army.

The National Military Government also took this opportunity to release the news: The National Army's Zhongtiao Mountain Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Base Area was officially opened, and the Zhongtiao Mountain National Army Guerrilla Department was officially established!

In this regard, Wang Huaibao, Han Feng and other generals of the four regiments were dumbfounded after receiving the news, and they all spat fragrantly.

Detachment command.

Kong Er, who also received the news, was stunned, his eyes widened, and he scolded:

"Niang Xipi, this old Jiang is shameless! The fourth regiment just wanted some materials and equipment, but he was good, and he even thought about being incorporated into Lao Tzu's head! ”