With the rapid development of the base economy of a detachment, the opportunities for the soldiers of the main force of a detachment to get in touch with agriculture are actually gradually decreasing.

After all, Kong Jie still hoped that the main energy of a combat unit would be on training and fighting.

However, as a peasant army, the people's army must not forget its roots.

Therefore, even if the living conditions of the troops are good, in addition to training the soldiers, Kong Jie will still ask the soldiers to take time out to work in the fields, at least to understand how the farm work is done.

You can't be a farmer's son and can't even plant two acres of land, right?

Thanks to these educational measures of the troops, and most of the soldiers were originally from peasant backgrounds.

For the soldiers of the main force of the first anti-Japanese detachment in the northwest of the Eighth Route Army.

The soldier who takes the weapon is a devil, puts down the weapon and takes out the sickle, and turns his head to become an out-and-out peasant.

In this operation, once the soldiers broke through the Japanese defenses and quickly hit the devil's farmland, they exchanged the guns at hand for farm tools, and immediately reincarnated in the operation of harvesting the Japanese army's crops.

…… Time passed quietly, and the situation quickly evolved.

The battle waits for the people, but the crops wait for no people.

As soon as the crops are ripe and the Eighth Route Army troops grab the crops, if the little devils want to carry out a sneak attack and grab food, then there will be no chance.

Sometimes, in order to snatch grain, the Japanese army will even launch a surprise attack in advance, directly harvesting and snatching away the wheat, millet, and even peanuts that have not yet matured in the fields.

Therefore, after the Japanese army's battle plan was formulated, it quickly launched an operation.

Time flashed, around late September.

The crops in the fields are basically ripe, including rice, corn, millet, sorghum, peanuts, soybeans, sweet potatoes and so on.

Even if it's not fully ripe, it's almost there, and an early harvest can still be used as food.

With the goal set, the Japanese army officially kicked off its military offensive against the farmland belonging to the base area of the Eighth Route Army.

In the early morning, the sky was still bright.

A large number of Japanese field troops quietly took advantage of the darkness to rapidly advance in the direction of the base areas of the detachment from some important military cities in the areas occupied by the devils, such as Yangquan, Tan County, Shouyang, and Ping'an County.

The forward used the Japanese puppet army to more than 10,000 troops.

There are also heavily funded troops, artillery units and mechanized transport units that are constantly following up from the follow-up transport lines.

The vast march was temporarily hidden in the dead countryside, hidden under the dark sky.

Message......

Naturally, it was impossible to conceal the intelligence of a detachment, especially the target of the Japanese army's attack this time, which was mainly aimed at a detachment.

When the Japanese troops in Yangquan, Tanxian, Shouyang, Ping'an County and other places had just moved, intelligence information about the movements of the Japanese troops had already been transmitted to the headquarters of a detachment and reached the ears of Kong Jie, the commander of the detachment.

"I know that the little devil can't sit still, our crops are ripe in the next few days, and the devil's attack will definitely be within these few days."

Kong Jie spoke slowly, without obvious expression, but in his words, there was a strong and firm confidence.

"Then our operation can also be carried out," Chief of Staff Xu Guoan said with a smile.

Time passed quickly, and by about half past seven in the morning, the sky in the northwest of Shanxi Province had basically brightened.

It's just that there is less warmth of daylight, and there are more expectations of the future of winter.

After the order of the detachment command was issued, the detachment was independent from the first regiment to the third regiment, and the detachment, which had been preparing for action, quickly set out.

Local army and militia units were also quickly deployed into the combat standby area.

The county brigade, district squadron, and district squad, including the militia comrades, have been agitated for several days for this battle.

In this regard, when Zhao Ming, the leader of the district squadron, gave the comrades of the district squadron a pre-war mobilization, he said this:

"Comrades, all along, the main force of a team eats meat, and we drink soup in our place.

Every time, the main force of the little devil is handed over to our main army, and only some puppet troops and some leftovers can be left to our local troops!

Of course, we are well aware that it is because the comrades of the local army took care of us and left the most dangerous battles to themselves.

Our equipment and training can't keep up.

But now, our local army units are very different, take our squadron as an example, now this is well-equipped, it is no worse than the main force of an ordinary regiment.

If you still let us make a small fuss, then we will fight the two devils and bandits, comrades, tell me, how can you agree? ”

Can't-

The soldiers' answers in unison shook the sky, like a tsunami surging.

Zhao Ming smiled with relief, and he said aloud: "Of course not."

As the saying goes, raise a soldier for a thousand days, and use a soldier for a while.

Our local army is now developing more than just equipment, and this training has not been left behind for a day.

What are we sweating so much for?

Isn't it just that the hell can kill a few more little devils on the battlefield? ”

Speaking of this, his words changed: "This time it's a pleasure, our detachment leader said that this time the autumn harvest defense battle will leave the main force of the little devil to our local army." ”

"What do you mean? It means that this time, the tens of thousands of devil puppet troops that are rapidly advancing towards our base area will be dealt with by our local army and militia troops. ”

"Comrades, this is a tough battle, but at the same time it is definitely a good fight!"

Kill –

Kill –

The nearly 100 fighters of the district squadron showed their firm answer with shouts of killing.

As Zhao Ming's speech, it is not uncommon in county brigades, districts, districts, and squads, including local troops.

This was an unprecedented operation of a detachment of local army and militia units, which basically independently dealt with the main force of the Japanese puppet army.

In the words of a certain county brigade captain: "Hehe, comrades, everyone knows that this time to fight devils, it is mainly our local army, supplemented by the main force of the detachment."

The detachment commander believes in our local army troops, so we must give him a brilliant shot! ”

Determined local army units and militia units quickly mobilized.

Kong Jie's order this time was again echelon configuration, blocking layer by layer, harassing and exhausting the Japanese army along the way.

Actually, relative to the main force.

The local army, including the militia troops, is more integrated into the nearby mountain, forest and mountain environment, and is very familiar with the combat environment of blocking devils along the way.

In addition, now they are well-equipped, and when traps are arranged, mines are dug up, and mines are skillfully placed, the comrades of the local army and militia have exerted their strength.

"There is only one requirement, once the battle starts, no matter whether you can stop the pace of the Japanese puppet army or not, your local army, including the militia troops, must give me the effect of the main force!"

This was at the headquarters of a detachment, and the detachment leader Kong Jie clearly gave instructions.

Thus, as soon as the battle broke out......

The scene was a shock.

In the Taihang Mountains, a detachment was in a ravine in the guerrilla zone on the outskirts of the base area.

A fully organized Japanese army brigade, numbering more than 2,000 Japanese puppets, quickly advanced towards the set target farmland.

It was a relatively large piece of farmland in the outlying guerrilla zone of the detachment, which was reclaimed more than half a year ago, and through the efforts of the military and civilians at all levels, it was fertilized and replanted, and it was expanded into more than 500 acres of fertile land.

The fields were planted with corn, ripe, and rows of corn stalks were more than half a body taller than a person.

The huge corn lump wrapped in the compartment on the pole is a sight to behold.

At a glance, it is as if you have already smelled the mellow aroma of corn when it is steamed, boiled, and fried.

The devil seems to have come all the way to smell the smell of corn.

The puppet army unit that fought with this Japanese brigade was coincidentally the unit of Yan Sanfu, the eighth mixed brigade of the Imperial Cooperative Army.

For this combat operation of sabotaging the autumn harvest of the Eighth Route Army and snatching food, the little devils were hungry, excited and excited.

This kind of psychology of the puppet army is much less, and more is to join in the fun.

Their salaries, food, and supplies were not issued by the Japanese, so when the Japanese troops were short of food and could not eat enough, their puppet army was still okay.

...... and the brothers have explained to me clearly, the devil is now like a hungry and red-eyed old wolf, and he wants to go up and nibble on everything he sees.

But the Eighth Route Army team, is Kong Jie easy to mess with?

I look at that little devil, don't end up eating mutton and making a fuss again.

The little devils are now birds to eat, we can't follow them to die, pay attention to the way, in case the situation is not right, we will withdraw in time. ”

Yan Sande, the commander of the Eighth Mixed Brigade of the puppet army, summoned his confidants and generals and secretly explained.

"Yes!"

On the way, in the process of advancing all the way of the Japanese army, they quickly tasted the sweetness.

It was some scattered farmland encountered in the middle of the Japanese army's march, and the area was relatively small, some of which were only a few dozen square meters in size.

The little devils did not let go, and quickly took hoes and shovels, turned over the land, and dug out all the peanuts and sweet potatoes planted in it from the soil.

Then the smile that filled the faces of the devil soldiers was called greed.

The little devils wiped the soil from the peanuts and sweet potatoes with their hands, and then ate and gnawed on them.

Feeling the deliciousness of the food mixed with the aroma of the earth, the little devils seemed to be more and more determined to sabotage the autumn harvest of the Eighth Route Army this time, and the determination to snatch the food seemed to be more and more firm.

"Keep going!" After a little trimming, the captain of the devil brigade, who was holding a sweet potato in one hand and a command knife in the other, gave the order.

Hit –

What awaited them was an ambush that had been gathering momentum for a long time.

Boom –

Seeing that the devil stepped into the ambush circle of the ravine, the comrades of the county brigade lurking on both sides did not hesitate.

Pulling the rope directly under the fallen leaves, it ripped off the explosive bag buried under the soil layer of the ambush circle.

With the earth-shattering roar, the more than 100 Japanese puppet troops who took the lead in stepping into the ambush circle were blown to pieces in the blink of an eye, along with the splashes of soil.

The captain of the devil brigade, who quickly came back to his senses, hurriedly ordered to hide on the spot and organize a counterattack.

He was not very surprised by the Eighth Route Army's blockade.

The Devil Officers also knew very well that it was impossible for the Eighth Route to sit idly by and watch their farmland being plundered by the Japanese Empire.

Not to mention that this is the territory of the Eighth Route Army, which is the most nervous for the Japanese soldiers.

The two sides quickly engaged in a firepower exchange, because the Japanese army had been caught in the trap before, and took the lead in suffering a wave of losses, and under the crushing momentum, the Japanese army fighting was slightly weakened.

Immediately afterwards, the attack of the comrades of the ambushed county brigade was extremely fierce.

The firing points of rifles that were firing in all directions rained down like raindrops, mixed with the sound of light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and mortars.

"Hold on!"

While shouting towards the fighting puppet army troops, Yan Sanfu, the commander of the puppet army brigade who was afraid that he would be killed by a single shot, leaned around the captain of the devil brigade and shouted:

"Captain, this is definitely the main force of the Eighth Road!

The opponent's equipment is well-equipped, the firepower is fierce, and there are still a lot of troops, so let's withdraw from the ambush circle of the Eighth Road first, or the casualties will definitely not be small! ”

The captain of the devil brigade, who was also shocked by the fierce fire of the Eighth Route ambush in front of him, did not hesitate, and immediately agreed with Yan Sanfu's suggestion and ordered the Japanese troops to temporarily make a strategic transfer.

The Japanese puppet army began to retreat rapidly, trying to distance itself, first dodging the ambush of the Eighth Route Army, then gaining a foothold, and then returning fire with artillery fire. Break through the blockade of the Eighth Route Army.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

After the Japanese puppet army dropped three or four hundred corpses and hastily withdrew.

The Japanese artillery quickly set up an artillery position in the rear, including two Type 92 infantry guns that had been quickly assembled, and launched a fierce artillery bombardment towards the mountains and forests on both sides of the ambush circle and the original ambush position of the county brigade.

For a moment, the originally dead mountain forest was drowned out by the earth-shaking explosion.

The mountains and forests on both sides, the trees were broken, and the beasts fled.

But soon a forward scout hurried back, reporting:

"Including the sir, the eight roads ambushed on both sides seem to have evacuated in advance!"

"Nani?"

After the old devil who came back to his senses quickly asked the artillery to cease fire, he sent a small group of scouts to the front to investigate, and sure enough, the news was quickly returned.

The troops of the Eighth Route Army lurking on both sides have all been withdrawn and there is no trace.

As for the fierce bombardment......

The old devil with a smug face, his smile was fixed on his face, as if he had been slapped invisibly.

He thought he was attacking sharply, and he didn't even use his fart.

"These Damn Eight Ways"

"Your Excellency Zhongzuo, this is the consistent trick of the Eighth Road, they will always rely on the environment between the mountains and forests to constantly block the advance of our army, I am worried that there will be an ambush by the Eighth Road in the future!"

"Roar!"

The old devil nodded, and then gave an order: "Advance cautiously, the scouts are spreading around, strengthen vigilance, and beware of the ambush of the Eighth Route Army at any time!" ”

And this battle is like a spark that ignites first in a pile of explosives, and then the explosion that ignites quickly joins together.

The Japanese troops, advancing from all directions, were soon ambushed to varying degrees.

Due to the strong combat effectiveness, fierce firepower, and well-equipped troops of the Eighth Route Army in ambush, the Japanese troops advancing from all directions judged that they must be the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese command had expected this.

The devil commander did not panic and continued to give the order to advance steadily.

He believed that the goal of this time was clear, and although the Eighth Route Army was a difficult team, it was by no means an opponent of the strong imperial forces.

You just need to go straight to the goal!

If the Eighth Route came to block it, he could just take the opportunity to entangle all the main forces of the Eighth Route Army.

Waiting for the additional reinforcements sent by the headquarters, the entire Eighth Route Army was wiped out in one fell swoop......