In this winter counteroffensive, the second phase of the offensive was immediately launched......

At the headquarters of the first detachment, Kong Jie pointed out on the military sand table: "Now the four townships and three towns such as Neixiang, Qingye Township, and Sanquan Township have been taken by our army.

According to the original intention of the Japanese army, it seems that they wanted to draw troops from the major counties around Shouyang, Yangquan and Tan County, and encircle our team in four towns and three towns.

It's a pity that the strength of this little devil is limited after all, plus the regiments of our Eighth Route Army are fighting everywhere, and even the 57th Regiment and 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army also showed their heads in this counteroffensive operation.

If the little devils rashly transfer troops to the four towns and three towns, it will easily cause the troops in other areas to be empty, and our army can take advantage of the weakness to enter.

This is a typical demolition of the east wall to make up the west wall, after all, it is not a long-term solution, the little devil is now having a headache! ”

He drew several main lines on the sand table with his hands, and marked all the railway lines and important highway lines of the Japanese army that were originally presented on the sand table with small flags, and continued:

"These railway lines and highway lines are the necessary routes for the Japanese army to transfer troops from other counties to Shouyang, Yangquan, and Tan counties, and they are also important transportation arteries connecting the major main line cities in the northwest of Shanxi.

Next, we will launch combat forces in an all-round way, with the main force as the mainstay, supplemented by local armies and militia units.

With guerrilla tactics as the core, it attacked the main communication lines of the Japanese army in the entire northwest of Shanxi. ”

Xu Guoan, the chief of staff on the side, nodded thoughtfully, his expression was mixed with a bit of expectation: "Lao Kong, our winter counteroffensive this time, this first stage of the operation, we have defeated the four towns and three towns of the devil in one fell swoop."

It has attracted the focus of the entire Japanese army in North China to areas such as Shouyang, Yangquan and Tan County.

If this second phase of the offensive went well, it would paralyze the entire main line of communication of the Japanese army in the northwest of Jin.

In addition, the four townships and three towns occupied by our detachment, together with the base areas of our detachment, almost surrounded the main county towns of the Japanese army in the northwest of Shanxi Province, Shouyang, Yangquan and Tan County, from the outside line.

At that time, the Japanese army in the central area northwest of Shanxi Province was under threat from our side almost at all times.

Then it can be said that the most important strategic purpose of our winter counteroffensive has been achieved, and I think this huge counteroffensive is enough to shake the whole of North China.

If the little devil doesn't care about Shouyang, Yangquan, including Tan County and other places, this fat that is already on our lips will be swallowed by us sooner or later.

It's just that...... Next, the focus of the devil's operations in North China is likely to move to the head of our team! ”

Speaking of this, Xu Guoan also asked with a smile: "Lao Kong, are you not afraid at all?" ”

"Afraid of what?" Kong Jie asked.

Xu Guoan said: "Aren't you afraid that the little devil will use the strength of his three armies to kill you Kong Jie alone?" ”

But I didn't want to, as soon as Kong Jie heard this, Le's eyes were gone: "Haha——, Lao Xu, if the little devil can really do this, that is the greatest glory of my Kong Jie's life!"

If we really sacrifice my Kong Jie alone, we can attract all the main forces of the Japanese army in the entire North China, buy time for the development and expansion of our other troops, and eventually lead to the destruction of the entire Japanese army in North China, then it is worth our sacrifice! ”

After saying righteously, Kong Jie is eyes rolled, and he said on Xu Guoan's previous topic: "Old Xu, what you said just now suddenly reminded me that our team wants to attract the military combat focus of the entire Japanese army in North China to us.

Just this little bit of trouble in front of me is probably not enough.

Fang Cai's words, what you said is not bad, if the little devil looks at Shouyang, Yangquan, Tan County and other places, it doesn't matter.

These three represent the main county towns in the central region of northwest Shanxi, and sooner or later they will be taken into the pocket by our team.

But where is this?

My Kong Jie's appetite is not so small! ”

In one go, he laid down the four towns and three towns, and now he threatens to directly eat the three cities of Shouyang, Yangquan and Tan County.

That's it, your old Kong's appetite is still small?

Xu Guoan was a little stunned and said: "Lao Kong, don't sell it to me, your guy's mind has always been incomprehensible."

There is no one else at the moment, so you can tell me honestly, what is the ultimate strategic purpose of your winter counteroffensive this time? ”

Xu Guoan really can't understand Kong Jie now.

Originally, at the military meeting before the beginning of winter, Xu Guoan thought that Kong Jie had convened the military cadres of the whole regiment to discuss the development of a detachment, the cold protection of the troops in winter, and the issue of defense.

As a result, Kong Jie directly proposed to launch a counteroffensive with the help of winter.

This was completely beyond Xu Guoan's expectations.

The action of one team directly broke the inherent situation of the Eighth Route Army fighting against the Japanese army and being on passive defense for a long time.

Then, Xu Guoan thought that Kong Jie's so-called counterattack was to hit a dozen remote villages and small and medium-sized strongholds of devils, and that was about the same.

Who knew that Kong Jie directly proposed to launch an attack on the Japanese army's remote towns, strongholds, and villages in Shouyang, Yangquan, Tan County, and other places.

This is still reasonable.

Just when Xu Guoan thought that this winter counteroffensive was like this, Captain Kong proposed again:

"Defeat the four towns and three towns, and at the same time persuade the Jin Sui army to participate in the war, take the opportunity to take Baiyang Town, and muddy the war situation in the entire northwest of Jin.

Using the four towns and three towns around Shouyang, Yangquan and Tan County, it connected a detachment of base areas and formed an encirclement of the three cities of the Japanese army! ”

At this point, Xu Guoan was completely stunned by Kong Jie's play.

Why is this step-by-step rhythm getting bigger and bigger?

No wonder there have long been rumors in the first team that if you follow the detachment leader Kong Jie to fight, you never know the final direction and scale of this battle, and what it will look like.

You think that Captain Kong just wants to trample a hornet to death, and then someone can poke you a bee's nest!

Do you think that the captain of the Kong detachment just wants to touch the tiger's ass?

People dare to poke the tiger directly in the eye.

I really want the world to be chaotic.

This has always been the style of Kong Jie leading troops to fight.

For this reason, every time the independent regiment fought, the brigade commander made a special explanation that he should pay more attention to the motives of the independent regiment, for fear that Kong Jie would gradually expand an originally inconspicuous battle into a large-scale operation, so that the brigade headquarters would not be able to come to his senses.

……

At this moment, in the face of Xu Guoan's inquiry, Kong Jie showed an unfathomable expression, and asked with a smile: "Old Xu, what do you think?" ”

Xu Guoan thought for a while and said, "...... Lao Kong, do you want to slowly eat the three cities of Shouyang, Yangquan, and Tan County, and even knock down the entire central area of northwest Shanxi? ”

Kong Jie nodded, and shook his head again: "That's right, but it's not all right, you might as well think bigger." ”

Xu Guoan swallowed and foamed...... "Could it be that these three county towns can't satisfy your Lao Kong's appetite?" Do you still want to knock down the entire Sanjin? ”

This is already the limit of what Xu Guoan can imagine.

This means that not only Shouyang, Yangquan, and Tan County, but even Taiyuan City must be completely captured in order to achieve this ultimate goal.

Kong Jie smiled: "Yes, the goal is already a little interesting here." ”

His words turned sharply, and he was relaxed, quite instructive, and inspired the spirit of words: "But, where is this?

Lao Xu, as the old saying goes, a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier.

A commander who doesn't want to command a big war, he's not a good commander.

I'll be honest with you!

According to my expectations, our team launched a winter counteroffensive to take the lead in capturing the four towns and three towns, and then set off a second-stage offensive to destroy the communication lines and supply lines of the devils, and plunged the Japanese army in the entire northwest of Shanxi into a bitter battle.

I will not move the three places of Shouyang, Yangquan, and Tan County in the encirclement, but in my opinion, these three counties are already in the bag of our team.

It's the same old rule, let's go around and help!

It's just that this time this point is Shouyang, Yangquan, Tan County and other three county seats.

Besiege these three cities and lure the other Japanese forces to fight.

To lay down the four townships and three towns as a guide, to besiege Shouyang, Yangquan, Tan County as a springboard.

The first step was to disrupt the northwest of Shanxi, gradually causing the Japanese army in the northwest of Shanxi to lose control of the central area, and at the worst, to use the remote towns around the county occupied by the Japanese army to completely cut off the connection between the Japanese county and the county seat, completely cut off the supply line between the county seat of the devil, and make the county seat of the devil become an independent isolated city.

The second step is to take the entire northwest of Shanxi as the basis to counter the entire Three Jin Dynasty and fight against the Japanese First Army troops stationed in Shanxi.

The third step is to occupy the northwest of Shanxi, in order to stabilize the development area, as a rear help, and further take the three Jin, and even sweep the entire North China!

Once the rear of the Japanese army in North China is not secured, the Pacific theater will certainly be greatly affected, and this will inevitably accelerate the defeat of the entire Japanese army in China......"

What a sonorous word.

As the words fell, the aftermath seemed to be lingering.

The reverberation in Xu Guo's bottom was full of shock.

He was so shocked for a moment that he had nothing to say.

As an old comrade-in-arms of Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei in the same period, Xu Guoan is familiar with the Iron Triangle in the northwest of Shanxi.

Ding Wei, Ding has a big nose, and loves to brag, but this boasted cow is easy to hear the joke:

"General? Hehe, if you want us to say that we have to be at least a marshal! ”

Li Yunlong, Li has a big head, that is the lord of heaven and my second child, and he loves to brag more.

In a classic saying: Give him a division, Li Yunlong, this kid dares to fight Taiyuan!

Xu Guoan thought that these two old comrades-in-arms were good enough.

But I never expected it......

This Kong Jie, Kong Er was stunned, Kong Da was real, as soon as he opened his mouth, he was so crazy that he was boundless!

You have no formal establishment, although you are a detachment leader, in fact, you are equivalent to a regimental commander.

Good guy, just the entire North China occupation zone of the devils is worried about it?

The key is that unlike the two old guys who love to brag in front of him, although Kong Jie's indifferent words at this moment, listening to Xu Guoan's ears, they are simply crazy.

After relieving himself, thinking about it carefully, Xu Guoan actually came to it for no reason and felt that what Kong Jie said might not necessarily be unable to become a reality.

Xu Guoan, who reacted suddenly, hurriedly shook his head, shook off the reverie in his heart, and then reminded himself:

You can't be fooled by this guy Lao Kong!

"Lao Kong, in this way, let's let go of the bragging thing first, or based on the present, let's talk about how the two-stage fortification will be carried out?"

Kong Jie was stunned for a moment, and then ...... Hahahaha –

The room filled the room with laughter.

As for Fang Cai's seemingly somewhat arrogant words - what will happen in the future, who knows?

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"Comrades, Captain Kong has given an order, this time our local troops will cooperate with the main force of a detachment to carry out sabotage operations on the important communication lines of the devils and destroy the transportation hubs of the devils.

In addition, the supply lines that specialize in fighting devils must completely cut off the transportation and logistics lines between the devil's cities. ”

Temporarily transferred, it was assigned to the headquarters of the first brigade of the county brigade under the full command of a detachment.

Zhang Wanmin, captain of the county brigade, said loudly to the cadres at all levels who participated in the meeting.

Immediately after that, he added: "Comrades, for today's battle, I have been running to the detachment headquarters these days.

This battle is for you.

The opportunity to improve food and equipment is just around the corner, and it's up to us to grasp it! ”

As soon as these words came out, the cadres of the county brigades who had been waiting for this battle for a long time were full of war.

"Captain, you give the order!"

Taking in the expressions of the cadres, Zhang Wanmin nodded heavily, "Okay!" ”

He directly ordered on the unfolded map: "This time, our operations, according to the requirements of the detachment headquarters, are mainly divided into two types of operations.

One is sabotage warfare, and the other is ambush warfare.

Let's not talk about the breaking war, the old rules, with the cooperation of the militia troops, we will pick up the railroad tracks, blow up the bridges, and destroy the roads, so that the communication line of the little devils will be completely paralyzed.

As for ambush warfare...... Everyone look at the map, here and here, these are the supply lines that the devil is most likely to choose.

On both sides of this supply line, all the troops were arranged for me, and there was no need to put too many troops, but the firepower must be abundant, and all the mortars and grenades newly issued to us by the detachment should be brought with us.

Make sure that after the battle breaks out, before the devil's reinforcements arrive, quickly defeat the devil's supply troops, and never let any of the devil's supply lines pass through our ambush area......"

…… Bang!

Outside the Yangquan line, somewhere in a ravine.

The sudden cannonballs rained down, and with the violent explosion, the snow-white snow and the dark soil were completely mixed into a piece of powdered bones.

No sooner had a Japanese transport unit entered the ravine than it was ambushed by heavy fire.

The 100th soldiers of the county brigade who participated in the ambush took out all their family resources this time.

A large number of cannonballs seemed to be throwing down frantically towards the little devils in the ambush circle.

Under the absolute superiority of firepower, this ambush war did not start according to the regular guerrilla warfare of the Eighth Route Army at all.

The shelling lasted less than two minutes.

The transport force composed of more than 100 Japanese puppet soldiers suffered more than eighty percent casualties, and the remaining devil puppet soldiers directly threw away the materials that were difficult to pull on the snow with sleds and board trucks, and fled in a hurry.

Such ambushes are not in one place.

Not only in Yangquan, but also near Shouyang and Tan County, in order to coordinate the military supplies between various towns and towns, especially in the center of Yangquan, Shouyang, Tan County and other county seats, a large amount of grain was prepared to resist the attack of the Eighth Route Army.

This requires a large number of transport troops to send supplies.

As a result, all of them, without exception, were ambushed halfway through.

The large number of local army and militia units even created an illusion for the little devils, except for the central areas of the county and townships, the mountains were full of troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Inside the Yangquan Headquarters.

The devil of the transport team, who was lucky to survive and fled all the way back, reported that he was ambushed by the troops of the Eighth Route Army on the way.

The communications troops rushed to the headquarters in a hurry and reported: "Sir, the transport unit from Daping Town was ambushed by the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army on the way, and the team suffered heavy casualties and all the supplies were robbed!" ”

Then, the misfortune does not go alone.

One news after another came that all the supply lines dedicated to each town and township were ambushed by the guerrilla forces of the Eighth Route Army.

Toriyama Daiaki, the captain of the Japanese army stationed in Yangquan, was angry and led people to thoroughly investigate the ambush of the supply line.

That's when I got the news:

"It should be the guerrilla units of the Eighth Route Army, most of them don't even have military uniforms, and they are always hiding in ambushes along the supply lines of our army.

They struck suddenly, and a large number of shells and bullets fell directly at the transport units of our army.

We didn't even have time to react, and we didn't even know where the enemy was hiding and what weapons were being used.

All the machine-gun positions and fortifications were destroyed by the enemy's artillery fire, and even the carts that hauled supplies were blown to pieces. ”

The devil soldier who had encountered the ambush recounted his recollections.

"So, these dirt roads, the equipment of the guerrillas, has reached such a good level?"

Daiaki Toriyama felt a little incredible.

It wasn't until the next morning that he heard that a transport unit was approaching the city gates, and was suddenly ambushed by the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army.

In anger, Toriyama Daming immediately brought hundreds of little devils and rushed out of the city gate for reinforcements.

In the distance, hearing the sound of gunfire, he saw through the binoculars:

It is indeed like a guerrilla unit of the Eighth Route Army, they don't even wear military uniforms, and many of them even have white turbans on their heads, so they are still authentic peasants.

The firepower is so powerful that it can't be faked.

Mortars, grenadiers, and grenades.

There was a row of light machine guns, and there were even two heavy machine guns roaring.

The snow-covered hills, they did a very good camouflage, and if it weren't for careful observation, not for the contrast of the large swarthy earth that had been blown up by artillery fire, they would not even be able to detect the hiding places of these dirt roads in the first place.

With such a firepower configuration, under the sudden fire ambush, the Japanese puppet soldiers in the ambush circle had no room for resistance at all.

Toriyama Daming did not dare to delay at all, and roared at full speed to reinforce the battle area.

It took about five minutes for Daiaki Toriyama and his team to finally arrive.

However, all that remained in the snow was people on their backs, the mutilated corpses of Japanese puppet soldiers, and the bombed, shattered and empty carts.

As for the supplies that were pulled, they were all gone.

The dirt slopes on both sides were quiet, and there was not half a figure.

Only the series of chaotic footprints printed on the uneven snow that was pressed out were enough to prove that there was a dirt road here not long ago.

Watching the soldiers under his hands collect the bodies of the fallen Japanese puppet soldiers.

Captain Toriyama Daming looked through the binoculars at the dirt eight roads that had become a string of small black dots, couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and after being stunned for a long time, he asked the devil officer beside him:

"That's what you said, the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army???"

(End of chapter)