Phew-

With a special sound dragging the long tail, immediately after, a flare that flew into the night sky instantly burst into flames.

Among them, metal combustibles are rapidly combusted, magnesium powder and aluminum powder. After an instantaneous combustion, it even erupted into a high temperature of thousands of degrees Celsius, and at the same time emitted an extremely dazzling light.

It was like a small sun hanging in the middle of the night, and the light that quickly spread out quickly dispelled the darkness in a large area around the Japanese army's Yangguan stronghold.

At this time, the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army had been fighting for more than 20 minutes.

Under the fierce offensive firepower of the Eighth Route Army, the casualties of the Japanese puppet army stationed in the Yangguan stronghold continued to spread.

It wasn't until the flares that the Eighth Route Army suddenly lit in mid-air that in just a few tens of seconds, this area was almost forcibly transformed from night into day with a scorching light.

Still relying on the fortifications of the stronghold, the stubborn little devils finally saw the situation around the stronghold clearly with the help of the light of the flare.

The three-layer barbed wire protective net inside and outside that was originally pulled up on the periphery has already been blown open by the Eighth Road.

The water injection trench with the effect of the moat has already been put on the wooden board of the Eighth Route Army, and a large number of combat troops of the Eighth Route Army are quickly attacking the Yangguan stronghold with the help of the light of the flares.

The shelling did not stop.

The artillery in the rear of the eight roads is constantly roaring, covering the charge of their own soldiers.

The short days of a few tens of seconds brought by this flare made the little devils see the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were rapidly advancing like a tide.

At this time, the Japanese puppet army was already shocked by the momentum of the Eighth Route Army.

The original will to fight instantly collapsed.

The tide is over......

Looking at the fortifications on the outer line, under the fierce attack of the Eighth Route Army, they were already in dilapidation.

"It's all over!"

The Japanese puppet army stationed in the stronghold couldn't help but think sadly in the bottom of their hearts.

"Reinforcements, reinforcements, we need reinforcements!"

Shaozuo, the devil who was in charge of guarding the Yangguan stronghold, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and he urged the Communications Department again to ask the higher command for tactical guidance.

On the other side, Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the devils, who was also closely watching the battle situation in Yangguan, Pingbei and Hanoi, and Beichuan, the chief of staff of the devils, got the news at the same time.

After the large strongholds of Yangguan, Binh Bei, and Hanoi were attacked by the Eighth Route Army.

The reinforcements from all directions, which the imperial forces quickly deployed, without exception, were all blocked by the troops of the Eighth Route Army along the way.

In the direction of Beitong Road, the Japanese brigade that rushed over for reinforcements was blocked by the new regiment led by Ding Wei.

In order to completely cut off the little devil's intention to reinforce the Yangguan stronghold from Beitong Road.

Ding Wei even directly ordered to blow up a stone bridge that must be passed through a certain section of Beitong Road.

The Japanese reinforcements at Xiaogou Linzi and Sanhewan Road were also all blocked by the troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Especially on the Three Rivers Bay Road.

A reinforced Japanese combat unit accidentally fell into an ambush circle specially set up by the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

Commander Cheng of the 772nd Regiment has made up his mind to fight a beautiful battle of annihilation.

In the words of Regiment Commander Cheng's mobilization of soldiers before the war: "A few years ago, our regiment, our entire 386th Brigade, or even our entire 129th Division, was the most well-equipped, the most troopy, and the most combat-effective main combat regiment.

But now?

You see, in the entire northwest area of Shanxi, and even our entire 129th Division, if anyone mentions regimental-level combat units, it is either his Kong Jie's team, his Li Yunlong's new second regiment, or Ding Wei's new regiment, how can there be anything with our 772nd regiment?

In the battle sequence, we are one of the entire brigade and the only two main regiments that have been registered.

If we don't fight a tough battle, the next time Li Yunlong's guy sees Lao Tzu again, Bacheng will raise his big tail again, and teach him hand-in-hand when he joins the army

Lao Tzu has robbed!

Comrades, the independent regiment, the new 1st regiment and the new 2nd regiment, compared to our 772nd regiment, they are all hairy boys, and their rising combat units are now riding on our heads and!

Can you swallow your breath?"

"Can't, can't—"

They are all two shoulders against one head, and the pure fighting will and faith of the revolutionary martyrs in this period are not blown.

All the soldiers roared loudly, and they were full of fighting spirit for a while.

Captain Cheng smiled with relief, and then shouted, "Then tonight's battle, let's call those new formations that have risen later, so that they can take a good look."

What is called the combat effectiveness of the main regiment of the old school.

His detachment, the new first regiment and the new second regiment, went to the big stronghold of the devils.

Then let's go to reinforce the devil reinforcements in the big stronghold, and if they attack the stronghold, we will completely annihilate his devil reinforcements, and they will not miss them!"

"Kill—"

The battle broke out in an instant.

The soldiers of the 772nd Regiment were full of strength one by one.

To say that the 772nd Regiment has indeed been inferior to the detachment in military and economic development over the years.

However, as a rare veteran main combat regiment, the overall military quality of the 772nd Regiment and the proportion of veterans are still relatively high.

This war of annihilation, which started at night, broke out in an instant.

The veterans of the 772nd Regiment really showed extraordinary combat effectiveness.

With the help of the night, avoid the superior firepower of the devils, and with the advantage of the surprise attack, the little devils are caught off guard.

Once the battle between the two sides broke out, they occupied an absolute advantage in strength and geographical advantage, and the equipment was also not inferior to the little devils.

The battle was already doomed from the beginning.

Ultimately......

"General, the situation really doesn't look good, these damn Tubalu are obviously prepared, and the troops reinforced by our army from all directions to Yangguan, Pingbei and Hanoi strongholds have all been ambushed by the troops of the Eighth Route Army!"

Kitagawa, the chief of staff of the devil, brings pretty bad news to Yoshio Shinozuka.

The two old devils were also frightened.

Beichuan clenched his fists with some anger, "Sure enough, any battle related to this Kong Jie is often insignificant.

This person is especially good at conducting joint operations with various units of the Eighth Route Army, and his influence seems to be not small, and every time a battle starts, it often leads other combat units of the Eighth Route Army to enter the battle.

General, the Eighth Route Army's offensive this time is fierce.

It seems that if we don't take down Yangguan, the strongholds of Pingbei and Hanoi will not give up!"

Yoshio Shinozuka had a headache, and the reinforcements from Yangguan, Pingbei and Hanoi could not be reinforced.

The headquarters of the three strongholds have repeatedly sent urgent calls for help, and they are constantly asking for reinforcements.

And so on.

The reinforcements will be ambushed by the Eighth Route Army in the middle of the way, and the casualties may not be small, and the large strongholds of Yangguan, Pingbei and Hanoi will still not be able to be saved.

In desperation, although he felt a little ashamed, Yoshio Shinozuka still made up his mind and immediately issued a military order:

"Immediately send an order to the Yangguan, Binh Bei, and Hanoi headquarters to quickly and strategically transfer the main force from the stronghold to the direction of the county seat.

In addition, the reinforcements from all walks of life no longer have to entangle with the Eighth Route Army blocking along the way, and immediately withdraw to their garrison sites!"

This is the most helpless choice.

Yoshio Shinozuka has to admit that this time he was caught off guard by Yachi again.

These damned Eighth Route Army, as if ignoring the current cold weather, would launch such a fierce attack in the middle of the night.

It all came too suddenly.

Recently, under the winter offensive of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army, which was constantly retreating its forces, did not expect that the Eighth Route Army would suddenly attack the big stronghold, so it was caught off guard.

Yoshio Shinozuka was depressed at the same time, and he was holding back hatred more and more in his heart.

He secretly made up his mind, endure! Keep up with it!

Save the living forces of the Imperial forces for the time being, and wait until after the beginning of spring.

It will sweep the occupied areas that originally belonged to the empire seized by the Eighth Route Army, and at the same time launch an unprecedented sweep against the base areas of the Eighth Route Army.

……

Boom –

Unusually fierce artillery fire exploded in the direction of the retreat of the Japanese army's Yangguan and Pingbei strongholds.

The devil's Yangguan, Pingbei, and Hanoi strongholds, since they are called big strongholds, in addition to their own fortifications are unusually strong, and the garrison has a large number of troops, the gathering point itself covers an area that is also not small.

The entire colony is about the size of a village.

In addition, the little devils use the big stronghold as the core, and use the small and medium-sized strongholds around it as an extended defensive network to open up the defensive formation to ensure that the direction of attacking the big stronghold is mainly in the positive direction.

Concentrate your forces for a higher defense, while avoiding being besieged from multiple directions by the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, the battles that took place at night were mainly fought in the northward direction of the strongholds of Yangguan and Pingbei.

When these large strongholds were built, the little devils also considered how to retreat when the enemy attacked fiercely and could not do anything.

The general strategy is also very simple:

The devil made the fortifications of the entire stronghold into a north-south direction, and the north was the positive direction, which was also the most suitable direction for the Eighth Route Army to attack.

Once the battle has begun and the tide is gone, the devils can quickly abandon the fortifications to the north and quickly evacuate from the south, or the back of the stronghold.

On the way to leave the rearguard troops, or even break their arms to survive, in order to cover the retreat of the main combat forces.

The little devils were even in a hurry, planting a certain amount of mines in the rear area of the stronghold, using the minefield to delay the pace of the pursuing Eighth Route Army.

Everything went pretty smoothly.

Just when that devil Shaozo thought that he would be able to evacuate smoothly immediately.

In the night, not too far away, there seemed to be the sound of cannon discharge.

Then, in the dim darkness of the night, more than a dozen shells slashed through the air in a graceful arc mixed with the aura of destruction, and smashed fiercely into the rear area of the large stronghold of the Japanese army in Yangguan and Pingbei.

Boom –

In a series of violent explosions, the devil Shaozuo who led the team didn't have time to react at all, and was blown into pieces in the violent explosion.

The sudden artillery shells blew up the Japanese troops who were preparing to evacuate from the Yangguan and Pingbei strongholds.

The southbound road that the devils were originally going to retreat from was also completely blocked by artillery fire.

Even the minefields hastily laid out by the devils were directly destroyed when the enemy was almost covered by firepower.

The artillery interception method arranged by Chu Yunfei finally showed its power at this moment.

As soon as he made a move, it was really extraordinary.

The Japanese army's Yangguan and Pingbei stronghold are facing south, a few hundred meters away on a hill.

With the roar of artillery, the officers of the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army who led the team made a special explanation: "After a few rounds of shelling, stop the shelling immediately, transfer it in time, and don't blow up the Eighth Road again!"

It's night.

The battles around the Yangguan, Pingbei and Hanoi strongholds of the Japanese army were fierce.

And what is intensifying is not only the firepower of the confrontation between the two sides, but also the evolution of the scale.

The attacking stronghold is attacking the stronghold.

Those who send reinforcements halfway will send reinforcements halfway.

Beichuan, chief of staff of the devil, said a good point, Kong Jie's favorite thing is to use points to lead the surface of the operation, and his favorite is the joint offensive.

Concentrate everyone's strength to deal with the little devils.

In Kong Jie's words, "When we deal with the little devils, everyone is gathering firewood and the flame is high, otherwise why do we want to build an anti-Japanese united front?

Fighting devils together, this is a lot of opportunities, everyone has a benefit, everyone has a advantage, everyone has a advantage, this is a win-win battle."

As a result, the Eighth Route Army took the lead in attacking Yangguan, Pingbei and Hanoi

After the battle of the stronghold.

That night, the battles in which the armed forces of all sides attacked the Japanese strongholds, large and small, and even towns and county towns, were also like artillery battles with a fuse ignited, crackling and exploding.

Powerful, like the team led by Kong Jie, directly attacked the devil's stronghold.

For example, some of the newly formed Eighth Route Army combat regiments attacked some small and medium-sized strongholds connected by Yangguan, Pingbei and Hanoi in the vicinity.

It is really centered on the three large strongholds of Yangguan, Binh Bei, and Hanoi, and then blooms on all sides.

The anti-Japanese forces that participated in the battle that night were not only the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

This includes a number of local army units and militia units.

It also includes some combat units of the Jin Sui Army, such as the 57th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army and the 71st Regiment of the Jin Sui Army, and the 358th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army.

Even some bandit minions held high the banner of cooperating with the Eighth Route Army to attack the Japanese stronghold, and jumped down from the mountains to participate in the battle.

A few days ago.

Kong Jie asked Xie Baoqing, the head of the first group of migrant workers, that is, Xie Baoqing, the original head of Heiyunzhai, to write a letter to the major bandit leaders in the entire northwest of Shanxi Province and send it over.

The general content of the letter, Kong Jie explained as follows: "Lao Xie, you tell those brothers in the green forest for me that it is understandable that the current situation is turbulent and life is difficult, and they are forced to fall into the grass.

I, Kong Jie, will not look down on them because of this.

However, there is a premise for this: to be a bandit should also have a bandit pattern.

Bullying the defenseless people and robbing the poor people who are suffering from haha, what kind of green forest hero is that?

Such bastards, even if the little devils don't clean them up, I, Kong Jie, will take them care of sooner or later.

If you have the ability, hum, follow Lao Tzu to fight devils.

The devil wants materials and materials, money and money, and he can also get a name for resisting Japan, so he will not lose the prestige of the hero of the green forest!

You tell them that on the night of the 23rd, I am going to do something to the little devils, and if there is a kind, I will follow our Eighth Route Army troops to fight the little devils!"

At that time, after Kong Jie's words were finished, Xie Baoqing felt that Kong Jie's words were simply exciting.

He was even thinking that if he was still in Heiyun Village, when he heard these words, he would definitely not have a second word, pick up the gun and go down the mountain to fight the devil.

That's it, in the last letter written, what Kong Jie said, Xie Baoqing basically did not make any changes.

only added a few words at the end: "Captain Kong is a ruthless character, I have eaten in an industry back then, and I Xie Baoqing advises you."

First, don't take the common people to dangle in front of Captain Kong, or you won't be able to cut off even if you have a few heads.

Second, this robbery cannot be done for long. If you want to be like me Xie Baoqing in the future, change your evil ways and return to the right, and even be reused by the Eighth Route Army, you have to come up with some votes, and save some reputation with the help of fighting devils, which can come in handy in the future.

Third, this time the Eighth Route Army will definitely attack some of the Japanese strongholds on a large scale, and this is a good opportunity to fish in troubled waters."

Then the letters were sent to the bandit leaders in various places.

That night.

In the northwest region of Jin, there were indeed as many as a dozen bandit troops, more than two or three hundred, and as few as one or twenty.

They all participated in the night battle against the Japanese army......