Where does Ding Wei's self-confidence come from?

Naturally, it came from the stronghold turrets that the soldiers had voluntarily abandoned and evacuated, and even from some villages and towns.

The little devil really thinks that the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in the Iron Triangle are all cowards, and in the face of the offensive of the mobile troops of the Mongolian army, they can only be forced to abandon the territory that they have finally taken advantage of the winter offensive and flee in embarrassment?

Miss by a mile.

That is by no means the combat style of the Iron Triangle, and the current retreat is just a deliberate empty plan to lure the enemy deeper.

The devil was afraid that he never dreamed that the Eighth Route Army took the initiative to abandon the stronghold turrets that were thrown to them, including some villages, and there were hidden traps.

Traps are hidden underground.

It's not easy to see with the naked eye.

Ding Wei had the idea of using these strongholds, turrets, and villages to set traps for a long time, especially after finding out that the little devils in Nali City were preparing to attack the Huangyadong Arsenal and deal with the Taihang base area.

Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei pondered.

Eighty percent of the little devils will make a fuss about the territory laid down by the Triangle winter offensive.

Therefore, the three regiment commanders made preparations for a rainy day early in the morning.

What for?

In advance of the occupied stronghold turrets, including some villages, towns and towns, arrange some secret traps in advance.

What trap can be done, even if all the troops of the Eighth Route Army are withdrawn, they can still threaten the little devils who reoccupy strongholds, turrets, and villages at any time?

Nature is an alternative mine trap.

Back in the days when I was studying the tactics of how to deal with the little devils.

Kong Jie insisted on proposing:

To deal with devils, mine warfare is one of our effective means, and if it is used well, it can inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army without spending a single soldier.

Under the premise of abundant ammunition and sufficient production capacity, we should give priority to using it to deal with little devils.

After all, the casualties of our soldiers can be avoided to the greatest extent.

No matter how precious these ammunition is, they are not as valuable as the lives of our soldiers.

It's just that traditional mine warfare is probably no longer able to effectively deal with little devils.

Traditional mines can often only wait for the rabbit to passively wait for the little devil to enter the minefield, whether it is hanging mines, stone mines, chain mines, and all kinds of cleverly set mines.

In the end, it is only when the little devils take the initiative to break into the base areas and into the guerrilla areas that they may be attacked by landmines.

It is mostly passive and lacks active aggressiveness.

Later, Kong Jie found Dong San, who is now the director of a team of explosives factories and has always had the reputation of the explosives king of the Eighth Route Army.

Kong Jie said that it is necessary to break through the limitations of traditional landmines that lack active offensive nature and transform more advanced mines that can even take the initiative to attack.

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In the future, explosives factories will focus on the development and production of remotely detonated mines and special mines such as time bombs.

As the explosives king of the Eighth Route Army, Dong San really lived up to expectations, and later specially developed many special mines that were remotely detonated by wires.

When this batch of mines is handed over to front-line combat units.

Dong San patted his chest and said proudly:

"As long as there are enough wires to conduct the current, even if they are separated by 10 kilometers or 8 kilometers, they can also detonate the mines at any time and blast them at a fixed point.

In addition, for this remote detonation mine, we made a special device.

To a certain extent, if the depth of the burial is more suitable.

With the traditional mine detector of the little devil, it is basically impossible to detect it. ”

In this way, with the support of these new long-range detonation mines, Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei's plan to use the evacuated empty stronghold turrets and even villages to make a fuss hit it off.

At this time, from the surface, the little devil easily captured the stronghold turrets from the Iron Triangle, including some villages, was peaceful.

The devil also wondered if there was a trap for the evacuation of the Eighth Road.

The devil sappers also specially carried mine detectors and entered the stronghold and village in advance to investigate, but found that there were no traps.

The Japanese commander breathed a sigh of relief, and only then did he retake the artillery towers of these strongholds.

And below the ground where the little devil could never think of it.

Wires buried under the ground, like specially elongated earthworms that make holes, extend under the ground to the outer lines of the stronghold village.

At the end, there are either piles of stones, or they stretch under the roots of the trees.

There are always some special markers that can be discerned.

It's just that all these little devils don't know.

Afternoon.

The Japanese troops who reoccupied all the strongholds, artillery towers, and villages under the Iron Triangle Winter Offensive of the Eighth Route Army rested for a while.

Immediately launched an attack on the Iron Triangle base area.

The offensive methods taken by the devils are still those mobile units of the Mongolian army stationed in Mongolia to assist the First Army in the south, including cavalry, some automobile squadrons, and armored troops.

And at present, the devils dare to take the lead in advancing with mobile troops, naturally because after the devils reoccupied a large number of advance strongholds, they used these strongholds to extend forward as transit stations and logistics stations.

At the same time, as the backing of the vanguard force that can be attacked and defended at any time, it also gives the entire Japanese army an increasingly stable offensive.

In the eyes of the devil officers, even if they can't be defeated, they can withdraw from the base of the Eighth Route Army at any time.

Then rely on the advance stronghold close to the base area of the Eighth Route Army to fight.

When I set off, I was familiar with the officers of the Security Force, who knew the strong combat style and combat effectiveness of the Iron Triangle, and kindly reminded them.

However, the devil officers stationed in Mongolia were quite disdainful.

In their opinion, after the first battle this time, there is no difference between these so-called Eighth Route Army units of the Northwest Iron Triangle of Shanxi Province and the Tu Eighth Route of the Northwest Military Region that they knew before!

It's just vulnerable!

The two Japanese cavalry wings, more than 3,000 elite devil cavalry, divided up as many as a dozen teams at a fairly fast speed, and went straight to the base of the three regiments of the Iron Triangle.

The two captains of the devil cavalry wings were wishful thinking.

With the help of the cavalry's mobility and sudden offensive, launching a surprise attack on the base area of the Eighth Route Army from multiple directions and regardless of priority will definitely catch the Eighth Route Army by surprise.

At the very least, it can contain the main combat force of the Eighth Route Army.

The main force that followed up could wipe out the outcropping Eighth Route Army troops in one fell swoop.

What a wonderful idea!

It can only be said that these little devils of the Mongolian army are still too young and have not suffered any losses in the hands of the Iron Triangle.

Around three o'clock in the afternoon.

The devil's multi-lane cavalry unit advanced all the way, and it was as if it were in a no-man's land, and after entering the outer defense area of the three regiments of the Iron Triangle, they occupied more than a dozen villages in one go.

It's just that when they arrived, the villagers who had received the news in advance seemed to have fled, looking at the messy village, and even many livestock and supplies were too late to take away.

The devil officers who led the team laughed proudly.

"These stupid and cowardly Chinese!"

"Sir, what are we going to do next? Waiting for the arrival of the main forces? ”

The officer leading the team shook his head, and then the words he uttered almost represented the psychology of the devil officers who rushed from all directions:

"The Eighth Route is so vulnerable, there is no need to wait for the arrival of the main force, accelerate the advance forward, if we can be the first to find the main force of the Eighth Route Army, the first credit is ours!"

"Hey!"

Seeing that the victory of the Eighth Route Army was within reach, the devil officers were inevitably greedy for merit.

After the order was given, the cavalry units continued to advance forward.

At this time, the cavalry of all lines as a whole did not have much discipline to speak of, and some advanced extremely far forward, while others fell in the rear, uneven.

At this moment, the offensive situation formed by the cavalry troops and mobile troops that took the lead in advancing in the entire Iron Triangle defense area was quite specific and clear on the military simulation sand table in front of Ding Wei.

Ding Wei, who had been patiently waiting for the prey to take the bait, until the last cavalry of the devil also completely entered the middle line area of the defense area.

Only then did he decisively give the order:

"Inform all departments that the time has come, and immediately go into battle!"

"Yes!"

The units of the Eighth Route Army have very high combat efficiency and strong coordination capabilities, and the combat effectiveness of each unit in individual operations is equally strong.

Today, the communication equipment of the various ministries is unusually advanced.

Kong Jie made a ruthless article in this regard.

If the communication equipment of the Eighth Route Army in the past was poor, it was that the regiment and the brigade may not be able to communicate with each other, and they had to rely on traditional manpower communication troops to transmit messages.

The current means of communication of the Eighth Route Army have improved too much.

Take the three regiments of the Iron Triangle as an example.

Communications equipment can basically be assigned to each company.

Large, long-distance long-wave radios, as well as lightweight, short-range short-wave radios, including American-style walkie-talkies.

Relying on these communication devices.

Ding Wei can really strategize and win thousands of miles away.

"Start preparing immediately, first eat the three devil cavalry that entered our defense area in one go, and force the devil's cavalry troops to be brought together!"

At the headquarters of a detachment, Chief of Staff Xu Guoan gave an order categorically.

"Lao Ding is right, the combat effectiveness of the devil's cavalry in frontal combat may not be very good, but if there are too many scattered teams, like headless flies scurrying around our base area, it is never a problem.

We have to find a way to destroy his cavalry first.

Let the devil know how powerful we are, and when the devil is forced to gather the cavalry troops together, let's beat him again! ”

At this time, the three-way devil cavalry that appeared on the map had fallen into the local depth trap set by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in advance.

As Ding Wei said, if you want to defeat the cavalry of the devil with high speed and mobility, the best way is to limit the devil's cavalry to a certain area, as if you put it in your pocket.

The cavalry ran the fastest, and the horses always needed some smooth roads.

The soldiers completely blocked the passes of various mountain roads, main roads, and small roads in a certain area, set up machine guns, and completely blocked the passage of the devil cavalry with machine gun fire.

Then send out the assault force to slowly close the net.

The cavalry troops who put the devil in their pockets and eat them in one go.

In the face of the quietly changing battle situation and the sudden offensive of the Eighth Route Army, the devil cavalry of the Third Route Army stationed in Mongolia was indeed caught off guard.

Seeing the ambush of the Eighth Route Army, the devil officers who led the team were not stupid, and hurriedly gave the order to retreat.

An attempt to break out of the encirclement using the mobility of the cavalry.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who could be ambushed were not vegetarians.

It's not like you're chasing four legs with two legs.

In order to deal with the cavalry units of the devils, a detachment also transferred part of the motorized combat troops.

The size of the war horse is not large, and it can take both big and small roads.

And the motorcycles used by a team of motorized troops, even if the traverse required by the modified tricycle, is also not large.

The road that a war horse can walk, a motorcycle can basically walk.

It's even faster.

That's it, the devil's cavalry is running in front, the soldiers are driving motorcycles, and there are soldiers driving crooked handles in the co-pilot, and they are constantly strafing, chasing all the way.

The devil cavalry who fled all the way, whenever they turned their heads, they were all frightened.

Where did these damn dirt roads come from?

The devil cavalry turned around, but the motorized combat units of the Eighth Route Army behind them had not been shaken off, and two motorized units were outflanked again from the left and right flanks.

For a moment, it was like a poor wolf chasing its prey, and the devil's cavalry was scurrying back and forth in the flight, panicking.

At this point, the devil cavalry stationed in Mongolia finally woke up.

Traps, this is a trap through and through.

These damn troops of the Eighth Route Army in the Iron Triangle in the northwest of Shanxi Province are clearly pretending to be pigs and eating tigers.

Obviously, with such sophisticated equipment and strong combat effectiveness, he deliberately abandoned the stronghold turret to retreat and lure them deeper.

Damn, these dirt roads are so cunning!

Seeing that there were pursuers behind them, the devil cavalry was in a panic, trying to evacuate to the nearest advancing stronghold.

The stronghold had strong turrets, as well as pillboxes, which were the best barrier against the attack of the motorized troops of the Eighth Route Army.

This is also the back road that the devil's mobile troops can use to retreat at any time.

After a few encounters like this.

The three-way devil cavalry, originally a team of more than 100 people each, only a few dozen remnants remained, and they continued to whip their horses in a panic and fled frantically.

It's close, it's close, it's right in front of you.

I'm about to enter the base.

Get out of pursuit right away.

The devil officer on the tall horse had even seen the Imperial soldiers in the stronghold and was about to open the barricade and let them in.

Right now.

Rock breaker.

Everything came abruptly and shockingly.

Boom –

The earth-shattering explosion, violently, suddenly.

Together with the various bunkers, turrets, and brick buildings inside the entire stronghold, they were shattered in an instant and sent to the sky.

As for the No. 100 devil puppet army originally stationed in the stronghold, including the field elite who came over and were temporarily stationed in Mongolia.

It's just a mortal body in the flesh, how can it withstand this sudden explosion.

After the fierce battle, there were no bones left.

Not far away, the sound of horses' hooves was still there, but the devil soldiers on the horses were already stunned by the scene in front of them.

They even forgot to tighten the reins of their horses, but the horses, sensing the danger, instinctively suspended their front hooves in the air and came to an urgent halt.

The devil cavalry just watched the last hope of escape, and the stronghold not far away turned into a ruin in a blink of an eye......