In the battle of besieging five cities such as Licheng, Liaoxian, and Shexian, the little devils were quite depressed about lifting stones and hitting their feet.

In fact, the concrete fortifications built by the Japanese soldiers with a cautious attitude were too stable, and it was very difficult to storm them.

The devils were also cunning, seeing that the strong attack could not be carried out, and the casualties were still spreading, they chose to besiege but not attack, trying to cut off water and food, so as to force the Eighth Route Army in the fortifications to run out of ammunition and food.

According to the relevant reconnaissance of the Japanese army, they believed that in the five cities of Licheng, Liaoxian, and Xiangyuan, the Eighth Route Army left a large number of elite main forces to defend, so that the fortifications could be held as impregnable as gold, and they could not be forcibly broken at all.

Then, this large number of main forces means that there are many mouths to eat, and the food and water resources in this reserve are limited after all.

As long as the siege is long enough, maybe these Eighth Route Army will be starved to death and thirsty to death, and they will be able to win without a fight.

With such an idea, the Japanese puppet army besieging the five cities patiently played a war of attrition with the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.

On the defensive position of the Eighth Route Army in Shexian County.

The commander of an independent regiment and a battalion was making lunch with the soldiers.

The specially built smokeless stove, and then the hoarded canned food, some sun-dried vegetables, and a bunch of boils, a pot of fragrant beef tonic soup was made, and the soldiers were almost hungry for drooling.

The commander of the first company said: "Battalion commander, didn't you eat beef just the day before yesterday, why do you eat canned beef again?" Wouldn't that be too extravagant? ”

There is nothing wrong with that.

A few years ago, according to the harsh environment of the Eighth Route Army fighting behind enemy lines, let alone eating canned beef, it was good to be able to smell some meat for half a year.

As a result, guess what the first battalion commander said?

I saw the commander of the first battalion smile disapprovingly, and said happily: "It's all over after eating, in order to build a long-term defensive fortification, when the main force of our regiment is still there, we have stored a regiment with enough food and water to eat for two weeks."

But how many of us are there now?

Hehe, the strength of a battalion is less, and our soldiers just let go of their bellies to eat, and the food and water we have hoarded can eat him for at least two or three months.

For two or three months, the battle was long over.

Tell me, what are you doing with these things? Wouldn't it be a waste if it broke again? ”

After lunch began, the soldiers held bowls and feasted one by one, while looking at the Japanese puppet soldiers who were still on guard not far from the fortifications from time to time.

The devils and the puppet army probably never dreamed that the Eighth Route Army in the fortifications they thought was close to running out of ammunition and food.

People are rich in food and water, and they live a nourishing and happy life every day!

Of course, in order to paralyze the judgment of the Japanese puppet army, the commander of the first battalion specially asked the soldiers to make some illusions.

What illusion?

Let the little devils and the puppet army think that the Eighth Route Army on the fortifications is already hungry and has gold stars in their eyes, and they will soon be unable to hold on.

What for?

It's good to fool the little devil up and launch an attack, so that you can continue to kill the devil!

In fact, Kong Jie, who originally proposed to build slaughterhouses in Licheng, Shexian, Lucheng, Xiangyuan and other cities, and constantly eliminated the living forces of the Japanese army, also took into account the situation that the five cities would be besieged by the Japanese army in turn.

Therefore, when the passage was opened in the morning, the soldiers promptly hoarded a large amount of water and food in accordance with the orders of the command.

In addition, the main force was secretly transferred, leaving some of the elite behind, and the Japanese army was pinned down with the least number of troops and the least attrition.

In addition, since it is a slaughterhouse, if the devil does not take the initiative to attack, the effect of such a slaughterhouse will not be so obvious.

Therefore, the slaughterhouse built according to Kong Jie's vision is by no means limited to the five cities such as Licheng.

In the following process, in the process of the Japanese army's sweep of the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, slaughterhouses like Licheng, Shexian, and Liaoxian sprung up one by one like mushrooms after the rain.

It was an elite combat unit that quickly interspersed with the help of the terrain and terrain to return to the important transportation routes in the rear of the Japanese army.

Although the devil used novel sticky tactics, it was still quite difficult to block the interspersed operations of the elite troops of the Eighth Route Army.

After the soldiers successfully penetrated into the rear of the Japanese army's sweep, they directly cut off the important transportation lines of the devils, and then built solid fortifications at the pass of the line.

What for?

Wait for the devils to attack, then slaughter with the help of solid fortifications.

It was not until the Japanese army sent a large number of artillery fire to attack that they evacuated in time.

In the end, the Eighth Route Army paid a small casualty in exchange for a larger casualty of the Japanese army who had to cross the line.

At first, the devil officers at the command didn't know what the intention of the Eighth Route Army was, and originally thought that as usual, it was to interrupt the transportation lines of his Japanese army and block the logistics supply of the Japanese army.

But soon, the Japanese realized that it didn't seem to be the case.

Sometimes, the Japanese army's transport troops could not pass far away, but the Eighth Route Army was completely unmoved, that is, they wanted to set up an ambush on the mountain road where the main force of the devils must pass, and then launch an ambush.

It seems that he is rushing to destroy his Imperial Japanese forces.

This situation was noticed by the Japanese army, or after the casualties reported by many parties were counted, only in the Yangquan area, in less than three days, the Japanese army alone suffered more than 1,000 casualties.

Don't underestimate these more than 1,000 people, this is a big number.

You must know that in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the Nationalist Army mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, and the two sides fought, and the Nationalist Army suffered a crushing defeat in less than a month, and the number of Japanese casualties was only a few hundred.

This is already several times the casualties of the devils in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain.

And that's just less than three days.

"Bastards, these damn eight-way people are so rampant, they seem to be here for the purpose of destroying us!"

There was a devil Dazuo who came to this conclusion, which made the devil officers who participated in the meeting gasp at that time.

That seems to be the case.

During this period, the Eighth Route Army continued to block with solid fortifications, or constantly ambushed and attacked in the middle, causing their Japanese casualties to expand rapidly.

These Eight Roads don't care about any resources, they don't care about the gains and losses of what positions, and they don't care about the victory or defeat in front of them.

They seem to have only one purpose:

Kill, kill more Japanese soldiers!

In this way, the two sides fought until the fifth day, and with the shocking casualty statistics, many Japanese soldiers and puppet troops were beaten with heartfelt fear.

The officers of the second-rate troops hurriedly instructed that whenever they encountered the troops of the Eighth Route Army along the way, they should retreat as soon as possible, and whenever they encountered the positions of the Eighth Route Army, they must find ways to bypass and avoid them, and they must not confront them.

Gradually, it spread all over the slaughterhouses in the guerrilla areas of the Eighth Route Army and the outer lines of the base areas, and for a time the Japanese puppet army made the Japanese puppet army retreat and change color.

At this time.

As the war between the two sides continues.

The sticky tactics proposed by Tanabe, the chief of staff of the old devil, gradually appeared weak as time passed.

This old devil's abacus is playing well.

It's a pity that the ideal is very beautiful, but the reality is very skinny.

In the guerrilla areas of the Eighth Route Army and the outer lines of the base areas, most of the fortifications built were some masonry structures left over from the Japanese army, or rather structural fortifications mixed with concrete like tofu slag.

Naturally, such fortifications could not hold back the Japanese aircraft artillery.

Under the sticky tactics of the devils, the armored forces and infantry, as well as the air force, and the joint operation of all arms, the Eighth Route Army is indeed constantly defeated.

It was only after gradually approaching the middle line area of the Eighth Route Army's base area.

The troops of the Eighth Route Army, especially the Taihang base area, were specially built by the soldiers and soldiers to build quite stable concrete fortifications.

The defense system of the entire base area is unusually complete.

Even if the devils fought with armored troops and air force units, they still couldn't easily break through the fortifications of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese were forced to launch attacks again and again, but most of them ended in defeat and paid a lot of casualties.

At this point, the battle had been going on until the sixth day.

……

The former enemy headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

"Boss, it's the sixth day!"

The deputy chief of general staff spoke, his eyes burned, and then he sighed: "Don't say it, Kong Jie's vision is really unique, this kid has summed up a special set of theories for the Japanese army's sweep."

After a long period of practice, it has been proved that when the Japanese army swept up our Eighth Route Army base areas, it had to break away from their stable security zone and enter these suburbs and mountainous areas of ours.

As a result, the Japanese army was often unable to guarantee the logistical supply of large-scale sweep troops.

This meant that the sweep of the Japanese army would not last.

Generally speaking, it lasts for about a week, because this is the maximum amount of food that their soldiers can carry.

After this time, due to the lack of logistical supply, the large-scale forces of the devils can only choose to retreat.

The Japanese sweep can be called a weekly sweep.

In this regard, Kong Jie believes that in the past, our Eighth Route Army was backward in equipment, and basically did not have enough strength to launch a counteroffensive, so forget it.

Now, our equipment has developed, our troops have also grown, and we already have the strength to counterattack the Japanese army to a certain extent.

So in view of the Japanese army's sweep, we should consider not only the issue of counter-sweeping, but also whether we can take the initiative to attack and directly defeat the Japanese army's idea! ”

"For example, for the Japanese army's weekly sweep, we can drag the Japanese army in sufficient depth, and wait until the devil's edge is exhausted, and the time has moved to about the seventh day, and the Japanese army's logistics have basically bottomed out, and they can only be forced to retreat.

At this juncture, it was the perfect moment for us to take the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive and crush the Japanese army in one fell swoop. ”

The boss nodded.

Then the topic shifted from the current military successes and failures to the political effects.

The political commissar pointed out sharply: "This large-scale sweep against the Japanese army is actually not only a military contest between China and Japan, but also a political game.

It is no exaggeration to say that this battle is not only related to the success or failure of our two military forces, but also to the general trend of the war situation between the Japanese army and our Eighth Route Army, in the whole of Shanxi and Shandong, and even in the whole of North China.

If the Japanese army wins this battle, the arrogance of the Japanese army will become arrogant again, the rear will be stabilized, and the security area will be much more stable.

This played a positive role in promoting the Japanese army in China as well as in the Pacific theater.

But if we win, if we can still fight beautifully.

This is not only a military victory, but also a political win-win.

On the one hand, we can expand our international influence and get more international support.

On the other hand, as far as our Shanxi territory is concerned, the current situation is also very complicated, and the 35th Route Army in the north of Shanxi and the Jin Sui Army in the west of Jin have actually been holding a wait-and-see attitude for a long time.

We won, with the attitude of the winner, the Jin Sui Army, including the 35th Route Army, may take the initiative to come over and cooperate with us.

But if we really defeat us, don't expect people to have any kindness, it's good if you don't follow the little devil to step on us! ”

In this regard, the deputy general officer, the chief of the general staff, and the political commissar have special ideas.

Chiang's army was divided into factions, but it was far from being as stable as it seemed.

At present, the contradictions between China and Japan are temporarily greater than everything else, so we can unite and unite with the outside world.

In this regard, some scholars have even studied that if it were not for the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, it would still be a question of whether Chiang's troops could be smoothly reunified, and if they did not do so, they would have collapsed on their own.

So whether it is the 35th Route Army in the north of Jin or the Jin Sui Army in the west of Jin.

In fact, they are like savvy investors, who may change and bet at any time according to the direction of the wind.

In the past, the Eighth Route Army may not have had the capital to become such an investor, but now it has an opportunity.

If this battle can be won, the sweep of the devils will be smashed, and the Japanese army will be severely damaged in one fell swoop, from a larger point of view, this can even establish the absolute military status of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi and even Shandong in one fell swoop.

The boss still wants to drink and talk with Commander Fu and walk the road together!

At this time, the deputy chief of the general staff mentioned another topic: "Calculating the time, Kong Jie and Li Yunlong have already led the mobile combat unit to the northern Shanxi region!" ”

The boss nodded, and his face was a little more worried: "Whether we can defeat the Mongolian army and open the passage from Inner Mongolia to the northeast is very important to our Eighth Route Army."

I don't know if Kong Jie and Li Yunlong can successfully complete the task this time! ”

The deputy chief of the general staff laughed: "Boss! Relax your mind!

If you want to say that Li Yunlong, this kid went alone, it was really a bit suspenseful and worrying.

Fortunately, there is Kong Jie to follow, Comrade Kong Jie's progress over the years can be seen in our eyes, to put it bluntly, it is really rapid progress, sometimes I feel ashamed of myself!

Let's just sit back and wait for them to bring us a bigger surprise! ”

At this time, the protagonists of the boss and the deputy chief of general staff, Kong Jie and Li Yunlong, had indeed led the mechanized combat troops directly under Taihang half a day ago to smoothly follow the secretly opened transportation channel and arrive in the northern part of Shanxi Province under the cover of the comrades in the border area......

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