Okamura Ningji, who learned the news, was also furious, these damn Eight Roads are really rampant, the two armies are facing each other, they dare to play him like this, the Japanese Empire!

Okamura, who immediately analyzed the battle situation, then learned that Ushijima Manchu had appeared on the periphery of Huangya Cave.

It's just that I don't know what the reason is, the Ushijima Manchu Regiment has been holding back on the periphery of Huangya Cave.

It was only the Eighth Mixed Brigade that took the lead in entering the Yellow Cliff Cave and was engaged in a fierce battle with the Eighth Route Army.

Okamura immediately asked the Ministry of Communications to get in touch with the headquarters of Ushijima Manchu's division, and soon, the old devil Ushijima Mitsuya learned:

The general headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, as well as a group of high-ranking officers, seem to be inside the Huangya Cave at the moment, and I heard that they only held a battlefield press conference yesterday.

As a result, the Eighth Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Cooperative Army has entered the Huangya Cave very bravely, but you can't do it, the self-proclaimed elite Ushijima Mankwantung Army Division has been wandering outside, grinding.

Can this be like words?

"General, what should I do?" The chief of staff on the side was also a little anxious, and at the moment it was not only the problem of rescuing the Eighth Mixed Brigade, but also the pressure from the General Headquarters of the North China Front.

At this moment, although the old devil Ushijima is still quiet on the surface, he is actually a little chaotic in his heart.

At this point, he was almost certain that the interior of the Yellow Cliff Cave must be difficult to overcome, and according to the information obtained from the previous two attacks on the Yellow Cliff Cave area, the Eighth Route Army must have also built a fairly stable fortification inside the Yellow Cliff Cave.

It is even very likely that even the current mountain road is a flaw deliberately left by the Eighth Route Army for him, in order to lure him into a trap.

But this is a scheme!

Even though Ushijima knew that this might be a trap set by the Eighth Route Army, the pride of the Kwantung Army and his confidence in his troops fighting in the mountains did not allow him to choose the most conservative way of evacuation.

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Almost at the same time, in another area, in the area of Quyang, just a few dozen minutes ago, there was a battle that was not large-scale, but it was destined to go down in history and even shake all sides of the world.

It was a mixed sweeping force of nearly 2,000 Japanese puppet troops.

Among them was an elite field brigade of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, with a full staff, around 1,200 people.

This Japanese field brigade was specially strengthened with equipment, and its armament was specially strengthened with four Type 92 infantry guns, plus a number of Type 92 heavy machine guns and Type 97 mortars.

The entire Japanese puppet army can be described as elite, like an unstoppable sharp knife, straight into the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army base in the Quyang area.

To say that the devil commander of this Japanese brigade will indeed interject a gap, the interspersed route they chose happened to be a weak point in the deployment of the Eighth Route Army.

According to the old devil's assumption, under his surprise attack, he would definitely be able to suddenly tear a hole in the defense line of the Eighth Route Army, cooperate with the main force of the Sixth Division to quickly expand the breakthrough, and defeat the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

Along the way, there were not many blocking troops.

The Eighth Route Army, which only had about 100 troops, seemed to be only some local armed forces after the reconnaissance of the Japanese reconnaissance troops.

Although the level of equipment has been improved, in the hands of these former guerrilla units of the Eighth Route Army and local troops, there are even some small-caliber mortars that look like them, but they are only some modified grenadiers, 50 and 60 small cannons.

But the strength of the two sides is not on the same level after all.

Even if it's not a puppet army.

The ratio of strength between the Japanese army and the blocking force of the Eighth Route Army was also nearly 12 to 1.

The two sides clashed on a hill somewhere.

The devil on the opposite side originally didn't pay attention to this small force of the Eighth Route Army's local armed forces at all, he concentrated his forces and firepower, thinking that he only needed one round of attacks to completely defeat this blocking Eighth Route Army force.

This is when the change suddenly happened.

Before the battle between the two sides began, the roar of fighter engines from far and near was suddenly heard in mid-air.

The devil Shaozuo, who was commanding the operation, was a little puzzled, and he didn't call for air reinforcements!

Could it be the Imperial Air Forces passing by?

Then, when the old devil was still in a state of doubt, those fighters who arrived quickly, which were obviously Japanese-style fighters at a glance, directly launched bombing and strafing the Japanese puppet army troops.

Shells fell from mid-air.

Fighters equipped with aviation machine guns, after the bombing, directly launched a dive strafing fire.

The pilots in the cockpit were so skilled that they even dared to reduce the height of the fighter to fly almost against the side wall of the mountain.

Under such a close blow, the power of the aviation machine gun was fully vented, and the bullets crackled like raindrops, and under the huge power, all the Japanese soldiers who were hit were suddenly blurred with flesh and blood.

The devil was completely stunned.

For one, their troops did not have much anti-air equipment.

Second, they never dreamed that they thought it was the Empire's aviation reinforcements, and the sense of security and superiority in their hearts even immediately arose, how could they have expected that the attack would be directed at them!

The Japanese puppet army troops, which were preparing to concentrate their forces to crush the troops of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side, were in a relatively concentrated valley at this time.

The shells fell down, and in the catharsis of the explosion, only stumps and broken arms were seen, which was a scene of purgatory on earth.

The devils and puppet soldiers in the bombed area wailed, despaired, and crazy.

However, to no avail, under such a powerful air force firepower, all the devils and puppet troops are as fragile as a piece of tissue paper that can be broken by a stab, and there is no resistance at all.

The captain of the county brigade, who led the team to fight a few hundred meters away, looked at this amazing scene, and kept swallowing his saliva, and said to his comrades-in-arms around him:

"When the main force gave us a task, let the 100 or so people of our county brigade stop a full-fledged field brigade of devils, and I wondered in my heart at that time, how to fight this battle?

I can't fight at all!

Then the chief of staff of the first team asked people to send us a secret message, saying that there were follow-up special reinforcements coming, so we just let go and fight.

I was still guessing what kind of reinforcement it was, could it be the reinforcements of the main army?

Good guys, now we fully understand, the feeling is that our air force reinforcements have arrived! ”

Then a little soldier asked: "Captain, do we also have an air force unit in the Eighth Route Army?" ”

The captain of the county brigade said happily: "Haha, that's for sure, it's not me bragging with you, the last time I went to the main force, Chief of Staff Xu, they took me to take a look, good guy, the fighters parked at the airport are one after another, and from now on, the main force of our Eighth Route Army will also have aviation units!" ”

"I heard that this batch of fighters was captured by Captain Kong from the devil's Wuchagou airfield!"

"Obediently, Captain Kong is really capable, and the devil's plane can be captured!"

"That is, Captain Confucius is in the hearts of our soldiers, that is a banner, that is a javelin, in the eyes of devils and puppet soldiers, Kong shaved his head is a living Hades, and he can be scared to pee his pants when he mentions it."

With the continuous sound of explosions in the area where the Japanese puppet army was located not far away, the captain of the county brigade shouted almost at the top of his voice.

Xiao Song, a war correspondent on the side, was also excited, constantly holding the camera to shoot.

He was specially sent by a team this time, and as the first battle of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Unit, the highlights should not be missed.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese puppet army's position was shrouded in the bombing range, the county brigade captain took the opportunity to divide the troops into three routes, detouring to the east, west, and south directions of the Japanese puppet army's position, and then waiting for the final order.

After the bombing gradually subsided, the county captain immediately shouted:

"Comrades, the air reinforcement of our Eighth Route Army is over, and then it will be our turn to kill the enemy, take advantage of the little devils who are dizzy by our fighter jets, rush up, destroy them all for me, and play the prestige of our county brigade!"

After the order was issued, the commander of the county brigade closely scouted the situation on the battlefield, and when the fighters of the aviation unit flew away on the front foot, and the smoke of the bombs that shrouded the positions of the Japanese puppet army had not yet dissipated, he immediately roared angrily and gave the order to attack.

"Trumpeter, blow the trumpet!"

"Comrades, all charge, kill me-"

Toot Toot –

The bright charge horn, which belonged to the Eighth Route Army, pierced the sky, and the comrades of the county brigades in the east, west, and south directions immediately received the news.

Immediately the charge was launched from three directions.

The soldiers held machine guns and rifles, and ran wildly, and the artillery comrades who followed quickly approached and opened the artillery positions nearby.

With the coordination of infantry artillery, a new round of small-caliber artillery bombardment was launched on the positions of the Japanese puppet army to cover the charge of the infantry.

However, it was said that at this time, the limited Japanese puppet army position was already full of devastation.

It has always been to watch the bombers of the Empire bomb the troops of the Eighth Route Army and the National Army.

For the first time, the little devils and the puppet army were bombed by enemy aviation.

Since this unit did not take any precautions at all, the team did not have any decent anti-aircraft weapons, and the strength was relatively concentrated.

The results of this wave of bombing by the Eighth Route Army's First Air Force, which was temporarily organized as the Eighth Route Army's First Air Force, transferred from the secret aviation base of the Eighth Route Army, were quite astonishing.

It even exceeded the expectations of the pilots and fighters who carried out the bombing mission.

It was just this round of bomber bombing, plus the aviation machine guns loaded by the follow-up fighters, under the cover of the smoke after the bombing, under the low-altitude strafing that unfolded.

The Japanese puppet army lost nearly seventy percent.

This Japanese full-fledged field brigade from the 6th Division, all the heavy machine gun positions and artillery positions deployed were blown up by enemy shells before they could make a move.

As a result, the Japanese puppet army, which was dizzy by the bombing, had not had time to come back to their senses, and there was a bright charge horn from the three directions of the east, west, and south.

These buggies were like a call for their lives to the Japanese army.

At this time, the Japanese puppet army was completely frightened by the enemy's air force.

Under the sudden sounding of the charge on behalf of the Eighth Route Army to launch an attack, the devils and puppet soldiers who were lucky enough to survive subconsciously thought that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had come over.

In fact, after the bombing of the aviation unit of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese puppet army at this time still had a strength of five or six hundred people, although it lost nearly seventy percent, that is, about 1,400 people.

And the county brigade is only a force of about 100 people, and it is not a regular army.

If the remnants of the Japanese puppet army can react quickly and launch a counterattack, they may not be able to eliminate the county brigade.

However, there are no ifs on the battlefield.

Under the confrontation between the two armies, once the sharp spirit is lost, the result is already self-evident.

At this time, the Japanese puppet army still had the rampant when they came before.

Even the captain of the Japanese Shaozo Brigade was killed on the spot in the enemy bombardment.

Looking at the Eighth Route Army that appeared on the other side of the smoke that had not yet dissipated, the Japanese puppet army, which was completely frightened, saw that there were enemy troops in the east, west, and south directions, and fled in a northward direction towards the last remaining gap.

This escape was diametrically opposed to the well-trained and orderly evacuation of the Japanese army in the past.

This team was almost beaten with their armor thrown off, so they were not embarrassed, and there was no order at all in the process of evacuation, not even the rearguard troops.

A large number of heavy weapons and baggage were too late to be destroyed, so they fled in a hurry.

This dumbfounded the captain of the county brigade in charge of command.

The captain was originally determined to fight to the death, and took advantage of the bombing of the little devils to fight to the death with the Japanese puppet army.

Who knew that the team had just rushed up, and the devil and the puppet army actually fled like rats.

In the process of attacking, there was no effective resistance at all, so the soldiers, under the leadership of the captain of the county brigade, pursued heartily all the way, and launched an almost one-sided slaughter against the fleeing Japanese puppet army.

The backs of the devil and the puppet army are so clearly exposed.

It's not a pleasure to kill!

The fierce battle between the two sides lasted only more than ten minutes, and the battle was completely over, looking at the positions abandoned by the puppet army troops for nearly 2,000 days, as well as a large number of equipment and materials left behind that were too late to take away, the captain of the county brigade couldn't help but rub his eyes, and felt like he was dreaming.

This was followed by inexplicable excitement.

Grandma's, this battle is really exciting.

One of our county brigades, more than 100 comrades, was stunned to beat away more than 2,000 Japanese puppet troops, including a full-fledged field brigade from the elite division of the Japanese army!

This is simply a miracle on the battlefield of resistance against Japan.

"Quick, hurry up and clean up the battlefield and count the casualties."

"Communicator, ride a horse, hurry to the nearest contact point, and promptly convey the situation of the battle on our side to the headquarters of the main force!"

"Yes!"

The casualties of the county brigade were quickly counted, and the results made the county captains a little wrong:

"Captain, two of us were seriously injured, and seven or eight other comrades were slightly injured, and no one was killed."

That is to say, in the battle that completely defeated nearly 2,000 Japanese puppet army troops, and even killed more than seventy percent of the Japanese puppet army, none of the more than 100 soldiers of the county brigade died in the whole process.

The county captain was very excited, and immediately arranged for the soldiers to quickly transfer the two seriously injured to the nearest medical station.

These are some medical stations specially built by the detachment for local comrades, and all kinds of medical facilities and special drugs are fully prepared.

At that time, Kong Jie said this about the construction of the medical station and the role it could play for the troops:

"I have only one request, to make our medical system a guarantee that the soldiers have no worries, in a word, as long as the soldiers are not killed on the spot on the battlefield, after they are evacuated to our medical station in time, we must ensure that they survive!"

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