In the end, the 6th Field Division of the Japanese Army, lured by the fake airfield built by the detachment, went deep into the base area of the detachment and successfully fell into the ambush battlefield preset by Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei.

Of course, in the eyes of Lieutenant General Sekimura, who is full of arrogance in his bones and thinks that the Sixth Division is the elite of the empire, this is not a lonely army.

You must know that under his command is a strong field division.

A few years ago, these troops of the Eighth Route Army, who were trying to survive in the mountainous areas of the occupied area, were not looked down upon at all by field divisions like Guancun.

Not to mention the field division, back then, a Sakata Wing dared to walk sideways in the base area of the Eighth Route Army.

So the old devil Guan Cun never thought that he would fall into the trap of the Eighth Route Army.

There was no lone army going deeper, and his Sixth Division was only the first to move forward, preparing to completely break through the defense line of the Iron Triangle of the Eighth Route Army.

Destroy this Eighth Route Army unit that caused His Excellency the Commander a headache in one fell swoop.

Not to mention that there were still a large number of reinforcements around his Sixth Division.

The 12th Army unit of the Shanxi battlefield was replaced.

The former First Army troops left behind in Shanxi

Air reinforcements ready to arrive.

and the Ushijima Manchu Division of the Kwantung Army, which fought in the Huangyadong area not far away......

It was not until the vanguard of the Sixth Division successfully knocked out the so-called secret aviation base of the Eighth Route Army that it was attacked by an inexplicable explosion, and the vanguard unit was directly lost more than half.

Guan Cun pretended to be calm on the surface, but in his heart, he originally decided to take the lead in attacking the Iron Triangle base area, but his intention immediately died down.

He pretended to be calm and chose to evacuate.

As a result, the troops did not go well on the way to evacuate, and were first entangled by the sudden appearance of mechanized combat units of the Eighth Route Army.

Immediately afterwards, along the way of the withdrawal of his Sixth Division, a large number of pre-set ambush positions emerged.

At this point, when contacted by the intelligence of the fake airport, Guan Cun still didn't understand that he had fallen for the Eighth Route Army again, and this so-called fake airport was simply a cover to lure him into leading the army deeper.

Originally, he thought that even if he couldn't penetrate the defense of the Eighth Route Army's base area, he could calmly evacuate Guan Village, but he was completely confused.

With the difficulties of his sixth regiment when evacuating, for a while, the whole team seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, and it was difficult to move an inch.

Even the concealed and safe route of his Sixth Division, which was originally interspersed with a secret aviation base, was constantly blocked by the troops of the Eighth Route Army in the process of evacuation.

Obviously, in the process of the Sixth Division's first advance, the Eighth Route Army deliberately opened its mouth to give the Sixth Division the greatest convenience, so as to prevent the Sixth Division from falling into the trap.

While Lieutenant General Guancun was shocked and angry, he never knew what the Eighth Route Army was going to do.

At present, it is an unprecedented sweep of unprecedented scale initiated by the imperial troops, these eight roads are not passively defended like in previous years, or seek to break through, but they actually take the initiative to set traps, is it possible that they really have such determination and strength, ready to eat his imperial sixth division in one fell swoop?

In this regard, the corners of the old devil's mouth were full of mockery.

As everyone knows, in the eyes of the commanders of the Eighth Route Army at this time, the Sixth Division was a big fish that had already fallen into the net, and it couldn't be tossed a few times.

The next question is how to close the net.

"You must not let this old devil escape!"

The former enemy's general headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, along with the words of the deputy commander-in-chief, directly laid the tone and goal of the entire military conference.

The teacher even spoke in person: "The 120th Division did a good job this time, first of all, we had a levee breaking operation in front of us, and the combat operation of besieging Taiyuan City was in full swing.

As the protagonist of the Shanxi battlefield this time, our 129th Division cannot be idle.

Since his 120th Division can prepare for a levee breaking operation, we can't fall behind them.

We should also plan a special operation with enough weight! ”

The generals immediately began to discuss it.

The old brigade commander suggested with a smile: "Our 129th Division's operation this time will first start with the anti-sweeping operation in the base area, and develop with an unprecedented defensive offensive and defensive battle.

At present, I think that we can take the climax of our combat operation by inflicting heavy damage on or even completely annihilating the Sixth Field Division, which was the first to penetrate by the Japanese army!

Our Chinese culture is based on the sky, and I think this battle plan is better called Operation Sky Collapse! ”

"Haha, this name is interesting, very domineering, but it sounds much more generous than his 120th division's embankment breaking action!" Brigade Commander Chen of the 385 Brigade has always been friendly with the old brigade commander and is eager to wear a pair of pants, so he immediately echoed and said.

The other generals also applauded, so the name of this special large-scale combat operation was decided.

The deputy chief of the general staff said: "Since it is a skyslide operation, we must first poke a gap in the sky.

In my opinion, the battle to encircle and annihilate the 6th Field Division of the Japanese Army is where this gap lies.

The encirclement and annihilation battle with the goal of annihilating an almost full field elite division of the Japanese army is the first time in the combat history of our Eighth Route Army!

After the battle is completely started, our outflanking troops must be decisive, carry forward the spirit of the Long March, not afraid of hardship, not afraid of tiredness, and third not afraid of sacrifice.

The blocking troops that have laid an ambush in advance must be resolute in defense, and they must not set up a single-line defensive position, but must block at multiple levels and in multiple echelons, flexibly give full play to the advantages of our home terrain, and cooperate with the pursuing troops to flank and attack the fleeing devils.

When the two sides cooperate, don't swarm and rush wherever there are devils.

Even if it is a battle of encirclement and annihilation, we must pay attention to a way of fighting, distinguish the form of the battlefield, block the head, cut off the tail, and hit the middle, so as to avoid casualties of our troops as much as possible.

The defense of key points, without special orders and special circumstances, can not be moved lightly, to prevent the devils from using bait troops to attract attention, seize key points, and open gaps when breaking through in batches. ”

After all, the target is also a field division of the mighty Japanese army, which is almost full.

The commanders of the Eighth Route Army have always despised their opponents strategically, but they will definitely attach importance to their opponents tactically.

The first detachment has the fighting style of a detachment, which is responsible for receiving the enemy on the front line, as the absolute main force of the 6th Division of the total annihilation.

However, the General Headquarters will also consider all other factors in the battle of encircling and annihilating the Sixth Division from a comprehensive perspective.

Including how to cooperate with a detachment to cut off all the retreat routes of the Sixth Division, and how to block the Japanese reinforcements that reinforced the Sixth Division, so that the Sixth Division would become a lone army completely.

The Eighth Route Army has always been a unit that pays attention to joint operations and teamwork, and does not pay attention to any heroism.

Even if a team can inflict heavy losses on its own, and even annihilate the Sixth Division, other fraternal units will have to come over and join in the fun.

Even if it's not a helper, you Kong Jie eats meat, so you have to let your old comrades-in-arms drink some soup too, right?

This is called deep comradeship!

Then we came to the specific deployment coordination of the brigades.

In the past two years, all brigades have developed well, and the 129th Division has even pulled out many new infantry brigades.

The new brigade commanders are scrambling to talk about the forces that can be mobilized under their command to assist in the battle, which is called an arrogance, I am 5,000, you are 8,000, not to mention how bullish.

This was unimaginable a few years ago, when even with so many troops, there was not so much equipment.

A force of five thousand people is good if it can come up with two or three thousand guns.

What to fight devils?

Not to mention a large-scale battle like the present one to prepare for the encirclement and annihilation of a field division of the Japanese army.

The heavy ears of wheat are always humble and bow their heads, and the old brigade commander has never preached anything, but he still became the protagonist of the scene after the new brigade commanders quarreled.

Everyone's eyes converged on him, and the deputy commander-in-chief asked with a smile:

"Chen Shukang, don't hide it, tell me about the situation of your 386 Brigade!"

"Huh!"

The old brigade commander responded, helped his eyes, and then said with a smile: "Comrades, I'm really embarrassed, I'm ashamed to say that so far, in my 386th Brigade defense area, the main combat force can be called out to participate in the battle of encircling and annihilating the Japanese Sixth Division.

I mean the main combat forces, not counting the local army units and militia units, which are also well developed...... It's just more than 50,000 troops! ”

"More than 50,000 ???"

The meeting, which was originally a little noisy, suddenly fell into a strange dead silence, and many brigade commanders had round eyes and a ghostly look on their faces.

Even the deputy chief of the general staff who asked the question was a little stunned.

This Chen Shukang, what's the situation?

When did your 386th Brigade grow to such a scale by leaps and bounds under your nose? Why didn't I know about the situation in advance?

It was the deputy chief of general staff who noticed the boss's expression and hurriedly handed the old brigade commander a look, and the old brigade commander explained with a smile:

"Report to the deputy commander-in-chief, this is indeed my fault, and I haven't had time to report the relevant situation to the headquarters in detail."

"What the hell is going on?"

"The situation is like this, just in the morning, Kong Jie called me, and he reported on the phone, hehe, I'm sorry, brigade commander, this time our Iron Triangle seems to have used a lot more troops than expected."

The brigade commander vividly imitated the situation at that time:

"So I asked, what do you mean by that?"

"Then Kong Jie said, report to the brigade commander, in order to assist us in this operation, the newly formed first brigade specially reinforced three regiments to our Iron Triangle, with a total of more than 6,000 troops, and entered the Iron Triangle defense area.

In addition, the commander of the newly formed 10th Brigade Fan entered the defense area with 4,000 men from two regiments.

In addition, there are 2,000 people in the special service group of our 129th division headquarters and 3,000 people in the special service group directly under the headquarters.

and four regiments supported by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and one special service regiment directly under the Military Region, with about 8,000 people.

In addition, the five elite main regiments specially dispatched by our detachment this time totaled 15,000 troops, as well as Li Yunlong's new second regiment and Ding Wei's new first regiment, which assisted in the operation of about 10,000 troops while ensuring the defense of their own base areas.

That's almost 50,000 people.

That's not even counting the local troops and militia units that all of us are actively assisting in the fighting.

In addition, the militia regiment of Huasheng Company has mobilized a total of 6 firing line regiments, and the determination to ensure logistics has been made, and the base area will mainly be handed over to the brother troops for defense, and all the elites in the entire defense area of our iron triangle can launch a counterattack on all fronts.

Please the brigade commander instructs! ”

"Yes!" The old brigade commander said happily: "Don't talk about you guys, I was also a little dumbfounded at that time, on the one hand, I sighed that Kong Jie, this kid, has developed fast enough with the Iron Triangle over the years."

On the other hand, I feel that Kong Jie's face is really not small, and I haven't received any movement here, including the Jinchaji side, as well as the reinforcements from the surrounding base areas, all of which have been called for by him.

That's it, including the strength of the 386th Regiment of the 771st Regiment, the 772nd Regiment of the 772nd Brigade, the newly formed 5th Regiment, the 17th Regiment and other main regiments, have not even had time to be mobilized! ”

The brigade commander spoke, and the rest of the brigade commanders in the conference room only felt stunned.

Suddenly, he was ashamed of the previous quarrel.

The deputy commander-in-chief couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Chen Shukang, Chen Shukang, you really have you, only one of your 386 brigades, this scale is exaggerated than an army, right?" ”

"Ashamed, ashamed!" The old brigade commander looked modest.

Then everyone thought about the situation of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army.

According to the intelligence collected by the Eighth Route Army.

The 6th Division came to sweep the Iron Triangle base area, with two infantry brigades and a mechanized mixed brigade reinforced later.

There are four infantry wings, one cavalry wing, one armored wing, one mechanized wing, one artillery wing, one heavy artillery wing, as well as the fourth mixed brigade of the local First Army, and one left-behind wing to assist; The Tanaka Mixed Brigade of the 12th Army was responsible for maintaining the communication line near Yangquan, in addition to three puppet mixed brigades.

There are four infantry wings, one cavalry wing, one heavy artillery wing, and the offensive formation is two main wings, launching a pincer offensive assault, with the cavalry wing in the center, one main wing pressing behind, and the fourth brigade group remaining behind to carry out a guard on both sides.

In the rear, the mobile unit of the Tanaka Brigade protected the line of communication, and the two traitors formed a brigade to take the lead.

At present, the strength of the Japanese puppet army, which has penetrated deep into our Iron Triangle base area and fallen into the ambush area, is less than 20,000 people.

"According to a rough estimate, the ratio of troops between the two sides is almost 3:1 in the encirclement and annihilation battle launched against the Japanese puppet army with the Japanese Sixth Division as the main force.

I have to say that this is a rare large-scale rich battle since our Eighth Route Army fought against the Japanese puppet army!

We have three times the strength of the enemy, and we may not be able to do it if we fight this encirclement and annihilation battle perfectly.

However, it is better to be cautious, after all, the fish caught in the net is too big, and we must not risk capsizing. ”

The Deputy Chief of the General Staff said as he analyzed the situation.

Then, the generals had some discussions about the deployment of this large-scale ambush, and finally the deputy chief of the general staff made a decision, and the domineering voice spread throughout the conference room:

"The Sixth Field Division raised by the son of a bitch, there was this executioner in the massacre back then, the blood debt should be paid with blood, there is nothing to say, kill him, the blood of his compatriots cannot be shed in vain!

Okay, let's follow the battle plan and make our own preparations! ”

"Yes!"

The generals responded in unison, and each left the headquarters with a combat mission......

(End of chapter)