The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.

With the sound of artillery, the whole artillery ambush battle completely began the rhythm.

The sky was filled with the whistling sound of rocket artillery shells breaking through the air.

Just 20 minutes earlier, Inoue, who was leading the main forces of the division to prepare a surprise attack from the north of Yangwon, ordered the troops to suspend rest and replace snow chains for tank maintenance, armored vehicles, and cars at a distance of 15 kilometers from the destination.

Prepare for the final surprise attack, and at the same time send a motorized reconnaissance unit in advance to take the lead in probing the enemy situation ahead.

As the snow was getting heavier and heavier, the snow on the ground had accumulated visibly, and the old devil Inoue said triumphantly to his subordinates when the troops were resting: "I have already learned about the recent abnormal weather, so I prepared winter snow chains for cars and armored vehicles in advance, and everything is as I expected."

With these preparations in advance, even if a heavy snow falls, it will never affect the attack of our mechanized combat vehicles.

On the other hand, on the side of the Eighth Route Army, there may be a lack of preparation, and this is the opportunity for our army to take the opportunity to attack. ”

"Your Excellency the General is wise!"

The devil officers around him praised one after another, and Lieutenant General Inoue became more and more proud.

As everyone knows, Inoue, the old devil, is smart but is mistaken by cleverness.

It was because of this order from Inoue that a large number of military combat vehicles were gathered together to replace snow chains.

Kong Jie, the deputy chief of the general staff, and a group of commanders received news at the forward command that the main force of the devil's vanguard, a large number of mechanized combat vehicles, including all kinds of military vehicles, armored vehicles, and tanks, that had been rapidly advancing were gathering in one place.

The generals who heard the news were overjoyed.

Everyone was still worried, the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army was the elite of the Japanese army, and the entire division was a mobile combat division, with a high degree of mechanization, and the battle line was wide after the mechanized combat troops were deployed, and the unit density was not high.

The ambush deployed by Kong Jie and other generals to assemble heavy artillery troops, even if it is a sneak attack, there is only one chance, once the artillery fire is exposed, with the mobility of the Japanese army, the mobile troops of all walks will definitely quickly disperse and conceal, and the effect of the artillery will be greatly reduced.

How can we gather the vanguard troops of the devils in one place, especially the various mechanized combat vehicles with the most mobile devils, so as to give full play to the power of the artillery bombardment?

It's a conundrum!

But everyone never thought that when they were dozing, a devil would send a pillow.

"Little devil, isn't this an old birthday star who hanged himself and thought he was going to live a long life? It seems that even God is helping us eliminate the little devils! ”

Of course, the premise of all this is also due to the excellent intelligence reconnaissance and efficient communication of the Eighth Route Army.

With the help of the close communication links between the front-line reconnaissance units and the forward command headquarters, Kong Jie, deputy chief of the general staff, and other generals, even if they are sitting in the forward command headquarters and cannot specifically observe the advance of the enemy on the front line, can still grasp the situation of the enemy on the front line at the first time and make the most rapid and accurate judgment.

After quickly analyzing the situation, the command seized the opportunity and the order was quickly issued.

The artillery units of all sides, which had been waiting for a long time, quickly attacked, and the heavy Weilong Regiment and heavy artillery units, as well as self-propelled artillery units, burst out with three strikes.

The next moment the movement came out.

Starting from Inoue, the commander of the Devil Division, to the Japanese soldiers at the grassroots level, then they saw the flickering fires falling from the sky.

Boom –

Then came the roaring explosion.

Hearing such movements, the old devil Inoue's expression changed drastically, and the direction from which the voice came from was the gathering area where the various mechanized combat vehicles of his Inoue division were replacing their snow chains.

Everything was as he judged in an instant.

His self-righteous plan to take advantage of the snowy night to surprise Yangyuan fell into the trap of the Eighth Route Army from beginning to end.

His triumphant surprise attack was nothing more than a self-defeating trap.

Under the cover of this dark night, Kong Jie had already arranged all the ambush troops and artillery units in place, and they were already waiting for the little devil to fall into the trap while they were ready to attack.

The power of a large number of artillery pieces was quickly vented.

After being specially strengthened, the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army was equipped with more than 300 military combat vehicles of various types, including a large number of military motorcycles, military cars, armored vehicles, tanks, etc., all of which were submerged under artillery fire.

In just over a dozen minutes, the casualties of the Japanese army spread rapidly, the losses were extremely heavy, and the main force of the forward was like a plate of scattered sand under the attack of artillery fire, and the formation was almost lost.

Fortunately, the old devil Inoue's order to remedy the situation was issued quickly, and the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army was an elite combat unit of the Japanese army, and the Japanese commanders at the grassroots level had solid military qualities.

The mechanized combat units of all stripes that had been shelled quickly rescued themselves and dispersed and evacuated the mechanized combat vehicles as quickly as possible.

This saved part of the loss.

However, if Inoue, an old devil, thinks that this is all Kong Jie's means, he will be too happy.

With the first round of the tripartite artillery units after the fierce attack.

Immediately afterwards, the troops led by Li Yunlong and Ding Wei immediately began to assault and outflank.

Although the Yangyuan area is a plain, there are still many hills, and the net collection troops on both sides of the Eighth Route Army took advantage of these hills to build a large number of concealed anti-tank trenches in advance and build a considerable number of anti-tank gun positions.

Under the bombardment of heavy artillery, the devil hurriedly wanted to retreat along both sides of the battlefield, but he hit the big nets on both sides with one head.

Everything is just like the military meeting before the war, Li Yunlong swore and said: "According to our deployment, the first wave of heavy artillery ambushes arranged by Lao Kong is to hit the head and cripple the vanguard and main force of the 14th Division of this devil."

Let's Lao Li is responsible for beating the waist.

From the point of view of intelligence, the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army, as a reinforced division, has a very complete grassroots structure, three infantry brigades, and a special reinforcement of the transport truck wing, the tank wing, the Type 90 field artillery modified heavy anti-tank gun brigade, and whether there are other types of self-propelled howitzer vehicles or anti-tank vehicles, we are still unclear.

In addition, according to the intelligence collected in the Jinchaji base area during this time, it was found that the devil seems to be equipped with his own rocket artillery, semi-automatic rifles, and many 100-type submachine guns.

Conventional ambush means terror could not deal a devastating blow to them.

If we use traditional infantry to deal with the devil's mechanized combat troops, it will be even more self-inflicted.

This devil army, ground-air, infantry, and infantry artillery coordination ability is extraordinary.

After discussing with Lao Ding, it was decided that the first field guerrilla unit would fight from the north to the south, spread out in echelons, and launch continuous attacks with the heavy tank unit as the spearhead and with the cooperation of the air force and rocket artillery units.

The Second Field Guerrilla Army fought from east to west on the central route, and the same continuous offensive was carried out.

The Third Field Army was on the lower road, and it was fought from the northwest to the southeast of Yangyuan County.

The second echelon built a defensive line 10 kilometers away from both sides of the battlefield, and after the battle began, under the cover of self-propelled anti-tank guns and assault guns, the armored troops rushed back and forth between the two sides of the defense line, scattered, disabled, and finally wiped them out. ”

And at this moment, all the situations on the battlefield are just as Li Yunlong expected.

The Japanese troops who fell in the big net had the main armored force of the Eighth Route Army rushing back and forth to kill, and there were troops on the outside waiting to close the net.

Lao Pi, Lao Qin, and Lao Wei also led mobile self-propelled anti-tank units and assault artillery units to constantly provide mobile support on the periphery to prevent the devils from breaking through.

Moreover, in order to be insured, the headquarters also sent the second heavy artillery brigade directly under it (composed of American-made 203 howitzers, 155 howitzers, and 105 howitzers, and the firepower of this heavy artillery brigade is extremely powerful.

In less than half an hour of fierce fighting between the two sides, the casualties of the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army were extremely heavy.

The battle has come to this point.

The old devil Inoue was also completely panicked, and if he continued to fight like this, he could even foresee the demise of the 14th Division.

I saw him hiding in a pit on the anticline of a hill, and he couldn't take care of the elite of the imperial army and the glory of the Kwantung Army.

He continued to seek support from all sides, and the communication networks of the devil's troops were directly disrupted.

The elite steel helmets of the Eighth Route Army, which the commanders of the Japanese army on all sides had been guarding against, actually appeared here!

However, just this morning, the Japanese troops blockaded around the Iron Triangle base area also sent back news that the Eighth Route Army was still holding a big military contest, and the base area was not very lively.

The eyeliner that infiltrated the base area even sent back the news that a large number of steel helmets were gathering in the base area, judging from their equipment, clothing and mental outlook, they were definitely elite steel helmets, which could not be faked.

"Yaga, what the hell is going on?"

In Beiping, in the General Headquarters of the Japanese North China Front, Naosaburo Okabe was furious.

The steel helmets of the Eighth Route Army have always liked to sabotage the good deeds of the Imperial Army, and they have been so since the fame of their unit.

This time, the Japanese army took every possible defense, and even took advantage of the fact that the steel helmets held a big competition in the base area, so they took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack, preparing to conquer Datong and Zhangjiakou in one fell swoop.

But who would have thought that a bunch of steel helmets would be killed halfway through!!

In this regard, Okabe was even suspicious: "Could it be that the steel helmets of the Eighth Route Army, in addition to the Iron Triangle Force waved by Kong Jie, there are other teams?"

Or is it that there are elite steel helmets of the Eighth Route Army everywhere? ”

The Japanese army was also completely confused, those cunning eight-way put a steel helmet on their heads, who could tell if it was true or not?

Moreover, the Type 96 150 heavy cannon and Type 96 240-mm howitzer lost by the Japanese army in Rizhao and Qingdao all rang out, but they were smashed on the head of the Inoue Division.

The power of these strategic artillery pieces was so strong that the raids were carried out by the vanguard mechanized combat units of the 14 th Division, which were relatively densely packed in military columns.

The power was so great that the Japanese army was like a flat boat on a huge wave, completely overturned.

At this moment, even the commander-in-chief of the devils, Junroku Hatata, who received the news, was in a hurry.

At this time, according to the intelligence of the First Army, the 26th Division and the 106th Division attacking Xinkou did not encounter the heavy artillery attack of the Luliangshan troops of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

All the rails along the way are gone!

It stands to reason that the Eighth Route Army in Luliang Mountain has two heavy artillery brigades, and their numbers do not appear.

Moreover, on the battlefield where the 14th Division was ambushed, the Japanese reconnaissance found that the Eighth Route Army dispatched two heavy artillery brigades and three heavy artillery regiments.

There is also a heavy artillery brigade directly under the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, equipped with imperial heavy artillery.

So where did this heavy artillery brigade go?

Yan Junliu and Okabe Naosaburo speculated slightly, and immediately realized that the Eighth Route Army still had reserves, and when they thought of this, their heads suddenly became big.

These cunning eight routes, shouldn't they want to use these reserve troops and heavy artillery brigades to sneak attack the reinforced troops?

Junroku Hata and Naosaburo Okabe did not dare to gamble, and there was no team that could quickly run to the vicinity of Yangyuan to reinforce the 14th Division.

The Imperial Air Force could only be ordered to immediately send a flying team to cover the evacuation.

At this time, over time, according to the progress of the Japanese army:

Several Japanese units, mainly the 26th, 101st, and 106th Divisions, launched a feint attack on the defenders of the Eighth Route Army in the direction of Xinkou on the first day.

Then, the Japanese army, mainly the Harada 35th Division, took the opportunity to seize Yanmen Pass the next night.

By the evening of the third day, the heavy snow had fallen, and the old devil Inoue led the mobile 14th Division to attack the Huaxiao battalion at night, and then marched westward, preparing to take Yangyuan in one fell swoop.

As a result, it was ambushed by the Iron Triangle Army in the Yangyuan area, and first a rather exaggerated round of artillery bombardment, the vanguard main force of the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army suffered heavy losses directly, and even the formation was completely destroyed.

Then, the two sides engaged in fierce battles in the area north of Yangyuan.

At this point, the war between the two sides has directly escalated!

Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and other generals of the Eighth Route Army showed great appetite.

They even revealed their intention to eat the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army in the middle of the two major devil clusters in the east and west.

This will be the old devil standing in front of the map, Hata Jun's six breaths are enough to choke.

"How rampant this Iron Triangle Army of the Eighth Route Army is, in front of the multi-route army of our empire, it wants to eat my 14th division, it is really wishful thinking, damn it, damn it!"

"Inform the aviation troops, rush to reinforcements!"

According to the old devil Junroku Hata this time, he made full preparations in terms of air firepower.

A total of 21 fighter squadrons were formed.

Among them, the Kwantung Army is equipped with relatively advanced fighters - Zero fighter and Type II Zhongxu fighter.

The airfield in the Beiping area has also been specially reinforced with a number of moonlight night fighters, in addition, there are some special fighters of the latest models.

According to the pre-war analysis of the Japanese air commander: "The air force of the Empire, on the one hand, had to guard against airfields and communication lines, as well as important cities, and on the other hand, it was also necessary to be vigilant against the Nationalist troops on the frontal battlefield, and it was impossible to all of them to be dispatched at the same time."

Therefore, in view of the fact that the Eighth Route Army already has a certain amount of aviation strength, the most suitable air tactics for our army are: In the initial stage, instead of fighting hard with the Eighth Route Army, we will frequently dispatch small-scale air fleets to adapt to the airspace environment of various battlefields and retreat with one blow.

The initial attack can be said to be a wave-like feint, in order to attract reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army Air Force, find out the location of the airfields of the Eighth Route Army, and at night, put the elite main force into a strong attack.

At dawn the next day, a surprise attack was launched to preemptively attack the airfield of the Eighth Route Army.

Then a large formation of fighters was dispatched during the day to strangle the Eighth Route Army Air Force, which was not blown up by the airfield raid.

In short, first show the enemy weakness, and then launch a large-scale sneak attack in one go, and then compete with the Eighth Route Army for battlefield air supremacy.

The elite air force lurks near the air force supporting the battlefield everywhere, ready to hunt down the air force of the Eighth Route Army to counterattack. ”

(End of chapter)