The other side.

Wang Huaibao, commander of the left-behind troops in the Iron Triangle Experimental Zone, successfully persuaded Chief of Staff Li, who was assisted by the division headquarters, to assemble the 95 light tanks, M8 armored vehicles, Stuart tanks, 75-mm light howitzer vehicles, 120 light mortar vehicles, and some engineering vehicles of the left-behind troops.

Through Wutai County, through Lingqiu County and Liugou, it magically appeared in Laiyuan County, and with a devastating offensive, it cut off the supply line and back road of the Niu Daoman army besieging Wei County in one fell swoop.

and put an end to the Laiyuan County military station, logistics base, and field hospital.

This is equivalent to abolishing the devil's offensive troops all the way.

Ushijima was also unexpected, he obviously got the news that the Iron Triangle Army of the Eighth Route Army was besieging the 14th Division in the Yangyuan area.

But who would have thought that these Eighth Route Army troops who stayed in the Iron Triangle base area would have such strong combat effectiveness.

At this point, Ushijima could only look at the city and sigh, so he had no choice but to withdraw from the siege, change direction, and move closer to the 13th Division in the direction of Huaxiaoying.

The southern interspersed troops that originally planned to cooperate with the Ushishima Manchu Division to flank the north gate of Zhangjiakou failed to attack the city, and were flanked by the Yanbei detachment of the Eighth Route Army, which served as a reserve, and also retreated in embarrassment.

Harada played a clever trick, pretending to reinforce in the direction of Yangyuan, and then came to recruit back the carbines, and after successfully occupying Yanggao, he and the 101st Division tried to indirectly help the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army to relieve the siege from the north and west.

But none of them attacked with all their might.

As the old devil Harada said before the war, it is just to listen to the movements of Inoue-kun, put more cannons, and shoot more guns.

As the tide of battle continues to evolve.

The Japanese 27th Division, which was besieging Shuozhou County, was counterattacked by the armored troops and heavy artillery units of the 120th Division Brigade Commander Zhang, and retreated to Yanmen Pass in a hurry.

Harada's side saw that the troops that cooperated with the battle had withdrawn, and if he ran late, he might be sold.

Is that worth it?

Anyway, he sneaked up on the road and took Yanggao, Harada can be regarded as making a lot of money, and he understands the truth that he will accept it when he sees it.

As for the 14 division?

Whoever loves to save will be saved, anyway, I Harada doesn't have this ability.

Soon after, an order was also issued to evacuate quickly, in the name of avoiding unnecessary casualties among the troops, in order to hold on to the main defense area and guard against the Eighth Route Army from taking advantage of the weakness.

It's hard now, and it's still a struggling old devil in the well.

In the Yangyuan area, the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army fought for several days, and under the sharp turn of the battle, the 14th Division was defeated and retreated, and the vanguard, the middle army, the rear army, and the reserve fell into a bitter battle one after another, and were almost defeated.

Coupled with the complete cut off of logistical supplies, and the fierce fighting for many days, it was under this ice and snow, and the snow was falling incessantly, and the devil soldiers were frozen, hungry and thirsty.

Many were not killed in battle, but fell in the torment of illness.

At this time, the little devils of the 14th Division have long since lost the rampant when they went south from outside the Guan, and they are all languid and crumbling, and they are very combative, and I am afraid that they will not be able to play three percent at this time.

They even began to miss the white mountain and black soil, at least they had been stable there for many years, and they would never fall into the situation in front of them, they were simply slaughtered by these Eighth Route Army troops.

Inoue had been waiting for reinforcements, which was his last hope in despair.

But after all, he couldn't wait for reinforcements.

On the contrary, reinforcements and reserves of the Eighth Route Army appeared one after another, and the firepower density was even several times stronger.

From beginning to end, in this battle of Datong and Zhangjiakou, in terms of the Eighth Route Army, the generals mainly led by Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, and other commanders of the Iron Triangle Group Army made up their minds:

"It is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers."

"There is only one goal in this campaign, and there will only be one, that is, to completely kill this bitch-raised 14th Division!"

When the main forces are all used, the final encirclement and annihilation battle begins.

Kong Jie gave the order in a special way: "Don't be reluctant to give up ammunition in all troops, let's make these ammunition just to kill the little devils, don't you have to keep the cubs at this time?"

This time, we have a great advantage, to fight more and less, to fight weak with strong, and to fight passively with initiative.

We hit one out of five, or even ten against one.

This is a rich battle that has never been before, not to mention the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army, even if the personal guard of his devil emperor is here, we will completely bite him and swallow him in our stomachs.

Fight to the death! Regardless of day or night, attack with all your might.

As long as you are wearing a Showa military uniform, unless it is a little devil who takes the initiative to surrender, throw away his weapon, and walk out with his head in his arms, there will be no one left! ”

After the order was given, the morale of the three armed forces was high.

Since the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, everyone has seen the mountains and rivers fall under the iron horse of the devil, and the anger that has been held back for so many years can finally be completely vented.

The commanders of various factions even agreed with each other at the pre-war meeting that they would have a killing contest.

"This time, we can say that we are ambushed on all sides, surrounded on all sides, and strangled in three layers inside and three layers outside, even if this little devil has wings, he doesn't want to fly out of our encirclement!"

"Let's see which of our troops has killed the most devils and captured the most, and see who can take off the head of the old devil in the well first!"

Kong Jie also gave a special order: "After the siege is officially launched, the Allied observation group and the Jiang army observation group are allowed to go to the front line to watch the battle and besiege the last troops in Inoue."

Our Eighth Route Army has built such a big stage and sang such a wonderful play this time, wouldn't it be a pity if there was no audience? ”

After the rapid offensive of all sides was officially launched, the little devils of the entire 14th Division complained and struggled.

The old devil Inoue held out for another three days, and the battle reached this point, and even the limited air support was gone.

The old devil Hata Junliu sat in the Beiping General Headquarters, and in fact, he soon discovered the clues.

Judging from the gradual evolution of the battle situation between the two sides, something is wrong, very wrong, at first glance, the Eighth Road seems to revolve around the defense of the two important cities of Datong and Zhangjiakou.

But as the battle evolves, it is clear that this is not the case.

In particular, the 14th Division, as soon as it entered Yangyuan by surprise, it was completely caught in it.

I thought it was a flowering tactic in the middle.

But under the anxiety of the war situation, the situation is becoming more and more critical.

It wasn't until the old devil Buntaiichiro came that after reconnaissance from the front line, the communication news that "the Eighth Route was rushing to destroy the 14th Division" came.

Only then did it quickly corroborate with the clues and wrongs discovered by Junroku Hatata.

At this point, Junroku Hatatake finally realized that something was wrong.

Fooled!

Damn these eight-way is simply crazy, they dare to fight the idea of the 14th Division!

This is a full-fledged Kwantung Army field division!

And it was also under the instigation of the main forces of the two wings of the empire.

It was not until this step that Tian Junliu realized what a stupid mistake he had made, thinking that it was the battle around Datong and Zhangjiakou, and after the battle between Datong and Zhangjiakou was launched, most of the attention of the Japanese army was attracted to the past.

The main forces of the two flanks of the Japanese army also basically advanced towards Datong and Zhangjiakou.

The Eighth Route was planning from beginning to end how to eat the 14th Division in front of the two main forces of the devils.

I also blame Inoue, the old devil, for being careless, the forward troops were shelled and suffered so much losses, and they insisted that they were accidentally ambushed by the enemy.

and insisted that he could cooperate with the reinforcements with the middle flowering tactics and eat the troops of the Eighth Route Army besieging his 14th Division in one fell swoop.

Until the Eighth Route Army's killing moves gradually unfolded.

Inoue was completely panicked.

It was too late, and the main forces of the Japanese ground combat forces were basically in the vicinity of Datong and Zhangjiakou, or were completely blocked by the defensive lines set up by the Eighth Route Army along the way.

Originally, it was possible to reinforce the 35th Division like Harada, but the result also went wrong inexplicably.

The only thing that can be used is air reinforcements.

After Hatatakeroku found out that the Eighth Route Army was really going to fight the 14th Division, and that the 14th Division had already suffered heavy casualties under the siege of the Eighth Route Army, and that there was indeed a danger of annihilation, he did not dare to delay any longer.

In one go, 20 squadrons of fighters and 10 squadrons of bombers of various types were dispatched to compete for air supremacy.

In terms of the aviation headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, Kong Jie also made up his mind to be ruthless, and all the aviation forces of the six major aviation bases were mobilized, including some fighters that could go to the battlefield parked at the Huangyadong Air Transport Airport.

After winning this battle and stabilizing the general situation, in the future, our Eighth Route Army will not have as many planes as it wants, and how many planes will it be able to rebuild?

Let's gather the aviation power of the whole army to compete with the devil for such a time, we can always see a high and low, right?

Although the flying force of the devils is strong, it is also relative, and they do have advanced fighters, but the number is not large.

The Eighth Route Army also had relatively advanced Japanese fighters captured from the Japanese army, plus equally advanced fighters reinforced by Allied countries.

In terms of combat performance, it is not much worse than the fighters of the little devils.

In this way, according to the predetermined battle plan, the Eighth Route Army dispatched 45 fighter squadrons in one go, as well as 10 squadrons in reserve.

and the little devils launched a head-on struggle for air supremacy.

The two sides fought for a whole day, which was almost the largest large-scale air battle in the history of the Sino-Japanese war.

The sky was full of planes, and from time to time warplanes were shot down on both sides.

Sometimes it was several fighters of the Eighth Route Army who fired frantically around the Japanese fighters, and sometimes it was the Japanese-style fighters who destroyed the fighters of the Eighth Route Army under the encirclement.

A smoke screen filled the air, seemingly obscuring the sky.

The sound of gunfire, artillery, the roar of aircraft engines was completely intertwined.

From time to time there were some pockmarks landing in mid-air, which were pilots who were forced to parachute on both sides.

Fortunately, most of the pilots of the Eighth Route Army were rescued before the fighter plane completely crashed and after parachuting.

After the devil pilots parachuted, most of them were captured.

This is exactly what Kong Jie, Ding Wei, and Li Yunlong had speculated on at their pre-war military meeting on air warfare.

"The so-called victory over the pilot! With the help of the heaven and earth net we have built inside and outside the base area, as long as this devil's pilot dares to fall, he will not be able to escape. ”

"Although the war machine is terrifying, it is inseparable from human operation after all, I want to see how much strength his little devil's aviation unit can have after losing a large number of pilots!"

The air battle between the two sides lasted until the evening of the same day, and the Japanese flying units suffered heavy losses under the all-out attack of the aviation units of the Eighth Route Army, which had an absolute superiority in numbers, and the remnants of the fighters were forced to withdraw to the base.

When we returned to the base, we found that not only were there a lot of damage to the fighters, but also that few of the pilots who had parachuted out had managed to escape.

The strength of the aviation force used by the Eighth Route Army this time was like a thunderbolt in the sky for the Japanese army, and it was completely caught off guard.

In this way, in the sky above Yangyuan, the devil even lost the last air supremacy.

After Inoue learned the news, the person was completely stupid.

There is not even the last straw at this moment.

The matter has come to this, and Inoue in despair has even arranged the aftermath.

He made up his mind and was ready to put up a desperate resistance.

Then he directly sent a farewell telegram in a clear code, reprimanding the friendly troops for not saving them when they saw death, and they were grinding.

After the telegram was transmitted, it was received by many parties, causing an uproar on all sides for a while.

When this devil launched the battle to occupy Datong and Zhangjiakou, those reconnaissance planes scattered leaflets everywhere to publicize the results of the battle, and the Voice of East Asia radio station constantly broadcast front-line battle reports, and the newspapers published by various media were all about the imperial army's victory over the Eighth Route Army.

As a result, all of a sudden, Inoue's division was about to be wiped out, and even a farewell telegram was sent!

Isn't this a slap in the face of a Japanese soldier!

For a while, it was so noisy that all parties didn't know how to evaluate it.

On the side of the Eighth Route Army, the field troops dominated by the Iron Triangle Army launched the final encirclement and annihilation battle against the remnants of the 14th Division.

According to Kong Jie's explanation, the observation groups from all parties were allowed to watch the battle at the forward observation post and participate in witnessing this scene.

Inside the Frontier Observation Post.

On the side of the Chiang Jun Observation Group, the visiting officers could see as far as the eye could see.

One group after another of the Eighth Route marching troops marching towards the front line of the 14th Division, some wore steel helmets, some rode in cars, some wore ordinary military uniforms, and those rode large cars or motorcycles, but their mental outlook was very good and their equipment was very neat.

There are also armored units and mechanized units that are constantly moving from the front line to advance to the front line of the Huaxiao battalion.

Looking at these regular troops of the Eighth Route Army, some of the senior officers who came from the Jiang Army this time were expressionless at first glance, but in fact, they were already in turmoil in their hearts.

They are knowledgeable, looking at these heavy Type 42 tanks, heavy anti-tank vehicles equipped with 90 mm anti-tank guns, as well as four-year 150 howitzer heavy self-propelled howitzer trucks, as well as a lot of towed Type 96 howitzers, Type 96 heavy cannons, and even American-made 206 howitzers when they pass by, they can't help but step forward and want to stop these teams to take a closer look at the equipment.

But he was stopped by the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were responsible for the protection of the two wings along the way.

There are also some people who can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour, and they secretly muttered: "Balu is now powerful, and it has really become a big problem...... If we can have such good equipment, we can also defeat the elite troops of the devils! ”

Then a reporter who came from abroad to observe asked suspiciously: "I heard that when the Eighth Route Army first resisted Japan, its equipment was very backward and ammunition was scarce, but at that time, the equipment of your regular army was quite good.

The Eighth Route Army can grow step by step from the weakest situation.

Shouldn't you regulars do better? ”

“……”

A few muttering officers were speechless for a moment, and had to keep their mouths shut.

Looking at the growth of these compatriots' troops, it is clear that it is the Japanese who are killed, but they have a very bad feeling in their hearts.

On the contrary, on the side of the Allied Observation Group, the officers and memoraries of various countries were all amazed when they saw the strength of the Eighth Route Army.

Some took pictures, and some praised them, claiming that the international reinforcement of the Eighth Route Army to resist Japan was really the right target, and the money and materials were too well spent.

(End of chapter)