The battle around the Mengdong Line was about to begin.

Li Yunlong, Kong Jie, and a group of Allied people looked relaxed when they checked the movements of the Japanese army at the headquarters of the third line of defense.

But the ordinary officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army on the first line of defense are not so easy, this line of defense has been repaired for two months, whether it can play a role, how much it can play, they actually have no bottom in their hearts.

In particular, this first line of defense is composed of several detachments of the Eighth Route Army, many of which are newly expanded troops, and although they are training while repairing fortifications, the degree of tension on the front line is different.

These troops include troops in central Hebei, southern Hebei, Jiaodong, and Jinchaji, which can be regarded as a hodgepodge.

This second line of defense is mainly part of the troops formed by the base areas of Fang Zishan and the 129,120 divisions, and the third line of defense is the troops of the 129,120,101,31,32 divisions, and there are more troops trained in the rear.

At this time, the Lao Nie detachment, which had been reorganized and strengthened under the Jiaodong Military Region, was on the north side of the first line of defense, and this unit was immediately transferred after experiencing the Battle of Haiyang, and also joined part of the North China Public Security Army that had undergone ideological transformation after surrendering, and part of the Central Army that rescued the prisoner of war camp, as well as the Yan'an cadet team, and the Licheng cadet team joined.

The strength of the army has been doubled, the commanders are in place, and the veterans account for most of them, so the big war is about to be run-in.

One battalion was assembled on the 108th battalion permanent defensive fortified position, as well as two companies of small defensive lines on both flanks.

After receiving the order to prepare for war, everyone cleared the firing boundary, wound the minefield, and arranged the lighting mines and barbed wire.

Chemical protection and discharge open the toxic gas detector.

The anti-aircraft company went into reserve positions.

The mountain artillery platoon, anti-tank artillery platoon, anti-aircraft gun platoon, infantry artillery platoon, 107 and 120 mortar platoons of the machine gun company all distributed ammunition and the shells were well fused.

All the light and dark bunker fortifications are on duty 24 hours a day, and everyone is on standby wearing gas masks.

At the same time, Battalion Commander Sun of the main battalion also ordered the communications platoon to get in touch with the defending troops of the Laodu detachment in southern Hebei opposite the junction of the defense area, and the two sides prepared to coordinate artillery support.

When Battalion Commander Sun was inspecting the deployment of each squad and platoon, a bunker in the main position was also on guard.

This Wu platoon commander constantly observed the situation on the other side of the defense line through the trench periscope.

An ammunition man in the squad asked the machine gunner Lao Red Army: "Lao Zhang, do you think the devil will really come this time?" ”

Lao Zhang thought for a while and said, "The devil has been tempted back and forth so many times, it should be true, right?"

Otherwise, the regimental headquarters would not have issued so much ammunition, and our machine gun squad was equipped with 10,000 rounds of ammunition for each light and heavy machine gun, which was too extravagant!

Little sapling, be clever when you start fighting, do you see the grenade pit next to you? In case the devil touches here and throws a grenade, quickly kick it in, and also, pay attention to the devil Pyro, if you find it, report it immediately, if you touch it and can't hit it, immediately close the shooting hole, and we will change positions. ”

At this time, the little sapling asked another veteran, "Old Fu, is your Type 43 automatic rifle good?" There's a war coming soon, why aren't you nervous at all? ”

Old Fuller said: "What is there to be nervous about? Fighting this kind of thing is as long as we are used to eating, and this is an emotion that only you recruits have.

Don't worry, little sapling, with us veterans, don't panic, follow me when you counterattack, I'll take you to catch a few devils and come back to ask the instructor for credit, and apply for a training place for a grassroots gun commander to go to the headquarters to study and study.

I'll rest a little longer, and the brothers on Fujin Mountain will still have sacrifices from me!" ”

The little sapling asked the old platoon leader again: "When will our President Chen come back?" I didn't see him all night. ”

Platoon Commander Wu said: "Mr. Chen (Company Commander Chen is an officer of the former National Army Teaching Corps, who was rescued and joined the Eighth Route Army as a company commander this time) went to arrange the position of the Type 42 anti-tank destroyer, and as soon as the counteroffensive signal arrived, the reserve team followed them to intercept the devil's retreat. ”

The little sapling asked: "Old rich brother, you fought to the death against the devils in Fujin Mountain, is the fortification as strong as ours?"

Or is the group of defense fortifications in the middle of Shanghai to Nanjing stronger?

Can our fortifications withstand the heavy artillery attack of devils? ”

Lao Fu said confidently: "It's completely okay, this fortification group is all additionally reinforced, and besides, our artillery group and aviation team are not vegetarians!" ”

At this time, Xu Wenwen came out and said: "Little sapling, don't worry, our Nie detachment leader personally blew it up with a cannon, and at the conference some time ago, we also caught a few devil spies and scum traitors who took refuge in the devils, these people wanted to lower their standards and shoddy, and they were all pulled to the shooting range to let the devil comrades of the anti-war alliance be killed."

Don't they want to take refuge in the devils?

We asked the devils to kill them, and we won't let them have a good time if they die. ”

The little sapling was surprised: "Who paid attention to this?" It's too bad! Is it a general again? ”

In fact, this matter was really ordered by Ding Wei.

While everyone was talking, the regiment commander walked in and reminded in a loud voice: "Comrades, everyone should be vigilant, and today I will come here to kill devils with everyone." ”

The little sapling noticed the situation outside the fortifications at this time, and hurriedly shouted: "Commander, look, the devil has begun to shell the front obstacles and fortifications, and there seems to be the shadow of the armored unit in the distance, the devil is really coming." ”

"Haha, it's good to come! I'm afraid they won't come, comrades, get ready to fight! ”

The small sapling here only represents a small microcosm of the Mengdong defense line.

Soon.

A war between the two sides is on the verge of breaking out.

...... "Commander, the main force of the Japanese army in the north has successfully broken through the minefield zone of our outer defense area and is advancing towards the main defense line of our army!" ”

"Report to the command, the Japanese armored unit and more than 20 tanks have completely torn apart the outer defense line of our army and are advancing towards our second line of defense!"

The news that was suddenly transmitted to the headquarters stunned the generals and representatives of the Allied forces who were originally expecting the drama of the Eighth Route Army to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army and was about to begin.

Everyone thought that the expressions of the commanders of the Eighth Route Army would most likely change because of these news.

But the expressions on the faces of Commander Fu and Commander Xu did not fluctuate, and they still looked confident.

This General Patton was straightforward, and couldn't help but ask: "Commander Fu, the two main forces of the Japanese army have broken through your defense line, aren't you worried at all?" ”

Commander Fu laughed: "Has General Patton ever heard of one of our Chinese art of war, which is called Invite the King into the Urn?" ”

"No matter how strong the defensive line is, it is dead after all, it is good for defense, but it is not suitable for attack.

The ultimate goal of this battle around the Mengdong defense line is to inflict heavy damage on the Japanese army, if this defense line is strong and unbreakable, the Japanese army will see that the attack has failed, and they will turn around and retreat.

This is not in line with our plan.

If you don't deliberately let go of some openings, so that the little devils think that they have opened a gap in our defense line, how can they use the defense line to inflict heavy damage on the Japanese army? ”

Such a show of weakness to the enemy and misleading the judgment of the Japanese army was also a hint to the Soviet generals.

Perhaps the defeat of the German side and the abandonment of a large amount of equipment were similar to the Eighth Route Army's display of weakness in front of the enemy.

Purely to lure the enemy deeper.

It's just that the Soviet generals obviously didn't listen.

At this time, Barton nodded thoughtfully, but asked again:

"But Commander, aren't you afraid of luring wolves into the house?"

"Wolves? No, no, no, it's just two sheep, after luring you into the urn, the next trick is to catch turtles in the urn! ”

It seems to be to confirm what Commander Fu said.

After the Japanese army's two-way vanguard elite units successfully broke through the first-line fortifications of the Mengdong defensive line, they were completely caught in the heavy firepower strike zone between the first-line fortifications and the second-line fortifications.

The gap in the first-line offensive that was originally broken through by the Japanese army was completely blocked by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who quickly detoured at some point.

- Close the door and hit the dog!

The Japanese army caught up in it complained that it would not fall, but it was that the sky should not be called the earth and the earth.

After the air firepower reinforced by the Chinese army was fiercely counterattacked by the anti-aircraft fire of the Mengdong fortification group, in less than half an hour, after losing several fighters one after another, it did not dare to appear in the sky above the Mengdong fortification group.

The commander of the Devil's Aviation Command even scolded the intelligence bastards.

The eight roads are clearly deployed in advance in the fortification group, and the powerful anti-aircraft fire has been deployed.

This is completely different from the intelligence showing that the Eighth Route Army's defense was full of flaws.

The tide of battle has evolved to this point.

The main forces of the Japanese three-way offensive were basically in a bitter battle.

The troops who thought that they had successfully broken through the defense line of the Eighth Route of Mengdong were directly encircled, and the cry for help became weaker and weaker, until it completely disappeared.

Umezu Mijiro and the old devil Okamura, who were in charge of the rear headquarters, realized that the situation was wrong.

It was really a trick by the tactics of the Eighth Road to deliberately show the enemy weakness and lure the enemy into depth.

The three-way attack, although one of them was blocked by the outside defensive offensive of the eighth road, but the other two roads have broken through, and the first line of defense of the Mengdong defense line has been successfully opened.

Okamura and Umezu Mijiro had expected the offensive to go as expected.

After successfully destroying the first and second line fortifications of the Mengdong defensive line, the main force could withdraw in time before the mobile troops of the Eighth Route could react.

Who would have thought that the main forces of the two offensive routes, which thought that the offensive was going smoothly, were directly trapped in the Mengdong fortification group and were completely entangled by the Eighth Road.

Wait until the tripartite command frantically asks for help.

The main force of the road, which had not been able to break through the outer defenses, saw that something was wrong, and retreated directly in embarrassment.

The Japanese army gathered six divisions and more than 100,000 troops of the Kwantung Army, the Mongolian Army, and the Manchurian Defense Army, and the defeat was decided.

After the battle situation came from the front, Ding Wei pointed out even more sharply:

"The devils are getting worse and worse now, with nearly six divisions and regiments, it seems to be huge, but in fact, whether it is the level of equipment or the will to fight, these little devils are too far behind the elite of the devils in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War."

"It's called a trade-off!" Kong Jie said with a smile: "On the one hand, the combat effectiveness of the devils has dropped significantly, and the level of equipment has also dropped significantly.

On the other hand, our team is getting bigger and bigger, and the level of equipment and combat quality have been greatly improved.

Naturally, the situation has been reversed!

After the battle around the Mengdong defense line is over, I think the little devil should learn to be honest in the future, this is not the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, the devil's equipment advantage, military literacy advantage has long been exhausted. ”

Lao Li still shouted that it was a pity: "Such an enjoyable battle, we still can't participate." Lao Kong, Lao Ding, tell me, from our plan to advance northward, our Iron Triangle Army has been designated as the main force of the first echelon to advance the elite.

Our team has been hidden in the snow, how long has it been, and how many big battles have we missed?

Damn, for the battle to advance north, our sacrifice is too great! ”

Ding Wei said: "Don't say it's us, the soldiers are even more angry, and they have long wanted to have a big fight with the little devils." ”

Kong Jie said with a smile: "The so-called good meal is not afraid of being late, Lao Li, Lao Ding, don't worry, this big meal is always played at the last time!" ”

…… There is no suspense in the battle at this point.

Time quickly passed to the end when the Japanese army gathered many troops, gathered six divisions and more than 100,000 troops, and finally lost their armor and fled in embarrassment.

The two sides clashed back and forth, and from the perspective of the scale of troops invested, the time was extremely short, and it ended in less than three days.

The Japanese army thought that it had broken through the defense line in eastern Mongolia, opened a gap, and basically wiped out the troops that fought deeply.

The main force of the follow-up two-legged division, except for the main force that attacked from the northwest, saw that the momentum was not good, and ran away in advance to save the main force.

The remaining two armies suffered heavy losses under the outflanking division of the mobile troops arranged by the deputy commander, and were almost crushed.

In the end, this drama, which revolved around the Mengdong Defense Line and brought together the generals and representatives of the Allied countries as spectators, ended with a shocking ending.

Okamura and Umezu Mijiro, the two commanders of the Japanese army, jointly planned a counterattack against the Mondong Defense Line, but in the end they were defeated.

Not only did it fail to destroy the Mengdong defense line, but it fell into the trap of the Eighth Route and suffered heavy losses.

It was really a loss for his wife and a soldier.

The poor little devil has once again become the laughing stock of the world.

Postwar.

The officers and men of the Eighth Route Army cleaned up the battlefield, and the representatives of the Allied countries also rushed to visit the fortifications of the Mengdong Defense Line. These fortifications are intricate and wonderful, coupled with the powerful firepower configuration of the Eighth Route Army.

It is no wonder that the Japanese army was defeated so miserably.

At this time, I saw the Eighth Route Force escorting the devil's prisoners from a distance, and the mechanized troops transferred to different areas, as well as the armored troops.

General Patton marveled at the excellent equipment of these elite Eighth Route Army.

couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "These are the prestigious Iron Triangle Army troops of your army, right?" ”

Patton had long heard that the Iron Triangle Army of the Eighth Route Army was the absolute elite of the Eighth Route Army, and it was almost all advanced equipment and equipment such as Britain, the United States and Germany.

The combat effectiveness is even more powerful and terrifying, and the little devils in the entire Sino-Japanese battlefield are simply terrified.

See you today.

"Sure enough, it lives up to its name!"

Ahem –

The accompanying teacher couldn't help but smile, and when he thought that this was his old army, he naturally couldn't help but be proud.

He shook his head:

"No, these units were trained by the instructors of the Iron Triangle Army, but they are not really the Iron Triangle Army.

This is the unit of Commander Song of the 120th Division, that is the unit of the Jiaodong Military Region, and as for the leader of the armored troops, it is Commander Xu from the Yan'an Armored Forces Development Committee! ”

After saying this, Barton was dumbfounded.

In the battle surrounding the Mengdong defense line, this unit of the Eighth Route Army exerted its amazing combat effectiveness with sophisticated equipment and ultra-high military quality.

Patton thought that this army was the legendary Iron Triangle Army!

But it's not the right one.

He couldn't help but reverie, so how strong should the real Iron Triangle Army be?

The teacher smiled and said, "General Patton, let's go to the battlefield to check the losses of the devils, and you can also pick some loot to go back, just take it as a gift from our Eighth Route Army!"

This time, the battle of the Mengdong Defense Line went smoothly, and it happened that the military competition had completely ended, so it would be good to get together for a celebration.

Let's drink together and celebrate together. ”

Barton smiled and nodded: "I like your Chinese food, especially the eight major cuisines, each with its own taste, it's unforgettable!" ”

The representatives of the Allied countries could not help but drool.

When General Paresi, General Patton, and General Trove inspected the battlefield together, they also saw a large number of destroyed devil mechanized troops, as well as a large number of escorted devil prisoners.

Patton had already become friends with Li Yunlong during military discussions recently, and he couldn't help but ask Li Yunlong, who was accompanying him: "Li, isn't the Kwantung Army known as the flower of the Japanese army?" But judging from this operation, why is it so vulnerable? ”

Li Yunlong said: "The reason is very simple, the two tigers compete for whose will is firmer, whose teeth are harder, it is obvious that the Kwantung Army, which has been defeated by us repeatedly, saw us play the number of the Iron Triangle Group Army, and the momentum was directly weakened by three points, where is there still confidence to show the posture of a strong army in the world?" ”

"What Kwantung Army, Holy War Army, in my opinion, are all bullshit army, in the final analysis, they are just little devils, and our Eighth Route Army is the nemesis of devils!"

"Awesome!" Patton gave a thumbs up in admiration. ”

At this time, a Kwantung Army Dazuo with a sanitary beard who was escorted by, stayed in the ocean, and knew what Barton was talking about, he broke free from the team and shouted: "Baga, the Kwantung Army is a strong army in the world, not a bullshit army, you damn Balu are all fighting with tricks, and you don't dare to face our Kwantung Army face to face, what kind of heroes?"

I'm not convinced, I'm not convinced! ”

Everyone was amused by the little devil.

General Trove sneered: "Mr. Defeat, war has never been fair, a few years ago, when your Japanese army swept away the Eighth Route Army with the help of equipment superiority, do you think that victory is not martial?"

Besides, you probably don't know yet, do you?

The one who defeated you in this battle was not the elite Iron Triangle Army of the Eighth Route Army that you thought.

It's the warriors of the Eighth Route Army who once wiped out your armored army and holy war army in the Jiaodong area.

What else are you not convinced? Is it just a hard mouth? When it comes to hard mouths, I don't think there's anything better than you little devils! ”

"You ......" the Kwantung Army was dumbfounded.

In the bottom of my heart, it was a stormy wave, it turned out that it was not the elite of the Eighth Route Army and the Iron Triangle Army that defeated them?

After the ridicule, General Trove also learned to sing two guerrilla songs next to the group of officers of the devils, it is estimated that they were seen after the propaganda film of the Eighth Route Army was spread, and the song was really catchy, so he could sing two sentences.

can make these devil captives very angry

…… After the end of the Mengdong battle, the Allied side also awarded medals to the relevant generals of the Eighth Route Army who had outstanding achievements.

War correspondents used their cameras and camcorders to record the scene.

The other side.

I heard the grand occasion of the end of the Eighth Route Army competition and the victory of the war.

Okamura and Umezu Mijiro were each squatting in their headquarters and drinking stuffy wine, and the already hot wine was not a taste in the stomach, and it was decadent to the extreme for a while.

In fact, when the devils launched a sneak attack on the Mengdong defense line, the initial results were quite good.

The five front-line airfields, hangars, camps, ammunition depots, and oil depots of the Eighth Route Army located behind the third line of defense were all blown up by the Devil Air Force.

With the assistance of engineers, the assault troops in all directions of the devils destroyed the forward fortifications of the Eighth Route Army and surrounded the fulcrum defensive positions, and the follow-up troops took advantage of the gaps in the defensive line to attack the second line of defense and destroy the fortifications of the second-line defensive positions that had not had time to be completed.

And all the materials of the grain depot, oil depot, and ammunition depot were removed.

Then the encirclement of the points of the second line of defense.

Umezu Meijiro specially ordered the well-fortified fulcrum defensive positions to be fought as soon as they could, and not to fight hard if they could not be fought, and to destroy the positions, fortifications, and military installations, and to destroy all the communication towers, communication lines, telephone towers, and pillboxes, trenches, roads, and so on, and to lay mines and run away.

This is also the main reason why the Japanese army continued to advance to the second-line defensive offensive after breaking through the first-line fortifications - the attack on the first-line positions was too smooth!

It's a pity that Umezu Meijiro didn't expect that the Eighth Route Army had already made a deployment, and when the devils entered the second-line defensive positions and began to loot supplies, before they had time to move much, the counterattack of the Eighth Route arrived.

The air force was entangled by the main forces of the Eighth Route Army, and the heavy artillery units also gave surprise attacks to the interspersed units of the Eighth Route Army on the way to maneuver.

In the end, the devil fell into stealing chickens and rice, not only did the mobile troops suffer a lot of losses, but one of the heavy artillery brigades was scattered and captured by the Eighth Route Army during transportation, and the long-range artillery units even ran away.

The massive offensive ended in complete failure.

The defeat in this battle had a terrible impact on the Japanese army.

And not just huge losses for the attacking forces.

It also includes the political influence of propaganda.

Originally, the core occupation area of the devils, Kanto, was also unfavorable because of the repeated battles, and people's hearts floated.

The Kwantung Army, which was once rampant, known as the elite of the imperial army and boasted of undefeated achievements, was now defeated in the hands of the Eighth Route Army one after another.

This inevitably cast a haze in the hearts of many Japanese officers who were already a little pessimistic:

Is there really any hope for jihad?

Moreover, the strong counterattack launched by the Eighth Route Army around the Mengdong defense line once again proved to the Japanese army that the Eighth Route Army intended to attack the south and defend in the north.

Umezu Mijiro also finally believed:

If the Kwantung Army does not go south to reinforce it, I am afraid that the Chinese dispatch army will be completely dragged down by the Eighth Route Army.

And once the Chinese army is defeated, he is afraid that the Kwantung Army will not be far from defeat, and he will not understand the truth of cold lips and teeth.

As a result, Umezu Mijiro promised Okamura that after the reorganization of the army was completed, he would immediately mobilize troops south to reinforce North China.