However, it is said that on the other side of the Mengdong defense line, the confrontation is the western defense line built by the Japanese army in puppet Manchuria, or the border defense line of puppet Manchuria.

Since the construction of the Mengdong Defense Line to fight the Eighth Route Army, although the intention of the Eighth Route is to use the Mengdong Defense Line to guard against the attack of the Kwantung Army and the Mongolian army stationed in Mongolia, the defense is the mainstay.

But the Japanese army did not dare to be careless, especially in the face of these cunning Eight Routes.

Therefore, at the beginning, in order to be vigilant against the fraud of the Eighth Route Army's Mengdong defensive line, the Japanese army strengthened its defensive strength in the western defense line of puppet Manchuria.

A full five garrison divisions were stationed, as well as a considerable number of Manchurian Defense Forces, including the assistance of troops of the Korean Defense Forces.

With the help of the Japanese army, the western defense line that has been built for many years and has been unusually stable in defense is garrisoned.

In particular, we should strengthen vigilance and be vigilant at all times against the situation in the eastern defense line of Mongolia.

Until the passage of time, the Japanese army gathered several divisions to launch an attack on the defense line in eastern Mongolia and ended in failure, and the North China and South China sides of the Guannai were completely turned into a pot of porridge.

The eastern part of Mongolia is basically calm.

Only then did the Japanese army, which had insufficient troops, remember that there were still quite a few troops stationed on the western defense line of puppet Manchuria, but it was really a waste to guard the defensive line of Mengdong on the Eighth Road.

As a result, troops were continuously drawn from the western defense line to reinforce other battlefields.

Half a year later.

Two of the five garrison divisions originally stationed on the western defense line of puppet Manchuria were withdrawn, and the other three remaining garrison divisions were not yet formed.

The Manchurian Defense Forces, which had assisted in garrisoning, and the Korean Defense Forces, were also constantly transferred back to their original security areas.

As a result, the number of Japanese troops stationed in the western defense line was dwindling day by day, and there was not much actual defensive force left.

The supreme commander in charge of garrisoning the western defense line of puppet Manchuria was called Kita-cheng, and although he only had the rank of lieutenant general, he took over the post of commander of the puppet Manchurian western defense region.

This old devil is relatively safe, and he was originally quite vigilant against the defense of the Eighth Route Army of the Mengdong Defense Line.

In addition to holding the defensive line, he often secretly sent some scouts to investigate the movements of the Mengdong defense line and guard against the surprise attack of the Eighth Route Army at any time.

Until half a year passed in a flash.

Even if there is no movement on the Eighth Route, the command is also sure that it is impossible for the Eighth Route Army to attack the western defense line.

As a result, His Excellency the Lieutenant General, who originally felt a heavy responsibility and even faintly looked forward to being able to fight against the Eighth Route Army to make military merits and show his prestige, became the most idle commander of the Japanese army for a while.

The command also continued to draw troops from the western defense line.

And that's not all.

When some of the main forces were transferred, although they left behind the ammunition captured on the battlefield for reserves, they took away a lot of the ammunition originally used in the western defense area.

As a result, when Kitacheng inspected the warehouse, he found that these shells and bullets were the rags of the Eighth Route Army, and they could not be compared with the equipment of the original imperial army, which made him angry enough.

But the main forces that took away these ammunition reserves had a good excuse:

Anyway, there is no war in your western defense zone, and these equipment and ammunition are idle, what use can they be except for piling up in the warehouse and getting moldy? Let's take the front line to fight.

Until the 17th.

The Eighth Route Army's offensive against the western defense line of the Kwantung Army's puppet Manchuria suddenly broke out.

The offensive came so suddenly that the Japanese did not even receive any news before that.

The Eighth Route seems to be marching at night, with the help of the cover of night, quietly approaching the periphery of the western defense line of the puppet Manchuria, and when the sky is dark, the line of sight is barely clear, and the fierce artillery attack smashes on the western defense line fortifications of the devils.

The first shot of the Eighth Route Army's northward advance was officially fired!

And as soon as the fighting broke out.

The difference in the strength of combat units that are not at all on the same level is apparent.

The artillery fire of the attacking Eighth Route Army was so fierce that the fortifications of the devils who were almost suppressed could not raise their heads.

All kinds of new artillery, new fighters, new all-terrain transport trucks, new tanks, and armored vehicles appeared one after another on the side of the Eighth Route Army.

As soon as the battle-level heavy artillery fired, even the relatively solid western defense line fortifications built by the devils could not resist it at all, and they were directly torn open one big hole after another.

In fact, when this line of defense was built, it was mainly aimed at the 35th Route Army, which was built by some regular troops of the national army.

How could you have expected to be bombarded with such heavy artillery fire today?

The smoke that permeated the fortifications had not yet completely dissipated.

The roar of the engines belonging to the Eighth Route Army's large-scale tanks mixed together reached the ears of the devils.

When the smoke of gunpowder completely cleared, the tracks of the new modified tanks of the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army had almost crushed the devil's face, and the infantry that coordinated the advance opened fire with the tanks and armored vehicles, and the small-caliber bazookas, repeating grenade launchers, and the shells that crackled and smashed over were like raindrops.

In the near future, there are also short-range assault fire submachine guns that are rapidly deployed.

The devils who were beaten and had no respite at all, and before they even had time to start the final bayonet fight, they were completely buried in this land that was a foreign land for them.

The officers and men of the Iron Triangle Army, who had long been holding back their anger, did not spare their hands at all this time.

At the beginning, when the weapons and equipment were not as good as the little devils, they could still beat the Japanese army to scream, and now it is even more so.

Li Yunlong, who was observing the battle situation at the forward observation post, applauded excitedly.

Chu Yunfei, who was accompanying him to watch the battle, was even more stunned.

Such an exaggerated firepower attack method, such an astonishing equipment crushing advantage, such a superb infantry tank, artillery tank, and the coordination of all arms.

In his cognition, this was even completely beyond the combat level of the troops on the battlefield of China and Japan.

Even the most elite of the Western powers, the ace elite equipped with the most advanced equipment, is nothing more than that?

It can be called the strongest combat power on the land surface!

"Lao Chu, I'll just say, what is the reason for staying in the Jin Sui Army? When it comes to our Eighth Route Army to fight devils, that's really happy.

What do you think?

Our Iron Triangle Army is known as the ace of the Eighth Route Army, isn't this bragging?

It's just a small line of defense, and it's just paper in front of our mechanized armored forces. ”

Li Yunlong is very proud, but who makes the family have this proud capital!

Chu Yunfei's heart is also completely balanced, thinking about the more than 2,000 elites he has brought out over the years, this time Lao Kong is really interesting, basically integrated into the Iron Triangle Force, but there are not many of the first batch of combat troops who can participate in this northward advance operation.

Most of them basically stayed in the Iron Triangle Experimental Area to engage in logistics.

Let Chu Yunfei's elite do logistics?

At first, Chu Yunfei was quite depressed, and the officers under him were even more unconvinced.

It wasn't until later that it was discovered that even if the old comrades in the Iron Triangle base area were the old comrades who burned the fire in the cooking class, they were all excellent in the five major skills of the infantry, and there was nothing to say about the combat ability of individual soldiers.

You Chu Yunfei's elite, what about the trump card of the Jin Suijun at the beginning?

It's nothing here!

Don't be unconvinced, really pull your Chu Yunfei's troops over, can you fight such an almost crushing battle in front of you?

When the sky was still dawning, the attack of the Eighth Route Army broke out suddenly, and in less than half an hour, the sky had not yet completely brightened, and the first and second lines of defense in the western defense area of the devils were broken through one after another.

As the first to advance the elite armored troops of the Iron Triangle, it is really like a sharp knife, completely stabbing the devil's western defense line full of holes.

The main combat forces seized the opportunity to advance and stabilize and expand the breakthrough.

By the time the sky was completely bright, the devils had built and controlled the western defense zone in the western part of puppet Manchuria for many years, and directly lost nearly 1/3 of the defense line.

Inside the Puppet Manchurian Western Defense District Command.

In less than half an hour, the bad battle reports on the front line followed, the defense line was lost one after another, and there was an emergency everywhere, and the eight roads of the surprise attack came like a tsunami, and almost did not give him any time to react, and the entire western defense line was crushed.

The Mengdong Defense Line, which was originally as calm as ever.

Somehow, these main forces of the Eighth Route Army appeared.

Like a divine soldier descending from the sky, the firepower configuration is even more powerful and terrifying, what a bullshit dispatch army, the Kwantung Army, under such an exaggerated and ferocious firepower attack of the enemy, has all become flesh and blood that has been brutally slaughtered.

Then there was the fear and despair that shrouded Kitakoto's whole person.

The Eighth Route, which had been camouflaged and calm on the eastern defense line of Mongolia, launched an offensive in the overall situation of Central, North and South China, and attracted all the attention of the Dispatch Army and even the Kwantung Army to the Eighth Route, and now suddenly attacked the western defense line.

What does this mean?

This shows that Balu is definitely prepared.

Perhaps it was not until this moment, under a series of battles on the Eighth Road, that the true intention was revealed.

- "They are coming to Manchuria!! ”

Kita Makoto almost shuddered to say this inference, then the ultimate goal of the Eight Roads, "These Eight Roads are simply crazy, they have been rampant to such an extent, do they want to swallow Manchuria?" ”

"Conspiracy, sure enough, it's all a conspiracy of the Eight Roads!"

It's at this juncture again.

The western defense line is empty, and only three of the five garrison divisions that were originally stationed there are now left, and they are not yet fully staffed.

The elite of the Manchurian Defense Forces and the Korean Defense Forces were also massively transferred.

Even a large amount of ammunition in reserve, which was originally used in the western defense zone, was basically swept away by the garrison divisions that were transferred.

Who would have thought that the western defense line, which would never be attacked by the Eighth Route Army, would suddenly be attacked by the main force of the Eighth Route Army?

After the battle broke out between the two sides, the three garrison divisions of the devils guarding the western defense line could not even mobilize several heavy artillery units to assist in the defense in a hurry.

All kinds of artillery shells that returned fire on the front line hit less than half of the usual base, and the ammunition was basically exhausted.

This made Kita Makoto angry, those damn fools, including those stupid intelligence guys, swore that the main forces of the Eighth Route had all fallen to the southern region to fight, and there would never be more forces to attack the western defense zone.

But what's going on right now?

The guys in the Intelligence Department are all blind, are the Commanders all eating dry food?

Once the western defense line is breached, the Eighth Route can completely attack Manchuria, which has been under the control of the Kwantung Army since the September 18 Incident, and the Manchuria built like an iron barrel will officially appear in China's regular armed forces.

The little devil has carefully planned to store the fruits of aggression for so many years.

Sooner or later, it will fall into a precarious situation.

Thinking of this, Kita Makoto continued to dispatch troops as if he were crazy, and he had to defend the last few lines of defense in the west at all costs.

On the one hand, he quickly conveyed the communication for help to the Kwantung Army Headquarters and the General Headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army.

……

at the same stage.

In North China, Operation August Storm set off by the Eighth Route Army is still in full swing.

The major base areas, the battles that should be fighting with the devils, and the reinforcements that should be secretly preparing for reinforcements.

In Central China and South China, the New Fourth Army was not idle.

Commander Chen, the commander of the first division, the commander of the fourth division, and others who had returned from Huangya Cave immediately held a meeting at the headquarters in Yancheng to make arrangements for the tasks of the headquarters, and after the end of the summer harvest, the entire base area was cleared of the walls, and the road traffic facilities were destroyed.

The inner line troops were under the unified command of the commander of the fourth division, and their task was to hold the core base area of Yancheng.

The mobile troops on the inner line secretly stood by, waiting for the devils to advance deep into the base area, and when they fell into a bitter battle, they cooperated with the Shandong Military Region to launch a counterattack when they attacked the Huaihe defense line from the Linyi coastal area, breaking the devil's Huaihe defense line in one fell swoop, and connecting northern Jiangsu and southern Lunan into a piece.

The outer line troops were commanded by the commander of the first division, and after a short reorganization, the cavalry, mechanized transport units, mechanized artillery units, and light tank units were all assembled and secretly assembled in the Xinghua area on the periphery of the base area.

According to the information collected by the headquarters and the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, the old devil Okamura hoarded heavy troops in Taizhou, Huai'an, and Lianyun, and prepared to attack the New Fourth Army in three directions to drive the New Fourth Army into the sea.

The commander of the 1st Division analyzed the battle situation in Central China with the commanders of the base areas at the headquarters:

Under the fierce battle, the devil's roads and railway traffic in this area were seriously damaged, and at this time it was the end of the rainy season in Lianghuai, either heavy rain or high temperature weather, it was particularly difficult for the devil's army to attack on foot, if there were mobile troops to launch a feint attack on Taizhou, and then through the middle of Hongze Lake and Gaoyou Lake interspersed with the Chuzhou area, this game of chess would be alive.

When the time comes, attacking the Bengfu, Huainan, and Hefei areas can completely disrupt the deployment of devils.

Here, the troops of the Lunan Military Region operating along the Longhai Line can launch an offensive to assist.

The suggestion given by the teacher was: "After Bengbu attacked in all directions, the troops secretly entered the Dabie Mountain area, joined forces with the Fourth Division and the four detachments, expanded the Dabie Mountain base area, and firmly followed the Dabie Mountain Base Area, and then the troops pretended to advance eastward and returned, but actually secretly entered the southern Jiangsu base area of the First Division Commander.

At this point, the wishful thinking of the old devil Okamura can be said to have failed.

This old guy saw that our Eighth Route comrades were not easy to bully, so he bullied our New Fourth Army in turn, but this time we have to let the devil know that our New Fourth Army is not easy to bully! ”

"Besides......"

The teacher's words paused, looked at the distant sky and said with a smile: "The time for this great change is coming, once the gale operation starts, it will definitely be a shock, how can this old boy Okamura have the energy to take care of us in the future?"

As long as we don't run to the gate of Nanjing to block the gate, most of the little devils of the Chinese army will turn a blind eye to us.

Where can we compare to the survival of Manchuria by destroying some of the guerrilla forces in our activities? ”

(End of chapter)