Northwest of Shanxi.

The new Second Regiment Defense Area, Erdaohezi is the main defense point of the defense area.

Attacking along Erdaohezi was the Japanese 21st Division.

The 21st Division was formed on April 4, 1938 (Showa 13) after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, together with the 15th, 17th, 22nd, and 23rd Divisions.

The division commander was Lieutenant General Kuichi Tanaka, who had led his troops to attack Nakajo Mountain a few months earlier.

Originally, the plan of the base camp was to integrate the 21st Division into the Southern Army, but due to the heavy losses of the First Army, this division was left to fight in the North China Front.

Before the start of the war, Tanaka Kuichi's tone was very arrogant: eliminate the Eighth Route New Second Regiment within three days and capture the regiment commander Ding Wei alive.

In Tanaka's opinion, his arrogance is very justified.

At the beginning, 100,000 people from five divisions of the Japanese army attacked Zhongtiao Mountain, and the 170,000 Central Army was defeated in only one month.

And this time, the 21st and 35th second-line divisions attacked a regiment on the Eighth Road, so it wasn't easy to capture?

The same regiment, the strong combat effectiveness of the new 1st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, Lieutenant General Kuichi Tanaka, admitted, and the frontal attack severely damaged the 36th Division and killed the division commander Jing Seki.

In that battle, even if the 36th Division was replaced by the 21st Division, the result would probably not change much.

But this is only a new second regiment, not a new one.

Looking at the defensive position of the new second regiment on the opposite bank, Tanaka Jiuichi sneered at the corner of his mouth, Li Yunlong and the new regiment couldn't be around for long.

Wait until the 21st Division and the 35th Division Locust Army have solved the new 2nd Regiment, and the 23rd and 25th Divisions have solved the Independent Regiment.

At that time, the new regiment will be surrounded by 5 elite divisions of the Locust Army.

Coupled with General Okamura's iron-rolled sweep, it will definitely be able to inflict heavy damage or even annihilate Li Yunlong and the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

In the final analysis, Okamura Ningji's real goal was to eliminate Li Yunlong and the New First Regiment, and the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment were just a casual solution.

If Yan Laoxi does not transfer the 358th Regiment back to Kenanpo for rest, even the 358th Regiment will be dealt with together.

At the headquarters of the 21st Division, the irascible Tanaka Hisashi drew his command knife and cut off the small table in front of him with a knife.

"Fire!"

As his order was given, the artillery wing in the rear opened fire.

Tanaka Kuichi's style of play has always been irritable, and he did not try to attack, and when he came up, he wanted to destroy the body and will of the Eighth Route Army with artillery fire.

Boom boom...

The 51st Wing of the Japanese Mountain Artillery began the shelling, and the muzzle fireworks flickered in the wind, almost in a single piece.

One shell after another streaked across the sky, drawing graceful arcs and smashing down towards the positions of the New Second Regiment on the other side of the river.

The 51st Wing of the Mountain Artillery was equipped with 12 105-mm howitzers and 24 75-mm mountain guns, and the artillery firepower was very strong.

In just a few minutes, the position of the new 2nd Regiment by the river was in flames.

"Yo Xi!"

In the field of vision of the telescope, looking at the tragic scene of the Eighth Route Army's position, Tanaka Kuichi smiled with satisfaction.

"Attack!"

Subsequently, Tanaka Kuichi sent a squadron of Japanese troops and a battalion of puppet troops to prepare to wade across the river to occupy the positions of the new 2nd Regiment.

The bridge of Erdaohe has been blown up by Ding Wei's order, but the river is not deep, and you can cross the river without a boat.

Grenadier and machine gunners set up fire points on the other side of the river, while devil riflemen entered the river with rifles.

Type 97 mortars and Type 92 infantry guns were erected by devils to provide artillery support for the infantry at any time.

Not long after, a puppet army infantry stepped on an S mine in the river, and with a loud bang, seven or eight puppet soldiers around fell into the river screaming.

The weapons and ammunition given by Boss Chen are not all American-style equipment, including German-style large tumors and S mines, and the others are American-style equipment.

Ding Wei ordered the S mines to be buried in the river.

As if they hadn't seen it, the other devils continued to cross the river with their rifles.

Although the puppet army is terribly scared, but the back is pointed at the gun, and they can only move forward hard, and whether they can survive can only rely on luck.

But then there were devils and puppet soldiers who stepped on the mines one after another, and with the sound of the boom, the river was soon dyed red, and the remaining devils continued to cross the river.

By the time the devil puppet army came ashore, they had been killed and injured dozens of people under the mine array at the bottom of the river.

Soon, the leader of the devil squadron led the devil and the puppet army to the river bank and came to the position of the new second regiment, during which they were not attacked except for mines.

Coming to the trench position of the new second regiment, the devil squadron leader opened a corpse of the Eighth Route Army and found that it was a dummy.

The devil squadron leader's face immediately changed: "Baga, this is a trap..."

Before he could finish his sentence, a dense burst of machine guns rang in his ears.

The gunfire was not far away, but it came very suddenly.

As soon as the gunfire rang out, a large number of devils and puppet soldiers fell, and at least a dozen heavy machine guns were firing frantically at the position.

The leader of the devil squadron turned around and slipped away, and the devil soldiers also turned around and ran when they saw this, and the puppet army's movements were faster than the devils, and they even ran in front of the devils.

The devil's movements slowed down by a beat, and in an instant, more than a dozen devils were shot on the fake position.

More than 20 60-mm mortars of the new second regiment began to fire rapidly, and the explosions continued to rise in the middle of the crowd of devils and puppet soldiers, harvesting the lives of the devils and puppet soldiers.

"Gnaw nibble nib..."

The beautiful sound of the American heavy machine gun continued to scream incessantly.

The devil who turned around and ran back was always exposed to machine gun fire, and in the process of crossing the river, the devil puppet army stepped on the mine in the river and was shelled by a 60-mm mortar.

The devils and the puppet army were completely targeted.

Kuichi Tanaka, who saw this scene in the field of vision of the telescope, angrily put the telescope still on the ground:

"Order the artillery wing to take out the fire points of the eighth road!"

Those ordinary little dirt bags dozens of meters away from the Eighth Route position turned out to be all hidden forts of the Eighth Road.

Each small earthen bag was a few dozen meters away, and a bunker was a point of machine-gun fire.

More than a dozen heavy machine guns in a dozen bunkers and mortars from an unknown distance opened fire at the same time, knocking down the troops who were trying to attack.

"Hey!"

The communications captain hastened to give the order.

The devil's artillery wing immediately shelled the bunker.

But unfortunately, the maximum caliber of the artillery wing cannon is only 105 mm, which is simply not able to destroy these small bunkers.

Under intensive fire, the attacking force of almost 600 people, only about 100 returned.

Not long after, after an angry Tanaka ordered an artillery bombardment, he ordered his soldiers to launch a second attack on the Eighth Route Bunker.

……

Independent regimental defense area.

The 23rd and 25th divisions of the Japanese army were responsible for attacking the defense area of the independent regiment.

Like Tanaka Kuichi, the commander of the 23rd Division, Kanji Nishihara, and the commander of the 25th Division, Akashiba Yaezashi, did not take the independent regiment seriously at all.

It's just a regiment on the Eighth Road, and it's not a new regiment, no matter how strong it is, how strong can it be, and it can beat the two elite divisions of the Locust Army?

The division commander is so arrogant, and the devils below are even more indispensable.

These two divisions are the elite divisions of the Kwantung Army, and they have been in Manchuria for a long time, and they are all arrogant from the division commander to the soldiers, and they do not pay attention to the other Eighth Route Army units except for the new regiment.

Big well ditch.

This is the only place to enter the base of the Independent Regiment.

Loess hillsides are on both sides, and the road passes through the bottom of the ditch.

Although the terrain here is not dangerous, it is the focus of the defense of the independent regiment.

Because Kong Jie improved the tunnel and anticline tactics provided by Boss Chen.

He ordered tunnels to be dug in the mountains on both sides of the road, machine-gun holes were poured with reinforced concrete, and then plugged with stones so that there were no flaws on the outside.

The commander of this battle was Shen Quan, the commander of the second battalion of the Independent Regiment.

He ordered the devil's scouts and search party to be released.

Arrogance is arrogance, the devil does not joke with his own life, the scout and the search party went to the top of the mountain and searched carefully before continuing forward.

Because this terrain was the favorite ambush terrain of the Eighth Route Army.

After the devil's scout and search team passed, it was followed by the devil's large army, because the devil's reconnaissance force had searched once, so the devils who entered later were not wary at all.

It didn't take long for a brigade of more than 1,000 devils to drive into Dajinggou.

With Shen Quan's order in the walkie-talkie.

The bricks that had been blocked in the shooting holes were removed by the fighters or gently pushed away, and then there was a dense firecracker-like firecracker firecracker.

More than 60 light and heavy machine guns fired at the devil in the ditch at this moment, and a dense rain of bullets poured down on the devil without warning.

Boom boom...

Successive rapid explosions sounded in the ditch.

"Ahh Shen Quan, the commander of the second battalion, yelled while operating an M2 heavy machine gun to shoot at the devils in the ditch.

Where the bullet rain passed, the blood mist continued to splash, and the devil was interrupted by the waist.

A large group of devils was completely powerless to fight back under the 360-degree strafing of more than 60 light and heavy machine guns.

After nearly half an hour of fierce fighting, all the devils in this brigade were wiped out.

The 23rd Division and the 25th Division were sober up now, and finally knew that the guy named Kong Jie and the Eighth Route Independent Regiment under his command were not easy to mess with.

Nishihara Kanji and Akashiba Yaezo originally thought that the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, which could be easily defeated with only one wing, killed the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the 23rd Division as soon as they exchanged fire, and the Independent Regiment suffered few casualties.

On the first day of the Japanese attack, on the contrary, the independent regiment reaped the greatest results.

……

"Nani?"

"On the first day of the attack, the locust army suffered more than 2,300 casualties?"

When the news reached the headquarters of the North China Front, Okamura Ninji suddenly stood up and looked at the communications staff officer who had made the announcement.

The old devil had guessed that the divisions might not attack well, but he didn't expect the locust army to lose so much.

"Hey!"

The communications staff officer bowed his head and handed over the telegram in his hand, and said: "The 10th Division has suffered more than 900 casualties, the 21st Division has suffered more than 400 casualties, and the 3rd Brigade of the 64th Wing of the 23rd Division has all the jade shattered!" ”

Okamura Ninji frowned and asked, "An infantry brigade is all jade shattered, what's going on?" ”

At that moment, the communications staff officer told Okamura Ninji about the process of the 64th Brigade of the 3rd Wing being completely annihilated.

Yaga!

Ding Wei, Kong Jie, underestimate you!

These two little-known little commanders actually caused such a big loss to the locusts army.

However, how can the mantis arm be used as a car, how can the grasshopper shake the tree, the independent regiment and the new second regiment are not the new regiment after all.

The locust army of four divisions attacked, and I don't believe that only two regiments could be eliminated?