At the same time.

Headquarters of the 16th Heavy Battalion of the Eighth Route Army.

A young staff officer put down the walkie-talkie in his hand, looked at Deputy Regiment Commander Liang and the political commissar, and reported: "Report, our army has captured the two heights of Lion Rock and Jiguan Mountain, and the attacking troops are asking if they want to continue the offensive?"

From the field of vision of the telescope, Deputy Regiment Commander Liang, political commissar, and chief of staff all saw the picture of the troops capturing the position of the devil's puppet army.

In the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, the positions of Lion Rock and Cockscomb Mountain, continuous shelling for half a month.

and after six days of continuous offensive by the first two new heavy battalions.

Deputy Regiment Commander Liang led the 16th Heavy Composite Battalion to capture the enemy's position in just one attack.

Of course.

Without the attack of the brother troops in the early stage, Deputy Regiment Commander Liang would not have discovered the weaknesses of the devils, and the newly formed 16th Heavy Battalion would not have been able to capture the devils' positions so quickly.

"I didn't expect this battle to be so easy?"

The chief of staff said in a surprised tone, he had just been transferred to the new regiment from the 120th Division of his brother unit, and before that he was an operational staff officer of the 358th Brigade of the 120th Division.

Like Deputy Regiment Commander Liang and Political Commissar, this chief of staff was also an outstanding commander of the Red Army who had gone through the Long March.

At this time, the chief of staff's face was full of surprise, and the smooth operation of this battle was completely beyond his expectations.

In the face of the heavily defended position of the devils and the puppet army, it was captured in less than 20 minutes, while the commanders and fighters of the attacking force suffered few casualties.

This would have been impossible for the Eighth Route Army a few years ago.

"Nothing is impossible, as long as our firepower is strong and our tactics are appropriate, the battle will be at least ten times easier than before!"

The political commissar on the side was also full of confidence and had a happy expression.

After this battle, the political commissar completely recognized the fact that the equipment of the Eighth Route Army was better than that of the Japanese army.

However, Deputy Regiment Commander Liang stared at the map, looked thoughtful, and gave an order with a calm expression: "Immediately ask the attacking troops, have you found the enemy's counteroffensive troops?"

As a senior military commander who is both wise and brave, and loves soldiers like a son.

Deputy Regiment Commander Liang has long overcome the problems of blindness, recklessness, brutality, and hard work.

Even though he now has unimaginable equipment and firepower, Deputy Regiment Commander Liang has not swelled, and has always maintained a calm mind.

The young staff officer immediately called out with a walkie-talkie.

After a while, the young staff officer put down the walkie-talkie and reported, "Report, the commander of the third company of the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the attacking force said that the enemy's reinforcements were found, but the enemy's reinforcements are retreating, and the third company commander asked if he would take advantage of the victory to pursue?"

The chief of staff said in a surprised tone: "Lion Rock and Cockscomb Mountain are the barriers to the southeast of Chengde, and the devil actually gave up like this?"

"Is there a possibility?" The political commissar guessed, "Our firepower is too heavy during the day, and the devils plan to wait until night to retake these two heights?"

"It's not impossible." The Chief of Staff nodded, "But... Night battles are the specialty of our Eighth Route Army, and at night, it may be even more difficult for the devils to recapture the high ground."

The political commissar said, "The devil is planning to break the jar?"

"Is it possible?" A young staff officer guessed, "The devil's positional battle can't defeat us, and they want to withdraw the team into Chengde City and fight with us in the streets?"

「……」

Everyone, you and I are talking word by word.

And Deputy Head Liang still kept thinking.

At present, there are two paths in front of him, one is to continue the attack, and the other is to hold the positions of Cockscomb Mountain and Lion Rock.

If you continue to attack, you can expand the results of the battle and have the opportunity to advance the battle line under the city of Chengde.

And continuing to hold on to Cockscomb Mountain and Lion Rock, they formed the 16th Heavy Battalion and completed the task.

"Immediately ask with a high-powered walkie-talkie, where have the interspersed troops arrived?"

Deputy Head Liang's angry voice sounded, and everyone stopped discussing one after another.

"Yes!"

The staff officer immediately picked it up

The walkie-talkie called.

This time to attack Lion Rock and Cockscomb Mountain, Deputy Regiment Commander Liang made two preparations.

Under normal circumstances, the squadron fights against the devils, and the people in the vicinity will drive chickens, ducks, cows, sheep and the only remaining grain to the mountains to take refuge.

This time was no exception.

As soon as he arrived near Chengde, Deputy Commander Liang sent soldiers into the mountains to find the common people who were hiding from the war.

After two days of trekking and searching, I found the people of Songjia Village and Cuijia Village near Lion Rock and Jiguan Mountain.

Although Rooster Crown Mountain and Lion Rock are easy to defend and difficult to attack, the local people know it.

There is a path that leads straight behind Lion Rock and Cockscomb Mountain, and the devils and puppet armies don't know about it.

With the ideological work and the cash in the food on the spot, the local people were willing to lead the way for the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, the interspersed troops of the newly formed 16th Battalion were already on their way to intersperse.

Deputy Regiment Commander Liang's battle plan was to take the Devil's position by surprise and capture the two heights of Jiguan Mountain and Lion Mountain.

At this time, most of the devils will not give up their positions, and will send troops to recapture the two heights of Lion Rock and Cockscomb Mountain.

When the devils attacked, the interspersed troops suddenly killed from behind, and attacked the Eighth Route Army on both sides of the high ground, killing the devils who tried to regain their positions.

This is the second gift that Deputy Head Liang prepared for the devil.

However, contrary to Deputy Commander Liang's expectations, the devil actually gave up recapturing the two heights.

This made the second gift prepared by Deputy Head Liang for the devil not come in handy.

Although the troops carried radios, they had to be silent, and if they were used, they would likely be detected by enemy radios.

However, the interspersed troops are not too far from the headquarters, within 15 kilometers, so you can contact them with walkie-talkies, and you don't have to worry about being discovered by devils.

After a while, the staff officer reported to Deputy Regiment Commander Liang: "Report, the interspersed troops have arrived in the area of Wujia Village, and they will arrive at the designated position in 10 minutes!"

When Deputy Regiment Commander Liang heard this, he carefully analyzed the terrain.

The terrain in the southeast of Chengde is very complex.

The attacking troops rushed forward, and it was very likely that they would be ambushed by the devils, which was very suitable for ambushes.

But!

If the interspersed troops are slammed into a deeper area, if the devils really have an ambush, then the interspersed troops can turn around and form a counter-encirclement of the ambushed devil troops.

If the devils didn't ambush, then they could push the battle line under Chengde City.

In that case, the battle situation will be greatly favorable to the Eighth Route Army, and the situation of the devil will be quite passive.

"Give orders to the interspersed troops immediately." Deputy Regiment Commander Liang quickly issued an order, "At present, the frontal attacking troops have captured the positions of Lion Rock and Jiguan Mountain, and the enemy has not launched a counterattack, and the interspersed troops are ordered to intersperse from the flank in the direction of Heitugou and Hongtuliang."

"Yes!"

The communications staff officer quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and gave the order.

At the same time, the follow-up reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army arrived at Cockscomb Mountain and Lion Rock and completely captured the position.

At this time, even if the devil wants to regain his position, he will first have to pay a huge price for casualties.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army began to clean up the battlefield, and the battlefield was full of various parts of the devil puppet army, intestines, half of the head... It is almost impossible to find a complete corpse.

The veterans were all calmly cleaning the battlefield as usual, and even a veteran took out a knife to pry the gold tooth in the mouth of a devil with a different head.

When many recruits saw this scene, they couldn't help but vomit on the spot, and even the bile almost vomited out.

But there were no veterans to laugh at the recruits, they all came from the recruits, and some of them did worse than these recruits when they first went to the battlefield.

There are veterans who put together some relatively intact corpses of devils.

Then the recruits were ordered to stab the devil's body with a bayonet.

This is the old tradition of the new regiment, let the recruits eliminate it quickly in this way

Fear of devils and war.

There are also many recruits whose performance is not inferior to that of veterans, because these recruits are all high-quality soldiers from the militia of the Central Hebei and Southern Hebei Military Regions.

Some militias have even fought against devils and puppet armies, but the scale of the battles is not large, and they are mainly guerrilla.

This is the first time that such a big battle has been held.

However, the overall performance of these recruits is much stronger than that of recruits who joined the army from a civilian and went to war for the first time.

Very few recruits drop the chain at a critical moment.

At the same time, the veteran sappers of the new 16th Heavy Battalion began to clear mines on the highway with the new sappers.

Only after the anti-infantry and anti-tank mines planted by the devils on the road have been cleared can the large forces continue to advance.

Other than that.

Deputy Regiment Commander Liang reported the situation to Xing Zhiguo, who allowed the new 16th Heavy Battalion to move forward.

……

At the same time.

An island in the East China Sea.

Boss Chen's military base.

"Let's go."

Song Jianyun, the captain of the Yunlong Captain of the Eighth Route Army, gave the order.

"Let's go."

An aircraft carrier, protected by several cruisers and frigates, sailed out of a misty island and headed in the direction of the South Pacific Ocean.

This mist-covered island is Boss Chen's overseas military base.

On the Yunlong aircraft carrier, 15 carrier-based aircraft aces and elite pilots who have participated in ship training are on standby at any time.

Although it has only been half a year, the Eighth Route Navy has been reborn at this time.

In addition to the improvement of navigation technology and combat skills, the entire navy also has a uniform naval uniform, and the overall strength has a trace of majesty and majesty.

"Heading due south, keep 30 knots."

"All radars are turned on, monitoring all planes and ships that are close to the fleet."

「……」

In the command room, Captain Song's eyes calmly gave orders one after another.

This time to go to sea is not only to carry out the task of killing Yamamoto Shibachi, but also a practical combat training for the Yunlong fleet.

On the route to the South Pacific, it is possible to encounter the devils and the submarines and fleets of the US Navy.

Once the aircraft carrier fleet is exposed, it may cause Yamamoto to change its itinerary temporarily.

It is also possible that it will be mistaken for an enemy by the Devil Navy and the US Navy and besieged.

Therefore, all the crew must maintain a high degree of vigilance.

But fortunately, the Yunlong aircraft carrier fleet is equipped with advanced radar, as well as advanced cruiser and frigate protection.

In the event of an encounter with an enemy reconnaissance aircraft, it is possible to take off jet fighters in advance to shoot them down.

When encountering an enemy aircraft carrier fleet, you can walk around.

After completing the actual combat training and killing Yamamoto Shichihachi.

The Yunlong fleet needs to sail back to Boss Chen's military port again.

It is said that Boss Chen's military port used some special means so that the planes and ships of the devil and the Mi army could not be found.

The Yunlong fleet will train in Boss Chen's military port for about half a year, and then it will be able to drive out to fight the devil's fleet.

It didn't take long.

A fleet of not too big sailed like a ghost in the East China Sea toward the South Pacific.

And although the pilots who participated in the mission were excited, they did not behave very badly.

When they participated in flight training at Boss Chen's military base, they had already seen the aircraft carrier and passed the landing and take-off training on the deck.

……

Chengde Battlefield.

In the afternoon of the same day.

The new and old sappers of the Eighth Route Army worked together to remove the mines planted by the devils on the road.

The old and new are matched, and the work is not tiring.

In the process of demining, all the old sappers worked with the new sappers, and there were no cases where the new sappers accidentally triggered the mines.

The new sappers also quickly accumulated life-saving experience, which could not be learned in the sapper classroom.

Although each new sapper wears the sapper protective suit provided by Boss Chen.

However, the sapper suit is not a talisman, and once the mine explodes, it can only leave the sapper with a whole corpse.

Then.

Deputy Regiment Commander Liang led the main force of the newly formed 16th Battalion and drove along the road in the direction of Chengde.

The devil has poor resources, there are not many mines, and good steel is used on the blade, so it is inevitable that it will not be possible to bury mines on the entire road.

The vanguard of an infantry battalion and a tank company took the lead in the direction of Chengde.

In the middle of the procession, there is a mountain cannon towed by a Jiefang truck, and boxes of shells are carried on the Jiefang truck.

In addition to Liberation trucks and light tanks, there were also half-track armored vehicles and wheeled armored vehicles.

After the end of the North China Campaign, the infantry battalions of the new regiment were equipped with a large number of armored vehicles, the only shortcoming was the lack of drivers, but the drivers selected from each squad were trained to get started quickly, although they were not very proficient, but there was no problem at all in driving away and parking.

Although the road conditions in Chengde are relatively poor, there is no problem at all with the passage of armored vehicles and light tanks.

At the front and end of the ranks, armored vehicles and light tanks were in formation.

Along the way, the troops marched slowly, advancing in a cautious search.

It didn't take long for the reconnaissance company to encounter a group of devils, and a dense burst of gunfire and artillery came over.

Deputy Head Liang had a calm expression and waited patiently.

After about half a minute, a communications staff officer ran over quickly and reported to Deputy Regiment Commander Liang: "Report, the reconnaissance company of the 2nd battalion had an exchange of fire with the devils, judging from the enemy's firepower, the devils' strength is about half a brigade."

Half a brigade, that is, about 500 people.

"Did the devil build a perfect fortification?"

Deputy Head Liang asked.

"Nope!"

The communications staff officer replied:

"This gang of devils planned to ambush the reconnaissance company, but was discovered by the front platoon of the reconnaissance company, and the two sides fought an encounter."

The Eighth Route Army was a master of ambush warfare.

And the front platoon of the reconnaissance company is all top masters.

Playing ambush, the Eighth Route Army is the grandfather of the devil.

When the devil met the ancestor master, it was naturally impossible to succeed in the ambush.

After a while, there was a more violent gunfire ahead, and the sound of gunfire and cannon like popping beans became one.

Deputy Regiment Commander Liang walked briskly to a high ground next to the road, raised his binoculars and looked ahead.

I saw that the armored vehicles and light tanks of the vanguard team fired in the direction of the devil in unison, and the devil's position was suddenly enveloped by the blast wave.

Although the firepower of armored vehicles and light tanks is average, without the cover of trenches and foxholes, the devils will definitely suffer a lot of casualties.

As expected.

After about two minutes, the communications staff officer ran over again and reported:

"Report, the devil has been routed and is fleeing along the road, and the vanguard has caught up."

"Map!" Deputy Head Liang shouted.

The guard quickly handed over the map.

Deputy Head Liang raised his binoculars to look at the direction of the extension of the highway, looked at the map again, and said, "I know what the devil wants to do."

"What do you want to do?"

The chief of staff on the side asked.

"This group of devils is a decoy, and the devils want to ambush Lao Tzu's vanguard in front."

Deputy Head Liang immediately said loudly:

"Order the vanguard to halt the pursuit immediately!"

"Yes!"

The communications staff officer immediately gave the order to the vanguard to stop the pursuit.

Under normal circumstances, the vanguard has already killed the red-eyed, looking at the devils fleeing in embarrassment, and only hates that they are not chasing fast enough, once they are in

In pursuit, it will be difficult to stop.

But!

The walkie-talkies of the Eighth Route Army were popularized to the platoon, and a single call could directly issue orders to each platoon company from the division headquarters.

Soon, the Ministry of Communications gave the vanguard an order to stop the pursuit by walkie-talkie.

Deputy Regiment Commander Liang gave the order again, and pointed his finger at the area of Majia Village and Longtangou on the map: "Then order the interspersed troops to return and attack the devils in this area!" Also, immediately call for air support from the regimental headquarters!"

"Yes." The communications staff officers conveyed orders one after another.

……

At the same time.

Japanese front-line command post.

A Japanese staff officer walked in quickly and reported to Kazuki Yamamoto:

"Report to the Chief of Staff that the decoy ambush has failed, has been routed by the Eighth Road, and is rapidly retreating along the road."

"It is expected that in fifteen minutes, the enemy's vanguard will enter the ambush position."

After reporting on the situation ahead, the staff officer added.

"Got it."

Kazuki Yamamoto nodded expressionlessly.

There was a slight deviation in the plan.

In his plan, although these 500 soldiers were decoys, he originally wanted to send these 500 soldiers to ambush the reconnaissance troops of the Eighth Route Army.

inflicted some small losses on the Eighth Route Army, and then the Eighth Route Army routed this half of the brigade of soldiers with its superior firepower.

Seeing the rout of the Japanese army, the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army, which was embarrassed and angry, pursued all the way and entered the ambush encirclement of the Japanese army.

But Yamamoto is as steady as an old dog, and he doesn't panic.

Not a big problem.

Although the decoy failed to succeed in the ambush, the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army at this time would definitely chase after the victory and pursue it.

Once the Great Pursuit begins, it is difficult to stop.

In the face of low-hanging fruit, no army can resist this temptation.

"Kumagawa-kun, how are the artillery preparations?" Kazuki Yamamoto looked at Kumagawa Chichosa, who was solely responsible for the shelling of the ambush.

"Report to the Chief of Staff." Kumagawa Zhichang bowed his head and replied, "The three artillery wings have been prepared, the shooting Zhuyuan has been calibrated, and after the battle begins, the artillery fire coverage and artillery fire blocking will be carried out on the reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army."

"Yo Si!"

Yamamoto Kazuki nodded in satisfaction, looked at the officers, and repeated the battle plan:

"After the ambush battle begins, after a round of shooting and throwing a round of grenades at the Eighth Route Army in the ambush circle, in order to prevent reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army, all the soldiers rushed down to engage in a white-knuckle battle with the Eighth Route Army, and the battle was quickly resolved!"

"Hey."

A group of devil officers bowed their heads suddenly.