September 7, 1940, Jin Province, Li County

Wang Yue is in full swing over there in 2023, and the time and space of the bright sword in 1940 will not stop, and the little devil who has been pressed and beaten by the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, Hebei, Luyu, and many provinces has finally made a move, and the Japanese North China Dispatch Army dispatched two divisions, as well as armored troops, aviation troops and water supply troops, and broke into Li County, the hinterland core of the Taiyue Military Region.

At this time, the 129th Division and the main force of the Taiyue Military Region were still besieging Datong City, and the two sides invested nearly 200,000 troops, fighting for several days, and they were about to take this strong city in the north of Jin.

For the large-scale assembly of the Japanese army, the headquarters and the 129th Division also had a prediction, the Eighth Route Army was about to take Datong, and the devils did not assemble before they came out, but this time, Gangcun Ningji deceived everyone, in addition to the core team, even the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, thought that General Gangcun was going to fight to the death with the Eighth Route Army under Datong City.

But just when everyone was looking forward to the decisive battle of Datong, the Japanese army's heavy army group actually attacked the Taiyue base area, which caught everyone off guard, and they didn't even have time to make arrangements.

The 129th Division, the regular army of the Taiyue Military Region, has four regiments, and the tank troops, artillery, and aviation units are fully equipped, well-trained, well-equipped, and have sufficient material reserves.

But there were too many Japanese troops, the forces of the two sides were not proportional at all, and it was a sudden attack, fierce, full attack, no intention of sparing hands, the Eighth Route Army was forced to transfer after losing more than 5,000 troops before and after, which allowed the Japanese army to enter the hinterland of the base area.

In order to better carry out the massacre and deter the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army did not even bring the Imperial Allied Army this time, but brought tens of thousands of volunteers composed of expatriates and ronins to supplement the troops.

Although the Japanese army has been implementing the "Three Lights Policy" in North China since 1939, it is aimed at some areas where there is resistance, base areas, guerrilla areas, and most of them are rural areas where the Eighth Route Army was active.

After all, after the incident in Jinling, there were also a lot of troubles within the devils, Matsui Shigen, Gu Shoufu and the other thieves and chieftains were all punished, and no one wanted this kind of thing to fall on their heads.

But this time, as soon as the Japanese troops came up, they sealed the county seat and city pass of Li County, and then sent troops to carry out a step-by-step and planned massacre of residential areas under the cover of armored vehicles, the old and weak, women and children, young men and women were not spared, it was a simple mechanical massacre, there was no arrest and interrogation, no matter what your identity was, even if you held the Japanese flag, it would not work, and the soldiers got one task, that is, to slaughter all Chinese people.

The devil troops killed people in the front, and in the back, the expatriate volunteers followed to collect the corpses, and they gathered the corpses outside the city, threw them into the pre-dug pit and burned them, and in the process of burning, they did not forget to throw some messy rifles, lunch boxes, belts, cockades, and so on, and the purpose was self-evident.

After destroying the corpses and destroying the traces, the devil volunteers plundered in the city again, anything valuable and may be helpful to the Eighth Route Army is their goal, everything that can be taken away will be packed and taken away, and what cannot be taken away will be destroyed, and even the grinding disc and stone grinder in the city were not left for the Eighth Route Army, all of them were smashed

After the robbery, that is, arson, the devil's sappers personally took action, not only burned the city, but even the city walls were completely destroyed with explosives, so that even if the Eighth Route Army recaptured the city in the future, the city that the Eighth Route Army had built for several years would be abandoned.

After killing in the city, the devils targeted the traitors in Li County who had leaned towards them, what do these traitors say, when the Eighth Route Army comes, they are enlightened gentry, and when the devils come, they will actively join the maintenance association, to put it bluntly, they are just a group of wall grass, as long as they can save their lives, they don't care who rules them.

In the eyes of the devil, these so-called good people are some unstable factors, and these people have accumulated a large number of personnel and goods in their hands, if they continue to stay in the local area, whether these personnel or goods, they must be the potential resources of the Eighth Route Army, and they will always threaten themselves.

Kill! Continue to kill, the people can only kill a few people all over the mountains, work hard to kill the people, waste not to mention, there is no sweetness, it is better to take the traitors and landlords, even if it is a small traitor and a small landlord, there are dozens of people in the family, it is much more convenient to kill together, so with Li County as the center, the indiscriminate massacre of devils expanded again, and every village was lit with flames, and the smell of blood and barbecued meat was mixed, filling the air and making people sick.

In the past, the devils scratched their heads on the common people and guerrillas who hid in the mountains, and went into the mountains to encircle and suppress, which required a lot of troops and resources, and might suffer a lot of losses, but if you don't encircle and suppress, the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army will definitely come out at the right time, and then give you a moment, shoot black guns, lay mines, throw grenades, prevent fires, engage in sabotage, and all kinds of means emerge in an endless stream, so that the Japanese army is exhausted.

But this time the Japanese army was different from before, they actually customized a one-pound incendiary bomb, and then sent planes from Pingjin and Taiyuan to wantonly drop on the mountains and forests around Li County, regardless of causing mountain fires, and there were many fires, irregular mountain fires, there was no way to extinguish them, they could only wait for the rain.

But in September 1940, it hadn't rained for half a month, and the plants were all dry, and even some rivers had dried up. And at this time, even the next light rain will not help, because the fire is so big that it is simply not enough to be extinguished by ordinary precipitation.

This is not to mention, after a series of actions, the Japanese army's water supply units also wantonly dropped biological and chemical weapons within the base area, every river, every pond, every well was thrown into cholera by devils, and the devil's planes even dropped thousands of tons of torn clothes and cotton wool with plague, covering an area of nearly 1,000 square kilometers.

In just a few days, the number of civilians directly slaughtered in the Eighth Route Army base area exceeded 50,000, and hundreds of thousands of people were infected.

Some people died, but not completely......