In the early morning of August 18, 1941, North China

In fact, since the evening of the 17th, everyone has realized that something big is about to happen, because at nine o'clock in the evening, the broadcast of the Northern Shaanxi Radio Station did not stop, but continued to broadcast, and the content of the broadcast was all some impassioned songs.

At the same time, the Commander's Department of the Second War Zone also issued a clear telegram order, requiring all units of the Jin Sui Army to immediately launch a counterattack and recover the country. He also said that his headquarters of the Second World War Zone had left Kenanpo to go to the front line of Guisui, and if Guisui could not be overcome, the headquarters of the Second War Zone would apologize with death.

In fact, after the midnight clock struck midnight and the commander-in-chief's radio just rang, the units of the Eighth Route Army in North China moved, and unlike the previous sabotage battles, the main goal of the Eighth Route Army this time was not to completely paralyze the lines of communication, but to concentrate the target on the small and medium-sized strongholds of the Japanese army, and cooperate with powerful artillery fire to quickly harvest the strongholds of the Japanese army distributed on the North China Plain.

To say that the Japanese army has worked very hard, under the supervision of Yoshio Shinozuka, all the fortifications of the Japanese army have reached the level where they can resist direct fire from qF 2 40mm guns, but the Eighth Route Army does not emphasize martial virtues, and as soon as it comes up, it uses the F-10 type 1902 / 30 76.2mm field gun, and the stronghold that the Japanese are easy to strengthen is easily smashed open, so that the Japanese army, which was originally full of confidence, was instantly dumbfounded.

For this counteroffensive, the Eighth Route Army specially purchased 1,000 F-10 1902/30 76.2mm field guns and 2,000 Fiat Lancia 626bL multi-purpose trucks from Wang Yue, and each company-level combat unit can be equipped with one artillery gun and two trucks.

In the face of the counterattack of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army still carried out the rescue according to the plan, but soon they found that they could not do it at all, because the troops of the Eighth Route Army also appeared around their station, and it was the Eighth Route Army troops with strong artillery fire, as long as you dare to leave the station, you will immediately be subjected to fierce artillery bombardment by the opponent, and the artillery configuration of the partial Japanese army is insufficient, and it is impossible to resist the F-10 1902 \ / 30 76.2mm field gun of the Eighth Route Army.

In just three hours, more than 800 strongholds were occupied by the Eighth Route Army, and this is only to confirm the occupied strongholds, as for those strongholds that have lost contact, there are more than 500 strongholds, in addition, more than 60% of the county town has appeared around the battalion and regimental level troops of the Eighth Route Army, for those counties with only one squadron and two infantry guns at most, the Eighth Route Army's strength and firepower have an absolute advantage, as long as the Japanese puppet army dares to go out of the city to rescue, the Eighth Route Army will suppress it with artillery fire.

The heavy army group is stationed better, but it is only relatively better, because there are also troops of the Eighth Route Army dormant around the surrounding communication lines, at more than two o'clock in the morning, an armored train of the Japanese army from Shimen was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, qF 2 40mm guns are equipped with tungsten core armor-piercing shells, the original armored train of the Northeast Army was instantly beaten into a sieve, and a whole brigade of reinforcements was annihilated in just a few minutes, and the poor warriors of the empire were annihilated without even seeing the enemy.

Senior General Yoshio Shinozuka could only ask all units to strictly hold their strongholds, not to leave their strongholds, and to wait for the assistance of the Imperial Air Force.

It was hard to stay up until four o'clock in the morning, and the aviation of the North China Dispatch Army took to the air as soon as possible and pounced on the areas where the fighting was most intense, but before the information on the front line could be transmitted, the Japanese planes encountered the planes of the Eighth Route Army, and the P-39 fighters had an absolute advantage over the Type 97, Type 95, and Type 92 fighters of the North China Dispatch Army.

Of course, it is not completely advantageous not to be beaten, there are 8 P-39 fighters near Beiping against 6 Japanese zero fighters, don't look at these pilots of the Eighth Route Army have also been trained to fight zero battles, but the actual combat experience and technology are indeed lacking too much, after a while the Japanese shot down 7 fighters, only 1 P-39 fighter dragged black smoke out of the battlefield, and the Japanese air force only lost one fighter, and the pilot also parachuted safely.

At noon on August 18, the Eighth Route Army and the Jin Sui Army issued the first battle report, in the past 12 hours, the Eighth Route Army and the Jin Sui Army mobilized 1.2 million troops to participate in the operation, up to now, has recovered 89 county seats, annihilated more than 40,000 Japanese puppet troops, captured nearly 30,000 people, and nearly 80,000 puppet army battlefield anyway, the first phase of the counteroffensive has been completed.

However, the next battle eased a little, after all, the Eighth Route Army also needed to adjust, annihilate the remnants of the enemy, treat the people, clean up the battlefield, receive enemy property, evacuate prisoners, there are too many things that need to be done by the Eighth Route Army, the original planned one-week combat goal, you can complete it in twelve hours, so that those follow-up militia and local cadres have no time to follow up, especially the large amount of food prepared by the Eighth Route Army.

An important purpose of the Eighth Route Army's counteroffensive was to provide disaster relief, and the harvest of the entire North China Plain in the past two years was very average, coupled with the looting of devils, the life of the common people in the occupied areas was very difficult, and there was famine in many places, and the situation was very grim.

At nightfall, the Eighth Route Army Navy sent 20 torpedo boats to break into Qindao Harbor, although the time of this battle was very short, and the results achieved were also very average, but this was indeed the first appearance of the Eighth Route Army Navy, indicating that the small navy of the Eighth Route Army had formed combat effectiveness, you know, in the Japanese defense system, Bohai Bay has always been an inland sea, and there is no decent defense mechanism at all.

The deployment of warships in the military port and the complete patrol and early warning system in Bohai Bay are two concepts, and this is a matter that involves the whole body, and the manpower and material resources that need to be mobilized are definitely several times that of the Eighth Route Army.

Of course, these are all later stories, and the Japanese side will not be able to fully monitor the entire Bohai Bay in the short term, and just when the Japanese Navy was dealing with the Qindao Port incident, an attack detachment of five torpedo boats of the Eighth Route Army Navy appeared in the sea off Jinmen and attacked a fleet of ships transported from Tianjin to the mainland, and nearly 10,000 tons of supplies looted by the Japanese army from North China were sent into the sea.

Immediately afterwards, the shadow of the Eighth Route Army Navy appeared near Binzhou, Yantai, and Qinhuangdao, although it was the same as the previous battle, they all left after contact, but it was also a very terrifying signal - the tentacles of the Eighth Route Army Navy had extended to the entire Bohai Rim region.

The Japanese Naval Command Department, which had always felt that the so-called navy of the Eighth Route Army could not quickly form combat effectiveness, was blinded by this combination punch of the Eighth Route Army.

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