"I'll look at it later, I'll draw a picture, I can't understand this chapter without a picture."

As we all know, the Eighth Route Army had three main divisions.

Before the troops entered Shanxi in the early days of the reorganization, the three divisions were almost the same in all aspects. It also adopts the establishment of the C division in the 19th year of the Republic of China, with two brigades under each division and two regiments under the brigade.

After counting the troops directly under the division, the strength is generally between 13,000 ~ 15,000.

But the next development is wonderful, and the experiences of the three divisions are completely different.

As we said before, the 120th Division has no more than 100,000 troops because of its different tasks and congenital deficiencies, coupled with geographical restrictions on its development.

In the original timeline, compared to the remaining two divisions, the conditions of the 115th Division would be better than that of the 129th Division.

Because the latter's range of activities is mainly in North China, it is the area where the war with the devils is most frequent. What's more, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army is still in the southeast of Jinjin, and it is the target of the enemy's key attack.

After years of fighting, the development of the 129th Division is naturally not as good as that of the 115th Division.

Now, though, it's a different story!

Due to the indiscriminate entry of Huang, the logistics department of the southeast base area of Shanxi Province has undergone earth-shaking changes. Under the moon before the water, the 129th Division can be called rich.

At the beginning, the painting style was quite normal, and at that time, the Yellow River was to exchange some resources for civilian factories to improve the food and living conditions of the front-line soldiers.

Due to the difficult conditions, he was very limited in improving the combat effectiveness of his troops. That is, to get back some Mosin Nagant and French weapons from the First World War, and to improve the power of bullets and grenades.

In May last year, the 129th Division underwent reorganization. There are 9 brigades and 28 regiments of regular troops under the jurisdiction of the division.

In addition, with the decisive column and local troops under the command of the division headquarters, the strength of the entire system exceeded 100,000 people, which was no different from the original timeline.

However, after June last year, as soon as the Gallic rooster France, the hegemon of the European continent, surrendered, the development speed of the whole division made a qualitative leap as if it had been opened.

The 129th Division was not only the first of the three main forces to be equipped with a full set of magic weapons. Moreover, because the various military production lines of the logistics department have the confidence to vigorously expand the army.

The Eighth Route Army has always adhered to the principle of ideological mobilization and voluntary participation in the army, and from time to time has carried out mobilization propaganda for eligible young and middle-aged people.

However, because the grassroots construction in the southeastern base area of Shanxi Province has begun to take shape, its influence has long been different from what it used to be.

In addition, the 129th Division provided good treatment for soldiers and their families, as well as the attraction brought by advanced equipment, so that the ordinary people who joined the army were in an endless stream.

Even though the requirements for enlistment have been raised, the strength of troops at all levels has increased explosively.

Now the division has 15 brigades and 47 regiments of the regular army.

Counting the local armed forces and militias, 150,000 people can be thrown into battle in one go when necessary, and an indestructible foundation has been laid for the independent war in North China.

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In this Zhongtiao Mountain Campaign, the units of the 129th Division were not far from the area of Gaoping and Yangcheng, and were responsible for supporting the battlefield on the northeast front.

Although Wuxiang was only more than a hundred kilometers away from the enemy's 33rd Division's station, the troops could not attack first.

We have to wait for the comrades of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to take up their positions and make preparations to intercept Hebei, Chahar, and some Suiyuan areas to come to the aid of the enemy, and we also need to wait for the comrades of the 120th Division to contain the 36th Division and the 37th Division.

What's more, the troops also have to take care of the artillery, and it is not very convenient to move.

At this time, there was still half an hour left before the scheduled start of the battle, and the division commander was intensively checking and filling in the gaps with a group of staff officers to make sure that all the plans were foolproof.

Suddenly, there was a dense sound of footsteps outside the operations room.

The brigade commander walked into the room with a telegram on his face and a telegram in his hand, and the bystanders knew that something good must have happened.

"Commander, I have an interesting telegram here."

"Some people in our Eighth Route Army are making a fortune behind enemy lines, making a lot of noise!"

As soon as these words came out, they immediately attracted the attention of everyone present.

This feeling of being in the spotlight greatly satisfies the "vanity" of the fun people.

It's a pity that the division commander didn't play his cards according to the routine, and directly grabbed the telegram, helped his glasses and began to read. But the first line of words on the message made him show the expression of the old man in the subway looking at his mobile phone.

It is impressively written that the remnants of our 98th Army, the remnants of the 17th Army, and the remnants of the 43rd Army will cooperate with the 129th Division under the leadership of Division Commander Li of the Eighth Route Army to encircle and annihilate the enemy's 33rd Division and 41st Division.

The division commander, who had been busy for a few days, couldn't react in his brain, and the three words of division commander Li suddenly made him look confused.

"Is there a problem with my last eye? Or was the message deciphered incorrectly? ”

"Within our Eighth Route Army, when will there be a division commander surnamed Li? If I'm not mistaken, there is no comrade surnamed Li among the deputy division commanders. ”

Although it was a question sentence, the division commander quickly thought of one thing. The 1st Marine Regiment led by Li Yunlong was the armed forces of the Eighth Route Army that entered the interior of Zhongtiao Mountain first.

Counting the time, they have been fighting behind enemy lines for almost six days.

"The authenticity of the information, has it been confirmed?"

Hearing the question, the brigade commander nodded.

As a former intelligence chief, he used the method discussed in advance to determine the identity of the other party as soon as he received the message. Just in case, someone was also sent to verify the authenticity of the information.

After seeing the division commander's expression of sudden realization, the brigade commander immediately spoke:

"As you expected, it's Li Yunlong."

"I have already made contact with the other party just now, and he has been collecting the rout of the fruit since the day he set off, and until today there are 6,000 people under his command."

"But the title of division commander is not what he calls himself, it is what the soldiers call him."

Due to the insufficient power of the radio of the 1st Marine Regiment, it was not possible to contact the higher units. In order to get in touch with the division headquarters, the radio of the 98th Army could only be used to call in a loop.

But the communications corps who operated it had only been in the unit for seven hours, and he didn't even know what Li Yunlong's full name was. Self-defeating, he directly used his surname and what he thought he was doing.

The person who feels the most sorry for Lao Li is always the brigade commander, in order to reduce unnecessary misunderstandings, he specially emphasized a sentence at the end of the sentence to help explain his love.

After hearing the specific reason, everyone in the battle room burst out laughing.

Everyone here is an acquaintance of Grand Master Li, although the new Second Regiment has become independent from the sequence of the 129th Division and has become the First Marine Regiment, a direct unit of the Eighth Route Army.

But everyone's old feelings have not faded, even if Lao Li really dares to call himself the division commander in the division headquarters, everyone will only use the expression of eating melons to see who gave him the bear's heart and leopard gall.

"Okay, with the addition of Li Yunlong's kid, our battle will be more certain."

"As long as he can block the back road of the devil, this battle can definitely wipe out the enemy of two divisions. After eating the entire First Army, there was no war in Shanxi! ”

"Pass my order and let the 1st Air Division find a way to airdrop a batch of weapons to them. After fighting for five or six days, it is estimated that the first regiment of the Marine War is about to be covered with 38 big blocks. ”

The attack plan was made by the deputy commander-in-chief and the division commander together, and they decided to send half of the strength of the 129th Division, that is, eight brigades and twenty-five regiments, to attack the devils.

With such a large-scale operation, how to avoid the eyes of the devils and reconnaissance planes is a difficult problem.

If the enemy discovers his own movements, the opponent will definitely give up attacking the northeast defense line of Zhongtiao Mountain and flee to the Jincheng area.

Fortunately, the 1st Air Force Division has already gained air supremacy on the battlefield, eliminating the most troublesome link of reconnaissance planes, and the troops only need to ensure that they will not be discovered by humans during the march.

After the departure, the troops at all levels strictly controlled the fireworks. All marches must be camouflaged, radio silence is maintained at the brigade level, and portable communicators are prohibited at the regimental level.

Every day after the sun goes down, the march begins, and at dawn it stops and hides in the mountains and forests.

The hundreds of M1897 75mm cannons of the three artillery regiments were all scattered in the brigades, and they were used intensively after reaching the destination of the first stage.

Under strict discipline, an army of tens of thousands marched, and the devils didn't even notice it.

After arriving at the predetermined assembly place, the division commander would send eight brigades north of Qinshui, east of Yangcheng, and west of Henghe to form a pocket formation.

As soon as the time comes, all units will attack with the cooperation of three artillery regiments and the 1st Air Division.

This is a classic roundabout tactic, and with Li Yunlong's division in Shaoyuan, it can definitely wipe out the two divisions of the devil!

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Northeast side of Zhongtiao Mountain, Dong Feng.

In the joint headquarters of the 33rd Division and the 41st Division, the third lieutenant general of Sakurai Province and Lieutenant General Shimizu were not in a good mood at this time.

There was a piece of paper on the table in front of the two of them, which was a telegram just sent by the North China Front Command. They looked at each other, and the atmosphere in the room was very awkward.

"Qing Shui-kun, Commander Gangcun is a little too anxious."

"Forget about our division, after all, the battle is only one day and one night. Your division has not rested since the afternoon of the 7th, and it has been too hard to fight for six days in a row. ”

Qing Shui shook his head helplessly, after all, the official was crushed to death, and he had offended his boss.

They also received the news of the annihilation of two divisions on the Western Front, and Okamura Ninji did not intend to stop the loss in time, but chose to gamble all his forces and give it a go.

In the telegram, he was ready to give the troops of the Northeast Front an oversized pincer offensive.

Among them, the task of the 41st Division was to immediately move south, pass through Shaoyuan, occupy all the ferries on the east side of Zhongtiao Mountain, and completely cut off the connection between the north and south banks of the Yellow River.

The 33rd Division and the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade need to divide their troops into two routes, one along the Qin River to Jiyuan, and one through the Henghe River to the sealed gate.

The purpose of this was to combine the forces of the three divisions and regiments to defeat the 9th Army and the 93rd Army in the shortest possible time.

Only the 21st Division and the 35th Division that liberated the Eastern Front, Okamura Ninji was sure that he could fight the sudden Eighth Route Army in a decisive battle on the plains.

"No way, it's all about time."

"Once the 129th Division of the Western Front arrives on the Eastern Front, the Battle of the Central Plains will fall short. Not only can't even Zhongtiao Mountain be defeated, but even the safety of our two divisions may be in question. ”

True, until now, the North China Front still believed that the enemy that appeared on the battlefield on the Western Front was the 129th Division.

The devils reconnoitred the southeast direction of Jin, and they did not find any signs of a large-scale southward movement of the Eighth Route Army.

Combined with the engagement time on the Upper Western Front and the ferocious firepower, Okamura Ninji judged that the Eighth Route Army over there should be the main force of the 129th Division supported by the bypass.

After all, everyone knows that the 120th Division has to guard the border area and is responsible for preventing the enemy from crossing the Yellow River to the west.

It can only be said that empiricism kills people, and no one expected that the strength of the base area in the northwest of Jin Province was already so strong that such a huge force could be mobilized without affecting the original mission.

I didn't expect that the 129th Division had a very big plan and was very patient.

After thinking for a moment, Sakurai walked over to the map. He pointed his finger past all the towns he was passing through, and then complained to his colleagues behind him:

"It's really the superiors who move their mouths, and the people below run and break their legs. Those of us who lead the troops are all laboring lives. ”

"I hope you don't encounter the air force of the Eighth Route Army on the road, those fighters are really too ferocious. With this little bit of my men, I can't withstand more than two rounds of attacks. ”

When it comes to the empty first division, Qing Shui Qing's intuition sends a chill down his spine.

Although the 98th Army was successfully wiped out in last night's battle, they also suffered losses in both of their divisions. What's more, the 41st Division was already divided into two, and now there are only more than 6,000 people left.

Once you encounter the enemy's air force, you may not have all the corpses.

Saying what to say, the hum of a piston engine sounded in the sky. The faces of the two changed, and they immediately ran out of the command headquarters to check the number of enemy planes.

At the same time, a nightmarish trumpet sounded around Dong Feng Village.

You don't have to guess that the enemy is the Eighth Route Army, after all, the preserved fruit troops were only routed by them last night.

The two devil lieutenant generals glanced at each other, and they both remembered a sentence in their hearts, that is, the good attacker moved above the nine heavens.

Until now, they had not figured it out, and it was clear that an hour earlier, the Army Aviation had taken the risk and sent six reconnaissance planes to reconnoiter in the direction of the Eighth Route Army's base area in the southeast of Jin.

Obviously, no traces of the army's movements were found, but which army was the enemy in front of them? How did the other party quietly touch their neighborhood?

Doesn't the Eighth Route Army need logistical supplies to fight a war?

Although there are countless confusions in my heart, there is no time to think at this time.

The two did not choose to enter the bomb shelter, and the current encounter would have been lost if there was no overall command. They returned to the command post in the shortest possible time, picked up the phone and issued orders to their respective men.

"The units were quickly deployed in the wings on the positions of the original preserved defenders. Take advantage of the altitude and terrain to make sure to block all the enemies! ”

"Send all the scouts out and look for a suitable direction for a breakout. If the enemy dares to attack with such fanfare, the strength and heavy firepower will definitely be several times stronger than ours. ”

"Send a telegram to the headquarters and request tactical guidance! Tell Commander Gangcun that we need support from the Army Airlines! ”

As soon as the words fell, several shells flew in from the north.

The sparse number must have been a test firing from the enemy, and the next two divisions would inevitably usher in a baptism of artillery.

This tactical inspiration came from the siege of the 1st Marine Division.

At that time, 100,000 people of the Ninth Corps quietly surrounded Changjin Lake, and it is not too much for me to surround two devil divisions.

It's too hard to think about tactics, and the work is not so tiring

(End of chapter)