The base area of the First Independent Detachment of the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi.
Center line defense zone.
The rearguard of the main force of the Japanese Sixth Division, which originally advanced towards the secret airport area of the First Division, retreated to this area.
The Japanese colonel who led the team breathed a sigh of relief.
Finally, they broke out from the Eighth Route Army's blocking positions along the way.
This Japanese colonel is responsible for the rear security of the main force. At the same time, he is also responsible for the retreat of the main force of the Sixth Division, exploring the roads in advance to detect whether there are traps or ambushes by the Eighth Route Army troops along the way.
The Eighth Route Army's strength frightened the colonel.
He suddenly felt that this was not at all like the rumored beggar troops that were short of guns and ammunition. Instead, they looked like Central Army troops that had fought against each other before.
No, to be precise, it is a team that is not inferior to the Central Army in terms of equipment level, but its combat effectiveness and tactical level even exceed that of the Central Army.
The Eighth Route Army deployed the blocking positions along the way very delicately.
Set up along the ladder and unfold layer by layer.
The various firepower points deployed along the way, the matching of light and heavy machine guns, and the construction of each machine gun fortification are exquisite, perfectly integrated with the surrounding terrain, plus a wide and reasonable shooting range.
The Japanese troops retreating all the way, resisting the firepower of the Eighth Route Army along the way, were like onions, with each step they took, the skin was peeled off layer by layer.
Corpses littered the fields along the way, and the corpses of Japanese soldiers lying on both sides that were too late to be taken away could almost pile up into a hill.
It’s really too tragic.
In the memory of the Japanese colonel, since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the imperial troops have not fought such a tragic battle for a long time.
Even when facing the Central Army, which is known as the most elite Chinese army, on a frontal battlefield, there have never been such exaggerated casualties.
These damn Eighth Route Army are really too abominable.
They are familiar with the mountain environment and can make perfect use of the terrain to occupy the home field. However, they are also good at using conspiracy and various sneak attack methods.
Not long ago.
The colonel led the troops to advance vigilantly. Under the scorching sun, all the drinking water they carried had already been consumed. The soldiers were tired, thirsty and frightened.
At this moment, not far away from the evacuation, the Japanese army discovered a large melon field, on which one could see large watermelons that were so green that it made people want to drool.
How could the hungry and thirsty little devils restrain their excitement?
After the colonel, who also wanted a watermelon to quench his thirst, gave the order, the little devils rushed towards the melon field with joy.
Dozens of little devils arrived first, and when they tore the watermelon off the vine, there was a sudden big explosion.
In an instant, a large number of Japanese soldiers fell down. Instead of eating the watermelon, they themselves were blown up by landmines.
There are also some little devils who directly triggered the directional anti-infantry mines hidden in them while picking watermelons.
The fragments and steel balls that splashed out suddenly turned the dozens of little devils heading towards them into hedgehogs.
The Japanese commander was shocked.
These damn Eighth Route Army actually hid landmines in this melon field.
In an instant, half of the enemy was not seen. The little Japanese who were eager to eat melons lost more than 20 people, and there were more than 30 wounded people in the team.
The colonel was helpless. After scolding the cunning Eighth Route Army, he quickly ordered to avoid the melon fields and continue to retreat. At the same time, he made a special statement during the advance that if he saw any melon fields, vegetable fields, etc. along the way, he must not rush into them. No one should enter them rashly.
I don’t know if there are any hidden mines in there.
The little devils learned a lot from the experience and learned to be honest.
Don’t talk about eating watermelon anymore. I’m afraid I’ll have nightmares when I see watermelon.
But this is not the end.
I began to be wary of the little Japanese who might be hiding mines and traps everywhere. As I continued to evacuate, I would be attacked by firepower from time to time by small groups of Eighth Route Army troops who had occupied the commanding heights.
The grassroots Japanese officers leading the team ordered the attack without saying a word. They must clear a safe passage for the retreat of the main force.
Who would have known that when the battle between the two sides was in full swing, the Eighth Route Army guarding the high ground actually chose to evacuate.
The little Japanese easily occupied the high ground originally defended by the Eighth Route Army.
Unexpectedly, the Japanese troops who had just occupied the high ground and deployed their defenses had not had time to rejoice when a large number of artillery shells were fired at the high ground.
Under the cover of artillery fire, this highland with no complete fortifications quickly became a graveyard for the Japanese troops stationed there.
The Japanese casualties spread rapidly.
The officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army used artillery fire to attack and consume the effective strength of the Japanese troops stationed on the highlands. After crippling the Japanese, they rushed up again to seize these highlands and continued to block the main force of the Japanese retreating.
According to this pattern, sometimes a relatively important high ground would change hands between the Japanese and the Eighth Route Army as many as a dozen times.
The little devils were beaten completely crazy.
It was that bare, worthless high ground, but the corpses of the warriors who fell there were almost piled up in mountains.
"What's this tactic?
This is called elastic defense tactics.
Our counterattack this time will not only involve roundabout attacks by mechanized combat troops, but we can also purposefully abandon some low-lying villages or highlands that are easy to attack and difficult to defend. After they are occupied by the devils, we will use artillery fire to consume their effective strength, and then occupy them again. , put the dummies, the corpses of the puppet soldiers who were killed, and the minefields into the minefield, and then retreat, in a repeated tug-of-war.
The purpose is to gradually deplete the Japanese troops and kill them all."
At the military meeting at the headquarters, Shen Quan, the leader of the Third Independent Regiment, said this at the time.
As an old subordinate who has been with Kong Jie for many years, and with a quick brain, Shen Quan can be said to be the true successor of Kong Jie, and he can be said to be full of tricks when it comes to plotting against him.
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On the other side, the Ushijima Division was almost driven crazy by various tricks of the Eighth Route Army... Just a few hours ago, Lieutenant General Ushijima led the main force of his division along the path into the Huangyadong mountains. , slipped in quietly.
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It was calm along the way, and there was no obstruction from the Eighth Route Army. This made Ushidao Man sigh a little relieved in his heart. Perhaps this was really the flaw of the Eighth Route Army's Huangyadong Arsenal.
Maybe he can really destroy the Eighth Route Army's Huangyadong Arsenal in one fell swoop and achieve great success.
In the mixed Eighth Brigade, which was advancing as cannon fodder at the forefront, Yan Sanfu also specially sent someone to convey the news, saying that the Eighth Route Army troops encountered were not the main force, but only a small defensive force in Huangya Cave, perhaps less than a battalion in strength.
In the communication, Yan Sanfu said with great righteousness:
"Our department is determined to fight to the death to gain time for the division commander to advance!"
Finally making up his mind, Ushijima Mitsuru no longer hesitated.
This old devil also has arrogance in his heart. His troops are good at fighting in the mountains. As long as they can successfully enter the Huangyadong mountains, it is still unclear who will win.
Aren't they just a group of Eighth Route Army troops hiding in the mountains like rats!
How can the elite of our Kwantung Army be matched by your Eighth Route Army?
In this way, after Ushijima Mitsuru led the main force to advance rapidly, he was not blocked by the Eighth Route Army troops along the way. It seemed that all dangers were attracted by Yan Sanfu's 8th Mixed Brigade.
Then, the advance troops reported the situation, saying that they encountered farms and construction areas built by the Eighth Route Army in the mountains.
After hearing this, Niu Pingman rushed to a mountain in person, picked up a telescope and observed it from a distance.
He saw the mountain valleys and buildings. After thinking about it, Ushijima Mitsuru said to the chief of staff beside him: "It seems that the Eighth Route Army here is equally cunning. This should be the secret camp of the Eighth Route Army, just like those of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the mountains. The heads are all the same, maybe these are the supplies hoarded by the Eighth Route Army.
Maybe we really came to the right place this time."
"General, do you want to order an attack? The Eighth Route Army is already short of supplies. If we plunder all their supplies, the Eighth Route Army will probably have a headache!"
Ushijima Mitsuru nodded, but out of caution, he still said: "Before attacking, I'd better ask Yan Sanfu about the situation of the Eighth Route Army..."
"Hi!"
After the news reached the headquarters of the 8th Mixed Brigade.
Yan Sanfu and his adjutant Da Mingming were in trouble. Ushijima Mitsuru, an old devil, asked this question. How should they answer?
Da Mingming said: "Traveler, why don't we just ignore it and pretend we don't know anything?"
Yan Sanfu shook his head, "This is not possible. If the little devil falls into the trap, the old devil Ushijima Mitsuru is angry and will definitely take action on us."
"What should we do?"
Yan Sanfu thought for a while and said, "This arrogant person, if you want to praise him, it will definitely not be as stimulating as derogating him.
This mountain stream farm is clearly a trap of the Eighth Route Army, but we can't tell it, and we can't not warn it at all.
...Yes, let the communications troops tell the Japanese army, just say it was me.
Your Excellency, Commander of the Reporting Division, according to my judgment, this valley must be a farm of the Eighth Route Army. If you go in, you may be exposed to landmines, shelling, and even ambushed troops. Taijun should not go there carelessly. Do not go in and join the Eighth Route Army again.
That’s right!”
After Yan Sanfu gave the order, the news quickly spread to the Ushijima Division headquarters.
"Xinxi, did Yan Sanfu really say that?"
"Hi!"
As soon as these words came out, the traitor leader who followed Ushijima Man, who originally belonged to the Northeast Crusade Team and followed the little devils to help the tiger and persecuted the Anti-Japanese Alliance, cursed: "Yan Sanfu doesn't dare to go, we dare, not just a small boy from the Eighth Route Army
A small campsite?
I have seen a lot of things in the forest, sea and snowy plains. At best, there are only a few land mines and ground bombs to shoot cold shots. Brothers, come on!"
Ushijima Mitsuru didn't rush to give the order, he just watched the expedition team enter the farm and construction area.
Soon after, the traitor leader returned with a big watermelon in his arms and said happily: "Tell the general, my brothers have visited all those broken houses, vegetable fields and orchards. Where is the Eighth Route Army?"
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That group of North China Imperial Army soldiers who only know how to eat and drink are nothing more than nothing. When they heard about the Eighth Route Army, they were so frightened that they didn’t even dare to occupy an empty camp. The leader was simply embarrassed."
Then the leader of the forward search team went in with a group of people to search for supplies and prepare to make repairs here.
Ushijima Mitsuru watched the expedition team and forward search team enter the farm one after another. He ordered the guard team to prepare to enter the building and set up a temporary headquarters.
In this regard, Lieutenant General Ushijima Mitsuru was very confident and said in Japanese: "Hey, I don't believe that our Ushijima Division, with its full strength and tens of thousands of elites, cannot enter the Eighth Route Army's farm to pick a few watermelons!" But the weather was too hot, so he did not go in immediately. Instead, he enjoyed the coolness under the shade of a tree outside the farm, eating the watermelon that the traitor leader had sent in advance, and waiting for the temporary headquarters to be set up.
At this moment, thunder broke out from the ground.
A series of big explosions suddenly occurred in the farm and building area. The continuous explosions, under the witness of the little devils, blew the entire farm and a large number of buildings to pieces.
As for the Japanese soldiers in the farms and buildings, they are naturally in danger.
What followed was a massive mortar bombardment.
One after another, the shells were like sparrows flying across the sky, as if they had eyes, and they continued to fall towards the farm and building areas.
Before Ushijima Mitsuru could react, the incoming expedition team and the search brigade of Ushijima Mitsuru's division were directly covered in artillery fire.
Ushijima was completely confused, and while he was dazed, the chief of staff at the side, with quick eyes and quick hands, pulled him and ran away.
"General, Yan Sanfu was right, the Eighth Route Army indeed had an ambush!"
Accompanied by the continuous sound of artillery, Ushijima Manzai ordered the headquarters, guard brigade, search brigade, and punitive brigade to be built. In the chaos, the soldiers fell one by one.
When Ushijima Mitsuru ran to the reverse slope of the mountain under the protection of the guards, he saw the soldiers who ran out of the farm dying on the road one by one. After counting the number of people who could come back, there was not even one out of ten.
He was so angry that he ordered to build artillery positions and fire. As a result, after just two rounds of artillery fire, the artillery shells flying from the flanks covered his two artillery positions.
Ushijima was dumbfounded.
Until now in the battle, he didn't even understand where the artillery shells were flying out from. They seemed to have eyes and directly blew up his artillery position.
He hadn't even seen half of the Eighth Route Army. The artillery attack alone caused his team to suffer considerable losses.
"Asshole!"
Ushijima Mitsuru cursed, he had never suffered such a big loss since he entered the Chinese battlefield.
A group of Eighth Route Army troops hiding not far from the farm took the opportunity to open fire and attack the Japanese and puppet troops entering the farm area.
The angry Ushijima Mitsuru immediately ordered an attack. The exchange of fire between the two sides lasted only about ten minutes, and the Eighth Route Army turned around and withdrew into the mountains without hesitation.
Niu Manman, whose eyes were spitting fire, ordered the troops to advance. He still didn't believe this evil. Could it be that his elite Kwantung Army, which was good at mountain warfare, couldn't deal with these monkey-like Eighth Route Army troops running around in the mountains?<
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At this point, he did not think that this was the main force of the Eighth Route Army that had ambushed here in advance.
Maybe they just encountered the Eighth Route Army's defensive troops.
The more resistance they encounter, the more it indicates that there are important military bases of the Eighth Route Army in the direction they are heading.
In fact, Niu Dao was so unlucky that he encountered an Eighth Route Army farm and a traitor. When the search team entered, no trap was found, and there were no Eighth Route Army blocking positions around. He was careless.
He asked the troops to rest, but they were bombarded by the Eighth Route Army's 82nd mortar, 60th mortar, and 92nd infantry artillery.
The sudden all-round bombardment disrupted the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army was unable to organize troops to rescue the troops in the farm immediately.
Only then did the Eighth Route Army follow the path.
In fact, because the Ushidao Manchu Division was still on the outer line of the Huangyadong defense system at this time and was not tempted to go deep at all, there were not many artillery attacks on the Japanese army.
It was only because the mortars fired quickly, the artillery crews dispersed, and shelled fixed targets that the little devil was caught off guard...