...Li Yunlong led the command tank to attack in the final sequence. This old Li still wanted to have fun. Unfortunately, when he commanded the tank to rush onto the battlefield, he was divided and outflanked under the all-out offensive of the tank troops.
The Japanese army had already completely collapsed.
When the desperate little Japs were unable to use anti-tank weapons to carry out anti-tank operations, some Japs officers even went crazy, screaming and rushing forward with a command knife, trying to use his broken knife to destroy the armor of the tank.
Like splitting.
Lao Li couldn't help but feel a little emotional while watching the fun.
Once upon a time, weren't the Eighth Route Army soldiers who lacked anti-tank equipment so helpless in the face of the torrent of iron and steel from the Japanese army?
The development of the military industry is so important.
After lamenting, Lao Li felt a little depressed. He didn't kill many Japanese, so he didn't kill them happily.
This time so many troops from neighboring countries came for reinforcements, and everyone rushed to fight the Japanese.
Li Yunlong led his armored troops to charge back and forth, but he didn't get much.
After the forward troops of the 14th Division suffered heavy damage from the shelling, they were attacked by various intersecting troops led by Li Yunlong and Ding Wei. It didn't take long for the main force to be basically wiped out.
With the assistance of Ding Wei's Third Guerrilla Group, the Northward Detachment, Lao Pi Mobile Brigade, and Lao Fan Mobile Brigade, the Japanese troops in Bianshan were almost completely wiped out during the night.
Even the old Japanese soldier Bian Shan was wounded and captured.
At this point, the 14th Division was left with the division headquarters and the Chinese Army, which were occupied by three guerrilla groups of the Eighth Route Army, the Northward Detachment, the Lao Pi Mobile Brigade, the Lao Fan Mobile Brigade, the Lao Qin Mobile Force, the Lao Wei Mobile Force, and various military divisions.
The main force was surrounded by everyone.
In desperation, Old Japanese Inoue launched a counterattack at all costs, hoping to stabilize the defense line and wait for reinforcements.
But all this was gradually disintegrated after the Eighth Route Army torpedo planes participated in the attack with modified torpedoes.
In these modified torpedoes, the torpedo warheads are replaced with high-carbon steel alloys. After being projected, they fall vertically under the influence of gravity. With strong penetrating power, they can be smashed into the ground for several meters, and the explosion is triggered by a delayed fuze.
It can directly destroy the fortifications built by the Japanese around the hills and mountains in the past two days.
This method was thought up by Ding Wei. In Ding Wei's words: "Ours is called an earth-penetrating bomb!"
In the past few days, the remaining Japanese troops were stationed around some isolated hills and highlands, and used these condescending terrain to build quite solid defenses.
According to the observations of the Eighth Route Army's forward observation posts, these cunning little devils even planted a large number of explosives in the outer positions of these hills and highlands.
"The Japs probably want to perish together with our attacking troops!"
"This is completely despairing, and you want to support us!"
"The Japs have a lot of engineers on hand, and they don't need to bury it too deep. For example, the crater blasted by a 150-weight cannon is deep enough. Once the explosives are buried inside, our Eighth Route Army will detonate them immediately when they rush up, and then the reserve team will use them again."
After the grenade counterattack, directly carry out a countercharge!"
After Ding Wei analyzed it, he then said with disdain, ""
"Hehe, this devil has a pretty good idea, but it's a pity that we are tired of these tricks a long time ago. Let's see how I break it!"
With Ding Wei's deployment, ground-penetrating bombs soon appeared on the battlefield.
One shell after another was thrown down, slamming into the ground, and then completely exploded after a delay, completely blowing to pieces the defenses that seemed extremely strong when the Japanese attacked from the outside.
Have you ever seen such a new type of ground-penetrating artillery attack?
Some curious people thought it was a dumb bomb dropped by the Eighth Route Army, so they surrounded it in twos and threes, and then died in the explosion.
The final hold on some isolated hills and highlands soon became a foolish choice for the Japanese army to dig its own grave.
Soon after.
The last team led by Inoue, who was running out of ammunition and food, was completely torn apart by the monk's guard regiment, Ding Wei's flying convoy, Li Yunlong's sword team, combat engineer regiment, and the sharp knife battalions of various troops.
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"Long live, long live!"
Looking at the Eighth Route Army troops pouring in like a tide from outside the position, Inoue closed his eyes in despair, and then opened his eyes again, which were a little red. He pulled out his command sword, held it high, and led the last remaining soldiers.
Shouting long live, he launched a suicidal countercharge against the oncoming Eighth Route Army.
Then... they were completely wiped out along with those soldiers.
This is where a generation of executioners, war criminals whose hands were stained with innocent blood and whose crimes were countless, came to an end.
Li Yunlong, who came after hearing the sound, jumped out of the tank and rushed to the position to search for the figure of the old Japanese Inoue. When Inoue's body was carried out, his whole body had been damaged beyond recognition by the shells, except for the two bullets on his collar badge.
Jiang Xing, through which his identity can be vaguely identified.
"Damn, what a pity, we originally thought we could capture this old devil alive, maybe it would be of great use!" Li Yunlong said regretfully.
Then he lamented that this old Japanese soldier Inoue could be said to be the most senior Japanese officer that the Eighth Route Army had killed during the war of resistance for so long.
On the other side, in the direction of the Japanese camp, reinforcements from the 13th Division and Ushijima Mitsuru Division failed to get closer. Instead, they were separated from the battlefield by the counterattacks of the 771st Regiment, the 772nd Regiment, the troops directly under the 386th Brigade, and the neighboring troops.
Gone to rest.
Harada joined the 101st Division and the 26th Division and retreated back to Yanmen Pass.
The Japanese fought hard for several days and finally returned to their starting point.
As for harvesting anything, I guess Harada is the only one who brought all the materials seized in Yanggao back. This old devil made a fortune in silence, and he made a lot of money.
Not only that, Harada led the team to retreat to Yanmen Pass, but then received intelligence from frontline intelligence personnel, saying that the Eighth Route Army in Datong seemed to be showing signs of withdrawal.
Harada wondered, shouldn't the Eighth Route Army have taken the initiative to abandon Datong and Zhangjiakou in order to avoid unnecessary subsequent decisive battles after completing the set campaign goals?
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Harada immediately deployed frontline reconnaissance troops to closely monitor every move of the Eighth Route Army in the direction of Datong.
Soon after, the main force of the Eighth Route Army gradually withdrew from the Datong area. Harada seized the opportunity to lead the troops, taking advantage of the complete depletion of the Eighth Route Army's troops, to launch an attack with deliberate momentum.
Sure enough, Datong was captured in one fell swoop.
After the news came back, inside the Iron Triangle Joint Command Headquarters, Kong Jie couldn't help laughing and said:
"Let me tell you, this old devil Harada is the best at taking advantage of loopholes. As long as there is an opportunity in the direction of Datong, this old devil will come if he smells it!"
"This time we defeated the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army in Yangyuan in front of the two major armies of the Japanese. The Japanese suffered heavy losses. The so-called "beat a stick and give a sweet date", after all, you can't push the little Japanese too hard.
Tighten it to prevent the Japanese from jumping over the wall and even killing wantonly in the occupied areas."
"As the old saying goes, warm water boils frogs. We are going to use this method of advancing and retreating to eliminate the little devils bit by bit in this land that has always belonged only to us Chinese."
"When the Anti-Japanese War ends and the little Japanese are defeated and return to China, they should be happy that they did not withdraw from China, but finally escaped back under the attack of our Eighth Route Army!"
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As for Zhangjiakou's defense, after successfully covering the withdrawal of all frontline combat troops to their base areas, they chose to abandon it voluntarily.
Soon after, the Japanese army reoccupied Zhangjiakou amid hesitation and fear.
At this point, a large-scale battle between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army around Datong and Zhangjiakou came to an end.
Judging from the overall situation, the Japanese army seemed to have accomplished the set campaign goals and successfully captured the two important cities of Datong and Zhangjiakou from the Eighth Route Army. They could then use these two cities to form a confrontation with the Eighth Route Army base area.
The Eighth Route Army also accomplished its set campaign goals.
Not only with the help of this battle around Datong and Zhangjiakou, a large amount of military supplies were seized.
The most important thing is that it accomplished an unprecedented feat - under the noses of the two major Japanese armies, it killed the Japanese 14th Division of the Kwantung Army alive in the Yangyuan area.
This seems to be the opposite of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi battle that took place between the Chiang Kai-shek Army and the Japanese Army.
Judging from the final result of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi battle, the Chiang Army regained lost ground and drove the Japanese army out of the defense line. It seemed that they had won the battle.
The little devils also completed the set campaign goals, destroyed the airports in the Zhejiang and Jiangxi regions, and achieved the goal of supporting war with war with the help of a large amount of military supplies seized along the way.
At present, surrounding the battle between Datong and Zhangjiakou, the Japanese army retaken Zhangjiakou and Datong, seemingly winning the battle.
But the Eighth Route Army also accomplished its set campaign goals.
Wouldn’t that be great and everyone would be happy?
..."Baga, bastards, these damn Eight Roads!"
However, in Peiping, inside the Provisional General Headquarters of the Japanese China Expeditionary Force, the Japanese Commander-in-Chief Hata Junroku was furious and smashed everything that could be seen on his desk.
The 14th Division of the Kwantung Army was surrounded by the Eighth Route Army in the Yangyuan area.
In the end, only a few scattered troops escaped, which were almost negligible.
In other words, the 14th Division can be said to have been completely wiped out by the Eighth Route Army in the Yangyuan area.
You know, this is an almost full 14th Field Division of the elite Japanese Kwantung Army!
For the Japanese army, this was an unprecedented humiliation.
In order to stabilize the morale of the army, the Japanese army announced to the outside world that the 14th Division was surrounded by the main force of the Eighth Route Army and the three armies in the Yangyuan area. It suffered heavy losses and was forced to withdraw to Manchuria and reorganize the army.
Afterwards, neither the Kwantung Army nor the China Expeditionary Forces within the territory kept the situation of the Kwantung Army's 14th Division's operations in Yangyuan secret, and classified it as a military secret event.
Then there was a big publicity that the Japanese Empire had accomplished the set goal of this campaign and successfully recaptured Datong and Zhangjiakou from the Eighth Route Army.
In the final analysis, the little devil is just a mute eating Coptis chinensis. He cannot express his pain. No matter how much pain and anger he feels, he can only break his steel teeth and swallow it into his stomach.
Relatively speaking, the Japanese army was still victorious in the Pacific battlefield and the Southeast Asian battlefield.
On this key point, in the high-level military meeting held in Peking, Junroku Hata specifically pointed out: "In any case, in order to ensure the smooth operation of the Pacific battlefield and the Southeast Asian battlefield, our occupied areas in China, as a stable rear area,
We must do everything possible to maintain it and provide logistical support for operations in the Pacific Theater and Southeast Asia Theater."
Regarding the battle around Datong and Zhangjiakou, in the end, they fell into the Eighth Route Army's trick, and even 14 divisions were eaten by the Eighth Route Army under the cover of the two group armies.
Although he was very reluctant, the helpless Hata Junroku immediately proposed:
"For the Eighth Route Army and Central Army units on the Chinese battlefield, strategic policy adjustments should be made based on the actual situation.
From now on, without orders from the General Headquarters, all armies and departments must not rashly launch attacks on the Eighth Route Army base areas, and transition from the strategic offensive stage to the strategic defensive stage. The operations against the Eighth Route Army should be defensive and stabilize the main county towns.
Mainly related to transportation lines.
When necessary, at the discretion of military officers at all levels, some unnecessary counties and towns can be abandoned, and troops can be concentrated to stabilize public security in existing important counties, towns and towns.
As for the frontal battlefields against the Central Army, while ensuring that the Eighth Route Army troops do not intervene indiscriminately, we can seize the opportunity to launch a tentative offensive to accumulate supplies, equipment, and equipment, and continue to implement the strategy of supporting war with war."
At this point, Hata Junroku's highest order was issued.
The morale of the Japanese troops in all major war zones, especially those in North China, was low.
At the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front, Naosaburo Okabe, who had just taken office, made deployment adjustments in accordance with the highest order issued by Junroku Hata.
He led the Japanese staff at the staff headquarters to place the areas belonging to the Eighth Route Army base area on the combat map, piece by piece, and circled them with eye-catching red lines.
Then a special order was given to withdraw all the defensive forces that were close around the red circles and concentrate their forces to defend the main counties, towns, towns and transportation lines.
At this point, the Japanese army's operational thinking against the Eighth Route Army in North China underwent a huge reversal.
In the past, the Japanese army targeted public security areas by strengthening security, targeted guerrilla areas by clearing and sweeping the countryside, and targeted the Eighth Route Army base areas by resolute raids and eradication.
now……
"Aiming at the stable base areas of the Eighth Route Army, with the purpose of resolutely not provoking, and targeting our army's quasi-security areas, we will mainly focus on formal strikes and investigations. If there is a big obstacle, don't be too serious. Targeting our army's stable occupied areas,
The main focus will still be on strengthening public security.”
In the headquarters of the Japanese 35th Division, after Harada finished speaking, he specifically added:
"In fact, why should we fight with the Eighth Route Army?
In recent years, through private business dealings with the Eighth Route Army, we have continued to paralyze the Eighth Route Army's keen military sense, and further stimulated the economic development in the area occupied by our 35th Division.
Our army has also grown stronger, and now we can be said to be strong and strong.
Let me tell you, this is the best way to deal with the Eighth Route Army. It is better to paralyze the Eighth Route Army than to kill it. Anyway, the situation in the Chinese battlefield will not be clear until the Pacific battlefield and the Southeast Asian battlefield are completely over!
Everyone, let us work together to make the area under the jurisdiction of our 35th Division the best area for development in the areas occupied by the Japanese Empire!"