The commander of the 251st Regiment, Lu Duoxian, had learned the whole story from the soldiers who followed deputy commander Liu Cai to rob the county town.
It turned out that after Liu Cai and his men disguised themselves as bandits and broke into the town, they were ambushed by the Japanese and puppet troops. They escaped all the way, but not long after they escaped, they fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army again.
Then the Eighth Route Army disguised itself as soldiers from the 251st Regiment and mixed in with the team.
After arriving at the gate of Taiyuan City, the Eighth Route Army suddenly launched a sneak attack on the Japanese army, triggering the misunderstanding in front of them.
"These bastards of the Eighth Route Army are really hateful. They have ruined all my good deeds."
"Old Liu, Old Liu..."
Lu Daoxian yelled a few words, and then he remembered that the deputy commander Liu Cai had the Japanese beat him to death.
I couldn't help but cursed again, "Old Liu, this idiot is really stupid. Since he was threatened by the Eighth Route Army, at least you guys can give me some tips..."
At this point, Lu Daxian was stunned again.
He seemed to remember that when Liu Cai approached the team, he winked at him.
Then he nodded, indicating that he was confident.
"..."
"Damn it, I understood it wrong." Lu Daxian muttered in his heart, regretting it too late.
"Commander, now that we have surrendered to the Japs and been destroyed by the Eighth Route Army, what should we do next?" the battalion commander asked.
"You ask me, who am I going to ask?" Lu Daxian cursed.
After scolding for a moment, Lu Daoxian asked again: "Tell me, is that old devil Takeda dead?"
The battalion commander thought for a while and said: "The bullet hit a vital point, so he probably won't survive."
"It's over, it's over. Once Takeda dies, it will be difficult for us to handle this matter."
"Tuanzu, how do you say this?"
"Although that old devil from Takeda is cautious, he is also quite generous. If he were still alive, he should be able to figure out what happened today. It was not what our 251st group wanted to do. We will clear up the misunderstanding by then.
, Takeda has decided to recruit us.
But Takeda's deputy, Tatsutoshi Kudo, is different. This person has a very bad temper.
If he really puts the blame for Takeda's death on our heads, we may not be able to talk about surrendering to the Japanese army."
The battalion commander said: "Commander, are we still ready to surrender to the little Japanese? Aren't you afraid that if you can't handle this matter, your superiors will accuse us of collaborating with the enemy?"
Lu Daxian said: "What do you know, kid? There are wars everywhere now. You have to grab a few more life-saving straws. The road will be wider so that you can live longer."
"This time we surrendered to the Japs, but the Eighth Route Army bumped into us and ruined our good deeds.
After we return, we will definitely increase our anti-Japanese propaganda efforts.
And privately, we should try to get in touch with Kudo Tatoshi again to see what he means. If the Japanese really can't go down this road, we will find a way."
"The regiment is wise!" the battalion commander said in admiration.
Just as he was talking, the communications soldiers behind him hurried over to report: "Reporting to the regiment, a cavalry was spotted two miles away and is heading towards us."
"Cavalry? Have you seen clearly what kind of team it is?" Lu Daxian asked.
"Reporting to the regiment, it seems to be the Eighth Route Army."
"Damn it, why is the Eighth Route Army here again?"
Lu Duoxian now hates and fears the Eighth Route Army. As soon as he heard that the Eighth Route Army was coming, he quickly ordered: "Quick, let the brothers hide on the steep slopes on both sides. Don't let this group of Eighth Route Army hit us and think of us again."
The enemy army was destroyed."
"Yes!"
Speaking of escaping, the soldiers of the 251st Regiment were not slow in their actions. Nearly 500 soldiers quickly hid behind the slopes on both sides of the mountain road.
Not long after, the sound of horse hooves was heard, and a group of cavalry came loaded with all kinds of equipment. Looking at it with wide eyes, each soldier had at least four or five guns on his back.
There are also some Japanese equipment.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of horse hooves traveled farther and farther, dust was still flying in the air, and the cavalry team had disappeared.
After a long while, Lu Duoxian led the team to walk on the mountain road again. The battalion commander came over and said: "Regiment leader, why am I looking at this Eighth Route Army just now? Does it look like the Eighth Route Army we met before?" p>
Lu Daxian said with a dark face: "What do you mean like? It's just these bastards."
"They stayed at the foot of the mountain to cut off our rear. The gunshots were heard earlier, and the fighting was quite fierce. Why did they suddenly appear here again, and they are all riding war horses?"
"Tuanzuo, could it be that the Eighth Route Army was wiped out by the Japanese and puppet troops that were chasing after them? I saw a crooked light machine gun in the team earlier."
Having said this, the officers of the 251st Regiment all trembled.
This group of Eighth Route Army soldiers is definitely not someone to be trifled with.
Lu Daxian scolded: "That's not what we should be thinking about now. The Eighth Route Army has withdrawn, and we have no troops behind us. Once the little devils catch up, we will be done with it. Send the order, and everyone will run forward." p>
"Yes!"
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to the early morning of the next day.
The major counterattack of the Japanese and puppet troops was over, and the news spread in all directions.
The craze for armed teams from all sides to rob the Japanese-occupied areas is gone forever.
The Japanese army's major counterattack also gradually came to an end.
In less than a day, except for the Eighth Route Army, which promptly shrunk its forces, all troops basically suffered heavy losses.
The troops that sneaked into the Japanese-occupied areas or attacked the surrounding areas occupied by the Japanese that day, whether they were the National Army or the Shanxi-Sui Army, were defeated by the Japanese counterattack. Without exception, they suffered heavy casualties.
After the Japanese army's major counterattack began, all armed forces stationed in villages and towns around the enemy-occupied areas were immediately raided by the Japanese army.
According to incomplete statistics, it took less than one day.
After the Japanese counterattack began, they defeated nearly eight regiments of the Jinsui Army and suffered more than three regiments casualties. They defeated nearly three regiments of the Central Army and suffered more than one regiment casualties. They defeated nearly four regiments of the local national army and suffered more than one regiment casualties.
Two regiments; defeat or eliminate the seventeenth bandit team...
As soon as this data came out, it was a big blow to China’s anti-Japanese armed forces.
The Japanese army was greatly encouraged. From the Eighth Route Army's large-scale raids to the wave of looting enemy-occupied areas, the Japanese soldiers finally felt the power of the imperial troops they had not seen for a long time.
In addition, there is actually another piece of data:
After the Japanese army launched a major counterattack, the Shanxi-Sui Army, the Central Army, and the National Army, which were attacked by the Japanese army, received help from the Eighth Route Army.
There are three regiments of the Eighth Route Army: the Independent Regiment, the New First Regiment, and the New Second Regiment.
After the Japanese army launched a counterattack, they provided timely assistance to rescue friendly troops.
The three regiments rescued more than a dozen National Army troops, including the Shanxi-Sui Army and the Central Army.
A total of nearly six regiments of the national army were rescued, and nearly one brigade of the Japanese army was eliminated.
After the news of this data spread, the entire northwestern Shanxi was shocked.
Boss Yan, the commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone, personally called the Eighth Route Army and offered praise for the Independent Regiment, New First Regiment, and New Second Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.
Of course, only verbal praise is allowed.
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Taiyuan City.
The commander of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, Yoshio Shinozuka, was depressed.
When talking about the results of this major counterattack, Yoshio Shinozuka said: "In response to China's armed robbery of our occupied areas, this counterattack has achieved certain results.
But the actual result is not satisfactory to me.
I remember that during the deployment before the battle, I specifically gave instructions that this time the order was to give priority to the elimination of the Eighth Route Army and bandit troops, and focus on attacking the Shanxi-Sui Army, the Central Army and the local national army.
The reason for issuing such an order is very clear.
Bandits will affect public order and should be killed.
The Eighth Route Army is currently our biggest enemy in the occupied areas.
As for the National Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army, in fact, they have been somewhat ambiguous with the Imperial Army during this period.
At this time, it would be best if we could pull them into the camp of the imperial forces or keep them neutral.
In this way, we can free up our hands to concentrate on dealing with the Eighth Route Army. After destroying the Eighth Route Army, we can finally deal with these Chinese armed forces.
This is the principle of communicating at a distance and attacking at a close distance in the Chinese art of war, and the same is true in front of us.
But the facts are beyond my control. This counterattack did not eliminate any troops of the Eighth Route Army.
On the contrary, they defeated and eliminated many troops from the Central Army of the National Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army.
The Eighth Route Army also secretly carried out sabotage and saved many national troops.
What does this look like?
It seems that the imperial troops are fighting to the death with the National Army, while the Eighth Route Army is taking the opportunity to help the National Army. It seems that we are in opposition to the National Army.
This is by no means the result we want to see.
We must transform the main contradiction between the imperial troops against the National Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army into the main contradiction between the imperial troops against the Eighth Route Army.
The current situation is extremely unfavorable for the transfer of conflicts."
Chief of Staff Kitagawa Ayushi smiled bitterly and said: "General, these Eighth Route Army are really cunning.
We received news that just before our army's counterattack began, various units of the Eighth Route Army suddenly withdrew their troops. We don't know if they sensed some rumors."
"So after the big counterattack started, only the national army, the Shanxi-Sui Army and the bandits fell into the trap."
"Then the Eighth Route Army jumped out again. While our army was fighting with the National Army's Jinsui Army, they secretly attacked and rescued some National Army and Jinsui Army."
Yoshio Shinozuka nodded and said one word: "Independence Group!"
"It's this independent group again, the one led by Kong Jie."
Kitagawa Ayumi said: "According to intelligence, not only this independent regiment, but also the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment, these three regiments of the Eighth Route Army, are at the forefront of our occupied area in northwestern Shanxi.
In other words, General, if the Imperial Army wants to eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area, we first need to break through the defenses of these three regiments of the Eighth Route Army.
Also, General, have you noticed?
Although the three small regiments of the Eighth Route Army are not worth mentioning, I accidentally discovered that these three regiments of the Eighth Route Army are quite interesting.
Judging from the map, the locations where these three regiments are stationed just form an overall triangular defense system.
I don't know if these Eighth Route Army generals have discovered this problem, but once such a system is formed, it will take a lot of effort for the imperial army to break through the overall defense formed by these three regiments."
Hearing this, Yoshio Shinozuka walked to the map and observed it.
Speaking of which, these two old devils.
One is the commander of the Japanese First Army, and the other is the chief of general staff of the Japanese First Army.
For such two big figures, at this moment, they are focusing their efforts on three small regiments of the Eighth Route Army. If word gets out, they will probably be laughed at.
Yoshio Shinozuka disagrees with this.
"Since Sakata-kun's sacrifice in the Battle of Cangyunling, this independent regiment has appeared in our sights."
"Then Qu County was attacked by surprise."
"Then Yamazaki-kun was destroyed, and the North China Arsenal was attacked by surprise."
"The independent regiment in front of us made a high-profile move during the Imperial Army's counterattack, rescuing the National Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army, and defeated the Imperial Army's multiple forces."
"If we analyze it from the perspective of team organization, the Eighth Route Army is a small regiment, so it is naturally not worth mentioning."
"But if we analyze it from the perspective of combat merit, destructive power, and threat level, this independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army poses a threat to the imperial troops no less than a division of the national army."
"Isn't this enough to attract our attention?"
Chief of Staff Kitagawa Ayushi responded: "What the general said is that if the Eighth Route Army in the occupied area is compared to a knife, this independent regiment can be said to be the tip of the Eighth Route Army's knife. As long as we can be the first to break the tip of the Eighth Route Army's knife, this
The knife is no longer so sharp."
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Shinozuka Yoshio's eyes fell on the map, roughly the area where the Independent Regiment's New First Regiment and New Second Regiment were located.
"Mr. Beichuan, you are right. Of these three regiments of the Eighth Route Army, the Independent Regiment is near Yangquan, the New First Regiment is near Taigu, and the New Second Regiment is near Ping'an County. The three-point defense zone is indeed integrated. It is indeed exquisite." "Among the defense systems in the art of war, the triangle defense system is the most stable.
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Of course, there are many different offensive tactics for defending the triangle defense system.
Mr. Beichuan, how do you think we should deal with the defenses of these three regiments after our army's big sweep begins?"
Beichuan thought for a moment and said: "If the general wants to break through the triangular defense system, he must attack one point, and he can choose the weakest point among the three points.
As long as one is broken, the entire defense system will collapse.
Or attack three points at the same time, which is enough with the strength of the imperial army.
No matter how solid this triangular defense is, there is only a limit to what it can withstand.
Once the disparity in military strength and strength is too large.
They can only be crushed to pieces by the imperial army."
Yoshio Shinozuka smiled and said: "That's true, I prefer the second style of play.
Once our First Army is dispatched, the force will be unstoppable.
How could three regiments of the tiny Eighth Route Army stop it?
After the big sweep began, we used these three regiments to try their hand at defeating the Eighth Route Army at its most violent point."
Kitagawa Ayumi said: "What the general said is, in addition, the focus is on this independent regiment.
Judging from the performance during this period.
The combat effectiveness of the independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army is the strongest among the three regiments, and the independent regiment must be defeated first."
"Then there is a new group. Judging from recent performance, once this new group grows up, I am afraid it will become the second independent group."
"Where is the new second group?" Yoshio Shinozuka asked.
Kitagawa Ayushi said: "The New Second Regiment is not enough evidence. According to intelligence, the New Second Regiment has just been established less than half a month ago. It is a new regiment built only by the Eighth Route Army. No matter in terms of the combat effectiveness of the troops or the equipment,
, have not yet developed.”
"Based on this aspect, I think that if the imperial army attacks three points of the triangle group at the same time, the new second group is likely to be the first group to be defeated."
"円西!" Yoshio Shinozuka nodded.
"The tactics of iron gun sweeps should be put on the agenda to cooperate with Yamamoto-kun's beheading operation. In addition, the observation group must prepare in advance. The success of this sweep will mean that our First Army will take the lead in carrying out iron gun operations.
The success of the mopping up tactics."
"If this method of warfare is effective in actual combat, once it is popularized, our imperial troops will be able to uproot all the Eighth Route Army in the occupied areas."
Quite confident words.
"Hi!" Kitagawa Ashi responded.
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Eighth Route Army.
The next day, before dawn, the boss had already found out the situation through the brigade commander.
The first thing is that the news from the brigade commander was indeed correct. The Japanese army was planning a major counterattack.
The sudden counterattack in front of us caused heavy losses to the national army and the Shanxi-Sui army.
The second thing is that the headquarters issued an order for all forces to immediately shrink their forces and stand by in place.
The result was good. I heard that the Independent Regiment, the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment launched a joint attack. Taking advantage of the counterattacking Japanese army, the National Army, the Shanxi-Sui Army, and the Central Army, they took the opportunity to eliminate many Japanese and puppet troops, and also rescued many.
National Army and Shanxi-Sui Army troops.
"More importantly, boss, I heard that Li Yunlong, Kong Jie, and Ding Wei not only took the opportunity to eliminate the Japanese and puppet troops.
It also brought along eight defeated friendly forces, including the Shanxi-Sui Army, the Central Army, and the local national army.
I also surrendered all their weapons."
"Is there still such a thing?"
"Yes, the news from the brigade commander said that all the equipment from Kong Jie has been sent over. Good guy, it's all equipment from the Jinsui Army and some from the National Army."
"When Kong Jie reported, he was very precise:
These equipments were proactively provided by the Jinsui Army and the National Army, and some were temporarily borrowed. They were definitely not taken by their independent regiments to rob friendly forces."
"In addition, Kong Jie also returned a batch of equipment to the Jinsui Army and gave a message to the Jinsui Army:
These equipments were lost by your Jinsui Army soldiers when they fled. Our independent regiment picked them up. We will return some of them to you right now, and we will hand over the rest to the headquarters.
If you, Commander Yan, want it, just come to our headquarters in person, and the boss at our headquarters will definitely return it to you."
When the boss heard this, he couldn't help laughing.
The worries of the recent supply cuts due to the national army seem to have been wiped away.
"If Yan Laoxi is willing to show off his face and come to ask for equipment, hehe, I will really give it back to him."
"Kong Jie, this boy played this hand wonderfully!"
"If you swallow the equipment of friendly forces, you can still make them speechless. If you break the steel teeth, you have to swallow it in your own belly."
"It's just that I'm a little curious. The equipment that Kong Jie mentioned can actually be sent to the Jinsui Army in batches?"
The deputy chief of staff laughed and said: "In a rare act of generosity, I gave away one or two hundred broken guns. The parts are incomplete. If they were put in the arsenal, they would probably be disposed of as scrap."
Hahahaha——
In the earthen house of the headquarters, everyone could no longer hold back and burst into laughter.
Then, everyone praised Kong Jie, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, and also praised the brigade commander for his skill in leading the troops.
The boss changed the topic and scolded with a smile: "You can't just see the cleverness of these three brats. These three brats disobey orders and secretly go out to do little things. I can't take this lightly."
"In the past, you used to do bad things for me one by one, but now it's better, now the three bad boys are getting together."
Everyone asked, "Boss, how do you want to punish these three leaders?"
The boss thought for a moment and said with a serious face: "Kong Jie, I heard that this guy gave some stoves and some briquettes to the brigade commander some time ago, saying he was bringing warmth.
This is outrageous. We are sending it to the brigade headquarters but not to our headquarters?
This is treating one person favorably and favoring another, which is too unkind. I punish him by sending a batch of warmth to the headquarters."
"Ding Wei, I heard that this kid likes to drink, so I will punish him not to drink for a week."
"As for the little bastard Li Yunlong, if you have one, let him come to the headquarters and go to the cooking class to cook for me for a long time."
After the boss finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter again.
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The deputy chief of staff smiled and said: "Boss, is your punishment unfair? Why do I think that punishing Li Yunlong is more severe than punishing Kong Jie and Ding Wei?"
That’s right.
For Kong Jie, it is not a punishment, but it is clearly a favor.
How many regiment leaders want to send warmth to the headquarters, but they can't find a reason!
As for Ding Wei, even if he was fined with drinking for a week, at least he would do it in his own group.
One week passed in the blink of an eye, as the boss meant.
Only Li Yunlong would make a fool of himself if he came to the headquarters to stir up trouble!
The boss said with a straight face: "This kind of punishment is the fairest. Think about it, there is always a leader in everything. This time the three regiments of them are fighting together. I think it must be the idea of this bastard Li Yunlong."<
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"Ding Wei and Kong Jie are good comrades. They must have been led astray by this bastard Li Yunlong. If I don't punish Li Yunlong additionally, will he not be able to mess with me in the future?"
"Agree!"
"That's for sure!"
The cadres nodded one after another.
This is consistent thinking. Don’t think about it. As long as the following does bad things, Li Yunlong is involved.
This kid must have done it, that’s right.
If it wasn’t him, it had to be him.
Who told him, Li Yunlong, to be "famous" since the Long March!
There is no need for the boss to spend more energy to find out about such a trivial matter, right?
Even if he, Li Yunlong, is really wronged.
In the boss’s original words:
"You have to hold it in for me."
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New Second Group.
A sneeze, a sneeze, a sneeze——
Li Yunlong sneezed several times in a row, rubbing his nose and looking suspicious.
If you sneeze all the time, it's probably bad luck.
"Report to the head of the regiment, a call from the brigade headquarters, saying that the boss asked you to go to the headquarters."
"Headquarters? What are you doing at the headquarters?" Li Yunlong wondered.
"I don't know the details, but the brigade commander said that this time our New Second Regiment saved the friendly troops, eliminated the Japanese, and won the battle. The boss was very happy when he heard about it."
Li Yunlong immediately felt relieved, slapped his thigh, and said happily: "I understand, I won the battle, the boss is happy, and he will reward me! Hurry, prepare your horse, I will go to the headquarters right away."
"Yes!"
Li Yunlong quickly rode on his horse and, accompanied by guard Hu Zi, galloped towards the headquarters.
Finally arrived at the place, and as soon as he entered the house, Li Yunlong's loud voice rang out.
Lao Li never saw anyone else, whether he arrived at the brigade or the headquarters.
This person who has made great contributions should definitely be honored.
"Haha, boss, report to the boss, Li Yunlong is here to report, I miss you so much!"
The boss who was studying the battle map frowned when he heard the loud voice, turned his head and glanced at Li Yunlong, and said without saltiness: "Just come, I'm going to die with the big pots in my cooking class."
Come on, hurry up, hurry up, and scrape away the accumulated ashes for me. Everyone is still waiting to eat!"
Li Yunlong: "??????"
Seeing Li Yunlong froze in place, the boss said unhappily: "Why, do you have any objections?"
Li Yunlong hurriedly saluted: "How dare I do this? Yes, boss, please rest assured, I promise to complete the task!"
After that, Li Yunlong rolled up his sleeves and walked towards the cooking class.