619 To hold off two divisions of the Japanese invaders, blood and sweat set a precedent
The main combat force of another regiment of the Eighth Route Army appeared in the area of Dashu Village and launched a sneak attack on the county seat.
When the news came out, it was not just Kenichi Santo who was dumbfounded.
As for the Japanese military headquarters, the Japanese officers were almost paralyzed and didn't know what to make of their judgment for a moment.
This happened again and again, first Guhe Town, then Qingshan Village, and then Dashu Village.
As for the real purpose of the Eighth Route Army troops, the little devil was completely confused.
When the mountain company's battle in Dashu Village began, the Japanese army focused all its attention on the two areas of Qingshan Village and Furukawa Town where the battle had just taken place.
In addition, the Dashu Village area is located at the southwest top of the entire Zhongtiao Mountain, and it does not have much military value.
There are not many Japanese troops stationed here.
Based on the judgment of Qingshan Village and Furukawa Town, the Japanese army even believed that the Eighth Route Army troops that sneaked into the county town of Dashu Village would also evacuate quickly before reinforcements arrived.
Therefore, the Japanese military command did not think much and ordered the Japanese reinforcements from the counties around Dashu Village to send reinforcements to Dashu Village as usual.
Due to the small number of Japanese troops stationed on the southwest border, there are only two squadrons of Japanese troops sending reinforcements to Dashu Village this time.
When the Japanese reinforcements arrived at the county town near Dashu Village, the Eighth Route Army troops that originally attacked the county town disappeared without a trace again.
The two Japanese squadron leaders who led the team did not think much. After confirming that the Eighth Route Army had evacuated, they made handovers with the county defenders and prepared to return to their respective counties with reinforcements.
The two Japanese squadrons split up on the way, and the counties they were responsible for stationing in were in two directions.
As a result, what caught the little devil off guard was that the two teams were suddenly ambushed by Eighth Route Army troops on the mountain road on their way back.
It turns out that the final battle took place around Dashu Village.
The real purpose of Han Feng and his party is to target these two Japanese squadrons.
Han Feng and his party had already conducted detailed investigations into the Japanese garrison situation around Dashu Village.
Therefore, before the battle, Han Feng, Zhang Min and Du Zhongcheng judged that once the mountain company arrived at Dashu Village, the third combat area, and attacked the county seat, the reinforcements sent by the Japanese army should range from two squadrons to one brigade.
Between forces.
This is the perfect opportunity for the mountain company to make a false shot and ambush the Japanese squadron.
In the final analysis, whether it is the battle in Furukawa Town, the battle in Qingshan Village, or the battle in Dashu Village in front of us.
The three mountain companies seemed to be powerful, but in fact they did not inflict any heavy blow on the Japanese army.
What's great is that we just robbed the city gate position.
What Han Feng and the others want to achieve is not just to suddenly appear on the three battlefields of Zhongtiao Mountain and use their troops to confuse the Japanese.
What's more important is to beat the little devil and arouse his anger.
In this way, the Japanese army will invest more troops in the Zhongtiao Mountain area to carry out encirclement and suppression.
This also achieved the goal of Han Feng and his men to hold back the Japanese army in the Zhongtiao Mountain area.
On the mountain road.
The two unsuspecting Japanese squadrons stepped into the ambush circle laid by Han Feng and his party.
There is not much suspense in the next battle.
The soldiers fought for more than a hundred miles, but they were all harmed by these little devils, and they had already suppressed their anger.
Once the battle broke out, the soldiers of the mountain company relied on multiple advantages such as troops, equipment, firepower, and terrain.
Directly gaining the absolute upper hand.
Before the battle broke out, Han Feng once said to Zhang Min and Du Zhongcheng:
"This ambush battle is either not fought. Since we choose to fight, we must fight to scare the little devil!"
"Use the heads of these hundreds of little devils to demonstrate the powerful combat effectiveness of our mountain company."
"This time we deployed all our elites with the goal of annihilating the two squadrons of the Japanese army.
I just want to tell the little devils with practical actions that there are many elite Eighth Route Army troops like us in this mountainous area!
The Eighth Route Army combat groups that appeared in Guhe Town, Qingshan Village, and Dashu Village are all elite combat units like us."
"Only in this way can we make the little devils have trouble sleeping and eating with the more than 6,000 main force that they mistakenly believe."
"Only the devils will go crazy and attack us."
"And once the Japanese go crazy, we can hold back three times, five times, or even more troops than the Japanese."
...artillery fire was flying and gunshots were heard.
Once the ambush battle started, it entered a fever pitch.
This time, the soldiers attacked with all their strength, and it was no longer a feint attack like the previous attack on the county town.
Mines were set up to block the Japanese retreat route; grenades were thrown and machine gun fire was suppressed; 50 small artillery and 60 mortars took turns to cover the area.
Immediately afterwards, a close-range charge was launched, and the submachine gun team took the lead in sweeping the battlefield with firepower...
This is an ambush battle without any bells and whistles.
In less than ten minutes, the battle is coming to an end.
To say that these two squadrons, with nearly 400 Japanese soldiers, should not be so weak.
It is a pity that the Japanese did not take advantage of the right time and location from the beginning.
On the slopes on both sides of the mountain road, bullets from the Eighth Route Army rained down, and there were also explosive packets that were detonated from time to time in the ambush circle.
The little devil who was on the bare mountain road was ambushed from both sides. There were no bunkers around him, and he no longer had the same might as when he defended the county seat.
It was completely a one-sided massacre.
It would take at least an hour for the reinforcements from nearby counties to arrive.
The Japanese and puppet troops in the county town where the Mountain Company had previously attacked wanted to come for reinforcements, but they were blocked halfway by two platoons of reinforcement troops arranged by Han Feng in advance, and they could not get close at all.
More than an hour passed.
When the Japanese command was furious, a makeshift Japanese brigade rushed to ambush the mountain road.
The battle has long since ended, leaving only the white corpses of Japanese soldiers wearing loincloths.
In addition, the little devil didn't even see a bullet casing.
This shows that this battle ended quickly.
The Japanese captain who arrived analyzed that the battle might have ended in less than twenty minutes, otherwise the Eighth Route Army would not have been able to clean the battlefield so thoroughly.
But in less than twenty minutes, two squadrons of the empire were wiped out.
Even in an ambush battle, the combat effectiveness of this Eighth Route Army unit ambushed here is evident.
The Japanese military command completely miscalculated.
It was originally thought that the Eighth Route Army's sudden attack on the county towns around Dashu Village was a repeat of the previous two situations.
But who would have thought that these cunning gangsters are here to kill people this time!
"Another main force of the Eighth Route Army, and it also showed such strong combat effectiveness that it destroyed two squadrons of our empire in a short period of time. The equipment of this Eighth Route Army is better than we expected!"
41st Division Headquarters.
Analyzed by old devil Kenichi Yamato.
At this moment, he no longer dared to underestimate the Eighth Route Army troops appearing everywhere in Zhongtiao Mountain.
And realized that he had encountered a difficult opponent.
"Guhe Town, Qingshan Village, Dashu Village... From Guhe Town at dusk yesterday to Dashu Village at dusk today, there were three battles in one day, exposing no less than 6,000 main combat troops of the Eighth Route Army. And the firepower was fierce.
Extremely powerful in combat."
Kenichi Santo analyzed the situation based on the combat map, frowning.
"What is the ultimate goal of these eight groups? To use such a large formation and divide it into three battlefields just to ambush our two squadrons?"
The Japanese chief of staff suddenly said: "General, is there such a possibility? The Eighth Route Army deliberately exposed its strength and took the initiative to launch a battle in order to drag our army in the Zhongtiao Mountain area?"
Santo Kenichi was startled, and then the more he thought about it, the more he felt that what the chief of staff said was very possible.
"The Eighth Route Army is quite united, and these Eighth Route Army must be closely connected with the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Base Area.
If they cause trouble here, they can hold back more of our imperial troops and reduce the pressure on the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Base Area."
"This judgment is very common sense."
The Japs chief of staff said: "General, what I'm more confused about now is that we have been secretly monitoring the Zhongtiao Mountain area, but we have never noticed the arrival of a large group of Eighth Route Army troops.
Where did the main combat force of the Eighth Route Army, which suddenly appeared with more than 6,000 people, come from?"
Santo Kenichi was silent, with helplessness on his face.
"Perhaps they were secretly transferred from other base areas, or perhaps they were secretly developed in the Zhongtiao Mountain area.
The Eighth Route Army's troops are developing at a rapid pace, and the Hundred Regiment Campaign they announced is the best proof."
"In any case, these eight-pronged groups have completely kept us in the dark."
As for the main combat units of the Eighth Route Army that appeared in Guhe Town, Zhongshan Village and Dashu Village, they were linked into the same Eighth Route Army unit.
From the beginning to the end, the old Japanese soldier Yamato Kenichi and the Japanese chief of staff never even thought about it.
Appeared in Furukawa Town at dusk.
I ran to Qingshan Village overnight.
Then he appeared in the Dashu Village area before it got dark!
The total distance before and after is nearly 160 kilometers.
Still in the endless mountains of Zhongtiao Mountain.
This is simply impossible and completely goes against common sense.
It’s incredible!
In addition, the performance of these three Eighth Route Army combat units is also different.
Lay down the gate of Furukawa Town.
Sneak attack on the middle county town.
Ambush two squadrons in Dashu Village area!
Kenichi Santo would rather speculate that these three Eighth Route Army units were related to each other, but never thought that these three units would be the same Eighth Route Army combat unit.
The Japanese army, whose transportation mechanization far exceeds that of the Eighth Route Army, is probably used to being pampered.
Even if it is a flat road, allowing them to walk 100 kilometers a day seems to them to be a fantasy.
They would never believe that someone could use their feet to cover a distance of nearly 160 kilometers in a mountainous area in one day.
Is that still a human being?
Not to mention that this is a group of people.
"General, according to our judgment, does the Eighth Route Army dare to expose their strength so easily? Does it have another purpose, or does it mean that there may be more troops behind them?"
"According to the intelligence at hand, there are at least 6,000 main forces of the Eighth Route Army in the Zhongtiao Mountain Area."
"There may be others in other areas. No one knows whether they will emerge from somewhere and suddenly attack the county."
The Japanese chief of staff said solemnly: "In addition, it is located in a mountainous area, and the Eighth Route Army is best at fighting guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare."
"Our 41st Division is not only responsible for the encirclement and suppression of the Eighth Route Army troops in these three areas, but also responsible for the security of Linfen and the surrounding counties. Our troop strength is inevitably stretched."
Santo Kenichi thought for a while and said: "We will discuss the specific situation after reporting it to the headquarters."
"If nothing else happens, the 47th or 36th Division will also come to help."
Calculated in this way, plus the 3,000 Japanese troops that the Central Army can hold back.
The national guerrillas could hold back a thousand Japanese troops.
There are also some Japanese troops stationed in various county towns in Zhongtiao Mountain for security purposes.
"Comrades, after the successful completion of this plan, we will disperse the teams in the future and continue to fight guerrillas. In response to the cold-blooded campaign within our independent regiment, we will set off firecrackers, blow bugles, and carry out sneak attacks in the form of combat squads. p>
In short, there is always a lot of movement and noise."
"We have to create an illusion for the little devils. The mountains and plains of Zhongtiao Mountain are filled with guerrilla troops of our Eighth Route Army."
"As a result, our actions this time will serve as confusion."
"Once the Japs are fooled, it means that we can even hold back nearly two Japanese divisions!"
"With barely one regiment of troops, we can forcefully drag down two Japanese divisions! Comrades, this will create a precedent that has never been seen in the history of our Eighth Route Army's operations."
After finally completing all this, when the soldiers rested greedily to relieve their fatigue, Han Feng said loudly.
With this conclusion, all the soldiers felt a great sense of pride.
"All of this was made possible by our soldiers with blood and sweat!"