"The one-hour safety time has passed. Immediately notify all forces to retreat to their respective bases."
A team headquarters looked at the watch in his hand, and Kong Jie gave the order without hesitation.
Chief of Staff Xu Guoan also felt a little pity.
"Lao Kong, the Japs' reinforcements moved too fast this time. If the Japs hadn't surrounded us and given us two more hours, not only would we have taken away all the intercepted grain, but even the train would have been stripped off by him. In addition, the Japs
The advanced strongholds, gun towers, and some remote villages and towns can all be captured by us."
"The future is long, don't rush for a while." Kong Jie said with a smile.
"Inform all troops to lay a large number of mines along the highways and railways after retreat. Even if we withdraw, we will not make it easy for the little devils."
"These are the latest batch of killing kings produced by the armory and distributed to all regiments. It's time for the little devils in northwest Shanxi to have a taste of them."
"Yes!"
At this time, you can look down from above the entire Yangquan area.
This battle was initiated by the First Anti-Japanese Detachment of the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi. It was mainly a grain robbery operation, uprooting Japanese strongholds, and supplemented by artillery towers.
Except for the Fourth Independent Regiment, which established an anti-Japanese revolutionary base in Zhongtiao Mountain.
Almost the entire independent group participated.
The main force of the three regiments has invested nearly 6,000 troops.
Some are responsible for providing reinforcements, while others are removing strongholds. At first glance, the entire Yangquan seems to be a mess.
However, each team is either a company or a battalion as a combat unit, with orderly division of labor and tacit cooperation, dividing the entire battlefield into local battlefields, thus evolving into local combat with superior strength. p>
In addition to the main combat troops, militia troops and local troops also invested nearly 4,000 people.
The number of migrant workers' groups represented by the migrant workers' group led by Xie Baoqing, including ordinary people from each village, who actively participated in this transportation operation was even greater, exceeding 10,000.
This is a large-scale group that fully reflects the close cooperation and high-efficiency collaboration between teams.
Just like looking at the densely packed ants in an anthill, you may think that they are disorganized, but in fact all ants have a specific division of labor.
During the hour from dusk to dark.
With the close cooperation of the main force, militia forces, local troops, migrant workers' groups and various civilian groups.
The soldiers and civilians of the Eighth Route Army showed amazing collective strength.
In just one hour, the three routes transported by the Japanese army to Yangquan totaled more than a thousand tons of military rations and more than a million kilograms of grain.
The soldiers and civilians transported more than one million kilograms of grain through military trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, and most primitive transportation methods such as carts, mule carriages, and even manpower.
The main combat force, with the cooperation of local troops and militia forces, overthrew in one fell swoop fifty-six forward strongholds that the Japanese army had gradually built toward the Taihang base area.
Killed more than 600 old Japanese who had been stationed in the stronghold for a long time.
These old Japanese soldiers are stationed at the stronghold on weekdays, and from time to time they conduct terrain surveys around the stronghold and draw military maps used in raids.
They often served as guides for the Japanese invaders during large-scale raids launched by the Japanese army, and their crimes were too numerous to list.
In addition, this battle successfully destroyed 13 Japanese military bridges and destroyed dozens of Japanese railway lines.
In one night, the entire area around Yangquan was turned upside down by the independent group.
Far away at the headquarters of the Japanese First Army in Taiyuan City, the old Japanese Yoshio Shinozuka, who was closely following the battle situation, gritted his teeth and reluctantly gave up some bait in order to capture the final target.
He constantly urged all forces to speed up the encirclement.
In about an hour and a half, the Japanese's first batch of automobile troops and tank troops surrounded Yangquan, completely blocking the main passes leaving the Yangquan area.
In about two hours, Japanese reinforcements gradually arrived.
By two and a half hours, the Japanese army did not hesitate to waste manpower and material resources. The main force of the two brigades, which were traveling at night, also officially arrived at the planned encirclement position and formed a large net to completely surround the entire combat area. p>
In the end, it took less time than Yoshio Shinozuka expected.
All this put a smile on the old devil's face that showed he was sure of victory.
The next step is to close up and surround, like fishermen casting a big fishing net, looking forward to the final harvest.
Yoshio Shinozuka, who was afraid that the Eighth Route Army in the encirclement would run away, did not hesitate to issue an order to attack at night, and also ordered some large and medium-sized strongholds that had not been breached by the independent regiment to attack at the same time, cooperate inside and outside, and attack front and rear in the encirclement.
The Eighth Route.
In the dim night.
The cold land gradually became lively, with gunshots and cannons ringing out from time to time, and some continuous explosions.
The Japanese troops who went out of their strongholds and the Japanese troops who narrowed their encirclement and advanced were caught off guard and encountered many landmines soon after.
These mines were laid very cunningly.
Some are on the edge of the highway, and some are even placed in the middle of the bridge.
Then, as the Japanese troops advanced, they encountered a nightmarish killing weapon - the directional anti-infantry mine, affectionately called the King of Killing by the Eighth Route Army soldiers.
In the dark night, a large number of iron balls, steel nails, and fragments were quickly shot out in a wide fan-shaped impact area.
Sweeping it away is a large area, either dead or disabled.
As they advanced along the way, the Japanese and puppet troops did not even see half of the Eighth Route Army, and the vanguard troops suffered heavy casualties while constantly encountering mine traps.
When the news was reported back, the Japanese officers in the command team were shocked.
The area surrounded by groups looked like a bottomless abyss in the dark night, and like a steel frame filled with butcher knives. It seemed that no matter how many lives there were, there wouldn't be enough to fill it.
The little devils no longer dare to take advantage of the darkness and advance carelessly.
They found a large number of military flashlights, and some simply lit torches. In addition, they asked the engineers to continue exploring with mine detectors, for fear of making a wrong move and falling into the Eighth Route Trap again.
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In this way, the busy and frightened little devils would trigger some traps from time to time until dawn the next day.
When the soldiers made an emergency retreat at night and jumped out of the enemy encirclement in time, the common people replenished their physical strength after a night of sleep and felt refreshed.
On the other side, the little devils who had stayed up all night found out in frustration after dawn.
There was no trace of the Eighth Route Army in the entire encirclement. They spent the whole night dealing with various mine traps left behind after the Eighth Route Army evacuated.
The King of Killing newly developed by the Independent Regiment was presented to the little devils in Shanxi for the first time.
Looking at the curved steel plate, which was only the size of two palms, the little devils called it a devil's weapon made by the Eighth Route Army.
...Japanese troops stationed in the headquarters of the First Army in Shanxi.
I learned that I had planned a lot of things, and spent such a huge battle, and mobilized troops overnight to encircle them. In the end, it was all in vain, and all the eight routes in the encirclement were missing.
Yoshio Shinozuka was silent for a long time, his heart full of depression as if he had punched the air.
It's like casting a fishing net, expecting to catch a dazzling array of big fish, only to find that there isn't even a fart in the net.
Beichuan, the Japanese chief of staff, thought this was incredible:
"According to intelligence analysis from all parties, the number of troops mobilized by the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army will definitely not be less than 10,000."
"In such a short period of time, not to mention their timely evacuation, they actually transported all the millions of kilograms of food our army had, blew up dozens of our army's forward strongholds, and destroyed various transportation lines.
A considerable degree of destruction was carried out."
At the end, there was a depressed sigh:
"General, are these Eighth Route Army the natural enemies of our Japanese Empire?"
"They don't have trains, a large number of transportation vehicles, or convenient transportation channels. They just rely on manpower. How do they do all this?"
No one told Kitagawa the answer. Even Yoshio Shinozuka was puzzled by this problem.
They can never understand what the strength of the united Chinese people is...