The sudden arrival of combat troops from all sides made the Japanese army quite overwhelmed by defenses from all sides.
It's like a dam leaking water everywhere. The little devils hurriedly blocked one place, and other Chinese armed forces immediately dug holes in the second and third places.
The more supplements you take, the worse the situation becomes!
Under the fierce attack of the main combat force of the Eighth Route Army, Yoshio Shinozuka decided to abandon Yangguan, Pingbei, and Hanoi, three large strongholds that were originally used to block the outer lines of the Eighth Route Army's base areas.
As the Japanese troops retreated.
Yoshio Shinozuka originally thought that after these damn Eighth Route Army captured the three strongholds of Yangguan, Pingbei, and Hanoi, they should give up, right?
Who would have known that these Tubal Road troops would intensify their efforts and become more and more rampant. After seizing the Yangguan, Pingbei and Hanoi strongholds, they would continue their offensive and continue to launch victorious pursuits into some of the more remote counties and towns in the Japanese quasi-security zone.
Attack.
At the same time, the Japanese military command department received news from all directions:
Originally, in the northwest Shanxi area, the Eighth Route Army troops in various base areas launched night raids against the Japanese and puppet troops.
Without exception, they avoided some counties and towns that were mainly defended by the Japanese army, and chose some remote towns and small and medium-sized strongholds where the Japanese army's military strength was relatively weak and the defensive power was relatively fragile.
They even conducted raids on some traffic lines in the Japanese quasi-security zone.
The all-night offensive, after a detachment of the Eighth Route Army took the lead in launching attacks on Yangguan, Pingbei and Hanoi strongholds, gradually evolved into an out-of-control situation.
"General, these damn Tuba Road are simply crazy. They are like a group of mad dogs, except for some counties and towns that are firmly controlled by our army.
Including our army's quasi-security areas and even some stable marginal security areas, they were all attacked by these Eighth Route Army troops!"
After getting the relevant information from the Communications Ministry, Kitagawa, the Japanese chief of staff, rushed to the headquarters and reported to Shinozuka Yoshio.
At the same time, he brought another piece of news to Yoshio Shinozuka that was not very harmful, but extremely insulting:
"In addition, general, this time together with these damn Tubal Road attacks on the security and quasi-security areas of our empire, in addition to the Eighth Route Army, we even found bandits among them!"
"Nani?"
A look of astonishment appeared on Yoshio Shinozuka's face, and then turned into uncontrollable anger.
Such a situation really reminded Yoshio Shinozuka of an old Chinese saying:
The tiger fell down and was bullied by the dog!
These days, anyone really dares to come out and step on the Empire of Japan.
Night.
A certain township.
As early as a few years ago, the township was completely occupied and has been in the hands of the Japanese. Occasionally, some guerrilla troops of the Eighth Route Army appeared and was designated as a quasi-security area by the Japanese army.
Due to its remote location, the Japanese troops stationed there are not many, with less than two squads of Japanese soldiers.
After the night fighting began, the township was suddenly attacked by an armed force.
The Japanese communications troops came in a hurry to report.
The highest Japanese commander in charge of the garrison, a Japs second lieutenant, asked with all his face: "Baga, with such a formation, it must be the damn Tubal Army coming to attack. How many people came from the Eighth Army? What is the specific firepower configuration?" p>
"...Your Majesty the Second Lieutenant, it seems that they are not the Eighth Route Army, but a group of bandits!"
"Nani? Say it again!"
"It's a group of bandits!" the communications soldier repeated helplessly.
"Baga!"
The Japanese second lieutenant, who was quite annoyed and angry, cursed, "Do these damn Chinese bandits dare to ignore the power of our Japanese Empire?"
The furious Japanese second lieutenant immediately led more than 20 little Japanese soldiers to the township's fortifications to defend.
Although the battle between the two sides was not a large-scale confrontation, it was still extremely fierce.
The firepower was not particularly fierce, but it still dispersed a lot of local darkness.
The leader of the attack was a relatively large group among the dozen or so bandit groups who had received Xie Baoqing's letter this time and were following the Eighth Route Army to fight the Japanese.
The entire bandit team has more than 150 people in total, which is not much different from the Heiyun Village back then.
The bandit leader who led the team had a tough look on his face, which was completely different from the former head of Heiyun Village, Xie Baoqing, who had a somewhat sour taste.
He opened his mouth: "Brothers, have you all heard of Captain Kong of the First Division of the Eighth Route Army, the one who never blinked when he chopped off the heads of little devils?"
"Hmph, I'm not bragging to you. Do you know how proud your boss is?
This time Captain Kong was preparing to deal with the Japs. He specifically asked Xie Baoqing, the then head of Heiyun Village, to write a letter to me.
What are you doing?
You want us to fight the Japanese together and make money!
Even though we are bandits, we still admire from the bottom of our hearts the good men who kill the Japanese, such as Captain Kong.
Captain Kong invited us to kill the Japanese, can we be vague?"
After saying these rough and rude words, he not only gave himself enough face, but also boosted the morale of all the minions.
As expected, the minions started shouting and drinking.
The second master even echoed: "Master, Captain Kong is a very difficult person to offend. If he can write to you personally, that means he thinks highly of you, master.
In addition, we have heard that Xie Baoqing, the head of Heiyun Village at the time, became prosperous after joining Captain Kong.
Good guy, now he is the leader of a team of migrant workers, and I heard there are thousands of people under him!
You want face, you want reputation, you want reputation, it’s not glamorous.
Brother, since we are going to follow Captain Kong and the others to fight the Japanese this time, we should be a big vote-getter, collect enough votes for us, and join Captain Kong in the future!"
The bandit leader said happily: "Haha, the second brother is right, that's what I mean.
We have been doing this business of robbing families and homes for so many years. This business will not last long and we are tired of it.
If brothers have this kind of backbone, after killing the Japanese this time, we will join the Eighth Route Army when we turn around!"
After thinking about it like this, the bandits finally felt that it was not interesting to just attack some small and medium-sized strongholds and sneak attacks on some small Japanese villages.
So I chose this township as the target of attack.
Fighting broke out suddenly at night.
It should be said that when this group of bandits fights, they still use their brains.
They may not know much about tactics, but when it comes to stalking sentries at night and carrying out sneak attacks, this group of bandits is very familiar with it.
First, they sent out a few skilled old gangsters, took the opportunity to get in, and knocked down a few sentries on guard at the fortifications.
Immediately afterwards, the remaining bandit gangsters, with their special skills, easily used the cover of night to sneak into the outer defense fortifications built by the Japanese and puppet troops, and temporarily lurked.
Due to the remote location of this township and its less important military role, there is not even an ancient city wall on the periphery of the entire township.
There are only some fortifications and checkpoints set up by the Japanese army on certain official roads that must be passed through.
That's it.
It wasn't until more than 100 bandits had almost touched the fortifications built by the Japanese and puppet troops that the battle suddenly started.
In the end, the two sides fought for more than 20 minutes.
24 little devils, plus nearly 30 puppet soldiers, were all killed by this group of bandits.
The bandits relied on sneak attacks and captured the Japanese sentries in advance, but even so, the casualties were still not small. Fifty or sixty people were killed and more than twenty people were injured.
The angry bandit leader was cursing, but at the same time he had to sigh: "This little devil really has two brushes.
Had it not been for our good sneak attack this time, and the small number of Japanese and puppet troops defending here, we would have really fallen here.
Only now can I realize that Captain Kong is capable of killing hundreds or thousands of imps at every turn, and that’s really not an exaggeration!”
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Battles similar to the bandit forces' sneak attacks on some towns, villages and small and medium-sized strongholds in the Japanese quasi-security areas are not uncommon at night.
The news came one after another, which made the Japanese commanders very angry.
Until about four o'clock in the evening.
The main force of one team and each regiment to attack the strongholds of Yangguan, Pingbei and Hanoi has basically come to an end.
But in the entire northwestern Shanxi, the battle did not stop because of the end of a team's attack on the Japanese stronghold. On the contrary, it intensified.
The entire northwestern Shanxi Province even turned into a pot of porridge tonight.
In the northwestern Shanxi area, the Japanese army mainly occupied the counties, towns and other areas on the edge of some quasi-security areas outside the stable security areas.
Some small and medium-sized strongholds originally used by the Japanese army to guard and blockade the Eighth Route Army base areas were actively attacked by the Eighth Route Army troops.
Because all this happened suddenly and with great momentum.
On this extremely cold night again, the Japanese and puppet troops were caught off guard.
The Eighth Route Army combat units operating in the northwest area of Shanxi took advantage of tonight's attack on the Japanese army by all forces to further expand the area of the guerrilla zone.
At the same time, they took advantage of the chaos and captured many small and medium-sized strongholds of the Japanese army, and demolished a large number of forward strongholds built by the kidnappers towards the Eighth Route Army base.
You must know that these advanced strongholds are currently being prepared by the Japanese as base stations for raiding the Eighth Route Army base areas in the future.
Destroyed in large numbers tonight.
It is equivalent to the Japanese secretly preparing for months of hard work, just destroyed in one day.
By the next day, the Japanese and puppet troops finally suffered until dawn.
When Japanese reinforcements brave the severe cold, they will also send reinforcements to various quasi-security areas that have been raided by the Eighth Route Army.
The flying troops who were ready to fly at the Japanese airfield warmed up their engines and had to fly out even in the severe cold.
The result...
Last night, like a tide, a large number of Chinese armed forces poured out from all directions, including the Eighth Route Army troops, Shanxi-Sui Army troops, and even some bandits.
It was as if the world had evaporated overnight.
After dawn the next day, five or six Japanese reconnaissance planes circled and roared back and forth over some quasi-security areas of the Japanese army in northwest Shanxi, conducting reconnaissance.
As far as the eye can see, there is a blanket of white snow.
Can we still see half of the Eighth Route Army, or the shadow of the Chinese armed forces from all sides?
For the Japanese and puppet troops, everything is like a dream.
If it weren't for the large number of bombed defenses and the bodies of soldiers lying on the cold ground forever, they would never wake up again.
They can hardly believe that all this is true.
"Baga, these damn Eight Roads are so cunning!"
At the First Army Headquarters, Yoshio Shinozuka slammed his fist on the desk angrily.
On the entire land of northwest Shanxi, the snow has not disappeared, the cold wind is howling, and even the air seems to have completely condensed due to the unusually severe cold. Everything is in deathly silence, expressing the chill and coldness of the winter.
This is the battle plan for day and night battles jointly formulated by Kong Jie, Xu Guoan and other Eighth Route Army commanders at the first team headquarters.
The feast of killing is far from over.
In Kong Jie's words: "This is just the beginning. Every night in the future, we will keep the little devil awake all night and be shrouded in endless fear!"
During the day.
The soldiers repaired greedily and restored their physical fitness as much as possible.
Take a combat unit with three regiments as an example. With the outbreak of the Pacific War and the continuous withdrawal of elite Japanese troops, the overall combat strength of the Japanese army continued to decline.
In addition, with the help of this winter, Kong Jie's team took the lead in launching a major counterattack against the Japanese First Army in Shanxi in the quasi-public security area in northwest Shanxi.
One team has achieved considerable results.
Among them are a large amount of territory that originally belonged to the Japanese army's quasi-security zones seized back from the Japs, including some advanced strongholds that the Japs were forced to abandon.
After successfully capturing these strongholds, Kong Jie discovered that although this little devil was hateful, the role of the advanced strongholds built, especially in the cold winter when the natural environment was the most harsh and cruel, was that
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Kong Jie did not waste such a good stronghold and buildings such as turrets.
After being snatched from the hands of the Japanese, they were repaired and transformed, and they directly became a team of Eighth Route Army soldiers, while guarding the core base of a team.
Recover lost territory outwards and attack the important midway military depots, granaries and rest stops of the Japanese invaders.
It can even be used as a temporary information and communication station.
The troops that originally launched attacks on small and medium-sized Japanese strongholds and remote villages and towns at night, before dawn, withdrew to the outer lines of a team's base area in advance, and to some nearby strongholds that had been controlled by the soldiers, and then adjusted and rested.<
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Everyone cooks together, and relying on one team can fully ensure the logistics, transportation and support capabilities of the frontline combat troops.
The soldiers ate warm meals and heated themselves with charcoal fires, quickly recovering their physical fitness and combat effectiveness.
With such a full day's rest, at night, the soldiers can immediately return to a lively state.
As Wang Leihu, the leader of the Second Regiment, said: "Comrades, it's daytime, let's eat as soon as possible and sleep as soon as possible.
Let's recover all our physical strength. Once it gets dark, let's continue to fuck that little devil!"
The soldiers responded with laughter, and with their high fighting spirit and happy atmosphere, the food in their mouths became extraordinarily sweet.
New Second Group.
Li Yunlong is like a wild wolf quietly ambushing, waiting for an opportunity to attack.
With a fierce glare in his eyes, he stared closely at his target for this operation - the largest artillery testing ground and processing plant secretly built by the Japanese First Army in Shanxi in Santai Township on the outskirts of Taiyuan. p>
"After a whole night of fighting last night, the little devil is probably very busy now.
Our opportunity to sneak attack on the Japanese artillery testing site is coming soon!"
"Tomorrow evening, let's seize the time in advance. It won't get completely dark, but it won't be as bright as during the day, so it's easy to be exposed.
We will advance our mechanized combat troops to Santai Township as quickly as possible according to the established crossover curve."
At this point, Lao Li laughed excitedly: "Old Zhao, what did you talk about last time about Guderian's blitzkrieg in Germany?
Our sneak attack on the Japanese artillery testing site seems to be a bit interesting, right?"
Zhao Gang smiled and nodded: "Not to mention this, it's very much like our Eighth Route Army's version of blitzkrieg!"
"What a pity, we missed the plane! After all, we don't have air superiority. Otherwise, I would have pulled our mechanized combat troops over in broad daylight. Why would we have to wait until evening?" Li Yunlong said with some regret...<