The Moon Army is very cunning, so naturally they know about the conflict between Huang Daofeng and Xu Chengpu.
But if they had arranged for those two people to command the puppet troops to station in Xin County, then those two people would definitely not have united together.
On the contrary, the Japs can take advantage of the contradictions between them to firmly control the puppet troops and make them serve themselves wholeheartedly.
Major General Liu Dongshigeharu, commander of the independent mixed third brigade, continued to dominate the discussion. He emphasized that all ministries fully obey the orders of the military headquarters.
The Yue puppet troops stationed in Xin County made every effort to build defensive positions, establish complete fortifications, and prepare for defense.
Ryuto Shigeharu did not intend to take the initiative to launch any offensive operations, but refused to execute the orders of the military headquarters.
In his opinion, he just asked the more than 10,000 puppet troops in Xin County to hold on with all their strength, and the Shanxi-Sui Army and the Eighth Route Army came to fight, then he would be able to take the initiative.
The meeting lasted for a long time, and it was not until about 11 o'clock in the morning that Yanagi Shigeharu asked Yamamoto Kazuki and others to leave.
After the officers of the Yue puppet army left, Ryuto Shigeharu continued to contact the First Army Headquarters.
Does he want to obtain cement, steel bars and other materials to strengthen the position and ensure that the position built is strong enough?
The First Army Headquarters was wrong about Liu Dongshigeharu's application, so it naturally agreed to Donglai without any hesitation.
During the time they arrived from the east, did the Yue puppet troops in Xinxian County continue to build positions?
The 9th Independent Infantry Brigade, the 6th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Association Army, with more than 6,000 troops, established positions with Hesuo Town, Qicun Town, and hilly areas as the core.
The 10th Independent Infantry Battalion and the 7th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Association Army, also with more than 6,000 troops, established positions with Zhuangmo Town, the county seat, and Xinkou Town as the core.
More than 13,000 puppet troops have established complete defensive positions in villages and towns.
Some heavily sought-after areas have also begun to repair defensive strongholds to better contain the Eighth Route Army and Shanxi-Sui Army troops in the western highlands.
The 1st Independent Tank Squadron, the 10th Armored Vehicle Squadron, and the Yamamoto Special Forces are otherwise controlled outside the county seat and are directly under the command of Ryutō Shigeharu.
Of course, the engineering troops directly under the headquarters of the First Army of the Little Japanese Army can also get busy. They continue to repair railways and roads outside Xin County.
By October and 20th, Liu Dongzhongzhidong issued an order to encircle and annihilate the Eighth Route Army outside the county seat of Xin County.
Yamamoto Kazuki's special agent team began to execute combat orders.
One by one, the well-equipped little devils continued to attack.
Whether there are currently Wanyue puppet troops in Xin County, there is a big gap in strength between the two sides.
Within a few days, the militia teams of each village in Xin County, as well as the guerrillas, district squads, county brigade and other local armed forces, suffered heavy losses.
They had nowhere to hide, and the remaining troops were forced to temporarily evacuate Xin County.
Without those local armed forces, the Yue puppet army began to recruit people from Xin County to help them strengthen their positions.
Minefields, barbed wire fences, and roadblocks also began to be deployed in front of the trenches in Hesuo Town and Qicun Town.
For a time, there were defensive positions everywhere in Xin County, and the previously destroyed turrets and bunkers began to be rebuilt one after another.
Huang Daofeng, the brigade commander of the 6th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Association Army, has a fiery personality and great ambitions.
While recruiting people to build fortifications, Huang Daofeng allowed the troops to burn, kill and loot.
And he forcibly recruited some young and middle-aged people into his army and trained those young and middle-aged people to be puppet soldiers, thus improving the strength of his army.
Huang Daofeng and Xu Chengpu selected by the Yue Army are both hard-core traitors. They are different from other traitors.
Some traitors are greedy and afraid of death, and taking refuge with the Japs is nothing more than a desire to save their own lives.
But neither of them wanted to use the little devil to realize their ambition to improve their positions and control more territory in the army.
Therefore, they worked very hard under the command of the Yue Army. They followed the Yue Army in raids and did a lot of burning, killing and looting.
When fighting, ask the Moon Army for orders from Dongda, and they will attack without hesitation.
They are willing to fight any troops in Bufu.
With the help of such a die-hard traitor, the Yue army quickly established a defensive position in Xin County.
As for Xin County, with the arrival of the Yue puppet troops, it will almost become a hell on earth.
Of course, the actions of the Yue puppet army there must not be hidden from the Jinsui Army and the Eighth Route Army.
The Bufu 48th Independent Brigade, Bufu Xinyi Regiment and other units are all paying close attention to the movements of the puppet troops in Xinxian County.
It was at that time that the Shannan 36th Division transferred a unit to form an independent eighth brigade to cooperate with the defense of the Zhengtai Railway, and began to carry out focused raids.
Thousands of little Japanese troops were reinforced with heavy weapons. They carried out dragnet sweeps, focusing on searching and capturing the main forces of the Eighth Route Army for annihilation and attack.
At this time, the southern Shanxi region asked whether there were troops from the 129th Division, but whether they could continue fighting for more than two months.
They all suffered losses to varying degrees, especially the consumption of ammunition, which reduced the combat effectiveness of some troops.
Moreover, before the Lunar Army troops raided, they also had to wait for other Japanese troops to raid.
As those little devils started to take action, some areas were forced to be abandoned, while the Moon Army troops started burning, killing and looting wildly.
Especially on October 25th, a major event happened to the North China Front Army. After that event happened, the little Japanese were even more angry.
The large-scale raid by the Eighth Route Army inflicted heavy losses on the little devils. Railways and highways were destroyed.
Their communication lines were completely paralyzed, and the newly formed independent mixed fourth brigade in Xin County was annihilated.
More than 8,000 reinforcements sent by the Mongolian army were also wiped out, and the puppet troops suffered heavy casualties.
Could it be that the North China Front Army Headquarters could not conceal such a level of losses?
The highest command organ of the Lunar Army outside the Pass, the General Headquarters of the Lunar Army Expeditionary Force, has learned about the situation there.
Even the overseas base camp heard the news and sent a special message to inquire.
The base camp of the Yue Army and the General Headquarters of the Expeditionary Forces were very angry when they learned that the Yue and Puppet Army suffered heavy losses and that two major generals of the Yue Army were killed.
The base camp continued to discuss with the dispatched army headquarters, and they quickly came up with a solution.
The commander of the garrison in Mongolia, Naosaburo Okabe, and the chief of staff, Shinichi Tanaka, were dismissed from their posts.
The former Lieutenant General of the Third Division, Masataka Yamagye, served as the commander of the garrison in Mongolia, and Shigehisa Takahashi served as the chief of staff of the garrison in Mongolia.
Hideyoshi Kusuyama, Chief of Staff of the First Army, was transferred away, and Hua Paiman was replaced as Major General Chief of Staff of the First Army.
North China Front Commander Tada Shun, Chief of Staff Yukio Kasahara, and First Army Commander Shinozuka Yoshio.
Those three people received reprimands from the base camp and the dispatched army headquarters respectively.
Among them, the chief of staff of the base camp, not to mention scolding them mercilessly in the message, is simply a shame!
Tada Shun and three others were reprimanded and received no actual punishment.
Can the generals of the Moon Army be obsessed with saving face? Can they put their own face above all else?
Being reprimanded by the base camp and the headquarters of the dispatched army, the three generals were ashamed and felt deeply that it was a great shame and humiliation.
So after they received the reprimand message, at noon on the 25th, they successively sent electricity to the troops participating in the raid.
They begged the mopping up troops to launch strict operations and punish the Eighth Route Army!
Whether the Moon Army troops began to carry out crazy killings, they would attack anyone they encountered, whether it was the Eighth Route Army troops or ordinary people.
Many villages were burned down by them, and a large number of defenseless people were massacred.
The little devils have completely transformed into demons, and they are destroying everything that can be destroyed.
Until the end of the month, those little Japanese troops were frantically raiding.
And a Moon Army unit with a thousand soldiers accidentally found the rear hospital of the 129th Division because they took the wrong route!
The little devils who have no humanity will kill even ordinary people, let alone the wounded in the hospitals in the rear.
Suddenly a tragedy occurred, and the wounded, doctors and nurses in the rear hospital were brutally attacked by the Moon Army.
The Lunar Army troops, who had achieved victory, cut off the heads of many wounded soldiers with great force and took pictures to celebrate.
And one message after another began to be sent out, reporting directly to the First Army Headquarters and other units to ask for credit.
At two o'clock in the morning on November 1, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters received the report.
When the deputy commander learned the news, he was furious on the spot and immediately contacted the 129th Division.
A combat meeting had begun at the division commander's side, and Brigadier Chen and other cadres quickly arrived to participate.
"Commander Liu, the Japs have a force of more than a thousand people, and they are unscrupulously going deep into their base areas to fight in depth."
"They slaughtered the people, and now they have come to the hospital in the rear. Our division must strive to completely annihilate them."
"Without any worries, wipe out that little Japanese army at all costs!"
"They have a large brigade. According to the information they have, are they affiliated with the Yamazaki Battalion of the 36th Division?"
"Our division must ask him to completely annihilate the son-of-a-bitch Yamazaki Brigade!"
The deputy commander's voice came through the microphone. From his angry voice, it was not difficult to tell the deputy commander's mood at this time.
Commander Liu agreed to Donglai, communicated with the deputy commander on the phone, and then hung up the phone.
Immediately afterwards, Commander Liu began to make combat deployments, and he handed over the combat mission to Brigadier Chen.
After Brigadier Chen received the mission, he did not dare to delay. He immediately mobilized troops and organized relevant cadres to come to the brigade headquarters.
Considering the area where Yamazaki Brigade is located, Brigadier Chen also immediately contacted Li Yunlong and other troops in the Xinxian area.
Zhao Gang, the leader of the new regiment, set out quickly on behalf of the three regiments to attend the combat meeting at the brigade headquarters.
After daybreak, troops began to advance toward the Yamazaki Brigade.
The commander of the Moon Army, Yamazaki Jihei, who commanded the more than a thousand little devils to fight, reacted quickly and began to command the troops to actively attack.
The First Army arranged for the 36th Division to be independently combined into the 8th Brigade to carry out the mopping up. They originally planned to end it at the end of the month.
But after receiving the reprimand message in May, Tada Shun and others were filled with anger.
They also know that they currently do not have enough strength to advance to the west of Xin County and conduct combat strikes against the 48th Independent Brigade.
Moreover, the General Headquarters of the Little Japanese Dispatch Army did not provide operational guidance that time, and tried its best to win over the Shanxi-Sui Army troops.
Under such circumstances, they could not attack the 48th Independent Brigade, so they could vent their grievances to the Eighth Route Army.
Therefore, the mopping up force increased the combat time, and the troops commanded by Yamazaki Jihei were later ordered to advance deeper into the base area.
If it weren't for Chen Ziyun and Butterfly's arrival, the Japs wouldn't have deployed too many troops.
Could it be that Chen Ziyun's arrival there caused all the effects.
Not to mention anything else, Li Yunlong's new regiment assisted Dong several times, and now even the infantry artillery is not considered a perfect treasure.
Brigadier Chen mistakenly told Li Yunlong several times that the 386th Brigade had organized an artillery battalion directly under his command.
The little devils knew that the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army had improved, so they deliberately enhanced the strength of that unit.
The current strength of the Yamazaki Battalion is by no means comparable to the force in the original drama.
Following the command of Yamazaki Jihei, the little Japanese troops immediately launched into action.
Four Type 94 75MM mountain guns took the lead in firing, and one shell after another hit the Eighth Route Army.
A member of the Yue Army quickly launched an attack. It didn't take long for light and heavy machine guns and grenadier infantry artillery to directly launch fire strikes.
The troops from both sides fought fiercely until around 11 o'clock in the afternoon, with both sides suffering casualties.
At the same time, they also realized that something was wrong, and at twelve o'clock, the two sides temporarily stopped fighting.
The Eighth Route Army initially thought that the more than a thousand Japs were nothing more than a brigade of Japs.
As they were fighting, they discovered something unusual. The little devils were very powerful and had many heavy weapons.
And almost all the little devils have strong combat capabilities.
Those little devils made the attacking Eighth Route Army immediately think of those elite standing divisions of the Moon Army in the early stages of the battle.
As for Yamazaki Jihei, did he go the wrong way? He didn't know where he was for the time being.
After discovering the arrival of a large number of Eighth Route troops, he thought those troops were local armed forces.
After a battle, Yamazaki Jihei immediately realized something was right.
So not long after the battle ended, Yamazaki Jihei immediately commanded the troops to quickly move towards the favorable terrain of Lijiapo!
The Yue army moved quickly, and at around one o'clock in the morning, they stationed at Li Jiapo.
Various weapons transported by packhorses and mules were immediately dismantled and brought eastward, and various weapons and equipment were deployed at different locations.
The Eighth Route Army knew that there were more than a thousand little Japs, and the officer in command was none other than Yamazaki Haruhei.
So they subconsciously believed that it was a combat brigade of the Moon Army.
But in fact, do the more than a thousand troops have different numbers?
They have the 1st, 5th, 7th and 12th Infantry Squadrons in the east.
The 1st, 4th, 6th and 8th Machine Gun Squads.
Independent Mortar Squadron 9, Mortar Squadron 3.
The First Artillery Squadron of Independence Mountain, the Infantry Artillery Squadron directly under the 224th Regiment, and the Rapid-Fire Artillery Squadron.
In addition, they have communication corps, baggage corps, engineering corps and other units.
Those troops are from the 222, 223, and 224 infantry regiments of the 36th Division.
At the same time, the communications unit of the 36th Division Regiment Headquarters, the directly-affiliated engineering corps, and the heavy baggage regiment also transferred troops to join.
Yamazaki Jihei is not the captain of the Little Japanese Combat Force, but the lieutenant general and staff officer in the headquarters of the 36th Infantry Regiment of the 36th Division!
