Seeing that all the machinery and equipment in the Huangyadong arsenal had been transferred away by the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese became furious. They had not gained enough despite the long offensive.
If they really go back with such a record, the Japanese troops responsible for attacking Huangyadong will inevitably be criticized by their respective commanders and the commander of the First Army, Yoshio Iwamatsu. Whether it is to achieve greater results or to attack the Eighth Route Army
To retaliate, the Japanese had no intention of giving up the fight.
For these Japanese soldiers, they need to establish more achievements that they can show off to ensure that they will not be blamed after they return.
What's more, in the eyes of the Japs, the retreat of the special agent group that has been responsible for defending Huangya Cave means that the special agent group no longer has strong enough combat effectiveness. This is a good opportunity in the eyes of the Japanese commander, a direct attack on Huangya Cave.
The chance of annihilating all the Eighth Route Army in the cave area.
For the Japs who attacked Huangyadong, the soldiers of the secret service group killed numerous Japs soldiers. The casualties suffered by the Japs made the Japs unwilling to end this battle easily, even if these Japs knew that they wanted to successfully kill the secret service group.
It's very difficult for warriors, but they still want to try.
At 8 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese took the initiative to launch an attack on the 2008.5 highland of Zuohui Nanshan. After the Japanese's observation, this was the location of the command post of the special agent group. In order to severely damage the special agent group, it was of sufficient value for them to attack Huangyadong this time.
The Japanese fought desperately again.
The 2nd Company and 1st Platoon of the Special Agent Regiment, which stood on the high ground, repeatedly fought and fought with the Japanese. They appeared to be particularly tenacious in the battle. Under the desperate fighting of the soldiers, the Japanese advanced very slowly. During this period, the 2nd Company and 1st Platoon soldiers
Wen Desheng, Bian Qingzhang and other three people led the attacking Japanese enemy to a dead end and located on the southeast cliff of Zuohui Nanshan, preparing to kill all the Japanese in one fell swoop.
However, due to being outnumbered, the 2nd Company was unable to mobilize troops to support, so Wen Desheng and three others were forced by the enemy to the cliff. Finally, they fought with the Japanese again. After killing several Japanese, the three seriously injured Wen Desheng calmly jumped off the cliff of 100 feet.
A heroic sacrifice.
In order to severely damage the special agent group, the Japanese attacked Zuohui Mountain with all their strength. In order to deal with the Japanese attack, Commander Ou ordered a battalion that had basically not participated in the battle during these seven days to enter the fortifications and fight.
In the battles with the Japanese these days, the first battalion of the special agent group was served as a reserve by Commander Ou. The soldiers of the first battalion had long been full of energy to kill the enemy. After receiving the order from Commander Ou to order the first battalion to attack,
A battalion of soldiers rushed forward, howling like wolves who had been hungry for who knows how many days.
As soon as the First Battalion came into contact with the Japs, it successfully suppressed the attacking Japs with powerful firepower. The performance of the Machine Gun Company of the First Battalion was even more outstanding. During this period, Li Changbiao, the squad leader of the Machine Gun Company of the First Battalion, fired more than 480 machine gun bullets in one breath, directly
The attacking Japanese were severely injured, and many of their bodies were directly beaten to pieces by machine guns.
In particular, the machine gunner Shuai Erbao was not alarmed by the three Japanese mortars. After being noticed by the Japanese mortars, he relied on the favorable terrain to flexibly change the shooting direction, constantly grudged the attacking Japanese, and
Mobile warfare was used to the extreme and more than 60 Japanese were killed.
At the same time, Captain Ou also gave full play to the flexibility of his soldiers, mobilizing the soldiers of the third, fifth and eighth companies to counterattack the attack on Zuohuishan. Each company gave full play to its own flexibility, making it difficult for the Japanese to defend themselves.
During the battle with the Japs, the soldiers used a bear-hunting triangle to beat the Japs around, making them unable to care about each other during attack and retreat.
Liu Gen stayed in the command post of the special agent regiment. He could clearly understand every battle order issued by Captain Ou. He was a little helpless when he did not go to the front line to kill the enemy. But staying in the command post, Liu Gen found that he could
I learned a lot from Captain Ou.
In the hands of Captain Ou, commanding operations seems to have become an art. Liu Gen never thought that commanding operations can be so flexible. The information constantly fed back from the front line allows Liu Gen to easily grasp the situation on the front line. This is undoubtedly
It can provide sufficient information as a basis for commanding operations.
In the battle with the Japanese, the casualties of the secret service group were not too many. This has a certain relationship with the hard training of the secret service group on weekdays, and it has an inseparable relationship with Captain Ou. Liu Gen feels that if he is allowed to do this
Commanding a battle. Then he would definitely not be able to do what Commander Ou did.
After realizing that he could learn a lot from Captain Ou, Liu Gen became much calmer. He followed Captain Ou silently and kept listening to the combat orders issued by Captain Ou.
The battle continued into the afternoon, and the soldiers on both sides became extremely tired, but no one chose to give up. Everyone knew what it meant to give up the battle at this time. The Japanese put so many troops into the attack on Zuohui Mountain. Once
If you give up, the losses will undoubtedly be huge.
The special agent group cannot give up defense at all. Whether it is to kill the Japanese or to prevent the special agent group from being severely damaged, this requires the full defense of the soldiers of the special agent group.
During the Japanese attack on Zuohui Mountain, the peripheral troops of the Eighth Route Army had successfully recaptured more than a dozen villages such as Dongyadi and Zhaogu Village around Huangyadong. At the same time, the troops of the 129th Division also entered on time according to the orders of the bosses.
In the ambush area.
The secret service group delayed the Japanese for so much time in the Huangyadong defense battle. This was all in the plan of the bosses at the headquarters. Now that all the troops are in place, they will definitely be able to severely damage the Japanese mopping up troops.
Late at night on the 18th, Captain Ou, who was staying at the command post of the special task force, received a telegram from the deputy chief of staff, saying that the enemy had probably discovered the Eighth Route Army troops outside Huangyadong and might escape overnight.
Looking at the telegram sent by the deputy chief of staff, Commander Ou's face became a little more happy. The reinforcements had finally arrived. Now there were Eighth Route Army troops outside Huangyadong. Commander Ou naturally understood what this meant. The secret service group was going to
Just seize this opportunity and try to keep all the devils who dare to attack Huangyadong!
After passing the telegram to Liu Gen beside him, Captain Ou summoned the three battalion commanders of the special agent group. He needed to get the soldiers into action and immediately launch a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese. If possible, he would firmly hold back the Japanese.
Follow your footsteps and try to keep all these devils behind.
When Liu Gen saw the contents of the telegram, he couldn't help but feel happy. It was time to counterattack. Just thinking that the secret service regiment did not have any artillery shells and that his artillery could not be of any use, Liu Gen was very helpless. When would he be able to use them all?
Where are the cannonballs?
If he had enough artillery shells in his hands, then Liu Gen could be sure that with his artillery skills, he would be able to kill more Japanese soldiers and destroy more Japanese mortars and firepower points. Unfortunately, Liu Gen wanted to have
To have enough artillery shells, the arsenal still needs to be further expanded.
Less than ten minutes after the three battalion commanders of the secret service group left, the soldiers of the special service group took the initiative to launch a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese. The soldiers screamed and rushed out of their positions and rushed towards the Japanese.
As the deputy chief of staff expected, the Japs learned about the Eighth Route Army troops outside Huangyadong, and even knew how many troops there were. At this time, facing a full-scale counterattack by the soldiers of the special agent regiment, the Japs simply
Without the slightest thought of fighting, they continued to break up and fled frantically, wishing they had four legs.
In the comprehensive counterattack by the soldiers of the special agent group, they encountered almost no effective resistance from the Japs. The Japs commander also knew clearly the situation at this time and knew that staying longer in the Huangyadong area would mean greater danger.
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In order to avoid being left in the Huangyadong area by the Eighth Route Army troops, the Japanese commander ordered the Japanese troops to retreat at all costs. He did not want to be left here. After returning, as a combat commander, he would definitely be punished, but
Even if he is punished again, he will not die.
If the Eighth Route Army troops successfully stayed in the Huangyadong area, they would be in danger of death. The Japanese commander did not want to die here, let alone so many Japanese soldiers.
The pursuit all night did not cause too many casualties to the Japs. It was because the Japs kept running away crazily and did not fight the soldiers of the special agent group at all. In the darkness of the night, the marksmanship of the soldiers was also affected to a certain extent.
As a result, the casualties suffered by the Japanese when they fled were not too great.
At dawn on the 19th, the soldiers of the special service group successfully took back almost all the positions in the Huangyadong Arsenal, but the Japanese were still fleeing frantically.
When the Japanese troops escaped from the outskirts of Huangyadong, they were attacked by the surrounding Eighth Route Army troops. With the Japanese's combat effectiveness, they were still capable of fighting the Eighth Route Army. But at this time, the Japanese were already frightened out of their wits, and they did not dare to do so.
If there was any stay, they could only successfully escape after leaving hundreds of Japanese corpses behind.
On this day, the wind was freezing and the sky was filled with heavy snow. The Japanese troops fled south to the Thirty Mu land, and entered the ambush circle of the 129th Division at the front line of Caozhuang. They were fully attacked by the four main regiments of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, resulting in more than 500 casualties.
people.
Facing the ambush of the 129th Division, the Japanese tried their best to escape from the ambush. In order to complete the breakout as quickly as possible, the Japanese blew up or directly dropped the heavy machine guns and infantry guns they carried. In order to escape, the Japanese paid enough
Big price.
The four main regiments of the 129th Division were naturally unwilling to let these Japanese troops leave easily. They continued to pursue the Japanese, and finally gave up the pursuit of the Japanese after the Japanese troops fled into the stronghold of Weizi Town in Lucheng, Guizi.
Although the strength of the four main regiments was enough to launch an attack on the Weizi Town stronghold, considering that the Japanese reinforcements were on the way, the four main regiments still gave up the idea of attacking and quickly took the captured weapons from the Japanese.
Evacuate.
When the results of the ambush battle came from the headquarters, Liu Gen and Captain Ou were extremely excited. This was the price the Japanese had to pay for attacking the Huangyadong Arsenal.
On the 20th, Liu Gen and Factory Director Xu brought more than 700 arsenal workers who had been transferred to Islam Mountain safely back to the Huangyadong arsenal.
The Huangyadong defense battle was successful, but the work of resuming production after the war was quite difficult. Due to the destruction of the Huangyadong arsenal by the Japanese, all the workers needed to do was to restore the arsenal to its original state. At the same time, the previously transferred and
All the buried machinery and equipment were recovered and production resumed in the shortest possible time.
During this period, all units of the Eighth Route Army fought with the Japanese, and a lot of ammunition was consumed. Huangyadong Arsenal resumed production earlier, which could also replenish the ammunition of each unit and reduce the pressure on the soldiers during combat.
At this juncture, Liu Gen also led Kong Jue and others into the reconstruction of the artillery department. In the battle with the Japanese, the rocket launcher regained its power, which also proved the powerful suppressive power of the rocket launcher in the face of artillery.
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Due to the objective conditions of the arsenal, large-scale production of rocket launchers is not allowed. The next job of the artillery department is to produce 60mm mortars and grenade launchers. For the Eighth Route Army units, grenade launchers and mortars will never be too much.
many.
While Liu Gen was busy rebuilding the artillery department, Captain Ou was not idle. He was counting the casualties of the special agent group and the number of enemies killed. After the statistics were completed, Captain Ou was a little surprised. During the battle
He didn't care about this during the game, and he didn't realize it was a big victory until after the war statistics!
According to the statistics of Captain Ou, during the Huangyadong defense battle, the special agent group with 1,300 people resisted the attack of more than 5,000 Japanese troops, annihilating more than 1,000 enemies, with 166 casualties on our side (including 43 sacrifices), and the ratio of casualties between the enemy and ourselves was 6:
1. Created a model battle example of winning with fewer troops and setting an unprecedented record for the comparison of casualties between the enemy and ourselves in the war between China and Japan.
When the Kuomintang government in Chongqing learned of this news, it specially issued a commendation order to the Second War Zone. Such a great victory was worthy of commendation. However, all the Eighth Route Army could receive was only a commendation order. As for material support, it was a
No points.
In Taiyuan, Shanxi, after knowing the specific casualty statistics, the commander of the Japanese First Army, Yoshio Iwamatsu, directly asked the commander of this battle to commit seppuku in retaliation to the emperor! Such a battle was simply a shame for the First Army, and Iwamatsu Yoshio
Xiong was also criticized by the North China Front Army Headquarters and the Army Base Camp.
At the Second Theater Command, Yan Xishan, after confirming the casualties of the Eighth Route Army's Huangyadong defense battle, came up with the idea of having his Shanxi-Sui Army go to the Eighth Route Army base area for exchanges. Yan Xishan wanted to determine the development of the Eighth Route Army base area, and also
I want to find out what the current strength of the Eighth Route Army is.
For this reason, Yan Xishan quickly began to consider the possibility of this matter. He just wanted to visit the Eighth Route Army base area, which would also take a certain amount of time, and communication between the top leaders of both parties would also take a certain amount of time.
The reconstruction of the Huangyadong Arsenal is not a simple task. Considering the complexity of the reconstruction work, Director Xu divided the employees of the Arsenal into two parts. One part persisted in production under simple conditions, while the other part was responsible for the Arsenal.
reconstruction work.
This time the Japanese attacked the Huangyadong Arsenal, which meant that the Japanese knew the exact location of the Huangyadong Arsenal. The battle to defend Huangyadong was a victory, but the exposure of the location of the Huangyadong Arsenal also meant that the Huangyadong Arsenal was a victory.
Yadong Arsenal needs to find a new location.
The victory in this battle does not mean that the next battle will be successful. It is always good to prepare for a rainy day, not to mention that there is no way to guard against thieves for a thousand days.
For this reason, Liu Gen left Huangyadong and went to the headquarters, preparing to obey the bosses' decision.