The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 1265 Who is the fool?

At this time, several winds blowing for the northward advance operational plan are still gaining momentum.

This was especially carried out by the Eighth Route Army in North China. On the one hand, it was to cover the battle plan of advancing northward, and on the other hand, it was to coordinate the August Storm Operation of the New Fourth Army in the south during the autumn counter-mopping up campaign.

In order to advance the battle plan to the north this time, basically all the main elites from the core base areas of the Eighth Route Army were secretly transferred to the eastern Mongolia area.

However, in order to completely paralyze the judgment of the Japanese army, not many main forces from the Jidong base area and the Shandong Military Region were deployed in North China.

He still stayed in North China and was responsible for containing the Japanese army.

At the same time, several active offensives will be launched according to the original plan to cope with the August Storm operation and push the counter-offensive operations of the August Storm operation to a climax, so that the little devils cannot detect the flaws.

Today, the Jidong Army includes the Shandong Military Region. With the development of the industrial system, the stabilization of the base area, and the growth of the army.

The base area already has complete fortifications and supporting transportation lines, as well as a large number of newly formed troops - military industry, various private economies, as well as agriculture and animal husbandry development, and a large number of prisoners of war and young adults rescued by the Eighth Route Army, including people who actively joined the army. As well as the selected local army units, new units were quickly formed to quickly enrich the follow-up defense strength of the base area.

Provide a steady stream of troop output for the northward advance.

The veterans who have been trained for a long time are already eager to try, just waiting to kill the Japanese.

Those battle-hardened commanders even held their breath, waiting for the Japs to enter the base area, and they would never come back.

However, at the mid-term operational plan meeting for Operation August Storm held by the former enemy headquarters.

When the deputy commander-in-chief introduced the situation, he deliberately made the situation more serious: "The Japanese army is pressing heavily on the territory this time. Including the Kwantung Army that went south for reinforcements, there are five divisions. The defense pressure on the base area is very high. Once the Japanese army gathers heavy troops to attack the base area, , we may be in a tough fight!"

I deliberately put it more seriously because I was afraid that the commanders and fighters in these base areas would be careless and arrogant and underestimate the enemy.

In addition, the northward advance operation is a confidential plan.

The person in charge of the non-core base area, or the middle-level and high-level military commanders involved in the northward advance, are not informed yet.

Including the commanders of some troops in the Jidong and Shandong Military Regions this time, they were thinking of fighting a few tough battles, and even killed the Kwantung Army who went south for reinforcements.

They were vowing, full of confidence, and eager to try, but in fact they did not know that the main elite of the Eighth Route Army in North China had been transferred to the eastern Mongolia area.

It is precisely because they do not know this situation that they can let go and throw away their arms when fighting the Japanese army, as full of confidence and courage as before.

How can the little devil see the flaw?

Of course, the core command knows the specific situation.

Now that the main elite of our Eighth Route Army in North China are no longer available, it is definitely impossible to confront the Japanese in a head-on manner.

Then launch a large-scale raid on some of the Japs' main transportation lines and lead the Japs by the nose. No matter how powerful the Kwantung Army is, why don't they start acting as traffic police as soon as they arrive in North China?

In order to set off this August Storm operation to a higher level.

The main forces of the Jidong and Shandong Military Region who stayed behind soon planned several offensives.

Of course it is not a head-on field battle with the elite Kwantung Army of the Japanese.

That's something only idiots do.

The Kwantung Army's hundreds of thousands of elite troops seemed to be quite numerous on a front as long as the entire North China region, but in fact not even a ripple could be seen.

Then the campaign principle is very simple:

"In the main direction of the Japs' attack, we will rely on the echelon of defense fortifications in the base area. We will resist and hold them back! Even if we delay the logistics, we can completely defeat the Japs.

Wherever the enemy is weak, they will intersperse encirclement and annihilation, and encircle and call for reinforcements. This will completely muddy the waters. You will be surrounded by me, and you will be surrounded by me. They will be completely entangled.

Now our vast base area has been integrated into a whole, the communication systems have all been updated, and there are a large number of mechanized combat groups, surrounding the Japanese like wolves.

Although the lions (the main force of the Eighth Route Army) are not here, our wolves can still bite the Japanese! "

This is exactly the confidence of the Eighth Route Army commanders in Jidong and Shandong Military Region.

It is also supported by the expanded air fleets of various aviation bases.

The Japanese also have no advantage in the air force.

The pre-war deployment was complete, which was why Commander Chen and Commander Lu still had time to play cards with Kong Jie and the others in the logistics department.

We should take this opportunity to give the newly formed troops in the base area a chance to hone their skills. Otherwise, how will they be able to stand alone in the future?

Let's talk about the other side, the Kwantung Army, which the Japanese went south to reinforce this time.

Five full elite divisions and more than 100,000 elite Kwantung Army troops went south to reinforce North China. As the commanders of the Eighth Route Army said, it was like pebbles thrown into a vast lake. After a few ripples, it disappeared.

It's a pity that after these elite Japanese soldiers arrived in North China, they actually followed these stupid North China Front troops and became traffic policemen.

Today the railway line here was destroyed by the Eighth Route Army, and tomorrow the highway line there was completely blown up by the Eighth Route Army. Those who followed these North China Front troops running east and west were always following the Eighth Route Army and eating dust. Even the shadow of the main force of the Eighth Route Army was invisible. No collision.

The commanders of the Kwantung Army were simmering with anger for this. They had no strength but could not find an opponent.

So an impatient officer stepped forward.

——The Yamada Division of the Kwantung Army that went south for reinforcements this time.

The Yamada Division received an order to rush to the Shimen area to assist in the defense and to be on guard against the Eighth Route Army troops in Jizhong and southern Hebei.

The Iinuma garrison of the Japanese North China Front was originally responsible for garrisoning the Shimen area.

This man is a survival expert. He has fought many battles with the Eighth Route Army and was mostly defeated. When the Japanese troops on other routes suffered heavy casualties, he escaped quickly enough and was able to basically save the main force.

He is basically the same as the old Japanese Harada.

If you are willing to fight with the Eighth Route Army, I can just stay in the county town and make some money quietly.

After stationing at Shimen, Iinuma Mamoru, who felt that the Eighth Route Army should not be provoked, issued a retreat policy:

Relying on the steel fortress of Shimen, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, they could not escape. They concentrated all their forces on the main county towns and transportation lines in the surrounding area. Even if the Eighth Route Army clamored and became aggressive from outside, they simply turned a blind eye.

In the days when Old Japanese Yamada arrived at Shimen, he often inquired about news. There were even transport troops of the Eighth Route Army passing by on the transport road not far from Shimen.

That gesture was extremely arrogant.

"When has the empire been so humiliated by these damn Eighth Route Army?"

Yamada was furious about this, but he led his troops to help this time. The garrison commander in the Shimen area was Mamoru Iinuma.

What is the most important thing?

Iinuma Mamoru not only has territory, but also a large-scale production base, which can basically be self-sufficient. Yamada still has to rely on others to replenish combat supplies!

There was no place for the unknown anger, so the old Japanese Yamada wanted to vent his anger on the Eighth Route Army, demonstrate the power of the Kwantung Army, and slap Mamoru Iinuma in the face with actual actions, so that he could let Mamoru Iinuma know how humiliating it was to be a coward.

Soon after, Yamada found out important information:

Julu County was besieged by the Eighth Route Army not long ago. The Eighth Route Army attacked the transportation lines around Julu County, and the entire county was basically besieged into a dead city.

If the reinforcements no longer arrive, even if the Eighth Route Army fails to capture the city, the defenders in the city may be forced to surrender because they have run out of ammunition and food.

In fact, the Julu County garrison headquarters has repeatedly sent requests for reinforcements to the Shimen headquarters, but Iinuma Mamoru has always turned a blind eye and has not ordered the dispatch of troops for reinforcements.

Yamada, who couldn't stand it, proposed reinforcements.

Iinuma Mamoru said that guarding the stone gate was the top priority. Moreover, given the situation in Julu County, the defenses were not strong and there were not many defensive troops. If the Eighth Route Army wanted to break the city, they would not have to go to such trouble.

"But why did they surround the giant deer but not attack it?"

Iinuma Mamoru said firmly: "It's just a trap deliberately set by the Eighth Route Army to lure the enemy to attack!"

If he had just come to Shimen, Yamada might have believed Iinuma Mamoru's words.

But during this period of time, there have been too many similar situations.

Once or twice, it could be said that Mamoru Iinuma was very defensive and could see through the tricks of the Eighth Route Army, but this time too many times, it was obvious that Mamoru Iinuma, an old devil, was too timid to fight with the Eighth Route Army. Just a confrontation.

Yamada became furious because of this, and even angrily criticized Iinuma Mamoru, and then said that he would never sit back and watch the imperial army perish, and would definitely send troops to reinforce it.

Yamada, who held military power, did what he said and quickly dispatched a mechanized squadron to strengthen armored vehicles and light tanks to cooperate with the forwards to strengthen the brigade and prepare to reinforce Julu County.

As a result, shortly after the Japanese reinforcements set off from the city gate, the news spread to the Jizhong Military Region.

The specific time for the little devil to arrive in the Julu area was three hours ahead of schedule.

This is exactly the power of the communication system of the Eighth Route Army base areas that are now connected together.

After learning the news, the Jizhong Military Region Command quickly issued an order:

The 26th Field Regiment of the Jizhong Left Behind Defense Force was responsible for blocking the Japanese army.

As for what is so surprising about the 26th Field Regiment, why it was sent by the headquarters to deal with such an elite mechanized combat force as the Japanese, let’s not mention it for now.

But as time goes by.

Yamada's mechanized combat force only arrived more than ten kilometers away from Julu County, and then ran into the 26th Jizhong Field Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

Both sides immediately deployed their troops and engaged in an encounter.

At that time, the fighting environment between the two sides was relatively open, which was indeed suitable for the deployment of mechanized combat troops.

In order to give full play to his own mechanized advantage, the Japanese commander who led the team immediately ordered a detour against the enemy shortly after the confrontation between the two sides and seized the commanding heights of the unnamed hillside.

Unexpectedly, the 26th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army also carried a certain amount of mechanized combat troops, and also launched a roundabout attack against the Japanese troops.

At the core of the battle between the two sides - the nameless slope.

A main company of the 26th Jizhong Field Regiment of the Eighth Route Army faced off against a Japanese Kwantung Army squadron.

Due to the dense vegetation on the hillside and the sudden encounter between the two sides, there was no time to deploy superior firepower.

After the handover, the two sides directly started hand-to-hand combat.

This is a very rare and closer to traditional, almost cold weapon period fighting method after the Japanese army had absolute firepower suppression advantage in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, and the timeline of the Anti-Japanese War has been extended to the present period, and the Eighth Route Army can use its firepower advantage to suppress the Japanese army.

Bloody versus bloody confrontation!

The battle between courage and courage!

Meeting on a narrow road is destined to be a tough battle in which you die or I die.

A sonorous and powerful bayonet duel, a dangerous life-and-death struggle, and a thrilling flesh-and-blood contest.

Even on this cruel battlefield where hot weapons dominated the main theme, a tragic and majestic song was still played.

Both sides fought fiercely to the death.

As a result, the elite squadron of the Yamada Division of the Kwantung Army, which claimed to be the flower of the Imperial Army, was completely defeated by the Eighth Route Army in a head-on hand-to-hand battle. The little devils were lying all over the ground, and their bloody bodies were covered by dense vegetation.

All their energy was gone, and the remaining Japs were frightened out of their wits. The Eighth Route Army inflicted heavy losses on them in the hand-to-hand combat that they were proud of. They still had the courage to continue fighting. Less than 1/3 of the remaining Japs fled like crazy. .

The army was defeated like a mountain.

After Wumingpo was captured by the Eighth Route Army, with the advantage of condescending artillery fire suppression, the Japanese artillery squadron was quickly defeated by the 26th Regiment Artillery Battalion, and all the armored vehicles and light tanks were also lost.

The self-propelled artillery of the 26th Eighth Route Field Regiment is simply the nemesis of the Japanese armored vehicles.

At this point, Yamada's reinforcements were completely defeated. If these Kwantung Army brats hadn't run fast enough, they would have even been wiped out by the entire army outside Julu County.

under the chain effect.

The Japanese and puppet defenders who were still holding on in Julu County were frightened after hearing the news, and they abandoned the city and ran away.

The unexpected gain shocked the Eighth Route Army.

When they were defeated, Major Asayama, who was leading the team, hurriedly called for air support.

As a result, the air support was driven away by the Eighth Route Army Air Force midway. On the contrary, the Japanese army suffered an air attack from the Eighth Route Army Air Force, causing many more casualties.

Yamada, who was stationed at Shimen, was originally eagerly awaiting news of the triumphant return of the reinforcements, but what he was waiting for was an extremely urgent message asking for help.

The air fire reinforcements also failed to arrive smoothly. Yamada was so anxious that he could only hastily arrange a mechanized force to rush for reinforcements.

As a result, they were blocked by anti-tank destroyer troops from the Jizhong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army on the way. Instead of successfully reinforcing the Qianshan Brigade, they suffered heavy casualties and were defeated in embarrassment.

In the end, the Qianshan Brigade fled all the way back to Shimen in disgrace. Less than one-fifth of the nearly 2,000-strong team remained, and all types of mechanized vehicles were lost.

Harada, who originally wanted to use this battle to provide a good start for the Kwantung Army's reinforcements going south, successfully made a bad start.

After hearing the news, Shimen garrison commander Iinuma Mamoru drank wine and hugged the beauty, and his words were full of sarcasm:

"Now Yamada-kun should understand who is the idiot, right?"

(End of this chapter)