The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 504 Multi-Party Participation to Break the Deadlock

The battle to attack Ping'an County started. In order to convince the little devil that the Eighth Route Army was going to take down Ping'an County in one go, Li Yunlong put on a posture of attacking with all his strength.

Four infantry guns lined up 600 meters away.

After a round of bombardment, the gate position of Ping'an County was directly submerged in the artillery fire.

Once upon a time, the Eighth Route Army was able to forcibly suppress the counties occupied by the Japanese army directly with firepower.

After the battle started in the direction of the main gate of Ping'an County, the gates in other directions were also blocked by the soldiers assigned to them.

The menacing Eighth Route Army troops from all sides surrounded Ping'an County on all sides, and Ping'an County became a dead city in an instant.

In Ping'an County, the Japanese Army Command.

Captain Fujita Shigeru of the Devils Gendarmerie couldn't sit still any longer, and the sudden emergency caught him off guard.

While dispatching troops and generals, he put all the available troops, even some traitors, into the troops first to assist in the garrison, and to garrison the Sifang City Gate.

On the other hand, urgently seek help from all parties at the first time.

"Ping'an County was attacked by the main force of the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army fired fiercely. The county is in danger. Reinforcement is urgently requested!"

Fujita Shigeru didn't have much doubt about his own judgment, although he had some doubts at first, how could the Eighth Route Army be so rampant that it suddenly wanted to attack Ping'an County?

Before, he boarded the city gate and observed the situation outside the city.

Outside the city, the Eighth Route Army was pressing heavily on the border, and those teams even possessed such powerful weapons as heavy artillery, coupled with the uniform uniforms of the Eighth Route Army. Shigeru Fujita couldn't help but believe that it was the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

And this is exactly what Li Yunlong wants to achieve.

Naturally, there were regular troops attacking Ping'an County on the outskirts of the city, but only a small part.

Most of them are local troops, and there are also siege teams formed by militia comrades.

Anyway, Li Yunlong had predicted that the devils in the county would never dare to take the initiative to go out of the city to meet the enemy under such circumstances.

To encircle and not attack is purely to frighten the little devils, local comrades and militia comrades are enough.

In addition, the local comrades and militia comrades were replaced with regular army uniforms, and the firepower configuration was enhanced. The little devil couldn't help but believe it.

Of course, just besieging and not attacking can easily arouse the suspicion of devils.

So after besieging Ping'an County on all sides, Li Yunlong issued the second phase of the order:

Let the comrades of the local troops form a separate column, and while the sky is not completely bright, under the cover of their own artillery fire, they launch continuous feint attacks on the Japanese defensive positions at the city gate.

The rapidly moving siege troops made the Japanese army feel full of oppression.

Looking at the past, with such a large battle, one would probably think that the Eighth Route Army was about to capture the county seat.

In this way, the news of the Eighth Route Army's large-scale attack on Ping'an County was quickly spread to the major counties in the surrounding Japanese-occupied areas.

Yangquan headquarters.

Captain Nakahara Takeo was quite surprised.

"The Tuba Road is so rampant. Just after the spring sweeps are over, they dare to invade the county?"

The adjutant at the side analyzed: "Your Excellency, captain, in my opinion, the Eighth Route Army dared to launch the attack after learning that the main force of our army had moved to southern Shanxi."

Zhongyuan Zhangxiong snorted coldly, and said: "Even if the main force is not there, we are enough to garrison the county. These Tuba roads really don't know how to live or die. Right now, Ping'an County is under siege, and we can't wait any longer. We are also preparing to send troops in Yangquan direction immediately. Your orders should come soon."

"Hi!"

Taiyuan City.

After the outbreak of the Battle of Shanxi, Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, set out with the troops, but secretly arranged the headquarters in a county close to the south of Shanxi.

But in the Taiyuan City headquarters of the base camp, Shinozuka Yoshio also left behind enough people to be stationed, and that was Nobutoshi Kawakubo, the deputy chief of staff of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi.

After receiving the emergency call from the direction of Ping'an County, Nobutoshi Kawakubo suspected that something was wrong.

But the military is urgent and cannot be delayed.

When the general left the headquarters, he entrusted the headquarters to his care.

Right now, if Ping'an County is captured by the Eighth Route Army, not to mention the loss of the imperial army, the imperial army's prestige will inevitably be greatly frustrated, so how can it be worthy of the general's trust?

In addition, it is due to the character of the Japanese army. The little devils who have won successive victories on the frontal battlefield and defeated the national army have gradually developed an arrogant temperament. , even more disapproving.

In the eyes of these Japanese generals, it would be a great shame if the county town was breached by a mere Tuba Road.

Thinking of this, Nobutoshi Chuankua no longer hesitated, and immediately sent a communication to the county headquarters of all parties through the general headquarters, ordering Yangquan, Tan County, Zhangzhuang, Taigu, and Taiyuan City, and the reinforcements from all walks of life rushed to Ping'an County, Eliminate the Eighth Route Army troops that invaded Ping'an County.

The general troop mobilization of the Japanese army was roughly as expected by Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei.

As for the reinforcements to be dispatched, Nobutoshi Chuankua also considered that the main force of the army is not there at the moment, and the Eighth Route Army may fall away from the mountain and take the opportunity to attack other counties.

Therefore, the premise of ordering reinforcements from various counties to Ping'an County is to ensure that the defensive strength of its own county cannot be greatly weakened.

This also led to the fact that there were not too many reinforcements from all parties in the past.

Yangquan dispatched about two brigades of Japanese troops along the way (increased troops at the midway stronghold), Zhangzhuang dispatched two brigades, Taigu dispatched a brigade, Tan County dispatched a brigade, and Taiyuan City dispatched an artillery force The squadron, plus an infantry brigade, was transported by train and quickly transferred to the direction of Ping'an County.

A total of about seven brigades of troops.

Plus three regiments of the North China Security Army.

There are also some large strongholds that are closer to Ping'an County, and some reinforcements have also been sent.

But even so, such a force size is actually not much for the Japanese army.

You know, during the big raid, in order to deal with a small independent regiment, the Japanese army temporarily mobilized nearly ten brigades of troops.

Right now, the main force of the enemy army is not there, otherwise the strength of the reinforcements can even be tripled.

From another perspective, with the transfer of the main force of the Japanese army to the south of Shanxi, the base camp of the Japanese army stationed in the northwest of Shanxi is indeed somewhat empty of troops.

This also gave Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, and Kong Jie an opportunity to take advantage of it.

In Kong Jie's original words at the pre-war military meeting, "The main force of the devil's first army has gone to southern Shanxi, and there will not be too many troops left at the moment. Go to the puppet army, and if you break the sky, there are only about [-] people."

"It is divided into multiple routes, and the strength of the Japanese and puppet troops in each route is between 2000 and [-]."

"In addition, what kind of first-class troops are these people who stay in the law and order? They are not even second-rate combat troops. They are just some guys who manage law and order. Without the defense of the county town, we are fighting an ambush. We don't give the little devils an advantage at all. Opportunities for firepower, if you can't deal with the little devil, I think we can all go home and farm."

As soon as the battle started in the direction of Ping'an County, Kong Jie had already dispatched his troops, and all the troops entered the ambush position ahead of time, as if they were waiting quietly for the little devil to step into the ambush circle.

Ding Wei, head of the new regiment, would not let go of such an opportunity to eat meat.

Ding Wei is a bold guy, and his appetite is even more astonishing.

There were two or three groups of devils passing by his new regiment's defense area. He was not going to let go all the way. He directly pulled out the whole regiment to fight, divided the troops into three groups, and divided them into three directions to ambush.

Before the ambush, Ding Wei repeatedly explained: "Our new regiment is fighting, and if we want to fight, we must fight a war of annihilation. Why? Because only in the war of annihilation, we finally get the most seizures. You said you fought a battle After fighting, the devils ran away with supplies and equipment, isn't that for nothing?"

"We can't do business at a loss. Each of your battalion commanders is in charge. Before the ambush, you have to think clearly about how to wipe out the devils and puppet troops in the ambush circle."

"In a word, if you can't win the war of annihilation, and you can't keep the equipment and supplies of the devils, even if you win the battle, you will lose the battle."

Since the strength of the new regiment is not as large as that of the independent regiment, the ambushes this time, and the situation of each pass, are basically fighting more with less.

But Ding Wei also gave the generals a death order. To fight a war of annihilation, he had to make up his mind to eat all the Japanese and puppet troops from the very beginning of the battle.

However, the generals of the new regiment had no doubts about Ding Wei's order, and each of them was full of confidence.

In order to eat up these reinforcements, Xinyituan moved out all their assets.

Not to mention Li Yunlong, the head of the new second regiment, even the half devil Lao Li is not going to let him go.

According to Lao Li's thinking, this time, Lao Li has spent so much time and risked being blamed for the task of besieging Ping'an County.

... As time went by, the ambush started quickly from all sides.

Taiyuan City Headquarters, Nobutoshi Kawaguchi, deputy chief of staff of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, immediately received the news that reinforcements from all sides were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, and none of them could reach Ping'an County smoothly.

Even the troops who came out of Taiyuan City and originally wanted to follow the railway line to the Ping'an County area were ambushed on the way. There was a big explosion in the middle of the railroad track, and many sections of the railroad track disappeared. Good job done by Balu.

At this point, Nobutoshi Chuanwa confirmed his initial suspicion more and more, that the Eighth Route Army might use the county town of Ping'an to help.

Until the reinforcement battle in the guerrilla area of ​​the New Second Regiment of the Eighth Route Army intensified.

Li Yunlong, who was red-eyed, saw the Japanese army in the ambush circle withdrawing quickly, and he was about to let the little devil go.

Lao Li can't control Ping'an County any more. Anyway, Ping'an County is also a fake fight.

He immediately issued a transfer order to let the local troops who had originally besieged Ping'an County quickly detour and intercept the retreating Japanese and puppet reinforcements.

At this moment, the various headquarters of the Japanese army suddenly woke up.

I understand, the Eighth Route Army was not rushing to attack Ping'an County at all.

In order to ambush the reinforcements on the way, they directly withdrew the siege of Ping'an County.

The most interesting thing is that with the rapid withdrawal of the local troops and militia forces besieging Ping'an County on Li Yunlong's side, the surrounding area of ​​Ping'an County, which was originally trapped to death, suddenly became empty.

Captain Fujita Shigeru of the Devils Gendarmerie was sure that the sudden withdrawal of the Eighth Route Army must be a trick, and he actually ordered to strictly guard the city gates and not come out.

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The Japanese and puppet troops who were ambushed from all walks of life soon turned into bereaved dogs who fled in defeat.

The Eighth Route Army units from all sides heard the news that the Eighth Route Army's newly formed Fifth and Sixth Regiments, as well as the closer Seventy-seventh Regiment, also participated in the battle.

Even Chu Yunfei's 57th Regiment, and even the [-]th Regiment of the Jinsui Army, which had been doing business with the Independent Regiment, heard that the Eighth Route Army was using Ping'an County's siege to send aid, so they all got involved.

But those who passed through the defense zone, or even a few kilometers outside the defense zone, did not watch the devil leave.

Fang Ligong, Chief of Staff of the [-]th Regiment, saw this very clearly:
Tuan Zuo, it's a matter of taking advantage of the fire right now, no matter how we attack, the Japanese army will definitely blame the Eighth Route Army for this hatred in the end, this is a sure-fire deal.

It can be said that all parties took advantage of the devil's illness and wanted the devil's life, and came to share a piece of the action one after another.

On the contrary, Li Yunlong, who was angry, scolded the troops of all parties, they were all old cats who had smelled fishy, ​​and they were all shameless.

Brigade.

Knowing the nature of the three subordinates, Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei, the brigade commander arranged for them a long time ago, and established an intelligence agency connected with the brigade headquarters in advance around the base area of ​​the Iron Triangle.

As soon as the battle started in the direction of Ping'an County, the brigade headquarters received the news immediately.

Of course, not long after the battle to attack Ping'an County started, Zhao Gang, the political commissar of the New Second Regiment, and Li Wenjie, the acting political commissar of the Independent Regiment, reported to the headquarters the plan before and after the attack on Ping'an County.

In this regard, the two political commissars had a very clear discussion with their head of the regiment.

It's okay to cut first and play later, but you have to greet the brigade commander more or less, or you will be scolded if you turn around.

The news came.

The political commissar laughed hard, "Brigade Commander, I'm afraid you won't be able to catch Li Yunlong this time. He is attacking Ping'an County, but he is only attacking from behind, and he is sending comrades from the local army. The order is from the local military committee." down.

The troops of his new second regiment were still standing still when the battle started!
As for the ambush, Li Yunlong should have said, the devil passed by under the nose of our Lao Li, Brigadier, we can't just watch, can we?
The comrades in the regiment are still waiting to beat the devil and expose the pot! "

After hearing this, the brigade commander laughed and said, "That's right, that bastard Li Yunlong could say that."

After laughing for a while, returning to the topic, the brigade commander, political commissar, and chief of staff began to look at the map and pay attention to the various battles around Ping'an County.

The chief of staff said: "It's a good place to fight for aid. Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei are really courageous, and they actually took Ping'an County as this point."

"At present, the Jinnan battle has dragged the main force of the enemy army to Jinnan. I don't think the battle over there will end for a while. This is the opportunity for us to take a deep breath.

The three of Kong Jie could seize such an opportunity to take the initiative to make a move, forcing the Japanese army, which had turned from offense to defense, to leave the county. "

The political commissar said: "Recently, the Japanese army has been oppressing us too hard. Except for the three regiments of Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, and Kong Jie, the situation of the other regiments is not very optimistic. At present, there is such a commotion in the direction of Ping'an County. The pressure on all parties will be greatly reduced.”

"From this perspective, the timing of this battle is quite appropriate."

The brigade commander said happily: "I said, you guys who sing together, why are you talking for Li Yunlong, Kong Jie, and Ding Wei?"

"Anyway, this battle is more or less like fighting first and playing later."

"Isn't that also on your heart, brigade commander?" The chief of staff asked back.

The brigade commander was a little startled, then laughed out loud.

This is true. The battle around Ping'an County once broke the stalemate of the Japanese army's continuous advance of troops from all sides in the base area after the Spring Sweepstakes.

While the Battle of Jinnan is still going on, this is the best opportunity for the Eighth Route Army to take action...

(End of this chapter)