The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 637 Confrontation

For a long time, the most difficult thing for the Japanese army to deal with the Eighth Route Army troops in the occupied area was to completely avoid the leakage of news.

Often, the Japanese and puppet troops hadn't made any moves, and even just walked out of the county towns and villages, and the mopping up troops hadn't arrived at the Eighth Route Army's base area, and the news had already spread.

The Eighth Route Army, which was already good at fighting guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare, quickly shifted ahead of time, and when the devil's encirclement came around, it was in vain.

In the end, the devil mobilized the crowd, and the bamboo basket fetched water in vain.

Such failures have accumulated so much that the Japanese army hated the Eighth Route Army troops, but there was nothing they could do, so they didn't bother to pay attention.

After all, the military focus of the Japanese army's invasion of China was always on the national army in the early stage.

As for the scarcity of ammunition and backward equipment, in the description of the Japanese army, it looks like a group of beggars.

In the eyes of the Japanese army, it was nothing more than a group of peasant organizations.

It was not until after the Hundred Regiments War that the Eighth Route Army would show its strength, which caused great panic in the Japanese army, and even gradually shifted the focus of military strikes to the Eighth Route Army troops.

But the Eighth Route Army troops with tenacious fighting wills in the occupied area still could not be wiped out.

So the Japanese army smoothly fell into an unsolvable and funny endless loop.

Hit the eight routes, fail, and the majesty of the empire is damaged.

Then pick the persimmon first and pinch it softly, and by the way restore the majesty that was frustrated by the Eighth Route Army.

Compared with the Eighth Route Army who fought guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare all over the mountains and plains behind the enemy, and was so angry that the little devils screamed.

Obviously, the Japanese officers preferred to fight the national army on the frontal battlefield.

The reason is simple, easy to fight.

This national army can't use their brains, or they can't play tricks. They are obviously not the opponents of our imperial army.

After easily defeating the national army in the battle and restoring the power of the Great Japanese Empire.

The Japanese army will consolidate the occupied areas, then mobilize forces, and then sweep the Eighth Route Army bases in the occupied areas.

But the raid failed again, and still failed to eliminate Balu.

He even suffered a big loss when sweeping the base areas of the Eighth Route Army.

With nothing to do, the devil can only turn his head around and fight the national army on the frontal battlefield to show the strength of his Great Japanese Empire!

To use a more vivid metaphor, the Eighth Route Army is like a tough bamboo in the eyes of the devils, while the National Army is a sharpening stone.

The devil came to chop the bamboo with a knife, and the knife became blunt, so he found the national army, sharpened the knife, turned around again, and continued to chop the bamboo of the Eighth Route Army.

Just like right now.

The devil originally wanted to wipe out the Eighth Route Army troops in the Taihang area during the April [-]th raid.

Not to mention the failure, I also touched a nose of ashes.

In the hands of the independent group suffered a big loss.

The devils have lost their way. The failure of the raid has destabilized the morale of the army, and the anti-Japanese sentiments of the Chinese people in the occupied areas are even higher. It is necessary to fight a big victory to deter the unruly people and stabilize the law and order.

So the devil had just finished fighting the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang base area, retreated after failure, turned around and went directly to southern Shanxi.

The national army in Zhongtiao Mountain was somewhat caught off guard by this.

The national army was quickly and disastrously defeated at Zhongtiao Mountain Root, which had been defended for four years, and all positions were lost.

After occupying Zhongtiao Mountain, crowding out the Central Army, and stabilizing the little devils on the southward passage, after a rest, they refocused their targets on the Eighth Route Army in the occupied area.

The devil continued to sway in this comical endless loop.

After Shinozuka Yoshio's order was conveyed by the headquarters.

All sides of the Japanese army acted quickly and gradually moved closer to the base area of ​​the Independence Regiment.

Naturally, the movement of the Japanese army could not be concealed from the eyes, ears and spies of the Independence Regiment. The news reached Kong Jie's headquarters before the devils and puppet troops even left the county town.

And there are more than one news channels for Kong Jie.

There is news from the Ministry of Enemy Industry.

There is news from the armed forces team.

There is also the movement that the people noticed when they entered the county.

As the Eighth Route Army with the support of the masses, in terms of information collection, the simple and intelligent people have always been a very important part of the transmission of information.

The most eye-popping thing is.

In addition to the eyes and ears of the common people and the independent group.

Some puppet troops who had been instigated for a long time also passed on the news.

Even Miki Ichiro, the leader of the devil squadron who had business dealings with Kong Jie, and Qian Dekai, the commander of the puppet army.

In order to please Kong Jie, the two also sent the news over.

And said in the intelligence that the Japanese troops are gradually moving closer to the base of your independent regiment.

Therefore, the contest between the independent regiment and the Japanese puppet army can only be seen from the intelligence.

The independent group is monolithic and has a large public base, with eyes and ears almost spread all over Yangquan.

What about the Japanese and puppet troops!

The intelligence and news leaked from all sides, and the puppet army fell on both sides.

Because of the secret business smuggling, the Japanese army, who was gradually paralyzed by Kong Jie, also turned his elbows outward.

Such a little devil, in the words of Commander Kong:
"Comrades, just from the intelligence collection this time, everyone can see that this little devil has already been strong on the outside."

"Even a Japanese like Ichiro Miki helped us deliver the news, so why can't we beat these security brats who are not even considered second-rate troops?"

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Three days.

According to Kong Jie's original plan, the first batch of teams was divided into six groups, starting from the base area with great fanfare, and heading south.

This first batch of teams was formed temporarily, a small part was composed of soldiers from Shen Quan's second regiment, and most of them were composed of local comrades such as the county brigade and militia units.

Right now it is to test the little devil, the team goes first.

It is divided into six roads in total. Although it is a big fanfare, the soldiers will still rely on the terrain to move forward covertly.

Not long after, the soldiers in charge of guarding at the commanding heights waved the military flag to convey information.

"Company Commander Zhang, there is a situation, the devil's plane has arrived!"

The comrades leading the county brigade said to the third company commander of the second regiment.

Zhang Lianchang naturally understood the message sent by the military flag, and said with a smile: "No hurry, if there is no accident, this is just the little devil's first reconnaissance plane, and it is here to scout the situation, but just in case, beware of the devil's reconnaissance There are fighter jets among the planes, everyone should hide."

While ordering the troops to hide, Company Commander Zhang was completely rude to the devil's plane.

There was even a look of anticipation on his face, he turned his head and said to the row of leaders beside him, "Is the anti-aircraft machine gun ready?"

A long line said: "Company commander, don't worry, everything is ready."

Company Commander Zhang nodded, "After the plane enters the range, it fires directly. Even if it is a devil's reconnaissance plane, it can shoot down one!"

"Yes!"

When the first platoon leader turned around to make arrangements, Company Commander Zhang said with a smile: "Our regiment leader has long guessed that the devils might send planes to attack us, so our advance team also brought a few anti-aircraft machine guns to deal with the devils' planes. of."

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With the roar of the aircraft engine from far to near, the devil's three leading reconnaissance planes flew over the sky above Company Commander Zhang and his party.

The soldiers who had been ready to go quickly pulled the trigger and fired the flying reconnaissance planes with anti-aircraft machine guns.

Speaking of which, these anti-aircraft machine guns are still airborne aircraft guns captured from the devil's crashed plane. It is really the best weapon to deal with him in his own way, and to deal with the little devil's plane in turn.

The Devil pilot who was flying a reconnaissance plane was also a little confused.

The devil investigators used binoculars from a distance to detect the Eighth Route Army troops being transferred on the ground below.

When their plane arrived quickly, the Eighth Route Army seemed to disappear on the ground all at once.

In order to be able to detect the target situation on the ground more clearly, the devil pilot lowered the altitude of the plane a lot.

It was already close to flying at a low altitude, and it was only 700 meters above the ground.

Then, before the Devil pilots and observers had time to regain their senses, several anti-aircraft machine gun firepower points that had been set up on the ground burst out suddenly, shooting towards the Devil plane in mid-air.

After a while of panic, the devil's three reconnaissance planes roared over the soldiers.

One of the planes was damaged at the tail, blazing with flames, rising smoke, gradually lost its balance, and then gradually rotated and flew for 800 meters before plunging headlong into the foothills in the distance.

boom -

A violent explosion occurred in the fierce kiss between the plane and the earth.

Due to the sudden incident and the low-altitude flight, the Devil's pilots and observers did not even have time to parachute.

The other two were also hit by some bullets. Fortunately, the Devil's reconnaissance plane, which was only slightly damaged, fled quickly amidst the panic on the face of the Devil pilot.

In the subsequent investigation, the two devil pilots, who realized that the Eighth Route Army had powerful air defense forces, no longer dared to be careless. They kept flying at a relatively high altitude throughout the investigation process and used binoculars to scout the ground.

The information obtained from this investigation is not detailed.

But the general movement of the Eighth Route Army can still be seen.

"The Eighth Route Army is obviously preparing to send reinforcements to Zhongtiao Mountain on a large scale. Our reconnaissance plane has detected the situation. There are as many as six and Eighth Route Army troops, and they are moving south rapidly!"

The news spread quickly to Yoshio Shinozuka's First Army Headquarters.

Yoshio Shinozuka, who learned that during the investigation, actually damaged a reconnaissance plane, had a gloomy expression.

After a while, Yoshio Shinozuka made up his mind and gave the order without hesitation:

"The flight team is on standby for air reinforcements."

"With Yangquan as the center point, the advancing troops from all walks of life will immediately advance to the south of the Independence Regiment's root and land, stop these Tuba roads for me!"

"Hi!"

At this time, look at it from the perspective of God.

The Sixth Route Army of the Eighth Route Army divided into several directions and quickly moved southward.

To the east of the base area, the surrounding counties and towns of the Japanese army dominated by Yangquan, Tan County, Zhangzhuang, Taigu and other places, the Japanese and puppet troops quickly advanced to the southwest in an attempt to stop the Eighth Route Army troops going south.

The reconnaissance troops of the two sides took the lead in a confrontation in a mountainous area to the east of Taihang and north of the base of the Independent Regiment...

(End of this chapter)