The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 767

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"withdraw!"

"The one-hour security time has passed. Immediately notify the troops of all parties to retreat to their respective bases."

The headquarters of a team looked at the watch in his hand, and Kong Jie gave the order without hesitation.

Chief of Staff Xu Guoan still felt a little pity.

"Old Kong, the little devil's reinforcements moved too fast this time. If the devil didn't encircle us and give us another two hours, we would not only take away all the intercepted food, but also strip the train skin for him. In addition, the devil The advanced strongholds, artillery towers, and some remote villages and towns can all be taken by us."

"The future will be long, don't be in a hurry." Kong Jie said with a smile.

"Notify the troops of all parties. After the retreat, lay a large number of mines along the road and railway lines. Even if we withdraw, we will not make it easy for the little devil."

"These are the latest batch of Kings of Slaughter that are distributed to the various regiments. It's time for the little devils in Northwest Shanxi to have a taste of it."

"Yes!"

At this time, look down from the sky above the entire Yangquan area.

Initiated by the First Anti-Japanese Detachment of the Northwest Shanxi Province of the Eighth Route Army, this operation focused on looting food, supplemented by the removal of Japanese strongholds and artillery towers.

Except for the Independent Fourth Regiment who opened up the Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Base in Zhongtiao Mountain.

The entire independent group is almost the whole group participation.

The main force of the three regiments has invested nearly 6000 troops.

Some were responsible for fighting aid, and some were pulling out strongholds. At first glance, the whole Yangquan seemed to be a mess.

However, each team either uses a company or a battalion as a combat unit, with an orderly division of labor and tacit cooperation, dividing the entire battlefield into pieces of local battlefields, thus evolving into local military superiority operations.

In addition to the main combat troops, militia troops and local troops also invested nearly 4000 people.

The number of migrant labor groups represented by the first group of migrant workers led by Xie Baoqing, including the people in each village, actively participated in this transportation operation, and the number exceeded [-].

This is a large-scale group that fully reflects the close cooperation and efficient coordination between the teams.

It's like looking at the densely packed ants in an ant nest, you think they are disorganized, but in fact all the ants have a well-organized division of labor.

During the hour from dusk to dark.

Under the close cooperation of the main forces, militia forces, local forces, migrant labor groups, and civilian groups.

The soldiers and civilians of the Eighth Route Army showed amazing group strength.

In just one hour, the Japanese army transported three routes to Yangquan, with a total of more than one thousand tons of military rations and over one million catties of grain.

Soldiers and civilians used military trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, most of the carts, mule-drawn carts, and even the most primitive means of transportation, such as manpower, to remove all the more than 100 million catties of grain.

With the cooperation of the local troops and the militia, the main combat force even pulled out 56 advanced strongholds gradually built by the Japanese army to the Taihang base area in one fell swoop.

Killed more than [-] old devils who had been stationed in the stronghold for a long time.

These old devils are stationed in the stronghold on weekdays, and from time to time they conduct terrain surveys around the stronghold, and draw military maps for sweeping.

They often served as the guides of the Japanese invaders during the raids launched by the Japanese army, and their crimes were too numerous to record.

In addition, thirteen Japanese military bridges were successfully blown up in this battle, and dozens of Japanese railway lines were destroyed.

In one night, the entire area around Yangquan was turned upside down by the independent group.

Far away at the headquarters of the Japanese First Army in Taiyuan City, the old devil Yoshio Shinozuka, who was closely watching the battle situation, gritted his teeth and gave up some bait at the pain in order to capture the final target.

He kept urging the troops from all sides to speed up the pace of the encirclement.

For about an hour and a half, the devil's first batch of car troops and tank troops surrounded Yangquan from left to right, and completely blocked the main pass from the Yangquan area.

After about two hours, the follow-up reinforcements of the Japanese army gradually arrived.

Two and a half hours later, the Japanese army spared no effort to expend manpower and material resources. The main forces of the two major brigades who had been rushing through the night also officially arrived at the predetermined encirclement position, and they formed a large net as a whole, completely encircling the entire combat area.

In the end, it took less time than Yoshio Shinozuka expected.

All of this filled the face of this old devil with a smile of sure victory.

The next step is to close and encircle, like a fisherman casting a big fishing net, looking forward to the final result of the big net.

For fear that the eight-way escape in the encirclement, Shinozuka Yoshio did not hesitate to issue an order to attack at night, and ordered some large and medium-sized strongholds that had not been breached by the independent regiment to attack at the same time. the Eight Roads.

In the dark night.

The cold ground gradually became lively, and there were gunshots and cannons from time to time, and there were continuous explosions.

The devils who went out to the stronghold, and the Japanese troops shrinking the encirclement and advancing, were caught off guard by many landmines soon after.

These mines were laid very cunningly.

Some are on the edge of the road, and some are even placed in the middle of the bridge.

Then, as the Japanese troops advanced, they encountered a nightmare killing weapon—the directional anti-personnel landmine affectionately called the King of Killing by soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.

In the dark night, a large number of iron balls, steel nails, and fragments were shot out rapidly with a fan-shaped strike area of ​​a considerable range.

One sweep is a large piece, either dead or disabled.

In this way, the devils and puppet troops did not even see half of the Eighth Route, and the vanguard suffered heavy casualties in the process of constantly encountering landmine traps.

When the news came back, the devil officers in the command team were shocked.

The surrounded area looked like a bottomless abyss in the dark night, and it was like a steel frame full of butcher knives. It seemed that there were not enough human lives to fill it.

The little devils no longer dared to take advantage of the darkness to advance indiscriminately.

They found a large number of military flashlights, and some simply lit torches. In addition, some engineers kept exploring with mine detectors, for fear of making a wrong step and stepping into the trap of Eight Routes again.

In this way, the little devils who have been busy and worried, will trigger some traps from time to time, and stay until the next day.

After an emergency retreat at night, the soldiers and civilians who jumped out of the devil's encirclement in time regained their physical strength after a night's sleep, and they were refreshed.

On the other side, the little devils who had been staying up all night found out angrily after dawn.

The entire encirclement had already disappeared from the Eight Routes, and they had been dealing with all kinds of landmine traps left by the Eight Routes all night after they evacuated.

The King of Slaughter newly developed by the independent regiment was presented to the little devils in Shanxi for the first time.

Looking at the curved steel plate that was only the size of two palms, the little devils called it a devil's weapon made by Balu.

... Japanese troops were stationed in the Shanxi First Army Headquarters.

Knowing that I have planned a lot of back and forth, and spent such a big battle, I mobilized the troops overnight to encircle, but in the end it was nothing to fetch water from the bamboo basket, and the eight roads in the entire encirclement disappeared without a trace.

Shinozuka Yoshio was silent for a long time, his heart was full of depression that punched the air.

It's like casting a fishing net, expecting a net full of big fish, only to find that there isn't even a fart in the net.

Bei Chuan, chief of staff of the Devils, thought this was unbelievable:
"According to the intelligence analysis of all parties, the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment will mobilize no fewer than [-] troops this time."

"In such a short period of time, not to mention their timely evacuation, they actually transported all of our army's millions of catties of grain, and also blew up dozens of advance strongholds of our army, and destroyed all transportation lines. A considerable amount of sabotage was carried out."

At the end, there was a distressed sigh:

"General, are these eight routes the natural nemesis of my Great Japanese Empire?"

"They don't have trains, they don't have a large number of transportation vehicles, and they don't have convenient transportation channels. They just rely on manpower. How did they do all of this?"

No one told Beichuan the answer, and even Yoshio Shinozuka was puzzled by this problem.

They will never understand what is the strength of the united Chinese people...

(End of this chapter)