The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 892 The mighty offensive

On the 23th, in the evening.

The soldiers who participated in the attack on the Japanese stronghold in Northwest Shanxi, regardless of the severe cold along the way, arrived at their respective scheduled combat locations on time, waiting for the final order to be issued.

This time, the main combat force of a team of three regiments, the clearest target is in the northwest of Shanxi. The Japanese army is located in three large strongholds from the quasi-security area to the center line of the Eighth Route Army base area, namely Yangguan stronghold, Pingbei stronghold and Hanoi stronghold.

The Japanese army used these three large strongholds as the final skeleton, or beams, and cooperated with some advanced strongholds and small and medium-sized strongholds to build a large network of strongholds that blocked the entire Eighth Route Army base in Northwest Shanxi.

Therefore, it can be said that these three large strongholds are the most important Japanese strongholds that are finally guarded in the northwest area of ​​Shanxi and the throats of the outer lines of the three regiments of the Iron Triangle in Northwest Shanxi.

"Once these three big strongholds are completely eradicated, then our regiments can be said to be as wide as the ocean, and the sky is so high that the birds can fly!
Since then, the little devil has honestly stayed in the counties and towns that are mainly occupied. The vast suburbs, mountainous areas, and vast countryside all belong to our Eighth Route Army! "

When talking about the huge changes that can be brought to the entire Northwest Shanxi Eighth Route Army after the removal of these three strongholds in the headquarters of a team, Chief of Staff Xu Guoan said so.

"Fight! Lao Kong led the main force of the three regiments of a team and went straight to Yangguan, Pingbei and Hanoi strongholds.

Once the battle started, the devils would never just watch the loss of these three strongholds, and the Japanese army would quickly send additional reinforcements to the three strongholds.

The most likely choices are Beitong Road, Xiaogou Linzi, and Sanhewan Road.

Beitong Road is the closest to the defense area of ​​our Xinyi Regiment. There is nothing wrong with it. Let me stare at it. The little devil coming from this road, just beat me to death. Half a devil can’t let him appear in the Yangguan stronghold .

As for Xiaogou Linzi, there are seven or seven groups watching, and Sanhewan Road has the fifth group watching, so we don't have to worry about it, Lao Xu and Lao Feng will never let the little devil go there! "

At the headquarters of the new second regiment, Ding Wei said firmly when analyzing the battle situation.

New Second Regiment resident.

Naturally, Li Yunlong was not idle either.

He said that the new second regiment was built into a quick response force.

However, with the development of the New Second Regiment over the years, the strength of the whole regiment is nearly 3000.

That doesn't mean that all of them can be transformed into mechanized combat troops after transformation.

His ultimate goal was to prepare for fishing in troubled waters, and while a team was attacking a large Japanese stronghold, he led the mechanized combat troops and went straight to the devil's artillery testing ground and processing plant in Santai Township.

This does not prevent Li Yunlong from dispatching some elite infantry to assist a team in attacking Yangguan, Pingbei and Hanoi strongholds before the final attack on the Devil Artillery Experimental Field.

"Tuan Zuo, what are we going to do in this joint battle with a team of the Eighth Route Army?"

The headquarters of the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army.

Chief of Staff Fang Ligong asked for instructions.

Chu Yunfei kept his eyes fixed on the battle map around Yangguan, Pingbei and Hanoi strongholds.

After thinking for a moment, Chu Yunfei directly marked two points on the map.

"In this attack, the devils are in the last Yangguan in Northwest Shanxi, Pingbei and Hanoi strongholds, and the Eighth Route Army is the main force of the frontal attack. This is beyond doubt.

We don't want to mix with the Eighth Route Army to attack. "

Speaking of this, Chu Yunfei paused, and then spoke with a vague sense of military domineering: "In the past two years, our 358 regiment has basically not participated in any battles, and it is estimated that the world has almost forgotten me, 358.

After the start of this joint offensive operation, conventional means were not enough to deter the Japanese army.

Send me an order to make the artillery battalion stand by at any time, once the Eighth Route Army's attack on Yangguan and Hebei University strongholds begins.

Immediately let the car team carry artillery, quickly arrive at the two highlands of Yangguan and Heping North-South Mountain Road, and build artillery positions on the spot. "

"Tuanza, what do you mean..."

"Once the battle around the big stronghold starts, the attention of the Japanese and puppet troops will be all attracted to the Eighth Route Army troops attacking from the front.

The most dominant firepower of our 358th regiment lies in the artillery battalion. It is better to pull to the back of Yangguan Hepingbei stronghold and hit him with a few rounds of firepower.

It can also completely cut off the Japanese army's retreat from the back side of the stronghold. "

Fang Ligong suddenly realized: "In this way, we not only effectively reinforced the attack of the Eighth Route Army with artillery, but also avoided the casualties of our 358th regiment.

Even if the little devils come to find fault in the future, we can still say that we didn't play at all.

After all, there are no devils, and we really saw the frontal attack initiated by our Jinsui Army team!

This trick of the group is really brilliant! "

Chu Yunfei cast a glance at Fang Ligong. As an upright soldier, Chu Yunfei was not as complicated as Fang Ligong's ideas, full of gossip.

He didn't think that much at all, he just wanted to use the most powerful means to reinforce the Eighth Route Army troops, and at the same time demonstrate the majesty of his 358 regiment.

That's all!

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night.

Two days later is New Year's Eve, and three days later is the first day of the new year that Chinese people look forward to most - the Spring Festival.

Although the national government has always wanted to change the concept of the old society, it regards New Year's Day as the New Year, and even wants the people to live a lively and festive New Year's Day like the Spring Festival in previous years.

It's a pity that people who are used to the old calendar don't seem to buy it.

Therefore, the Spring Festival in the old calendar is still regarded as the most orthodox and festive festival by the common people.

The cold wind howled at night, even mixed with cold currents, blowing on people's faces like a sharp knife cutting the skin.

Even if the whole body is wrapped up like a hedgehog, only the exposed eyes, and even the water droplets hanging on the eyelashes, seem to condense into ice particles.

In Yangguan, Pingbei, and Hanoi strongholds, most of the Japanese and puppet troops hid in relatively warm buildings, rubbing their hands and shaking.

Getting into bed early is the best choice right now.

The unlucky Japanese and puppet sentinels on shift were shivering, standing bored in the watchtower and gun tower, on guard.

The moonlight is not very good tonight, and it is gloomy everywhere.

The sentinels of the puppet army, who had always been accustomed to working abroad, even drooped their eyelids when they were on guard.

Anyway, in their view, it is impossible for the Eighth Route Army to attack the stronghold of the Japanese army with extremely strong defense forces.

On the contrary, the devil soldiers were still loyal to their duties. From time to time, they manually raised the searchlights and looked around to check for movements around the stronghold.

shhhhh--

It was probably around twelve o'clock at night.

The temperature dropped to the extreme at night, and the dripping water turned into ice, making people feel colder and colder, and the cold wind blowing straight to the bone.

Outside the Yangguan stronghold.

It sounded like someone slapped a few times lightly.

Listen carefully, it also sounds like a gunshot.

Immediately afterwards, bullets piercing through the air were fired at an astonishing speed, with a few crackling sounds, on several watchtowers, on the third floor of several gun towers.

The shaking searchlight of the devil sentinel shattered.

The lights suddenly dimmed.

In the dark night, the last light also disappeared.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack—"

The sudden scene made the vigilant devil sentries scream in horror, and they pulled the hand-cranked alarm bell.

The ear-piercing siren sounded instantly, reverberating throughout the stronghold and the entire area.

Led by Lei Dasheng, the head of an independent regiment, the battle to attack the Japanese army's Yangguan stronghold officially kicked off.

After the sniper in the team took the lead in destroying the devil's searchlight.

With the help of the cover of night, plus the detailed explanations of the platoon leaders of each squad early in the morning, about the Japanese army's Yangguan stronghold, detailed rain-proof deployments, and even firepower deployments.

Even in the dark night, the soldiers are no strangers to the conditions in and around the Yangguan stronghold.

This is naturally due to the amazing detail of the information sent by the brigade commander.

Following the sound of the initial patter of gunfire, it then turned into a chorus of gunfire, and the dead silence of the night was completely broken.

The Japanese and puppet soldiers who were still asleep all woke up suddenly, hurried out of the bunk, took their weapons in a panic, and then ran towards the fortifications of the stronghold.

At this time, the combat method of the Eighth Route Army attacking the well-defended and heavily guarded strongholds of the Japanese army had undergone a huge "change".

Sporadic rifle fire is no longer the single melody when the Eighth Route Army attacked Japanese strongholds a few years ago.

After the attack started.

Lei Dasheng, the head of the first regiment, was not at all polite to the little devil, and directly mobilized the artillery unit behind, and then blasted two rounds towards the devil's stronghold.

With powerful, larger caliber and powerful artillery.Cover the infantry charge.

At the same time, the attacking soldiers opened up their formations and accurately avoided the minefields laid by the devils around the stronghold according to the information collected in advance.

Choose a direction that does not lay mines and launch an assault.

As for the defense of the devil's Yangguan stronghold, it is still the same old style.

The entire stronghold was built on a higher terrain, and the surrounding area was almost open, and the Japanese army cleared the shooting area in advance.

Within two 300 meters before and after, there are almost no bunkers.

This is why Kong Jie chose to attack at night.

Used to avoid the superior firepower of the Japanese and puppet troops defending the stronghold.

At the outermost periphery of the gathering point, there are even barbs hanging on the two or three layers of barbed wire pulled up by the devils. Under the barbed wire, there are trenches dug two to three meters wide and one or two meters deep. filled with water.

Around the barbed wire and in some areas, the Japanese army also deliberately laid some landmines to prevent surprise attacks by the Eighth Route Army troops at night.

As for the ditch filled with stagnant water, it was also used to guard against the infiltration of the Eighth Route Army troops, and at the same time, a wide and deep ditch was dug.

It can also limit the enemy's massive invasion after destroying the barbed wire.

Inside the barbed wire, tens of meters away, there are towers of reinforced concrete structures carefully built by the Japanese army.

Cooperate with the defense of bunker fortifications, semi-underground heavy machine gun fortifications, and ring or trench fortifications.

Coupled with the Japanese troops stationed at the Yangguan stronghold, there are two full-staffed field squadrons, plus a regiment of the Imperial Association Army stationed.

The firepower configuration is particularly powerful, and it is equipped with a very convenient communication device that can call for reinforcements from around at any time.

The entire Yangguan stronghold can be said to be impenetrable by the little devils.

If it was left a few years ago, it would be impossible for the Chinese armed forces to dare to attack such a stronghold.

Just as the war continues.

The current Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army is no longer the independent regiment of a few years ago.

The little devils now are not the devils in the early days of the War of Resistance.

Under the cover of the bombardment of the larger-caliber artillery at the rear, the pioneer Eighth Route Army soldiers advanced rapidly, and then threw a large number of Molotov cocktails into the Japanese stronghold nearby.

This is offensive gear specially produced by a team's armory.

It is said to be a Molotov cocktail, the small one is as big as an ordinary wine bottle, and it is equipped with a certain concentration of flammable alcohol and a fire wick.

The big ones are as big as the wine jars used in the old society, and some white sugar and raw rubber powder are specially added to the alcohol to increase the stickiness.

Once such a specially developed incendiary bottle is thrown into the devil's stronghold, after an explosion, the flame will burn instantly, relying on the strong adhesion produced by adding alcohol to white sugar and raw rubber.

The flames could even stick to the devil's reinforced concrete gun tower, burning for a long time.

All of a sudden, a hundred guns were fired, and the artillery rang out.

The entire Yangguan stronghold of the Japanese army was full of flames and chaos.

A large number of Molotov cocktails were thrown, and the flames splashed on the unlucky devils and puppet soldiers.

The flames that sprang up immediately prevented the devils and soldiers of the puppet army from feeling the warmth for a moment in this severe cold weather, and then they were burned into a whole fire man, running around in the stronghold under severe pain and fear , crying.

"Resist, resist Tuba Road's attack!"

A Japanese squadron leader pulled out his command knife and commanded hoarsely. Even in the corner of his eyes, there was uncontrollable fear.

These damned Eighth Route Army attacked suddenly and violently, all of this was like a nightmare.

Under the cover of firepower, the soldiers quickly reached the barbed wire fence on the outermost line of the devil's stronghold, and directly blasted the barbed wire fence with explosives.

Immediately afterwards, the two-meter-wide, three-meter-long, strong wooden plank that was pulled over by the car earlier in the morning was placed directly across the trench dug by the devil.

A simple wooden bridge that can span the trench was built immediately.

You can attack the devils and puppet troops inside the stronghold.

Quickly entered a fierce battle.

The light of the guns and flames on both sides almost dispelled the entire darkness.

The Japanese army resisted desperately, the puppet army was frightened, and the casualties of the Japanese and puppet army spread rapidly.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army became more and more courageous as they fought, fighting bravely one by one, fearless of death.

The highest military commander of the Japanese army who was in charge of guarding the Yangquan stronghold, a devil major, saw that the situation was not good, and while organizing manpower to resist desperately, he immediately asked for help from the higher command.

The little devils rushed to the gun towers and bunkers like crazy, and with the firepower of light and heavy machine guns, they fired at the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who rushed in the night in the desperate resistance.

The battle intensifies...

In Taiyuan City, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army stationed in Shanxi.

Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the devils, was awakened by Chief of Staff Kitagawa in his sleep.

"General, the situation is really urgent, I have to alert you!"

Seeing the seriousness on Beichuan's face, Shinozuka Yoshio knew that there must be another bad thing coming to his door. During this time, these damned bastards became more and more rampant, and bad news came one after another.

He even felt that there was no more bad news that he could not accept.

"Tell me, what happened?"

"Hi!" Bei Chuan responded, with a bitter mouth: "General, there have been reports of emergency communications from the major strongholds of Yangguan, Pingbei, and Hanoi. A large number of the main combat troops of the Eighth Route Army sent to three places almost at the same time at around 12 o'clock at night. The big stronghold launched a violent raid!

According to reports from the front line, judging by the momentum of the Eighth Route Army, it seems that they intend to take advantage of the night to break through the strongholds of Yangguan, Pingbei, and Hanoi. "

"Ba Ga, don't stop for a day!"

Shinozuka Yoshio cursed angrily, "The Yangguan, Pingbei, and Hanoi strongholds built in the Northwest Shanxi area are mainly used to block the Eighth Route Army combat troops such as the Iron Triangle in Northwest Shanxi.

From this point of view, it should be Kong Jie and Li Yunlong's team that attacked the stronghold tonight? "

"It shouldn't be wrong. Except for those bastards, no one has such guts." Bei Chuan echoed.

(End of this chapter)