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Accompanied by a violent explosion, a violent explosion occurred in the original front-line position of the Eighth Route Army.

Due to the large area and wide range of the position, there are also a lot of explosives deployed! Even the Eighth Route Army soldiers who had withdrawn two kilometers felt the violent air waves from the rear.

"Damn it! How many explosives have our engineer brothers deployed below us?"

"I don't know, but looking at this stance, it's estimated to cost a thousand tons!"

An Eighth Route Army soldier heard this and sighed: "I asked you why there were so many trucks before! They were filled with explosives for a long time!"

Just when the Eighth Route Army was sighing, the little devil's reaction was also very strong.

After all, they were the ones who got bombed!
The main infantry force of the Japanese brigade that entered the Eighth Route Army position was directly lost in the explosion. The entire brigade, except for the artillery brigade deployed in the rear and the infantry brigade responsible for the pursuit, all died in the Eighth Route Army position. superior.

The commander of the 202th Division, who was still laughing at the 105nd Division, could no longer laugh. He was almost a polished commander. He was still laughing so hard!

The first brigade was almost replenished, the second brigade was almost completely killed, the Little Devil's 105th Division was basically beaten, and the 202nd Division was already defeated in the first round of attack. The losses were heavy.

In this case, the Eighth Route Army still has two lines of defense. If they want to continue the attack, the little devils must increase their troops in the eastern offensive area of ​​​​Niangziguan.

The division commanders of the Japanese 105th Division and the 202nd Division were also very bachelors and immediately sent requests for additional troops to their respective military headquarters.

After all, their fundamental purpose is to cut off the retreat route of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area and provide good combat opportunities for the troops of the two armies responsible for besieging the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base. Originally, the Little Devils had an absolute advantage in terms of military strength and equipment, but in places like Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei where there are mountains and forests everywhere, the offensive efficiency was too low.

Moreover, after adjusting the strategic goals of the little devils, the elimination of the effective forces of the Eighth Route Army has exceeded their demand for land.

With this absolute advantage, the land can be conquered at any time. The fact that the Japanese army can push flatly on the Jizhong Plain with just one army can show the current combat effectiveness of the little devils.

But the ultimate goal of the Japanese army is to destroy the Eighth Route Army!
After all, based on the speed of development in recent years, if these Eighth Route Army troops are allowed to develop for a few more years, who knows how many people they will expand to.

The Tubal Road in the central Hebei area ran too fast. Now they can only ask for the annihilation of the troops in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area of ​​the Eighth Route Army as much as possible. After all, one of the three main divisions of the Eighth Route Army is stationed here, and in order to resist their Attack, the Eighth Route Army also sent a large number of troops here.

In the eyes of the little devil, Jinchaji is just a piece of fat, but whether they can eat this fat depends on whether they can win the Niangzi Pass!

After receiving requests for help from the 105th Division and the 202nd Division, Shun Tada, the commander of the Japanese North China Front who was responsible for carrying out operations in Hebei and Shanxi directions, first scolded the two division commanders, and then immediately mobilized a group army. The troops went to Jingxing County and attacked in the direction of Niangziguan.

And the Japanese troops responsible for supporting here this time are the old rivals of the Eighth Route Army, the Second Army of the Japanese North China Front!

After strengthening, the Japanese Second Army not only has two infantry divisions, but the original artillery brigade and armored brigade have also been strengthened to the division level, and there are also two independent mixed brigades as supplementary forces.

These troops were recruited and supplemented by the little devils in the direction of Southeast Asia. The first six armies in the Japanese military establishment were all configured in this way, including the First Army in Taiyuan.

The arrival of the Second Army was like a heavy hammer hitting the Eighth Route Army's defense line.

The second line of defense of the Eighth Route Army, Nanyu Town.

At this time, the little devil had reached the Eighth Route Army's second line of defense in Nanyu Town without much effort.

When facing the large Japanese army, the Eighth Route Army's blocking troops between the first and second lines of defense played almost no role.

The size of the Japanese army is really too big!
In the face of absolute power, the Eighth Route Army's original harassment operations against division and brigade-level troops looked so ridiculous.

The little devil also understood at this time what it means to conquer ten societies with one force.

Although the Eighth Route Army guerrillas responsible for conducting mine warfare, tunnel warfare, and sparrow warfare caused certain losses to the Japanese army, they were insignificant compared to the huge establishment of the Japanese Second Army.

But all these Eighth Route Army soldiers died...

"Report to your Excellency, Commander! We have arrived at Nanyu Town of the Eighth Route Army. Next, continue westward along the railway to Niangziguan!"

"Yo Xi!" Looking at Nanyu Town not far away, Lieutenant General Nobuaki Sekine, commander of the Japanese Second Army, directly issued a combat order.

"Order, the heavy artillery division immediately completes its deployment and covers Nanyu Town with artillery fire!"

"Hai!"

The strengthened Japanese Second Army Artillery Division immediately began to build positions, preparing to attack the devastated Eighth Route Army Nanyu Town defense line.

At this time, on the Nanyu Town position, the Eighth Route Army soldiers were using their fastest time to repair the position.

After all, the previous Japanese bomber force was not completely wiped out by the Eighth Route Army Air Force. After all, the Eighth Route Army Air Force only had 7 aircraft left. Although the bombers of the Little Japanese had no ability to resist, the ammunition of the Eighth Route Army Air Force was limited after all.

When the Eighth Route Army aviation finally ran out of ammunition, the Japs still had 20 bombers.

These aircraft still completed the bombing of Nanyu Town according to the scheduled plan.

At the Nanyu Town defense line, the Eighth Route Army deployed only one Type A regiment and 6 Type B regiments.

Moreover, this place used to be the transit base for the Jingxing Wheel Battle, and there are still some basic defenses and material reserves. However, compared with the defensive positions in Changgang Village and Niangziguan, the defenses in Nanyu Town are really inferior. Got it!
Although there are anti-tank minefields, anti-tank cones, anti-tank trenches and other fortifications here, there is no complete tunnel defense system.

Under such circumstances, it was extremely difficult for the Eighth Route Army to face the 150mm heavy artillery of the Japanese heavy artillery division.

"Captain! The little devil is less than 5 kilometers away from us!"

After hearing the report from the guard post, Li Baogen, the commander of the 31st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, who also participated in position repairs, was suddenly stunned.

"What's going on? Why did the little devils come so fast? How many of them are there?"

After hearing the regimental leader's question about the Third Company, the guard post said: "Commander, the number of little devils this time may...not be less than 10..."

"What?! Not less than 10 people?! Are you sure you read that correctly?"

"That's right, at least one hundred thousand, or even more!"

When he heard that the number of Japs exceeded 10, Li Baogen's heart suddenly stopped.

That's an army of 10 little devils!

Can their troops withstand the Japanese army for 24 hours after being bombed? Can their fortifications withstand the bombing of Japanese artillery units and the destruction of the Japanese's magnificent troops?
And the most important thing is that the troops responsible for the harassment are probably in danger at this time...

"Comrades! Take the time to repair your positions. The Japs' attack may start at any time. At the same time, everyone is prepared to defend against the Japs' artillery attacks!"

"Yes! Captain!"

As the only Category A regiment in Nanyu Town, the overall defense work here is naturally the responsibility of Li Baogen, the leader of the 31st Regiment.

The defensive positions of the 31st Regiment and the remaining six Eighth Route Army B Regiments at this time were deployed against the Japanese division-level combat forces. Now they don't know that there is a full Japanese army coming here, and they are adding chaos. Up to nearly 6 people! After learning about the number of troops of the Little Japanese, Li Baogen, who was responsible for the command of Nanyu Town, immediately reported the relevant situation to the direction of Niangziguan.

After Li Tianyou learned about the number of Japanese troops in Nanyu Town, he immediately sent an inquiry telegram to the Eighth Route Army headquarters and the logistics support group.

The underground party responded immediately and reported that a large number of Japanese troops were marching towards Nanyu Town. At the same time, the intelligence office of the Red Police Force also learned through its own intelligence methods that the entire Second Army of the Japanese North China Front was Sent in the direction of Niangziguan.

After receiving this information, Li Tianyou was so shocked that he broke into a cold sweat!
The original plan was to have three lines of defense to block two Japanese divisions, but now it has become two lines of defense to block one Japanese army...

There are so many things that are so bad!
After careful consideration, Li Tianyou, the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army in the Niangziguan direction, immediately sent a telegram to the Red Police Forces' 1st Combined Battalion and 2nd Heavy Artillery Battalion, which were on their way to reinforcements, asking for the time of arrival.

There are too many troops coming from the little devils, and the brothers will be unable to withstand them!
At this time, after a day and night of forced march, the Red Police Force had already covered more than half of the distance and had now passed through Heshun County and headed for Xiyang County.

After Xiyang is Quanyang, and then Niangziguan!

Then the red police force immediately called back in the direction of Niangziguan, saying that it would reach Niangziguan tonight.

Hearing that the logistics support team would arrive at Niangziguan tonight, Li Tianyou breathed a sigh of relief, and then issued new instructions to Nanyu Town.

Try your best to stop it, and you can retreat at any time if nothing can be done!

But just when Li Tianyou sent this telegram, the heavy artillery division of the Japanese Second Army had completed preparations for the bombardment and began to fire on Nanyu Town!
"Anti-gun! Anti-gun!"

"Hurry up, forget about the heavy machine guns and move on to the fortifications!"

Since the main body of defense in Nanyu Town is the six B-type regiments of the Eighth Route Army, and the training level of the soldiers in these B-type regiments is far inferior to that of the troops trained by the Red Police Force Training Office, so in the face of the Japanese army's large-scale During the large-scale shelling, it seemed much more panicked than the 31st Regiment.

The little Japanese's artillery shells hit the ground one by one, and the shock wave caused by the strong explosion caused great damage to the Eighth Route Army's defensive positions.

Originally, Nanyu Town was a small town, and there were not too many people to garrison it. However, the Eighth Route Army's defensive position could only use Nanyu Town as the core of the position. This resulted in the Japanese artillery fire being very likely to attack the Eighth Route Army troops. Cause a lot of damage.

In this case, Li Tianyou did not have enough artillery power to use it.

The Eighth Route Army's artillery unit was really insufficient in this battle!

At present, the Eighth Route Army is equipped with artillery units with a caliber of 100 mm or more. There are only artillery regiments directly under the three divisions and artillery brigades directly under the headquarters.

Three of the artillery regiments are providing cover for the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei area, while the artillery brigade directly under the Eighth Route Army is currently supporting the Eighth Route Army in the Hebei area in the vast central Hebei base area.

Moreover, the artillery battalion of the 343rd Brigade lost all its artillery in the previous bombing. Now Li Tianyou really has no extra artillery firepower except for the last two artillery batteries at hand!
These two artillery companies are already the last anti-tank artillery forces in Niangziguan.

In Nanyu Town, the Eighth Route Army's positions were under intense artillery fire.

Since the Little Japanese had sufficient ammunition this time, they bombed for an hour only in the first round of shelling.

The area where the Eighth Route Army's defensive positions were located was blown down two meters, which meant that most of the defenses in Nanyu Town had been destroyed by the Japs.

At this time, the position was filled with floating soil from artillery fire and mixed with shrapnel. Buried under the floating soil were the bodies of the Eighth Route Army soldiers responsible for defending Nanyu Town.

After this round of Japanese bombing, the soldiers of one Type A regiment and six Type B regiments defending in Nanyu Town have been wiped out.

After all, this is a reorganized heavy artillery regiment of the Japanese army. Such a quantity of artillery fire for an hour is simply not something a place like Nanyu Town can bear.

After the Japanese artillery fire stopped, the commander of the Japanese Second Army, Nobuaki Sekine, immediately ordered an infantry regiment to attack Nanyu Town.

At this time, in Nanyu Town, several surviving soldiers dragged their injured bodies out of the floating soil, and dozens of Eighth Route Army soldiers who were outside the Japanese artillery strike unit arrived at the 31st Regiment, which had become a crater. Department, began to dig wildly.

The regiment commanders of the 31st Regiment underground were also working hard to open up a passage to the surface.

As the general headquarters, the headquarters of the 31st Regiment was deeper at the bottom, and the top was supported by logs and steel beams, which prevented it from collapsing under the Japanese shelling.

However, under the fierce shelling, the entrance and exit of the 31st Regiment's headquarters had been blown down.

"Captain! Commander!"

"The ring finger is fine, hurry up and try harder!"

As the regimental commander of the 31st Regiment was dug out, the Eighth Route Army in Nanyu Town resumed command again, but Li Baogen felt sad when he looked at the surrounding troops with less than 300 troops in total attack.

After the unexpected shelling of the 7 regiments, only the last 300 people were left...

Has Nanyu Town been lost?

"Captain, Commander Li, my wife, just called, look!"

Li Baogen took the telegram and read it, then tore it into pieces and let it float in the wind.

retreat?

Their comrades, comrades-in-arms, brothers in life and death all died here.

Where else are they going to retreat?

"Comrades, our superiors have allowed us to withdraw. If anyone wants to withdraw, please withdraw immediately to Niangziguanba!"

"Captain, what about you?"

"I?"

Hearing this, Li Baogen looked at the soldiers around him, then at his comrades who were half buried in the soil, and said with a wry smile: "They are all here. As their regiment leader and their commander, I Where can I go?”

"The only thing left is to fight to the death!"

When the surrounding soldiers heard this, they all looked at each other, but in the end, no one chose to retreat.

Li Baogen looked back at them, but only saw firm eyes.

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!" (End of this chapter)