People are shining their swords, secretly helping the Iron Triangle in Northwest Shanxi

Chapter 238

The Japanese army is very cunning, they naturally know the contradiction between Huang Daofeng and Xu Chengpu.

But they arranged for these two people to command the puppet army to station in Xin County, so these two people will definitely not unite together.

On the contrary, the little devil can take advantage of the contradictions between them to firmly control these puppet troops and make them serve him wholeheartedly.

Major General Shigeharu Liuxia, head of the independent mixed third brigade, continued to preside over the meeting. He emphasized that all ministries fully obeyed the orders of the army headquarters.

The Japanese and puppet troops stationed in Xinxian County made every effort to build defensive positions, establish perfect fortifications, and make defensive preparations.

Shigeharu Liuxia did not intend to take the initiative to launch any offensive operations, but to execute the orders of the military headquarters.

In his opinion, as long as the 1-day puppet troops in Xinxian County stand firm with all their strength, and the Jinsui Army and the Eighth Route Army come to fight, then he can take the initiative.

This meeting lasted for a long time, until after eleven o'clock in the evening, Shigeharu Yanashita let Kazuki Yamamoto and others leave.

After the officers of the Japanese and Puppet Army left, Shigeharu Liuxia continued to contact the First Army Command.

He wants to get materials such as cement and steel bars to reinforce the position and ensure that the built position is strong enough.

Naturally, the First Army Command directly agreed to Shigeharu Liuxia's application without any hesitation.

In the following time, the Japanese and puppet troops in Xinxian County continued to build positions.

The Ninth Brigade of the Independent Infantry and the Sixth Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Association Army, with more than 6000 troops, built positions with Hesuo Town, Qicun Town, and hilly areas as the core.

The 6000th Brigade of the Independent Infantry and the [-]th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Association Army also have more than [-] troops, with Zhuangmo Town, the county seat, and Xinkou Town as the core to build positions.

More than 3000 Japanese puppet troops, relying on villages and towns, established perfect defensive positions.

Some important areas have also begun to continue to repair defensive strongholds in order to better contain the Eighth Route and Jinsui Army troops on the western highlands.

The No. [-] Squadron of Independent Tanks, the No. [-] Squadron of Armored Vehicles, and the Yamamoto Special Forces are controlled in the county seat and directly under the command of Shigeharu Yanashita.

Of course, the engineering unit directly under the headquarters of the Little Devil's First Army is also busy. They are constantly repairing the railways and roads in Xin County.

On October [-], Shigeharu Liuxia issued an order to encircle and wipe out the Eighth Route local troops in Xinxian County.

Yamamoto Kazuki's special agent team began to implement combat orders.

A well-equipped little devil continued to attack.

There are currently tens of thousands of puppet troops here in Xin County, and there is a big gap in strength between the two sides.

Within a few days, the militias in the villages of Xin County, as well as guerrillas, district squads, county brigades and other local armed forces suffered heavy losses.

They had nowhere to hide, and the remaining troops were forced to temporarily withdraw from Xin County.

Without these local armed forces, the Japanese and puppet troops began to enlist the people of Xin County to help them strengthen their positions.

In front of the trenches in Hesuo Town and Qicun Town, minefields, barbed wire fences, and roadblocks have also begun to be deployed.

For a while, Xin County was full of defensive positions, and the previously destroyed blockhouses and blockhouses began to be rebuilt one after another.

Huang Daofeng, the brigade commander of the Sixth Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Association Army, has a fiery personality and great ambitions.

While recruiting civilians to build fortifications, Huang Daofeng connived at the troops burning, killing and looting.

And he forcibly pulled some young and middle-aged men into his army, and trained these young and middle-aged men to be puppet soldiers, thereby enhancing the strength of his own army.

Huang Daofeng and Xu Chengpu selected by the Japanese army are absolute hardcore traitors, they are different from other traitors.

Some traitors are just greedy and afraid of death, and they seek refuge with little devils just to save their own lives.

But these two people both want to use the little devil to realize their ambitions of promoting their positions and controlling more troops.

So they worked very hard under the command of the Japanese army, followed the Japanese army to raid, and did a lot of burning, killing and looting.

During combat, as long as the Japanese army gives an order, they will attack without hesitation.

Regardless of any force, they are willing to fight.

With the assistance of such hardcore traitors, the Japanese army quickly built a defensive position in Xin County.

As for Xin County, with the arrival of the Japanese and puppet troops, it has almost become a hell on earth.

Of course, the actions of the Japanese and puppet troops here must not be hidden from the Jinsui Army and the Eighth Route Army.

Whether it is the Independent 48th Brigade or the Xinyi Regiment, they are all paying close attention to the dynamics of the Japanese and puppet troops in Xinxian County.

It was at this time that the 36th Division in southern Shanxi mobilized a part to cooperate with the independent and mixed Eighth Brigade of the Zhengtai Railway Defense, and began to launch key raids.

Thousands of little devil troops have been strengthened with heavy weapons. They carry out dragnet sweeps, focusing on searching and capturing the main force of the Eight Routes for annihilation and strike.

At this time, there are mainly 129 divisions in the southern Shanxi area, but they have continued to fight for more than two months.

They all have losses to varying degrees, especially the consumption of ammunition, which has reduced the combat effectiveness of some troops.

And before this Japanese army mopped up, they also dealt with other little devils mopping up.

As these little devils began to operate, some areas were forced to abandon, while the Japanese troops frantically carried out burning, killing and looting.

Especially on October 25th, a major event happened to the North China Front Army. After this event happened, the little devil was even more annoyed.

This large-scale sabotage operation by the Eighth Route Army caused the little devil to pay heavy losses, and the railways and roads were destroyed.

Their lines of communication were completely paralyzed, and the newly formed independent mixed fourth brigade in Xin County was annihilated.

More than 8000 reinforcements sent by the Mongolian Army were also annihilated, and the Japanese and puppet troops suffered heavy casualties.

The North China Front Army Command cannot hide such a loss.

In the pass, the highest command organ of the Japanese army, the headquarters of the Japanese dispatched army has already learned about the situation here.

Even the domestic base camp heard the wind and sent a special message to inquire.

The base camp of the Japanese army and the headquarters of the dispatched army were very angry when they knew that the Japanese and puppet troops had suffered heavy losses and that two major generals of the Japanese army had been killed.

The base camp and the dispatched army headquarters continued to discuss, and they quickly came up with a solution.

Naozaburo Okabe, commander of the Garrison in Mongolia, and Shinichi Tanaka, chief of staff, were dismissed from their posts.

The former Lieutenant General of the Third Division Masataka Yamashita served as the commander of the garrison in Mongolia, and Takahashi Shigetoshi served as the chief of staff of the garrison in Mongolia.

Kusuyama Hideyoshi, the chief of staff of the First Army, was transferred away, and Huaguzheng was appointed as the chief of staff of the First Army Major General.

Hayao Tada, Commander of the North China Front Army, Yukio Kasahara, Chief of Staff, Yoshio Shinozuka, Commander of the First Army.

These three people were reprimanded by the base camp and the headquarters of the dispatched army.

Among them, the chief of staff of the base camp, even in the telegram, scolded them mercilessly, which is a shame!

Tada Hayao and the other three were only reprimanded, but not actually punished.

But these generals of the Japanese army are desperate for face, but they regard their own face as more important than anything else.

Being reprimanded by the base camp and the headquarters of the dispatched army, the three generals were ashamed and deeply felt that this was a great shame.

So after they received the reprimand telegram, they sent power to the mopping-up troops one after another in the afternoon of the 25th.

They asked these mopping up troops to carry out strict operations and punish the Eighth Route troops!
As a result, the Japanese army began to slaughter frantically. As long as they encountered it, whether it was the Eighth Route Army or ordinary people, they would attack.

Many villages were burned by them, and a large number of unarmed people were slaughtered.

The little devils are completely demons, and they are destroying everything that can be destroyed.

Until the end of the month, these little devil troops were still sweeping wildly.

And a Japanese army of thousands of people found the hospital behind the 129th Division by mistake because they went the wrong way!
Little devils without any humanity will even slaughter civilians, not to mention the wounded in the rear hospital.

Suddenly a tragedy happened, and the wounded, doctors and nurses in the rear hospital were brutally murdered by the Japanese army.

The Japanese troops who had won the victory swaggered and cut off the heads of many wounded, and they took pictures to celebrate.

And the telegrams began to be sent out one by one, directly reporting to the First Army Command and other troops to ask for credit.

At two o'clock in the morning on November [-]st, the Eighth Route Headquarters received a report.

After the deputy commander-in-chief learned of the news, he was furious on the spot and immediately contacted the 129th division.

The division commander has already started to hold a combat meeting, and brigade commander Chen and other cadres also rushed to participate.

"Mr. Liu, the little devil's troops of more than 1000 people have unscrupulously entered our base area to fight in depth."

"They slaughtered the people, and now they are all here in the rear hospital. Your division must completely annihilate them."

"Don't have any worries, at all costs, annihilate this army of little devils!"

"They have a brigade size. According to the information we have, they are the Yamazaki Brigade belonging to the 36th Division!"

"Your division, you must completely annihilate the son of a bitch's Yamazaki brigade!"

The voice of the deputy commander-in-chief came through the microphone. From his angry voice, it was not difficult to see the emotion of the deputy commander-in-chief at this time.

Master Liu agreed, communicated with the deputy commander-in-chief on the phone, and then hung up the phone.

Immediately afterwards, Commander Liu began to make combat deployments, and he handed over the combat mission to Brigadier Chen.

After receiving the mission, Brigadier Chen did not dare to delay, immediately mobilized troops and organized relevant cadres to come to the brigade headquarters.

Considering the area where the Yamazaki Brigade is located, Brigadier Chen also immediately contacted Li Yunlong and other troops in the Xin County area.

Zhao Gang, the official member of the new regiment, left quickly on behalf of the three regiments to attend the combat meeting at the brigade headquarters.

After dawn, troops began to advance towards the vicinity of the Yamazaki Brigade one after another.

Sayamazaki Zhihei, the Japanese army who commanded the more than 1000 little devils to fight, responded quickly, and he began to command the troops to take the initiative to attack.

The First Army arranged for the 36th Division, which was independently mixed into the Eighth Brigade to carry out the sweep. They originally planned to end it at the end of the month.

But after receiving the reprimand telegram on the 25th, Tada Hayao and others were full of anger.

They also know that they don't have enough strength to advance to the area west of Xin County to carry out combat strikes against the Independent 48th Brigade.

And this time, the General Command of the Little Devils Dispatch Army also made operational guidance, requesting to win over the Jinsui Army troops as much as possible.

Under such circumstances, they were unable to attack the Independent 48th Brigade, and could only vent their grievances to the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, this sweeping force increased the combat time, and the troops commanded by Yamazaki Zhihei later received combat orders to advance deeper into the base area.

Without the arrival of the butterfly Chen Ziyun, the little devil might not have mobilized too many troops.

But when Chen Ziyun came here, it caused all the effects.

Among other things, with the help of Li Yunlong's new regiment several times, even the infantry artillery is not an absolute treasure now.

Brigadier Chen congratulated Li Yunlong several times, and the 386th Brigade formed an artillery battalion directly under it.

The little devil knew that the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army had improved, so they deliberately strengthened the strength of this army.

The current strength of the Yamazaki Brigade is by no means comparable to that of the troops in the original drama.

Following Yamazaki Zhihei's command, the little devil's troops immediately launched operations.

Four 75-style [-]MM mountain guns fired first, and shells hit the Eighth Route Army one after another.

A number of Japanese soldiers quickly launched an attack, light and heavy machine guns, grenadier infantry artillery, and launched a direct fire attack not long after.

The troops of both sides fought fiercely until after [-] o'clock in the morning, and both sides suffered casualties.

At the same time, they also realized that something was wrong, and at twelve o'clock, the two sides temporarily stopped fighting.

At first, the Eighth Route Army thought that the more than 1000 little devils were just a brigade of little devils.

But when they hit them, they found something unusual. The overall strength of this group of little devils is strong, and they have many heavy weapons.

And almost all little devils have strong combat capabilities.

These little devils made the eighth route troops attacking and fighting immediately think of the elite permanent divisions of the Japanese army in the early days of the battle.

As for Yamazaki Zhihei, he has gone the wrong way, and he doesn't know his position yet.

After discovering that a large number of Eighth Route troops were coming, he thought that these troops were just local armed forces.

But after some fighting, Yamazaki Jihei immediately realized something was wrong.

So not long after the battle ended, Yamazaki Zhihei immediately commanded the troops to quickly move towards the favorable terrain Lijiapo!
The Japanese troops moved quickly, and they arrived at Lijiapo around one o'clock in the afternoon.

Various weapons transported by pack horses and mules were immediately dismantled, and various weapons and equipment were also deployed in different positions.

The Eighth Route Army knew that there were more than 1000 little devils in this group, and the officer in command was Yamazaki Zhihei.

So they subconsciously believed that this was a combat brigade of the Japanese army.

But in fact, these more than 1000 troops have different numbers.

They have the 12st, [-]th, [-]th, and [-]th Infantry Squadrons under their command.

Machine guns [-]st, [-]th, [-]th, and [-]th squads.

Ninth Independent Mortar Squadron, Third Mortar Squadron.

Independence Hill Artillery No. 224 Squadron, [-]th Regiment directly under the Infantry Artillery Squadron, Rapid Fire Artillery Squadron.

In addition, they also have communication troops, supply troops, engineering troops and other troops.

These troops are from the 36, 222, and 223 infantry regiments under the 224th Division.

At the same time, the communications unit of the 36th Division, the engineering unit directly under it, and the logistics unit also drew troops to join.

Yamazaki Zhihei is not the captain of the little devil's combat unit, but the staff officer in the headquarters of the 36th Infantry Regiment under the 36th Division!
(End of this chapter)