Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

The battle around Yangquan was undoubtedly a large battlefield! And this large battlefield was divided into several important locations. Shouyang was an important battlefield, and Changshengkou and the west of Niangzi Pass were another important battlefield node.

Unlike Shouyang City which had a city wall to defend, the Japanese invaders coming from Jingxing had Niangzi Pass to rely on. Jingxing continuously provided supplies to the front, so they could attack westward along the kilometers west of Niangzi Pass, or they could go through Changshengkou and Guguan and go straight to Ping'an County.

That’s right, this was the original invasion route of the 20th Division. A single regiment of the Japanese invaders caused a division of the Northwest Army to lose % of its troops, and then they broke through the defense line continuously, forcing various troops to gradually withdraw westward, with only the Eighth Route Army staying behind to cover their retreat.

At the beginning, the 129th Division was not fully staffed, with less than 129 people, no bullets in their guns, only a few bayonets, and grenades... Well, all the equipment of the th Division at that time was not as good as that of Li Yunlong's independent regiment now.

Guguan, the former enemy stronghold, is now the temporary headquarters of the independent regiment. The second battalion commander sitting here, holding a telephone in his hand, controls the situation of the entire battlefield. Of course, it is limited to the troops of the independent regiment, because there are also 769 regiments and 14 regiments here, which are the main defense.

Because they were the main force, these two regiments took the initiative to undertake the blocking battle west of Niangzi Pass, leaving only the small road of Gu Pass to the Second Battalion of the Independent Regiment with more than a thousand soldiers.

"Battalion Commander, good news, the Fourth Battalion has made it through!" On the phone, the communications soldier from the regiment headquarters told the Second Battalion Commander the news.

"The Fourth Battalion is coming? Aren't they guarding the regiment headquarters? Don't they want the regiment headquarters anymore?" The Second Battalion Commander asked on the phone while looking at the position outside.

"The regiment commander is back. Our political commissar is left to continue transporting things from Yangquan. Our regiment commander has returned with the main force of the regiment and plans to set up a new line of defense on the northern railway!" said the telephone operator.

"Wow, now there are more than 10,000 people fighting the Japanese, right? It's stable, it's stable here!" The second battalion commander put down the phone happily.

At Changshengkou, the first line of defense in front of Guguan, a battalion of Japanese troops was deployed on the north side of Banqiao Village. Two Type 92 infantry guns were ridiculously treated as treasures and placed on the top of the hill.

"Target, the position in front, bombard..." The battle started, the Japanese major officer swung his sword and ordered the artillery to bomb first.

Chirp, chirp, chirp... Boom, boom... Before the Japanese Type 92 infantry gun could fire, three mortar shells flew in from the south and directly destroyed the Japanese artillery position. The Japanese had no commanding heights, and all their deployments were seen by our scouts, so it was natural for them to mobilize artillery to bomb.

"Baga... 1st Squadron of the th Battalion of the Imperial Army, launch an attack immediately, quickly..." The Japs are now putting the puppet army in a more and more dangerous position. After all, their numbers are dwindling and they cannot afford to die.

After hearing the orders from the devils, the puppet soldiers could only jump out of their positions and run towards the Eighth Route Army's positions. There was no surprise at all. As soon as these puppet soldiers crossed the 300-meter crossfire line, they were taken special care of by the precision shooters of the Second Battalion, who called out the names of the puppet soldiers one by one while they were running.

At a distance of more than 100 meters, more than a dozen precision shooters kept firing. When the puppet troops rushed to the 200-meter crossfire line, their number was less than half of the original. "This kind of battle should be used for training! The puppet troops are not good at fighting..." Seeing the performance in the front, the squad leaders of the independent regiment all had such thoughts. So, when the second wave of puppet troops came to attack, the new recruits were replaced to fire freely, and the precision shooters only took care of those targets that posed a great threat.

On the battlefield on the Eastern Front, as long as the Japanese didn't use large-scale poison gas bombs and aerial bombs, there would basically be no problem. Of course, even if these were used, the troops guarding here were confident that they could stop the Japanese attack for at least seven days. The premise was that the Japanese could hold out for seven days without retreating.

Both battlefields were safe and the fighting was good. There was no problem at Jiulongguan! The Japanese were just feinting all the way up. After the 13th Regiment withdrew, the rd Battalion managed this place for a long time and had already dug out large and small anti-artillery holes, cat-ear holes and other fortifications on the top of the mountain.

When the Japanese from Yuanshi Zanhuang came to attack, the first wave of attack was the directional mines placed on the mountain road, which directly stunned the Japanese! After the directional mines, the mortar company of the Third Battalion and the grenade launchers gave the Japanese a carpet bombing, directly bombing from the east end to the west end of the Japanese team.

As a result, the cat-ear holes, tunnels, and anti-artillery holes prepared by the Third Brigade were not used, and the Japanese fled in disgrace...

The current Eighth Route Army is not as weak as the Eighth Route Army in the TV series! With the support of weapons and ammunition, as well as the many victories they have won before, the balance of victory has long tilted to the Eighth Route Army.

In fact, if the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army had not been eyeing us covetously and the Central Army had not been constantly provoking us, it would not be impossible to concentrate our forces to attack Taiyuan now.

Everything was reported to Zhao Danian one by one, and then Zhao Danian, Zhu Xingyu, Li Yuexuan, Lu Xiaoran and others analyzed them one by one to avoid major mistakes.

In actual situations, the commanders on the front line are all experienced in battle. They are good at catching the Japanese making mistakes and chasing them relentlessly, but they rarely have the chance to make mistakes themselves!
Well, on the big battlefield, the Eighth Route Army performed very well, and in some places far away from the Pingdong base, some small-scale battles were also fought successfully!
While bombing the Japanese at Jiulong Pass, the comrades of the Zanhuang District Team of the First Division discovered that most of the Japanese at a certain stronghold had gone out, and there were very few soldiers left. So the district captain asked someone to report to the captain of the county brigade, and they guarded outside this stronghold.

As a result, before the comrades of the county brigade arrived, the Japanese soldiers who had been bombed back from Jiulongguan returned to this stronghold. Of course, there were more than 50 soldiers who went there, but only more than 30 returned, and the casualties were really not small. Moreover, the team members found that the Japanese soldiers were no longer as arrogant as before, and they were all dejected and didn't care that there was an ambush waiting for them nearby.

"Captain, only a few Japanese troops have returned. We have three shotguns, two Type 99 light machine guns, and shotguns... Please give the order!" said a member of Qu's team on a hidden hillside.

"Okay, when the Japanese are within the range of our shotgun, pull the trigger directly, then fire the Type 40 rifle. After all the bullets in the magazine are used up, we will rush up and use the red tasseled rifle to finish off the remaining enemies! Third, don't forget the grenades..." The district captain looked at the more than team members he brought with him, and then at the Japanese who had no fighting spirit, and was full of confidence in this battle.

PS: I have a fever, 37.8 degrees. (End of this chapter)