Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Sasaki's soldier instructor arrived quickly, and his signalman didn't even need to run back to the village. Just when the battle was just beginning, Major Yamauchi Tsutaro in Chengbi Village received a report from the eastern sentry - the Imperial Army was divided and surrounded! That's right, the Imperial Army, the puppet army, was divided and surrounded, and there were quite a few soldiers surrounding the puppet army, and it looked like they were going to be finished!

There is more than one battlefield today. There is the battle on Cheng Bi's side and the battle of the 59th Regiment in Guodao Town in the east!

The leaders of the First Division decided to use the precious 120mm mortars to bombard the area. The time for the 59th Regiment to prepare for the battle was actually the time for Sasaki to go up the mountain. When Sasaki's squadron was fighting with the second and third companies, the Imperial Army Battalion in the east was bombarded by 120mm heavy mortars! A total of 18 heavy mortars fired 54 shells at the valley where the puppet army was located.

54 shells may not seem like a lot, but one shell can overturn two and a half acres of heavy ground! Well, not everyone has the strong logistics of the Beishan Detachment. The Taiyue First Division can use so many shells against the puppet army, which is really a "hemorrhage"! Therefore, the effect of the bombing is to directly kill the puppet army, tear them apart, and confuse the survivors.

The puppet troops were still confused when the 59st Battalion of the th Regiment came out of the ravine in the west and cut off the puppet troops. They also attacked from both sides. That's right, this ravine was the location that the commander of the st Division had arranged for the nd Battalion, but the nd Battalion went to the west, and then the next battle took place.

The 59th Regiment was at least one of the main regiments of the First Division. Even if it had fewer troops, it was still a main force! So when the First Battalion rushed out and the Second Battalion also rushed down from the mountain, the puppet troops basically had no decent counterattack and were surrounded in succession, followed by hand-to-hand combat.

During the hand-to-hand combat, a squad of Zhu Ziming's squadron was wiped out. When Sasaki was about to ask for help, Yamauchi Tsutaro also judged the situation on the battlefield - the Imperial Army was no longer viable, and once the Eighth Route Army wiped out the Imperial Army, the next step would be to kill all the way west to Chengbi, forming a T-shaped pincer attack with the mountains in the north.

The Japanese liked to do the pincer attack the most, so Yamauchi knew how powerful the pincer attack was! So he took the rest of the squadron and all of Cheng Bi's puppet troops and went up the mountain along a ridge west of Sasaki's squadron, just about 200 meters away from Sasaki and his men.

The situation on the battlefield changed again because of the change in the mountains. When Guo Liandong learned about this from the sentry sent to the south by the second company, he sighed: "The Japanese are really slippery! But don't be afraid, we have plenty of ways to fight them! Guerrilla warfare, we are their ancestors!"

"Orders, send out two companies from the second and third companies respectively, and go westward from the south side of the ridge, directly blocking the south side of the two Japanese ridges to prevent them from going down the mountain! Fourth and fifth companies, quickly move north, occupy the high ground in the north, and then move westward to compress the Japanese on these two ridges! Has the first company finished cleaning up? Go south and attack the first Japanese squadron that comes up! Sixth company, follow me, we're going to the second company's position!"

"Signalman, pull the telephone line to the front line. I need to know the position of our artillery company at all times! Don't rush to call me when the artillery company arrives. Have them immediately build a position on the northern hill!"

Guo Liandong's arrangement was obviously to weave a net for the devils, to compress their space as much as possible, and thus annihilate them. Battalion Commander Bai of the First Battalion, who did not hear what he was supposed to do, also quickly asked: "Captain, what should we do in our battalion?"

"In your battalion, those who were originally baggage soldiers continue to carry the baggage and follow our company! For the rest of the troops, you take them to Chengbi at the foot of the mountain to check, and be careful not to step on the Japanese mines or anything like that! In the village, you arrange a company to guard it, and the resting team will go directly westward and build a position at the mouth of the Qin River Valley west of Chengbi to prevent the Japanese from breaking through the Qin River Valley! I want to compress the Japanese to the northwest!" "Got it, it's a cat catching a mouse, right? Hehe, the white dogs chased and intercepted us back then, and today we will also mainly intercept the Japanese! In the first battalion, the baggage soldiers stay here, and the rest of you follow me!"

The Eighth Route Army moved quickly, and Sasaki was not slow either. When he saw his captain appear on the ridge behind him, Sasaki led the Japanese soldiers down the hillside on the west side of the ridge without Yamauchi's orders, and then climbed up the ridge on the west side with great effort. At this time, the comrades of the second and third companies were still heading south and had not yet moved west.

Are the Japanese really going to run away? When Guo Liandong arrived at the second company's position and found a high point, he saw the Japanese climbing up the western ridge and couldn't help thinking. However, there is no need to be afraid if the Japanese run away. As long as they flee in the direction arranged for them, there will be no problem.

"Signalman, where is the special forces team located?" Guo Liandong asked.

"Captain, the special forces have reached the hilltop west of Longjiawa in the northwest! They are less than three kilometers away from us!" said the communications soldier while holding the radio.

"Are we there? Okay, tell Luo Wei to let them wait there until we drive the devils over!" Guo Liandong said, finally letting go of his worries. As long as the special forces were in place, the net he had woven would have no shortcomings, and all that was left was to compress the devils' combat space bit by bit.

Time passed little by little amid the sound of gunfire. With the 6th Company in place, the teams of the 6nd and 1rd Companies on the front line also moved south and quickly joined their own teams. The th Company Commander Bai Dabao and the st Company Commander Wei Xuewu also changed their previous arrangements based on the enemy's position.

Because of the height advantage, the first company gave up the ridge that Sasaki and his men had taken, and chose to go south from the ridge inside the mountain and a ridge further west. Wei Xuewu also went down the ravine, and after defeating the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain, he climbed up the ridge that Sasaki and his men had taken before.

There are many mountain ridges here, and this is the best way to squeeze the enemy's combat space. When the 6th Company's team emerged from the western mountain ridge, the 60 mortar platoon that stayed here directly bombarded the mountain, giving the main force of the 6th Company the opportunity to reach the top.

During this time, the second and third companies also ran to their proper locations, and even took the initiative to continue moving westward, thus compressing the team in the mountain again.

On the western ridge, looking at the first company more than 700 meters to the north, and then looking at the second and third companies more than 500 meters to the south, Yamanouchi did not hesitate and continued to move westward... (End of this chapter)