The scene returns to the various reinforcement troops.
New second group.
With the reinforcement of local troops and militia troops originally used to besiege Ping'an County, the strength of the New Second Regiment increased rapidly, attacking from the front and back, and making detours from left to right.
After nearly an hour, a battalion led by Li Yunlong, plus local troops and militia troops who cooperated in the operation, finally ate up most of the Japanese reinforcements, leaving less than a third of the Japanese troops hiding nearby. Entered a stronghold.
The soldiers pursued all the way, and the Japanese and puppet troops fled in a hurry. They had no time to take away or even destroy the many weapons they carried, so they were accepted by Li Yunlong with a smile.
Several other Japanese and puppet troops who were ambushed by the New Second Regiment also lost ground.
If they had not escaped quickly and used some strongholds along the way to block the pursuing troops of the New Second Regiment, these Japanese and puppet troops would have even been wiped out by the soldiers.
Li Yunlong, who was furious, saw the Japanese troops escaping into the stronghold one by one. In anger, he directly mobilized several infantry artillery pieces and forcibly captured a Japanese stronghold.
Together with the original Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold, as well as the Japanese and puppet reinforcements who fled in, they were all wiped out.
After the defeated Japs retreated to some large strongholds and county towns, Li Yunlong ordered to stop the pursuit, but he did not stop there. Instead, taking advantage of the momentum of victory in front of him, he quickly issued an order to launch a breaking attack.
The local troops and militia comrades are good at breaking up attacks.
Sections of the Japs' railway tracks soon disappeared, and the wires stretching between the county towns were cut to pieces.
Fighting is fighting, Li Yunlong is still thinking about cooperating with Kong Jie!
Get more raw materials such as rails and wires back, so that we can start cooperation in military production in the future.
The regiment has enough equipment and ammunition, and there is no need to fight cowardly anymore.
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New group.
Ding Wei, who had a huge appetite, originally wanted to eat all the three reinforcements of the Japanese and puppet troops, that is, three Japanese army brigades and a puppet army.
For this reason, Ding Wei moved all his family's belongings out, and all the light and heavy machine guns of the entire regiment were put to use. Even the soldiers in the cooking squad participated in this ambush.
As a result, Ding Wei was a little disappointed, and all three Japanese and puppet troops were not wiped out.
In the end, it just eats up all the way, hits the road hard, and repels all the way.
After all, even if they are the second-rate troops of the Japs, the military quality of these little Japs is definitely not low.
After encountering the ambush, although the Japanese troops were not panicked, they were able to quickly gain a foothold and launch an orderly counterattack.
The Japanese commander who encountered the ambush was very shrewd and quickly used the surrounding terrain to separate the troops and force the troops of the new regiment to start a positional battle with them.
That is to say, the new group's equipment and fierce firepower prevented the little devil from turning over.
Along the way, the Japanese fought and retreated, but they withdrew a large part of them.
There are also little devils all the way who are even more cunning.
Ding Wei guessed that it was a crooked idea of a Japanese commander who actually let the Japanese and puppet soldiers exchange military uniforms.
What does it mean?
Usually when marching, the Japanese army and the puppet army march at the same time. The puppet army walks in front to open the way, and the Japanese army hangs behind not far or close.
The Japanese commander along the way was very cunning. He asked the Japanese army and the puppet army to switch their military uniforms, and then asked the Japanese army wearing puppet army uniforms to walk in the front and the puppet army wearing Japanese army uniforms to walk in the rear.
As for the weapons they carried, they were hidden secretly by some means.
The Japanese commander could also guess that on the way to support Ping'an County, he would probably encounter reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army.
So he made preparations early in the morning for the Japanese and puppet soldiers to exchange military uniforms.
As for the reason for doing this, it is very simple. The Japanese commander has long realized:
When the Imperial troops and Imperial Army troops are ambushed midway, the Eighth Route Army will place its main attack point on the Imperial troops.
Sometimes they would even let the Imperial Army troops clearing the way in front of them, and then grab the Imperial troops who stepped into the ambush circle and beat them fiercely.
The reason is that the Eighth Route Army also knows very well that compared to the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army, the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Association Army is much worse.
Often after the Japanese troops are defeated, the fighting will of the remaining Imperial Army troops will soon collapse.
So the cunning Japanese commander had an idea and asked the Japanese and puppet troops to switch uniforms before setting off.
The person responsible for the ambush along this route was Sun Zhenguo, the commander of the first battalion of the New Regiment.
The Japanese and puppet troops were divided into two parts, front and rear, and slowly moved towards the ambush circle.
As usual, there were puppet troops in the front, about one regiment in strength, and a Japanese brigade in the rear. Sun Zhenguo observed both troops through the telescope.
He was a little confused. The pace of the Japanese troops today seemed not as uniform as in the past, and the carts pulled at the front and back were all covered with coarse cloth, so it was not clear what was inside.
The puppet troops in front were still walking loosely.
Although Sun Zhenguo felt something was wrong, he didn't think too much. As usual, he let the puppet troops escape the ambush circle first, and then suddenly started fighting after the subsequent Japanese troops entered the ambush circle.
After the battle broke out, the ambush's firepower focused on the "Japanese troops" who stepped into the ambush circle.
As a result, as soon as the battle started, Sun Zhenguo discovered something strange. Today, this group of little devils were particularly vulnerable. The firepower was tilted, and the entire team suddenly fell into panic. Even the most basic counterattack firepower could not be established in time.
The intensity of the counterattack firepower of this group of "Japanese" seems to be much sparser than the firepower of the Japanese army in the past.
While Sun Zhenguo was puzzled, the Japanese captain was overjoyed.
Tubalu was indeed fooled.
The Japanese captain quickly led the troops that had broken through the ambush circle, using the surrounding slopes as a cover, and uncovered the coarse cloth covering the carriage that was being pulled along. There were light and heavy machine guns and grenades inside. It is exactly the firepower configuration that Japanese troops disguised as puppet troops should have.
The Japanese army, whose true colors were revealed, quickly launched an attack on the new regiment ambushed on both sides of the hillside.
Sun Zhenguo was taken aback by the sudden attack, and he immediately realized something was fishy.
Today, the roles of the Japanese and the puppet army seem to have been separated. The Japanese are particularly vulnerable.
However, the response speed of these Imperial Alliance troops was surprisingly fast, and the fire counterattack was even more ferocious. The firepower configuration of those light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers was by no means what the puppet troops should have.
Sun Zhenguo, who quickly came to his senses, immediately ordered: "Retreat quickly and go back to the rear of the puppet army. This group of puppet army is probably the Japanese disguised."
Sun Zhenguo's reaction was not unpleasant. The soldiers heard the news and quickly adjusted their tactics to respond. With the help of sophisticated equipment and powerful firepower, they finally prevented the little Japanese from succeeding.
Just because they missed the advantage of the ambush, the battle lasted for nearly two hours.
In the end, the Japanese captain commanded the Japanese and puppet troops to evacuate calmly. Both sides suffered casualties, but Sun Zhenguo had no choice but to do anything.
So far, as a result of the three-way ambush operation of the New Regiment, all the Japanese and puppet reinforcements were wiped out, severely damaged all the way, and repelled all the way.
Sun Zhenguo, who had been trapped by the Japanese, was very depressed.
Ding Wei comforted Sun Zhenguo and realized the cunningness of the Japanese army's tactics. He immediately passed the news to the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment that the Japanese army and the puppet army might switch uniforms for combat.
As for the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment, the little devil did the same thing.
But after Kong Jie and Li Yunlong were vaccinated by Ding Wei, they were not so easily fooled.
Cadres can easily detect the flaws of the Japanese and puppet troops, or simply annihilate both sides together.
The little devil's strategy was self-defeating.
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Independent regiment.
There is nothing much to say about the other ambush battles. The fighting situation is very different from that of the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment.
Nowadays, the three well-equipped Iron Triangle regiments have shown increasingly powerful combat effectiveness in ambush battles. It was the Japanese's second-rate troops who were ambushed this time. Throughout the battle, the ambush battles everywhere were basically the same. It's all one-sided.
The key is to see whether the ambushed Japanese and puppet troops can be wiped out.
It is naturally not difficult to repel the Japanese and puppet troops in this reinforcements, but it is not easy to completely annihilate the Japanese and puppet troops.
Speaking of the surrounding area of the Independent Regiment, the most exciting ambush operation this time was undoubtedly the plain area from Yangquan to the middle of Ping'an County.
This plain area is not too big. To be precise, it is a bit like a basin. Although it is not surrounded by mountains on all sides, it is mostly surrounded by mountains on both sides. There is a large area in the middle, which is similar to the plain terrain. The terrain is open and flat. The area is not small, but you can reach the end as far as the eye can see.
This is the place where the Japanese reinforcements dispatched from Yangquan to support Ping'an County must pass.
There are several Japanese strongholds around the plain. When two Japanese troops came out from Yangquan, plus a puppet army, a total of more than 3,000 people passed by this plain terrain, the two Japanese captains even In the mood to joke.
One said: "This time we are supporting Ping'an County, we will probably encounter reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army on the way. This is how the Eighth Route Army always fights."
Another said: "Yes, it is very likely that we will be ambushed, but it will never be in a place like this."
"The terrain here is open and there are only some open hillsides around. There is no way to hide a large number of ambush troops."
"If Tubal Road ambush here, the terrain in the rear is open, and we can retreat at any time and attack the Eighth Route Army troops with superior artillery."
The two Japanese captains were very sure of this. This time, their two brigades were equipped with an additional artillery squadron, and more than a dozen artillery pieces followed. As long as the artillery position was placed back to avoid the Eighth Route Army's firepower, Once an Eighth Route Army encounters an ambush on the way, it can cover it with firepower at any time and severely damage the Eighth Route Army's ambush troops.
Not long ago, the head of the Independent Regiment, Kong Jie, tapped the points on the sand table that belonged to this plain terrain, and said decisively: "If you want to eat these more than 3,000 Japanese and puppet troops in one go, you have to fight." The area can only be placed in this plain area.”
"We have an advantage in ambush after entering the mountainous area, but there is also a problem. Once the Japanese army withdraws from the ambush circle we arranged in advance with the help of firepower, the Japanese who can also use the terrain and features to launch a counterattack can retreat calmly and then Coupled with the rear-mounted artillery that the Japanese have been protecting, our ambush troops will definitely be bombarded by Japanese artillery."
"As a result, our casualties are unavoidable, and the possibility of annihilating the Japanese and puppet troops all the way to Yangquan is almost impossible."
"So it can only be placed at this point, this plain terrain between the surrounding mountains."
Second Battalion Commander Shen Quan expressed concern: "Commander, it is difficult for us to find an ambush advantage in fighting in this plain area. In addition, the Japanese army has a vast depth in the rear that can retreat at any time. Is it impossible for us to launch a positional battle with the Japanese army?"
"The artillery of the Japanese artillery squadron is definitely not weak."
Kong Jie asked: "What if once the battle starts, we can quickly contain most of the Japanese and puppet troops from both wings and directly destroy the Japanese artillery squadron?"
Chen Quan smiled bitterly and said: "Captain, is this impossible? This plain area is too vast. Our artillery cannot reach it if it is hidden at the foot of the mountain. If we go out, we will easily be discovered by the Japanese. I am afraid that things will change by then." The two sides exchanged artillery fire."
"We're afraid we won't be able to afford it if we compete with the Japanese for shells."
Kong Jie said: "The two artillery batteries have other uses. I don't intend to use the artillery batteries here."
"ah?"
The cadres were dumbfounded. The Japanese artillery squadron was right in front of them. How could they destroy the Japanese artillery without using the artillery battery?
Kong Jie smiled and said, "Did you forget about our regiment's semi-mechanized heavy armored force?"
Chen Quan said in astonishment: "Captain, you are not talking about Sun Desheng's cavalry company, are you?
We have also heard that the motorized units and cavalry units you built before have been practicing coordinated operations these days.
But you didn't expect this to become a semi-mechanized heavy-armed force, right? "
Kong Jie smiled and without explaining, directly ordered: "First Battalion Commander, Second Battalion Commander."
"Yes!" Wang Leihu and Shen Quan responded in unison.
Kong Jie pointed to the sand table and issued an order: "The first battalion is placed on the left wing of this plain terrain near the exit, and the second battalion is placed on the right wing to block the Japanese reinforcements with cross fire. You two battalions rush to the place in advance and build a Fortifications.”
"The Japs have always been arrogant. They think that our Eighth Route Army only dares to engage in guerrilla warfare and does not dare to fight head-on positional warfare with them. So today I have to do what they want. I will fight directly with them in this plain area. The reinforced Japanese and puppet troops launched a positional warfare confrontation."
"Yes!" Although Wang Leihu and Shen Quan didn't understand what the captain's back-up plan was, they still agreed without hesitation.
Kong Jie said: "I know you two have doubts in your hearts and if you want to know the answer, ask Sun Desheng on the way and he will answer your questions."
"The three of you cooperate. There is only one mission this time. Wipe out all the Japanese and puppet troops for me!"
"Yes, commander, please rest assured and promise to complete the mission!" the two battalion commanders responded loudly.
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