For a long time, the most difficult thing for the Japanese army to deal with the Eighth Route Army troops in the occupied areas was to completely avoid the leakage of information.
Often the Japanese and puppet troops had not made any moves, or even just walked out of the county towns, and the news had already spread before the raiding troops arrived at the Eighth Route Army base.
The Eighth Route Army, which was already good at fighting guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare, quickly moved in advance. When the Japanese encirclement came around, it was defeated.
In the end, the Japanese mobilized their troops, but the attempt was in vain.
Such failures accumulated so much that the Japanese army hated the Eighth Route Army troops, but they were helpless and didn't bother to pay attention.
After all, the military focus of the Japanese invasion of China was always on the national army in the early stage.
As for the scarcity of ammunition and backward equipment, the Japanese army described it like a group of beggars.
In the eyes of the Japanese army, they were nothing more than a group of peasant organizations.
It was not until after the Hundred Regiments Battle that the Eighth Route Army's sharp edge was revealed, which caused great panic in the Japanese army, and even gradually shifted the focus of military strikes to the Eighth Route Army troops.
But the Eighth Route Army troops with tenacious fighting will in the occupied areas still could not be eliminated.
As a result, the Japanese army successfully fell into an unsolvable and funny endless loop.
The eight-pronged attack failed, and the majesty of the empire was damaged.
Then pick out the weak ones first and restore the dignity that was frustrated by the Eighth Route Army.
Compared with the Eighth Route Army, which was fighting guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare all over the mountains and plains behind enemy lines, the little devils howled in anger.
Obviously, the Japanese officers preferred to fight the Chinese troops on the frontal battlefield.
The reason is simple, easy to fight.
This national army doesn't know how to use its brains, or it can't be said that it doesn't know how to play dirty tricks. It is obviously no match for our imperial army. It insists on being a tough guy and blindly carries out frontal attacks. It is just shopping in the manhole and looking for shit.
After easily defeating the national army in the battle and restoring the power of the Japanese Empire.
The Japanese army would consolidate the occupied areas, then mobilize forces, and then raid the Eighth Route Army base areas in the occupied areas.
But the sweep failed again, and the Eighth Route Army was still not eliminated.
They even suffered heavy losses when they raided the Eighth Route Army base areas.
With no other options left, the Japanese can only turn around and fight the national army on the frontal battlefield to show the power of the Japanese Empire!
To use a more vivid metaphor, the Eighth Route Army is like a tough bamboo in the eyes of the Japanese, while the National Army is a whetstone.
The Japanese came to chop the bamboo with a knife. As they continued to chop, the knife became blunt. So they found the National Army, sharpened the knife, then turned around and continued to chop the bamboo of the Eighth Route Army.
Just like now.
The Japanese originally wanted to wipe out the Eighth Route Army troops in the Taihang area during the April 12 raids.
Not only did it fail, but it was also a disaster.
Suffered a big loss at the hands of the Independent Group.
The Japanese were at their wits end. The failure of the raids had destabilized the morale of the military, and the anti-Japanese sentiment of the Chinese people in the occupied areas was even higher. A great victory must be fought to deter the unruly people and stabilize public order.
So the Japanese had just finished attacking the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang base area, failed and retreated, turned around and attacked directly to southern Shanxi.
The national army in Zhongtiao Mountain was somewhat caught off guard.
The national army was rapidly defeated at the base of Zhongtiao Mountain, which they had held for four years, and all their positions were lost.
After occupying Zhongtiao Mountain, squeezing out the Central Army, and stabilizing the southward passage, the Japs set their sights on the Eighth Route Army in the occupied area again after resting.
The Japs continued to sway in this comical endless loop.
After Yoshio Shinozuka's order was conveyed by the headquarters.
All parties in the Japanese army took quick action and gradually moved closer to the independent regiment base area.
Naturally, the Japanese army's movements could not be concealed from the independent group's widely spread eyes and ears and secret investigators. The news had already reached Kong Jie's headquarters before the Japanese and puppet troops even left the county towns.
And Kong Jie has more than one news channel.
There is news from within the enemy's Ministry of Industry.
There is information from the armed workers team.
There were also movements that people noticed when they entered the county.
As the Eighth Route Army has the support of the masses, in terms of collecting information, simple and intelligent people have always been a very important part in the transmission of intelligence.
The most surprising thing is.
Except for the eyes and ears of the common people and the independent group.
Some puppet troops who had long been instigated to rebel also passed the news on.
Even the Japanese squadron leader Miki Ichiro, who had business dealings with Kong Jie, and the puppet company commander Qian Dekai.
The two of them also sent the news eagerly to please Kong Jie.
And stated in the intelligence that the Japanese troops are gradually moving closer to the base area of your independent regiment.
Therefore, in the contest between the independent regiment and the Japanese and puppet troops, the advantages and disadvantages can be seen only from the intelligence.
The Independent Group is monolithic and has a broad base of people. Its eyes and ears are almost spread throughout Yangquan.
Where are the Japanese and puppet troops!
Intelligence information leaked from all directions, and the puppet army fell on both sides.
Because of the secret business smuggling, the Japanese army, who was gradually paralyzed by Kong Jie, also turned his elbows outward.
Just such a little devil, in the original words of Commander Kong:
"Comrades, just from the intelligence collection this time, everyone can see that this little devil is already a strong man on the outside."
"Even Japanese people like Ichiro Miki help us pass on the news. Why don't we defeat these little security devils who are not even second-rate troops?"
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Three days.
According to Kong Jie's original plan, the first batch of teams was divided into six groups and set off from the base area with great fanfare and headed south.
This first batch of teams was a temporary combination. A small part was composed of soldiers from Shen Quan's Second Regiment, and the majority was composed of local comrades and militia units such as the county brigade.
Now it's to test the little devil, so the team goes first.
There are six routes in total. Although there is a lot of fanfare, the soldiers will still rely on the terrain to move forward in concealment.
Not long after, the soldiers responsible for guarding the commanding heights waved military flags and conveyed the message.
"Captain Zhang, there's something going on. The Japanese plane has arrived!"
The comrade leading the county brigade said to the third company commander of the second regiment.
Company Commander Zhang naturally understood the message conveyed by the military flag, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, if nothing unexpected happens, this is just the Japs' leading reconnaissance plane, here to reconnoiter the situation, but just in case, beware of the Japs reconnaissance There are fighter jets among the planes, so everyone should take cover."
While ordering the troops to hide, Captain Zhang was completely rude to the Japanese planes.
There was even a hint of expectation on his face, and he turned to the platoon leader beside him and said, "Has the anti-aircraft machine gun been set up?"
The platoon leader said: "Don't worry, company commander, everything is ready."
Captain Zhang nodded, "The planes will fire directly after they enter the range. Even if they are Japanese reconnaissance planes, they can shoot down every one!"
"yes!"
When the platoon leader turned around to make arrangements, Captain Zhang said with a smile: "Our leader has long guessed that the Japanese are likely to send planes for a sneak attack, so our advance team also brought a few anti-aircraft machine guns to deal with the Japanese planes. of."
Chu tu tu tu——
As the roar of the aircraft engine came from far away, the Japanese's three leading reconnaissance planes flew over Company Commander Zhang and his party.
The soldiers who had been preparing for the attack quickly pulled the trigger and used anti-aircraft machine guns to shoot at the passing reconnaissance plane.
Speaking of which, these anti-aircraft machine guns were captured from the Japanese aircraft's crashed aircraft. They were used to treat the Japanese in their own way and in turn deal with the Japanese planes. They were really powerful weapons.
The Japanese pilot who was flying a reconnaissance plane over the sky was also a little confused.
The Japanese scouts used telescopes from a distance to detect the moving Eighth Route Army troops on the ground below.
When their plane arrived quickly, these Eighth Route Army troops seemed to disappear on the ground.
In order to detect the target situation on the ground more clearly, the Japanese pilots lowered the altitude of the aircraft a lot.
It was close to low-altitude flight, only six or seven hundred meters above the ground.
Then, before the Japanese pilots and observers had time to recover, several anti-aircraft machine gun fire points that had been set up on the ground suddenly broke out and fired at the Japanese aircraft in mid-air.
After a period of confusion, three Japanese reconnaissance planes roared over the soldiers.
The tail of one of them was damaged, with flames and smoke rising, and it gradually lost its balance. Then it gradually spun and flew for seven or eight hundred meters before plunging into the foothills in the distance.
Boom——
A violent explosion occurred as the plane and the earth kissed fiercely.
Due to the suddenness of the incident and the low-altitude flight, the Japanese pilots and observers did not even have time to parachute.
The other two Japanese reconnaissance planes were also hit by some bullets. Fortunately, they were only slightly damaged. The Japanese pilots quickly fled with panic on their faces.
During the subsequent investigation, the two Japanese pilots who realized that the Eighth Route Army had powerful air defense capabilities no longer dared to be careless. They kept flying at a high altitude during the entire investigation and used telescopes to detect the ground.
The intelligence detected from this was not very detailed.
However, the general movements of the Eighth Route Army can still be seen at a glance.
"The Eighth Route Army is obviously preparing to send large-scale reinforcements to Zhongtiao Mountain. Our reconnaissance planes have detected the situation. As many as six Eighth Route Army troops are moving south rapidly!"
The news quickly reached Yoshio Shinozuka's First Army headquarters.
Yoshio Shinozuka looked gloomy when he learned that during the investigation, a reconnaissance plane was damaged.
After a while, Yoshio Shinozuka, who had made up his mind, gave the order directly without hesitation:
"The flight team is on standby to provide air reinforcements."
"With Yangquan as the center point, all advancing troops will immediately advance to the south of the independent regiment's base. Stop these Tubal roads for me!"
"Hi!"
At this time, look down from the perspective of God.
The Sixth Route Army of the Eighth Route Army divided into several directions and quickly moved south.
To the east of the base area, in the surrounding counties and towns of the Japanese army mainly in Yangquan, Tanxian, Zhangzhuang, Taigu and other places, the Japanese and puppet troops rapidly advanced to the southwest in an attempt to stop the Eighth Route Army troops heading south.
The reconnaissance forces of both sides took the lead in fighting in a mountainous area east of Taihang and north of the independent regiment base...
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