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"withdraw!"
"The one-hour safety time has passed. Immediately notify all forces to retreat to their respective bases."
A team headquarters looked at the watch in his hand and Kong Jie gave the order without hesitation.
Chief of Staff Xu Guoan also felt it was a pity.
"Lao Kong, the Japs' reinforcements moved too fast this time. If the Japs hadn't surrounded us and given us two more hours, not only would we have taken away all the intercepted grain, but he would have even stripped the skin of the train. In addition, the Japs The advanced strongholds, gun towers, and some remote villages and towns can all be captured by us."
"The future is long, don't rush for a while." Kong Jie said with a smile.
"Inform all troops to lay a large number of mines along the highways and railways after retreat. Even if we withdraw, we will not make it easy for the little devils."
"These are distributed to all regiments. The latest batch of killing kings produced by the armory. It's time for the little devils in northwest Shanxi to have a taste of it."
"yes!"
At this time, you can look down from above the entire Yangquan area.
This operation was initiated by the First Anti-Japanese Detachment of the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi. It was mainly a grain robbery operation and was supplemented by the removal of Japanese strongholds and gun towers.
Except for the Fourth Independent Regiment, which opened an anti-Japanese revolutionary base in Zhongtiao Mountain.
Almost the entire independent group participated.
The main force of the three regiments invested nearly 6,000 troops.
Some are responsible for providing reinforcements, while others are responsible for removing strongholds. At first glance, the entire Yangquan seems to be a mess.
However, each team is either a company or a battalion as a combat unit, with orderly division of labor and tacit cooperation, dividing the entire battlefield into local battlefields, thus evolving into local operations with superior strength.
In addition to the main combat troops, militia troops and local troops also invested nearly 4,000 people.
The number of migrant workers' groups represented by the migrant workers' group led by Xie Baoqing, including the people from each village who actively participated in the transportation operation, was even greater, exceeding 10,000.
This is a large-scale group that fully reflects the close cooperation and high-efficiency collaboration between teams.
Just like looking at the densely packed ants in an anthill, you may think that they are disorganized, but in fact all ants have their own division of labor.
During the hour from dusk to dark.
With the close cooperation of the main force, militia forces, local troops, migrant workers' groups and various civilian groups.
The soldiers and civilians of the Eighth Route Army showed amazing collective strength.
In just one hour, the Japanese army transported more than a thousand tons of military rations and more than a million kilograms of grain along the three routes to Yangquan.
The soldiers and civilians used military trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, and most primitive transportation methods such as carts, mule carriages, and even manpower to transport more than one million kilograms of grain.
The main combat force, with the cooperation of local troops and militia forces, overthrew in one fell swoop fifty-six forward strongholds that the Japanese army had gradually built towards the Taihang base area.
More than 600 old Japanese soldiers who had been stationed in the stronghold for a long time were killed.
These old Japanese soldiers were stationed at the stronghold on weekdays, and from time to time they surveyed the terrain around the stronghold and drew military maps used in raids.
They often served as guides for the Japanese invaders during large-scale raids launched by the Japanese army, and their crimes were too numerous to list.
In addition, this battle successfully destroyed 13 Japanese military bridges and destroyed dozens of Japanese railway lines.
In one night, the entire area around Yangquan was turned upside down by the independent group.
Far away at the headquarters of the Japanese First Army in Taiyuan City, the old Japanese Yoshio Shinozuka who was closely following the battle situation gritted his teeth and reluctantly gave up some bait in order to capture the final target.
He constantly urged all forces to speed up the encirclement.
In about an hour and a half, the Japanese's first batch of automobile troops and tank troops surrounded Yangquan from left to right and completely blocked the main passes leaving the Yangquan area.
In about two hours, follow-up reinforcements from the Japanese army gradually arrived.
By two and a half hours, the Japanese army did not hesitate to waste manpower and material resources. The main force of the two brigades, which were traveling at night, also officially arrived at the scheduled encirclement position, and formed a large net to completely surround the entire combat area.
It ended up taking less time than Yoshio Shinozuka expected.
All this put a confident smile on the old devil's face.
The next step is to close up and surround, like fishermen casting a big fishing net, looking forward to the final harvest.
Yoshio Shinozuka, who was afraid that the Eighth Route Army in the encirclement would run away, did not hesitate to issue an order to attack at night, and also ordered some large and medium-sized strongholds that had not been breached by the independent regiment to attack at the same time, cooperate inside and outside, and attack front and rear in the encirclement. The Eighth Route.
Under the dim night.
The cold land gradually became lively, with gunshots and cannons ringing out from time to time, and some continuous explosions.
The Japanese soldiers who left their strongholds and the Japanese troops who were shrinking the encirclement and advancing were caught off guard and encountered many landmines soon after.
These mines were laid very cunningly.
Some are on the edge of the highway, and some are even placed in the middle of the bridge.
Then, as the Japanese troops advanced, they encountered a nightmarish killing weapon—directional anti-infantry mines, affectionately called the King of Killing by Eighth Route Army soldiers.
In the dark night, a large number of iron balls, steel nails, and fragments were quickly shot out in a wide fan-shaped impact area.
One sweep is a large area, either dead or maimed.
While advancing like this, the Japanese and puppet troops did not even see half of the Eighth Route Army. The vanguard troops suffered heavy casualties while constantly encountering mine traps.
When the news was fed back, the Japanese officers in the command team were filled with shock.
The area surrounded by groups looked like a bottomless abyss in the dark night, and like a steel frame filled with butcher knives. It seemed that no matter how many lives there were, there wouldn't be enough to fill it.
The little devils no longer dare to advance indiscriminately while taking advantage of the darkness.
They found a large number of military flashlights, and some simply lit torches. In addition, they asked the engineers to continue exploring with mine detectors, for fear of making a wrong move and falling into the Eighth Route Trap again.
In this way, the busy and fearful little devils would trigger some traps from time to time until dawn the next day.
The soldiers and civilians who made an emergency retreat at night and jumped out of the Japanese encirclement in time had replenished their physical strength after a night of sleep and felt refreshed.
On the other side, the little devils who had stayed up all night found out in frustration after dawn.
There was no trace of the Eighth Route Army in the entire encirclement. They spent the whole night dealing with various mine traps left behind after the Eighth Route Army evacuated.
The King of Killing newly developed by the Independent Regiment was presented to the little devils in Shanxi for the first time.
Looking at the curved steel plate, which was only the size of two palms, the little devils called it a devil's weapon made by Eighth Route Army.
...Japanese troops stationed in the headquarters of the First Army in Shanxi.
He learned that he had planned everything and spent such a huge battle, mobilizing troops overnight to encircle them, but in the end it was all in vain, with no trace of the Eighth Route Army in the entire encirclement.
Yoshio Shinozuka was silent for a long time, his heart filled with the depression of punching the air.
It's like casting a fishing net, expecting to catch a dazzling array of big fish, only to find that there isn't even a fart in the net.
Beichuan, the Japanese chief of staff, thought this was incredible:
"According to intelligence analysis from all parties, the number of troops mobilized by the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army will definitely not be less than 10,000."
"In such a short period of time, not to mention their timely evacuation, they actually transported all the millions of kilograms of food that our army had, blew up dozens of our army's forward strongholds, and destroyed various transportation lines. A considerable level of destruction was carried out.”
At the end, there was a depressed sigh:
"General, are these Eighth Route Army the natural enemies of our Japanese Empire?"
"They don't have trains, a large number of transportation vehicles, or convenient transportation channels. They just rely on manpower. How on earth do they do all this?"
No one told Kitagawa the answer. Even Shinozuka Yoshio was puzzled by this problem.
They can never understand what the strength of the united Chinese people is...
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