On September 2, the deputy commander-in-chief considered that the new divisions of the Eighth Route Army had been fully integrated, so he waved his hand and issued an order: launch a war of annihilation against the enemies in Shanxi and completely liberate the Shanxi-Sui area!
The approximate deployment is:
The First Division of the Air Force and the aviation arm of the Shanxi-Hebei Border Military Region formed a joint air group to bomb the two Japanese airports in Baoding and Datong, as well as all Japanese military bases and communication lines from Xinkou to Datong.
The 120th Division of the Northwestern Shanxi Military Region attacked Shuozhou and contained the enemy's 3rd Division; the New 5th Division sent troops to Shanyin Yiyi to block the Japanese army in the direction of Datong and the Kwantung Army that might go south for reinforcements; the New 6th Division sent troops to Yuanping County to intercept the enemy's 14th Division The division's retreat!
The New 3rd Division under the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region attacked Dingxiang, threatening the flanks of the 14th Division and the 2nd Division; the 115th Division went north and sent troops to Fanzhi, Lingqiu, and Pingxingguan to block the Japanese troops from Beiping and Baoding; the New 4th Division went north to Yang Yuan County threatens the retreat of the 3rd Division!
The 129th Division, the New 7th Division (General Chen's troops), and the 8th Division of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan and Taiyue Military Regions left Taihangxing eastward to attack Jiaozuo and Xinxiang, then regain the northern Hebei area, and contain central Hebei, southern Hebei, and western Shandong Japanese troops in other areas; the new 9th Division is the general reserve for the battle!
The 122nd Division, the New 1st Division, and the New 2nd Division of the Shanxi-Hebei Border Military Region left Shiling Pass to attack Xinkou, and then annihilated the enemy's 2nd and 14th divisions.
In this battle, Liu Shuai was responsible for the specific command of the front line.
After receiving the order, Liu Shuai immediately rushed to Changzhi for a meeting with the heads of each military region and the commanders of each division.
Three days later, the leaders of each participating unit arrived.
The meeting only lasted two days, because the deputy commander-in-chief had already made a rough deployment and determined that the main attacking force would be Liu Yu's, while other troops were only responsible for blocking enemy reinforcements and containing the enemy, so the meeting was much simpler.
On September 8, Liu Yu returned to Yangquan with Peng Xuefeng, Lao Wang, Lao Tang and others, and convened a meeting of officers above the regiment level to make final arrangements.
It was finally decided that after the aviation force completed the bombing of the Japanese and the artillery brigade initially destroyed the enemy's frontline fortifications, the 2nd Armored Brigade would serve as the vanguard, break through the enemy's defense line, and then go around to the rear of Xinkou to cooperate with the New 6th Division to capture Yuanping; the 1st Armored Brigade The brigade followed up and stabilized the hole opened by the second brigade, while colleagues attacked the left flank of the 14th Division's defense line to open a channel for the follow-up troops.
Secondly, the 122nd Division closely followed the 1st Armored Brigade, quickly seized the line from Gaojiazhuang to Dongcun Town east of Xinkou, and defended on the spot, dividing the 14th Division and the 2nd Division.
Finally, the New 1st Division and the New 2nd Division attacked the 14th Division in Xinkou with all their strength, and after annihilating it as soon as possible, they turned around and cooperated with the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to annihilate the 2nd Division!
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The meeting is over, the task has been handed down, and someone is unhappy.
1st Armored Brigade, Headquarters.
"Lao Gao, how did you become the brigade commander? You can't even get a main attack mission!"
Brother Yunlong responded to Lao Gao: "Why should he, Kong Er, be the main attacker? Not to mention the Red Fourth Front Army back then, let's just talk about the year before last, when I was transferred to the 769th Regiment as the leader, he was still I have a battalion commander under me! Now that he has become a spirit, how dare he compete with me for the main attack?"
Lao Gao said "tsk": "Why are you angry at me? The commander has his own reasons for making such arrangements! Lao Kong's second brigade has just been established and needs credit. What did you let him do this time?"
"Shit!" Brother Yunlong frowned and cursed: "I think he is just bullying you, Lao Gao, to talk easily! What do you think you are afraid of? Why don't you dare to fight with the commander?"
When Lao Gao heard this, he became anxious: "Madman Wang! Stop staring at me! Just forget it if I don't talk to you, why don't you pay me back before it's over? You are still qualifying for me, you are not qualified! I I'm being polite to you. Go and ask around in the New Fourth Army. How dare that bastard show his teeth at me? He even fought with the commander, as if you could beat him! If you are really angry, use your big Hit your head against the wall and stop kicking me!"
Let's just say it was a coincidence. Brother Yunlong was just about to scold him again when suddenly the phone next to him rang.
Brother Yunlong picked up the phone and shouted angrily: "Hello!"
On the other side, Liu Yu moved his ears away a little and was shocked by the sound just now.
Then he moved the microphone back and said with a smile: "Brother Yunlong, are you scolding me again?"
On the other side, Brother Yunlong immediately looked at Lao Gao: "Who the hell is snitching on me?"
"Shut up! I'm guessing!" Liu Yu scolded on the phone, "The second brigade has already set off, but your brigade is still sitting there doing it? Move me quickly!"
Brother Yunlong curled his lips: "Yes! Let's set off now!"
As he said that, he hung up the phone, picked up the tank helmet on the side, put it on and walked out, complaining: "What the hell is this? Lao Kong is drinking and eating meat in front, and we are just stupidly behind." Help build a defensive position, I think the commander just likes the new and hates the old!"
Lao Gao also followed with his helmet in hand and advised: "Okay, stop saying a few words. You are still the political commissar. How bad is it for others to hear you?"
Ten minutes later, Brother Yunlong and Lao Gao came to the garage and boarded their respective command tanks.
The soldiers of the armored brigade were already ready.
This is also Liu Yu's request. Military and political cadres at all levels of the armored brigade must ride in different tanks separately to avoid being lumped together and causing confusion in the entire unit's command system.
The soldiers boarded the vehicles, the tanks started, and the armored brigade drove out of the camp, onto the road, and gradually left Yangquan.
Originally, they were stationed in Yuci, so they were not equipped with T34s. In the past few months, the armored brigade returned to Yangquan to conduct running-in exercises around T34 tanks.
Also training in Yangquan is the Second Brigade.
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Two days later, it was 6 o'clock in the morning on September 11th.
After all the troops arrived at the attack launch position, Liu Shuai gave an order, and 20 B17 bombers from Yan'an Airport, escorted by 180 fighter jets of various types, flew to Datong.
Similarly, at Longwangshan Airport, 20 B17s (Liu Yu later supplied 10 more) and 20 B29s formed a huge bombing group. After circling for several times over Jingxing, they separated again and were escorted by 100 fighter jets. Get off and fly to Baoding, Xinkou and other places.
An hour later, the B17 formation first arrived in the sky above Dingxiang. 10 bombers dropped 70 tons of bombs on the headquarters of the Japanese 2nd Division that had been detected by the special operations brigade. The enemy's headquarters is a secondary target, and the main targets are the artillery and baggage regiments that stay with the 2nd Division headquarters.
Then over Xinkou, the remaining 10 bombers dropped more than 20 tons of bombs on the 14th Division's anti-aircraft artillery positions, artillery positions, and forward defense positions.
Next is Baoding.
The bomb load of the B29 is close to 10 tons, which makes the little devil understand what the ultimate belief of big bombs is.
20 B29s and 200 tons of bombs almost turned over the entire Baoding Airport.
Baoding Airport had already been bombed, so the Japanese also deployed many anti-aircraft guns, but most of them were Bofors 40mm caliber anti-aircraft guns.
However, the practical ceiling of the B29 is 10,000 meters. It's not that the Bofors 40 anti-aircraft gun is bad, but it's just out of reach.
Mount Wutai.
At the command post at the foot of the mountain, Commander Nie looked at the aircraft fleet in the sky that had completed the bombing and was returning to Longwang Mountain, and shook his head very Versailles.
"This used to be what we hated the most. How did it become this kind of virtue?"
