Bright sword: starting from the logistics department

Chapter 112 The Battle Begins

The time soon came to August 8th. After a few days, the fighters of the 20st Regiment and the Second Independent Regiment also arrived at the blocking position without any danger.

Commander Zheng of the 771st Regiment came to the position of the Second Independent Regiment, found Zhao Gan and said, "Commander Zhao, the time is up. The brigade commander will issue an order to start the raid tonight. It is time for our side to start action!"

Zhao Gan nodded and said: "Well, let the soldiers who harass the devils go! The railway and road at the mountain pass should also be blocked!"

Head Zheng turned to his guards and said, "Go back and tell Company Commander Wei to bring the harassment team to the Second Independent Regiment and join the team of the Second Independent Regiment!"

"Yes, Captain!"

After the guards of regiment leader Zheng left, he sighed and said to Zhao Gan: "We have to face at least tens of thousands of devils and an unknown number of puppet troops this time. After this great battle, I don't know how many people will survive!"

After Zhao Qian heard Zheng Tuan Zhang's general feelings, he said: "Zheng Tuan Zhang, the devils have more than 6 troops stationed in our defense direction. Because there are too many counties stationed, at most 4 people have been sent out to reinforce Ding Tian;

Besides, there are brothers from the 120th Division in this direction. It is impossible for the Devils to reinforce the Zhengtai Railway. The Tongpu Railway is also very important. The coal dug out by the Devils in Datong must be transported to the outside of the customs through the Tongpu Railway. Even if most of them come to support the Zhengtai Railway, it will only be more than 2 points;

Although the puppet army does not know how many there will be, but in the face of such a large-scale battle, the puppet army is just cannon fodder! "

Head Zheng nodded, then sighed and said, "Let's not talk about the situation here, let's talk about the Zhengtai Railway that our 386 brigade is in charge of. The devils stationed a division and two brigades, plus countless garrisons and puppet troops. There are nearly 10 enemies!"

Zhao Gan comforted: "Don't worry, Commander Zheng. There are 20 regiments around the brigade commander. The Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment are targeting the main force of the devils in Shouyang and Yangquan. Coupled with the length of the Zhengtai Line Railway, it is completely possible to present a situation where more can be fought than few;
Destroying one or two points and delaying the rapid transfer made the devils exhausted. If the situation is good, the brigade commander can probably hit a breaking point to help! "

Head Zheng didn't quite understand what it means to fight against a broken point, so he asked suspiciously: "I do know about fighting against a broken point, but what is a broken point to fight for aid?"

Zhao Gan said with a smile: "When the raiding troops are destroying the roads and railways, the garrison devils on the Zhengtai Line will definitely encircle and suppress them, and the raiding troops at this location will withdraw quickly;
Then choose a similar location and let another troop quickly rush into the railway. At this time, the supporting devils will definitely reinforce this new location of destruction;

At this time, if there is already a troop that has dug a blocking position on the necessary road for the devil's support to block the devil's reinforcements, then the first troop to break the attack quickly copied the devil's back route;
In the end, the railway was also destroyed, and the devil's reinforcements were also killed. This is called breaking the point to fight for aid! "

"Report, the harassment team of the 771st Regiment has assembled!"

After hearing Wei Quan's report, Captain Zheng turned to him and said, "Company Commander Wei, from now on, we will obey the orders of Deputy Head Yu of the Second Independent Regiment!"

Wei Quan: "Yes. Commander!"

Then Wei Quan walked up to Zhao Gan and Yu Shan, saluted them both, and said, "Wei Quan, commander of the first battalion and first company of the 771st regiment, has met Commander Zhao and Deputy Commander Yu!"

Zhao Qian returned a military salute and said, "Commander Wei, let's go with Yu Shan!"

Wei Quan: "Yes!"

Yu Shan also returned a military salute, and after Zhao Gan finished speaking, he said to Wei Quan: "Commander Wei, let's go, the team of the Second Independent Regiment has assembled, we can set off!"

Zhao Gan and Captain Zheng stopped chatting after they set off, and they all went back to recharge their batteries, waiting for the big battle tonight!

The time soon reached eight o'clock in the evening:

At the temporary headquarters of the 386th brigade, the brigade commander glanced at his watch, and then said to the staff officers of the brigade headquarters: "The time has come, order the first assault force to launch an attack!"

"Yes!"

After the command of the brigade commander was issued, the first crackdown force quickly launched an attack on a defense stronghold built by the devils next to the Zhengtai Line Railway under the cover of darkness!

Although the first raiding force marched in the dark, there were too many people after all. When they were about 150 meters away from the stronghold, they were still spotted by sentries beaten by devils.

The devil immediately blew the whistle hanging around his neck when he discovered the first assault force, and at the same time quickly hid behind the bunker, and fired a shot at the attacking soldiers of the first assault force.

The commander of the first assault force issued an order the moment the troops were discovered: "Hold that position, and quickly dig the bunker tunnel!"

The company in charge of the attack was divided into two parts immediately after receiving the order, one part held a gun and fired at the little devil's stronghold to attract firepower, and the other part quickly got down on the ground with a military shovel to dig individual bullet shelters;
After 10 minutes, individual bullet shelters were dug 150 meters away from the devil's stronghold. The moment the bullet shelters were dug, all the soldiers responsible for attracting the devil's firepower rolled into the bullet shelters;
Then two or two cooperated to deepen and widen the individual bomb shelters, and connected them in turn to form a temporary trench.

A brigade of devils stationed in this stronghold did not report the first time someone attacked the stronghold, but thought that he had a brigade full of troops here, plus a regiment of puppet troops was enough to defend the stronghold;
Therefore, when I sent a report to inquire about the reason for the gunshots at the surrounding bases, the replies were all: "Although our department was attacked by the enemy, the enemy did not have heavy weapons to attack the fortifications, which was enough to hold the stronghold, and no reinforcements were needed. Beware of the enemy's bait tactics!"

Therefore, there are no devils sending troops to reinforce the other strongholds on the Zhengtai Line and the surrounding counties!

Here in the first assault force, the moment the attacking company connected the trenches together, the commander of the first assault force said to the orderly next to him: "Order the artillery company to enter the trench, I want to see how powerful the gasoline barrel given to us by the brigade commander is!"

"Yes!"

Under the order of the commander of the first assault force, more than 80 Eighth Route Army soldiers brought more than 20 gasoline barrels and quickly entered the trench just dug!
"Quick, quick, quickly adjust the angle!"

"The angle is adjusted!"

"Load the propellant!"

"The propellant is loaded!"

"Put in the dynamite bag!"

"Dynamite pack is filled!"

"ignition!"

"Yes!"

The soldiers of the artillery company immediately pulled down the matchlocks of the propellant and the explosive package, then quickly lowered their heads, covered their ears, and opened their mouths wide;
Then there was a "boom", and the explosives were thrown out by the propellant. Some of the explosives drew a beautiful arc in the air and landed next to the gun tower, some near the bunker, and even more behind the simple bunkers built by the devils.

The devils and puppet soldiers stationed in the position saw the enemy attacking the stronghold throw a round cake-like thing at them through the faint light of the fire. Although they didn't know what it was, they all quickly lay behind the bunker.

A few seconds after the explosive package was thrown out, the sound of "boom" and "boom" came from inside the devil's stronghold, and the commander of the first assault force immediately ordered the soldiers to start charging!
The moment the charge sounded, countless Eighth Route Army soldiers all stood up and rushed towards the devil's stronghold. The moment they rushed up, they found that the devil's fire blockade was very weak, and they didn't even hear the sound of light and heavy machine guns!

So they took over the devil's position very smoothly. When they entered the position, they found that all the devils stationed in the position were dead. Most of the dead devils had no wounds on their bodies, but blood was flowing from their eyes, noses, mouths and even ears.

The soldiers didn't pay too much attention to these dead devils, and after taking a look at them, they continued to attack inside the stronghold.

After the commander of the first assault force saw that the troops had entered the devil's stronghold, he immediately reported the current situation to the brigade commander: Brigadier commander, our department has already entered the stronghold and is cleaning up the remaining enemies. The militia comrades are destroying the railway;
After 30 minutes, our department will quickly retreat, brigade commander please get ready!

The devil captain stationed at the stronghold had a bad premonition immediately after hearing the sound of the explosive package exploding. Sure enough, a messenger came to him after a while and said, "Captain, the enemy has an unknown heavy artillery. They fired more than 20 shells at us in a row, and all the locust troops on the gun towers, bunkers and positions were sacrificed!"

Devil Captain: "What? Heavy artillery!"

"Yes, Captain! The position has been lost, the Eighth Route Army has rushed into the stronghold, and the two sides have already begun to fight with bayonets!"

The captain of the Devils said in a panic: "Immediately ask for help from the surrounding bases, and report the information that the enemy has heavy artillery to the First Command!"

"Yes, Captain!"

Taiyuan Japanese Army Headquarters, the staff in the telecommunications room knocked on Yoshio Shinozuka's door as soon as he received the telegram from the captain: "General, the 15th stronghold on the Zhengtai Line was attacked by the Eighth Route Army. The stationed captain said that they possessed an unknown heavy artillery. Most of the imperial troops stationed at the stronghold were killed by the sound waves of the shell explosion!"

Shinozuka Yoshio immediately opened the door and said, "What? Heavy artillery?"

At this time, Yoshio Shinozuka only came and hurriedly put on a set of white shirts, but he didn't even come to put on the military uniform. He opened the door as soon as he heard that the Eighth Route Army had heavy artillery!
"Yes, Commander! Captain Tianbao said in the telegram that the Eighth Route Army had already entered the stronghold, and he decided to lead the remaining imperial army to fight to the death. He was guilty of righteousness and non-war. He was defeated entirely because the enemy had heavy weapons!"

When Yoshio Shinozuka heard this, he immediately slapped the staff officer, and shouted sharply: "You bastard, after learning that the enemy possesses an unknown heavy weapon, you didn't break out of the encirclement and report the situation in detail immediately, and fought to the death!
He is a coward, a coward who dare not face failure! "

Seeing the angry Shinozuka Yoshio, the staff officer who had been slapped could only stand upright, bowed his head and shouted, "Hi!"

Yoshio Shinozuka, who cursed a few words, pondered for a while, and then said to the staff officer: "Quickly order the surrounding troops to rush to help immediately, and we must destroy this batch of heavy artillery of the Eighth Route Army!"

"Hi!"

At the same time, the 386 Brigade Headquarters:
The brigade commander immediately said to several staff officers after receiving that the first assault force had entered the devil's stronghold: "The first assault force has completed its mission. Order the second assault force to launch an attack in 1 hour, and the third assault force to launch an attack in 3 hours. The first assault force will go to the predetermined location immediately after retreating!"

"Yes!"

"In addition, quickly send a report to the radio stations near the 6 regiments that are blocking, and ask them to notify the 6 regiments stationed in the position that we are going to make a big move here, so that they can prepare for blocking!"

"Yes!"

The brigade's order finally reached Zhao Ganhe's hands after going round and round!
After Zhao Gan got the information, he immediately said to Chawen: "Chawen, send someone to tell the brigade commander's notice to Commander Zheng, and let him prepare for the coming of the big battle!"

"Yes!"

At 2 o'clock in the morning in Yoshio Shinozuka's office in Taiyuan, Yoshio Shinozuka's chief of staff, Hiroyuki Nakamura, came to his office with several telegrams: "General, after the 15th base was attacked around the Zhengtai Railway, the 28th base and the 4th base were successively attacked by the enemy. They all insisted that the enemy has heavy artillery;
The surrounding strongholds were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army when they rushed to help them, and retreated to the nearest stronghold for rectification after losing more than half;

The Tongpu Railway was also attacked by an unknown enemy 4 hours ago. At first, it was only a small group of enemies. They didn't care. They just sought support from the surrounding strongholds as usual. However, the support troops in each stronghold were all surrounded by the enemy. More than half of them were killed or injured. They also retreated to the nearest stronghold for rectification!

At the same time, Commander Gangcun Ningci informed that the eastern half of the Zhengtai Railway was attacked by an unknown enemy at the same time! "

Yoshio Shinozuka, who was sitting on the chair, immediately stood up when he heard it, and walked to the huge map of Shanxi by the wall to observe carefully.

After thinking for a while, he said to Hiroyuki Nakamura: "I don't think these two attacks were temporarily launched by the enemy. There should be bigger actions in the future. Your staff immediately come up with an effective solution!"

Hiroyuki Nakamura: "Yes, General!"

386 Brigade Temporary Headquarters, after receiving the result of the ambush, the brigade commander laughed and said, "Okay, let's fight like this!

Order, the third attack force quickly attacked the stronghold to destroy the railway; the second attack force continued to destroy the railway in the direction of Yangquan, and retreated after 2 hours; the first attack force immediately returned to rest; the ambush troops formed the first column to attack, with Liu Daguo as the column leader, and asked him to blow up the devil stronghold that came out to support! "

"Yes!"

With the orders of the brigade commander issued one by one, all the troops of the 386 brigade started a new round of attack!

Taiyuan Shinozuka Yoshio Office:
Hiroyuki Nakamura: "General, the General Staff believes that the defenders of Shouyang, Yangquan and Niangziguan should be dispatched immediately to encircle and suppress this group of Eighth Route Army!

In the direction of Tongpu Railway, the garrisons of XZ, Dingxiang and Daizhou should be sent immediately to encircle and suppress! "

(End of this chapter)