Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

Because there weren't enough artillery soldiers, Li Yong had a lot of cannons, but he couldn't use them all. Even if he couldn't use all of them, he could still use one-third. After receiving the order, Li Yong immediately began to inspect the Japanese headquarters.

Li Yong learned a lot of artillery knowledge from Song Zhiyuan.

This time, eight infantry guns were used to attack the Japanese headquarters.

Tsuneoka Kanji was unaware of this. He was still deploying his troops, preparing to take Beilingzhuang in one fell swoop. Just as he was arranging his attacking forces, an explosion suddenly sounded nearby.

Kanji Tsuneoka and other officers fell to the ground in an instant.

Because they all understood that this was the sound of infantry artillery shells exploding.

These were shells fired by the Eighth Route Army. Tsuneoka Kanji and the other officers immediately guessed that the Eighth Route Army had discovered their headquarters.

It must be transferred.

Tsuneoka Kanji immediately ordered: "Change location, abandon this place."

"boom-"

Unfortunately, just as he gave the order, a shell landed on their headquarters.

The first shell did not hit their headquarters, but seven more shells fell.

At this point, the artillery shells still had significant inaccuracies. However, when eight infantry guns fired, one of the shells landed squarely in the headquarters, killing Tsuneoka Kanji and the other officers there.

Of course, the power of infantry artillery shells is not as strong as that of heavy artillery.

But even though it couldn't match heavy artillery, infantry artillery shells were still incredibly powerful. A Japanese infantry artillery shell weighed about seven pounds and could easily destroy simple fortifications, with a kill radius of up to ten meters. If such a shell landed squarely on the headquarters, there was no chance of survival.

This time, almost everyone in the command center was killed on the spot.

Even if he didn't die, he would be seriously injured and wouldn't live long.

Tsuneoka Kanji, the major general and commander of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade, was killed by the Japanese-produced infantry gunners. He also gloriously became the first general of the Eighth Route Army to be killed in the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Of course, in addition to the commander of the Independent Mixed Brigade No. 2, Tsuneoka Kanji, other officers of the brigade were also killed in the explosion, including Colonel Kenkichi Mura, commander of the Independent First Battalion who came to receive orders.

The Japanese headquarters was destroyed in this way.

This is no small matter.

The Japanese troops were elite, but they were also human. They hadn't rested properly for over two days and were exhausted both physically and mentally. I had originally intended to come to Beiling Village and leave Sheng County from there, and with that in mind, I arrived at Beiling Village.

But now?

Ambushed by the Eighth Column.

After several attacks on Beilingzhuang Village, they were unsuccessful. The headquarters was destroyed by the Eighth Column. After destroying the Japanese headquarters, the Eighth Column's artillery was completely unleashed. They began to bombard the Japanese army.

The 8th Column’s heavy firepower is really good.

The Eighth Column always took great care to stockpile ammunition for heavy firepower. This time, having plundered the heavy platoon of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade's Second Brigade, they were even more likely to have ammunition and ammunition. Furthermore, Wang Qiuyun and Wei Hongjun had already made up their minds.

This Japanese force must be completely wiped out.

Therefore, the troops had no light or heavy weapons.

The already exhausted Japanese troops were becoming increasingly unable to cope. Without the constraints from above, some Japanese troops began to collapse. This was also related to the fact that the Independent Mixed Brigade No. 2 had just been supplemented with a large number of new recruits. Although these recruits were all troops who had received rigorous training and had strong combat effectiveness, they had just arrived in a new unit after all, and everyone had not yet fully integrated. Before, with the brigade commander, Tsuneoka Kanji, they were able to unite them. Now that Tsuneoka Kanji had been killed in the bombing, several battalions were acting independently, and the situation of the troops below was even worse. Some troops began to retreat quietly, wanting to go back.

However, this approach of some troops caused the entire Japanese army to collapse.

"Tell our artillery, mortars, cannons, and heavy machine guns to ignore the fleeing devils. Concentrate all our firepower to destroy those who are still resisting."

After all, the Japanese army is elite.

Although retreat began to occur, many troops still deployed defensive lines on the spot to resist.

This defensive position is not easy to break.

But the Eighth Column was different now. With heavy weapons in hand, they didn't really care about these makeshift defensive positions. Infantry artillery, mortars, grenade launchers, and heavy machine guns were specifically designed to eliminate these defensive positions.

They blasted open the Japanese defensive positions and the troops immediately organized themselves to rush in.

The defensive positions were breached one by one.

"Plane, concealment, concealment."

As expected, the support from the North China Front Army came in all aspects.

The Japanese army, numbering over a thousand, was not so easily defeated. The ambush lasted for over four hours, with many still resisting.

At this time, bombers took off from Peiping and arrived at the battlefield.

This kind of use of bombers against the Eighth Route Army was not very common.

But the threat posed by airplanes is indeed great.

Although the troops hid in the mountains, the Japanese bombers dropped bombs and strafed the ground, causing heavy casualties to the Eighth Column, which directly affected the Eighth Column's encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army.

Wei Hongjun didn’t have much idea about Japanese bombers before.

But this time I really felt it.

No wonder the Yangmingbao bombing raids were so famous. Aircraft posed a formidable threat to ground troops. Their aerial bombs had a kill radius exceeding ten meters. A single aircraft could drop over a thousand kilograms of bombs on the Eighth Column's positions.

In particular, the 18th Regiment of Beilingzhuang Village suffered the heaviest casualties.

The other troops at least hid in the mountains, but the concealment effect in Beilingzhuang Village was not so good. After finally waiting for the Japanese bombers to leave, the Eighth Column once again began to encircle and suppress the Japanese troops.

But in less than half an hour, more Japanese planes came over.

The Japanese army was really crazy.

Especially the North China Front Army is the most crazy at the moment.

Because the Eighth Route Army had actually surrounded an entire brigade of their own. If this unit was lost, the Japanese situation in Chahar would collapse. Therefore, the North China Front Army ordered the surrounding air forces to fully support the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade.

As a result, planes from Peking, Zhangjiakou, Datong and other places frequently came to Beilingzhuang to participate in the bombing of the 8th Column.

"Old Wang, we can't fight any longer. Clear the way and let this army go.

"But?"

"Old Wang, look at our casualties. We can't afford such heavy casualties. Besides, from Beiling Manor to Chunhua Fort, and on to Beigongshan Fort, we have plenty of opportunities to strike them.

Chapter 178 Battle of Dingbei Guangling

The plan to annihilate the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade ultimately failed.

Nearly 400 Japanese troops still escaped.

But it was still a glorious victory.

When Tsuneoka Kanji entered Shengxian, he led over 400 Japanese troops and a security force of over 700, but only less than 400 escaped. Over 4,000 Japanese and puppet troops were killed, wounded, or captured, making this a truly glorious victory.

The newly-replenished Independent Mixed Brigade No. 2 was crippled again.

Not only was it crippled, but even the brigade commander, Major General Tsuneoka Kanji, was struck down. It could even be said that if the Japanese military headquarters got angry, they could completely cancel the designation of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade.

But Wang Qiuyun and Wei Hongjun were not happy.

A very good situation.

The 8th Column was fully capable of annihilating this Japanese force. It held a commanding advantage, with its artillery superiority alone being significant. However, the Japanese, in a state of panic, frequently dispatched aircraft from Peking, Baoding, Zhangjiakou, and Datong to assist. As a result, the 18th Regiment suffered over 500 casualties.

Other troops also suffered heavy casualties.

There were many casualties among the county brigade, district squad and militia.

They didn't have many weapons, so they prepared to seize them on the battlefield.

Therefore, many of them engaged in hand-to-hand combat with swords and spears.

If one person can't do it, use two people. If two people can't do it, use three people. If three people can't do it, use four people.

This kind of hand-to-hand combat is what local troops train most diligently for.

They are all hand-to-hand combat training for two or three people.

The effect was good at the beginning.

The Japanese troops were already exhausted and beginning to collapse, their formations scattered. They encountered these aggressive local forces. Of course, the local troops were no match for them, but they outnumbered them. With thousands of troops, they engaged in hand-to-hand combat and initially had good success, seizing numerous weapons.

However, when the Japanese planes arrived, they saw the large population and dropped numerous bombs and strafed the area. Although the local troops had undergone months of training, they were not the main force. Faced with the sudden bombing and strafing, they were slightly slow to react. This slight delay resulted in numerous casualties.

The final tally of casualties among the main and local forces showed around 800 men killed, and the total casualties for the entire army approached 2,000.

This is something that is unacceptable in any way.

Of course, Wang Qiuyun and Wei Hongjun were unaware that, precisely because they had surrounded the Japanese 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade, a large number of aircraft from the North China Front Army were dispatched to Shengxian. Consequently, the aircraft that were supposed to assist the Kwantung Army in suppressing the eastern Hebei detachment were severely insufficient.

The planes all arrived at the 8th Column.

It can be said that this greatly reduced the pressure on the 4th Column and the Jidong troops.

Pressure was not only greatly reduced on the Fourth Column and the Jidong forces, but also on the other military sub-districts of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region. Most of the surrounding Japanese aircraft had flown to Beilingzhuang, causing heavy casualties and loss of life to the Eighth Column. However, thanks to the Eighth Column, the other military sub-districts were less threatened by Japanese aircraft.

Of course, while the Eighth Column was fighting, the other Eighth Route Army units also did not rest. In fact, the first unit to take action against the autumn mopping-up campaign was the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Although the Japanese army was mopping up the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the other Eighth Route Army units also had to cooperate in the battle.

The 120th Division sent two main regiments to cooperate with the nd Division to deal with the troops sent by the Japanese th Division. Their fighting style was the same as that of the th Column, which was to lure the enemy deep into the enemy's territory and coordinate the interior and exterior lines.

Although the 120th Division supported the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region in combat, it did not let its main force directly block the Japanese army from entering the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region. They mainly cooperated with the troops of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region to attack the logistics of the th Division.

This is what the Eighth Route Army is best at.

The two regiments of the 120th Division ambushed the Japanese 180th Division's logistics units three times in a row, each with limited success. The most they managed was 100 Japanese soldiers killed, while the other two were around 400 each. In total, they only managed to kill around Japanese soldiers within a week.

But the effect is very obvious.

This put the 80th Infantry Regiment under the 20th Division of the Japanese Army in a dilemma.

Then the main battlefield is in Hebei.

The 109th Division, the 110th Division, and the th Independent Mixed Brigade were dispatched from the Beijing and Baoding areas to engage in firefights with the st and rd Regiments of the st Division and the rd Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.

The Hebei-Central Military Region also sent troops to support the anti-mopping-up operation.

The most intense battle in this anti-mopping-up operation, apart from the battles between the 8th Column and the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade, was the Battle of Dingbei Lingqiu.

The 26th Division of the Mongolian Army also received the order to carry out a mopping-up operation.

不过26师团的情况也不是很好。26师团的主要敌人是晋绥军35军。1938年4月份，35军长途奔袭，接连收复了清水河、和林两县城。接着在归绥和日军26师团交手，双方大打出手，最后26师团的11联队被晋绥军35军击败。傅作义部攻下了归绥。

In this battle, the Japanese army lost a quarter of the 26th Division's war horses, and the 11th Regiment suffered more than half of its casualties, severely damaging its vitality.

The 26th Division was unwilling to give up and launched a counterattack on Guisui in June.

当时晋绥军35军和八路军120师配合默契，参战的26师团12联队伤亡千人。跟着12联队一起的伪蒙军部队被打的丢盔弃甲，伤亡2000多人。4月份和6月份的两场战斗，让26师团两个联队都受到重大打击。