It turns out that it feels important.

If Wang Xuexin came, he would never be able to grasp the accurate offset in this darkness.

Old wine has this ability.

Then the third shell hit the target accurately, and the Japanese artillery tower suddenly lost firepower... The artillery towers in this area were all made of bricks and stones. After a shot of broken bricks, the gravel was sprayed in like shrapnel, and the Japanese and puppet troops inside were beaten into a mess on the spot.

Even if there is no direct hit, the vibration will make the defenders tremble intent in defense.

Because everyone knows what will happen next... The artillery tower has been knocked out, and the enemy grenades will soon be thrown in from there one by one.

The smart veterans already knew that this artillery tower could not be guarded, and if they didn't run here, they would be their burial place.

But the Japanese were determined not to let the puppet army escape. The Japanese soldiers blocked the door with a ferocious face, waving the turtle box in their hands while shouting at the top of their lungs: "Go back... or you'll die..."

Just when the puppet army was at a loss, a few grenades with blue smoke fell from the sky to their feet...

At that moment, the puppet soldiers were heartbroken. If they had known that they would have killed the Japanese and escaped.

But it was too late to regret it at this time. Just a few "boom" sounds were heard, and smoke bursts of smoke broke out in the artillery tower. Then the Eighth Route Army soldiers rushed in with bayonets and poked the corpse inside.

If the artillery tower is in the hands of the Japanese, it will become the support point for the Japanese's defense, but if it falls into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, it will become the breakthrough point for the Eighth Route Army.

Because the Eighth Route Army can hide in the artillery tower and shoot at the enemies on both sides through the shooting holes. If you climb up to the top of the stairs and set up a machine gun, you will completely suppress the enemies on both sides.

So the Japanese were beaten to scream in an instant, and then retreated like a tide... To be precise, it was not the Japanese who retreated, but the puppet army.

Most of the troops stationed in the frontier artillery towers were puppet troops.

The reason is that the frontal defense line is too long. From northwest Shanxi to Taihang Mountain, it almost circles around the entire Shanxi with the railway line as the center.

Even if Okamura Yanji has added three divisions to such a long line of defense, it is just a drop in the bucket.

Okamura Yasuji's defense thinking is:

Mixed brigades and puppet troops with insufficient combat effectiveness were mixed and defended on the periphery, and several divisions with strong combat effectiveness were guarded at the core. Once somewhere on the periphery was attacked, the core troops could rely on highway maneuvers to reinforce the site immediately.

This kind of dynamic defense makes sense. If it really doesn't work, you can use trains to carry cars to maneuver, so you can achieve the goal of maximizing your troops.

The problem is that now there are attacks everywhere. Not only the 22 regiments of the Eighth Route Army that participated in the first batch of attacks, the guerrillas in the tunnels also heard the sound, and the whole of Shanxi was in full bloom.

Telegrams asking for help flew to the headquarters of the First Army of the North China Front Army like snowflakes. Okamura Yasuji and Shinozuka Yoshio looked at the enemy situation in amazement, unable to believe that this was true.

"Shinozuka-kun!" Okamura Nishiji asked, "Have you ever encountered this situation before?"

Yoshio Shinozuka shook his head and answered with certainty: "Never before, Lieutenant General!"

Okamura Yasuji turned his gaze to the sand table. The staff officer was inserting the flags according to the telegram. A small red flag was inserted at the position where there was an enemy situation. At this time, the sand table was already bright red.

Okamura Yasuji didn't understand what the enemy's intentions were.

decisive battle?

Okamura Nagaji remembered what Shinozuka Yoshio said before that the Eighth Route Army might have been forced by him so he had to fight to the death with the Japanese army.

If so, Okamura Yasuji is not worried yet.

Because although the Japanese army could not fully control the overall situation at this time, it was still more than enough to defend several important cities and even surrounding counties.

However……

When Okamura Yasuji thought of the failed sweep before and the Eighth Route Army unexpectedly blocked his offensive head-on, he lacked confidence in his judgment.

What if the Eighth Route Army did have such ability?

Or is this the Eighth Route Army united the Jinsui Army, or even Chongqing's counterattack against the North China Front?

Thinking of this, Okamura Yasuji was shocked.

If so, the enemy will have the ability to launch a counterattack.

The Eighth Route Army has 400,000, the Shanxi-Suizhou Army has 200,000, and the Central Army has 300,000... There are nearly one million people, and it should not be underestimated!

(The Jinsui Army actually has only about 120,000 people, but the phenomenon of empty salary is extremely serious. More than 189,000 people have been receiving military salary, which has also made the Japanese army unable to understand the real strength of the Jinsui Army)

Thinking of this, Okamura Yasuji ordered: "Order all departments to garrison on site, and no reinforcements are allowed without orders!"

"Yes!" Shinozuka Yoshio responded, turned around and conveyed the order.

Okamura Yasuji would never have thought that the strategic goal of the Eighth Route Army was not the so-called "decisive battle" at all, nor was it the conquering of cities and land, but the destruction of their transportation routes.

However, even if Okamura Yanji noticed the strategic goals of the Eighth Route Army, it would be useless.

The reason is that it is difficult to build a traffic route but it is easy to destroy. For example, if the tunnel that has been built for several years is only required to destroy a few explosive packs, and this is true for bridges, railway tracks, etc.

The entire defense system of the Japanese is based on traffic routes. Once the traffic is damaged, its troops will not be able to be effectively deployed, so they will be restrained everywhere.

At this time, Wang Xuexin had already led his subordinates to cross the Japanese highway defense line. Most of the corpses lying on the defense line were Japanese... The puppet army ran faster than rabbits and could not catch up even if they wanted to.

The Japanese were holding on, but they had only one squadron of more than 100 people. The puppet army fled in all directions and left many gaps. So the independent regiment rushed up and siege easily.

The first and second battalions continued to advance, while the third battalion was searching for the remaining enemies behind and cleaning the battlefield.

Except for the Japanese who used more than a dozen houses in Nantu Village, other places have become scorched earth.

Wang Xuexin and his subordinates searched for more than a dozen houses of the Japanese in class one by one.

The search method is to throw a few grenades from the window, and then break in with a gun after a few roars.

There was basically no one in the room, but occasionally there were a few puppet soldiers who were injured and unable to walk inside, "huh hahaha". Wang Xuexin and others stepped forward without hesitation and shot them a few times.

Something happened when searching for the dirt house at the end of the village...

When Wang Xuexin and the soldiers scattered grenades as usual and rushed in, they found piles of fiat coins inside, and many were blown away by grenades and floating in the sky.

Wang Xuexin was so confused that he had never seen so much money in his life.
Chapter completed!