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Chapter 542 Three Blossoms!
Northwest Shanxi.

Erdaohezi is the main defense point of the new second regiment defense area.

Attacking along Erdaohezi was the 21st Division of the Japanese Army.

第21师团是日中战争爆发后的1938年（昭和13年）4月4日，同第15、第17、第22、第23师团一道组建的步兵三个联队编制的师团。

The head of the division is Lieutenant General Tanaka Jiuichi, who led his troops to attack Zhongtiao Mountain a few months ago.

The original plan of the base camp was to incorporate the 21st Division into the Southern Army, but due to the heavy loss of the First Army, this division continued to fight in the North China Front Army.

Before the start of the war, Tanaka Jiuyi's tone was very arrogant: destroy the Eighth Route New Second Regiment within three days, and capture the regiment leader Ding Wei alive.

In Tanaka's view, his arrogance makes sense.

At the beginning, when 10 people from five divisions of the Japanese army attacked Zhongtiao Mountain, it took only one month to defeat the 17 Central Army.

But this time, the 21st and 35th second-line divisions attacked one regiment of the Eighth Route, isn't that easy to catch?
The same regiment, Lieutenant General Tanaka Jiuyi recognized the strong combat effectiveness of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army. The frontal attack severely damaged the 36th Division and killed the division commander Jing Guanren.

In that battle, even if the 36th Division was replaced by the 21st Division, the result would not have changed much.

But this is only the new second regiment, not the new first regiment.

Looking at the defensive position of the new second regiment on the opposite bank, Tian Zhongjiu sneered from the corner of his mouth, Li Yunlong and the new first regiment will not be chattering for long.

When the 21st Division and the 35th Division Locust Army solved the New Second Regiment, the 23rd and 25th Division solved the Independent Regiment.

At that time, the new regiment will be surrounded by 5 elite divisions of the locust army.

Coupled with General Okamura's iron-rolling mopping up, it is sure to severely damage or even wipe out the Eighth Route Army Li Yunlong and Xinyi Regiment.

In the final analysis, Okamura Ningji's real goal is to eliminate Li Yunlong and the New First Regiment, while the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment are just a matter of convenience.

If Yan Laoxi didn't transfer the 358th regiment back to Kenanpo to rest, even the 358th regiment would be eliminated together.

At the headquarters of the 21st Division, the irritable Tanaka Jiu drew out his command saber with one swipe, and cut off the small table in front of him.

"fire!"

As he gave the order, the artillery wing in the rear opened fire.

Tanaka Jiuyi's style of play has always been irritable, and he did not try to attack, and he would use artillery fire to destroy the body and will of the Eighth Route Army.

boom boom boom…

The 51st Regiment of the Japanese Army's Mountain Artillery began shelling, and the muzzle fireworks flickered in the wind, almost connecting them together.

Cannonballs flew across the sky, drawing beautiful arcs, and fell towards the position of the new second regiment on the other side of the river.

山炮兵第51联队装备12门105毫米榴弹炮和24门75毫米山炮，炮兵火力十分强悍。

In just a few minutes, the position of the New Second Regiment by the river was engulfed in flames.

"Yo Xi!"

Looking at the tragic scene of the Eighth Route Army in the field of vision of the telescope, Tian Zhongjiuyi smiled with satisfaction.

"attack!"

Subsequently, Tanaka Jiuyi sent a squadron of Japanese troops and a battalion of puppet troops, preparing to wade across the river to occupy the position of the New Second Regiment.

The bridge on the Erdao River has been blown up by Ding Wei's order, but the river is not deep, and it is possible to cross the river without a boat.

The grenadiers and machine gunners set up firepower cover on the other side of the river, while the devil riflemen entered the river with their rifles.

The [-]-type mortar and the [-]-type infantry artillery were set up by the devils to provide artillery support for the infantry at any time.

Not long after, a puppet infantry stepped on an S landmine in the river. With a loud bang, seven or eight puppet soldiers around them screamed and fell into the river.

The weapons and ammunition given by Boss Chen are not all American equipment, among them are German-style big tumors and S mines, and the rest are American equipment.

Ding Wei ordered the S mine to be buried in the river.

The other devils continued to cross the river with their rifles in hand as if they hadn't seen it.

Although the puppet army was terribly afraid, but with guns pointed at their backs, they had no choice but to bite the bullet and move forward. Whether they could survive could only depend on luck.

But then devils and puppet soldiers stepped on landmines one after another. With the sound of booming, the river was soon dyed red, and the remaining devils continued to cross the river.

By the time the devils and puppet troops came ashore, dozens of people had been killed and injured by the minefields at the bottom of the river.

Soon, the leader of the Devil Squadron led the Devils and the puppet army to the river bank and came to the position of the New Second Regiment. During this period, they were not attacked except for landmines.

When he came to the trench position of the New Second Regiment, the leader of the Devil Squadron opened an Eighth Route Army corpse and found that it was a dummy.

The captain of the Devil Squadron immediately changed his face: "Baga, this is a trap..."

Before he could finish speaking, there were machine gunshots like popping beans in his ears.

The gunshot was not far away, but it came abruptly.

The moment the gunshots rang out, the devils and puppet soldiers fell down in large numbers, and at least a dozen heavy machine guns were firing crazily towards the position.

The squadron leader of the devils turned around and slipped away, and the soldiers of the devils also turned and ran away when they saw this. The puppet army moved faster than the devils, and even ran in front of the devils.

The devil's movement was a beat slower, and in an instant, more than a dozen devils were shot and killed on the false position.

More than 20 60mm mortars of the New Second Regiment started firing rapidly, and the explosions kept rising among the crowd of devils and puppet soldiers, reaping the lives of the devils and puppet soldiers.

"Chew, gnaw, gnaw..."

The beautiful sound of American heavy machine guns kept screaming continuously.

The devils who turned around and ran back were always exposed to the range of machine gun fire. In addition, during the process of crossing the river, the devils and puppet soldiers stepped on landmines in the river and were bombarded by 60mm mortars.

Devils and puppet soldiers were completely targeted.

Hisahi Tanaka, who saw this scene in the field of vision of the telescope, left the telescope on the ground angrily:

"Order the Artillery Wing to destroy the firepower of the Eighth Route!"

Those unremarkable little earthen bumps tens of meters away from the Eighth Route's position turned out to be Eighth Route's bunkers.

Each small soil bag is tens of meters apart, and a bunker is a machine gun firepower point.

A dozen heavy machine guns in more than a dozen bunkers and mortars somewhere in the distance fired at the same time, knocking down the tentatively attacking troops one by one.

"Hi!"

The communications captain hurriedly issued an order.

The devil's artillery wing immediately shelled the bunker.

But it is a pity that the maximum caliber of the artillery regiment's cannons is only 105mm, and it is impossible to destroy these small bunkers at all.

Under intensive firepower, only nearly 600 of the nearly 100 attacking troops returned.

Not long after, the distraught Tanaka ordered a bombardment, and ordered the soldiers to launch a second attack on the eight-way bunker.

……

Independent regiment defense zone.

The 23rd and 25th Divisions of the Japanese Army were in charge of attacking the defense area of ​​the Independent Regiment.

Like Tanaka Kyuichi, the head of the 23rd Division Kanji Nishihara and the head of the 25th Division Akashiba Yaezo did not take the independent regiment seriously at all.

It's just one regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and it's not a new regiment. No matter how strong it is, how strong can it beat the two elite divisions of the Locust Army?
The head of the division is so arrogant, and the devils below are even more arrogant.

These two divisions were the elite divisions of the Kwantung Army. After staying in Manchuria for a long time, everyone from the division commanders to the soldiers had arrogance, and completely ignored the other Eighth Route Army troops except the Xinyi Regiment.

Dajinggou.

This is the necessary place to enter the base of the independent regiment.

There are loess hillsides on both sides, and the road passes through the bottom of the ditch.

Although the terrain here is not dangerous, it is the defense focus of the independent regiment.

Because Kong Jie improved the tunnel and reverse slope tactics provided by Boss Chen.

He ordered tunnels to be dug in the mountains on both sides of the road, machine gun shooting holes were poured with reinforced concrete, and then blocked with stones so that no flaws could be seen from the outside.

Commanding this battle was Shen Quan, the second battalion commander of the independent regiment.

He ordered the devil's scouts and search parties to be let over.

Arrogant to arrogant, devils don't make fun of their own lives, the scouts and the search team went to the top of the mountain to search carefully before moving on.

Because this terrain is the Eighth Route Army's favorite ambush terrain.

After the devil's scouts and search team passed by, the devil's large army followed. Since the devil's reconnaissance team searched once, the devils who entered later did not have any precautions.

Not long after, a brigade of more than a thousand devils drove into Dajinggou mightily.

Following Shen Quan's order in the walkie-talkie.

The bricks blocking the shooting holes were removed by the soldiers, or were gently pushed away, and then there was the sound of intensive shooting like firecrackers.

More than 60 light and heavy machine guns fired at the devils in the ditch at this moment, and a dense rain of bullets poured down on the devils without warning.

boom boom boom…

Continuous rapid explosion sounded in the ditch.

"Ahh!" Second Battalion Commander Shen Quan yelled, shooting at the devils in the ditch with an M2 heavy machine gun.

Wherever the bullet rain passed, the blood mist continued to splash, and the devil was interrupted by the middle.

A brigade of devils, under the 60-degree shooting of more than 360 light and heavy machine guns without dead ends, has no power to fight back.

After nearly half an hour of fierce fighting, all the devils in this brigade were wiped out.

The 23rd Division and the 25th Division were sober now, and finally knew that the guy named Kong Jie and his Eighth Route Independent Regiment were not easy to mess with.

Nishihara Kanji and Akashiba Yaezo originally thought that the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, which could be easily defeated with only one regiment, killed the 23nd Infantry Battalion of the 2rd Division as soon as the firefight broke out, while the Independent Regiment suffered few casualties.

On the first day of the Japanese attack, the Independent Regiment achieved the greatest results.

……

"Nani?"

"On the first day of the attack, the locust army suffered more than 2300 casualties?"

When the news reached the North China Front Army Command, Neiji Okamura stood up suddenly and looked at the communications staff officer who had informed him.

The old devil had guessed that the divisions might not be able to attack smoothly, but he didn't expect the locust army to lose so much.

"Hi!"

通讯参谋低头递上了手里的电报，并说道：“第10师团伤亡900多人、第21师团伤亡400多人、第23师团第64联队第3大队全体玉碎！”

Neiji Okamura frowned and asked, "An infantry battalion is all broken, what's going on?"

The communications staff now told Ningji Okamura how the 64rd Battalion of the 3th Regiment was wiped out.

idiot!

Ding Wei, Kong Jie, I underestimated you!

These two little-known little regiment leaders actually caused such a big loss to the locust army.

However, how can a mantis arm be a car, how can a gnat shake a tree, the independent regiment and the new second regiment are not the new regiment after all.

The locust army of the four divisions attacked, I don't believe that only two regiments can't be wiped out?
(End of this chapter)