Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

Chapter 209 2 Master Group

Moreover, this attack was particularly fierce. Under the command of Kong Jie, the elite helmet troops of the three regiments of the Northwest Shanxi Independent Detachment of the Eighth Route Army broke through the Japanese army's multi-layered defense lines with a devastating offensive.

The Japanese were forced to retreat into the cities of Shouyang, Yangquan and Ping'an counties, and dared not show their heads.

Immediately afterwards, all the industrial and mining industries, large and small factories, military industrial bases, etc. built by the Japanese outside the city were completely wiped out.

The speed was so fast that the Japanese reinforcements arrived before they could react.

This completed the series of offensives.

Before the Japanese army reinforcements arrived, they escaped from the enemy's encirclement and retreated back to the base.

In the end, all that was left for the Japanese were lingering nightmares and the numbers of the Eighth Route Army units that suddenly launched a counterattack, which they learned with lingering fear.

——Northwest Shanxi Independent Field Detachment!

The sudden number surprised the Japanese army.

In their impression, there seemed to be no such well-equipped and powerful elite troops of the Eighth Route Army in northwestern Shanxi.

Finally, the Japanese army used their intelligence agencies to conduct extensive investigations and finally found out the truth.

It turned out that the so-called Northwest Shanxi Independent Field Detachment was nothing more than a field detachment formed by the merger of the Eighth Route Army's most difficult independent regiments, the New 1st Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment, the three regiments known as the Northwest Shanxi Iron Triangle.

The commander of the Japanese First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka, was troubled by this.

Kong Jie alone was already enough of a headache, and now there are Li Yunlong and Ding Wei to deal with.

Almost all of the three Eighth Route Army commanders who caused the most headaches for the Japanese army in northwestern Shanxi were brought together.

At this time, the Japanese high-level command was preparing to withdraw troops from North China. After stabilizing the rear area in North China, it would gradually shift the focus of operations to the southern battlefield and fight in the Henan, Hunan and Guangxi regions in order to completely open up the transportation lines of the Chinese mainland.

Reverse the war disadvantage.

The newly appointed commander of the North China Front Army, General Okamura, immediately asked the First Army Command to completely destroy the most violent Eighth Route Army Independent Field Detachment within two weeks in order to stabilize the rear area of ​​North China.

After receiving the order, Yoshio Shinozuka immediately convened a military meeting and decided to dispatch troops to eliminate the Eighth Route Army's Northwest Shanxi Independent Field Detachment.

However, during the military meeting, the difficulty of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment, the New 1st Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment was taken into consideration.

If the number of troops mobilized is too small, it will be difficult to completely eliminate these Eighth Route Army troops.

During the previous May 1st mopping-up operation, the Japanese army fell into the trap set by the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army's most elite independent regiments, the New 1st Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment exchanged their stations with the surrounding regular new regiments of the Eighth Route Army.

This resulted in the Japanese army deploying its combat focus incorrectly.

In the end, the three Japanese battalions that attacked the Independent Regiment, the New 1st Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment, were defeated one after another and were almost wiped out.

The Japanese 36rd and th Mixed Brigades and the st Field Brigade of the th Division, which had originally attacked the New st Regiment, the New nd Regiment and the Independent Regiment, also suffered a disastrous defeat.

The devils who attended the meeting came to the conclusion:

“If we want to completely wipe out these tough elite Eighth Route Army troops, mobilizing too few troops will be of no avail.

Commander, I think we need to mobilize at least one or two full-strength divisions to completely destroy this Eighth Route Army."

A fully-strength division of the Japanese Army, the most powerful Type A division, with a serial number between 1 and 20 and a full strength of 2.1 to 2.8 troops.

Type B combat divisions have the second lowest combat effectiveness, with a troop strength ranging from 1.4 to 2.4.

The divisions under the First Army of the Japanese were basically Type B combat divisions, with a troop strength usually ranging from 1.5 to 2.

According to the Japanese lieutenant general who spoke, he was going to mobilize nearly 40,000 Japanese troops to deal with the Eighth Route Army Independent Field Detachment...